Out of every Apple product I've bought since around 2012, all but one has had to go back to the Apple store for serious service or replacement. That's multiple iPods, iPads, iPhones, MacBook Airs, and iMacs affected. Luckily Apple replaced them within the warranty period, but if that's the level of hardware quality I can expect from now on I think I'll just buy some cheap shit off AliBaba that won't make me feel like my wallet was just torpedoed when the device falls apart.
There are legitimate issues to be addressed regarding equality for women in the IT field, this is not it. Things like wage equality, equal employment representation, and paid maternity leave in the USA deserve real attention. This kind of SJW sensitivity at the cost of (mostly their own) sanity discredits serious feminist concerns and the only benefit is making the accuser feel better about themselves. Truly sad.
I can't wait for the price on this to come down. I did the calculation and to backup our DAS it will be almost $600, not to mention the cost of hosting it from that point forward in S3. The Kindle as a shipping label elicited a hearty guffaw, however.
Changing an Xbox chip to a lower sized process doesn't negatively impact things like battery life, which is an advertised spec on the iPhone. Even still, Xbox changes the model number when making hardware revisions, where as this iPhone and the similar issue with MacBook Airs a few years ago were not detectable by the hardware revision.
I've had so much trouble with Apple updates in the last couple years. I ended up stopping doing upgrades, completely. I'm still on Mavericks and iOS 7 and will remain here until these machines fall to pieces, at which point I'm just going to order something cheap on Alibaba and stick Linux on it. The whole point of buying these overpriced products is that they're supposed to "Just work." They just don't live up to the promise, anymore. Apple is looking more like Microsoft each day.
I've been saying for a number of years that semi trucks would be the first thing to convert over to autonomous driving. We'll see it there long before we see it widespread in passenger vehicles. Think of it simply: These are trucks that can (and most already do) drive at night when there are few people on the road, have very well-defined and easily known start and end points (vs. listening to a passenger describe a location or navigate an un-mapped driveway), would benefit in cost savings both from constant autonomous use AND the fact that you won't have to pay someone to do it (whereas passenger car drivers are working for free). Documenting loading bays for your business is a project that works at scale (and it's to determine the authoritative source of such information), whereas mapping everyone's driveway and personal parking spot does not (as we've seen with the crowd-sourced data contributed to Google Maps).
Autonomous cars are an interesting research project; but, until you see Paccar introduce autonomous trucks and start clocking some miles testing these things at night and at significant scale, it will remain a passenger vehicle pipe-dream.
It's true. I went through all the hoops trying to get Play Services to work properly with apps like Gmail and Google Maps on the Q10 and it just wouldn't work properly. Apps would constantly crash and I'd get errors that the Play Services Framework had stopped. It was ridiculous. I don't think it's asking too much to get the Play Store and all associated services working on their runtime, out of the box.
They would have been a lot smarter to have implemented Play Services or gotten their Android runtime Google Play certified so that it could run normal Google apps. That was really the main deciding factor for me to not get a Blackberry Passport---it simply won't run Google Play Services-dependent apps (though all other Android apps worked when sideloaded). Things that relied on Google Maps or any of the Google ID authentication failed to work, which is surprisingly a lot of apps. Simply improving their Android app runtime and getting that elusive Google Play store icon on their screen would have been a huge opportunity. So few BBRY users are even aware the Android runtime exists, so getting a direct Google Play store icon would be a huge a revelation to them.
This just seems like a desperate move on Apple's part.
1) It says to investors that existing buyers have dried up and they need to start looking at lower-income consumers to get their sales numbers up.
2) It says to their existing customers that Apple's products are no longer high-end and exclusive and are now something even the poorest of the poor can afford.
What do you think would happen to D&G or Gucci's brand if they suddenly started ADVERTISING that their bags are available for $1 a day? I mean, it's one thing to have in-store credit that's discreetly available; it's entirely another to advertise to the world that you're essentially a rent seeking consumer vampire.
