If you've failed to see, then you haven't looked. Prius batteries are warrantied for 10 years. Full parts and labour if they fail. Most last longer than that.
Priuses used as taxies tend to be replaced after 300,000 miles, and they don't need a battery replacement in that time.
Basically, car batteries have roughly the lifespan of an internal combustion engine.
The used Tesla prices will respond to demand. If there's not enough demand at those prices, they lower the prices. If there's a glut of used cars to sell (like the ex-leased ones that will come along before long), then the price will be lowered. The initial high prices probably reflect the fact that there aren't many used Teslas as yet.
The three people at work that have bought Apple Watches so far are all over 50. Is there an age limit on this hipster thing? They're also married with kids. Still hipsters?
I just need to be clear on this point, so I can tell them one way or the other.
You really like showing yourself up as a fucking idiot that doesn't understand computers. Nothing in the article says they couldn't open PDF files. Nor even that they use PDF files. It says the airline's app crashed.
Given that lots of them crashed at the same time, the chances are that a web service they connect to went down, and they hadn't accounted for it in their programming. With a smaller possibility that they were doing something in the app based on the clock time. Either way absolutely nothing to do with the mobile OS.
For sure. Not to be replaced by a different email address. But because email is being replaced by a variety of better and problem specific technologies. For example once teams use Slack, they never go back to email for internal use.
Is search going to go away?
Yahoo, Lycos, Webcrawler, they all had their time at the top, before being replaced by something better.
What about google drive? That's a for-pay system (the 100 gigs for $2 a month) is that going away?
The cloud is highly competitive, and Google is not the market leader. Amazon is.
Because people have been saying Microsoft is dead - for years now.
And they're right. Sure they're still trading, but they are a shadow of the titan that used to lead the industry where-ever it wanted.
And how about Nokia. Again, still trading. But having sold off the handset business that was the only part of the company most people had heard of. Industry titan a decade ago, now nothing.
Somehow I think the core of google is going to be around for a long time.
Don't think anybody's disagreeing with that. It just that it's started on a journey into irrelevance.
I see Yahoo as a closer parallel. They too were the go-to portal to the rest of the web. And everything they tried after that just made people think less of them. They still exist, but nobody cares.
Actually, the App Store wasn't even in the works - Apple really did insist people write web-apps if they wanted to extend the iPhone. It's why Apple released Safari for Windows (so Windows devs could test their web apps), why Apple went to add HTML5 extensions to access the sensors (accelerometer), touchscreen, and camera, etc.
It was only after seeing the devs cry for a native SDK AND seeing the jailbreak community with their own "app store" that Apple realized there might be potential.
That's the way it would appear if you simply strung Apple's public announcements in sequence to assemble the story. But of course what Apple are actually developing in-house is generally secret. Especially then, when SJ was alive. But from comments from various ex-Apple engineers when they talk on blogs, it seems perfectly clear that iOS was put together with an eye to internal use in order to get iPhone to ship, then work started on cleaning up the APIs and creating a public SDK straight after. The "Sweet solution" of web apps for iPhone was simply a holding position when the native SDK was too far away to announce at WWDC.
You're probably right that very few would bother to check what sweetner was used in a diet drink. But I've heard lots of people say they won't drink diet drinks because "Aspertame causes cancer" or just "Diet Pepsi is bad for you." With the implicit assumption that sugar is a natural product and therefore does you no harm. Despite the fact that sugar is actually one of the primary causes of sickness these days though complications of obesity and other effects.
How is that actually supposed to work, though? Does the Apple Watch make people walk so much they gain weight?
As pointed out elsewhere you're off-topic. You're confusing ResearchKit with HealthKit and/or the Health app. But yes, one of the health app's functions is to encourage more activity such as walking, by feeding back how much activity you've done today against a target you've chosen. It's not a new idea, pedometers let you do this. But it looks to be a good implementation of it.
He can live in a cave if he likes, and really enjoy technology free living. Nothing wrong with that. But if I does, he shouldn't about his opinion of which hotel chain is better.
