Because it still has a purpose. Water from your tap is great if your tap water is safe. (I have been drinking nothing but bottled water for the past week on my holiday for fear of hell's own diarrhea. Hell I even washed fruit this morning using bottled water.
Even in the first world water from the tap is great only if you're near a tap.
So dumping plastics in the ground still means that we're extracting oil to turn into plastic.
In our entire history we've never extracted oil to be turned into plastic. We've extracted oil to be turned into fuel with the byproducts turned into plastic. We've also extracted oil specifically separated polyxylene out of it for plastic and then turned the rest into fuel however this is problematic since you need to treat the oil and rich condensate doesn't fetch much on the open market since most refineries are designed to run crude.
Overall the plastic lifecycle has never had an impact on the oil we get out of the ground.
Bottles are nice for the larger sizes since they are closable.
When the energy drink craze started in Australia there were a few companies that released canned products which exceeded the recommended daily maximum caffeine allowance. Because they were in cans the regulator gave them a choice: change the package, or get your product banned since it isn't resealable and shouldn't be consumed in one go.
Switch over? Isn't most mass produced American beer basically water anyway?
Yes but it can't be drunk by minors. Also you're ignoring the profit motive. It gives American breweries a chance to save costs because when they go through they 15 step process of making beer, they start at step one (fill the hopper with water) and then just jump to step 15 (pour in bottle).
I did say insurance was a dumb system for this. Let me tell you my car analogy for your example with my current healthcare system.
Every time I refuel I swipe a government issued card.
No that's it. Done. Oh but what if I wanted to pick which fuel I got and where I got it from? Well that's where private fuel insurance comes in. That involves me swiping... a different card and then paying the excess. Done. Oh and at the end of the year I can claim the excess from my tax deduction but my accountant sorts that out.
Forget the idea of socialised healthcare. America the king of Insurance companies can't even get insurance companies right without over complicating the system.
Well to be fair if you have 5 year old bluetooth headphones the battery life on them and general wear of having something mobile is probably reason enough to throw them away. Welcome to the new millennium where nothing lasts and consumer desires don't matter.
In any case, point was aptx was more than good enough for nearly every headphone on the market. True high quality headphones which were bluetooth based haven't been on the market very long so far.
Do you have a split personality disorder where one of your personalities imitates the person you are arguing with?
To answer your question let me quote myself: "Maybe you should throw away your 10 year old Bluetooth headphones and your Samsung Galaxy S1 and buy something from the past 5 years which includes things like AAC passthrough or lossless bluetooth compression like aptX."
I'll let you figure out if I would be happy with a 10 year old set of headphones. I'll also let you try and figure out why you are applying your own logic to my purchasing decisions.
Throw out old junk and be happy, or keep your old junk and stop complaining since it's not representative of what the current state of the technology is.
You don't need to install Paint.NET to fix the problems with Paint3D. Typing "Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.MSPaint | Remove-AppxPackage" into Powershell already does that job just fine.
Oh I agree, but the overwhelming most likely scenario is that the deeply integrated into Windows.Net framework is what hosed your machine. In which case Paint.Net is a poor target to complain against since if it wasn't that then it was likely something else. The whole point of the.Net framework is that it's abstracted away from the underlying OS and therefore shouldn't have the ability to ruin anything.
That said the framework itself was a clusterfuck of versions and installers and downloads from the Microsoft website which may or may not be compatible with your system. The latest: This program requires.NET 2.0. Like WTF I already have 4 later versions of the framework installed, why are they not backwards compatible! *middlefinger* Microsoft.
Readers like you stopped submitting things of interest to you and started relying on others. Other people came with other interests. A news aggregator like Slashdot is nothing more than the will of its readers. You want to change this?
Nope, People who didn't like the old way adapted. The rest of the people still happily use their headphones in their phones that have headphone ports. Apple's sickness is well and truly a minority in the market, quite unlike physical keyboards which have nearly all disappeared.
