Finally, a feature that makes me want to use Firefox.
Except how useful is this given that it's going to warn me about every single site I visit?
Look on the bright side, at least you'll get a giggle out of seeing a warning banner with an announcement that reads something like this 'Warning: This organisation was hacked by the Russian intelligence services due to the utterly inadequate security measures employed by this organisation.' every time you visit gop.org and democrats.org.
This is oil, coal, gasoline, cable-tv, landline telephone era money triumphing, yet again the old money won. Respecting the 'democratic process' and then being 'disappointed' when you get walked over by people who just went and bought the right politicians won't get you anywhere. Maybe the new money should learn from the old money, take the gloves off and start fighting back? I'm not saying that they should go the way of citizens united and bribe people left right and centre but how about putting some money into political campaigns to boost reform minded candidates out to clean up congress. Personally I would not even care what the party affiliations of reform candidates are as long as they want to put an end to the corruption.
"Isn't VAT charged in the member state where the retailer is based, irrespective of where the buyer is, assuming the goods are being shipped inside the EU."
No that has changed a couple of years ago. Now it's the buyer's country that is relevant.
The seller is supposed to deduct the local VAT from the list price. What they normally seem to do is sell you the product with local VAT, rip you off on the shipping, and then they presumably pocket the money. The only online shops that ever deduct national VAT on products that I buy are German shops who do so very conscientiously. They also don't rip me off on postage although the delivery can be a bit slower but their P&P charges are also much lower than what US and UK stores charge me, even for bog standard Royal Mail or USPS shipment.
If anything, we're discovering that any and all collusion in the election goes through Fusion GPS. And it all ties back to the DNC.
What is conveniently forgotten in the ongoing efforts to whitewash Trump is that Fusion GPS was originally hired by the Republican party to gather intel on Trump. It was the GOP and their friends who started the infamous dossier not the Democrats. Then Trump became the torchbearer of Republican hopes, the next Ronald Reagan and unifier of the nation, the Fusion GPS/Steel data was orphaned because the Republicans bet the farm on Trump and in the best traditions of American capitalism Fusion GPS took their product to the next most interested party, the DNC. Steele was retained by Fusion GPS before Trump won the GOP nomination and Fusion GPS had been gathering dirt on Trump for a long time by then. Not that any of this Russia stuff is what is most likely to bring Trump down. My money is on Trump going down in flames over something money related, probably laundering money from some very dirty sources and eventually when his tax returns finally get leaked, massive amounts of tax evasion. Trump is just far too vulnerable on the money side of things and has done too much shady business with too many shady people for it not to blow back on him. The only thing that can save him now is that the American people decide that Trump is such a good president that they don't care how corrupt and generally just what a vile person he is.
How about a list please, a useful list, name of company, data stolen, scripts and cookies to be killed upon a slow smouldering flame. How can you say 400 without having a list of the 400. That 400 players to add to noscript and cookiemonster.
...and how bad is this flaw? Can they read everything I type in the browser tab where this website is loaded, everything I type in the browser regardless of the tab I'm using or can they literally key-log everything typed on the computer as long as the browser is running in the background?
So if it was confused by lighting does that mean apple outright lied how it works? or is that just fanboys trying to make up excuses? if you have something that operates by infrared dots on your face that supposedly works in dark or light how the fuck do you get confused by lighting conditions.
Because optimally you should have good lighting conditions (IR and Visible light) and not obscure your face when training a facial recognition system which is what this couple did according to the article summary. Additionally if you wear something that obstructs the face you might also want to train your system while wearing said item. The FR gear is intended to recognise you under sub-optimal conditions based on a training data sets made under optimal conditions, it is not intended to be reliable if the training sample was created under atrocious conditions and you are doing recognition under atrocious conditions. In summary: Garbage data in, yields crappy recognition. What Apple should do is to ensure that only high quality training data sets are fed to the FR when it is being trained which could be done by adding code to the FR training app (or improve what existing code they have) that refuses to accept training data made under sub-optimal lighting conditions. So yes, this is an Apple's screw up but no this is by no means unexpected behaviour from a FR system. How bad the screw up is remains to be seen, this may be a problem fixable by software upgrade, if it is not and this is a hardware problem Apple can look forward to some major class action lawsuits. If you are a leader in technological feature development like Apple is, you have to take risks and sometimes you will fall on your face and this system qualifies as innovation since it is quite frankly the first serious attempt to add IR and 3D scan based FR to a mobile device. Falling on your face comes with the territory, you can either be on the cutting edge and innovate or you can play it safe and be... average.
...terminated in late October for "not having a positive attitude."
