You currently are on the bottom of the battery safety ladder. No one is going to listen to you now.
Yes, I know you think you've developed an industry-leading battery safety design and procedures, but maybe give it a little time and wait til you are closer to the top of the ladder before asking other companies to join in, and maybe you'll get a better response.
Some people don't care about Apple force-retiring certain things that personally don't affect them - 3.5" floppies, etc, and trot out the tired "oh well, that's progress for you." But there's a right and wrong way to do things like this. The alternatives to the audio jack stink.
What if iOS 11 deprecated phone calls? "Phone calls are a legacy feature with too much reliance on the cell phone companies. With our new and improved FaceTime and iMessage apps, you can more quickly communicate. Yes, these apps only works with other iOS devices, why do you ask?" Would these people care then? Or if Apple suddenly did away with the hardware mute toggle, since you can do the same thing (but much less conveniently) via software?
Re: The purpose of owning a Rolex is to make a statement: "I am better than you because I have so much money that I can spend thousands of dollars on a watch that doesn't tell time any better than a $25 Timex".
Oh, that's probably the intent, but the REAL statement is usually "I have a higher credit card balance than you, because I spend thousands of dollars on a watch."
Why would any country WANT to say goodbye permanently to a **tax-paying** citizen, before they're even dead? Keep the citizenry right here, under their thumb, paying taxes, working like oxen, til we drop dead. Colony on Mars? Less control.
Near my house is a section of roadway (a divided 4-lane) where the limit inexplicably drops from 55mph to 35mph for a half mile. Mind you, there are no curves, intersecting roads or any other "dangers." Guess where the cops set up to bust "speeders"?
There are those who simply don't happily comply with arbitrary rules when there is no logical reason for the rule, and I'm one of those people. If I'm rolling to a stop sign and can clearly see no oncoming cars (or the police), I'm going to roll right through. Why should I come to a stop? Because I feel like I'm doing my part to conform? Because I'm being told to do so? Because I'm only capable of checking for oncoming traffic at 0mph, rather than 3? I'm sure if the limit went from 55mph to 15 for no reason, there is a segment of the population who will gladly slow down to 15 with a smile on their face, simply because they are commanded to do so. Others, who prefer to think for themselves, check for cops and keep going.
Needless to say, speed traps have nothing to do with safety and everything to do with income.
I have a homemade MAME arcade machine, and an X360 running in 1080i. All I know is when company comes over, the X360 sits idle and the arcade machine doesn't.
Re: By sitting in line for a PS3, you're perhaps creating a slight advantage for yourself, but you are unoptimizing the situation for everyone else.
The whole point for these people is that they create a slight advantage for themselves. It's similar to people cutting around a traffic jam. They're a few cars ahead, which is all that matters to them. That everyone behind is now one car back doesn't concern them.
I was carrying a balance on a Citibank credit card, with auto-pay each month for about $100. A couple months ago I just pay the entire amount via check, thinking surely they wouldn't process the automatic payment when they see I paid myself. Well, they did, leaving me with a credit balance - which of course takes weeks to process. How hard would it be to check the balance right before processing the auto-pay to verify if there's still a balance on the account? This is assuming they're not doing it on purpose...
I guess if you're printing the photos billboard-sized, and stand 3 feet away to view them, you need this resolution. Otherwise it just eats up disk space. I'm a pro with 8 megapixel Canon 1D2N and 20D's, and with a top-end lens, 13x19 inch prints look fantastic. Heck, a billboard from my camera would look OK - if your viewing distance is a couple hundred feet.
I wish I could get my mac. I ordered the Mac Pro the day it was released, and the expected ship date is Sept 5. I don't understand why it takes a month to put in a non-standard video card, airport card, extra memory and hard drive. In actual labor time, a few minutes, so delaying delivery by a week, sure. A month is just insane.
There has to be either a moveable (or semi-transparent) mirror, or a semi-transparent prism. The whole point of an SLR is for both the sensor and optical viewfinder to have the same light path through the lens (through not necessarily simultaneously).
