Have you seen what happens when you hit a rock that is 3mm thick with a golf ball? Let's just say it's not very good for the rock. Rocks have horrible tensile strength, and the bottom half of this rock/shingle is going to go into tension with every impact.
If you have branches falling and hitting your roof, there's a good chance your house is shaded enough that solar power probably isn't the best idea for you.
You may also want to find out why your shingles are failing prematurely. Do you have poor attic ventilation? That's often the cause of accelerated deterioration in shingle roofing. You should be getting 25+years from a single application of quality asphalt if the conditions are within the operating range for your material.
Speed and features aren't really at the forefront, unless you consider the pen and touch input as new features. What is at the forefront is runtime. A few years ago, 4-5 hours was a great run time for a standard battery on a "powerful" machine. Now everybody pretty much complains if you don't get 8 hours of real-world use on the top (fastest) hardware model. Power has given way to battery life, like some kind of perverse MPG war, leaving those who want portable workstations wondering what happened to their market.
You must keep calling it that until they no longer exist or are no longer needed. They are horrible, and the name for them should be just as horrible or embarrassing as possible.
I want a watch which is my phone and data connection. I want to see basic comm functionality I can use - bluetooth for audio if need be - all the time. I want a mini- or regular sized tablet I can carry with my when I think I'll need to interact with the data - but I want to be instant. When I pull up my tablet (whether it be a 5" Android or Apple handset, or a Surface Pro or iPad Pro), I want the low power BT to kickstart the connection and then ramp up to max LTE speeds (or at least hit the 25Mbps BT 4 spec) without me ever having to manually connect; and roll to wifi gracefully (where available) for data while maintaining the data link with the watch for notification and content sync.
So the person who hacked the email also knew this guys (nominally unpublished) cell phone number and went to the effort of calling Verizon in person to move his number to an entirely different SIM with apparently zero authorization? I mean - it could happen - but that's a shit-ton of human time to go after a single mark, with a pretty low likelihood of working. It just smells like a set up.
You can do anything you like, but you might be sued for it. IIRC, the current condition allowing the photographing of buildings in Europe (yes, they are designs of an architect and carry copyright protection) are only temporary (or, perhaps were as of last year). Copyright is out of control.
The design of the Note 7 is copyrighted, just as any other product. To reproduce a likeness of a piece of "art" without permission is infringing (just ask the US Post Office). How accurate was it? Could it be identified as a Note 7? If so, then it's a by right thing - it IS infringing.
Now, Hitman Niko can absolutely pursue this in court by re-publishing on a non-common carrier platform and having Samsung sue him. He may then, and only then, proffer his defense that the use falls under one of the Fair Use sections of copyright law. If the judge/jury concludes, based on the evidence, that it meets the test of fair use, then he will win the case. But he can't claim Fair Use as a right, only as a positive defense to an infringement claim. Copyright law is a bitch.
Wait...it's lightning (or maybe just the iPhone) still using USB 2 for data transfer? Because in a proper setup, USB 3 can do more than 341MB/s on large files in continuous transfer.
Seriously - this is SOP for settlements of all kinds. The press was bad on the Note 7, and they wanted to make the problem go away. They offered to cover the cost of damage/repair, no questions (or few questions) asked in return for not publicizing the event with photos/video. Typical corporate culture.
'Cause there's a lot of butthurt going around on the Note 7 forums. Jesus - it's a phone. A nice one, but still just a phone. I get it if you were one of those weird edge cases where you got stuck in Bora Bora after the recall but before you had to fly home. Or you traded your Note 4 for $200 to get it and now you can't get your original phone back. That sucks - no doubt. Or you tried to save $100 by buying one off of Craigslist and now it's hard to return. I'm going to call that a "learning experience," but I digress...
