I hope the backlash takes a notch or two out of Apple's arrogance. Making some other thinner analog connector for which very cheap analog adapters could exist might be defensible in the name of thickness or water resistance, but eliminating a wired analog headphone port is flat out insulting to customers.
A town in which I once lived built a cable TV system somewhat similarly. They contracted the building of the infrastructure and granted the builder the first year of service. After that, potential service providers (only one per year for all users; programming service plus hardware maintenance for the system) competed for the annual contract. Annual competitions meant that that town's cable TV system offered far more at significantly lower prices than any other municipality around. The infrastructure belonged to the city, and contracts to upgrade/expand it could be set up when necessary. I've never seen a better model for that, and Ammon looks to have implemented a modern equivalent for Internet service (instant competition being possible due to technology improvements).
A word of warning for Ammon: that town's system changed to an inferior model due to corruption—large cable companies bought the city council (to change the rules) and especially the state legislature (to preempt such an arrangement). Do everything you can now legally to make a poison pill of the whole thing for any potential predators. That is, make it so it cannot be profitable within any reasonable time frame to discourage those guys from buying it away from citizens.
A lot of noise is made about foreigners buying influence (over US legislators and executives), but we don't hear much about blackmail. Which might mean that it's been very successful. If Wikileaks can find stuff in emails to get people in trouble, certainly the Russians can find stuff in emails with which to blackmail. The beauty of blackmail is that it's the gift that keeps on giving. The more you succumb to it, the more grip the blackmailer has over you.
Seriously. This is the only information I found in the post:
...6x6 100% electric drive, zero idle, many times cleaner than diesel engines, half the fuel cost per mile compared to diesel, 3,700 FT. LBS Torque, 2,000 horsepower...
So... some people believe there was a Creator but that He doesn't frequently intervene. Others believe the Creator intervenes frequently. Sim players might be classified the same way—some set everything up and kick off the sim and observe, while others tinker with it while it's ongoing, or pause it and tinker, then restart at the "same" point.
Worse. I've lost (two things so far) that have not been found. Neither logically should have been lost. Conclusion: the sim "observer" removed them due to an impending inconsistency involving them.
Hum? All the time? Come on, what we don't need is more noise. More than any other vehicles, Google cars are aware of potentially intruding objects. Make the sounds when they might help. Do not make sounds when unnecessary. What is it about current society that wants noise all the time?
Hamburgers. Once upon a time a burger was considered an inferior good and although people enjoyed them, they tended to eat fewer as their income increased. Now people celebrate the things and it's hard to see how gourmet burgers are any healthier than Hardee's, McD's, BK, or Wendy's. They may in fact be worse since there's likely more beef. Interestingly, a minor mad cow disease outbreak might increase health for most of the first world.
I'd require Apple to back off the restrictions and allow any user-created code to run with whatever privileges the user wants. Otherwise, what's the point of having kids coding? Wait, never mind, it's to further drive down the costs of software production for Apple, not to help the populace in any meaningful way.
Also, I support the Girl Scouts, but they've made mistakes before, like selling cookies with transfats long after they were known to be detrimental to human health.
"eventually"... can't argue with that, because who knows? There are as many reasons to doubt it as to expect it. But for the recent past, no, according to the NAS, GMOs have not accelerated the rate of productivity.
The summary neglected to mention a very important NAS finding: that the use of GMOs has NOT increased the rate of gain in productivity. In that sense, they are contributing nothing.
So I'd been playing around with Quake a little and my 4yo son wanted to play. I let him take over when he could shoot nails at skeletons. He loved it and called his mom over to see. But by the time she arrived it was over and starting at the beginning, with Cujo and a blood-dripping axe. I felt the heat of that stare for a while.
Back in the day my colleague and I stayed around late often to play Doom on the network or on the 10 foot screen in the conference room. I recall a few late evenings walking to my car in the desolate fifth subterranean level parking garage in a very elevated state of awareness. Luckily (for them) no one attempted a mugging. A couple of guys from other departments begged to play so we paired up, put our desk phones on speaker, and started it up. One of the other guys was a(n apparently frustrated) former CIA employee and eventually just stood still firing rockets at the other (a Major in the USAF Reserves). You never know what apparently mild-mannered persons harbor inside.
It would be easier for someone to unplug some questionable-looking device than to even bother paying attention to something hardwired into a circuit (for that outlet or a lamp or something). But that may increase the amount of installation gear the interloper need carry to the site for installation.
There is a significant difference between the UK and US version? I recall thinking that the US film seemed a little disjointed, as if something was left out, but enjoyed it nonetheless.
So don't buy items without 1/8" mini jacks. Some new laptops (my work PC) only have one for either mic or headphone, which already sucks. Yes, outboard sound devices that use USB are pretty cheap, but who wants to have to carry more crud around? Just give me my two analog stereo mini jacks. It takes up very little space. Drop the stupid fingerprint readers instead.
Interestingly, that's about how long it's been since Mitsubishi sent any slightly interesting vehicles to the US. It might not be quite as bad if they hadn't just been making forgettable, disposable appliances for decades.
That last bit... I'm fine with GIF image ads served from the same source. Stuff from other servers and/or animated/video/screen-controlling crud has to go. So... either I get to block it, or I'm not coming to the site at all. Garbage instead of news? Forget it. At least the junk in Us and People might be factual and might have been actually researched. Once I'm gone, I'm forgetting that the site existed, so yep, I'm not coming back, no matter how much you fix it.
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It's not "debatable". Dropping the analog jack is just stupid. As far as "anyone" can make accessories, yes, that's the point, anyone can.
I hope the backlash takes a notch or two out of Apple's arrogance. Making some other thinner analog connector for which very cheap analog adapters could exist might be defensible in the name of thickness or water resistance, but eliminating a wired analog headphone port is flat out insulting to customers.
