For the iPhone and iPad Apple still sends the data over to their servers to be processed. If you turn on Siri on the Mac it sends data to Apple as well. However you can turn this off (or at least some of this from going to Apple) by going to the Keyboard preferences and under the Dictation section turning on the Use Enhanced Dictation feature. This allows offline use and does the processing on your computer. It also downloads about 1 GB of data when you turn it on (the first time - I hope it keeps it around if you turn it off).
While I'm sure that the processor is powerful enough to do the work on the phone it would be a big drain on the battery, at least more than the network used. Also storing 1 GB would really get people complaining. And that would probably be per language. I would also imagine the RAM requirements for such a program would be fairly heavy too.
Last month when I was there, helicopters never stopped flying in and out of the hospital heliport.
I don't see that as a big selling point. Do they have really bad drivers there or high levels of shootings that require the helicopters to be used so often? I'd want to live in a place where the only time the helicopter goes out is so the pilot can maintain his/her flight hours.
The TSA wouldn't care about a hyperloop being expensive and supposedly a high target. The TSA would see it as a chance to expand their power and influence. It would be a chance for the head of the department to be in charge of more people and have a larger budget. There would be fights inside the TSA about where to place hyperloops because those people would want the improved status.
Take the money out of sports programs and put it into research. The students (players) are getting screwed because they can't make a cent off of anything. Everyone else (coaches, NCAA or whatever association, TV networks, video games, fantasy leagues, apparel, etc) is making big money. It's a money sink for most colleges though.
The Americans only think it's bad if foreigners influence American elections. Those in charge especially feel it's perfectly okay to go around and influence elections in other countries. God forbid if someone does to them what they routinely do to others.
I read the title and I thought that they were giving the legal fund donations back because they had given up, not because almost all of them were fraudulent.
I agree with your points and wanted to add the following.
Having a web page isn't very handy to quickly look up the weather. I like having an app that I can add a widget to the notification centre and glance at to see the temperature when my phone is locked. I know that there are, or at least were, apps that let you embed pages as widgets but then I have to buy another app. And Apple limits how much space is shown so if the website doesn't show the information you are after you'll have to unlock the phone to go visit the page.
Plus, not everyone is in the US. So while a bunch of people are posting the US weather service URL it doesn't do people in other countries a lot of good. Not every other country has a good weather service. I'm lucky because Environment Canada is good but I'd still much prefer an app than having to go to a webpage every time I wanted to check the weather.
While I generally dislike it when websites are turned into apps, weather apps have differentiated themselves enough from websites that I prefer the apps.
I'd be happy if they just responded to their damn mail in the first place. There's a large percentage of places that I've used the form to contact the company or the email address that I've found on their site to get in touch with someone from a company asking about a product that I want to buy or use and I never hear back from them. It's at least 50%. Why do these companies bother with the forms or email addresses if they don't answer messages?
For example, I wanted to know where my property line was so I contacted four surveying companies via their websites. Only one got back to me. This was for a fence that I'm going to build. No manufacturers responded to my questions because I wanted to do it myself and I asked them for copies of instructions as their sites didn't have it. I'm doing it myself because the fencing companies are terrible in my area. About half don't respond to email. The only company that I liked when they came by for a quote never emailed the quote even when I followed up for it. The other companies spent their time putting down the competition and telling me how they didn't like my yard.
I've sent messages off to ask about replacement parts or to ask about information that isn't on websites all without hearing back from companies. These are all things that can easily be handled by email and are cheaper for the company to do that way rather than have me call up. Yet by not responding they force me to call, in the case of getting a replacement part, or take my business elsewhere.
Your credit card is not free for you. It just seems that way. The cost of handling credit card transactions, debit fees (Interac), and even the handling of cash are all included in the cost of goods that we buy. And cards that give you money back, or other such rewards, cost the retailer more to process. Even if you get charged for using your bank card the retailer still gets charged on their end too for their side of the transaction.
I'm more concerned about people in cold climates. It's bad enough now where you have to take off a glove to use your phone in the winter. Now to unlock the phone if it's -30 out you have to unprotect your face.
All plane manufacturers are subsidized. It's just every country does it in different ways. Chine is less subtle about it. Bombardier just got a nice loan from the province of Quebec. Every time Boeing needs a hand a lucrative contract from the military. Airbus complains about Boeing getting unfair subsidies and Boing complains Airbus is getting them. Bombardier complains that Embraer is unfairly subsidized and I'm sure that they do the same. Everyone complains about the the others while having their hand out to the government to take whatever they can get and ask for more.
