A lot of animals are a whole lot smarter than many humans give them credit for, Cats, dogs, birds, horses. You just have to know how to listen. That Porpoises have meaningful communications other than simple alarm noises is nothing new.
Seems to be a new clickbait trend here, Wozniak coming out and being a contrarian, as if that means anything. If the lad wants a Bolt instead of a Tesla, I think that's great, and as long as he is happy, more power to him.
Can't say I care at all tho, other than to note the silly trend in Woz stories. If Chevy made a 4WD offroad capable Bolt, I'd have one. Same with Tesla. That's why we have different manufacturers - who knew?
Got a 5 when they first came out. When is the crippling update supposed to happen?
Next week, isn't it?
Prolly not. I've had many updates so far, and they've all been good. Even so, I'm not worried. MOs of my Android friends have started on their third phone since I got my 5.
As strawmen go, that's especially poor. It's little more than a pile of straw, and half of it has already blown away.
No - it was sarcasm. SRSLY,some of you follks have to quit calling every single thing you disagree with, a "Strawmen". That last sentence I wrote is closer to a strawman than my prior post. The sentence before this one might be called irony, or perhaps the strawman strawman paradox.
Which you might call the strawman strawman strawman paradox argument.
If your current iPhone is still relatively new, it will be at least a year or so longer before Apple cripples it with an iOS update designed with that in mind.
Got a 5 when they first came out. When is the crippling update supposed to happen?
See, this would impress Android users because they care about this stuff. Apple users on the other hand, just want an extra shiny Apple symbol on the back (preferably glow in the dark and glowing). And that it's the latest model so they can post "omg I got this phone" on Facebook with Selfies.
And yet, 90 percent of the gnashing of teeth and rending of hair is from folks like you who are starting to sound a bit hysterical. I have an iphone, I don't use a headphone jack in it ever. If it is so important that you plug a headphone directly into a 1/8th inch jack the gold standard of headphone jacks, then by all means do it. Revel in how much smarter you are than the Hipsters.
And if sound fidelity is so important that you sit in an anechoic chamber to listen to uncompressed audio on your Samsung, so the background noise doesn't interfere, get yourself a professional quality closed ear headset with a 1/4 inch stereo jack, plug it into your Samsung android phone, and enjoy
requiring a pricey and fragile, easy-to-lose, bulky adapter.
lol fucking dramatic
This! Which will probably be attached to their pricy and bulkier earphones. This is the bullshit aspect of the whole thing. A free adapter that is no harder to lose than the fscking headphones, that allows the deeply offended to plug in their headphones.
Wireless Charging will be used to force the lemmings to ditch their 7 for an 8 next year.
There are some things that work great with wireless. Wi-Fi, bluetooth. Radio.
Then there is wireless charging. If it worked the same way, I'd be able to charge my phone while I'm anywhere in the room.
Sadly, that isn't the case. Since wireless chanrging is nothing more than an ancient technology based on using the device as one side of a transformer, plus putting all of the charging circuitry inside the phone, taking up valuable space, you now have a device that has to be put in a very specific place. Because it isn't going to work at all if it isn't in that specific place. Might as well plug it in.
So I for one, do not welcome our wireless charging overlords. If that is the only option on a phone - I'm not buying it.
The processor benchmarks are pointless, what matters is how fast stuff actually happens and Android is generally faster at opening the same app etc. Probably because Samsung flash memory is quicker or something,
Or something. Seriously, I expect better from you. Your message boils down to Everything about Apple and iOs is wrong, and everything about Android runs better because of "I suppose so!"
That's sad really. Yeah, there's a special secret building in the Arctic that has the special components that are only available to Samsung and Android device producers, and they sell the bad ones to Apple?
Let's try this over again.
You won't because such setups aren't needed. First off, iPhone users will migrate away from headphones that require dongles and, second, phones don't commonly need to be plugged in to listen to music. When they need charging you stop listening.
You are a moron with an agenda.
I think most iPhone users have migrated away from corded headphones a long time ago. Which is why I'm pretty certain that the hate is just emanating from people who would otherwise be bitching about "Apple Hipsters" and "iPhone sheeple". At least for me, the headphone jack going away is roughly as important as floppy disks going away. As in not important at all.
Your commentary to the "moron with an agenda" is spot on point. Well played sir!
This! Of course, the people yapping about the superiority of the headphone jack over bluetooth are most likely Android users thinking they have some sort of Ford versus Chevy talking point going on here.
Ah yes, crippling the iPhone further with the removal of the highly standardised headphone jack, requiring a pricey and fragile, easy-to-lose, bulky adapter.