I love the bullshit reasons they come up with when they lay you off. I was was overworked at Hard Rock Cafe as a dish washer on minimum wage for one summer years ago when I was still a student. The washing machine broke down regularly meaning I had to hand wash everything during the lunch and evening rushes and I was doing a two man job even when the damn machine worked and cleaning out all the crusty kitchen pots as well. Needless to say I was none too happy about that and made this known. Eventually they solved the problem, not by fixing the machine and hiring a second worker (which there was supposed to be), but by laying me off and hiring somebody who was easier to bully. When the manager came to axe me just before closing time one night he actually told me I was being laid off for, and I quote: 'not getting into the Hard Rock spirit'. I laughed so hard I coughed. Then I thanked him for an excellent joke and handed him the apron fast enough that it did not occur to him to refuse to accept the slimy food particle encrusted thing and left. I didn't hand him the dirty rag with any ill intent mind you but he ended up holding it and was none to happy about it since he was a rather bacteria-phobic neat freak. For a while afterwards I regretted not telling him to shove it up his ass but then I decided that there was no reason to be rude and leaving him there with smelly 8 hour old slimy food particles all over his well groomed yuppie hands was probably way better.
We no longer give a shit what features you want. You'll get what makes us the most money and like it.
Fuck you, and have a nice day.
Hugs and Kisses,
- Apple, Google, and Samsung
That's a bit of an exaggeration but I applaud you policy of hating Apple, Google and Samsung equally.
A bit of an exaggeration? Not really. Try and remember a feature on a smartphone that consumers actually asked for.
A super-mega-retina-grade display on a 5" screen? Rather pointless, but let's add $100 onto the MSRP anyway.
Remove the headphone jack? Zero consumer demand for that, but how about wireless earbuds at 5x the cost. What a bargain!
Non-replaceable batteries? Yup, another revenue generating feature no one asked for, but let's make sure every device has this "upgrade".
All-glass design? Yes, please make my device FAR more breakable, and don't forget the back too (said no consumer ever.)
10MP cameras and 4K recording? Tack on another $100 to the MSRP.
Discounted phone price with contract? Yeah, no. We'll just give you a full MSRP 2-year loan instead. That way, it won't seem like we're ripping you off.
About the only damn thing that has come out lately that consumers actually needed was some level of water resistance. Of course, this benefit was pretty much voided with the all-glass design, since there's far more revenue to be made with dropping smartphones vs. dunking them.
Sadly, I stand by my "exaggeration".
I can't say I missed small displays, larger displays make browsing easier. As for asking to have the headphone jack removed, I did indeed not ask for that, but since I have been using bluetooth headphones for years I did not miss the jack when it went and I have found many uses for high resolution cameras. Also I have not tied myself to mobile subscription to get a cheap phone for over 15 years. I have had glass screen phones since they arrived on the market and so far a rubber edge buffer and a screen protection foil, or these days a product called PanzerGlass, has resulted in me not having broken a single mobile phone screen... ever. If you are dumb enough to buy an insanely expensive phone and then carrying it around with out a cheap rubber buffer and a screen protector it's your own damn fault when you drop your precious and the glass breaks.
Who is asking for a phone with no headphone jack again? Nobody I know.
You sound very bitter there, but speak for your self, you must not have many friends. I know quite a few people who either use bluetooth headphones or are aware of the existence of adapters and therefore won't equate the demise of the headphone jack with he loss of a limb.
When the manufacturer controls the updates, I'm surprised it's THAT low.
Controls much less than MS and windows 10. People choose to update whenever they feel to do so. This small red "1" tells you an update is pending, but you can just ignore it.
You can ignore it but it is more then just a little red 1 over the updates icon in the settings. The first time each day I wake and unlock unlock my iPhone running 10.3 it pops up saying there is an update and wants me to schedule it. The options are to install the update now, schedule a time a little later to install it, or 'Remind me later' which apparently mean every single day.
What an amusing discussion, it's just one of those fights you can't win. Leave it up to the user when to update and he'll bitch and moan about you not patching some vulnerability which led to his phone being pwned by some Russian mafia hacker who'll cleaned out his life savings. Force the user to update so his phone won't be pwned by some Russian mafia hacker who'll clean out his life savings and the user will bitch and moan about how you are a tyrant who forces him into doing unnecessary updates all the time... and if you are Microsoft or Apple you also get accused of plotting to achieve world domination, enslaving humanity and putting it to work in your dungeon like smartphone assembly sweatshops as part of your evil master plot to subjugate all sentient life forms in the galaxy as slaves to your a pan-galactic empire MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
...There appears to be some strings attached: the rights might not encompass all of the characters in the story. HBO has reportedly passed on the project.
So, no Tom Bombadil? Again?
With the Tolkien estate having caught the greed virus it's probably $250 million just for the rights to the basic story and then a long price list for every one of the main character you want to include, starting with 30 million for Gandalf, another 30 million for Frodo, 20 million for Aragon, 12 million for Legolas and Gimli and 5 million for each of the other company members. The right to show goblin and orc hordes is sold in batches of 10.000 for a million dollars each so if you want a 200.000 man army of orcs and goblins for the battle of the fields of Pelennor it's going to set you back another 20 million. Sauron appearances are sold time wise at a rate of 250.000 dollars per second (that includes showing just the great eye) but we'll throw in Samwise for free, just as a token of good will.
