No, what you're describing is defective design. What I'm describing is a clear desire for a feature to throttle performance on purpose to extend and old phone's battery life.
This shouldn't ever be used to fix the shoddy design that is the reboot problem.
If your phone keeps rebooting then it needs to be repaired, not gimped.
If you're looking for a technical solution to not having a charger with you, then you're probably out finding yourself in a forest, otherwise the opportunity to borrow some charge long enough to boot and change a setting is pretty much available everywhere.
This is retarded. There's clear reasons why someone would potentially want this feature. The suit shouldn't request they stop doing it, but rather make it optional and put it in control of the user.
Full disclosure: Typing this on a laptop which gives me the choice of performance or battery life in the power settings.
The incentive to adopt renewable technologies should come from them naturally being better from an economic standpoint (which they obviously aren't, in reality, thus the need for subsidies).
You're presenting a circular chicken and egg argument. The point of a subsidy is to kick-start an industry and create economies of scale. The end goal is to have all subsidies removed once it has reached a self sustaining level.
Although as evidence with coal and oil it would seem that nothing can ever self-sustain.
The key is in the benefits. If smartphones didn't exist we'd all have wearables. But the reality is smartphones offer more while wearables aren't all that more convenient, especially since most require that you carry your smartphone anyway.
Most modern super-thin phones and other devices are glued together in such a way that it's difficult or impossible for even a fairly careful, experienced person with small nimble fingers to get them apart without destroying some expensive component, usually, the screen/digitizer/glass assembly.
Sorry but that's just flat out wrong. The vast majority of modern phones are easy enough to disassemble for even a first timer with the right tools (which are often delivered in a kit with replacement batteries).
Of note is that the only popular high-end smartphones that are an issue are those with fancy curved edges on the display or glass all over front and back. iPhone generally rank quite well, and even many of the devices that rank poorly don't get their rank from difficulty of replacing the battery, but rather general construction of the rest of the phone. Glue isn't really an issue, most of them weaken with just a basic and very safe amount of heat applied, and in the kits you'll get a fresh gasket to re-glue your device together.
Your assessment of the tablets is right though. The glue and large surface of the screens make them especially easy to crack.
If your doctor does this, just find a new doctor. There is no good reason to put up with this.
I see this as more a symptom of the medical system. Where I live doctors prescribe drugs, not brands. The pharmacist will then give you options including generic manufacturers, and marketing of drugs to patients is banned for anything other than basic over the counter medication.
I've never asked my doctor if ${BRANDNAMEDRUG} is right for me.
which means that while every private insurance provider will negotiate low costs
This is a fucked system in the first place. You shouldn't have to rely on an insurance to "negotiate" the cost of your life. The only thing an insurance provider should negotiate is with the client how much of a gap needs to be paid.
Price discrimination for medical services is not legal in most other countries, and outright regulated in many.
These idiot pharmaceutical companies are just going to bring massive government regulation down on their heads by pulling this shit for short-term gains.
Err this is the USA we're talking about. Trump would likely see this as an example of capitalist excellence and then abolish the FDA while saying it will be better for all Americans to let the market self regulate.
Yeah that spread throughout my company last year. Silos was all the rage. Fog computing I heard during a Cisco presentation, basically network edge pre-work on data before it gets to the cloud. I threw up a little in my mouth when I heard that one. "Moving the dial" is new to me, I heard that one barely a month ago
Pffft Synergy is soo last year, as is clouds. We're all about breaking down siloed thinking and leveraging fog computing to help move the dial on our market share.
The problem is not that Facebook allows companies to place ads that illegally discriminate, but that Facebook serves employment ads to younger people only. Facebook is taking action that results in illegal discrimination.
No it doesn't.
a) it's just a platform for targeted advertising. Nothing more, nothing less. b) even if advertisements were ONLY placed on Facebook and advertisements were ONLY targeted at the young it's still not discrimination providing the link to the application is freely available, e.g. via the company's careers page on their website.
