I want a single powerful/fast desktop that can handle the workload for my household, sit off in a corner out of sight, and everything else to be a screen for it to be delivered to. No one wants to deliver this to the end user though because it means they're only buying 1 expensive system instead of multiple. I for one can't afford the latter option and don't want the headaches that come with it.
Problem is single point of failure. Let's say they make the uber machine and people buy it (which they probably won't, given its cost).
People use it for TV, phone and web browsing. Now a hardware fault comes in and breaks the TV functionality (and by "TV", I mean general passive entertainment, so OTA, cable, Netflix, what have you) - perhaps a hard drive dies or something. In a lot of households, this would be a disaster. Even more so if it also takes out interactive entertainment as well.
Perhaps you'd like to Google for a solution? But you can't, because the machine was handling the internet and because it's broken, so is your ability to Google stuff!
You'll find these days, single point of failures are mildly annoying at best, disastrous at worse. Plenty of people have tried doing this - they've got complex HTPC contraptions to power the TV, only to have Windows update or some other thing to take it down and having to bear with an angry wife not able to watch their soaps. Enough that often a simple backup of a TiVo or other appliance increases WAF.
And nevermind the incredible utility of being able to Google for problems or test things on multiple platforms. If the PC breaks, you can use your phone or tablet and Google for a solution.
Single point of failure devices have to be extremely reliable, which also makes them extremely expensive (mainframe computers cost HOW MUCH again?). These days, instead of trying to do that, we add redundancy, which lets us use multiple cheaper computers or tablets or phones to accomplish the task, and if one fails, it's not such a big deal. It turns out the solution costs a lot less money as well, because it turns out reliability has a significant cost, both in terms of hardware and software.
One of the reasons lots of us don't want to be dependent on public transportation. We are not necessarily interested in being compliant citizen-units.
So what do you do, stay at home and go on tediously long road trips?
Because "public transportation" includes travel by plane and ferry as well. In China, you can be blocked from getting plane tickets and such. And you can be blocked from getting a passport as well (good luck going anywhere outside the country without a passport).
Hell, I'd expect China to soon limit the amount of gas you can buy at any time using your social credit score, so even driving becomes a nightmare.
It's a fairly invasive system, and fairly arbitrary. It's also a form of caste system - born to parents of poor social credit will generally make you have poor social credit as well. And the ways to "get out" are extremely limited. When you're scraping the bottom of the barrel for today's meal, the options to increase your score are limited and you'll likely do things that reduce your score just to eat.
If instead you're born to a family with high social credit, you'll find it much easier to maintain and improve on it.
What kind of dumb fuck thought this was a good idea? Fire every idiot involved in this decision immediately, as they have collectively proven to be pants shitting retarded, even by Silicon Valley diversity hire standards.
Except doesn't Facebook already give you the option to pre-populate your friend list by simply letting it have access to your inbox?
I remember it asking for an email account and password, so it can scan your inbox and add your friends and contacts automatically, and has been doing so for over a decade now...
Are we talking about the same thing? Iridium is a private satellite collection originated from Motorola for satellite voice and data and not tracking. While you can use the satellites for this purpose, they use a different band than the current ADS-B. Somehow someone has to pay for dozens of satellites required.
Iridium is semi-public because they went bankrupt years ago and the DoD bought up a lot of the assets. They do have a commercial division and you can still get Iridium phones and pagers (and modems).
Aireon is a commercial service that listens on ADS-B and is often called space-based ADS-B. They are being used by countries where the air traffic wouldn't overwhelm the satellites, like Canada for their ADS-B solution. (The US requires ground ADS-B as the traffic can be so high that satellites would be overloaded).
The problem with a solution like Aireon is that it's space based, whil the US ADS-B is ground based. US planes are equipped with ADS-B antennas optimized for ground stations (i.e., they point down) Space based ADS-B requires antennas that point... up, and thus ADS-B transmitters and receivers need to operate in a diversity mode to be able to handle the multiple antenna banks needed.
FYI, there are plenty of birds one can create global coverage with. You can even use the GlobalStar network, which powers the Spot satellite tracking system too and was once a competitor to Iridium. GPS satellites are constantly getting renewed and besides offering up GPS signals, because they're a global constellation, they have plenty of other sensors alongside the GPS transmitter, so they're monitoring and watching for a bunch of things too.
