Well, it relates to two things - energy density, and how fast that energy can be extracted.
Energy density is obvious - the more energy you can store per unit volume, the more potentially dangerous it is. Since Lithium based chemistries have some of the highest densities around, well, it also goes that they are the most dangerous.
Internal resistance is also important because ti tells you how fast that energy can be released. Again, Lithium chemistries do well here. And the thing is, you want a low internal resistance - it means at high loads, you can extract more of the useful electrical energy the cell contains (rather than it being wasted as heat), as well as use it in loads that have varying demands. A car, for example needs to be able to extract a lot of energy quickly to get moving, and many other devices as wel, like laptops where the electrical load changes depending on whether you spin up the hard drive, or activate the GPU, etc. In fact, not having to design around the battery means you can do pretty silly things like put desktop parts in a laptop and know you can draw that kind of power out of the cell.
Thing is, know what else is energy dense and can release a lot of it quickly? Explosives.
The PC isn't dying. Not at all. Despite tablets and mobile devices, there's a lot of work that can't easily be done on them. There are lots of jobs that still require or are much easier when done on a PC. This question is built upon a premise that is false. As long as there's work that requires a PC, and there will be for the foreseeable future, the PC sure isn't going to die.
Even Steve Jobs said in a Post-PC world, we'd still have PCs.
He likened a PC to a truck. In other words, they're a pretty much all around do-anything machine. There will be better machines that do certain things better than a PC, but there will always be a need for a PC.
And we've seen it - maybe a couple of decades ago you needed a PC for everything, and everyone had at least one PC for everyone. Nowadays with smartphones and tablets, you'd still have a PC, or maybe 2 PCs, but everyone else can be happy with tablets and smartphones and other devices (like set top box media players). There is still a need, and we're going to see the PC stick around until the end of time.
Granted, PCs will probably get more expensive, as we don't need so many of them (if you have a family of 5 people, 5 PCs means you buy cheap ones back in the day, but when you're down to one or two, it doesn't matter so much). But it also means we won't be stuck with bottom of the barrel crap that Best Buy sells now .
They're skirting the bottom edge of comprehensibility, the voice in the samples is by no means "clear". You have to focus very closely to understand that is being said much of the time, and even then, repeated listenings are sometimes necessary.
In other words, it's being efficient.
The brain has a very powerful voice and audio decoder. (In fact, the brain's wetware is so powerful to compensate for relatively poor sensors - but coupled with the power of the brain, they become much more powerful detection devices. The downside to the economy in hardware with powerful software combination is artifacting - though we usually call those things illusions).
So the codec basically saves transmission bytes by making the brain do a lot of the signal recovery work.
Of course, in Amateur Radio, SSB can be really bad and you have to do a lot of deciphering anyhow.
The real story here is that Giuliani is now a goddamn cybersecurity advisor, not that this personal site is crap. The guy was hired not because of competence but because he spent the entire campaign kissing Trump's ass.
It's not a "personal website". It's the website to his Infosec company.
That's why he was hired as cybersecurity czar - he owns a computing security company!
With the coupon they're $9.99 and no company is going to sell this stuff under the cost of production. The only reason they're still $100+ is because the original EpiPen is $600 and because they have no competition. Soon the EpiPen will be $100 too, at CVS at least, but until it's generally available for $100, you won't see the price drop.
The cost of the drug inside is under $1. The autoinjector is mass produced and probably costs another $1 to make.
Epi Pens were under $150 each before Mylan saw they had a monopoly and jacked the price up like many other drug companies. Because you cannot substitute other autoinjectors in a prescription, if you are prescribed an epi-pen (and who isn't, they're well known) you can only get one.
They can sell the things for $10 and still make an easy profit because it doesn't cost very much to make. The drug's generic, and the rest of it is plastic.
I've always considered net neutrality to be more considered with how traffic is treated/shaped rather than how it is billed. I don't want service providers to change traffic priority that would benefit one content provider over another. But zero-rating, as far as I can tell, does not change traffic priority or speeds.
But it changes behavior. If you have to choose between DirecTV and Netflix, which would you pick? Netflix would count against your bandwidth limit, so maybe you can watch 1 hour a day without going over. DirecTV is zero-rated, so you can watch it 24 hours a day and it counts as 0 bytes transferred.