Discrimination laws do not need to provide equal access to advertising, just prevent actual applicants from being kicked out of the pool based on certain traits. Now if the ads had a link that was only accessible via the ad and the job wasn't available any other open way, then you may be talking, but that is still 100% on the company and not on the service providing the targeted advertising.
Rightio, I totally get that. I was trying to figure out how my company standardised on what it had.
For reference my work (multinational in the top 20 of the Fortune 500 list) standardised on Password Safe. I personally got really used to it and while deciding on what to use I ended up with Keepass which had a similar GUI but also had ports on a wider variety of platforms. I ended up keeping the password file on my owncloud and synced on my android device so I could access passwords on the go with the Android version. It also supports a wider range of ciphers if that is an important metric.
I eventually though settled on Keepass XC for the PCs and traded a bit of security for convenience of browser integration. Keepass and Password safe only integrate via autotyping and I have found one day at work the autotype function managed to dump my password in plaintext on the screen mid presentation. KeepassXC has an interface and plugins for Firefox and Chrome. This also was a good boost since now my passwords are synced between the two browsers too.
Anyway do with that little personal opinion what you will:-)
We are making you. Collectively. You will find it harder and harder to fuck things up without repercussions. Just like you can't go and buy heroin from your local pharmacy prescription free, you will find your self destructive practices: a) illegal b) unavailable c) limiting d) expensive
and you will eventually give up due to frustration. You can't stop government, as government exist due to the will of the people. I'm not whining, I'm just commenting on how sad it is that you think I am whereas in reality I am just part of a collective that is actively working against you.
Peace bro. Enjoy your bitcoin mining (something that makes me laugh especially hard).
Why don't you save yourself 15 minutes use the self checkout lane and give some homeless guy in the street $5 instead?
You're not supporting anything really. The shop will make it gradually less convenient for you to line up and the stuff will be reduced anyway. They see the cost benefit there already, and shoppers see the low shelf prices. All you're doing is punishing yourself for no gain.
As a matter of interest what is the criteria you're using to narrow it down?
Is open source part of the selection criteria? (there are options available e.g. Keepass and Password Safe) Is endorsement from experts part of the criteria? (e.g. Password Safe is of Bruce Schneier's fame) Is it based on portability (mobile apps for various vendors, cross platform) Is it based on extensible (e.g. plugins for the browser)
Personally I use Keepass but I'm interested in what criteria people apply to its selection because frankly I can't comment on why anyone should pick Keepass over one of the other options.
Why not? Hell I use it on my laptop. Not everyone needs to secure their device. Hell the pin-code on my mobile is 000000 and that's just to conform with a generic company policy.
It's one of the areas where good enough wins the day.
I know we don't generally care about who comes up and talks to us at a job fair. Hell we poached an engineer from the competition one day. The job fairs I've attended (both as a student and as part of a company) were nothing more than advertisement. We would take names, but the jobs are all posted on our careers site.
We did get some older experts apply for some graduate positions, but really it's not age discrimination when you're targeting fresh graduates and then rule out professional for the job. Some times you're looking for silly putty to mould to your tastes not experience.
The problem is when people use "too much experience" to describe naturally transient jobs. I got this when I applied to be a factory hand moving, unskilled labour doing what I'm told moving shit around. I called them out on it, told them I'm not here just because the economy is bad, asked them about their career progression, asked how many years I would need to work to become until I got promoted to top of the unskilled labourer moving boxes around and doing what I'm told. I asked if on retirement I'd get a gold watch.
I didn't get the job, but hey. I actually applied to the same place a year later when they changed who they outsource their hiring to. Left all my qualifications of and acted quite stupid in the interview. I was hired! Surprise they have a large staff turnover because despite the good pay people don't make a career of pushing boxes around if they can avoid it.
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No, what you're describing is defective design. What I'm describing is a clear desire for a feature to throttle performance on purpose to extend and old phone's battery life.
This shouldn't ever be used to fix the shoddy design that is the reboot problem.
If your phone keeps rebooting then it needs to be repaired, not gimped.
If you're looking for a technical solution to not having a charger with you, then you're probably out finding yourself in a forest, otherwise the opportunity to borrow some charge long enough to boot and change a setting is pretty much available everywhere.
