You mean like repatriate all the last-mile lines to those that actually paid for them, the taxpayers? Then any ISP can run their service over those lines? Count me in.
How about a pock-metal (cast cheap tin alloy) tension bracket for a clutch? Or how about a transmission shaft with half the shaft milled out with sharp 90 degree edges for 4 inches of its length? Both of those were stellar examples of really bad engineering.
Someone clearly weighed the potential repair income against the likelihood of an injury-or-death-causing catastrophic failure and decided they could make a ton of money.
I'm not sure about that. The repair for the bracket was trivial, even if you did it at the dealer. It's a cheap part, and easy to get to on that particular vehicle. Maybe 10 minutes to remove and install and adjust a new one. Failure leaves you unable to shift gears, well, most people anyways. Driving a standard without a clutch is definitely a talent not everyone has, hell, most drivers can't drive a standard with a clutch. And not all cars are capable of being driven that way anyways.
As for the transmission shaft - this is a shaft inside a manual transmission, specifically the counter-rotating shaft for reverse. Once it breaks, no reverse, and you're not going very far either. Large loose metal components inside your transmission lead to a very swift stop. It's also not repairable in most cases, as more things will be damaged during the failure. In my case, it broke on shifting into reverse and was potentially repairable. I replaced the entire transmission as I got a used one cheap.
The 20-R was 4 nuts, with a rubber valve cover gasket. Like the Accord, 1 EGR with a simple clip, and due to better design, one that didn't weld onto the valve cover. You could pop off the cover, do your adjustments and replace it with no money spent.
The N52, by contrast, really does have something like 17 bolts/nuts on it. And a guaranteed to disintegrate one-time use coated metal gasket. Why? Because the metal gasket is steel, it's coated to both seal and prevent corrosion, because the block is a magnesium alloy, and the cover, IIRC, is AL. The different thermal expansion co-efficients guarantee that the coating on 1 side will eventually be worn off and voila - leak. This beast uses AL bolts, although, IIRC, the nuts were steel, on steel threads that probably had some corrosion inhibiting coating and/or interstitial material. On the one hand, the bolts were easy to remove or break (yeah, 4 broken off heads tells you where the leaks were - plural) and fortunately, those were easier to remove than you'd think, being nice soft AL.
I could tell you a few stories about other design travesties in cars, far worse than any either of us have listed so far. How about a pock-metal (cast cheap tin alloy) tension bracket for a clutch? Or how about a transmission shaft with half the shaft milled out with sharp 90 degree edges for 4 inches of its length? Both of those were stellar examples of really bad engineering.
Absolutely. I think the big difference in perspective is that the big players can afford to play the longer games, while small startups have to get a string of constant and immediate wins to survive. As the AC above me pointed out, there is competition within the bidding process, and that's what the lobbyists and other friends-of-big-business emphasize. The big competitors compete to gain hundreds or thousands of customers at once.
Small companies, however, can't compete at the level where they can gain or lose whole markets. They have to compete for individual customers to develop enough working capital to pursue those opportunities.
I figured we shared a viewpoint, but I wasn't sure, hence the wording choices. Your points are valid, but this isn't market competition, it's a competition between toll collectors. The road analogy was chosen because it actually maps to internet connectivity very very well. Anyone can build a road (provided you get the gov approvals and buy/lease/cajole/steal your rights of way and arrange for all accompanying interconnects you might need such as power, sewer, access to other roads) and can bankroll the construction, just like anyone can purchase their own internet connection. Also, like most roads, most of the current last mile internet infrastructure was funded by taxpayers, creating a huge barrier to entry for any other competitors.
But, the "competition" you're talking about is more akin to the competition for an item in an auction than business transactions with their customers. What this ruling does is make the customer a product for the toll collector to sell, essentially both creating a new government sponsored business and having the government effectively picking winners via this new control, making everyone else losers. Sounds completely anti-free and anti-open market to me.
USPS is Govt. who also run the roads, so your analogy is flawed anyways, but even in the flawed analogy, you show the competition in your language.
The USPS is actually a federal gov sponsored semi-private entity. Roads are almost all owned by someone other than the federal gov. So it's not flawed in the way you think. And if you're reading that language as "competition", well, then the mere fact of breathing will be "competition" for you. It's certainly not competition based on services provided, but whomever can lock in a contract first with the toll collector.
Or, make the rules apply to enough prime consumers that Google/FB/et al can't avoid paying them to get access to their main product - consumers. 300+ million rich consumers is a big enough dent that they'll pay.
In short, you're saying that creating a new role of toll collector is "pro-competition". So, on all your roads around your house, we'll open up bidding for toll collectors, and those toll-collectors can block whatever services your particular neighborhood will receive. So, blue apron - not a chance. Lyft wins over Uber, no Uber for you. Walmart beat Amazon, no Amazon anything for you. USPS can no longer deliver to you - too bad about your mail.