There's also the worldwide network COSPAS-SARSAT which basically listen for emergency locator beacons at 405MHz.
The only vegetable you find in mainstream stores that they lack is brussel sprouts. The Asians and Hispanics have enough sense to realize that when God created brussel sprouts He was JOKING. They were never meant to be taken seriously and eaten as food.
Then you're cooking them wrong. (Boiling them is a bad idea)
Brussels sprouts can be made to be extremely tasty and delicious when prepared properly (i.e., you properly handle the bitterness). I know, because I've grown up hating them because all I've had were always prepared incorrectly. But properly prepared, not only are they not bitter, but they've got a great crunch and taste.
It also means you generally have to broil or roast them.
What's a little stupid about it is that it's about as unhealthy as a regular burger. I was expecting it to be healthier, maybe have some fiber and less fat, but it's just slightly fewer calories and just as fatty. Better for the earth, but not all that much better for consumer. But I guess that's why it can masquerade as a burger so well.
It's basically just better for the earth. To do otherwise you end up with flavorless pieces of cardboard that no one likes.
And honestly, there's nothing wrong with it not being "healthier" than beef - it's like diet soda - it just feels healthier but isn't.
Though, to be honest, the saturated fat debate is back in the open again - at least with respect to dairy based fats (butter is in again).
I see veggie burgers as a way of not consuming so much planet resources eating something that's still bad for me, but tastes good. Slightly less guilt.
The problems with colleges are deep and hard to fix.
Parents and others have been sold a bill of goods that without a college education, a person is less than worthless. So they will pay any price. And spend a hundred K for a bachelors degree.
And since the goal has morphed from a saleable skill to mere posession of a degree, ridiculous majors like philosophy and gender studies graduates ant their parents are expecting the graduate to be firmly emplaced in a 6 figure career right after graduation.
There is a big problem where parents believe the only path to success is a degree and a 6-figure office job. That's something parents have been bamboozled on and is definitely not true.
However, the number of people with "useless" degrees is not as big as it might seem - sure the arts side does have a lot of them, but a lot of arts majors are actually graduating with business degrees, which is a something very useful. Granted, a lot of it is sales and marketing, but it's still something job related.
As for the whole college degree is necessary, there are plenty of opportunities elsewhere - the trades are deeply lacking, and as such can pay extremely well. 6 figures is not beyond the realm of possibility, and while it's not an office job, it's still a respectable job, just one where one might get their hands actually dirty.
And a lot of trades education can be done on the cheap at local community college so instead of graduating with 6 figures of debt to go along with a degree, you've got very little if you've managed to scrimp and save.
Plus, it seems being forced into the whole degree and office job mentality is bad for a lot of people - they want to get their hands dirty mucking with engines or pipes or iron or whatever, not poking buttons on a spreadsheet, so there's a good chance to increase job and life satisfaction too.
In 1919 the primacy of shareholder value maximization was affirmed in a ruling by the Michigan State Supreme Court in Dodge vs. Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford wanted to invest Ford Motor CompanyÃ(TM)s considerable retained earnings in the company rather than distribute it to shareholders. The Dodge brothers, minority shareholders in Ford Motor Company, brought suit against Ford, alleging that his intention to benefit employees and consumers was at the expense of shareholders. In their ruling, the Michigan court agreed with the Dodge brothers:
Except that's by neglecting history in showing that Ford was deliberately trying to screw over the Dodge brothers. You see, the Dodge brothers came to Ford as machinists to work at the Ford Motor Company. They worked in designing engines and such, and were quite successful at it. Enough so that Ford got quite rich doing so.
However, anytime one of the Dodge brothers wanted more money, or even some credit, it was denied. Ford was happy keeping them in the backroom as unacknowledged people. This obviously frustrated them, and the Dodge brothers were planning on leaving (you know, to form Dodge which is why we don't find Dodge vehicles under Ford today).
Ford basically tanked the stock value in order to make the Dodge brothers holdings rather worthless, so they couldn't just leave, sell their Ford shares and use the proceeds to start their own company. Ford did this several times, it's why he got his brother Edsel as CEO.
