More durable and a removable battery. Sounds like it may last more than 2 years before ending up in a landfill, Apple can never allow that.
And a headphone jack will cost Apple a fortune in lost sales of wireless headphones with non-removable batteries that also end up in the landfill in 2 years.
Why do you want to help the environment and hurt corporate profits, are you some kind of hippie commie?/sarcasm
It's not Apple's fault, they've got more important things to focus on than the integrity of their App store.
Like their new knock off of Bob's Burgers, more watch bands, promoting Hip Hop, and bragging about Timmy's clogged pipeline. They can't do all that and run a pesky app store too.
Sorry,not 100% is illegal, but it is 100% certainly used for illegal activities. The poster I was replying to said it may or may not used for illegal stuff, but the legal stuff justifies its existence.
And givne that backpage can do plenty to prevent sexual slavery and child prostitution, but they choose not to so they can maximize their profits, backpage should not be allowed to exist..
Wow, way to spout off what you know nothing about.
I work in criminal law in Canada and I encounter backpage on a weekly basis. It 100% is used for "illegal" trafficking. For example, girls who are abducted off the streets and forced into prostitution. They are forced onto amphetamines so they can work longer hours and end up completely messed up. Backpage is so convenient they even take payment in bitcoin so the pimps don't have to risk themselves.
One of the most common things is the pimp finds a vulnerable girl, pretends to pursue a relationship, then pushes her into prostitution to make money "for us", next thing she knows, she's a full-time prostitute being held prisoner.
One girl got away, 6 months later she ran into the guy who'd been holding her as a sex slave. He beat her almost to death to punish her for his lost income.
There are also many underage girls on there, many who allow themselves to be talked into it. A couple of weeks ago, I dealt with a 16 year old girl who was working as a prostitute until she was old enough to work in a strip club. Since she was under 18, the legit strip clubs turned her away, but backpage gave her a chance to work.
I can give you hundreds of stories. One pimp told his victim who tried to leave "I'm going to sell your pussy forever". One made his victim work 20 hours straight to earn the money to have his name tattooed on her. The one thing all these stories has in common is backpage.
In Canada, prostitution is legal. We are talking about something completely different here. So please stop ranting about a subject you know nothing about as if you were some expert. This is exactly about going after sex traffickers and pedos.
Why would your card ever be out of sight at a restaurant (or anywhere)? The chip processor is a handheld wireless device about 1.5 x 3 x 6 inches. The card slides into the bottom and you take the whole device to privately enter your pin.
Pre-industrial revolution, the 40 hour work week was an absurd fantasy. A lazy slacker would only work 100 hours a week, and that was minimal subsistence living. And ever after the tech was there it took a lot of fighting on the part of early unions to 'convince' the employers not to drastically reduce the workforce and keep a small number of people working 100+ hours a week
Even on the Jetsons, people had a 3 hour work day (and complained about how long it was).
It's only in the past couple of decades society got it so ingrained that this 40 hour work week was so mandatory.
Is it so hard for you to picture a world where if machines can do 80% of the work currently done by humans, we double our productivity and standard of living and still reduce the work week 60%? Because that's exactly what happened last time. France tried it the other way where the 1% take everything and leave the 99% unemployed and in poverty. I don't think the French 1% liked where it ended up.
I bought a Razer keyboard. Why do they need me to create an account and allow them to track analytics about my usage for a louse mouse.
I had intended to buy a Razer Blade, but after my experience with the keyboard, that company scares me. I can't imagine why anyone would buy a Razer product where Linux support is necessary.
But you could be pulling my leg. The first thing to go is the ability to discern sarcasm.
Thank you so much for that. For years, I've been saying the mind is the second thing to go. I never could remember what was first, now thanks to you I remember.
Last week they announced hiring dozens of data mining experts and now they want your phone to store all your medical information. Now it all makes sense.
When you say seems like a steal, do you actually work at Adobe's marketing department?
