The summary is incorrect. You can still fly on a 747 in the US, just not on a domestic airline. Just go to SFO and you'll see plenty of 747s parked at the international terminals. They just aren't flying for any US based carrier.
Aside from games I have a little virtual lab at home running on VM Ware. That and some Virtual Box VMs and a couple Virtual PC ones under Win 7. I'm hoping this doesn't tank my guest' OSes performance. I just upgraded to an i5-7500 and my bro got an i7-4690k last year.
I literally just bought an Intel Core i7-7800X Processor last month. Still inside the return window thanks to the Christmas season. Debating on whether or not to return everything and buy something new later. Problem is that my RAM is not returnable so I have like 64GB that I may not be able to use in the future. Sigh.
I've not seen anywhere that this covers iPad batteries. Due to the sheer volume of space in an iPad there should be plenty of space for a huge battery that can deal with the current spikes produced by the processor, even on a well aged battery. Unless apple chinced out on the batteries in those things and they are mostly full of air.
No, it was not covered under this. But my iPad was acting wonky recently. WHen on battery power you would not be able to type anything it was so slow. I took it in and they tested it an the test indicated that the battery was about to fail, and that it was not aging properly. They replaced the entire device for $100.
What are those exactly? What are fans requesting? If Kinect was hated because it required bodily movement are the new devices going to be controlled by the undulation of fat folds and farting?
If your claim were true, the Wiimote would not have been a huge success. Try again. The Kinect was well known for not tracking body movements very accurately.
Pretty sure you have that backwards. You have to buy an additional sensor pack for the Wiimote to even get it to remotely track right. And I can tell you right now that my nephew can kick your ass at Wii bowling without making any more gestures than you would make while playing CoD on the xbox. If you have the kinect set up in the right space it tracks the body quite well. If it's in too small of a space, or you're too close, it can certainly miss actions.
I had my old iPhone 6 battery replaced today for $29+tax. The free "Battery Life" app said the raw data on the battery was about 39% of capacity (700mAh of 1810mAh) while the in-store Apple diag said it was 91% good.. The Apple Genius only asked if I was sure I wanted it replaced. I said, "yes please". Then they gave me the speech about everything is void if they find 3rd party parts in the phone and would NOT replace a non-apple battery at all. It took them 2 hours. After the replacement the free battery app says 100% good (1810mAh of 1810mAh). All I know is the old battery only lasted 15 minutes playing Jedi Challenges... I have not had time to try the new battery yet.
I'm going to have an 8 year old iPad battery replaced tomorrow. We'll see what their battery tester says with that. Paying full price for it though. $100.
by aberglas:Can the turbines directly generate the DC and avoid a conversion step?
jittles : Have you never heard of a bridge rectifier?
I'd obviously differ with jittles on this, but I'd class a bridge rectifier (or indeed, any rectifier) as a conversion step. I can't think of any technology for rectification which doesn't involve an appreciable forward voltage drop, and therefore an energy cost.
Ahh I missed the end of that sentence from the GP. Obviously it is impossible to make a conversion without a conversion step. Everyone knows that a turbine is going to want to produce AC instead of DC. I still say that DC is quite trivial to generate, however. You could teach a 12 year old the proper knowledge to create an AC to DC transformer.
Where are people getting the money to buy these every year?
They aren't. They're buying them on financing (which is being offered at 0% APR, iirc) and then paying them off over the next two years -- just like when they used to buy them with a contract extension, only without the carrier subsidy for the device cost.
It's still cheaper than it used to be. And those of us who don't run out and buy a new phone every two years are saving a hell of a lot more money without the device payment.
The person to charge is SWauTistic, not Rambo 2.0. But seeing that you are talking about the Sniper, they should take his gun away. There's more to being a Sniper, than being a Sniper.
