The charger is about as standard as you can get for the iPhone. It will charge (nearly) any device, and it will charge any device. My very old Motorola RAZR was the one thing a "standard" charger would not always work with in my experience.
Likewise, any USB charger will charge an iPhone. iPads are a little different; my wall outlet receptacle/dual USB chargers can only charge an iPad on one port, but I think it is an issue with the 10W charging more than anything.
The MicroUSB connector may be able to handle the cycles, but the PCB connectors seem to fail regularly. The connector itself is reasonably solid compared to lightning, but using it as a dock connector is ill advised.
Lightning connectors add the benefit of symmetry to the equation and also gives a more robust/flexible data link.
Makes a huge difference when you add everything up. Also makes a big difference in space. Car to office might not matter, but if you are walking a half mile on each end of the commute, or through an airport, it is a reasonably big deal.
For me, it is the difference between being able to lug a folio with me in addition to the laptop.
The only gripe I could come up with is that without LTE I am still stuck needing my ipad for some things.
Path lights do a good job at safety lighting, but don't help from a security perspective; you need vertical illumination at head-level to create a sense of comfort with people. What you want to avoid is high-brightness sources, as the glare of trying to light an entire yard from one floodlight makes it impossible for neighbors to notice someone breaking into your home.
Vertical illuminance can either be provided with sconces on the exterior wall, or indirectly by lighting up vertical surfaces.
Actually, to become an airline pilot now you need 1,500 hours of flight time. To do this in any reasonable time frame, you would be spending at least $250k of your own money. The airlines are having problems now, and it will get worse.
The problem is that the way Amazon optimizes systems, there is a very high probability of failure of multiple availability zones. That is part of how they break even/make money/don't lose as much providing you with the service.
If you can't afford a co-lo rack for DR then the cloud isn't going to save you.
I know of a major "cloud" data center having a substantial outage on New Years Day due to a drunk driver hitting a power pole. Automatic transfer switches wouldn't switch to generator, and the site was down for 16 hours.
The magnitude of the outage, time-to-recover, and customer impact were much worse than they should have been, but not that far from what I might expect at several more "premium" facilities.
When it is in the cloud, you really don't know what the physical infrastructure is...
It is only too expensive if you pay for cable tv. At $5 per movie on itunes plus $10/month for Netflix, we spend about $35 per month watching ~20 hours of TV, and don't have to deal with commercials.
As long as the price is commercial free, I say it is reasonable value. Add in commercials, and piracy becomes much more attractive at that cost.
I think he is referring to something that can run open firmware. I agree completely with GP's strategy; you can even keep a spare modem around if you need to. Also recommend switching FiOS over to the Ethernet rather than coax at the ONT to avoid the need for a modem.
My complaint with the Airport is the awful management interface, and extremely limited options. Our office unit has been quite reliable over the past 3-4 years though for wifi. The management limitations just force us to put it in the DMZ and VPN into the LAN, which reduces speeds somewhat.
For a home router for a/.er though, I would think the Asus RT66NU would be a pretty good pick: you can install DD-WRT-derived (I think) firmware and get Transmission, OpenVPN, SSH access, etc. It is also 12V, so easy enough to hook up a small battery/power supply/regulator and avoid a UPS. It isn't perfect, but I doubt I would ever go with an Airport again unless I had the same compatibility problems I experienced with my old MacBook Pro.
I've tried to get Routerboards before, but the distribution network in the US is terrible-- no stock, insane lead times, and non responsive. Have you found a good distributor?
Simple solution to that is to offer customers "reward points" which let them accrue savings for future purchases.
The judge's decision apparently hinges on the fact that the violation was a per-se violation, so no justification is legal. apple's team argued that they were not in a position of power, or a ringleader of the collusion, and in a vertical market.
You forgot the only one that really matters: easy.
Setting up a secure certificate based VPN to your home and...somewhere else isn't easy enough for most people to do. Making it as useful is even harder.
Isn't an agency model the most logical form for a copyrighted product? It's simply a commission.
The beauty of Apple's MFN was it was just for new-release hardcover books; there would be a more competitive marketplace once the paperback edition came out. I think this one was poorly adjudicated.
Copyright is a cartel. The copyright holders have full power to control exclusive distribution of their property. They wanted their ebook price at $X to maintain a market for hard cover books, but Amazon was selling at $(X-3).
The judgement against Apple is that they leveraged this publisher discontent to make ebooks profitable for themselves, and create a viable bookstore for new release books.
The question that will be appealed is if Apple "colluded," or if they "negotiated."
Everybody was happy when they forced the music labels to a $0.99 price point on an agency model...
Airport security is actually a pretty good parallel; you establish a culture that security is important, you harass the people that can be harassed with minimal retribution, and you give people badges that get them around the security to do real work. You also use a lot of cameras to reinforce that culture of someone is watching.
It is reasonably effective at results, although it is completely ineffective in terms of cost/benefit.
Information compartmentalization should limit what someone can do TO you, but it also severely limits what they can do FOR you.
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35mA is all it takes to electrocute someone... Limiting current to less than charging current might be problematic...
If you put 220V on the data pins of any phone you are likely to get a jolt.
The charger is about as standard as you can get for the iPhone. It will charge (nearly) any device, and it will charge any device. My very old Motorola RAZR was the one thing a "standard" charger would not always work with in my experience.
Likewise, any USB charger will charge an iPhone. iPads are a little different; my wall outlet receptacle/dual USB chargers can only charge an iPad on one port, but I think it is an issue with the 10W charging more than anything.
