The launch of iMaps was botched and it still has a ways to go, but it's not completely useless. The alternative for in-car navigation was it is may never be updated if the owner decides not to fork over money to buy a new navigation DVD.
The alternative alternative would be people using Google Maps and/or Navigation, tying into the cars existing Bluetooth/aux in port, and not driving down private driveways insisting "this is the best route to Roundtop Mountain!!!"
2. considering how many people hate Apple, they're losing prospective customers for a $60,000 car for example because of one tiny feature.
You mean considering how many slashdot geeks hate Apple don't you? The general public likes Apple.
That sounds like fanboy talk to me. Corporate executives, government employees, and any other high-powered types who are already tied deeply to Blackberry might not care to pay extra for a feature they'll never use. How many people does Google employ? I bet they wouldn't care much for iPhone integration, either.
Point being, just because you can't fathom that there might be a subset of the population who aren't madly in love with a certain company's products doesn't mean the aforementioned subset doesn't exist.
Also, you are aware that many other car manufacturers are getting on board, right? It's the same as iPod integration: many of them offer it today, and there have not been riots in the streets over this feature.
For me, I wouldn't care if they put an iPlug hidden in the glovebox, but if using all the features of the $60,000 automobile I just bought means being locked into any proprietary ecosystem, I won't be spending my money with that car company.
Mhh how about Apple changing the iPhone connector once more? Yehaaaw your Mercedes is now obsolete lol. Let's do it, "it's good for the economy" (TM).
Not necessarily - the 2012 VW Jetta we bought came with an "iPod/iPhone connector" in the glovebox, which consists of a proprietary port and a dongle for the device itself; you can order dongles w/ different iConnectors from VW.
Of course, it begs the question: Who the hell puts their phone in the glovebox every time they get in the car, especially when said car also has a Bluetooth module?
Oh the humanity. Having to hold a button for a second with your thumb. Without having to take it off the wheel. At all.
.
You might be surprised as to how much "road attention" you lose performing such a simple maneuver. Anecdotally, I once totaled a Buick because I took my eyes off the road for.5 seconds to check the clock. Long story (chock full of statistics and more anecdotes) short, while your brain is on pause waiting for Siri to respond to that button hold, it's not paying full attention to the task at hand, namely operating a ton-and-a-half of steel and glass at high rates of speed.
As opposed to every other navigation system...
Nonsense hyperbole, and smacks loudly of fanboy-ism.
My wife's VW has a single button on the steering wheel that activates the voice command system, and it's the same system VW has been using for half a decade. Oh, and BTW, you only have to press the button, not hold it. Works as well as one would expect a voice command system to. And I know VW can't be the only one with such a simple interface - Ford's Sync immediately comes to mind.
FWIW, the title to this comment should be "NDA > Law," but somebody forgot that comment subjects are governed by the same formatting rules as the comments themselves...
Since when does a contract, any contract, supersede the legal system?
Oh, right - they don't, and this bullshit excuse for illegal use of surveillance equipment is exactly the out this scumbag rapist needs to get acquitted.
What phrasing do you recommend I use, both on the card and by speaking, when I initially notify the screening person of my situation, to skip the part where the TSA person gives me grief?
"You know, on second thought I think I'll take the bus."
Regarding OP's analogy, if someone fired 100 bullets at me, and I had a way to automatically block 99 of them, I'd have to be an idiot to not use that method just because 1 bullet might get through.
Yes, I might still get shot, but at least I won't be riddled with holes.
In other words, you don't see the flaw in your logic and don't like it when people point it out. It is like you have no experience in the real world.
"Pointing out the flaw in [someone's] logic," without offering anything other than that, is pretty pointless.
Unless, of course, your point is to be intentionally inflammatory, or to derail the conversation.
So, do you have a better idea? Will you tell us, or just keep on trolling with snarky ad hominem attacks? The world sits on razor's edge awaiting your response.