I had two of them, they were great. I was sad to hear of the full recall because there's nothing out there like it in functionality. But, in the end, I'm basically in the same position I would have been if the Note 7 had never come along. If I'd wanted a replacement I could have, like 90% of the people out there, called up my rep and had them ship me a different phone, and send my N7 back in. In fact, after the second one, I did. And it will take an entire month for them to credit me for the phones I sent in. But in the end I pretty much used a Note 7 for free, and got a $25 "we're sorry" credit and a $225 "please choose one of our other phones" discount ($75 from Samsung, $150 from the seller). If you can't tell, I'm finding it hard to see the value in such a suit, and I kind of hope the judge tells them to go pound sand because the lawyers are the only ones who are going to make any money in the deal.
It probably became Samsung Pay, which happens to work exceptionally well. Of course, if you root the phone it won't work as the system presumes that a compromised OS may have compromised the secure transaction chain. But in general it works better than anything out there because it works with the old-fashioned swipe terminals - no NFC needed (though it can work with those to, I believe).
Don't worry - they'll store it with all the caution and security that is afforded to liquid filled bottles of greater than 3 oz which could be high explosives at the airport.
Aside from the silly slide thing, you do get a more visual real estate in a smaller (narrower) package. Plus a larger battery. And, in some cases, carriers are offering bigger discounts on the S7E at the moment (the difference was $0 for me: $149 either way on the big V)
If you what something that's 95% of a Note 7, you're going to get a S7 Edge. Same great camera, same IP68, nearly the same UX (and nearly identical after Nougat), same edge functionality, uSD storage, same great battery life, and works with the 2-3 bonus gifts you got (Active watch, uSD card, Gear VR).
If you are pissed as Samsung and don't want to "reward them," you'll be getting either a Pixel or an LG V20. Both are fresh off the line (not some "old, tired" model from 6 months ago, like the S7E), come with cool gifts, and promise to be great phones.
If you were an iPhone user the switched to the Note 7, you're probably going to go back to iOS, because ain't nobody got time of dis sheit [exploding Android phones] and everybody you told you were switching has ribbed you endlessly about your poor judgement. Plus, the baristas have promised that they'll let you back in to get your PSL as long as you switch back.
4X more expensive *and* 25% lower energy density is a pretty big hit. The whole push is to get more time out of a battery, and taking the space of a 10Wh battery and throwing in a 7.5Wh battery isn't going to make users happy. I agree that thinness is a stupid-ass metric for companies to compete on, but we're kind of stuck with it until all-powerful Apple tells us that it's not the in-thing anymore.
I'm with you on slightly thicker phones, but the bad news is that would make it worse. You can make a case thick enough and light enough for a modern phone to contain the sudden runaway of a lithium battery. Making the case tighter and stronger just means you get a bigger bang when it does finally give. And using the case to put in a bigger battery - just more energy to dissipate when it goes off.
Besides - a thicker phone just means having to put an even bigger case on it. Nobody it buying cases to protect themselves from battery fires, they're doing it to protect the beautiful, fragile, and unrepairable surfaces of their $1000 phones. If manufacturers wanted to make a phone safe from drops, the would need only put a small elastomeric bumper around the edge as part of the assembly. The LG G3 even had an accessory back that had a rubber rim that surrounded and stood slightly proud of the edge on the front/glass side. They never even sold it outside of S Korea. The tactile feel of such a feature is "cheap", and these are premium devices. A thicker premium device made of scratchable glass and aluminum is going to be just at damage prone.
If I'm driving an S class, I expect a little more granularity than that. I need to know that, given the possibility of hitting one or more people in a crowd, the avoidance decision process will go Wealthy > White People > Males > Everyone else.
You're partially right - I just cut and pasted. I had no intent on making a dissertation. I intentionally went back 5 years to show that it has *always* been happening. There are far more battery anomalies than just those that hit the headlines, but I 'm sure you knew that. That's why I also pointed out that it happens to all manufacturers. (It's easier to name a brand or device and "explodes" to get results, hence my choice of a single brand name with a lot of handsets)
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Have you seen what happens when you hit a rock that is 3mm thick with a golf ball? Let's just say it's not very good for the rock. Rocks have horrible tensile strength, and the bottom half of this rock/shingle is going to go into tension with every impact.
