This isn't about android meeting my needs. This is about android not imposing pointless, ill-considered restrictions. Sheesh. At one time Google was known as a place where smart people gathered. No longer, now it is well on the way to establishing a reputation as a home for dull, patronizing people.
As for allowing full rotation, they do that where it is appropriate, i.e. on tablets. Phones have a natural top and bottom and there is no sense confusing the user by allowing them to use the phone upside down.
Brain damaged thinking. My phone has no natural top and bottom, and even if it did I do not see how being able to use it "upside down" is a drawback. Single word description of this design attitude: "patronizing".
I recognize the intent but do not agree that the artistic conception was appropriate or effective at communicating the message. Take the man-boobs for example.
How about fixing that stunningly lame cut and paste half effort? How about letting phone screen rotate all four directions and don't lock the home screen to vertical? How about doing a million little fit and finish things to make Android better instead of butting your head into the business of phone builders?
Ah, I see, the claimed 2.4km depth is the depth below the peak of the of the highest mountain peak the tunnel passes under. OK, now I'm impressed by the fact that the ground temperature increases significantly just by being deep inside a mountain, not deep below sea level as for example in a South African gold mine.
Wikipedia tells me that temperature increases roughly by 25 degrees C per km of depth so, that would be about 58 degrees C... however apparently the actual temperature at that depth is 46 degrees. So... hellishly hot, but not as hot as expected. What accounts for the difference, is the crust thicker there because of the weight of the alps?
Microsoft still evil, still stuck in quasi legal twilight zone. Xiaomi was introducing Linux laptops, hence this new trust making activity. Same old Microsoft, same old tricks.
I can't wait to see what Windows looks like six months from now after the free upgrade period is over and Microsoft starts doing all that _other_ stuff they have planned. Stuff they're holding off on at the moment because nobody would ever upgrade if they knew the truth. By that time Microsoft will own your PC. You won't be able to turn off the updates, it'll be too late to go back to Windows 7.
Well, you can always get off the hamster wheel and install Ubuntu.
Electric cars are cheaper to produce? Why do they cost more then?
See "inherently" above, because of vastly fewer moving parts. Current pricing is mostly about the battery pack, cost of which is falling rapidly. The other big component is the current boutique nature of the market, a chicken/egg thing, but we are already past the tipping point of that.
I'm wondering why I don't see any electric F250s either?
Several factors: price, power density, conservative demographic, lack of charging stations in the woods for those vehicles that actually get out there. This segment will lag but will eventually yield when electric trucks start outperforming gas ones at similar price points. Obviously, truck owners tend not to care much about the clean air argument, but they do care about watching taillights. Electric dragsters are already a thing.
I see Chrysler Fiat has a new minivan coming that will go 30 miles on an electric charge. NOT 300 but 30. It's a hybrid for obvious reasons so it'll have a high carbon footprint. I too think electric vehicles will one day rule but not in a decade.
I think your next car will be at least a hybrid, am I right? I'm pretty sure I will never buy another gas-only vehicle new.
No way, probably not even two decades. Battery improvements are small and incremental and costs are still way high.
Battery cost improvements are dramatic. Energy density improvements are indeed incremental, but it is a safe bet that lithium-air technology will reach commercial production well within ten years. The commercial incentives for it are huge.
When I can buy a car for 30 grand that will travel 300 miles on a charge and recharge in 20 minutes I'll damn sure get it. One caveat, it has to be big enough for my 6 foot frame.
India is already on the verge of making electric vehicles mandatory. I doubt the replacements will cost as much as $15k. Keep in mind that we're talking about new sales here, not installed base. (Bloomberg was also talking about that.) I'll stick with my guess, just remember you heard it here.
