Also, that's bunk. Those bad side-effects are from changing time twice a year. Not from sticking to one setting or the other.
In Ohio, the latest it's ever light out is about 9:20pm. During DST, it is light out well before 6:30am most of the time. And when off DST, it makes no difference. It's still dark until nearly 8am even though it's also dark at about 5pm (during the worst/least-light part of the year), anyway. It would make no difference during that time period if it wasn't light until 9am. Most of us have to drive well before the sun's up anyway. The bonus would be driving home in the light.
Florida - perhaps the last place you would expect some semblance of common sense - is actually just about to pass a permanent-DST law.
Yes, you can control the brightness via the control center. But there's no way to turn Auto-Brightness on/off. Every time I manually adjust (or accidentally touch the brightness slider), Auto-brightness is disabled. I have to go into the settings labyrinth to enable auto-brightness again. I'm not saying that it should not keep the brightness setting, I'm saying the Auto-Brightness option should be easier to access. There is no option to put Auto-Brightness on the control panel. I always have auto-brightness enabled, so no, you are not "the only one that appreciates not having to fiddle with the brightness every time I move between areas with different light levels."
Control center configuration is only barely useful. The things you can add/remove are very limited. Where's the option to have text displayed along with the icon? I dislike icon-only interfaces.
For notifications, no I don't have weeks of notifications piling up. Because I don't like that, so I like to dismiss them. The ONLY way to dismiss a current notification is to swipe left and tap "clear". Older notifications are grouped and can be cleared en-masse. Prior versions of iOS had the ability to dismiss current notifications without swiping left on each one. Bug? Perhaps not, but it's an arbitrary change that is frustrating.
Don't take my comments as being an Apple-basher. I've come to really like the iPhone and iOS. In general, I find that the apps in iOS look and perform better than they do in Android. It also seems to me that Apple does a better job of controlling the user experience. Apps deliver annoying ads and sometimes interstitial dialogues that the SAME APP in iOS does not. I wish Google would slap down the ugliness of the ad-driven experience in Android.
I have an Android phone (my personal phone) and an iPhone 6 (work provided)
There are aspects of iOS that I think are superior to Android. But it does seem that Apple rush-botched iOS 11.
Notifications: There is no way to clear all recent notifications at once. This only becomes available after they have "aged" enough. I like to keep the notifications clean, so this really bothers me. I have to clear them one at a time. Why take away the "Clear" function from the top of the notification list?
Battery life is noticeably worse than it was with iOS 10. The first unpatched iOS 11 was just awful. Once-a-day charging was the norm, then I could not get past 5pm without having to charge the phone. Patches have since made this better, but iOS 11 still sucks battery faster than iOS 10.
The swipe-up panel is terrible. Definitely a case of changing for the sake of change.
Auto-brightness. Which genius decided to bury this setting under "General --> Accessibility --> Display Accomodations"? Why isn't it under "Display & Brightness" from the main settings page? And if you manually change brightness from the swipe-up panel, auto-brightness is disabled. Then begins the lengthy PITA that is finding the Auto-Brightness option and enabling it again
To list some that come to mind. But there's more... At least it seems that Apple is responding and issuing iOS 11 patches fairly quickly. But, really, these things should not have been released into the wild initially.
For those of us that have not actually built a kernel, is 36 seconds astonishingly fast? A little faster? A totally random number with no meaning whatsoever?
Maybe some of you that do build kernels every once in a while could share your times along with specs for your rig.
Any manufacturer of sufficient size should be able to put up a web-based order portal where end consumers can buy their products. All they need is fulfillment. The maker of a product should easily be able to undercut any price offered by a retailer. In the past, they never did that because distribution was extremely difficult. This is no longer the case. Wholesale pricing. Distributor pricing. Retail pricing. Bugger all that! Make your product, accurately determine your costs and sell it directly to consumers for 10% more. Charge for shipping. Don't be fooled, shipping is never free. It may be included in the price so it's somewhat hidden, but it's never free.
