Well, for the cost of this monstrosity, what else could we do?
Although you alternate ideas are good, I think the very fact we don't know what we can get from this makes it a good idea. It's a good idea to invest in at least a few projects that are wild gambles that could lead to truly something new. And I say that as someone who thinks we seriously need to get humans on Mars...
The much larger than normal number of batteries sold, seemed to have led somewhat to a decline in new purchases that led to Apple's earnings warning.
That sent the stock down. But what I do not see anyone mulling over, are implications for the future... given the high degree of measured customer satisfaction from iPhone owners (90% +), this simply means that future sales have been deferred - not lost.
So at some point in the future, probably 1-2 years hence, there's going to be a bump in sales from all these people who got new batteries as they finally do upgrade...
Now an alternative to this scenario is: What if this gets more people accustomed to buying batteries to extend the life of phones? Even then it would just mean a longer delay, but it could lead to a deeper change in consumer behavior and generally longer ownership cycles, long term.
Cheap Mexican labor is fucking carrying our economy you stupid shill.
If true, why do you support such economic slavery? Would it not be better to reveal real costs of doing things rather than by exploiting poor Mexicans?
With the Deep State finally on ice for a while during the shutdown, America is a humming machine of growth now...
If you want to say, the experiment of massive government has obviously failed - well then, right there with you friend. But that was never what America was about, that is Europe.
Something I don't think many Democrats are really thinking about here, the longer the shutdown goes on the more people see how little government is really necessary or useful. If someone just came along and funded the national parks and TSA fully how many would notice the shutdown was ongoing? Very few.
My dream though is that with the TSA faltering they are all replaced by private security which at least might be a bit more effective, or better yet scrapped altogether out of practicality.
I'm not saying it's not impossible, but for that kind of accusation you need to provide some proof - I have not read of anything like that happening.
The location data is not as easy to got, nor as accurate as you and many other seem to think - and here they are saying most people would be asked via text if it was OK to hand out location data.
Again, I still don't think carriers should even be allowed to sell this data. Wouldn't that then make the perfect case to pass an actual LAW banning it - you know, the thing Congress DOES? Why should the FCC even be involved if the problem is truly serious?
I was going to correct you, but honestly since every single point you list is wrong, I figure I would just let people Google your individual points to laugh at you rather than spend all that effort myself.
On a larger meta level, there is a pretty damn huge advantage in having large numbers of people living off planet, some further physically removed than even just the moon or orbit...
I've been to ALL of those countries. YOU are the idiot, the poster is exactly right - the more authoritarian a country is, the worse the environment will be, in all sorts of ways (including just overall litter, never mind worse pollution).
East and West Germany was the best example of this profound and endlessly repeated truth - Venezuela being the most recent example of how Communism can turn even the most beautiful verdant land into a swirling cesspit of pollution and filth.
What the carriers are doing is horrible, no doubt. They should be stopped from selling location data to anyone, full stop.
But it's also not wrong to say - this is not threat to life. It's something that should be addressed when the government is re-opened.
If you are really really keen on this moving forward, add to the support to fund the wall already authorized by previous government bills, and move on.
A guy with a PhD in Nuclear Physics (and a consultant) thinks we should use nuclear power.>
In other words:
A guy who actually knows what the hell he is talking about comes up with great clean solution, is ridiculed by armchair pundit who apparently would rather watch the planet die than admit nuclear power was ever a good idea.
Geothermal and wave would be viable if we would do the same
Those are great answers for a small percentage of where people actually live.
Not everyone lives in Iceland though. How are people in Nevada supposed to take advantage of wave and geothermal energy? You can transmit power from the coasts but then you are dealing with large transmission losses.
Not to mention that while maybe if your poured a lot of money into those technologies, maybe in ten years they would be advanced enough to be widely usable. But what about NOW?
As the article says, if you do the math the hard cold fact is that if you are really serious about CO2 production a large part of the solution simply has to be nuclear. We can wean ourselves off that eventually but you need to be building more nuclear plants now.