Take it that way and you can see how anti-competitive this action is.
Regarding the glue - from a repair point - adds time, cost, difficulty, potential for error and a mess. From a manufacturing standpoint it reduces the potential for error, reduces cost, and speeds up production. I get it, but I don't have to like it. It's not much different than laptops and computers/monitors with glued in screens. I have one of those waiting for a spare few hours some weekend in the future. At least it doesn't have to be waterproof when put back together so if I miss some old piece of glue along the edge, not a major issue.
I can't help but think that the same folks that design the drive trains of certain lines of cars are involved in these manufacturing "improvements", where absolutely 0 thought is given to the notion of repair and maintenance. Not everyone has an engine lift in their garage, including me. Doing some repairs without one can take days vs hours, but had they given even a moment's thought, it would have taken 20 minutes. Take a look at a Toyota 20-R engine and tuning the lifters (requires taking off the valve cover) this process can be completed in roughly 20 minutes. Try to take the valve cover off of a BMW N52. If you're lucky, once you spend the hour or so removing all the junk around and attached to the valve cover and ignoring that time, just removing all 17+ nuts and bolts holding the valve cover in 20 minutes will be challenging. Depending upon how the engine sits in the bay, removing the valve cover can take you anywhere from 2 min to an hour or more as clearance with the firewall and valve solenoids is that tight. And then you get to clean everything. Fortunately, putting everything together is somewhat easier, or at least it has been in my experience. Total time - 8 hours on a good day. If you're willing to remove other parts (intake manifold for starters) the process gets easier, especially if anything PVC related breaks.
I am very careful to be specific about Apple products and not touching anything new released in 2016 or 2017, in case you haven't noticed. Although, TBH, I'm looking at purchasing something from this year's iPhone models, so I guess I will have to touch something later than 2015. I was also considering updating my ipad, although that one I'm more prone to not worry about. My ipads are still chugging along just fine including my iPad 2, so my worry over servicing an ipad is very low. I can only hope that Apple gets a dose of common sense and "improve" their designs again for 2018. Personally, at the top of my list I want 4-8 core low-power minis and a real Mac Pro.
They are among the brands, yes. I still hold they're a bigger pain than the 6S and prior for the reasons stated, by both of us.
I suppose if you lack the proper tools, yeah, they're kind of a pain to work on.
My point isn't that they're necessarily difficult, but that effectively the 6S and prior are easier to work on in comparison. It could also be personal preference in dealing with sizes, the sometimes over-tightened watch backs or watches with gunk in the threads - had a cheaper one that was glued enough to actually partially strip a tool point before getting the back off due to being slightly misaligned, and so forth. The phones in question are bigger, easier for me to handle, and relatively simple to work on, although those tiny screws holding on the home button are challenging to put back in.
So you didn't read past the post where sabri mentions an iPhone 6 repair as an example of retaining water resistance, yet you replied to my post pointing out that the iPhone 6 does not have water resistance as a listed feature (because it wasn't water resistant) but the iPhone 7 (a more current model) does. Yet you replied to my post... which you just said you didn't read.
I stated I didn't read past (meaning further up the chain - sorry I wasn't clear) the GG...GP (Sabri) I ignored Sabri's comments because the water resistance he's talking about has no bearing when replacing a battery in an iPhone 6. (There is some sealing on those pieces, but they're irrelevant, it's like sealing the edge of your shower drain and claiming you have "water resistance", but you get this)
Having read past a little more - I think I was on the same page as Sabri - there's no problem swapping out the battery et al on an iPhone 6S or earlier - you don't have any issues with degrading the state of the phone. You were talking about the tighter requirements for a 7 and later, which have water resistance and require quite a bit more finesse and technical knowledge to deal with (I'm assuming, as I haven't looked at taking one apart past the point of the glued screen comments) which are easily passing each other in the night, so to speak.
There is no headphone jack in the 7 and the speakers, mics, and lightning jack are all sealed. Provided you don't remove those parts (a goal post planted by the person I was replying to), you don't have to worry about them leaking.
I just reviewed the post, an iPhone 6 was mentioned. I did not read past that post. FWIW I just recently opened up a 5, 2 5Ss, and a 6. All have headphone jacks. None are remotely water resistant in the sense I would use the word.
The seal around the screen is the glue you're removing when you take it out and, well, phones tend to get a little warm (understatement of the year) internally so wax wouldn't really hold up; why do you think they don't use it from the factory? Have you ever actually had one of these things open? Don't answer, you've already made it clear that you don't.
And, in all those phones, no glue was touched (ok, not entirely true - the screen/digitizer was swapped out on one of the 5Ss, thus I had to swap the home button, which does have glue/adhesive for sealing) The screen/digitizer assembly is held in the phone via clips. I've avoided the iPhone 7 on up until now with reason.