But all sarcasm aside, perhaps Netflix, Hulu and Amazon should clue into the fact that there are other great works of fantasy and science fiction (The Expanse being an example of a really good one that came a bit out of left field for me when I found it in my Netflix recommendations list) and that they might be better off picking one of those rather than trying to flog the decomposing horse carcass that Peter Jackson and his gang turned LOTR and especially the slapstick riddled (three part!!) mess they turned The Hobbit into in the vain hope that the poor dead critter will pull the stone one more circle around the mill. I suppose that with Islamophobia being in vogue it will be a couple of decades before we get a good filming of the Dune trilogy but there is the Earth Sea trilogy, (Dare I say it) Northern Lights,... I'm sure people here can ad a few dozen names to that list.
Plus, there is always the option of punishing coal plant building countries with carbon tariffs on their exports if they slack off on scrubber installation.
Good luck doing that under WTO rules. Also enjoy your trade war.
Actually, the WTO has rules about tariffs because some country is unfairly subsidising or otherwise favouring domestic industries but I wasn't aware that the WTO had any regulations on punitive tariffs on a country's exports because they are dumping their carbon/acid-rain and/or toxic sludge onto your territory. Of course if turns out that WTO rules guarantee a country the right to pollute without any limits I'm willing to stand corrected. However, as climate change gets worse and the damage from it increases something tells me that such rules will appear. In fact one might actually make the case that deliberately neglecting to scrub the carbon emissions from your coal plants to lower your energy price actually constitutes unfairly and irresponsibly subsidising your own industrial base at the expense of a neighbouring country which has chosen more responsibly to use cleaner energy sources, not to mention the damage caused by acid rain clouds that blows onto the neighbouring country's territory. The neighbour deserves to be compensated for that. Your next door neighbour has a lot of latitude when it comes to what he decides to do on his own private property, but if he sets a big heap of rubber tyres on fire and the smoke blows onto your land, you gain the right to interfere with what he is doing on his private property.
While not an optimal solution building new coal plants that can be fitted with modern carbon and sulfur dioxide scrubbers is a damn sight better than keeping old highly inefficient coal plants in operation. So if people have their hearts set on building more coal plants at the very least I'd prefer them to build the new, more efficient and reasonably clean variety. Plus, there is always the option of punishing coal plant building countries with carbon tariffs on their exports if they slack off on scrubber installation.
Americans have to follow the rules. If I was going by the places they supposedly spam I'd guess the country is composed entirely of Nazis and SJWs.
All I had to do to get that impression of the US was watch Fox news, the liberal media and snippets from a number of popular political YouTube channels from both sides of the US political spectrum.
He is lucks they only fired him. Apple is extremely aggressive when it comes to this type of thing. He is also lucky that he is out now. My current company, and many others would never hire someone from Apple who was there for more than 5 years and they are most like a person who was a heave coolaid drinker and thinks they are better than everyone else.
I worked for an Apple "Partner" in the past. My God, the hoops they had us jump through were insane. We eventually told them, thanks, but no thanks.
The experience of dealing with Apple is the reason while to this day, I refuse to buy Apple branded anything. Biggest bunch of self righteous smug motherfuckers I have ever met in my professional career.
Really? In a market where there's a shortage of qualified and experienced engineers and developers your company would not hire a an engineer who worked for one of the most successful device manufacturers on the planet for years because he is a 'Cool Aid drinking'.. 'self righteous smug motherfucker'... 'who think he's better than everybody else'? If I was hiring engineers I would not turn my nose up at a dyed in the wool Android developer if he was qualified and an experienced coder even though I am no particular fan of the Android OS or Google. Same goes for Microsoft developers, I may not like Microsoft as a company but their engineers and developers are not radioactive space zombies who breathe in oxygen and exhale mustard gas. Apart from being a generalisation of ridiculous proportions, that whole post is mostly just a steaming pile of fanboy whining that make you sound like the love child of a drama queen and a snow flake, you really should get over yourself.
What is the history of that art? Does it include the conquest of cultures that had an early influence on the geometric art? You are arbitrarily limiting the discussion because you seem uncomfortable acknowledging history. Many "harmless" discussions end up dragging up the past for whatever reason, do you have the same mouth foaming reaction or do you think Islam should be treated differently?
If the conquered culture influenced the art in question then it is relevant. I hope you have the same fervent defense of religion when it isn't islam.
So by that same logic because European crusader armies destroyed Islamic civilisations in Spain and the Levant, stole from then the technology that enabled Europeans to smelt high quality steel in large quantities, knowledge that later enabled the Industrial revolution, it is fair and indeed quite essential to turn any discussion of steel working into a discussion on the dangers of Christianity and the atrocities committed by Christians during the Crusades?... or does your logic only apply to Islam?
