Anyone who wants rid of bezels is not in the habit of holding their phone and either wants to stop the rest of us doing so or wants us all to put their phones in cases.
Why? I have a OnePlus5 and it has, perhaps 1mm of bezel either side. If i hold it safely, I am touching the screen on both the left and right sides. This makes it difficult to hold securely so it is in a case (which is a good idea anyway). I can now hold it securely without touching the screen. Fortunately, I bought it for its price and functionality. Anyone who wants something for looking at and being seen with would have a problem with hiding it in a case.
The black bits above & below the screen let me have a real button. Whatever Google may think about that, I like the ability to sign in in the dark or without looking at it until I need to. At the top, all the useful stuff, camera, speaker, LEDs etc, is up above the picture and out of the way.So this means that the phone is about 2cm longer than the picture. So what? It even gives them more space for a battery. Perhaps that is why my phone lasts all day and still allows me to play games, do social media etc.
Anyone who, a few years ago, couldn't predict that renewable capacity would overtake fossil fuels' hasn't been paying attention.
People have been predicting the overtaking for a long time. The problem is that there is a lot of money in oil, gas and other ways of causing pollution. That is why big oil get massive subsidies but grants for things lest likely to ruin the planet are being cut wherever some types of politicians are in control....
The good news is that renewables can be "rich people friendly" too and there is actually progress like this.
Firstly, it implies an always on sensor. It may not be a camera but a fingerprint sensor has a very limited range. Your camera will probably recognise your face up to a foot away. If you don't like surveillance, you don't like FaceID.
Secondly, fingerprint is much faster. I have seen people with the latest #shiny iThing spending up to a couple of seconds in showing their face to their phone. Tapping a finger or thumb is instant - or certainly less than a quarter of a second.
Finally, it is so obvious what you are doing. I can tap my finger on my phone without distracting someone,or looking like I am goofing off. The "Wannabe beautiful people" just look like they are taking a selfie - not a good idea in meetings class or anywhere you are supposed to look attentive and serious.
Long answer - No. You should not be worried, any more than you should worry about them having a family pet as a friend (hygiene and might bite), neighbours child (hygiene and might bite), fluffy toy (hygiene), your aunt Ethel (hygiene and may scratch with those 2" nails) and so on. If someone has a small child, it is their duty to keep an eye on their friends. Keep your device clean and do not allow the child access to any debit or credit cards. The only drawback is that the child may stop asking you the hard questions in life as the AI device has more coherent replies.
this probably means that their sales are falling and they want to protect their stock price. The last thing they want is all the executives loosing their bonuses!
Later he puts it at 18 months. That is extremely generous towards Apple. I would have put it closer to 5 years since Android flagship devices started eclipsing Apple ones. Or does the USA not get the top end phones that the rest of us get? Although that would explain the irrationally high % of Apple devices in the US figures. It even explains why old iPhones sell so well there.
Nowadays, a mid-market Samsung device outperforms an iThing that costs far more and it has a far better interface. Why does Apple still sell anything to, supposedly intelligent, people?
There is no level of exercise or fitness that exposes you to risk
Some years ago, not long after I got married, my mother in law observed that I wasn't particularly athletic unlike my wifes' cousin who was a sprinter, hoped for olympic medals etc.
I said that while I would not win prizes for speed, I looked forward to a healthier life. She was very surprised that I really meant it.
Over the following years, I did not have back problems, glandular fever and all the other things my wifes cousin did get. She may have been able to run 200m in far less time than I would take to do 100 but I didn't/don't care. I wasn't sick.
Will I live as long as her? I don't know but my unfashionable BMI has not limited my life in the same way that medically preferred ones do. I see people with, allegedly, healthy BMIs of 19-20 who are not healthy because of it.
Where can I now have good old fashioned discussions with people about stuff?
Google plus discussions seemed to be as varied as I could imagine. There was not an apparent filter bubble. I discussed things with people that I would see as left wing and even people from the USA that considered themselves conservatives.
Where am I going to get this wide a discussion area? The last I heard, there were no newsgroups anymore. Are the commentators that have told me for ?a decade? going to fix facebook?