We're talking Bulova, Movado, Skagen, and the like; are those what you had in mind?
They are among the brands, yes. I still hold they're a bigger pain than the 6S and prior for the reasons stated, by both of us.
in this case, I'm going to have to disagree with you. Popping out the screen and digitizer is a 5 min job, tops. As long as you don't squeeze it with pliers or use a metal chisel, the chance that you're going to screw up that seal is minimal. And that's not where your water resistance lies, anyways. The multiple holes for head phone jack, speakers, microphone, lightning cable, etc, are all much more likely water ingress points, followed by buttons, and finally that "seal" around the screen/digitizer combo (add some wax around the interface if you really want to seal it) Then, after all that, you finally can worry about the seal between the screen/digitizer (which said wax would also address, provided you use a decent one)
This is no more and perhaps less challenging than opening up a watch and cleaning it or replacing a battery in one. Try opening one of those middle to high class waterproof watches to replace a battery and see if you can seal it up again while maintaining the waterproof rating. Harder than it looks on youtube, guaranteed. My $50 Casio divers watch - no sweat. It's also 4 times the size of those other watches.
We don't know *who* specifically paid Fusion GPS, what Fusion GPS were paid for, nor what Steele's directives were after he was hired.
Absolutely we did. An attorney for Clinton hired them.
You are wrong again, on multiple counts.
An attorney made a statement indicating he did, but there is no confirmation as to the truth of that statement, unless you happen to have a copy of the check or bank transaction, or Fusion GPS confirms this transaction.
Said attorney works for an agency hired by the DNC, not Clinton
I know, you desperately want there to be proof of Russian interference. You simply can't fathom that your preferred candidate didn't win.
I'm pretty sure there is proof of Russian collusion, since there are already 2 folks charged and have pled guilty. More will follow. That's not in question. You are correct that my preferred candidate didn't win. To continue to show how wrong you are on the whole, however, my preferred candidate wasn't on the ballot I voted on. Here's an absolutely shocking fact for you - the world isn't black and white, Trump or Hillary, I despise both of them, except one is a Hitler wannabe and the other merely objectionable. I'd vote against compromising my morals and ethics any day. That you could swallow that pill shows a lot about your lack of character.
I understand this. But the more I hear about Russia the more I'm sure it's a nothingburger. It's gone from Russia hacking our elections all the way down to "somebody related to the campaign talked to a Russian citizen."
You need to expand your horizons beyond Fox's fake news although, admittedly, their fake news broadcasting has dwindled in recent months in favor of all out propaganda masquerading as indignant opinions instead. Interesting in itself and worthy of a separate discussion on why Fox feels the need to amp up the vitriol considering *their* party controls both houses and the presidency. Maybe all is not well as the bandaids covering the hypocrisy comes peeling off?
This is levels of "election interference" way below Obama's constant meddling in other nation's elections. Remember when he tried to alter the result of Brexit?
Did he? I'm sure you can provide some real facts to back that up. Him stating his opinion that leaving the EU would be a bad idea or something similar isn't meddling, any more than Trump saying he admires manly man Putin's bare chest.
It's wrong for private citizens to attempt to engage in diplomacy and international government relations. This is what Flynn got rightly indicted for. Papadopolous was indicted for lying under oath to the FBI IIRC. Those appear to be altogether different activities, much like Trump's claim that middle class taxes will go down while rewriting the tax code to have the middle class pay for a 1T tax cut for the rich.
It's the same modus operandi that Trump uses - repeat the same lie 3 times and non-critically thinking people begin to believe it. If you need a historical reference, the line comes from Lewis Carroll's nonsensical "The Hunting of the Snark", but the statement has been seen as having a noticeable effect. And this is not news, as Joseph Goebbels stated if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it. So there's another stellar example of whom Trump follows, because he's certainly practicing the book to the letter.
Well you're doing yourself a disservice by listening to biased news that doesn't tell you the whole story. We know now without a shadow of a doubt that the Democratic Party paid Fusion GPS... This happened.
And we don't know that even that happened. We don't know *who* specifically paid Fusion GPS, what Fusion GPS were paid for, nor what Steele's directives were after he was hired. Most disturbing is that no matter the source of funding or directives that some of what became known as the Steele dossier has been verified by independent sources.
Fusion GPS was contacted by a GOP member for Opp research. The Steele Dossier was separate. The media / DNC are pushing that narrative, but itâ(TM)s flat out wrong. The GOP didnâ(TM)t ask for the Steele Dossier, they asked for separate Opposition Research.
And yet we still don't know what was in the report the GOP associate(s) received. We don't know much of anything other than what's been disseminated, which truly sounds like a major case of CYA going on. Information warfare is dirty that way. Given that that's what this is, the only thing we know for certain is that the GOP associated entities have admitted to paying for research by FusionGPS.
The DNC / HRC campaign started the Steele Dossier.
