The cure is worse than the disease in America's case. There are three possible treatments:
1. Stronger controls on guns
2. Free, high quality mental healthcare
Sorry but a swift (and rather basic) Google search can point you to a trove of articles that dispel the myth that mental illness is strongly associated with gun crime
For example:
Yet surprisingly little population-level evidence supports the notion that individuals diagnosed with mental illness are more likely than anyone else to commit gun crimes. According to Appelbaum, less than 3% to 5% of US crimes involve people with mental illness, and the percentages of crimes that involve guns are lower than the national average for persons not diagnosed with mental illness. Databases that track gun homicides, such as the National Center for Health Statistics, similarly show that fewer than 5% of the 120 000 gun-related killings in the United States between 2001 and 2010 were perpetrated by people diagnosed with mental illness.
"I can't think of a single compelling reason to upgrade [to iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus] from an iPhone 7 [which was launched last year]," wrote Nilay Patel of The Verge.
Apple work on the assumption that people upgrade every other year driven, in part, by the standard 2 year contracts that network operators tend to have.
The fact that last years phone isn't a big enough improvement over this years has been consistent for well over 10 years now. Admitidally skipping the S moniker has confused things - but Apple's target for the iPhone 8 are the people currently using an iPhone 6S (or earlier). In which case, the move from those devices to the 8 is a big jump.
I'm surprised that this well-worn strategy still takes reviewers (and posters on internet forums) by surprise.
I've suspected that the reason Uber did this was to try and identify those drivers who make it to the "destination" only to then drive for a further 10 minutes (with the passenger inside) to the real destination for an additional cash payment.
It's all academic anyway, since the "feature" Uber relied on in iOS 10 to enable them to force this option on their users is being removed by Apple in iOS 11. Even if they wanted to continue doing this, iOS 11 won't allow them to prevent users from selecting "track only when the app is running".
It'll be called the iPhone 7S and 7S+. It'll have the same design as the iPhone 7/7S, same connectors, slightly faster processor, slightly better camera, slightly better battery life, slightly better video performance, slightly better network support and iOS 11.
You know, like they've been doing since about 2011 when they first introduced the 4S.
At which point, we'll see that people who have "knowledge of the matter" really don't have any at all.
Proves the worth of analysts. Gartner is just a Microsoft shill.
I'm assuming you're talking about Gartner's prediction that Windows Phone would overtake iPhone in 2015?
Whilst analysts have a tendency to get very little right, in fairness to Gartner, they probably weren't expecting Microsoft to reboot the platform twice and, in both times, leave all their previous users high and dry on the old OS.
Apple pay is innovation? Now I need $1000 device to pay for $15 bill instead of free credit card that is 1/100 of the weight and 1/4 of the size and merchant has to give Apple 30% for the privilege. Who do you think pays for that 30% in the end?
The merchant isn't charged anything beyond their usual card processing fees. Apple's fee comes from the card issuer which is a percentage of their interchange fee. The 30% you speak of is for apps in the App Store and isn't remotely related to the fees around Apple Pay.
You probably should have prefixed your rant with an admission that you don't have the remotest clue how Apple Pay works.
The biggest issue I have with wireless charging is that with a wired cable you're limited to plugging your phone into a cable which is plugged into a wall socket about 1-2m away. With wireless charging you're limited to putting your phone into a dock which has a cable which is plugged into a wall socket about 1-2m away.
As an added bonus, it charges much slower and costs about 12x more than a simple cable (even Lightning ones, provided you don't buy from Apple).
Unless someone can come up with a way to make electricity flow through the air (yeah, I know, physics) or some way for you enable full surface wireless charging on existing tables then I'm not convinced this is going to go anywhere beyond "nice, but not entirely essential, to have".
In the end, especially in light of the "no proof of purchase required", everyone will probably get $1.43 per drive, or less. Meanwhile, those driving the class action suit will pull in $25M, or more.