You're quoting Bloomberg, which has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. I expect the crossover point will be much closer to the ten year mark than Bloomberg's multi-decade imagining. Electric cars are inherently less expensive to produce, the battery being the most expensive component, and rapidly declining. Electric cars are inherently faster, again, the battery being the biggest limiting factor. Cleaner, cheaper to operate and maintain. In ten years, with a massive increase in the battery energy density and dramatically decreased cost, why would anybody want to buy a gas powered car? Clearout sales maybe? Nostalgia? Come to think of it, the crossover could arrive considerably faster than ten years. The rise of the smartphone would be as good a model as any.
...fossil fuels are finite. Was Canada expecting to economically produce oil at their current rate for the next hundred years? It's not going to last that long.
It seems that you are unclear on the scale of the Canadian oil sands. Currently estimated at 1.7 trillion barrels in the Athabasca oil sands alone, If only 25% of that is recoverable given evolved extraction methods then the current production rate is sustainable for roughly 2,500 years.
What about vehicles that regularly need to travel more than 300 miles?
Battery technology is not standing still. Lithium-air batteries can theoretically achieve 12 kwh/kg compared to 13 kwh/kg for gasoline, with the higher efficiency of electric motors more than making up the difference. It is inevitable that fossil fuel motors will go the way of steam engines.
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Then what is the advanced civilization living in? Takeaway from this: there are no easy answers, Elon.
Ahem. In what way is your comment not patronizing and condescending? You are the one trying to impose your view of how I should use my device.
This isn't about android meeting my needs. This is about android not imposing pointless, ill-considered restrictions. Sheesh. At one time Google was known as a place where smart people gathered. No longer, now it is well on the way to establishing a reputation as a home for dull, patronizing people.
1) I don't always use my phone for talking
2) The mic and speakers work quite well from either end, in fact speakerphone works fine too
You're just dredging the bottom of the barrel for arguments that random restrictions make sense for everybody. Speak for yourself.
Nothing to worry about, they will need humans for pets. It's a great deal, ask your dog.
As for allowing full rotation, they do that where it is appropriate, i.e. on tablets. Phones have a natural top and bottom and there is no sense confusing the user by allowing them to use the phone upside down.
Brain damaged thinking. My phone has no natural top and bottom, and even if it did I do not see how being able to use it "upside down" is a drawback. Single word description of this design attitude: "patronizing".
I recognize the intent but do not agree that the artistic conception was appropriate or effective at communicating the message. Take the man-boobs for example.
How about fixing that stunningly lame cut and paste half effort? How about letting phone screen rotate all four directions and don't lock the home screen to vertical? How about doing a million little fit and finish things to make Android better instead of butting your head into the business of phone builders?
+1 for digging world's most awesome tunnel, ever.
-1 for coming up with this.
Ah, I see, the claimed 2.4km depth is the depth below the peak of the of the highest mountain peak the tunnel passes under. OK, now I'm impressed by the fact that the ground temperature increases significantly just by being deep inside a mountain, not deep below sea level as for example in a South African gold mine.
Wikipedia tells me that temperature increases roughly by 25 degrees C per km of depth so, that would be about 58 degrees C... however apparently the actual temperature at that depth is 46 degrees. So... hellishly hot, but not as hot as expected. What accounts for the difference, is the crust thicker there because of the weight of the alps?
Microsoft still evil, still stuck in quasi legal twilight zone. Xiaomi was introducing Linux laptops, hence this new trust making activity. Same old Microsoft, same old tricks.
If you have windows 7 I'd say it's up to you, but your window for free upgrades is closing.
After the window closes, M$ will need to pay users upgrade.
I can't wait to see what Windows looks like six months from now after the free upgrade period is over and Microsoft starts doing all that _other_ stuff they have planned. Stuff they're holding off on at the moment because nobody would ever upgrade if they knew the truth. By that time Microsoft will own your PC. You won't be able to turn off the updates, it'll be too late to go back to Windows 7.
Well, you can always get off the hamster wheel and install Ubuntu.
...save money on the a/d converter ... still sucks to have to bring a dongle with you, everytime you want to connect a phone to an analogue input...
