There should be a distinction between "Engineer" and "Licensed Professional Engineer (in Oregon)." Just like someone licensed to practice medicine in New York can claim to be a physician, but can't practice legally in Oregon.
There should also be a distinction between calling yourself a Licensed Professional Engineer (in Oregon) for the purposes of getting business as an engineer
IIRC, there is. A PE is a licensed profession with a higher liability for errors and omissions. For some fields, such as Civil Engineering, practicing as an engineer pretty much requires being a PE since only PE's can sign off on designs in most cases. When I worked in the power industry a PE had to sign of on any design changes, for example. In other cases, training as an engineer is all that is needed to make engineering judgements. I signed off on plenty of tests and inspections even though I am not a PE, although I have an engineering degree, and no PE was required to review the results.
and for the purposes of, say, impressing a girl you meet at a party.
I doubt that is a winning line...
In the present case, the man was not offering his services for hire, nor appearing as an expert witness at a trial, so it really isn't clear why he shouldn't be allowed to lie even about more specific qualifications.
I think the board overreached and was properly smacked down. However, I do think it is reasonable to require licensure where specific knowledge is required to ensure someone has a minimal level of competence in the field. What engineers missed is, unlike doctors and lawyers, was the chance to control supply by requiring licensure to sue the title "engineer" in any circumstances and thus support higher pay.
First, you have someone who can bring federal procurement and private sector expertise to the table; helping to bridge the gap. Career employees think linger term than just the current administration. They follow the rule set forth by the administration, but they have to live with the results long after the administration changes. Some are also considering their post-government gig and it doesn't hurt to have private sector contacts for when they leave; and that doesn't mean they will violate the law while in the government but their door is open when needed. Finally, every large company tries to influence legislation and contracts. Sometimes smaller ones do too if they are the incumbent and want to have the best chance of winning.
Not many jobs will let you work 2 months, leave for 9 and return again.
Nah, there are loads of jobs like that, especially in the summer, at least in places worth visiting on vacation. That does of course mean that they are less prevalent in Kansas. However, none of them pay anything.
That's the crux of the issue. The teachers I know joke you can tell which teachers have a spouse/partner/whatever with a real job by the car they drive; unless it's a nice brand new loaded truck and then they are a winning football coach.
In Kansas, it probably very much is a great salary. And that doesn't include their generally great benefits. In some other areas, that is not at a great salary at all. Where one lives makes a HUGE difference due to taxes, housing costs, and local prices.
To see the difference, even ignoring huge tax differences, just look at the average price of a decent 1 bedroom apartment from place to place. It can vary from $400 up to $4000 per month. That is huge. Now double their state income taxes on top of that. Now increase their sales taxes. Now double or triple the gas tax (example- right now KS is $2/gal while CA is $3.40/gal). And double or triple the insurance costs. I think you get the idea.
I fully agree; cost of living makes a huge difference in lifestyle. My point was that calculating a teachers salary but dividing hours worked into salary gives a false impression of what they are paid relative to someone who works a regular scheduled job.
Average Kansas teacher gets paid $53,314 (https://www1.salary.com/KS/Public-School-Teacher-Salary.html), before benefits. There are an average 180 days in a school year, with 6.64 hours in a school day, so 180*6.64=1195.2/$53,314=$44/hour. Raise your hand if you make close to $44/hour before benefits.
According to BLS, the average pay is $44,620. Kansas has 186 school days, which would not include any teacher work days but eve for an 8 hour days (most teachers are there before and after student instructional time), that works out to $30/hour. Add in time spent on teacher work days, preping for class, grading homework, etc. and it becomes even less. However, the 186 days worked doesn't mean teachers have another 6 months they can work, since that is spred out over about 9 months once vacation days are counted. Not many jobs will let you work 2 months, leave for 9 and return again. To put it into perspecive, between vacation and holidays most jobs only work 46 weeks out of the year, for a total of 1920 hours worked. If you asssume 4 teacher work days, tha means 190 days worked or 1520 hours, for an hourly rate of $29. A non teaching equivalent salary for 1920 hours is ~56K. By your standards, 56K is a great salary,
Apple has confirmed to The Verge that some of its 2018 iPad Pros are shipping with a very slight bend in the aluminum chassis. But according to the company, this is a side effect of the device's manufacturing process and shouldn't worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad's performance in any practical way.
