I stopped submitting articles years back when Timmay & co ignored my submissions and chose to publish the same subjects (& sometimes even the same original sources) from later submitters that added on pejorative bait-click opinions instead of just presenting the facts.
The sale to Bizx doesn't explain the useless denigrating finish to to the summary that _wasn't_ in TFA.
It remains to be seen whether bizx will be positive (fewer Timmay style summaries/subjets) or whether bizx with it's "reports from credible sources of layoffs at Slashdot, with many longtime employees being shown the door, with their jobs either eliminated or handed over to less costly and relatively inexperienced staff" becomes/.'s swan song.
The trump chrome extension is just another version of the same chrome extension that can be used to filter out all the kardashian & jenner stories from the entertainment section of google news.
Hopefully trump's infamy pushes the devs into porting the extension framework to other browsers...
Still haven't mastered your puerile urges I see. After I called you out on your attempt to use guilt by association you move on to to the use of misrepresentation.
I stated that legislating the replacement of lightning with micro-USB when a 25€ adapter suffices is clearly bureaucratic overreach. In your responseYou made the baseless claim that micro-USB is superior electrically to lightning to the point that it becomes a safety issue. The onus is on you to provide proof.
Oh, good for you, you know how to scroll. Now all you need to learn is to understand what you claim you read. Provide proof of your claim that micro-USB is electrically superior to lightning or go away.
The sexual abuse of small children is a terrible thing, That the USB forum that you are defending has not condemned this shows that you are complicit in these odious acts.
See? I too know how to play the game in bringing up completely unrelated subjects & do the guilt by association ploy.
Were electrical safety to be an issue (which it isn't), the onus would be on you to prove that lightning is in any way inferior to USB in electrical safety.
You're just another iHater making mountains out of molehills pushing more waste: Legislating that a decrepit connector interface must be re-engineered into devices that you neither own nor plan on owning. Your intention is not to help anyone but to punish those that prefer the Apple ecosystem.
iDevices are already compatible with micro-USB chargers (those el-cheapo chargers without a USB type 1 socket) without any law being necessary using a 25€ adapter. iDevices also come with the much more ubiquitous and useful USB type 1 chargers and a type-1 to lightning cable that can be used to connect to computers.
I carry around a high quality Type-1 to Micro-USB cable + the Micro-USB to lightning adapter because I must carry around two phones but oppose legislating such minutia as wasteful. Most people with iDevices are happy with Type-1 to Lightning cables and the few that are not can do as I do.
Are you really bitching that there MUST be a law to force Apple to deliver a 25€ adapter? This is the level of minutia that you think that governments need to insert themselves into our lives?
But they never really tried that either. AFAIK, the SSME are the most complex engines, of any type, ever made and also the most efficient. Performance was their goal, not reuseability.
That Nasa never attempted to develop cheap & reliable engines/launch systems, preferring to tweak & complexify everything is damning in and of itself.
The sociopaths are those who are incapable of empathising with others who are being proud of their country and it's achievements. That appears to include you.
Your idea that someone could build above/below existing properties in NYC/London/Paris ignores that property rights for such are entirely different in each. Both London & Paris have height restrictions that rule out building up & building down is generally impossible due to existing infrastructure & the difficulties inherent in building large structures under existing inhabited areas. So, while we could theoretically destroy a bunch of neighbourhoods to build your park/drive infrastructure in existing large cities it is a practical and financial impossibility.
As for building new arcologies sufficiently far outside existing cities, Le Corbusier's buildings in the 30's & the example of les cités nouvelles built around Paris in the 60s-70s should make anyone claiming that this would be an unmitigated success pause.
Your definition of coops is a culturally narrow definition that does not exist as such outside the US.
The dense public transport centers of Paris, New York, & London already have all of that, it is a big part of why they are so expensive and in Paris mortgages are already 20-25 year deals.
I've been reading about arcologies since the early 70's but have yet to see one.
Transit spots? Where exactly? Park/ride doesn't work when the suburban density is already high enough that every spot where you'd like to put a parking lot is already lived on.
My sig rarely applies to democracies, coward & in the real world minorities are often unarmed & still being devoured/exterminated. Tell us coward, who exactly is it that is protecting YOU from the wolves?
Given his moniker & his rant, pignouf is a typical member of that small but noisy French class that calls themselves altermondialistes (another worldists). Their screed is a jumble of extreme left (capitalism BAD!) and green/Luddite sentiment (technology BAD!) - imagine the character Jeff Goldblum played in Jurrasic Park with a heavy French accent. The French press is enamored of them which gives them an elevated sense of self worth but they never poll higher than single digits.
