The PR & marketing text probably says up to 10 hours. It's probably an unrealistic figure in the real world and more often than not comes out at less than 10 hours and in many cases probably a lot less. I guess they took out the battery life estimate indicator because it looked bad in the iStore or Apple Genius Bar(TM) or whatever it's called showing less than 10 hours on a supposedly brand new machine.
This is just legalising and formalising what they've always done anyway. At least now, law enforcement doesn't have to go to the trouble of parallel reconstruction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Certificate of Public Necessity and Convenience (AKA "taxi medallion") systems exist only in certain cities of the USA. You're comparing a global corporation to a limited number of terrible case scenarios to justify their mistreatment of their employees, AKA, "At least we're not as bad as them."
Nobody is forcing anyone to drive for Uber. Quit if you don't like it. Holy crap there's someone willing to pay you to drive your own car. If that's not your bag, fine. But go somewhere else to complain about it.
Yes, and all those stupid poor people and their children in Victorian England who worked punishingly long hours. Why didn't they just stop?!
Taxi drivers also have regulated hours. Being tired is as impairing and dangerous as being drunk. Would you hail a cab if you knew the driver was drunk? If he's been working double the recommended hours a week, like an Uber driver, he's likely to be severely impaired and very likely to have an accident.
Yes, lots of Americans say that they're OK with it. Abused wives often say they're OK with their husbands for years. And what of those opinion poll predictions of a landslide victory for Clinton in the 2016 election?
At the same time, when we actually test people's abilities, the picture looks very different. Only a small minority can effectively look stuff up on the web and find out whether the information is valid and reliable (OECD, 2016), and 25% of university students can't distinguish between meaningless strings of nice sounding expressions generated by an algorithm and actually meaningful sentences (Pennycook, et. al., 2015).
References
OECD. (2016). Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills. Paris: OECD Publishing. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789...
Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J. A., Barr, N., Koehler, D. J., & Fugelsang, J. A. (2015). On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. ResearchGate, 10(6), 549–563. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/p...
...our robot overlords but, in the last few decades, how many jobs were lost to them and how many were lost to lower-paid workers with no rights, healthcare, social safety net, etc. in developing countries? I wonder how Stephen Hawking would feel about being replaced by a small team of underpaid but very smart guys in India or China?
The charging network announced today will use the Combined Charging System (CCS) technology, which is what that most major automakers already use for their EVs. But Nissan, Toyota, and Honda are notable holdouts from CCS, because many of their EVs and plug-in hybrids use a competing standard known as CHAdeMO.
If there are different proprietary standards, can't EV users just use dongles like Apple users do?
Successive UK govts. have severely underfunded the UK's Inland Revenue Service for decades. They don't have the resources to investigate most tax fraud which is why so many individuals and corporations are getting away with it. Remember that taxes are what pay for legal frameworks and judicial systems so that corporations can do trade as well as pay for education and training for their workers, building and regulating transport infrastructure, insuring and bailing out banks, etc. They get a pretty fantastic deal for what they pay but they still want to avoid paying that?
Re: "the nexus of a sale for a VAT transation should be the seller's location, not the buyer's." -- So that the sellers can do tax inversions and declare that their business is located in tax havens? Additionally, it's the people spending their hard-earned that are paying for govt. services, for example making trading safe and secure, with basic minimum standards for health, safety, a legality. That's what consumers and businesses are paying taxes for. The businesses may or may not get taxed for govt. services at their end too.
...let's go through this article, point by point and weigh up the validity, reliability, and relevance of each one......ooh! Is that a photo of a squirrel doing cute human-like things with its tiny paws?!!
The FBI can effectively investigate the telecommunications of networks/groups involved in law breaking just by looking at the metadata, which can't be encrypted. From metadata, we can see where anybody (everybody) is and when, and who they're with, often in real time, as long as they have their phones with them and turned on. In addition, the FBI can install spyware on suspects' phones, effectively turning their phones into ambient audio and video, and phone call, message, and SMS surveillance devices, as well as overriding the shutdown functions of the phones so that they appear to be turned off but the spyware is still active. Basically, full-spectrum surveillance.
Now, if the FBI can't catch law breakers with those tools at their disposal, what use are they?