I don't need a union to negotiate an employment contract. I've done that for myself in every job I've had.
This is because we have had legal and effective unions here for a long time. They are fading away. Watch for the Conservatives to "do something about" unions as soon as they finish their current cunning plan...
Every company (with more than 7 people in it) that I've worked for has had a grievance process, people can't be sacked without cause, the disciplinary process is documented and followed.
Liability cover is provided by the company and private health insurance is thrown in without me even having to ask for it - and that's in the UK, where it's entirely unnecessary.
See above but be aware that it is Conservative policy to make private health insurance a lot more needed.
No. Social justice is about social justice. If I notice that some people are not being treated fairly I would, as a decent human being, not do that. Bing a decent human being is all you need to be. Don't be nasty to people and try and treat them fairly.
it's about collectivizing people by their races and genders, then putting those in an "oppression stack", where the ones that are in an "oppressed group" get systemic advantages over the others in a very crude attempt to equalize the things.
That would be a misguided attempt to right one wrong by creating another. Are you reading more into attempts to right injustices than are actually there?
...Add the point that in many cases this movement push down people "with privileges" instead of pulling up the "oppressed" and you get a quite terrible system.
You are quoting the methods of the UK Conservative party. Until recently, the most right-wing but mainstream in Europe. They always equalise to the inferior option - pensions, insurance or whatever. Yes, some people here may think they have made a fairer world, for example by raising the female retirement age rather than lowering the male one. Justice is not the same thing as equality of misery.
I have a major lack of understanding of what is wrong with Social Justice or what is wrong with anyone who pushes it as an idea.. Obviously, I am not from the USA but as someone who has worked in IT for a long time, is slightly dyslexic, really good at sums and went to a "nice" private school presumably I should be as horrified as some people here that we are being encouraged to treat other people decently.
Social justice is a good idea. Being a warrior for it sounds good but I am probably not threatening enough. Anyone else who wants to is fine by me but I am not a sociopath.
It does beg the question, should politics be discussed in the workplace?
Definitely yes. Whilst an employer is not obliged to promote "free speech" in their workspace, their suppressing it would be a bad sign and should make anyone (left wing, liberal or right wing) reconsider doing business with them,.
This is not, for example, the same as allowing insulting speech, bullying or calculated disruption. That is not the same as free speech.
What is it with Europeans always measure things by soccer field size? Can we have a normal measurement, like Library of Congresses?
As it is outside the USA, they will call it football. Actually, I understand the US game of Hand Egg hast a field much the same size as what most humans call a football pitch
e.g. right now (morning peak), the UK's running on 28% gas, 24% nuclear, 19% wind, 8% coal, 4% solar.
The part of the UK I come from produces 125% of its electrical needs from wind. Years ago, I came across people who told me that I should be angry at the wind turbines because they are ugly, cause interference and kill lots of birds.
They aren't, they don't and they don't so nobody got angry but it is nice to know that even a small, underfunded, area like Orkney can be a net exporter. If Elon Musk wants to come up, he can install some of his batteries - as long as he doesn't call anybody nasty things...
There's nothing wrong about opposing known lies being presented by media as truths. The only problem is that this would require shutting down Fox News, and many people would be grievously butthurt if that happened.
If you could shut down the Daily Mail, Sun and the like over here while you are at it, that would be nice...
GMail is the "winner"? It's one of the mail "services" which forwards all your messages to the NSA, and which mines them for the commercial benefit of themselves and their partners.....
Making this statement during the interview and they will move on to the next candidate.
Why would you need an engine size suitable for a normal car for charging the battery? Surely a 500cc engine could be more efficient for a hybrid like this...
He said that 95% of the world population are not from the US. I make it nearly 95.7% but 95% is close enough. The population is not globally significant in most matters - certainly not when discussing future vehicle engineering.
A side note. You live in Germany so
Check your math.
Needs adjusting. Outside the USA, mathematics is known to be plural so "Check your maths makes more sense.
Yes. He designs cars, not profit centres and gadgets on wheels. For one of these, I would need something to measure my remaining charge, speed and distance travelled. Regulations would probably require me to have something to tell me my seat belt is undone. A small subset of the usual coloured lights telling me of problems might be useful - perhaps tyre pressure and engine overheating is enough.
