Volunteers in Joshua Tree are collecting trash from the parks, and I assume in other places too.
No reason much of the janitorial aspect of the parks could not be covered by a gofundme that would cover hiring a real janitorial company, plenty of people would be willing to pay.
Yeah because the point of people buying something like an Amazon Dot
Amazon here is not saying how many Dot units they shipped it is "Alexa enabled devices". Have you been paying attention to how many devices have Alexa included as an additional feature?
Recently I was looking at new thermostats. Not even looking for a smart thermostat, and one of the options had Alexa built in... but even if I bought that model, I would not enabling it.
I have to wonder how many other devices have been sold that include Alexa, but are not using it?
I don't know the actual answer (how you would say the whole thing to sound normal to someone who worked with names like that), but I like to imagine the "," is pronounced by the same clicks the Xhosa use as part of everyday speech in South Africa...
I agree, it was not THAT long. Probably whatever grammar checker system they had refused to let it pass. Or like you say he was just lazy and thought all his readers were morons. Either way, not a good look.
If you do video at all from a phone (and you should, the quality these days from any modern smart phone is quite high) some professional video capture apps are useful if you know what you are doing. (basically Filmic Pro)
If you do photography much at all, TPE is an invaluable tool to understand how the sun and the moon will relate to your location through the day.
There are a variety of great weather apps that are useful for different things, I really like Weatherline and Weather Radar Pro.
Call blocker apps are invaluable with the rising levels of call spam.
On the iPad Affinity Photo is a for-real photo editor with almost all the desktop features.
Those are some paid apps I think are really worthwhile, of course there are scores of free apps that have utility at times. I'm sure there are a lot of other paid app examples I don't even use or have forgotten.
Basically I would challenge the notion that anyone paying for apps is spending very much money at all, because you can get an awful lot of utility for not much money.
Even if we switch to 100% carbon-neutral energy overnight (and fix all the other sources like construction and agriculture) - what makes you think the warming we've started will stop at "the right amount"?
Because even the IPCC thinks we are hitting the 2C or so mark, and between 2C-4C is fine. Basically anything that is not runaway warming (remember, the thing that was supposed to scare us originally, now not in the cards in any forecast) can be dealt with.
The carbon we've already released will continue warming us for decades
If you want to believe that fine, but then you have to believe it can only have the same measured effect it has already had.
CO2 is far less a factor in warming than you have been led to believe, solar input is a huge factor, and the Earth has literally evolved over billions of years to regulate CO2 so whatever we put in will all be dealt with a lot more easily than the output from various volcanoes has in the past.
It's ridiculous to worry about potential future glaciation
Since it's the only thing that can literally destroy our species I'd say you cannot worry enough about it.
Whatever level of warming may be coming will not even put much of a dent in population growth. The warmer it is the more places can grow crops, the more water is in the atmosphere from ocean evaporation so jungles would be the norm, not deserts. That's just common sense and nonsense about areas becoming desert ignores basic science of water and atmosphere.
Plus if the earth starts to cool like that we will have centuries to come up with a solution, perhaps burning that fossil fuel we kept in reserve..?
You are not thinking about all this in terms of momentum - way easier to keep the Earth from sinking into a decline, than it is to stop a decline in progress (especially given how long it would take us all to agree the danger is real).
We have lucked out into warming the climate by about the right amount before we switch to mostly alternative energy sources.
OneNote I used on an iPad and my desktop for a while, for a client.
However one day, it just started crashing on the iPad, on login. Reinstall - still crash. Wait a month for an update or two, still crashes...
I gave up at that point. I now use Notes.app for most things, I can have shared lists with my wife very easily, and It syncs well enough between desktop and other devices. It has just enough features...
I had looked at Evernote and even used it for a time, but it was too bulky for most of what I needed.
Purely curious, but what about FaceID do you find to be vastly superior?
Because I don't have to ever think consciously about authenticating, it just happens. As someone else said in the past, the feel of it is like using a phone without a passcode... A few examples:
1) Notifications show up, but text is not revealed until I look at the phone.
2) I really can just Siri to open any app with the phone locked, and it will open up without having to wait for the prompt to unlock.
3) I can just pick up my phone and by the time I'm swiping it up to open it's unlocked and I am in.
4) On an iPad FaceID has an additional feature of meaning the device truly has no orientation, which makes it nicer to use (no fingerprint/home button to seek out to move between apps).
