What is this nag screen people keep talking about? I have three iOS devices, and the closest I see to nagging is a red dot on the system settings icon (which could be considered nagging of you're OCD enough, I guess). More often than not I read about iOS updates on Slashdot before my devices notify me...in fact, I'm using an iPad (iOS 9.3.5) to post this right now and there's no red dot.
For shits and giggles I decided to upgrade my iPhone 5 anyway (I like living dangerously). Two things I'll note: the first is that it seemed to hang at the end of the installation, but having lost patience after about 5 minutes I forced a reboot, it rebooted by itself a second time, and now it works just fine (had similar experiences with OS X updates recently, so that's not entirely unexpected). The second thing is that it burned through over 20% of the battery during this process despite being plugged in. Apple warns against updating the OS with a low battery, so it seems plausible that this may be part of the problem, especially if people are doing OTA updates.
Admittedly it's poorly phrased, but what it means is part of Samsung's additional quality control tests include testing delays in shipping for additional quality control tests. This is good news for all of us who leave their phones in shipping containers on docks and were concerned they'd be unreliable in that usage scenario.
I think one of the craziest ideas a marketer ever had was to put up ads with a sexy woman pretending to send you a private message saying she only lives 2 miles away from you and she wants to have sex, right now!
The craziest idea being the ads which are essentially the same except with a fat, ugly granny. And I browse for teen-midget-in-clown-costume-on-donkey action, so I have no idea how the tracking cookies dumped me into such a distasteful marketing list...
The masses don't replace their own screens, so how difficult it is doesn't matter, just how much it costs to get someone else to do it; price seems to vary more by shop than by model as far as I can tell (corrections welcome). And judging by the number of people who walk around staring at the screen oblivious to all else, I'd say forethought and disaster preparedness isn't the selling point you might think.
When it comes to batteries I'm of two minds: now the battery in my phone is dying I'd like to be able to replace it without having to buy a pentalobe driver and deal with an expensive, tiny jigsaw puzzle. However, it's taken three and a half years to get to the point where I want to change the battery once, so on balance the extra volume required for a quick release mechanism, which is a point of failure in itself, isn't worth it to me. And if it's about using more than one battery in a day, is there really such a difference between carrying around spare batteries and carrying a modest battery bank? Think about it: battery banks aren't model specific and work with any device that charges from USB (and if you're like me you've probably had a drawer full of useless batteries for obsolete or dead devices at some stage), they usually have several times the capacity of a replacement battery for the same price, and it's only one thing to plug in at night. The only real down side is having to plug the phone in for ~1 hour for a full charge, but the trade-off is you don't need to shut down the phone as you would when you change an internal battery.
Put simply, I doubt the boost in sales from either of those ideas would be significant enough to be compelling for a manufacturer.
Propylene glycol is also known as fog juice, the stuff that goes into stage smoke machines, and it's used as a food additive. It metabolises to lactic acid and is considered safe, which is why it's used in e-cigs.
Antifreeze is usually ethylene glycol, which is toxic. However, both salt and ethanol can also be used as antifreeze, and while they can be lethal in sufficient quantities they too are considered fit for human consumption. Calling something "antifreeze" tells you no more about its toxicity than calling something "natural" (i.e. snake venom) or "organic" (i.e. benzene).
Colour would be an improvement, but not as much as you might think. CMYK is no problem, but the RGB hues are limited by the quality of the inks/toner, paper, the mixing pattern and print resolution versus dot size...to have a safe error margin you wouldn't want to use intermediate hues, so realistically that's three bits per dot. Since a scanner can't tell a halftone from a faded print it may not be a good idea to vary the print density, though this could be mitigated with reference colour bars, in which case each dot would be three bits plus a remainder which could be paired with an adjacent dot(s) to squeeze out some extra bit depth. On the down side, each dot would have to be large enough compared to the scanner's optical resolution to prevent colour errors due to aliasing.
(NB: deliriously tired, probably miscalculated the possible bit depth, but you get the idea)
Fuel vapour inside a tank rarely has the correct oxygen mix to ignite. Rupture the tank and spray the fuel all over the place and suddenly it does. Aircraft fuel tanks (not to mention the rest of the plane) tend to rupture quite significantly on impact, while gas station tanks are usually underground and seldom fall out of the sky at a few hundred knots.
The harebrained conspiracy nuts don't consider themselves idiots...quite the contrary, they consider their belief in conspiracies to be evidence that they're more clever than the scheming masterminds (not to mention the rest of humanity, hence the word "sheeple").
My bet is they compiled a list of fairly ordinary sites and made an effort to leave the really good/bizarre ones off. It's not as though Pakistan has the least corrupt government officials in the world...
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I'd suggest moving to somewhere without an extradition treaty before they correct it and add late payment surcharges, it'll be cheaper.
It's more convenient to carry around an adaptor than a fire extinguisher...
And this, folks, is the only time you'll ever hear anyone say a slashdotter has a hot ass.
A much funnier way of explaining it
What is this nag screen people keep talking about? I have three iOS devices, and the closest I see to nagging is a red dot on the system settings icon (which could be considered nagging of you're OCD enough, I guess). More often than not I read about iOS updates on Slashdot before my devices notify me...in fact, I'm using an iPad (iOS 9.3.5) to post this right now and there's no red dot.