We know this is false, even from what few facts are out there. Apparently Steele was hired by FusionGPS some period after being retained/hired by Perkins Coie via Marc Elias, a lawyer who represented the DNC. Hillary and the DNC leadership deny knowledge of this dossier. We know nothing else with certainty, although it is most telling that neither Hillary nor the DNC leadership appear to have used any information in the dossier prior to the election.
I don't youtube, and it is most definitely not a news source, although it may accidentally source some news in spite of itself. You'll also have to explain your definition of leftist, because I'm 99% certain I won't fit it. Similarly, I doubt I'll fit any definition of the right you wish to come up with, at least as they're defined in American politics. I do believe in facts, and partisanship has absolutely no place in determining whether something is a fact. It is true, or it is an "alternative fact", i.e., a falsehood, lie, wishful thinking, however you want to cast it in the context being used.
With that said, so far you've gotten exactly 2 facts - that a GOP member paid Fusion GPS for opposition research, and that subsequently Fusion GPS hired Steele and created what became known as the Steele Dossier. Other than those 2 things, everything you've stated is either provably wrong, mere speculation, or even wishful thinking. Exercise some critical thinking and you'll have to agree with that analysis, grudgingly or not. As an exercise, reverse all the associated names, ie, Hillary with Trump, DNC with GOP, and Russians with "email server" and see what you think. If your view changes, then all parts of your position that changed should be thrown out.
Well you've been listening to fake news. You really didn't hear the Donna Brazile sniper story? Source: Donna Brazile. In her book. It was a big deal when it came out,
did you hear of it? When she exposed the DNC as utterly corrupt and rigged against Bernie?
I heard she came out with something, but no, I don't follow her, her activities, nor those of the DNC much, really. So apparently it wasn't that big a deal. What I did catch is that the DNC and Hillary's campaign were slightly too close due to financing issues, with the DNC being the one short of money.
The Free Beacon said its research ended before Fusion GPS hired a former British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele, to produce a series of reports alleging links between Russia and those close to Trump. That occurred after the firm was retained by a lawyer for Hillary Clintonâ(TM)s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
âoeNone of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier,â(TM)â(TM) said the statement from Free Beacon editor in chief Matthew Continetti and chairman Michael Goldfarb.
After the Free Beacon stopped paying Fusion GPS, the research firm offered in April 2016 to continue researching Trump for the Clinton campaign and the DNC. The Free Beacon said it did not know at the time that the Clinton campaign and the DNC hired Fusion GPS later to continue the work.
For some reason Free Beacon is making statements that it paid for the work, yet FusionGPS has taken the fifth and refuses to corroborate or dispute any of that information. Most interesting. And Free Beacon didn't make it's report public. I'm not sure I'd base anything other than a raised eyebrow on that story. I need more facts.
I've always held that "home schooling" is great, after school. I freely admitted my data set wasn't big enough to draw any conclusions from. It's merely 2 data points that happen to fall on the "wrong" side of the scale for home school proponents. My data set is actually larger than what was stated, as we have second hand information from the coop that one set of home schoolers attend, and they universally seem to have social problems with society at large as they age out and move into society. The problems are not just social, but also job and college oriented as the challenges to get into a school or job appear to be much tougher for home schoolers in general unless they enter the family business or some extended catered support system, like a church oriented entity for those that do religious based home schooling.
It still is a VM that has to translate each and every instruction. It takes bytecode, and then executes it in the context of the architecture at hand, with all the instructions interpreted.
Good thing that Android moved to the ART then, isn't it? But even then, you're so wrong it's funny. The Dalvik VM compiles the bytecode. It no more translates each instruction than C does, nor does it interpret instructions like Perl/PHP/Ruby et al (which is why those all suck for anything performance bound)
CS 101 stuff here.
So basic, you'd think even an AC on/. would know it.
Android would have the numbers seen for Blackberry phones, today.
it likely would see a 50-75% performance gain, just due to not having the overhead of a bloated JVM.
You really don't know what you're talking about, do you? Have you even ever seen Dalvik? It's not technically even a JVM and is missing so many JVM features that to be considered bloated, well, that's truly hilarious. Now, what is bloated and designed by a sophomore is the asynchronous GUI Activity/Frame framework.
While Java is still widely used, it is a far cry to Java a decade or so ago.
People are free to disagree with me, but the widespread teaching and use of Java is only still happening because of Android....Java is a language that is losing relevance every day but being propped up by it's use in Android.
Yep, you keep thinking that way, I'll keep being employed. Working with Java. Not on Android.
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You mean like repatriate all the last-mile lines to those that actually paid for them, the taxpayers? Then any ISP can run their service over those lines? Count me in.
How about a pock-metal (cast cheap tin alloy) tension bracket for a clutch? Or how about a transmission shaft with half the shaft milled out with sharp 90 degree edges for 4 inches of its length? Both of those were stellar examples of really bad engineering.
