Everyone (including you) knows what people mean by "user replaceable battery": a battery than an ordinary user can replace. If you need spudgers, soldering irons, and skill to do it, then it's not user replaceable.
Yes, I understand.
You long for the days when you can charge more than one battery, and carry around more than one battery, and swap it out, so that you can go 15 days without a recharge, or you can watch 9 hours worth of movies on your flight to another country, without paying the extra $15 for them to turn on the plane's power jack at your seat.
Battery degradation in sealed battery devices is not an issue, unless you are frequently letting them run all the way down, or they are doing so because you are running badly behaved applications which constantly use power.
For yourself, and the tiny fractions of users like you, there are solutions available.
You are just unhappy with them, the same way that people who want to add storage to a cheaper device with less default storage are unhappy that, in order to use an SD card, you have to by a "camera adapter" cable-and-dongle kit.
If you want more battery life without having to pay to recharge, or where you are away from the power grid: buy yourself some battery bricks.
If you want to not run out your battery, quit running the badly behaved applications.
If you refuse to do either, then pay the airline the $15 and get the power wart-to-device cable for $35.
3%-5% of users will have "needs"... -- those are "finger quotes"... that aren't met by the devices on the market.
Bitching about that is not going to make the manufacturers make a design change to serve a tiny minority of the market, while making the user experience worse for everyone else.
If you want to be able to have your minority market device, get a manufacturer to build it, on the promise that you'll buy it at an higher price, because the volume sales are going to be 33x to 20x smaller than the majority of the market devices.
I hear both Blackberry and Nokia have relatively idle assembly lines, because the majority of the market doesn't want the devices they are building. So they are already in a position to build devices for a market minority, and pay the extra costs that happen when you can't get the big quantity price breaks on parts that you get from selling actually useful and popular devices instead.
I'm kind of tired of vocal people who obviously represent a tiny minority of market desire to put their money where their mouth is, spouting off as if everyone wants what they want.
"If you need a machine and don't buy it, you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it." -- Henry Ford
Or who subscribe to the idea that asking consumers what they want is the way to build products.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” -- Henry Ford
If your cell phone CPU can't eventually cause this problem, by drawing more current than it's possible for a worn out battery to provide, triggering a shutdown...
You probably own a Nokia "feature phone", and not a smart phone.
Other cell phone vendors have already stated that "Yes, we do the same thing".
Do you know one company with a sealed battery that's going to want a lawsuit against Apple about this to be successful?
That's an automatic precedent against them doing the same thing, as well.
This is a sizing issue of the original battery, where it can sustain voltage after a reasonable amount of use in the lifetime of the product. It is a DEFECT they were covering up.
Incorrect.
The issue is current draw, not the size/capacity of the battery.
In many cases, the battery has the same capacity as before. But if you are mining Bitcoin on your iPhone, or running badly written software, then it will be CPU intensive enough to draw more current than the battery can sustainably supply.
This issue is that the peak current demand by the CPU utilization for some apps is no longer sustainable.
Note that Apple throttles the CPU down all the time. What the change does is cause the CPU not to throttle up all the way, when it would draw too much current. There's actually no reason -- other than bad programming -- that you would need that much CPU power on a cell phone -- even one as nifty as an iPhone.
Hardly surprising, given the American education establishment's devotion to the "whole word" approach to teaching new readers.
Precisely.
I'm over 4X the "lifetime number", and my average is a book a day. This does not include any reading I do online, it counts only physical books, most of which are in various rooms throughout my house (or in many, many boxes).
If you lean "whole word", you do not recognize written versions of words you use in every day speech, if you've never been taught them, nor can you speak words which you've only ever encountered in written form.
This is a necessary consequence of learning words as ideograms, rather than phonectically, as syllables.
Do More People Use Firefox Than Edge and IE Combined?
Of course.
No one uses Edge and IE combined; they use Edge, or they use IE; in fact, they are impossible to combine into a single browser experience.
Note: FireFox is doing well at all because there are two popular WebGL game development platforms, whose favorite pig trick is to decide that WebGL isn't supported on anything but Firefox. If you hack the games, however, to remove the browser check, they run fine on Safari and Chrome.
So any popularity of Firefox, such as it is, can like be blamed on sites like onemoreleve.com, and the Firefox-only WebGL propaganda therein.
I was referring to just the circumstances of the GP post.