And can you imagine? It takes one more plugging event. Jeezuz K Ryste! People will die of the exertion. Expect a Yuge class action suit against Apple! Yuge!
Or if you are like me, you'll put the pricey and fragile and easy to use adapter in a drawer somewhere, because you never use it ever. I didn't buy a wirless phone to attach wires to it.
I hear Samsung is bringing out a smartphone with an Ethernet jack on it and a landline jack as well. Because of some reason or another.
And since we are on standardized, Samsung should bring out a phone with a higly standardized rotary dialer.
I'm fighting what seems to be the majority opinion with this... but I really don't take issue with Apple ditching the headphone jack on the iPhone 7.
Watch this get modded as troll real quick, along with your post.
This is just another Slashdot fake outrage event. Sort of like systemd. People who hate Apple for one reason or another, will wring their hands and moan how they'll never buy an iphone again because they can't plug in a headphone. Then when pointed out there is a dongle for that, will moan again about how inconvenient that is - yet going into cognative dissonance that if plugging in a little dongle is inconvenient, that somehow plugging in a headphone is the best thing going. That's --- Odd.
But just like systemd, the apocalyptic warnings are more hystrionics than any actual problem. I've had 4 iPhones, now, and never plugged anything into the headphone jack on any of them. The missing jack is a plus for me. It means one less O-Ring on my waterproof case. Interestingly enough, in order to use an headphone jack equipped iPhone with a lifeproof case, you have to have.......... a dongle.
Absolutely, I'm really pissed off that Apple is so fucked up that they didn't include an RJ45, and a landline phone plug as well.
feckin hipsters anyhow, what if I need direct wired access to the internet, or am at my aunt Sari's, no tower in sight, and need to make a call on my iPhone.? You didn't think about THAT did you Apple?
Samsung is bringing out a phone with both RJ45 and landline jacks because they know what slashdotters must have. Theen those asswipes at Apple will go out of business in about a month.
I want a feckin rotary dial as well. Gadammed hipsters Apple anyhow.
If I wanted to stop people taking alternative explanations to an event seriously I would find convenient nutters to add their wacky ideas to the list of explanations and get them onto talk shows, lecture circuit, etc.
I see - you ascribe to the conspiracist conspiracy conspiracist conspiracy conspiracist conspiracy conspiracist conspiracy theory. 8^&
The animals are also invading. Prior to the 20th century, coyotes did not live east of the Mississippi River. Today, they are common from New England to Florida. It is estimated that hundreds live in New York City, subsisting on garbage and rats. Other animals, from raccoons to peregrine falcons, have also adapted to urban living.
This is simplifying the hell out of the issue. About 12 years ago, about a square mile of land was cleared for a big shopping center about a mile from me. We're talking remove every tree, and vegetation, and turn that acreage into something that looked like the surface of Mars.
That summer, the population of all the animals in my backyard exploded. When evicted, the animals don't just die off right away, they migrate, fight with the animals where they try to establish themselves, and a lot starve to death.
I once saw a racoon and 3 cubs walking down Market St in San Francisco. I once saw a coyote on the Embarcadero. There is a family of possums living in the shed in my backyard.
Do you know what "wilderness" means?
For some folks, seeing a bear in a zoo makes for a trip to the wilderness. Speaking of which, in my neighborhood, we regularly have bears wandering around. A little unnerving at first, but they just use the roads for the same reason we do. gotta get to work.
In my backyard, I've seen bear, deer, possum, skunk, raccoons, hawks ( a Cooper's Hawk seems to really like my wife) ravens, plieated woodpeckers - the "Oh my Gawd" bird - and the obligatory squirrels and chippers, and a number of bullfrogs, who actually eat chipmunks.
Bill probably thinks I live on the Alaskan Wildlife refuge instead of a suburb in PA.
Meanwhile, I'd wager that 99 percent of the people and their fake outrage over the phone jack can't name another thing about the iPhone 7.
Its looking like a pretty good phone. But of course, the whole outrage thing is more about the ford versus chevy arguments over Android versus iPhone. The most outraged arn't going to buy one anyhow.
Its such a pity that there are absolutely no options that don't depend on that little phone jack.
How can India have more qualified criminals than the US? Look who we have running for president!
Or are our criminals going to lose their jobs to criminals willing to work more hours for less money?
Of course! The stockholder must be served, and cheaper criminals only makes perfect sense!
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A lot of animals are a whole lot smarter than many humans give them credit for, Cats, dogs, birds, horses. You just have to know how to listen. That Porpoises have meaningful communications other than simple alarm noises is nothing new.
I've still got systems running 3.13.
WAIT! I've still got systems running 2.6.
If they are doing their jobs - why not?
