More to the point, I doubt it will turn out that Autopilot was even on. "Autopilot crashed me" is the best excuse bad drivers have ever been given. And people automatically take it at face values, until the logs get examined.
The problem is that the system is being examined by Tesla, not a third party. Because of the proprietary nature of the system, we're relying on Tesla to tell us Tesla hasn't fucked up. No matter if you like or dislike Tesla, that is a conflict of interest.
However that is not an issue in this case. The law is clear, all a judge will do is ask: Judge: Did you turn on the "autopilot" system. TWAT: Yes. Judge: Then you were in command of the vehicle, you are responsible for what happened.
It doesn't matter if the vehicle was operating independent of the drivers direct control, the driver is still responsible for what the vehicle does and ensuring that it didn't crash.
For some things, such as healthcare, where transparency is absent, government run systems tend to work better and cost less.
You haven't seen a government-run health system, have you?
Not sure about the GP but what is obvious is you haven't.
Nice story, but in reality as a foreigner you are not permitted access to free medical services anywhere unless your nation has a reciprocal agreement.
Secondly, sounds like you were travelling without insurance in a foreign country and expecting the locals to pick up the tab. Entitlement much.
For all the flaws with the UK's NHS has, I much prefer it over the US's private system. First and foremost, it's cheaper. The UK pays between US$4-5000 of taxpayer money per person on the NHS and thats the end of it. The US pays between $9-10,000 USD of taxpayer money and then you (or your employer) needs to fork out more on top of that. Secondly, if I have a minor ailment I can get a doctors appointment, they'll give me the tests and treatments I need, not the ones that make the most profit. If I have a major emergency, I can go to A&E, receive the care I need and not have to worry about a cent... let alone being turned away from A&E because I dont have the proper insurance (meaning my employer didn't give me the proper insurance). Finally, I'd hate to be reliant on my employer to provide something as essential as my health care, it gives the employer an enormous amount of power to restrict my movement and remuneration.
The NHS isn't perfect, but it's light years better than an all private system.
Currently, a doctor after studies, intership and a couple years of experience (so called "resident") earns $10800 yearly ($7800 after taxes). In the middle of Europe, in an EU country. No, I'm not confusing monthly vs annual wages -- these figures are per year.
Name the country. I guarantee you made this shit up or are deliberately omitting a fact that makes your scaremongering impotent.
I.E. You mentioned the middle of Europe, so we're probably talking former eastern bloc. Lets take Bulgaria for example, middle of Europe... Check. In the EU... Check. Average salary of a Bulgarian (Average, not minimum) is 400 Euro a month before tax so, 4800 Euro a year (US$5,920). A lot of Bulgarians will be earning less than that. A doctor earning US$10,800 will be earning almost twice the average wage.
Lets compare that to a US first year graduate MD. They get US$51,000 per year, the average salary in the US is $81,400. Seems its better to be a Bulgarian graduate than a US one.
So name the country, otherwise we all know you're full of shit.
So? Not all Republicans are religious nutjobs, just like not all Democrats are braindead SJWs.
Decent politicians do actually exist. They're few and far between and you have to look carefully for them, but when you found one, treasure him or her and keep voting for her, because it's all that stands between you and having another dud in an office.
I've always just assumed titles like RINO an DINO were just American words for what we in the ROTW would describe as a centrist.
It's hard to see how states could lose such a case. They aren't forbidding companies from operating in their state, they are stating conditions for companies to have state contracts.
True, but sadly pointless.
Its like gun control, if one state bans it, you can just hop over the border and buy what you like. Net Neutrality needs to be protected nationally or it cant be protected at all because Bastard Telecom can just route all Montana traffic through a "friendlier" state where they can hobble it to their hearts delight.
Protectionism has never saved an industry, let alone created one. Ever. If you make things more expensive to import it just means they'll be less of them bought.
It doesn't punish the Chinese in any meaningful way as there are plenty of customers. A photo voltaic panel will earn X yuan in profit no matter what. The only thing a tariff will do is make you pay a little more for it, so the only ones being punished by this tariff are the American people who now have to pay an additional tax on a product.
Aren't the Republicans the ones meant to be getting out of the way of commerce?
Rupert also owns The Sun. Rupert also spends more time and effort influencing governments than the Russians.
This is what I was saying about Brexit. It was propaganda from the leave side... but the Propagandists weren't Russian. We know damn well who they were and that they weren't Johnny Foreigner.
Murdoch hates the EU, he was once said (I'm probably paraphrasing a little):
"When I go to Washington, they listen. When I go to Whitehall, they listen. When I go to Brussels, they ignore me".