Granted, Amazon does fulfillment extremely well. But all you (as a manufacturer) has to do is ship your stuff. Give reasonable delivery times (5 - 7 business days, for example) and people will buy it. Save lots of money or get the product tomorrow? People will almost always choose to save $$.
My Mazda 6 (2015 model) will not start unless the keyless remote is inside the car. I don't know exactly how this works, but it does work. I have tried setting the key on shelf only a foot from the car. It knows the key is nearby, but instead of starting, it flashes a red key icon.
Further, if the car is running and I get out of the car with the key in my pocket, the car beeps and the doors will not lock. And, if I shut off the car, but leave the key inside the car, the car beeps at me as I walk away. You'd have to be fairly oblivious to these warnings and actively circumvent them to lock yourself in/out of the car.
You could ask the same question of the drone law. If you can't fly it, then why should you be allowed to buy it? But, as you say, you could just buy it elsewhere and then bring it to within 30 miles.
The point is that guns are responsible for way more carnage than personal drones will ever cause. But there is no political willpower to make any attempts to control guns. But these new-fangles drones!? They must be registered and banned, damnit!
[ Same reason dry counties are such a joke: Mammoth liquor stores open just outside the county line and are constantly doing a booming business. ]
1) Set your Garmin sampling frequency to 1-second. Always. The default of "auto-magically" or "as-needed" is not sufficient. Especially when doing a run or bike ride on a course with lots of turns or on a track.
2) If the over-estimation is fairly consistent, then what does it really matter to the average amateur? If a route that you regularly time is actually 5 miles and not really 5.15 miles, who cares? What matters is your time over that same distance. It's a like a scale that is low by 2 pounds. It doesn't matter; what matters is if you are trying to lose weight and the scale shows a decrease over time, then you are succeeding.
No, not at all. Like I said "their salaries dwarf what they earn for publications." She earns a salary being a full professor. She writes books because it's something she loves. And also because publishing is important in academia.
I would add that the list of fiction authors that actually got rich from their books are few and far between.
I see many comments saying something along the lines of department chairs / professors "lining their pockets" by requiring books that they wrote.
While it very well may be an ego thing, it is definitely NOT a money thing. My wife has written many collegiate level textbooks and they are used at many different schools. She netted a whopping $600 in royalties for 2014. The authors are not getting rich on sales of textbooks. Their salaries dwarf what they earn for publications.
And obesity is so common now that it clearly can't be some edge case.
Why is obesity "so common now" when it has never been so common in the past? Over-consumption of shit food like pop-tarts and Mt.Dew combined with excessive non-mobile time. You simply cannot consume calorie-dense food when the only exercise you get is walking from your car to your next long-term sitting location.
Have you ever looked at old-time photos from the 20s, 30s or 40s? Notice how almost no one is fat? Those few that were fat actually had a true metabolic or genetic reason for the condition.
Eat nutrient-dense foods, avoid calorie-dense foods and get your ass out and move around as much as you possibly can EVERY SINGLE DAY. You don't need to be a gym rat or run a marathon, you just need to move.
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Alaska is an extreme.
Also, that's bunk. Those bad side-effects are from changing time twice a year. Not from sticking to one setting or the other.
In Ohio, the latest it's ever light out is about 9:20pm. During DST, it is light out well before 6:30am most of the time. And when off DST, it makes no difference. It's still dark until nearly 8am even though it's also dark at about 5pm (during the worst/least-light part of the year), anyway. It would make no difference during that time period if it wasn't light until 9am. Most of us have to drive well before the sun's up anyway. The bonus would be driving home in the light.
Florida - perhaps the last place you would expect some semblance of common sense - is actually just about to pass a permanent-DST law.
Hopefully, other states - ALL - will follow.
DST won't be banished. If we have any sense about it, DST will become the permanent setting. Lighter later is far better than lighter earlier.
