I've never seen this offered on any phone I've ever owned, ever.
First, look at the back of your phone, if there's a half-eaten apple logo on it, this article doesn't apply to you.
Second, if you do have an android phone and if updates are important to you (and they should be), look for a phone that's part of the Android One program:
"Android One phones will receive at least two years of OS upgrades. With the latest version of Android, you'll get software that auto-adjusts to your needs, and helps you get things done more easily throughout the day. "
Or, if you can afford it, just buy a Google made phone then you'll be sure to get updates quickly, my Pixel gets an update every month.
That makes no sense -- if that have this remotely accessible device that they can set to flashing mode, why don't they just ask the device to report its location
Did you miss the part where the base model doesn't have GPS?
I re-read it and I still don't see that part, I only see "$799 for a premium version that features a GPS navigation add-on.", you don't need GPS navigation for simple position reports, just need a $30 GPS chipset, and I'd be very surprised if all of the frames don't already have that chipset and the "GPS Navigation" is just not activated unless you pay extra.
I don't even know what they mean by "GPS navigation add-on" -- how does a license plate frame help with GPS navigation? Going around to the back of the car to look at a map projected on the license plate frame seems awfully inconvenient. Maybe it works with a mobile app, but my phone has GPS built-in so I don't need it in the license plate frame. And if that $300 option includes an extra GPS display inside the car, why wouldn't I just buy a $100 Garmin instead? I don't see how the license plate frame GPS adds value.
They are totally WORTHLESS for displaying amber alerts.
Typically, the police are looking for a particular vehicle during an Amber alert.
They idea is not to show that Amber alert on other people's cars. It's to make the target vehicle's license plate blink/flash/otherwise draw attention to the vehicle.
That makes no sense -- if that have this remotely accessible device that they can set to flashing mode, why don't they just ask the device to report its location and then the police know exactly where it is, no need to wait on other drivers to report it, or turn them into vigilantes that will try to apprehend the driver themselves.
But feel free to use the apps in the USA, the land of the free, where the NSA has either hacked or forced their way into the apps via secret national security letters.
If that was ever funny, it stopped being so long ago.
You didn't answer the question - you know what Trump said about Mexico paying for the wall, but now Trump wants to use disaster funds meant to help Americans to pay for it. So.... how do you know when to pick and choose which of Trumps words to listen to? Does he publish some guidebook of promises he really meant?
Yes. The economy in the past w years has been fabulous compared to the previous 8 or almost any other time ever. Maybe any other time. â5 billion is a rounding error for the Federal gvt. If your only argument against building a wall which the entire leadership of the DNC is on record as supporting pre-Trump is finding the money then there is no reason left not to build it.
It's not $5B, why do people keep perpetuating that myth -- the full wall is projected to cost anywhere from $25B to $75B. And since it's a large public works project, I would expect it to go much higher before it's done. The $5B is just a down payment.
At some point even a paltry $100B stops being a rounding error and becomes "real money"
Only when them come in in the morning and leave in the evening. None of them will be able to afford to live in Manhattan.
That's probably a good thing, hopefully they'll live closer to LIC where the HQ will be... and which is not in Manhattan. No point in having 40,000 more people commute across the East River every day.
My music consumption has purely been buy CD, rip CD, use MP3 as I see fit. Now my music consumption is purely "use MP3 as I see fit"....
Same thing happened with digital copies of films. Used to be I'd buy the DVD in a store, have a redeem code that I could put into iTunes, and have the movie in a few minutes.
I still follow your model for DVD's -- when there's a movie that I want to watch that's not free on streaming, I typically buy a used DVD then rip it to my home media server. I refuse to "buy" digital movies that are tied to a single provider since history has shown that you only "own" that content for as long as that content provider is in business.
I gave up trying to rip Blurays, I managed to do it but it's too complicated (involving running software in Wine in Linux) so I stick with DVD's, which are good enough for me anyway. For a DVD, I just put it in the drive, and run a simple script that makes a full image of the DVD then rips it into a high and low level of compressed file (I use the low quality one on my mobile devices).