I'd like to hear what Apple zealots say about this.
I expected Apple to tell us we're looking at the device "wrong"...
They'll just get bent over all the negative comments...
Imagine if genuine Star Wars fan could have come up with their own set of prequels & sequels to the original series. I am pretty sure at least one group would have given us a better version that what Lucas and later Disney came up with.
They'd still run afoul of trademark law, which is essentially forever. That's what will protect Mickey even if early works cease to have copyright protection. Smart companies will trademark key element so as to prevent them from being used if and when a work falls into the public domain. Yo umight be able to make a Star Wars fanfic film, but you won't be able to call it Star Wars MCLXV.
In order to maximize public good, copyright may still have a place, but then we need to ask the question: "What time horizon of revenue is necessary to make an artist find it worthwhile to create a new work of art?" The answer is of course not lifetime + 95 years or something similarly stupid.
That is the crux of the issue. Disney obviously wants to protect its very lucrative movie back catalogue so the can release all the Disney Classics to a new generation of kids, so they'll go to great lengths to get laws passed that are favorable to them.
In the day of immediate global distribution, no cost for duplication and very fast changes in what's popular, the argument can be made for 1 year, 5 years or possibly 10 years.
I think the original idea of a fixed term, say 20 or 30 years, plus one 20 or 30 year renewal is reasonable. That gives creators time to benefit from what they did, especially if they take a while to become popular; while still putting things in the public domain at some reasonable point. The problem with a very short term is it may not offer the types of return needed to take the risks of publishing and distributing something, since you have to make a lot of money in a very short period to make it profitable. As such, many artists would get no chance of every seeing their works published unless they pay for it themselves, which few can afford. To a more/. perspective, it would mean the GPL wold become useless since ownership, and the ability to enforce licenses, would end after a few short years; enabling anyone to commercialize it without restriction. Yes, their code would similarly be only copyrighted for a short period but there would be no requirement to make source code available and they could use DRM to further limit the ability to use it without risking a lawsuit over a GPL violation.
Anything longer than that is not for maximizing public good, but for enriching publishing houses. It is not a self evident right that you and all your descendants for a hundred years can live of a revenue stream from some work you did a very long time ago.
The problem is there would be little incentive to publish anything if it could be knocked off in a year or two. You'd have to charge such a high price that many potential buyers would simply wait for the knockoffs; and if you charged a low price there is still no assurance people would continue to buy from you.
I wonder what happens when peopel start flagging every post?
Unfortunately this is what will happen. Like how videos that 4chan doesn't like on YouTube get mass flagged. Anyone on Tumblr who becomes a target will be flooded with false reports that take a long, long time to get resolved, if at all.
Exactly. I can see someone doing it out of revenge, or just for shits and grins. Tumblr has opened Pandora's Box and it will be interesting to see how they deal with the fallout.
Amazon is weaning themselves off of the USPS. I expect the post office's finances will look a lot worse when Amazon is out of the picture.
very true. Analysts belive the USPS actually makes a profit off of Amazon. Losing Amazon will remove a revenue source without a simialr drop in cossta s they still will drive by every house every day. It's not just USPS that will be impact, FedEx as well since FedEx is the airline that carries US Mail. Amazon, once it has its delievry sysetm and logistics all in place, will probably start shipping services as well. After all, they'll have the hubs, trucks, and planes in place, why not move stuff both ways.
Yes, it did work after 2013. No issues that I experienced. If Cydia didn't work correctly then the jailbreak app which installs Cydia with it was faulty somehow. I remember a couple times where it didn't initially work and redoing the jailbreak would fix it. I've lost interest in it probably since iOS 11 but I actively jailbroke before then.
Same here. Jailbreaking allowed me to add functionality, such as notifications on the lock screen, that iOS lacked. As iOS matured, there was no longer a compelling reason to jailbreak and the hassles of keeping a phone jailbroken as iOS was updated were no longer worth it. Enthusiasm has waned for jailbreaking, as referenced in TFA and by the noticeable absence of articles in Apple centric websites speculating when the lasted iOS jailbreak would be available and announcing it when it happened. As a result, maintaining an app store for such devices became a money losing proposition.
This is simply gross vs net measurement. There is a much bigger problem with measuring screen size in inches, it only made sense when all of the screens (a long time ago) had the same aspect ratio.
