Back in 2011, Apple had a problem with iPhone alarms not working correctly on January 1st.
Really? Apple had an issue with iPhone hardware causing alarms to go off early? Or do you mean there was an iOS issue, but you really wanted a reason to say "iPhone" in your story somewhere?
If you're able to automate everything then it makes sense to manufacture closer to point of sale. The thing that would stop that though is that all of the chip suppliers are also in the area.
That would make sense if manufacturing in China were simply a labor-payroll-saving decision. As you mention, chip suppliers are in the area, so there are still logistical considerations. But you also forget about differences in government bureaucracy between China and the US/EU. And environmental regulations about the waste being created, regardless of whether its man or machine assembly.
Yeah, not sure how many are real and how many are staged. Some of those castings have pre-interviews and you find out some of the girls have prior nude modeling or cam-show experience.
There is one series (not Backroom Casting Couch) where I believe the girls are true amateurs -- not "duped into doing a scene for free" casting-video style, but they get paid for doing a single long scene. There was even a documentary about it (I think it's on Netflix). I saw the trailer for the documentary and even though they didn't mention the specific website, from the shooting locations and lighting and I have a pretty good idea what site it is.
Based on there being a ton of "casting couch" porn, this seems like it happens a lot...
If you watch enough porn you will realize lots of those in casting videos are actually established porn stars -- not big name ones, but ones that appear in several other videos already, so it's unlikely they were really first-time auditioning.
Yes you are correct. But they did recall all the devices of that model and one would assume that the experience for users was bad and that the whole thing was a PR nightmare, which is even worse for a company that doesn't really have a huge brand following. And yet they're still increasing their share.
Samsung most certainly does have a large brand following. It's nothing like Apple's cult-like group as far as dedication, but people still get excited surmising on what the next Galaxy S will have, or even what's in store for the midrange (Galaxy A) trio since the styling and features of the S can find their way into them, too sometimes. At this point most Apple fans consider Samsung to the only "real competitor" Apple has in the marketplace. I think that's hogwash with LG and now Google's Pixel, but they only focus on the sales numbers of individual makers, so since Samsung has such a large chuck of Android...
Next up someone will write a program to keep whatever the current active window is in game mode.
Because whatever the user is interacting with should pretty much always take precedence over what isn't even visible on screen.
Except when you're doing a processing-heavy task that does not require your interaction and you're just playing around on something else on the computer to waste time while that job is completing.
The documents you are citing appear to date back to Android 3.2 and are obviously out of date in regards to current handset specs. Average screen densities and diagonal measurements have grown quite a bit the last few years as manufactures try to one-up each other on numbers for marketing purposes.
Go on PhoneArena.com or GSMArena.com and do a search of Android handsets and sizes. As someone who has just recently bought I new phone, I can tell you from first-hand experience that the vast majority of Android phones are 5" or larger. Smaller-screened ones I've found are generally low-cost phones meant for sale as BYO or MVNO devices, and many were older leftovers as they were selling with Android 4.x or 5.0 (and are non-upgradeable). You might want to look at this previous comment I made on this.
The interesting figure is that Samsung *increased* their new activations, going from 19% to 21%, in the same year that they had to recall every single one of their new phones because they exploded.
Uh, "every single one"? Last I checked Samsung makes more phones than the Galaxy Note 7. Where were the recalls for the Galaxy S7, Galaxy A3/A5/A7, Galaxy J, etc.? I never heard about them.
Phablets, or smartphones and tablets ranging in size from 5 inches to 6.9 inches, continued to grow in popularity.
Need to adjust that definition. 90% of Android phones now have screen of 5" or larger. It seems it's only once you hit 5.7" or above people really start throwing around the term "phablet" now.
...who wants to ensure the company can run according to his vision even when he's not there...
So he has admitted that he has abdicated his responsibility to have people in place in case he is unable to manage the company?
Even better -- if the A.I. is designed to run the company according to his vision even when he's not there, why does he need to be kept on the payroll?
You know what the biggest thing that's deterred me so far is? iCloud. I'm locked into the entire apple ecosystem because I love how all my contacts etc sync seemlessly across my devices. Once the Mac line is so underwhelming for its price that I do switch, I no longer need my iPhone or my iPad. I can buy an android or whatever else I can sync with.
If you have contacts syncing on an iCloud account and a Gmail account both active on your iPhone, then iOS will bridge the two pretty much. The contacts will get transferred to the Google account, too. Just try it. Disable the iCloud contacts in your settings. You'll get a warning that it will remove the contacts from the phone for that iCloud account, but you'll see nothing will actually disappear -- because they all exist on the Gmail account you are also syncing with still. You can log into the respective websites and confirm that way too I guess.