Someone clearly weighed the potential repair income against the likelihood of an injury-or-death-causing catastrophic failure and decided they could make a ton of money.
I'm not sure about that. The repair for the bracket was trivial, even if you did it at the dealer. It's a cheap part, and easy to get to on that particular vehicle. Maybe 10 minutes to remove and install and adjust a new one. Failure leaves you unable to shift gears, well, most people anyways. Driving a standard without a clutch is definitely a talent not everyone has, hell, most drivers can't drive a standard with a clutch. And not all cars are capable of being driven that way anyways.
As for the transmission shaft - this is a shaft inside a manual transmission, specifically the counter-rotating shaft for reverse. Once it breaks, no reverse, and you're not going very far either. Large loose metal components inside your transmission lead to a very swift stop. It's also not repairable in most cases, as more things will be damaged during the failure. In my case, it broke on shifting into reverse and was potentially repairable. I replaced the entire transmission as I got a used one cheap.
The 20-R was 4 nuts, with a rubber valve cover gasket. Like the Accord, 1 EGR with a simple clip, and due to better design, one that didn't weld onto the valve cover. You could pop off the cover, do your adjustments and replace it with no money spent.
The N52, by contrast, really does have something like 17 bolts/nuts on it. And a guaranteed to disintegrate one-time use coated metal gasket. Why? Because the metal gasket is steel, it's coated to both seal and prevent corrosion, because the block is a magnesium alloy, and the cover, IIRC, is AL. The different thermal expansion co-efficients guarantee that the coating on 1 side will eventually be worn off and voila - leak. This beast uses AL bolts, although, IIRC, the nuts were steel, on steel threads that probably had some corrosion inhibiting coating and/or interstitial material. On the one hand, the bolts were easy to remove or break (yeah, 4 broken off heads tells you where the leaks were - plural) and fortunately, those were easier to remove than you'd think, being nice soft AL.
I could tell you a few stories about other design travesties in cars, far worse than any either of us have listed so far. How about a pock-metal (cast cheap tin alloy) tension bracket for a clutch? Or how about a transmission shaft with half the shaft milled out with sharp 90 degree edges for 4 inches of its length? Both of those were stellar examples of really bad engineering.
That was the anti-competitive slant, but it was vague, hence my post. It's clarified below.
Absolutely. I think the big difference in perspective is that the big players can afford to play the longer games, while small startups have to get a string of constant and immediate wins to survive. As the AC above me pointed out, there is competition within the bidding process, and that's what the lobbyists and other friends-of-big-business emphasize. The big competitors compete to gain hundreds or thousands of customers at once.
Small companies, however, can't compete at the level where they can gain or lose whole markets. They have to compete for individual customers to develop enough working capital to pursue those opportunities.
I figured we shared a viewpoint, but I wasn't sure, hence the wording choices. Your points are valid, but this isn't market competition, it's a competition between toll collectors. The road analogy was chosen because it actually maps to internet connectivity very very well. Anyone can build a road (provided you get the gov approvals and buy/lease/cajole/steal your rights of way and arrange for all accompanying interconnects you might need such as power, sewer, access to other roads) and can bankroll the construction, just like anyone can purchase their own internet connection. Also, like most roads, most of the current last mile internet infrastructure was funded by taxpayers, creating a huge barrier to entry for any other competitors.
But, the "competition" you're talking about is more akin to the competition for an item in an auction than business transactions with their customers. What this ruling does is make the customer a product for the toll collector to sell, essentially both creating a new government sponsored business and having the government effectively picking winners via this new control, making everyone else losers. Sounds completely anti-free and anti-open market to me.
USPS is Govt. who also run the roads, so your analogy is flawed anyways, but even in the flawed analogy, you show the competition in your language.
The USPS is actually a federal gov sponsored semi-private entity. Roads are almost all owned by someone other than the federal gov. So it's not flawed in the way you think. And if you're reading that language as "competition", well, then the mere fact of breathing will be "competition" for you. It's certainly not competition based on services provided, but whomever can lock in a contract first with the toll collector.
False, otherwise it would have been reported in oz (ounces)
And what is the volume of a wine bottle?
Or, make the rules apply to enough prime consumers that Google/FB/et al can't avoid paying them to get access to their main product - consumers. 300+ million rich consumers is a big enough dent that they'll pay.
Do they pay anything currently? Do they reprint? I'd say they at least partially reprint, so they should pay.
In short, you're saying that creating a new role of toll collector is "pro-competition". So, on all your roads around your house, we'll open up bidding for toll collectors, and those toll-collectors can block whatever services your particular neighborhood will receive. So, blue apron - not a chance. Lyft wins over Uber, no Uber for you. Walmart beat Amazon, no Amazon anything for you. USPS can no longer deliver to you - too bad about your mail.