If you have branches falling and hitting your roof, there's a good chance your house is shaded enough that solar power probably isn't the best idea for you.
You may also want to find out why your shingles are failing prematurely. Do you have poor attic ventilation? That's often the cause of accelerated deterioration in shingle roofing. You should be getting 25+years from a single application of quality asphalt if the conditions are within the operating range for your material.
Ever see someone put a Note 7 in their mouth? It's kind of like that, but 1000x more dangerous and you die instead of get a burned tongue.
Space flight isn't about whether you die in a fire, but when. And the odds are not in your favor over the long term.
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Speed and features aren't really at the forefront, unless you consider the pen and touch input as new features. What is at the forefront is runtime. A few years ago, 4-5 hours was a great run time for a standard battery on a "powerful" machine. Now everybody pretty much complains if you don't get 8 hours of real-world use on the top (fastest) hardware model. Power has given way to battery life, like some kind of perverse MPG war, leaving those who want portable workstations wondering what happened to their market.
You must keep calling it that until they no longer exist or are no longer needed. They are horrible, and the name for them should be just as horrible or embarrassing as possible.
I want a watch which is my phone and data connection. I want to see basic comm functionality I can use - bluetooth for audio if need be - all the time. I want a mini- or regular sized tablet I can carry with my when I think I'll need to interact with the data - but I want to be instant. When I pull up my tablet (whether it be a 5" Android or Apple handset, or a Surface Pro or iPad Pro), I want the low power BT to kickstart the connection and then ramp up to max LTE speeds (or at least hit the 25Mbps BT 4 spec) without me ever having to manually connect; and roll to wifi gracefully (where available) for data while maintaining the data link with the watch for notification and content sync.
So the person who hacked the email also knew this guys (nominally unpublished) cell phone number and went to the effort of calling Verizon in person to move his number to an entirely different SIM with apparently zero authorization? I mean - it could happen - but that's a shit-ton of human time to go after a single mark, with a pretty low likelihood of working. It just smells like a set up.
You can do anything you like, but you might be sued for it. IIRC, the current condition allowing the photographing of buildings in Europe (yes, they are designs of an architect and carry copyright protection) are only temporary (or, perhaps were as of last year). Copyright is out of control.
The design of the Note 7 is copyrighted, just as any other product. To reproduce a likeness of a piece of "art" without permission is infringing (just ask the US Post Office). How accurate was it? Could it be identified as a Note 7? If so, then it's a by right thing - it IS infringing.
Now, Hitman Niko can absolutely pursue this in court by re-publishing on a non-common carrier platform and having Samsung sue him. He may then, and only then, proffer his defense that the use falls under one of the Fair Use sections of copyright law. If the judge/jury concludes, based on the evidence, that it meets the test of fair use, then he will win the case. But he can't claim Fair Use as a right, only as a positive defense to an infringement claim. Copyright law is a bitch.
Wait...it's lightning (or maybe just the iPhone) still using USB 2 for data transfer? Because in a proper setup, USB 3 can do more than 341MB/s on large files in continuous transfer.
Seriously - this is SOP for settlements of all kinds. The press was bad on the Note 7, and they wanted to make the problem go away. They offered to cover the cost of damage/repair, no questions (or few questions) asked in return for not publicizing the event with photos/video. Typical corporate culture.
'Cause there's a lot of butthurt going around on the Note 7 forums. Jesus - it's a phone. A nice one, but still just a phone. I get it if you were one of those weird edge cases where you got stuck in Bora Bora after the recall but before you had to fly home. Or you traded your Note 4 for $200 to get it and now you can't get your original phone back. That sucks - no doubt. Or you tried to save $100 by buying one off of Craigslist and now it's hard to return. I'm going to call that a "learning experience," but I digress...