A socket somewhere to plug in a USB cable to do diagnostics would be nice for the guy maintaining it would be good. That could bring up all sorts of other information onto their laptop that drivers really need to not have.
12,000 Euros is a bit steep though. Half that would be slightly pricey.
"the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea."
When children in school are accused of being a cross between Henry Morgan and Jack Sparrow, you know that the RIAA, MAFIAA etc are full of s**t. It may, or may not be theft. I think it is but it is not, by any stretch of the imagination anything like what still happens off the Horn of Africa!
I would say it is more feasable in the USA than it is for the rest of us. You have a sizeable demographic that feels that to disagree with what the corporations want will cause the death of capitalism or something.
If you had much of a political left, you would not be famous globally for even your previous president not actually setting up such things as universal health care, welfare state, decent consumer rights, user dapa protection and all the other things that your corporate masters do not think you deserve.
Can I guess that you do not believe that there is any difference between socialists and communists? Many of your fellow citizens certainly seem to think this. Do you think that the Nazis were socialists because their full party title had that word in it? If so, presumably you think that the old East Germany was a democracy because its name said so. The "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" was as Socialist as the DPRK is democratic or belongs to its people. The USSR may well have been heading towards communism under Lenin. Stalin did not continue that journey and it slid into something that he wanted.
Those people way off to your left may be in the middle. Where does that mean you are?
This would be meaningful if the USA actually had a left. It has a "center", a "Center-Right" (Democrat), a "Far Right" (Republican) and an "Alt-Right".
Lefties may do the same as righties - but there are few lefties in the USA - perhaps 1 called Bernie Sanders?
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Anyone who wants rid of bezels is not in the habit of holding their phone and either wants to stop the rest of us doing so or wants us all to put their phones in cases.
Why? I have a OnePlus5 and it has, perhaps 1mm of bezel either side. If i hold it safely, I am touching the screen on both the left and right sides. This makes it difficult to hold securely so it is in a case (which is a good idea anyway). I can now hold it securely without touching the screen. Fortunately, I bought it for its price and functionality. Anyone who wants something for looking at and being seen with would have a problem with hiding it in a case.
The black bits above & below the screen let me have a real button. Whatever Google may think about that, I like the ability to sign in in the dark or without looking at it until I need to. At the top, all the useful stuff, camera, speaker, LEDs etc, is up above the picture and out of the way.So this means that the phone is about 2cm longer than the picture. So what? It even gives them more space for a battery. Perhaps that is why my phone lasts all day and still allows me to play games, do social media etc.
Anyone who, a few years ago, couldn't predict that renewable capacity would overtake fossil fuels' hasn't been paying attention.
People have been predicting the overtaking for a long time. The problem is that there is a lot of money in oil, gas and other ways of causing pollution. That is why big oil get massive subsidies but grants for things lest likely to ruin the planet are being cut wherever some types of politicians are in control....
The good news is that renewables can be "rich people friendly" too and there is actually progress like this.
What about the IR sensors used for Face ID.
Please understand, I REALLY do not want Face ID.
Firstly, it implies an always on sensor. It may not be a camera but a fingerprint sensor has a very limited range. Your camera will probably recognise your face up to a foot away. If you don't like surveillance, you don't like FaceID.
Secondly, fingerprint is much faster. I have seen people with the latest #shiny iThing spending up to a couple of seconds in showing their face to their phone. Tapping a finger or thumb is instant - or certainly less than a quarter of a second.
Finally, it is so obvious what you are doing. I can tap my finger on my phone without distracting someone,or looking like I am goofing off. The "Wannabe beautiful people" just look like they are taking a selfie - not a good idea in meetings class or anywhere you are supposed to look attentive and serious.
Short answer - No.
Medium answer - no. Don't be silly.