From article:
There are some caveats, according to Summet. Current camera-neutralizing technology may never work against single-lens-reflex cameras, which use a folding-mirror viewing system that effectively masks its CCD except when a photo is actually being taken.
I've used the Alpine connector since January, and like it. Just wish it didn't lock the iPod buttons - I can find a song using the ipod interface a lot faster than through the head unit. But the sound quality, and the ipod charging features are great.
My #1 most hated gaming "feature" is the rubber-banding that occurs in racing games. I hate being in the lead by 1/2 lap on the final lap, drive perfectly and STILL be surrounded by cars at the finish line. Yes, I know this is meant to add excitement to the finish, but if I drive well enough to have an insurmountable lead entering the final lap, dammit, let me enjoy it!!
Note that this simply means they're encrypting the "starting point" for the white balance. You can use Photoshop, etc to alter the white balance legally - Photoshop just won't know what the initial value was. Not that I approve of this - I've got $5000+ in Canon gear and I'd be pissed if Canon pulled this this nonsense.
I believe we're slowly becoming a nation (world?) completely driven by prices at the expense of quality. I continuous hear things like "Why did he buy a Lexus for $50,000 when a new Hyundai is $15,000?" "This CD-R is $.10 each, this one is $.09. Why would anyone buy the $0.10 one?" People don't always get there's more to a product's specs than the price.
I can't stand dead pixels, and I really can't stand manufacturers saying it's normal. It's like if I went to buy a car, and the car already had a scratch on the fender before I even got it. The dealer saying "Oh, there's a lot of paint, it won't affect the operation of the car. Cars get scratched a lot. You'll take this car with the scratch and like it."
An Apple store opened in my town last Friday - part of a large outdoor mall. The entire mall opened Friday, in fact, so it was quite busy with the sight-see-ers. Out of perhaps 50 stores, only two had lines to get in - Cheesecake Factory restaurant of perhaps 70 people in line, and the Apple store with about 40. True, they were giving away a t-shirt, but other stores were as well. I have a newish Powerbook and an oldist Power mac, but even I'm not die-hard enough to stand in a long line just to get into the store - uh-oh, maybe I shouldn't have said this in public, I might get thrown out of the brotherhood!!!
That's what I was thinking. If I want to record more than an hour at best (only) quality with my DV camcorder, I bring along another tape at about $7/ea. If I want more than an hour at best quality with this thing (like at an event), I either need to lug along something to dump it to, or shell out another $200 for a second 4GB microdrive (and hope I don't need a third)...
As a long-time Photoshop user, I couldn't live without dual monitors. I use an LCD as my primary, and have a calibrated Lacie 19" CRT as a secondary. The only thing the CRT is used for is working on images - all the palettes and everything else is left on the LCD.
The last PC game I was majorly in to, and I mean MAJORLY, was Falcon 4. In this game, an entire war was being simulated. How you performed your missions had a bearing on how well the entire war went, to a degree. If I recall correctly, you could set your own mission, like a bombing mission on one of their long-range search radars. This would hamper their intel thereafter if you are successful. Or an airfield, a supply line, etc.
Is this considered an open-ended game?
You must not have followed the story's link to the huge automated garage in Istanbul. The picture clearly shows no floor between the levels - you can see the undersides of the cars on all the levels (unless the floor's made out of glass which wouldn't make much sense).
I believe you're missing the whole point of science. Using and applying science is not a free ticket to instant, complete understanding of the entire universe. It's a technique of, *over time*, increasing our understanding. Your argument is that since we don't know everything, we therefore know nothing.
We come up with a theory. As long as experiments and observations agree with that theory, we keep it around. When they don't, we come up with a new, better theory that does. Do we know everything? Of course not - that's ridiculous to even consider. Do we have a better understanding of the universe now than 1000 years ago? If you compare how the accepted theories from then and now agree with our experiments/observations, yes - we have a more accurate understanding now than then.
