Except that no legislation at all is required to comply with the terms of the Paris agreement. With some other types of agreements/treaties (whatever) such as trade deals I understand some laws need to be modified. But not for a goodwill agreement saying that we should keeping the temperature increase under 2 C.
It doesn't need the US Senate. But it doesn't matter. Even if the old senate approved it the new one could repeal it. With both houses to the republicans and Trump as a president, even if it was impossible for the US to repeal the Paris agreement, the US would still fail to meet its target. And by that I mean will not even try to reach the target. So yeah, the agreement is dead with Trump.
Having only now ever heard of this OnePlus company, I thought this was an ad at first. Then I compared the specs to the price. This definitely qualifies as a story.
The 3T is not worth the extra $100 over the regular OnePlus 3.
I somehow really doubt every single one of your contacts has whatsapp installed. For most people, whatsapp is just another messaging app a small part of your contacts is using. You still require other applications because whatsapp doesn't work on PCs.
How do you video chat with your Android friends? There is no use for Facetime. You still need another video chat software for your non-iPhone contacts. Since all your iPhone contacts will be in the same boat, why not use that one for all your contacts?
The convenience of having all the account details hidden from the user by creating usernames from phone numbers made it gain traction over username oriented messengers.
What you call a convenience is whatsapp biggest flaw. Why rely on legacy phone numbers? They are not free, are location based, can change, you can have more than one, you can share one with many people. Of all the IDs they could have used they ended up choosing the worst. And because of that there will never be a whatsapp on PC* so it is doomed to fail.
Except that your phone must still be powered on, with signal and battery. All three limitations being 100% artificial since your PC is more than powerful enough to send messages.
So, all things said, WhatsApp only supports iOS and Android officially too, like everyone else.
Everyone else? You means the crappy ones. There are many solutions with PC support such as Skype and Hangouts. It makes a hell of a difference in people you can reach.
Hangouts audio is very good, at least as good as Facetime from my experience.
On the PC you have some better options, but comparing those to mobile options is missing the point of having a mobile.
No it's not. Any video call solution should work on both mobiles and PC, otherwise why even bother considering it?
No one cares about vendor lock-in with their phones because there's no lock-in. Get a different phone. Done
Once you've made all your contacts to use Facetime will you be ready to get a phone from another vendor and stop using Facetime? If not, you are vendor locked-in. Vendor lock-in is the single most important aspect to look when choosing a communication (video/phone/chat) protocol. If it's proprietary, it's not a good start, but if it's only available from a single vendor then it's worthless. Communications protocols should be open standards, short of that, at least use something which is cross-platform.
Windows Phone has about 0.5% market share so it doesn't really matter. But Hangouts and probably others are available on PCs, so it's far from being Android/iOS only.
one could only make video calls on FaceTime, Skype and Duo.
Uh? There are tons of other cross-platform alternatives such as Google Hangouts, Tango, ooVoo, Viber, peer, camfrog... FaceTime and Duo shouldn't even be considered as they are single platform.
Whatsapp is yet another video chat service. And certainly not a good one, since it doesn't even work on PCs.
Skype too is limited
How so? Not being limited to a single OS seems like a good start.
I understand it perfectly. Trade balance is exports minus imports. When you export stuff, no matters if it gets dumped into the sea or actually used, it doesn't matter, it counts towards your exports.
You could also produce iPhones and dump 50% of them in the middle of the pacific ocean. That would reduce your trade deficit even more, as you will produce twice the amount of iPhones.
How about you start with the wikipedia article. You'll see a lot of persuasive arguments. That you haven't seen any persuasive talk in the last 15 years probably just meant you spend those 15 years avoiding it as hard as you can. Still, I don't believe you.
Which part do you deny? That the earth is getting warmer or that human activity is causing it?
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The US might have the most powerful military, but is certainly not the richest (per capita) or the most free nation.
we call this not being selfish.
Except that no legislation at all is required to comply with the terms of the Paris agreement.
With some other types of agreements/treaties (whatever) such as trade deals I understand some laws need to be modified. But not for a goodwill agreement saying that we should keeping the temperature increase under 2 C.
It doesn't need the US Senate. But it doesn't matter. Even if the old senate approved it the new one could repeal it. With both houses to the republicans and Trump as a president, even if it was impossible for the US to repeal the Paris agreement, the US would still fail to meet its target. And by that I mean will not even try to reach the target.