It's a realty sneaky way of getting around throttling - you implement network controls across the board (fairly), But for those providers that pay, you can zero-rate them so it doesn't count against their limit.and thus be unlimited.
Imagine you have an Android phone and Apple cuts a deal - all iOS traffic is zero-rated. Is this not a technical violation?
Possibly, except the batteries were likely not designed to be easily replaced to start with. They certainly weren't made to be user-replaceable. In new forced-obsolescence style, I'm sure their plan was for customers to just buy a new phone by the time the battery ran out. Replacing the batteries would mean collecting the handsets, keeping track of whose was whose, going through the labor of replacing the battery, and shipping them back to the consumer, all on Samsung's dime.
Just collecting all the phones in a big box and disposing them was probably a more palatable solution.
Just because something is not "user replaceable" doesn't mean it isn't replacable. iPod batteries aren't user-replaceable. iPhone batteries aren't, either. And yet you can change them, with requisite skill. Or pay Apple $100 for a new battery and installation. (This applies to their laptops, too, which generally are fairly easy to change).
And if it was a battery problem, it's easy to change as well. Samsung would just collect the phones, replace the batteries and send them back out. They won't worry about whose phone is whose phone - they'd just replace the battery, reflash them and send them back.
The problem is likely far bigger than just a battery problem - it could be battery expansion causing damage to the battery, a charging circuit problem or other issue. After all, the replacement phones also failed, too.
In case no one noticed Apple bought Beats audio, who controls pretty much the entire wireless headphone market. Fast forward a year or so and now Apple ONLY sells devices that can use wireless headphones in their most popular product.
Do any of you Apple fanatics NOT see that Apple screwed you by removing a port and FORCING you into the wireless headphone market they own most of? Personally t's this kind of CRAP from Apple that made me completely abandon that entire eco-system years ago.
TFS said Apple was #1 in sales with the wireless AirPods at 26^% of new sales. Followed by Bose at #2 in wireless headphones. Beats fell to #3 spot after Bose.
And last I checked, Apple gave you a set of wired headphones in the box, and an adapter to use your own headphones. So you don't have to support Apple's conspiracy. They include two options right in the box.
An iPhone is not on my wish list, so this doesn't affect me. Hopefully Android phone manufacturers will not follow suit, and instead will use this as an easy way to generate more sales for themselves and gain even more market share for themselves. Because Apple has dropped a basic feature from their phones, all Android phones automatically have a feature to offer that Apple doesn't, making the Android offering more feature rich and a better deal for the consumer.
Apple wasn't the first to ditch the 3.5mm jack. LeEco was the first, followed by Lenovo/Motorola to release phones months ahead of Apple. So technically, Android innovated here.
And rumors have it that Samsung is going to do the same as well.
It seems like it would be kind of obvious, a 3.5mm female jack on the headset itself and a M-M 3.5mm cable to use with devices without bluetooth. The jack would just bypass all the BT electronics and go direct to the speakers.
That way when the battery quit or you had something without a BT option, you could just plug in. Might even be useful for crudely mixing a BT source and an analog source simultaneously.
There's quite a few headphones that support wired and wireless. Usually they're more upscale, but the Bose QC35 has both wireless and wired support, as do many Sony wireless headphones.
They're not hard to find. Maybe not on your cheap $50 bluetooth headphones, but the quality ones have wired options. Some are even multi-wired. Wireless (Bluetooth), Wired (3.5mm) and Wired USB (not just for charging, but for audio data as well).
We bought the pokemon version of the game for my son. I played it when I was a kid and we thought it would be neat to revive it in some way. After playing a couple of games I realized that if you get Boardwalk and Parkplace (renamed Nidoking and Nidoqueen) in the pokemon version there is no way you can lose. Once you put hotels on these things you basically bankrupt anyone. I never realized how unbalanced such a mature game was. Anyway, to your point, it is a horrible game but the premise is good.
No, that requires a lot of cash.
You want the cheapest block first (the ones right after Go). You then build 4 houses on each, and use that to buy the next street over and exhaust the entire housing supply. At this point, no one else can build. When you acquire more properties on the second street, you build hotels on the cheap street and use the freed up houses to build. Repeat.
The cheap streets are where it's at. Park Place/Boardwalk can bankrupt you, but it's far easier to take the long strategy and buy up the cheap street as buildings are cheap.
If the statistics are right, Boardwalk/Park Place also don't generally get many visitors.
