Germans know things about border controls. They invented the modern border wall with motion sensors and death strips.
The country was divided. Remember?
The East spied on people in depth, blackmailing and controlling them to spy on family members, friends and neighbours. They did this with conventional technology. Identity papers were important and often a matter of a life worth living, or death to escape it.
This has left a pension for provocative artwork, a deep respect for privacy and a healthy fear of government overreach.
My 4s took better shots. Even when I look at them on my 6s+ display. I see people complaining about the 7 and 8 with the same issues, and I immediately can tell an iPhone photo when somebody sends it to me.
In anything other than bright daylight, the watercolor effect on the images due to compression are horrible.
I would hate to have to give up the iPhone because I'm sick of the photos of my children looking embarrassingly bad, but the privacy issues around Google are difficult to accept.
Loading up the raw photo apps is probably the right way to go, but it's such a pain in the butt.
The 1942 Berlin diversity and Gay pride parade was quite a show. People came in droves, from many different nationalities. The military turned up too, on account of the huge social welfare projects created by the newly expanded funding. Controling the executive, legislative and parliamentary branches of government created a utopia, with one man in charge.
The only part which sucked was when the German military forced the racially impure, the Jews, Roma, sexual deviants and enemies of the government at gun point into concentration camps where they were BURNED IN OVENS.
Your Google(TM) DRM compatible phone-camera would have a "do not record" subchannel which picks up a high frequency signal indicating that it should not record the scene.
The subchannel is inserted by the hardware similar to HDCP. Only signed, compliant software with a guarantee from the hardware would be able to read and render the content.
Well, that's the future anyway. Where nobody has analog cameras, and dedicated digital cameras are barely a thing anymore.
"... if pocket to small, no longer wear or buy that brand of shirt, function first."
"Only you can fight against the marketing targeted at you, no excuses, all of you!"
On the subject, I knew a woman who tucked her phone into her bra. It was very practical, particularly sensitive to vibration. With breasts, it was limited to a smaller, rounder cellphone, but since you're not a victim of fashion, maybe if you wore a bra, you wouldn't have to worry so much about finding shirts which fit your phone? You can keep your shirt unbuttoned at the top to make it easier to get to.
Another option might be a thigh holster. If your thighs don't rub, you could keep your phone safely stowed. You might need to unzip your fly to reach it, or maybe a skirt will help. Some men wear skirts, I'm sure you can find more information online.
My wife, her pants don't have extra gather where her penis and testicles would be if she were a man. This means anything in her front pockets protrudes uncomfortably and is quite visible. So she carries her phone in her back pocket unless she's carrying her purse.
A purse? A "purse" is an amazing utility bag where you can keep pens, notepads, tools, tampons, and many other useful items needed daily. European men sometimes have them, they're actually very fashion-forward and could solve your shirt problem.
An ancient groupware product maintained and sold by IBM.
It's built on replicating proprietary non-SQL databases, a PKI system for access control, encryption and digital signatures. The servers can translate the content into web pages, or fat clients can access the system using the native format.
It's honestly an amazing bit of software which gets a bad rep due to a clunky UI, predating open standards on many of these things and a very fat, fat client.
IBM's purchase of Lotus and subsequent poor marketing has kept it from competing with MS for decades now. It's been relegated to government use and IBM use. The concept is due for a re-invention, but cloud services like Google Docs and o365 provide the most important bits of functionality and are closest to replacing its capabilities.
IBM is very good at supporting things for a LONG time, so I don't think it's going to disappear very soon.
"Corporate isn't really our target audience, so this is a low priority issue."
This has always been stunning to me about Apple. They're madly successful and have machines snuck in the back doors of corporate, but they seem to show no interest in selling hardware into corporate.
Even the AppleID scheme is a pain in the butt in Corporate environments. Who owns the Apple ID? My last talk with Apple, they said they would have the employee carry it from employer to employer... We preferred to give the employees Apple IDs and $50 gift cards for the itunes store to re-buy whatever dumb utilities they needed and bigger purchases on a case-by-case basis.
Else the employee exit process requires employees to un-link the corporate machine from their personal ID. These are not things at the top of mind when an employee is leaving.
Unless by "freedom" you mean installing shading apps from sites in China and loading them up with pirated emulator ROMs. Then yeah, IOS sucks for that.
I work in a large company and the corporate culture can't wrap their brains around this. I'm on two scrums (two retrospectives, two sprint planning meetings etc.), even 100% allocated to the two sprints, and even more bizzare, we have the same scrummaster on both and she doesn't raise an eyebrow that I'm in both meetings.
Some people are in three.
