Every $399-and-up iPhone at the Apple store is held in place with a cable. And these crazy-expensive prototype laptops weren't because...?
If it were my prototype laptop, I"d've specced it with not just one but two Kensington slots. And it'd go into a substantial locking box after hours, or into the hotel room of a trusted rep.
Consumer Reports, as they said, is pretty careful with testing. But even if they were not quite as careful as they are, as long as they tested different devices in the same way and used consumer purchased models, they results they found should stand.
Unless the results are inconsistent and non-repeatable, in which case they should be tossed out until the root problem is discovered, regardless of if the fault is theirs or Apple's. To say "we stand by our tests, despite problems that we don't understand" is simply dumb.
At Slashdot, we also avoid curly quotes -- and when we miss, you see them as weird characters on the site because our CMS is lame and can't deal with an ancient, well-known, well-understood problem that has been solved by multiple stable, mature, well-regarded open-source utilities for over a decade!
Computing *itself* is less fun... but now we have infinite free porn available instantly. I'd say that's a fair trade.:D
In all seriousness, you could say the same thing about cars now vs. the 80s... or you could have said it in the 80s vs the 50s. And I feel the same about computers as I do about cars: I can still tinker if I *want* to, but at the same time I like that I don't *have* to.
Strictly speaking, you can still go buy a C64 or Atari 800 or whatever you want on eBay and it'll be the same computer that it was back then... and if you want to solder or write a crappy text adventure game in BASIC, you still can. Give it a shot, see how fun it is.
My iPhone with iOS 9.x.y has the installer for 10.x.y taking up 1.2 GB on my 16GB device. If I delete it, it'll just re-download it next time there's another update. My device is perpetually low on room and it'll do things like delete downloaded game files to make room when it downloads, so I just leave it sitting there, taking up 10% of the entire usable space on my phone.
Hackers fooled ad fraud blockers because they figured out how to build software that mimicked a real person who only surfed during the daytime -- using the Google Chrome web browser on a Macbook laptop.
Ugh. Who the hell would want to advertise to those assholes? I mean, Mac users are bad enough, but Mac users running Chrome... *shudder*
... who only surfed during the daytime...
Let me guess: IPs spoofed to look like they came from a Panera?
> In an effort to help organizations respond quickly to > ransomware threats, IBM's Resilient Incident > Response Platform (IRP) is being enhanced with a > new Dynamic Playbook for ransomware.
Here's my playbook: Step 1: Have backups. Step 2: Set up backups so they don't blindly overwrite good old data with newly-encrypted data.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
FRIEDMAN: Are you worried, though, that those companies will keep their factories here, but the jobs will be replaced by robots? TRUMP: They will, and we'll make the robots, too. [laughter]
Because if there's one thing robots can't build, it's other robots. Those jobs are totally safe. Go Trump!
The Bluetooth in a family member's 2012 Rav4 was surprisingly good. The same phone playing the same files in the same way via Bluetooth in a 2016 Corolla is almost a full second behind which is SUPER annoying. (Note: I am not the guy with the "Corola" in the title who wrote to Daniel. But I do love curl and have been using it in shell scripts for over ten years.)
Assuming everything doesn't go to hell in the next 100 years and they're enslaving people they defrost, I'm *pretty sure* the folks in the un-freezing business will have some kind of assimilation help available.* I don't think it'll be like getting out of prison where they give you a few bucks, a set of clothes, and a bus pass and say "good luck!" Hell, they'll probably think living people from the past are FASCINATING.
* Come to think of it, I love teaching and culture and sociology and history -- I'd LOVE to have that job.
Your daughter is fucking DYING. Lie to her and fight with the wife after she's gone if you're that bothered by the idea, but Jesus Christ, let her be in peace for her final days. I think she has enough shit going on.
You really think "buried in the ground" or "burned" is better than "frozen"? Luckily you don't live too far north or you wouldn't even have the choice. I don't think this argument happens much in Siberia.
For fuck's sake -- freeze ME, and wake me up when people are rational.
So we went from NO SELF-POWERED VEHICLES AT ALL about 120 years ago to LANDING ON THE DAMN MOON about 75 years later, and he doesn't think we'll be able to figure out ANY way to keep ourselves living over the course of the next THOUSAND? He thinks we're totally done thinking, innovating, and solving problems, so we're just totally fucked with what we've done to the Earth as of right now?
Refurbished iPhones have the same 1-year warranty that new ones have. I've bought 6 refurbished products from Apple, going back to an 800 MHz G3 iBook in 2003. (Followed by a white MacBook, my first iPhone, two mac Minis, and an iPad.) I haven't had any unusual problems with any of them.
> In the past, Apple has only sold refurbished Macs, iPads > and various niche devices on its refurb store... This is the > first time that the company has offered iPhones on its > official refurb store online.
Flat-out wrong. My original iPhone (2G) was a refurbished model, purchased shortly after launch. $399 for a 4GB model.
If half of what is shown in this show is true, it'll take some time to fix, but they're aware of it and working on it. Long story short, they use a lot of coal, but they are at the limits of what the grid can distribute so power goes out often (and burning more coal -- which they're doing -- only strains the grid more) and lots of places have diesel generators for backup.
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Every $399-and-up iPhone at the Apple store is held in place with a cable. And these crazy-expensive prototype laptops weren't because...?
If it were my prototype laptop, I"d've specced it with not just one but two Kensington slots. And it'd go into a substantial locking box after hours, or into the hotel room of a trusted rep.
Consumer Reports, as they said, is pretty careful with testing. But even if they were not quite as careful as they are, as long as they tested different devices in the same way and used consumer purchased models, they results they found should stand.
Unless the results are inconsistent and non-repeatable, in which case they should be tossed out until the root problem is discovered, regardless of if the fault is theirs or Apple's. To say "we stand by our tests, despite problems that we don't understand" is simply dumb.