It's not like Apple can design the cellular modems over night, so until they can come up with something good the next best thing is to go with a medium term more stable competitor that will actually sell them chips.
Maybe in five years we'll see an Apple part replacing this...
What? You don't think companies that specialize in a specific area are better at it than generalists?
That depends.
I agree that specialists can be better.
But don't you think it's also true with that specialists without strong competition can grow weak and lazy until suddenly someone comes along with better tech?
That's kind of where I feel like Qualcomm is at, yes they are clearly the best now, but I'm not at all sure it's impossible to dethrone them.
And there have to be many other companies besides Apple chafing at the bit for a strong competitor so Qualcom cannot hold cell phone makers hostage (not talking just Apple here)...
So please, do take it inhouse to save just $2 off of a $1200 phone.
The cost is not at all why, since with R&D costs it would probably cost way more.
The reason would be is if you could provide equivalent or superior quality of service in your own part, without being at the whims of a chip maker who has proven they are willing to withhold supply... and of course there's the matter of being sure as to what supply could be, rather than being taken out by a sudden shortage.
It seems like the whole 5G rollout thing is becoming a bit of a mess, maybe delivering 5G in 2020 is not so bad as most people are pretty happy with LTE speeds now and the question of you are getting 5G or not will have been resolved by then, along with somewhat expanded networks.
I will say that Qualcom chips did seem like they were more stable though, so from that aspect Apple has been hurt by this...
It's proven for sure that Apple is right to want to take all chip design in-house.
It is beyond absurd to me that people think anyone cares if women are in games just because they are women, when so many examples abound of hugely popular games that had either women leads or strong women in them.
So then when people say something is not realistic, perhaps you should look into why they are saying that rather than assume it's the fact women that are in there is the problem (read up on how they changed the Norwegian campaign).
The sad part is you could have an AWESOME and very realistic WW2 game that had women in it, sticking to historical accuracy. No need to revise history if that's a part of history you want to highlight.
Or, you know... it's just not a very good game. Couldn't have anything to do with it, though, no
That is why, but ignore then the question of WHY it's not a very good game, and there you get right back into the SJW territory of them having messed up the single player story.
I really liked the original Battlefield games and was thinking about getting this one. But I like the single player aspects of these games too, and them overly messing with the historical reality really put my off. It's sort of the uncanny valley but for story - don't try to make it historical but then mess with facts when it pleases you. Either make it an alternate history (which is fine) or stick to what was, which is pretty damn interesting all by itself.
From reading Angry Joe's review the multiplayer aspect and gameplay is actually pretty good. So if it's not that which has been messed up, what is left for reasons why people are not buying it...
one or more devices just plonked down on the pad, all charging. If placement isn't critical and you can charge multiple devices
To me that is the only possible angle of interest on the charging mat, the ability to place things anywhere on it and they will charge..
But I still don't know if I would get one, even though I have both an Apple Watch and iPhone but I really like using my watch on it's side in Nightstand mode. Maybe just to have a place I could throw some casually on a table if I felt like it needed a bit of a power refresh.
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Well, for the cost of this monstrosity, what else could we do?
Although you alternate ideas are good, I think the very fact we don't know what we can get from this makes it a good idea. It's a good idea to invest in at least a few projects that are wild gambles that could lead to truly something new. And I say that as someone who thinks we seriously need to get humans on Mars...
The much larger than normal number of batteries sold, seemed to have led somewhat to a decline in new purchases that led to Apple's earnings warning.
That sent the stock down. But what I do not see anyone mulling over, are implications for the future... given the high degree of measured customer satisfaction from iPhone owners (90% +), this simply means that future sales have been deferred - not lost.
So at some point in the future, probably 1-2 years hence, there's going to be a bump in sales from all these people who got new batteries as they finally do upgrade...
Now an alternative to this scenario is: What if this gets more people accustomed to buying batteries to extend the life of phones? Even then it would just mean a longer delay, but it could lead to a deeper change in consumer behavior and generally longer ownership cycles, long term.