Murdoch is quickly losing his position as kingmaker... and it's about damn time.
However the consequences of the likes of Fox News and the Sun disappearing from Facebook are? And nothing of value was lost, some racist Rednecks may actually be forced to read some credible news for once and if I really get the desire to see some page 3 girls... there's no shortage of unprotected profiles of Peta, 23 from Essex... hashtag selfie.
Exactly how does one know how "fast" a WiFi network is without "joining" it? All you can tell is what the signal strength is (something already shown), the frequency, and the protocol (a/b/g/n/whatever). None of those will tell you how fast your actual Internet speed will be without connecting to it and trying it. It might indicate a cap on top theoretical speed, but how useful is that?
More questions than answers... the article doesn't help much, either.
Are you sure you read TFA?
[quote]Private Wi-Fi networks that require passwords donâ(TM)t display any speed data since itâ(TM)s really none of your business and Google canâ(TM)t randomly test them, but they do continue to indicate signal strength.[/quote]
This implies that the network will be joined, tested and disconnected. If you don't want to participate you can block the "canary URL" or just put a password on your wifi like most people do. As its going end to end across the internet, you can test latency between each point like a traceroute.... in fact exactly like a traceroute so you'd know if the source of the latency is the connection (device to gateway), last mile or over the internet.
My fear is that once cars are fully automated, cops will still claim you need to be sober to operate them, and being near your car with the keys will still be worth $25,000 in fines and legal fees.
My fear is that some people will think it's OK to operate heavy and potentially dangerous machinery whilst drunk, high or distracted. Some say this has already happened.
If you're in charge of an automated machine, you should be sober. Liability will never be moved to manufacturers even under full automation, people thinking that autonomous cars are going to be faster going eleventy bajillion leptons and let them get wasted in the back are living in a fantasy world.
Please note, I am not against getting high, drunk or distracted, but please for the love of whatever you worship, don't get behind the wheel of anything whilst in this state.
Straight line acceleration is only a very small consideration for performance. Could a Tesla S beat a Ferrari around a track? I don't think anyone knows because EVs tend to overheat and turn off performance on any track actually designed to test a vehicle such as Nübergring.
The reason Tesla wont race against an ICE is precisely because they wont do very well. Thus far, none have managed to complete the the 14 mile Nurburgring at full power. In fact racing drivers have panned it as being heavy, unresponsive steering and lacking grip... pretty much the opposite of a sports car. Tesla talk about 0-60 times.... but are quite about how fast it actually goes round a track. As Colin McRae said, "straights are for cars, corners are for drivers"
A Tesla isn't a car for doing 2:35 at Silverstone, it isn't a car for doing Kings Cross at 2:35, its a car that takes 2h:35m to recharge.
If a phone is thinner than 3.5mm, it's difficult to hold anyway.
According to hardware designers I've talked to, the thickness of the 3.5mm plug isn't the issue. The problem is its volume and placement. It consumes 240 mm^3 on an outer edge, on one end of the phone, which is incredibly valuable real estate in a modern phone, because that's pretty much where the antennas have to be -- and phones have a lot of antennas, because they have a lot of radios (e.g. LTE requires 8 radios, and most phones support 5+ bands, plus Wifi, bluetooth, GPSr and NFC). It's also where speakers have to be, and they also require some depth, so significant volume. And where the charging/data port has to be.
Sounds like you need to talk to better hardware designers.
Having taken apart a Nexus 5, the actual electronics (circuit board, radios, SOC) take up about 1/4 to 1/3 of the phone. The bulk of the internal space is consumed by the screen and the battery. As the GP alluded to, it's the pointless race to be thinner that's to blame, not the internal components.
Old stereo equipment back to the early 1980's had this jack.
Mmmmh, no. In the 1980's, stereo equipment had a 6.35 mm jack connector, as had my Revox headphones. During the transition to the new 3.5 mm jack, we had to use dongles. Just like an recent iPhone needs a lightning dongle for the audio jack.
The problem today is not that a new standard is coming, but that I can't figure yet what is the safe choice for the next 5-10 years. Until then, I will stick to the 3.5 mm jack and dongles.
6.3 mm jacks are still common on musical instruments because they've never had a reason to be replaced.
I don't see the 3.5mm jack going anywhere because there's no reason for it's replacement and most people end up using dongles to convert whatever to 3.5mm. The 3.5mm jack rose to prominence due to it's smaller size being more convenient for portable devices (and keep in mind, by portable I mean a boom box, this was long before the days of Sony's Walkman), there is no impetus for it's removal, same as there's no impetus to switch guitars from 6.3mm to 3.5.
