You're not like me. None of the Macs in our household have the keyboard implicated & I never denied that some people may have a problem.
The imagined problem may or may not affect more than a tiny minority of rMBP users with that keyboard. As Apple has excellent product support, if there's really a widespread problem, there'll be a program announcement like there was for my 2012 rMBP battery that was replaced gratis (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/13/apple-free-battery-repair-memo/).
My point wasn't that the problem doesn't exist, it is that many Apple Haters who don't even own a Mac will claim that it is more of a problem than it really is.
The corollary is that people who don't have any Apple gear are going to be coming out of the woodworks to complain how "Horrible" the imagined "problem" is and how "Apple has lost it's way since Steve Jobs died".
My free.fr plan is unlimited SMS & 4G data for 15.99€/month.
What exactly does Google Chat bring me that I do not already have using MMS? Nothing as far as I can see, so I don't see this gaining any more traction than WEP did.
WEP, for those who don't remember, was a web portal tech that was pushed by operators so they could control (and MONETIZE!) cell-phone connections to the Internet. It had a minor point back when phones weren't powerful enough to browse the web directly but died when Safari/iPhone was rendering web pages directly.
Ikea furniture in general and their more complicated pieces in particular != a 6 piece simple chair.
The claim in the/. extract is "Most Humans". Neither the video in TFA nor your anecdotal reference with no data on what was being assembled or the population doing the assembly establish that any more than seeing any category of people (women, men, young, old, blondes, brunettes, cars, motorcycle, etc) driving badly infers that most people of that category drive badly.
While this is admittedly an achievement, there is a far cry from this to robots being able to assemble general Ikea furniture better than -> Most - humans.
The robots in TFA were matched up with two left thumbed girls who look to have never performed anything manual more complicated than replacing a lightbulb. The chair in question is only composed of 6 major elements that can only fit together one way and connecting pieces like screws, dowels & such. Not a single element needs nails or a floppy particleboard back that needs to be hammered in or wood screws in non pre-drilled holes. It's almost the simplest example they could find. I've assembled my share of Ikea furniture for 35 years and all of it was more complicated than this.
This isn't robots can do a better job than most humans, it's robots can perform a simple task better than some humans.
Sure, as long as what you're calling "enjoying their lives" means watching their kids cycle from unemployment to unpaid trainee to bogus training programs.
Unemployment in France is sky high in the under 25 population and tends to be persistent meaning that those who are affected stay unemployed and through public assistance go on with their lives to have kids that will grow up never seeing their parents ever hold a regular job. One hopes Macron will at least make make progress on solving this after the disastrous 5 years we spent under do-nothing Hollande. Under Hollande a signifiacant part of University graduates had no better choice than to look for work outside France. All the major journals were doing pieces on how to find a job in England, Canada, Brazil, Morocco, etc anyplace but France.
If you bought Macintosh software expecting it to still work three years later, it's your own stupid fault.
Weird. All the software on the 2010 white Macbook that my Niece then my Sister and (once I upgraded it with max RAM & a SSD) has been bequeathed to my Wife, still works perfectly That includes Office 2008, Pages, Numbers, FortiClient, Calibre, VMWare Fusion, 1Password, etc.
Maybe if you bought software from Mac software from competent developers, you wouldn't suck donkey balls quite so much.
The Microsoft mantra: Never remove obsolete possibly exploitable system code. Somebody somewhere might be upset if his old minesweeper game that he coded 20+ years ago and refuses to recompile or update no longer works...
You're lying to yourself and others: There are ZERO reliable reproducible studies that show any cancer effect from non-ionizing radiation at the frequencies and signal strengths used in cell-phone networks. There is NO THEORY that can even explain how long wave EM below visible light could have the effects EMphobes claim.
Massive doses of microwaves that show localised heating are of as ridiculous as claiming that water is poisonous because studies have shown that you can drown rats with it.
People like you who are trying to to water down science with pseudo-science do not get my respect, just my ire. Go sell your snake-oil elsewhere charlatan.
Given that to my knowledge, _NONE_ of the studies on radio-frequency exposures at the frequencies and signal strengths used in cell phone networks has been shown to have consistant and reliable results, your "luck" is more like "faith" (using all lower case letters so you don't get confused).
If you "believe" otherwise, post references. Ah but don't bother unless you can point to studies showing reliable results including groups that didn't start off with the presumption that "radiation is bad".
