Bluetooth works fine for me if I have the phone on an armband or if I hold it out to the side, but the second I lower my arm or put the phone in my pocket, my headphones stop working. Give me a wired connection please!!
You have some real shitty headphones. Standard range is 10m. In real like I get 10 feet when walls and other obstacles are in the mix. If your headphones can't do 3 feet, there's a problem.
5. Devices must be used in airplane mode or with the cellular connection disabled. You may use the WiFi connection on your device if the plane has an installed WiFi system and the airline allows its use. You can also continue to use short-range Bluetooth accessories, like wireless keyboards.
Far East Android phones can be just as expensive as iToys
And we do understand the difference between "can be" and "are". There are many, many cheap, good, high-end-ish Android phones for sale today that cost 1/2 of an iPhone.
Most people drive to work everyday to profit from their jobs. Are they paying for their profit?
Yes?! Do you pay income taxes?
If you want to pay for things related to roads, build it into a gas tax. Stop trying to hide things in various taxes that hit affect special interest groups differently, that's how loopholes come to be. Special interests getting favors from government.
Ok so I can go to the nearest hotel and find uber cars waiting just like I can with a taxi?
No but you can order an Uber 5 minutes before you need to leave and have it at your door, not the Hotel. You can also track it on the map to know exactly when it's pulling up.[
What about my aunt who is physically handicapped, how many Uber cars are fitted with special equipment for her?
I imagine it's >0. Anyway, she can use taxis right?
In many areas (I don't know about Massachusetts), taxis aren't legally allowed to refuse fares, while there's no such restriction on Uber and similar companies. So when your flight doesn't get in 'til 2am and you live in a slightly sketchier neighborhood, but none of the Uber drivers are willing to take you there, the taxis need to still be available.
Right, and all of those news stories about african americans getting passed up by taxies were false right? Because taxi drivers are always fine, upstanding citizens that wouldn't think about breaking the law.
I missed a flight because a taxi failed to pick me up. And what do you do then? Try to get through to dispatch, hope you aren't put on hold, and pray that they have someone in the area.
It's never a problem with Uber, because there's always 5 cars circling within a mile a or two. Someone wants that fare.
No I believe that their increase in marketshare is due to people's desire to save a dollar or two wherever they can.
I think anyone that's ever used Uber would agree that price a smaller component of the picture. The bigger picture is quick, reliable service, ease of scheduling, clean cars, courteous drivers, and a simplified payment model.
Instead, the tolls are one way: you pay them, if you are a nasty, low income person coming from Emeryville into San Francisco, but not if you are a wonderful, high income person going from San Francisco to Emeryville to pick up furniture at Ikea (you pay to come back of course, but, being rich, you can afford the barrier to entry).
The reason why tolls are one-way is because (most) people make round trips, so it's more efficient to have the infrastructure in place to charge 2x the amount in one direction.
With their reasoning, I can open up a bakery, have an app that allows you to order custom cakes (like you can't do that over a standard phone) and bingo! It's a tech company!!
Do you think there should be laws preventing you from doing that, if you found a way to make it happen?
In reality, it's just a cheap way to get around regulations, pay their workers less
The reason Uber drivers don't make much is because almost everyone has a car, insurance, and a license. There's almost zero barrier to entry into this employment market. You can expect wages in such a market to be rock bottom.
They are just different, since they are different services. It's illegal for an Uber to respond to a literal hail
I'd like to meet the forward thinking person in the Taxi industry that thought that preventing Ubers from responding to hails was going to protect their business.
I am sorry Taxi industry that your business model is failing. However it happens, trying to have the government come in and try to subsidize your business model isn't a solution.
The model isn't failing, the implementation sucks. People love the model: rides on demand.
The answer, of course, is that when the public (you and me) provide the infrastructure for someone to earn a profit, they need to compensate the public. Professional drivers use the roads, bridges, stop lights, police, air quality management, emissions testing, public transportation (to offset the traffic increase) and so on that we paid for. If they are going to make a profit off that, they pay.
If you need an analogy, think about the iOS App Store. They take a cut of the profits earned from the apps sold there. Why? Because they are providing the infrastructure that allows the developers of those apps to make money in the first place. Without iOS and an app store (of which the devs contributed nothing to develop) those devs would not be earning anything. By the same token, Uber drivers wouldn't be earning if the public hadn't built them roads (or provided crap roads that made it unprofitable for them to do business).
And if your response is that they already pay, you need to consider that there's a difference in scale between how an individual, and a taxi driver or Uber driver or a truck driver uses public infrastructure.
Picking ears of corn is easy. You just twist and pull. We still hand pick many fruits and some vegetables. Give me a break. Everyone has starry eyes, but it ain't gonna happen.
What I want to know is why Google, Uber, Apple, Tesla, Mercedes, BMW, and so aren't hiring you as a consultant. You could have saved them hundreds of billions of dollars.
Oh, I know why. Because your lunch break is only 30 minutes.
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Bluetooth works fine for me if I have the phone on an armband or if I hold it out to the side, but the second I lower my arm or put the phone in my pocket, my headphones stop working. Give me a wired connection please!!
You have some real shitty headphones. Standard range is 10m. In real like I get 10 feet when walls and other obstacles are in the mix. If your headphones can't do 3 feet, there's a problem.
5. Devices must be used in airplane mode or with the cellular connection disabled. You may use the WiFi connection on your device if the plane has an installed WiFi system and the airline allows its use. You can also continue to use short-range Bluetooth accessories, like wireless keyboards.
https://www.faa.gov/news/press...