So for most of us, the headphone market will remain as simple and straightforward as it has been for the last 30 odd years as all headphones will be 3.5mm unless they specifically say otherwise on the front.
but it was Mays own party that proposed Brexit on a gamble. After the country actually voted in favour of it, 3 separate politicians assumed responsibility for the fiasco and each stepped aside as the brakes were nowhere to be found on this train. Even Boris Johnson had a swing at the corpulent trashbag known as Brexit. the UK even went so far as to say the legislation was somehow nonbinding, and when pressed by the EU to exist in a timely fashion had the audacity to demand "a good deal" in exchange for leaving. They did not in fact get a deal.
now may's trying again, desparately, to save face and pin the blame on russia? Seriously? At some point someone has to call her bluff and ask what strategic or tactical advantage Russia gains by sabotaging a nation into exile from a trade group russia already has formal relations with (the EU)? In other words, why would russia intentionally make it more cumbersome to trade with the UK?
I'm not a fan of the conservatives... but this isn't May's doing. If May really wants to put the brakes on Brexit, we'd have a second referendum, certainly enough people and parliamentarians are calling for one. Not even the Daily Mail can continue to pretend that Brexit is popular or going well.
Russian interference isn't the cause of Brexit. Propaganda is, but the Propagandists are much closer to home.
It's 2018 and the Republicans have controlled both Congress and the Presidency for over a year, so why are you bringing up the 2016 elections? At this rate, I swear it's 2037 and one of you retards with a faded MAGA hat is going to tell me about how that Trump and Republicans won and that I should accept it. Seriously, we get it!
Remember that the people demanding you "accept" Trump are the same ones that spent 8 years trying to defame Obama by demanding his birth certificate (even when one was provided, they wouldn't let it go).
Personally, no leader deserves automatic support. I say judge a leader by their actions... Trump has not performed well there either.
Neither pure capitalism, nor pure socialism (or the closest approximations that have arisen) work particularly well for anyone but the small group who come to accumulate power. Identifying the areas of society that are best allowed to operate as a (regulated) free market, and those areas that are better run as (limited and well defined) social services is more successful, by a number of measures.
This. Almost all nations run mixed economies because they work.
It should be noted that a pure socialism (communism) has been tried and failed... However a pure capitalism hasn't even gotten off the ground, each and every time it's failed before even starting. Both extremes fail for the same reason, they requires every single person to think in exactly the same way and believe in exactly the same things.
In other words: to coerce you to accept excessively a high per-Gigabyte cost and avoid what they view as "wasteful fidelity" they will tamper with your traffic to reduce your consumption.
"Save your overly restrictive data plan" is really REALLY not a good reason for throttling.
The alternative is to meter usage.
In the UK, mobile telecom companies don't do this but you pay for X GB per month and if you reach that, you either accept you have no data or buy more data. I prefer our method, but you have the opportunity to chose.
Apple's got a real general malaise problem, lately. The fix is likely to replace the CEO and possibly other high-up executives because they've focused too much on other crap, and not on the core-business. If Tim Cook, (for example,) wants to be the CEO of a watch company, or a headphone company, let him go do that.
Apple is a computer company, even if they removed the word "computer" from their name. Of course this is merely my opinion, but I'll tell you this for sure: unless and until Apple shapes up its act, I am not buying any more Apple products, or products that only work with Apple products. If it comes to pass that I need a new computer and/or cellphone before Apple pulls its corporate head out of its corporate ass, I will switch to something else. (Case in point, I recently obtained an old MacBook that Apple has decided is obsolete, and put GNU/Linux on it, in preparation for doing the same with my iMac, which once I don't need it for my iPhone anymore, that will be it, and I will unApplify my life. I'll probably get a dumb-phone, and go back to the days when I navigated for myself, etc., and not rely on the increasingly unreliable kludgey crap coming from Apple nowadays.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Apple has been like that since the 2000's. They've just lost their cult of personality.
They've always produced unreliable, klugey crap but previously had good marketing and a legion of rabid fanboys to attack anyone suggesting it wasn't the best thing since Jesus made pancakes out of wine.
An Iphone 8 isn't worse than an Iphone 3, it's just that people are seeing them for the overpriced crap they are. Replacing the CEO wont do anything to change that because the previous CEO got rid of anyone who would challenge him, that means he got rid of anyone remotely capable of maintaining a cult of personality like he did.