22526. (a) Notwithstanding any official traffic control signal indication to proceed, a driver of a vehicle shall not enter an intersection or marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or marked crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle driven without obstructing the through passage of vehicles from either side.
Note that it's still possible to enter when the light is green, have sufficient space to clear the intersection, but still be moving too slow to exit before the light turns red. This can easily happen when the cars in front of you are moving slowly, perhaps due to a red light further ahead.
If you're still in the intersection when the opposing traffic gets the green light, even if it's because there's a slow moving car in front of you, then you didn't have sufficient space to prevent obstructing the through passage of vehicles from either side and you can be ticketed. If you had sufficient space to clear the intersection, then you could have cleared the intersection, you wouldn't have a slow moving car in front of you.
"Can I stop safely before I reach the intersection", if the answer is "yes", he should stop, if "no" he should go.
You can't stop safely if you peg the brakes and the person behind you is just finishing a lane change, or typing a text message.
yes, I thought that part was obvoius -- if you can't stop safely, then you're not stopping safely. A safe stop is not stomping on the brakes and coming sliding to a halt and the yellow light timing should never require that. However, you don't have much time to decide what to do about the cars behind you -- you might need to decide between getting rear-ended and blowing a red light (which might put you in a position where you hit another car or pedestrian)
Nothing screams life of the party like entering an intersection on the green, and still being trapped inside the intersection after the red. Is that even a ticket? Well, if you need to know (I don't), ask a grammar Nazi near you.
Yes, that can (and should) get you a ticket, at least in California:
22526. (a) Notwithstanding any official traffic control signal indication to proceed, a driver of a vehicle shall not enter an intersection or marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or marked crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle driven without obstructing the through passage of vehicles from either side.
There's no silver bullet for weight loss, but there is one for getting a healthy amount of exercise. Live within 2 miles of work, walk to/from work. That gets you up to about 4 miles a day (8000 steps). Another mile of day-to-day activity and you're up to 10,000.
Even if you live farther away and/or drive to work, there are lots of ways to get exercise. Like, instead of parking next to your office you can park farther away, like in a separate building then walk the rest of the way to work.
Or ride your bike to work (some days or every day). If you live too far for a reasonable bike commute, then drive part way and bike from there. I have a 15+ mile commute which is more than I want to do both ways every day, so on days my wife goes in to the office,I ride in with her with my bike and then bike home. The buses here have bike racks, so I could ride in on the bus and then bike home.
If you ride the bus, it's easy to get in some walking -- when I take the bus, I usually get out of the bus about 2 miles before my house and walk the rest of the way.
People have lots of excuses for why they can't get exercise, they need to look for excuses for why they *can* get exercise, which takes more work.
Maths should determine the yellow light time (considering the speed limit for the approach and the incline)
That way yellow light times would be consistent, and easy to prove if the yellow time is too short for an intersection.
Yeah, seems like it should be easy to have one consistent standard... or at least a minimum standard like "if the speed limit is X mph, the yellow should be no less than Y seconds" but cities could make the yellow longer if conditions warranted it, but there seems to be a number of standards, and cities appear to be able to set shorter intervals if they feel like it.
There is a lot of research that says the lights with cameras have the yellow light time a lot shorter than other lights, in order to maximize revenue. They should really replace the yellow light with a countdown timer before they can make people pay for entering the intersection a second after the light turns red! And yes, I've gotten caught be one of these in Tualitin myself, as I was hurrying to complete my right turn before the light went red.
No timer is needed -- the yellow should give ample time for someone driving the speed limit to either stop before they reach the intersection, or continue through without conflicting with other traffic.
So the driver has to make only one decision: "Can I stop safely before I reach the intersection", if the answer is "yes", he should stop, if "no" he should go. He shouldn't have the extra cognitive burden of calculating "is 7 seconds enough time to stop? Now there's only 3 seconds, if I speed up, I think I can make it".