His is the type that wants to ban all non-electric vehicles in Paris immediately, never mind the economic disruption - it can be ignored as 95% of the population refuses to vote for their Red/Green Party. It's a Gallic form of Chavism sans Oil, willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.
Paris' episodes of high pollution that trigger odd/even plates are due to infrequent, & short-lived meteorological conditions of almost no wind or rain. They only occur a day or so most years and the authorities always wait for the limits to be hit before implementing odd/even license plate bans. Of course, this also means that the peak has always been hit and pollution would be going down naturally but that doesn't stop the greenies from trumpeting how "effective" the ban is & how it needs to be instated all year long...
Most Parisians that would be hit by the ban just take the day off (we have ~1 day/month to take off/month due to the 35hr workweek the socialists mandated). That makes it "easy" & relatively painless. Doing so more often would to shutdown part of the economy & is not a step anyone except the radical greens are willing to take -- at least until electrical vehicles become a significant part of those used.
Apple's recycling policy is in the public record, been scrutinized and come up clean so clearly whatever you believe is based on ignorance. That other companies like iFixit fail to implement a responsible recycling policy is undisputed but you need to examine what apple is doing before you attempt to dispute my arguments. Spend some time actually learning about the subject.
They only sell the repair kits because reductions in the size of devices got to the point where people rarely had the necessary tools. iFixit's margins are higher on the parts anyway & they'd certainly stop selling them if it weren't necessary for their present business...
iFixit exists because at a certain period in time between humongous PCs with MANY discrete replaceable elements (like the original "portable" compaq) and all in one devices, there is/was a place for them. I can remember going to radio shack with my father to plug the vacuum tubes we pulled out of the TV into a test device to figure out which one had gone bad and causing problems. iFixit's rants that Apple is making it hard for them is the equivalent of radio shack bitching on how those new transistorized TV's were bad for the environment because you couldn't as easily test for a failed transistor.
People didn't want easily repairable (but flaky) TV's, they wanted something that was reliable for the period of time they were going to use them. Getting rid of the heat/weight/connector issues by integrating has been going on for decades.
Same thing now with phones, tablets & even laptops (as my son's macbook proves) & the complaints of the radio shacks of the world whining that things should stay the same so that they can continue to make a buck are irrelevant.
No the point you are attempting to make is invalid (at least for Apple). Piecemeal replacements of parts that are not recycled responsibly is ecologically unsound. Apple, when you take a defective device in, repairs and then reconditions the device to be resold if economical and responsibly recycles the bad parts/entire device in any case. Apple also accepts old phones (including non-apple) when people buy new gear.
iFixit sells parts that end up in random landfills because they do not recover the bad parts and people in general just toss them in the trash. iFixit's (& your) pretense that repairable == ecological is false.
When iFixit starts collecting the bad parts when they sell replacements and details how they are recycling them, then they can talk about being ecologically responsible. Until then it's just the bitching of the head of a buggy whip corporation seeing his profits go down as cars (thin lightweight large-screen phones that need to be glued together to remain structurally sound) replace horses (smaller thicker phones with discrete, easily replaceable parts).
The declarations of someone who is complaining that others are making it harder for him to make a buck need to be taken with a large grain of salt. iFixit for all their merits sells spare parts & repair kits. It is thus clearly in their own interest for everyone else to make it profitable for them to sell their products. iFixit would be very profitable if all phone manufacturers did everything they could to make it easier for them to sell their repair kits & repair/upgrade instead of replacing.
Their contention that do-it yourself repairmen are better for the environment it is completely unsupported. iFixit does not recover the broken parts that their clients are replacing and old parts are typically tossed in the trash. Manufacturer repair shops like Apple's have recycling policies that do recycle broken parts as well as old devices that people turn in when upgrading.
When iFixit starts systematically recovering the old parts when they sell replacement kits AND shows in some meaningful way that they are responsibly recycling them as well as Apple has shown to do, then they can talk about how environmentally virtuous they are - not before.
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I stopped submitting articles years back when Timmay & co ignored my submissions and chose to publish the same subjects (& sometimes even the same original sources) from later submitters that added on pejorative bait-click opinions instead of just presenting the facts.
The sale to Bizx doesn't explain the useless denigrating finish to to the summary that _wasn't_ in TFA.
It remains to be seen whether bizx will be positive (fewer Timmay style summaries/subjets) or whether bizx with it's "reports from credible sources of layoffs at Slashdot, with many longtime employees being shown the door, with their jobs either eliminated or handed over to less costly and relatively inexperienced staff" becomes /.'s swan song.