So short of shenanigans like what Ford was doing with the stock in order to basically keep the Dodge brothers from leaving and forming their own company, a company has options.
Apple is probably one of the more famous ones for basically telling shareholders to screw off - Tim Cook has shut down several votes by some large activist shareholders to stop investing in green technologies and environmentally friendly policies and just seek pure profit - Apple can make way more money if they stopped wasting it on zero carbon this and that.
Ford was guilty because he was deliberately acting against shareholder interest by deliberating tanking the stock. Apple shareholders know that long term image is important and it's better to sacrifice short term gains for long term growth, or even just preparing for the future.
Sounds like you're doing your best to make your job as difficult as possible. What's wrong with using the flexibility of the tools at your disposal. There's no reason to share screens when modern conferencing programs let you share individual windows or secondary desktops.
Conferencing programs might, but projectors generally don't have the option.
Instead, what one properly does is set the projector as an extended desktop screen. The laptop screen is the main display, the projector the secondary display. If you need to show something on there, you move the window over to the secondary display. Slideshows are easy - every presentation package I've seen has the ability to use a secondary screen for the slide while leaving the application in full view on the primary screen, so you can muck about on your computer while giving your presentation (it's also used to display slide notes to the presenter).
Only amateurs set the projector to mirror the main display. (It also helps to have laptops with non-HDTV resolutions, so if you don't want everything resized awfully on unplugging the projector, you quickly learn to use the secondary display function.)
Because the Google Play Store, unlike the Apple App Store, has generally been a free for all, letting developers post anything and everything without going through a review process. This was done as a counterpoint to the Apple App Store which requires all apps to undergo review.
So as developers rebelled against Apple for having their apps reviewed, they gladly created Android only apps, improving the ecosystem.
Of course, if you have a free for all, it's obvious that bad actors will move in - a unchecked app store where you can post anything and everything pretty much means it's soon going to be overrun with malware. That's not to say Apple's approach is perfect, but it adds a bit of "there's a chance I'll be caught" to it and Apple will simply not publish your app.
The problem now is that it's a lot harder to impose restrictions on what was once a free for all, versus Apple relaxing its restrictions on apps
7+ the glue and ensuring it stays waterproof starts being an issue though.
Not really, if you're a reasonably competent person, the gasket is no big deal at all.
In fact, battery replacement kits for every iPhone have it made such that really, it's a 20 minute process as long as you can be patient and read basic instructions.
Sadly, the problem is "reasonably competent". There are way too many people who can't or don't read instructions, who can't or don't want to follow them, so they're the ones that will end up cracking their screens and such.
It isn't hard, and if you're reading this, you should be able to handle it and end up with a still waterproof iPhone. It looks hard and scary, but it really isn't.
The science behind paper has improved tremendously in the past 40 years. Enough that paper is actually a sustainable renewable resource, when coupled with sustainably managed forests. And North America is full of sustainably managed forests - the trees we use for paper grow quickly, are replaced quickly (we often overplant, so one tree cut down will be replaced by more than one sapling later on).
We've stopped using old growth forests for stuff like paper decades ago now.
Everything made of paper includes some amount of recycled paper in it, and it composts well. And it degrades very quickly. Heck, we stopped having to deal with the nasty unbleached recycled paper decades ago too.
About the only place that uses virgin fiber is toilet paper. And that stuff is basically degraded by the time it reaches the sewer treatment plant. But again, that's from trees in a sustainably manged forest so wipe away.
40 years ago, you're right, paper was a killer - acid rain, deforestation, etc. But 30 years ago the industry started changing, and 20 years ago we've had sustainably managed forests (a rare collaboration between industry and environmentalists) and we've been good ever since. We still overplant trees for the purpose so there is always more trees than we need (good to plan for future , uh, growth)
Sure, it charges fast. What is the magnitude of effect on the battery's usable lifetime, if any? Is the battery replaceable? (lol, as if)
It can't be good. After all, if it didn't have problems, companies like Tesla and other EV companies would be hopping at the chance to fully charge their cars in under 20 minutes. And these are vehicles with closed loop cooling systems and everything so they're able to dissipate the heat.