Previously I worked in a startup. Agile was ok for me, great for the devs. As a specialist on a team of 1, sitting in a scrum of other specialists is stupid, but we tried to make it work and bent the rules until we got some value out of it.
In the big corp, I surf Slashdot while in scrum... *of course* it's not an in-person meeting, that would upset the cubicles!
There’s some logic in doing this kind of work in the cloud. It doesn’t save much money or effort in the long run having a development environment on your workstation.
If it’s not the RAM limiting you, it’s the data sets, storage, or shared environments, or even just leaving it running when you head home, or having another set of eyes collaborate on your problem.
That said, it is stupid Apple doesn’t have beefy pro laptops as an option, but running a dev environment on your laptop should not be the reason.
I should add, the stupid alert may have *actually* worked. The kid was found in a coffee shop. Maybe mom bought him some donuts and said goodbye when EVERY PHONE AROUND THEM started going off.
He was abducted by his mother. Be on the lookout for an 8 year old boy with his mother from a town 15 hours away.
I have no clue how anyone who doesn't personally know the family would be able to pick this pair out from a text alert.
I can only imagine they may have wanted to be sure domestic airlines, car rental companies or bus lines were aware that these two might be getting out of town. Surely there must be a better way.
We're no more certain that it was a war to get one guy than it was a war to stop a genocide, or a war for oil, to stabilize the region, defend allies, protect strategic interests... could be anything. I'm pretty sure we were lied to, but we can't have all the information, and even if we could, it would be spun for political reasons.
My point was that non-involvement can have a heavier price tag down the road.
The U.S. in particular gets involved because it is one of the last superpowers. Some would say the only remaining superpower. China sticks around its borders, and Russia's influence abroad is limited. The U.S. has bases and capabilities everywhere. Being able to fight wars abroad to keep the battle fronts as far away from your home country is a good, but expensive strategy.
Disclaimer, I'm not American and I don't agree with the American influence abroad. I think most of what the U.S. does is unethical, but there is a logic to it.
"At some point the world needs to just agree to stop fighting over petty issues, like economics, religion, oil, ideology, tribalism, etc"
This is an oversimplification. The strongest counterpoint I can think of is what happened to the Netherlands in WWII. For similar reasons, to not send their sons to their deaths, to not destroy cities and lives in war, they ceded leadership to the Germans.
When their Jewish population was rounded up, it was too late to resist. By the end of the war, the population was in famine.
Infact, the whole rise of the third reich was in tandem with broken treaties and nobody willing to step in and stop the rising power until it was too late.
Some of these involvements are more nuianced. The actions against Saddam in Desert Storm might have immediately protected allies and other stable governments in the region, but allowing a genocidal despot to go unchecked may lead to much bigger problems in the future.
Many of these foreign interventions are to keep wars from reaching our doors. The recent example in Syria being the failure of involvement leading to millions of refugees on the doors of countries throughout the world.
I'm no war monger. War is utterly stupid. But if you're going to have a world where soverign nations are free to organize themselves, there will be situations where early intervention is needed, and those interventions may be very unsatisfying, inconclusive and politically self-defeating. It's hard to feel good about long, expensive, lethal protracted involvements on foreign soil for motives alien to your own forces, to achive the goal of preventing something not very specific from happening.
"But don't blame Trump. This is something that's been in the works for a long time, and it's not Trump's fault. It's the US's fault in general."
This would be true if I didn't have coworkers from Iran who were forbidden to travel by Trump's policies.
So, NO, you are not correct. There's been mumbling about moving conferences for years, but now it's mainstream action based on ever-changing racist policies personally signed by DONALD J TRUMP which affect the same members of a team travelling to a conference differently depending on their background.
*I* don't want to attend conferences when my peers are excluded.
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Derp, yeah, I meant a pension. They have piles of loot laying about from dead people and they use it to buy up provocative artwork.
Of course I meant penchant.
Germans know things about border controls. They invented the modern border wall with motion sensors and death strips.
The country was divided. Remember?
The East spied on people in depth, blackmailing and controlling them to spy on family members, friends and neighbours. They did this with conventional technology. Identity papers were important and often a matter of a life worth living, or death to escape it.
This has left a pension for provocative artwork, a deep respect for privacy and a healthy fear of government overreach.
Center-right media outlet before the world went insane.
Now you would call it "business journalism" or something.
It's immensely frustrating and has been going on for years.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7691303?page=67
My 4s took better shots. Even when I look at them on my 6s+ display. I see people complaining about the 7 and 8 with the same issues, and I immediately can tell an iPhone photo when somebody sends it to me.
