The UI in pretty much every Adobe product isn't any better. The learning curve for new users is atrociously steep.
Interesting example of how words and phrases, through usage, can come to mean the opposite of their original meanings. From Wikipedia: "A learning curve is a graphical representation of the increase of learning (vertical axis) with experience (horizontal axis)." and "The familiar expression "a steep learning curve" is intended to mean that the activity is difficult to learn, although a learning curve with a steep start actually represents rapid progress."
We use 'signed off' to mean 'approved' in America too, so......
Yeah. The usage in TFS is a odd, though. Usually, it's used in reference to a group or person giving approval, as in "The head of HR signed off on the new policy." Not "The new HR policy has been signed off."
Going from memory, the standard rate (which I believe is odds in 1 year for a sexually active adult), the effectiveness of birth control is:
The pill (97% effective, 3% failure rate) i.e. 1 in 33 people who are sexually still active get pregnant every year.
condom (80% effective, 20% failure rate) i.e. 1 in 5 people who are sexually active still get pregnant every year.
No birth control (20% effective, 80% failure rate) i.e. 4 in 5 people who are sexual active get pregnant every year.
So 96% is right up there with the pill and a heck of a lot better than the other male alternatives.
These numbers are a bit more pessimistic for the pill and condoms. Note that these statistics reflect actual use and not "if it's always used correctly".
The pill (8/100 couples will get pregnant)
Condom (18/100 couples will get pregnant)
The only methods that get down to 1 or fewer preganancies per 100 couples are "emergency contraception" (i.e., morning after pill) and IUD.
Yes, ironically, the lowest end model has the features that the people buying the high end i7 models need.
Except the ability to attach a display, external storage device and power cable... because Apple handicapped it with just two ports. I guess it's "Pro" because that's one more than the MacBook has.
It has two Thunderbolt ports and a USB-C charging port. So yes, you can attach a display (adapter/cable not included), external storage device (adapter/cable not included) and power cable (power supply and cable included, by God!).
There will be TSA (unless we come to our senses before 2026).
Private aircraft charters don't deal with TSA; this probably wouldn't either. At least, one would hope not. They don't mess with buses or commuter trains.
It's not an inherently bad idea, but who is it for? Who'll be willing to pay the fare? Who has a 2 hour commute?
I guess you're not familiar with I405 in southern California. Anyone who lives in the San Fernando Valley and works south of LAX is very familiar with the concept of a 2 hour one-way daily commute. I make fairly frequent trips to Westwood; it's never less than an hour and a half. As for who'll be willing to pay the fare... I've observed many people violate the HOV lane rules to shave 10 minutes off their drive time at the risk of a ~$300 fine; I'm guessing there are enough potential users to make the business work.
It might be simpler to get them flying autonomously than it is to get them driving autonomously.
Maybe. But the initial plan is for them to be human piloted ("The vehicles would be able to travel at about 150 mph for up to 100 miles and carry multiple people, including a pilot, according to Wired"). TFA says, "Eventually, the planes will be self-flying." I interpret "eventually" to mean, "perhaps someday".
Given the flow of "Russian" related stories on slashdot, would studying Russian not now be the trending language to get a promotion in the NSA?
Or at least have some skills on show to fend off been replace by a contractor?
You might have a point, if he wasn't already a contractor rather than an employee. If he was an NSA employee wanting to learn Russian and the NSA wanted him to learn Russian, the NSA would pay him to learn Russian.
The problem isn't that the media wants to report the out of the ordinary, the problem is that they are conveniently leaving out facts to make it appear worse than it really is.
It reminds me of the anti-cigarette commercials there are plenty of good reasons to not smoke but they are running commercials that say there is methane in cigarettes just like poop when in actuality you would have to smoke for multiple lifetimes just to get enough methane out of a cigarette to equal the amount of methane an average person pays to have pumped into their house each month to their furnace, water heater, and stove cook with.
Yeah, that sort of things falls under "what is likely to attract consumer attention".
Aside from this, anyone who watches local TV news sees frequent stories along the lines of "Entire family wiped out in car crash." This type of reporting is extremely common.
