Didn't Sony recall the Sony Z5, tell all its customers that it was just kidding about the phone being waterproof, and then get the crap sued out of itself for it? I actually literally have a friend who's Z5 failed just from getting some rain on it while he was hiking. Sony sent him a new one but the whole reason he had boughten it was that he thought it could go underwater, but it turned out to possibly actually be the least water tolerant phone he has ever owned.
Who says that modern society can't help young parents in the same way it did when we were primitive tribes?
Just because medicine provides all kinds of synthetic hormones etc to enable older parenting doesn't mean that there is any benefit in it. It just means we can do things in a different order. But maybe the order where you have children first and then do university is the better one. We know for a fact that it is the more natural one.
Who says that we need postpone parenting in order to be doctors, lawyers, and engineers if even becoming one of those things is necessary to be a "functional adult" in the first place?
I'm in my late 30s and noticing that all the "most successful" women who I graduated with from a top-tier university are single and childless. Is that what we really want? All our "most successful" being weeded out of the gene pool? That's obviously very destructive to the gene pool. Almost the definition of destruction to it.
Offspring of teenagers are objectively healthier than the offspring of older women.
It seems like there are a lot of reasons why it would be good if more of us had children as teenagers, and relatively few. Your claim that being a functional adult requires postponing having children until after biologically optimal age seems to not only be a poor counterbalance to the benefits off earlier reproduction but furthermore specious in the first place.
I am sure it's awful. Just curious why. I don't know anything about it. Of course, the fact we have libido's as teens means that nature wants us to have children at that age. So why exactly is it the case that modern societal norms are correct and that nature is wrong?
You are comparing a brand new processor to a 3 year old one. A 2 year old iPhone 6 is substantially faster than a brand new Galaxy Note 7. You can of course buy a 2 year old iPhone for much less than a Galaxy Note 7. In in so doing, one would additionally get better user experience, OS, customer support, and resale value. I'm sure you've observed people in your daily life who are completely happy with their 6 year old iPhone 4. Because of their durability and the quality of the materials they are made from, ancient iPhones will often look almost new.
There's no comparison between Apple phones and their Google knock-offs when it comes to performance. People clearly buy the latter for emotional reasons rather than rational ones. In order to feel different, or special, perhaps. Nothing wrong with that. What matters is what makes people happy.
It sounds like you're on the Google bandwagon. Good for you. The important thing is that what you do makes you happy. Don't try to tell people that there is something wrong with wanting the technically superior phone, though. Or mislead them by trying to compare the performance of your brand new phone with an iPhone from early 2013.
Did I say benchmarks? No I did not. I said iPhones have had roughly double the speed of anyone else for the last 3 years. In other words, that the user experience is more enjoyable. The GUI is snappier. Jumping around between apps and tasks is quicker. People love their iPhones because the workflow is more responsive and they are able to get more done faster. In other words, because the user experience is more seamless.
If you think seamlessness of user experience doesn't matter than you are the one who is "clueless".
Apple has had roughly double the hardware speed of anyone else since Fall 2013 when the A7 chip came out. They stole a tremendous advantage there. So even their 1.5 year old phones are roughly the same speed as newest Android phones (e.g., iPhone 6 vs Galaxy S7). Apple phones that have the same performance have actually been cheaper than their Google analogs. So people have been buying Android phones for emotional reasons or in order to avoid owning Apple products, which have an image of being mainstream rather than 1337.
However, by next generation we can expect the 64 bit lead they stole to have been closed. Qualcomm will get there. Therefore, we can expect people to be able to purchase Google phones on rational bases again.
Once that happens, only a minority of people will buy Apple anymore. The party Apple's been enjoying will be over. Almost all phones are nearly indistinguishable from Apple phones now as well. Down to every little detail such as the shape of holes used for speakers etc. So Apple's design advantage will also have been neutralized.
If someone like Samsung can come up with something new that iPhones don't have then there won't be any contest.
So this guy publishes videos of people not only nude but having sex against their wishes (i.e., in many ways similar to rapes them), invades the private sex lives of others by outing their sexual orientation, and generally makes its money by bullying and mocking people, one defendant finally has enough money to defend himself against his army of lawyers, and all that happens to him is the one site files bankruptcy but then gets bought for 135M?
And here I was thinking that we might finally have something that could help reduce internet abuse.
Before Steve Jobs died Apple were completely creaming everyone in basically everything they did innovation and consumer experience wise. No one else made nearly as good laptops, the iPad was as big a revolution as they get in electronic devices, the iPhone was a complete revolution that bankrupted any company that didn't clone it virtually down to the appearance of every icon in GUI, the iPod, iTunes bankrupted all major record stores, etc -- every 2 years or so they would come out with something that blew everything else out of the water.
