Exactly. Speaking personally, of the four machines (three laptop, one desktop) in my house that were eligible for the upgrade, only one has been upgraded, and that solely as a hedge against needing to use a Win10-specific app in the future. That machine has only even been booted three times in the last year, and is switched off 99%+ of the time. The upgrade was intentionally blocked by me on every other machine in my household. I don't doubt for a second that Microsoft is counting me as a success in its reporting, however, even if it claims not to be. They've simply been caught lying, cheating and trying to screw over their own customers too many times to think otherwise.
Yes, you can shoehorn Windows Embedded Industry updates into XP, but that's only going to patch anything which was shared between the two. If a bug or exploit was specific to XP, it won't be patched. And there's no guarantee this trick will continue working next week, never mind a year or two from now -- Microsoft can close the loophole any time they want to.
If they're going to start somewhere, they should probably start with curing all the bugs and exploits in their bug-and-exploit-ridden adware, Windows 10.
...Zuck means "patent all the medications, so I can get fat off the overinflated profits".
If he wanted to make a meaningful difference in the world, he'd work to make existing medical care affordable, not piss away money on pie-in-the-sky initiatives to "cure all diseases".
Me, I couldn't care less about this. Whenever I upgrade to 4K, I'll upgrade to a standalone 4K Blu-Ray player. Why would I want to waste the limited hardware life of my console on playing Blu-Rays (not to mention the extra power consumed by a console, rather than a low-power standalone player) on something completely passive like watching movies or TV shows? Answer: I wouldn't, and you're a fool if you do.
I was still out of this gen until a few weeks ago. I waited until the "4K" models launched, then bought an original PS4 because I still remember the XBone launch debacle and just how much Microsoft hates its customers.
If by "a lot of people i the US" you mean perhaps 0.1% of people in the US at best -- and I'm talking solely about home internet speeds here, not business internet speeds -- then I'd agree. But that's not a lot. And yes, I really do think there's not a snowball's chance in hell that *average* internet speeds will be more than one gigabyte per second in ten years time. In fact, I'll be surprised if *average* US internet speeds are even 100Mbps in ten years.
...how you said that with a straight face. You do realize that the US average is no better than much of Europe, and in fact currently lags a fair bit of Europe (northern Europe in particular) by quite some distance, right? And given our penchant for putting internet access in the hands of government-mandated monopolies rather than in the hands of the people, if anything our speeds a decade hence will likely lag most of Europe by a significant margin. Only the completely delusional would forecast that we'd best it by an order of magnitude.
Except it's not a reason, smartass, because numerous current smartphones and tablets can be taken underwater (and even used underwater) without any issues, despite their designs featuring uncapped 3.5mm jacks. I own three of these (one phone, two tablets) myself, and have submerged all three numerous times while switched on, without a single issue.
Oh goodie, it's only $9 to have a clumsy unnecessary extra box in my pocket, all so Apple could shave a tenth of a millimeter off the case and boost their accessory and patent licensing profits. What a WIN for the Apple customer!
It's not advertised as waterproof any more, but as has been widely demonstrated, it's still waterproof. (Yes, that's the Z5 Compact, but numerous videos out there show the Z5 being similar dunked.) They just don't want to pay to repair phones which were abused (immersed with a flap not properly closed, immersed deeper or longer than stated, immersed in non-fresh water, etc.) And sorry, but if you know anything about anything, you know why it matters whether you're immersing it in fresh, clean water or in water tainted by salt and other chemicals. And sorry, but I don't believe for one second that your phone misbehaved merely from rain (unless you simply didn't dry the touch-screen before trying to use it, that is.)
Methinks you don't know what "waterproof" means. The headphone jack has to be waterproof if unplugged, or the phone itself can't be waterproof. Whether water can get into the area of the jack where it's designed to be allowed doesn't change the fact that it's waterproof *in the areas it is supposed to be*.
Also, fresh water is a poor conductor, so it should not be meaningfully completing a headphone circuit -- at least, if you dropped your phone into just water. Now, if you dropped it in dirty or salt water (which is all I can presume from your complaint), that's an entirely different situation -- and one neither existing waterproof phones with headphone jacks *and* the new iPhone are designed to survive. Check the manual for both and it will specifically tell you not to immerse the phone in salt water.
All I can tell you is that my phone has been immersed in fresh water multiple times, mostly by mistake, but as designed it continued to work just fine, and as soon as the touch-screen was dried, did not show any untoward behavior of any kind -- and that includes complaining about headphones. But even if that really happened to you, one shake of the phone would have been enough to remove the water from the headphone jack and stop the problem.
Anybody who attempts to place the same constraints on casual conversation as on legalese has clearly never participated even peripherally in a grown-up debate. You knew what I meant by 100% waterproof. So did I. My phone is waterproof, as in not merely water resistant or splashproof. It was advertised as such. It works as such, as tested by myself and *many* others, when used within the constraints laid down by the manufacturer. (Five feet, 30 minutes.) And all of this is achieved with an uncapped 3.5mm audio jack, thus showing that Apple and its fanbois' claims that waterproofing is the reason for the lack of a headphone jack is cobblers.
