If you mean multi-rotor aircraft without wings: It's because they need to accelerate upwards with one g all the time just to not drop out of the sky. This is cool for being able to whip around at will, but very bad for efficiency.
But yes, you could possibly build a kind of hybrid helicopter this way. Generate power with a gasoline powered motor and use it to power some electric rotors. You'd trade some efficiency losses against more control and maybe more reliability, especially if you use two redundant motors for power generation. The worst feature of helicopters is the mechanical complexity and you could cut this down a lot this way. Still, range and lifting power will be worse.
Come on, that's a difference of $400. Give the iPhone a $200 higher resale value than the Note 4 after two years (conservative) and you'll be spending $200 more on the iPhone, which is $100 a year, which is $8.34 a month.
You don't need to be in "a financial situation where you're peeing in gold-plated toilets" to be able to do that.
All of this rage is totally irrational. If you aren't piss poor (which may happen and in this case you'd need to be an idiot to spend more than $99 on a phone) it's more like being able to afford a cup of coffee once a week or not. This is not the difference between being poor or being rich, not by far.
Compare phones to cars or shoes. People don't just buy the cheapest piece of shit that gets them from here to there without getting wet. Phones are a comparatively cheap luxury, more like a bottle of coke than a Rolex. And it's a luxury you're going to use a hundred times a day.
There will be more people who can and will spend $1000 on a phone they will be using for three or four years with regular updates than you think there are. You're just not paying attention and still think smartphones are something like office machinery. They aren't.
What has become of the US that some people indeed act as if buying a better car than the cheapest one you can get is somewhat like treason?
If you're serious about not trusting anyone you never should use any device with a camera or a microphone - both could be used to spy on you all the time. I don't see any reason why FaceID should be special here.
No, it's not just a rectangular screen: The X has a screen with rounded corners that fit with the rounded corners of the case in such a way that it has a bezel with a constant width all around (except the notch of course).
Especially with AR apps this helps with creating the impression of not looking at a display, but through an empty frame.
It's actually a clever design and definitely highly recognizable. You will be able to look at half a dozen smartphones with (in some way) minimal bezels but you will immediately see which one of them is the iPhone.
...isn't to say that men and women are different. On average, they are different.
Sexism is when you say that all men are the same and all women are the same, judging the individual man or woman after what you think the average man or woman is. Saying "A woman can't do this or that because statistically women are worse at that" -- this is sexism.
that there STILL is a web that doesn't care for Google.
I mean, take a web server, and a database and a couple billion of browers and you have something. Add Google and you have what? More ads! What if you don't need them? THIS is the thought that Google can't stand.
and complaining about all the products that you don't want to buy.
When an app gets on my nerves with notifications I just ground them. On my phone newly installed apps have to ask anyway if they should be allowed to throw notifications at me and the usual answer is no.
"Design" also includes things like the SoC. And Apple does not just design how it looks. Compare Apple's SoC against a MediaTek one and you will find some dramatic performance differences.
Or compare performance and battery life of the iPhone SE against Chinese 4" phones.
Thinking that "designed by Apple" only means the outer decoration is a truly idiotic.
the end user still pays an exorbitant amount ($1+) per kWh at the end of the month.
I know the dollar isn't worth much these days, but are these actual prices for energy in the US or maybe anywhere in Europe? I pay € 0,18 per kWh for my electricity and I was under the impression it is not more than € 0,25 over large parts of Europe.
Yes, "$1+ per kWh" seems fake. I'm paying €0.25 per kWh (in Germany) and that's with a supplier that delivers 100% renewable (wind, water, solar) power. All in all I pay about €30 a month for electricity.
Yes, I would rather people be campaigning for Universal Basic Employment. That is, a system where everyone would always have access to a job that paid basic living expenses, a job built around each person's particular skill set.
But if there are no such jobs for everyone?
The thing is that you get revolutions if you force people to work to live and there are no jobs for them. A basic income would defuse that and would allow a truly free market for jobs.
Why should the wealthy have to give up their money for others to not work?
Because it would allow a truly free market for work with wages owing to nothing but supply and demand and STILL have a stable society with low tendencies for revolutions or other troubles which could easily be bad even for the rich. View it as insurance against this kind of trouble.
SJ was fired from Apple back then because (among other things) he INSISTED in the original Mac not getting more RAM. He thought that more RAM would cause devs to just stuff more features into their programs instead of thinking about better and simpler ways to solve workflows.
So: Jobs pretty tight about hardware. He never wanted to just throw in more RAM and more ports and whatever.
That being said: I daily use a late 2008 MacBook with just 5 GB. Works totally great. The new MBP's will go to 32GB.
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If you mean multi-rotor aircraft without wings: It's because they need to accelerate upwards with one g all the time just to not drop out of the sky. This is cool for being able to whip around at will, but very bad for efficiency.
But yes, you could possibly build a kind of hybrid helicopter this way. Generate power with a gasoline powered motor and use it to power some electric rotors. You'd trade some efficiency losses against more control and maybe more reliability, especially if you use two redundant motors for power generation. The worst feature of helicopters is the mechanical complexity and you could cut this down a lot this way. Still, range and lifting power will be worse.