At Slashdot, we also avoid curly quotes -- and when we miss, you see them as weird characters on the site because our CMS is lame and can't deal with an ancient, well-known, well-understood problem that has been solved by multiple stable, mature, well-regarded open-source utilities for over a decade!
FTFY.
He's been doing the site full-time for many years and his annual income is well into six figures. You tell me if it's still "a thing".
Remember a few years ago when "Android first" was a thing that everybody knew was going to happen? Good times.
"...and disrupt Russiaâ(TM)s global campaign ..."
*sigh*
Computing *itself* is less fun... but now we have infinite free porn available instantly. I'd say that's a fair trade. :D
In all seriousness, you could say the same thing about cars now vs. the 80s... or you could have said it in the 80s vs the 50s. And I feel the same about computers as I do about cars: I can still tinker if I *want* to, but at the same time I like that I don't *have* to.
Strictly speaking, you can still go buy a C64 or Atari 800 or whatever you want on eBay and it'll be the same computer that it was back then... and if you want to solder or write a crappy text adventure game in BASIC, you still can. Give it a shot, see how fun it is.
My iPhone with iOS 9.x.y has the installer for 10.x.y taking up 1.2 GB on my 16GB device. If I delete it, it'll just re-download it next time there's another update. My device is perpetually low on room and it'll do things like delete downloaded game files to make room when it downloads, so I just leave it sitting there, taking up 10% of the entire usable space on my phone.
Not that I'm bitter about it or anything...
Hackers fooled ad fraud blockers because they figured out how to build software that mimicked a real person who only surfed during the daytime -- using the Google Chrome web browser on a Macbook laptop.
Ugh. Who the hell would want to advertise to those assholes? I mean, Mac users are bad enough, but Mac users running Chrome... *shudder*
... who only surfed during the daytime...
Let me guess: IPs spoofed to look like they came from a Panera?
> In an effort to help organizations respond quickly to
> ransomware threats, IBM's Resilient Incident
> Response Platform (IRP) is being enhanced with a
> new Dynamic Playbook for ransomware.
Here's my playbook:
Step 1: Have backups.
Step 2: Set up backups so they don't blindly overwrite good old data with newly-encrypted data.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
I'll give $10 to the first site that posts a video of a gangbang at a convention. That would be some "conventional" sex, right?
FRIEDMAN: Are you worried, though, that those companies will keep their factories here, but the jobs will be replaced by robots?
TRUMP: They will, and we'll make the robots, too. [laughter]
Because if there's one thing robots can't build, it's other robots. Those jobs are totally safe. Go Trump!
"I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution."
- Barack Obama, March 30, 2007
Maybe he just didn't read it all the way to the end.
The Bluetooth in a family member's 2012 Rav4 was surprisingly good. The same phone playing the same files in the same way via Bluetooth in a 2016 Corolla is almost a full second behind which is SUPER annoying. (Note: I am not the guy with the "Corola" in the title who wrote to Daniel. But I do love curl and have been using it in shell scripts for over ten years.)
... I've hated this retarded construction: "More than" + some weird number -- high, specific, not round.
"The world's seventh-biggest gold producer has lost more than nine drones because of eagle attacks."
So... ten drones, then?
I just heard "over 46" somethings earlier tonight. That would be 47, I suppose?
> Why would they care about how useful their technology when
> applied to someone frozen with 300 year old technology?
It'll be like trying to read a 360k floppy, but with a human.
Assuming everything doesn't go to hell in the next 100 years and they're enslaving people they defrost, I'm *pretty sure* the folks in the un-freezing business will have some kind of assimilation help available.* I don't think it'll be like getting out of prison where they give you a few bucks, a set of clothes, and a bus pass and say "good luck!" Hell, they'll probably think living people from the past are FASCINATING.
* Come to think of it, I love teaching and culture and sociology and history -- I'd LOVE to have that job.
Your daughter is fucking DYING. Lie to her and fight with the wife after she's gone if you're that bothered by the idea, but Jesus Christ, let her be in peace for her final days. I think she has enough shit going on.
You really think "buried in the ground" or "burned" is better than "frozen"? Luckily you don't live too far north or you wouldn't even have the choice. I don't think this argument happens much in Siberia.
For fuck's sake -- freeze ME, and wake me up when people are rational.
So we went from NO SELF-POWERED VEHICLES AT ALL about 120 years ago to LANDING ON THE DAMN MOON about 75 years later, and he doesn't think we'll be able to figure out ANY way to keep ourselves living over the course of the next THOUSAND? He thinks we're totally done thinking, innovating, and solving problems, so we're just totally fucked with what we've done to the Earth as of right now?
... but that's just because I was up late. You can ignore that.
Refurbished iPhones have the same 1-year warranty that new ones have. I've bought 6 refurbished products from Apple, going back to an 800 MHz G3 iBook in 2003. (Followed by a white MacBook, my first iPhone, two mac Minis, and an iPad.) I haven't had any unusual problems with any of them.
> In the past, Apple has only sold refurbished Macs, iPads
> and various niche devices on its refurb store... This is the
> first time that the company has offered iPhones on its
> official refurb store online.
Flat-out wrong. My original iPhone (2G) was a refurbished model, purchased shortly after launch. $399 for a 4GB model.
http://imgur.com/a/QT5OV
(And then the price drop happened but I was within the 15-day return window and I got back $150.)
If half of what is shown in this show is true, it'll take some time to fix, but they're aware of it and working on it. Long story short, they use a lot of coal, but they are at the limits of what the grid can distribute so power goes out often (and burning more coal -- which they're doing -- only strains the grid more) and lots of places have diesel generators for backup.
I've only been waiting thirteen years for this to happen.