GP poster seems to believe that figuring out a correlation (dog connects throwing motion with ball to chase) is dumber than not making the connection (cat).
If I *actually* trow it, the cat chases.
If I *pretend* to throw it, it doesn't.
The dog doesn't get the fact that correlating a motion with a ball to chase is not necessarily indicative of an actual ball existing.
1. Pretend to throw a ball 2. Which one runs over to where you pretended to throw it? 3. Which one looks at your hand where the ball still is, as if to say "Do you *think* I'm a dumbass?"?
I would be very surprised if anything less than about 90% of the population has committed a felony at some point, possibly not even realising it. When I worked at the DOJ there was a stupid number of people in prison for shit they didnt even realise was a crime at the time.
Nah, it's more like you're being obnoxious. No one is saying that crime shouldn't be punished, that's a willfully obtuse straw man. The point is that if you're going to treat people as pariahs after their time has been served, you're just begging for more crime to be committed. You deny a convicted meth dealer any and all employment - just what do you think he's going to do to make a living, slick?
That's kind of the point: their time is never completely served; they're not allowed to vote, they're not allowed to own a gun.
And they could start their own business if they couldn't get a job.
This is because they always counted the number of API calls they succeed in handling, and then the one they failed at was "just that one".
So you always had "((N-1)/N * 100)% of calls worked!".
I have never seen that claim made by any Wine developer. Source please.
It's been that way since the early 1990's.
You's run something, it'd run until it fell over because Wine was not sufficiently implemented, and then it'd print fudged stats to encourage you to contribute code.
It's always been that way; did they take the stats out? Because they sure as heck were in there in 1993-1995 when I and some other FreeBSD folks were sending patches.
This is because they always counted the number of API calls they succeed in handling, and then the one they failed at was "just that one".
So you always had "((N-1)/N * 100)% of calls worked!".
To get you over that hump, you've always had to to go with a commercial version of WINE, like CrossOver, where they don't ever shove the final fixes back into the actual WINE code -- despite the GPL.
If the WINE guys are diligent, and go over the published GPL'ed code, and bring the changes back, that's fine, but... there's always this huge latency.
So from day one, they lied with statistics, and when something started running, then hey, that was great, but not everything was going to run.
Today, it's more disappointing, since unless you run older Windows programs, from older versions of Windows, things are back to broken.
When felons are released from custody, it is because it has been determined that it is safe for the public for them to be in public.
Sure.
To prevent them from being cabbies in addition to those restrictions is a bit over the top, in my opinion.
Colorado isn't fining a Taxi company; there are plenty of taxi drivers in Denver with felonies on their records: I know some. Colorado doesn't care enough to fine the companies that hired them as employees, and Uber drivers aren't even employees.
This is just a really thin excuse to pull $8.9M out of Uber, like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
"We actually had the hackers get into our system, and systematically start erasing programs and data,"
You shouldn't have had the hackers do that. That's like having your car stolen to commit insurance fraud. Instead, don't have the hackers do anything to your system.
P.S.: I had my house painted... when you "have/had" something done, it's something you solicited to be done.
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Everyone (including you) knows what people mean by "user replaceable battery": a battery than an ordinary user can replace. If you need spudgers, soldering irons, and skill to do it, then it's not user replaceable.
Yes, I understand.
You long for the days when you can charge more than one battery, and carry around more than one battery, and swap it out, so that you can go 15 days without a recharge, or you can watch 9 hours worth of movies on your flight to another country, without paying the extra $15 for them to turn on the plane's power jack at your seat.
Battery degradation in sealed battery devices is not an issue, unless you are frequently letting them run all the way down, or they are doing so because you are running badly behaved applications which constantly use power.
For yourself, and the tiny fractions of users like you, there are solutions available.
You are just unhappy with them, the same way that people who want to add storage to a cheaper device with less default storage are unhappy that, in order to use an SD card, you have to by a "camera adapter" cable-and-dongle kit.
If you want more battery life without having to pay to recharge, or where you are away from the power grid: buy yourself some battery bricks.
If you want to not run out your battery, quit running the badly behaved applications.
If you refuse to do either, then pay the airline the $15 and get the power wart-to-device cable for $35.
3%-5% of users will have "needs" ... -- those are "finger quotes" ... that aren't met by the devices on the market.
Bitching about that is not going to make the manufacturers make a design change to serve a tiny minority of the market, while making the user experience worse for everyone else.