Come on, that's a difference of $400. Give the iPhone a $200 higher resale value than the Note 4 after two years (conservative) and you'll be spending $200 more on the iPhone, which is $100 a year, which is $8.34 a month.
You don't need to be in "a financial situation where you're peeing in gold-plated toilets" to be able to do that.
All of this rage is totally irrational. If you aren't piss poor (which may happen and in this case you'd need to be an idiot to spend more than $99 on a phone) it's more like being able to afford a cup of coffee once a week or not. This is not the difference between being poor or being rich, not by far.
Compare phones to cars or shoes. People don't just buy the cheapest piece of shit that gets them from here to there without getting wet. Phones are a comparatively cheap luxury, more like a bottle of coke than a Rolex. And it's a luxury you're going to use a hundred times a day.
There will be more people who can and will spend $1000 on a phone they will be using for three or four years with regular updates than you think there are. You're just not paying attention and still think smartphones are something like office machinery. They aren't.
What has become of the US that some people indeed act as if buying a better car than the cheapest one you can get is somewhat like treason?
A bottle for $2.95 makes you just as drunk! Madness!
If you're serious about not trusting anyone you never should use any device with a camera or a microphone - both could be used to spy on you all the time. I don't see any reason why FaceID should be special here.
No, it's not just a rectangular screen: The X has a screen with rounded corners that fit with the rounded corners of the case in such a way that it has a bezel with a constant width all around (except the notch of course).
Especially with AR apps this helps with creating the impression of not looking at a display, but through an empty frame.
It's actually a clever design and definitely highly recognizable. You will be able to look at half a dozen smartphones with (in some way) minimal bezels but you will immediately see which one of them is the iPhone.
The notch only obscures the video if you zoom in, otherwise you get black bars.
My iPhone 4 is still fine too. Never used a case. My iPhone 6 has no scratches either. What do you people do with your phones?
Nations are overrated. The idea of nations isn't very old and it's already dying.
I didn't quote anyone, I just wrote what I thought. Sorry for that.
He who believes nothing will have to believe in anything.
He's talking BS. You adjust scaling, not resolution in macOS.
Yes, I'm re-reading Surface Detail right now and it's astonishing -- others would have made an entire career out of what Banks stuffed into one novel.
It won't be the Marxists. It will be the National Socialists, and if you happen to be non-white your political affiliation won't matter anyway.
...isn't to say that men and women are different. On average, they are different.
Sexism is when you say that all men are the same and all women are the same, judging the individual man or woman after what you think the average man or woman is. Saying "A woman can't do this or that because statistically women are worse at that" -- this is sexism.
The same is true for racism.
that there STILL is a web that doesn't care for Google.
I mean, take a web server, and a database and a couple billion of browers and you have something. Add Google and you have what? More ads! What if you don't need them? THIS is the thought that Google can't stand.
and complaining about all the products that you don't want to buy.
When an app gets on my nerves with notifications I just ground them. On my phone newly installed apps have to ask anyway if they should be allowed to throw notifications at me and the usual answer is no.
Sorry for being sensible about that.
"Design" also includes things like the SoC. And Apple does not just design how it looks. Compare Apple's SoC against a MediaTek one and you will find some dramatic performance differences.
Or compare performance and battery life of the iPhone SE against Chinese 4" phones.
Thinking that "designed by Apple" only means the outer decoration is a truly idiotic.
It will still have a lightning port and it will use standard (Qi) charging. Don't waste your words.
At least my cough went away and I'm not out of breath all the time. So even if I still will get cancer I feel better until then.
Probably only popular among those who pay them for their work.
the end user still pays an exorbitant amount ($1+) per kWh at the end of the month.
I know the dollar isn't worth much these days, but are these actual prices for energy in the US or maybe anywhere in Europe? I pay € 0,18 per kWh for my electricity and I was under the impression it is not more than € 0,25 over large parts of Europe.
Yes, "$1+ per kWh" seems fake. I'm paying €0.25 per kWh (in Germany) and that's with a supplier that delivers 100% renewable (wind, water, solar) power. All in all I pay about €30 a month for electricity.
Yes, I would rather people be campaigning for Universal Basic Employment. That is, a system where everyone would always have access to a job that paid basic living expenses, a job built around each person's particular skill set.
But if there are no such jobs for everyone?
The thing is that you get revolutions if you force people to work to live and there are no jobs for them. A basic income would defuse that and would allow a truly free market for jobs.
Why should the wealthy have to give up their money for others to not work?
Because it would allow a truly free market for work with wages owing to nothing but supply and demand and STILL have a stable society with low tendencies for revolutions or other troubles which could easily be bad even for the rich. View it as insurance against this kind of trouble.
SJ was fired from Apple back then because (among other things) he INSISTED in the original Mac not getting more RAM. He thought that more RAM would cause devs to just stuff more features into their programs instead of thinking about better and simpler ways to solve workflows.
So: Jobs pretty tight about hardware. He never wanted to just throw in more RAM and more ports and whatever.
That being said: I daily use a late 2008 MacBook with just 5 GB. Works totally great. The new MBP's will go to 32GB.