No it's not. A very small group misrepresenting a religion does not mean you go rounding up everyone of that religion. Do you want to round up all Christians because of the KKK or Neo-nazis? Or some of the contemporary Christian terrorism groups?
It's people like you that should be rounded up because you help spread the hatred and give these groups another justification for their fight. They point at you and say that all Westerners hate Muslims. And when you make statements like that you make the Muslims that are here, and an important part of our society, feel disenfranchised. That's why they are leaving. You are pushing them away.
I don't write many documents anymore with the change in jobs but when I had to before I always preferred writing in WordPerfect because I found it easier to see what was going on with the reveal codes section when I had to fix something that wasn't working right. The reveal codes section made it easy to see everything that was going on in the document.
Ontario and the Federal government are always giving money to the auto manufacturers. Of course when the last fruit canning factory in Ontario needed help the Ontario government said no and as a result a lot of orchards in Southern Ontario were ripped up as there were canning facilities to process them. But shortly after that the automakers came along and the cheque book was opened up. Now all our canned fruit comes from China.
Bombardier just got assistance from the province of Quebec ($1B I think) and they keep asking the Federal government for help too. Lots of companies get assistance. Especially the auto makers.
I've always hated seeing the money going to the companies going to build their plants like in this article. Especially the auto manufacturers because you know that in a few years they are going to back with their hands out asking for more. All they are doing is going around and playing the various states and provinces off of one another to get the best deal.
I've thought similar yourself. I'd like the government to tell the company to get lost and, if it's an already existing firm, to make 2/3s or 3/4s of the fund available to the employees if they lose their jobs. They can use the money for early retirement (not preferred), going back to school to get retrained, or to open up their own business. Some of the difference in the money would be used to help the startups and the rest would give taxpayers a break. Ideally if the company is just shutting down a production line the older employees would be given the chance to move to another line in order to finish their time at the company.
A whole bunch of small companies starting up would eventually employ more people and be better area as it wouldn't be dependent on one big employer. One or two small businesses going under can easily be absorbed but a large plant of thousands hurts a local economy.
And then don't forget once you are retired when you have a much lower income but might have higher assets such as a house and that retirement fund that generates the income. So this wealth tax eats away at the savings the person has spent a lifetime making.
Property taxes are regressive enough but let's extend that to cover everything a person has. Absolutely brilliant!/sarcasm
Do you think that they are just going to hand over the cheque without going through every bit of their business in order to find the tiniest excuse not to pay out? All it is going to take is for an insurance company to find a reason one time not to pay out on a claim and you are going to see a lot of companies start scrambling to see how secure they are. But there will always be a few that will have their head stuck in the sand no matter what and won't do a thing.
And I remember when they used work hard on usability when the iPhone was easy to use one-handed. When each new major version of iOS didn't mean new steps to accomplish the same tasks (for example when marking something done from the lock screen takes an extra step with iOS10). I've done a few rants on here about how Apple has kept making things worse. They really need to get a visionary back in charge instead of a business person.
Of course you can see Netflix shows on many devices. It's how they deliver their service. What would be interesting is if Netflix made a show and then made it available on other services such as Amazon. That would be the proper comparison.
And if you really want Apple content on other devices just look at what they do with iTunes on Windows and ask if you really want their stuff.
That being said I wish Apple would stop going after new shiny things for a while and spend the time and money fixing up what they already have. There's a lot of bugs and other problems that they've left in order to concentrate on the new things. But fixing bugs doesn't keep the shareholders happy I guess.
I moved off of Firefox last year and went to Safari. I got tired of all of the changes and how the developers are seeming to use this as their own little project to try out their wish list instead of what the users are asking for. We don't want all of the UI and other changes or else there wouldn't be all of the plug-ins to make it turn back. Now they are getting rid of the plug-ins to get their way.
I only keep around a copy of Firefox because there's a few (and sadly growing) number of sites that are coding for Chrome only and Safari is having problems. I've even had a couple of sites come back and say just to use Chrome because that's what they build their site for when I told them of the issue. Having one dominant browser is not good.
You then use the space bar to toggle between the current active window or the to select a rectangular area using the mouse. I've set it up to have the images go into the Downloads folder and they are named with the format "Screen Shot yyyy-mm-dd at HH.mm.ss.png" though the date and time probably depends on your locale.
Cmd-Shift-3
Saves a picture of the screen to a file
If you add Ctrl to the key combination it copies the image to the clipboard instead of saving it to a file.