Good points. The diagonal measurement is a hold over from when TVs had circular displays. Once they went to rectangular viewing areas they kept using diagonal measurements; which still made sense because TVs had the same aspect ratio and a larger size meant more viewing area.
Think comparing a 15 inch laptop between a 4:3 aspect ratio and 16:9. Then there is the dpi - if you these two screens are 1600x1200 and 1280x720 or if they're 800x600 vs 3200x1800, that are entirely different displays. Then you get a concepts of logical resolution, screen type (TN, IPS, OLED), subpixel arrangements...
Unfortunately, since computers started by using TVs and monitors that essentially were TVs with no tuners so the convention stuck; even if it no longer allowed good comparisons between screens.
The trouble is that marketing messaging needs to be simple enough to be understandable and easy enough to be remembered by the vast majority of your potential customer base. This is the very same thing led us to megapixel race with cameras.
Another good point. The problem is people focus on numbers even when they have no meaning. They assume a 24mp camera will produce 2x better images than a 12mp when that may not be the case; the 24mp camera may actually produce worse images. Many purchasers probably couldn't tell you what DPI stands for but believe the higher the better. Even worse, specifications that may be useful, such as how correctly does a display reproduce a color palette, are hard to quantify and require explanation to be understood properly. Even a good result, for the given price point, may be misinterpreted to be bad. As a result, marketing pushes the easy numbers. Tech today is where audio was in the days when companies made output power claims without revealing the THD at that power level.
I noticed that for XS XR etc, apple added an asterisk saying the diagonal measurement is without the rounded corner. They didn't say that for the original X....
Actually, they did for the X as well, as shown, by the very page the lawsuit references, in footnote 1: https://www.apple.com/iphone/c...
Off by.1125 inches because you don't like to count the notch?Depends on how you measure it.
No, that isn't how it works. It needs to be correct, based on how you did measure it. Otherwise it is false.
If you don't want to be accurate to x.y, don't advertise x.y sizes, stick to x.
If you advertise to x.y, it should at least be true for some possible x.yz. So you can fudge the least significant digit +- 1 and blame rounding. But you never get +- 2, or even +- 1.1. Those are blatant lies.
Good points. Apple correctly identified the size of the screen, as it noted in the small print notes referenced in the lawsuit. Apple never claimed the full screen area on the display were viewable, they actually said it wasn't. as you point out, it needs to be correct for how you measure it, and it was and Apple disclosed how it was measured so people know it was the viewable area. The plaintiffs are claiming it was false advertising based on what they think a screen should be measured, despite Apple telling them otherwise.
Well, then Apple shouldn't be giving them an easy payday by being accurate about what they claim. It's really simple.
Nobody but the liars benefits when companies are allowed to fudge their numbers "because it's just a little bit", or "because we look at things differently".
Something the lawsuit seems to leave out is Apple's footnote on screen size:
The display has rounded corners that follow a beautiful curved design, and these corners are within a standard rectangle. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 5.85 inches (iPhone XS), 6.46 inches (iPhone XS Max), 6.06 inches (iPhone XR), or 5.85 inches (iPhone X) diagonally. Actual viewable area is less. (As referenced in filing)
Which seems to explain how they determine screen size. That's pretty standard, going back to TV days which is why we have diagonal screen measurements. They also give the size in H and W in pixels, also a standard way of saying the size of the screen display unit. Apple seems to use industry standard ways to advertise their display, and even have a footnote explaining the rounded corner's impact and the actual viewing areas is less. It seems to me Apple disclosed the screen's viewing area isn't 6.5 inches and has
As for the "false pixels," that's the design. Different displays have different electrical designs. Each pixel has 2 sub pixels, but that doesn't change the number of pixels; even if some displays are capable of producing more colors per pixel.
There are legitimate reasons to sue companies such as Apple, but IMHO this isn't one of them. All this will result in is yet more footnotes explaining details that no one cares about or reads.
Full disclosure: I use Apple products. I like them because they meet my needs.
Off by.1125 inches because you don't like to count the notch?Depends on how you measure it. Complaining about pixel design. Do the pixel counts match Apple's based on teh design? This smells like someone looking for an easy payday. Apple does some stupid shit, such as the battery saving throttling without giving customers a chance to decide if they wanted to do that; but I find this lawsuit to be BS, and would no matter who made the phone. What's next? Complaining the Pixel / iPhone / (insert phone name here) doesn't really have 64/128/256 GBs of storage?