When Cisco laid me off at age 56, they did cover their bases. The layoff came with a stack of paper an inch thick with statistics of the ages of those laid off, showing they were fully prepared to defend themselves against any claim of age discrimination.
They also included a very generous severance package.
And, if you signed an agreement to not sue them for age discrimination, that very generous severance package became very *VERY* generous.
See point 1 above, they were fully prepared to defend themselves against any claim of age discrimination.
In other words, the layoffs were done properly and if they were willing to prepare that sort of package for you, that means they likely spent the past week evaluating everyone and ensuring they have coverage - older guys with the institutional knowledge and young guys with the energy and decided that you were redundant.
Layoffs can be haphazard, done poorly, or done well. The problem is doing it well takes a lot of effort in ensuring that you're laying off the right people, and won't have a skills or knowledge gap.
And it also gives the impression that management actually cares and does things by the book and clearly on the right side of the law. Perhaps because otherwise, they'd rather keep you on.
The article mentions "optical zoom" and "zoom lenses", but is this not simply a telephoto lens combined with 2 wide angle lenses? "Zoom" refers to a lens with a variable focal length, which this phone does not seem to have (nor any other smartphone I'm aware of, for that matter).
No, it's a real zoom lens with elements that move in and out.
The trick is that the camera sensor isn't the one at the back, it's the little square below it housing a mirror. If you hold the phone in portrait mode, the camera sensor is actually looking sideways, so the lens elements can move left and right inside the phone, and the mirror makes it so it can see out the back.
Of course, the bigger question is how much thicker this makes the phone and is that extra volume used to give extended battery life.
Pretty sure it's actually back to iOS10 in fact... If I may ask, why do you stick with iOS7? That is a curious choice. There's a lot of benefit from newer OS versions, and they don't even include anything older than iOS9 on most iOS version share trackers I have seen...
Because he's on an iPhone 4, so iOS7 is really about it. But then again, you're also talking about a phone that' was released nearly a decade ago.
For a while until I finally upgraded I was rocking my launch day iPhone 4s still on the original battery.
That blows. I have 3 credit cards, all of which have interest rates of 8% or lower. When did high teens to low 20s for interest rates become average?
Pretty much standard actually. The interest rates are high as they are non-collateralized loans.
You can get lower interest rates if you go for low interest rate cards (which may have fees) or if you call them and negotiate a lower rate (which can be useful if you're having problems paying off loans - they'd rather charge you less if you'd pay off your balance).
For every day use the manual will win, especially in fuel mileage, which is the whole point. No matter what automatic you drive, you still have to wait for the "spin up" until it gets whatever gear it thinks it needs to be in. Not to mention except for starting and cruising, an automatic is rarely in the correct geat.
Also, driving a stick shift makes people safer drivers.
That may have been true in the 70s and 80s, and carried a bit into the 90s, but a funny thing happened. Automatics became much more efficient and better at what they did (mostly because they went from being hydraulic control to computer control) and the argument isn't true anymore.
And autosticks are the norm in pretty much the pro racing arena because it turns out the computer can shift much faster than a human and coordinate it all in a few milliseconds. Dual clutches and all. The driver just has paddles - no more stick.
And of course, there are a variety of vehicles where a stick shift makes no sense at all - EVs are almost always single-geared (or direct drive), hybrids have a complex control mode that makes stick shifting basically impossible.
As for stick drivers being better, I doubt that once you add "general public" in. You know, the same public where two hands can be anywhere but on the wheel and they still manage to control the vehicle, somehow.
The best solution is to have alternatives. Driving isn't fun for a good chunk of the population. Give them a good equivalent and they'll flock to it in droves (See Uber and Lyft being commonplace), or decent public transportation (see Europe). The people on their phones aren't going to drive better because you make them drive a stick (hell, they'll probably cause gridlock by stalling out in the middle of the intersection), but if you make it so they don't have to drive, then it leaves the roads open for those who do like to drive. These people are driving distracted because they want to be anywhere else other than behind the wheel. Let's indulge them and make it so they have the option to choose a workable alternative.