Difference is Apple had sales of about a million watches in the first day, just in the USA alone. The only reason for this lottery at all is that general sale of is sold out till June at least.
By contrast Google Glass, over what, 18 months, perhaps sold a few hundred Google Glasses. I'd be very surprised if Apple didn't sell more $10,000 Edition Watches in the first day than Google ever sold Glasses.
They already hold a lottery for WWDC, as it is far more popular than the number of people they can actually hold in the largest venue. And that too is a lottery to get the chance to purchase. So it's not a new thing.
I have no idea how they choose who to send these to, as I'm an iOS developer working on an Apple Watch compatible app and I didn't get one.
Probably by some function of the number of apps they have on the store and the number of sales of those apps. That would cut out all the people who aren't actual developers, that nevertheless have developer accounts. And it would be a decent stab at prioritising those more likely to ship something that people want to buy.
Neither do I. But for site I use everyday, I'll take the app in preference to the mobile website every time.
And no, full (non responsive) websites are certainly not better than mobile ones when you are on a phone. They mean that either the text is too small to read and the buttons and links to small to press, or you have to constantly scroll left and right as well as up and down.
It depends. If it's a site I use a lot, then I welcome an app. They are invariably better in every way than a mobile site. But if it's a site you're only using casually, you certainly don't want an app.
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Now I feel left out, the Commodore PET's we had in school did not have mice, or hard drives, or usb. Just a keyboard and a 5.25" floppy drive. :(
You were lucky. Our schools two Commodore PETs had only cassette decks.
If you've failed to see, then you haven't looked.
Prius batteries are warrantied for 10 years. Full parts and labour if they fail. Most last longer than that.
Priuses used as taxies tend to be replaced after 300,000 miles, and they don't need a battery replacement in that time.
Basically, car batteries have roughly the lifespan of an internal combustion engine.
The used Tesla prices will respond to demand. If there's not enough demand at those prices, they lower the prices. If there's a glut of used cars to sell (like the ex-leased ones that will come along before long), then the price will be lowered. The initial high prices probably reflect the fact that there aren't many used Teslas as yet.
The three people at work that have bought Apple Watches so far are all over 50. Is there an age limit on this hipster thing? They're also married with kids. Still hipsters?
I just need to be clear on this point, so I can tell them one way or the other.
You really like showing yourself up as a fucking idiot that doesn't understand computers. Nothing in the article says they couldn't open PDF files. Nor even that they use PDF files. It says the airline's app crashed.
Given that lots of them crashed at the same time, the chances are that a web service they connect to went down, and they hadn't accounted for it in their programming. With a smaller possibility that they were doing something in the app based on the clock time. Either way absolutely nothing to do with the mobile OS.
Is GMAIL going to go away?
For sure. Not to be replaced by a different email address. But because email is being replaced by a variety of better and problem specific technologies. For example once teams use Slack, they never go back to email for internal use.
Is search going to go away?
Yahoo, Lycos, Webcrawler, they all had their time at the top, before being replaced by something better.
What about google drive? That's a for-pay system (the 100 gigs for $2 a month) is that going away?
The cloud is highly competitive, and Google is not the market leader. Amazon is.
Because people have been saying Microsoft is dead - for years now.
And they're right. Sure they're still trading, but they are a shadow of the titan that used to lead the industry where-ever it wanted.
And how about Nokia. Again, still trading. But having sold off the handset business that was the only part of the company most people had heard of. Industry titan a decade ago, now nothing.
Somehow I think the core of google is going to be around for a long time.
Don't think anybody's disagreeing with that. It just that it's started on a journey into irrelevance.
I see Yahoo as a closer parallel. They too were the go-to portal to the rest of the web. And everything they tried after that just made people think less of them. They still exist, but nobody cares.
