It's more a matter that the iPhone's screen is too small for me to use fluidly because my fingers and hands are too large, and I'm not exactly the most dextrous person on the block.
I have no problem with Apple making a phone the size that they do... I just wish they would come out with more options for people with different preferences.
Of course, if that's not the "Apple Way" of doing things, then it's just going to be a simple fact that I'm not liable to buy another iPhone in the future.
Because in all honesty, I'd actually prefer to stick with Apple... I've got some investment into owning such a device already and wouldn't mind being able to transfer all of my apps to another future device, but in the end, if I'm really just going to always be struggling with using it, it's just not worth it to me, and I'd rather get an Android phablet device instead.
I didn't ever say anything about my eyesight... the problem I have with the device is that my hands and fingers are too large to use it well. The Galaxy Note II phone is a really great size and I will be getting a device with that form factor next April, when my current contract runs out and I'll be eligible for another discounted price phone.
I do not expect I will be buying another iPhone ever again. The device is far too tiny... It seemed like a good idea at the time when I bought it, but having used it for 2 years now, I can see that it's not all that I had hoped for.
My wife's Galaxy Note phone is awesome... reasonable screen size, and even comes with a stylus.
If Apple made something along those lines (I think the term is "phabet), I'd probably purchase it, but I don't expect that they will, so once my current contract is up (next spring), I'm migrating to an Android.
The only reason most of the elderly are not "firing on all mental cylinders" by age 70 is because they haven't needed to... and their mental abilities are atrophying because they haven't had reason to push themselves beyond what they may already know and are comfortable with.
There's are very practical and unchangeable reasons why mobile devices use flash devices for storage instead of hard drives... and I'm really kind of surprised that Seagate would not have already realized this.
Moving parts means that the device is inherently more fragile... less resilient to shock, and introduces points of physical failure that don't exist with solid state storage.
A spinning hard drive means that you're going to be wasting a whole lot of energy driving the motor... probably more than order of magnitude more than what it takes to use flash storage. This means that you will need bulkier and heavier batteries, which makes the device less practical for carrying around everywhere.
It's still a falsely advertised product, and even if Apple themselves did not falsely advertise anything, they *DID* sell it.... and that makes them liable.
But Apple's liability is limited to just that... they may not be liable for the false advertising itself, but they can still reasonably be held liable for selling a product that was falsely advertised. Accordingly, either a refund or an in-store credit needs to be offered to consumers, and Apple should seek any appropriate compensation from those are ultimately responsible... but there is no reason for the consumer to pursue damages from them because the consumer's financial dealings were strictly with Apple.
The problem isn't necessarily in dividing the season into two. The problem as I see it is that they are somehow considering the second part to be a separate season from the first, in spite of the fact that they are still labeling them as two parts of the same season.
While it wasn't Apple's choice to split the season into two parts, but it's worth noting here that the show's creators themselves are referring to the second part as the "second half of season five"... which means that even though the season was split in two, the second half of it is still *PART* of the same season, and rightfully should be included in something that claims to be a "season pass" for season 5.
Now it might very well be the case (and I actually expect it is likely to be so) that the creators of the show mislabled their "season pass" and they should have been explicit up front about it only being for the first half of the season if that's what they ever meant, but the consumers still did not have any direct financial dealings with the creators of the show. They bought the stuff on iTunes.
That said... Apple's liability would likely be limited only to the consequences of selling what appears to be nothing more than a falsely advertised product. It may not have been Apple doing the false advertising, but they were still the ones doing the selling, and there is entirely reasonable cause for them to be made to offer either a refund or store-credit.
Nope... the best cover for *ANY* crime is one that leaves people with no knowledge or even idea that the crime ever even happened in the first place. Failing that, the next best cover is not leaving behind any trail that could potentially be traced back to you. Trying to obfuscate it with a less serious one that might draw attention still has the effect of actually putting your actions under the spotlight and as a side-effect carries some additional risks that anything you may have done which was more serious will actually be exposed anyways.
First, lying is not in itself even a civilly wrong act
Barring situations where telling the truth will cause irreparable harm to innocent parties who have not been given an opportunity to answer for themselves (which, outside of certain wartime historical practices, does not tend to happen statistically very often), lying is wrong, period.