I wonder why? You red-state folks seem to [sic] warm and welcoming...
In my experience, the people you meet in most red states are wildly more affable, warm, friendly, and polite than most you'll meet in the increasingly effete, shrill, divisive, identity-politics-obsessed wastelands of political-correctness-paralyzed lands of blue.
As long as you're not black, or Asian, or suspected Liberal, or foreign, or have a funny accent or use words with more than 2 syllables.
As a foreigner, the warmest welcome's I've received have been from the least conservative cities and states. The worst people I've met are from dyed in the wool red state. I've met a few nice Texans... mostly from the Houston area but for every one of those I've met I've half a dozen complete wankers. Going through from Jacksonville to NOLA for work last year (with a truck of very valuable demo merchandise from the UK) we were treated with utter contempt from the moment we left Jacksonville to the moment we reached New Orleans because we had funny British (or in my case, Australian... not that they could tell the difference) accents. Once in NOLA we received some famous southern hospitality, up until then we only got infamous southern hostility.
Hell, a black Londoner, who's family had been Londoners since before your country even existed was told to "go back to Africa, damn ni**er". It was a shock because to us he wasn't a black Londoner... to us he was just a Londoner. We here in the Evil UK just dont notice shit like that any more.
And it's not like the logo of our company wasn't emblazoned on our lorries or jackets... its just that no-one there knew who this world famous vehicle manufacturer was (if they had of asked, they could have seen the supercars in the trucks).
Spoken to an Australian recently? I think they'd argue about 2018 being one of the coldest on record. I assume you meant to include "so far" and "here".
Spoken to an Australian recently... because they'd tell you about the number of cities in the country with water restrictions from ongoing droughts that are nearing a decade long in some parts as well as consecutive record high summers. In fact they'd be sweltering in one right now.
How do I know... because you're speaking to an Australian right now.
You're not only speaking to an Australian, but one who understands the climate of Australia. Right now we're getting a La Nina event, which is a sub surface cooling in the Pacific (the reversal of an El Nino event) which is part of the El Nino Southern Oscillation or ENSO. This is a welcome change as Australia has been hotter and drier because of several record El Nino events in recent years.
Next time you want to say something completely stupid about Australia... go to Australia first.
The way the EU has structured things, with incentives for relocation being illegal, seems far superior.
And it's exactly that sort of control over your town's choices and economic life that makes many people absolutely recoil at the notion of EU-style nanny statism.
And it's exactly that kind of completely wrong, knee jerk, asinine statement that makes anyone with any knowledge of how the EU works consider you a complete idiot.
Having my council, out of my rates, barter for a corporation to set up here when they wont pay rates is completely pants on head retarded. If corporations want to set up in my borough, they can do so because we already offer something, not because they're offered my money to do it and having my council rates pushed up for the pleasure of it.
You use words like "nanny" and "statism" when it's obvious you've got no idea what they mean because you've essentially argued in favour of higher taxes.
North Korea has made a credible threat to drop Disco on the USA.
If dropped from high enough, a Land Rover Discovery will do a lot of damage. Sure the engine doesn't start, the radio is stuck on BBC Southern Counties, the key needs to be shorted with a paperclip to open the doors, the body work is rusted and the wipers are "manual" but the chassis is solid enough to be a deadly projectile.
Can any corporate finance experts explain why companies would do this? Should we buy that they're just being generous/trying to foster goodwill?
Tax dodge.
Apple (and others like Google) are under heavy scrutiny by both the US and European authorities over unpaid taxes. The problem Apple have is that they rely on shifting profit between Europe and the US in order to evade taxes, if someone from both sides looked at the licensing fees and realised it was an Double Irish Sandwich and that both sides are missing out on millions in tax revenue then Apple is in serious trouble (and by serious trouble, I mean they'd have to dip into their amassed fortune and spend a small amount paying taxes).
So to head this off at the pass, Apple are giving out Restricted Stock Units (RSU) which are not remunerable , there for not subject to payroll taxes but are considered cost, therefore can be used to offset their profit. Lets ignore they essentially pulled the RSU's from their rectums and assigned an arbitrary value to them.
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More to the point, I doubt it will turn out that Autopilot was even on. "Autopilot crashed me" is the best excuse bad drivers have ever been given. And people automatically take it at face values, until the logs get examined.
The problem is that the system is being examined by Tesla, not a third party. Because of the proprietary nature of the system, we're relying on Tesla to tell us Tesla hasn't fucked up. No matter if you like or dislike Tesla, that is a conflict of interest.
