It is a figure of speech. Or at least hyperbole. If a person really is so sick that they physically cannot get out of bed, an ambulance should be called immediatly and they should be taken to the emergency room. They need real medical attention.
You have been conned. Apple's exposure is no more or less than every single other electronic device that plugs into a wall. The only way that Apple has any real exposure is if there is something special about the iPhone that makes electrocution more likely than with say, a TV. I have more faith in Apple's engineers than to believe that they are somehow producing particularly dangerous devices. I have less faith in Apple's management when it comes to using excuses to try and act like an abusive monopoly.
Apparently, the risk of electrocution is only with iPhones. Nobody is complaining about getting electrocuted when charging Android, or even Windows Phones.
I always find if funny that almost every revision of Apple phones, there is always as story about how incompetent the Apple engineers are, and how this incompetence is a favor to the customer. Personally, I don't buy it. As you said, most small device manufacturers can make cheap wall warts that don't electrocute customers. To accept that somehow cheap chargers are only dangerous when used with iPhones requires a belief that Apple engineers are not competent.
Yes, but driving down the road with music streaming, the solution of spotting McDonald's and turning off WiFi, and turning it back on when you get out of range isn't really a viable solution.
Agreed. IOS alone could be enough to get servers to start supporting it. If we could also get it onto Android, it would be a done deal. While it would be a nice feature for Laptops, phones seem to be the kill application for this.
I am getting to the point that I hate the free Wifi at McDonalds and Starbucks. In theory it is great, but because of their TOS page, it ends up blocking data from various apps when you drive past one. Constantly adding and removing the connection manually isn't the answer. On the other hand, I feel a bit rediculous complaining about a free service that I could just ignore and not have these issues.
You should think about what is being said before you repeat others. Garth was just pointing out that a PC can be used on a TV. While this is true, plugging a laptop into a TV every time you want to watch a show is way to much hassle to make it worth while. One must decide to put an entire PC permanently connected to the TV to make it worth it. Yes, the Hulu Plus app on TVs is defective by design. That is the whole point of this thread.
Hulu is broken, and there is no reasonable method to use it effectively short of a full dedicated HTPC. Those of use with HTPCs are in the minority, and unless Steam really takes off as a console, the number is unlikely to grow. A $35 Raspberry Pi combined with a smart TV does just about everything that a full $300+ HTPC does except for Hulu. It also isn't as loud, doesn't pull as much power, and can all run using just the TV's single remote control.
There are lots of right solutions. I have considered the generator in the trunk. It isn't a bad idea. The upside would be that it would look cleaner for those that used a generator a lot. It would also help with aerodynamics as well as the it would prevent all of the annoyances of a trailer, like lengthening of the vehicle. The down side is that it would require a lot more standardization buy in to get the generators to work across different models of cars. Not only would you have to standardize the plug, but you would also need to standardize the form factor.
Are you really suggesting that someone deal with hooking and unhooking a laptop to a TV so that they can watch a show when the TV already has a Hulu App built in? While I do have a Windows 7 HTPC, there is no way in hell, I would use my laptop to do it. Having to hook up a computer every time you want to watch TV is worse than watching it on a 17" monitor at your desk.
I suspect that there are plenty of no name Chinese phone manufacturers that would happily supply them with both phones and the drivers if Cyanogenmod wants to make an official phone.
This ladies and gentlemen is the misandrist version of 'slut shaming'. When you want to 'slut shame' a woman, you talk about how she will bang anyone. When you want to 'slut shame' a man, you talk about how he can't get any. It the other side of the same coin.
That's right. You wouldn't run the case off of the generator, you would charge the battery off the generator and run the car of of the battery. If the generator could produce 50% of the power required to run the car, you would extend a 150 mile car to 200 miles. And as you say, every time you stop at a light, to eat, or even drive down hill, the generator be increasing your charge. Ideally, a system where the generator could keep up in real time would be better, but even if it could only produce power at 50% of the consumption rate, it would work well.