Pedestrian lights are different -- the countdown is to tell pedestrians how long they have to cross through the intersection, while a yellow light tells the car that they need to come to a safe stop or maintain speed through the intersection.
Fitness trackers are specific purpose unit Smart watches are not.
Where do you draw the line? I have a Garmin fitness tracker with a touchscreen that can run downloaded widgets and display notifications from my smart phone. Is that a fitness tracker or a smart watch?
Here is the interesting thing. If you convert Euros to dollars and liters to US gallons, Californians are paying more for diesel and gas (petrol) than the French are, and the citizens of the state are asking for still higher fuel taxes.
It's less interesting if you post the actual facts instead of making "facts" up, Mr Trump:
At today's exchange rate, a Euro is worth $1.13, so $0.89 is 0.78 EUR
In France, the December price is 1.42 EUR. There are only a few counties where gas is cheaper than what californian's pay: . Russia, Belarus, and Azerbaijan.
Or, to convert in the other direction the French are paying $6.06/gallon for gas.
If you have good useful hardware you will survive and beat the big tech companies. The problem is that these gadgets are just junk and rely on fads. Eventually you run out of people to sell to and your market is saturated. Only a small percentage of people want a drone, or a fitbit, an action camera, or a $60k+ electric vehicle (like Tesla found out), or a $1000+ phone (as Apple is finding out). There isn't an infinite market of consumers out there with excess money. Once the fad is over you have saturated your market.
Which is why companies try so hard to innovate and come up with new technology, though even that can't keep going forever, Apple hit that innovation wall with the last iPhone, which was mostly just a more expensive version of the previous one.
There are still a few features that could be added to fitness trackers that would make people want to upgrade -- like cellular capability without being tethered to a phone (even sms-only would be useful), pulse-ox sensors, EKG sensors. Plus, the tiny battery with inability to swap it out guarantees 2 - 3 year obsolesce.
You can't learn by doing it once either. There's a big difference between a skilled craftsman, a acceptable craftsman, and an apprentice. Nobody thinks someone who took a class once is going to do a great job, but they can leverage the ability to learn.
That's why in most high school vocational programs, it's not just a one semester program, it's a couple years of coursework and hands-on practical experience, then for something like masonry, you don't graduate as a mason, but you qualify for an apprenticeship where you get the real hands on experience.
You're not going to get the same experience out of a youtube video -- you might learn how to build a brick fireplace in your backyard that looks decent, but you're not going to lay a 40 foot chimney.
The US has actually built a system for training people in everyday skills like these. You might have heard of it, it's called youtube.
You can't learn to lay brick (well) from a youtube video -- trust me, I've seen it attempted, and then he paid a real brick layer to tear it out and replace it with something servicable. The guy brought his son who was learning the trade.
How about some REAL life skills: like how to grow and prepare food, how to build and maintain machinery, how to build a house, how to drill a water well, how to build and maintain a sanitary sewage system, etc? Basic life skills have been completely left blank in favor of creating a helpless clone army of future tax paying mules that are 100% reliant on the system for all their essential needs.
You're looking for vocational education, which many schools still offer, but it's a different track than college level education. In my school, in 9th grade you could choose to go to the vo-tech program to learn what you call a "Real life skill". Though you still had to choose a specialty, the program wasn't designed to create a general renaissance man who can farm, fix machinery, build a house, drill a well, etc.
And it's not even clear why you think it's neccessary -- I spent summers from age 12 to 18 helping out on my uncle's farm, I can drive a tractor, run a combine, milk a cow, kill and butcher a hog, etc.... furthermore, while I haven't built a house myself, but helped my brother build his, I can set concrete, hang drywall, sweat a copper plumbing joint, install electrical, etc. And while some of the homebuilding skills have come in handy while remodeling, most of the skills I developed haven't really helped me.
How do you suppose they can close the analog hole when headphones, by their very nature, are analog devices? If you can attach a set of headphones (or a speaker) to a device then the analog hole exists. It's impossible for it to be closed. Even if a wireless connection is required to connect to those headphones.. the headphones themselves will *still* be an analog device with no possible way of protecting the signal with DRM. Just can't be done.