On the bright side, the next time companies think about doing something similar, they'll have 25 million reasons as to why it's not a such a good idea.
The very LAST thing Ireland really wants is to enforce this law. For good reason. Right now they get a bit of the cake, but they get a bit of the cake from everyone because every company, from Apple to Amazon to MS to Google, is hiding in their tax shelter.
If they now actually fold (and yes, that would be Ireland folding to EU pressure), what reason is there for them to stay in Ireland? The weather?
They still have the lowest corporate tax in the EU at 12.5% Apple would just have to pay that instead of 0.02%.
FTFY.
The whole point of this investigation was that it was only Apple was getting the special 0.02% tax deal.
It's not clear exactly how Microsoft will detect inactivity, but it's possible the company could use Windows Hello-compatible machines or detect idle activity and lock the machine accordingly.
My monitor at work has the ability to detect if someone is sitting within a certain distance from it. If no-one is in range then after a couple of minutes it would automatically turn off the screen. The distance can be defined in the settings.
I'm sure there are a small number of people on here (who will likely comment) whose working patterns means that this wouldn't work for them - but it seemed to work for the 500 odd people we have on the floor.
Ok, you want to be a leader? How about coming out with a well thought out product every decade or so?
I love Sonos too, but their current line up is several years old. Have speaker and wireless technologies not moved on at all?
Not to mention the state of the app. Despite the open letter from their CEO over a year ago accepting that they might have missed the boat on streaming technologies and need to catch up there is still no AirPlay support. No Chromecast audio either. No bluetooth. If you're going to pay twice as much as the competition, then it would be nice if you could actually use your speakers with the main technologies out there.
But that's okay, because they've been concentrating on the local music capability right? For example, acknowledging that 4 people in the house might have completely different music tastes and do not want to merge their music library into one big pool? Nope, nothing has changed.
In the last couple of years they've launched their TruePlay app, added Apple Music and allowed Spotify users to control the music from the (superior) Spotify app. That doesn't seem to be very much to me.
"I don't want a watch that duplicates the function of my cell phone or computer,"
That requirement alone pretty much leaves you buying a nice Swiss analogue watch and, as a nerd, marveling at the technical feat of engineering that went into creating something that can keep time (and date) without the use of any electrical components.
Plus, it'll last a lifetime, the battery won't die out, can still be serviced many years from now, doesn't need to be charged every night, won't be rendered obsolete and will actually look nice on you.
Windows 7 goes end of extended life on January 14, 2020.
If the XP to 7 migration is anything to go by then you're going to get an uplift of Windows 10 installations by corporates starting around 6 months before that date.
Why migrate any earlier when Windows 7 works just fine and still gets security updates?
I have a phrase, it is quite useful: "Can I get that in Email?"
If the answer is "no", then I assume I am free to ignore that request. Since they have no record of the request, then they have ability to fire me for not following said request. It is really easy to play that game, you just have to play along. The issue is, you have to play it 100% of the time.
Good advice. One other, never ever delete an email. Ever.
I've had several occasions in different companies where my ass was on the line but, my ability to dredge out a 2 year old email where I was specifically told not to do X, has ended the discussion pretty quickly.
In a short interview after a talk at a security conference in Manhattan on Tuesday the talk, Ludwig said that, "for sure," there's no doubt that a Google Pixel and an iPhone are pretty much equal when it comes to security.
Maybe right now, but give it two years and then let's check back in on that claim...
Can't believe I'm posting a link to the Sun newspaper (ick!), but they have a video of a S7 going up in smoke on a table whilst the owner appears to be ordering food.
When rumoursite.com publishes a slightly negative rumour of an upcoming Apple product, everyone is like "Apple are such visionaries, removing buttons and speakers are such brilliance and wow, I'm going to cream myself over this for months".
You must have missed the headphone jack palava where the internet went on a near meltdown over the completely unsubstantiated and unconfirmed rumour that Apple were going to drop the headphone jack.
