I agree fully, I too am a Note4 user (my third Note in a row!) but I won't be getting another Note series phone as long as they are going this route.
Curved screens make phones extremely difficult to use, and have absolutely no benefit of any kind. irreplaceable batteries limit the lifespan of your phone, and again, have no benefit of any kind. Iris scanner? from what I can tell, I wouldn't be able to unlock my phone in bright sunlight, well that's not acceptable in any way, so another useless gimmick.
Give me something BETTER than my Note4 and I'll consider it.
I sure hope they're wrong here, I have enough trouble avoiding accidental edge presses on my Note4, on a curved screen I'd never be able to use the thing without the edges being constantly pressed. I've never come up with any possible reason why anyone would want a curved display, but I can come up will lots of reasons to avoid it.
Not sure what my next phone will be, I'll keep the Note4 for now, I love pretty much everything about it, but when it needs replacing I WILL chose a flat screen over the stylus (and I do love my stylus)
But the driver's test doesn't check that you know what cruise control is either. (that was your argument against auto-pilot)
And this is distinctly more than "cruise control", why call it "cruise control" when you could simply say that the driver has the ability to adjust the speedof the vehicle? You use names for features to explain what the feature does. Autopilot is EXTREMELY descriptive of EXACTLY what the feature does, there is ZERO confusion over what autopilot means. Calling it something else would be VERY irresponsible unless the name was actually several pages from the manual.
Why are you giving every other manufacturer a pass? Tesla is the only one who makes the functionality clear, everyone else is trying to be confusing, and yet you harp on Tesla? What do you have against Tesla? They've done absolutely everything 100% right here, every other manufacturer is acting irresponsibly, and yet you're coming out as rabid anti-Tesla with no reasonable explanation.
And yet every single term you have suggested in its place is less descriptive, more confusing, and far more likely to cause someone to do something stupid.
Anyone who has never heard the term autopilot before (I'm thinking you're the only person on they planet) would still get the manual, would still get the instructional briefing from Tesla at delivery, would still get the dialog box when they enable the feature in the settings, would still get the warning every single time they activate it, and would still get the constant nags to hold the steering wheel. Anyone who ignores all of that quite frankly deserves whatever they get.
Ah the host spammer...the outfit who didn't even read the post he's replying too. I do one better than hosts and block it in DNS instead, just like a hosts file but it does every device I own at once.
And hosts isn't always superior to adblock. hosts can't block ads that are served from the same domain as the content you want to see. Adblock can.
I use a far better solution, DNS to block domains that have no redeeming qualities, coupled with adblock to block ads served from hosts that also serve content I'm interested in. Win win.
I've never met anyone stupid enough to think autopilot in a plane flies itself and doesn't require a pilot, and air travel is pretty ubiquitous these days. People know there are 2 pilots on every flight, and that airlines are looking to shave every penny from their costs. If pilots weren't important, you can bet they wouldn't be there. And everyone knows it.
Autopilot is hands down the absolute best possible name for the system in place in Tesla vehicles. It describes exactly what it does, in terms that the whole world understands, and with no ambiguity. They could not possibly have named it any better, it's the other manufacturers who have chosen misleading and confusing names, but they buy ads with media companies, so they don't get even a fraction of the scrutiny in the press that Tesla does.
Even the moron who killed himself in this crash went on record on YouTube before the crash and proved he understood the system, there's really just no possible way to pin this guy's stupidity on tesla.
And yet they get accused of it all 4 quarters every year... so I don't think that explanation makes any sense either.
It seems much more logical to conclude that the people making the accusation are desperately grasping at straws because they don't like to believe the truth.
Far faster than it loaded without them. Amazing how fast pages load when you strip all the junk out.
Also note that many of those extensions don't do anything unless you request it, so they don't have to "filter" the page, things like right click enabler, open frame, view image, image rotate, IMG backtrace, etc. About the only ones that actually filter the page are adblock, and disable HTML5 autoplay, Both of which speed up pages quite significantly.