BTW yes, there were employees who would 'accidentally' stumble on risque photos and things like that. Never heard of any of them downloading them to another device nor reporting to authorities though, I'm pretty certain that's not a company or store policy, but rather something specific to the manager & employees in the case.
Could you imagine if the oil change shops had drug dogs? This kind of feels like that. Flag as Inappropriate
It's well documented that Geek Squad goes through people's files, actually.
First, there's the common sense part. They're going to get your computer working, and they're human, so they're going to access your files, like it or not. Some Geek Squad people have been caught collecting customer's files into a giant shared drive, too.
Second, if they stumble across child porn on your computer, no warrant is actually required. In fact, NOT reporting the discovery could put Best Buy in trouble! So the techs, if they find it on your computer, WILL report you. (This applies to child porn only. Regular porn they may just rifle through your files, but reporting is not required and not done. They may copy them though).
You may not believe it, but if you have illegal stuff and a third party finds it, warrants may not be required anymore. If you put your drugs in a secret compartment and the mechanic triggers it, it's no longer secret and if the authorities seize your haul, it's actually NOT illegal. It's warrantless, but that's because a warrant wasn't erquired.
I don't know if that's what they're referring to. Grand Central Dispatch sounds similar to C#'s ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem() or the await task language features in newer versions of the.NET runtime. It's just a way to basically create some unit of work that conforms to a particular interface that can be queued up and then the language run-time can determine how to create threads, processes, etc. in whatever manner is deems best to execute those pieces of work.
Grand Central Dispatch is actually an OS level threading tool. Applications queue up work using it and the OS dispatches it - picking the appropriate number of threads based on your system configuration. The magic comes into play when multiple programs do the same thing - the OS keeps the processors busy dispatching all the work, and without thrashing the system - its not like Photoshop will issue a block of work, then your video encoder issues a block of work, and the two simply assume they have full control of the machine and thus your processors switch between the two tasks. No, the OS schedules the work - half the processors are working on Photoshop, while the other half are working on your video encoder, and they're solidly working on them, not multi-tasking. It's as if they magically picked the right number of threads to ensure the processors stay busy without interfering with each other. If you have a third app do the same thing, they adjust again.
The only responsible action for the browser companies to do is to kill off autofill. There's no reliable way for the browser to be sure the user can see which fields have been autofilled. Any attempt to popup and warn the user is going to be annoying, reduce the convenience of the feature, be confusing and people will just click-through 99% of the time anyway. This is why we can't have nice things.
Or how about simply modifying the browser to only autofill fields that are visible when submitted? Chrome highlights auto-filled fields, so it knows when it did it. And the browser also knows which fields are user-visible (it's the UI its presenting to the user). Thus, if a field isn't visible, it isn't filled in. And you can even make it so it's only fields visible when the button is clicked (mouseDown) is when the fields are captured so no funny Javascript shenanigans with making more fields visible before submission. You click it, the field lists are captured and locked, Javascript can try to play around with the fields but not have any effect (the field list is already captured), and then the form is submitted as is.
You keep the functionality, you prevent this sort of secret information leakage down, and the user doesn't see any visible change. Win-win.
At they very, very least, you should code something that warns of accented characters before publication. It'd take two minutes to write.
I thought you were trying to be a professional news service, but you come across like an absolute shower of useless berks.
Actually,/. supports Unicode just fine. But since Unicode has many issues for websites, especially ones that take and display arbitrary user input,/. implements a rather stringent filter.
In fact, most websites don't bother with a filter, resulting in a big mess in comment sections as trolls start playing around. Many sites even let you enter the RTL override codes that suddenly reverse all the text. And plenty of web browsers and websites miscalculate how much space stacked character modifiers take up, so a one line comment can create such a mess that the comment section is obliterated, and maybe even the article itself too./.'s filter is far more strict, allowing pretty much just the printable ASCII character maps,Though it's probably implemented in a lame way (bit masking every character which destroys the high bit and thus rendering multibyte codepoints as individual characters.
But the code is actually UTF-8 safe and the reason we have it today is because of the trolling that went on when support was actually added. In fact, only 5 years ago did/. actually add the filter to the OUTPUT of the database too, so there was a time you could see the crap people did. It's still known to Google, though, if you search for the somewhat odd ": erocS" or "5:erocS" string. Hint: RTL override makes that readable.
