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  1. Re:Size doesn't matter on Possible Superconductivity In the Brain? (springer.com) · · Score: 2

    Or maybe reread what you just said. Neurons are infrastructure, possibly something that contains a quantum component of some sort. Not that I necessarily agree, but what you're saying doesn't rule out the OP.

  2. And make you use a proprietary HDMI dongle for audio....oh wait, they already do that.

  3. Sure, better than thermal cycling. But still probably a lot of wear compared to new. You wouldn't really be able to compare until years out comparing the failure time vs buying new cards.

  4. Maybe they're learning from Apple. If so, they'll sell the same model for 5 years with no price drops and when the new model comes out the old one comes off the market entirely.

  5. eBay is filled with mostly used/abused mining gear. It might be burned in well enough, but I imagine a lot of thermal damage too

  6. They're trickling them onto the market at near full retail because they have a new generation of hardware to sell. My guess is it will fire sale after R&D is recouped on the new stuff or get buried in the desert next to ET (figuratively speaking, of course, due to prevalent e-recycling laws).

  7. Re: If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's crazy if they're getting that advanced but not having a 3.5mm (which could be plugged into a bluetooth receiver) or a hidden aux input somewhere inside the dash. On the other hand, I would never use something that puts air conditioning controls on a touch screen. I'd rather not have to look.

  8. Re: If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    My response is basically that it's becoming a niche market and it's usually not as expensive as claimed.

  9. Re: If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The phone no longer comes with a lightning to headphone adapter in the box. But if you're already buying a new phone, you can buy the $9 adapter at the same time.

    Also, you can literally install a decent stereo yourself. It's not hard.

  10. Re:Apple wants you to buy new devices. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    that is 3y after release as promised (though yes if you buy it 1.5y after release, you get 1.5y support).
    So at least with the ER and Nexus/Pixel lines, you can predict the support period (except the Galaxy Nexus which was in a unique situation).

    And yet 1.5 years after release, that was still the newest model. You can predict only getting 1.5 years of support, but you get no option for 3y if you buy in an off year. And to get the specifics, you really have to go digging around.

  11. Re: If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just keep the included headphone adapter in the car. There are all sorts of options.

  12. Re: If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You replace your stereo AND keep the old one for the rare occasion you need to program a fob (likely never). OR, you decide to bank on never needing to program a fob and just get rid of the old radio (if you're wrong, pay a dealer or buy a used OEM stereo and then re-sell it). For the 15-20 minutes it takes to pull out the new stereo and plug in the old one for fob programming, I think you're overcomplicating things. The factory stereo is a little hard to remove, but most aftermarket ones come out in minutes with a simple extractor tool.

  13. Re: If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Several hundred? You can literally buy a new car stereo with AUX input for $15 at Wal-Mart. Not that you'd want that one. If you want a fancy color touch screen, you might be looking at $100-150. Throw in a few more bucks for the DIN adapters - plenty of aftermarket gear for this. You're believing what the car makers want you to think.

  14. Re: If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    With as often as you'll be programming new fobs, just keep the thing in storage. Or have a dealer do it if you don't want to deal with the storage of the old radio.

  15. If Apple was up-front about it all along, people would have happily paid that $99. The $29 was to try to misdirect everyone away from that original dishonesty.

  16. Re:Tim Cook Reality Distortion Field on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They forgot how many of their customers aren't actually rich.

  17. Re:Apple wants you to buy new devices. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I hate to tell you, but Android is mostly worse in this regard. Apple does a lot of things wrong, but long-term OS upgrades is generally better than Android.

    The 5-year old 2nd-gen iPad mini still supports iOS 12. iPhone support for iOS 12 goes back to 2014 devices. I had an Google Nexus 6 that went out of support 1.5 years after I bought it - no no updates. And that was an actual Google co-branded phone. The full size iPad is a weird exception to this.

    All mobile devices are still given way too short of a supported lifespan. With Android there's no predicting when support will end either.

  18. Re:Because it's far more profitable to do a trade on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they don't do that.

    They give you that $100 as a token discount to keep the phone off the local resale market. Then it goes into a shredder.

  19. Re: If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, I shouldn't have to buy a new car just to get bluetooth so I can listen to tunes from a phone. That's like buying a new house because you want to upgrade the tile in your bathroom.

    You're right. Just buy a new stereo.

  20. Re:Is this really related to Chromecast? on Hackers Are Taking Over Chromecasts To Promote a YouTube Channel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    While the primary problem is that UPnP doesn't require approval, the secondary problem is definitely that Chromecast doesn't authenticate incoming connections in any way.

  21. Re:No one should profit from crime on Hackers Are Taking Over Chromecasts To Promote a YouTube Channel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's fine. It's French.

  22. Re:Those who don't know history on The Commerce Department is Considering National Security Restrictions on AI (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you have the global market of you aren't exporting globally?

  23. Yeah, that's a straw man there. I'm talking about a little bit wider of a gap.

  24. Re:We're all screwed on USB Type-C Authentication Program Launched (newatlas.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd say locked bootloaders on laptops and routers and HDCP over HDMI all predate this by a wide degree.

  25. Re:Those who don't know history on The Commerce Department is Considering National Security Restrictions on AI (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course when it comes to the current state of the art, the principles are already known. And we have a long way to go before its utility is fully found.

    So all we'd doing is preventing US companies from having a share in the market and fostering more global competition. This would be a net loss to our economy.