Did you feel the same way about 3.5inch floppy disks?
No, because 3.5 inch disks were actually an improvement.
if you move the amp from your phone into the headset you not only eliminate a bunch of headaches when buying equipment, but you also improve sound quality and power efficiency.
So where are these better-sounding bluetooth earbuds? I've tried out a bunch of them, and even the best that I've tried sound worse than the best wired earbuds.
It really does look like that's the way things are going now. Not just with the headphone jack, either. Non-removable batteries means that you have to carry a battery bank as well as your phone, for example.
For me, the really awesome thing that smartphones brought was that I no longer had to carry multiple devices, and no longer had to carry an "accessories bag" full of cables, adapters, etc.
But, if the current trends continue, then smartphones will fail to provide the primary benefit I get from them. Most of them are most of the way there as it is.
Because I genuinely care about the well-being of my fellow man.
Why do you feel guilt if you're winning the race, so to speak?
I'm not engaging in a race, so there's no "winning" or "losing". Ignoring that, I'm not motivated by guilt for having success -- why in the world would that make anyone feel guilty? -- I'm motivated by wanting everyone to be better off. If I am in a position to further that goal, it would be weird not to do it.
I can come up with a lot of logical, selfish reasons why this is a good thing to want (the better off everyone else is, the better off I am, after all), but the reality is much more basic (and still selfish): it makes me happy to see others doing well, and it makes me unhappy to see others not doing well.
Well, in fairness, the IT crowd encouraged this. For years, a large portion of IT people treated everyone else like ignorant idiots. That problem isn't as bad as it used to be (in IT support services, anyway), but it still exists.
Resentment against that is perfectly understandable, and lasts a very long time.
Yes, to paraphrase the old saying: comparing yourself to others only makes you egotistical and bitter, as there will always be someone worse than you, and there will always be someone better.
I'm a helpful person my nature, but recently I've started to wonder if it's worth it
Personally, that's not an equation that makes emotional sense to me. The problem is that if I'm doing better than the people around me (by whatever definition of "better"), then not doing what I can to help others out makes me feel like a selfish shit.
Whether or not others appreciate it doesn't factor in at all.
That's a good point. On the other hand, Congress has historically been very good with telling the IRS to do things that are very unpopular while at the same time blaming and directing the outrage about it at the IRS.
If you're not carrying some chip on your shoulder over Sony
Learning that a company cannot be trusted and choosing not to do business with them as a result is not anything like carrying a chip on your shoulder. It's simply being intelligent.
This makes no sense. The IRS only does what Congress tells them to do. If the government wanted the IRS to not look at certain books, they could easily change the law to make that happen. No underfunding required.
This is why, if you work at a place that doesn't engage in even the most basic of engineering best practices, you should quit that job and find one that isn't actively terrible.
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Did you feel the same way about 3.5inch floppy disks?
No, because 3.5 inch disks were actually an improvement.
if you move the amp from your phone into the headset you not only eliminate a bunch of headaches when buying equipment, but you also improve sound quality and power efficiency.
So where are these better-sounding bluetooth earbuds? I've tried out a bunch of them, and even the best that I've tried sound worse than the best wired earbuds.
All of which can use a simple, and included (or extremely cheap), adaptor...
Using an adapter isn't a good alternative. It would qualify as "better than nothing", I suppose, but it's still a downgrade.
I'll be absolutely thrilled to see the headphone jack go when there's a better alternative to it. The problem is that right now, there isn't.
Why would you expect this?
Dropping the headphone jack wasn't bad because Apple did it. It's bad because it degrades functionality.
Google doing the same thing doesn't make it any better.
they say that money can't buy you happiness, but it sure can make misery a WHOLE lot easier to deal with and it usually last less time.
Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly can rent it for a while.
I'm not sure, but probably not. I just put my phone in airplane mode and carried on as usual.
It really does look like that's the way things are going now. Not just with the headphone jack, either. Non-removable batteries means that you have to carry a battery bank as well as your phone, for example.
For me, the really awesome thing that smartphones brought was that I no longer had to carry multiple devices, and no longer had to carry an "accessories bag" full of cables, adapters, etc.
But, if the current trends continue, then smartphones will fail to provide the primary benefit I get from them. Most of them are most of the way there as it is.
Why?
Because I genuinely care about the well-being of my fellow man.
Why do you feel guilt if you're winning the race, so to speak?
I'm not engaging in a race, so there's no "winning" or "losing". Ignoring that, I'm not motivated by guilt for having success -- why in the world would that make anyone feel guilty? -- I'm motivated by wanting everyone to be better off. If I am in a position to further that goal, it would be weird not to do it.
I can come up with a lot of logical, selfish reasons why this is a good thing to want (the better off everyone else is, the better off I am, after all), but the reality is much more basic (and still selfish): it makes me happy to see others doing well, and it makes me unhappy to see others not doing well.
Well, in fairness, the IT crowd encouraged this. For years, a large portion of IT people treated everyone else like ignorant idiots. That problem isn't as bad as it used to be (in IT support services, anyway), but it still exists.
Resentment against that is perfectly understandable, and lasts a very long time.
Just because something is "unnatural" doesn't mean it's bad.
Also, the idea that there are things that are "natural" and "unnatural" is a weird, artificial notion largely without meaning.
Food is actively repulsive to me until I've been awake and active for a few hours.
So I guess I'm doomed.
Yes, to paraphrase the old saying: comparing yourself to others only makes you egotistical and bitter, as there will always be someone worse than you, and there will always be someone better.
I'm a helpful person my nature, but recently I've started to wonder if it's worth it
Personally, that's not an equation that makes emotional sense to me. The problem is that if I'm doing better than the people around me (by whatever definition of "better"), then not doing what I can to help others out makes me feel like a selfish shit.
Whether or not others appreciate it doesn't factor in at all.
That's a good point. On the other hand, Congress has historically been very good with telling the IRS to do things that are very unpopular while at the same time blaming and directing the outrage about it at the IRS.
If you're not carrying some chip on your shoulder over Sony
Learning that a company cannot be trusted and choosing not to do business with them as a result is not anything like carrying a chip on your shoulder. It's simply being intelligent.
Well, I don't pirate, that's true enough.
otherwise NOTHING will happen.
Doing nothing would be far preferable to putting a criminally incompetent company in this role.
This makes no sense. The IRS only does what Congress tells them to do. If the government wanted the IRS to not look at certain books, they could easily change the law to make that happen. No underfunding required.
From a security point of view, this is 100% accurate. Also, nobody should be using Spring for security-sensitive applications for similar reasons.
This is why, if you work at a place that doesn't engage in even the most basic of engineering best practices, you should quit that job and find one that isn't actively terrible.
I for one will NEVER put my life in the hands of a computer.
You put your life in the hands of computers every day. You just don't notice it.
It reduces the cost of production.
That reply would make sense if something was improved. I'm not seeing how that's the case with removing the audio jack.
Who ever talked about the 3.5mm jack wearing out?
That was one of the arguments Apple made when they decided they didn't want people to have an excellent audio option anymore.
And it uses up the connector. And dongles simply blow.