I was sitting next to guy on an Iberia flight recently and they actually specifically called out not using Bluetooth during takeoff and landing. The guy next to me took off his Bose 35 series headphones. Me... I just plugged a cable into the bottom of mine and kept listening.
So are new (all other competitors premium phones which still have a 3.5mm jack). Hell the Galaxy series was IP rated with headphone jack before Apple even know what water resistance was.
Same way the free checked bags will come back. Aviation kerosene prices are set to plunge in five years. It will remove all the nickel and diming from the air lines, 35$ for exit row seats, 25$ for guaranteed aisle seat...
You forget that we weren't being nickle and dimed. Rather the cost of the ticket has plummeted made possible by selective purchases of precisely the services you require. We all hate cable bundling but you're pining for the days when airlines bundled? Madness. Personally I'm much happier knowing I can fly 1200km for cost of an exit row seat upgrade. I certainly don't miss the days when a trip to another country cost 10x what it does now.
You want you free bag? Check in as a premier passenger. You get all the benefits of an economy passenger from 15 years ago and leave us in the cheap seats be.
The thing is while I do miss a 3.5mm port as well. Not as much I like having my device waterproof. or trying to clean gunk, pocket fluff, from the slot.
Then just buy any other phone which has a 3.5mm port and is just as IP68 certified as Apple's devices. As for gunk and pocket fluff, just hose out the port or better still wash your cloths and don't use your phone when having a big old gunk wrestle.
I use my phone, mostly for basic internet searches, emails, text and sometimes I will make a phone call. We forget that this device is not a PC replacement.
And yet you just said you replaced some of the things you do on your PC. But I agree, personally I carry my desktop with me when listening to music on the bus.
OK, if it's working as it should, what's the reason for removing the jack?
You're assuming that *you* are the market. The reality is the market is wide and varied with different desires and price points. No company ever could produce a phone that suits everyone in the market, even if they managed to do it to the right price point someone will want thing, someone else will want fat, etc.
The reason for removing the jack from Apple was obvious: drive purchases of new bluetooth headphones, Apple being the worlds largest supplier of precisely that. The reason for removing the jack from other companies was also obvious: There was a realisation that the market was quite happy to see the jack go and they bought the device anyway. Great I just saved $1.50 on my BOM and reduced engineering effort to boot.
The market is working exactly as intended. There are plenty of phones out there with headphone jacks, but ultimately you have to remember one sad fact: You are a person, not a market. What *you* care about is not relevant until it's identical to the desires of a million other people.
Technically what you hear through them is not the music itself, but a compressed approximation of the music.
Maybe you should throw away your 10 year old Bluetooth headphones and your Samsung Galaxy S1 and buy something from the past 5 years which includes things like AAC passthrough or lossless bluetooth compression like aptX.
Unless you're being more philosophical in that because it's 1s and 0s you're not listening to music itself since music is an analogue construct that can only truly be represented by etching into a spinning disk of plastic, in which case piss-off weirdo.
It also requires space on the PCB. It's extremely difficult to design an audio amplifier with insanely good audio which fits within the real-estate constraints of a phone and also make it so there's no interference from all the surrounding radio circuits.
Audiophile crap aside this isn't really true. There was pretty much no extra PCB space required for the electronics of a headphone jack thanks to them being integrated in the general DAC chips (which phones still have anyway) since about the second generation iPod (not iPhone, years before the iPhone).
Yeah it's no class A discrete MOSFET amplifier, but it was well and truly more than good enough for the 99.999% of people out there.
The only PCB space reasonably taken up was that of the socket itself.
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Because it still has a purpose. Water from your tap is great if your tap water is safe. (I have been drinking nothing but bottled water for the past week on my holiday for fear of hell's own diarrhea. Hell I even washed fruit this morning using bottled water.
Even in the first world water from the tap is great only if you're near a tap.
So dumping plastics in the ground still means that we're extracting oil to turn into plastic.
