A quick web search shows that the iPhone SE is still being sold in India (and assembled there I guess). I suspect that Apple was just testing the US market with this "clearance sale".
BTW, I have a 3 years old iPhone SE, which I really like. I have no intention of buying a bigger phone. But an edge-to-edge iPhone SE2 for the same form factor ? Instant buy.
As a long time Apple Pay user, I am a bit confused : as soon as Apple Pay had been supported by my credit card provider, and configured my iPhone and it worked at once on any terminal supporting NFC.
And not only did it work in my country (Switzerland), it worked all over Europe, including in countries where Apple Pay was NOT available. Hence, my understanding is that terminals don't explicitly need to support Apple Pay, they need to support NFC. Apple is should be transparent to the terminal.
Beware of incompatibilities due to assumptions that domain names have no more than a 3-letter TLD.
My domain name (and thus my e-mail address) ends with ".name", the TLD intended for individuals. I had some issues 10-15 years ago when I started using it, but nothing in at least 5 years.
However, I would strongly advise against using non-ASCII characters...
I don't know how many times as a programmer, QA, team lead, sysadmin, and manager I had to pound the concept of Universal Time Coordinates into programmers heads. As well as ntp. Both are critical in real life applications. This is one of many reasons I have come to look upon most programmers with disdain and disgust.
You can't simply say "Just use UTC"; sometimes, applications must also display what we call "Wall Clock Time", and during the DST switch night, it can lead to strange behavior even in correct applications (e.g. whe a nurse is supposed to perform an action each 30 minutes).
The simple solution is, of course, to finally ditch DST, which should happen in Europe soon.
Apple could help enhance privacy for everybody : just make an iMessage client for Android and Windows. I am tired of relying on WhatsApp just because it is the greatest common denominator.
I have used 3D touch on an iPhone 6s : totally useless, at least for me. Hard to discover, and there are always other ways to do the same thing (even with a few more clicks).
However, on the Apple Watch, with its limited input possibilities, 3D touch is great. I use it every day, for instance to clear all notifications.
The problem is that too many applications today assume that you have at least something like an iPhone 6/7/8 (in terms of screen size), reducing their usability on an SE screen size.
Software doesn’t work like this. Microsoft might spend a lot of money to develop the first unit of a new program, but every unit after that is virtually free to produce.
Marketing, sales, distribution, support : these activities are not free, they increase with the number of items sold.
The problem is OpenStreetMap is not easy for editing or browsing on a computer. Try finding a GUI. There are two dozen and they all suck.
Maybe they suck, but at least they exist, and there is a way to modify OSM data, unlike Apple Maps or Google Maps.
When I moved to a new house in a newly built district, I spent 1-2 hours to add our street and houses. It tooks 2 years until Google's new satellite imagery added the house...
Is this a feature that others don't use? Am I unique? What's going on?
I tried it when Google abandoned their Reader, but I quickly settled for Feedly : having my feeds status on multiple machines (work desktop, home desktop, laptop, mobile phone) is a must for me.
And if you add a few countries which are technically not part of the EU (e.g. Switzerland or Norway) but practically belong to the same economic zone, EU is also around 19T$
That's how mobile roaming works. Data is carried back to the mobile provider who then connects it to the Internet locally. US SIM cards block sites that are censored in the US. Film at 11.
Yes, but that doesn't explain why a Chinese journalist in New York can't access Google : his data traffic is handled by the local mobile provider (say, AT&T), not by his Chinese "home" provider.
Are you talking about the graph that shows it growing exponentially more negative with a few returns to just about positive between models?
Yes
The problem is that the debt required to finance all those long red bars (and more to come because Tesla has already announced more new models to be developed) might eat all the positive cash flow and more.
If Tesla is able to generate a positive cash flow once the production issues are ironed, then Tesla has a value; even if it goes bankrupt because of its debt, Tesla will continue to exist after its assets (and its brand) are bought by a major actor.
If you were looking to buy some stock and you saw that graph without knowing it's Tesla, would you put money in? I wouldn't.
I am not a gambler; I would neither put money in Tesla nor short it.
Tesla will either crash and burn, or be completely out of the woods, in 3 months. Call it 6 months just for some wiggle room: by the end of the year, Tesla will be either gone or a rock solid investment.
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Maybe MS will buy notepad++
As it is GPL, Microsoft could only buy the Notepad++ brand, not the code itself.
The smart thing to do would be to replace the current Notepad with Notepad++'s code, under a different name, with credits to Notepad++.
Part of living in a free god damn society is having the freedom to do questionable, potentially stupid things.
Ok, but not on the street on which I am riding my bike, or that my children might cross by foot.
But please don't refrain from taking cocaine or doing base jumping.
Why would anyone give away 2% of the profits to a payment processor?
Because processing cash also has its costs.
After they moved chip production in-house with their A-series
Production, really ? I think that they only design them.
A quick web search shows that the iPhone SE is still being sold in India (and assembled there I guess). I suspect that Apple was just testing the US market with this "clearance sale".
BTW, I have a 3 years old iPhone SE, which I really like. I have no intention of buying a bigger phone. But an edge-to-edge iPhone SE2 for the same form factor ? Instant buy.