That is why we need a standard plug in the back of the car. I've been saying for years that we should have all electric cars, and a standard plug for hooking up a generator. Then we could put the generator on a small trailer. It would be trivial to hook and unhook it, so we wouldn't need to haul the generator around when we were not on trips. We could get all of the liquid fuel goodness that we need for long trips, and we could change our car's fuel type by just getting a new generator.
The generator trailers could even be rented by companies like Hertz or U-haul. Since it wouldn't be a full vehicle, the cost and liability would be far less than with a full car. So, people could go all electric for 99% of their driving, and swing by Hertz to rent a generator if they want to drive across country.
No, it isn't about ass covering. This move creates far more liability than it removes. This is about the school system pushing farther and farther into the role of parent in an attempt to increase the size of their bureaucracy and thus the amount of funding they get. This school has just declared that it is their responsiblility to stop kids from commuting suicide.
No doubt they will soon be complaining that they are held responsible for the responsibilities they have demanded.
It has been a long long time since children have needed to entertain themselves with their own brains. Books, parent's telling them stories, toys like toy trains or hoops and sticks, All of these are kids using someone else's brains to entertain themselves.
He definitely is underestimating 2 year olds. 2 weeks after my son's 2nd birthday, I formatted his hard drive and gave him a copy of Ubuntu. Version 5.06 (or 5.10, I forget which). He installed it with no problems, and proceeded to continue to use his computer.
No, I didn't couch him on how to install it. No, he didn't know how to read yet, but he did know some sight words, so "Enter", "Next", "Cancel" and "OK" were not complete mysteries to him. Of course, his success speaks as much to the simplicity of using the technology as it does my son's ability to use the tech.
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It is a figure of speech. Or at least hyperbole. If a person really is so sick that they physically cannot get out of bed, an ambulance should be called immediatly and they should be taken to the emergency room. They need real medical attention.
You didn't happen to be in Pasadena did you?
You have been conned. Apple's exposure is no more or less than every single other electronic device that plugs into a wall. The only way that Apple has any real exposure is if there is something special about the iPhone that makes electrocution more likely than with say, a TV. I have more faith in Apple's engineers than to believe that they are somehow producing particularly dangerous devices. I have less faith in Apple's management when it comes to using excuses to try and act like an abusive monopoly.
Apparently, the risk of electrocution is only with iPhones. Nobody is complaining about getting electrocuted when charging Android, or even Windows Phones.
I always find if funny that almost every revision of Apple phones, there is always as story about how incompetent the Apple engineers are, and how this incompetence is a favor to the customer. Personally, I don't buy it. As you said, most small device manufacturers can make cheap wall warts that don't electrocute customers. To accept that somehow cheap chargers are only dangerous when used with iPhones requires a belief that Apple engineers are not competent.
The Howell's luggage wasn't an oversight. It was an actively written joke.
Yes, but driving down the road with music streaming, the solution of spotting McDonald's and turning off WiFi, and turning it back on when you get out of range isn't really a viable solution.
Agreed. IOS alone could be enough to get servers to start supporting it. If we could also get it onto Android, it would be a done deal. While it would be a nice feature for Laptops, phones seem to be the kill application for this.
I am getting to the point that I hate the free Wifi at McDonalds and Starbucks. In theory it is great, but because of their TOS page, it ends up blocking data from various apps when you drive past one. Constantly adding and removing the connection manually isn't the answer. On the other hand, I feel a bit rediculous complaining about a free service that I could just ignore and not have these issues.
You should think about what is being said before you repeat others. Garth was just pointing out that a PC can be used on a TV. While this is true, plugging a laptop into a TV every time you want to watch a show is way to much hassle to make it worth while. One must decide to put an entire PC permanently connected to the TV to make it worth it. Yes, the Hulu Plus app on TVs is defective by design. That is the whole point of this thread.