However that is not an issue in this case. The law is clear, all a judge will do is ask:
Judge: Did you turn on the "autopilot" system.
TWAT: Yes.
Judge: Then you were in command of the vehicle, you are responsible for what happened.
It doesn't matter if the vehicle was operating independent of the drivers direct control, the driver is still responsible for what the vehicle does and ensuring that it didn't crash.
For some things, such as healthcare, where transparency is absent, government run systems tend to work better and cost less.
You haven't seen a government-run health system, have you?
Not sure about the GP but what is obvious is you haven't.
Nice story, but in reality as a foreigner you are not permitted access to free medical services anywhere unless your nation has a reciprocal agreement.
Secondly, sounds like you were travelling without insurance in a foreign country and expecting the locals to pick up the tab. Entitlement much. For all the flaws with the UK's NHS has, I much prefer it over the US's private system. First and foremost, it's cheaper. The UK pays between US$4-5000 of taxpayer money per person on the NHS and thats the end of it. The US pays between $9-10,000 USD of taxpayer money and then you (or your employer) needs to fork out more on top of that. Secondly, if I have a minor ailment I can get a doctors appointment, they'll give me the tests and treatments I need, not the ones that make the most profit. If I have a major emergency, I can go to A&E, receive the care I need and not have to worry about a cent... let alone being turned away from A&E because I dont have the proper insurance (meaning my employer didn't give me the proper insurance). Finally, I'd hate to be reliant on my employer to provide something as essential as my health care, it gives the employer an enormous amount of power to restrict my movement and remuneration.
The NHS isn't perfect, but it's light years better than an all private system.
Currently, a doctor after studies, intership and a couple years of experience (so called "resident") earns $10800 yearly ($7800 after taxes). In the middle of Europe, in an EU country. No, I'm not confusing monthly vs annual wages -- these figures are per year.
Name the country. I guarantee you made this shit up or are deliberately omitting a fact that makes your scaremongering impotent.
I.E. You mentioned the middle of Europe, so we're probably talking former eastern bloc. Lets take Bulgaria for example, middle of Europe... Check. In the EU... Check. Average salary of a Bulgarian (Average, not minimum) is 400 Euro a month before tax so, 4800 Euro a year (US$5,920). A lot of Bulgarians will be earning less than that. A doctor earning US$10,800 will be earning almost twice the average wage.
Lets compare that to a US first year graduate MD. They get US$51,000 per year, the average salary in the US is $81,400. Seems its better to be a Bulgarian graduate than a US one.
So name the country, otherwise we all know you're full of shit.
So? Not all Republicans are religious nutjobs, just like not all Democrats are braindead SJWs.
Decent politicians do actually exist. They're few and far between and you have to look carefully for them, but when you found one, treasure him or her and keep voting for her, because it's all that stands between you and having another dud in an office.
I've always just assumed titles like RINO an DINO were just American words for what we in the ROTW would describe as a centrist.
It's hard to see how states could lose such a case. They aren't forbidding companies from operating in their state, they are stating conditions for companies to have state contracts.
True, but sadly pointless.
Its like gun control, if one state bans it, you can just hop over the border and buy what you like. Net Neutrality needs to be protected nationally or it cant be protected at all because Bastard Telecom can just route all Montana traffic through a "friendlier" state where they can hobble it to their hearts delight.
What about American solar panel manufacturers?
What American solar manufacturers?
Protectionism has never saved an industry, let alone created one. Ever. If you make things more expensive to import it just means they'll be less of them bought.
It doesn't punish the Chinese in any meaningful way as there are plenty of customers. A photo voltaic panel will earn X yuan in profit no matter what. The only thing a tariff will do is make you pay a little more for it, so the only ones being punished by this tariff are the American people who now have to pay an additional tax on a product.
Aren't the Republicans the ones meant to be getting out of the way of commerce?
Rupert also owns The Sun. Rupert also spends more time and effort influencing governments than the Russians.
This is what I was saying about Brexit. It was propaganda from the leave side... but the Propagandists weren't Russian. We know damn well who they were and that they weren't Johnny Foreigner.
Murdoch hates the EU, he was once said (I'm probably paraphrasing a little):
"When I go to Washington, they listen. When I go to Whitehall, they listen. When I go to Brussels, they ignore me".
Murdoch is quickly losing his position as kingmaker... and it's about damn time.