As a long time Apple Pay user, I am a bit confused : as soon as Apple Pay had been supported by my credit card provider, and configured my iPhone and it worked at once on any terminal supporting NFC.
And not only did it work in my country (Switzerland), it worked all over Europe, including in countries where Apple Pay was NOT available. Hence, my understanding is that terminals don't explicitly need to support Apple Pay, they need to support NFC. Apple is should be transparent to the terminal.
Is it different in the USA ?
Beware of incompatibilities due to assumptions that domain names have no more than a 3-letter TLD.
My domain name (and thus my e-mail address) ends with ".name", the TLD intended for individuals. I had some issues 10-15 years ago when I started using it, but nothing in at least 5 years.
However, I would strongly advise against using non-ASCII characters...
Do you need a race car driver to run the national highway administration ?
Probably not, but at least to a person having a driver license.
Insure it's properly funded. Settle internal disputes.
And also set priorities, which requires at least some practice in the field.
It was nice of Russia to make the exercises more realistic.
It makes no sense. If Russia has the ability to do this, of course they wouldn't show it during a NATO exercise.
Or maybe they can do 1'000 times more damages and want to hide it from NATO.
Or maybe they want NATO to believe this, and they showed all they could.
I don't know how many times as a programmer, QA, team lead, sysadmin, and manager I had to pound the concept of Universal Time Coordinates into programmers heads. As well as ntp. Both are critical in real life applications. This is one of many reasons I have come to look upon most programmers with disdain and disgust.
You can't simply say "Just use UTC"; sometimes, applications must also display what we call "Wall Clock Time", and during the DST switch night, it can lead to strange behavior even in correct applications (e.g. whe a nurse is supposed to perform an action each 30 minutes).
The simple solution is, of course, to finally ditch DST, which should happen in Europe soon.
Apple could help enhance privacy for everybody : just make an iMessage client for Android and Windows. I am tired of relying on WhatsApp just because it is the greatest common denominator.
A $200 phone does 97% of what an $1000 phone can do.
Like a $20'000 car does 97% of what a $100'000 car does, yet some people still buy luxury cars.
I spend more time in front of my phone than sitting in my car, so spending an additional 800$ each 3 years on my new phone doesn't feel so surreal.
I have used 3D touch on an iPhone 6s : totally useless, at least for me. Hard to discover, and there are always other ways to do the same thing (even with a few more clicks).
However, on the Apple Watch, with its limited input possibilities, 3D touch is great. I use it every day, for instance to clear all notifications.
I also have an SE, and like its size.
The problem is that too many applications today assume that you have at least something like an iPhone 6/7/8 (in terms of screen size), reducing their usability on an SE screen size.
Software doesn’t work like this. Microsoft might spend a lot of money to develop the first unit of a new program, but every unit after that is virtually free to produce.
Marketing, sales, distribution, support : these activities are not free, they increase with the number of items sold.
I don't care about their source code, what I would like is the protocol between vehicles to be open and documented.
WhatsApp is completely irrelevant (why is it even alive? Teens?)
In the USA maybe, but not in the rest of the world.
The problem is OpenStreetMap is not easy for editing or browsing on a computer. Try finding a GUI. There are two dozen and they all suck.
Maybe they suck, but at least they exist, and there is a way to modify OSM data, unlike Apple Maps or Google Maps.
When I moved to a new house in a newly built district, I spent 1-2 hours to add our street and houses. It tooks 2 years until Google's new satellite imagery added the house...
Is this a feature that others don't use? Am I unique? What's going on?
I tried it when Google abandoned their Reader, but I quickly settled for Feedly : having my feeds status on multiple machines (work desktop, home desktop, laptop, mobile phone) is a must for me.
YMMV
That's an easy question :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
US is around 19T$, EU is 17T$
And if you add a few countries which are technically not part of the EU (e.g. Switzerland or Norway) but practically belong to the same economic zone, EU is also around 19T$
Big liability issue and eula will not save them if it went the wrong way and run over an kid on the sidewalk.
Because no kid was ever run over by a car driven by a human ?
That's how mobile roaming works. Data is carried back to the mobile provider who then connects it to the Internet locally. US SIM cards block sites that are censored in the US. Film at 11.
Yes, but that doesn't explain why a Chinese journalist in New York can't access Google : his data traffic is handled by the local mobile provider (say, AT&T), not by his Chinese "home" provider.
Manufacturing a bike doesn't require much more than building it. The design of bikes doesn't change that much anymore.
Manufacturing an iPhone, however...
Are you talking about the graph that shows it growing exponentially more negative with a few returns to just about positive between models?
Yes
The problem is that the debt required to finance all those long red bars (and more to come because Tesla has already announced more new models to be developed) might eat all the positive cash flow and more.
If Tesla is able to generate a positive cash flow once the production issues are ironed, then Tesla has a value; even if it goes bankrupt because of its debt, Tesla will continue to exist after its assets (and its brand) are bought by a major actor.
If you were looking to buy some stock and you saw that graph without knowing it's Tesla, would you put money in? I wouldn't.
I am not a gambler; I would neither put money in Tesla nor short it.
Tesla will either crash and burn, or be completely out of the woods, in 3 months. Call it 6 months just for some wiggle room: by the end of the year, Tesla will be either gone or a rock solid investment.
There is an excellent graph of Tesla's free cash flow that supports this.