Apple Pay? Google Pay? Samsung Pay? Are they your banks? Android's NFC API directly interfaces with payment software. Why would you put yet another 3rd party in between you and your banking app?
So what service do I use? The Wallet app provided by my bank. Works anywhere my card does, has independent limits and security handled by my bank.
Yeah, and plenty of people pointed that out years ago but mosr Slashdorks wouldn't listen
There's a big difference between not listening and not caring. Functionality wasn't broken, people weren't affected. Someone made some prediction which happened to be right, big deal.
Now if they go through with this it will be quite different, and hell Firefox may even get some market share back.
Please the DOJ would do nothing here. The USA never does. The EU on the other hand are incredibly friendly with Google and will welcome yet another donation.
That is because they made the device too thin, and jammed the battery in too tight that it didn't allow for the battery expansion.
Nice conflating of issues there. No sorry it has nothing to do with the device being too thin. Heck it's more than a full mm thicker than its smartphone 7.9mm vs 6.8mm, and half a mm thicker than the previous Note.
You should actually read the RCA and learn that there were multiple design problems which worked together to create the Note 7's problems including incorrect spec, incorrect spacing, incorrect electrode design all working inside a space that is quite a normal limitation for a modern smartphone / phablet.
Who is a US person? Are you writing this to involve others who may want to join in the conversation? You still haven't addressed my comment, in what fucked up world is punishment for disobeying a law simply complying with the intent but not the letter of another?
Also in most cases closing the specific loophole is easy, the loopholes themselves are quite well defined. The problem is doing it without losing an election (corporations have deep pockets) and doing it without affecting the locals as a result (moving your headquarters is not as complicated as it once was as the UK is finding out the hard way right now).
Theoretically, the EU can ask a foreign court to apply the fines
They can ask foreign courts a lot of things. In practice the only time this works is if courts determine if the fine is legitimate. In practice even the GDPR legislation recognises the difference between doing business in the EU and just having some random person visiting your site incidentally. I can directly buy something from someone outside the EU just fine and they still wouldn't necessarily need to comply with the GDPR.
It's an unfortunate fact that international corporations pay nowhere in the EU the actual tax they'd owe.
So back to my point: Are they acting illegally? Then prosecute them. Are they acting legally? Then close the damn loopholes that allow them to get away with the practice.
SIM locking was introduced with the very earliest of mobile phones. I take issue with you saying that property is *now* rent especially since the only phones actually SIM locked are those which are actually rented.
Without government, companies can and will put things like radium in your beverage
Now to be perfectly fair, radium was in your beverages not because of lack of government, but because all people including governments thought it was good for you. Doctors were prescribing radium as a miracle cure for all sorts of things and when it became cost effective enough to extract then companies started putting into water and marketing it as a cure.
ATC should be airport employees and not FAA employees like how it is in everywhere else in the world.
No it's not. Most western countries have air traffic control employeed by a central authority tied in some way to the government, either as a government department (e.g. Luchtverkeersleiding Nederland, or Direction des Services de la navigation aérienne) or as a wholely government owned company (e.g. Air Services Australia).
You mean the rest of the world that uses the US as their healthcare R&D?
LOL, sorry but R&D on health care is being spent everywhere in the world. But I get it #MAGA.
You mean the rest of the world where you wait days/weeks/months (determined by your governments healthcare bureaucrats)?
I'm sure he means the rest of the world where waiting is determined by triage by medical professionals and if you disagree with it you're free to pay to get a procedure done at the private hospital.
Why is everything so black and white, one or the other with you Americans. You do realise you can have the best of all worlds if you pulled your heads out of your red or blue arses.
You mean the rest of the world where, when the government budget limits are reached, you no longer are able to get healthcare?
I think you live in a different world to the rest of us.
So if I kidnap your daughter then on a completely unrelated case ask you for $5bn, and then when you say no, offer to return your daughter for $5bn you consider me the one who made the compromise and the master negotiator? Or would you get angry before I finished speaking?
Trump offered nothing that he didn't already take from the Democrats in the first place.
I saw a good article in the BBC recently about the fundamental difference between a dictatorship and a democracy.
A democracy focuses on the means to an end: the debate about how to achieve security, the voting on proposals, the process of government. A dictatorship focuses on the end: the wall.
He only promised to kick the DACA can down the road for 3 years
Help me here. I am under the impression DACA was a pre-existing program that Trump is taking away. Even if it IS reinstated without deadline how can this be justified as a something positive?
If I kidnap your daughter and demand $5bn and offer to return her to you, I'm a good guy and giving you what you want right?
Trump offered to give Democrats everything they wanted
So if I come to your house, steal you TV and disconnect your internet, and then I offer you your TV and internet back in exchange for something, I'm a good guy? What has Trump offered the democrats that he hasn't taken from them in the first place?