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For the iPhone and iPad Apple still sends the data over to their servers to be processed. If you turn on Siri on the Mac it sends data to Apple as well. However you can turn this off (or at least some of this from going to Apple) by going to the Keyboard preferences and under the Dictation section turning on the Use Enhanced Dictation feature. This allows offline use and does the processing on your computer. It also downloads about 1 GB of data when you turn it on (the first time - I hope it keeps it around if you turn it off).
While I'm sure that the processor is powerful enough to do the work on the phone it would be a big drain on the battery, at least more than the network used. Also storing 1 GB would really get people complaining. And that would probably be per language. I would also imagine the RAM requirements for such a program would be fairly heavy too.
It would be a fight within the TSA over where in the organization the new people would fit in and who made the rules for the publics "safety".
Last month when I was there, helicopters never stopped flying in and out of the hospital heliport.
I don't see that as a big selling point. Do they have really bad drivers there or high levels of shootings that require the helicopters to be used so often? I'd want to live in a place where the only time the helicopter goes out is so the pilot can maintain his/her flight hours.
The TSA wouldn't care about a hyperloop being expensive and supposedly a high target. The TSA would see it as a chance to expand their power and influence. It would be a chance for the head of the department to be in charge of more people and have a larger budget. There would be fights inside the TSA about where to place hyperloops because those people would want the improved status.
Take the money out of sports programs and put it into research. The students (players) are getting screwed because they can't make a cent off of anything. Everyone else (coaches, NCAA or whatever association, TV networks, video games, fantasy leagues, apparel, etc) is making big money. It's a money sink for most colleges though.
Break out the muskets!
The Americans only think it's bad if foreigners influence American elections. Those in charge especially feel it's perfectly okay to go around and influence elections in other countries. God forbid if someone does to them what they routinely do to others.
If it wasn't good then the US wouldn't be interfering in the elections of other countries so often.
I read the title and I thought that they were giving the legal fund donations back because they had given up, not because almost all of them were fraudulent.
I agree with your points and wanted to add the following.
Having a web page isn't very handy to quickly look up the weather. I like having an app that I can add a widget to the notification centre and glance at to see the temperature when my phone is locked. I know that there are, or at least were, apps that let you embed pages as widgets but then I have to buy another app. And Apple limits how much space is shown so if the website doesn't show the information you are after you'll have to unlock the phone to go visit the page.
Plus, not everyone is in the US. So while a bunch of people are posting the US weather service URL it doesn't do people in other countries a lot of good. Not every other country has a good weather service. I'm lucky because Environment Canada is good but I'd still much prefer an app than having to go to a webpage every time I wanted to check the weather.
While I generally dislike it when websites are turned into apps, weather apps have differentiated themselves enough from websites that I prefer the apps.
I'd be happy if they just responded to their damn mail in the first place. There's a large percentage of places that I've used the form to contact the company or the email address that I've found on their site to get in touch with someone from a company asking about a product that I want to buy or use and I never hear back from them. It's at least 50%. Why do these companies bother with the forms or email addresses if they don't answer messages?
For example, I wanted to know where my property line was so I contacted four surveying companies via their websites. Only one got back to me. This was for a fence that I'm going to build. No manufacturers responded to my questions because I wanted to do it myself and I asked them for copies of instructions as their sites didn't have it. I'm doing it myself because the fencing companies are terrible in my area. About half don't respond to email. The only company that I liked when they came by for a quote never emailed the quote even when I followed up for it. The other companies spent their time putting down the competition and telling me how they didn't like my yard.
I've sent messages off to ask about replacement parts or to ask about information that isn't on websites all without hearing back from companies. These are all things that can easily be handled by email and are cheaper for the company to do that way rather than have me call up. Yet by not responding they force me to call, in the case of getting a replacement part, or take my business elsewhere.
Your credit card is not free for you. It just seems that way. The cost of handling credit card transactions, debit fees (Interac), and even the handling of cash are all included in the cost of goods that we buy. And cards that give you money back, or other such rewards, cost the retailer more to process. Even if you get charged for using your bank card the retailer still gets charged on their end too for their side of the transaction.
I'm more concerned about people in cold climates. It's bad enough now where you have to take off a glove to use your phone in the winter. Now to unlock the phone if it's -30 out you have to unprotect your face.
All plane manufacturers are subsidized. It's just every country does it in different ways. Chine is less subtle about it. Bombardier just got a nice loan from the province of Quebec. Every time Boeing needs a hand a lucrative contract from the military. Airbus complains about Boeing getting unfair subsidies and Boing complains Airbus is getting them. Bombardier complains that Embraer is unfairly subsidized and I'm sure that they do the same. Everyone complains about the the others while having their hand out to the government to take whatever they can get and ask for more.