You sure are quick to name calling. Without shaming and condescension you really don't have much an argument. Let's recap to make sure we both remember correctly.
1) Article about Geometry in Islamic art turned game.
2) post lamenting if it is Islamic if it was stolen during conquest.
3) your whataboutism.
4) my contention of your whataboutism and your shaming and your condescension.
5) you continue shame and condescension.
You put Islam on a pedestal beyond reproach and claim others are the bigots for pointing out history. When it is you who use shame, condescension and hate to shut others out. Did it ever occur to you that "how" Islamic art came to be could matter in a conversation about Islamic art? Do you think the early influences (whether by conquest or not) is relevant? If not then art history should never be studied again. Do those early cultures get any credit to influencing Islamic art? Or are you going to white wash history so you don't have to question a religion that is beyond criticism? After-all, unless you are islamic then you cannot criticize islam according to your ridiculous glass house standard.
Here is a thought, so what if the art was from conquest? How is that different than any other culture?... See, no whataboutism, it derrides the point of OP without shame or condescension, it treats islam as equals to other cultures, and it actually allows for those early influences to be relevant to a conversation about art (you know, art history). Others have responded to OP this way and they are not getting the same ridicule as you.
You suck at conversation. You limit discussion. You contribute more to hatred and bigotry than anything OP said or implied. You are a hate-filled bigot. Get over yourself.
A pedestal beyond reproach? I just questioned how the hell one gets from a discussion about Islamic geometric art in computer games to a xenophobic sermon about the universal evil that you boys consider Islam to be. Every damn time two people on the internet start talking about anything even remotely connected to Islam or the cultures practicing that religion (such as a race-politically loaded and dangerous discussion about Islamic geometric art) one of you alt-right drones sees him/herself duty bound to materialise in a puff of smoke like a genie from Steve Bannon's cursed lamp and start trying to turn the discussion into some grand debate about bad things that people practicing Islam did at some point in history and they try to tar all moslems with the same brush. And....sure enough, here you are again, trying to rationalise how it is essential to turn a harmless discussion of Islamic geometric art in computer games to a discussion about atrocities committed by Islamic armies over a thousand years ago and having trouble with that even because one has f**k all to do with the other.
Why? The topic is about Islam. The past of Islam and how it has influenced the art and culture is the topic. Why can no one mention the reality of what "change in religion" means in that time without feeling your shame and condescension?
By your standard everyone lives in a glass house because the past is horrible compared to today. Does that mean no one can talk of any culture or any past transgression unless it's their own culture? What happens if those in that culture refuse to critizise their past, I guess that means it was all rainbows and unicorn farts, and "just a change in religion" means nothing more than a friendly door knock like this.
If I remember correctly, the topic of this thread was Islamic geometric art. It was you and your xenophobic alt-right buddies who turned it into some mystic ceremony where you all gather in a circle and hate Islam. Dragging the Islamic conquest into a discussion about Islamic art is about as relevant as dragging the massacre at Wounded Knee war into a discussion about the art of Jackson Pollock. All I did was burn you alt-right drones for going on a pretty stupid xenophobic tangent from a harmless discussion on geometric art in computer games. Just because some random mundane thing is in your mind 'Islamic', like geometric art or falafel recipes that doesn't mean you have some sort of god given right to bother the rest of us by dragging your asinine xenophobic political agenda into it without getting a dissenting opinion.
So because some random people somewhere else did something bad, you get a free pass to do evil things.
Cool story, Ahmed. Don't you have some gays to kill or something?
This story was originally about Islamic geometric art in a computer game. It wasn't me who took that discussion onto a totally different tangent and turned it into a flamewar aimed at proving that Islam is somehow more inherently violent, evil and vile than all other cultures. That honour belongs completely to you and your bigoted xenophobic friends. You might as well have turned a discussions about the pros and cons of Toyota Land Cruisers into a discussion about on Japanese military's conduct during WWII. Discussing atrocities committed by Islamic armies during the Islamic conquest may be a very valid topic of discussion however it never ceases to amaze me how you wing nuts manage to get to a place like that from something as mundane as an article on geometric art in one of the first posts on the thread.
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Finally, a feature that makes me want to use Firefox.
Except how useful is this given that it's going to warn me about every single site I visit?
Look on the bright side, at least you'll get a giggle out of seeing a warning banner with an announcement that reads something like this 'Warning: This organisation was hacked by the Russian intelligence services due to the utterly inadequate security measures employed by this organisation.' every time you visit gop.org and democrats.org.