Do you drive the absolute cheapest car you can find? Buy the cheapest house? Get the cheapest video card and monitor? For some of us, Apple is higher quality than Wintel, and we're more than willing to pay more for it.
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You currently are on the bottom of the battery safety ladder. No one is going to listen to you now.
Yes, I know you think you've developed an industry-leading battery safety design and procedures, but maybe give it a little time and wait til you are closer to the top of the ladder before asking other companies to join in, and maybe you'll get a better response.
Some people don't care about Apple force-retiring certain things that personally don't affect them - 3.5" floppies, etc, and trot out the tired "oh well, that's progress for you." But there's a right and wrong way to do things like this. The alternatives to the audio jack stink.
What if iOS 11 deprecated phone calls? "Phone calls are a legacy feature with too much reliance on the cell phone companies. With our new and improved FaceTime and iMessage apps, you can more quickly communicate. Yes, these apps only works with other iOS devices, why do you ask?" Would these people care then? Or if Apple suddenly did away with the hardware mute toggle, since you can do the same thing (but much less conveniently) via software?
Re: The purpose of owning a Rolex is to make a statement: "I am better than you because I have so much money that I can spend thousands of dollars on a watch that doesn't tell time any better than a $25 Timex".
Oh, that's probably the intent, but the REAL statement is usually "I have a higher credit card balance than you, because I spend thousands of dollars on a watch."
Why would any country WANT to say goodbye permanently to a **tax-paying** citizen, before they're even dead? Keep the citizenry right here, under their thumb, paying taxes, working like oxen, til we drop dead. Colony on Mars? Less control.
Karma be damned...
Near my house is a section of roadway (a divided 4-lane) where the limit inexplicably drops from 55mph to 35mph for a half mile. Mind you, there are no curves, intersecting roads or any other "dangers." Guess where the cops set up to bust "speeders"?
There are those who simply don't happily comply with arbitrary rules when there is no logical reason for the rule, and I'm one of those people. If I'm rolling to a stop sign and can clearly see no oncoming cars (or the police), I'm going to roll right through. Why should I come to a stop? Because I feel like I'm doing my part to conform? Because I'm being told to do so? Because I'm only capable of checking for oncoming traffic at 0mph, rather than 3? I'm sure if the limit went from 55mph to 15 for no reason, there is a segment of the population who will gladly slow down to 15 with a smile on their face, simply because they are commanded to do so. Others, who prefer to think for themselves, check for cops and keep going.
Needless to say, speed traps have nothing to do with safety and everything to do with income.
I have a homemade MAME arcade machine, and an X360 running in 1080i. All I know is when company comes over, the X360 sits idle and the arcade machine doesn't.
Re: By sitting in line for a PS3, you're perhaps creating a slight advantage for yourself, but you are unoptimizing the situation for everyone else.
The whole point for these people is that they create a slight advantage for themselves. It's similar to people cutting around a traffic jam. They're a few cars ahead, which is all that matters to them. That everyone behind is now one car back doesn't concern them.
I was carrying a balance on a Citibank credit card, with auto-pay each month for about $100. A couple months ago I just pay the entire amount via check, thinking surely they wouldn't process the automatic payment when they see I paid myself. Well, they did, leaving me with a credit balance - which of course takes weeks to process. How hard would it be to check the balance right before processing the auto-pay to verify if there's still a balance on the account? This is assuming they're not doing it on purpose...
I guess if you're printing the photos billboard-sized, and stand 3 feet away to view them, you need this resolution. Otherwise it just eats up disk space. I'm a pro with 8 megapixel Canon 1D2N and 20D's, and with a top-end lens, 13x19 inch prints look fantastic. Heck, a billboard from my camera would look OK - if your viewing distance is a couple hundred feet.
I wish I could get my mac. I ordered the Mac Pro the day it was released, and the expected ship date is Sept 5. I don't understand why it takes a month to put in a non-standard video card, airport card, extra memory and hard drive. In actual labor time, a few minutes, so delaying delivery by a week, sure. A month is just insane.
