You do know that the flu vaccine is efficient, right? It's just not efficient against all three strands of the flu and they try to guess which one will be the dominant one each year. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes not, but at least there's a chance of protection.
It is not even effective against a single major strain, but often only againt the exact mutation it has that year, because the flu is constantly changing to avoid our immune systems to become permanentiy immune to the flu, and the vaccines haven't found a truly effective way of getting around that yet.
There is a typo in the headline. It should read: "A Feature in FaceTime Allows One To Access Someone's iPhone Camera And Microphone"
That is why smartphones should never be tolerated in the same room as anything confidential is discussed. Even if this wasn't a "flaw" in Apples own software, it could have been a "flaw" in any number of apps.
Obviously you've never used an ad blocker on YouTube, because I concur with the above poster. I don't have any ads on my YouTube.
Not even the ads inserted into content? I would love see an ad-blocker block those. Almost all the regular updated streams have switched to in-content ads, because they didn't get enough money from the regular ads.
There is a standard. You have to look for the official USB logo on the periphirals. If it is not there, it is not a real certified USB cable or device.
That said. I had loads of trouble finding just official USB-C cables, when I lost on a holiday. The electronic stores are basically selling only non-standard "USB-C compatible" crap that isn't certified.
Not anymore. Microsoft joined the patent pool, so there are no longer any patent fees to Microsoft for stuff implemented in the Linux kernel, like exFat etc.
This is a widespread misunderstanding.
exFAT is NOT implemented in the official kernel, precisely because of those patents. It is NOT covered by the patent pledge. Microsoft joining the patent pool gave them all the protections of the pool but their most precious patents were kept out.
Classic Microsoft move.
The exFAT patents have expired many places though, and are about to expire in the rest of the world.
USB-C does not prevent that. There is no reason USB-C headphones cannot be the universal interface you desire. Bear in mind that 3.5mm jacks aren't universal either and they are FAR more limited in capabilities. And you can adapt back to 3.5mm jacks if you are so inclined.
the USB standard has already failed here. The fact is that there are already USB-C headphones that work on some devices and not on others. There are USB-C dongles that work for some phones and not others.
this isn't because they're not following the standard (at least that's not the only reason) - it's because the standard setters didn't start with the goal 'Every USB C Headphone will handle audio reliably in every device that outputs audio'
Actually the standard says that. The problem is the standard is stupid. It says any USB audio device, must be able to handle both digital and analog signals, but that makes the analog mode pointless and would require active adapters in the simple dongles. That is stupid so manufacturers are not doing it. And consumers aren't looking for the USB-certified stamp of approval anyway, most USB-C cables and devices in fact have no such certification.
Why are they unable to create their own popular online shop?
For that matter, the entire EU seems to be lacking a proper Amazon competitor. I am genuinely puzzled as to why this is the case. There are some bright minds posting on Slashdot - does anybody have a theory for why Europe cannot seem to come up with their own online shopping portal?
Amazon have multiple branches in Europe made of up entire European companies they bought out for competing against them. Being headquatered and registered in Europe, what makes you thing Amazon Europe is in anyway American?
I can watch full HD with a desktop browser on a cpu without encryption. Only 4K content seems to demand OS and hardware support for "trusted" computing.
I live in a country with ad-free public radio (Canada).
Nevertheless, the grandparent is correct - The vast majority of FM radio is ad-supported - Only three channels on my FM dial are public, and one of those is in a language I don't speak (French).
True, but if it is anything like Europe, those ad-supported stations have an order of magnitude fewer ads than American radio stations since they have to compete with those few ad-free stations. Which makes them much more sufferable. Plus everybody listens to the public ones anyway as they have been content.
This sounds like maybe a Mac only issue? I've always noticed Mac colors look washed out and low contrast at the high intensity end. Something about the gamma difference, like it's higher than on Windows/Linux.
No, in the general the colors should be the same. But text rendering is significantly worse on Mac than any other platform if you don't have a high-dpi screen, and text will always look washed out as a result.
Though if you have a recent iMac Pro, it has a DisplayP3 display, and if applications does something wrong internally and assumes sRGB, that can also end up losing contrast.
The cellular data feature is bricked because resetting doesn't work. That is what bricked means. That the device or feature is not just broken but completely non-functional and not user repairable.
