Email is de-centralized, it's an open standard and with some effort you can use it for basically everything. So they hate it. They all want you to use centralized, closed platforms with every bit of data going through their servers. They = MS, Google, FaceBook, all of them.
The fact that you need to jump through hoops meanwhile to get a sane email environment isn't at all an accident. They don't want you to use email. So fucking use it.
It not just looks. When I got my iPhone 6 I was pretty much surprised how nicely this thing slides into my pocket. Thinness definitely is a feature when it comes to devices you put into pockets 20 times a day. This, along with smaller bezels, is also one of the very few things you can differentiate your product from others and that you can immediately see and feel.
The thing is that Apple could do this without any problems since there is the menu bar on top anyway and it is controlled by the OS. So putting a "notch" for the camera in the left or right corner and then not using that corner for anything in the menubar would be no problem for them. This way they could put a 13" screen in the case of the 12" Macbook, raise the price again $300 and laugh all the way to the bank. (And if they would fix the fucking keyboard on that thing I would even buy it.)
The BFR booster should be not that hard, yes. The second stage (the ship) though will be very hard. A fully reusable second stage that is a spaceship at the same time and can go to Mars and land there and be refueled and launch back to Earth and land there and then will be refueled on Earth and fly to Mars again? This is hard. Not impossible, mind you. Just a really tough nut to crack engineering-wise. And certainly nothing like just "scaling up the F9". At least one order of magnitude harder.
Everybody wants to stretch the display over all of the front or at least do that as far as possible. Since there are a few things (like the camera) that have to stay there too, you have to make room for them. So the only options right now are either a "notch" or a "full-width notch" (having the display not cover all of the height of the front). Since you can make good use of the display areas left and right of the notch you get more usable display area this way compared to leaving empty a strip on the top or bottom of the front just to put the camera there.
Nobody risks a satellite (which almost always is much more expensive than the rocket that launches it) on the very first launch of a new rocket. Well, at least not if the company that builds that rocket says that this is a test launch and has a good chance of not succeeding. Spending millions and millions of dollars on satellites just to see them go down in flames is not a wise move.
First: This is a test launch. The alternative would have been a block of steel or concrete.
Second: Where's the "super rich" angle coming from here? SpaceX is a business, just like building roads and cars and railroads is a business. The next FH launch is already signed, will have a paying customer and will launch a GSO comsat, just like the F9 launches things for money and is cheaper than others.
This money is not coming from nothing and if this launch wouldn't happen you wouldn't have a single penny more than you have now. Rockets aren't pyramids.
Because on the Moon the ice is at best in eternally shaded craters, buried as small crystal in the dust. Evidence even for this is inconclusive (there's hydrogen there, but it doesn't have to be water). Then the Moon has an unforgiving thermal environment with lots of sun and long dark nights. And then the Moon has no atmosphere, which means no protection against micrometeorites. And then Mars has an atmosphere of CO2 which gives you a source of easy accessible carbon. Also to land on the Moon you have to brake with engines and propellants all the way down while on Mars you have the atmosphere to do most of that for you. Also Mars is much more interesting to explore, since it had a wet and warmer past, so you can go and look for signs of past life instead of digging through dead dust on the Moon.
OK, this has somewhat limited potential, but still... what are they doing at Apple? Such things just should not happen. It's almost as if they're developing macOS as a hobby project, and there are hobby projects that do not have such glaring bugs.
I have tested this with the Battery Live app on my three years old iPhone 6: My battery has degraded by 3% now. And accordingly I have not noticed any slow-down or diminishing of battery live on my iPhone. So I now understand why I was so perplexed by people complaining about slow-downs: Their batteries may have degraded much more for some reason and so they had good reasons to be angry. And I hadn't.
But if your old iPhone is still going strong otherwise and you would keep it for another year or two otherwise, spending $50 or $80 to have your battery replaced may be just worth it.
The thing is that Xcode compiles iOS apps for Intel anyway and they run natively on the Mac. It won't be rocket science to get cross-platform apps. And then Apple will have it much easier to switch to their own SoCs for MacBooks.
First, I don't need these things either. But "installing a device that can literally listen to everything you're saying" is something you do ANYWAY. Every device that has a microphone and an Internet connection and that runs software that you didn't write can potentially do exactly the same.
If you don't believe Amazon, Apple or Google that they don't surveil you with these gadgets, why should you believe them when they say that they aren't listening to everything you say through your smartphone or your laptop? Why?
I do volunteer work and the organization uses a closed FB page for communicating to volunteers. I created an account with an alais, a disposable email address and didn't indicate any locality information. No photo of me.
It suggest my son as "someone I might know".
Rather creepy that it is this intrusive.
If you used the same phone or the same browser on a computer for both accounts you immediately told them that both accounts were you. If you want to keep two accounts separated you need to use two different devices for them. And even then some data crunching will give you away sooner or later.