5) It also is way nice if you have touch sensitive gloves, since you don't have to take off the gloves to unlock and use your phone. However, there is a sticking point there - I've not been happy with any touch sensitive gloves I've bought yet. I bought two light pairs of gloves last year, and the touch registration was a bit iffy to start, but after a year has past, this winter I find it does not work at all. If anyone has any suggestions for very good gloves, or particular tech to look for I am all ears (both gloves I had just had a touch registering fabric, but I think there is some more wire mesh looking material I have seen in the past that may hold up better).
6) For older users FaceID is super reliable (as the older you get the more distinctive your face is). TouchID has trouble the older you are - the fingerprint sensors the government uses for global entry cannot even read my mothers fingerprints anymore. TouchID on an iPhone does work for her, but sometimes it's not able to read prints depending on how dry her hands are.
Some people said I was being hyperbolic but I am serious, I would never buy another device without FaceID, for anyone.
For example a student who goes home on weekends and at every semester break probably can't get by with an EV if they go to school >300 miles from home. Someone who spends a good deal of their leisure time hiking far from the city probably can't get by with a EV. Someone who spends their weekends visiting other towns, cities and the countryside can't get by with an EV.
What decade d you live in? A Tesla model D can go 335 miles on a charge, and the long range Model 3 can go 310 miles. There also also superchargers in most large cities now making almost any trip practical. I go hiking a lot and >300 miles of range is plenty to reach anywhere you are day hiking, even over a weekend....
I've been looking at it for a while and the ONLY place I'm not sure I could get around one very well is Utah. But even there you could make it just fine if you were on the highway, then dipped down into the southern end and relied on electric power from hotels for the night.
FaceID is vastly better than fingerprint detection so I am happy to see Sony offering something to where this can be offered to many other phone makers...
It's only half of the equation though, once you get a detailed depth map you need software to be able to verify it's an authenticated face. Probably Sony will have some kind of reference implementation for that, that while not as good as Apple's will be good enough for most people.
You act like that is hard but over a hundred years, that is not hard. Nor is it even a lot of people affected compared to the bitter reality of a colder climate truly getting a grip on the world.
I'm not expecting that to happen. China's playing the long game and waiting it out.
While that is traditionally China's strength, they do not have that luxury.
The Apple guidance in a way, is a small window to how tariffs are actually hurting the Chinese economy. They cannot afford to play the long game here; the U.S. can, and Trump would. Do you seriously think there will not be major unrest within a year if things carry on as they are?
China's willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.
I wonder if the China tariff stuff gets resolved this month, if that would improve the outlook a lot since most o the miss is supposed to be from China.
It's going to be down even so though, as it seems like it's not just China...
The funny thing is Apple at the last keynote was talking about wanting users to have longer upgrade cycles. The wish came true, just a bit early.:-)
I don't like the look of the other Tesla models but I happen to think the Model 3 is a great looking car. I think they actually got the styling right there and I like it more than any other sedan I've seen in a long while.
I really don't care to watch PewDiePie at all (I tried a little, once).
However the actions of his hacking subscription army exposing the absolute dismal state of the Internet Of Thangs has me absolutely cheering him on and wishing for more, and more and more similar activity until even the least technical person says "wait a minute" to installing new network connected devices.
Practically speaking, routers should probably pair with some sort of phone app and do notifications to ask for approval when a upnp request comes in and not grant forwarding until approved.
Are there any routers that do this? It sounds like a great idea. I already have an app for my Lynksys unit, it would be a really nice feature to not let any devices take part of using PnP without my approving.
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This has to be the ultimate trolling tool, going to be seeing this used a ton!
Volunteers in Joshua Tree are collecting trash from the parks, and I assume in other places too.
No reason much of the janitorial aspect of the parks could not be covered by a gofundme that would cover hiring a real janitorial company, plenty of people would be willing to pay.
Yeah because the point of people buying something like an Amazon Dot
Amazon here is not saying how many Dot units they shipped it is "Alexa enabled devices". Have you been paying attention to how many devices have Alexa included as an additional feature?
Cars for example...
Recently I was looking at new thermostats. Not even looking for a smart thermostat, and one of the options had Alexa built in... but even if I bought that model, I would not enabling it.
I have to wonder how many other devices have been sold that include Alexa, but are not using it?