The final step is a digital port wired into your brain, but first they need to get rid of all of the analog outputs.
I'm not sure that it's serious so much as a troll post. Anyone who felt that strongly about a headphone port wouldn't have purchased a phone without one. Judging by the amount of shit it's already stirring up, I'd say it's a pretty successful troll at that.
Every purchase is a tradeoff, you rarely get everything you want.
A headphone jack could very well be important to some people, but not as important as other features.
GPS goes by signal strength...it doesn't read any data. Just uses multiple signals to do triangulation...
Even LORAN, an analog nagivational system that's been in use since the 1950's is more sophisticated than your belief of how GPS works. GPS signal timing is so precise that general relativity is used in the calculations.
The system requires 18 satellites for continuous navigation services covering the entire territory of the Russian Federation, and 24 satellites to provide services worldwide. The GLONASS system covers 100% of worldwide territory.
???? The government isn't going to lock up data collectors. Are you an idiot? You don't think the TLAs talked to these companies and came up with a game plan?
You must be new here. I have some extra tin foil. You guys were the same people that said the US isn't spying until Snowden came.
Besides, you live in China Bill, you don't care about human rights at all. So of course you wouldn't mind.
If you're so paranoid that you think the Government has coerced Amazon into surreptitiously recording everything we say with their devices, why don't you have that same fear about other common household devices? Like your cell phone - how do you know it's not recording everything and sending it home over the cellular connection so you can't even see the data going out? They have deals with all of the cellular companies to make this hidden data free.
Or like your TV - how do you know there's not a secret microphone and/or camera in your TV that's recording everything? Or your microwave, you know, the government requires microwave ovens to have secret microphones and cellular modems to send the data home.
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I've never seen this offered on any phone I've ever owned, ever.
First, look at the back of your phone, if there's a half-eaten apple logo on it, this article doesn't apply to you.
Second, if you do have an android phone and if updates are important to you (and they should be), look for a phone that's part of the Android One program:
https://www.android.com/one/
"Android One phones will receive at least two years of OS upgrades. With the latest version of Android, you'll get software that auto-adjusts to your needs, and helps you get things done more easily throughout the day. "
Or, if you can afford it, just buy a Google made phone then you'll be sure to get updates quickly, my Pixel gets an update every month.
That makes no sense -- if that have this remotely accessible device that they can set to flashing mode, why don't they just ask the device to report its location
Did you miss the part where the base model doesn't have GPS?
I re-read it and I still don't see that part, I only see "$799 for a premium version that features a GPS navigation add-on.", you don't need GPS navigation for simple position reports, just need a $30 GPS chipset, and I'd be very surprised if all of the frames don't already have that chipset and the "GPS Navigation" is just not activated unless you pay extra.
I don't even know what they mean by "GPS navigation add-on" -- how does a license plate frame help with GPS navigation? Going around to the back of the car to look at a map projected on the license plate frame seems awfully inconvenient. Maybe it works with a mobile app, but my phone has GPS built-in so I don't need it in the license plate frame. And if that $300 option includes an extra GPS display inside the car, why wouldn't I just buy a $100 Garmin instead? I don't see how the license plate frame GPS adds value.
They are totally WORTHLESS for displaying amber alerts.
Typically, the police are looking for a particular vehicle during an Amber alert.
They idea is not to show that Amber alert on other people's cars. It's to make the target vehicle's license plate blink/flash/otherwise draw attention to the vehicle.
That makes no sense -- if that have this remotely accessible device that they can set to flashing mode, why don't they just ask the device to report its location and then the police know exactly where it is, no need to wait on other drivers to report it, or turn them into vigilantes that will try to apprehend the driver themselves.
But feel free to use the apps in the USA, the land of the free, where the NSA has either hacked or forced their way into the apps via secret national security letters.
PS: Wasn't Mexico going to pay for this?