By the way, your original comment is very "troll-y". You are the pot calling the kettle black.
Yea, no it's not.
But hey, you just keep telling yourself that so you can feel justified in being a d-bag who doesn't have anything worthwhile to contribute to the conversation.
'Cuz that seems to be working out so well for you.
- Store at least 1 gallon of water per day for each person and each pet. You should consider storing more water than this for hot climates, for pregnant women, and for persons who are sick.
- Store at least a 3-day supply of water for each person and each pet (try to store a 2-week supply if possible).
- Observe the expiration date for store-bought water; replace other stored water every six months.
- Store a bottle of unscented liquid household chlorine bleach to disinfect your water and to use for general cleaning and sanitizing.
Water Containers (Cleaning and Storage)
Unopened commercially bottled water is the safest and most reliable emergency water supply.
Use of food-grade water storage containers, such as those found at surplus or camping supply stores, is recommended if you prepare stored water yourself.
Before filling with safe water, use these steps to clean and sanitize storage containers:
- Wash the storage container with dishwashing soap and water and rinse completely with clean water.
- Sanitize the container by adding a solution made by mixing 1 teaspoon of unscented liquid household chlorine bleach in one quart of water.
- Cover the container and shake it well so that the sanitizing bleach solution touches all inside surfaces of the container.
Wait at least 30 seconds and then pour the sanitizing solution out of the container.
Let the empty sanitized container air-dry before use OR rinse the empty container with clean, safe water that already is available.
But it just seems too weird. Like burning out a chest cold w/ cigars or flushing through a stomach virus with Drano.
Well, I'd say it's better than using leeches, but then again, I think I'd rather stick a blood-sucking parasite on my nipple than willfully down any amount of Clorox...
Other than a murder/manslaughter charge vs. possible destruction of property?
Don't be a pussy. You have important property rights to defend.
Which is incredibly difficult to do from inside a prison cell.
FWIW, 99.999999999999% of the manned aircraft that fly over my property are A) above the legal flight floor, and B) not being piloted by some irresponsible dickhead who wants to take naked pictures of my wife through our windows. The one's that fail the test of A and B above have to answer to the FAA, so I'm not too worried about them getting away with anything. What I am worried about is douche bags with more money than sense, who are not under the purview of the FAA, violating both my property and privacy rights.
Don't be a falsely-equivocating douche, keep your spy toys out of my airspace.
So... $0.25 worth of epoxy? I don't see anything there that couldn't be done for free or, at the very worst, an incredibly low cost. You can pressurize a container with a make-shift hand pump, for example.
Yeah! Now all these people in the developing world have to do is chop down even more trees. Deforestation, YAY!. Oh, wait....
Well, at least this will help people living in slums and favelas in places like Manila, Rio, etc. because sapwood is free, cheap, and highly available there. Oh.... wait...
OK, so are you going to suggest a better idea, or just troll (then whine in your sig when your troll-y posts are appropriately modded)?
And if you got wood and tools to construct a filtering apparatus, you can probably boil that filtered water too.
As TFA points out, the problem with boiling water is fuel consumption, whereas filtering through a cold tree branch requires no fuel whatsoever, other than the physical energy exerted by the tree branch user.
I think you missed the point - it's less about what's in Purell, and more about the whole "killing 99% of germs is better than not killing any of them" concept.
So you can get a filter in, say, 30 years? Lot of good that is going to do the family having to drink contaminated water tomorrow.
Perhaps they could barter for the wood they need. I don't know, but what I do know is "your idea isn't perfect, therefore it's a bad idea" is the thought process of a complete, abject moron.
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1. Apple maps is a joke and completely useless
The launch of iMaps was botched and it still has a ways to go, but it's not completely useless. The alternative for in-car navigation was it is may never be updated if the owner decides not to fork over money to buy a new navigation DVD.
The alternative alternative would be people using Google Maps and/or Navigation, tying into the cars existing Bluetooth/aux in port, and not driving down private driveways insisting "this is the best route to Roundtop Mountain!!!"