This is oil, coal, gasoline, cable-tv, landline telephone era money triumphing, yet again the old money won. Respecting the 'democratic process' and then being 'disappointed' when you get walked over by people who just went and bought the right politicians won't get you anywhere. Maybe the new money should learn from the old money, take the gloves off and start fighting back? I'm not saying that they should go the way of citizens united and bribe people left right and centre but how about putting some money into political campaigns to boost reform minded candidates out to clean up congress. Personally I would not even care what the party affiliations of reform candidates are as long as they want to put an end to the corruption.
In Putin's Russia the currency encrypts YOU!
"Isn't VAT charged in the member state where the retailer is based, irrespective of where the buyer is, assuming the goods are being shipped inside the EU."
No that has changed a couple of years ago. Now it's the buyer's country that is relevant.
The seller is supposed to deduct the local VAT from the list price. What they normally seem to do is sell you the product with local VAT, rip you off on the shipping, and then they presumably pocket the money. The only online shops that ever deduct national VAT on products that I buy are German shops who do so very conscientiously. They also don't rip me off on postage although the delivery can be a bit slower but their P&P charges are also much lower than what US and UK stores charge me, even for bog standard Royal Mail or USPS shipment.
If anything, we're discovering that any and all collusion in the election goes through Fusion GPS. And it all ties back to the DNC.
What is conveniently forgotten in the ongoing efforts to whitewash Trump is that Fusion GPS was originally hired by the Republican party to gather intel on Trump. It was the GOP and their friends who started the infamous dossier not the Democrats. Then Trump became the torchbearer of Republican hopes, the next Ronald Reagan and unifier of the nation, the Fusion GPS/Steel data was orphaned because the Republicans bet the farm on Trump and in the best traditions of American capitalism Fusion GPS took their product to the next most interested party, the DNC. Steele was retained by Fusion GPS before Trump won the GOP nomination and Fusion GPS had been gathering dirt on Trump for a long time by then. Not that any of this Russia stuff is what is most likely to bring Trump down. My money is on Trump going down in flames over something money related, probably laundering money from some very dirty sources and eventually when his tax returns finally get leaked, massive amounts of tax evasion. Trump is just far too vulnerable on the money side of things and has done too much shady business with too many shady people for it not to blow back on him. The only thing that can save him now is that the American people decide that Trump is such a good president that they don't care how corrupt and generally just what a vile person he is.
How about a list please, a useful list, name of company, data stolen, scripts and cookies to be killed upon a slow smouldering flame. How can you say 400 without having a list of the 400. That 400 players to add to noscript and cookiemonster.
...and how bad is this flaw? Can they read everything I type in the browser tab where this website is loaded, everything I type in the browser regardless of the tab I'm using or can they literally key-log everything typed on the computer as long as the browser is running in the background?
So if it was confused by lighting does that mean apple outright lied how it works? or is that just fanboys trying to make up excuses? if you have something that operates by infrared dots on your face that supposedly works in dark or light how the fuck do you get confused by lighting conditions.
Because optimally you should have good lighting conditions (IR and Visible light) and not obscure your face when training a facial recognition system which is what this couple did according to the article summary. Additionally if you wear something that obstructs the face you might also want to train your system while wearing said item. The FR gear is intended to recognise you under sub-optimal conditions based on a training data sets made under optimal conditions, it is not intended to be reliable if the training sample was created under atrocious conditions and you are doing recognition under atrocious conditions. In summary: Garbage data in, yields crappy recognition. What Apple should do is to ensure that only high quality training data sets are fed to the FR when it is being trained which could be done by adding code to the FR training app (or improve what existing code they have) that refuses to accept training data made under sub-optimal lighting conditions. So yes, this is an Apple's screw up but no this is by no means unexpected behaviour from a FR system. How bad the screw up is remains to be seen, this may be a problem fixable by software upgrade, if it is not and this is a hardware problem Apple can look forward to some major class action lawsuits. If you are a leader in technological feature development like Apple is, you have to take risks and sometimes you will fall on your face and this system qualifies as innovation since it is quite frankly the first serious attempt to add IR and 3D scan based FR to a mobile device. Falling on your face comes with the territory, you can either be on the cutting edge and innovate or you can play it safe and be ... average.
Uhh no, try to keep up. They're even calling Jewish people and Israel "white supremacists" now.. Like mainstream news organizations (CNN, HuffPo, etc)
Wouldn't call them White Supremacist, but Israel is certainly an apartheid state with serious racial issues.
...terminated in late October for "not having a positive attitude."
