It's obvious that the huge Taptic Engine is right in the line of fire for where the plug would go.
That said: I do this it's a bit BS to put a "speaker grill" there. It might be aesthetically pleasing (balance) but it's a bit underhanded. I'm not really buying their "it's for the barometer!" schtick either...
Definitely wrong. In our (medium sized) project all of our Python is space indented just like our C++ (consistency is key).
Of course... we all use editors that do the correct spacing by pressing the TAB key... but make no mistake _spaces_ are used. We actually enforce this with automated testing that runs on every pull request... any TAB characters will immediately cause your PR to fail tests...
Reading comprehension: "In addition to that I also use TimeMachine on my Mac so I have a local backup of everything."
Not too mention... your backup provider getting shut down does not instantly delete all of your local data. It would be a freak incident for them to get shut down the day you need a backup.
And finally: Crashplan is nothing like Megaupload....
Better to get it offsite. One fire/flood/etc. and your data is toast. Not too mention that RAID IS NOT BACKUP (RINB).
I'm a "serious amateur" photographer (about 1TB of photos currently) and I've been using CrashPlan for the last two years and I'm happy with it. They allow you to create a local encryption key that even they don't know so it seems pretty secure. The first upload can take a while (depending on your internet service) but everything is quick after that point.
In addition to that I also use TimeMachine on my Mac so I have a local backup of everything.
Most of my searching is technical related (either about nuclear engineering or programming in Python or C++). I find that Google is fast and the top couple of hits are almost always what I want.
Can you give some examples of searches that go awry?
I went Windows 95->Windows 98->Slackware w/Elightenment (2 years)->Gentoo w/KDE (8 years)->OS X (ongoing)
(Note: many of the years with Slackware/Gentoo I also dual-booted some version of windows for games)
KDE3 was seriously great. I was a Qt programmer at the time... and it felt *powerful*. I could string together new apps in no time... or customize something to be just the way I wanted it.
These days I make my money doing massively parallel scientific computing. All code is written in OS X and runs on huge Linux clusters. OS X just works as a desktop... with full UNIX capability.
But... I can believe it's a high number. Cows drink... a lot... every day. Not only that, but the water is generally distributed through a bunch of troughs / etc. that probably waste quite a bit of water as well (just the evaporation itself has to be pretty massive).
Depends on the strength of the relative networks in their area. T-Mobile is currently fine for me in the city I'm in... but I know I'm moving out to a rural area soon and T-Mobile has crap-all for service out there.
I'm currently sticking with ATT... but keeping an eye on things.
We already fought this battle once... the enemy at that point was Voice Mail (may it rest in peace).
Unnecessary email is annoying, but easily dealt with. Unnecessary voice mail is the scourge of the earth. There is no way to easily flip through it to see if there is something interesting buried in there and people are apt to leave messages that are FAR too long. Further, I can read WAY faster than I can listen to someone slowly get around to the point of their message.
No: voice mail failed for good reasons... and it needs to stay dead.
This is the first move in response to what Apple is doing with the AppleTV. AppleTV currently has a small foothold in gaming... but it's growing.
Apple has shown, with iPhones/iPads, that it can put out a revision of their hardware every year and keep backwards compatibility with a huge App library. After a few years/revisions the AppleTV will be just as powerful as current-gen consoles and (just as we saw with mobile gaming overtaking mobile consoles) AppleTV will begin to suck dollars out of the established consoles.
Apple can (if they want to) iterate faster and provide a better ecosystem than Microsoft or Sony... and Microsoft knows it. Microsoft wants to get ahead of the game by switching up their model to allow for faster hardware iteration.
Sure. I didn't mean "normal" to come off as derogatory... I just meant that by watching the stream you can get an idea of the general consensus of the population.
I rarely use Twitter... but when I do it's because there is something going on *right now* and I want to gauge what the "normal" person thinks about it.
Most often: it's something I'm watching live on TV. Be it a baseball game, football game, news broadcast, etc.
You can see the instantaneous response of thousands of people to events...
You don't get that with any other service out there.
Why take it "away" then? I don't have any problem with them swabbing my phone for drug residue... just do it in front of me.
They already do this at the airport with the "explosive" residue wand/swab thing. No problem with them using it there... and I wouldn't mind it at the border either.
I just don't want to lose physical control over my device...