Yes, you can control the brightness via the control center. But there's no way to turn Auto-Brightness on/off. Every time I manually adjust (or accidentally touch the brightness slider), Auto-brightness is disabled. I have to go into the settings labyrinth to enable auto-brightness again. I'm not saying that it should not keep the brightness setting, I'm saying the Auto-Brightness option should be easier to access. There is no option to put Auto-Brightness on the control panel. I always have auto-brightness enabled, so no, you are not "the only one that appreciates not having to fiddle with the brightness every time I move between areas with different light levels."
Control center configuration is only barely useful. The things you can add/remove are very limited. Where's the option to have text displayed along with the icon? I dislike icon-only interfaces.
For notifications, no I don't have weeks of notifications piling up. Because I don't like that, so I like to dismiss them. The ONLY way to dismiss a current notification is to swipe left and tap "clear". Older notifications are grouped and can be cleared en-masse. Prior versions of iOS had the ability to dismiss current notifications without swiping left on each one. Bug? Perhaps not, but it's an arbitrary change that is frustrating.
Don't take my comments as being an Apple-basher. I've come to really like the iPhone and iOS. In general, I find that the apps in iOS look and perform better than they do in Android. It also seems to me that Apple does a better job of controlling the user experience. Apps deliver annoying ads and sometimes interstitial dialogues that the SAME APP in iOS does not. I wish Google would slap down the ugliness of the ad-driven experience in Android.
I have an Android phone (my personal phone) and an iPhone 6 (work provided)
There are aspects of iOS that I think are superior to Android. But it does seem that Apple rush-botched iOS 11.
Notifications: There is no way to clear all recent notifications at once. This only becomes available after they have "aged" enough. I like to keep the notifications clean, so this really bothers me. I have to clear them one at a time. Why take away the "Clear" function from the top of the notification list?
Battery life is noticeably worse than it was with iOS 10. The first unpatched iOS 11 was just awful. Once-a-day charging was the norm, then I could not get past 5pm without having to charge the phone. Patches have since made this better, but iOS 11 still sucks battery faster than iOS 10.
The swipe-up panel is terrible. Definitely a case of changing for the sake of change.
Auto-brightness. Which genius decided to bury this setting under "General --> Accessibility --> Display Accomodations"? Why isn't it under "Display & Brightness" from the main settings page? And if you manually change brightness from the swipe-up panel, auto-brightness is disabled. Then begins the lengthy PITA that is finding the Auto-Brightness option and enabling it again
To list some that come to mind. But there's more ... At least it seems that Apple is responding and issuing iOS 11 patches fairly quickly. But, really, these things should not have been released into the wild initially.
That is incredibly helpful insight. You should work at Gartner.
For those of us that have not actually built a kernel, is 36 seconds astonishingly fast? A little faster? A totally random number with no meaning whatsoever?
Maybe some of you that do build kernels every once in a while could share your times along with specs for your rig.
Damnit! I really like the AccuWeather app.
Now it's uninstalled.
Is it really so hard to make money with an app that user data has to be stolen to make a profit?
Any manufacturer of sufficient size should be able to put up a web-based order portal where end consumers can buy their products. All they need is fulfillment. The maker of a product should easily be able to undercut any price offered by a retailer. In the past, they never did that because distribution was extremely difficult. This is no longer the case. Wholesale pricing. Distributor pricing. Retail pricing. Bugger all that! Make your product, accurately determine your costs and sell it directly to consumers for 10% more. Charge for shipping. Don't be fooled, shipping is never free. It may be included in the price so it's somewhat hidden, but it's never free.
Granted, Amazon does fulfillment extremely well. But all you (as a manufacturer) has to do is ship your stuff. Give reasonable delivery times (5 - 7 business days, for example) and people will buy it. Save lots of money or get the product tomorrow? People will almost always choose to save $$.
Cutting out the middle man has never been easier.
Are women in computing declining to 22%?
Or are women in computing increasing to 39%?
Seems that the last few sentences address the Telegram service.
The Universe is updated. It now makes you look FAT32.
