True, but that difference is one only engineers care about.
Oh I'm sorry I thought this was news for nerds, I think I may have gotten DNS hijacked into some child's safe space. If I wanted to talk to those idiots I'd be commenting on a Fox News story.
Not being able to repair your broken tractor does impact reliability.
Not at all. Not being able to repair your broken tractor impacts availability. The two are very different. But it's not unexpected. It's quite rare to find people who even know that MTTF and MTBF are two different things, let alone that there's separate statistics for MTTR, and the reliability and availability are defined differently as combinations of these stats.
You are partially right though, there is an affect on reliability. By carefully controlling all maintenance and repair reliability increases. By letting any old farmer joe do up bolts with whatever nut-rounder he has on hand availability increases, but reliability decreases.
Are you high?
Sadly no. But I do finish work at 17:30, ask me again then.
But for the same price you could get a set of Beats Pro, which sound like a $35 headphone. Why would you buy Grado, they don't even have flashy misleading ads.
I don't know if Apple has used those years to improve the product or not
They haven't. Go to a best buy and have a listen how garbage Beats sound are compared to a cheaper (not even comparable price) product from... anyone else.
But yeah I get it, it's just not cool unless they are bright red and have that large b logo on it. Beats are fashion accessories, not headphones.
This!. Linux changes nothing. Android is already quite open enough when you don't need to rely on Google Play services. The whole point is that special purpose devices can be made for Android, but not for iOS. Switching to Linux changes nothing about this.
Any charging brick that supports the USB PD 2.0 usb power delivery [usb.org] standard will charge a MacBook, new MacBook Pro, or iPhone 8. You don't need to buy a brick from Apple for this.
Yeah, except if you're an Apple only person, then you can't connect your phone to your laptop because while Apple says USB-A is dead, Apple also seems to think USB-A is very much alive.
Let's do the dongle dance, or the I just spend $1000 on a phone and now I need to go back to the store to spend another $30 on a cable dance.
Seriously, is nothing else going on in tech right now?
You think that the company well known for compatibility and "it just works" product lines, releasing a product where one of the advertised features doesn't work, is not compatible with their other products, and unlike every other phone manufacturer doesn't include a fast charger in the box isn't worthy of news?
Heck this is a two-for-one. I'm quite impressed that with the latest and greatest model they are STILL not automatically bundling it with USB-C despite Apple's insistence that USB-A is dead when it released another product recently.
The real news is that the iPhones don't include the cable and fast charger in the box.
This is the main complaint. Most phones fast charge only under specific scenarios. But Apple has historically been known for the "it just works" and "everything is compatible with everything else" approach.
Not only does the iPhone not come with the ability to fast charge with the items in its box, it also doesn't come with the ability to plug it in to the Macbook. Despite Apple insisting that USB-C is here now and backwards compatibility is not needed it somehow ranks as an optional extra on their most popular product.
Compared to Samsung's proprietary fast charging (probably just Qualcomm's), at least you get the phone + fast charger + compatible cable all in one box.
No idea why you live in a fucked up country with fucked up laws and even think that your way of doing it is 'normal' or 'natural' way of doing it.
Huh? Maybe check who you're talking to. There's more than two people on Slashdot. I live in a country where tipping is both legal and never done since people generally earn a living wage and we don't play with pointless cash.
You should direct that comment to drinkypoo. I'm just pointing out that the EU isn't one country, and within the EU there are widely varying customs when it comes to tipping and paying for services, the least favourite of mine being "service charges" listed on the bill (looking at you Eastern Europe)
No one cared when HTC did it either, mainly because the Google Pixel has very limited sales numbers vs the other majors.
Sorry, what? The Pixels have headphone jacks. Some HTC models do not, but the Pixels do.
I didn't bother verifying whether it did or didn't (see GP's post). Just pointing out that when a small vendor removes something it doesn't cause as many complaints as when the single most popular phone model does the same.
Hang on. You're the one that's been disagreeing with the NTSB. Now you're telling me you're not you, you are in fact the NHTSA?
You may want to see a doctor, they can treat schizophrenia you know.
I'm not disagreeing. I'm providing the context you missed. You say autopilot is unsafe and you're citing an investigation from the NTSB that predates many changes to autopilot.
At the same time I'm pointing out that the NTSB is talking about a single investigation, whereas the NHTSA who aggregated the data said that despite autopilot being the reason for the accident, in general the autopilot has contributed to a 40% decrease in accidents vs no autopilot across their review of USA highway accidents.
I know English is a second language to some people, but please put some effort in. Maybe you should start at the top of the thread and read it through again.
Can you honestly say that you think this story today would not have been blamed directly on Trump?