Incidentally he hasn't offered them the one thing they do want: Not to pay a cent for his idiotic wall.
Just because a company or two is meantioned it's automatically an advertisement? What are you selling mr Chris Mattern? Your own personal wisdom? Stop advertsing your ability to write comments on Slashdot.
Has anyone compared wired to wireless quality? Are there any blind A/B tests comparing the built-in DAC of the iPhone using wired headphones vs wireless? And also the built-in DAC with an external DAC?
Yes yes and yes. The thing is what are you trying to compare? Wireless vs Wired makes no sense. If you use a lossless wireless codec. The remainder then is what happens with the DAC.
Also what are you trying to compare? My external DAC absolutely sounds much better than that of my phone. I can also tell the difference without any music playing from noise floor of the audio output alone. That said I can't exactly carry an 8kg external DAC and a 240V cable around with me on the bus.
DACs in phones are designed for a different purpose in mind. Not just headphones, but they are all in one devices with integrated amplifiers handling microphones, speakers, headphones with no specific design goal of high quality headphone audio in mind. Now as for the difference between a decent DAC and a high end DAC and that audiophile voodoo, well the law of diminishing returns has a low price.
The same people clamoring for FLAC because of audio quality are also the same people snapping up vinyl and cassettes, and probably have already wrecked their hearing past the point of being able to tell the difference. High-end Audio is a bunch of snake oil.
Not at all. Vinyl through nature of the medium must go through a different final master process. There absolutely is a difference in sound as a result and the quality of the medium driving that to a negative is not given, especially since mass produced CD masters are often garbage. This is the reason why MP3 piracy of vinyl records is a thing in the first place.
I'd wager that the number who could pick the better between DTS Surround and CD audio would be similarly small.
I'd imagine given a perfect comparison the answer would be zero, not similarly small. All differences between high resolution mediums and their CD counterparts are due to differences in mastering. You can absolutely convert the high resolution to a CD with no discernable audible difference, even on the best systems with the most sure of themselves self-proclaimed audiophile doing the ABX test.
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Yeah but it's nice calling some disrespectful smartarse a dumbarse, so we'll just savour this a bit ... dumbarse.
Apple Pay? Google Pay? Samsung Pay? Are they your banks?
Android's NFC API directly interfaces with payment software. Why would you put yet another 3rd party in between you and your banking app?
So what service do I use? The Wallet app provided by my bank. Works anywhere my card does, has independent limits and security handled by my bank.
All right, have a beer and go right back to bed. It's a been a stressful day for you.
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Yeah, and plenty of people pointed that out years ago but mosr Slashdorks wouldn't listen
There's a big difference between not listening and not caring. Functionality wasn't broken, people weren't affected. Someone made some prediction which happened to be right, big deal.
Now if they go through with this it will be quite different, and hell Firefox may even get some market share back.
Please the DOJ would do nothing here. The USA never does. The EU on the other hand are incredibly friendly with Google and will welcome yet another donation.
That is because they made the device too thin, and jammed the battery in too tight that it didn't allow for the battery expansion.
Nice conflating of issues there. No sorry it has nothing to do with the device being too thin. Heck it's more than a full mm thicker than its smartphone 7.9mm vs 6.8mm, and half a mm thicker than the previous Note.
You should actually read the RCA and learn that there were multiple design problems which worked together to create the Note 7's problems including incorrect spec, incorrect spacing, incorrect electrode design all working inside a space that is quite a normal limitation for a modern smartphone / phablet.
Who is a US person? Are you writing this to involve others who may want to join in the conversation? You still haven't addressed my comment, in what fucked up world is punishment for disobeying a law simply complying with the intent but not the letter of another?
Also in most cases closing the specific loophole is easy, the loopholes themselves are quite well defined. The problem is doing it without losing an election (corporations have deep pockets) and doing it without affecting the locals as a result (moving your headquarters is not as complicated as it once was as the UK is finding out the hard way right now).
First you say it's a loan, then you say you own it. Read you contract, you'll find you're actually wrong about the ownership.
Theoretically, the EU can ask a foreign court to apply the fines
They can ask foreign courts a lot of things. In practice the only time this works is if courts determine if the fine is legitimate. In practice even the GDPR legislation recognises the difference between doing business in the EU and just having some random person visiting your site incidentally. I can directly buy something from someone outside the EU just fine and they still wouldn't necessarily need to comply with the GDPR.
It's an unfortunate fact that international corporations pay nowhere in the EU the actual tax they'd owe.
So back to my point: Are they acting illegally? Then prosecute them. Are they acting legally? Then close the damn loopholes that allow them to get away with the practice.
Germany here.
You speak on behalf of most countries there. SIM locking in general is only regulated on purchased phones.