I disagree. He ought to go to state prison. A small minority of police officers are way too trigger happy for everyone's good. If you or I did that, we would be hit with at least involuntary manslaughter. Even if we heard screams and gunshots. They heard none of those things. Since the person who pulled the trigger was a sniper he was, by definition, concealed and at long range (I believe it was 200 yards). There was absolutely no reason to shoot the man so rapidly and without consideration of what was going. Remember that the police have no obligation or responsibility for the lives of the people inside of the house. Their sole duty is to investigate and solve crime. We have entrusted them with a great responsibility. They need to take responsibility for their actions. I'd be willing to bet that the number of people who are killed without weapons would rapidly approach zero (though not reach it) if they were held responsible for a change. So many recent shootings have been egregiously unjustified. From the man who was shot while trying to crawl as instructed, the Australian woman who was shot by the police she called to investigate a noise, recent children / teenagers in the midwest, and this innocent and confused man. There are so many things the police could have done differently to prevent this. It's a travesty and the police need to be held to the same standards as any other person when it comes to the use of deadly force.
Maybe they should stick to what they're good at rather than running shitty hit pieces with the assumption that the Slashdot community is dumb enough to fall for it.
Problem is, they're only really good at three things. Search, email, and web office. None of those things are all that profitable if people block ads, and ads are becoming more and more offensive in a variety of ways, so more and more people want to block them. They need to develop another core competency, or their days are numbered.
Exactly. I find that even going to places like local news sites requires ad-blocks to prevent 3rd party ads from injecting javascript to redirect me to some scam sweepstakes or download page. These 3rd party ad servers are really going to destroy these websites in the long run.
Actually the biggest impediment I've found to merging recently is that most people no longer let you in when you signal. When I learned to drive back in the 1980s, you would signal, the person in the next lane behind you would usually slow down (or at least not speed up), and you would merge into their lane.
Merging means that YOU speed up to match or exceed the speed of traffic, not the other way around. It is the responsibility of the person doing the merging to get into traffic.
Nowadays, I signal and I'd estimate about 80% of the drivers use my signaling as an opportunity to speed up to prevent me from merging in front of them.
This makes no sense to me whatsoever. You know the person is going to be merging into traffic with you, unless the entrance lane is an exit lane also and they think you're getting off immediately. If someone does not signal to get over, I assume they have no idea what is going on around them and do not make any effort to aid them in being an oblivious asshole. In fact, obliviousness is, in my experience, one of the most common causes for traffic to slow down. People don't anticipate the changes ahead of them and end up having to do emergency braking when no emergency condition existed. This, in turn, results in accidents. You ought to be picking a spot to merge into traffic the moment you get onto the on ramp.
A slight slowdown to allow someone to merge in front of you is vastly preferable to the person having to slow down almost to a stop before he merges because his merge lane is ending and nobody is letting him merge. When he eventually merges at slow speed, he'll cause a massive backlog behind him compared to if someone had just let him merge at high speed.
You are completely wrong. Cars have this amazing thing called a gas pedal. Use it. If everyone slows down to let everyone else merge on, then you do end up with congestion. Now, I will concede that there are states (Connecticut, I am looking at you), where the on-ramps are not physically long enough to allow proper merging. In those cases, courtesy should be used. But in the event of a normal on-ramp, courtesy, common sense, and physics all dictate that the merger should actually use that handy little gas pedal of theirs. In normal road conditions, there is no reason, other than poor driving, that anyone should ever have trouble merging into traffic.
Where I live, swatting fails because they check where you're calling from. If youre a kilometer away or much more, they sarcastically ask why you think you know what happens elsewhere.
First of all, everyone knows that it's the Shine that lets you know whats going on so far away. Secondly, a good Swatter would use a VOIP system that lets him put whatever caller-id info he wants. He'll put the victim's number and address into the E911 fields.
Those undersea cables will be high voltage DC, which is difficult to generate. Can the turbines directly generate the DC and avoid a conversion step?
Of course they can. Have you never heard of a bridge rectifier? Your car's alternator supplies DC to the battery on a regular basis. The alternator uses the same principles to generate electricity as a wind turbine.