Didn't take us long to prove Godwin's Law, did it?
Re: free country, "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization." (Unknown, possibly James Agate) - I guess you're right.
I think it's pure genius how they've managed to get "individuals" to broadcast their thoughtcrimes so that they can be swiftly and properly re-educated.
Yes, I've read Hawking's ventures into philosophy and theology in the past. They weren't up to his usual standard of physics and making sense of the universe. I think he neglects to consider that it'd be a lot safer, cheaper, and easier to survive and thrive on planet Earth even under the direst scenarios of runaway climate change than to try to survive in space or any planets within our reach.
...FB has become a second-rate media company. Not many media companies get their own news these days. They get it from other sources; local newspapers and TV, press wire services, official govt. statements, etc. and then put their own spin on other journalists' stories, AKA churnalism. Facebook makes its money via the same process by getting its users to do it for free. Just because FB exercises almost no editorial control, doesn't mean that they're not responsible.
And hate speech is hate speech. Stopping people from inciting hatred, prejudices, marginalising vulnerable minorities, etc. is a reasonable requirement of any civilised society.
Consumers should be able to backup their data and software settings and perform a complete operating system reinstall with relative, low-levels of knowledge and skills necessary. They should also be reminded to do so every 6 months. It's the safest and cheapest way to keep your PC clean. Until this becomes a reality, consumers will continue to be scammed by PC health checks and PC software repair specialists.
...the urge......There's just too many gags that immediately spring to mind... "Apple Glass" wearers walking into walls because Apple's maps are so unreliable? "Apple Glass" wearers being even more shunned when they video record onto the web everyone they look at wherever they go? Will they be made to look like Steve Jobs' hipster-retro glasses?
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The PR & marketing text probably says up to 10 hours. It's probably an unrealistic figure in the real world and more often than not comes out at less than 10 hours and in many cases probably a lot less. I guess they took out the battery life estimate indicator because it looked bad in the iStore or Apple Genius Bar(TM) or whatever it's called showing less than 10 hours on a supposedly brand new machine.
This is just legalising and formalising what they've always done anyway. At least now, law enforcement doesn't have to go to the trouble of parallel reconstruction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wasn't Keith Alexander the guy who bold-faced lied to Congress? Why should we believe anything he says now?
Certificate of Public Necessity and Convenience (AKA "taxi medallion") systems exist only in certain cities of the USA. You're comparing a global corporation to a limited number of terrible case scenarios to justify their mistreatment of their employees, AKA, "At least we're not as bad as them."
Google's feature is not on a scale from one to five but instead offers a binary choice: like or dislike.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Nobody is forcing anyone to drive for Uber. Quit if you don't like it. Holy crap there's someone willing to pay you to drive your own car. If that's not your bag, fine. But go somewhere else to complain about it.
Yes, and all those stupid poor people and their children in Victorian England who worked punishingly long hours. Why didn't they just stop?!
Taxi drivers also have regulated hours. Being tired is as impairing and dangerous as being drunk. Would you hail a cab if you knew the driver was drunk? If he's been working double the recommended hours a week, like an Uber driver, he's likely to be severely impaired and very likely to have an accident.
Yes, lots of Americans say that they're OK with it. Abused wives often say they're OK with their husbands for years. And what of those opinion poll predictions of a landslide victory for Clinton in the 2016 election?
At the same time, when we actually test people's abilities, the picture looks very different. Only a small minority can effectively look stuff up on the web and find out whether the information is valid and reliable (OECD, 2016), and 25% of university students can't distinguish between meaningless strings of nice sounding expressions generated by an algorithm and actually meaningful sentences (Pennycook, et. al., 2015).
References
OECD. (2016). Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills. Paris: OECD Publishing. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789...
Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J. A., Barr, N., Koehler, D. J., & Fugelsang, J. A. (2015). On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. ResearchGate, 10(6), 549–563. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/p...
Yes, we need to block and/or watch these extremists very carefully. Some of them are very funny: http://www.markthomasinfo.co.u...
Scenario 1:
Hey, smart umbrella owner, is it going to rain today?
Erm... let me see. Damn! Left my umbrella in a cafe/on the metro/etc.
Scenario 2:,
Hey, smart umbrella owner, is it going to rain today?