OK then, How about a few questions.
Of what possible use is stating that Space-X's latest Falcon 9 1st stage recovery to a barge failed?
Are they the same vehicles? No.
Are the parachutes on Dragon liable to fail due to icing? No.
Does putting a denigrating finish to an article to stir controversy make dice more money?
WTF? Ah it's Timmay...
The trump chrome extension is just another version of the same chrome extension that can be used to filter out all the kardashian & jenner stories from the entertainment section of google news.
Hopefully trump's infamy pushes the devs into porting the extension framework to other browsers...
Still haven't mastered your puerile urges I see. After I called you out on your attempt to use guilt by association you move on to to the use of misrepresentation.
I stated that legislating the replacement of lightning with micro-USB when a 25€ adapter suffices is clearly bureaucratic overreach. In your response You made the baseless claim that micro-USB is superior electrically to lightning to the point that it becomes a safety issue. The onus is on you to provide proof.
Oh, good for you, you know how to scroll. Now all you need to learn is to understand what you claim you read. Provide proof of your claim that micro-USB is electrically superior to lightning or go away.
The sexual abuse of small children is a terrible thing, That the USB forum that you are defending has not condemned this shows that you are complicit in these odious acts.
See? I too know how to play the game in bringing up completely unrelated subjects & do the guilt by association ploy.
Were electrical safety to be an issue (which it isn't), the onus would be on you to prove that lightning is in any way inferior to USB in electrical safety.
Suce moi connard.
You're just another iHater making mountains out of molehills pushing more waste: Legislating that a decrepit connector interface must be re-engineered into devices that you neither own nor plan on owning. Your intention is not to help anyone but to punish those that prefer the Apple ecosystem.
iDevices are already compatible with micro-USB chargers (those el-cheapo chargers without a USB type 1 socket) without any law being necessary using a 25€ adapter. iDevices also come with the much more ubiquitous and useful USB type 1 chargers and a type-1 to lightning cable that can be used to connect to computers.
I carry around a high quality Type-1 to Micro-USB cable + the Micro-USB to lightning adapter because I must carry around two phones but oppose legislating such minutia as wasteful. Most people with iDevices are happy with Type-1 to Lightning cables and the few that are not can do as I do.
Are you really bitching that there MUST be a law to force Apple to deliver a 25€ adapter? This is the level of minutia that you think that governments need to insert themselves into our lives?
NASA never achieved that
But they never really tried that either. AFAIK, the SSME are the most complex engines, of any type, ever made and also the most efficient. Performance was their goal, not reuseability.
That Nasa never attempted to develop cheap & reliable engines/launch systems, preferring to tweak & complexify everything is damning in and of itself.
That said, ESA astronauts have flown on both Soyuz and the US Space Shuttle over the years and have definitely gone into space
Right, but his question wasn't whether the ESA had astronauts...
No it wasn't. The question which you refuse too answer because it embarrasses you was:
Refresh my memory... when was it that the ESA launched humans into space, again?
The sociopaths are those who are incapable of empathising with others who are being proud of their country and it's achievements. That appears to include you.
Whereas /. is filled with people such as yourself...
I've been on /. & ars for close to 2 decades & the level of idiot posts is unfortunately much higher here.
I suppose you never saw any reason to go down to the DMV to get a driver's license as that is just another exercise in government overreach, right?
Your idea that someone could build above/below existing properties in NYC/London/Paris ignores that property rights for such are entirely different in each. Both London & Paris have height restrictions that rule out building up & building down is generally impossible due to existing infrastructure & the difficulties inherent in building large structures under existing inhabited areas. So, while we could theoretically destroy a bunch of neighbourhoods to build your park/drive infrastructure in existing large cities it is a practical and financial impossibility.
As for building new arcologies sufficiently far outside existing cities, Le Corbusier's buildings in the 30's & the example of les cités nouvelles built around Paris in the 60s-70s should make anyone claiming that this would be an unmitigated success pause.
Your definition of coops is a culturally narrow definition that does not exist as such outside the US.
The dense public transport centers of Paris, New York, & London already have all of that, it is a big part of why they are so expensive and in Paris mortgages are already 20-25 year deals.
I've been reading about arcologies since the early 70's but have yet to see one.
Transit spots? Where exactly? Park/ride doesn't work when the suburban density is already high enough that every spot where you'd like to put a parking lot is already lived on.