When ordering online requires an email address that the vendor can then spam the dickens out of, having some dummy hotmail spam collectors can be very useful.
I always preferred Rocketmail, but they were bought out by Yahoo and the service sucked afterward. Though I still use a hotmail address for all the sites I don't really care about.
Has Apple really gotten that sloppy with their software development process?... Really.... Apple is famed for their software developemnt process and the user experience it creates. imo, this was an intentional "feature" that the fan bois would love. Unfortunately, it backfired.
Have you been living under a rock for the last 3-4 years? Apple's software quality is on par with a high school computer class these days. They can't even merge OS fixes from one OS forward into the next release branch.
"THIS GUY IS A CONFIRMED NAZI! DON'T ASSOCIATE WITH HIM EVER!"?
Challenge accepted. Don't worry, I'm on vacation. I'll make this anonymous coward guy quit posting on slashdot. No one will want to read their posts once they find out AC is a nazi.
For every inventor that is protected, there are many more that are stifled. You can't improve and extend what you aren't allowed to use.
I believe significant improvements on an existing patent are perfectly legal, though IANAL and could quite possibly be wrong. In my experience most technology patents seem to be pretty obvious to anyone who is in the industry, however. Patents involving playing frame by frame reverse MPEG video, for instance. There is literally only one way to do that, which is quite obvious from the technology itself. And yet, someone has a patent for it and will sue you if you try to offer such a feature. Patents involving genomes and a bunch of mathematical equations don't make a lot of sense to me, either. There is also a patent for map pins on digital maps. As if people haven't been putting pins on maps for decades or longer.
This anti-Russia hysteria is really jumping the shark about now. A Russian company makes biometric software. Naturally, being Russian, they have 'close ties to the Kremlin', and are no doubt putting in nefarious backdoors to purloin the biometric data of unsuspecting Americans. Because, you know, Russia.
This is worse than the Kaspersky stupidity, which is saying something.
If it's anything like the way the US seems to be heading, they'll have close ties to the Kremlin whether they like it or not. It's even possible they won't know that they have those ties.
He kept on going over to storm drains and I had no idea until somebody pointed out raccoons frequently live there.
Hmmm. Interesting. I thought it was just because my dog like the smell of stinky things (she really does). But perhaps this is the case.
I'll watch him follow the scent of a rabbit that he scared out of the bushes perfectly (he's old and has cataracts, so he doesn't see so well). This isn't one offs either. It's 4 or 5 times per walk.
My dog actually found a squirrel that was buried in snow looking for nuts a few weeks ago. She started digging like crazy in some snow and I thought she was just being her ridiculous self until I saw the squirrel. The areas we walk are full of homeless people and are traversed by hundreds of dogs, so she tends to get pretty distracted. When we used to live in a more rural location she would find deer and foxes all of the time. She'll also pull me down what appear to be random paths, only to find out later that a friend of mine that she loves had just walked that exact route a few hours before.
I know for a fact that United has WiFi on 100% of its domestic and international flights, so I don't see how Virgin could possibly the only airline to offer that domestically. Now, unfortunately, United uses satellite internet, which can be a bit slow. It's also pretty expensive. But, for instance, if you fly from the US to China, you have internet from basically wheels up (10,000 ft) until you hit Chinese airspace. And that's only because the Chinese do not allow them to offer inflight WiFi over their airspace. As far as I know, their WiFi coverage spans the entire northern hemisphere. I haven't traveled to the Southern Hemisphere on United, however.
My current employer has treated me well so far. I've seen them treat my coworkers well, including when it came time to retire. As a result, I try to act in our mutual interest and trust them to do the same. I'm much happier with this arrangement than I would be if I was convinced that everyone was only self-interested.
This isn't always practical. I'm lucky to work for a small company staffed by human beings instead of corporate drones.
I work for a small company as well. I like my boss, who is part owner. I do not think he would ever intentionally screw me over. However, due to the nature of the work we do, I feel like I could never tell him that I was looking for a new job. My company does not typically allow anyone to work during their two week notice period. Once you've made it clear you intend to leave, they cannot have you writing code. So, when that time comes, I have no choice but to spring it on my boss, despite wishing that were not the case.