Actually, the App Store wasn't even in the works - Apple really did insist people write web-apps if they wanted to extend the iPhone. It's why Apple released Safari for Windows (so Windows devs could test their web apps), why Apple went to add HTML5 extensions to access the sensors (accelerometer), touchscreen, and camera, etc.
It was only after seeing the devs cry for a native SDK AND seeing the jailbreak community with their own "app store" that Apple realized there might be potential.
That's the way it would appear if you simply strung Apple's public announcements in sequence to assemble the story. But of course what Apple are actually developing in-house is generally secret. Especially then, when SJ was alive. But from comments from various ex-Apple engineers when they talk on blogs, it seems perfectly clear that iOS was put together with an eye to internal use in order to get iPhone to ship, then work started on cleaning up the APIs and creating a public SDK straight after. The "Sweet solution" of web apps for iPhone was simply a holding position when the native SDK was too far away to announce at WWDC.
You're probably right that very few would bother to check what sweetner was used in a diet drink. But I've heard lots of people say they won't drink diet drinks because "Aspertame causes cancer" or just "Diet Pepsi is bad for you." With the implicit assumption that sugar is a natural product and therefore does you no harm. Despite the fact that sugar is actually one of the primary causes of sickness these days though complications of obesity and other effects.
I hate to keep having to say this.
No you don't. Saying silly things about Apple with no justification whatsoever is what you spend most of your time on Slashdot doing.
Do they not notice how your Moto 270 tries and yet fails to have a circular display?
How is that actually supposed to work, though? Does the Apple Watch make people walk so much they gain weight?
As pointed out elsewhere you're off-topic. You're confusing ResearchKit with HealthKit and/or the Health app. But yes, one of the health app's functions is to encourage more activity such as walking, by feeding back how much activity you've done today against a target you've chosen. It's not a new idea, pedometers let you do this. But it looks to be a good implementation of it.
Blow harder. One day someone might give a shit what someone who doesn't know anything about smartphones thinks.
He can live in a cave if he likes, and really enjoy technology free living. Nothing wrong with that. But if I does, he shouldn't about his opinion of which hotel chain is better.
Indeed you don't. But you're a gigantic blowhard if you pontificate about how Ford is better than BMW, when you despise cars and don't even drive.
In other words you don't know what you are talking about with regards to the merits of different smartphone OSs.
Difference is Apple had sales of about a million watches in the first day, just in the USA alone. The only reason for this lottery at all is that general sale of is sold out till June at least.
By contrast Google Glass, over what, 18 months, perhaps sold a few hundred Google Glasses. I'd be very surprised if Apple didn't sell more $10,000 Edition Watches in the first day than Google ever sold Glasses.
They already hold a lottery for WWDC, as it is far more popular than the number of people they can actually hold in the largest venue. And that too is a lottery to get the chance to purchase. So it's not a new thing.
I have no idea how they choose who to send these to, as I'm an iOS developer working on an Apple Watch compatible app and I didn't get one.
Probably by some function of the number of apps they have on the store and the number of sales of those apps.
That would cut out all the people who aren't actual developers, that nevertheless have developer accounts. And it would be a decent stab at prioritising those more likely to ship something that people want to buy.
I hope my new country will never become "civilised".
I don't think there's much danger of that.
Oh, and Europe does have price gouging laws, and unlike the US, they apply even when there is no state of emergency.
No, it's pretty much you guys and the Russians.
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Sounds like Android. Think I've found your problem.
Neither do I. But for site I use everyday, I'll take the app in preference to the mobile website every time.
And no, full (non responsive) websites are certainly not better than mobile ones when you are on a phone. They mean that either the text is too small to read and the buttons and links to small to press, or you have to constantly scroll left and right as well as up and down.
Looks like web developers got hold of some mod points.
Slashdot isn't responsive. (Don't know about beta, I stayed on classic.)
This is responsive: https://css-tricks.com/
Tell me what's wrong with it.
It depends. If it's a site I use a lot, then I welcome an app. They are invariably better in every way than a mobile site. But if it's a site you're only using casually, you certainly don't want an app.