Now you know better.
Manners and pragmatism must be out of style these days.
Ever heard of this technology called Bluetooth? Look it up Mr. Manners.
Linux desktop is alive and well and poised to take over the world. Any day now.
... or they just use the adapter.
Dumb question. Can't you just get a lightning to audio jack adapter? There are even rumor this will be bundled with the 7.
Far East Android phones can be just as expensive as iToys
And we do understand the difference between "can be" and "are". There are many, many cheap, good, high-end-ish Android phones for sale today that cost 1/2 of an iPhone.
Windows 10 is a mess, you should consider moving to Linux instead.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is all the more relevant as 2016 is the year of the Linux Desktop.
Most people drive to work everyday to profit from their jobs. Are they paying for their profit?
Yes?! Do you pay income taxes?
If you want to pay for things related to roads, build it into a gas tax. Stop trying to hide things in various taxes that hit affect special interest groups differently, that's how loopholes come to be. Special interests getting favors from government.
Because gas tax isn't progressive.
Higher than what? No, she can continue to pay whatever she's paying now.
Don't you realize? The pols RELY on the voters being stupid SOBs. And they are almost never disappointed.
Thank god we have geniuses like you to help us tie our shoelaces and not drown in the shower.
Ok so I can go to the nearest hotel and find uber cars waiting just like I can with a taxi?
No but you can order an Uber 5 minutes before you need to leave and have it at your door, not the Hotel. You can also track it on the map to know exactly when it's pulling up.[
What about my aunt who is physically handicapped, how many Uber cars are fitted with special equipment for her?
I imagine it's >0. Anyway, she can use taxis right?
In many areas (I don't know about Massachusetts), taxis aren't legally allowed to refuse fares, while there's no such restriction on Uber and similar companies. So when your flight doesn't get in 'til 2am and you live in a slightly sketchier neighborhood, but none of the Uber drivers are willing to take you there, the taxis need to still be available.
Right, and all of those news stories about african americans getting passed up by taxies were false right? Because taxi drivers are always fine, upstanding citizens that wouldn't think about breaking the law.
I missed a flight because a taxi failed to pick me up. And what do you do then? Try to get through to dispatch, hope you aren't put on hold, and pray that they have someone in the area.
It's never a problem with Uber, because there's always 5 cars circling within a mile a or two. Someone wants that fare.
No I believe that their increase in marketshare is due to people's desire to save a dollar or two wherever they can.
I think anyone that's ever used Uber would agree that price a smaller component of the picture. The bigger picture is quick, reliable service, ease of scheduling, clean cars, courteous drivers, and a simplified payment model.
Instead, the tolls are one way: you pay them, if you are a nasty, low income person coming from Emeryville into San Francisco, but not if you are a wonderful, high income person going from San Francisco to Emeryville to pick up furniture at Ikea (you pay to come back of course, but, being rich, you can afford the barrier to entry).
The reason why tolls are one-way is because (most) people make round trips, so it's more efficient to have the infrastructure in place to charge 2x the amount in one direction.
With their reasoning, I can open up a bakery, have an app that allows you to order custom cakes (like you can't do that over a standard phone) and bingo! It's a tech company!!
Do you think there should be laws preventing you from doing that, if you found a way to make it happen?
In reality, it's just a cheap way to get around regulations, pay their workers less
The reason Uber drivers don't make much is because almost everyone has a car, insurance, and a license. There's almost zero barrier to entry into this employment market. You can expect wages in such a market to be rock bottom.
So -- You favor throwing all of us who run only free software on open computer hardware into some sort of digital ghetto?
That's right.
They are just different, since they are different services. It's illegal for an Uber to respond to a literal hail
I'd like to meet the forward thinking person in the Taxi industry that thought that preventing Ubers from responding to hails was going to protect their business.
I am sorry Taxi industry that your business model is failing. However it happens, trying to have the government come in and try to subsidize your business model isn't a solution.
The model isn't failing, the implementation sucks. People love the model: rides on demand.
Why does it matter?
The answer, of course, is that when the public (you and me) provide the infrastructure for someone to earn a profit, they need to compensate the public. Professional drivers use the roads, bridges, stop lights, police, air quality management, emissions testing, public transportation (to offset the traffic increase) and so on that we paid for. If they are going to make a profit off that, they pay.
If you need an analogy, think about the iOS App Store. They take a cut of the profits earned from the apps sold there. Why? Because they are providing the infrastructure that allows the developers of those apps to make money in the first place. Without iOS and an app store (of which the devs contributed nothing to develop) those devs would not be earning anything. By the same token, Uber drivers wouldn't be earning if the public hadn't built them roads (or provided crap roads that made it unprofitable for them to do business).
And if your response is that they already pay, you need to consider that there's a difference in scale between how an individual, and a taxi driver or Uber driver or a truck driver uses public infrastructure.
So it's illegal for me to give me co-worker a ride to work without paying this onerous tax?
No.
So it's illegal to give a friend a ride somewhere without paying this onerous tax?
No.
So it's illegal to give wome you just met a ride without paying this onerous tax?
No.
The year of the Linux desktop people.
Clarke's third law
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Picking ears of corn is easy. You just twist and pull. We still hand pick many fruits and some vegetables. Give me a break. Everyone has starry eyes, but it ain't gonna happen.
What I want to know is why Google, Uber, Apple, Tesla, Mercedes, BMW, and so aren't hiring you as a consultant. You could have saved them hundreds of billions of dollars.
Oh, I know why. Because your lunch break is only 30 minutes.
The only ideology alive in China is the love of money.