In anything other than bright daylight, the watercolor effect on the images due to compression are horrible.
I would hate to have to give up the iPhone because I'm sick of the photos of my children looking embarrassingly bad, but the privacy issues around Google are difficult to accept.
Loading up the raw photo apps is probably the right way to go, but it's such a pain in the butt.
"The founding fathers were no dummies, and the Amendment was purposefully worded in ..."
that way for that reason.
Ummmm.... The amendment was influenced by the early gun lobby which was instrumental to the creation of the country.
There's no 220 years of foresight going on here. There were practical needs which were very real and present.
The gun industry was also not about megafactories pumping out consumer products, but about small mechanical works and tooling throughout the country.
The skills spilled into other industries. It's hard to draw parallels to the modern world here.
The incredible foresight into some statement about modern democracies is BS.
Are you talking about literal Nazis here?
The 1942 Berlin diversity and Gay pride parade was quite a show. People came in droves, from many different nationalities. The military turned up too, on account of the huge social welfare projects created by the newly expanded funding. Controling the executive, legislative and parliamentary branches of government created a utopia, with one man in charge.
The only part which sucked was when the German military forced the racially impure, the Jews, Roma, sexual deviants and enemies of the government at gun point into concentration camps where they were BURNED IN OVENS.
Your Google(TM) DRM compatible phone-camera would have a "do not record" subchannel which picks up a high frequency signal indicating that it should not record the scene.
The subchannel is inserted by the hardware similar to HDCP. Only signed, compliant software with a guarantee from the hardware would be able to read and render the content.
Well, that's the future anyway. Where nobody has analog cameras, and dedicated digital cameras are barely a thing anymore.
"... if pocket to small, no longer wear or buy that brand of shirt, function first."
"Only you can fight against the marketing targeted at you, no excuses, all of you!"
On the subject, I knew a woman who tucked her phone into her bra. It was very practical, particularly sensitive to vibration. With breasts, it was limited to a smaller, rounder cellphone, but since you're not a victim of fashion, maybe if you wore a bra, you wouldn't have to worry so much about finding shirts which fit your phone? You can keep your shirt unbuttoned at the top to make it easier to get to.
Another option might be a thigh holster. If your thighs don't rub, you could keep your phone safely stowed. You might need to unzip your fly to reach it, or maybe a skirt will help. Some men wear skirts, I'm sure you can find more information online.
My wife, her pants don't have extra gather where her penis and testicles would be if she were a man. This means anything in her front pockets protrudes uncomfortably and is quite visible. So she carries her phone in her back pocket unless she's carrying her purse.
A purse? A "purse" is an amazing utility bag where you can keep pens, notepads, tools, tampons, and many other useful items needed daily. European men sometimes have them, they're actually very fashion-forward and could solve your shirt problem.
Good luck!
An ancient groupware product maintained and sold by IBM.
It's built on replicating proprietary non-SQL databases, a PKI system for access control, encryption and digital signatures. The servers can translate the content into web pages, or fat clients can access the system using the native format.
It's honestly an amazing bit of software which gets a bad rep due to a clunky UI, predating open standards on many of these things and a very fat, fat client.
IBM's purchase of Lotus and subsequent poor marketing has kept it from competing with MS for decades now. It's been relegated to government use and IBM use. The concept is due for a re-invention, but cloud services like Google Docs and o365 provide the most important bits of functionality and are closest to replacing its capabilities.
IBM is very good at supporting things for a LONG time, so I don't think it's going to disappear very soon.
"Corporate isn't really our target audience, so this is a low priority issue."
This has always been stunning to me about Apple. They're madly successful and have machines snuck in the back doors of corporate, but they seem to show no interest in selling hardware into corporate.
Even the AppleID scheme is a pain in the butt in Corporate environments. Who owns the Apple ID? My last talk with Apple, they said they would have the employee carry it from employer to employer... We preferred to give the employees Apple IDs and $50 gift cards for the itunes store to re-buy whatever dumb utilities they needed and bigger purchases on a case-by-case basis.
Else the employee exit process requires employees to un-link the corporate machine from their personal ID. These are not things at the top of mind when an employee is leaving.
Use a developer account.
Unless by "freedom" you mean installing shading apps from sites in China and loading them up with pirated emulator ROMs. Then yeah, IOS sucks for that.
Bullshit, but true.
I work in a large company and the corporate culture can't wrap their brains around this. I'm on two scrums (two retrospectives, two sprint planning meetings etc.), even 100% allocated to the two sprints, and even more bizzare, we have the same scrummaster on both and she doesn't raise an eyebrow that I'm in both meetings.