Soemtimes the implementation is a bit off as well. I've had an Apple account where it tells me there is a new logon, asks me to allow it, sends the code and opens up a popup to enter the code. All very nice, except it happens on the machine I am using to login. I am not sure why it does that, a Handoff issue, but it seems a bit nonsensical the "extra protection" only requires me todo extra steps all on the same device.
That's because everyone but Apple lies like a dog even worse than Apple does when it comes to battery life claims.
FTFY. I don't think I've ever gotten anywhere close to ten hours on my retina MBP. On average, I'm lucky to get much more than three hours unless I'm doing something that uses almost zero CPU, like web browsing.
The problem is, power management is not a replacement for a larger battery, but unfortunately, Apple's hardware engineering managers, with their utterly myopic focus on making laptops thinner, can't seem to let that reality seep through their thick skulls. So instead of giving us the maximum battery size you can legally carry on an airplane (100 Wh), each generation of MBP has had a smaller battery than the one before it. Therefore, in my experience, actual battery life has gotten measurably worse every time I've upgraded my hardware.
I agree that Apple should maxout the battery size in MBPs, but their obsessive desire to make it as thin as possible negates any chance of a larger battery. However, companies are starting to offer external batteries with decent wattages. Hyper offers a 100Wh model that claims to double the 15"MBP operating time. It also charges other devices and doubles as a charger when plugged into an outlet. I am considering getting one for when I travel since I can charge a phone, iPad and MBP with it. https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...
Might be hard to source components in Mexico. Or at least the supply chain is more complicated than it would be in China.
Luckily there are loop holes and we can happily ship containers full of components from China to Mexico, then assemble in Mexico and call it Hecho en México.
I wonder how far the loop holes can be pushed. Can China ship a nearly complete "electronics module" and in Mexico screw a plastic housing on it and stick it in some retail packaging? Is this a ban that doesn't hurt China at all, only makes stuff more expensive in the US?
Per TFA, they are moving it out of China to another country, and mentions Vietnam amogst others that have no tariffs. Southeast Asia makes it easy to source componenst and module sin China and ship them for final assembly elsewhere, then ship to the US. The overll impact on costs should be small and much less tahn the tariff would add.
before they started hiring High School kids with no home improvement experience.
I don't know who you are working for, but the big orange box by me used to be staffed with retired trade professionals who could actually give you solid advice about installation, troubleshooting, codes, etc. Now, it's mostly young kids who if you ask for a GFI breaker look at you like you are speaking a foreign language.
I've found Apple's customer service and tech support to be real good. They don't bug you if you are just looking and when I've had to get tech support they took their time, diagnose the issue and fixed it. The added cost of their products is worth it to me, if only to avoid Dell Hell.
The other money losers are the owner operator truck drivers. BAD DEAL.
The rest of your comment sounded like nonsense just based on quick back of he envelope math, but I wasn't ready to call bullshit until I got to this point. You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. I had a couple trucker buddies who saved every penny they could to buy their own truck; they made an absolute killing afterwards. The smart one then saved all the money he made driving his own truck and bought several more trucks for others to drive for him. Today the cars sitting in his garage are worth more than my entire house.
I think he was overgeneralizing. If someone has a new truck and a relatively small note do to saving as you point out, the can make a good living; and if they expand then they're doing what everyone else does in business, i.e. use capital to expand and hire people who bring in more revenue and ideally profit. OTOH, if they are an OO with a used truck from a leasing or trucking company and paying a full note on it, they can easily be in a tough situation. I did some work for a company that financed trucks and in the case of an older truck, the OO faces significant maintenance costs as companies general dump the trucks for new ones once they are on the upswing in maintenance costs. The finance company was happy if they got enough to cover the depreciation rather than repossess a truck that would be tough to sell. At worse, if the driver made some payments that was better than getting a truck that needed repairs before they sold it, if they could sell it.
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There should be a distinction between "Engineer" and "Licensed Professional Engineer (in Oregon)." Just like someone licensed to practice medicine in New York can claim to be a physician, but can't practice legally in Oregon.