I'll at least chime in with the things I do on my Apple Watch. I've had it since launch (so about 1.5 years) and I've worn it every day. Here are the things I use it for in decreasing order with the number times I use it for that activity daily:
1. Time (might be obvious, but I didn't wear a watch before this... so I really didn't know if I cared to have the time on my wrist. Turns out it's crazy convenient!)
2. Weather. I have the current temperature, the forecast for the next 6 hours and a notification when it's going to start raining. Using "Time Travel" (you can spin the wheel on the Apple Watch to move forward or backward in time) it's easy to get a quick look at what weather is coming up later in the day or tomorrow.
3. Notifications. Takes some tailoring of what apps are allowed to notify you on your wrist, but once you get it right it's indispensable. I have Google Inbox setup to only ping my wrist with really important emails and the MLB app setup to only forward important notifications about the Red Sox to my wrist (like the game is starting and if the score changes). Too many notifications and you just ignore it... you have to get it just right.
4. Messaging. It really is convenient to get texts on my wrist. If the message warrants a quick reply then I do right from my wrist... if not, then I can decide if I need to pull my phone out to answer.
5. Phone calls. Not necessarily answering them (I don't usually like to talk on speakerphone) but it's pretty insanely useful to just glance at your wrist to see WHO is calling before deciding to either dig your phone out of your pocket or run across the house to get your phone.
6. Calendar. Instantly shows when my next appointment is. One touch shows me my calendar for the day.
7. Bus arrival time. I have a great App that shows me when my bus is due at my stop. I fire it up every morning and leave it on while I get ready... every time I raise my Watch it refreshes the time for the bus so I can keep an eye on it while I get ready.
8. Setting Reminders. You can add new reminders just by raising your wrist and saying "Hey Siri add Milk to my grocery list" or "Hey Siri remind me tomorrow morning to call the Vet". Super useful when you're walking through the city and you think of something you need a reminder for.
9. Using Reminders as a Grocery List. I use an app called "Reminders Nano" that shows my Reminders on my Watch. I open it up before I go in the grocery store and it shows me all of the things added by #8 in my grocery list... as I pick them up I mark them off on my Watch. Works great without having to fumble with a phone with the shopping basket.
10. Activity tracking. This one is straightforward. Even though I use it every day (and meet my goals everyday) I put it as #10 since it's really more of a background activity for me.
11. Apple Pay. I pay for things daily with my Watch. Not yet ubiquitous so it's not higher on the list... but it does get used daily for that purpose.
12. As a ticket. It's great to have Passbook Passes (airline tickets, concert tickets, stadium tickets, etc.) right on your wrist. I really love using it while flying... one less thing to have to fumble around with when you're trying to wrangle baggage...
11. Control my Nest. There is a great app called "Thermo Watch" which is extremely high quality and is used to control the temperature setting on your Nest.
I do a lot of other minor stuff with it... but those are the big ones. Is it "life changing"? Absolutely not... but it was definitely worth the money I paid for it. I use it far more than other things I've paid WAY more money for.
I've always voted Republican (always). But I'll be voting for Johnson.
Don't underestimate the number of moderate republicans who are disgusted with the things coming out of Trump and Hillary's mouths...
Are we enough to get Johnson elected? Hell no! But if we make a good showing it could finally be the start of a moderate party that believes in a limited government and progressive social views.
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Should read: Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Huge Taptic Engine
Just look at the pictures:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardow...
(Look at Step 6)
It's obvious that the huge Taptic Engine is right in the line of fire for where the plug would go.
That said: I do this it's a bit BS to put a "speaker grill" there. It might be aesthetically pleasing (balance) but it's a bit underhanded. I'm not really buying their "it's for the barometer!" schtick either...
Definitely wrong. In our (medium sized) project all of our Python is space indented just like our C++ (consistency is key).
Of course... we all use editors that do the correct spacing by pressing the TAB key... but make no mistake _spaces_ are used. We actually enforce this with automated testing that runs on every pull request... any TAB characters will immediately cause your PR to fail tests...
Please point to a reputable source that substantiates your claim. Just putting it in ALL CAPS does not make it true.
How would it not be reliable? Over the last two years I've spot checked multiple times I can could recover any file I wanted.
How is it not secure? I have a locally generated key that they are not given... even if they are breached there is no way to decrypt the data.