Comparing the filming of private activities of a person to that of a recipient of public funds, or an organization responsible for public health, is extremely disingenuous.
The point isn't that slides are boring people, it's that slides create the impression that you're in the meeting to be entertained. If you can't pay attention and digest information from your field, try again.
I believe the point they are trying to make is that the PS3 is an aging platform that has very strange development requirements due to its hardware. It's odd that they can't get similarly good performance out of something that's the same commodity hardware as the performant Windows PC, when something so different (the PS3) works fine.
If you point out government waste or find out that the security practices required by the government contract were not met you can actually receive a % payment for the value of the difference won back in court. Try and work that route instead of just whistle-blowing. If you find the government was over-billed for services that weren't rendered (i.e. security) then you have a real case and there are official channels through which you can work.
This is a warning shot over the bow for Apple before the record industry tries to retaliate for the Beats/Apple Music subscription services' pay-out structure.
On what planet is Buzzfeed comparable to something like a television series?
This is like putting a farm chicken in a UFC tournament and then acting surprised that the prize fighter won.
Maybe compare television viewership, subscriptions, and ad sales broadcast via traditional means (i.e. cable) to television shows that are exclusively streamed via the internet (ala House of Cards, Community).
This is a non-story designed to make chump television advertisers feel like they aren't being conned.
If you think government abuses is something limited to a concern of the left then you a totally out of touch with reality and the libertarian wing of your own (assumed) party.
I find the assertion by this CEO that women are going to be aided by this because they are somehow not as effective as negotiators to be really offensive.
Amazon lets you cancel orders while they're being processed. You'll surely get an e-mail confirming the order and price shortly after pressing the button.
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Out of every Apple product I've bought since around 2012, all but one has had to go back to the Apple store for serious service or replacement. That's multiple iPods, iPads, iPhones, MacBook Airs, and iMacs affected. Luckily Apple replaced them within the warranty period, but if that's the level of hardware quality I can expect from now on I think I'll just buy some cheap shit off AliBaba that won't make me feel like my wallet was just torpedoed when the device falls apart.
There are legitimate issues to be addressed regarding equality for women in the IT field, this is not it. Things like wage equality, equal employment representation, and paid maternity leave in the USA deserve real attention. This kind of SJW sensitivity at the cost of (mostly their own) sanity discredits serious feminist concerns and the only benefit is making the accuser feel better about themselves. Truly sad.
I can't wait for the price on this to come down. I did the calculation and to backup our DAS it will be almost $600, not to mention the cost of hosting it from that point forward in S3. The Kindle as a shipping label elicited a hearty guffaw, however.
If it's anything like the iPhone I bought 2 years ago, it's 6-8 hours of being in Airplane mode while in standby in your pocket.
Changing an Xbox chip to a lower sized process doesn't negatively impact things like battery life, which is an advertised spec on the iPhone. Even still, Xbox changes the model number when making hardware revisions, where as this iPhone and the similar issue with MacBook Airs a few years ago were not detectable by the hardware revision.
Way to sign yourself up for a federal subpoena.
I've had so much trouble with Apple updates in the last couple years. I ended up stopping doing upgrades, completely. I'm still on Mavericks and iOS 7 and will remain here until these machines fall to pieces, at which point I'm just going to order something cheap on Alibaba and stick Linux on it. The whole point of buying these overpriced products is that they're supposed to "Just work." They just don't live up to the promise, anymore. Apple is looking more like Microsoft each day.
Where is this fabled 4 seat $20k electric car with 150km range that charges on a home outlet?? Me and a few million other people are dying to know.
I've been saying for a number of years that semi trucks would be the first thing to convert over to autonomous driving. We'll see it there long before we see it widespread in passenger vehicles. Think of it simply: These are trucks that can (and most already do) drive at night when there are few people on the road, have very well-defined and easily known start and end points (vs. listening to a passenger describe a location or navigate an un-mapped driveway), would benefit in cost savings both from constant autonomous use AND the fact that you won't have to pay someone to do it (whereas passenger car drivers are working for free). Documenting loading bays for your business is a project that works at scale (and it's to determine the authoritative source of such information), whereas mapping everyone's driveway and personal parking spot does not (as we've seen with the crowd-sourced data contributed to Google Maps).