I love the bullshit reasons they come up with when they lay you off. I was was overworked at Hard Rock Cafe as a dish washer on minimum wage for one summer years ago when I was still a student. The washing machine broke down regularly meaning I had to hand wash everything during the lunch and evening rushes and I was doing a two man job even when the damn machine worked and cleaning out all the crusty kitchen pots as well. Needless to say I was none too happy about that and made this known. Eventually they solved the problem, not by fixing the machine and hiring a second worker (which there was supposed to be), but by laying me off and hiring somebody who was easier to bully. When the manager came to axe me just before closing time one night he actually told me I was being laid off for, and I quote: 'not getting into the Hard Rock spirit'. I laughed so hard I coughed. Then I thanked him for an excellent joke and handed him the apron fast enough that it did not occur to him to refuse to accept the slimy food particle encrusted thing and left. I didn't hand him the dirty rag with any ill intent mind you but he ended up holding it and was none to happy about it since he was a rather bacteria-phobic neat freak. For a while afterwards I regretted not telling him to shove it up his ass but then I decided that there was no reason to be rude and leaving him there with smelly 8 hour old slimy food particles all over his well groomed yuppie hands was probably way better.
Dear Consumer,
We no longer give a shit what features you want. You'll get what makes us the most money and like it.
Fuck you, and have a nice day.
Hugs and Kisses,
- Apple, Google, and Samsung
That's a bit of an exaggeration but I applaud you policy of hating Apple, Google and Samsung equally.
A bit of an exaggeration? Not really. Try and remember a feature on a smartphone that consumers actually asked for.
A super-mega-retina-grade display on a 5" screen? Rather pointless, but let's add $100 onto the MSRP anyway.
Remove the headphone jack? Zero consumer demand for that, but how about wireless earbuds at 5x the cost. What a bargain!
Non-replaceable batteries? Yup, another revenue generating feature no one asked for, but let's make sure every device has this "upgrade".
All-glass design? Yes, please make my device FAR more breakable, and don't forget the back too (said no consumer ever.)
10MP cameras and 4K recording? Tack on another $100 to the MSRP.
Discounted phone price with contract? Yeah, no. We'll just give you a full MSRP 2-year loan instead. That way, it won't seem like we're ripping you off.
About the only damn thing that has come out lately that consumers actually needed was some level of water resistance. Of course, this benefit was pretty much voided with the all-glass design, since there's far more revenue to be made with dropping smartphones vs. dunking them.
Sadly, I stand by my "exaggeration".
I can't say I missed small displays, larger displays make browsing easier. As for asking to have the headphone jack removed, I did indeed not ask for that, but since I have been using bluetooth headphones for years I did not miss the jack when it went and I have found many uses for high resolution cameras. Also I have not tied myself to mobile subscription to get a cheap phone for over 15 years. I have had glass screen phones since they arrived on the market and so far a rubber edge buffer and a screen protection foil, or these days a product called PanzerGlass, has resulted in me not having broken a single mobile phone screen... ever. If you are dumb enough to buy an insanely expensive phone and then carrying it around with out a cheap rubber buffer and a screen protector it's your own damn fault when you drop your precious and the glass breaks.
That's a bit of an exaggeration
Who is asking for a phone with no headphone jack again? Nobody I know.
You sound very bitter there, but speak for your self, you must not have many friends. I know quite a few people who either use bluetooth headphones or are aware of the existence of adapters and therefore won't equate the demise of the headphone jack with he loss of a limb.
Dear Consumer,
We no longer give a shit what features you want. You'll get what makes us the most money and like it.
Fuck you, and have a nice day.
Hugs and Kisses,
- Apple, Google, and Samsung
That's a bit of an exaggeration but I applaud you policy of hating Apple, Google and Samsung equally.
Let the war of words begin. I guess those in the Great White North (Canada) are out of luck!
And BTW, is this the same company so many praise for its unparalleled attention to detail?
Yes indeed, how does this fit into Apple's evil plan achieve world domination and enslave humanity?
If it sounds like the intro to a horror movie / game, maybe you should think twice about proceeding....
Why? We've had this for centuries and millennia in reverse form, rat brains in human bodies, we call them politicians.
...Windows sucks.
When the manufacturer controls the updates, I'm surprised it's THAT low.
Controls much less than MS and windows 10. People choose to update whenever they feel to do so. This small red "1" tells you an update is pending, but you can just ignore it.
You can ignore it but it is more then just a little red 1 over the updates icon in the settings. The first time each day I wake and unlock unlock my iPhone running 10.3 it pops up saying there is an update and wants me to schedule it. The options are to install the update now, schedule a time a little later to install it, or 'Remind me later' which apparently mean every single day.
What an amusing discussion, it's just one of those fights you can't win. Leave it up to the user when to update and he'll bitch and moan about you not patching some vulnerability which led to his phone being pwned by some Russian mafia hacker who'll cleaned out his life savings. Force the user to update so his phone won't be pwned by some Russian mafia hacker who'll clean out his life savings and the user will bitch and moan about how you are a tyrant who forces him into doing unnecessary updates all the time... and if you are Microsoft or Apple you also get accused of plotting to achieve world domination, enslaving humanity and putting it to work in your dungeon like smartphone assembly sweatshops as part of your evil master plot to subjugate all sentient life forms in the galaxy as slaves to your a pan-galactic empire MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
...There appears to be some strings attached: the rights might not encompass all of the characters in the story. HBO has reportedly passed on the project.