"intelligent" tells me it does the thinking, which, if you were to believe it, would cause you to let it do exactly that, and probably get yourself killed.
"autopilot" implies a system where you still need to pay full attention, which is a much safer implication.
As for "if we start hearing about accidents"... what makes you think there haven't been any? Tesla is a magnet for the press, that doesn't in any way indicate that they have more incidents, only that people focus on them FAR more than any other manufacturer out there (witness the couple of fires that had the press shouting doom and gloom while there were no injuries reported, and thousands of other cars burned in the same time period (including fatalities) without a peep from the media.)
While I see the point to this, my usual use case is to open a ton of tabs, and let them load in the background so they're ready by the time I switch to them. It would seem that this would break that making me wait for each one to load after I get there.
Don't use adblock plus, or ublock. adblock works great for me. on the rare occasion that an ad does somehow manage to sneak through, I nuke it pretty quickly either with adblock, or more often by blackholeing the whole host on my DNS server.
I'll admit I've never tried iOS on a tablet, only Android, but I love android on a tablet.
That said, I have used iOS on a phone unfortunately, work had me saddled with an iPhone until a few months ago when I finally convinced them to let me upgrade to a refurbished Galaxy S5, night and day difference, I am so much happier now, the S5 does so much more than the iPhone did, and is MUCH easier to use too. You also just can't beat Android's consistent UI, the fragmented mess that are apps in the iOS world are impossible to navigate. Long live the ever-present, non-moving, consistent functioning back button!
Adblock (with "acceptable ad" turned OFF) Centre Image Cisco WebEx (for work) Disable HTML5 Autoplay Enhancer for YouTube Google Calendar Image Backtrace! IMG Rotate (why isn't this included by default with so many galleries of sideways iPhone images?) IPvFoo (I'm on a test group for IPv6 at work) Linkclump Mailto: (again, why isn't this default in chrome, you'd think many of their users would want to open mailto: links with gmail?) Open Frame QR-Code Tag Extension (because someone depreciated chrome-to-phone) Right-Click Enabler (Browsers should never allow websites to block right clicks, it's MY browser, not yours!) Save to Google Drive (Another one google should have included by default) Text URL Linker (because browsers are too stupid to figure out that text formatted as http://www.somedomainname.com/ are actually URLs even if someone forgot to wrap them in A tags) View Background Image View Image Yet another flags (It's nice to see at a glance where the website is likely actually hosted)
And with all that loaded, and an aggressive ad-filtering DNS server, the web is almost tolerable.
Samsung has been accused of channel stuffing every single quarter for years. If you really think that the retailers are being shipped more than they can sell, by a large enough margin to make a statistical difference, every quarter for years, where exactly do you think those phones are going? I can tell you that no retailer is going to continue placing orders for new stock if they can't sell it, and they aren't going to just keep storing it forever either. Samsung also can't afford to keep making phones that it can't sell, and based on their profit numbers posted in this article, it's apparent that they ARE selling.
Will it finally do as much as the Samsung Galaxy S4?
Samsung is several years ahead in every way on their devices. I don't know why it's taking so long for apple users to notice this and switch, but finally they're doing so.
And now there's one more site that can be hacked, and it will provide an "encrypted blob" that the attacker can easily decrypt and get your password for EVERY site, not just a couple.
Password managers that have ANY online component are a massive security breach. You'd be more secure using the same password you use for your password manager on all those sites independently, same password will compromise everything (no different from if the password manager is compromised) but you only have N sites that can be compromised instead of N+1 (+1 being the password manager site)
Autopilot in it's current form is 100% completely incapable of "creating an accident", it does not in any way prevent the driver from controlling the vehicle, and it in fact insists that the driver does so.
If you watch a DVD while driving your car, do you think the manufacturer should compensate your family when you crash and kill yourself? And don't pretend that nobody watches DVDs without "autopilot" there have been many people caught doing so, and there have been fatalities.