Take it that way and you can see how anti-competitive this action is.
Regarding the glue - from a repair point - adds time, cost, difficulty, potential for error and a mess. From a manufacturing standpoint it reduces the potential for error, reduces cost, and speeds up production. I get it, but I don't have to like it. It's not much different than laptops and computers/monitors with glued in screens. I have one of those waiting for a spare few hours some weekend in the future. At least it doesn't have to be waterproof when put back together so if I miss some old piece of glue along the edge, not a major issue.
I can't help but think that the same folks that design the drive trains of certain lines of cars are involved in these manufacturing "improvements", where absolutely 0 thought is given to the notion of repair and maintenance. Not everyone has an engine lift in their garage, including me. Doing some repairs without one can take days vs hours, but had they given even a moment's thought, it would have taken 20 minutes. Take a look at a Toyota 20-R engine and tuning the lifters (requires taking off the valve cover) this process can be completed in roughly 20 minutes. Try to take the valve cover off of a BMW N52. If you're lucky, once you spend the hour or so removing all the junk around and attached to the valve cover and ignoring that time, just removing all 17+ nuts and bolts holding the valve cover in 20 minutes will be challenging. Depending upon how the engine sits in the bay, removing the valve cover can take you anywhere from 2 min to an hour or more as clearance with the firewall and valve solenoids is that tight. And then you get to clean everything. Fortunately, putting everything together is somewhat easier, or at least it has been in my experience. Total time - 8 hours on a good day. If you're willing to remove other parts (intake manifold for starters) the process gets easier, especially if anything PVC related breaks.
I am very careful to be specific about Apple products and not touching anything new released in 2016 or 2017, in case you haven't noticed. Although, TBH, I'm looking at purchasing something from this year's iPhone models, so I guess I will have to touch something later than 2015. I was also considering updating my ipad, although that one I'm more prone to not worry about. My ipads are still chugging along just fine including my iPad 2, so my worry over servicing an ipad is very low. I can only hope that Apple gets a dose of common sense and "improve" their designs again for 2018. Personally, at the top of my list I want 4-8 core low-power minis and a real Mac Pro.
They are among the brands, yes. I still hold they're a bigger pain than the 6S and prior for the reasons stated, by both of us.
I suppose if you lack the proper tools, yeah, they're kind of a pain to work on.
My point isn't that they're necessarily difficult, but that effectively the 6S and prior are easier to work on in comparison. It could also be personal preference in dealing with sizes, the sometimes over-tightened watch backs or watches with gunk in the threads - had a cheaper one that was glued enough to actually partially strip a tool point before getting the back off due to being slightly misaligned, and so forth. The phones in question are bigger, easier for me to handle, and relatively simple to work on, although those tiny screws holding on the home button are challenging to put back in.
So you didn't read past the post where sabri mentions an iPhone 6 repair as an example of retaining water resistance, yet you replied to my post pointing out that the iPhone 6 does not have water resistance as a listed feature (because it wasn't water resistant) but the iPhone 7 (a more current model) does. Yet you replied to my post... which you just said you didn't read.
I stated I didn't read past (meaning further up the chain - sorry I wasn't clear) the GG...GP (Sabri) I ignored Sabri's comments because the water resistance he's talking about has no bearing when replacing a battery in an iPhone 6. (There is some sealing on those pieces, but they're irrelevant, it's like sealing the edge of your shower drain and claiming you have "water resistance", but you get this)
Having read past a little more - I think I was on the same page as Sabri - there's no problem swapping out the battery et al on an iPhone 6S or earlier - you don't have any issues with degrading the state of the phone. You were talking about the tighter requirements for a 7 and later, which have water resistance and require quite a bit more finesse and technical knowledge to deal with (I'm assuming, as I haven't looked at taking one apart past the point of the glued screen comments) which are easily passing each other in the night, so to speak.
There is no headphone jack in the 7 and the speakers, mics, and lightning jack are all sealed. Provided you don't remove those parts (a goal post planted by the person I was replying to), you don't have to worry about them leaking.
I just reviewed the post, an iPhone 6 was mentioned. I did not read past that post. FWIW I just recently opened up a 5, 2 5Ss, and a 6. All have headphone jacks. None are remotely water resistant in the sense I would use the word.
The seal around the screen is the glue you're removing when you take it out and, well, phones tend to get a little warm (understatement of the year) internally so wax wouldn't really hold up; why do you think they don't use it from the factory? Have you ever actually had one of these things open? Don't answer, you've already made it clear that you don't.
And, in all those phones, no glue was touched (ok, not entirely true - the screen/digitizer was swapped out on one of the 5Ss, thus I had to swap the home button, which does have glue/adhesive for sealing) The screen/digitizer assembly is held in the phone via clips. I've avoided the iPhone 7 on up until now with reason.
We're talking Bulova, Movado, Skagen, and the like; are those what you had in mind?