There should also be a distinction between calling yourself a Licensed Professional Engineer (in Oregon) for the purposes of getting business as an engineer
IIRC, there is. A PE is a licensed profession with a higher liability for errors and omissions. For some fields, such as Civil Engineering, practicing as an engineer pretty much requires being a PE since only PE's can sign off on designs in most cases. When I worked in the power industry a PE had to sign of on any design changes, for example. In other cases, training as an engineer is all that is needed to make engineering judgements. I signed off on plenty of tests and inspections even though I am not a PE, although I have an engineering degree, and no PE was required to review the results.
and for the purposes of, say, impressing a girl you meet at a party.
I doubt that is a winning line...
In the present case, the man was not offering his services for hire, nor appearing as an expert witness at a trial, so it really isn't clear why he shouldn't be allowed to lie even about more specific qualifications.
I think the board overreached and was properly smacked down. However, I do think it is reasonable to require licensure where specific knowledge is required to ensure someone has a minimal level of competence in the field. What engineers missed is, unlike doctors and lawyers, was the chance to control supply by requiring licensure to sue the title "engineer" in any circumstances and thus support higher pay.
First, you have someone who can bring federal procurement and private sector expertise to the table; helping to bridge the gap. Career employees think linger term than just the current administration. They follow the rule set forth by the administration, but they have to live with the results long after the administration changes. Some are also considering their post-government gig and it doesn't hurt to have private sector contacts for when they leave; and that doesn't mean they will violate the law while in the government but their door is open when needed. Finally, every large company tries to influence legislation and contracts. Sometimes smaller ones do too if they are the incumbent and want to have the best chance of winning.
....just guess.
It's a pretty big leap from that study to an IgNobel...
Not many jobs will let you work 2 months, leave for 9 and return again.
Nah, there are loads of jobs like that, especially in the summer, at least in places worth visiting on vacation. That does of course mean that they are less prevalent in Kansas. However, none of them pay anything.
That's the crux of the issue. The teachers I know joke you can tell which teachers have a spouse/partner/whatever with a real job by the car they drive; unless it's a nice brand new loaded truck and then they are a winning football coach.
>"By your standards, 56K is a great salary"
In Kansas, it probably very much is a great salary. And that doesn't include their generally great benefits. In some other areas, that is not at a great salary at all. Where one lives makes a HUGE difference due to taxes, housing costs, and local prices.
To see the difference, even ignoring huge tax differences, just look at the average price of a decent 1 bedroom apartment from place to place. It can vary from $400 up to $4000 per month. That is huge. Now double their state income taxes on top of that. Now increase their sales taxes. Now double or triple the gas tax (example- right now KS is $2/gal while CA is $3.40/gal). And double or triple the insurance costs. I think you get the idea.
I fully agree; cost of living makes a huge difference in lifestyle. My point was that calculating a teachers salary but dividing hours worked into salary gives a false impression of what they are paid relative to someone who works a regular scheduled job.
Average Kansas teacher gets paid $53,314 (https://www1.salary.com/KS/Public-School-Teacher-Salary.html), before benefits. There are an average 180 days in a school year, with 6.64 hours in a school day, so 180*6.64=1195.2/$53,314=$44/hour. Raise your hand if you make close to $44/hour before benefits.
According to BLS, the average pay is $44,620. Kansas has 186 school days, which would not include any teacher work days but eve for an 8 hour days (most teachers are there before and after student instructional time), that works out to $30/hour. Add in time spent on teacher work days, preping for class, grading homework, etc. and it becomes even less. However, the 186 days worked doesn't mean teachers have another 6 months they can work, since that is spred out over about 9 months once vacation days are counted. Not many jobs will let you work 2 months, leave for 9 and return again. To put it into perspecive, between vacation and holidays most jobs only work 46 weeks out of the year, for a total of 1920 hours worked. If you asssume 4 teacher work days, tha means 190 days worked or 1520 hours, for an hourly rate of $29. A non teaching equivalent salary for 1920 hours is ~56K. By your standards, 56K is a great salary,
Bayer, IIRC, lost them as payback for WW1 when the US, Frenh and UK and some Commenwealth governments confiscated them.
Apple has confirmed to The Verge that some of its 2018 iPad Pros are shipping with a very slight bend in the aluminum chassis. But according to the company, this is a side effect of the device's manufacturing process and shouldn't worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad's performance in any practical way.
I'd like to hear what Apple zealots say about this.
I expected Apple to tell us we're looking at the device "wrong"...
They'll just get bent over all the negative comments...