If iPhone 7 comes with a headphone jack, then several hundred of megabytes of wailing and screeching will have been written for absolutely no point.
My two biggest complaints about Facebook is that I cannot get my stories ordered by time to be remembered and that it insists on telling me when a friend of mine does something to one of their friends - who, in the majority of cases, I don't know and don't care about.
News in my feed is pretty low down my list of gripes.
The BOM for an iPhone 6 is around $242 and that doesn't take into account the costs for developing and maintaining the software, tooling, R&D, packaging and the 101 other things that go into building and launching a phone. All of which need to be amortised over the lifetime of the phone - as developing, testing and then deploying an update to a bunch of 2+ old phones isn't free.
(although many Android manufacturers have found that it can be free if they simply don't bother with pesky updates)
The only way it would be "more like $100" is if you pulled that figure out of your butt.
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Sorry but a swift (and rather basic) Google search can point you to a trove of articles that dispel the myth that mental illness is strongly associated with gun crime
For example:
source
Dammit, meant to write 7 years. For the pendants, the point still stands though.
Apple work on the assumption that people upgrade every other year driven, in part, by the standard 2 year contracts that network operators tend to have.
The fact that last years phone isn't a big enough improvement over this years has been consistent for well over 10 years now. Admitidally skipping the S moniker has confused things - but Apple's target for the iPhone 8 are the people currently using an iPhone 6S (or earlier). In which case, the move from those devices to the 8 is a big jump.
I'm surprised that this well-worn strategy still takes reviewers (and posters on internet forums) by surprise.
I've suspected that the reason Uber did this was to try and identify those drivers who make it to the "destination" only to then drive for a further 10 minutes (with the passenger inside) to the real destination for an additional cash payment.
It's all academic anyway, since the "feature" Uber relied on in iOS 10 to enable them to force this option on their users is being removed by Apple in iOS 11. Even if they wanted to continue doing this, iOS 11 won't allow them to prevent users from selecting "track only when the app is running".
The fault here lies with Apple who could resolve this misconception by simply redesigning the switcher screen.
Right now it shows both running and frozen applications so users have no idea which is which and end up trying to kill them all.
Three possible solutions off the top of my head:
There are probably others.
Or a chip embedded into an ID card which could be hung around someone's neck or attached to their belt.
Wait a minute...
It'll be called the iPhone 7S and 7S+. It'll have the same design as the iPhone 7/7S, same connectors, slightly faster processor, slightly better camera, slightly better battery life, slightly better video performance, slightly better network support and iOS 11.
You know, like they've been doing since about 2011 when they first introduced the 4S.
At which point, we'll see that people who have "knowledge of the matter" really don't have any at all.
I'm assuming you're talking about Gartner's prediction that Windows Phone would overtake iPhone in 2015?
Whilst analysts have a tendency to get very little right, in fairness to Gartner, they probably weren't expecting Microsoft to reboot the platform twice and, in both times, leave all their previous users high and dry on the old OS.
The merchant isn't charged anything beyond their usual card processing fees. Apple's fee comes from the card issuer which is a percentage of their interchange fee. The 30% you speak of is for apps in the App Store and isn't remotely related to the fees around Apple Pay.
You probably should have prefixed your rant with an admission that you don't have the remotest clue how Apple Pay works.
I don't have a problem with Apple being late to a game, provided that what they do bring is measurably better/useful/practical in some way.
Apple Pay did that, whereas Maps and Music did not. Where wireless charging sits on this spectrum remains to be seen.
The biggest issue I have with wireless charging is that with a wired cable you're limited to plugging your phone into a cable which is plugged into a wall socket about 1-2m away. With wireless charging you're limited to putting your phone into a dock which has a cable which is plugged into a wall socket about 1-2m away.
As an added bonus, it charges much slower and costs about 12x more than a simple cable (even Lightning ones, provided you don't buy from Apple).