If that was ever funny, it stopped being so long ago.
You didn't answer the question - you know what Trump said about Mexico paying for the wall, but now Trump wants to use disaster funds meant to help Americans to pay for it. So.... how do you know when to pick and choose which of Trumps words to listen to? Does he publish some guidebook of promises he really meant?
Yes. The economy in the past w years has been fabulous compared to the previous 8 or almost any other time ever. Maybe any other time.
â5 billion is a rounding error for the Federal gvt. If your only argument against building a wall which the entire leadership of the DNC is on record as supporting pre-Trump is finding the money then there is no reason left not to build it.
It's not $5B, why do people keep perpetuating that myth -- the full wall is projected to cost anywhere from $25B to $75B. And since it's a large public works project, I would expect it to go much higher before it's done. The $5B is just a down payment.
At some point even a paltry $100B stops being a rounding error and becomes "real money"
Only when them come in in the morning and leave in the evening. None of them will be able to afford to live in Manhattan.
That's probably a good thing, hopefully they'll live closer to LIC where the HQ will be... and which is not in Manhattan. No point in having 40,000 more people commute across the East River every day.
My music consumption has purely been buy CD, rip CD, use MP3 as I see fit. Now my music consumption is purely "use MP3 as I see fit". ...
Same thing happened with digital copies of films. Used to be I'd buy the DVD in a store, have a redeem code that I could put into iTunes, and have the movie in a few minutes.
I still follow your model for DVD's -- when there's a movie that I want to watch that's not free on streaming, I typically buy a used DVD then rip it to my home media server. I refuse to "buy" digital movies that are tied to a single provider since history has shown that you only "own" that content for as long as that content provider is in business.
I gave up trying to rip Blurays, I managed to do it but it's too complicated (involving running software in Wine in Linux) so I stick with DVD's, which are good enough for me anyway. For a DVD, I just put it in the drive, and run a simple script that makes a full image of the DVD then rips it into a high and low level of compressed file (I use the low quality one on my mobile devices).
22526. (a) Notwithstanding any official traffic control signal indication to proceed, a driver of a vehicle shall not enter an intersection or marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or marked crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle driven without obstructing the through passage of vehicles from either side.
Note that it's still possible to enter when the light is green, have sufficient space to clear the intersection, but still be moving too slow to exit before the light turns red. This can easily happen when the cars in front of you are moving slowly, perhaps due to a red light further ahead.
If you're still in the intersection when the opposing traffic gets the green light, even if it's because there's a slow moving car in front of you, then you didn't have sufficient space to prevent obstructing the through passage of vehicles from either side and you can be ticketed. If you had sufficient space to clear the intersection, then you could have cleared the intersection, you wouldn't have a slow moving car in front of you.
You can't stop safely if you peg the brakes and the person behind you is just finishing a lane change, or typing a text message.
yes, I thought that part was obvoius -- if you can't stop safely, then you're not stopping safely. A safe stop is not stomping on the brakes and coming sliding to a halt and the yellow light timing should never require that. However, you don't have much time to decide what to do about the cars behind you -- you might need to decide between getting rear-ended and blowing a red light (which might put you in a position where you hit another car or pedestrian)
Nothing screams life of the party like entering an intersection on the green, and still being trapped inside the intersection after the red. Is that even a ticket? Well, if you need to know (I don't), ask a grammar Nazi near you.
Yes, that can (and should) get you a ticket, at least in California:
22526. (a) Notwithstanding any official traffic control signal indication to proceed, a driver of a vehicle shall not enter an intersection or marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or marked crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle driven without obstructing the through passage of vehicles from either side.
There's no silver bullet for weight loss, but there is one for getting a healthy amount of exercise. Live within 2 miles of work, walk to/from work. That gets you up to about 4 miles a day (8000 steps). Another mile of day-to-day activity and you're up to 10,000.
Even if you live farther away and/or drive to work, there are lots of ways to get exercise. Like, instead of parking next to your office you can park farther away, like in a separate building then walk the rest of the way to work.