I use Photoshop and InDesign a lot. I bought the "Design Standard" version of CS6 which came with those as well as Illustrator and Acrobat. Full price on that suite was $900 CDN and I paid under $500 as an upgrade. I do use Illustrator enough to not want to give it up, so I'm looking at $50/month forever for a. $900 software package that I could use forever. Hardly a 'steal".
Add to that that for the relatively few people who actually used to buy the Master suite, it was under $3000 up front and about $1000 per upgrade. There was no reason to buy every upgrade so even that went from little cheaper in the medium term to a lot cheaper in the long term.
Adobe didn't do this to give anyone a "steal" compared to the old model. It is a blatant ripoff no matter what your usage was and only looks to Adobe's bottom line.
Their software has also been pretty stagnant ever since, they used to have some nice new features every couple of years. Now why would they waste money on R&D when they get the same income no matter what?
For me, I'll be keeping CS6 as long as I can run it and then I still won't pay a subscription.
At first i was thinking along those lines, and also...if i can legally buy t the precursors to feed the machine, then with a little chemistry knowledge, what do I need the 3D printer for at all?
But if this is building (printing) the molecules one at a time, those nasty precursors don't ever have to exist and there's no chemical reaction involved. so you won't need heat, pressure,, or catalysts.
Then I realized that this is sci-fi, there's no way to really discuss what its limitations would be or how it would work because the tech doesn't exist.
Why does that surprise you? Going from 1 to 2 years your life and existence go through amazing changes you learn so much, ever experience is huge and shapes who or what you are. The year seems to last forever because you are experiencing and changing so much. You've become a completely different person in that year, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Going from 100 to 101 you don't really change much, it's a tiny blip in your life that seems to go by in a blink.
If you have a 1 year old child when you're 19 years old, you are 19 times their age. A year later you're only 10 times their age. You've also gone from 19 times their life experiences to only 10 times their life experience. They really have gained a whole lot more than you have and they really have closed the gap between you and them. There's a huge difference between a 2 and 20 year old there's a heck of a lot less difference between a 72 and 90 year old. So yes, the gap is shrinking every year.
So, the only question is..... why do you find this to be strange or unusual?
Of course someone will say the opposite. I'm sure Pfizer (owners of the Advil brand) already have their people writing the papers.
While this study may or may not actually be right, you really aren't stupid enough to believe you can read an occasional headline in pop-media and think you know what is going on in the scientific community are you?
And you aren't stupid enough to think most studies are published as pure unbiased science without pushing corporate agendas, are you?
I got 3 free with Nest products, didn't give google a cent for them and I'm sure not going to use them, so I gifted them. They must have given away millions of the devices on that promo.
In early December my 3 carbon monoxide detectors expired. I have a Nest thermostat so I decided to get 3 Nest CO alarms. There was a promo, buy any Nest product get a free Home Mini. I have no interest in the product, so I gave all 3 as Christmas gifts.
So far, one is up and running and I'm not sure if the other two will ever actually be connected.
When they had the Pentium floating point division bug they also said it wouldn't affect the average user. All they did was piss off their customers before they recalled the chips anyway.
It is a bit misleading to call it an "Education Lottery". It would be more honest to call it a "Public School Lottery". At public schools they aren't going to give kids the math tools to understand why lotteries are a bad idea.
The revolution was mainly funded by issuing a continental currency that all the "patriots" were supposed to buy into and then devaluing that currency to zero within 3 years.
Someone in 1776 even offered to buy continental notes in bulk to use as wallpaper.
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It scares me that google, a greedy for-profit company, has all that personal data. I don't want them and their business partners to have it.
Sure, I'd rather not give that data to law-enforcement either, but it's a lot less bad than google and friends having it.
How are you okay sharing it with google and hundreds of "partner" companies, but somehow not okay with "guvurnment" getting access?
More durable and a removable battery. Sounds like it may last more than 2 years before ending up in a landfill, Apple can never allow that.
/sarcasm
And a headphone jack will cost Apple a fortune in lost sales of wireless headphones with non-removable batteries that also end up in the landfill in 2 years.
