Of course they would. They have in the past. Take the lawsuits against ReplayTV for example. Unfortunatly, they were too little too late, but the EFF was there.
My number one use for them is to use them as a shared clipboard from my PC to my phone. Sure, there are dozens of ways to get text transferred over, but I have found the easiest way for me is to copy the text, past it into the QRCode website I have pinned to my taskbar, and scan it with QR Droid. No, I don't do that with data that I would be worried about the site stealing. It is mostly package tracking numbers.
Your making a circular argument. It is OK that they cripple the device because it is an appliance. It is an appliance because they cripple the device. Apple has advertised that it is a general purpose device. They didn't advertise "Here are the specific things you can do on the device." They advertised "There is an app for that." in reference to there being an application for any general activity you would want to do.
Just having to find the end of the cord takes 10x as long as just setting the phone down. Claiming that finding the end of the cord, turning the phone to line up the plug with the socket, and plugging it in before you just set the phone down is simply silly. Is it the end of the world to plug the phone in? No. But, it isn't the end of the world to get up and change the channel on the TV either. Even so, virtually every TV sold, now has a wireless remote. Of course, when remotes first started going mainstream, there were plenty of people that claimed they were useless also, since it isn't that hard to get up and change the channel with the buttons on the TV.
First you have to look and see if the plug is right side up, or up-side down. Then you have to follow the octopus of cables to get the one that isn't already in use, since you can't use a generic dock.
Wireless charging means that accessories can be made that work with any device. Plugging in cables is WAY more of a hassle than just sliding the phone into slot, or setting it on a pad. The connectors also have a tendency to break. Wireless charging is just a bit more useful than Bluetooth.
Not to mention when the names are made in alphabetic order, you still have consistent ordering. Until you run out of letters, there is nothing inherently better with 1,2,3 than there is with A,B,C. Jaunty Jackalope is just a pneumonic for Release J which is the same as Release 10.
You obviously do not have a job requiring technical proficiency or any sort of skills that require you to think or change as your industry grows/changes
That is exactly the point. While there are a few education subject that are in flux, the vast majority of education subjects are NOT changing as the industry changes. Making the argument that cutting edge particle physics classes should be live because semester over semester, our knowledge base is change is reasonable. Claiming that 200 years in (or whenever the current standard of statistics was established), teachers are still not able to come up to speed in a short period is a case FOR automating the teaching. Not against it.
The "the lack of natural feedback that one does get when teaching a class face-to-face, allowing for continuous improvement of the course material." comment fails to take into account that a human will not only improve in some areas, but degrade in others.
"You get what you pay for" is just an asinine statement. If he really believes it, then I hereby offer up Statistics classes at (pinky to mouth) One MILLLLIIOOON Dollars! Obviously he acknowledges that my classes would be better than his because "You get what you pay for."
Clearly, TaoPhoenix needs to move "Hucksterism" to the list of complaints that apply to traditional classrooms as well.
For the most part that is correct. Most people become completely proficient at their jobs. Anything they can automate is a benefit because it lets them focus on the edge cases, which is the only place that most people have room to improve.
So, not seeing a conspiracy is now a conspiracy? You are projecting. You are right that humans are fallible. That is MORE reason for Wikipedia AS AN ORGANIZATION to handle things exactly as they did. By having the author write an article on a separate site and reference it, that makes it harder for fallible humans on Wikipedia to screw things up. That includes the author who is one of those fallible humans.
No, if it is written in Wikipedia by the first person, it is saying that it happened. If he writes a different article that says it happened, and that article is referenced, it becomes a "he claimed", as all Wikipedia is.
The reviewers by writing a review of others works are inherently acknowledging that they are a secondary source. If Wikipedea allows Strieber to write that he DID get abducted, Wikipedia now becomes a primary source for showing that alien have visited the earth. Wikipedia's goal is to be a "Someone has said X" type source. A paraphrasing of larger works.
I would go farther and say that the author is not necessarily the end authority on their own work. The process Wikipedia has is actually superior to letting the author put direct edits. The author wrote a separate article, and that article was quoted. That gives a path to put the authors intentions into Wikipedia while also giving those that think he may be misrepresenting himself a footing to put that into the article as well.
The thing is that people often lie about their own actions and intentions. They lie to themselves, and they lie to other people. This gets even worse when you start seeing someone try to sell something. Something like a book. I'm not saying that THIS author was lying, but there are plenty of authors who would.
If they took Roth as a primary source and allowed his words to be stated as unreferenced facts, they would need to take Whitley Strieber as a primary source when he says he was actually kidnapped by aliens.
It is infinity better for Wikipedia to remain a secondary source reference with links to the primary sources.
Wrong. While space is space, and smartphones don't contain much of it, Spaced used for an SD card and slot does not impact the space that can be used for other things like the battery. Space is space, but eating a raisin before Thanksgiving dinner is does not effect how much turkey you eat.
Please note that I am not attempt to evaluate the ethics of FGM (or any genital mutilation) or to make a moral assessment of the situation.
You say that, and then proceed to spend 9 paragraphs attempting to evaluate the ethics of "genital mutilation". Calling it "mutilation" is in itself an attempt to evaluate the ethics. Presumably, you call oral surgery and orthodontics "mutilation" also, right? Every single one of your arguments is just as valid when applied to the "oral mutilation" performed by dentists and orthodontists.
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Of course they would. They have in the past. Take the lawsuits against ReplayTV for example. Unfortunatly, they were too little too late, but the EFF was there.
Your response is an acknowledgement that wireless charging is more practical. Not an argument against it.
So, he is "holding it wrong", or more specifically he is "buying it wrong"?