When I started reading this post, I thought you were being sarcastic or ironic, and I was looking forward to the punchline. Then I realized you were actually serious. The thing is, the news media report on what is unusual and what is likely to attract consumer attention, not necessarily in that order. You know: man bites dog, rather than dog bites man; it doesn't matter that dog bites man happens a lot more frequently than man bites dog. You're free to consider this deplorable, but that's the way it's always been and it's very unlikely to change.
Let's get some truth in advertising please? Anything less than full bandwidth 24x7 should not be called "unlimited".
Don't be silly. 24x7 at full bandwidth is still limited, unless "full bandwidth" is infinite. And if network bandwidth were infinite, then they'd be guilty of selling you a phone that limited your usage because it couldn't exploit that infinite bandwidth. You shouldn't be satisfied until you can download the entire Internet instantaneously, endlessly; then you can turn your attention to bitching about the quality of the content.
At $48 million they're not being slapped down. that's not even a slap on the wrist. It's more like shaking your head from across the room, then following up with a quick wink and tiny nod.
Comments along this line always make me wonder: is the set of people who believe that these companies leave no stone unturned in their evil quest to wring every possible cent from each customer, the same set of people who believe that these companies don't care about paying a $48 million fine?
No, that should not cover them, as they are advertising a limit after the fact. The issue here is where they say "unlimited" which by any technically-competent person would imply you can use as much bandwidth as you can receive at any time with zero time restrictions or other restrictions.
If you advertise throttling at any point and time, you are lying about your unlimited service. Unlimited means NO LIMITS. Period. Oxford has yet to change that definition, and fuck 'legal' definitions as they are often not based upon factual information.
The ATT advertisements I've seen don't use "unlimited" or any other term that implies "no limit". What they do advertise is "no data overage fees".
It may be people spend less money on Android apps because they want to spend less money on the total package.
If that were true, it would follow that they would never buy an expensive iPhone in the first place, regardless of the ecosystem or apps.
On the other hand, if they're avoiding expensive phones, they wouldn't have bought a Note 7 either.
This was of course not the intent of the law when it was written.
Laws are not supposed to be enforced according to someone's interpretation of their intent. If the law is not performing as intended, then it can be amended by the lawmakers.
Oh yeah -- the courts are not supposed to interpret intent either; they're supposed to make judgements according to the way laws are written. This, of course, is an area where practice often departs from theory.
"Well, that should be effective, seeing as how Samsung has told all Note 7 users to power off their phones."
Clearly they would be going without any phone at all, left incommunicado forever.
I don't know why this even has to be explained. Samsung advised Note 7 owners to shut off their phones more than a week ago; even the supposedly good replacement ones that turned out to not be good. This was widely reported on TV, in print media, and on countless websites, and has been the subject of countless 'water cooler' discussions. Only cave-dwelling hermits could be unaware, and they probably don't have network coverage, so they can't receive the text. If they have turned off their phones, they won't receive the text. If they have returned their phones, the text message is superfluous. If they still have their defective phones and still haven't turned them off, they're likely too ignorant to heed the text message.
yeah, because london is such a cheap place to live in, you have to be extra wealthy to be able to afford an iphone. maybe you're also living in a reality distortion field, only of the "i'm such a poor victim, why do you call me racist scum"-variety?
Sure, they've been banned in baggage as well - but will that actually stop people from dropping them in there and hoping to get away with it?
Not all of them, I'd bet.
What are suggesting? Guns aren't allowed in carry-on, but people still put guns in carry-on. Things that are illegal are against the law, but some people still break the law.
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The UI in pretty much every Adobe product isn't any better. The learning curve for new users is atrociously steep.
Interesting example of how words and phrases, through usage, can come to mean the opposite of their original meanings. From Wikipedia: "A learning curve is a graphical representation of the increase of learning (vertical axis) with experience (horizontal axis)." and "The familiar expression "a steep learning curve" is intended to mean that the activity is difficult to learn, although a learning curve with a steep start actually represents rapid progress."
We use 'signed off' to mean 'approved' in America too, so......