2. considering how many people hate Apple, they're losing prospective customers for a $60,000 car for example because of one tiny feature.
You mean considering how many slashdot geeks hate Apple don't you? The general public likes Apple.
That sounds like fanboy talk to me. Corporate executives, government employees, and any other high-powered types who are already tied deeply to Blackberry might not care to pay extra for a feature they'll never use. How many people does Google employ? I bet they wouldn't care much for iPhone integration, either.
Point being, just because you can't fathom that there might be a subset of the population who aren't madly in love with a certain company's products doesn't mean the aforementioned subset doesn't exist.
Also, you are aware that many other car manufacturers are getting on board, right? It's the same as iPod integration: many of them offer it today, and there have not been riots in the streets over this feature.
For me, I wouldn't care if they put an iPlug hidden in the glovebox, but if using all the features of the $60,000 automobile I just bought means being locked into any proprietary ecosystem, I won't be spending my money with that car company.
Mhh how about Apple changing the iPhone connector once more? Yehaaaw your Mercedes is now obsolete lol. Let's do it, "it's good for the economy" (TM).
Not necessarily - the 2012 VW Jetta we bought came with an "iPod/iPhone connector" in the glovebox, which consists of a proprietary port and a dongle for the device itself; you can order dongles w/ different iConnectors from VW.
Of course, it begs the question: Who the hell puts their phone in the glovebox every time they get in the car, especially when said car also has a Bluetooth module?
Oh the humanity. Having to hold a button for a second with your thumb. Without having to take it off the wheel. At all.
.
You might be surprised as to how much "road attention" you lose performing such a simple maneuver. Anecdotally, I once totaled a Buick because I took my eyes off the road for .5 seconds to check the clock. Long story (chock full of statistics and more anecdotes) short, while your brain is on pause waiting for Siri to respond to that button hold, it's not paying full attention to the task at hand, namely operating a ton-and-a-half of steel and glass at high rates of speed.
As opposed to every other navigation system...
Nonsense hyperbole, and smacks loudly of fanboy-ism.
My wife's VW has a single button on the steering wheel that activates the voice command system, and it's the same system VW has been using for half a decade. Oh, and BTW, you only have to press the button, not hold it. Works as well as one would expect a voice command system to. And I know VW can't be the only one with such a simple interface - Ford's Sync immediately comes to mind.
FWIW, the title to this comment should be "NDA > Law," but somebody forgot that comment subjects are governed by the same formatting rules as the comments themselves...
Since when does a contract, any contract, supersede the legal system?
Oh, right - they don't, and this bullshit excuse for illegal use of surveillance equipment is exactly the out this scumbag rapist needs to get acquitted.
Nice work, morons.
Appreciate the response, and side note: Asleep at the Wheel does the best cover of "Hot Rod Lincoln" I've ever heard, so props to your brother, too.
Oh, I've heard of them, never actually seen one in person.
Of course, that may be a consequence of living outside the Constitution-Free Zone. YMMV, depending on how close to the national border you reside.
No, I am not a fan of Lysol or Purell to decontaminate drinking water.
"Acceptable" residual bacterial counts in drinking water are not the same thing as acceptable residual counts after washing your hands.
I didn't know you had a set of portable goalposts...
worried about is douche bags with more money than sense, who are not under the purview of the FAA,
How exactly would an aircraft not be under the jurisdiction of the FAA? That's kind of their thing.
http://investigations.nbcnews....
Until the FAA actually creates and enforces a set of regulations in regards to UAV/S, it's going to continue to be like an airborne Wild West.
Ooh, I think I can field this one:
What phrasing do you recommend I use, both on the card and by speaking, when I initially notify the screening person of my situation, to skip the part where the TSA person gives me grief?
"You know, on second thought I think I'll take the bus."
Oh, are you upset that you didn't think through your comment?