Overvalued doesn't mean bubble. If the investors overpaying are fans and not just mistaken. The overevalution is unlikely to burst, and thus the overevalution isn't a bubble (a bubble is an overevalution that bursts)
Short-selling doesn't help against bubbles. And cheer leaders buying stocks doesn't make the price more invalid, things are worth what people are willing to pay for it. The existance of many Apple fans, means they can charge more for their products, but it doesn't make the price invalid, just a bit overpriced for non-fans. The same applies to stocks. If people are willing to invest it in a company beyond traditional metrics it just make the stocks a worse investment for standard investors, but has nothing to do with a buble. If anything fans products products and stocks against volatility by provding a base consumer base not reacting to traditional business numbers.
In Europe everything is delivered in 2 days no matter the shipping options. Amazon started waiting 2 days before even shipping to make sure non-prime goods only arrive after 3 days. Before then prime was entirely pointless except as a video service.
Escalators are for walking, they are most efficient when everyone walks on them, which fortunately is not that uncommon in Scandinavia. Cows that doesn't walk keep to right, so they can be passed.
I get the gripe with the five sentence, five paragraph essay. Had it shoved down my throat in school. But isn't the point to break up ideas into logical blocks?
That's the point of emphasis that's missing. How many sentences you use in a paragraph or how many blocks of ideas you need to argue your point is irrelevant.
There's nothing wrong with the 5 paragraph essay- as long as that isn't the only writing construction taught. Saying the 5 paragraph essay is bad is like saying a Toyota Camry is bad because it can't tow a boat. It is good that students be taught different styles of construction.
No it is like saying a go-cart is bad, because it is useless. The challenged raised was: Is there ANYTHING the 5 paragraph essay is good for. So far I haven't heard anything. It is an intermediate step at best before writing something useful.
You don't need new maps to go where you were already going, and if you take people somewhere else, it is nothing to do with ride-sharing, but is a just gypsy taxi service
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You do know that the flu vaccine is efficient, right? It's just not efficient against all three strands of the flu and they try to guess which one will be the dominant one each year. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes not, but at least there's a chance of protection.
It is not even effective against a single major strain, but often only againt the exact mutation it has that year, because the flu is constantly changing to avoid our immune systems to become permanentiy immune to the flu, and the vaccines haven't found a truly effective way of getting around that yet.
There is a typo in the headline. It should read: "A Feature in FaceTime Allows One To Access Someone's iPhone Camera And Microphone"
That is why smartphones should never be tolerated in the same room as anything confidential is discussed. Even if this wasn't a "flaw" in Apples own software, it could have been a "flaw" in any number of apps.
Obviously you've never used an ad blocker on YouTube, because I concur with the above poster. I don't have any ads on my YouTube.
Not even the ads inserted into content? I would love see an ad-blocker block those. Almost all the regular updated streams have switched to in-content ads, because they didn't get enough money from the regular ads.
What kind of parallel rich boy universe do you live in where a typical car costs 60k??
Last time we checked the Greeks were broke.
They have finally recovered last year.
There is a standard. You have to look for the official USB logo on the periphirals. If it is not there, it is not a real certified USB cable or device.
That said. I had loads of trouble finding just official USB-C cables, when I lost on a holiday. The electronic stores are basically selling only non-standard "USB-C compatible" crap that isn't certified.
Not anymore. Microsoft joined the patent pool, so there are no longer any patent fees to Microsoft for stuff implemented in the Linux kernel, like exFat etc.
This is a widespread misunderstanding.
exFAT is NOT implemented in the official kernel, precisely because of those patents. It is NOT covered by the patent pledge. Microsoft joining the patent pool gave them all the protections of the pool but their most precious patents were kept out.
Classic Microsoft move.
The exFAT patents have expired many places though, and are about to expire in the rest of the world.
USB-C does not prevent that. There is no reason USB-C headphones cannot be the universal interface you desire. Bear in mind that 3.5mm jacks aren't universal either and they are FAR more limited in capabilities. And you can adapt back to 3.5mm jacks if you are so inclined.
the USB standard has already failed here. The fact is that there are already USB-C headphones that work on some devices and not on others.
