HDMI has 19 pins, which means a reversible version of the connector would need almost twice as many (which is a lot in a small connector)..
Useful to know and, I guess, fairly obvious as it took USB so many years to reach USB-C.
On the other hand, new laptops have HDMI which suggests a certain amount of plugging/unplugging.
Perhaps a HDMI-C plug will be on the card in 20 years or so? Unless the promised wireless solution materialises (along with the inherent security concerns...)
Now of course we've got HDMI which is a connector designed by people who know what they're doing..
If they really knew what they were doing it would have been reversible.
It is still a billion times better than SCART where the cable would lever the connector out of its slot by a factor that increased as your equipment moved closer to it's ideal resting place.
Off-centre by 20 millimetres = perfect picture.
Off-centre by 10 millimetres = intermittent picture and loss of some colours.
Off-centre by 5 millimetres = no picture
Perfect placement = all SCART leads disconnect from all equipment and at least one pin at each end of each cable bends/works loose.
I don't get it - why would you want to push technology backwards? I get that people still write things down and they still use pen(cil) and paper which serves the purpose perfectly - albeit without SD slot.
We don't need some awkward bastard child of paper and tablet/phone.
Please MS, please stick to what you know - Word and Excel. Amazon and Google will bring new ideas to the table and Apple will make them look pretty and more slick, just like it has always been (for most of the elapsed current millennium).
Furthermore, conforming to every small subset (to make it fair) will result in something that is worthless or result in nothing at all (e.g. those who insist that sat-nav/electronic maps are no substitute for a paper map).
If showing calories is causing people with eating disorders some grief perhaps we should remove all information on retail food packaging. We wouldn't want somebody with anorexia to see that an Oreo contains 25 calories otherwise they might choose not to upgrade their Android device.
Of course, as has been said already, if Google permitted the calorie function to be switched off that would be a simple fix and would hopefully please everyone.....(who am I kidding?!)
As far as the pet angle, there are plenty of people that enjoy this kind of work and this kind of work is sadly increasing with things like pet pedicures and pet massages and things even more bizarre..
Each to their own I guess.
I still marvel at my dog being able to log in to XBox Live through the Kinnect as I *painstakingly* set up an XBox One profile for her. You know, as a...errm...proof of concept...
Take Google maps, the Android one on a device without touch.... how do you zoom out? There isn't a way. You can zoom in, but you cannot zoom out, it's only supported by pinch touch interface and without touch it cannot be done.
Can't you just double-tap, hold the second tap and move your finger up and down? Up zooms out, down zooms in. Am I missing something or does that not work on all devices?
Perhaps you are expecting too much from your smart device?
There has already been the debate about whether the camera is as good as a DLSR (it's not) but either way, your phone camera is good enough for most people. I have a DLSR but I've taken more pictures with my phone cams in the last 5 years than I have in my whole life.
It's the same with audio on the move - sure you can get better quality from 3.5mm but using an adapter is as good for most people and using bluetooth is acceptable for the rest. It might be appreciably better with BT 5.0 (or the same, but not likely worse).
If you use your phone for audio at home you are not much of an audiophile or you haven't invested in the appropriate equipment to which you wish to fling your audio stream.
New technology will always replace old and there will always be that point in time when it is difficult to let go. Now is that time for the 3.5mm socket. In a couple of years time we might be lamenting the demise of the fingerprint sensor over face recognition...
Alternatively, the software limited version is more accessible to more people - particularly those with a more modest budget. If they do get that promotion they hoped for, they can pay the extra to unlock the extra potential. It's the same as 'chipping' your car after purchase (although this usually voids your warranty), or having a manufacturer approved/fitted upgrade. The only difference with Tesla is that it's a software unlock rather than a physical upgrade. I don't see a problem with that.
It seems unlikely. A 500 mile trip has got to take at least 10 hours. Unless the GP was listening to the same few tracks thinking they had cached - also unlikely.
I prefer the obvious (in the true spirit of Occam's razor) - the GP has a circular road around his home and he drove 500 miles on that road thinking that the wifi would continue to function.
The newly installed router fell over and died as soon as he got into his car. From this I deduce that the router was made by Belkin. That's why they call me Sherlock, Holmes.