If you want to be able to have your minority market device, get a manufacturer to build it, on the promise that you'll buy it at an higher price, because the volume sales are going to be 33x to 20x smaller than the majority of the market devices.
I hear both Blackberry and Nokia have relatively idle assembly lines, because the majority of the market doesn't want the devices they are building. So they are already in a position to build devices for a market minority, and pay the extra costs that happen when you can't get the big quantity price breaks on parts that you get from selling actually useful and popular devices instead.
I'm kind of tired of vocal people who obviously represent a tiny minority of market desire to put their money where their mouth is, spouting off as if everyone wants what they want.
"If you need a machine and don't buy it, you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it." -- Henry Ford
Or who subscribe to the idea that asking consumers what they want is the way to build products.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” -- Henry Ford
If your cell phone CPU can't eventually cause this problem, by drawing more current than it's possible for a worn out battery to provide, triggering a shutdown...
You probably own a Nokia "feature phone", and not a smart phone.
Other cell phone vendors have already stated that "Yes, we do the same thing".
Do you know one company with a sealed battery that's going to want a lawsuit against Apple about this to be successful?
That's an automatic precedent against them doing the same thing, as well.
The first "should" of this mess is: batteries should be user-replaceable.
They are.
Unless you are not a very technically competent user.
Then there's the Eastern European guy in the Mall kiosk who will do it for you with parts from stolen iPhones bought off eBay for about $50.
They should have issued a statement saying the code was written to extend the life of the battery and prevent reboots due to voltage drops.
That would have been lying.
Because the voltage doesn't drop; it's the current that drops.
The only people who would ever see it are people with very, very high CPU utilization.
Mostly the people who jailbreak their iPhone run a CPU benchmarks.
Apple had the choice between limiting current draw, allowing the phone to crash, or changing the laws of physics.
Well, we know if Steve were still in charge, it would have been option #3.
This is a sizing issue of the original battery, where it can sustain voltage after a reasonable amount of use in the lifetime of the product. It is a DEFECT they were covering up.
Incorrect.
The issue is current draw, not the size/capacity of the battery.
In many cases, the battery has the same capacity as before. But if you are mining Bitcoin on your iPhone, or running badly written software, then it will be CPU intensive enough to draw more current than the battery can sustainably supply.
This issue is that the peak current demand by the CPU utilization for some apps is no longer sustainable.
Note that Apple throttles the CPU down all the time. What the change does is cause the CPU not to throttle up all the way, when it would draw too much current.
There's actually no reason -- other than bad programming -- that you would need that much CPU power on a cell phone -- even one as nifty as an iPhone.
"I guess what this means is if you want your phone to still last a solid day in a year or two, better not buy Motorola!"
With Turbo Charging, who cares? I can top up in minutes, not hours.
Where do you plug in your charging cable in while camping? The back end of a bear?
So you are saying that the more young men who wear suicide vests in jihad, the more OK polygamy becomes?
Wouldn't this cause the leaders to call for jihad, so as to have more women for themselves?
Because I've never seen a jihadi leader actually wearing the vest...
Hardly surprising, given the American education establishment's devotion to the "whole word" approach to teaching new readers.
Precisely.
I'm over 4X the "lifetime number", and my average is a book a day. This does not include any reading I do online, it counts only physical books, most of which are in various rooms throughout my house (or in many, many boxes).
If you lean "whole word", you do not recognize written versions of words you use in every day speech, if you've never been taught them, nor can you speak words which you've only ever encountered in written form.
This is a necessary consequence of learning words as ideograms, rather than phonectically, as syllables.
Mobile phones by design broadcast their position all the time, with quite powerful signal and on a very specific band.
That would not be useful.
Who wants to monitor 100's of cell phones, all broadcasting "Help! I'm up someone's ass! Help! Help me!"?
Do More People Use Firefox Than Edge and IE Combined?
Of course.
No one uses Edge and IE combined; they use Edge, or they use IE; in fact, they are impossible to combine into a single browser experience.
Note: FireFox is doing well at all because there are two popular WebGL game development platforms, whose favorite pig trick is to decide that WebGL isn't supported on anything but Firefox. If you hack the games, however, to remove the browser check, they run fine on Safari and Chrome.
So any popularity of Firefox, such as it is, can like be blamed on sites like onemoreleve.com, and the Firefox-only WebGL propaganda therein.
All hail the Springfield Tire Fire!