A town in which I once lived built a cable TV system somewhat similarly. They contracted the building of the infrastructure and granted the builder the first year of service. After that, potential service providers (only one per year for all users; programming service plus hardware maintenance for the system) competed for the annual contract. Annual competitions meant that that town's cable TV system offered far more at significantly lower prices than any other municipality around. The infrastructure belonged to the city, and contracts to upgrade/expand it could be set up when necessary. I've never seen a better model for that, and Ammon looks to have implemented a modern equivalent for Internet service (instant competition being possible due to technology improvements).
A word of warning for Ammon: that town's system changed to an inferior model due to corruption—large cable companies bought the city council (to change the rules) and especially the state legislature (to preempt such an arrangement). Do everything you can now legally to make a poison pill of the whole thing for any potential predators. That is, make it so it cannot be profitable within any reasonable time frame to discourage those guys from buying it away from citizens.
A lot of noise is made about foreigners buying influence (over US legislators and executives), but we don't hear much about blackmail. Which might mean that it's been very successful. If Wikileaks can find stuff in emails to get people in trouble, certainly the Russians can find stuff in emails with which to blackmail. The beauty of blackmail is that it's the gift that keeps on giving. The more you succumb to it, the more grip the blackmailer has over you.
like RIAA/MPAA do.
Seriously. This is the only information I found in the post:
...6x6 100% electric drive, zero idle, many times cleaner than diesel engines, half the fuel cost per mile compared to diesel, 3,700 FT. LBS Torque, 2,000 horsepower...
So... some people believe there was a Creator but that He doesn't frequently intervene. Others believe the Creator intervenes frequently. Sim players might be classified the same way—some set everything up and kick off the sim and observe, while others tinker with it while it's ongoing, or pause it and tinker, then restart at the "same" point.
Worse. I've lost (two things so far) that have not been found. Neither logically should have been lost. Conclusion: the sim "observer" removed them due to an impending inconsistency involving them.
Hum? All the time? Come on, what we don't need is more noise. More than any other vehicles, Google cars are aware of potentially intruding objects. Make the sounds when they might help. Do not make sounds when unnecessary. What is it about current society that wants noise all the time?
Hamburgers. Once upon a time a burger was considered an inferior good and although people enjoyed them, they tended to eat fewer as their income increased. Now people celebrate the things and it's hard to see how gourmet burgers are any healthier than Hardee's, McD's, BK, or Wendy's. They may in fact be worse since there's likely more beef. Interestingly, a minor mad cow disease outbreak might increase health for most of the first world.
I'd require Apple to back off the restrictions and allow any user-created code to run with whatever privileges the user wants. Otherwise, what's the point of having kids coding? Wait, never mind, it's to further drive down the costs of software production for Apple, not to help the populace in any meaningful way.
...that trucks and SUVs are, as usual, contributing way more pollution than passenger cars, regardless of the drivetrain.
Also, I support the Girl Scouts, but they've made mistakes before, like selling cookies with transfats long after they were known to be detrimental to human health.
"eventually"... can't argue with that, because who knows? There are as many reasons to doubt it as to expect it. But for the recent past, no, according to the NAS, GMOs have not accelerated the rate of productivity.
The summary neglected to mention a very important NAS finding: that the use of GMOs has NOT increased the rate of gain in productivity. In that sense, they are contributing nothing.
So I'd been playing around with Quake a little and my 4yo son wanted to play. I let him take over when he could shoot nails at skeletons. He loved it and called his mom over to see. But by the time she arrived it was over and starting at the beginning, with Cujo and a blood-dripping axe. I felt the heat of that stare for a while.
Back in the day my colleague and I stayed around late often to play Doom on the network or on the 10 foot screen in the conference room. I recall a few late evenings walking to my car in the desolate fifth subterranean level parking garage in a very elevated state of awareness. Luckily (for them) no one attempted a mugging. A couple of guys from other departments begged to play so we paired up, put our desk phones on speaker, and started it up. One of the other guys was a(n apparently frustrated) former CIA employee and eventually just stood still firing rockets at the other (a Major in the USAF Reserves). You never know what apparently mild-mannered persons harbor inside.
It would be easier for someone to unplug some questionable-looking device than to even bother paying attention to something hardwired into a circuit (for that outlet or a lamp or something). But that may increase the amount of installation gear the interloper need carry to the site for installation.
There is a significant difference between the UK and US version? I recall thinking that the US film seemed a little disjointed, as if something was left out, but enjoyed it nonetheless.
learned by observing, especially to accelerate hard to get through yellow lights.
So don't buy items without 1/8" mini jacks. Some new laptops (my work PC) only have one for either mic or headphone, which already sucks. Yes, outboard sound devices that use USB are pretty cheap, but who wants to have to carry more crud around? Just give me my two analog stereo mini jacks. It takes up very little space. Drop the stupid fingerprint readers instead.
Volvo... yeah, the company that makes wannabe SUVs and no longer leads the industry in ANYTHING but hype. Glass houses...
Interestingly, that's about how long it's been since Mitsubishi sent any slightly interesting vehicles to the US. It might not be quite as bad if they hadn't just been making forgettable, disposable appliances for decades.
That last bit... I'm fine with GIF image ads served from the same source. Stuff from other servers and/or animated/video/screen-controlling crud has to go. So... either I get to block it, or I'm not coming to the site at all. Garbage instead of news? Forget it. At least the junk in Us and People might be factual and might have been actually researched. Once I'm gone, I'm forgetting that the site existed, so yep, I'm not coming back, no matter how much you fix it.
Real Things. Hallelujah. One person gets it.