To me, this means one very simple thing: Don't use anything by google that doesn't already have a massive following cause you may find the rug pulled out from under you at any moment.
A lot of products have massive followings. Google Reader was a popular RSS thing, and Google Wave was oddly huge in Brazil.
Google can just axe what you're using one day and that's it.
I have no idea what the Apple video service will offer beyond that but I am pretty dubious about signing up, because the way it works is already pretty good just subscribing and unsubscribing from apps. Its the ala-carte dream I always had about video content, and I'll be dammed if anyone can pull me out of this new video paradise.
I suspect the Apple video service is what AppleTV has in a more generalized form. Right now you need an AppleTV to enjoy it. With a few more content providers and such, the new service could un-tie its dependency on AppleTV and work in a general sense.
Apple is good at these things - they can see the whole subscription fatigue thing from a mile away and seek to work around it. Either by re-selling the subscriptions the Apple way and making it stupidly easy to subscribe and unsubscribe willy-nilly, or removing all the issues with subscribing to a million services.
Remember Netflix complaining they want to do things their own way and not be a part of the Apple service.
Well, think of all the services out there - it literally is a A La Carte menu of channels. Just you now have to manage a dozen subscriptions and services and logins and passwords and incompatibilities.
Perhaps you're subscribed to Hulu and Disney and YouTube TV. You want CBS and you need to subscribe to CBS' online service. The sheer number of services makes it hard to navigate.and use.
Apple can certainly aggregate all this into a simple interface to make it easier to subscribe, view and unsubcribe.
I've never had a robo call in my life. I don't live in America. I don't know the laws in my country, but the problem just does not exist here. I've had the occasional (like once every 2 years) have a random person call me regarding a survey or trying to sell me something.
The robocalls are typically from Indian call centers, to primarily English speaking countries rich enough (and populous enough) that they can get $100-200 US from them without batting an eye. So relatively rich countries, typically England, US, and Canada.
And yes, English speaking is important - in Canada, scammers get angry if you ask them to speak in French. (It's your right to do business in either English or French).
So you probably don't get calls purely because either where you live is not considered English speaking, or rich enough to be worthwhile to scam,
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Problem is single point of failure. Let's say they make the uber machine and people buy it (which they probably won't, given its cost).
People use it for TV, phone and web browsing. Now a hardware fault comes in and breaks the TV functionality (and by "TV", I mean general passive entertainment, so OTA, cable, Netflix, what have you) - perhaps a hard drive dies or something. In a lot of households, this would be a disaster. Even more so if it also takes out interactive entertainment as well.
Perhaps you'd like to Google for a solution? But you can't, because the machine was handling the internet and because it's broken, so is your ability to Google stuff!
You'll find these days, single point of failures are mildly annoying at best, disastrous at worse. Plenty of people have tried doing this - they've got complex HTPC contraptions to power the TV, only to have Windows update or some other thing to take it down and having to bear with an angry wife not able to watch their soaps. Enough that often a simple backup of a TiVo or other appliance increases WAF.
And nevermind the incredible utility of being able to Google for problems or test things on multiple platforms. If the PC breaks, you can use your phone or tablet and Google for a solution.
Single point of failure devices have to be extremely reliable, which also makes them extremely expensive (mainframe computers cost HOW MUCH again?). These days, instead of trying to do that, we add redundancy, which lets us use multiple cheaper computers or tablets or phones to accomplish the task, and if one fails, it's not such a big deal. It turns out the solution costs a lot less money as well, because it turns out reliability has a significant cost, both in terms of hardware and software.
So what do you do, stay at home and go on tediously long road trips?
Because "public transportation" includes travel by plane and ferry as well. In China, you can be blocked from getting plane tickets and such. And you can be blocked from getting a passport as well (good luck going anywhere outside the country without a passport).
Hell, I'd expect China to soon limit the amount of gas you can buy at any time using your social credit score, so even driving becomes a nightmare.
It's a fairly invasive system, and fairly arbitrary. It's also a form of caste system - born to parents of poor social credit will generally make you have poor social credit as well. And the ways to "get out" are extremely limited. When you're scraping the bottom of the barrel for today's meal, the options to increase your score are limited and you'll likely do things that reduce your score just to eat.