So, no Tom Bombadil? Again?
With the Tolkien estate having caught the greed virus it's probably $250 million just for the rights to the basic story and then a long price list for every one of the main character you want to include, starting with 30 million for Gandalf, another 30 million for Frodo, 20 million for Aragon, 12 million for Legolas and Gimli and 5 million for each of the other company members. The right to show goblin and orc hordes is sold in batches of 10.000 for a million dollars each so if you want a 200.000 man army of orcs and goblins for the battle of the fields of Pelennor it's going to set you back another 20 million. Sauron appearances are sold time wise at a rate of 250.000 dollars per second (that includes showing just the great eye) but we'll throw in Samwise for free, just as a token of good will.
... I'm sure people here can ad a few dozen names to that list.
But all sarcasm aside, perhaps Netflix, Hulu and Amazon should clue into the fact that there are other great works of fantasy and science fiction (The Expanse being an example of a really good one that came a bit out of left field for me when I found it in my Netflix recommendations list) and that they might be better off picking one of those rather than trying to flog the decomposing horse carcass that Peter Jackson and his gang turned LOTR and especially the slapstick riddled (three part!!) mess they turned The Hobbit into in the vain hope that the poor dead critter will pull the stone one more circle around the mill. I suppose that with Islamophobia being in vogue it will be a couple of decades before we get a good filming of the Dune trilogy but there is the Earth Sea trilogy, (Dare I say it) Northern Lights,
Plus, there is always the option of punishing coal plant building countries with carbon tariffs on their exports if they slack off on scrubber installation.
Good luck doing that under WTO rules. Also enjoy your trade war.
Actually, the WTO has rules about tariffs because some country is unfairly subsidising or otherwise favouring domestic industries but I wasn't aware that the WTO had any regulations on punitive tariffs on a country's exports because they are dumping their carbon/acid-rain and/or toxic sludge onto your territory. Of course if turns out that WTO rules guarantee a country the right to pollute without any limits I'm willing to stand corrected. However, as climate change gets worse and the damage from it increases something tells me that such rules will appear. In fact one might actually make the case that deliberately neglecting to scrub the carbon emissions from your coal plants to lower your energy price actually constitutes unfairly and irresponsibly subsidising your own industrial base at the expense of a neighbouring country which has chosen more responsibly to use cleaner energy sources, not to mention the damage caused by acid rain clouds that blows onto the neighbouring country's territory. The neighbour deserves to be compensated for that. Your next door neighbour has a lot of latitude when it comes to what he decides to do on his own private property, but if he sets a big heap of rubber tyres on fire and the smoke blows onto your land, you gain the right to interfere with what he is doing on his private property.
Actually, tons of people are building coal plants. The Chinese are planning 700 more coal plants:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
While not an optimal solution building new coal plants that can be fitted with modern carbon and sulfur dioxide scrubbers is a damn sight better than keeping old highly inefficient coal plants in operation. So if people have their hearts set on building more coal plants at the very least I'd prefer them to build the new, more efficient and reasonably clean variety. Plus, there is always the option of punishing coal plant building countries with carbon tariffs on their exports if they slack off on scrubber installation.
Americans have to follow the rules. If I was going by the places they supposedly spam I'd guess the country is composed entirely of Nazis and SJWs.
All I had to do to get that impression of the US was watch Fox news, the liberal media and snippets from a number of popular political YouTube channels from both sides of the US political spectrum.
He is lucks they only fired him. Apple is extremely aggressive when it comes to this type of thing. He is also lucky that he is out now. My current company, and many others would never hire someone from Apple who was there for more than 5 years and they are most like a person who was a heave coolaid drinker and thinks they are better than everyone else.
I worked for an Apple "Partner" in the past. My God, the hoops they had us jump through were insane. We eventually told them, thanks, but no thanks.
The experience of dealing with Apple is the reason while to this day, I refuse to buy Apple branded anything. Biggest bunch of self righteous smug motherfuckers I have ever met in my professional career.
Really? In a market where there's a shortage of qualified and experienced engineers and developers your company would not hire a an engineer who worked for one of the most successful device manufacturers on the planet for years because he is a 'Cool Aid drinking' .. 'self righteous smug motherfucker' ... 'who think he's better than everybody else'? If I was hiring engineers I would not turn my nose up at a dyed in the wool Android developer if he was qualified and an experienced coder even though I am no particular fan of the Android OS or Google. Same goes for Microsoft developers, I may not like Microsoft as a company but their engineers and developers are not radioactive space zombies who breathe in oxygen and exhale mustard gas. Apart from being a generalisation of ridiculous proportions, that whole post is mostly just a steaming pile of fanboy whining that make you sound like the love child of a drama queen and a snow flake, you really should get over yourself.