Yeah. The usage in TFS is a odd, though. Usually, it's used in reference to a group or person giving approval, as in "The head of HR signed off on the new policy." Not "The new HR policy has been signed off."
Going from memory, the standard rate (which I believe is odds in 1 year for a sexually active adult), the effectiveness of birth control is:
The pill (97% effective, 3% failure rate) i.e. 1 in 33 people who are sexually still active get pregnant every year.
condom (80% effective, 20% failure rate) i.e. 1 in 5 people who are sexually active still get pregnant every year.
No birth control (20% effective, 80% failure rate) i.e. 4 in 5 people who are sexual active get pregnant every year.
So 96% is right up there with the pill and a heck of a lot better than the other male alternatives.
These numbers are a bit more pessimistic for the pill and condoms. Note that these statistics reflect actual use and not "if it's always used correctly".
The pill (8/100 couples will get pregnant)
Condom (18/100 couples will get pregnant)
The only methods that get down to 1 or fewer preganancies per 100 couples are "emergency contraception" (i.e., morning after pill) and IUD.
From the FCC's fact sheet for the regulation:
Yes, ironically, the lowest end model has the features that the people buying the high end i7 models need.
Except the ability to attach a display, external storage device and power cable ... because Apple handicapped it with just two ports. I guess it's "Pro" because that's one more than the MacBook has.
It has two Thunderbolt ports and a USB-C charging port. So yes, you can attach a display (adapter/cable not included), external storage device (adapter/cable not included) and power cable (power supply and cable included, by God!).
There will be TSA (unless we come to our senses before 2026).
Private aircraft charters don't deal with TSA; this probably wouldn't either. At least, one would hope not. They don't mess with buses or commuter trains.
It's not an inherently bad idea, but who is it for? Who'll be willing to pay the fare? Who has a 2 hour commute?
I guess you're not familiar with I405 in southern California. Anyone who lives in the San Fernando Valley and works south of LAX is very familiar with the concept of a 2 hour one-way daily commute. I make fairly frequent trips to Westwood; it's never less than an hour and a half. As for who'll be willing to pay the fare... I've observed many people violate the HOV lane rules to shave 10 minutes off their drive time at the risk of a ~$300 fine; I'm guessing there are enough potential users to make the business work.
It might be simpler to get them flying autonomously than it is to get them driving autonomously.
Maybe. But the initial plan is for them to be human piloted ("The vehicles would be able to travel at about 150 mph for up to 100 miles and carry multiple people, including a pilot, according to Wired"). TFA says, "Eventually, the planes will be self-flying." I interpret "eventually" to mean, "perhaps someday".
Most iPhone users just use the ones that came in the box. And they'll do the same with the Lightning ones.
84,000,000 headphones were sold in the US in 2015, 64% earbuds. Do you really think they were all bought by Android users?
Given the flow of "Russian" related stories on slashdot, would studying Russian not now be the trending language to get a promotion in the NSA? Or at least have some skills on show to fend off been replace by a contractor?
You might have a point, if he wasn't already a contractor rather than an employee. If he was an NSA employee wanting to learn Russian and the NSA wanted him to learn Russian, the NSA would pay him to learn Russian.
The problem isn't that the media wants to report the out of the ordinary, the problem is that they are conveniently leaving out facts to make it appear worse than it really is.
It reminds me of the anti-cigarette commercials there are plenty of good reasons to not smoke but they are running commercials that say there is methane in cigarettes just like poop when in actuality you would have to smoke for multiple lifetimes just to get enough methane out of a cigarette to equal the amount of methane an average person pays to have pumped into their house each month to their furnace, water heater, and stove cook with.
Yeah, that sort of things falls under "what is likely to attract consumer attention".
Aside from this, anyone who watches local TV news sees frequent stories along the lines of "Entire family wiped out in car crash." This type of reporting is extremely common.
When I started reading this post, I thought you were being sarcastic or ironic, and I was looking forward to the punchline. Then I realized you were actually serious. The thing is, the news media report on what is unusual and what is likely to attract consumer attention, not necessarily in that order. You know: man bites dog, rather than dog bites man; it doesn't matter that dog bites man happens a lot more frequently than man bites dog. You're free to consider this deplorable, but that's the way it's always been and it's very unlikely to change.