We also know that without autopilot the number would be higher, and that this incident was a moron who killed himself. had he been in any other car made he would have died sooner pulling these stunts, and people DO pull these stunts in other vehicles.
Mercedes calls it "discronic plus" Infiniti calls it "intelligent cruise control" Audi calls it "autocruise" If those manufacturers are allowed to pick their own names, and ones that nobody knows the real meaning of, why can't Tesla pick their own name, and better yet, be the only one that really describes what the system actually does?
Tesla is the only one of those manufacturers to AVOID confusion by using a well known term.
I actually agree. But many people are not that patient. Keep in mind all the people you see every day who push in front of you in line to save 10 seconds. People are impatient, that's what keeps theatres in business.
And yet, statistics show that the vast majority are using the system as advertised. (If not we'd be seeing hundreds of these crashes, not one) And we also know that people do all the same things in other vehicles. People watching DVDs while driving has been going on for over a decade.
The benefit is fewer lives lost to traffic collisions. What's the "damage" to saving lives? there's literally NO downside to anyone to the autopilot technology, and it saves lives. There's no "is it worth the damage" because there's no damage!
It doesn't have to beat it on "technical grounds" because the whole experience is the thing that counts. Not the screen size, or number of speakers, or quality of the amplifiers, etc.
The theatre has a bigger screen, but the field of view can easily be the same at home with furniture placement, and you're never in seats that aren't optimal (the first few rows are too close to the screen, the side seats aren't great, etc)
The theatre has "better" sound, but they always turn it up too loud, and you're often too close or too far from the surround speakers.
Even if you get the ideal seat, the sound has to compete with the guy rustling his popcorn bag by your left ear, and there's the idiot texting 2 rows ahead of you, and the guy beside you asking his wife to explain the plot line to date.
Even a cheap home theatre setup will likely yield a better experience than that, and a half decent one will blow it out of the water.
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I agree fully, I too am a Note4 user (my third Note in a row!) but I won't be getting another Note series phone as long as they are going this route.
Curved screens make phones extremely difficult to use, and have absolutely no benefit of any kind.
irreplaceable batteries limit the lifespan of your phone, and again, have no benefit of any kind.
Iris scanner? from what I can tell, I wouldn't be able to unlock my phone in bright sunlight, well that's not acceptable in any way, so another useless gimmick.
Give me something BETTER than my Note4 and I'll consider it.
And yet the headline says "curved display"
I sure hope they're wrong here, I have enough trouble avoiding accidental edge presses on my Note4, on a curved screen I'd never be able to use the thing without the edges being constantly pressed. I've never come up with any possible reason why anyone would want a curved display, but I can come up will lots of reasons to avoid it.
Not sure what my next phone will be, I'll keep the Note4 for now, I love pretty much everything about it, but when it needs replacing I WILL chose a flat screen over the stylus (and I do love my stylus)
But the driver's test doesn't check that you know what cruise control is either. (that was your argument against auto-pilot)
And this is distinctly more than "cruise control", why call it "cruise control" when you could simply say that the driver has the ability to adjust the speedof the vehicle? You use names for features to explain what the feature does. Autopilot is EXTREMELY descriptive of EXACTLY what the feature does, there is ZERO confusion over what autopilot means. Calling it something else would be VERY irresponsible unless the name was actually several pages from the manual.
Why are you giving every other manufacturer a pass? Tesla is the only one who makes the functionality clear, everyone else is trying to be confusing, and yet you harp on Tesla? What do you have against Tesla? They've done absolutely everything 100% right here, every other manufacturer is acting irresponsibly, and yet you're coming out as rabid anti-Tesla with no reasonable explanation.
And yet every single term you have suggested in its place is less descriptive, more confusing, and far more likely to cause someone to do something stupid.
Anyone who has never heard the term autopilot before (I'm thinking you're the only person on they planet) would still get the manual, would still get the instructional briefing from Tesla at delivery, would still get the dialog box when they enable the feature in the settings, would still get the warning every single time they activate it, and would still get the constant nags to hold the steering wheel.
