Painter's tape is only easy to detach if you remove it within the time limit of its adhesive (painters tape comes in varying colors to denote the length of time it can safely stay on a surface and still be cleanly removed.) Let that stuff sit on something for a month and good luck getting it to come off cleanly and without damaging powder coating or faux plating on plastic.
Intel does, it's a cheap-ass and easy part to manufacture and they can make an easy profit off of it. Apple does, because they can get it cheaper from Intel, thus increasing the per-unit profit per phone that is equipped with the Intel baseband chip.
Audio over Bluetooth sounds like watery 64kbit MP3 shit. Even my wireless headphones have a cable permanently connected to the AUX jack, because Bluetooth sucks that much.
If you read the law, that's pretty much already the case. The fact these people are having to train their replacements means the people being hired aren't qualified to IMMEDIATELY do the job, they can't legally qualify for H-1B due to that.
What's needed is for these people to SUE THE SHIT out of UCSF and get the fucking ball rolling.
Come out of your cave, pretty much everyone here knows I'm gay, married, and have held this relationship longer than you've likely held one, statistically speaking.
"Both orientation sensitive AND fragile?!? That's micro USB's great legacy."
Orientation sensitivity is actually a good thing for dealing with possible electrical interference allowed by essentially untwisting a twisted pair over a distance greater than an inch. The fragility is only because of manufacturers cutting corners with how the port was soldered to the board, usually surface mounting the casing instead of utilizing the through-hole solution that was also available. All my micro USBs mounted using thru hole work. All of the surface-mounted ones are dead. Ditto Mini-USB.
You have no fucking clue what proprietary means. Proprietary means that if I wanted to sell a Lightning adapter of any sorts, I need to pay a licensing fee. Courage would be using an open standard that is unencumbered by PATENTS and thus motivated only for PROFIT.
But not strong enough to survive an accidental bend when put in the back pocket with headphones attached to it and then sitting like many will do.
I know what the materials used in making the plug itself are. They're pretty shitty and not sturdy. They'd have been better off using ceramics on the plug./mfw I design electronics
"I would bet most fire departments have little training yet on EV batteries."
You lose that bet. Firefighters are trained to handle metal fires like sodium and lithium. Battery or raw element makes zero difference, their training should've had them able to handle that fire. Protip: Class D fire extinguisher (I was a volunteer firefighter.)
You were afraid of electrocution? Uhh, excuse me, if you were afraid of electrocution, then odds are you weren't wearing the basic PPE required for fighting fires - insulated gloves, boots, jacket, and pants. These are provided by every freaking modern fire-fighting department in any first-world country. A good pair of leather gloves with a rubber lining can handle around 1,000 volts. The Tesla battery pack is like 375 volts. Their protective clothing should also be arc-flash rated as well, so over 1,000 volts with ease.
Those 'firemen' should probably go back to school, either to better understand their PPE or to learn how to use their brains and balls when emergencies are happening.
" A lot of the posts are going to be speculative or outright wrong, which could be prevented simply by waiting another 30 minutes until the announcement is finished and all of the details (at least the ones that were part of the presentation) are out. "
And people will still post incorrect information, because they've likely NOT WATCHED THE PRESENTATION.
" You're embracing a 100 year old technology that is single-purpose"
No, we're embracing a reliable standard that works across a huge variety of technologies.
That TS/TRS/TRRS plug/jack has worked for way more than headphones. Guitars, older phone switchboards, speaker connections, microphone connections, credit card readers (Etsy one plugs into my headphone jack) LED lighting, antenna, low-voltage power delivery, and much, much more.
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Painter's tape is only easy to detach if you remove it within the time limit of its adhesive (painters tape comes in varying colors to denote the length of time it can safely stay on a surface and still be cleanly removed.) Let that stuff sit on something for a month and good luck getting it to come off cleanly and without damaging powder coating or faux plating on plastic.
In case you're entirely unaware since you appear to be new here, Sunday is typically the Slashdot Slow News Day.
"Actually, bluetooth is quite capable in terms of achievable fidelity. The spec allows for 768kb/sec"
That's half the data bandwidth of a regular musical CD, boss.
"1: Use the highest bitrate your compression software will allow you to."
I record in RAW. There IS NO COMPRESSION. I only use RAW audio for equipment testing. Bluetooth is SHIT, and so is its compression algo.
"Who gives a tuppence about the baseband"
Intel does, it's a cheap-ass and easy part to manufacture and they can make an easy profit off of it. Apple does, because they can get it cheaper from Intel, thus increasing the per-unit profit per phone that is equipped with the Intel baseband chip.
"People who believe that theory are dumber than a bag of hammers."