So... just gonna troll, then. Gotcha.
Now I know to ignore your posts. Thanks for the inadvertent heads-up.
Regarding OP's analogy, if someone fired 100 bullets at me, and I had a way to automatically block 99 of them, I'd have to be an idiot to not use that method just because 1 bullet might get through.
Yes, I might still get shot, but at least I won't be riddled with holes.
In other words, you don't see the flaw in your logic and don't like it when people point it out. It is like you have no experience in the real world.
"Pointing out the flaw in [someone's] logic," without offering anything other than that, is pretty pointless.
Unless, of course, your point is to be intentionally inflammatory, or to derail the conversation.
So, do you have a better idea? Will you tell us, or just keep on trolling with snarky ad hominem attacks? The world sits on razor's edge awaiting your response.
By the way, your original comment is very "troll-y". You are the pot calling the kettle black.
Yea, no it's not.
But hey, you just keep telling yourself that so you can feel justified in being a d-bag who doesn't have anything worthwhile to contribute to the conversation.
'Cuz that seems to be working out so well for you.
I was thinking more like Flappy Bird, but you have to buy screen tap credits in bulk from the market.
I've actually heard that a very small amount isn't a bad idea for long-term storage of emergency water.
From the CDC:
But it just seems too weird. Like burning out a chest cold w/ cigars or flushing through a stomach virus with Drano.
Well, I'd say it's better than using leeches, but then again, I think I'd rather stick a blood-sucking parasite on my nipple than willfully down any amount of Clorox...
This conversation went from sardonic to hilarious in a hurry, didn't it?
Here I am, trying to sell the Golden Gate Bridge on the street and I could be selling it in a game.
I've got to get caught up on synergies of new technology, to coordinate my vision of business core-competencies with the emerging paradigm.
I was thinking the same thing; we should collaborate, make our own game that's nothing but microtransactions...
Other than a murder/manslaughter charge vs. possible destruction of property?
Don't be a pussy. You have important property rights to defend.
Which is incredibly difficult to do from inside a prison cell.
FWIW, 99.999999999999% of the manned aircraft that fly over my property are A) above the legal flight floor, and B) not being piloted by some irresponsible dickhead who wants to take naked pictures of my wife through our windows. The one's that fail the test of A and B above have to answer to the FAA, so I'm not too worried about them getting away with anything. What I am worried about is douche bags with more money than sense, who are not under the purview of the FAA, violating both my property and privacy rights.
Don't be a falsely-equivocating douche, keep your spy toys out of my airspace.
So... $0.25 worth of epoxy? I don't see anything there that couldn't be done for free or, at the very worst, an incredibly low cost. You can pressurize a container with a make-shift hand pump, for example.
Yeah! Now all these people in the developing world have to do is chop down even more trees. Deforestation, YAY!. Oh, wait....
Well, at least this will help people living in slums and favelas in places like Manila, Rio, etc. because sapwood is free, cheap, and highly available there. Oh.... wait...
OK, so are you going to suggest a better idea, or just troll (then whine in your sig when your troll-y posts are appropriately modded)?
Maybe so, but do you blend bleach into all of your drinking water?
What, you don't?
If hydrating doesn't result in debilitating stomach cramps, you're doing something wrong, bro.
And if you got wood and tools to construct a filtering apparatus, you can probably boil that filtered water too.
As TFA points out, the problem with boiling water is fuel consumption, whereas filtering through a cold tree branch requires no fuel whatsoever, other than the physical energy exerted by the tree branch user.
I think you missed the point - it's less about what's in Purell, and more about the whole "killing 99% of germs is better than not killing any of them" concept.
So you can get a filter in, say, 30 years? Lot of good that is going to do the family having to drink contaminated water tomorrow.
Perhaps they could barter for the wood they need. I don't know, but what I do know is "your idea isn't perfect, therefore it's a bad idea" is the thought process of a complete, abject moron.