Anyone who ignores all of that quite frankly deserves whatever they get.
Ah the host spammer...the outfit who didn't even read the post he's replying too. I do one better than hosts and block it in DNS instead, just like a hosts file but it does every device I own at once.
And hosts isn't always superior to adblock. hosts can't block ads that are served from the same domain as the content you want to see. Adblock can.
I use a far better solution, DNS to block domains that have no redeeming qualities, coupled with adblock to block ads served from hosts that also serve content I'm interested in. Win win.
I've never met anyone stupid enough to think autopilot in a plane flies itself and doesn't require a pilot, and air travel is pretty ubiquitous these days. People know there are 2 pilots on every flight, and that airlines are looking to shave every penny from their costs. If pilots weren't important, you can bet they wouldn't be there. And everyone knows it.
Autopilot is hands down the absolute best possible name for the system in place in Tesla vehicles. It describes exactly what it does, in terms that the whole world understands, and with no ambiguity. They could not possibly have named it any better, it's the other manufacturers who have chosen misleading and confusing names, but they buy ads with media companies, so they don't get even a fraction of the scrutiny in the press that Tesla does.
Even the moron who killed himself in this crash went on record on YouTube before the crash and proved he understood the system, there's really just no possible way to pin this guy's stupidity on tesla.
And yet they get accused of it all 4 quarters every year... so I don't think that explanation makes any sense either.
It seems much more logical to conclude that the people making the accusation are desperately grasping at straws because they don't like to believe the truth.
Far faster than it loaded without them. Amazing how fast pages load when you strip all the junk out.
Also note that many of those extensions don't do anything unless you request it, so they don't have to "filter" the page, things like right click enabler, open frame, view image, image rotate, IMG backtrace, etc.
About the only ones that actually filter the page are adblock, and disable HTML5 autoplay, Both of which speed up pages quite significantly.
Why?
"intelligent" tells me it does the thinking, which, if you were to believe it, would cause you to let it do exactly that, and probably get yourself killed.
"autopilot" implies a system where you still need to pay full attention, which is a much safer implication.
As for "if we start hearing about accidents"... what makes you think there haven't been any? Tesla is a magnet for the press, that doesn't in any way indicate that they have more incidents, only that people focus on them FAR more than any other manufacturer out there (witness the couple of fires that had the press shouting doom and gloom while there were no injuries reported, and thousands of other cars burned in the same time period (including fatalities) without a peep from the media.)
While I see the point to this, my usual use case is to open a ton of tabs, and let them load in the background so they're ready by the time I switch to them. It would seem that this would break that making me wait for each one to load after I get there.
Don't use adblock plus, or ublock.
adblock works great for me. on the rare occasion that an ad does somehow manage to sneak through, I nuke it pretty quickly either with adblock, or more often by blackholeing the whole host on my DNS server.
I'll admit I've never tried iOS on a tablet, only Android, but I love android on a tablet.
That said, I have used iOS on a phone unfortunately, work had me saddled with an iPhone until a few months ago when I finally convinced them to let me upgrade to a refurbished Galaxy S5, night and day difference, I am so much happier now, the S5 does so much more than the iPhone did, and is MUCH easier to use too. You also just can't beat Android's consistent UI, the fragmented mess that are apps in the iOS world are impossible to navigate. Long live the ever-present, non-moving, consistent functioning back button!
If silverlight qualifies as "really good" for you, I'd hate to see what you think is bad...
I don't suppose you'd be willing to share your greasemonkey scripts for the anti-adblock measures?
Adblock (with "acceptable ad" turned OFF)
Centre Image
Cisco WebEx (for work)
Disable HTML5 Autoplay
Enhancer for YouTube
Google Calendar
Image Backtrace!
IMG Rotate (why isn't this included by default with so many galleries of sideways iPhone images?)
IPvFoo (I'm on a test group for IPv6 at work)
Linkclump
Mailto: (again, why isn't this default in chrome, you'd think many of their users would want to open mailto: links with gmail?)