Unless someone can come up with a way to make electricity flow through the air (yeah, I know, physics) or some way for you enable full surface wireless charging on existing tables then I'm not convinced this is going to go anywhere beyond "nice, but not entirely essential, to have".
On the bright side, the next time companies think about doing something similar, they'll have 25 million reasons as to why it's not a such a good idea.
FTFY.
The whole point of this investigation was that it was only Apple was getting the special 0.02% tax deal.
Everyone else in Ireland was taxed at 12.5%.
What's the point of being on an Instant Message service if none of the people you actually want to message are on it?
My monitor at work has the ability to detect if someone is sitting within a certain distance from it. If no-one is in range then after a couple of minutes it would automatically turn off the screen. The distance can be defined in the settings.
I'm sure there are a small number of people on here (who will likely comment) whose working patterns means that this wouldn't work for them - but it seemed to work for the 500 odd people we have on the floor.
I love Sonos too, but their current line up is several years old. Have speaker and wireless technologies not moved on at all?
Not to mention the state of the app. Despite the open letter from their CEO over a year ago accepting that they might have missed the boat on streaming technologies and need to catch up there is still no AirPlay support. No Chromecast audio either. No bluetooth. If you're going to pay twice as much as the competition, then it would be nice if you could actually use your speakers with the main technologies out there.
But that's okay, because they've been concentrating on the local music capability right? For example, acknowledging that 4 people in the house might have completely different music tastes and do not want to merge their music library into one big pool? Nope, nothing has changed.
In the last couple of years they've launched their TruePlay app, added Apple Music and allowed Spotify users to control the music from the (superior) Spotify app. That doesn't seem to be very much to me.
That requirement alone pretty much leaves you buying a nice Swiss analogue watch and, as a nerd, marveling at the technical feat of engineering that went into creating something that can keep time (and date) without the use of any electrical components.
Plus, it'll last a lifetime, the battery won't die out, can still be serviced many years from now, doesn't need to be charged every night, won't be rendered obsolete and will actually look nice on you.
Windows 7 goes end of extended life on January 14, 2020.
If the XP to 7 migration is anything to go by then you're going to get an uplift of Windows 10 installations by corporates starting around 6 months before that date.
Why migrate any earlier when Windows 7 works just fine and still gets security updates?
Good advice. One other, never ever delete an email. Ever.
I've had several occasions in different companies where my ass was on the line but, my ability to dredge out a 2 year old email where I was specifically told not to do X, has ended the discussion pretty quickly.
Maybe right now, but give it two years and then let's check back in on that claim...
Can't believe I'm posting a link to the Sun newspaper (ick!), but they have a video of a S7 going up in smoke on a table whilst the owner appears to be ordering food.
It wasn't even being charged at the time.
You must have missed the headphone jack palava where the internet went on a near meltdown over the completely unsubstantiated and unconfirmed rumour that Apple were going to drop the headphone jack.
If iPhone 7 comes with a headphone jack, then several hundred of megabytes of wailing and screeching will have been written for absolutely no point.
My two biggest complaints about Facebook is that I cannot get my stories ordered by time to be remembered and that it insists on telling me when a friend of mine does something to one of their friends - who, in the majority of cases, I don't know and don't care about.
News in my feed is pretty low down my list of gripes.
The BOM for an iPhone 6 is around $242 and that doesn't take into account the costs for developing and maintaining the software, tooling, R&D, packaging and the 101 other things that go into building and launching a phone. All of which need to be amortised over the lifetime of the phone - as developing, testing and then deploying an update to a bunch of 2+ old phones isn't free.
(although many Android manufacturers have found that it can be free if they simply don't bother with pesky updates)
The only way it would be "more like $100" is if you pulled that figure out of your butt.
Ignoring the pop-up, I'm not sure why you willingly subject yourself to that torture.
Go install Avantslash on your server and read Slashdot on your phone that way.
Not only will your eyes thank you for it - but your data cap will too.