Hang on, let me check. I left it over... Hey! Who's stolen my umbrella!
...our robot overlords but, in the last few decades, how many jobs were lost to them and how many were lost to lower-paid workers with no rights, healthcare, social safety net, etc. in developing countries? I wonder how Stephen Hawking would feel about being replaced by a small team of underpaid but very smart guys in India or China?
The charging network announced today will use the Combined Charging System (CCS) technology, which is what that most major automakers already use for their EVs. But Nissan, Toyota, and Honda are notable holdouts from CCS, because many of their EVs and plug-in hybrids use a competing standard known as CHAdeMO.
If there are different proprietary standards, can't EV users just use dongles like Apple users do?
...Google told us they could predict outbreaks of colds and flu? Let's wait and see how well their latest attempts at diagnosis and prediction go.
...for people who find web browsers too convenient and secure.
Successive UK govts. have severely underfunded the UK's Inland Revenue Service for decades. They don't have the resources to investigate most tax fraud which is why so many individuals and corporations are getting away with it. Remember that taxes are what pay for legal frameworks and judicial systems so that corporations can do trade as well as pay for education and training for their workers, building and regulating transport infrastructure, insuring and bailing out banks, etc. They get a pretty fantastic deal for what they pay but they still want to avoid paying that?
Re: "the nexus of a sale for a VAT transation should be the seller's location, not the buyer's." -- So that the sellers can do tax inversions and declare that their business is located in tax havens? Additionally, it's the people spending their hard-earned that are paying for govt. services, for example making trading safe and secure, with basic minimum standards for health, safety, a legality. That's what consumers and businesses are paying taxes for. The businesses may or may not get taxed for govt. services at their end too.
...let's go through this article, point by point and weigh up the validity, reliability, and relevance of each one... ...ooh! Is that a photo of a squirrel doing cute human-like things with its tiny paws?!!
...buy a Samsung. Simple.
The FBI can effectively investigate the telecommunications of networks/groups involved in law breaking just by looking at the metadata, which can't be encrypted. From metadata, we can see where anybody (everybody) is and when, and who they're with, often in real time, as long as they have their phones with them and turned on. In addition, the FBI can install spyware on suspects' phones, effectively turning their phones into ambient audio and video, and phone call, message, and SMS surveillance devices, as well as overriding the shutdown functions of the phones so that they appear to be turned off but the spyware is still active. Basically, full-spectrum surveillance.
Now, if the FBI can't catch law breakers with those tools at their disposal, what use are they?
Didn't take us long to prove Godwin's Law, did it?
Re: free country, "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization." (Unknown, possibly James Agate) - I guess you're right.
Yes, it's doubleplusgood! :)))
I think it's pure genius how they've managed to get "individuals" to broadcast their thoughtcrimes so that they can be swiftly and properly re-educated.
Yes, I've read Hawking's ventures into philosophy and theology in the past. They weren't up to his usual standard of physics and making sense of the universe. I think he neglects to consider that it'd be a lot safer, cheaper, and easier to survive and thrive on planet Earth even under the direst scenarios of runaway climate change than to try to survive in space or any planets within our reach.
...FB has become a second-rate media company. Not many media companies get their own news these days. They get it from other sources; local newspapers and TV, press wire services, official govt. statements, etc. and then put their own spin on other journalists' stories, AKA churnalism. Facebook makes its money via the same process by getting its users to do it for free. Just because FB exercises almost no editorial control, doesn't mean that they're not responsible.
And hate speech is hate speech. Stopping people from inciting hatred, prejudices, marginalising vulnerable minorities, etc. is a reasonable requirement of any civilised society.
Consumers should be able to backup their data and software settings and perform a complete operating system reinstall with relative, low-levels of knowledge and skills necessary. They should also be reminded to do so every 6 months. It's the safest and cheapest way to keep your PC clean. Until this becomes a reality, consumers will continue to be scammed by PC health checks and PC software repair specialists.
...the urge... ...There's just too many gags that immediately spring to mind... "Apple Glass" wearers walking into walls because Apple's maps are so unreliable? "Apple Glass" wearers being even more shunned when they video record onto the web everyone they look at wherever they go? Will they be made to look like Steve Jobs' hipster-retro glasses?