Also, whether Apple gets its licensing fees from *everyone* is totally beside the point. If it gets even a cent in licensing revenues -- and it gets a hell of a lot more than that -- then it makes money out of foisting proprietary crap on its users, and that cost is passed on to the users in overinflated accessory prices. And that's the real reason not just for the lack of a headphone jack, but also for the choice of a proprietary wireless protocol rather than a standard one. It's all about Apple shaking its customers down for the maximum possible cash.
Better than 100% waterproof? Because my phone can already withstand lengthy total immersions without even the slightest whisper of a concern, and my phone has the exposed headphone jack you're decrying.
Truth be told this has nothing to do with anything but increasing the revenue stream from Apple customers with a choice of either badly overpriced first-party hardware, or skimming off the third parties with licensing fees.
Then your friend either mistreated the phone or got a lemon, which happens with every brand including Apple. My Z2 has the exact same headphone jack and has been totally immersed multiple times without even the slightest hint of an issue.
Yup. This has nothng to do with water resistance (my existing phone with exposed headphone jack is already 100% waterproof, and so is my tablet.) It is 100% about giving Apple a new revenue stream with licensing fees for the intentionally proprietay hardware.
I suggest not mistreating your phone, then. My Z2 has the exact same waterproof headphone jack, and I have never seen what you describe even once, not even after total immersion. You'll pry my headphone jack from my cold, dead hands...
Looks like someone is about 30 years out of date on their aircraft knowledge. Modern commercial aircraft autopilots can and on a daily basis do indeed avoid other traffic, courtesy of the TCAS system. ICAO mandates TCAS use in all aircraft carrying ten or more people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Yes, however I personally have paid not one cent of interest or fees on the credit card the entire time I've had it. The fees are tacked on at the register, and since the law doesn't allow charging a surcharge for a credit card, that means I'd have paid for it even if I used cash and never had a rewards program in the first place. Ergo I might as well take advantage of getting the reward for free, since the end cost to me is identical but I end up with an expensive product whose cost I wouldn't have been able to justify otherwise.
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Exactly. Speaking personally, of the four machines (three laptop, one desktop) in my house that were eligible for the upgrade, only one has been upgraded, and that solely as a hedge against needing to use a Win10-specific app in the future. That machine has only even been booted three times in the last year, and is switched off 99%+ of the time. The upgrade was intentionally blocked by me on every other machine in my household. I don't doubt for a second that Microsoft is counting me as a success in its reporting, however, even if it claims not to be. They've simply been caught lying, cheating and trying to screw over their own customers too many times to think otherwise.
No, it doesn't. Windows XP support ended in 2014, and not even security patches are provided by Microsoft any more.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
Yes, you can shoehorn Windows Embedded Industry updates into XP, but that's only going to patch anything which was shared between the two. If a bug or exploit was specific to XP, it won't be patched. And there's no guarantee this trick will continue working next week, never mind a year or two from now -- Microsoft can close the loophole any time they want to.
If they're going to start somewhere, they should probably start with curing all the bugs and exploits in their bug-and-exploit-ridden adware, Windows 10.
...Zuck means "patent all the medications, so I can get fat off the overinflated profits".
If he wanted to make a meaningful difference in the world, he'd work to make existing medical care affordable, not piss away money on pie-in-the-sky initiatives to "cure all diseases".
Me, I couldn't care less about this. Whenever I upgrade to 4K, I'll upgrade to a standalone 4K Blu-Ray player. Why would I want to waste the limited hardware life of my console on playing Blu-Rays (not to mention the extra power consumed by a console, rather than a low-power standalone player) on something completely passive like watching movies or TV shows? Answer: I wouldn't, and you're a fool if you do.
I was still out of this gen until a few weeks ago. I waited until the "4K" models launched, then bought an original PS4 because I still remember the XBone launch debacle and just how much Microsoft hates its customers.
If by "a lot of people i the US" you mean perhaps 0.1% of people in the US at best -- and I'm talking solely about home internet speeds here, not business internet speeds -- then I'd agree. But that's not a lot. And yes, I really do think there's not a snowball's chance in hell that *average* internet speeds will be more than one gigabyte per second in ten years time. In fact, I'll be surprised if *average* US internet speeds are even 100Mbps in ten years.
Fact: Bigoted ranting doesn't make it so, much as you might wish otherwise.
...how you said that with a straight face. You do realize that the US average is no better than much of Europe, and in fact currently lags a fair bit of Europe (northern Europe in particular) by quite some distance, right? And given our penchant for putting internet access in the hands of government-mandated monopolies rather than in the hands of the people, if anything our speeds a decade hence will likely lag most of Europe by a significant margin. Only the completely delusional would forecast that we'd best it by an order of magnitude.
Here, do some reading:
https://www.akamai.com/us/en/o...
Case in point: The USA, where the power and the money were grabbed a century ago, and the reins are increasingly tightly held.