People will become very used to computers driving cars. And will trust them more and more until, eventually, the computers decide that they do not need to serve parasitic humans.
I like the idea that autonomous vehicles will decide to 'do their own thing' only to end up in the same car park in Florida wondering what to do and where to go next.
I have no doubt that the usage stats are skewed by people like me who accidentally clicks on the quick launch icon when I mean to launch Word (obviously not on my own PC where the edge short cut has been deleted).
I agree with what you say, I meant to establish that if there is a chain of blame, the driver would be first, then the person who allowed her to drive BEFORE even thinking about Tesla.
However, I agree that the buck appears to stop with the driver. Even if there was another vehicle involved on the wrong side of the road, sobriety would have perhaps avoided or mitigated the accident.
As for the comment about being 27, I recall saying at work that anybody under the age of 23 is basically a twat (a flippant comment meant in jest but ultimately 23 is not old enough to have enough wisdom not to be a twat). Every year that passes I add another year and I said it around 5 years old so the driver was basically a twat (being under 28) which is a shame as some wisdom may have saved her.
In 10 years time I will have added enough years to equal the age at which I made my bold proclamation which will make me a twat for saying it. There is always wisdom out there for people to glean.
Even if the daughter isn't to blame, the owner of the car - her boss - who was also killed, gave her the keys (or whatever you use to operate the Tesla). The daughter might be an adult but still relatively young whreas the boss was 44, old enough to have obtained a Tesla as a personal/company vehicle, yet he stupid enough to get drunk and allow another drunk to drive him home/wherever.
To allow any lawsuit to gain any traction would be the thin end of the wedge. People shoot themselves all the time when under the influence of alcohol, drugs, etc. but owners aren't required to have guns with built-in breathalysers are they? Why should cars be any different?
It was an unfortunate tragedy and undoubtedly caused by excess speed which was caused by excess alcohol. If there is a company that could address this issue, IMHO, it is Tesla - but don't penalise the company for the idiocy of others.
Baby seals and whales don't use cellular phones therefore your point is invalid. Of course, this may change over time as IP68 becomes more commonplace.
Pandas have very little use for cellular devices due to poor data access. Rather like the nutrient in bamboo, it is a bandwidth issue.
All the iphone owners I know (mostly my kids and their friends) get through many sets of earphones a year. They are always replaced with another set of wired headphones at minimal cost. I've not seen a bluetooth replacement being favoured.
As for the listening and charging issue - I didn't foresee that being a problem (I don't listen to music on my phone) but those users I have spoken to say that it's a deal breaker.
Not being able to listen with wired headphones whilst charging the phone is a real problem. I guess if you view the phone as your social and media hub, you need to be able to charge it whatever you happen to be doing. That's just not possible with the iphone 7 unless you are forced to use BT headphones. That's not the complete solution as your headphones are discharging whilst you are charging your phone which means you need a wired set for when the BT headphones die and your phone is charged.
That's a fair point but this isn't Kickstarter we're talking about, it's Apple. Knowing the market as they do, you would have expected final production to be underway before the announcement.
I'm not being particularly critical - as long as Apple can supply in time for Christmas all will be well.
You are probably referring to 'sex' as a definition from a pre-informed time when only a man and a woman could engage in sexual congress.
In the UK where same-sex marriage is legal (a recent addition to the law where only civil partnership was permitted rather than marriage), the use of adultery in divorce proceedings can only be used in heterosexual marriages due to the definition of adultery being "sex between a married man or woman and someone he or she is not married to".
Clearly there is a disconnect in UK law as some bits need to catch up with others (the law dealing with the divorce process in isolation came into being in 1973).
You could do with some catching up yourself and recognize that sex is a global term that can refer to vaginal, anal and oral sex. As some of those definitions don't need a penis you can widen even further and recognize that woman can have sex with each other. I'm sure you wouldn't have to dig very deep to discover that there are many websites devoted to the issue.
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HDMI has 19 pins, which means a reversible version of the connector would need almost twice as many (which is a lot in a small connector). .
Useful to know and, I guess, fairly obvious as it took USB so many years to reach USB-C.
On the other hand, new laptops have HDMI which suggests a certain amount of plugging/unplugging.
Perhaps a HDMI-C plug will be on the card in 20 years or so? Unless the promised wireless solution materialises (along with the inherent security concerns...)