Cheap Mexican labor is fucking carrying our economy you stupid shill.
If true, why do you support such economic slavery? Would it not be better to reveal real costs of doing things rather than by exploiting poor Mexicans?
I guess you just prefer to see them suffer. Sad.
Not true. They pay me in rubles.
I need to learn how to negotiate, I'm just getting paid in signed pictures of shirtless Putin wrestling bears!
With the Deep State finally on ice for a while during the shutdown, America is a humming machine of growth now...
If you want to say, the experiment of massive government has obviously failed - well then, right there with you friend. But that was never what America was about, that is Europe.
Something I don't think many Democrats are really thinking about here, the longer the shutdown goes on the more people see how little government is really necessary or useful. If someone just came along and funded the national parks and TSA fully how many would notice the shutdown was ongoing? Very few.
My dream though is that with the TSA faltering they are all replaced by private security which at least might be a bit more effective, or better yet scrapped altogether out of practicality.
I'm not saying it's not impossible, but for that kind of accusation you need to provide some proof - I have not read of anything like that happening.
The location data is not as easy to got, nor as accurate as you and many other seem to think - and here they are saying most people would be asked via text if it was OK to hand out location data.
Again, I still don't think carriers should even be allowed to sell this data. Wouldn't that then make the perfect case to pass an actual LAW banning it - you know, the thing Congress DOES? Why should the FCC even be involved if the problem is truly serious?
I was going to correct you, but honestly since every single point you list is wrong, I figure I would just let people Google your individual points to laugh at you rather than spend all that effort myself.
On a larger meta level, there is a pretty damn huge advantage in having large numbers of people living off planet, some further physically removed than even just the moon or orbit...
I've been to ALL of those countries. YOU are the idiot, the poster is exactly right - the more authoritarian a country is, the worse the environment will be, in all sorts of ways (including just overall litter, never mind worse pollution).
East and West Germany was the best example of this profound and endlessly repeated truth - Venezuela being the most recent example of how Communism can turn even the most beautiful verdant land into a swirling cesspit of pollution and filth.
What the carriers are doing is horrible, no doubt. They should be stopped from selling location data to anyone, full stop.
But it's also not wrong to say - this is not threat to life. It's something that should be addressed when the government is re-opened.
If you are really really keen on this moving forward, add to the support to fund the wall already authorized by previous government bills, and move on.
Just like you buckle your seat belt when riding in a car, use sunscreen when going outdoors.
That is actually bad advice, because then you are not getting nearly so much advantage of the exposure in producing vitamin D.
If you are just outside an hour or two, going in and out of the sun and/or mostly clothed, just don't worry about about it.
Just use sunscreen to prevent actual burns, not just because the sun will be on you...
Birdshot is harmless on the way back down.
Also harmless to drones more than 40ft away... but it is way more harmful to my sleep than some drone way overhead.
A guy with a PhD in Nuclear Physics (and a consultant) thinks we should use nuclear power.>
In other words:
A guy who actually knows what the hell he is talking about comes up with great clean solution, is ridiculed by armchair pundit who apparently would rather watch the planet die than admit nuclear power was ever a good idea.
Geothermal and wave would be viable if we would do the same
Those are great answers for a small percentage of where people actually live.
Not everyone lives in Iceland though. How are people in Nevada supposed to take advantage of wave and geothermal energy? You can transmit power from the coasts but then you are dealing with large transmission losses.
Not to mention that while maybe if your poured a lot of money into those technologies, maybe in ten years they would be advanced enough to be widely usable. But what about NOW?
As the article says, if you do the math the hard cold fact is that if you are really serious about CO2 production a large part of the solution simply has to be nuclear. We can wean ourselves off that eventually but you need to be building more nuclear plants now.
Came to see formerly libertarian Slashdot mainly grouse at some level of sensible freedom being restored - was disappointed but not surprised.
Why are supposed technologists scared about drones flying at night?
