We are the Bug. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your food and carbohydrates to our own. Your farming will adapt to service us. Bug spray is futile.
Why are people so blind and so quick to dismiss their elders? We didn't bitch and moan when USB replaced serial ports, parallel ports and PS/2 ports, because USB was clearly superior. We didn't bitch and moan when USB flash drives replaced floppy drives because we were already way past the 1.44MB capacity of those damn discs.
But ditching the headphone jack? Why? Bluetooth is not superior in any way: for losing the wire, all you gain is low-quality compressed audio, expensive headphones and yet another battery to recharge every day.
There's a difference between replacing a port with a better one (USB replaced serial and parallel ports) and dumping a port that's been universal for decades on more than computers and forcing people to use compressed audio crap through yet another overpriced device that needs to be recharged every fucking day.
Bluetooth means compressed audio. We're already listening to compressed audio (files or streaming) and you're re-compressing it a second time! Are you deaf or something?
The company has decided to remove the aging port from its latest handsets.
That's ageism!
Seriously though, what the fuck is wrong with companies? The headphone jack still works, digital wireless headphones have to use audio compression to have enough bandwidth and we're already listening to compressed audio in the first place. Are all new engineers deaf?
Paid shills from the big car companies. Paid shills from the big oil companies. People with investments in the big car and/oil companies. People who hate successful people. Idiots who believe there's nothing bad with burning coal and oil. The list goes on...
That's what crucial means. Also, you don't need a smartphone to access the Internet. Desktop computers and laptops still exist and they're still better than smartphones.
$1000 divided by 12 months equals ~$83.33
$1000 divided by 52 weeks equals ~$19.23
$1000 divided by 365 days equals ~$2.74
$1000 divided by 8760 hours equals ~$0.12
Think about this. Every day for a year, every two hours you need to put a quarter into a jar to pay for your shiny new toy. Your reaction to this should determine if you can really pay for it.
Having a smartphone is crucial in this day and age. I get it. But even a $200 phone, untethered from any carrier contract, will let you install the apps you need, will allow you to take good pictures, surf the web, and listen to music.
I guess web, music and photos are crucial to millenials. Or maybe they don't understand what crucial really means.
Then I guess it's time to give civilians the more accurate and more secure military GPS, and time for the military to make an even more accurate, even more secure military-only GPS.
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We are the Bug. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your food and carbohydrates to our own. Your farming will adapt to service us. Bug spray is futile.
Stop calling it that, nerd. It's called a Centronics port.
Even at half that price, it would still be 1.75 million million.
Just because it's new doesn't mean it's better.
Why are people so blind and so quick to dismiss their elders? We didn't bitch and moan when USB replaced serial ports, parallel ports and PS/2 ports, because USB was clearly superior. We didn't bitch and moan when USB flash drives replaced floppy drives because we were already way past the 1.44MB capacity of those damn discs.
But ditching the headphone jack? Why? Bluetooth is not superior in any way: for losing the wire, all you gain is low-quality compressed audio, expensive headphones and yet another battery to recharge every day.
There's a difference between replacing a port with a better one (USB replaced serial and parallel ports) and dumping a port that's been universal for decades on more than computers and forcing people to use compressed audio crap through yet another overpriced device that needs to be recharged every fucking day.
Bluetooth means compressed audio. We're already listening to compressed audio (files or streaming) and you're re-compressing it a second time! Are you deaf or something?
I guess Google also lost it is spell checker.
That's ageism! Seriously though, what the fuck is wrong with companies? The headphone jack still works, digital wireless headphones have to use audio compression to have enough bandwidth and we're already listening to compressed audio in the first place. Are all new engineers deaf?
What about the PlayStation Portable?
Hard to sell $50 processors for $100 smartphones... Think profits, not marketshare.
I see what you did, there.
This brings a whole new meaning to "stop slacking off!"
For the readers too young to remember: https://www.wired.com/2000/02/...
Paid shills from the big car companies. Paid shills from the big oil companies. People with investments in the big car and/oil companies. People who hate successful people. Idiots who believe there's nothing bad with burning coal and oil. The list goes on...
That's what crucial means. Also, you don't need a smartphone to access the Internet. Desktop computers and laptops still exist and they're still better than smartphones.
His worst offense, by far, is calling himself "Dotcom".
All you need is red lipstick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm guessing he can't spell "voilà".
$1000 divided by 12 months equals ~$83.33
$1000 divided by 52 weeks equals ~$19.23
$1000 divided by 365 days equals ~$2.74
$1000 divided by 8760 hours equals ~$0.12
Think about this. Every day for a year, every two hours you need to put a quarter into a jar to pay for your shiny new toy. Your reaction to this should determine if you can really pay for it.
You could buy a really nice bicycle with USD$1000. Good for your health, good for your wallet, good for the environment.
I guess web, music and photos are crucial to millenials. Or maybe they don't understand what crucial really means.
Wow, then it's obviously time to upgrade to the whole thing to a Blu-ray set.
Then I guess it's time to give civilians the more accurate and more secure military GPS, and time for the military to make an even more accurate, even more secure military-only GPS.