Because Apple started this glued together difficult to replace battery crap, way back with the original iPod. In fact the "iPod's dirty little secret" site is still up, and you can hear the service rep telling the customer to just buy a new iPod because the repair is $250.
In other words Apple wouldn't even offer the overpriced replacement service if they hadn't been shamed into doing it.
Other companies do it too now, but Apple was the first and worst, so is the focus of criticism.
Isn't that the case for everyone now? In my experience the younger ones move on quickly too, they see changing job as the primary way to get a rise and they are not really wrong...
Yes, but the web wasn't invented in Switzerland. It was invented at CERN building 31, which is in France. The CERN campus spans both countries, but that building is on the French side.
What does this have to do with statistics? It says right in TFS that they are targeting based on age. There is zero statistical evidence, they are simply telling Facebook to only show the ads to younger people. Facebook doesn't even deny it, they just say "it's normal in recruitment and somehow good for older people".
What is this weird, Pavlovian "all discrimination is a lie" response?
Not really a fine line at all. It's about equality of opportunity, so if you are trying to deny someone the opportunity to hear about and apply for a job then it's a problem.
I never really understood why that happens in the US. Around here they will just offer a low salary and if you take it then good for them, they got both a bargain and an excuse to pay less for experience the next time because of "market conditions".
The only time I've ever heard "too much experience" is when they really just don't want older people for some other reason.
If you have no money the government will pay for the basic necessities of life. That's what we mean by rights here.
In the US rights are just a guarantee not to be prevented from doing something. In Europe they include guarantees that society will provide things like shelter, food, medical care and education even if you can't afford them.
That's a Dell thing, it's not part of the UEFI core spec. Some laptops from a few years back had a Linux OS in there to play DVDs and browse the web without booting Windows.
It's the other way around. The BIOS was complex and did a huge amount of initialisation work that was then ignored by the OS anyway. It ran arbitrary code from option ROMs. And it was x86 only.
UEFI isn't perfect, but at least it ditches most of that crap. My 2012 era laptop can boot to the login screen in under 4 seconds, faster than the old BIOS can POST.
Apple always put form over function. The G4 Cube, the original CRT iMac, even going back to the 80s when Jobs wanted less expansion options on the motherboard.
It's not speculation. The murderer tried to cite Russian posts as evidence in his trial. Some of them were retweeted by Britain First, whose name he murdered in.
Remember when satellite navigation was expensive and you had to pay for yearly updates? And those updates were poor quality, and POIs were extra, and live traffic was extra, and it only worked for driving directions...
What about the social media accounts claiming to be ordinary British people, with hundreds of thousands of reposts, that only post during Moscow office hours and occasionally forget to delete their Moscow location data?
Both the Frankfurt School and Kalergi plan are real too, but they are also very old news (like a century old) and the claims made about them don't stand up to scrutiny. The main difference is that those theories are all circumstantial, while Russian inference is specific and impossible to explain any other way.
The point is that it's an extremely low goal to aim for. BT will use ADSL, a technology that is being phased out in other countries, to deliver speeds that were crap 15 years ago.
Years ago the government gave BT a pile of cash to give everyone broadband. They didn't deliver. At the time NEC offered to give everyone fibre to the home with the money, but their bid was rejected because corrupt politicians were in bed with BT.
More specifically, Apple seems to be way behind on AI. Much of the detail on Google maps is image recognition software looking at satellite photos and street view images. As TFA shows, Google uses that to fix all the mistakes that plague Apple Maps, as well as adding millions of buildings in great detail and information from street signs.
Apple's other AI product, Siri, is crap too and way behind. They usually buy tech they need, maybe there is no one to buy.
The next big thing for mapping is what Google has done - use AI image recognition to add details from satellite photos. Most of the buildings on Google maps are from satellite photos, for example.
Not sure how OSM can do that but it's the only realistic way to build up that much data. AI and drones?
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Because Apple started this glued together difficult to replace battery crap, way back with the original iPod. In fact the "iPod's dirty little secret" site is still up, and you can hear the service rep telling the customer to just buy a new iPod because the repair is $250.
In other words Apple wouldn't even offer the overpriced replacement service if they hadn't been shamed into doing it.
Other companies do it too now, but Apple was the first and worst, so is the focus of criticism.
Sounds like you have a case, since had you known about this flaw you would have spent 1/10th as much on a new battery.
