For sports activities, my wife acquired a TomTom GPS watch (including pulse measuring). I regularly wear it for running, and never noticed it getting hot. Same goes for my Samsung android phone, I never noticed it heating up more than usual when GPS is active. I'd guess that implementation on the iPhone is less than optimal, or there's another reason for it getting hot.
I run with an iPhone 6 (and RunKeeper) for about an hour and it doesn't get hot. Sounds like something is broken.
And this is where the "learn to code" stuff is going. There are a lot of processes out there ripe for automation. Small and mid sized businesses are still being run by manual processes. I've shown multiple people that Excel can sort. (Yes, they were sorting by hand).
In my old company we used to have secretaries who would email people the day before they had a meeting room booking to check to see if they still needed it. It turned out that a lot of meetings were actually being moved/cancelled and people were forgetting to delete the room booking.
What pained me the most was that with a couple of hours of coding they could have had something which would have automated the vast majority of that work, allowing the secretaries to get on with doing something less mundane.
It's probably the best attempt I've seen at increasing the iPhone's available storage (yeah, yeah, we know that Apple should allow microSD - you don't need to say it), but it seems rather overpriced.
Considering that cards from Sandisk are around $12 (32GB), $20 (64GB) and $40 (128GB) and considering $40-$45 for a case, then you should be looking at $55, $65 or $85.
Better yet, it should just have been sold as an empty shell of a case with a microSD slot for you to fill - although I appreciate that the profit margins on such a thing wouldn't have been quite so healthy.
On the other hand I see QI charging as one of the best things to happen to phones in recent years, no more mucking around vs risking a flat battery. Removing QI from the 6P was a deal breaker for me.
As a counter-point, I think wireless charging (as it currently stands today) is a completely meh feature.
It has plenty of potential, but right now you're paying ten times more than a reversible cable - for pretty much the same limitations and a slower charging time.
Back up the drivers using Double Driver onto a folder on the aforementioned stick.
Start the Windows 10 install. Go have dinner.
Copy the drivers to the hard drive.
Reinstall any drivers from the folder on the drive as and when you need them. I tend to find the default wireless one provided by Microsoft to be rather flakey.
If a wpa_supplicant.conf file is placed into the/boot/ directory, this will be moved to the/etc/wpa_supplicant/ directory the next time the system is booted, overwriting the network settings; this allows a Wifi configuration to be preloaded onto a card from a Windows or other machine that can only see the boot partition.
For people running Windows, there is no/boot/ directory, it's the root of the microSD card. That would have been useful to state.
Secondly it's a shame this isn't documented in a file on the microSD after you've done the image.
Thirdly and even more annoying, is that there is no sample wpa_supplicant.conf file ready for you to modify and rename.
It's a great idea - pity that wasn't fully thought through:(
The problem wasn't so much that you could share access to your network with your friends - it was that if you gave your WiFi password to someone (which what the majority of people do when they visit someone elses house) then you had to make sure that they didn't share access to your network with their friends.
The problem is that Microsoft cannot differentiate between someone who has the WiFi password because they own the connection and someone who has the WiFi password because they were told it. Microsoft made the assumption that if you have the password, then you have the right to offer that connection to others - but this is not what happens in the "real world".
Because of this incorrect assumption, the onus was suddenly placed on the owner of the WiFi (who does decide to provide their password) to police the entry of it into Windows 10 devices to ensure that a bunch of random people that they have never met aren't suddenly allowed to use their network.
At a guess I would imagine the part where they don't get a job, can never buy a house, have a huge student debt loaded on them before they start their careers, and if they say anything bad about their situation, get called greedy and lazy by the people who have rigged the system to ensure they and their privaledged offspring own everything.
Capitalism is a bit like starting a game of Monopoly against someone who owns all but one of the properties on the board and 95% of the bank... and if you don't win, you're considered lazy.
Emojis need to go the way of geocities, real media, and flash. The sooner the better.
Actually, I disagree. Emoji support should be everywhere. Why? Because then it means that websites can stop insisting on changing:) into a smiley face.
The result, is that people who want to show a poo with a smiley face can, and those of us who want to show:) (or other such characters) can also do so without fear that it'll be changed into something else.