In our entire history we've never extracted oil to be turned into plastic. We've extracted oil to be turned into fuel with the byproducts turned into plastic. We've also extracted oil specifically separated polyxylene out of it for plastic and then turned the rest into fuel however this is problematic since you need to treat the oil and rich condensate doesn't fetch much on the open market since most refineries are designed to run crude.
Overall the plastic lifecycle has never had an impact on the oil we get out of the ground.
Bottles are nice for the larger sizes since they are closable.
When the energy drink craze started in Australia there were a few companies that released canned products which exceeded the recommended daily maximum caffeine allowance. Because they were in cans the regulator gave them a choice: change the package, or get your product banned since it isn't resealable and shouldn't be consumed in one go.
The result: Every company started producing 32oz cans with lids
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How did you survive? Injuries, surgeries, not to mention statistically you didn't even survive as long.
Switch over? Isn't most mass produced American beer basically water anyway?
Yes but it can't be drunk by minors. Also you're ignoring the profit motive. It gives American breweries a chance to save costs because when they go through they 15 step process of making beer, they start at step one (fill the hopper with water) and then just jump to step 15 (pour in bottle).
I did say insurance was a dumb system for this. Let me tell you my car analogy for your example with my current healthcare system.
Every time I refuel I swipe a government issued card.
No that's it. Done. Oh but what if I wanted to pick which fuel I got and where I got it from? Well that's where private fuel insurance comes in. That involves me swiping ... a different card and then paying the excess. Done. Oh and at the end of the year I can claim the excess from my tax deduction but my accountant sorts that out.
Forget the idea of socialised healthcare. America the king of Insurance companies can't even get insurance companies right without over complicating the system.
Well to be fair if you have 5 year old bluetooth headphones the battery life on them and general wear of having something mobile is probably reason enough to throw them away. Welcome to the new millennium where nothing lasts and consumer desires don't matter.
In any case, point was aptx was more than good enough for nearly every headphone on the market. True high quality headphones which were bluetooth based haven't been on the market very long so far.
Do you have a split personality disorder where one of your personalities imitates the person you are arguing with?
To answer your question let me quote myself:
"Maybe you should throw away your 10 year old Bluetooth headphones and your Samsung Galaxy S1 and buy something from the past 5 years which includes things like AAC passthrough or lossless bluetooth compression like aptX."
I'll let you figure out if I would be happy with a 10 year old set of headphones. I'll also let you try and figure out why you are applying your own logic to my purchasing decisions.
Throw out old junk and be happy, or keep your old junk and stop complaining since it's not representative of what the current state of the technology is.
You don't need to install Paint.NET to fix the problems with Paint3D. Typing "Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.MSPaint | Remove-AppxPackage" into Powershell already does that job just fine.
Oh I agree, but the overwhelming most likely scenario is that the deeply integrated into Windows .Net framework is what hosed your machine. In which case Paint.Net is a poor target to complain against since if it wasn't that then it was likely something else. The whole point of the .Net framework is that it's abstracted away from the underlying OS and therefore shouldn't have the ability to ruin anything.
That said the framework itself was a clusterfuck of versions and installers and downloads from the Microsoft website which may or may not be compatible with your system. The latest: This program requires .NET 2.0. Like WTF I already have 4 later versions of the framework installed, why are they not backwards compatible! *middlefinger* Microsoft.
What is the deal with all the Superhero movies? It is like everyone regressed to being a 12 year old boy.
I know right, because comics like Deadpool are totally a thing for children.
Did Paint.NET hose it or did the .Net Framework do that? I find it hard to see how a simple .Net program could have any adverse effect on your system.
Readers like you stopped submitting things of interest to you and started relying on others. Other people came with other interests. A news aggregator like Slashdot is nothing more than the will of its readers. You want to change this?
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Err actually I'm thinking of Paint 3D. But otherwise you're right.
Why would I prefer to download and install this over GIMP?
You don't prefer it. It is just there, given to you, rolled out with every Windows update regardless of how much you try to get rid of it.
By the way GIMP is truly horrible software. Crappy crappy stupid arsebackwards UI.