There are USB-C dongles that work for some phones and not others.
this isn't because they're not following the standard (at least that's not the only reason) - it's because the standard setters didn't start with the goal 'Every USB C Headphone will handle audio reliably in every device that outputs audio'
Actually the standard says that. The problem is the standard is stupid. It says any USB audio device, must be able to handle both digital and analog signals, but that makes the analog mode pointless and would require active adapters in the simple dongles. That is stupid so manufacturers are not doing it. And consumers aren't looking for the USB-certified stamp of approval anyway, most USB-C cables and devices in fact have no such certification.
Why are they unable to create their own popular online shop?
For that matter, the entire EU seems to be lacking a proper Amazon competitor. I am genuinely puzzled as to why this is the case. There are some bright minds posting on Slashdot - does anybody have a theory for why Europe cannot seem to come up with their own online shopping portal?
Amazon have multiple branches in Europe made of up entire European companies they bought out for competing against them. Being headquatered and registered in Europe, what makes you thing Amazon Europe is in anyway American?
Yeah, good riddance.
I can watch full HD with a desktop browser on a cpu without encryption. Only 4K content seems to demand OS and hardware support for "trusted" computing.
>> The vast majority of FM radio is ads 24/7
> Not in countries with ad-free public radio.
I live in a country with ad-free public radio (Canada).
Nevertheless, the grandparent is correct - The vast majority of FM radio is ad-supported - Only three channels on my FM dial are public, and one of those is in a language I don't speak (French).
True, but if it is anything like Europe, those ad-supported stations have an order of magnitude fewer ads than American radio stations since they have to compete with those few ad-free stations. Which makes them much more sufferable. Plus everybody listens to the public ones anyway as they have been content.
This sounds like maybe a Mac only issue? I've always noticed Mac colors look washed out and low contrast at the high intensity end. Something about the gamma difference, like it's higher than on Windows/Linux.
No, in the general the colors should be the same. But text rendering is significantly worse on Mac than any other platform if you don't have a high-dpi screen, and text will always look washed out as a result.
Though if you have a recent iMac Pro, it has a DisplayP3 display, and if applications does something wrong internally and assumes sRGB, that can also end up losing contrast.
The vast majority of FM radio is ads 24/7. Even the music is ads for the albums the songs are on.
Not in countries with ad-free public radio.
Bricking a feature means the same as bricking a device. That it is completely non-functional and not user repairable or user revertable.
The cellular data feature is bricked because resetting doesn't work. That is what bricked means. That the device or feature is not just broken but completely non-functional and not user repairable.
Sounds like classic Slashdot to me
Overvalued doesn't mean bubble. If the investors overpaying are fans and not just mistaken. The overevalution is unlikely to burst, and thus the overevalution isn't a bubble (a bubble is an overevalution that bursts)
Sounds like a rip off, Euro stores sells packs of 10 for a â
.. fans protects products against...
Short-selling doesn't help against bubbles. And cheer leaders buying stocks doesn't make the price more invalid, things are worth what people are willing to pay for it. The existance of many Apple fans, means they can charge more for their products, but it doesn't make the price invalid, just a bit overpriced for non-fans. The same applies to stocks. If people are willing to invest it in a company beyond traditional metrics it just make the stocks a worse investment for standard investors, but has nothing to do with a buble. If anything fans products products and stocks against volatility by provding a base consumer base not reacting to traditional business numbers.
In Europe everything is delivered in 2 days no matter the shipping options. Amazon started waiting 2 days before even shipping to make sure non-prime goods only arrive after 3 days. Before then prime was entirely pointless except as a video service.
Escalators are for walking, they are most efficient when everyone walks on them, which fortunately is not that uncommon in Scandinavia. Cows that doesn't walk keep to right, so they can be passed.
I get the gripe with the five sentence, five paragraph essay. Had it shoved down my throat in school. But isn't the point to break up ideas into logical blocks?
That's the point of emphasis that's missing. How many sentences you use in a paragraph or how many blocks of ideas you need to argue your point is irrelevant.
There's nothing wrong with the 5 paragraph essay- as long as that isn't the only writing construction taught. Saying the 5 paragraph essay is bad is like saying a Toyota Camry is bad because it can't tow a boat. It is good that students be taught different styles of construction.
No it is like saying a go-cart is bad, because it is useless. The challenged raised was: Is there ANYTHING the 5 paragraph essay is good for. So far I haven't heard anything. It is an intermediate step at best before writing something useful.
You don't need new maps to go where you were already going, and if you take people somewhere else, it is nothing to do with ride-sharing, but is a just gypsy taxi service