Do you not know that Apple is the largest BlueTooth headphone maker on the planet? Hello, Beats.
If you can't smell the money grab, you need to have your brain checked for tumors.
Audio over Bluetooth sounds like watery 64kbit MP3 shit. Even my wireless headphones have a cable permanently connected to the AUX jack, because Bluetooth sucks that much.
If you read the law, that's pretty much already the case. The fact these people are having to train their replacements means the people being hired aren't qualified to IMMEDIATELY do the job, they can't legally qualify for H-1B due to that.
What's needed is for these people to SUE THE SHIT out of UCSF and get the fucking ball rolling.
Not once have I had to deal with fees in a contingency case. Not in Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, or California.
"Just come out of the closet already."
Come out of your cave, pretty much everyone here knows I'm gay, married, and have held this relationship longer than you've likely held one, statistically speaking.
"for mealy 2/3rds of the money collected in the claim"
Where? Most states that I've lived in, Contingency has been one-third.
"Both orientation sensitive AND fragile?!? That's micro USB's great legacy."
Orientation sensitivity is actually a good thing for dealing with possible electrical interference allowed by essentially untwisting a twisted pair over a distance greater than an inch. The fragility is only because of manufacturers cutting corners with how the port was soldered to the board, usually surface mounting the casing instead of utilizing the through-hole solution that was also available. All my micro USBs mounted using thru hole work. All of the surface-mounted ones are dead. Ditto Mini-USB.
"that no longer counts as "proprietary""
You have no fucking clue what proprietary means. Proprietary means that if I wanted to sell a Lightning adapter of any sorts, I need to pay a licensing fee. Courage would be using an open standard that is unencumbered by PATENTS and thus motivated only for PROFIT.
Annnd those are all ugly pieces of junk that I wouldn't want sharing desk space with my mixer board and dual monitors.
Also, they're clones of each other. Internally it's almost identical hardware, minus ports and shell, on four of those units.
But not strong enough to survive an accidental bend when put in the back pocket with headphones attached to it and then sitting like many will do.
I know what the materials used in making the plug itself are. They're pretty shitty and not sturdy. They'd have been better off using ceramics on the plug. /mfw I design electronics
I was a volunteer firefighter in Memphis. I've seen way more shit than those peacenik hippies across the pond dare imagine.
You know what I hate? Fags like you speaking when you know nothing about the person you're trying to denigrate.
Uh, newsflash, metal/electrical fires get handled with class D extinguishing dry material. Most every truck typically carries something sufficient.
"I would bet most fire departments have little training yet on EV batteries."
You lose that bet. Firefighters are trained to handle metal fires like sodium and lithium. Battery or raw element makes zero difference, their training should've had them able to handle that fire. Protip: Class D fire extinguisher (I was a volunteer firefighter.)
They're still supposed to TRY. How did they know he wasn't just unconscious or in a coma from the crash?
You were afraid of electrocution? Uhh, excuse me, if you were afraid of electrocution, then odds are you weren't wearing the basic PPE required for fighting fires - insulated gloves, boots, jacket, and pants. These are provided by every freaking modern fire-fighting department in any first-world country. A good pair of leather gloves with a rubber lining can handle around 1,000 volts. The Tesla battery pack is like 375 volts. Their protective clothing should also be arc-flash rated as well, so over 1,000 volts with ease.
Those 'firemen' should probably go back to school, either to better understand their PPE or to learn how to use their brains and balls when emergencies are happening.
Is that some bullshit hipster-ass marketing speak for "Depth of Field" or what?
Yup, ripped off from the Japanese in 1997.
Fucking marketspeak assholes.
" A lot of the posts are going to be speculative or outright wrong, which could be prevented simply by waiting another 30 minutes until the announcement is finished and all of the details (at least the ones that were part of the presentation) are out. "
And people will still post incorrect information, because they've likely NOT WATCHED THE PRESENTATION.
Simple logic.
That you'd trust that thin flimsy piece of shit connector with practically nil traces makes me wonder what sort of nerd/geek you are.
Not one that's studied any basic engineering, that's for sure.
" You're embracing a 100 year old technology that is single-purpose"
No, we're embracing a reliable standard that works across a huge variety of technologies.
That TS/TRS/TRRS plug/jack has worked for way more than headphones. Guitars, older phone switchboards, speaker connections, microphone connections, credit card readers (Etsy one plugs into my headphone jack) LED lighting, antenna, low-voltage power delivery, and much, much more.
"Without bees there is no food"
We have tons of self-pollinating crops, and last I checked, bees didn't live underwater in places like the ocean, where food literally swims around.
If there's a leak and it loses everything to the vacuum of space then upon coming back to earth it will have to re-fill, negating the weight change.