It seems like I'm being asked to log into my Roku apps on a monthly basis already, how much more do they want?
And we all know how much fun it is to log into an app with a set-top box! HBO GO and a few other services (like Amazon Prime) allow you to get an activation code. But other accounts want your full email and password with the crappiest text interface ever.
Apple's maps were only ever intended to act as an insurance policy if Steve Job's thermonuclear war with Google got Google Maps removed from the App Store. That happened for a short time, but now it's back and things have cooled significantly since 2012 on the patent war. Navigation is as much a minimum expectation of a smartphone now as email is. It was only ever developed at all to ensure there would always be maps available for the iPhone.
In the event that Google removes Maps from the App Store, Apple will immediately make new, immediate, and significant investments in their program. Until then, they don't care.
My personal experience is that Google maps have actually increased in information, but decreased in quality for turn by turn navigation. First of all, the damn app never stops talking. Sometimes going on a 2-3 minute spiel at the start of a trip. And I've also noticed that it sometimes fails to give me a turn notification even though I can look down and see that the map knows exactly where I am supposed to be. And then it'll randomly decide that I am no longer where it thinks I am and start recalculating my route as if I had jumped onto some side street 100 feet away. I have this problem on both iOS and Android. Google maps did not used to behave this way. And my pin does not move positions inside of the app itself. So it's not a question of GPS accuracy. It is literally buggy code.
As soon as you pass the border checkpoint, they will just scan your passport and have your name,DOB and photo.
China takes a picture of you as you enter and leave. That is in addition to the picture they make you submit with your visa application. One trip to China means they have at least 3 pictures of you. Also, US takes a picture of you as you enter now, too.
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The summary is incorrect. You can still fly on a 747 in the US, just not on a domestic airline. Just go to SFO and you'll see plenty of 747s parked at the international terminals. They just aren't flying for any US based carrier.
Aside from games I have a little virtual lab at home running on VM Ware. That and some Virtual Box VMs and a couple Virtual PC ones under Win 7. I'm hoping this doesn't tank my guest' OSes performance. I just upgraded to an i5-7500 and my bro got an i7-4690k last year.
I literally just bought an Intel Core i7-7800X Processor last month. Still inside the return window thanks to the Christmas season. Debating on whether or not to return everything and buy something new later. Problem is that my RAM is not returnable so I have like 64GB that I may not be able to use in the future. Sigh.
I've not seen anywhere that this covers iPad batteries. Due to the sheer volume of space in an iPad there should be plenty of space for a huge battery that can deal with the current spikes produced by the processor, even on a well aged battery. Unless apple chinced out on the batteries in those things and they are mostly full of air.
No, it was not covered under this. But my iPad was acting wonky recently. WHen on battery power you would not be able to type anything it was so slow. I took it in and they tested it an the test indicated that the battery was about to fail, and that it was not aging properly. They replaced the entire device for $100.
What are those exactly? What are fans requesting? If Kinect was hated because it required bodily movement are the new devices going to be controlled by the undulation of fat folds and farting?
If your claim were true, the Wiimote would not have been a huge success. Try again. The Kinect was well known for not tracking body movements very accurately.
Pretty sure you have that backwards. You have to buy an additional sensor pack for the Wiimote to even get it to remotely track right. And I can tell you right now that my nephew can kick your ass at Wii bowling without making any more gestures than you would make while playing CoD on the xbox. If you have the kinect set up in the right space it tracks the body quite well. If it's in too small of a space, or you're too close, it can certainly miss actions.