A crore is 0.01 arabs. Seriously.
Let's get some truth in advertising please? Anything less than full bandwidth 24x7 should not be called "unlimited".
Don't be silly. 24x7 at full bandwidth is still limited, unless "full bandwidth" is infinite. And if network bandwidth were infinite, then they'd be guilty of selling you a phone that limited your usage because it couldn't exploit that infinite bandwidth. You shouldn't be satisfied until you can download the entire Internet instantaneously, endlessly; then you can turn your attention to bitching about the quality of the content.
At $48 million they're not being slapped down. that's not even a slap on the wrist. It's more like shaking your head from across the room, then following up with a quick wink and tiny nod.
Comments along this line always make me wonder: is the set of people who believe that these companies leave no stone unturned in their evil quest to wring every possible cent from each customer, the same set of people who believe that these companies don't care about paying a $48 million fine?
They're thinking about dropping the headphone jack. Maybe the new MacBook will be waterproof.
No, that should not cover them, as they are advertising a limit after the fact. The issue here is where they say "unlimited" which by any technically-competent person would imply you can use as much bandwidth as you can receive at any time with zero time restrictions or other restrictions.
If you advertise throttling at any point and time, you are lying about your unlimited service. Unlimited means NO LIMITS. Period. Oxford has yet to change that definition, and fuck 'legal' definitions as they are often not based upon factual information.
The ATT advertisements I've seen don't use "unlimited" or any other term that implies "no limit". What they do advertise is "no data overage fees".
The S7 Edge has a much larger screen and a larger battery. In fact, it has a slightly larger battery than the Note 7.
Causality breakdown detected.
It may be people spend less money on Android apps because they want to spend less money on the total package. If that were true, it would follow that they would never buy an expensive iPhone in the first place, regardless of the ecosystem or apps.
On the other hand, if they're avoiding expensive phones, they wouldn't have bought a Note 7 either.
This was of course not the intent of the law when it was written.
Laws are not supposed to be enforced according to someone's interpretation of their intent. If the law is not performing as intended, then it can be amended by the lawmakers.
Oh yeah -- the courts are not supposed to interpret intent either; they're supposed to make judgements according to the way laws are written. This, of course, is an area where practice often departs from theory.
"Well, that should be effective, seeing as how Samsung has told all Note 7 users to power off their phones."
Clearly they would be going without any phone at all, left incommunicado forever.
I don't know why this even has to be explained. Samsung advised Note 7 owners to shut off their phones more than a week ago; even the supposedly good replacement ones that turned out to not be good. This was widely reported on TV, in print media, and on countless websites, and has been the subject of countless 'water cooler' discussions. Only cave-dwelling hermits could be unaware, and they probably don't have network coverage, so they can't receive the text. If they have turned off their phones, they won't receive the text. If they have returned their phones, the text message is superfluous. If they still have their defective phones and still haven't turned them off, they're likely too ignorant to heed the text message.
yeah, because london is such a cheap place to live in, you have to be extra wealthy to be able to afford an iphone. maybe you're also living in a reality distortion field, only of the "i'm such a poor victim, why do you call me racist scum"-variety?
Right. Maybe the statistics are racist as well. 12.4% of London residents are Muslim, with some areas at nearly 50%. 28% of London residents live in poverty.
Sure, they've been banned in baggage as well - but will that actually stop people from dropping them in there and hoping to get away with it?
Not all of them, I'd bet.
What are suggesting? Guns aren't allowed in carry-on, but people still put guns in carry-on. Things that are illegal are against the law, but some people still break the law.
Samsung said it will send a text message to all Note 7 users to let them know about this ban.
Well, that should be effective, seeing as how Samsung has told all Note 7 users to power off their phones.
This is reminiscent of IT departments that send out emails to users to tell them that the mail server is down.
You have it wrong. You get a full refund whether or not you buy a new Samsung phone. If you buy a new Samsung phone, you also get the $100 credit.