However the consequences of the likes of Fox News and the Sun disappearing from Facebook are? And nothing of value was lost, some racist Rednecks may actually be forced to read some credible news for once and if I really get the desire to see some page 3 girls... there's no shortage of unprotected profiles of Peta, 23 from Essex... hashtag selfie.
Exactly how does one know how "fast" a WiFi network is without "joining" it? All you can tell is what the signal strength is (something already shown), the frequency, and the protocol (a/b/g/n/whatever). None of those will tell you how fast your actual Internet speed will be without connecting to it and trying it. It might indicate a cap on top theoretical speed, but how useful is that?
More questions than answers... the article doesn't help much, either.
Are you sure you read TFA? [quote]Private Wi-Fi networks that require passwords donâ(TM)t display any speed data since itâ(TM)s really none of your business and Google canâ(TM)t randomly test them, but they do continue to indicate signal strength.[/quote] This implies that the network will be joined, tested and disconnected. If you don't want to participate you can block the "canary URL" or just put a password on your wifi like most people do. As its going end to end across the internet, you can test latency between each point like a traceroute.... in fact exactly like a traceroute so you'd know if the source of the latency is the connection (device to gateway), last mile or over the internet.
My fear is that once cars are fully automated, cops will still claim you need to be sober to operate them, and being near your car with the keys will still be worth $25,000 in fines and legal fees.
My fear is that some people will think it's OK to operate heavy and potentially dangerous machinery whilst drunk, high or distracted. Some say this has already happened.
If you're in charge of an automated machine, you should be sober. Liability will never be moved to manufacturers even under full automation, people thinking that autonomous cars are going to be faster going eleventy bajillion leptons and let them get wasted in the back are living in a fantasy world.
Please note, I am not against getting high, drunk or distracted, but please for the love of whatever you worship, don't get behind the wheel of anything whilst in this state.
Straight line acceleration is only a very small consideration for performance. Could a Tesla S beat a Ferrari around a track? I don't think anyone knows because EVs tend to overheat and turn off performance on any track actually designed to test a vehicle such as Nübergring.
The reason Tesla wont race against an ICE is precisely because they wont do very well. Thus far, none have managed to complete the the 14 mile Nurburgring at full power. In fact racing drivers have panned it as being heavy, unresponsive steering and lacking grip... pretty much the opposite of a sports car. Tesla talk about 0-60 times.... but are quite about how fast it actually goes round a track. As Colin McRae said, "straights are for cars, corners are for drivers" A Tesla isn't a car for doing 2:35 at Silverstone, it isn't a car for doing Kings Cross at 2:35, its a car that takes 2h:35m to recharge.
Just don't buy a BMW.
Or just don't buy Apple products. Then you'll have enough to afford the BMW (the M240i in manual is fantastic).
Hell, of all the options I said no to on my M240i, Apple play is the one I honestly couldn't care less about.
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If a phone is thinner than 3.5mm, it's difficult to hold anyway.
According to hardware designers I've talked to, the thickness of the 3.5mm plug isn't the issue. The problem is its volume and placement. It consumes 240 mm^3 on an outer edge, on one end of the phone, which is incredibly valuable real estate in a modern phone, because that's pretty much where the antennas have to be -- and phones have a lot of antennas, because they have a lot of radios (e.g. LTE requires 8 radios, and most phones support 5+ bands, plus Wifi, bluetooth, GPSr and NFC). It's also where speakers have to be, and they also require some depth, so significant volume. And where the charging/data port has to be.
Sounds like you need to talk to better hardware designers.
Here is a 3.5 mm plug... and this is a large one.
Having taken apart a Nexus 5, the actual electronics (circuit board, radios, SOC) take up about 1/4 to 1/3 of the phone. The bulk of the internal space is consumed by the screen and the battery. As the GP alluded to, it's the pointless race to be thinner that's to blame, not the internal components.
Old stereo equipment back to the early 1980's had this jack.
Mmmmh, no. In the 1980's, stereo equipment had a 6.35 mm jack connector, as had my Revox headphones. During the transition to the new 3.5 mm jack, we had to use dongles. Just like an recent iPhone needs a lightning dongle for the audio jack.
The problem today is not that a new standard is coming, but that I can't figure yet what is the safe choice for the next 5-10 years. Until then, I will stick to the 3.5 mm jack and dongles.
6.3 mm jacks are still common on musical instruments because they've never had a reason to be replaced.
I don't see the 3.5mm jack going anywhere because there's no reason for it's replacement and most people end up using dongles to convert whatever to 3.5mm. The 3.5mm jack rose to prominence due to it's smaller size being more convenient for portable devices (and keep in mind, by portable I mean a boom box, this was long before the days of Sony's Walkman), there is no impetus for it's removal, same as there's no impetus to switch guitars from 6.3mm to 3.5.
