Why are so many batter researches skeptical, then, and even claim violations of basic principles? Do you understand something that they don't? If so, it'd be nice to share here (and probably elsewhere, too).
The wage should reflect the fact that the necessary worker is so rare and valuable that no US citizen living anywhere in the United States can satisfy the requirements.
That's not at all what it means. Obviously, some US citizen can satisfy the requirements, just not any that are willing to quit their jobs and/or move to wherever this position is, or are just not that interested in that particular position.
That's really not that rare. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many open positions out there sitting open for months.
It's a lot like the early web... There were the "official" web sites which looked good, loaded quickly, and worked. And then there were java applets, which were slow to load, buggy, and looked like high school projects.
It's pretty much the same. The features that come built-in are really good, voice recognition is fantastic, and it's overall a useful gadget to have to play music, set timers, reminders, check weather, and sports schedules.
Try to use any of the silly "skills" available, and you'll be very disappointed. The integration sucks ("tell to "), reliability sucks, and, therefore, usability sucks. Apart from having my kids ask for fart noises, there's not much out there yet.
What other facts are you guys going to object to? Yaknow your BFF even wanted to bring back whaling, when there isn't even a domestic whaling industry to pander to?
I know, I missed gazillions of them, but just saying Altbaba doesn't exactly roll of the tongue. Even "The corpse of a company formerly known as Yahoo" has more cachet than "Altbaba".
Maybe that's why it's called Atlaba, and not Altbaba. I'm not saying it's a great name, but it does roll off the tongue a lot easier.
California chose Hillary by 3.4 million cotes. Hillary won nationwide popular vote by 2.9 million votes. The entire difference and then some is the state of California.
I'm not even sure what's that supposed to mean? Remove the biggest state with the most Hillary supporters, and then they are even? TX, OK, AR, and LA have together about the same number of electoral votes, too, so let's remove the 2+ million that Trump won those by, too. We're back to square one.
Oh, I'm sure they do, but it's one thing to have a feather-light earring stay on the outside of your ear, and it's another to have a large (relative to the earring) earphone stay *inside* your ear.
Having a magnet support it down below is not going to do it, it'll have to be something above/behind the ear, while still feeling comfortable.
If you really, really need to charge at the same time there are already multiple solutions.
Since the original post said it could not be done - well, the word "bald faced lie" is really not too strong, now is it?
I don't know, considering that most reviews for those solutions are "it sucks", "it doesn't work", etc., the kickstarter campaign for one of them is suspended, and the $40 gigantic belkin adapter actually needs a second adapter on top of it to plug in headphones... "bald faced lie" seems a bit strong.
Yeah, it's possible, but for more money, much more bulkiness to carry around, and, it seems, a lot of luck.
BTW, I also keep my phone plugged in while listening to music pretty much all the time -- in car or at work. The only time I don't is when I'm going for a walk. I see a lot of people at work doing the same. I doubt that it's that much of a rarity.
If they just stick one end of a round magnet on the earphone, and leave the other for you to put on the other side of your dangly part of the ear (like that earring does), then, yeah, there's no patent there.
If this is some way of keeping the earphone inside the ear canal that doesn't jar loose as you're running or jumping around, then, well, there's nothing at all like that on the market (as far as I know). Just because it involves magnets and ears, it still can be novel enough.
Go work somewhere else dude. If you don't like their policies, find another job. Nobody owes you employment!
I would normally agree, but if they fire you and then send out an email to everyone telling you how bad you were (and you feel that that's a lie), then that's crossing the line. The industry is pretty small, you're bound to run into many of those people again in later jobs, and the bad reputation of you they are creating can have a real impact down the road.
That's a huge turn-off, and not for some moral reasons... I'm not going to play Mario, my kids will. And my kids play on tablets, which could be in cars, school buses, or even on restricted wifi connections. The last time I had to explain to a 5 year old why his game stop working when he gets in the car was not fun, I'd rather not go through that again.