The MicroUSB connector may be able to handle the cycles, but the PCB connectors seem to fail regularly. The connector itself is reasonably solid compared to lightning, but using it as a dock connector is ill advised.
Lightning connectors add the benefit of symmetry to the equation and also gives a more robust/flexible data link.
Sounds like you need a 13". Thunderbolt, and an SD Card make the USB ports go pretty far. Battery life is amazing.
Backlit keyboard is now standard.
I find myself doing more wirelessly, between AppleTV and wifi-attached NAS devices. I had gripes with my 2010 Air, but this is a whole new ball game.
Makes a huge difference when you add everything up. Also makes a big difference in space. Car to office might not matter, but if you are walking a half mile on each end of the commute, or through an airport, it is a reasonably big deal.
For me, it is the difference between being able to lug a folio with me in addition to the laptop.
The only gripe I could come up with is that without LTE I am still stuck needing my ipad for some things.
Path lights do a good job at safety lighting, but don't help from a security perspective; you need vertical illumination at head-level to create a sense of comfort with people. What you want to avoid is high-brightness sources, as the glare of trying to light an entire yard from one floodlight makes it impossible for neighbors to notice someone breaking into your home.
Vertical illuminance can either be provided with sconces on the exterior wall, or indirectly by lighting up vertical surfaces.
Actually, to become an airline pilot now you need 1,500 hours of flight time. To do this in any reasonable time frame, you would be spending at least $250k of your own money. The airlines are having problems now, and it will get worse.
The problem is that the way Amazon optimizes systems, there is a very high probability of failure of multiple availability zones. That is part of how they break even/make money/don't lose as much providing you with the service.
If you can't afford a co-lo rack for DR then the cloud isn't going to save you.
I know of a major "cloud" data center having a substantial outage on New Years Day due to a drunk driver hitting a power pole. Automatic transfer switches wouldn't switch to generator, and the site was down for 16 hours.
The magnitude of the outage, time-to-recover, and customer impact were much worse than they should have been, but not that far from what I might expect at several more "premium" facilities.
When it is in the cloud, you really don't know what the physical infrastructure is...
It is only too expensive if you pay for cable tv. At $5 per movie on itunes plus $10/month for Netflix, we spend about $35 per month watching ~20 hours of TV, and don't have to deal with commercials.
As long as the price is commercial free, I say it is reasonable value. Add in commercials, and piracy becomes much more attractive at that cost.
It was too early for streaming to be a viable alternative for most people then; on-the-go wasn't viable for music until around 2010, arguably 2012.
Likewise, if your users are set up to use the internal domain but are external to the network, it is an easy MITM attack.
Pre or post melt-down?
Maybe it is just luck of the draw, but a restaurant I go to uses the Checkpoint and reliability/range seems disappointing.
I think he is referring to something that can run open firmware. I agree completely with GP's strategy; you can even keep a spare modem around if you need to. Also recommend switching FiOS over to the Ethernet rather than coax at the ONT to avoid the need for a modem.
Airport Express? Can they handle more than 15 devices connecting between reboots now?
My complaint with the Airport is the awful management interface, and extremely limited options. Our office unit has been quite reliable over the past 3-4 years though for wifi. The management limitations just force us to put it in the DMZ and VPN into the LAN, which reduces speeds somewhat.
For a home router for a /.er though, I would think the Asus RT66NU would be a pretty good pick: you can install DD-WRT-derived (I think) firmware and get Transmission, OpenVPN, SSH access, etc. It is also 12V, so easy enough to hook up a small battery/power supply/regulator and avoid a UPS. It isn't perfect, but I doubt I would ever go with an Airport again unless I had the same compatibility problems I experienced with my old MacBook Pro.
I've tried to get Routerboards before, but the distribution network in the US is terrible-- no stock, insane lead times, and non responsive. Have you found a good distributor?
Didn't they reorganize as a engineering centric company around 2000 as well?
If only they had a real leader, they might be able to pull off this unified company concept...
Simple solution to that is to offer customers "reward points" which let them accrue savings for future purchases.
The judge's decision apparently hinges on the fact that the violation was a per-se violation, so no justification is legal. apple's team argued that they were not in a position of power, or a ringleader of the collusion, and in a vertical market.
You forgot the only one that really matters: easy.
Setting up a secure certificate based VPN to your home and ...somewhere else isn't easy enough for most people to do. Making it as useful is even harder.
Isn't an agency model the most logical form for a copyrighted product? It's simply a commission.
The beauty of Apple's MFN was it was just for new-release hardcover books; there would be a more competitive marketplace once the paperback edition came out. I think this one was poorly adjudicated.
Copyright is a cartel. The copyright holders have full power to control exclusive distribution of their property. They wanted their ebook price at $X to maintain a market for hard cover books, but Amazon was selling at $(X-3).
The judgement against Apple is that they leveraged this publisher discontent to make ebooks profitable for themselves, and create a viable bookstore for new release books.
The question that will be appealed is if Apple "colluded," or if they "negotiated."
Everybody was happy when they forced the music labels to a $0.99 price point on an agency model...
ON SALE in the US means about the same thing as FOR SALE.
Airport security is actually a pretty good parallel; you establish a culture that security is important, you harass the people that can be harassed with minimal retribution, and you give people badges that get them around the security to do real work. You also use a lot of cameras to reinforce that culture of someone is watching.
It is reasonably effective at results, although it is completely ineffective in terms of cost/benefit.
Information compartmentalization should limit what someone can do TO you, but it also severely limits what they can do FOR you.