Why do you want to help the environment and hurt corporate profits, are you some kind of hippie commie?
It's not Apple's fault, they've got more important things to focus on than the integrity of their App store.
Like their new knock off of Bob's Burgers, more watch bands, promoting Hip Hop, and bragging about Timmy's clogged pipeline. They can't do all that and run a pesky app store too.
Sorry,not 100% is illegal, but it is 100% certainly used for illegal activities. The poster I was replying to said it may or may not used for illegal stuff, but the legal stuff justifies its existence.
And givne that backpage can do plenty to prevent sexual slavery and child prostitution, but they choose not to so they can maximize their profits, backpage should not be allowed to exist..
Wow, way to spout off what you know nothing about.
I work in criminal law in Canada and I encounter backpage on a weekly basis. It 100% is used for "illegal" trafficking. For example, girls who are abducted off the streets and forced into prostitution. They are forced onto amphetamines so they can work longer hours and end up completely messed up. Backpage is so convenient they even take payment in bitcoin so the pimps don't have to risk themselves.
One of the most common things is the pimp finds a vulnerable girl, pretends to pursue a relationship, then pushes her into prostitution to make money "for us", next thing she knows, she's a full-time prostitute being held prisoner.
One girl got away, 6 months later she ran into the guy who'd been holding her as a sex slave. He beat her almost to death to punish her for his lost income.
There are also many underage girls on there, many who allow themselves to be talked into it. A couple of weeks ago, I dealt with a 16 year old girl who was working as a prostitute until she was old enough to work in a strip club. Since she was under 18, the legit strip clubs turned her away, but backpage gave her a chance to work.
I can give you hundreds of stories. One pimp told his victim who tried to leave "I'm going to sell your pussy forever". One made his victim work 20 hours straight to earn the money to have his name tattooed on her. The one thing all these stories has in common is backpage.
In Canada, prostitution is legal. We are talking about something completely different here. So please stop ranting about a subject you know nothing about as if you were some expert. This is exactly about going after sex traffickers and pedos.
Why would your card ever be out of sight at a restaurant (or anywhere)? The chip processor is a handheld wireless device about 1.5 x 3 x 6 inches. The card slides into the bottom and you take the whole device to privately enter your pin.
Pre-industrial revolution, the 40 hour work week was an absurd fantasy. A lazy slacker would only work 100 hours a week, and that was minimal subsistence living. And ever after the tech was there it took a lot of fighting on the part of early unions to 'convince' the employers not to drastically reduce the workforce and keep a small number of people working 100+ hours a week
Even on the Jetsons, people had a 3 hour work day (and complained about how long it was).
It's only in the past couple of decades society got it so ingrained that this 40 hour work week was so mandatory.
Is it so hard for you to picture a world where if machines can do 80% of the work currently done by humans, we double our productivity and standard of living and still reduce the work week 60%? Because that's exactly what happened last time. France tried it the other way where the 1% take everything and leave the 99% unemployed and in poverty. I don't think the French 1% liked where it ended up.
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I bought a Razer keyboard. Why do they need me to create an account and allow them to track analytics about my usage for a louse mouse.
I had intended to buy a Razer Blade, but after my experience with the keyboard, that company scares me. I can't imagine why anyone would buy a Razer product where Linux support is necessary.
I'm better than a rocket scientist, I've played Kerbal Space Program.
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Yes. Redundancy is always good.
But you could be pulling my leg. The first thing to go is the ability to discern sarcasm.
Thank you so much for that. For years, I've been saying the mind is the second thing to go. I never could remember what was first, now thanks to you I remember.
Last week they announced hiring dozens of data mining experts and now they want your phone to store all your medical information. Now it all makes sense.
When you say seems like a steal, do you actually work at Adobe's marketing department?