If Apple really have deprecated Quicktime then it would be nice if, in their next iTunes update, they remove the nag screen that keeps popping up telling you to install Quicktime.
I ended up installing it to stop the damn thing appearing.
But now that Angolans are causing headaches for Wikipedia editors and the Wikimedia Foundation, no one is sure what to do about it.
Crazy thought but how about limiting uploads to, say, 2MB?
Second crazy thought, how about scanning the files they already have uploaded, identifying the ones that are way too big for what they are (say, over 2MB) and checking each one manually?
This is what I love about the Internet.
Apple discontinues a connector (introduced in 2003) after 11 years for one that is smaller and reversible and the Internet throws a shit fit.
Meanwhile, in the same time frame, Android manufactures go from proprietary to mini USB to micro USB and now the new reversible ones and yet no-one bats an eyelid.
Double standards.
People double tap on the home button and see this massive list of apps stretching back to the dawn of time and what are they supposed to think?
No-one is going to switch between their current app and one twenty deep in a list like this. It's far quicker to just go and relaunch the app.
I'm not surprised that people think that they need to "kill off" the items on the list. Apple could solve this problem by rethinking the UX - one such solution would be to limit the items on the list and make clear which ones are actually still running in the background vs those which are just a history item.
You must live in a different London to me.
The majority of black cabs (Addison Lee don't count in the strict definition) absolutely do not take cards. It's cash or nothing. I got in a cab today and that hadn't changed.
In my London, black cabs didn't want to take people south of the river for several years. They only ended up doing it when it became a precondition for them to charge even more.
If they'd hadn't been incentivised to do so then, to this day, I probably still wouldn't have been able to get home by cab in the early hours of the morning.
I can only imagine someone saying this after 9/11. "Once America decided that allowing terrorists to kill people was bearable, it was over."
Except that America decided it wasn't acceptable and ended up going to war because of it.
Meanwhile, 10 people die in a school shooting and within a month it'll have been forgotten because the next shooting has come along... and nothing has changed.
As long as the developer of Crystal puts a tickbox in the preferences to allow you to block "acceptable advertising" then I don't see the issue. I understand that Crystal doesn't have a preferences screen right now, but it shouldn't be that hard to add one.
People who are happy to see adverts as long as they meet some sort of "acceptable" criteria can have it turned off - and people who just never want to see an advert again can turn it on.
Please don't let it be a repeat of Adblock Plus where all the nerdrage drowned out the few voices of reason that merely pointed out that all the anger could be resolved with the unchecking of a single tickbox in the preferences.
Marco loves drama. He'll say or do something "controversial", a ton of tech sites will run with it, he gets all the attention and then two days late he expresses regret for saying or doing whatever he said or did. A recent example is here, with backpeddle here.
Peace is no different. Drama for two days followed by backpeddle.
The stupid thing is that the whole "issue" he had could have easily been solved with a pre-loaded whitelist of advertisers. He could have even called it "Acceptance Ads".
But then that wouldn't have generated quite as much drama and attention would it?
UK network operators are castigated by the UK Government for not building out mobile coverage in rural areas.
Network Operators respond by pointing out that they don't because of the difficulty in finding locations to provide the required coverage, local planning applications, the availability of power and problems with site access.
UK Government says "amateurs, we can do it better than you" so sets up project to do just that.
Project spectacularly fails to achieve anything and sheepishly admits that the reasons for its failure are due to the difficulty in finding locations to provide the required coverage, local planning applications, the availability of power and problems with site access.
Isn't this basically Google Voice? Google records the message, transcribes it to text.
I doubt the people living outside of the USA are going to care about that... considering it's been 6 years since Google Voice launched and not even a subset of that functionality has made it over the Atlantic Ocean.
As far as we'll be concerned, SpinVox did it first and then (hopefully) Apple did it.
The fact that they even wasted time thinking about doing a listening test is enough data I need to know they don't know WTF they are doing.
That's absurd. If something claims to be awesome at doing X then the best way to disprove it is to test it doing X. You then publish the tests and the results.