To be fair the government is full of brain dead power hungry idiots. Normally they are in some over funded department, right now they just happen to be in the oval office.
NTSB: Tesla need to do more to monitor and alert the driver.
Except in past tense. They already have.
In the mean time it's not "thegarbz" It's the NHTSA. But I like your projection as if it's your single investigator vs a person on the internet rather than your investigator vs the department responsible for overall safety of roads.
My critical reasoning tells me you're arguing with the wrong person.
Resistive heating (which is what this is) is terribly inefficient compared with a heat pump like an air conditioner
A heatpump is terribly inefficient compared to having a hot processor sitting somewhere with a cooling tower next to it.
This isn't heatpump vs electric heating. This is heatpump vs waste heating. Anything you need to put any energy at all into will be less efficient than this system.
I'm not sure it really stands up as a solution once distance of any kind is involved.
You're assuming the distance is lossy. In this case its lossless. 600W not heat my room? Maybe, but then that's 600W my natural gas based central heating system doesn't need to put out.
By losing market share you mean bouncing around like a two dollar hooker but hey in 2016 it jumped slightly in favour of Apple so it's a trend?
I just Googled around too. Figures all over the place. I found the article you quoted and to consider North America the anomaly when you look at the living conditions and general wealth is just silly. The only anomaly there is Europe which seems to have had a massive shift from 2013 to 2017. Now nothing significant financially has happened in Europe in that period has it.
You're good at cherry picking, but your data doesn't back up your conclusion that people pick Android for low cost as wealthy countries still buy high cost Android devices. Also the USA is far from the largest iPhone market share.
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True, but that difference is one only engineers care about.
Oh I'm sorry I thought this was news for nerds, I think I may have gotten DNS hijacked into some child's safe space. If I wanted to talk to those idiots I'd be commenting on a Fox News story.
And? So you agree with me it's a dick move like I said?
Not being able to repair your broken tractor does impact reliability.
Not at all. Not being able to repair your broken tractor impacts availability. The two are very different.
But it's not unexpected. It's quite rare to find people who even know that MTTF and MTBF are two different things, let alone that there's separate statistics for MTTR, and the reliability and availability are defined differently as combinations of these stats.
You are partially right though, there is an affect on reliability. By carefully controlling all maintenance and repair reliability increases. By letting any old farmer joe do up bolts with whatever nut-rounder he has on hand availability increases, but reliability decreases.
Are you high?
Sadly no. But I do finish work at 17:30, ask me again then.
Yeah we're in agreement. I think their new slogan should be "Everything just works*"
* Dongles must be carried at all times.
But really from a $1000 device I would expect their fast charger to be provided along with the appropriate cable out of the box.
And... my Grado headphones are great, btw.
But for the same price you could get a set of Beats Pro, which sound like a $35 headphone. Why would you buy Grado, they don't even have flashy misleading ads.
I don't know if Apple has used those years to improve the product or not
They haven't. Go to a best buy and have a listen how garbage Beats sound are compared to a cheaper (not even comparable price) product from ... anyone else.
But yeah I get it, it's just not cool unless they are bright red and have that large b logo on it. Beats are fashion accessories, not headphones.
In fact, they are less reliable today because you can no longer repair them yourself.
That makes no sense. In fact really it's quite the opposite. Reliability increases in controlled maintenance conditions.
What Deere is doing is with vendor lock in is called a "dick move" but it certainly isn't the cause of reliability problems.
This!. Linux changes nothing. Android is already quite open enough when you don't need to rely on Google Play services. The whole point is that special purpose devices can be made for Android, but not for iOS. Switching to Linux changes nothing about this.
Any charging brick that supports the USB PD 2.0 usb power delivery [usb.org] standard will charge a MacBook, new MacBook Pro, or iPhone 8. You don't need to buy a brick from Apple for this.
Yeah, except if you're an Apple only person, then you can't connect your phone to your laptop because while Apple says USB-A is dead, Apple also seems to think USB-A is very much alive.
Let's do the dongle dance, or the I just spend $1000 on a phone and now I need to go back to the store to spend another $30 on a cable dance.
Seriously, is nothing else going on in tech right now?
You think that the company well known for compatibility and "it just works" product lines, releasing a product where one of the advertised features doesn't work, is not compatible with their other products, and unlike every other phone manufacturer doesn't include a fast charger in the box isn't worthy of news?
Heck this is a two-for-one. I'm quite impressed that with the latest and greatest model they are STILL not automatically bundling it with USB-C despite Apple's insistence that USB-A is dead when it released another product recently.
The real news is that the iPhones don't include the cable and fast charger in the box.