I've read too many bullshit studies by people who use tiny sample sizes and/or P-Hacking and/or use of subjects that were developed to naturally develop cancers at a high rate to test anti-cancer drugs to trust people who pretend to be scientists (but aren't) anymore.
Really? _My_ calculations? If you cannot get your attributions right I doubt you're any better at math (and unsupported at that). If you want to refute the OP do so showing your math showing both your source for the numbers and where he is mistaken.
> There are quite a few studies showing some effect of non-ionizing radiation on tissues
With people claiming "scientific results" without strictly adhering to the method that defines it, it's no wonder that so many have become critical of "scientific" claims. It boils down to my beliefs versus yours with no common ground to evaluate.
If it doesn't use the scientific method and results of "studies" are not reliably reproducible it isn't Science. It may be art, it may be religion, but it's not Science and should not pretend to be.
Until there are reproducible studies that reliably show the same results those studies are no more than declarations of faith and deserve no credence whatsoever.
Anyone who believes that Kaspersky's moves can have any real life effect is a rube. This Potemkin data village will be setup so that russian spooks will be able to access anything they want, either overtly or covertly.
So you've abandoned the use of a Mac/PC have you? All you use day in/day out is your phone to access CMS systems & do the rest of your job is your phone which you then connect to servers to transfer the contents over to whatever it is you're updating. What a brave new world you live in, dweebkins using only a _phone_ to do all your work...
As for the rest of the world, well we still need our PC's/Macs to perform other duties like updating the documentation, answering RFP's and other minutia so carrying around a USB key or two isn't a hardship, it's what we need to do to perform our jobs. In particular, for me and my colleagues, it's installing & updating network & security hardware & VMs, often through GB sized ISO updates and more than occasionally needing to convert those ISOs into bootable USB keys to boot the devices from them.
Now I could _try_ to use a phone to download an ISO, but connecting it to a router/firewall/Load balancer really wouldn't do anything now would it? And I've yet to see a phone that will take an ISO you have downloaded to it and render the phone usable to boot another device off of, but perhaps in your brave new Phone-only world you may have a reference to how you do this?
The truth is, I doubt that your use case of downloading content to a phone because you don't have a PC+USB key available is anything other than you seeing your phone as a hammer and looking for screws to hammer down with it. Call that a failure of imagination on my part if you must.
Meanwhile, my iPhone+Mac+USB keys are all necessary to perform my work and integrate wonderfully well as I said so far upthread.
My argument is that the use of iPhones as a glorified USB key is a very minor use case which is better served by carrying around and using a much cheaper USB key.
You seem to be in the "It has to be a dessert topping AND a floor wax camp" which is often the case coming from Android fans who confuse being able to do something with it being a good idea to do so.
Given how much one pays for iPhone flash it’s clearly more economical to use the iPhone’s flash for the content you need it for: apps, pictures, music, videos, podcasts, books, etc and just carry around a $25-$50 USB key all the time (like I do) to copy files when needed.
I once overheard a Bentley salesman make a sale on a $300,000 car by touting “and when you’re on a highway it shuts off two cylinders to get better mileage”. Your using an iPhone as a glorified USB key sounds a lot like that did.
I find the money spent in purchasing well integrated solutions to be worth every penny but then my time is clearly worth more to me that yours is to you.
As for being constrained by iOS, other than not having an application that lets one easily determine which cellular network one is on and having to use the Apple Music app, Apple's walls have never limited anyone I know in any reasonable way.
yeah, because copying files to/from your telephone is the only important thing people want to do when linking it to your Mac & solutions to do so effortlessly like iExplorer don't actually exist.../s
I never said that you couldn't jump through hoops to make things work, just that using android & a Mac is far from as wonderfully easy as using an iPhone. Given that you say "takes time to learn" with your android setup, you agree.
You must have a different definition of the word wonderfully than we do. I have a Mac as well as both an iPhone and an android phone. ShanghaiBill is correct in that iPhones integrate wonderfully with a Mac. Android does integrate with the Mac but nowhere near as well or as easily, iMessage being an example where android is unable to integrate.
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You're not like me. None of the Macs in our household have the keyboard implicated & I never denied that some people may have a problem.
The imagined problem may or may not affect more than a tiny minority of rMBP users with that keyboard. As Apple has excellent product support, if there's really a widespread problem, there'll be a program announcement like there was for my 2012 rMBP battery that was replaced gratis (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/13/apple-free-battery-repair-memo/).
My point wasn't that the problem doesn't exist, it is that many Apple Haters who don't even own a Mac will claim that it is more of a problem than it really is.