Saying "well that's clearly stupid so I'm not going to test it" doesn't prove anything because you haven't actually debunked the claim - however right you might be.
Android Police did some digging and (ignoring the fact that the Commodore name is currently owned by the creditors of Asiarim Corp - who created a new company called C= and have done nothing more than make a website for it back in 2013) it looks to be a carbon copy of the Orgtec WaPhone.
On the upside, it does have some Amiga emulators loaded onto the phone - but you can easily get them from Google Play yourself.
TL;DR? It's unlikely to be Commodore, its a heavily marked up skinned phone and uses the MediaTek MT6752 chip - so you should probably keep away.
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I run with an iPhone 6 (and RunKeeper) for about an hour and it doesn't get hot. Sounds like something is broken.
In my old company we used to have secretaries who would email people the day before they had a meeting room booking to check to see if they still needed it. It turned out that a lot of meetings were actually being moved/cancelled and people were forgetting to delete the room booking.
What pained me the most was that with a couple of hours of coding they could have had something which would have automated the vast majority of that work, allowing the secretaries to get on with doing something less mundane.
It's probably the best attempt I've seen at increasing the iPhone's available storage (yeah, yeah, we know that Apple should allow microSD - you don't need to say it), but it seems rather overpriced.
Considering that cards from Sandisk are around $12 (32GB), $20 (64GB) and $40 (128GB) and considering $40-$45 for a case, then you should be looking at $55, $65 or $85.
Better yet, it should just have been sold as an empty shell of a case with a microSD slot for you to fill - although I appreciate that the profit margins on such a thing wouldn't have been quite so healthy.
As a counter-point, I think wireless charging (as it currently stands today) is a completely meh feature.
It has plenty of potential, but right now you're paying ten times more than a reversible cable - for pretty much the same limitations and a slower charging time.
This article explains my meh'ness better than I could.
Put Windows onto a USB stick.
Download Double Driver and put on stick.
Back up the drivers using Double Driver onto a folder on the aforementioned stick.
Start the Windows 10 install. Go have dinner.
Copy the drivers to the hard drive.
Reinstall any drivers from the folder on the drive as and when you need them. I tend to find the default wireless one provided by Microsoft to be rather flakey.
For people running Windows, there is no /boot/ directory, it's the root of the microSD card. That would have been useful to state.
Secondly it's a shame this isn't documented in a file on the microSD after you've done the image.
Thirdly and even more annoying, is that there is no sample wpa_supplicant.conf file ready for you to modify and rename.
It's a great idea - pity that wasn't fully thought through :(
The problem wasn't so much that you could share access to your network with your friends - it was that if you gave your WiFi password to someone (which what the majority of people do when they visit someone elses house) then you had to make sure that they didn't share access to your network with their friends.
The problem is that Microsoft cannot differentiate between someone who has the WiFi password because they own the connection and someone who has the WiFi password because they were told it. Microsoft made the assumption that if you have the password, then you have the right to offer that connection to others - but this is not what happens in the "real world".
Because of this incorrect assumption, the onus was suddenly placed on the owner of the WiFi (who does decide to provide their password) to police the entry of it into Windows 10 devices to ensure that a bunch of random people that they have never met aren't suddenly allowed to use their network.
That was why it was an issue.
Capitalism is a bit like starting a game of Monopoly against someone who owns all but one of the properties on the board and 95% of the bank ... and if you don't win, you're considered lazy.
Actually, I disagree. Emoji support should be everywhere. Why? Because then it means that websites can stop insisting on changing :) into a smiley face.
The result, is that people who want to show a poo with a smiley face can, and those of us who want to show :) (or other such characters) can also do so without fear that it'll be changed into something else.
This is a win for everyone.
If Apple really have deprecated Quicktime then it would be nice if, in their next iTunes update, they remove the nag screen that keeps popping up telling you to install Quicktime.
I ended up installing it to stop the damn thing appearing.
I'm no brand or design guru (like most people here on Slashdot) but I did rather like the other logo they had on the HP Spectre 13.
Wonder why they didn't go with that one?
Crazy thought but how about limiting uploads to, say, 2MB?
