Please, none of the emails were classified at the time they were sent. These "charges" are all just political noise by people who'd rather see the Republicans running against Bernie Sanders.
There are just too many 3.5mm high quality headphones out there for Apple to walk away from them. And at some point, thinness starts working against battery lifetime anyway. It just doesn't make any sense -- why hurt the usability of your device on both the battery life and headphone compatibility dimensions for the sake of making a thin device a little thinner?
I read the summary of the book, and pretty much, it says that Snowden hurt the western alliance because it showed how the US was spying on its allies. That's like saying BLM activists are hurting race relations in the US by showing how often police actually murder black people who are doing nothing wrong. You're blaming the wrong actor.
IOW, perhaps if we weren't spying on Angela Merkel, she wouldn't be pissed that we were spying on her.
Only morons believe that secrets will stay secret forever.
I noticed the instant anti-encryption spin as well. It was all over TV and in the NY Times as well, with virtually no opposing viewpoints expressed. And it happened so fast that you have to wonder if the FBI had a set of speeches ready to roll out at the next occurrence of a terror attack.
It's especially embarrassing for these guys given the fact that it appears that the terrorists used SMS, and that metadata indicating who was communicating with whom was all available and the intelligence agencies still didn't manage to stop the attack.
My suspicion is that the intelligence agencies collect lots of data but have no way of sieving through it to find actual useful information.
It seems nonsensical to me that this is a small change. First, both software developers and the engine engineers have to agree on how the polluting mode is supposed to work. Then the software engineers have to detect, with the help of the people who understand all the sensors, what an EPA test's signature is. Then they have to add that code to the car's software system. It sounds like many groups working together, each of whose management must have agreed to cooperate.
And all of those managers, I'm sure, required sign off from their common manager. I bet this goes up pretty high.
I switched from a hybrid to a gas a year ago, because the hybrid was very underpowered, and the warranty on the battery these days isn't good enough. When my Civic Hybrid's battery died, I was faced with paying $3200 for a replacement for a 9 year old Civic, and of course that made very little sense. Newer cars come with much shorter warranties, and I didn't want to sign up to potentially pay thousands to replace a battery after only 3 years.
If the graphene is throwing off electrons to generate the propulsive force, it hardly seems likely that this could provide a long term propulsion system. If you add photons to graphene and emit electrons, wouldn't the graphene get seriously positively charged, which should limit how many more electrons can get thrown off?
How much memory are you saving by writing in assembly? Pretty close to none, since all you're saving is the text (code) segment space, even assuming you write code better in ASM than C++. For all intents and purposes, all of your memory is data, not code.
So, by writing in assembly language, you optimize for code size, which is the smallest part of any application, typically easily overwhelmed by 10-100X by the app's data. And the code is much more error prone, now that you have no type checking, or even types. Most productivity studies have shown that you get about the same number of lines of code written per programmer-year, no matter what language it is written in, so by choosing the least powerful language to use, you minimize your productivity. Yay!
Conceivably, you also might pick up a small execution time benefit, although most compilers probably can do better than a hand-coder these days -- they can perform instance specific optimizations that would be impossible to maintain in assembly source.
Writing an OS in assembly in 2015: what a great engineering decision!
I'm not a physicist, but could the anomalous force simply be a reaction between electric currents generating the microwaves, and the Earth's electric field? As I recall, wires carrying current generate a force within a magnetic field, and we all live within a magnetic field.
Actually, I'm pretty happy with the iPhone6: it just works. I'm on T-mobile, and I doubt I've had to restart it to get it to work more than 3 times since I got it in September 2014. My wife has had the same experience -- she can't recall ever having to restart it to get it to work.
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Please, none of the emails were classified at the time they were sent. These "charges" are all just political noise by people who'd rather see the Republicans running against Bernie Sanders.
There are just too many 3.5mm high quality headphones out there for Apple to walk away from them. And at some point, thinness starts working against battery lifetime anyway. It just doesn't make any sense -- why hurt the usability of your device on both the battery life and headphone compatibility dimensions for the sake of making a thin device a little thinner?
I read the summary of the book, and pretty much, it says that Snowden hurt the western alliance because it showed how the US was spying on its allies. That's like saying BLM activists are hurting race relations in the US by showing how often police actually murder black people who are doing nothing wrong. You're blaming the wrong actor. IOW, perhaps if we weren't spying on Angela Merkel, she wouldn't be pissed that we were spying on her. Only morons believe that secrets will stay secret forever.
I noticed the instant anti-encryption spin as well. It was all over TV and in the NY Times as well, with virtually no opposing viewpoints expressed. And it happened so fast that you have to wonder if the FBI had a set of speeches ready to roll out at the next occurrence of a terror attack. It's especially embarrassing for these guys given the fact that it appears that the terrorists used SMS, and that metadata indicating who was communicating with whom was all available and the intelligence agencies still didn't manage to stop the attack. My suspicion is that the intelligence agencies collect lots of data but have no way of sieving through it to find actual useful information.
It seems nonsensical to me that this is a small change. First, both software developers and the engine engineers have to agree on how the polluting mode is supposed to work. Then the software engineers have to detect, with the help of the people who understand all the sensors, what an EPA test's signature is. Then they have to add that code to the car's software system. It sounds like many groups working together, each of whose management must have agreed to cooperate. And all of those managers, I'm sure, required sign off from their common manager. I bet this goes up pretty high.
I switched from a hybrid to a gas a year ago, because the hybrid was very underpowered, and the warranty on the battery these days isn't good enough. When my Civic Hybrid's battery died, I was faced with paying $3200 for a replacement for a 9 year old Civic, and of course that made very little sense. Newer cars come with much shorter warranties, and I didn't want to sign up to potentially pay thousands to replace a battery after only 3 years.
If the graphene is throwing off electrons to generate the propulsive force, it hardly seems likely that this could provide a long term propulsion system. If you add photons to graphene and emit electrons, wouldn't the graphene get seriously positively charged, which should limit how many more electrons can get thrown off?
How much memory are you saving by writing in assembly? Pretty close to none, since all you're saving is the text (code) segment space, even assuming you write code better in ASM than C++. For all intents and purposes, all of your memory is data, not code.
Conceivably, you also might pick up a small execution time benefit, although most compilers probably can do better than a hand-coder these days -- they can perform instance specific optimizations that would be impossible to maintain in assembly source.
Writing an OS in assembly in 2015: what a great engineering decision!
I'm not a physicist, but could the anomalous force simply be a reaction between electric currents generating the microwaves, and the Earth's electric field? As I recall, wires carrying current generate a force within a magnetic field, and we all live within a magnetic field.
Yup, your phone is broken if you need to restart it twice a week. My average is every 2-3 months.
Actually, I'm pretty happy with the iPhone6: it just works. I'm on T-mobile, and I doubt I've had to restart it to get it to work more than 3 times since I got it in September 2014. My wife has had the same experience -- she can't recall ever having to restart it to get it to work.