I had my old iPhone 6 battery replaced today for $29+tax. The free "Battery Life" app said the raw data on the battery was about 39% of capacity (700mAh of 1810mAh) while the in-store Apple diag said it was 91% good.. The Apple Genius only asked if I was sure I wanted it replaced. I said, "yes please". Then they gave me the speech about everything is void if they find 3rd party parts in the phone and would NOT replace a non-apple battery at all. It took them 2 hours. After the replacement the free battery app says 100% good (1810mAh of 1810mAh). All I know is the old battery only lasted 15 minutes playing Jedi Challenges... I have not had time to try the new battery yet.
I'm going to have an 8 year old iPad battery replaced tomorrow. We'll see what their battery tester says with that. Paying full price for it though. $100.
I'd obviously differ with jittles on this, but I'd class a bridge rectifier (or indeed, any rectifier) as a conversion step. I can't think of any technology for rectification which doesn't involve an appreciable forward voltage drop, and therefore an energy cost.
Ahh I missed the end of that sentence from the GP. Obviously it is impossible to make a conversion without a conversion step. Everyone knows that a turbine is going to want to produce AC instead of DC. I still say that DC is quite trivial to generate, however. You could teach a 12 year old the proper knowledge to create an AC to DC transformer.
Where are people getting the money to buy these every year?
They aren't. They're buying them on financing (which is being offered at 0% APR, iirc) and then paying them off over the next two years -- just like when they used to buy them with a contract extension, only without the carrier subsidy for the device cost.
It's still cheaper than it used to be. And those of us who don't run out and buy a new phone every two years are saving a hell of a lot more money without the device payment.
The person to charge is SWauTistic, not Rambo 2.0. But seeing that you are talking about the Sniper, they should take his gun away. There's more to being a Sniper, than being a Sniper.
I disagree. He ought to go to state prison. A small minority of police officers are way too trigger happy for everyone's good. If you or I did that, we would be hit with at least involuntary manslaughter. Even if we heard screams and gunshots. They heard none of those things. Since the person who pulled the trigger was a sniper he was, by definition, concealed and at long range (I believe it was 200 yards). There was absolutely no reason to shoot the man so rapidly and without consideration of what was going. Remember that the police have no obligation or responsibility for the lives of the people inside of the house. Their sole duty is to investigate and solve crime. We have entrusted them with a great responsibility. They need to take responsibility for their actions. I'd be willing to bet that the number of people who are killed without weapons would rapidly approach zero (though not reach it) if they were held responsible for a change. So many recent shootings have been egregiously unjustified. From the man who was shot while trying to crawl as instructed, the Australian woman who was shot by the police she called to investigate a noise, recent children / teenagers in the midwest, and this innocent and confused man. There are so many things the police could have done differently to prevent this. It's a travesty and the police need to be held to the same standards as any other person when it comes to the use of deadly force.
4) Remake of decent movie that you liked 20 years ago, but now with an all-woman cast and much shittier writing!
Oh how I wish they would do this with Charlie's Angels. Those women would look so hot on screen, being bad asses and saving the world and stuff.
Maybe they should stick to what they're good at rather than running shitty hit pieces with the assumption that the Slashdot community is dumb enough to fall for it.
Problem is, they're only really good at three things. Search, email, and web office. None of those things are all that profitable if people block ads, and ads are becoming more and more offensive in a variety of ways, so more and more people want to block them. They need to develop another core competency, or their days are numbered.
Exactly. I find that even going to places like local news sites requires ad-blocks to prevent 3rd party ads from injecting javascript to redirect me to some scam sweepstakes or download page. These 3rd party ad servers are really going to destroy these websites in the long run.
In normal road conditions, there is no reason, other than poor driving, that anyone should ever have trouble merging into traffic.
Except when the gaps in traffic are already at the smallest safe distance.
Well I would not consider that to be normal road conditions. But of course you are right.
Actually the biggest impediment I've found to merging recently is that most people no longer let you in when you signal. When I learned to drive back in the 1980s, you would signal, the person in the next lane behind you would usually slow down (or at least not speed up), and you would merge into their lane.
Merging means that YOU speed up to match or exceed the speed of traffic, not the other way around. It is the responsibility of the person doing the merging to get into traffic.