If instead you're born to a family with high social credit, you'll find it much easier to maintain and improve on it.
Except doesn't Facebook already give you the option to pre-populate your friend list by simply letting it have access to your inbox?
I remember it asking for an email account and password, so it can scan your inbox and add your friends and contacts automatically, and has been doing so for over a decade now...
Iridium is semi-public because they went bankrupt years ago and the DoD bought up a lot of the assets. They do have a commercial division and you can still get Iridium phones and pagers (and modems).
Aireon is a commercial service that listens on ADS-B and is often called space-based ADS-B. They are being used by countries where the air traffic wouldn't overwhelm the satellites, like Canada for their ADS-B solution. (The US requires ground ADS-B as the traffic can be so high that satellites would be overloaded).
The problem with a solution like Aireon is that it's space based, whil the US ADS-B is ground based. US planes are equipped with ADS-B antennas optimized for ground stations (i.e., they point down) Space based ADS-B requires antennas that point... up, and thus ADS-B transmitters and receivers need to operate in a diversity mode to be able to handle the multiple antenna banks needed.
FYI, there are plenty of birds one can create global coverage with. You can even use the GlobalStar network, which powers the Spot satellite tracking system too and was once a competitor to Iridium. GPS satellites are constantly getting renewed and besides offering up GPS signals, because they're a global constellation, they have plenty of other sensors alongside the GPS transmitter, so they're monitoring and watching for a bunch of things too.
There's also the worldwide network COSPAS-SARSAT which basically listen for emergency locator beacons at 405MHz.
Then you're cooking them wrong. (Boiling them is a bad idea)
Brussels sprouts can be made to be extremely tasty and delicious when prepared properly (i.e., you properly handle the bitterness). I know, because I've grown up hating them because all I've had were always prepared incorrectly. But properly prepared, not only are they not bitter, but they've got a great crunch and taste.
It also means you generally have to broil or roast them.
It's basically just better for the earth. To do otherwise you end up with flavorless pieces of cardboard that no one likes.
And honestly, there's nothing wrong with it not being "healthier" than beef - it's like diet soda - it just feels healthier but isn't.
Though, to be honest, the saturated fat debate is back in the open again - at least with respect to dairy based fats (butter is in again).
I see veggie burgers as a way of not consuming so much planet resources eating something that's still bad for me, but tastes good. Slightly less guilt.
There is a big problem where parents believe the only path to success is a degree and a 6-figure office job. That's something parents have been bamboozled on and is definitely not true.
However, the number of people with "useless" degrees is not as big as it might seem - sure the arts side does have a lot of them, but a lot of arts majors are actually graduating with business degrees, which is a something very useful. Granted, a lot of it is sales and marketing, but it's still something job related.
As for the whole college degree is necessary, there are plenty of opportunities elsewhere - the trades are deeply lacking, and as such can pay extremely well. 6 figures is not beyond the realm of possibility, and while it's not an office job, it's still a respectable job, just one where one might get their hands actually dirty.
And a lot of trades education can be done on the cheap at local community college so instead of graduating with 6 figures of debt to go along with a degree, you've got very little if you've managed to scrimp and save.
Plus, it seems being forced into the whole degree and office job mentality is bad for a lot of people - they want to get their hands dirty mucking with engines or pipes or iron or whatever, not poking buttons on a spreadsheet, so there's a good chance to increase job and life satisfaction too.
Except that's by neglecting history in showing that Ford was deliberately trying to screw over the Dodge brothers. You see, the Dodge brothers came to Ford as machinists to work at the Ford Motor Company. They worked in designing engines and such, and were quite successful at it. Enough so that Ford got quite rich doing so.
However, anytime one of the Dodge brothers wanted more money, or even some credit, it was denied. Ford was happy keeping them in the backroom as unacknowledged people. This obviously frustrated them, and the Dodge brothers were planning on leaving (you know, to form Dodge which is why we don't find Dodge vehicles under Ford today).
Ford basically tanked the stock value in order to make the Dodge brothers holdings rather worthless, so they couldn't just leave, sell their Ford shares and use the proceeds to start their own company. Ford did this several times, it's why he got his brother Edsel as CEO.