I don't know the actual answer (how you would say the whole thing to sound normal to someone who worked with names like that), but I like to imagine the "," is pronounced by the same clicks the Xhosa use as part of everyday speech in South Africa...
It is a good development! Once solar crosses that line in value, uptake will be rapid and replace a lot of older forms of power generation.
Because there's no such thing as *Grid Scale* batteries.-> FIFY
Or... maybe there is now.
IF he really is richer than most, it is because most rich people aren't idling away their time in things like candy crush saga, fortnite, etc
I agree that rich people are probably not spending idle time on games.
All the more reason to judiciously purchase apps that save you time and trouble, giving you more time for the things that make you rich.
I find it a bit amusing that you proceeded to ALSO not give us the actual name despite complaint...
It is:
Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase
I agree, it was not THAT long. Probably whatever grammar checker system they had refused to let it pass. Or like you say he was just lazy and thought all his readers were morons. Either way, not a good look.
What apps are worth buying? Serious question.
It varier per person, per need and interest.
I like a number of weather apps.
If you do video at all from a phone (and you should, the quality these days from any modern smart phone is quite high) some professional video capture apps are useful if you know what you are doing. (basically Filmic Pro)
If you do photography much at all, TPE is an invaluable tool to understand how the sun and the moon will relate to your location through the day.
There are a variety of great weather apps that are useful for different things, I really like Weatherline and Weather Radar Pro.
Call blocker apps are invaluable with the rising levels of call spam.
On the iPad Affinity Photo is a for-real photo editor with almost all the desktop features.
Those are some paid apps I think are really worthwhile, of course there are scores of free apps that have utility at times. I'm sure there are a lot of other paid app examples I don't even use or have forgotten.
Basically I would challenge the notion that anyone paying for apps is spending very much money at all, because you can get an awful lot of utility for not much money.
Even if we switch to 100% carbon-neutral energy overnight (and fix all the other sources like construction and agriculture) - what makes you think the warming we've started will stop at "the right amount"?
Because even the IPCC thinks we are hitting the 2C or so mark, and between 2C-4C is fine. Basically anything that is not runaway warming (remember, the thing that was supposed to scare us originally, now not in the cards in any forecast) can be dealt with.
The carbon we've already released will continue warming us for decades
If you want to believe that fine, but then you have to believe it can only have the same measured effect it has already had.
CO2 is far less a factor in warming than you have been led to believe, solar input is a huge factor, and the Earth has literally evolved over billions of years to regulate CO2 so whatever we put in will all be dealt with a lot more easily than the output from various volcanoes has in the past.
It's ridiculous to worry about potential future glaciation
Since it's the only thing that can literally destroy our species I'd say you cannot worry enough about it.
Whatever level of warming may be coming will not even put much of a dent in population growth. The warmer it is the more places can grow crops, the more water is in the atmosphere from ocean evaporation so jungles would be the norm, not deserts. That's just common sense and nonsense about areas becoming desert ignores basic science of water and atmosphere.
I'm sure you are SO RICH because you spend $10/month less than most people on apps.
There are a lot of other common things you can not do that save you way more money...
I canâ(TM)t tell if youâ(TM)re a big statist or a rabid Libertarian.
It's easy to tell! I'll give you a general guide.
If they are advocating a course of action that hurts others, they are statists.
If they are telling everyone to leave someone alone, they are libertarians.
I'd say telling everyone to set fire to Google and Amazon properties falls pretty clearly in the "Fascist Statist" camp.
Plus if the earth starts to cool like that we will have centuries to come up with a solution, perhaps burning that fossil fuel we kept in reserve..?
You are not thinking about all this in terms of momentum - way easier to keep the Earth from sinking into a decline, than it is to stop a decline in progress (especially given how long it would take us all to agree the danger is real).
We have lucked out into warming the climate by about the right amount before we switch to mostly alternative energy sources.
OneNote I used on an iPad and my desktop for a while, for a client.
However one day, it just started crashing on the iPad, on login. Reinstall - still crash. Wait a month for an update or two, still crashes...
I gave up at that point. I now use Notes.app for most things, I can have shared lists with my wife very easily, and It syncs well enough between desktop and other devices. It has just enough features...
I had looked at Evernote and even used it for a time, but it was too bulky for most of what I needed.
Purely curious, but what about FaceID do you find to be vastly superior?