Except it's not a reason, smartass, because numerous current smartphones and tablets can be taken underwater (and even used underwater) without any issues, despite their designs featuring uncapped 3.5mm jacks. I own three of these (one phone, two tablets) myself, and have submerged all three numerous times while switched on, without a single issue.
Oh goodie, it's only $9 to have a clumsy unnecessary extra box in my pocket, all so Apple could shave a tenth of a millimeter off the case and boost their accessory and patent licensing profits. What a WIN for the Apple customer!
It's not advertised as waterproof any more, but as has been widely demonstrated, it's still waterproof. (Yes, that's the Z5 Compact, but numerous videos out there show the Z5 being similar dunked.) They just don't want to pay to repair phones which were abused (immersed with a flap not properly closed, immersed deeper or longer than stated, immersed in non-fresh water, etc.) And sorry, but if you know anything about anything, you know why it matters whether you're immersing it in fresh, clean water or in water tainted by salt and other chemicals. And sorry, but I don't believe for one second that your phone misbehaved merely from rain (unless you simply didn't dry the touch-screen before trying to use it, that is.)
Methinks you don't know what "waterproof" means. The headphone jack has to be waterproof if unplugged, or the phone itself can't be waterproof. Whether water can get into the area of the jack where it's designed to be allowed doesn't change the fact that it's waterproof *in the areas it is supposed to be*.
Also, fresh water is a poor conductor, so it should not be meaningfully completing a headphone circuit -- at least, if you dropped your phone into just water. Now, if you dropped it in dirty or salt water (which is all I can presume from your complaint), that's an entirely different situation -- and one neither existing waterproof phones with headphone jacks *and* the new iPhone are designed to survive. Check the manual for both and it will specifically tell you not to immerse the phone in salt water.
All I can tell you is that my phone has been immersed in fresh water multiple times, mostly by mistake, but as designed it continued to work just fine, and as soon as the touch-screen was dried, did not show any untoward behavior of any kind -- and that includes complaining about headphones. But even if that really happened to you, one shake of the phone would have been enough to remove the water from the headphone jack and stop the problem.
Anybody who attempts to place the same constraints on casual conversation as on legalese has clearly never participated even peripherally in a grown-up debate. You knew what I meant by 100% waterproof. So did I. My phone is waterproof, as in not merely water resistant or splashproof. It was advertised as such. It works as such, as tested by myself and *many* others, when used within the constraints laid down by the manufacturer. (Five feet, 30 minutes.) And all of this is achieved with an uncapped 3.5mm audio jack, thus showing that Apple and its fanbois' claims that waterproofing is the reason for the lack of a headphone jack is cobblers.
Also, whether Apple gets its licensing fees from *everyone* is totally beside the point. If it gets even a cent in licensing revenues -- and it gets a hell of a lot more than that -- then it makes money out of foisting proprietary crap on its users, and that cost is passed on to the users in overinflated accessory prices. And that's the real reason not just for the lack of a headphone jack, but also for the choice of a proprietary wireless protocol rather than a standard one. It's all about Apple shaking its customers down for the maximum possible cash.
Better than 100% waterproof? Because my phone can already withstand lengthy total immersions without even the slightest whisper of a concern, and my phone has the exposed headphone jack you're decrying. Truth be told this has nothing to do with anything but increasing the revenue stream from Apple customers with a choice of either badly overpriced first-party hardware, or skimming off the third parties with licensing fees.
He won't need one, because most Android manufacturers will keep the headphone jack.
Then your friend either mistreated the phone or got a lemon, which happens with every brand including Apple. My Z2 has the exact same headphone jack and has been totally immersed multiple times without even the slightest hint of an issue.
Yup. This has nothng to do with water resistance (my existing phone with exposed headphone jack is already 100% waterproof, and so is my tablet.) It is 100% about giving Apple a new revenue stream with licensing fees for the intentionally proprietay hardware.
I suggest not mistreating your phone, then. My Z2 has the exact same waterproof headphone jack, and I have never seen what you describe even once, not even after total immersion. You'll pry my headphone jack from my cold, dead hands...
Not just the A380. Many aircraft are now capable of this, both from Boeing, Airbus and others.
Aircraft autopilots have been able to avoid moving aircraft since at least the late 1980s, courtesy of TCAS.
Looks like someone is about 30 years out of date on their aircraft knowledge. Modern commercial aircraft autopilots can and on a daily basis do indeed avoid other traffic, courtesy of the TCAS system. ICAO mandates TCAS use in all aircraft carrying ten or more people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Yes, however I personally have paid not one cent of interest or fees on the credit card the entire time I've had it. The fees are tacked on at the register, and since the law doesn't allow charging a surcharge for a credit card, that means I'd have paid for it even if I used cash and never had a rewards program in the first place. Ergo I might as well take advantage of getting the reward for free, since the end cost to me is identical but I end up with an expensive product whose cost I wouldn't have been able to justify otherwise.
And even with the brush spin turned off, a high-end Dyson vacuum will simply push the dirt around the room.