Nowadays, I signal and I'd estimate about 80% of the drivers use my signaling as an opportunity to speed up to prevent me from merging in front of them.
This makes no sense to me whatsoever. You know the person is going to be merging into traffic with you, unless the entrance lane is an exit lane also and they think you're getting off immediately. If someone does not signal to get over, I assume they have no idea what is going on around them and do not make any effort to aid them in being an oblivious asshole. In fact, obliviousness is, in my experience, one of the most common causes for traffic to slow down. People don't anticipate the changes ahead of them and end up having to do emergency braking when no emergency condition existed. This, in turn, results in accidents. You ought to be picking a spot to merge into traffic the moment you get onto the on ramp.
A slight slowdown to allow someone to merge in front of you is vastly preferable to the person having to slow down almost to a stop before he merges because his merge lane is ending and nobody is letting him merge. When he eventually merges at slow speed, he'll cause a massive backlog behind him compared to if someone had just let him merge at high speed.
You are completely wrong. Cars have this amazing thing called a gas pedal. Use it. If everyone slows down to let everyone else merge on, then you do end up with congestion. Now, I will concede that there are states (Connecticut, I am looking at you), where the on-ramps are not physically long enough to allow proper merging. In those cases, courtesy should be used. But in the event of a normal on-ramp, courtesy, common sense, and physics all dictate that the merger should actually use that handy little gas pedal of theirs. In normal road conditions, there is no reason, other than poor driving, that anyone should ever have trouble merging into traffic.
Where I live, swatting fails because they check where you're calling from. If youre a kilometer away or much more, they sarcastically ask why you think you know what happens elsewhere.
First of all, everyone knows that it's the Shine that lets you know whats going on so far away. Secondly, a good Swatter would use a VOIP system that lets him put whatever caller-id info he wants. He'll put the victim's number and address into the E911 fields.
Those undersea cables will be high voltage DC, which is difficult to generate. Can the turbines directly generate the DC and avoid a conversion step?
Of course they can. Have you never heard of a bridge rectifier? Your car's alternator supplies DC to the battery on a regular basis. The alternator uses the same principles to generate electricity as a wind turbine.
When ordering online requires an email address that the vendor can then spam the dickens out of, having some dummy hotmail spam collectors can be very useful.
I always preferred Rocketmail, but they were bought out by Yahoo and the service sucked afterward. Though I still use a hotmail address for all the sites I don't really care about.
Has Apple really gotten that sloppy with their software development process? ... Really.... Apple is famed for their software developemnt process and the user experience it creates. imo, this was an intentional "feature" that the fan bois would love. Unfortunately, it backfired.
Have you been living under a rock for the last 3-4 years? Apple's software quality is on par with a high school computer class these days. They can't even merge OS fixes from one OS forward into the next release branch.
"THIS GUY IS A CONFIRMED NAZI! DON'T ASSOCIATE WITH HIM EVER!"?
Challenge accepted. Don't worry, I'm on vacation. I'll make this anonymous coward guy quit posting on slashdot. No one will want to read their posts once they find out AC is a nazi.
For every inventor that is protected, there are many more that are stifled. You can't improve and extend what you aren't allowed to use.
I believe significant improvements on an existing patent are perfectly legal, though IANAL and could quite possibly be wrong. In my experience most technology patents seem to be pretty obvious to anyone who is in the industry, however. Patents involving playing frame by frame reverse MPEG video, for instance. There is literally only one way to do that, which is quite obvious from the technology itself. And yet, someone has a patent for it and will sue you if you try to offer such a feature. Patents involving genomes and a bunch of mathematical equations don't make a lot of sense to me, either. There is also a patent for map pins on digital maps. As if people haven't been putting pins on maps for decades or longer.
This anti-Russia hysteria is really jumping the shark about now. A Russian company makes biometric software. Naturally, being Russian, they have 'close ties to the Kremlin', and are no doubt putting in nefarious backdoors to purloin the biometric data of unsuspecting Americans. Because, you know, Russia.