Now in the 5 years all we have is a stupid watch.
The difference between Apple with Jobs and Apple under Cook couldn't be starker. This is new to you people??
What are you talking about? All of these mass murders in the last 6 months have been by Islamists and half of them were outside of the US. France has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. People were mowed down with AK-47s anyway. Belgium they got the same effect with bombs.
You people talking as if this is a U.S. problem with guns are going to cost more people's lives.
Everyone needs to wake up. People are dying left and right. It isn't going to stop until someone confronts and does something about Islamic Terrorism.
Until ISIS gets destroyed rather than "contained", we can expect these mass murders by Islamic terrorists to continue on a nearly monthly basis. Paris was hardly six months ago. Now we have had San Bernadino, Belgium, and Orlando. That's hundreds of people mowed down and blown up by Islamists who want to destroy anyone who isn't Islamic.
We have the technology to crush the Islamic State. Until we do it, this crap is not going to stop. Wake up USA and Europe. Face the issue and act. Innocent people are dying all over the place.
That's a big improvement, but twice the performance would still mean behind Apple. Twice the 810's performance would mean Typhoon (A8) caught, but Twister/A9 still quite a bit ahead. Not the best news for higher end users (e.g., Samsung) trying to compete directly with Apple. At least sounds like overheating dealt with.
If I were him I would maybe would just not do ostentatious displays of wealth such as ridiculous mansions, bugattis etc. Put the money away, drive around in a GTI, etc. Not saying I think there is anything wrong with being wealthy or that people should generally hide it. Saying that if one doesn't like the kind of attention that it's attracting, then don't have it out front and center. Have yourself be the first thing people encounter rather than your wealth.
What's your problem with lightning? Seems to me it's better than Micro USB in virtually every possible way. If fact, it's one of the things I like most about having recently made switch to Apple.
Let's not be naive and think that China doesn't try just as hard to spy on the US as the US does on China. If Chinese etc firms have come to realize that the extent the NSA is able to spy on them is greater than they previously thought, Snowden is the reason, not the spying itself, of course.
I remember when Apple used to create products that had incredibly positive impact on the lives of billions of people all over the world. Things like the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad -- all products that basically overnight changed everyone's ideas of what could be done in their areas.
Then Steve Jobs died.
4 years later all they've done is install 2015 model chips and plate some things in gold while Ive turns the most beautiful OS in existence into some kind of Japanese cartoon about bubblegum and Tim Cook sits around ordering Solyndra products and making ads about how wonderful his is for it.
I knew that Jobs was irreplaceable and that Apple would eventually just turn into another HP or whatever. But it's actually turned out to be something much worse. They aren't just operating at a lower level of competence. They've lost everything that made them great and become something different while having an arrogance and misguided confidence that makes even Steve Balmer look modest. It's as if they can't see how they aren't doing any of the things that made Apple great.
Hate all you want, but there's no denying the fact that the iPhone was the most revolutionary mobile phone there's ever been.
Look at phones the year the iPhone came out -- you clicked little plastic buttons or poked at (while hating) them with styli like Palm Pilots. Far and away the most satisfying one to use was the Blackberry which was essentially a candybar phone with full set of alphanumeric buttons instead of T9. All they were really good for beyond dialing numbers was writing emails.
Now everything's been clones of the iPhone since. Inertial scrolling, multitouch, practically identical user interfaces out of the box down to even the colors of the icons, etc -- they all use these things basically identically. Before the iPhone they had plastic buttons and you would try to scrolled around by jabbing little arrows on side of screen. The phones that have been most successful are the ones that are most similar to the iPhone and the ones that have failed are the ones that were least similar.
Hate all you want, but there's surely no other company that revolutionized personal computing and electronic devices the way Apple did while Jobs was still.
Sadly, it all ended in 2011. Look at phones. They're all the same as 2011 iPhone was just with 2015 cpu/graphic, 2015 screen brightness/contrast, 2015 CMOS camera sensors. Same with computers. Everything's just the same as an iPad or Macbook Air from 2011.
It's not a coincidence. Phones now are basically the same as an iPhone 4, just with brighter screens, 2015 processors, 2015 cameras sensors. Apple is not an innovative company anymore after Steve Jobs died. It's astonishing how big the contrast is.