I'm a long time iCloud user (was actually iTools when I joined), but only recently became a smartphone owner. Was interested in the iPhone SE, but ended up with an Android due to cost and my desire to wait for a newer version of the smallest iPhone first. I have this app on my phone, and it totally works. My iCloud contacts show up with all the correct info on my Android address book. I can add/edit them on the phone too and it will sync back to Apple, but I prefer to use the iCloud website instead. The developer has a separate app for iCloud Calendar syncing to Android. I also have it, but I have less experience with it.
Even worse, after bricking a device and requesting support, you're asked the insulting question, "What issue were you trying to resolve by updating the firmware?", as if you've been doing something wrong and tampering with the device causing it to fail.
Or they might just be following the old saying "If it aint broke, don't fix it".
End users don't generally consider security issues things that need to be fixed. They only know their thingamajig worked fine before you started playing with it, and now it doesn't. Arguably, they're right. The "issue you were trying to fix" was a failure on your company's part to write the device firmware more secure to start with. Remember most of these exploits are things like back doors with hard-coded passwords, hidden telnet servers, etc. These are thing that are not the result of stupid typos or mis-written lines of code, they are things had had to be proactively added to start with to the software, despite them being a bad idea.
since I read that our schools have been graduating lawyers in record numbers. Law degrees are highly desirable to schools. They're cheap as hell for the school (a book and a bunch of teachers to read it and grade papers) and expensive as hell for the student.
Is that really just the school driving that? Maybe American students are wising up. "Why study anything in science and technology? All those jobs are just being outsourced anyway. People don't respect the trades. Guess I should study law if I want to make good money without fear of someone in Asia taking my job."
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Back in 2011, Apple had a problem with iPhone alarms not working correctly on January 1st.
Really? Apple had an issue with iPhone hardware causing alarms to go off early? Or do you mean there was an iOS issue, but you really wanted a reason to say "iPhone" in your story somewhere?
If you're able to automate everything then it makes sense to manufacture closer to point of sale. The thing that would stop that though is that all of the chip suppliers are also in the area.
That would make sense if manufacturing in China were simply a labor-payroll-saving decision. As you mention, chip suppliers are in the area, so there are still logistical considerations. But you also forget about differences in government bureaucracy between China and the US/EU. And environmental regulations about the waste being created, regardless of whether its man or machine assembly.
Yeah, not sure how many are real and how many are staged. Some of those castings have pre-interviews and you find out some of the girls have prior nude modeling or cam-show experience.
There is one series (not Backroom Casting Couch) where I believe the girls are true amateurs -- not "duped into doing a scene for free" casting-video style, but they get paid for doing a single long scene. There was even a documentary about it (I think it's on Netflix). I saw the trailer for the documentary and even though they didn't mention the specific website, from the shooting locations and lighting and I have a pretty good idea what site it is.
Based on there being a ton of "casting couch" porn, this seems like it happens a lot...
If you watch enough porn you will realize lots of those in casting videos are actually established porn stars -- not big name ones, but ones that appear in several other videos already, so it's unlikely they were really first-time auditioning.
Yes you are correct. But they did recall all the devices of that model and one would assume that the experience for users was bad and that the whole thing was a PR nightmare, which is even worse for a company that doesn't really have a huge brand following. And yet they're still increasing their share.
Samsung most certainly does have a large brand following. It's nothing like Apple's cult-like group as far as dedication, but people still get excited surmising on what the next Galaxy S will have, or even what's in store for the midrange (Galaxy A) trio since the styling and features of the S can find their way into them, too sometimes. At this point most Apple fans consider Samsung to the only "real competitor" Apple has in the marketplace. I think that's hogwash with LG and now Google's Pixel, but they only focus on the sales numbers of individual makers, so since Samsung has such a large chuck of Android...
Next up someone will write a program to keep whatever the current active window is in game mode.
Because whatever the user is interacting with should pretty much always take precedence over what isn't even visible on screen.
Except when you're doing a processing-heavy task that does not require your interaction and you're just playing around on something else on the computer to waste time while that job is completing.
Where did you get that idea? According to Google's own statistics, 90% of all screens are "small" or "normal" with "normal" ending somewhere below 5" on their vague "definition" chart. https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html . https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html#range
The documents you are citing appear to date back to Android 3.2 and are obviously out of date in regards to current handset specs. Average screen densities and diagonal measurements have grown quite a bit the last few years as manufactures try to one-up each other on numbers for marketing purposes.