Hulu is broken, and there is no reasonable method to use it effectively short of a full dedicated HTPC. Those of use with HTPCs are in the minority, and unless Steam really takes off as a console, the number is unlikely to grow. A $35 Raspberry Pi combined with a smart TV does just about everything that a full $300+ HTPC does except for Hulu. It also isn't as loud, doesn't pull as much power, and can all run using just the TV's single remote control.
There are lots of right solutions. I have considered the generator in the trunk. It isn't a bad idea. The upside would be that it would look cleaner for those that used a generator a lot. It would also help with aerodynamics as well as the it would prevent all of the annoyances of a trailer, like lengthening of the vehicle. The down side is that it would require a lot more standardization buy in to get the generators to work across different models of cars. Not only would you have to standardize the plug, but you would also need to standardize the form factor.
Try watching The Simpsons on Hulu's Xbox or Roku app.
Are you really suggesting that someone deal with hooking and unhooking a laptop to a TV so that they can watch a show when the TV already has a Hulu App built in? While I do have a Windows 7 HTPC, there is no way in hell, I would use my laptop to do it. Having to hook up a computer every time you want to watch TV is worse than watching it on a 17" monitor at your desk.
I suspect that there are plenty of no name Chinese phone manufacturers that would happily supply them with both phones and the drivers if Cyanogenmod wants to make an official phone.
Maybe they will make a deal with one of the many Chinese phone manufacturers to have a fully supported model.
This ladies and gentlemen is the misandrist version of 'slut shaming'. When you want to 'slut shame' a woman, you talk about how she will bang anyone. When you want to 'slut shame' a man, you talk about how he can't get any. It the other side of the same coin.
You are correct. The ironic part is where people complain about their first world problem of hearing other people complain about first world problems.
That's right. You wouldn't run the case off of the generator, you would charge the battery off the generator and run the car of of the battery. If the generator could produce 50% of the power required to run the car, you would extend a 150 mile car to 200 miles. And as you say, every time you stop at a light, to eat, or even drive down hill, the generator be increasing your charge. Ideally, a system where the generator could keep up in real time would be better, but even if it could only produce power at 50% of the consumption rate, it would work well.
That is why we need a standard plug in the back of the car. I've been saying for years that we should have all electric cars, and a standard plug for hooking up a generator. Then we could put the generator on a small trailer. It would be trivial to hook and unhook it, so we wouldn't need to haul the generator around when we were not on trips. We could get all of the liquid fuel goodness that we need for long trips, and we could change our car's fuel type by just getting a new generator.
The generator trailers could even be rented by companies like Hertz or U-haul. Since it wouldn't be a full vehicle, the cost and liability would be far less than with a full car. So, people could go all electric for 99% of their driving, and swing by Hertz to rent a generator if they want to drive across country.
Mac sales are still closer in market share to desktop Linux than it is to Windows. By a wide margin.
We have a winner!
No, it isn't about ass covering. This move creates far more liability than it removes. This is about the school system pushing farther and farther into the role of parent in an attempt to increase the size of their bureaucracy and thus the amount of funding they get. This school has just declared that it is their responsiblility to stop kids from commuting suicide.
No doubt they will soon be complaining that they are held responsible for the responsibilities they have demanded.
It has been a long long time since children have needed to entertain themselves with their own brains. Books, parent's telling them stories, toys like toy trains or hoops and sticks, All of these are kids using someone else's brains to entertain themselves.
He definitely is underestimating 2 year olds. 2 weeks after my son's 2nd birthday, I formatted his hard drive and gave him a copy of Ubuntu. Version 5.06 (or 5.10, I forget which). He installed it with no problems, and proceeded to continue to use his computer.
No, I didn't couch him on how to install it. No, he didn't know how to read yet, but he did know some sight words, so "Enter", "Next", "Cancel" and "OK" were not complete mysteries to him. Of course, his success speaks as much to the simplicity of using the technology as it does my son's ability to use the tech.
The interesting thing is that TV would be the easiest thing to simulate from 1986. Of course, it would take modern tech to do it.