The dominant reason Fox is so successful is that it is the only conservative-leaning major news network. All the others are liberal. So Fox gets almost all of 50% of the overall market (generally 50% of the population is left and 50% right), whereas all its competitors only get fractions of the other 50%
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Didn't Sony recall the Sony Z5, tell all its customers that it was just kidding about the phone being waterproof, and then get the crap sued out of itself for it? I actually literally have a friend who's Z5 failed just from getting some rain on it while he was hiking. Sony sent him a new one but the whole reason he had boughten it was that he thought it could go underwater, but it turned out to possibly actually be the least water tolerant phone he has ever owned.
Just because medicine provides all kinds of synthetic hormones etc to enable older parenting doesn't mean that there is any benefit in it. It just means we can do things in a different order. But maybe the order where you have children first and then do university is the better one. We know for a fact that it is the more natural one.
I'm in my late 30s and noticing that all the "most successful" women who I graduated with from a top-tier university are single and childless. Is that what we really want? All our "most successful" being weeded out of the gene pool? That's obviously very destructive to the gene pool. Almost the definition of destruction to it.
Offspring of teenagers are objectively healthier than the offspring of older women.
It seems like there are a lot of reasons why it would be good if more of us had children as teenagers, and relatively few. Your claim that being a functional adult requires postponing having children until after biologically optimal age seems to not only be a poor counterbalance to the benefits off earlier reproduction but furthermore specious in the first place.
I am sure it's awful. Just curious why. I don't know anything about it. Of course, the fact we have libido's as teens means that nature wants us to have children at that age. So why exactly is it the case that modern societal norms are correct and that nature is wrong?
There's no comparison between Apple phones and their Google knock-offs when it comes to performance. People clearly buy the latter for emotional reasons rather than rational ones. In order to feel different, or special, perhaps. Nothing wrong with that. What matters is what makes people happy.
It sounds like you're on the Google bandwagon. Good for you. The important thing is that what you do makes you happy. Don't try to tell people that there is something wrong with wanting the technically superior phone, though. Or mislead them by trying to compare the performance of your brand new phone with an iPhone from early 2013.
Did I say benchmarks? No I did not. I said iPhones have had roughly double the speed of anyone else for the last 3 years. In other words, that the user experience is more enjoyable. The GUI is snappier. Jumping around between apps and tasks is quicker. People love their iPhones because the workflow is more responsive and they are able to get more done faster. In other words, because the user experience is more seamless.
If you think seamlessness of user experience doesn't matter than you are the one who is "clueless".
Apple has had roughly double the hardware speed of anyone else since Fall 2013 when the A7 chip came out. They stole a tremendous advantage there. So even their 1.5 year old phones are roughly the same speed as newest Android phones (e.g., iPhone 6 vs Galaxy S7). Apple phones that have the same performance have actually been cheaper than their Google analogs. So people have been buying Android phones for emotional reasons or in order to avoid owning Apple products, which have an image of being mainstream rather than 1337.
However, by next generation we can expect the 64 bit lead they stole to have been closed. Qualcomm will get there. Therefore, we can expect people to be able to purchase Google phones on rational bases again.
Once that happens, only a minority of people will buy Apple anymore. The party Apple's been enjoying will be over. Almost all phones are nearly indistinguishable from Apple phones now as well. Down to every little detail such as the shape of holes used for speakers etc. So Apple's design advantage will also have been neutralized.
If someone like Samsung can come up with something new that iPhones don't have then there won't be any contest.
Do you think Hillary would have voted differently if journalism had been different?
So this guy publishes videos of people not only nude but having sex against their wishes (i.e., in many ways similar to rapes them), invades the private sex lives of others by outing their sexual orientation, and generally makes its money by bullying and mocking people, one defendant finally has enough money to defend himself against his army of lawyers, and all that happens to him is the one site files bankruptcy but then gets bought for 135M?
And here I was thinking that we might finally have something that could help reduce internet abuse.
Before Steve Jobs died Apple were completely creaming everyone in basically everything they did innovation and consumer experience wise. No one else made nearly as good laptops, the iPad was as big a revolution as they get in electronic devices, the iPhone was a complete revolution that bankrupted any company that didn't clone it virtually down to the appearance of every icon in GUI, the iPod, iTunes bankrupted all major record stores, etc -- every 2 years or so they would come out with something that blew everything else out of the water.
Now in the 5 years all we have is a stupid watch.
The difference between Apple with Jobs and Apple under Cook couldn't be starker. This is new to you people??
Not to mention that the guy could have just as easily used a bomb.