They are among the brands, yes. I still hold they're a bigger pain than the 6S and prior for the reasons stated, by both of us.
in this case, I'm going to have to disagree with you. Popping out the screen and digitizer is a 5 min job, tops. As long as you don't squeeze it with pliers or use a metal chisel, the chance that you're going to screw up that seal is minimal. And that's not where your water resistance lies, anyways. The multiple holes for head phone jack, speakers, microphone, lightning cable, etc, are all much more likely water ingress points, followed by buttons, and finally that "seal" around the screen/digitizer combo (add some wax around the interface if you really want to seal it) Then, after all that, you finally can worry about the seal between the screen/digitizer (which said wax would also address, provided you use a decent one)
This is no more and perhaps less challenging than opening up a watch and cleaning it or replacing a battery in one. Try opening one of those middle to high class waterproof watches to replace a battery and see if you can seal it up again while maintaining the waterproof rating. Harder than it looks on youtube, guaranteed. My $50 Casio divers watch - no sweat. It's also 4 times the size of those other watches.
We don't know *who* specifically paid Fusion GPS, what Fusion GPS were paid for, nor what Steele's directives were after he was hired.
Absolutely we did. An attorney for Clinton hired them.
You are wrong again, on multiple counts.
I know, you desperately want there to be proof of Russian interference. You simply can't fathom that your preferred candidate didn't win.
I'm pretty sure there is proof of Russian collusion, since there are already 2 folks charged and have pled guilty. More will follow. That's not in question. You are correct that my preferred candidate didn't win. To continue to show how wrong you are on the whole, however, my preferred candidate wasn't on the ballot I voted on. Here's an absolutely shocking fact for you - the world isn't black and white, Trump or Hillary, I despise both of them, except one is a Hitler wannabe and the other merely objectionable. I'd vote against compromising my morals and ethics any day. That you could swallow that pill shows a lot about your lack of character.
I understand this. But the more I hear about Russia the more I'm sure it's a nothingburger. It's gone from Russia hacking our elections all the way down to "somebody related to the campaign talked to a Russian citizen."
You need to expand your horizons beyond Fox's fake news although, admittedly, their fake news broadcasting has dwindled in recent months in favor of all out propaganda masquerading as indignant opinions instead. Interesting in itself and worthy of a separate discussion on why Fox feels the need to amp up the vitriol considering *their* party controls both houses and the presidency. Maybe all is not well as the bandaids covering the hypocrisy comes peeling off?
This is levels of "election interference" way below Obama's constant meddling in other nation's elections. Remember when he tried to alter the result of Brexit?
Did he? I'm sure you can provide some real facts to back that up. Him stating his opinion that leaving the EU would be a bad idea or something similar isn't meddling, any more than Trump saying he admires manly man Putin's bare chest.
Reminder: It's wrong for Republicans to even talk to foreigners but it's ok for democrats to hold campaign fundraisers in foreign countries.
It's wrong for private citizens to attempt to engage in diplomacy and international government relations. This is what Flynn got rightly indicted for. Papadopolous was indicted for lying under oath to the FBI IIRC. Those appear to be altogether different activities, much like Trump's claim that middle class taxes will go down while rewriting the tax code to have the middle class pay for a 1T tax cut for the rich.
It's the same modus operandi that Trump uses - repeat the same lie 3 times and non-critically thinking people begin to believe it. If you need a historical reference, the line comes from Lewis Carroll's nonsensical "The Hunting of the Snark", but the statement has been seen as having a noticeable effect. And this is not news, as Joseph Goebbels stated if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it. So there's another stellar example of whom Trump follows, because he's certainly practicing the book to the letter.
Well you're doing yourself a disservice by listening to biased news that doesn't tell you the whole story. We know now without a shadow of a doubt that the Democratic Party paid Fusion GPS ... This happened.
And we don't know that even that happened. We don't know *who* specifically paid Fusion GPS, what Fusion GPS were paid for, nor what Steele's directives were after he was hired. Most disturbing is that no matter the source of funding or directives that some of what became known as the Steele dossier has been verified by independent sources.
Fusion GPS was contacted by a GOP member for Opp research. The Steele Dossier was separate. The media / DNC are pushing that narrative, but itâ(TM)s flat out wrong. The GOP didnâ(TM)t ask for the Steele Dossier, they asked for separate Opposition Research.
And yet we still don't know what was in the report the GOP associate(s) received. We don't know much of anything other than what's been disseminated, which truly sounds like a major case of CYA going on. Information warfare is dirty that way. Given that that's what this is, the only thing we know for certain is that the GOP associated entities have admitted to paying for research by FusionGPS.
The DNC / HRC campaign started the Steele Dossier.