Long answer - No. You should not be worried, any more than you should worry about them having a family pet as a friend (hygiene and might bite), neighbours child (hygiene and might bite), fluffy toy (hygiene), your aunt Ethel (hygiene and may scratch with those 2" nails) and so on. If someone has a small child, it is their duty to keep an eye on their friends. Keep your device clean and do not allow the child access to any debit or credit cards. The only drawback is that the child may stop asking you the hard questions in life as the AI device has more coherent replies.
this probably means that their sales are falling and they want to protect their stock price. The last thing they want is all the executives loosing their bonuses!
It wasn't that long ago that anyone who cared...
Later he puts it at 18 months. That is extremely generous towards Apple. I would have put it closer to 5 years since Android flagship devices started eclipsing Apple ones. Or does the USA not get the top end phones that the rest of us get? Although that would explain the irrationally high % of Apple devices in the US figures. It even explains why old iPhones sell so well there.
Nowadays, a mid-market Samsung device outperforms an iThing that costs far more and it has a far better interface. Why does Apple still sell anything to, supposedly intelligent, people?
There is no level of exercise or fitness that exposes you to risk
Some years ago, not long after I got married, my mother in law observed that I wasn't particularly athletic unlike my wifes' cousin who was a sprinter, hoped for olympic medals etc.
I said that while I would not win prizes for speed, I looked forward to a healthier life. She was very surprised that I really meant it.
Over the following years, I did not have back problems, glandular fever and all the other things my wifes cousin did get. She may have been able to run 200m in far less time than I would take to do 100 but I didn't/don't care. I wasn't sick.
Will I live as long as her? I don't know but my unfashionable BMI has not limited my life in the same way that medically preferred ones do. I see people with, allegedly, healthy BMIs of 19-20 who are not healthy because of it.
You smoke therefore you stink.
He doesn't smoke so all he needs to do is wash and he doesn't stink.
Where can I now have good old fashioned discussions with people about stuff?
Google plus discussions seemed to be as varied as I could imagine. There was not an apparent filter bubble. I discussed things with people that I would see as left wing and even people from the USA that considered themselves conservatives.
Where am I going to get this wide a discussion area? The last I heard, there were no newsgroups anymore. Are the commentators that have told me for ?a decade? going to fix facebook?
I don't need a union to negotiate an employment contract. I've done that for myself in every job I've had.
This is because we have had legal and effective unions here for a long time. They are fading away. Watch for the Conservatives to "do something about" unions as soon as they finish their current cunning plan...
Every company (with more than 7 people in it) that I've worked for has had a grievance process, people can't be sacked without cause, the disciplinary process is documented and followed.
Liability cover is provided by the company and private health insurance is thrown in without me even having to ask for it - and that's in the UK, where it's entirely unnecessary.
See above but be aware that it is Conservative policy to make private health insurance a lot more needed.
Social justice is not about seeking true equality
No. Social justice is about social justice. If I notice that some people are not being treated fairly I would, as a decent human being, not do that. Bing a decent human being is all you need to be. Don't be nasty to people and try and treat them fairly.
it's about collectivizing people by their races and genders, then putting those in an "oppression stack", where the ones that are in an "oppressed group" get systemic advantages over the others in a very crude attempt to equalize the things.
That would be a misguided attempt to right one wrong by creating another. Are you reading more into attempts to right injustices than are actually there?
...Add the point that in many cases this movement push down people "with privileges" instead of pulling up the "oppressed" and you get a quite terrible system.
You are quoting the methods of the UK Conservative party. Until recently, the most right-wing but mainstream in Europe. They always equalise to the inferior option - pensions, insurance or whatever. Yes, some people here may think they have made a fairer world, for example by raising the female retirement age rather than lowering the male one. Justice is not the same thing as equality of misery.
I have a major lack of understanding of what is wrong with Social Justice or what is wrong with anyone who pushes it as an idea.. Obviously, I am not from the USA but as someone who has worked in IT for a long time, is slightly dyslexic, really good at sums and went to a "nice" private school presumably I should be as horrified as some people here that we are being encouraged to treat other people decently.
Social justice is a good idea. Being a warrior for it sounds good but I am probably not threatening enough. Anyone else who wants to is fine by me but I am not a sociopath.
It does beg the question, should politics be discussed in the workplace?