The corollary is that people who don't have any Apple gear are going to be coming out of the woodworks to complain how "Horrible" the imagined "problem" is and how "Apple has lost it's way since Steve Jobs died".
Cash cow? Depends where you live.
My free.fr plan is unlimited SMS & 4G data for 15.99€/month.
What exactly does Google Chat bring me that I do not already have using MMS? Nothing as far as I can see, so I don't see this gaining any more traction than WEP did.
WEP, for those who don't remember, was a web portal tech that was pushed by operators so they could control (and MONETIZE!) cell-phone connections to the Internet. It had a minor point back when phones weren't powerful enough to browse the web directly but died when Safari/iPhone was rendering web pages directly.
Yeah but you're the not-funny AI.
Ahhh... a not funny joke by someone confusing robots and AI. Now _that_ sounds like something an AI would come up with.
Ikea furniture in general and their more complicated pieces in particular != a 6 piece simple chair.
The claim in the /. extract is "Most Humans". Neither the video in TFA nor your anecdotal reference with no data on what was being assembled or the population doing the assembly establish that any more than seeing any category of people (women, men, young, old, blondes, brunettes, cars, motorcycle, etc) driving badly infers that most people of that category drive badly.
While this is admittedly an achievement, there is a far cry from this to robots being able to assemble general Ikea furniture better than -> Most - humans.
The robots in TFA were matched up with two left thumbed girls who look to have never performed anything manual more complicated than replacing a lightbulb.
The chair in question is only composed of 6 major elements that can only fit together one way and connecting pieces like screws, dowels & such. Not a single element needs nails or a floppy particleboard back that needs to be hammered in or wood screws in non pre-drilled holes. It's almost the simplest example they could find. I've assembled my share of Ikea furniture for 35 years and all of it was more complicated than this.
This isn't robots can do a better job than most humans, it's robots can perform a simple task better than some humans.
Sure, as long as what you're calling "enjoying their lives" means watching their kids cycle from unemployment to unpaid trainee to bogus training programs.
Unemployment in France is sky high in the under 25 population and tends to be persistent meaning that those who are affected stay unemployed and through public assistance go on with their lives to have kids that will grow up never seeing their parents ever hold a regular job. One hopes Macron will at least make make progress on solving this after the disastrous 5 years we spent under do-nothing Hollande. Under Hollande a signifiacant part of University graduates had no better choice than to look for work outside France. All the major journals were doing pieces on how to find a job in England, Canada, Brazil, Morocco, etc anyplace but France.
If you bought Macintosh software expecting it to still work three years later, it's your own stupid fault.
Weird. All the software on the 2010 white Macbook that my Niece then my Sister and (once I upgraded it with max RAM & a SSD) has been bequeathed to my Wife, still works perfectly That includes Office 2008, Pages, Numbers, FortiClient, Calibre, VMWare Fusion, 1Password, etc.
Maybe if you bought software from Mac software from competent developers, you wouldn't suck donkey balls quite so much.
The Microsoft mantra: Never remove obsolete possibly exploitable system code. Somebody somewhere might be upset if his old minesweeper game that he coded 20+ years ago and refuses to recompile or update no longer works...
Hoarding is an illness.
You're lying to yourself and others: There are ZERO reliable reproducible studies that show any cancer effect from non-ionizing radiation at the frequencies and signal strengths used in cell-phone networks. There is NO THEORY that can even explain how long wave EM below visible light could have the effects EMphobes claim.
Massive doses of microwaves that show localised heating are of as ridiculous as claiming that water is poisonous because studies have shown that you can drown rats with it.
People like you who are trying to to water down science with pseudo-science do not get my respect, just my ire. Go sell your snake-oil elsewhere charlatan.
Given that to my knowledge, _NONE_ of the studies on radio-frequency exposures at the frequencies and signal strengths used in cell phone networks has been shown to have consistant and reliable results, your "luck" is more like "faith" (using all lower case letters so you don't get confused).
If you "believe" otherwise, post references. Ah but don't bother unless you can point to studies showing reliable results including groups that didn't start off with the presumption that "radiation is bad".
I've read too many bullshit studies by people who use tiny sample sizes and/or P-Hacking and/or use of subjects that were developed to naturally develop cancers at a high rate to test anti-cancer drugs to trust people who pretend to be scientists (but aren't) anymore.
Really? _My_ calculations? If you cannot get your attributions right I doubt you're any better at math (and unsupported at that).