This is worse than the Kaspersky stupidity, which is saying something.
If it's anything like the way the US seems to be heading, they'll have close ties to the Kremlin whether they like it or not. It's even possible they won't know that they have those ties.
He kept on going over to storm drains and I had no idea until somebody pointed out raccoons frequently live there.
Hmmm. Interesting. I thought it was just because my dog like the smell of stinky things (she really does). But perhaps this is the case.
I'll watch him follow the scent of a rabbit that he scared out of the bushes perfectly (he's old and has cataracts, so he doesn't see so well). This isn't one offs either. It's 4 or 5 times per walk.
My dog actually found a squirrel that was buried in snow looking for nuts a few weeks ago. She started digging like crazy in some snow and I thought she was just being her ridiculous self until I saw the squirrel. The areas we walk are full of homeless people and are traversed by hundreds of dogs, so she tends to get pretty distracted. When we used to live in a more rural location she would find deer and foxes all of the time. She'll also pull me down what appear to be random paths, only to find out later that a friend of mine that she loves had just walked that exact route a few hours before.
I know for a fact that United has WiFi on 100% of its domestic and international flights, so I don't see how Virgin could possibly the only airline to offer that domestically. Now, unfortunately, United uses satellite internet, which can be a bit slow. It's also pretty expensive. But, for instance, if you fly from the US to China, you have internet from basically wheels up (10,000 ft) until you hit Chinese airspace. And that's only because the Chinese do not allow them to offer inflight WiFi over their airspace. As far as I know, their WiFi coverage spans the entire northern hemisphere. I haven't traveled to the Southern Hemisphere on United, however.
My current employer has treated me well so far. I've seen them treat my coworkers well, including when it came time to retire. As a result, I try to act in our mutual interest and trust them to do the same. I'm much happier with this arrangement than I would be if I was convinced that everyone was only self-interested.
This isn't always practical. I'm lucky to work for a small company staffed by human beings instead of corporate drones.
I work for a small company as well. I like my boss, who is part owner. I do not think he would ever intentionally screw me over. However, due to the nature of the work we do, I feel like I could never tell him that I was looking for a new job. My company does not typically allow anyone to work during their two week notice period. Once you've made it clear you intend to leave, they cannot have you writing code. So, when that time comes, I have no choice but to spring it on my boss, despite wishing that were not the case.
It seems like I'm being asked to log into my Roku apps on a monthly basis already, how much more do they want?
And we all know how much fun it is to log into an app with a set-top box! HBO GO and a few other services (like Amazon Prime) allow you to get an activation code. But other accounts want your full email and password with the crappiest text interface ever.
Apple's maps were only ever intended to act as an insurance policy if Steve Job's thermonuclear war with Google got Google Maps removed from the App Store. That happened for a short time, but now it's back and things have cooled significantly since 2012 on the patent war. Navigation is as much a minimum expectation of a smartphone now as email is. It was only ever developed at all to ensure there would always be maps available for the iPhone. In the event that Google removes Maps from the App Store, Apple will immediately make new, immediate, and significant investments in their program. Until then, they don't care.
My personal experience is that Google maps have actually increased in information, but decreased in quality for turn by turn navigation. First of all, the damn app never stops talking. Sometimes going on a 2-3 minute spiel at the start of a trip. And I've also noticed that it sometimes fails to give me a turn notification even though I can look down and see that the map knows exactly where I am supposed to be. And then it'll randomly decide that I am no longer where it thinks I am and start recalculating my route as if I had jumped onto some side street 100 feet away. I have this problem on both iOS and Android. Google maps did not used to behave this way. And my pin does not move positions inside of the app itself. So it's not a question of GPS accuracy. It is literally buggy code.
As soon as you pass the border checkpoint, they will just scan your passport and have your name,DOB and photo.
China takes a picture of you as you enter and leave. That is in addition to the picture they make you submit with your visa application. One trip to China means they have at least 3 pictures of you. Also, US takes a picture of you as you enter now, too.