Saying that you give FB something for FB letting you use FB without paying money for it just means that this is a deal. It does not necessarily mean it is a good deal for you, but it is a deal. You don't get anything there for free and what FB does is not free either.
This happened to me with facebook when I had just started dating someone. We had been going out about a week, and she said that facebook kept recommending my profile to her, even though we had no friends in common, etc. The only connection I could see was that she was using the same phone to text me and access facebook. I thought maybe facebook accessed her contacts on her phone, saw a new contact that matched the phone number I have stored with facebook, and suggested me to her.
Yes: The FaceBook app uploads all contacts on the phone to the FB servers at every launch. So as soon as she had your contact on the phone and then used Facebook, Facebook knew your contact data, knew it was new and suggested you to her. There is nothing mysterious about that, it works exactly like that and it is supposed to work like that. This was one of the reasons I stopped using Facebook rather quickly.
"We had only communicated through my work email, which is not connected to my Facebook, which convinced me Facebook was scanning my work email."
Well, but the other person may have had this work email in his address book that Facebook pilfers completely. When I still had a Facebook account it often suggested people from which I knew they had my email address I used for my Facebook account.
It's hopeless, you may stay as far away from FB as you want: If you interact in any way with people who ARE Facebook users FB will learn a lot of you. Just as with WhatsApp: You may not use it and not upload all your contacts to WhatsApp, but other WhatsApp users do this (WhatsApp uploads all contacts) and so WhatsApp knows who has your address in his contacts, so they know who's connected to you even if you don't interact with WhatsApp in any way yourself.
They all may not see you, but they see a you-shaped hole in the network.
What is the maximum price youâ(TM)d pay for a pair of shoes or a bottle of whine? Does luxury start immediately at âoemore expensive than the cheapestâ?
Whatâ(TM)s $1000 for something you will use 50 times a day every day for years? If you can afford it? I donâ(TM)t get the hate, even if I wonâ(TM)t buy this thing.
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Email is de-centralized, it's an open standard and with some effort you can use it for basically everything. So they hate it. They all want you to use centralized, closed platforms with every bit of data going through their servers. They = MS, Google, FaceBook, all of them.
The fact that you need to jump through hoops meanwhile to get a sane email environment isn't at all an accident. They don't want you to use email. So fucking use it.
My phone is 4 years old now and the battery still is at 92% capacity.
It not just looks. When I got my iPhone 6 I was pretty much surprised how nicely this thing slides into my pocket. Thinness definitely is a feature when it comes to devices you put into pockets 20 times a day. This, along with smaller bezels, is also one of the very few things you can differentiate your product from others and that you can immediately see and feel.
The thing is that Apple could do this without any problems since there is the menu bar on top anyway and it is controlled by the OS. So putting a "notch" for the camera in the left or right corner and then not using that corner for anything in the menubar would be no problem for them. This way they could put a 13" screen in the case of the 12" Macbook, raise the price again $300 and laugh all the way to the bank. (And if they would fix the fucking keyboard on that thing I would even buy it.)
The BFR booster should be not that hard, yes. The second stage (the ship) though will be very hard. A fully reusable second stage that is a spaceship at the same time and can go to Mars and land there and be refueled and launch back to Earth and land there and then will be refueled on Earth and fly to Mars again? This is hard. Not impossible, mind you. Just a really tough nut to crack engineering-wise. And certainly nothing like just "scaling up the F9". At least one order of magnitude harder.
Everybody wants to stretch the display over all of the front or at least do that as far as possible. Since there are a few things (like the camera) that have to stay there too, you have to make room for them. So the only options right now are either a "notch" or a "full-width notch" (having the display not cover all of the height of the front). Since you can make good use of the display areas left and right of the notch you get more usable display area this way compared to leaving empty a strip on the top or bottom of the front just to put the camera there.
What's so hard to understand about this?
But it is much, much cheaper than the Saturn V. It's also twice as powerful than anything else flying today.
Nobody risks a satellite (which almost always is much more expensive than the rocket that launches it) on the very first launch of a new rocket. Well, at least not if the company that builds that rocket says that this is a test launch and has a good chance of not succeeding. Spending millions and millions of dollars on satellites just to see them go down in flames is not a wise move.
First: This is a test launch. The alternative would have been a block of steel or concrete.
Second: Where's the "super rich" angle coming from here? SpaceX is a business, just like building roads and cars and railroads is a business. The next FH launch is already signed, will have a paying customer and will launch a GSO comsat, just like the F9 launches things for money and is cheaper than others.
This money is not coming from nothing and if this launch wouldn't happen you wouldn't have a single penny more than you have now. Rockets aren't pyramids.