So yeah, the agreement is dead with Trump.
With Trump elected, the Paris agreement is pretty much dead. Thanks to all climate deniers who voted republican.
right, make more sense
Having only now ever heard of this OnePlus company, I thought this was an ad at first. Then I compared the specs to the price. This definitely qualifies as a story.
The 3T is not worth the extra $100 over the regular OnePlus 3.
With hangouts/skype you could have been doing video chats with all your contacts for years
I somehow really doubt every single one of your contacts has whatsapp installed.
For most people, whatsapp is just another messaging app a small part of your contacts is using. You still require other applications because whatsapp doesn't work on PCs.
How do you video chat with your Android friends? There is no use for Facetime. You still need another video chat software for your non-iPhone contacts. Since all your iPhone contacts will be in the same boat, why not use that one for all your contacts?
The convenience of having all the account details hidden from the user by creating usernames from phone numbers made it gain traction over username oriented messengers.
What you call a convenience is whatsapp biggest flaw. Why rely on legacy phone numbers? They are not free, are location based, can change, you can have more than one, you can share one with many people. Of all the IDs they could have used they ended up choosing the worst. And because of that there will never be a whatsapp on PC* so it is doomed to fail.
*a glorified phone remote doesn't count.
Except that your phone must still be powered on, with signal and battery. All three limitations being 100% artificial since your PC is more than powerful enough to send messages.
So, all things said, WhatsApp only supports iOS and Android officially too, like everyone else.
Everyone else? You means the crappy ones.
There are many solutions with PC support such as Skype and Hangouts. It makes a hell of a difference in people you can reach.
Do you really value encryption on a proprietary video chat software where you can't even confirm there is no government back door?
Hangouts audio is very good, at least as good as Facetime from my experience.
On the PC you have some better options, but comparing those to mobile options is missing the point of having a mobile.
No it's not. Any video call solution should work on both mobiles and PC, otherwise why even bother considering it?
No one cares about vendor lock-in with their phones because there's no lock-in. Get a different phone. Done
Once you've made all your contacts to use Facetime will you be ready to get a phone from another vendor and stop using Facetime? If not, you are vendor locked-in.
Vendor lock-in is the single most important aspect to look when choosing a communication (video/phone/chat) protocol. If it's proprietary, it's not a good start, but if it's only available from a single vendor then it's worthless. Communications protocols should be open standards, short of that, at least use something which is cross-platform.
Windows Phone has about 0.5% market share so it doesn't really matter. But Hangouts and probably others are available on PCs, so it's far from being Android/iOS only.
You should try Google Hangouts. Works great. Cross-platform. Works on PCs. No phone number required.
so they just invented a crappy Skype.
one could only make video calls on FaceTime, Skype and Duo.
Uh? There are tons of other cross-platform alternatives such as Google Hangouts, Tango, ooVoo, Viber, peer, camfrog...
FaceTime and Duo shouldn't even be considered as they are single platform.
Whatsapp is yet another video chat service. And certainly not a good one, since it doesn't even work on PCs.
Skype too is limited
How so? Not being limited to a single OS seems like a good start.
You are using an iPhone so that you can be vendor locked-in into a video protocol while many cross-platforms alternatives exist?
I understand it perfectly. Trade balance is exports minus imports. When you export stuff, no matters if it gets dumped into the sea or actually used, it doesn't matter, it counts towards your exports.
which is why Android probably has over 90% market share in China.
You could also produce iPhones and dump 50% of them in the middle of the pacific ocean. That would reduce your trade deficit even more, as you will produce twice the amount of iPhones.
No thanks to:
Canada
USA
Qatar
UAE
Australia
and other polluters of the world.
Thanks to the EU for making efforts and to poor countries too poor to pollute.
How about you start with the wikipedia article. You'll see a lot of persuasive arguments.
That you haven't seen any persuasive talk in the last 15 years probably just meant you spend those 15 years avoiding it as hard as you can. Still, I don't believe you.
Which part do you deny? That the earth is getting warmer or that human activity is causing it?
By dumping the EC, rural folks have less voice to be "left alone" to live they way they want to.
Citation needed.
Spoken like a true big city/state resident
I live in a rural area.