I'm not sure what "no" means in this context when the suit is asking
"The suit asks that Apple stop throttling older devices"
and my comment talked about that, and your reply made zero mention of the topic at all.
This is retarded. There's clear reasons why someone would potentially want this feature. The suit shouldn't request they stop doing it, but rather make it optional and put it in control of the user.
Full disclosure: Typing this on a laptop which gives me the choice of performance or battery life in the power settings.
The incentive to adopt renewable technologies should come from them naturally being better from an economic standpoint (which they obviously aren't, in reality, thus the need for subsidies).
You're presenting a circular chicken and egg argument. The point of a subsidy is to kick-start an industry and create economies of scale. The end goal is to have all subsidies removed once it has reached a self sustaining level.
Although as evidence with coal and oil it would seem that nothing can ever self-sustain.
do something that smartphones cannot
The key is in the benefits. If smartphones didn't exist we'd all have wearables. But the reality is smartphones offer more while wearables aren't all that more convenient, especially since most require that you carry your smartphone anyway.
Why would you want to carry it in your pocket?
It could be a class thing. Or maybe there's just no risk in a rich person taking himself hostage on his own aircraft.
just try Googling a version number! No chance.
I think that speaks more about your ability to use Google rather than the naming convention of the software you use.
That should come as no surprise. TV Series made by Netflix go for an hour per episode, those made by cable TV companies go for about 45min.
Most modern super-thin phones and other devices are glued together in such a way that it's difficult or impossible for even a fairly careful, experienced person with small nimble fingers to get them apart without destroying some expensive component, usually, the screen/digitizer/glass assembly.
Sorry but that's just flat out wrong. The vast majority of modern phones are easy enough to disassemble for even a first timer with the right tools (which are often delivered in a kit with replacement batteries).
IFixIt has a good rundown on repairability: https://www.ifixit.com/smartph...
Of note is that the only popular high-end smartphones that are an issue are those with fancy curved edges on the display or glass all over front and back. iPhone generally rank quite well, and even many of the devices that rank poorly don't get their rank from difficulty of replacing the battery, but rather general construction of the rest of the phone. Glue isn't really an issue, most of them weaken with just a basic and very safe amount of heat applied, and in the kits you'll get a fresh gasket to re-glue your device together.
Your assessment of the tablets is right though. The glue and large surface of the screens make them especially easy to crack.
"some doctors still prefer to use"
If your doctor does this, just find a new doctor. There is no good reason to put up with this.
I see this as more a symptom of the medical system. Where I live doctors prescribe drugs, not brands. The pharmacist will then give you options including generic manufacturers, and marketing of drugs to patients is banned for anything other than basic over the counter medication.
I've never asked my doctor if ${BRANDNAMEDRUG} is right for me.
Eat Vegemite.
Uah, I'd rather live with cracked skin, dementia, and diarrhea from the B3 deficiency.
which means that while every private insurance provider will negotiate low costs
This is a fucked system in the first place. You shouldn't have to rely on an insurance to "negotiate" the cost of your life. The only thing an insurance provider should negotiate is with the client how much of a gap needs to be paid.
Price discrimination for medical services is not legal in most other countries, and outright regulated in many.
These idiot pharmaceutical companies are just going to bring massive government regulation down on their heads by pulling this shit for short-term gains.
Err this is the USA we're talking about. Trump would likely see this as an example of capitalist excellence and then abolish the FDA while saying it will be better for all Americans to let the market self regulate.
Yeah that spread throughout my company last year. Silos was all the rage.
Fog computing I heard during a Cisco presentation, basically network edge pre-work on data before it gets to the cloud. I threw up a little in my mouth when I heard that one.
"Moving the dial" is new to me, I heard that one barely a month ago
Pffft Synergy is soo last year, as is clouds. We're all about breaking down siloed thinking and leveraging fog computing to help move the dial on our market share.
The problem is not that Facebook allows companies to place ads that illegally discriminate, but that Facebook serves employment ads to younger people only. Facebook is taking action that results in illegal discrimination.