Autonomous cars are an interesting research project; but, until you see Paccar introduce autonomous trucks and start clocking some miles testing these things at night and at significant scale, it will remain a passenger vehicle pipe-dream.
It's true. I went through all the hoops trying to get Play Services to work properly with apps like Gmail and Google Maps on the Q10 and it just wouldn't work properly. Apps would constantly crash and I'd get errors that the Play Services Framework had stopped. It was ridiculous. I don't think it's asking too much to get the Play Store and all associated services working on their runtime, out of the box.
They would have been a lot smarter to have implemented Play Services or gotten their Android runtime Google Play certified so that it could run normal Google apps. That was really the main deciding factor for me to not get a Blackberry Passport---it simply won't run Google Play Services-dependent apps (though all other Android apps worked when sideloaded). Things that relied on Google Maps or any of the Google ID authentication failed to work, which is surprisingly a lot of apps. Simply improving their Android app runtime and getting that elusive Google Play store icon on their screen would have been a huge opportunity. So few BBRY users are even aware the Android runtime exists, so getting a direct Google Play store icon would be a huge a revelation to them.
This just seems like a desperate move on Apple's part.
1) It says to investors that existing buyers have dried up and they need to start looking at lower-income consumers to get their sales numbers up.
2) It says to their existing customers that Apple's products are no longer high-end and exclusive and are now something even the poorest of the poor can afford.
What do you think would happen to D&G or Gucci's brand if they suddenly started ADVERTISING that their bags are available for $1 a day? I mean, it's one thing to have in-store credit that's discreetly available; it's entirely another to advertise to the world that you're essentially a rent seeking consumer vampire.
It's only a scam if you aren't using your membership. It's not like it's the gym's fault that people are lazy.
And I thought they were backpedaling on the Google+ integration, before...
Comparing the filming of private activities of a person to that of a recipient of public funds, or an organization responsible for public health, is extremely disingenuous.
The point isn't that slides are boring people, it's that slides create the impression that you're in the meeting to be entertained. If you can't pay attention and digest information from your field, try again.
I believe the point they are trying to make is that the PS3 is an aging platform that has very strange development requirements due to its hardware. It's odd that they can't get similarly good performance out of something that's the same commodity hardware as the performant Windows PC, when something so different (the PS3) works fine.
If you point out government waste or find out that the security practices required by the government contract were not met you can actually receive a % payment for the value of the difference won back in court. Try and work that route instead of just whistle-blowing. If you find the government was over-billed for services that weren't rendered (i.e. security) then you have a real case and there are official channels through which you can work.
This is a warning shot over the bow for Apple before the record industry tries to retaliate for the Beats/Apple Music subscription services' pay-out structure.
On what planet is Buzzfeed comparable to something like a television series?
This is like putting a farm chicken in a UFC tournament and then acting surprised that the prize fighter won.
Maybe compare television viewership, subscriptions, and ad sales broadcast via traditional means (i.e. cable) to television shows that are exclusively streamed via the internet (ala House of Cards, Community).
This is a non-story designed to make chump television advertisers feel like they aren't being conned.
I think your right in that it's also safe to say that the entire Windows Server ecosystem is going the way of .NET's decline.
If you think government abuses is something limited to a concern of the left then you a totally out of touch with reality and the libertarian wing of your own (assumed) party.
"'sides, I'd get fired for Clarksoning their UI team."
THIS.
I find the assertion by this CEO that women are going to be aided by this because they are somehow not as effective as negotiators to be really offensive.
Amazon lets you cancel orders while they're being processed. You'll surely get an e-mail confirming the order and price shortly after pressing the button.