Cryptocurrency embiggens us all! They're the most cromulent currency!
I was referring to just the circumstances of the GP post.
GP poster seems to believe that figuring out a correlation (dog connects throwing motion with ball to chase) is dumber than not making the connection (cat).
If I *actually* trow it, the cat chases.
If I *pretend* to throw it, it doesn't.
The dog doesn't get the fact that correlating a motion with a ball to chase is not necessarily indicative of an actual ball existing.
The cat does.
I do not have Internet Archives from 1994/1995.
Apparently no one does.
But neither do I have them from 1963, so JFK is still alive, right, because there's no documentation from the Internet of the time?
Definitive test...
1. Pretend to throw a ball
2. Which one runs over to where you pretended to throw it?
3. Which one looks at your hand where the ball still is, as if to say "Do you *think* I'm a dumbass?"?
That'll tell you who is smarter.
I would be very surprised if anything less than about 90% of the population has committed a felony at some point, possibly not even realising it. When I worked at the DOJ there was a stupid number of people in prison for shit they didnt even realise was a crime at the time.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Nah, it's more like you're being obnoxious. No one is saying that crime shouldn't be punished, that's a willfully obtuse straw man. The point is that if you're going to treat people as pariahs after their time has been served, you're just begging for more crime to be committed. You deny a convicted meth dealer any and all employment - just what do you think he's going to do to make a living, slick?
That's kind of the point: their time is never completely served; they're not allowed to vote, they're not allowed to own a gun.
And they could start their own business if they couldn't get a job.
They're not handling money for my business.
This is because they always counted the number of API calls they succeed in handling, and then the one they failed at was "just that one".
So you always had "((N-1)/N * 100)% of calls worked!".
I have never seen that claim made by any Wine developer. Source please.
It's been that way since the early 1990's.
You's run something, it'd run until it fell over because Wine was not sufficiently implemented, and then it'd print fudged stats to encourage you to contribute code.
It's always been that way; did they take the stats out? Because they sure as heck were in there in 1993-1995 when I and some other FreeBSD folks were sending patches.
WINE has always lived in the Bizarro Universe.
This is because they always counted the number of API calls they succeed in handling, and then the one they failed at was "just that one".
So you always had "((N-1)/N * 100)% of calls worked!".
To get you over that hump, you've always had to to go with a commercial version of WINE, like CrossOver, where they don't ever shove the final fixes back into the actual WINE code -- despite the GPL.
If the WINE guys are diligent, and go over the published GPL'ed code, and bring the changes back, that's fine, but... there's always this huge latency.
So from day one, they lied with statistics, and when something started running, then hey, that was great, but not everything was going to run.
Today, it's more disappointing, since unless you run older Windows programs, from older versions of Windows, things are back to broken.
And as long as society continues to treat anyone who made a mistake as a permanent criminal.. it won't change.
It's not like committing a felony is the same as Steve Urkel doing something, and then saying "Oops! Did I do THAT?".
Felonies generally do not occur as the result of a mistake. Intent is a large part of the requirement for most felony convictions.
Excuse me?
Again, they probably are not. You are punishing a whole set of the population because of your fear of the few.
In what universe, where Spock has a beard, is not being allowed to drive for Uber "punitive"?
When felons are released from custody, it is because it has been determined that it is safe for the public for them to be in public.
Sure.
To prevent them from being cabbies in addition to those restrictions is a bit over the top, in my opinion.
Colorado isn't fining a Taxi company; there are plenty of taxi drivers in Denver with felonies on their records: I know some. Colorado doesn't care enough to fine the companies that hired them as employees, and Uber drivers aren't even employees.
This is just a really thin excuse to pull $8.9M out of Uber, like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
Again, not all felons committed violent acts.
You're right.
Will you be the first to hand your credit card to pay for your Uber ride to Jeffrey Skilling, the former CEO of Enron?
Almost all non-violent felonies involve money... I would not hire these people to handle money.
Fixed that for you...
To me that sounds like a very miserable corner to back yourself into by committing a felony.
It's not like felonies are committed involuntarily.
Well, THERE'S your problem!
"We actually had the hackers get into our system, and systematically start erasing programs and data,"
You shouldn't have had the hackers do that. That's like having your car stolen to commit insurance fraud. Instead, don't have the hackers do anything to your system.
P.S.: I had my house painted... when you "have/had" something done, it's something you solicited to be done.