Imagine if genuine Star Wars fan could have come up with their own set of prequels & sequels to the original series. I am pretty sure at least one group would have given us a better version that what Lucas and later Disney came up with.
They'd still run afoul of trademark law, which is essentially forever. That's what will protect Mickey even if early works cease to have copyright protection. Smart companies will trademark key element so as to prevent them from being used if and when a work falls into the public domain. Yo umight be able to make a Star Wars fanfic film, but you won't be able to call it Star Wars MCLXV.
In order to maximize public good, copyright may still have a place, but then we need to ask the question: "What time horizon of revenue is necessary to make an artist find it worthwhile to create a new work of art?" The answer is of course not lifetime + 95 years or something similarly stupid.
That is the crux of the issue. Disney obviously wants to protect its very lucrative movie back catalogue so the can release all the Disney Classics to a new generation of kids, so they'll go to great lengths to get laws passed that are favorable to them.
In the day of immediate global distribution, no cost for duplication and very fast changes in what's popular, the argument can be made for 1 year, 5 years or possibly 10 years.
I think the original idea of a fixed term, say 20 or 30 years, plus one 20 or 30 year renewal is reasonable. That gives creators time to benefit from what they did, especially if they take a while to become popular; while still putting things in the public domain at some reasonable point. The problem with a very short term is it may not offer the types of return needed to take the risks of publishing and distributing something, since you have to make a lot of money in a very short period to make it profitable. As such, many artists would get no chance of every seeing their works published unless they pay for it themselves, which few can afford. To a more /. perspective, it would mean the GPL wold become useless since ownership, and the ability to enforce licenses, would end after a few short years; enabling anyone to commercialize it without restriction. Yes, their code would similarly be only copyrighted for a short period but there would be no requirement to make source code available and they could use DRM to further limit the ability to use it without risking a lawsuit over a GPL violation.
Anything longer than that is not for maximizing public good, but for enriching publishing houses. It is not a self evident right that you and all your descendants for a hundred years can live of a revenue stream from some work you did a very long time ago.
The problem is there would be little incentive to publish anything if it could be knocked off in a year or two. You'd have to charge such a high price that many potential buyers would simply wait for the knockoffs; and if you charged a low price there is still no assurance people would continue to buy from you.
It's time for a change.
I agree, the question is what kind of change?
I wonder what happens when peopel start flagging every post?
Unfortunately this is what will happen. Like how videos that 4chan doesn't like on YouTube get mass flagged. Anyone on Tumblr who becomes a target will be flooded with false reports that take a long, long time to get resolved, if at all.
Exactly. I can see someone doing it out of revenge, or just for shits and grins. Tumblr has opened Pandora's Box and it will be interesting to see how they deal with the fallout.
is also banning burqa pictures that show excessive eyes, or any ankles. /s
They're "Only" tossing 26% of their content, what could possible go wrong? /s
I wonder what happens when peopel start flagging every post? Seems their humans would quickly get overwhelemed and there's be no content left.
Amazon is weaning themselves off of the USPS. I expect the post office's finances will look a lot worse when Amazon is out of the picture.
very true. Analysts belive the USPS actually makes a profit off of Amazon. Losing Amazon will remove a revenue source without a simialr drop in cossta s they still will drive by every house every day. It's not just USPS that will be impact, FedEx as well since FedEx is the airline that carries US Mail. Amazon, once it has its delievry sysetm and logistics all in place, will probably start shipping services as well. After all, they'll have the hubs, trucks, and planes in place, why not move stuff both ways.
Yes, it did work after 2013. No issues that I experienced. If Cydia didn't work correctly then the jailbreak app which installs Cydia with it was faulty somehow. I remember a couple times where it didn't initially work and redoing the jailbreak would fix it. I've lost interest in it probably since iOS 11 but I actively jailbroke before then.
Same here. Jailbreaking allowed me to add functionality, such as notifications on the lock screen, that iOS lacked. As iOS matured, there was no longer a compelling reason to jailbreak and the hassles of keeping a phone jailbroken as iOS was updated were no longer worth it. Enthusiasm has waned for jailbreaking, as referenced in TFA and by the noticeable absence of articles in Apple centric websites speculating when the lasted iOS jailbreak would be available and announcing it when it happened. As a result, maintaining an app store for such devices became a money losing proposition.
This is simply gross vs net measurement. There is a much bigger problem with measuring screen size in inches, it only made sense when all of the screens (a long time ago) had the same aspect ratio.