Hey you are the one complaining about it. Not us.
We adapted, and we're fine.
Nope, People who didn't like the old way adapted. The rest of the people still happily use their headphones in their phones that have headphone ports. Apple's sickness is well and truly a minority in the market, quite unlike physical keyboards which have nearly all disappeared.
I was sitting next to guy on an Iberia flight recently and they actually specifically called out not using Bluetooth during takeoff and landing. The guy next to me took off his Bose 35 series headphones. Me... I just plugged a cable into the bottom of mine and kept listening.
So are new (all other competitors premium phones which still have a 3.5mm jack). Hell the Galaxy series was IP rated with headphone jack before Apple even know what water resistance was.
Same way the free checked bags will come back. Aviation kerosene prices are set to plunge in five years. It will remove all the nickel and diming from the air lines, 35$ for exit row seats, 25$ for guaranteed aisle seat...
You forget that we weren't being nickle and dimed. Rather the cost of the ticket has plummeted made possible by selective purchases of precisely the services you require. We all hate cable bundling but you're pining for the days when airlines bundled? Madness. Personally I'm much happier knowing I can fly 1200km for cost of an exit row seat upgrade. I certainly don't miss the days when a trip to another country cost 10x what it does now.
You want you free bag? Check in as a premier passenger. You get all the benefits of an economy passenger from 15 years ago and leave us in the cheap seats be.
Just like some folks miss the floppy disk and the rotary-dial phone...
Oh really? You can find someone like that?
The thing is while I do miss a 3.5mm port as well. Not as much I like having my device waterproof. or trying to clean gunk, pocket fluff, from the slot.
Then just buy any other phone which has a 3.5mm port and is just as IP68 certified as Apple's devices. As for gunk and pocket fluff, just hose out the port or better still wash your cloths and don't use your phone when having a big old gunk wrestle.
I use my phone, mostly for basic internet searches, emails, text and sometimes I will make a phone call. We forget that this device is not a PC replacement.
And yet you just said you replaced some of the things you do on your PC. But I agree, personally I carry my desktop with me when listening to music on the bus.
OK, if it's working as it should, what's the reason for removing the jack?
You're assuming that *you* are the market. The reality is the market is wide and varied with different desires and price points. No company ever could produce a phone that suits everyone in the market, even if they managed to do it to the right price point someone will want thing, someone else will want fat, etc.
The reason for removing the jack from Apple was obvious: drive purchases of new bluetooth headphones, Apple being the worlds largest supplier of precisely that.
The reason for removing the jack from other companies was also obvious: There was a realisation that the market was quite happy to see the jack go and they bought the device anyway. Great I just saved $1.50 on my BOM and reduced engineering effort to boot.
The market is working exactly as intended. There are plenty of phones out there with headphone jacks, but ultimately you have to remember one sad fact: You are a person, not a market. What *you* care about is not relevant until it's identical to the desires of a million other people.
Technically what you hear through them is not the music itself, but a compressed approximation of the music.
Maybe you should throw away your 10 year old Bluetooth headphones and your Samsung Galaxy S1 and buy something from the past 5 years which includes things like AAC passthrough or lossless bluetooth compression like aptX.
Unless you're being more philosophical in that because it's 1s and 0s you're not listening to music itself since music is an analogue construct that can only truly be represented by etching into a spinning disk of plastic, in which case piss-off weirdo.
It also requires space on the PCB. It's extremely difficult to design an audio amplifier with insanely good audio which fits within the real-estate constraints of a phone and also make it so there's no interference from all the surrounding radio circuits.
Audiophile crap aside this isn't really true. There was pretty much no extra PCB space required for the electronics of a headphone jack thanks to them being integrated in the general DAC chips (which phones still have anyway) since about the second generation iPod (not iPhone, years before the iPhone).
Yeah it's no class A discrete MOSFET amplifier, but it was well and truly more than good enough for the 99.999% of people out there.
The only PCB space reasonably taken up was that of the socket itself.