So short of shenanigans like what Ford was doing with the stock in order to basically keep the Dodge brothers from leaving and forming their own company, a company has options.
Apple is probably one of the more famous ones for basically telling shareholders to screw off - Tim Cook has shut down several votes by some large activist shareholders to stop investing in green technologies and environmentally friendly policies and just seek pure profit - Apple can make way more money if they stopped wasting it on zero carbon this and that.
Ford was guilty because he was deliberately acting against shareholder interest by deliberating tanking the stock. Apple shareholders know that long term image is important and it's better to sacrifice short term gains for long term growth, or even just preparing for the future.
Conferencing programs might, but projectors generally don't have the option.
Instead, what one properly does is set the projector as an extended desktop screen. The laptop screen is the main display, the projector the secondary display. If you need to show something on there, you move the window over to the secondary display. Slideshows are easy - every presentation package I've seen has the ability to use a secondary screen for the slide while leaving the application in full view on the primary screen, so you can muck about on your computer while giving your presentation (it's also used to display slide notes to the presenter).
Only amateurs set the projector to mirror the main display. (It also helps to have laptops with non-HDTV resolutions, so if you don't want everything resized awfully on unplugging the projector, you quickly learn to use the secondary display function.)
Or perhaps a great way to get around the NYT paywall.
Because the Google Play Store, unlike the Apple App Store, has generally been a free for all, letting developers post anything and everything without going through a review process. This was done as a counterpoint to the Apple App Store which requires all apps to undergo review.
So as developers rebelled against Apple for having their apps reviewed, they gladly created Android only apps, improving the ecosystem.
Of course, if you have a free for all, it's obvious that bad actors will move in - a unchecked app store where you can post anything and everything pretty much means it's soon going to be overrun with malware. That's not to say Apple's approach is perfect, but it adds a bit of "there's a chance I'll be caught" to it and Apple will simply not publish your app.
The problem now is that it's a lot harder to impose restrictions on what was once a free for all, versus Apple relaxing its restrictions on apps
Not really, if you're a reasonably competent person, the gasket is no big deal at all.
In fact, battery replacement kits for every iPhone have it made such that really, it's a 20 minute process as long as you can be patient and read basic instructions.
Sadly, the problem is "reasonably competent". There are way too many people who can't or don't read instructions, who can't or don't want to follow them, so they're the ones that will end up cracking their screens and such.
It isn't hard, and if you're reading this, you should be able to handle it and end up with a still waterproof iPhone. It looks hard and scary, but it really isn't.
The science behind paper has improved tremendously in the past 40 years. Enough that paper is actually a sustainable renewable resource, when coupled with sustainably managed forests. And North America is full of sustainably managed forests - the trees we use for paper grow quickly, are replaced quickly (we often overplant, so one tree cut down will be replaced by more than one sapling later on).
We've stopped using old growth forests for stuff like paper decades ago now.
Everything made of paper includes some amount of recycled paper in it, and it composts well. And it degrades very quickly. Heck, we stopped having to deal with the nasty unbleached recycled paper decades ago too.
About the only place that uses virgin fiber is toilet paper. And that stuff is basically degraded by the time it reaches the sewer treatment plant. But again, that's from trees in a sustainably manged forest so wipe away.
40 years ago, you're right, paper was a killer - acid rain, deforestation, etc. But 30 years ago the industry started changing, and 20 years ago we've had sustainably managed forests (a rare collaboration between industry and environmentalists) and we've been good ever since. We still overplant trees for the purpose so there is always more trees than we need (good to plan for future , uh, growth)
It can't be good. After all, if it didn't have problems, companies like Tesla and other EV companies would be hopping at the chance to fully charge their cars in under 20 minutes. And these are vehicles with closed loop cooling systems and everything so they're able to dissipate the heat.
In other words, the layoffs were done properly and if they were willing to prepare that sort of package for you, that means they likely spent the past week evaluating everyone and ensuring they have coverage - older guys with the institutional knowledge and young guys with the energy and decided that you were redundant.
Layoffs can be haphazard, done poorly, or done well. The problem is doing it well takes a lot of effort in ensuring that you're laying off the right people, and won't have a skills or knowledge gap.
