No, nothing so nefarious. It's just jealousy on the part of the poor little Android phones. They seem to think if they can go into one infinite loop, they will magically be transformed into iPhones.
Yep. It's just one of many tools in a Complete Shop. I find mine useful for a number of smallish things that I would either machine out of aluminum with a CNC mill - lots faster if you don't need the strength. I have several custom mounts for various things on my bicycle that were a breeze to make with 3D printing. At work, we bought a small unit to make the little plastic bits that hold the phone handset on the cradle when mounted vertically. Couldn't find them on E-Bay, it's an older phone model that works just fine, thank you but isn't supported by the manufacturer.
Made 50 of them in three days (they break or fall off, not the best of designs).
Stuff like this is perfect for a 3D printer. Will it Take Over the World like some zealots have suggested? Of course not. Will it replace WalMart? Of course not.
But it's a neat device if you are interested in that sort of thing and the general rise of additive machining technologies will expand niches and capabilities as time goes on. So long as we don't turn ourselves into molten radioactive bits.
Well, they might double the performance but Microsoft has a long way to go before it even approaches build quality or customer care. Of the 5 surfaces and 3 Surface Books we've purchased, two of the Surfaces are still working. None of the Books.
Trying to get a warranty service from MS is like Time Tunneling back to the '90's and dealing with Dell. Unenglish, unorganized, unhelpful.
Although I really liked my Surface Book for the entire month it worked, we've dropped Microsoft hardware entirely at this point. Details matter, it's not just 'innovation'.
Chronic vs. acute exposure. A couple of hundred millirems per week may not be as bad as a few milirems from an alpha particle for dozens of years for kids playing in the basement.
Putting this in some perspective, it's something less than 20 CT scans. While that seems high, it's well within the range of what some (sick) people get. Not a great idea, but a 'tolerable' level of radiation.
Remember, these are for first responder guidelines. Not chronic exposures. First responders are at some risk of various and sundry hazards. And often first response safety considerations means balancing various issues. Sure, you can dress up in a Class A Hazmat suit but if you keel over because of heat prostration or trip over the bit of rebar you didn't see you may end up with a bunch of x-rays anyway. Being an adrenaline junkie has it's dangers.
It would, however, be nice to see if there was some sort of substantive evidence for this.
That's nice you told us that.... Acutally FaceID would work with an iPad. You don't leave it in your pocket and you're typically looking at it. WIndows 10 recognition works reasonably well given that, again, you're typically facing the device when you start it up.
But on a phone, not so much. I really like the fingerprint scanner on my iPhone and iPad - not perfect - doesn't work in the cold and wet but it really isn't all that hard to punch six numbers on a keypad. Such first world problems.
The background check thing was the usual bureaucratic 'Oh it's easy, everybody does it' running into an old boys club with a long history and a lot of pride. It wasn't handled well on either side.
What coordinated amateur radio groups offer that is different from a cell phone is a functional network with a command structure that is capable of working with large and disparate groups of people (Red Cross, local PD, military.) Just a bunch of people on individual cell phones is going to create a large spaghetti of information reminiscent of an early BASIC program. One change and squish - the whole plate is sliding off the wall never to return to the pre existing state.
These people practice setting up and bring down the network. People have defined roles (even those cute vests with silly names on them).
Or, perhaps, there is more to social support than the military. Like FEMA, like the Red Cross, like hundreds of other organizations. Like amateur radio.
The US military is sending assistance and they can do things that nobody else can do (the Navy hospital ship, for instance). There is no earthly reason that the military HAS to be the only group working a disaster.
Because $CluelessUser doesn't understand that the stuff that Apple is trying to leave open (Airdrop and friends) is Bluetooth or Wifi. To the typical smartphone user, it's just magic. So when you shut off Bluetooth, you can't listen to music (oops, I just **knew** that headphone jack was there for a reason) or do other Neat Things.
The 5 AM bit is likely because even for users that understood enough to turn the radios 'off' forgot to turn them back on in the morning.
Go find an old iPhone (you can find the 4S for $20), leave Fing and the other edge case programs on it and use as needed. OF COURSE there are going be winners and losers with significant structural changes. But the vast majority of the Apple universe would thing that Fing was some marginally obscene gesture that their kids picked up from junior high.
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No, nothing so nefarious. It's just jealousy on the part of the poor little Android phones. They seem to think if they can go into one infinite loop, they will magically be transformed into iPhones.
Simple when you think about it for a bit.
Showing us, once again, that reality is much weirder than anything we can dredge up in our heads.
"The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine. (Einstein)
Yeah, let's try this with "People of Walmart".
Time to write the "AI for Dummies" book.
Anybody want to help?
Why would they do that? They can get their own god damned bra pictures. It's not like it's hard these days (so to speak).
You're looking at Slashdot where children can see it?
Have you *no* shame?
Dark? Why dark? How can you see a bra in the dark?