I don't expect that I'll be able to hide the existence of the new Mario game from him forever, but I'll do my best to hide it for as long as I can.
However a phone that has huge frickin letters all over the ads stating "flagship smartphone with one week battery life"... would probably sell like hotcakes. Otherwise battery cases would not sell so well.
There's a few problems I can see there:
- If the current battery gives you one day, a week-long battery would have to be 7 times larger. You don't need much market research to tell you that nobody would keep that in their pocket. - Battery cases, which you brought up, already give you the flexibility of having a bigger battery for an incremental cost, while providing the flexibility of having a thick or thin phone. Why build a thick phone without the flexibility? - How well are the battery cases selling? The TAM for the full portable battery market (not just battery cases) is about $4B vs. $380B for the phones. Even if you say that phones are on average 10x the cost of batteries, and completely ignoring the tablet users, that's still only one in 10 users that buy an extra battery. There's some money to be made there, but clearly most people are fine with the batteries on their phones.
Why does every phone maker want to beat Apple at Apple's game? Instead, why can't they create their own games with their own rules? There is definitely room for slider phones shaped like the Droid.
You make it sound easy to come up with a phone design that's radically different from iPhone, but also very desirable.
Slider phones just don't sell well, and big thick phones don't sell well. So, that's not going to do it. I guess Motorola tried something with modular add-ons, but that doesn't seem to be working, either.
Why can't they create their own game? Because it's damn hard.
That's not power, that's simply slavery. At that point, you're the servant of those with the money
While I get your point about having control over those with money, calling it slavery is a bit far fetched. It's just good ol' employment -- someone pays you, and you do what they say.
That Argument doesn't hold. You CANNOT have more than 100% of a share in a market. You can claim Apple have 100% of the profit (which also isn't true), you can't add other companies negative profits to the share.
Well, profits are revenue - expenses. So, if you add up all the revenues and subtract all the expenses for all the companies, the profit of the industry is less than what Apple made from it.
Calling it "more than 100%" illustrates that point quite well.
It doesn't help that the last flagship tablet releases by Samsung (the Tab S2) and Google (Nexus 9) were not only expensive, but disappointingly 4:3 aspect ratio, making them poor for games and videos.
I get the video part, but why games? I've been gaming on it and 4:3 seems better, if anything -- you can fit more on there.
For what it's worth, I've been very impressed with Tab S2. It's a great tablet!
You left out one market segment, likely on purpose, people who bought tablets, found they had just purchased a useless toy and will likely never buy another one.
It probably depends on who you know or maybe it's an age thing, but I don't know anyone in this segment. Don't jump to conclusions ("..likely on purpose...") just because you're a different demographic.
I'm guessing you're a millennial? Not meant as a negative jab or anything, that's just the demographic I know the least, and all the others seem like regular users of tablets: grade school kids -- all have tablets and would use them 24 hours a day if you didn't stop them. Their grandparents -- they love the tablets, much bigger screens than phones, easier to read, type, way easier to use than laptops.
As for my age group in the middle of the two, that leads me to your second part of the post:
So the tablet squeezed in between a smart big screen TV (no comparisson in viewing quality or comfort, craps all over tablet) and the phablet (portability craps all over the tablet and soon to come out enhanced output glasses, a big screen TV in your pocket).
Big screen TV has no mobility whatsoever. I'm rarely going to have long uninterrupted periods of just sitting in front of one (and will use the projector/media room when I do want ultimate viewing comfort and quality), so being able to watch something on a high-res screen a couple of feet from my face still gives me some very good viewing quality, with added comfort of being able to watch it anywhere -- on the patio, in the bedroom, on the plane, etc.... I just take it with me and all my media is on there already.
So, sure, it's not as pretty as a big screen TV, and it's not as mobile as a phone. But it's also much prettier than a phone and much more mobile than a TV. It depends on what matters to you, right?
no matter where or who. OK: Amazon is not there yet, but is heading in that direction.