And it also gives the impression that management actually cares and does things by the book and clearly on the right side of the law. Perhaps because otherwise, they'd rather keep you on.
No, it's a real zoom lens with elements that move in and out.
The trick is that the camera sensor isn't the one at the back, it's the little square below it housing a mirror. If you hold the phone in portrait mode, the camera sensor is actually looking sideways, so the lens elements can move left and right inside the phone, and the mirror makes it so it can see out the back.
Of course, the bigger question is how much thicker this makes the phone and is that extra volume used to give extended battery life.
Because he's on an iPhone 4, so iOS7 is really about it. But then again, you're also talking about a phone that' was released nearly a decade ago.
For a while until I finally upgraded I was rocking my launch day iPhone 4s still on the original battery.
Pretty much standard actually. The interest rates are high as they are non-collateralized loans.
You can get lower interest rates if you go for low interest rate cards (which may have fees) or if you call them and negotiate a lower rate (which can be useful if you're having problems paying off loans - they'd rather charge you less if you'd pay off your balance).
No late fee means if you pay late, you don't pay some penalty.
It doesn't mean there isn't a hit to your credit rating as a Non Payment. Or that the interest rate wouldn't jump even higher.
It's really just a low-fee credit card where many activities don't rack up fees.
That may have been true in the 70s and 80s, and carried a bit into the 90s, but a funny thing happened. Automatics became much more efficient and better at what they did (mostly because they went from being hydraulic control to computer control) and the argument isn't true anymore.
And autosticks are the norm in pretty much the pro racing arena because it turns out the computer can shift much faster than a human and coordinate it all in a few milliseconds. Dual clutches and all. The driver just has paddles - no more stick.
And of course, there are a variety of vehicles where a stick shift makes no sense at all - EVs are almost always single-geared (or direct drive), hybrids have a complex control mode that makes stick shifting basically impossible.
As for stick drivers being better, I doubt that once you add "general public" in. You know, the same public where two hands can be anywhere but on the wheel and they still manage to control the vehicle, somehow.
The best solution is to have alternatives. Driving isn't fun for a good chunk of the population. Give them a good equivalent and they'll flock to it in droves (See Uber and Lyft being commonplace), or decent public transportation (see Europe). The people on their phones aren't going to drive better because you make them drive a stick (hell, they'll probably cause gridlock by stalling out in the middle of the intersection), but if you make it so they don't have to drive, then it leaves the roads open for those who do like to drive. These people are driving distracted because they want to be anywhere else other than behind the wheel. Let's indulge them and make it so they have the option to choose a workable alternative.
A lot of products have massive followings. Google Reader was a popular RSS thing, and Google Wave was oddly huge in Brazil.
Google can just axe what you're using one day and that's it.
I suspect the Apple video service is what AppleTV has in a more generalized form. Right now you need an AppleTV to enjoy it. With a few more content providers and such, the new service could un-tie its dependency on AppleTV and work in a general sense.
Apple is good at these things - they can see the whole subscription fatigue thing from a mile away and seek to work around it. Either by re-selling the subscriptions the Apple way and making it stupidly easy to subscribe and unsubscribe willy-nilly, or removing all the issues with subscribing to a million services.
Remember Netflix complaining they want to do things their own way and not be a part of the Apple service.
Well, think of all the services out there - it literally is a A La Carte menu of channels. Just you now have to manage a dozen subscriptions and services and logins and passwords and incompatibilities.
Perhaps you're subscribed to Hulu and Disney and YouTube TV. You want CBS and you need to subscribe to CBS' online service. The sheer number of services makes it hard to navigate.and use.
Apple can certainly aggregate all this into a simple interface to make it easier to subscribe, view and unsubcribe.
The robocalls are typically from Indian call centers, to primarily English speaking countries rich enough (and populous enough) that they can get $100-200 US from them without batting an eye. So relatively rich countries, typically England, US, and Canada.
And yes, English speaking is important - in Canada, scammers get angry if you ask them to speak in French. (It's your right to do business in either English or French).
So you probably don't get calls purely because either where you live is not considered English speaking, or rich enough to be worthwhile to scam,