Like I said: I do use local backup as well for peace of mind (and ease of recovery) but I haven't seen any reason not to put faith in Crashplan.
Reading comprehension: "In addition to that I also use TimeMachine on my Mac so I have a local backup of everything."
Not too mention... your backup provider getting shut down does not instantly delete all of your local data. It would be a freak incident for them to get shut down the day you need a backup.
And finally: Crashplan is nothing like Megaupload....
"The first flaw is the inability to specify folders to INCLUDE instead of exclude."
That was my problem with Backblaze. In my case I ONLY wanted to backup my photos (I backup everything else in other ways).
Crashplan lets you choose exactly which directories to backup.
Better to get it offsite. One fire/flood/etc. and your data is toast. Not too mention that RAID IS NOT BACKUP (RINB).
I'm a "serious amateur" photographer (about 1TB of photos currently) and I've been using CrashPlan for the last two years and I'm happy with it. They allow you to create a local encryption key that even they don't know so it seems pretty secure. The first upload can take a while (depending on your internet service) but everything is quick after that point.
In addition to that I also use TimeMachine on my Mac so I have a local backup of everything.
Really? Because google works great for me.
Not being facetious... just giving my anecdote.
What kinds of things are you searching for?
Most of my searching is technical related (either about nuclear engineering or programming in Python or C++). I find that Google is fast and the top couple of hits are almost always what I want.
Can you give some examples of searches that go awry?
Your path is pretty close to mine. Here's me:
I went Windows 95->Windows 98->Slackware w/Elightenment (2 years)->Gentoo w/KDE (8 years)->OS X (ongoing)
(Note: many of the years with Slackware/Gentoo I also dual-booted some version of windows for games)
KDE3 was seriously great. I was a Qt programmer at the time... and it felt *powerful*. I could string together new apps in no time... or customize something to be just the way I wanted it.
These days I make my money doing massively parallel scientific computing. All code is written in OS X and runs on huge Linux clusters. OS X just works as a desktop... with full UNIX capability.
I agree - I would like a citation as well.
But... I can believe it's a high number. Cows drink... a lot... every day. Not only that, but the water is generally distributed through a bunch of troughs / etc. that probably waste quite a bit of water as well (just the evaporation itself has to be pretty massive).
Depends on the strength of the relative networks in their area. T-Mobile is currently fine for me in the city I'm in... but I know I'm moving out to a rural area soon and T-Mobile has crap-all for service out there.
I'm currently sticking with ATT... but keeping an eye on things.
We already fought this battle once... the enemy at that point was Voice Mail (may it rest in peace).
Unnecessary email is annoying, but easily dealt with. Unnecessary voice mail is the scourge of the earth. There is no way to easily flip through it to see if there is something interesting buried in there and people are apt to leave messages that are FAR too long. Further, I can read WAY faster than I can listen to someone slowly get around to the point of their message.
No: voice mail failed for good reasons... and it needs to stay dead.
Yep: the same way everyone said games on a phone will never overtake dedicated portable gaming machines...
This is the first move in response to what Apple is doing with the AppleTV. AppleTV currently has a small foothold in gaming... but it's growing.
Apple has shown, with iPhones/iPads, that it can put out a revision of their hardware every year and keep backwards compatibility with a huge App library. After a few years/revisions the AppleTV will be just as powerful as current-gen consoles and (just as we saw with mobile gaming overtaking mobile consoles) AppleTV will begin to suck dollars out of the established consoles.
Apple can (if they want to) iterate faster and provide a better ecosystem than Microsoft or Sony... and Microsoft knows it. Microsoft wants to get ahead of the game by switching up their model to allow for faster hardware iteration.
Will be interesting to see where this all goes...
Nah - that's what's going on here too. It's not the apocalypse or anything. If you're referring to the headline that's just normal sensationalism.
People on the ground here just grumble about it and move on their way. It'll work itself out.
"initial adoption was a bit rough"
Yeah - that's where we are now. You just admitted that you DO "get this"... because it was the same in Canada.
Initial adoption of any new technology that you use multiple times a day is going to cause some confusion and consternation... this is no different.
Sure - like IRC that millions of people are typing into at once with the ability to filter the chatroom down to topics you're interested in.
Sure. I didn't mean "normal" to come off as derogatory... I just meant that by watching the stream you can get an idea of the general consensus of the population.