I use Photoshop and InDesign a lot. I bought the "Design Standard" version of CS6 which came with those as well as Illustrator and Acrobat. Full price on that suite was $900 CDN and I paid under $500 as an upgrade. I do use Illustrator enough to not want to give it up, so I'm looking at $50/month forever for a. $900 software package that I could use forever. Hardly a 'steal".
Add to that that for the relatively few people who actually used to buy the Master suite, it was under $3000 up front and about $1000 per upgrade. There was no reason to buy every upgrade so even that went from little cheaper in the medium term to a lot cheaper in the long term.
Adobe didn't do this to give anyone a "steal" compared to the old model. It is a blatant ripoff no matter what your usage was and only looks to Adobe's bottom line.
Their software has also been pretty stagnant ever since, they used to have some nice new features every couple of years. Now why would they waste money on R&D when they get the same income no matter what?
For me, I'll be keeping CS6 as long as I can run it and then I still won't pay a subscription.
At first i was thinking along those lines, and also...if i can legally buy t the precursors to feed the machine, then with a little chemistry knowledge, what do I need the 3D printer for at all?
But if this is building (printing) the molecules one at a time, those nasty precursors don't ever have to exist and there's no chemical reaction involved. so you won't need heat, pressure,, or catalysts.
Then I realized that this is sci-fi, there's no way to really discuss what its limitations would be or how it would work because the tech doesn't exist.
Blue meth is so 5 years ago. When i get the printer, my meth is going to be red. Yeah, red meth is the future. Blue is for people living in the past.
So...how long will it take for a hacked firmware that prints designer narcotics to hit the street? That's why this tech will never come to fruition.
Why does that surprise you? Going from 1 to 2 years your life and existence go through amazing changes you learn so much, ever experience is huge and shapes who or what you are. The year seems to last forever because you are experiencing and changing so much. You've become a completely different person in that year, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
..... why do you find this to be strange or unusual?
Going from 100 to 101 you don't really change much, it's a tiny blip in your life that seems to go by in a blink.
If you have a 1 year old child when you're 19 years old, you are 19 times their age. A year later you're only 10 times their age. You've also gone from 19 times their life experiences to only 10 times their life experience. They really have gained a whole lot more than you have and they really have closed the gap between you and them. There's a huge difference between a 2 and 20 year old there's a heck of a lot less difference between a 72 and 90 year old. So yes, the gap is shrinking every year.
So, the only question is
Considering most of the last 10 years each generation of chip has brought about 5% more performance, I'd say 10% is a horrible loss in performance.
And once you're at the more expensive part of the price/performance curve, that extra 10% performance costs a fortune .
10% is actually a lot worse than I'd expected.
Of course someone will say the opposite. I'm sure Pfizer (owners of the Advil brand) already have their people writing the papers.
While this study may or may not actually be right, you really aren't stupid enough to believe you can read an occasional headline in pop-media and think you know what is going on in the scientific community are you?
And you aren't stupid enough to think most studies are published as pure unbiased science without pushing corporate agendas, are you?
Tha movie you're referencing came out 31 years ago. Your age is showing.
I got 3 free with Nest products, didn't give google a cent for them and I'm sure not going to use them, so I gifted them. They must have given away millions of the devices on that promo.
In early December my 3 carbon monoxide detectors expired. I have a Nest thermostat so I decided to get 3 Nest CO alarms. There was a promo, buy any Nest product get a free Home Mini. I have no interest in the product, so I gave all 3 as Christmas gifts.
So far, one is up and running and I'm not sure if the other two will ever actually be connected.
When they had the Pentium floating point division bug they also said it wouldn't affect the average user. All they did was piss off their customers before they recalled the chips anyway.
Some people never learn.
It is a bit misleading to call it an "Education Lottery". It would be more honest to call it a "Public School Lottery". At public schools they aren't going to give kids the math tools to understand why lotteries are a bad idea.
The revolution was mainly funded by issuing a continental currency that all the "patriots" were supposed to buy into and then devaluing that currency to zero within 3 years.
Someone in 1776 even offered to buy continental notes in bulk to use as wallpaper.