If you want to refute the OP do so showing your math showing both your source for the numbers and where he is mistaken.
> There are quite a few studies showing some effect of non-ionizing radiation on tissues
With people claiming "scientific results" without strictly adhering to the method that defines it, it's no wonder that so many have become critical of "scientific" claims. It boils down to my beliefs versus yours with no common ground to evaluate.
If it doesn't use the scientific method and results of "studies" are not reliably reproducible it isn't Science. It may be art, it may be religion, but it's not Science and should not pretend to be.
Until there are reproducible studies that reliably show the same results those studies are no more than declarations of faith and deserve no credence whatsoever.
Oh bullshit. Has the study been reproduced showing that the effect is not a fluke? No!
This is just another example of people manufacturing headlines from normal statistical variations of naturally occurring cancers.
Anyone who believes that Kaspersky's moves can have any real life effect is a rube. This Potemkin data village will be setup so that russian spooks will be able to access anything they want, either overtly or covertly.
So you've abandoned the use of a Mac/PC have you? All you use day in/day out is your phone to access CMS systems & do the rest of your job is your phone which you then connect to servers to transfer the contents over to whatever it is you're updating. What a brave new world you live in, dweebkins using only a _phone_ to do all your work...
As for the rest of the world, well we still need our PC's/Macs to perform other duties like updating the documentation, answering RFP's and other minutia so carrying around a USB key or two isn't a hardship, it's what we need to do to perform our jobs. In particular, for me and my colleagues, it's installing & updating network & security hardware & VMs, often through GB sized ISO updates and more than occasionally needing to convert those ISOs into bootable USB keys to boot the devices from them.
Now I could _try_ to use a phone to download an ISO, but connecting it to a router/firewall/Load balancer really wouldn't do anything now would it? And I've yet to see a phone that will take an ISO you have downloaded to it and render the phone usable to boot another device off of, but perhaps in your brave new Phone-only world you may have a reference to how you do this?
The truth is, I doubt that your use case of downloading content to a phone because you don't have a PC+USB key available is anything other than you seeing your phone as a hammer and looking for screws to hammer down with it. Call that a failure of imagination on my part if you must.
Meanwhile, my iPhone+Mac+USB keys are all necessary to perform my work and integrate wonderfully well as I said so far upthread.
You're not What because of What?
My argument is that the use of iPhones as a glorified USB key is a very minor use case which is better served by carrying around and using a much cheaper USB key.
You seem to be in the "It has to be a dessert topping AND a floor wax camp" which is often the case coming from Android fans who confuse being able to do something with it being a good idea to do so.
Given how much one pays for iPhone flash it’s clearly more economical to use the iPhone’s flash for the content you need it for: apps, pictures, music, videos, podcasts, books, etc and just carry around a $25-$50 USB key all the time (like I do) to copy files when needed.
I once overheard a Bentley salesman make a sale on a $300,000 car by touting “and when you’re on a highway it shuts off two cylinders to get better mileage”. Your using an iPhone as a glorified USB key sounds a lot like that did.
I find the money spent in purchasing well integrated solutions to be worth every penny but then my time is clearly worth more to me that yours is to you.
As for being constrained by iOS, other than not having an application that lets one easily determine which cellular network one is on and having to use the Apple Music app, Apple's walls have never limited anyone I know in any reasonable way.
yeah, because copying files to/from your telephone is the only important thing people want to do when linking it to your Mac & solutions to do so effortlessly like iExplorer don't actually exist... /s
I never said that you couldn't jump through hoops to make things work, just that using android & a Mac is far from as wonderfully easy as using an iPhone. Given that you say "takes time to learn" with your android setup, you agree.
You must have a different definition of the word wonderfully than we do.
I have a Mac as well as both an iPhone and an android phone. ShanghaiBill is correct in that iPhones integrate wonderfully with a Mac. Android does integrate with the Mac but nowhere near as well or as easily, iMessage being an example where android is unable to integrate.
An apostrophe and an 'e' that would make your post meaningful. (See how I used "your" there?)
Snort, "competition will solve everything"... You're _hilarious_!!!
What pray tell is the "competition" for Facebook? Google Plus, LOL??? Tencent, ROFL???
Whats the "competition" for Slashdot that also has (what remains of it's geekdom readership & Mod system? Reddit?
How about the "competition" for the nasaspaceflight forums?
"Competition" will _NOT_ solve everything and imposing the stupid cookie popups just saddled us french Internet users with more stupid popups.