From article:
I've used the Alpine connector since January, and like it. Just wish it didn't lock the iPod buttons - I can find a song using the ipod interface a lot faster than through the head unit. But the sound quality, and the ipod charging features are great.
My #1 most hated gaming "feature" is the rubber-banding that occurs in racing games. I hate being in the lead by 1/2 lap on the final lap, drive perfectly and STILL be surrounded by cars at the finish line. Yes, I know this is meant to add excitement to the finish, but if I drive well enough to have an insurmountable lead entering the final lap, dammit, let me enjoy it!!
Note that this simply means they're encrypting the "starting point" for the white balance. You can use Photoshop, etc to alter the white balance legally - Photoshop just won't know what the initial value was. Not that I approve of this - I've got $5000+ in Canon gear and I'd be pissed if Canon pulled this this nonsense.
I believe we're slowly becoming a nation (world?) completely driven by prices at the expense of quality. I continuous hear things like "Why did he buy a Lexus for $50,000 when a new Hyundai is $15,000?" "This CD-R is $.10 each, this one is $.09. Why would anyone buy the $0.10 one?" People don't always get there's more to a product's specs than the price.
I can't stand dead pixels, and I really can't stand manufacturers saying it's normal. It's like if I went to buy a car, and the car already had a scratch on the fender before I even got it. The dealer saying "Oh, there's a lot of paint, it won't affect the operation of the car. Cars get scratched a lot. You'll take this car with the scratch and like it."
An Apple store opened in my town last Friday - part of a large outdoor mall. The entire mall opened Friday, in fact, so it was quite busy with the sight-see-ers. Out of perhaps 50 stores, only two had lines to get in - Cheesecake Factory restaurant of perhaps 70 people in line, and the Apple store with about 40. True, they were giving away a t-shirt, but other stores were as well. I have a newish Powerbook and an oldist Power mac, but even I'm not die-hard enough to stand in a long line just to get into the store - uh-oh, maybe I shouldn't have said this in public, I might get thrown out of the brotherhood!!!
That's what I was thinking. If I want to record more than an hour at best (only) quality with my DV camcorder, I bring along another tape at about $7/ea. If I want more than an hour at best quality with this thing (like at an event), I either need to lug along something to dump it to, or shell out another $200 for a second 4GB microdrive (and hope I don't need a third)...
As a long-time Photoshop user, I couldn't live without dual monitors. I use an LCD as my primary, and have a calibrated Lacie 19" CRT as a secondary. The only thing the CRT is used for is working on images - all the palettes and everything else is left on the LCD.
The last PC game I was majorly in to, and I mean MAJORLY, was Falcon 4. In this game, an entire war was being simulated. How you performed your missions had a bearing on how well the entire war went, to a degree. If I recall correctly, you could set your own mission, like a bombing mission on one of their long-range search radars. This would hamper their intel thereafter if you are successful. Or an airfield, a supply line, etc. Is this considered an open-ended game?
You must not have followed the story's link to the huge automated garage in Istanbul. The picture clearly shows no floor between the levels - you can see the undersides of the cars on all the levels (unless the floor's made out of glass which wouldn't make much sense).
I believe you're missing the whole point of science. Using and applying science is not a free ticket to instant, complete understanding of the entire universe. It's a technique of, *over time*, increasing our understanding. Your argument is that since we don't know everything, we therefore know nothing. We come up with a theory. As long as experiments and observations agree with that theory, we keep it around. When they don't, we come up with a new, better theory that does. Do we know everything? Of course not - that's ridiculous to even consider. Do we have a better understanding of the universe now than 1000 years ago? If you compare how the accepted theories from then and now agree with our experiments/observations, yes - we have a more accurate understanding now than then.
Check out http://www.apple.com/applescript/ - they've got some example scripts in there.
Do you drive the absolute cheapest car you can find? Buy the cheapest house? Get the cheapest video card and monitor? For some of us, Apple is higher quality than Wintel, and we're more than willing to pay more for it.
and are a "tiget in a cage." His company is marketing a competitor to Lithium-Ion!