Yep. It's just one of many tools in a Complete Shop. I find mine useful for a number of smallish things that I would either machine out of aluminum with a CNC mill - lots faster if you don't need the strength. I have several custom mounts for various things on my bicycle that were a breeze to make with 3D printing. At work, we bought a small unit to make the little plastic bits that hold the phone handset on the cradle when mounted vertically. Couldn't find them on E-Bay, it's an older phone model that works just fine, thank you but isn't supported by the manufacturer.
Made 50 of them in three days (they break or fall off, not the best of designs).
Stuff like this is perfect for a 3D printer. Will it Take Over the World like some zealots have suggested? Of course not. Will it replace WalMart? Of course not.
But it's a neat device if you are interested in that sort of thing and the general rise of additive machining technologies will expand niches and capabilities as time goes on. So long as we don't turn ourselves into molten radioactive bits.
Well, they might double the performance but Microsoft has a long way to go before it even approaches build quality or customer care. Of the 5 surfaces and 3 Surface Books we've purchased, two of the Surfaces are still working. None of the Books.
Trying to get a warranty service from MS is like Time Tunneling back to the '90's and dealing with Dell. Unenglish, unorganized, unhelpful.
Although I really liked my Surface Book for the entire month it worked, we've dropped Microsoft hardware entirely at this point. Details matter, it's not just 'innovation'.
Nah, just the South Koreans. Not to worry.
Pensive stare.
Chronic vs. acute exposure. A couple of hundred millirems per week may not be as bad as a few milirems from an alpha particle for dozens of years for kids playing in the basement.
Putting this in some perspective, it's something less than 20 CT scans. While that seems high, it's well within the range of what some (sick) people get. Not a great idea, but a 'tolerable' level of radiation.
Remember, these are for first responder guidelines. Not chronic exposures. First responders are at some risk of various and sundry hazards. And often first response safety considerations means balancing various issues. Sure, you can dress up in a Class A Hazmat suit but if you keel over because of heat prostration or trip over the bit of rebar you didn't see you may end up with a bunch of x-rays anyway. Being an adrenaline junkie has it's dangers.
It would, however, be nice to see if there was some sort of substantive evidence for this.
Coal companies **already** get plenty of tax breaks. As do oil companies. And pretty much every goddamn company in the country.
It would be a very interesting, very Republican and very unlikely experiment to roll back ALL the tax breaks.
Let the Invisible hand sort it out.
That's nice you told us that.... Acutally FaceID would work with an iPad. You don't leave it in your pocket and you're typically looking at it. WIndows 10 recognition works reasonably well given that, again, you're typically facing the device when you start it up.
But on a phone, not so much. I really like the fingerprint scanner on my iPhone and iPad - not perfect - doesn't work in the cold and wet but it really isn't all that hard to punch six numbers on a keypad. Such first world problems.
Don't really care. I want one.
Time to clear the brush on the back 40 again.
No, it really should only apply to Emacs.
Oh, give it up already and use Emacs.
His Noodliness is about to run you through the Universal Colander for that bit of blasphemy.
Without any Parmesan cheese.
The background check thing was the usual bureaucratic 'Oh it's easy, everybody does it' running into an old boys club with a long history and a lot of pride. It wasn't handled well on either side.
What coordinated amateur radio groups offer that is different from a cell phone is a functional network with a command structure that is capable of working with large and disparate groups of people (Red Cross, local PD, military.) Just a bunch of people on individual cell phones is going to create a large spaghetti of information reminiscent of an early BASIC program. One change and squish - the whole plate is sliding off the wall never to return to the pre existing state.
These people practice setting up and bring down the network. People have defined roles (even those cute vests with silly names on them).
And no airtime fees.
Or, perhaps, there is more to social support than the military. Like FEMA, like the Red Cross, like hundreds of other organizations. Like amateur radio.
The US military is sending assistance and they can do things that nobody else can do (the Navy hospital ship, for instance). There is no earthly reason that the military HAS to be the only group working a disaster.
Because $CluelessUser doesn't understand that the stuff that Apple is trying to leave open (Airdrop and friends) is Bluetooth or Wifi. To the typical smartphone user, it's just magic. So when you shut off Bluetooth, you can't listen to music (oops, I just **knew** that headphone jack was there for a reason) or do other Neat Things.
The 5 AM bit is likely because even for users that understood enough to turn the radios 'off' forgot to turn them back on in the morning.
Can't have that.
Beats. Apple Music. Final Cut X, 'Minimalist' interfaces. Disappearing headphone jacks.
Disappearing contrast.
Oh, and iTunes.
MacPro, the dwindling mini, the 'touch bar', dongles, port starvation, thin, thin, thin!!!
Oh, and iTunes.
I win!
Go find an old iPhone (you can find the 4S for $20), leave Fing and the other edge case programs on it and use as needed. OF COURSE there are going be winners and losers with significant structural changes. But the vast majority of the Apple universe would thing that Fing was some marginally obscene gesture that their kids picked up from junior high.