What is the history of that art? Does it include the conquest of cultures that had an early influence on the geometric art? You are arbitrarily limiting the discussion because you seem uncomfortable acknowledging history. Many "harmless" discussions end up dragging up the past for whatever reason, do you have the same mouth foaming reaction or do you think Islam should be treated differently?
If the conquered culture influenced the art in question then it is relevant. I hope you have the same fervent defense of religion when it isn't islam.
So by that same logic because European crusader armies destroyed Islamic civilisations in Spain and the Levant, stole from then the technology that enabled Europeans to smelt high quality steel in large quantities, knowledge that later enabled the Industrial revolution, it is fair and indeed quite essential to turn any discussion of steel working into a discussion on the dangers of Christianity and the atrocities committed by Christians during the Crusades? ... or does your logic only apply to Islam?
You sure are quick to name calling. Without shaming and condescension you really don't have much an argument. Let's recap to make sure we both remember correctly.
1) Article about Geometry in Islamic art turned game. 2) post lamenting if it is Islamic if it was stolen during conquest. 3) your whataboutism. 4) my contention of your whataboutism and your shaming and your condescension. 5) you continue shame and condescension.
You put Islam on a pedestal beyond reproach and claim others are the bigots for pointing out history. When it is you who use shame, condescension and hate to shut others out. Did it ever occur to you that "how" Islamic art came to be could matter in a conversation about Islamic art? Do you think the early influences (whether by conquest or not) is relevant? If not then art history should never be studied again. Do those early cultures get any credit to influencing Islamic art? Or are you going to white wash history so you don't have to question a religion that is beyond criticism? After-all, unless you are islamic then you cannot criticize islam according to your ridiculous glass house standard.
Here is a thought, so what if the art was from conquest? How is that different than any other culture?... See, no whataboutism, it derrides the point of OP without shame or condescension, it treats islam as equals to other cultures, and it actually allows for those early influences to be relevant to a conversation about art (you know, art history). Others have responded to OP this way and they are not getting the same ridicule as you.
You suck at conversation. You limit discussion. You contribute more to hatred and bigotry than anything OP said or implied. You are a hate-filled bigot. Get over yourself.
A pedestal beyond reproach? I just questioned how the hell one gets from a discussion about Islamic geometric art in computer games to a xenophobic sermon about the universal evil that you boys consider Islam to be. Every damn time two people on the internet start talking about anything even remotely connected to Islam or the cultures practicing that religion (such as a race-politically loaded and dangerous discussion about Islamic geometric art) one of you alt-right drones sees him/herself duty bound to materialise in a puff of smoke like a genie from Steve Bannon's cursed lamp and start trying to turn the discussion into some grand debate about bad things that people practicing Islam did at some point in history and they try to tar all moslems with the same brush. And ....sure enough, here you are again, trying to rationalise how it is essential to turn a harmless discussion of Islamic geometric art in computer games to a discussion about atrocities committed by Islamic armies over a thousand years ago and having trouble with that even because one has f**k all to do with the other.
Why? The topic is about Islam. The past of Islam and how it has influenced the art and culture is the topic. Why can no one mention the reality of what "change in religion" means in that time without feeling your shame and condescension?
By your standard everyone lives in a glass house because the past is horrible compared to today. Does that mean no one can talk of any culture or any past transgression unless it's their own culture? What happens if those in that culture refuse to critizise their past, I guess that means it was all rainbows and unicorn farts, and "just a change in religion" means nothing more than a friendly door knock like this.
If I remember correctly, the topic of this thread was Islamic geometric art. It was you and your xenophobic alt-right buddies who turned it into some mystic ceremony where you all gather in a circle and hate Islam. Dragging the Islamic conquest into a discussion about Islamic art is about as relevant as dragging the massacre at Wounded Knee war into a discussion about the art of Jackson Pollock. All I did was burn you alt-right drones for going on a pretty stupid xenophobic tangent from a harmless discussion on geometric art in computer games. Just because some random mundane thing is in your mind 'Islamic', like geometric art or falafel recipes that doesn't mean you have some sort of god given right to bother the rest of us by dragging your asinine xenophobic political agenda into it without getting a dissenting opinion.
So because some random people somewhere else did something bad, you get a free pass to do evil things.
Cool story, Ahmed. Don't you have some gays to kill or something?
This story was originally about Islamic geometric art in a computer game. It wasn't me who took that discussion onto a totally different tangent and turned it into a flamewar aimed at proving that Islam is somehow more inherently violent, evil and vile than all other cultures. That honour belongs completely to you and your bigoted xenophobic friends. You might as well have turned a discussions about the pros and cons of Toyota Land Cruisers into a discussion about on Japanese military's conduct during WWII. Discussing atrocities committed by Islamic armies during the Islamic conquest may be a very valid topic of discussion however it never ceases to amaze me how you wing nuts manage to get to a place like that from something as mundane as an article on geometric art in one of the first posts on the thread.