Second crazy thought, how about scanning the files they already have uploaded, identifying the ones that are way too big for what they are (say, over 2MB) and checking each one manually?
This is what I love about the Internet. Apple discontinues a connector (introduced in 2003) after 11 years for one that is smaller and reversible and the Internet throws a shit fit. Meanwhile, in the same time frame, Android manufactures go from proprietary to mini USB to micro USB and now the new reversible ones and yet no-one bats an eyelid. Double standards.
People double tap on the home button and see this massive list of apps stretching back to the dawn of time and what are they supposed to think?
No-one is going to switch between their current app and one twenty deep in a list like this. It's far quicker to just go and relaunch the app.
I'm not surprised that people think that they need to "kill off" the items on the list. Apple could solve this problem by rethinking the UX - one such solution would be to limit the items on the list and make clear which ones are actually still running in the background vs those which are just a history item.
You must live in a different London to me. The majority of black cabs (Addison Lee don't count in the strict definition) absolutely do not take cards. It's cash or nothing. I got in a cab today and that hadn't changed. In my London, black cabs didn't want to take people south of the river for several years. They only ended up doing it when it became a precondition for them to charge even more. If they'd hadn't been incentivised to do so then, to this day, I probably still wouldn't have been able to get home by cab in the early hours of the morning.
Except that America decided it wasn't acceptable and ended up going to war because of it.
Meanwhile, 10 people die in a school shooting and within a month it'll have been forgotten because the next shooting has come along ... and nothing has changed.
Dan Hodges said it best:
As long as the developer of Crystal puts a tickbox in the preferences to allow you to block "acceptable advertising" then I don't see the issue. I understand that Crystal doesn't have a preferences screen right now, but it shouldn't be that hard to add one.
People who are happy to see adverts as long as they meet some sort of "acceptable" criteria can have it turned off - and people who just never want to see an advert again can turn it on.
Please don't let it be a repeat of Adblock Plus where all the nerdrage drowned out the few voices of reason that merely pointed out that all the anger could be resolved with the unchecking of a single tickbox in the preferences.
Marco loves drama. He'll say or do something "controversial", a ton of tech sites will run with it, he gets all the attention and then two days late he expresses regret for saying or doing whatever he said or did. A recent example is here, with backpeddle here.
Peace is no different. Drama for two days followed by backpeddle.
The stupid thing is that the whole "issue" he had could have easily been solved with a pre-loaded whitelist of advertisers. He could have even called it "Acceptance Ads".
But then that wouldn't have generated quite as much drama and attention would it?
UK network operators are castigated by the UK Government for not building out mobile coverage in rural areas.
Network Operators respond by pointing out that they don't because of the difficulty in finding locations to provide the required coverage, local planning applications, the availability of power and problems with site access.
UK Government says "amateurs, we can do it better than you" so sets up project to do just that.
Project spectacularly fails to achieve anything and sheepishly admits that the reasons for its failure are due to the difficulty in finding locations to provide the required coverage, local planning applications, the availability of power and problems with site access.
I doubt the people living outside of the USA are going to care about that ... considering it's been 6 years since Google Voice launched and not even a subset of that functionality has made it over the Atlantic Ocean.
As far as we'll be concerned, SpinVox did it first and then (hopefully) Apple did it.
That's absurd. If something claims to be awesome at doing X then the best way to disprove it is to test it doing X. You then publish the tests and the results.
Saying "well that's clearly stupid so I'm not going to test it" doesn't prove anything because you haven't actually debunked the claim - however right you might be.
Android Police did some digging and (ignoring the fact that the Commodore name is currently owned by the creditors of Asiarim Corp - who created a new company called C= and have done nothing more than make a website for it back in 2013) it looks to be a carbon copy of the Orgtec WaPhone.
On the upside, it does have some Amiga emulators loaded onto the phone - but you can easily get them from Google Play yourself.
TL;DR? It's unlikely to be Commodore, its a heavily marked up skinned phone and uses the MediaTek MT6752 chip - so you should probably keep away.
As opposed to those millions of Android handsets from various OEMs that all come out of the box with root access right?
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Right?
Why does the description of Mob Programming remind me of this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...