It's an excruciating choice, really, either lightning or explode. Ah, the dark power of Apple nowadays...
Pretty well played sir! Well done.
Can't say I care at all tho, other than to note the silly trend in Woz stories. If Chevy made a 4WD offroad capable Bolt, I'd have one. Same with Tesla. That's why we have different manufacturers - who knew?
Well, I have 4 iPhones in my family and all 4 have 3mm earbuds plugged in constantly.
Why exactly? Does anyone use them for a phone - or do you just have an overpriced mp3 player?
Got a 5 when they first came out. When is the crippling update supposed to happen?
Next week, isn't it?
Prolly not. I've had many updates so far, and they've all been good. Even so, I'm not worried. MOs of my Android friends have started on their third phone since I got my 5.
As strawmen go, that's especially poor. It's little more than a pile of straw, and half of it has already blown away.
No - it was sarcasm. SRSLY,some of you follks have to quit calling every single thing you disagree with, a "Strawmen". That last sentence I wrote is closer to a strawman than my prior post. The sentence before this one might be called irony, or perhaps the strawman strawman paradox.
Which you might call the strawman strawman strawman paradox argument.
You aren't supposed to use it - but at least it has a headphone Jack.
If your current iPhone is still relatively new, it will be at least a year or so longer before Apple cripples it with an iOS update designed with that in mind.
Got a 5 when they first came out. When is the crippling update supposed to happen?
See, this would impress Android users because they care about this stuff. Apple users on the other hand, just want an extra shiny Apple symbol on the back (preferably glow in the dark and glowing). And that it's the latest model so they can post "omg I got this phone" on Facebook with Selfies.
And yet, 90 percent of the gnashing of teeth and rending of hair is from folks like you who are starting to sound a bit hysterical. I have an iphone, I don't use a headphone jack in it ever. If it is so important that you plug a headphone directly into a 1/8th inch jack the gold standard of headphone jacks, then by all means do it. Revel in how much smarter you are than the Hipsters.
And if sound fidelity is so important that you sit in an anechoic chamber to listen to uncompressed audio on your Samsung, so the background noise doesn't interfere, get yourself a professional quality closed ear headset with a 1/4 inch stereo jack, plug it into your Samsung android phone, and enjoy
Don't forget the adapter tho'!
requiring a pricey and fragile, easy-to-lose, bulky adapter.
lol fucking dramatic
This! Which will probably be attached to their pricy and bulkier earphones. This is the bullshit aspect of the whole thing. A free adapter that is no harder to lose than the fscking headphones, that allows the deeply offended to plug in their headphones.
Christ, talk about first world problems.
Wireless Charging will be used to force the lemmings to ditch their 7 for an 8 next year.
There are some things that work great with wireless. Wi-Fi, bluetooth. Radio.
Then there is wireless charging. If it worked the same way, I'd be able to charge my phone while I'm anywhere in the room.
Sadly, that isn't the case. Since wireless chanrging is nothing more than an ancient technology based on using the device as one side of a transformer, plus putting all of the charging circuitry inside the phone, taking up valuable space, you now have a device that has to be put in a very specific place. Because it isn't going to work at all if it isn't in that specific place. Might as well plug it in.
So I for one, do not welcome our wireless charging overlords. If that is the only option on a phone - I'm not buying it.
Enjoy your high-latency low-bitrate limited-bandwidth bluetooth audio, and don't complain when the audio falls out of sync with video. :-p
And you'll scream in 3d surround sound as your proper exploding Samsung catches fire.
Noted that blutooth is evil beyond the pale, but bttery fires are just fine. Here is an acceptable situation:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/business...
http://wallstreams.com/samsung...
http://thenextweb.com/in/2016/...
Yeah, you might want to re-think your talking points.
The processor benchmarks are pointless, what matters is how fast stuff actually happens and Android is generally faster at opening the same app etc. Probably because Samsung flash memory is quicker or something,
Or something. Seriously, I expect better from you. Your message boils down to Everything about Apple and iOs is wrong, and everything about Android runs better because of "I suppose so!"
That's sad really. Yeah, there's a special secret building in the Arctic that has the special components that are only available to Samsung and Android device producers, and they sell the bad ones to Apple? Let's try this over again.
You won't because such setups aren't needed. First off, iPhone users will migrate away from headphones that require dongles and, second, phones don't commonly need to be plugged in to listen to music. When they need charging you stop listening.
You are a moron with an agenda.
I think most iPhone users have migrated away from corded headphones a long time ago. Which is why I'm pretty certain that the hate is just emanating from people who would otherwise be bitching about "Apple Hipsters" and "iPhone sheeple". At least for me, the headphone jack going away is roughly as important as floppy disks going away. As in not important at all.