Good points. The diagonal measurement is a hold over from when TVs had circular displays. Once they went to rectangular viewing areas they kept using diagonal measurements; which still made sense because TVs had the same aspect ratio and a larger size meant more viewing area.
Think comparing a 15 inch laptop between a 4:3 aspect ratio and 16:9. Then there is the dpi - if you these two screens are 1600x1200 and 1280x720 or if they're 800x600 vs 3200x1800, that are entirely different displays. Then you get a concepts of logical resolution, screen type (TN, IPS, OLED), subpixel arrangements...
Unfortunately, since computers started by using TVs and monitors that essentially were TVs with no tuners so the convention stuck; even if it no longer allowed good comparisons between screens.
The trouble is that marketing messaging needs to be simple enough to be understandable and easy enough to be remembered by the vast majority of your potential customer base. This is the very same thing led us to megapixel race with cameras.
Another good point. The problem is people focus on numbers even when they have no meaning. They assume a 24mp camera will produce 2x better images than a 12mp when that may not be the case; the 24mp camera may actually produce worse images. Many purchasers probably couldn't tell you what DPI stands for but believe the higher the better. Even worse, specifications that may be useful, such as how correctly does a display reproduce a color palette, are hard to quantify and require explanation to be understood properly. Even a good result, for the given price point, may be misinterpreted to be bad. As a result, marketing pushes the easy numbers. Tech today is where audio was in the days when companies made output power claims without revealing the THD at that power level.
I noticed that for XS XR etc, apple added an asterisk saying the diagonal measurement is without the rounded corner. They didn't say that for the original X....
Actually, they did for the X as well, as shown, by the very page the lawsuit references, in footnote 1: https://www.apple.com/iphone/c...
Off by .1125 inches because you don't like to count the notch?Depends on how you measure it.
No, that isn't how it works. It needs to be correct, based on how you did measure it. Otherwise it is false.
If you don't want to be accurate to x.y, don't advertise x.y sizes, stick to x.
If you advertise to x.y, it should at least be true for some possible x.yz. So you can fudge the least significant digit +- 1 and blame rounding. But you never get +- 2, or even +- 1.1. Those are blatant lies.
Good points. Apple correctly identified the size of the screen, as it noted in the small print notes referenced in the lawsuit. Apple never claimed the full screen area on the display were viewable, they actually said it wasn't. as you point out, it needs to be correct for how you measure it, and it was and Apple disclosed how it was measured so people know it was the viewable area. The plaintiffs are claiming it was false advertising based on what they think a screen should be measured, despite Apple telling them otherwise.
Don't forget, when the thing you're rendering is blue, it will render at substantially lower resolution.
1. Find a lawyer
2. Become lead plaintiff in class action over some small detail to be enraged about, regardless of veracity of claim
3. ?
4. Profit
Well, then Apple shouldn't be giving them an easy payday by being accurate about what they claim. It's really simple.
Nobody but the liars benefits when companies are allowed to fudge their numbers "because it's just a little bit", or "because we look at things differently".
Something the lawsuit seems to leave out is Apple's footnote on screen size:
The display has rounded corners that follow a beautiful curved design, and these corners are within a standard rectangle. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 5.85 inches (iPhone XS), 6.46 inches (iPhone XS Max), 6.06 inches (iPhone XR), or 5.85 inches (iPhone X) diagonally. Actual viewable area is less. (As referenced in filing)
Which seems to explain how they determine screen size. That's pretty standard, going back to TV days which is why we have diagonal screen measurements. They also give the size in H and W in pixels, also a standard way of saying the size of the screen display unit. Apple seems to use industry standard ways to advertise their display, and even have a footnote explaining the rounded corner's impact and the actual viewing areas is less. It seems to me Apple disclosed the screen's viewing area isn't 6.5 inches and has
As for the "false pixels," that's the design. Different displays have different electrical designs. Each pixel has 2 sub pixels, but that doesn't change the number of pixels; even if some displays are capable of producing more colors per pixel.
There are legitimate reasons to sue companies such as Apple, but IMHO this isn't one of them. All this will result in is yet more footnotes explaining details that no one cares about or reads.
Cue the Apple apologists...
Full disclosure: I use Apple products. I like them because they meet my needs.