What are you talking about? All of these mass murders in the last 6 months have been by Islamists and half of them were outside of the US. France has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. People were mowed down with AK-47s anyway. Belgium they got the same effect with bombs.
You people talking as if this is a U.S. problem with guns are going to cost more people's lives.
Everyone needs to wake up. People are dying left and right. It isn't going to stop until someone confronts and does something about Islamic Terrorism.
Then they'll just use bombs like in Belgium. Same result.
Until ISIS gets destroyed rather than "contained", we can expect these mass murders by Islamic terrorists to continue on a nearly monthly basis. Paris was hardly six months ago. Now we have had San Bernadino, Belgium, and Orlando. That's hundreds of people mowed down and blown up by Islamists who want to destroy anyone who isn't Islamic.
We have the technology to crush the Islamic State. Until we do it, this crap is not going to stop. Wake up USA and Europe. Face the issue and act. Innocent people are dying all over the place.
Considering that the average iPads sold today is faster than the average laptop (i.e. Intel Core), the answer would appear to be yes.
http://wccftech.com/apple-a9xi...
In other words only about 99% of smartphones have American OSes?
That's a big improvement, but twice the performance would still mean behind Apple. Twice the 810's performance would mean Typhoon (A8) caught, but Twister/A9 still quite a bit ahead. Not the best news for higher end users (e.g., Samsung) trying to compete directly with Apple. At least sounds like overheating dealt with.
If I were him I would maybe would just not do ostentatious displays of wealth such as ridiculous mansions, bugattis etc. Put the money away, drive around in a GTI, etc. Not saying I think there is anything wrong with being wealthy or that people should generally hide it. Saying that if one doesn't like the kind of attention that it's attracting, then don't have it out front and center. Have yourself be the first thing people encounter rather than your wealth.
What's your problem with lightning? Seems to me it's better than Micro USB in virtually every possible way. If fact, it's one of the things I like most about having recently made switch to Apple.
Amazing he gets away with this stuff.
Let's not be naive and think that China doesn't try just as hard to spy on the US as the US does on China. If Chinese etc firms have come to realize that the extent the NSA is able to spy on them is greater than they previously thought, Snowden is the reason, not the spying itself, of course.
I remember when Apple used to create products that had incredibly positive impact on the lives of billions of people all over the world. Things like the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad -- all products that basically overnight changed everyone's ideas of what could be done in their areas.
Then Steve Jobs died.
4 years later all they've done is install 2015 model chips and plate some things in gold while Ive turns the most beautiful OS in existence into some kind of Japanese cartoon about bubblegum and Tim Cook sits around ordering Solyndra products and making ads about how wonderful his is for it.
I knew that Jobs was irreplaceable and that Apple would eventually just turn into another HP or whatever. But it's actually turned out to be something much worse. They aren't just operating at a lower level of competence. They've lost everything that made them great and become something different while having an arrogance and misguided confidence that makes even Steve Balmer look modest. It's as if they can't see how they aren't doing any of the things that made Apple great.
Hate all you want, but there's no denying the fact that the iPhone was the most revolutionary mobile phone there's ever been.
Look at phones the year the iPhone came out -- you clicked little plastic buttons or poked at (while hating) them with styli like Palm Pilots. Far and away the most satisfying one to use was the Blackberry which was essentially a candybar phone with full set of alphanumeric buttons instead of T9. All they were really good for beyond dialing numbers was writing emails.
Now everything's been clones of the iPhone since. Inertial scrolling, multitouch, practically identical user interfaces out of the box down to even the colors of the icons, etc -- they all use these things basically identically. Before the iPhone they had plastic buttons and you would try to scrolled around by jabbing little arrows on side of screen. The phones that have been most successful are the ones that are most similar to the iPhone and the ones that have failed are the ones that were least similar.
Hate all you want, but there's surely no other company that revolutionized personal computing and electronic devices the way Apple did while Jobs was still.
Sadly, it all ended in 2011. Look at phones. They're all the same as 2011 iPhone was just with 2015 cpu/graphic, 2015 screen brightness/contrast, 2015 CMOS camera sensors. Same with computers. Everything's just the same as an iPad or Macbook Air from 2011.
It's not a coincidence. Phones now are basically the same as an iPhone 4, just with brighter screens, 2015 processors, 2015 cameras sensors. Apple is not an innovative company anymore after Steve Jobs died. It's astonishing how big the contrast is.
The dominant reason Fox is so successful is that it is the only conservative-leaning major news network. All the others are liberal. So Fox gets almost all of 50% of the overall market (generally 50% of the population is left and 50% right), whereas all its competitors only get fractions of the other 50%