Definitely yes. Whilst an employer is not obliged to promote "free speech" in their workspace, their suppressing it would be a bad sign and should make anyone (left wing, liberal or right wing) reconsider doing business with them,.
This is not, for example, the same as allowing insulting speech, bullying or calculated disruption. That is not the same as free speech.
What is it with Europeans always measure things by soccer field size? Can we have a normal measurement, like Library of Congresses?
As it is outside the USA, they will call it football. Actually, I understand the US game of Hand Egg hast a field much the same size as what most humans call a football pitch
e.g. right now (morning peak), the UK's running on 28% gas, 24% nuclear, 19% wind, 8% coal, 4% solar.
The part of the UK I come from produces 125% of its electrical needs from wind. Years ago, I came across people who told me that I should be angry at the wind turbines because they are ugly, cause interference and kill lots of birds.
They aren't, they don't and they don't so nobody got angry but it is nice to know that even a small, underfunded, area like Orkney can be a net exporter. If Elon Musk wants to come up, he can install some of his batteries - as long as he doesn't call anybody nasty things...
There's nothing wrong about opposing known lies being presented by media as truths. The only problem is that this would require shutting down Fox News, and many people would be grievously butthurt if that happened.
If you could shut down the Daily Mail, Sun and the like over here while you are at it, that would be nice...
GMail is the "winner"? It's one of the mail "services" which forwards all your messages to the NSA, and which mines them for the commercial benefit of themselves and their partners. ....
Making this statement during the interview and they will move on to the next candidate.
OTOH, shy persons may prefer this wimpy ride.
OTOH, thinking persons may prefer this adequate ride.
FTFY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car
Why would you need an engine size suitable for a normal car for charging the battery? Surely a 500cc engine could be more efficient for a hybrid like this...
He said that 95% of the world population are not from the US. I make it nearly 95.7% but 95% is close enough. The population is not globally significant in most matters - certainly not when discussing future vehicle engineering.
A side note. You live in Germany so
Check your math.
Needs adjusting. Outside the USA, mathematics is known to be plural so "Check your maths makes more sense.
Yes. He designs cars, not profit centres and gadgets on wheels. For one of these, I would need something to measure my remaining charge, speed and distance travelled. Regulations would probably require me to have something to tell me my seat belt is undone. A small subset of the usual coloured lights telling me of problems might be useful - perhaps tyre pressure and engine overheating is enough.
A socket somewhere to plug in a USB cable to do diagnostics would be nice for the guy maintaining it would be good. That could bring up all sorts of other information onto their laptop that drivers really need to not have.
12,000 Euros is a bit steep though. Half that would be slightly pricey.
What is "piracy" anyway?
"the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea."
When children in school are accused of being a cross between Henry Morgan and Jack Sparrow, you know that the RIAA, MAFIAA etc are full of s**t. It may, or may not be theft. I think it is but it is not, by any stretch of the imagination anything like what still happens off the Horn of Africa!
... not politically feasible.
I would say it is more feasable in the USA than it is for the rest of us. You have a sizeable demographic that feels that to disagree with what the corporations want will cause the death of capitalism or something.
I mentioned your left - Bernie Sanders.
If you had much of a political left, you would not be famous globally for even your previous president not actually setting up such things as universal health care, welfare state, decent consumer rights, user dapa protection and all the other things that your corporate masters do not think you deserve.
Can I guess that you do not believe that there is any difference between socialists and communists? Many of your fellow citizens certainly seem to think this. Do you think that the Nazis were socialists because their full party title had that word in it? If so, presumably you think that the old East Germany was a democracy because its name said so. The "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" was as Socialist as the DPRK is democratic or belongs to its people. The USSR may well have been heading towards communism under Lenin. Stalin did not continue that journey and it slid into something that he wanted.
Those people way off to your left may be in the middle. Where does that mean you are?
The left and right do the exact same thing.
This would be meaningful if the USA actually had a left. It has a "center", a "Center-Right" (Democrat), a "Far Right" (Republican) and an "Alt-Right".
Lefties may do the same as righties - but there are few lefties in the USA - perhaps 1 called Bernie Sanders?