Off by .1125 inches because you don't like to count the notch?Depends on how you measure it. Complaining about pixel design. Do the pixel counts match Apple's based on teh design? This smells like someone looking for an easy payday. Apple does some stupid shit, such as the battery saving throttling without giving customers a chance to decide if they wanted to do that; but I find this lawsuit to be BS, and would no matter who made the phone. What's next? Complaining the Pixel / iPhone / (insert phone name here) doesn't really have 64/128/256 GBs of storage?
This looks like a classic man-in-the-middle attack. FIDO U2F makes MITM attacks much harder, but not impossible. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/157756/mitm-attacks-on-fido-uaf-and-u2f
Soemtimes the implementation is a bit off as well. I've had an Apple account where it tells me there is a new logon, asks me to allow it, sends the code and opens up a popup to enter the code. All very nice, except it happens on the machine I am using to login. I am not sure why it does that, a Handoff issue, but it seems a bit nonsensical the "extra protection" only requires me todo extra steps all on the same device.
FTFY. I don't think I've ever gotten anywhere close to ten hours on my retina MBP. On average, I'm lucky to get much more than three hours unless I'm doing something that uses almost zero CPU, like web browsing.
The problem is, power management is not a replacement for a larger battery, but unfortunately, Apple's hardware engineering managers, with their utterly myopic focus on making laptops thinner, can't seem to let that reality seep through their thick skulls. So instead of giving us the maximum battery size you can legally carry on an airplane (100 Wh), each generation of MBP has had a smaller battery than the one before it. Therefore, in my experience, actual battery life has gotten measurably worse every time I've upgraded my hardware.
I agree that Apple should maxout the battery size in MBPs, but their obsessive desire to make it as thin as possible negates any chance of a larger battery. However, companies are starting to offer external batteries with decent wattages. Hyper offers a 100Wh model that claims to double the 15"MBP operating time. It also charges other devices and doubles as a charger when plugged into an outlet. I am considering getting one for when I travel since I can charge a phone, iPad and MBP with it. https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...
Might be hard to source components in Mexico. Or at least the supply chain is more complicated than it would be in China.
Luckily there are loop holes and we can happily ship containers full of components from China to Mexico, then assemble in Mexico and call it Hecho en México.
I wonder how far the loop holes can be pushed. Can China ship a nearly complete "electronics module" and in Mexico screw a plastic housing on it and stick it in some retail packaging? Is this a ban that doesn't hurt China at all, only makes stuff more expensive in the US?
Per TFA, they are moving it out of China to another country, and mentions Vietnam amogst others that have no tariffs. Southeast Asia makes it easy to source componenst and module sin China and ship them for final assembly elsewhere, then ship to the US. The overll impact on costs should be small and much less tahn the tariff would add.
before they started hiring High School kids with no home improvement experience.
I don't know who you are working for, but the big orange box by me used to be staffed with retired trade professionals who could actually give you solid advice about installation, troubleshooting, codes, etc. Now, it's mostly young kids who if you ask for a GFI breaker look at you like you are speaking a foreign language.
I've found Apple's customer service and tech support to be real good. They don't bug you if you are just looking and when I've had to get tech support they took their time, diagnose the issue and fixed it. The added cost of their products is worth it to me, if only to avoid Dell Hell.
The other money losers are the owner operator truck drivers. BAD DEAL.
The rest of your comment sounded like nonsense just based on quick back of he envelope math, but I wasn't ready to call bullshit until I got to this point. You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. I had a couple trucker buddies who saved every penny they could to buy their own truck; they made an absolute killing afterwards. The smart one then saved all the money he made driving his own truck and bought several more trucks for others to drive for him. Today the cars sitting in his garage are worth more than my entire house.
I think he was overgeneralizing. If someone has a new truck and a relatively small note do to saving as you point out, the can make a good living; and if they expand then they're doing what everyone else does in business, i.e. use capital to expand and hire people who bring in more revenue and ideally profit. OTOH, if they are an OO with a used truck from a leasing or trucking company and paying a full note on it, they can easily be in a tough situation. I did some work for a company that financed trucks and in the case of an older truck, the OO faces significant maintenance costs as companies general dump the trucks for new ones once they are on the upswing in maintenance costs. The finance company was happy if they got enough to cover the depreciation rather than repossess a truck that would be tough to sell. At worse, if the driver made some payments that was better than getting a truck that needed repairs before they sold it, if they could sell it.