No it's not. A very small group misrepresenting a religion does not mean you go rounding up everyone of that religion. Do you want to round up all Christians because of the KKK or Neo-nazis? Or some of the contemporary Christian terrorism groups?
It's people like you that should be rounded up because you help spread the hatred and give these groups another justification for their fight. They point at you and say that all Westerners hate Muslims. And when you make statements like that you make the Muslims that are here, and an important part of our society, feel disenfranchised. That's why they are leaving. You are pushing them away.
I don't write many documents anymore with the change in jobs but when I had to before I always preferred writing in WordPerfect because I found it easier to see what was going on with the reveal codes section when I had to fix something that wasn't working right. The reveal codes section made it easy to see everything that was going on in the document.
Ontario and the Federal government are always giving money to the auto manufacturers. Of course when the last fruit canning factory in Ontario needed help the Ontario government said no and as a result a lot of orchards in Southern Ontario were ripped up as there were canning facilities to process them. But shortly after that the automakers came along and the cheque book was opened up. Now all our canned fruit comes from China.
Bombardier just got assistance from the province of Quebec ($1B I think) and they keep asking the Federal government for help too. Lots of companies get assistance. Especially the auto makers.
I've always hated seeing the money going to the companies going to build their plants like in this article. Especially the auto manufacturers because you know that in a few years they are going to back with their hands out asking for more. All they are doing is going around and playing the various states and provinces off of one another to get the best deal.
I've thought similar yourself. I'd like the government to tell the company to get lost and, if it's an already existing firm, to make 2/3s or 3/4s of the fund available to the employees if they lose their jobs. They can use the money for early retirement (not preferred), going back to school to get retrained, or to open up their own business. Some of the difference in the money would be used to help the startups and the rest would give taxpayers a break. Ideally if the company is just shutting down a production line the older employees would be given the chance to move to another line in order to finish their time at the company.
A whole bunch of small companies starting up would eventually employ more people and be better area as it wouldn't be dependent on one big employer. One or two small businesses going under can easily be absorbed but a large plant of thousands hurts a local economy.
And then don't forget once you are retired when you have a much lower income but might have higher assets such as a house and that retirement fund that generates the income. So this wealth tax eats away at the savings the person has spent a lifetime making.
Property taxes are regressive enough but let's extend that to cover everything a person has. Absolutely brilliant! /sarcasm
Oh, so you mean things like showing up for a Presidential inauguration. :)
Do you think that they are just going to hand over the cheque without going through every bit of their business in order to find the tiniest excuse not to pay out? All it is going to take is for an insurance company to find a reason one time not to pay out on a claim and you are going to see a lot of companies start scrambling to see how secure they are. But there will always be a few that will have their head stuck in the sand no matter what and won't do a thing.
And I remember when they used work hard on usability when the iPhone was easy to use one-handed. When each new major version of iOS didn't mean new steps to accomplish the same tasks (for example when marking something done from the lock screen takes an extra step with iOS10). I've done a few rants on here about how Apple has kept making things worse. They really need to get a visionary back in charge instead of a business person.
Of course you can see Netflix shows on many devices. It's how they deliver their service. What would be interesting is if Netflix made a show and then made it available on other services such as Amazon. That would be the proper comparison.
And if you really want Apple content on other devices just look at what they do with iTunes on Windows and ask if you really want their stuff.
That being said I wish Apple would stop going after new shiny things for a while and spend the time and money fixing up what they already have. There's a lot of bugs and other problems that they've left in order to concentrate on the new things. But fixing bugs doesn't keep the shareholders happy I guess.
I moved off of Firefox last year and went to Safari. I got tired of all of the changes and how the developers are seeming to use this as their own little project to try out their wish list instead of what the users are asking for. We don't want all of the UI and other changes or else there wouldn't be all of the plug-ins to make it turn back. Now they are getting rid of the plug-ins to get their way.
I only keep around a copy of Firefox because there's a few (and sadly growing) number of sites that are coding for Chrome only and Safari is having problems. I've even had a couple of sites come back and say just to use Chrome because that's what they build their site for when I told them of the issue. Having one dominant browser is not good.
Cmd-Shift-4
You then use the space bar to toggle between the current active window or the to select a rectangular area using the mouse. I've set it up to have the images go into the Downloads folder and they are named with the format "Screen Shot yyyy-mm-dd at HH.mm.ss.png" though the date and time probably depends on your locale.
Cmd-Shift-3
Saves a picture of the screen to a file
If you add Ctrl to the key combination it copies the image to the clipboard instead of saving it to a file.