So for most of us, the headphone market will remain as simple and straightforward as it has been for the last 30 odd years as all headphones will be 3.5mm unless they specifically say otherwise on the front.
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but it was Mays own party that proposed Brexit on a gamble. After the country actually voted in favour of it, 3 separate politicians assumed responsibility for the fiasco and each stepped aside as the brakes were nowhere to be found on this train. Even Boris Johnson had a swing at the corpulent trashbag known as Brexit. the UK even went so far as to say the legislation was somehow nonbinding, and when pressed by the EU to exist in a timely fashion had the audacity to demand "a good deal" in exchange for leaving. They did not in fact get a deal.
now may's trying again, desparately, to save face and pin the blame on russia? Seriously? At some point someone has to call her bluff and ask what strategic or tactical advantage Russia gains by sabotaging a nation into exile from a trade group russia already has formal relations with (the EU)? In other words, why would russia intentionally make it more cumbersome to trade with the UK?
I'm not a fan of the conservatives... but this isn't May's doing. If May really wants to put the brakes on Brexit, we'd have a second referendum, certainly enough people and parliamentarians are calling for one. Not even the Daily Mail can continue to pretend that Brexit is popular or going well.
Russian interference isn't the cause of Brexit. Propaganda is, but the Propagandists are much closer to home.
It's 2018 and the Republicans have controlled both Congress and the Presidency for over a year, so why are you bringing up the 2016 elections? At this rate, I swear it's 2037 and one of you retards with a faded MAGA hat is going to tell me about how that Trump and Republicans won and that I should accept it. Seriously, we get it!
Remember that the people demanding you "accept" Trump are the same ones that spent 8 years trying to defame Obama by demanding his birth certificate (even when one was provided, they wouldn't let it go).
Personally, no leader deserves automatic support. I say judge a leader by their actions... Trump has not performed well there either.
Neither pure capitalism, nor pure socialism (or the closest approximations that have arisen) work particularly well for anyone but the small group who come to accumulate power. Identifying the areas of society that are best allowed to operate as a (regulated) free market, and those areas that are better run as (limited and well defined) social services is more successful, by a number of measures.
This. Almost all nations run mixed economies because they work. It should be noted that a pure socialism (communism) has been tried and failed... However a pure capitalism hasn't even gotten off the ground, each and every time it's failed before even starting. Both extremes fail for the same reason, they requires every single person to think in exactly the same way and believe in exactly the same things.
We could always open it up to a poll... its not like we'd end up with Runway McRunwayface or something.
In other words: to coerce you to accept excessively a high per-Gigabyte cost and avoid what they view as "wasteful fidelity" they will tamper with your traffic to reduce your consumption.
"Save your overly restrictive data plan" is really REALLY not a good reason for throttling.
The alternative is to meter usage. In the UK, mobile telecom companies don't do this but you pay for X GB per month and if you reach that, you either accept you have no data or buy more data. I prefer our method, but you have the opportunity to chose.
Cellular providers will sometimes throttle video, not to be jerks and violate net neutrality, but to save your data plan.
If they are throttling all video services equally for this purpose, then it isn't a problem.
The problem without net neutrality comes when Jerkcomm decides to throttle all Netflix connections unless you pony up a $5 Netflix fee.
Apple's got a real general malaise problem, lately. The fix is likely to replace the CEO and possibly other high-up executives because they've focused too much on other crap, and not on the core-business. If Tim Cook, (for example,) wants to be the CEO of a watch company, or a headphone company, let him go do that.
Apple is a computer company, even if they removed the word "computer" from their name. Of course this is merely my opinion, but I'll tell you this for sure: unless and until Apple shapes up its act, I am not buying any more Apple products, or products that only work with Apple products. If it comes to pass that I need a new computer and/or cellphone before Apple pulls its corporate head out of its corporate ass, I will switch to something else. (Case in point, I recently obtained an old MacBook that Apple has decided is obsolete, and put GNU/Linux on it, in preparation for doing the same with my iMac, which once I don't need it for my iPhone anymore, that will be it, and I will unApplify my life. I'll probably get a dumb-phone, and go back to the days when I navigated for myself, etc., and not rely on the increasingly unreliable kludgey crap coming from Apple nowadays.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Apple has been like that since the 2000's. They've just lost their cult of personality.