I agree, 100%.
It's amazing to me that they are still able to be so far ahead of any competition... in everything -- prices, shipping, customer service, selection.
You'd think that Walmart, Target, and other big retailers with worldwide (or at least US-wide to start) logistics networks would've been able to mount some resistance by now.
Apart from some furniture and decorations, Amazon has little competition for convenience, shipping, and customer service. Whenever something goes wrong, I'm always amazed how quickly and easily they fix it.
I do still use Wayfair and Overstock for some of above two categories, though. For whatever reason, Amazon still has much smaller selection there.
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Why are so many batter researches skeptical, then, and even claim violations of basic principles? Do you understand something that they don't? If so, it'd be nice to share here (and probably elsewhere, too).
That's not at all what it means. Obviously, some US citizen can satisfy the requirements, just not any that are willing to quit their jobs and/or move to wherever this position is, or are just not that interested in that particular position.
That's really not that rare. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many open positions out there sitting open for months.
It's a lot like the early web... There were the "official" web sites which looked good, loaded quickly, and worked. And then there were java applets, which were slow to load, buggy, and looked like high school projects.
It's pretty much the same. The features that come built-in are really good, voice recognition is fantastic, and it's overall a useful gadget to have to play music, set timers, reminders, check weather, and sports schedules.
Try to use any of the silly "skills" available, and you'll be very disappointed. The integration sucks ("tell to "), reliability sucks, and, therefore, usability sucks. Apart from having my kids ask for fart noises, there's not much out there yet.
Like this?
Are there any positive connotations left? A bit of nostalgia, perhaps, but I can't think of a single good thing about the brand at this point.
Maybe that's why it's called Atlaba, and not Altbaba. I'm not saying it's a great name, but it does roll off the tongue a lot easier.
I'm not even sure what's that supposed to mean? Remove the biggest state with the most Hillary supporters, and then they are even? TX, OK, AR, and LA have together about the same number of electoral votes, too, so let's remove the 2+ million that Trump won those by, too. We're back to square one.
Oh, I'm sure they do, but it's one thing to have a feather-light earring stay on the outside of your ear, and it's another to have a large (relative to the earring) earphone stay *inside* your ear.
Having a magnet support it down below is not going to do it, it'll have to be something above/behind the ear, while still feeling comfortable.
I don't know, considering that most reviews for those solutions are "it sucks", "it doesn't work", etc., the kickstarter campaign for one of them is suspended, and the $40 gigantic belkin adapter actually needs a second adapter on top of it to plug in headphones... "bald faced lie" seems a bit strong.
Yeah, it's possible, but for more money, much more bulkiness to carry around, and, it seems, a lot of luck.
BTW, I also keep my phone plugged in while listening to music pretty much all the time -- in car or at work. The only time I don't is when I'm going for a walk. I see a lot of people at work doing the same. I doubt that it's that much of a rarity.
If they just stick one end of a round magnet on the earphone, and leave the other for you to put on the other side of your dangly part of the ear (like that earring does), then, yeah, there's no patent there.
If this is some way of keeping the earphone inside the ear canal that doesn't jar loose as you're running or jumping around, then, well, there's nothing at all like that on the market (as far as I know). Just because it involves magnets and ears, it still can be novel enough.
Absolutely, an amazing series.
Between Hugh Howey and Cixin Liu, I've read some really good sci-fi this year, and that hasn't happened in a while.
I would normally agree, but if they fire you and then send out an email to everyone telling you how bad you were (and you feel that that's a lie), then that's crossing the line. The industry is pretty small, you're bound to run into many of those people again in later jobs, and the bad reputation of you they are creating can have a real impact down the road.
What exactly are "military waters"?
That's a huge turn-off, and not for some moral reasons... I'm not going to play Mario, my kids will. And my kids play on tablets, which could be in cars, school buses, or even on restricted wifi connections. The last time I had to explain to a 5 year old why his game stop working when he gets in the car was not fun, I'd rather not go through that again.