Not all displays need to be powered when the image on their screen is not changing. Epaper is one such passive display technology... there are a handful of others as well.
That said, I think that this idea is hugely overcomplicating a solution to a not particularly complex problem.
"whats to prevent me from reverse-engineering the plate and reducing an entire parking garage to STOLEN?"
Presumably, such a task would require access to DMV computer systems, which while certainly not impenetrable, likely have enough facilities in place to stop more than 99% of the people who would even be inclined to want to break into such facilities.
Plus, the perp compounds their crime by hacking into a computer system without authorization... something they would necessarily have to do *BEFORE* modifying somebody's plates, and exponentially raising the chance that they would be caught before such damage actually occurred.
I''m not saying that this idea is completely immune to all hacking efforts... I know enough to realize it is not.... and in fact,there are far more basic and entirely nontechnical reasons that this idea is elss than ideal which have nothing to do with privacy or the potential to abuse such a system (which I've already mentioned elsewhere on this topic)... so on the scale of things, I'd suggest that the issue you've raised with this point is probably relatively minor.
When it comes to money spent on mailing out renewal stickers, it seems rather obvious to me that they could also save that money by passing the cost of postage onto the drivers that want their renewal stickers mailed. One could, obviously, go into the DMV in person when renewing, and pick up renewal stickers themselves, thereby saving the money on said postage, although I imagine that the hassles of probably waiting in a long line-up are more than enough to make the cost of the drivers paying for postage themselves to probably be worthwhile.
Electronic plates.... sheesh! Talk about unnecessarily overcomplicating something !
Well, to be fair, I wouldn't take even a hands-free call while driving if the traffic was uncomfortably heavy, and I didn't feel extremely confident I could predict what other drivers were going to do. But in smoothly flowing and uncongested traffic, there's rarely a problem.
There is no guarantee it would be caught in the gravity well of another object.
Do you have any idea how long eternity is? Do you seriously think it's possible to travel forever in straight line without hitting anything?
Of course, even if it could somehow avoid getting caught in the gravity of another star and consumed by that, it's still made up of protons and neutrons, both of which do have half-lives.... exceptionally long though they may be, if we're talking about an eternity, there is no doubt that this planet will at some time ultimately no longer exist in any sense of the word other than in the past tense.
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It's the option of being able to use it when it's convenient that's desirable... Good for quick notes, diagrams, and pressure sensitive to boot.
The Galaxy Note's stylus is nothing like the plastic styluses of the 1990's.
It's more a matter that the iPhone's screen is too small for me to use fluidly because my fingers and hands are too large, and I'm not exactly the most dextrous person on the block.
What are you talking about, exactly?
Of course, if that's not the "Apple Way" of doing things, then it's just going to be a simple fact that I'm not liable to buy another iPhone in the future.
Because in all honesty, I'd actually prefer to stick with Apple... I've got some investment into owning such a device already and wouldn't mind being able to transfer all of my apps to another future device, but in the end, if I'm really just going to always be struggling with using it, it's just not worth it to me, and I'd rather get an Android phablet device instead.
I carry one of these, actually.
I didn't ever say anything about my eyesight... the problem I have with the device is that my hands and fingers are too large to use it well. The Galaxy Note II phone is a really great size and I will be getting a device with that form factor next April, when my current contract runs out and I'll be eligible for another discounted price phone.
Nobody's twisting your arm and forcing you to buy a device that comes with a stylus... so don't criticize my preference to want one that does.
It's nice to have the choice. It's easier for some things...
I do not expect I will be buying another iPhone ever again. The device is far too tiny... It seemed like a good idea at the time when I bought it, but having used it for 2 years now, I can see that it's not all that I had hoped for.
My wife's Galaxy Note phone is awesome... reasonable screen size, and even comes with a stylus.
If Apple made something along those lines (I think the term is "phabet), I'd probably purchase it, but I don't expect that they will, so once my current contract is up (next spring), I'm migrating to an Android.
The only reason most of the elderly are not "firing on all mental cylinders" by age 70 is because they haven't needed to... and their mental abilities are atrophying because they haven't had reason to push themselves beyond what they may already know and are comfortable with.
If you are healthy enough for a longer period, what's so awful about working longer, and continuing to contribute usefully to society?