Open Frame
QR-Code Tag Extension (because someone depreciated chrome-to-phone)
Right-Click Enabler (Browsers should never allow websites to block right clicks, it's MY browser, not yours!)
Save to Google Drive (Another one google should have included by default)
Text URL Linker (because browsers are too stupid to figure out that text formatted as http://www.somedomainname.com/ are actually URLs even if someone forgot to wrap them in A tags)
View Background Image
View Image
Yet another flags (It's nice to see at a glance where the website is likely actually hosted)
And with all that loaded, and an aggressive ad-filtering DNS server, the web is almost tolerable.
Samsung has been accused of channel stuffing every single quarter for years. If you really think that the retailers are being shipped more than they can sell, by a large enough margin to make a statistical difference, every quarter for years, where exactly do you think those phones are going? I can tell you that no retailer is going to continue placing orders for new stock if they can't sell it, and they aren't going to just keep storing it forever either. Samsung also can't afford to keep making phones that it can't sell, and based on their profit numbers posted in this article, it's apparent that they ARE selling.
Make no mistake, these "shipped" units ARE sales.
Will it finally do as much as the Samsung Galaxy S4?
Samsung is several years ahead in every way on their devices. I don't know why it's taking so long for apple users to notice this and switch, but finally they're doing so.
And now there's one more site that can be hacked, and it will provide an "encrypted blob" that the attacker can easily decrypt and get your password for EVERY site, not just a couple.
Password managers that have ANY online component are a massive security breach. You'd be more secure using the same password you use for your password manager on all those sites independently, same password will compromise everything (no different from if the password manager is compromised) but you only have N sites that can be compromised instead of N+1 (+1 being the password manager site)
Autopilot in it's current form is 100% completely incapable of "creating an accident", it does not in any way prevent the driver from controlling the vehicle, and it in fact insists that the driver does so.
If you watch a DVD while driving your car, do you think the manufacturer should compensate your family when you crash and kill yourself? And don't pretend that nobody watches DVDs without "autopilot" there have been many people caught doing so, and there have been fatalities.
We know exactly how many more. ZERO.
We also know that without autopilot the number would be higher, and that this incident was a moron who killed himself. had he been in any other car made he would have died sooner pulling these stunts, and people DO pull these stunts in other vehicles.
Mercedes calls it "discronic plus" Infiniti calls it "intelligent cruise control" Audi calls it "autocruise"
If those manufacturers are allowed to pick their own names, and ones that nobody knows the real meaning of, why can't Tesla pick their own name, and better yet, be the only one that really describes what the system actually does?
Tesla is the only one of those manufacturers to AVOID confusion by using a well known term.
I actually agree. But many people are not that patient. Keep in mind all the people you see every day who push in front of you in line to save 10 seconds. People are impatient, that's what keeps theatres in business.
And yet, statistics show that the vast majority are using the system as advertised. (If not we'd be seeing hundreds of these crashes, not one)
And we also know that people do all the same things in other vehicles. People watching DVDs while driving has been going on for over a decade.
The benefit is fewer lives lost to traffic collisions. What's the "damage" to saving lives? there's literally NO downside to anyone to the autopilot technology, and it saves lives. There's no "is it worth the damage" because there's no damage!
It doesn't have to beat it on "technical grounds" because the whole experience is the thing that counts. Not the screen size, or number of speakers, or quality of the amplifiers, etc.
The theatre has a bigger screen, but the field of view can easily be the same at home with furniture placement, and you're never in seats that aren't optimal (the first few rows are too close to the screen, the side seats aren't great, etc)
The theatre has "better" sound, but they always turn it up too loud, and you're often too close or too far from the surround speakers.
Even if you get the ideal seat, the sound has to compete with the guy rustling his popcorn bag by your left ear, and there's the idiot texting 2 rows ahead of you, and the guy beside you asking his wife to explain the plot line to date.
Even a cheap home theatre setup will likely yield a better experience than that, and a half decent one will blow it out of the water.