Or ride your bike to work (some days or every day). If you live too far for a reasonable bike commute, then drive part way and bike from there. I have a 15+ mile commute which is more than I want to do both ways every day, so on days my wife goes in to the office,I ride in with her with my bike and then bike home. The buses here have bike racks, so I could ride in on the bus and then bike home.
If you ride the bus, it's easy to get in some walking -- when I take the bus, I usually get out of the bus about 2 miles before my house and walk the rest of the way.
People have lots of excuses for why they can't get exercise, they need to look for excuses for why they *can* get exercise, which takes more work.
Keto would like to have a word wit u.
The silver bullet consulted with Keto and determined that Keto is no silver bullet.
Maths should determine the yellow light time (considering the speed limit for the approach and the incline)
That way yellow light times would be consistent, and easy to prove if the yellow time is too short for an intersection.
Yeah, seems like it should be easy to have one consistent standard... or at least a minimum standard like "if the speed limit is X mph, the yellow should be no less than Y seconds" but cities could make the yellow longer if conditions warranted it, but there seems to be a number of standards, and cities appear to be able to set shorter intervals if they feel like it.
https://gizmodo.com/how-long-a...
There is a lot of research that says the lights with cameras have the yellow light time a lot shorter than other lights, in order to maximize revenue. They should really replace the yellow light with a countdown timer before they can make people pay for entering the intersection a second after the light turns red! And yes, I've gotten caught be one of these in Tualitin myself, as I was hurrying to complete my right turn before the light went red.
No timer is needed -- the yellow should give ample time for someone driving the speed limit to either stop before they reach the intersection, or continue through without conflicting with other traffic.
So the driver has to make only one decision: "Can I stop safely before I reach the intersection", if the answer is "yes", he should stop, if "no" he should go. He shouldn't have the extra cognitive burden of calculating "is 7 seconds enough time to stop? Now there's only 3 seconds, if I speed up, I think I can make it".
Pedestrian lights are different -- the countdown is to tell pedestrians how long they have to cross through the intersection, while a yellow light tells the car that they need to come to a safe stop or maintain speed through the intersection.
Fitness trackers are specific purpose unit Smart watches are not.
Where do you draw the line? I have a Garmin fitness tracker with a touchscreen that can run downloaded widgets and display notifications from my smart phone. Is that a fitness tracker or a smart watch?
Here is the interesting thing. If you convert Euros to dollars and liters to US gallons, Californians are paying more for diesel and gas (petrol) than the French are, and the citizens of the state are asking for still higher fuel taxes.
It's less interesting if you post the actual facts instead of making "facts" up, Mr Trump:
Gas price in San Francisco: $3.39
At 3.78 liters in a gallon, that's $0.89/liter.
At today's exchange rate, a Euro is worth $1.13, so $0.89 is 0.78 EUR
In France, the December price is 1.42 EUR. There are only a few counties where gas is cheaper than what californian's pay: . Russia, Belarus, and Azerbaijan.
Or, to convert in the other direction the French are paying $6.06/gallon for gas.
If you have good useful hardware you will survive and beat the big tech companies. The problem is that these gadgets are just junk and rely on fads. Eventually you run out of people to sell to and your market is saturated. Only a small percentage of people want a drone, or a fitbit, an action camera, or a $60k+ electric vehicle (like Tesla found out), or a $1000+ phone (as Apple is finding out). There isn't an infinite market of consumers out there with excess money. Once the fad is over you have saturated your market.
Which is why companies try so hard to innovate and come up with new technology, though even that can't keep going forever, Apple hit that innovation wall with the last iPhone, which was mostly just a more expensive version of the previous one.
There are still a few features that could be added to fitness trackers that would make people want to upgrade -- like cellular capability without being tethered to a phone (even sms-only would be useful), pulse-ox sensors, EKG sensors. Plus, the tiny battery with inability to swap it out guarantees 2 - 3 year obsolesce.