I don't expect that I'll be able to hide the existence of the new Mario game from him forever, but I'll do my best to hide it for as long as I can.
Is that really true any more? iPhone 6 was 6.9mm, iPhone 6s and 7 are both thicker at 7.1mm.
Nexus 5X was 7.9mm, Pixel is 8.6mm.
Galaxy S6 was 6.9mm, S7 is 7.9mm.
Once we've reached the 7-8mm range, it doesn't look like things are getting thinner any more, and are actually bouncing back a bit.
There's a few problems I can see there:
- If the current battery gives you one day, a week-long battery would have to be 7 times larger. You don't need much market research to tell you that nobody would keep that in their pocket.
- Battery cases, which you brought up, already give you the flexibility of having a bigger battery for an incremental cost, while providing the flexibility of having a thick or thin phone. Why build a thick phone without the flexibility?
- How well are the battery cases selling? The TAM for the full portable battery market (not just battery cases) is about $4B vs. $380B for the phones. Even if you say that phones are on average 10x the cost of batteries, and completely ignoring the tablet users, that's still only one in 10 users that buy an extra battery. There's some money to be made there, but clearly most people are fine with the batteries on their phones.
You make it sound easy to come up with a phone design that's radically different from iPhone, but also very desirable.
Slider phones just don't sell well, and big thick phones don't sell well. So, that's not going to do it. I guess Motorola tried something with modular add-ons, but that doesn't seem to be working, either.
Why can't they create their own game? Because it's damn hard.
And, he's right. Atomics have nothing to do with cache coherence.
It's looking more like "if" they win the senate :(.
While I get your point about having control over those with money, calling it slavery is a bit far fetched. It's just good ol' employment -- someone pays you, and you do what they say.
Well, profits are revenue - expenses. So, if you add up all the revenues and subtract all the expenses for all the companies, the profit of the industry is less than what Apple made from it.
Calling it "more than 100%" illustrates that point quite well.
I get the video part, but why games? I've been gaming on it and 4:3 seems better, if anything -- you can fit more on there.
For what it's worth, I've been very impressed with Tab S2. It's a great tablet!
It probably depends on who you know or maybe it's an age thing, but I don't know anyone in this segment. Don't jump to conclusions ("..likely on purpose...") just because you're a different demographic.
I'm guessing you're a millennial? Not meant as a negative jab or anything, that's just the demographic I know the least, and all the others seem like regular users of tablets: grade school kids -- all have tablets and would use them 24 hours a day if you didn't stop them. Their grandparents -- they love the tablets, much bigger screens than phones, easier to read, type, way easier to use than laptops.
As for my age group in the middle of the two, that leads me to your second part of the post:
Big screen TV has no mobility whatsoever. I'm rarely going to have long uninterrupted periods of just sitting in front of one (and will use the projector/media room when I do want ultimate viewing comfort and quality), so being able to watch something on a high-res screen a couple of feet from my face still gives me some very good viewing quality, with added comfort of being able to watch it anywhere -- on the patio, in the bedroom, on the plane, etc.... I just take it with me and all my media is on there already.
So, sure, it's not as pretty as a big screen TV, and it's not as mobile as a phone. But it's also much prettier than a phone and much more mobile than a TV. It depends on what matters to you, right?
I agree, 100%.
It's amazing to me that they are still able to be so far ahead of any competition... in everything -- prices, shipping, customer service, selection.
You'd think that Walmart, Target, and other big retailers with worldwide (or at least US-wide to start) logistics networks would've been able to mount some resistance by now.
Apart from some furniture and decorations, Amazon has little competition for convenience, shipping, and customer service. Whenever something goes wrong, I'm always amazed how quickly and easily they fix it.
I do still use Wayfair and Overstock for some of above two categories, though. For whatever reason, Amazon still has much smaller selection there.