My number one use for them is to use them as a shared clipboard from my PC to my phone. Sure, there are dozens of ways to get text transferred over, but I have found the easiest way for me is to copy the text, past it into the QRCode website I have pinned to my taskbar, and scan it with QR Droid. No, I don't do that with data that I would be worried about the site stealing. It is mostly package tracking numbers.
Your making a circular argument. It is OK that they cripple the device because it is an appliance. It is an appliance because they cripple the device. Apple has advertised that it is a general purpose device. They didn't advertise "Here are the specific things you can do on the device." They advertised "There is an app for that." in reference to there being an application for any general activity you would want to do.
Just having to find the end of the cord takes 10x as long as just setting the phone down. Claiming that finding the end of the cord, turning the phone to line up the plug with the socket, and plugging it in before you just set the phone down is simply silly. Is it the end of the world to plug the phone in? No. But, it isn't the end of the world to get up and change the channel on the TV either. Even so, virtually every TV sold, now has a wireless remote. Of course, when remotes first started going mainstream, there were plenty of people that claimed they were useless also, since it isn't that hard to get up and change the channel with the buttons on the TV.
Are you saying that Steve Jobs knew every app that would be written for the iPhone when he released it? No? Then it is a general purpose computer.
Do they also pull their bed away from the wall because of the power lines running inside them?
First you have to look and see if the plug is right side up, or up-side down. Then you have to follow the octopus of cables to get the one that isn't already in use, since you can't use a generic dock.
Wireless charging means that accessories can be made that work with any device. Plugging in cables is WAY more of a hassle than just sliding the phone into slot, or setting it on a pad. The connectors also have a tendency to break. Wireless charging is just a bit more useful than Bluetooth.
Not to mention when the names are made in alphabetic order, you still have consistent ordering. Until you run out of letters, there is nothing inherently better with 1,2,3 than there is with A,B,C. Jaunty Jackalope is just a pneumonic for Release J which is the same as Release 10.
You obviously do not have a job requiring technical proficiency or any sort of skills that require you to think or change as your industry grows/changes
That is exactly the point. While there are a few education subject that are in flux, the vast majority of education subjects are NOT changing as the industry changes. Making the argument that cutting edge particle physics classes should be live because semester over semester, our knowledge base is change is reasonable. Claiming that 200 years in (or whenever the current standard of statistics was established), teachers are still not able to come up to speed in a short period is a case FOR automating the teaching. Not against it.
No joke. My 8 year old son uses more data than the parent poster.
The "the lack of natural feedback that one does get when teaching a class face-to-face, allowing for continuous improvement of the course material." comment fails to take into account that a human will not only improve in some areas, but degrade in others.
"You get what you pay for" is just an asinine statement. If he really believes it, then I hereby offer up Statistics classes at (pinky to mouth) One MILLLLIIOOON Dollars! Obviously he acknowledges that my classes would be better than his because "You get what you pay for."
Clearly, TaoPhoenix needs to move "Hucksterism" to the list of complaints that apply to traditional classrooms as well.
For the most part that is correct. Most people become completely proficient at their jobs. Anything they can automate is a benefit because it lets them focus on the edge cases, which is the only place that most people have room to improve.
So, not seeing a conspiracy is now a conspiracy? You are projecting. You are right that humans are fallible. That is MORE reason for Wikipedia AS AN ORGANIZATION to handle things exactly as they did. By having the author write an article on a separate site and reference it, that makes it harder for fallible humans on Wikipedia to screw things up. That includes the author who is one of those fallible humans.
No, if it is written in Wikipedia by the first person, it is saying that it happened. If he writes a different article that says it happened, and that article is referenced, it becomes a "he claimed", as all Wikipedia is.
The reviewers by writing a review of others works are inherently acknowledging that they are a secondary source. If Wikipedea allows Strieber to write that he DID get abducted, Wikipedia now becomes a primary source for showing that alien have visited the earth. Wikipedia's goal is to be a "Someone has said X" type source. A paraphrasing of larger works.
I would go farther and say that the author is not necessarily the end authority on their own work. The process Wikipedia has is actually superior to letting the author put direct edits. The author wrote a separate article, and that article was quoted. That gives a path to put the authors intentions into Wikipedia while also giving those that think he may be misrepresenting himself a footing to put that into the article as well.
The thing is that people often lie about their own actions and intentions. They lie to themselves, and they lie to other people. This gets even worse when you start seeing someone try to sell something. Something like a book. I'm not saying that THIS author was lying, but there are plenty of authors who would.
If they took Roth as a primary source and allowed his words to be stated as unreferenced facts, they would need to take Whitley Strieber as a primary source when he says he was actually kidnapped by aliens.
It is infinity better for Wikipedia to remain a secondary source reference with links to the primary sources.
And then you found out it did.
Wrong. While space is space, and smartphones don't contain much of it, Spaced used for an SD card and slot does not impact the space that can be used for other things like the battery. Space is space, but eating a raisin before Thanksgiving dinner is does not effect how much turkey you eat.
Please note that I am not attempt to evaluate the ethics of FGM (or any genital mutilation) or to make a moral assessment of the situation.
You say that, and then proceed to spend 9 paragraphs attempting to evaluate the ethics of "genital mutilation". Calling it "mutilation" is in itself an attempt to evaluate the ethics. Presumably, you call oral surgery and orthodontics "mutilation" also, right? Every single one of your arguments is just as valid when applied to the "oral mutilation" performed by dentists and orthodontists.
If you took 20 phones, 10 with SD slots and 10 without, I highly doubt that you could pick the ones that had SD slots based on thickness.
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