Because I don't have to ever think consciously about authenticating, it just happens. As someone else said in the past, the feel of it is like using a phone without a passcode... A few examples:
1) Notifications show up, but text is not revealed until I look at the phone.
2) I really can just Siri to open any app with the phone locked, and it will open up without having to wait for the prompt to unlock.
3) I can just pick up my phone and by the time I'm swiping it up to open it's unlocked and I am in.
4) On an iPad FaceID has an additional feature of meaning the device truly has no orientation, which makes it nicer to use (no fingerprint/home button to seek out to move between apps).
5) It also is way nice if you have touch sensitive gloves, since you don't have to take off the gloves to unlock and use your phone. However, there is a sticking point there - I've not been happy with any touch sensitive gloves I've bought yet. I bought two light pairs of gloves last year, and the touch registration was a bit iffy to start, but after a year has past, this winter I find it does not work at all. If anyone has any suggestions for very good gloves, or particular tech to look for I am all ears (both gloves I had just had a touch registering fabric, but I think there is some more wire mesh looking material I have seen in the past that may hold up better).
6) For older users FaceID is super reliable (as the older you get the more distinctive your face is). TouchID has trouble the older you are - the fingerprint sensors the government uses for global entry cannot even read my mothers fingerprints anymore. TouchID on an iPhone does work for her, but sometimes it's not able to read prints depending on how dry her hands are.
Some people said I was being hyperbolic but I am serious, I would never buy another device without FaceID, for anyone.
That's why I mention fuel cells - with hydrogen you would just fill up at a gas station converted to deliver hydrogen.
I agree there are a LOT of places you will not be able to install or realistically use chargers. I already see some vandalized.
For example a student who goes home on weekends and at every semester break probably can't get by with an EV if they go to school >300 miles from home. Someone who spends a good deal of their leisure time hiking far from the city probably can't get by with a EV. Someone who spends their weekends visiting other towns, cities and the countryside can't get by with an EV.
What decade d you live in? A Tesla model D can go 335 miles on a charge, and the long range Model 3 can go 310 miles. There also also superchargers in most large cities now making almost any trip practical. I go hiking a lot and >300 miles of range is plenty to reach anywhere you are day hiking, even over a weekend....
I've been looking at it for a while and the ONLY place I'm not sure I could get around one very well is Utah. But even there you could make it just fine if you were on the highway, then dipped down into the southern end and relied on electric power from hotels for the night.
FaceID is vastly better than fingerprint detection so I am happy to see Sony offering something to where this can be offered to many other phone makers...
It's only half of the equation though, once you get a detailed depth map you need software to be able to verify it's an authenticated face. Probably Sony will have some kind of reference implementation for that, that while not as good as Apple's will be good enough for most people.
You act like that is hard but over a hundred years, that is not hard. Nor is it even a lot of people affected compared to the bitter reality of a colder climate truly getting a grip on the world.
I'm not expecting that to happen. China's playing the long game and waiting it out.
While that is traditionally China's strength, they do not have that luxury.
The Apple guidance in a way, is a small window to how tariffs are actually hurting the Chinese economy. They cannot afford to play the long game here; the U.S. can, and Trump would. Do you seriously think there will not be major unrest within a year if things carry on as they are?
China's willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.
Yes but not both legs.
I wonder if the China tariff stuff gets resolved this month, if that would improve the outlook a lot since most o the miss is supposed to be from China.
It's going to be down even so though, as it seems like it's not just China...
The funny thing is Apple at the last keynote was talking about wanting users to have longer upgrade cycles. The wish came true, just a bit early. :-)
I don't like the look of the other Tesla models but I happen to think the Model 3 is a great looking car. I think they actually got the styling right there and I like it more than any other sedan I've seen in a long while.
I really don't care to watch PewDiePie at all (I tried a little, once).
However the actions of his hacking subscription army exposing the absolute dismal state of the Internet Of Thangs has me absolutely cheering him on and wishing for more, and more and more similar activity until even the least technical person says "wait a minute" to installing new network connected devices.
Practically speaking, routers should probably pair with some sort of phone app and do notifications to ask for approval when a upnp request comes in and not grant forwarding until approved.
Are there any routers that do this? It sounds like a great idea. I already have an app for my Lynksys unit, it would be a really nice feature to not let any devices take part of using PnP without my approving.