We know this is false, even from what few facts are out there. Apparently Steele was hired by FusionGPS some period after being retained/hired by Perkins Coie via Marc Elias, a lawyer who represented the DNC. Hillary and the DNC leadership deny knowledge of this dossier. We know nothing else with certainty, although it is most telling that neither Hillary nor the DNC leadership appear to have used any information in the dossier prior to the election.
Here's a video you should watch, by a fellow leftist who used to be on The Young Turks. It's safe, he agrees with you. When you're done, start clicking on the related videos it will suggest to you. You really need to widen the information sources you expose yourself to. Good luck!
I don't youtube, and it is most definitely not a news source, although it may accidentally source some news in spite of itself. You'll also have to explain your definition of leftist, because I'm 99% certain I won't fit it. Similarly, I doubt I'll fit any definition of the right you wish to come up with, at least as they're defined in American politics. I do believe in facts, and partisanship has absolutely no place in determining whether something is a fact. It is true, or it is an "alternative fact", i.e., a falsehood, lie, wishful thinking, however you want to cast it in the context being used.
With that said, so far you've gotten exactly 2 facts - that a GOP member paid Fusion GPS for opposition research, and that subsequently Fusion GPS hired Steele and created what became known as the Steele Dossier. Other than those 2 things, everything you've stated is either provably wrong, mere speculation, or even wishful thinking. Exercise some critical thinking and you'll have to agree with that analysis, grudgingly or not. As an exercise, reverse all the associated names, ie, Hillary with Trump, DNC with GOP, and Russians with "email server" and see what you think. If your view changes, then all parts of your position that changed should be thrown out.
Well you've been listening to fake news. You really didn't hear the Donna Brazile sniper story? Source: Donna Brazile. In her book. It was a big deal when it came out, did you hear of it? When she exposed the DNC as utterly corrupt and rigged against Bernie?
I heard she came out with something, but no, I don't follow her, her activities, nor those of the DNC much, really. So apparently it wasn't that big a deal. What I did catch is that the DNC and Hillary's campaign were slightly too close due to financing issues, with the DNC being the one short of money.
The Free Beacon said its research ended before Fusion GPS hired a former British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele, to produce a series of reports alleging links between Russia and those close to Trump. That occurred after the firm was retained by a lawyer for Hillary Clintonâ(TM)s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
âoeNone of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier,â(TM)â(TM) said the statement from Free Beacon editor in chief Matthew Continetti and chairman Michael Goldfarb.
After the Free Beacon stopped paying Fusion GPS, the research firm offered in April 2016 to continue researching Trump for the Clinton campaign and the DNC. The Free Beacon said it did not know at the time that the Clinton campaign and the DNC hired Fusion GPS later to continue the work.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/conservative-website-first-paid-fusion-gps-for-trump-research/2017/10/27/ee05c1d6-bb6f-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html
For some reason Free Beacon is making statements that it paid for the work, yet FusionGPS has taken the fifth and refuses to corroborate or dispute any of that information. Most interesting. And Free Beacon didn't make it's report public. I'm not sure I'd base anything other than a raised eyebrow on that story. I need more facts.
I've always held that "home schooling" is great, after school. I freely admitted my data set wasn't big enough to draw any conclusions from. It's merely 2 data points that happen to fall on the "wrong" side of the scale for home school proponents. My data set is actually larger than what was stated, as we have second hand information from the coop that one set of home schoolers attend, and they universally seem to have social problems with society at large as they age out and move into society. The problems are not just social, but also job and college oriented as the challenges to get into a school or job appear to be much tougher for home schoolers in general unless they enter the family business or some extended catered support system, like a church oriented entity for those that do religious based home schooling.
I tell you three times true. It seems to be Trump's modus operandi (he'd have to have someone explain that to him)
It still is a VM that has to translate each and every instruction. It takes bytecode, and then executes it in the context of the architecture at hand, with all the instructions interpreted.
Good thing that Android moved to the ART then, isn't it? But even then, you're so wrong it's funny. The Dalvik VM compiles the bytecode. It no more translates each instruction than C does, nor does it interpret instructions like Perl/PHP/Ruby et al (which is why those all suck for anything performance bound)
CS 101 stuff here.
So basic, you'd think even an AC on /. would know it.
Had Android used compiled ELF binaries,
Android would have the numbers seen for Blackberry phones, today.
it likely would see a 50-75% performance gain, just due to not having the overhead of a bloated JVM.
You really don't know what you're talking about, do you? Have you even ever seen Dalvik? It's not technically even a JVM and is missing so many JVM features that to be considered bloated, well, that's truly hilarious. Now, what is bloated and designed by a sophomore is the asynchronous GUI Activity/Frame framework.
While Java is still widely used, it is a far cry to Java a decade or so ago.
People are free to disagree with me, but the widespread teaching and use of Java is only still happening because of Android....Java is a language that is losing relevance every day but being propped up by it's use in Android.
Yep, you keep thinking that way, I'll keep being employed. Working with Java. Not on Android.