Then where is the a/d converter, in the dongle? Not just any dongle, but an expensive dongle.
That's interesting that your software takes 100 times as long as the Linux kernel does.
Spoken as someone who has never used Gentoo. The kernel is one of the faster building components. Try some C++ builds.
why would you do this? to artificially inflate battery life or make it slimmer, not worth it, this is a stupid move.
Mainly to annoy Square users.
Electric cars are cheaper to produce? Why do they cost more then?
See "inherently" above, because of vastly fewer moving parts. Current pricing is mostly about the battery pack, cost of which is falling rapidly. The other big component is the current boutique nature of the market, a chicken/egg thing, but we are already past the tipping point of that.
I'm wondering why I don't see any electric F250s either?
Several factors: price, power density, conservative demographic, lack of charging stations in the woods for those vehicles that actually get out there. This segment will lag but will eventually yield when electric trucks start outperforming gas ones at similar price points. Obviously, truck owners tend not to care much about the clean air argument, but they do care about watching taillights. Electric dragsters are already a thing.
I see Chrysler Fiat has a new minivan coming that will go 30 miles on an electric charge. NOT 300 but 30. It's a hybrid for obvious reasons so it'll have a high carbon footprint. I too think electric vehicles will one day rule but not in a decade.
I think your next car will be at least a hybrid, am I right? I'm pretty sure I will never buy another gas-only vehicle new.
No way, probably not even two decades. Battery improvements are small and incremental and costs are still way high.
Battery cost improvements are dramatic. Energy density improvements are indeed incremental, but it is a safe bet that lithium-air technology will reach commercial production well within ten years. The commercial incentives for it are huge.
When I can buy a car for 30 grand that will travel 300 miles on a charge and recharge in 20 minutes I'll damn sure get it. One caveat, it has to be big enough for my 6 foot frame.
You will see that within five years, not ten. Currently, Tesla talks about 270km charge in 30 minutes.
India is already on the verge of making electric vehicles mandatory. I doubt the replacements will cost as much as $15k. Keep in mind that we're talking about new sales here, not installed base. (Bloomberg was also talking about that.) I'll stick with my guess, just remember you heard it here.
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Some people are, in my opinion, ridiculously overly-optimistic that *all* new cars will be EVs within ten years (let alone *most*). A much saner prediction puts EVs at 35% of global sales by 2040
You're quoting Bloomberg, which has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. I expect the crossover point will be much closer to the ten year mark than Bloomberg's multi-decade imagining. Electric cars are inherently less expensive to produce, the battery being the most expensive component, and rapidly declining. Electric cars are inherently faster, again, the battery being the biggest limiting factor. Cleaner, cheaper to operate and maintain. In ten years, with a massive increase in the battery energy density and dramatically decreased cost, why would anybody want to buy a gas powered car? Clearout sales maybe? Nostalgia? Come to think of it, the crossover could arrive considerably faster than ten years. The rise of the smartphone would be as good a model as any.
...fossil fuels are finite. Was Canada expecting to economically produce oil at their current rate for the next hundred years? It's not going to last that long.
It seems that you are unclear on the scale of the Canadian oil sands. Currently estimated at 1.7 trillion barrels in the Athabasca oil sands alone, If only 25% of that is recoverable given evolved extraction methods then the current production rate is sustainable for roughly 2,500 years.
What about vehicles that regularly need to travel more than 300 miles?
Battery technology is not standing still. Lithium-air batteries can theoretically achieve 12 kwh/kg compared to 13 kwh/kg for gasoline, with the higher efficiency of electric motors more than making up the difference. It is inevitable that fossil fuel motors will go the way of steam engines.
Multiply that "inconvenience" (I gross understatement) by several hundred million and it's not a small thing at all.
How do you feel about forcing sex on someone who doesn't it? Still conflicted?
The only thing I'm conflicted about is the fact that you're comparing a free OS update with rape.
Don't do that.
Then how would you describe what Microsoft is doing?