This is the main complaint. Most phones fast charge only under specific scenarios. But Apple has historically been known for the "it just works" and "everything is compatible with everything else" approach.
Not only does the iPhone not come with the ability to fast charge with the items in its box, it also doesn't come with the ability to plug it in to the Macbook. Despite Apple insisting that USB-C is here now and backwards compatibility is not needed it somehow ranks as an optional extra on their most popular product.
Compared to Samsung's proprietary fast charging (probably just Qualcomm's), at least you get the phone + fast charger + compatible cable all in one box.
Can't believe you took the time to write that.
You should look up troll in the dictionary.
Can't believe you took the time to write that.
and then look up irony.
No idea why you live in a fucked up country with fucked up laws and even think that your way of doing it is 'normal' or 'natural' way of doing it.
Huh? Maybe check who you're talking to. There's more than two people on Slashdot. I live in a country where tipping is both legal and never done since people generally earn a living wage and we don't play with pointless cash.
You should direct that comment to drinkypoo. I'm just pointing out that the EU isn't one country, and within the EU there are widely varying customs when it comes to tipping and paying for services, the least favourite of mine being "service charges" listed on the bill (looking at you Eastern Europe)
No one cared when HTC did it either, mainly because the Google Pixel has very limited sales numbers vs the other majors.
Sorry, what? The Pixels have headphone jacks. Some HTC models do not, but the Pixels do.
I didn't bother verifying whether it did or didn't (see GP's post). Just pointing out that when a small vendor removes something it doesn't cause as many complaints as when the single most popular phone model does the same.
Hang on. You're the one that's been disagreeing with the NTSB. Now you're telling me you're not you, you are in fact the NHTSA?
You may want to see a doctor, they can treat schizophrenia you know.
I'm not disagreeing. I'm providing the context you missed. You say autopilot is unsafe and you're citing an investigation from the NTSB that predates many changes to autopilot.
At the same time I'm pointing out that the NTSB is talking about a single investigation, whereas the NHTSA who aggregated the data said that despite autopilot being the reason for the accident, in general the autopilot has contributed to a 40% decrease in accidents vs no autopilot across their review of USA highway accidents.
I know English is a second language to some people, but please put some effort in. Maybe you should start at the top of the thread and read it through again.
Nope, the online Apple Store doesn't offer any of those. Or any other wired headphones.
Ahh yes I forgot. Apple screws only US customers first.
You may be browsing it in a different and more backwards country than I am.
That's my line.
Can you honestly say that you think this story today would not have been blamed directly on Trump?
To be fair the government is full of brain dead power hungry idiots. Normally they are in some over funded department, right now they just happen to be in the oval office.
Indeed. As is sales taxes and cost of living.
or don't abuse it and it will last longer
Warranties aren't for covering abuse. That's insurance.
They bake it into the price of the unit. In the UK, te new iPhone X is going to cost 999 GBP, which is equivalent to 1,320 USD.
Sure if you ignore taxes, regulation and differences in generalised cost of living then yes we'll go with "baked in the price of the unit".
Did you see further down on the Slashdot front page, there is a new freely available online course in Economics. You should take it.
Oh no I didn't miss that. I'm just curious that Apple can't support it's customers in its own country but is happy to support those in others.
NTSB: Tesla need to do more to monitor and alert the driver.
Except in past tense. They already have.
In the mean time it's not "thegarbz" It's the NHTSA. But I like your projection as if it's your single investigator vs a person on the internet rather than your investigator vs the department responsible for overall safety of roads.
My critical reasoning tells me you're arguing with the wrong person.
That is my line.
Resistive heating (which is what this is) is terribly inefficient compared with a heat pump like an air conditioner
A heatpump is terribly inefficient compared to having a hot processor sitting somewhere with a cooling tower next to it.
This isn't heatpump vs electric heating. This is heatpump vs waste heating. Anything you need to put any energy at all into will be less efficient than this system.
I'm not sure it really stands up as a solution once distance of any kind is involved.
You're assuming the distance is lossy. In this case its lossless. 600W not heat my room? Maybe, but then that's 600W my natural gas based central heating system doesn't need to put out.
By losing market share you mean bouncing around like a two dollar hooker but hey in 2016 it jumped slightly in favour of Apple so it's a trend?
I just Googled around too. Figures all over the place. I found the article you quoted and to consider North America the anomaly when you look at the living conditions and general wealth is just silly. The only anomaly there is Europe which seems to have had a massive shift from 2013 to 2017. Now nothing significant financially has happened in Europe in that period has it.
You're good at cherry picking, but your data doesn't back up your conclusion that people pick Android for low cost as wealthy countries still buy high cost Android devices. Also the USA is far from the largest iPhone market share.