They've always produced unreliable, klugey crap but previously had good marketing and a legion of rabid fanboys to attack anyone suggesting it wasn't the best thing since Jesus made pancakes out of wine.
An Iphone 8 isn't worse than an Iphone 3, it's just that people are seeing them for the overpriced crap they are. Replacing the CEO wont do anything to change that because the previous CEO got rid of anyone who would challenge him, that means he got rid of anyone remotely capable of maintaining a cult of personality like he did.
I wonder why? You red-state folks seem to [sic] warm and welcoming...
In my experience, the people you meet in most red states are wildly more affable, warm, friendly, and polite than most you'll meet in the increasingly effete, shrill, divisive, identity-politics-obsessed wastelands of political-correctness-paralyzed lands of blue.
As long as you're not black, or Asian, or suspected Liberal, or foreign, or have a funny accent or use words with more than 2 syllables.
As a foreigner, the warmest welcome's I've received have been from the least conservative cities and states. The worst people I've met are from dyed in the wool red state. I've met a few nice Texans... mostly from the Houston area but for every one of those I've met I've half a dozen complete wankers. Going through from Jacksonville to NOLA for work last year (with a truck of very valuable demo merchandise from the UK) we were treated with utter contempt from the moment we left Jacksonville to the moment we reached New Orleans because we had funny British (or in my case, Australian... not that they could tell the difference) accents. Once in NOLA we received some famous southern hospitality, up until then we only got infamous southern hostility.
Hell, a black Londoner, who's family had been Londoners since before your country even existed was told to "go back to Africa, damn ni**er". It was a shock because to us he wasn't a black Londoner... to us he was just a Londoner. We here in the Evil UK just dont notice shit like that any more.
And it's not like the logo of our company wasn't emblazoned on our lorries or jackets... its just that no-one there knew who this world famous vehicle manufacturer was (if they had of asked, they could have seen the supercars in the trucks).
Spoken to an Australian recently? I think they'd argue about 2018 being one of the coldest on record. I assume you meant to include "so far" and "here".
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/...
Spoken to an Australian recently... because they'd tell you about the number of cities in the country with water restrictions from ongoing droughts that are nearing a decade long in some parts as well as consecutive record high summers. In fact they'd be sweltering in one right now.
How do I know... because you're speaking to an Australian right now.
You're not only speaking to an Australian, but one who understands the climate of Australia. Right now we're getting a La Nina event, which is a sub surface cooling in the Pacific (the reversal of an El Nino event) which is part of the El Nino Southern Oscillation or ENSO. This is a welcome change as Australia has been hotter and drier because of several record El Nino events in recent years.
Next time you want to say something completely stupid about Australia... go to Australia first.
The way the EU has structured things, with incentives for relocation being illegal, seems far superior.
And it's exactly that sort of control over your town's choices and economic life that makes many people absolutely recoil at the notion of EU-style nanny statism.
And it's exactly that kind of completely wrong, knee jerk, asinine statement that makes anyone with any knowledge of how the EU works consider you a complete idiot.
Having my council, out of my rates, barter for a corporation to set up here when they wont pay rates is completely pants on head retarded. If corporations want to set up in my borough, they can do so because we already offer something, not because they're offered my money to do it and having my council rates pushed up for the pleasure of it.
You use words like "nanny" and "statism" when it's obvious you've got no idea what they mean because you've essentially argued in favour of higher taxes.
North Korea has made a credible threat to drop Disco on the USA.
If dropped from high enough, a Land Rover Discovery will do a lot of damage. Sure the engine doesn't start, the radio is stuck on BBC Southern Counties, the key needs to be shorted with a paperclip to open the doors, the body work is rusted and the wipers are "manual" but the chassis is solid enough to be a deadly projectile.
Can any corporate finance experts explain why companies would do this? Should we buy that they're just being generous/trying to foster goodwill?
Tax dodge.
Apple (and others like Google) are under heavy scrutiny by both the US and European authorities over unpaid taxes. The problem Apple have is that they rely on shifting profit between Europe and the US in order to evade taxes, if someone from both sides looked at the licensing fees and realised it was an Double Irish Sandwich and that both sides are missing out on millions in tax revenue then Apple is in serious trouble (and by serious trouble, I mean they'd have to dip into their amassed fortune and spend a small amount paying taxes).
So to head this off at the pass, Apple are giving out Restricted Stock Units (RSU) which are not remunerable , there for not subject to payroll taxes but are considered cost, therefore can be used to offset their profit. Lets ignore they essentially pulled the RSU's from their rectums and assigned an arbitrary value to them.