Now of course we've got HDMI which is a connector designed by people who know what they're doing..
If they really knew what they were doing it would have been reversible.
It is still a billion times better than SCART where the cable would lever the connector out of its slot by a factor that increased as your equipment moved closer to it's ideal resting place.
Off-centre by 20 millimetres = perfect picture.
Off-centre by 10 millimetres = intermittent picture and loss of some colours.
Off-centre by 5 millimetres = no picture
Perfect placement = all SCART leads disconnect from all equipment and at least one pin at each end of each cable bends/works loose.
Is it the PDA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - that MS is seeking to reinvent?
I don't get it - why would you want to push technology backwards? I get that people still write things down and they still use pen(cil) and paper which serves the purpose perfectly - albeit without SD slot.
We don't need some awkward bastard child of paper and tablet/phone.
Please MS, please stick to what you know - Word and Excel. Amazon and Google will bring new ideas to the table and Apple will make them look pretty and more slick, just like it has always been (for most of the elapsed current millennium).
Diarrhea can kill a small child, you know.
Particularly if they are standing right behind you...
Furthermore, conforming to every small subset (to make it fair) will result in something that is worthless or result in nothing at all (e.g. those who insist that sat-nav/electronic maps are no substitute for a paper map).
If showing calories is causing people with eating disorders some grief perhaps we should remove all information on retail food packaging. We wouldn't want somebody with anorexia to see that an Oreo contains 25 calories otherwise they might choose not to upgrade their Android device.
Of course, as has been said already, if Google permitted the calorie function to be switched off that would be a simple fix and would hopefully please everyone.....(who am I kidding?!)
They became write supremacists .
That post did not receive the merit that it deserved. I salute you Sir!
As far as the pet angle, there are plenty of people that enjoy this kind of work and this kind of work is sadly increasing with things like pet pedicures and pet massages and things even more bizarre. .
Each to their own I guess.
I still marvel at my dog being able to log in to XBox Live through the Kinnect as I *painstakingly* set up an XBox One profile for her. You know, as a...errm...proof of concept...
From the 1800's what?
The Amiga 1800 was the predecessor to the Amiga 2000
Take Google maps, the Android one on a device without touch.... how do you zoom out? There isn't a way. You can zoom in, but you cannot zoom out, it's only supported by pinch touch interface and without touch it cannot be done.
Can't you just double-tap, hold the second tap and move your finger up and down? Up zooms out, down zooms in. Am I missing something or does that not work on all devices?
It really is a shame that someone hasn't broke all 10 of your fingers.
Why just the fingers?
I think you will have egg on your face when you watch the documentary "John Carter of Mars"
Perhaps you are expecting too much from your smart device?
There has already been the debate about whether the camera is as good as a DLSR (it's not) but either way, your phone camera is good enough for most people. I have a DLSR but I've taken more pictures with my phone cams in the last 5 years than I have in my whole life.
It's the same with audio on the move - sure you can get better quality from 3.5mm but using an adapter is as good for most people and using bluetooth is acceptable for the rest. It might be appreciably better with BT 5.0 (or the same, but not likely worse).
If you use your phone for audio at home you are not much of an audiophile or you haven't invested in the appropriate equipment to which you wish to fling your audio stream.
New technology will always replace old and there will always be that point in time when it is difficult to let go. Now is that time for the 3.5mm socket. In a couple of years time we might be lamenting the demise of the fingerprint sensor over face recognition...
That's one way of looking at it.
Alternatively, the software limited version is more accessible to more people - particularly those with a more modest budget. If they do get that promotion they hoped for, they can pay the extra to unlock the extra potential. It's the same as 'chipping' your car after purchase (although this usually voids your warranty), or having a manufacturer approved/fitted upgrade. The only difference with Tesla is that it's a software unlock rather than a physical upgrade. I don't see a problem with that.
It seems unlikely. A 500 mile trip has got to take at least 10 hours. Unless the GP was listening to the same few tracks thinking they had cached - also unlikely.
I prefer the obvious (in the true spirit of Occam's razor) - the GP has a circular road around his home and he drove 500 miles on that road thinking that the wifi would continue to function.
The newly installed router fell over and died as soon as he got into his car. From this I deduce that the router was made by Belkin. That's why they call me Sherlock, Holmes.