One of the most expensive components of your computer is your monitor, but it is also one of the most standardized and longest-lasting. Think about it: pretty much any monitor bought in the last 20+ years* (including CRTs) can be used with any computer or video card on the market, requiring at most a super cheap adapter.
But with an AIO, you lose this major advatage desktop systems have over laptops. You're still paying for the monitor, but have little to no choice in which model it will be, and you will only ever use it with this one computer. And when the computer dies, the monitor is finished too (even if it's in working condition).
The monitor is one of the cheaper components these days. Yes, this is a 27" 4K IPS monitor. It probably cost $2K last year. Nowadays they can be hand under $1k. And in a few years when the computer dies, you probably can buy it for $200.
Monitors, especially flat screens were pricey 20 years ago because everyone used CRTs. Now that everyone uses LCDs, the cost of the technology has plummeted dramatically, especially at resolutions that re-use TV components. Mass production basically plunged the prices. It was only a decade ago when a 17" LCD was a luxury, and nowadays you can't give them away.
Everyone complains about 1080p or 4K, but using TV resolutions mean mass production takes the cost way way way down.
And given the prevalence of 27" monitors of late, the price of them will plummet soon as well and those with 24" monitors soon can't give them away.
By the time this computer is dead, the monitor will probably be fairly worthless because you can run out and pick up a brand new one with all sorts of improvements. Scavenging is good for now, but after that it'll be a hobby project.
This is the default on most devices (except cheap chinese stuff with backdoors)
The only reason it should be on is if you are a developer, or smart enough to use an alternative app store that may not be safe. Others use it to get haked versions of games/apps and whatever herpes comes with that.
And negate one of the biggest advantages of Android over iOS.
The problem is Android doesn't allow finer control of that. Because if you want to use Amazon's app store, F-Droid or Humble Bundle apps, you have to allow unknown sources.
There's no way to open it for those trustable app stores and disallow it for other app stores.
I purchased my windows 10 phone for $50, unlocked. It sure is nice having a phone that a.) browses full websites with a modern browser (no webkit garbage) b.) works like a USB drive like iPhones used to (why did they remove this feature) c.) lasts more than a day on a charge.
Even nicer is I can drag and drop mp3s and flac to the device's microsd card and play them with the native media player. 128gb of storage on my phone for the total price of $100
Webkit garbage? It's a desktop browsing engine, powering some very popular browsers in various incarnations (Chrome uses a Webkit derivative). Webkit is as much "desktop class browsing" as Trident or whatever is used now.
As for USB Mass Storage, phones stopped using it because it is quite limiting. If you plug your phone into your computer, suddenly you can't use your phone anymore. This is because the internal storage is now used by the computer and cannot be touched. Sure, perhaps your phone has a special private data store area so at least basic functionality works, but it's still a pain. Especially a lot of people plug their phones into their PC's USB port to charge at work. If it mounts, that also means no more listening to music via their phones, because it had to unmount the partition holding all the music.
Most people find this inconvenient - why can't their phone work and charge at the same time?
Not sure what you're talking about, OP was snarking that his washing machine hasn't exploded (yet) - as if it would simply because it's made by Samsung. This wasn't Apple saying "you're not holding it right", Samsung fessed up that their state-of-the-art engineering was a little too overoptimistic.
Except that a Samsung washing machine WAS prone to "exploding". Or rather, an unbalanced load would shake it apart (and given the violence of the shaking, fling said pieces outward in an apparent explosion).
So yeah, Samsung washing machines also exploded. And it happened just around the time of the Note 7 recall, too.
Besides we already know the truth of the matter. Small and independent developers are hard pressed to be able to survive on anything the store brings in. Discovery is wonky as hell, you may get kicked out for squinting at the sun wrong, or Apple may decide your app should now be part of their core functionality. In any of those cases, I wouldn't quit your day job even if you do get an app in the store.
If you're counting on "Discovery" (or "write it and they will come") you've missed the boat completely. You don't discover anything in the app store anymore, anymore than you can discover games in Steam, or discover new open source projects just browsing the web.
You need to do one thing - marketing. Because without it, no one will hear about your app. And with 1.8 million of them in the Apple App Store alone, you're an itty-bitty voice.
You need to get word of your app out there - and it doesn't have to cost money. Word of mouth is a great way, and if you have a community around the app's area of focus, then it's even easier to have people try out your app. And then take in feedback and incorporate the improvements because then you get them spouting how good it is.
The Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Google on Wednesday to get the Internet company to turn over compensation data on its employees. [...] Google is obligated to let the government access records that show its hiring doesn't discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender and more.
And how exactly does providing data on employees prove that they do not discriminate against applicants? Oh, that's right, it isn't about equality of opportunity, it's about equality of results. I forgot.
Because you missed the fact that Google has to provide the information, which means they probably have to provide applicant information as well, and information why applications were denied.
Then there's also current employee data, which they need to show that everyone working at a certain job is paid within a similar range. If you have a bunch of people claiming to be "Software developer, level 3" and their pay ranges from $10,000 to $99,000, they'll ask what's going on since there's no way one level of software developer should have such a wide range in pay. Lesser experienced employees should be in a lower tier, after all.
It's why government pay schedules are as rigid as they are - if you're a certain level, there's maybe a $10,000 variation between everyone at the same level.
I've work for Google for 2 years now. Without a court order, why does the government get to have my name, contact info, salary history, and God knows what else? Google fights harder than any company I know of against government over-reach and invasion of privacy (though kudos to Apple recently, other than that NYT app in China thing). I don't know any details, and IANAL, but this feels to me like Google is looking out for our privacy rather than trying to hide hiring practices. Do you want to give your details to these investigators? Why not anonymize the data? I see almost zero non-anonymous data at Google. The government should learn a few of these tricks.
Easy. The contract demands it. Google sells their services to the government (cloud services, it seems like). However, to do that, the government doesn't just go "Sign Up" for an account. They're actually not allowed to just use a solution without contest - they must procure the service through a competition.
So they put out a RFP for what services they need, and in those quotes, they then select a proposal and then send out a whole set of contract documents that you have to agree to. And one of those would to be provide a whole pile of personnel information on demand.
Since Google refuses to abide by the contract, the DoL has the right to request a contract termination because Google has technically breached it.
The "right" of the government to get the data was given by Google when Google signed the contract.
A new app now just for disc subscribers DOES show they are still thinking about said customers, because Netflix could just as easily have let everyone keep using the web interface until discs went away.
The question is, is an app necessary or is it just a WebView into ther DVD management site? And if the DVD site is usable on mobile, why not improve that so it works for iOS AND Android>
Which means he used "free shipping". And given Amazon of late, that really is a mistake.
If you're not a Prime member, this is how Amazon free shipping works now. You place your order, and select free shipping. Amazon then waits 7-10 days on your order (not Prime). Then they check again to see if your item is in stock, and if they can sell it to you (i.e., it didn't turn prime-only, and the price is what they're willing to sell you). If so, great, it's then packed and shipped to you. If not, then it's aborted and your order is cancelled (potentially).
Amazon really has become like Costco and is really a member's shopping club. The only difference is they let you browse and potentially may sell non-members stuff.
Well, the Mac lineup suffered because there was nothing you could do to them. Faster CPUs were AWOL - Intel made Kaby Lake processors for just a handful of uses. This year we'll see meaningful refreshes, because Intel just released the rest of the Kaby Lake lineup that everyone has been waiting for.
Apple can refresh laptops every 6 months like they used to, but given the few improvements Intel makes, it would really be more "meh" than the new MacBook Pro that was released.
As for innovation, the wireless headphones actually ARE an innovation in usability - think of the complexity involved in getting it so it can pair up on command - perhaps your Mac when you're sitting down working, then you leave and have it pair to your iPhone for the commute home. Once home, it pairs to your iPad so you can watch Netflix. It's these little touches that make Apple, well, Apple.
And then there's the headset use case - you can talk on one earpiece while the other is charging, then take it out and put the first one in, all while continuing the call. No one knows you swapped earpieces and your call proceeds uninterrupted. It's not earth-shattering innovative, but more "well, geez, this is useful, why didn't anyone else think of this".
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Well, it relates to two things - energy density, and how fast that energy can be extracted.
Energy density is obvious - the more energy you can store per unit volume, the more potentially dangerous it is. Since Lithium based chemistries have some of the highest densities around, well, it also goes that they are the most dangerous.