You can't learn by doing it once either. There's a big difference between a skilled craftsman, a acceptable craftsman, and an apprentice. Nobody thinks someone who took a class once is going to do a great job, but they can leverage the ability to learn.
That's why in most high school vocational programs, it's not just a one semester program, it's a couple years of coursework and hands-on practical experience, then for something like masonry, you don't graduate as a mason, but you qualify for an apprenticeship where you get the real hands on experience.
You're not going to get the same experience out of a youtube video -- you might learn how to build a brick fireplace in your backyard that looks decent, but you're not going to lay a 40 foot chimney.
The US has actually built a system for training people in everyday skills like these. You might have heard of it, it's called youtube.
You can't learn to lay brick (well) from a youtube video -- trust me, I've seen it attempted, and then he paid a real brick layer to tear it out and replace it with something servicable. The guy brought his son who was learning the trade.
How about some REAL life skills: like how to grow and prepare food, how to build and maintain machinery, how to build a house, how to drill a water well, how to build and maintain a sanitary sewage system, etc? Basic life skills have been completely left blank in favor of creating a helpless clone army of future tax paying mules that are 100% reliant on the system for all their essential needs.
You're looking for vocational education, which many schools still offer, but it's a different track than college level education. In my school, in 9th grade you could choose to go to the vo-tech program to learn what you call a "Real life skill". Though you still had to choose a specialty, the program wasn't designed to create a general renaissance man who can farm, fix machinery, build a house, drill a well, etc.
And it's not even clear why you think it's neccessary -- I spent summers from age 12 to 18 helping out on my uncle's farm, I can drive a tractor, run a combine, milk a cow, kill and butcher a hog, etc.... furthermore, while I haven't built a house myself, but helped my brother build his, I can set concrete, hang drywall, sweat a copper plumbing joint, install electrical, etc. And while some of the homebuilding skills have come in handy while remodeling, most of the skills I developed haven't really helped me.
How do you suppose they can close the analog hole when headphones, by their very nature, are analog devices? If you can attach a set of headphones (or a speaker) to a device then the analog hole exists. It's impossible for it to be closed. Even if a wireless connection is required to connect to those headphones.. the headphones themselves will *still* be an analog device with no possible way of protecting the signal with DRM. Just can't be done.
The final step is a digital port wired into your brain, but first they need to get rid of all of the analog outputs.
I'm not sure that it's serious so much as a troll post. Anyone who felt that strongly about a headphone port wouldn't have purchased a phone without one. Judging by the amount of shit it's already stirring up, I'd say it's a pretty successful troll at that.
Every purchase is a tradeoff, you rarely get everything you want.
A headphone jack could very well be important to some people, but not as important as other features.
GPS goes by signal strength...it doesn't read any data. Just uses multiple signals to do triangulation...
Even LORAN, an analog nagivational system that's been in use since the 1950's is more sophisticated than your belief of how GPS works. GPS signal timing is so precise that general relativity is used in the calculations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Glonass is not a Global positioning system at all. It has 100% coverage of Russia and environs, but much less as you move out from there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The system requires 18 satellites for continuous navigation services covering the entire territory of the Russian Federation, and 24 satellites to provide services worldwide. The GLONASS system covers 100% of worldwide territory.
???? The government isn't going to lock up data collectors. Are you an idiot? You don't think the TLAs talked to these companies and came up with a game plan?
You must be new here. I have some extra tin foil. You guys were the same people that said the US isn't spying until Snowden came.
Besides, you live in China Bill, you don't care about human rights at all. So of course you wouldn't mind.
If you're so paranoid that you think the Government has coerced Amazon into surreptitiously recording everything we say with their devices, why don't you have that same fear about other common household devices? Like your cell phone - how do you know it's not recording everything and sending it home over the cellular connection so you can't even see the data going out? They have deals with all of the cellular companies to make this hidden data free.
Or like your TV - how do you know there's not a secret microphone and/or camera in your TV that's recording everything? Or your microwave, you know, the government requires microwave ovens to have secret microphones and cellular modems to send the data home.