Or to summarise: Young earth creationists are wrong because, God! And you can't argue with God lest you disappear in a puff of smoke.
I shall preempt their response and respond with "prove it's not fake news!"
People will become very used to computers driving cars. And will trust them more and more until, eventually, the computers decide that they do not need to serve parasitic humans.
I like the idea that autonomous vehicles will decide to 'do their own thing' only to end up in the same car park in Florida wondering what to do and where to go next.
I have no doubt that the usage stats are skewed by people like me who accidentally clicks on the quick launch icon when I mean to launch Word (obviously not on my own PC where the edge short cut has been deleted).
Plus Amazon helpfully states when the product is available cheaper elsewhere in a non-Prime listing - and tells you the price.
I agree with what you say, I meant to establish that if there is a chain of blame, the driver would be first, then the person who allowed her to drive BEFORE even thinking about Tesla.
However, I agree that the buck appears to stop with the driver. Even if there was another vehicle involved on the wrong side of the road, sobriety would have perhaps avoided or mitigated the accident.
As for the comment about being 27, I recall saying at work that anybody under the age of 23 is basically a twat (a flippant comment meant in jest but ultimately 23 is not old enough to have enough wisdom not to be a twat). Every year that passes I add another year and I said it around 5 years old so the driver was basically a twat (being under 28) which is a shame as some wisdom may have saved her.
In 10 years time I will have added enough years to equal the age at which I made my bold proclamation which will make me a twat for saying it. There is always wisdom out there for people to glean.
Even if the daughter isn't to blame, the owner of the car - her boss - who was also killed, gave her the keys (or whatever you use to operate the Tesla). The daughter might be an adult but still relatively young whreas the boss was 44, old enough to have obtained a Tesla as a personal/company vehicle, yet he stupid enough to get drunk and allow another drunk to drive him home/wherever.
To allow any lawsuit to gain any traction would be the thin end of the wedge. People shoot themselves all the time when under the influence of alcohol, drugs, etc. but owners aren't required to have guns with built-in breathalysers are they? Why should cars be any different?
It was an unfortunate tragedy and undoubtedly caused by excess speed which was caused by excess alcohol. If there is a company that could address this issue, IMHO, it is Tesla - but don't penalise the company for the idiocy of others.
Baby seals and whales don't use cellular phones therefore your point is invalid. Of course, this may change over time as IP68 becomes more commonplace.
Pandas have very little use for cellular devices due to poor data access. Rather like the nutrient in bamboo, it is a bandwidth issue.
All the iphone owners I know (mostly my kids and their friends) get through many sets of earphones a year. They are always replaced with another set of wired headphones at minimal cost. I've not seen a bluetooth replacement being favoured.
As for the listening and charging issue - I didn't foresee that being a problem (I don't listen to music on my phone) but those users I have spoken to say that it's a deal breaker.
Not being able to listen with wired headphones whilst charging the phone is a real problem. I guess if you view the phone as your social and media hub, you need to be able to charge it whatever you happen to be doing. That's just not possible with the iphone 7 unless you are forced to use BT headphones. That's not the complete solution as your headphones are discharging whilst you are charging your phone which means you need a wired set for when the BT headphones die and your phone is charged.
That's a fair point but this isn't Kickstarter we're talking about, it's Apple. Knowing the market as they do, you would have expected final production to be underway before the announcement.
I'm not being particularly critical - as long as Apple can supply in time for Christmas all will be well.
It is a type of 'sex' though.
You are probably referring to 'sex' as a definition from a pre-informed time when only a man and a woman could engage in sexual congress.
In the UK where same-sex marriage is legal (a recent addition to the law where only civil partnership was permitted rather than marriage), the use of adultery in divorce proceedings can only be used in heterosexual marriages due to the definition of adultery being "sex between a married man or woman and someone he or she is not married to".
Clearly there is a disconnect in UK law as some bits need to catch up with others (the law dealing with the divorce process in isolation came into being in 1973).
You could do with some catching up yourself and recognize that sex is a global term that can refer to vaginal, anal and oral sex. As some of those definitions don't need a penis you can widen even further and recognize that woman can have sex with each other. I'm sure you wouldn't have to dig very deep to discover that there are many websites devoted to the issue.