No it doesn't.
a) it's just a platform for targeted advertising. Nothing more, nothing less.
b) even if advertisements were ONLY placed on Facebook and advertisements were ONLY targeted at the young it's still not discrimination providing the link to the application is freely available, e.g. via the company's careers page on their website.
Discrimination laws do not need to provide equal access to advertising, just prevent actual applicants from being kicked out of the pool based on certain traits. Now if the ads had a link that was only accessible via the ad and the job wasn't available any other open way, then you may be talking, but that is still 100% on the company and not on the service providing the targeted advertising.
Rightio, I totally get that. I was trying to figure out how my company standardised on what it had.
For reference my work (multinational in the top 20 of the Fortune 500 list) standardised on Password Safe. I personally got really used to it and while deciding on what to use I ended up with Keepass which had a similar GUI but also had ports on a wider variety of platforms. I ended up keeping the password file on my owncloud and synced on my android device so I could access passwords on the go with the Android version. It also supports a wider range of ciphers if that is an important metric.
I eventually though settled on Keepass XC for the PCs and traded a bit of security for convenience of browser integration. Keepass and Password safe only integrate via autotyping and I have found one day at work the autotype function managed to dump my password in plaintext on the screen mid presentation. KeepassXC has an interface and plugins for Firefox and Chrome. This also was a good boost since now my passwords are synced between the two browsers too.
Anyway do with that little personal opinion what you will :-)
1. Make me.
We are making you. Collectively. You will find it harder and harder to fuck things up without repercussions. Just like you can't go and buy heroin from your local pharmacy prescription free, you will find your self destructive practices:
a) illegal
b) unavailable
c) limiting
d) expensive
and you will eventually give up due to frustration. You can't stop government, as government exist due to the will of the people. I'm not whining, I'm just commenting on how sad it is that you think I am whereas in reality I am just part of a collective that is actively working against you.
Peace bro. Enjoy your bitcoin mining (something that makes me laugh especially hard).
Why don't you save yourself 15 minutes use the self checkout lane and give some homeless guy in the street $5 instead?
You're not supporting anything really. The shop will make it gradually less convenient for you to line up and the stuff will be reduced anyway. They see the cost benefit there already, and shoppers see the low shelf prices. All you're doing is punishing yourself for no gain.
As a matter of interest what is the criteria you're using to narrow it down?
Is open source part of the selection criteria? (there are options available e.g. Keepass and Password Safe)
Is endorsement from experts part of the criteria? (e.g. Password Safe is of Bruce Schneier's fame)
Is it based on portability (mobile apps for various vendors, cross platform)
Is it based on extensible (e.g. plugins for the browser)
Personally I use Keepass but I'm interested in what criteria people apply to its selection because frankly I can't comment on why anyone should pick Keepass over one of the other options.
Why not? Hell I use it on my laptop. Not everyone needs to secure their device. Hell the pin-code on my mobile is 000000 and that's just to conform with a generic company policy.
It's one of the areas where good enough wins the day.
I know we don't generally care about who comes up and talks to us at a job fair. Hell we poached an engineer from the competition one day. The job fairs I've attended (both as a student and as part of a company) were nothing more than advertisement. We would take names, but the jobs are all posted on our careers site.
We did get some older experts apply for some graduate positions, but really it's not age discrimination when you're targeting fresh graduates and then rule out professional for the job. Some times you're looking for silly putty to mould to your tastes not experience.
The problem is when people use "too much experience" to describe naturally transient jobs. I got this when I applied to be a factory hand moving, unskilled labour doing what I'm told moving shit around. I called them out on it, told them I'm not here just because the economy is bad, asked them about their career progression, asked how many years I would need to work to become until I got promoted to top of the unskilled labourer moving boxes around and doing what I'm told. I asked if on retirement I'd get a gold watch.
I didn't get the job, but hey. I actually applied to the same place a year later when they changed who they outsource their hiring to. Left all my qualifications of and acted quite stupid in the interview. I was hired! Surprise they have a large staff turnover because despite the good pay people don't make a career of pushing boxes around if they can avoid it.