Isn't that the case for everyone now? In my experience the younger ones move on quickly too, they see changing job as the primary way to get a rise and they are not really wrong...
Yes, but the web wasn't invented in Switzerland. It was invented at CERN building 31, which is in France. The CERN campus spans both countries, but that building is on the French side.
What does this have to do with statistics? It says right in TFS that they are targeting based on age. There is zero statistical evidence, they are simply telling Facebook to only show the ads to younger people. Facebook doesn't even deny it, they just say "it's normal in recruitment and somehow good for older people".
What is this weird, Pavlovian "all discrimination is a lie" response?
Not really a fine line at all. It's about equality of opportunity, so if you are trying to deny someone the opportunity to hear about and apply for a job then it's a problem.
I never really understood why that happens in the US. Around here they will just offer a low salary and if you take it then good for them, they got both a bargain and an excuse to pay less for experience the next time because of "market conditions".
The only time I've ever heard "too much experience" is when they really just don't want older people for some other reason.
Yes, sorry I did meant the EU. The inventor was British, but working at CERN. Thanks for the correction.
The web was invented in the UK. No export restrictions on crypto at the time.
It's not an entitlement. You don't get it for free, you have to pay the standard nation wide rate for it.
BT just has to make it available everywhere, and if they don't you can sue them.
If you have no money the government will pay for the basic necessities of life. That's what we mean by rights here.
In the US rights are just a guarantee not to be prevented from doing something. In Europe they include guarantees that society will provide things like shelter, food, medical care and education even if you can't afford them.
That's a Dell thing, it's not part of the UEFI core spec. Some laptops from a few years back had a Linux OS in there to play DVDs and browse the web without booting Windows.
It's the other way around. The BIOS was complex and did a huge amount of initialisation work that was then ignored by the OS anyway. It ran arbitrary code from option ROMs. And it was x86 only.
UEFI isn't perfect, but at least it ditches most of that crap. My 2012 era laptop can boot to the login screen in under 4 seconds, faster than the old BIOS can POST.
Makes it harder to inject malware, a favourite tactic of governments.
Also increases the cost of mass surveillance to the point where it is impractical.
The web should have been fully encrypted from the start.
It's it better to have 4 years of OS updates, or pay half as much and upgrade to a new phone every couple of years?
The latter seems like a better option. You have a spare phone just in case, new battery, new features and upgraded hardware...
Samsung can make a premium phone with replaceable battery. Feels just as good as the iPhone. There is no excuse.
Some companies explicitly allow personal printing. It's environmentally responsible, as it means fewer printers and wasted ink/toner.
Apple always put form over function. The G4 Cube, the original CRT iMac, even going back to the 80s when Jobs wanted less expansion options on the motherboard.
It's not speculation. The murderer tried to cite Russian posts as evidence in his trial. Some of them were retweeted by Britain First, whose name he murdered in.
Remember when satellite navigation was expensive and you had to pay for yearly updates? And those updates were poor quality, and POIs were extra, and live traffic was extra, and it only worked for driving directions...
That's the benefit of having Google show you ads.
Those things are still in the Android app. It's it just a limitation of the iOS version?
What about the social media accounts claiming to be ordinary British people, with hundreds of thousands of reposts, that only post during Moscow office hours and occasionally forget to delete their Moscow location data?
Both the Frankfurt School and Kalergi plan are real too, but they are also very old news (like a century old) and the claims made about them don't stand up to scrutiny. The main difference is that those theories are all circumstantial, while Russian inference is specific and impossible to explain any other way.
The point is that it's an extremely low goal to aim for. BT will use ADSL, a technology that is being phased out in other countries, to deliver speeds that were crap 15 years ago.
Years ago the government gave BT a pile of cash to give everyone broadband. They didn't deliver. At the time NEC offered to give everyone fibre to the home with the money, but their bid was rejected because corrupt politicians were in bed with BT.
More specifically, Apple seems to be way behind on AI. Much of the detail on Google maps is image recognition software looking at satellite photos and street view images. As TFA shows, Google uses that to fix all the mistakes that plague Apple Maps, as well as adding millions of buildings in great detail and information from street signs.
Apple's other AI product, Siri, is crap too and way behind. They usually buy tech they need, maybe there is no one to buy.
The next big thing for mapping is what Google has done - use AI image recognition to add details from satellite photos. Most of the buildings on Google maps are from satellite photos, for example.
Not sure how OSM can do that but it's the only realistic way to build up that much data. AI and drones?