I had two of them, they were great. I was sad to hear of the full recall because there's nothing out there like it in functionality. But, in the end, I'm basically in the same position I would have been if the Note 7 had never come along. If I'd wanted a replacement I could have, like 90% of the people out there, called up my rep and had them ship me a different phone, and send my N7 back in. In fact, after the second one, I did. And it will take an entire month for them to credit me for the phones I sent in. But in the end I pretty much used a Note 7 for free, and got a $25 "we're sorry" credit and a $225 "please choose one of our other phones" discount ($75 from Samsung, $150 from the seller). If you can't tell, I'm finding it hard to see the value in such a suit, and I kind of hope the judge tells them to go pound sand because the lawyers are the only ones who are going to make any money in the deal.
It probably became Samsung Pay, which happens to work exceptionally well. Of course, if you root the phone it won't work as the system presumes that a compromised OS may have compromised the secure transaction chain. But in general it works better than anything out there because it works with the old-fashioned swipe terminals - no NFC needed (though it can work with those to, I believe).
Don't worry - they'll store it with all the caution and security that is afforded to liquid filled bottles of greater than 3 oz which could be high explosives at the airport.
Aside from the silly slide thing, you do get a more visual real estate in a smaller (narrower) package. Plus a larger battery. And, in some cases, carriers are offering bigger discounts on the S7E at the moment (the difference was $0 for me: $149 either way on the big V)
If you what something that's 95% of a Note 7, you're going to get a S7 Edge. Same great camera, same IP68, nearly the same UX (and nearly identical after Nougat), same edge functionality, uSD storage, same great battery life, and works with the 2-3 bonus gifts you got (Active watch, uSD card, Gear VR).
If you are pissed as Samsung and don't want to "reward them," you'll be getting either a Pixel or an LG V20. Both are fresh off the line (not some "old, tired" model from 6 months ago, like the S7E), come with cool gifts, and promise to be great phones.
If you were an iPhone user the switched to the Note 7, you're probably going to go back to iOS, because ain't nobody got time of dis sheit [exploding Android phones] and everybody you told you were switching has ribbed you endlessly about your poor judgement. Plus, the baristas have promised that they'll let you back in to get your PSL as long as you switch back.
1% - ha! How about $5 plus 15% - it's still less than the cut Ticketmaster takes for the ticket sale.
I was going to put in unborn children, but that seemed a bit political.
4X more expensive *and* 25% lower energy density is a pretty big hit. The whole push is to get more time out of a battery, and taking the space of a 10Wh battery and throwing in a 7.5Wh battery isn't going to make users happy. I agree that thinness is a stupid-ass metric for companies to compete on, but we're kind of stuck with it until all-powerful Apple tells us that it's not the in-thing anymore.
I'm with you on slightly thicker phones, but the bad news is that would make it worse. You can make a case thick enough and light enough for a modern phone to contain the sudden runaway of a lithium battery. Making the case tighter and stronger just means you get a bigger bang when it does finally give. And using the case to put in a bigger battery - just more energy to dissipate when it goes off.
Besides - a thicker phone just means having to put an even bigger case on it. Nobody it buying cases to protect themselves from battery fires, they're doing it to protect the beautiful, fragile, and unrepairable surfaces of their $1000 phones. If manufacturers wanted to make a phone safe from drops, the would need only put a small elastomeric bumper around the edge as part of the assembly. The LG G3 even had an accessory back that had a rubber rim that surrounded and stood slightly proud of the edge on the front/glass side. They never even sold it outside of S Korea. The tactile feel of such a feature is "cheap", and these are premium devices. A thicker premium device made of scratchable glass and aluminum is going to be just at damage prone.
Say it isn't so!!
If I'm driving an S class, I expect a little more granularity than that. I need to know that, given the possibility of hitting one or more people in a crowd, the avoidance decision process will go Wealthy > White People > Males > Everyone else.
The reality is that they're probably working harder than you are. Source: I'm a former bartender, current engineer.
You're partially right - I just cut and pasted. I had no intent on making a dissertation. I intentionally went back 5 years to show that it has *always* been happening. There are far more battery anomalies than just those that hit the headlines, but I 'm sure you knew that. That's why I also pointed out that it happens to all manufacturers. (It's easier to name a brand or device and "explodes" to get results, hence my choice of a single brand name with a lot of handsets)