Internal resistance is also important because ti tells you how fast that energy can be released. Again, Lithium chemistries do well here. And the thing is, you want a low internal resistance - it means at high loads, you can extract more of the useful electrical energy the cell contains (rather than it being wasted as heat), as well as use it in loads that have varying demands. A car, for example needs to be able to extract a lot of energy quickly to get moving, and many other devices as wel, like laptops where the electrical load changes depending on whether you spin up the hard drive, or activate the GPU, etc. In fact, not having to design around the battery means you can do pretty silly things like put desktop parts in a laptop and know you can draw that kind of power out of the cell.
Thing is, know what else is energy dense and can release a lot of it quickly? Explosives.
Even Steve Jobs said in a Post-PC world, we'd still have PCs.
He likened a PC to a truck. In other words, they're a pretty much all around do-anything machine. There will be better machines that do certain things better than a PC, but there will always be a need for a PC.
And we've seen it - maybe a couple of decades ago you needed a PC for everything, and everyone had at least one PC for everyone. Nowadays with smartphones and tablets, you'd still have a PC, or maybe 2 PCs, but everyone else can be happy with tablets and smartphones and other devices (like set top box media players). There is still a need, and we're going to see the PC stick around until the end of time.
Granted, PCs will probably get more expensive, as we don't need so many of them (if you have a family of 5 people, 5 PCs means you buy cheap ones back in the day, but when you're down to one or two, it doesn't matter so much). But it also means we won't be stuck with bottom of the barrel crap that Best Buy sells now .
In other words, it's being efficient.
The brain has a very powerful voice and audio decoder. (In fact, the brain's wetware is so powerful to compensate for relatively poor sensors - but coupled with the power of the brain, they become much more powerful detection devices. The downside to the economy in hardware with powerful software combination is artifacting - though we usually call those things illusions).
So the codec basically saves transmission bytes by making the brain do a lot of the signal recovery work.
Of course, in Amateur Radio, SSB can be really bad and you have to do a lot of deciphering anyhow.
It's not a "personal website". It's the website to his Infosec company.
That's why he was hired as cybersecurity czar - he owns a computing security company!
The cost of the drug inside is under $1. The autoinjector is mass produced and probably costs another $1 to make.
Epi Pens were under $150 each before Mylan saw they had a monopoly and jacked the price up like many other drug companies. Because you cannot substitute other autoinjectors in a prescription, if you are prescribed an epi-pen (and who isn't, they're well known) you can only get one.
They can sell the things for $10 and still make an easy profit because it doesn't cost very much to make. The drug's generic, and the rest of it is plastic.
But it changes behavior. If you have to choose between DirecTV and Netflix, which would you pick? Netflix would count against your bandwidth limit, so maybe you can watch 1 hour a day without going over. DirecTV is zero-rated, so you can watch it 24 hours a day and it counts as 0 bytes transferred.
It's a realty sneaky way of getting around throttling - you implement network controls across the board (fairly), But for those providers that pay, you can zero-rate them so it doesn't count against their limit.and thus be unlimited.
Imagine you have an Android phone and Apple cuts a deal - all iOS traffic is zero-rated. Is this not a technical violation?
Just because something is not "user replaceable" doesn't mean it isn't replacable. iPod batteries aren't user-replaceable. iPhone batteries aren't, either. And yet you can change them, with requisite skill. Or pay Apple $100 for a new battery and installation. (This applies to their laptops, too, which generally are fairly easy to change).
And if it was a battery problem, it's easy to change as well. Samsung would just collect the phones, replace the batteries and send them back out. They won't worry about whose phone is whose phone - they'd just replace the battery, reflash them and send them back.
The problem is likely far bigger than just a battery problem - it could be battery expansion causing damage to the battery, a charging circuit problem or other issue. After all, the replacement phones also failed, too.
TFS said Apple was #1 in sales with the wireless AirPods at 26^% of new sales. Followed by Bose at #2 in wireless headphones. Beats fell to #3 spot after Bose.
And last I checked, Apple gave you a set of wired headphones in the box, and an adapter to use your own headphones. So you don't have to support Apple's conspiracy. They include two options right in the box.
Apple wasn't the first to ditch the 3.5mm jack. LeEco was the first, followed by Lenovo/Motorola to release phones months ahead of Apple. So technically, Android innovated here.
And rumors have it that Samsung is going to do the same as well.
There's quite a few headphones that support wired and wireless. Usually they're more upscale, but the Bose QC35 has both wireless and wired support, as do many Sony wireless headphones.
They're not hard to find. Maybe not on your cheap $50 bluetooth headphones, but the quality ones have wired options. Some are even multi-wired. Wireless (Bluetooth), Wired (3.5mm) and Wired USB (not just for charging, but for audio data as well).