Go on PhoneArena.com or GSMArena.com and do a search of Android handsets and sizes. As someone who has just recently bought I new phone, I can tell you from first-hand experience that the vast majority of Android phones are 5" or larger. Smaller-screened ones I've found are generally low-cost phones meant for sale as BYO or MVNO devices, and many were older leftovers as they were selling with Android 4.x or 5.0 (and are non-upgradeable). You might want to look at this previous comment I made on this.
The interesting figure is that Samsung *increased* their new activations, going from 19% to 21%, in the same year that they had to recall every single one of their new phones because they exploded.
Uh, "every single one"? Last I checked Samsung makes more phones than the Galaxy Note 7.
Where were the recalls for the Galaxy S7, Galaxy A3/A5/A7, Galaxy J, etc.? I never heard about them.
Phablets, or smartphones and tablets ranging in size from 5 inches to 6.9 inches, continued to grow in popularity.
Need to adjust that definition. 90% of Android phones now have screen of 5" or larger. It seems it's only once you hit 5.7" or above people really start throwing around the term "phablet" now.
My phone is working fine, thank you.
Liar, liar. Pants on Fire.
No, really! Stop, drop, and roll!
t looks like you shouldn't have blocked that update.
"... and nothing of Note was lost."
There. :-)
...who wants to ensure the company can run according to his vision even when he's not there...
So he has admitted that he has abdicated his responsibility to have people in place in case he is unable to manage the company?
Even better -- if the A.I. is designed to run the company according to his vision even when he's not there, why does he need to be kept on the payroll?
Raindrops hide gamers' teardrops.
You know what the biggest thing that's deterred me so far is? iCloud. I'm locked into the entire apple ecosystem because I love how all my contacts etc sync seemlessly across my devices. Once the Mac line is so underwhelming for its price that I do switch, I no longer need my iPhone or my iPad. I can buy an android or whatever else I can sync with.
If you have contacts syncing on an iCloud account and a Gmail account both active on your iPhone, then iOS will bridge the two pretty much. The contacts will get transferred to the Google account, too. Just try it. Disable the iCloud contacts in your settings. You'll get a warning that it will remove the contacts from the phone for that iCloud account, but you'll see nothing will actually disappear -- because they all exist on the Gmail account you are also syncing with still. You can log into the respective websites and confirm that way too I guess.
I'm a long time iCloud user (was actually iTools when I joined), but only recently became a smartphone owner. Was interested in the iPhone SE, but ended up with an Android due to cost and my desire to wait for a newer version of the smallest iPhone first. I have this app on my phone, and it totally works. My iCloud contacts show up with all the correct info on my Android address book. I can add/edit them on the phone too and it will sync back to Apple, but I prefer to use the iCloud website instead. The developer has a separate app for iCloud Calendar syncing to Android. I also have it, but I have less experience with it.
Apple has already proven that "look and feel" is something you can litigate over.
Thank goodness someone told Nokia about this hip new iPhone device so they could take action before years went by or something.
Sounds like he wants to get everyone the Christmas bonus Google decided to deny them this year.
Ho-Ho-Ho!
Is this really news, or is USA Today just promoting Facebook for free?
I don't think USA Today is a newspaper that really recognizes the difference between actual news and product placement anyway.
Tell us more about this "Open Source" "US-made" hardware you own.
Is that supposed to be impressive? Doesn't Skype already support a lot more simultaneous participants on video chat?
Even worse, after bricking a device and requesting support, you're asked the insulting question, "What issue were you trying to resolve by updating the firmware?", as if you've been doing something wrong and tampering with the device causing it to fail.
Or they might just be following the old saying "If it aint broke, don't fix it".
End users don't generally consider security issues things that need to be fixed. They only know their thingamajig worked fine before you started playing with it, and now it doesn't. Arguably, they're right. The "issue you were trying to fix" was a failure on your company's part to write the device firmware more secure to start with. Remember most of these exploits are things like back doors with hard-coded passwords, hidden telnet servers, etc. These are thing that are not the result of stupid typos or mis-written lines of code, they are things had had to be proactively added to start with to the software, despite them being a bad idea.
That will stop those killer robots from killing us.
If there's one thing Skynet recognizes, it's the authority of the written word.
Short of invalidating the election results and making us redo it, I don't know what Obama thinks he can do that will actually bother Putin.
Star Wars and bait porn should never be in the same sentence
"It's a Trap!"
since I read that our schools have been graduating lawyers in record numbers. Law degrees are highly desirable to schools. They're cheap as hell for the school (a book and a bunch of teachers to read it and grade papers) and expensive as hell for the student.
Is that really just the school driving that? Maybe American students are wising up. "Why study anything in science and technology? All those jobs are just being outsourced anyway. People don't respect the trades. Guess I should study law if I want to make good money without fear of someone in Asia taking my job."