"Property" is now "Rent".
SIM locking was introduced with the very earliest of mobile phones. I take issue with you saying that property is *now* rent especially since the only phones actually SIM locked are those which are actually rented.
Because I assumed it was going to be news for nerds, stuff that mattered.
If you believe the government shutdown is not something that matters then maybe you should actually go through and read these comments you criticse.
Without government, companies can and will put things like radium in your beverage
Now to be perfectly fair, radium was in your beverages not because of lack of government, but because all people including governments thought it was good for you. Doctors were prescribing radium as a miracle cure for all sorts of things and when it became cost effective enough to extract then companies started putting into water and marketing it as a cure.
ATC should be airport employees and not FAA employees like how it is in everywhere else in the world.
No it's not. Most western countries have air traffic control employeed by a central authority tied in some way to the government, either as a government department (e.g. Luchtverkeersleiding Nederland, or Direction des Services de la navigation aérienne) or as a wholely government owned company (e.g. Air Services Australia).
You mean the rest of the world that uses the US as their healthcare R&D?
LOL, sorry but R&D on health care is being spent everywhere in the world. But I get it #MAGA.
You mean the rest of the world where you wait days/weeks/months (determined by your governments healthcare bureaucrats)?
I'm sure he means the rest of the world where waiting is determined by triage by medical professionals and if you disagree with it you're free to pay to get a procedure done at the private hospital.
Why is everything so black and white, one or the other with you Americans. You do realise you can have the best of all worlds if you pulled your heads out of your red or blue arses.
You mean the rest of the world where, when the government budget limits are reached, you no longer are able to get healthcare?
I think you live in a different world to the rest of us.
Trump then also proposed a compromise
So if I kidnap your daughter then on a completely unrelated case ask you for $5bn, and then when you say no, offer to return your daughter for $5bn you consider me the one who made the compromise and the master negotiator? Or would you get angry before I finished speaking?
Trump offered nothing that he didn't already take from the Democrats in the first place.
I saw a good article in the BBC recently about the fundamental difference between a dictatorship and a democracy.
A democracy focuses on the means to an end: the debate about how to achieve security, the voting on proposals, the process of government.
A dictatorship focuses on the end: the wall.
He only promised to kick the DACA can down the road for 3 years
Help me here. I am under the impression DACA was a pre-existing program that Trump is taking away. Even if it IS reinstated without deadline how can this be justified as a something positive?
If I kidnap your daughter and demand $5bn and offer to return her to you, I'm a good guy and giving you what you want right?
Trump offered to give Democrats everything they wanted
So if I come to your house, steal you TV and disconnect your internet, and then I offer you your TV and internet back in exchange for something, I'm a good guy? What has Trump offered the democrats that he hasn't taken from them in the first place?
Incidentally he hasn't offered them the one thing they do want: Not to pay a cent for his idiotic wall.
Just because a company or two is meantioned it's automatically an advertisement? What are you selling mr Chris Mattern? Your own personal wisdom? Stop advertsing your ability to write comments on Slashdot.
Has anyone compared wired to wireless quality? Are there any blind A/B tests comparing the built-in DAC of the iPhone using wired headphones vs wireless? And also the built-in DAC with an external DAC?
Yes yes and yes. The thing is what are you trying to compare? Wireless vs Wired makes no sense. If you use a lossless wireless codec. The remainder then is what happens with the DAC.
Also what are you trying to compare? My external DAC absolutely sounds much better than that of my phone. I can also tell the difference without any music playing from noise floor of the audio output alone. That said I can't exactly carry an 8kg external DAC and a 240V cable around with me on the bus.
DACs in phones are designed for a different purpose in mind. Not just headphones, but they are all in one devices with integrated amplifiers handling microphones, speakers, headphones with no specific design goal of high quality headphone audio in mind. Now as for the difference between a decent DAC and a high end DAC and that audiophile voodoo, well the law of diminishing returns has a low price.
The same people clamoring for FLAC because of audio quality are also the same people snapping up vinyl and cassettes, and probably have already wrecked their hearing past the point of being able to tell the difference. High-end Audio is a bunch of snake oil.
Not at all. Vinyl through nature of the medium must go through a different final master process. There absolutely is a difference in sound as a result and the quality of the medium driving that to a negative is not given, especially since mass produced CD masters are often garbage. This is the reason why MP3 piracy of vinyl records is a thing in the first place.
I'd wager that the number who could pick the better between DTS Surround and CD audio would be similarly small.
I'd imagine given a perfect comparison the answer would be zero, not similarly small. All differences between high resolution mediums and their CD counterparts are due to differences in mastering. You can absolutely convert the high resolution to a CD with no discernable audible difference, even on the best systems with the most sure of themselves self-proclaimed audiophile doing the ABX test.