I rarely use Twitter... but when I do it's because there is something going on *right now* and I want to gauge what the "normal" person thinks about it.
Most often: it's something I'm watching live on TV. Be it a baseball game, football game, news broadcast, etc.
You can see the instantaneous response of thousands of people to events...
You don't get that with any other service out there.
Modern day equivalent to "May I subscribe to your newsletter?" ;-)
Why take it "away" then? I don't have any problem with them swabbing my phone for drug residue... just do it in front of me.
They already do this at the airport with the "explosive" residue wand/swab thing. No problem with them using it there... and I wouldn't mind it at the border either.
I just don't want to lose physical control over my device...
I'll at least chime in with the things I do on my Apple Watch. I've had it since launch (so about 1.5 years) and I've worn it every day. Here are the things I use it for in decreasing order with the number times I use it for that activity daily:
1. Time (might be obvious, but I didn't wear a watch before this... so I really didn't know if I cared to have the time on my wrist. Turns out it's crazy convenient!)
2. Weather. I have the current temperature, the forecast for the next 6 hours and a notification when it's going to start raining. Using "Time Travel" (you can spin the wheel on the Apple Watch to move forward or backward in time) it's easy to get a quick look at what weather is coming up later in the day or tomorrow.
3. Notifications. Takes some tailoring of what apps are allowed to notify you on your wrist, but once you get it right it's indispensable. I have Google Inbox setup to only ping my wrist with really important emails and the MLB app setup to only forward important notifications about the Red Sox to my wrist (like the game is starting and if the score changes). Too many notifications and you just ignore it... you have to get it just right.
4. Messaging. It really is convenient to get texts on my wrist. If the message warrants a quick reply then I do right from my wrist... if not, then I can decide if I need to pull my phone out to answer.
5. Phone calls. Not necessarily answering them (I don't usually like to talk on speakerphone) but it's pretty insanely useful to just glance at your wrist to see WHO is calling before deciding to either dig your phone out of your pocket or run across the house to get your phone.
6. Calendar. Instantly shows when my next appointment is. One touch shows me my calendar for the day.
7. Bus arrival time. I have a great App that shows me when my bus is due at my stop. I fire it up every morning and leave it on while I get ready... every time I raise my Watch it refreshes the time for the bus so I can keep an eye on it while I get ready.
8. Setting Reminders. You can add new reminders just by raising your wrist and saying "Hey Siri add Milk to my grocery list" or "Hey Siri remind me tomorrow morning to call the Vet". Super useful when you're walking through the city and you think of something you need a reminder for.
9. Using Reminders as a Grocery List. I use an app called "Reminders Nano" that shows my Reminders on my Watch. I open it up before I go in the grocery store and it shows me all of the things added by #8 in my grocery list... as I pick them up I mark them off on my Watch. Works great without having to fumble with a phone with the shopping basket.
10. Activity tracking. This one is straightforward. Even though I use it every day (and meet my goals everyday) I put it as #10 since it's really more of a background activity for me.
11. Apple Pay. I pay for things daily with my Watch. Not yet ubiquitous so it's not higher on the list... but it does get used daily for that purpose.
12. As a ticket. It's great to have Passbook Passes (airline tickets, concert tickets, stadium tickets, etc.) right on your wrist. I really love using it while flying... one less thing to have to fumble around with when you're trying to wrangle baggage...
11. Control my Nest. There is a great app called "Thermo Watch" which is extremely high quality and is used to control the temperature setting on your Nest.
I do a lot of other minor stuff with it... but those are the big ones. Is it "life changing"? Absolutely not... but it was definitely worth the money I paid for it. I use it far more than other things I've paid WAY more money for.
Yep. It's definitely a good way to detect idiots... by finding all of the posts like yours from people who rage against a simple phone game.
People love to spend their time on all kinds of inane stuff... no reason to get so upset over it.
I've always voted Republican (always). But I'll be voting for Johnson.
Don't underestimate the number of moderate republicans who are disgusted with the things coming out of Trump and Hillary's mouths...
Are we enough to get Johnson elected? Hell no! But if we make a good showing it could finally be the start of a moderate party that believes in a limited government and progressive social views.
lol - missed a space before the closing comment ;-)
The asterisks should be aligned ;-)
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