No, that requires a lot of cash.
You want the cheapest block first (the ones right after Go). You then build 4 houses on each, and use that to buy the next street over and exhaust the entire housing supply. At this point, no one else can build. When you acquire more properties on the second street, you build hotels on the cheap street and use the freed up houses to build. Repeat.
The cheap streets are where it's at. Park Place/Boardwalk can bankrupt you, but it's far easier to take the long strategy and buy up the cheap street as buildings are cheap.
If the statistics are right, Boardwalk/Park Place also don't generally get many visitors.
Grand Central Dispatch is actually an OS level threading tool. Applications queue up work using it and the OS dispatches it - picking the appropriate number of threads based on your system configuration. The magic comes into play when multiple programs do the same thing - the OS keeps the processors busy dispatching all the work, and without thrashing the system - its not like Photoshop will issue a block of work, then your video encoder issues a block of work, and the two simply assume they have full control of the machine and thus your processors switch between the two tasks. No, the OS schedules the work - half the processors are working on Photoshop, while the other half are working on your video encoder, and they're solidly working on them, not multi-tasking. It's as if they magically picked the right number of threads to ensure the processors stay busy without interfering with each other. If you have a third app do the same thing, they adjust again.
Or how about simply modifying the browser to only autofill fields that are visible when submitted? Chrome highlights auto-filled fields, so it knows when it did it. And the browser also knows which fields are user-visible (it's the UI its presenting to the user). Thus, if a field isn't visible, it isn't filled in. And you can even make it so it's only fields visible when the button is clicked (mouseDown) is when the fields are captured so no funny Javascript shenanigans with making more fields visible before submission. You click it, the field lists are captured and locked, Javascript can try to play around with the fields but not have any effect (the field list is already captured), and then the form is submitted as is.
You keep the functionality, you prevent this sort of secret information leakage down, and the user doesn't see any visible change. Win-win.
Actually, /. supports Unicode just fine. But since Unicode has many issues for websites, especially ones that take and display arbitrary user input, /. implements a rather stringent filter.
In fact, most websites don't bother with a filter, resulting in a big mess in comment sections as trolls start playing around. Many sites even let you enter the RTL override codes that suddenly reverse all the text. And plenty of web browsers and websites miscalculate how much space stacked character modifiers take up, so a one line comment can create such a mess that the comment section is obliterated, and maybe even the article itself too. /.'s filter is far more strict, allowing pretty much just the printable ASCII character maps,Though it's probably implemented in a lame way (bit masking every character which destroys the high bit and thus rendering multibyte codepoints as individual characters.
But the code is actually UTF-8 safe and the reason we have it today is because of the trolling that went on when support was actually added. In fact, only 5 years ago did /. actually add the filter to the OUTPUT of the database too, so there was a time you could see the crap people did. It's still known to Google, though, if you search for the somewhat odd ": erocS" or "5 :erocS" string. Hint: RTL override makes that readable.
The monitor is one of the cheaper components these days. Yes, this is a 27" 4K IPS monitor. It probably cost $2K last year. Nowadays they can be hand under $1k. And in a few years when the computer dies, you probably can buy it for $200.
Monitors, especially flat screens were pricey 20 years ago because everyone used CRTs. Now that everyone uses LCDs, the cost of the technology has plummeted dramatically, especially at resolutions that re-use TV components. Mass production basically plunged the prices. It was only a decade ago when a 17" LCD was a luxury, and nowadays you can't give them away.
Everyone complains about 1080p or 4K, but using TV resolutions mean mass production takes the cost way way way down.
And given the prevalence of 27" monitors of late, the price of them will plummet soon as well and those with 24" monitors soon can't give them away.
By the time this computer is dead, the monitor will probably be fairly worthless because you can run out and pick up a brand new one with all sorts of improvements. Scavenging is good for now, but after that it'll be a hobby project.
And negate one of the biggest advantages of Android over iOS.
The problem is Android doesn't allow finer control of that. Because if you want to use Amazon's app store, F-Droid or Humble Bundle apps, you have to allow unknown sources.
There's no way to open it for those trustable app stores and disallow it for other app stores.
Webkit garbage? It's a desktop browsing engine, powering some very popular browsers in various incarnations (Chrome uses a Webkit derivative). Webkit is as much "desktop class browsing" as Trident or whatever is used now.