There's are very practical and unchangeable reasons why mobile devices use flash devices for storage instead of hard drives... and I'm really kind of surprised that Seagate would not have already realized this.
Moving parts means that the device is inherently more fragile... less resilient to shock, and introduces points of physical failure that don't exist with solid state storage.
A spinning hard drive means that you're going to be wasting a whole lot of energy driving the motor... probably more than order of magnitude more than what it takes to use flash storage. This means that you will need bulkier and heavier batteries, which makes the device less practical for carrying around everywhere.
Seagate... no. Just no.
It's still a falsely advertised product, and even if Apple themselves did not falsely advertise anything, they *DID* sell it.... and that makes them liable.
But Apple's liability is limited to just that... they may not be liable for the false advertising itself, but they can still reasonably be held liable for selling a product that was falsely advertised. Accordingly, either a refund or an in-store credit needs to be offered to consumers, and Apple should seek any appropriate compensation from those are ultimately responsible... but there is no reason for the consumer to pursue damages from them because the consumer's financial dealings were strictly with Apple.
The problem isn't necessarily in dividing the season into two. The problem as I see it is that they are somehow considering the second part to be a separate season from the first, in spite of the fact that they are still labeling them as two parts of the same season.
Now it might very well be the case (and I actually expect it is likely to be so) that the creators of the show mislabled their "season pass" and they should have been explicit up front about it only being for the first half of the season if that's what they ever meant, but the consumers still did not have any direct financial dealings with the creators of the show. They bought the stuff on iTunes.
That said... Apple's liability would likely be limited only to the consequences of selling what appears to be nothing more than a falsely advertised product. It may not have been Apple doing the false advertising, but they were still the ones doing the selling, and there is entirely reasonable cause for them to be made to offer either a refund or store-credit.
Nope... the best cover for *ANY* crime is one that leaves people with no knowledge or even idea that the crime ever even happened in the first place. Failing that, the next best cover is not leaving behind any trail that could potentially be traced back to you. Trying to obfuscate it with a less serious one that might draw attention still has the effect of actually putting your actions under the spotlight and as a side-effect carries some additional risks that anything you may have done which was more serious will actually be exposed anyways.
Did you only read the last 4 words of of what I wrote or something? Please read the other 40 or so.
Barring situations where telling the truth will cause irreparable harm to innocent parties who have not been given an opportunity to answer for themselves (which, outside of certain wartime historical practices, does not tend to happen statistically very often), lying is wrong, period.
No more than it already does when they are mailing them out anyways.
Not all displays need to be powered when the image on their screen is not changing. Epaper is one such passive display technology... there are a handful of others as well.
That said, I think that this idea is hugely overcomplicating a solution to a not particularly complex problem.
Presumably, such a task would require access to DMV computer systems, which while certainly not impenetrable, likely have enough facilities in place to stop more than 99% of the people who would even be inclined to want to break into such facilities.
Plus, the perp compounds their crime by hacking into a computer system without authorization... something they would necessarily have to do *BEFORE* modifying somebody's plates, and exponentially raising the chance that they would be caught before such damage actually occurred.
I''m not saying that this idea is completely immune to all hacking efforts... I know enough to realize it is not.... and in fact,there are far more basic and entirely nontechnical reasons that this idea is elss than ideal which have nothing to do with privacy or the potential to abuse such a system (which I've already mentioned elsewhere on this topic)... so on the scale of things, I'd suggest that the issue you've raised with this point is probably relatively minor.
When it comes to money spent on mailing out renewal stickers, it seems rather obvious to me that they could also save that money by passing the cost of postage onto the drivers that want their renewal stickers mailed. One could, obviously, go into the DMV in person when renewing, and pick up renewal stickers themselves, thereby saving the money on said postage, although I imagine that the hassles of probably waiting in a long line-up are more than enough to make the cost of the drivers paying for postage themselves to probably be worthwhile.
Electronic plates.... sheesh! Talk about unnecessarily overcomplicating something !
Well, to be fair, I wouldn't take even a hands-free call while driving if the traffic was uncomfortably heavy, and I didn't feel extremely confident I could predict what other drivers were going to do. But in smoothly flowing and uncongested traffic, there's rarely a problem.
Wouldn't paying their salaries be part of the workers' administration duties and not part of those workers' jobs?