My sig rarely applies to democracies, coward & in the real world minorities are often unarmed & still being devoured/exterminated. Tell us coward, who exactly is it that is protecting YOU from the wolves?
Given his moniker & his rant, pignouf is a typical member of that small but noisy French class that calls themselves altermondialistes (another worldists). Their screed is a jumble of extreme left (capitalism BAD!) and green/Luddite sentiment (technology BAD!) - imagine the character Jeff Goldblum played in Jurrasic Park with a heavy French accent. The French press is enamored of them which gives them an elevated sense of self worth but they never poll higher than single digits.
His is the type that wants to ban all non-electric vehicles in Paris immediately, never mind the economic disruption - it can be ignored as 95% of the population refuses to vote for their Red/Green Party. It's a Gallic form of Chavism sans Oil, willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.
Paris' episodes of high pollution that trigger odd/even plates are due to infrequent, & short-lived meteorological conditions of almost no wind or rain. They only occur a day or so most years and the authorities always wait for the limits to be hit before implementing odd/even license plate bans. Of course, this also means that the peak has always been hit and pollution would be going down naturally but that doesn't stop the greenies from trumpeting how "effective" the ban is & how it needs to be instated all year long...
Most Parisians that would be hit by the ban just take the day off (we have ~1 day/month to take off/month due to the 35hr workweek the socialists mandated). That makes it "easy" & relatively painless. Doing so more often would to shutdown part of the economy & is not a step anyone except the radical greens are willing to take -- at least until electrical vehicles become a significant part of those used.
Apple's recycling policy is in the public record, been scrutinized and come up clean so clearly whatever you believe is based on ignorance. That other companies like iFixit fail to implement a responsible recycling policy is undisputed but you need to examine what apple is doing before you attempt to dispute my arguments. Spend some time actually learning about the subject.
They only sell the repair kits because reductions in the size of devices got to the point where people rarely had the necessary tools. iFixit's margins are higher on the parts anyway & they'd certainly stop selling them if it weren't necessary for their present business...
Come back in 10 years and try to say that again.
iFixit exists because at a certain period in time between humongous PCs with MANY discrete replaceable elements (like the original "portable" compaq) and all in one devices, there is/was a place for them. I can remember going to radio shack with my father to plug the vacuum tubes we pulled out of the TV into a test device to figure out which one had gone bad and causing problems. iFixit's rants that Apple is making it hard for them is the equivalent of radio shack bitching on how those new transistorized TV's were bad for the environment because you couldn't as easily test for a failed transistor.
People didn't want easily repairable (but flaky) TV's, they wanted something that was reliable for the period of time they were going to use them. Getting rid of the heat/weight/connector issues by integrating has been going on for decades.
Same thing now with phones, tablets & even laptops (as my son's macbook proves) & the complaints of the radio shacks of the world whining that things should stay the same so that they can continue to make a buck are irrelevant.
No the point you are attempting to make is invalid (at least for Apple). Piecemeal replacements of parts that are not recycled responsibly is ecologically unsound. Apple, when you take a defective device in, repairs and then reconditions the device to be resold if economical and responsibly recycles the bad parts/entire device in any case. Apple also accepts old phones (including non-apple) when people buy new gear.
iFixit sells parts that end up in random landfills because they do not recover the bad parts and people in general just toss them in the trash. iFixit's (& your) pretense that repairable == ecological is false.
When iFixit starts collecting the bad parts when they sell replacements and details how they are recycling them, then they can talk about being ecologically responsible. Until then it's just the bitching of the head of a buggy whip corporation seeing his profits go down as cars (thin lightweight large-screen phones that need to be glued together to remain structurally sound) replace horses (smaller thicker phones with discrete, easily replaceable parts).
The declarations of someone who is complaining that others are making it harder for him to make a buck need to be taken with a large grain of salt. iFixit for all their merits sells spare parts & repair kits. It is thus clearly in their own interest for everyone else to make it profitable for them to sell their products. iFixit would be very profitable if all phone manufacturers did everything they could to make it easier for them to sell their repair kits & repair/upgrade instead of replacing.
Their contention that do-it yourself repairmen are better for the environment it is completely unsupported. iFixit does not recover the broken parts that their clients are replacing and old parts are typically tossed in the trash. Manufacturer repair shops like Apple's have recycling policies that do recycle broken parts as well as old devices that people turn in when upgrading.
When iFixit starts systematically recovering the old parts when they sell replacement kits AND shows in some meaningful way that they are responsibly recycling them as well as Apple has shown to do, then they can talk about how environmentally virtuous they are - not before.