Some people are in three.
Previously I worked in a startup. Agile was ok for me, great for the devs. As a specialist on a team of 1, sitting in a scrum of other specialists is stupid, but we tried to make it work and bent the rules until we got some value out of it.
In the big corp, I surf Slashdot while in scrum... *of course* it's not an in-person meeting, that would upset the cubicles!
There’s some logic in doing this kind of work in the cloud. It doesn’t save much money or effort in the long run having a development environment on your workstation.
If it’s not the RAM limiting you, it’s the data sets, storage, or shared environments, or even just leaving it running when you head home, or having another set of eyes collaborate on your problem.
That said, it is stupid Apple doesn’t have beefy pro laptops as an option, but running a dev environment on your laptop should not be the reason.
The one Trump refers to as a "BAD DEAL"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action#Review_period_in_the_United_States_Congress
"verbal politicial commitment" is a profound misunderstanding of your own politics.
I should add, the stupid alert may have *actually* worked. The kid was found in a coffee shop. Maybe mom bought him some donuts and said goodbye when EVERY PHONE AROUND THEM started going off.
He was abducted by his mother. Be on the lookout for an 8 year old boy with his mother from a town 15 hours away.
I have no clue how anyone who doesn't personally know the family would be able to pick this pair out from a text alert.
I can only imagine they may have wanted to be sure domestic airlines, car rental companies or bus lines were aware that these two might be getting out of town. Surely there must be a better way.
We're no more certain that it was a war to get one guy than it was a war to stop a genocide, or a war for oil, to stabilize the region, defend allies, protect strategic interests... could be anything. I'm pretty sure we were lied to, but we can't have all the information, and even if we could, it would be spun for political reasons.
My point was that non-involvement can have a heavier price tag down the road.
The U.S. in particular gets involved because it is one of the last superpowers. Some would say the only remaining superpower. China sticks around its borders, and Russia's influence abroad is limited. The U.S. has bases and capabilities everywhere. Being able to fight wars abroad to keep the battle fronts as far away from your home country is a good, but expensive strategy.
Disclaimer, I'm not American and I don't agree with the American influence abroad. I think most of what the U.S. does is unethical, but there is a logic to it.
"At some point the world needs to just agree to stop fighting over petty issues, like economics, religion, oil, ideology, tribalism, etc"
This is an oversimplification. The strongest counterpoint I can think of is what happened to the Netherlands in WWII. For similar reasons, to not send their sons to their deaths, to not destroy cities and lives in war, they ceded leadership to the Germans.
When their Jewish population was rounded up, it was too late to resist. By the end of the war, the population was in famine.
Infact, the whole rise of the third reich was in tandem with broken treaties and nobody willing to step in and stop the rising power until it was too late.
Some of these involvements are more nuianced. The actions against Saddam in Desert Storm might have immediately protected allies and other stable governments in the region, but allowing a genocidal despot to go unchecked may lead to much bigger problems in the future.
Many of these foreign interventions are to keep wars from reaching our doors. The recent example in Syria being the failure of involvement leading to millions of refugees on the doors of countries throughout the world.
I'm no war monger. War is utterly stupid. But if you're going to have a world where soverign nations are free to organize themselves, there will be situations where early intervention is needed, and those interventions may be very unsatisfying, inconclusive and politically self-defeating. It's hard to feel good about long, expensive, lethal protracted involvements on foreign soil for motives alien to your own forces, to achive the goal of preventing something not very specific from happening.
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FTFY.
Oh well, then. I guess the easiest solution is to hold conferences in Canada. Thanks for the insight.
What about landed immigrants in Canada who have passports from these countries?
"But don't blame Trump. This is something that's been in the works for a long time, and it's not Trump's fault. It's the US's fault in general."
This would be true if I didn't have coworkers from Iran who were forbidden to travel by Trump's policies.
So, NO, you are not correct. There's been mumbling about moving conferences for years, but now it's mainstream action based on ever-changing racist policies personally signed by DONALD J TRUMP which affect the same members of a team travelling to a conference differently depending on their background.
*I* don't want to attend conferences when my peers are excluded.
This is what I mean, you're modded up on a pile of ad-hominems and baseless assertions about decades old allegations and conspiracy theories.
"Teddy Kennedy leaving a woman to die ... Donald Trump's alleged sexual harassment... Bill Clinton's alleged rapes..."
Why does this site have these throwaway politically charged comments modded up these days?
Sometimes your enemies aren’t colluding, but they’re still all working against you.
They’re not going to win the lawsuit. There must be some other strategy going on here.