For shits and giggles I decided to upgrade my iPhone 5 anyway (I like living dangerously). Two things I'll note: the first is that it seemed to hang at the end of the installation, but having lost patience after about 5 minutes I forced a reboot, it rebooted by itself a second time, and now it works just fine (had similar experiences with OS X updates recently, so that's not entirely unexpected). The second thing is that it burned through over 20% of the battery during this process despite being plugged in. Apple warns against updating the OS with a low battery, so it seems plausible that this may be part of the problem, especially if people are doing OTA updates.
Admittedly it's poorly phrased, but what it means is part of Samsung's additional quality control tests include testing delays in shipping for additional quality control tests. This is good news for all of us who leave their phones in shipping containers on docks and were concerned they'd be unreliable in that usage scenario.
How is this off-topic? It sounds like ideal equipment for Windows 10, although an ordinary bonfire would do.
I think one of the craziest ideas a marketer ever had was to put up ads with a sexy woman pretending to send you a private message saying she only lives 2 miles away from you and she wants to have sex, right now!
The craziest idea being the ads which are essentially the same except with a fat, ugly granny. And I browse for teen-midget-in-clown-costume-on-donkey action, so I have no idea how the tracking cookies dumped me into such a distasteful marketing list...
well it seems to work for me
But you wouldn't like him when he's angry...
The masses don't replace their own screens, so how difficult it is doesn't matter, just how much it costs to get someone else to do it; price seems to vary more by shop than by model as far as I can tell (corrections welcome). And judging by the number of people who walk around staring at the screen oblivious to all else, I'd say forethought and disaster preparedness isn't the selling point you might think.
When it comes to batteries I'm of two minds: now the battery in my phone is dying I'd like to be able to replace it without having to buy a pentalobe driver and deal with an expensive, tiny jigsaw puzzle. However, it's taken three and a half years to get to the point where I want to change the battery once, so on balance the extra volume required for a quick release mechanism, which is a point of failure in itself, isn't worth it to me. And if it's about using more than one battery in a day, is there really such a difference between carrying around spare batteries and carrying a modest battery bank? Think about it: battery banks aren't model specific and work with any device that charges from USB (and if you're like me you've probably had a drawer full of useless batteries for obsolete or dead devices at some stage), they usually have several times the capacity of a replacement battery for the same price, and it's only one thing to plug in at night. The only real down side is having to plug the phone in for ~1 hour for a full charge, but the trade-off is you don't need to shut down the phone as you would when you change an internal battery.
Put simply, I doubt the boost in sales from either of those ideas would be significant enough to be compelling for a manufacturer.
I'm pretty sure he just lost the election right now...
I'm pretty sure I just lost my election (but not my speech impediment).
And Ballmer was a shaved wookee.
Ah, for the days when wearing a raincoat to (certain) theatres was the done thing...that's one branch of cinema the internet has definitely killed.
Yaw?
Propylene glycol is also known as fog juice, the stuff that goes into stage smoke machines, and it's used as a food additive. It metabolises to lactic acid and is considered safe, which is why it's used in e-cigs.
Antifreeze is usually ethylene glycol, which is toxic. However, both salt and ethanol can also be used as antifreeze, and while they can be lethal in sufficient quantities they too are considered fit for human consumption. Calling something "antifreeze" tells you no more about its toxicity than calling something "natural" (i.e. snake venom) or "organic" (i.e. benzene).
Many of the +sized model are really ++++++++++++++++sized. :D
They managed to fuck up the pirelli calendar with that.
But it works great for Michelin.
But he died...does that make this filter a zombie process?
Colour would be an improvement, but not as much as you might think. CMYK is no problem, but the RGB hues are limited by the quality of the inks/toner, paper, the mixing pattern and print resolution versus dot size...to have a safe error margin you wouldn't want to use intermediate hues, so realistically that's three bits per dot. Since a scanner can't tell a halftone from a faded print it may not be a good idea to vary the print density, though this could be mitigated with reference colour bars, in which case each dot would be three bits plus a remainder which could be paired with an adjacent dot(s) to squeeze out some extra bit depth. On the down side, each dot would have to be large enough compared to the scanner's optical resolution to prevent colour errors due to aliasing.
(NB: deliriously tired, probably miscalculated the possible bit depth, but you get the idea)
This leaves the traditional favorites, war, famine, pestilence and death.
OMG! Ponies!!!
There are a few alternate ProRes codecs and converters out there.
Fuel vapour inside a tank rarely has the correct oxygen mix to ignite. Rupture the tank and spray the fuel all over the place and suddenly it does. Aircraft fuel tanks (not to mention the rest of the plane) tend to rupture quite significantly on impact, while gas station tanks are usually underground and seldom fall out of the sky at a few hundred knots.
Not sure if a word in your subject line is missing a "k" or an "h"...
Never speak ill of the dead until you're damn sure they're dead.
The harebrained conspiracy nuts don't consider themselves idiots...quite the contrary, they consider their belief in conspiracies to be evidence that they're more clever than the scheming masterminds (not to mention the rest of humanity, hence the word "sheeple").
Dunning-Krugery at its finest.
My bet is they compiled a list of fairly ordinary sites and made an effort to leave the really good/bizarre ones off. It's not as though Pakistan has the least corrupt government officials in the world...