As for USB Mass Storage, phones stopped using it because it is quite limiting. If you plug your phone into your computer, suddenly you can't use your phone anymore. This is because the internal storage is now used by the computer and cannot be touched. Sure, perhaps your phone has a special private data store area so at least basic functionality works, but it's still a pain. Especially a lot of people plug their phones into their PC's USB port to charge at work. If it mounts, that also means no more listening to music via their phones, because it had to unmount the partition holding all the music.
Most people find this inconvenient - why can't their phone work and charge at the same time?
Except that a Samsung washing machine WAS prone to "exploding". Or rather, an unbalanced load would shake it apart (and given the violence of the shaking, fling said pieces outward in an apparent explosion).
So yeah, Samsung washing machines also exploded. And it happened just around the time of the Note 7 recall, too.
If you're counting on "Discovery" (or "write it and they will come") you've missed the boat completely. You don't discover anything in the app store anymore, anymore than you can discover games in Steam, or discover new open source projects just browsing the web.
You need to do one thing - marketing. Because without it, no one will hear about your app. And with 1.8 million of them in the Apple App Store alone, you're an itty-bitty voice.
You need to get word of your app out there - and it doesn't have to cost money. Word of mouth is a great way, and if you have a community around the app's area of focus, then it's even easier to have people try out your app. And then take in feedback and incorporate the improvements because then you get them spouting how good it is.
Because you missed the fact that Google has to provide the information, which means they probably have to provide applicant information as well, and information why applications were denied.
Then there's also current employee data, which they need to show that everyone working at a certain job is paid within a similar range. If you have a bunch of people claiming to be "Software developer, level 3" and their pay ranges from $10,000 to $99,000, they'll ask what's going on since there's no way one level of software developer should have such a wide range in pay. Lesser experienced employees should be in a lower tier, after all.
It's why government pay schedules are as rigid as they are - if you're a certain level, there's maybe a $10,000 variation between everyone at the same level.
Easy. The contract demands it. Google sells their services to the government (cloud services, it seems like). However, to do that, the government doesn't just go "Sign Up" for an account. They're actually not allowed to just use a solution without contest - they must procure the service through a competition.
So they put out a RFP for what services they need, and in those quotes, they then select a proposal and then send out a whole set of contract documents that you have to agree to. And one of those would to be provide a whole pile of personnel information on demand.
Since Google refuses to abide by the contract, the DoL has the right to request a contract termination because Google has technically breached it.
The "right" of the government to get the data was given by Google when Google signed the contract.
The question is, is an app necessary or is it just a WebView into ther DVD management site? And if the DVD site is usable on mobile, why not improve that so it works for iOS AND Android>
Is an app really necessary?
To be fair, it's his first order.
Which means he used "free shipping". And given Amazon of late, that really is a mistake.
If you're not a Prime member, this is how Amazon free shipping works now. You place your order, and select free shipping. Amazon then waits 7-10 days on your order (not Prime). Then they check again to see if your item is in stock, and if they can sell it to you (i.e., it didn't turn prime-only, and the price is what they're willing to sell you). If so, great, it's then packed and shipped to you. If not, then it's aborted and your order is cancelled (potentially).
Amazon really has become like Costco and is really a member's shopping club. The only difference is they let you browse and potentially may sell non-members stuff.
Well, the Mac lineup suffered because there was nothing you could do to them. Faster CPUs were AWOL - Intel made Kaby Lake processors for just a handful of uses. This year we'll see meaningful refreshes, because Intel just released the rest of the Kaby Lake lineup that everyone has been waiting for.
Apple can refresh laptops every 6 months like they used to, but given the few improvements Intel makes, it would really be more "meh" than the new MacBook Pro that was released.
As for innovation, the wireless headphones actually ARE an innovation in usability - think of the complexity involved in getting it so it can pair up on command - perhaps your Mac when you're sitting down working, then you leave and have it pair to your iPhone for the commute home. Once home, it pairs to your iPad so you can watch Netflix. It's these little touches that make Apple, well, Apple.
And then there's the headset use case - you can talk on one earpiece while the other is charging, then take it out and put the first one in, all while continuing the call. No one knows you swapped earpieces and your call proceeds uninterrupted. It's not earth-shattering innovative, but more "well, geez, this is useful, why didn't anyone else think of this".