Why would anyone need a country like Russia with a GDP smaller than that of Italy to create a "megalomaniacally strong economic block"?
'nuff said.
Because on the Moon the ice is at best in eternally shaded craters, buried as small crystal in the dust. Evidence even for this is inconclusive (there's hydrogen there, but it doesn't have to be water). Then the Moon has an unforgiving thermal environment with lots of sun and long dark nights. And then the Moon has no atmosphere, which means no protection against micrometeorites. And then Mars has an atmosphere of CO2 which gives you a source of easy accessible carbon. Also to land on the Moon you have to brake with engines and propellants all the way down while on Mars you have the atmosphere to do most of that for you. Also Mars is much more interesting to explore, since it had a wet and warmer past, so you can go and look for signs of past life instead of digging through dead dust on the Moon.
And nothing of this is in any way new.
OK, this has somewhat limited potential, but still... what are they doing at Apple? Such things just should not happen. It's almost as if they're developing macOS as a hobby project, and there are hobby projects that do not have such glaring bugs.
Demand after the last quarter in the year with the iPhone X being new and around Xmas will drop the first quarter of the new year? Unheard of!
I have tested this with the Battery Live app on my three years old iPhone 6: My battery has degraded by 3% now. And accordingly I have not noticed any slow-down or diminishing of battery live on my iPhone. So I now understand why I was so perplexed by people complaining about slow-downs: Their batteries may have degraded much more for some reason and so they had good reasons to be angry. And I hadn't.
But if your old iPhone is still going strong otherwise and you would keep it for another year or two otherwise, spending $50 or $80 to have your battery replaced may be just worth it.
The thing is that Xcode compiles iOS apps for Intel anyway and they run natively on the Mac. It won't be rocket science to get cross-platform apps. And then Apple will have it much easier to switch to their own SoCs for MacBooks.
First, I don't need these things either. But "installing a device that can literally listen to everything you're saying" is something you do ANYWAY. Every device that has a microphone and an Internet connection and that runs software that you didn't write can potentially do exactly the same.
If you don't believe Amazon, Apple or Google that they don't surveil you with these gadgets, why should you believe them when they say that they aren't listening to everything you say through your smartphone or your laptop? Why?
Most launches aren't to the space station at all but just satellite launches.
... is less than 10 cent.
I do volunteer work and the organization uses a closed FB page for communicating to volunteers. I created an account with an alais, a disposable email address and didn't indicate any locality information. No photo of me.
It suggest my son as "someone I might know".
Rather creepy that it is this intrusive.
If you used the same phone or the same browser on a computer for both accounts you immediately told them that both accounts were you. If you want to keep two accounts separated you need to use two different devices for them. And even then some data crunching will give you away sooner or later.
Saying that you give FB something for FB letting you use FB without paying money for it just means that this is a deal. It does not necessarily mean it is a good deal for you, but it is a deal. You don't get anything there for free and what FB does is not free either.
This happened to me with facebook when I had just started dating someone. We had been going out about a week, and she said that facebook kept recommending my profile to her, even though we had no friends in common, etc. The only connection I could see was that she was using the same phone to text me and access facebook. I thought maybe facebook accessed her contacts on her phone, saw a new contact that matched the phone number I have stored with facebook, and suggested me to her.
Yes: The FaceBook app uploads all contacts on the phone to the FB servers at every launch. So as soon as she had your contact on the phone and then used Facebook, Facebook knew your contact data, knew it was new and suggested you to her. There is nothing mysterious about that, it works exactly like that and it is supposed to work like that. This was one of the reasons I stopped using Facebook rather quickly.
"We had only communicated through my work email, which is not connected to my Facebook, which convinced me Facebook was scanning my work email."
Well, but the other person may have had this work email in his address book that Facebook pilfers completely. When I still had a Facebook account it often suggested people from which I knew they had my email address I used for my Facebook account.
It's hopeless, you may stay as far away from FB as you want: If you interact in any way with people who ARE Facebook users FB will learn a lot of you. Just as with WhatsApp: You may not use it and not upload all your contacts to WhatsApp, but other WhatsApp users do this (WhatsApp uploads all contacts) and so WhatsApp knows who has your address in his contacts, so they know who's connected to you even if you don't interact with WhatsApp in any way yourself.
They all may not see you, but they see a you-shaped hole in the network.
What is the maximum price youâ(TM)d pay for a pair of shoes or a bottle of whine? Does luxury start immediately at âoemore expensive than the cheapestâ?
Whatâ(TM)s $1000 for something you will use 50 times a day every day for years? If you can afford it? I donâ(TM)t get the hate, even if I wonâ(TM)t buy this thing.
Pressurizing it would mean to seal all walls and to build 100m bulkheads. This is hard.
But even without that you get shielding against radiation and against micro meteoroids. Both are useful to have and hard to come by on the Moon.