OSX is shit, AND, the only way to get it is by purchasing horrendously overpriced crap hardware.
Even if you really don't like the hardware (which is mostly not overpriced), you can always build a hackintosh...
I still think OSX is nicer than even Windows 7, in many ways.
no 8k!!!
Indeed, Apple will be forced to leaving downloading 8k content to watch on 4K screens the size of your hand to all the Android phone makers. :-)
then why go with the intel chip
It's not like Apple can design the cellular modems over night, so until they can come up with something good the next best thing is to go with a medium term more stable competitor that will actually sell them chips.
Maybe in five years we'll see an Apple part replacing this...
What? You don't think companies that specialize in a specific area are better at it than generalists?
That depends.
I agree that specialists can be better.
But don't you think it's also true with that specialists without strong competition can grow weak and lazy until suddenly someone comes along with better tech?
That's kind of where I feel like Qualcomm is at, yes they are clearly the best now, but I'm not at all sure it's impossible to dethrone them.
And there have to be many other companies besides Apple chafing at the bit for a strong competitor so Qualcom cannot hold cell phone makers hostage (not talking just Apple here)...
So please, do take it inhouse to save just $2 off of a $1200 phone.
The cost is not at all why, since with R&D costs it would probably cost way more.
The reason would be is if you could provide equivalent or superior quality of service in your own part, without being at the whims of a chip maker who has proven they are willing to withhold supply... and of course there's the matter of being sure as to what supply could be, rather than being taken out by a sudden shortage.
It seems like the whole 5G rollout thing is becoming a bit of a mess, maybe delivering 5G in 2020 is not so bad as most people are pretty happy with LTE speeds now and the question of you are getting 5G or not will have been resolved by then, along with somewhat expanded networks.
I will say that Qualcom chips did seem like they were more stable though, so from that aspect Apple has been hurt by this...
It's proven for sure that Apple is right to want to take all chip design in-house.
"Women? In my game? THAT'S NOT REALISTIC!
It is beyond absurd to me that people think anyone cares if women are in games just because they are women, when so many examples abound of hugely popular games that had either women leads or strong women in them.
So then when people say something is not realistic, perhaps you should look into why they are saying that rather than assume it's the fact women that are in there is the problem (read up on how they changed the Norwegian campaign).
The sad part is you could have an AWESOME and very realistic WW2 game that had women in it, sticking to historical accuracy. No need to revise history if that's a part of history you want to highlight.
Or, you know... it's just not a very good game. Couldn't have anything to do with it, though, no
That is why, but ignore then the question of WHY it's not a very good game, and there you get right back into the SJW territory of them having messed up the single player story.
I really liked the original Battlefield games and was thinking about getting this one. But I like the single player aspects of these games too, and them overly messing with the historical reality really put my off. It's sort of the uncanny valley but for story - don't try to make it historical but then mess with facts when it pleases you. Either make it an alternate history (which is fine) or stick to what was, which is pretty damn interesting all by itself.
From reading Angry Joe's review the multiplayer aspect and gameplay is actually pretty good. So if it's not that which has been messed up, what is left for reasons why people are not buying it...
Is this an artifact of averaging and poor journalism, where the target was really 1 photon, and sometimes more are released?
I thought the phrasing was odd as well but took it to mean as you say here, a very few number of photons, close to one.
Change in rx power would trivially detect someone tapping the fiber.
Wouldn't fiber rx power naturally change over time, depending on age of cable, and temperature?
At first I was against it, but after reading that it breaks AMP I say - Bravo, sir. Bravo.
one or more devices just plonked down on the pad, all charging. If placement isn't critical and you can charge multiple devices
To me that is the only possible angle of interest on the charging mat, the ability to place things anywhere on it and they will charge..
But I still don't know if I would get one, even though I have both an Apple Watch and iPhone but I really like using my watch on it's side in Nightstand mode. Maybe just to have a place I could throw some casually on a table if I felt like it needed a bit of a power refresh.