Your commentary to the "moron with an agenda" is spot on point. Well played sir!
This! Of course, the people yapping about the superiority of the headphone jack over bluetooth are most likely Android users thinking they have some sort of Ford versus Chevy talking point going on here.
Ah yes, crippling the iPhone further with the removal of the highly standardised headphone jack, requiring a pricey and fragile, easy-to-lose, bulky adapter.
And can you imagine? It takes one more plugging event. Jeezuz K Ryste! People will die of the exertion. Expect a Yuge class action suit against Apple! Yuge!
Or if you are like me, you'll put the pricey and fragile and easy to use adapter in a drawer somewhere, because you never use it ever. I didn't buy a wirless phone to attach wires to it.
I hear Samsung is bringing out a smartphone with an Ethernet jack on it and a landline jack as well. Because of some reason or another.
And since we are on standardized, Samsung should bring out a phone with a higly standardized rotary dialer.
I'm fighting what seems to be the majority opinion with this ... but I really don't take issue with Apple ditching the headphone jack on the iPhone 7.
Watch this get modded as troll real quick, along with your post.
This is just another Slashdot fake outrage event. Sort of like systemd. People who hate Apple for one reason or another, will wring their hands and moan how they'll never buy an iphone again because they can't plug in a headphone. Then when pointed out there is a dongle for that, will moan again about how inconvenient that is - yet going into cognative dissonance that if plugging in a little dongle is inconvenient, that somehow plugging in a headphone is the best thing going. That's --- Odd.
But just like systemd, the apocalyptic warnings are more hystrionics than any actual problem. I've had 4 iPhones, now, and never plugged anything into the headphone jack on any of them. The missing jack is a plus for me. It means one less O-Ring on my waterproof case. Interestingly enough, in order to use an headphone jack equipped iPhone with a lifeproof case, you have to have.......... a dongle.
feckin hipsters anyhow, what if I need direct wired access to the internet, or am at my aunt Sari's, no tower in sight, and need to make a call on my iPhone.? You didn't think about THAT did you Apple?
Samsung is bringing out a phone with both RJ45 and landline jacks because they know what slashdotters must have. Theen those asswipes at Apple will go out of business in about a month.
I want a feckin rotary dial as well. Gadammed hipsters Apple anyhow.
2 Planes managed to take out 3 buildings, with the third containing much interesting paperwork that conveniently burned up..
And O'bama and Hellary were seen running out of the area right before they fell. A coincidence? I don't think so!
If I wanted to stop people taking alternative explanations to an event seriously I would find convenient nutters to add their wacky ideas to the list of explanations and get them onto talk shows, lecture circuit, etc.
I see - you ascribe to the conspiracist conspiracy conspiracist conspiracy conspiracist conspiracy conspiracist conspiracy theory. 8^&
The animals are also invading. Prior to the 20th century, coyotes did not live east of the Mississippi River. Today, they are common from New England to Florida. It is estimated that hundreds live in New York City, subsisting on garbage and rats. Other animals, from raccoons to peregrine falcons, have also adapted to urban living.
This is simplifying the hell out of the issue. About 12 years ago, about a square mile of land was cleared for a big shopping center about a mile from me. We're talking remove every tree, and vegetation, and turn that acreage into something that looked like the surface of Mars.
That summer, the population of all the animals in my backyard exploded. When evicted, the animals don't just die off right away, they migrate, fight with the animals where they try to establish themselves, and a lot starve to death.
Do you know what "wilderness" means?
For some folks, seeing a bear in a zoo makes for a trip to the wilderness. Speaking of which, in my neighborhood, we regularly have bears wandering around. A little unnerving at first, but they just use the roads for the same reason we do. gotta get to work.
In my backyard, I've seen bear, deer, possum, skunk, raccoons, hawks ( a Cooper's Hawk seems to really like my wife) ravens, plieated woodpeckers - the "Oh my Gawd" bird - and the obligatory squirrels and chippers, and a number of bullfrogs, who actually eat chipmunks.
Bill probably thinks I live on the Alaskan Wildlife refuge instead of a suburb in PA.
Its looking like a pretty good phone. But of course, the whole outrage thing is more about the ford versus chevy arguments over Android versus iPhone. The most outraged arn't going to buy one anyhow.
Its such a pity that there are absolutely no options that don't depend on that little phone jack.
Unpossible.
How can India have more qualified criminals than the US? Look who we have running for president! Or are our criminals going to lose their jobs to criminals willing to work more hours for less money?
Of course! The stockholder must be served, and cheaper criminals only makes perfect sense!