A two-year-old gelding destined to race in Australia has been saddled with the name Horsey McHorseface. (pun intended by editors)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
Wow, a European cycling race that is NOT the Tour de France got a random mention in a /. comment.
My life is complete.
PS: The Giro can often be much more entertaining than the TdF.
My Mazda 6 (2015 model) will not start unless the keyless remote is inside the car. I don't know exactly how this works, but it does work. I have tried setting the key on shelf only a foot from the car. It knows the key is nearby, but instead of starting, it flashes a red key icon.
Further, if the car is running and I get out of the car with the key in my pocket, the car beeps and the doors will not lock. And, if I shut off the car, but leave the key inside the car, the car beeps at me as I walk away. You'd have to be fairly oblivious to these warnings and actively circumvent them to lock yourself in/out of the car.
You could ask the same question of the drone law. If you can't fly it, then why should you be allowed to buy it? But, as you say, you could just buy it elsewhere and then bring it to within 30 miles.
The point is that guns are responsible for way more carnage than personal drones will ever cause. But there is no political willpower to make any attempts to control guns. But these new-fangles drones!? They must be registered and banned, damnit!
[ Same reason dry counties are such a joke: Mammoth liquor stores open just outside the county line and are constantly doing a booming business. ]
So let's tell the public that it is now ILLEGAL for anyone within a 30 mile radius of DC is to buy a gun of any size.
Right. I'm sure everyone would just say, "Yeah, that's a good idea. I feel more safe now."
And I know of nowhere else that measures weight in "stones". Archaic much?
1) Set your Garmin sampling frequency to 1-second. Always. The default of "auto-magically" or "as-needed" is not sufficient. Especially when doing a run or bike ride on a course with lots of turns or on a track.
2) If the over-estimation is fairly consistent, then what does it really matter to the average amateur? If a route that you regularly time is actually 5 miles and not really 5.15 miles, who cares? What matters is your time over that same distance. It's a like a scale that is low by 2 pounds. It doesn't matter; what matters is if you are trying to lose weight and the scale shows a decrease over time, then you are succeeding.
No, not at all. Like I said "their salaries dwarf what they earn for publications." She earns a salary being a full professor. She writes books because it's something she loves. And also because publishing is important in academia.
I would add that the list of fiction authors that actually got rich from their books are few and far between.
Philosophy. Which probably explains the low royalties (apologies to the wife). 100-level through graduate level.
Written many years ago when self-publishing was not really a viable option.
I see many comments saying something along the lines of department chairs / professors "lining their pockets" by requiring books that they wrote.
While it very well may be an ego thing, it is definitely NOT a money thing. My wife has written many collegiate level textbooks and they are used at many different schools. She netted a whopping $600 in royalties for 2014. The authors are not getting rich on sales of textbooks. Their salaries dwarf what they earn for publications.
Next conspiracy theory ...
The cost of owning a car (let alone fueling it) will FAR exceed any savings you obtain by getting "deals" on your weekly groceries.
And obesity is so common now that it clearly can't be some edge case.
Why is obesity "so common now" when it has never been so common in the past? Over-consumption of shit food like pop-tarts and Mt.Dew combined with excessive non-mobile time. You simply cannot consume calorie-dense food when the only exercise you get is walking from your car to your next long-term sitting location.
Have you ever looked at old-time photos from the 20s, 30s or 40s? Notice how almost no one is fat? Those few that were fat actually had a true metabolic or genetic reason for the condition.
Eat nutrient-dense foods, avoid calorie-dense foods and get your ass out and move around as much as you possibly can EVERY SINGLE DAY. You don't need to be a gym rat or run a marathon, you just need to move.
Moto X Pure Edition is a tremendous phone (or, at least based on the pre-release specs, it is).
Starting at $399 with no carrier lock-in. Pure Android experience.
microSD up to 128GB.
To hell with carrier lock-in.
To hell with the horrible crapware that comes pre-installed from Samsung and the carriers.
Avail Sep 3rd, according to TheVerge
It's obviously very important to come out of high school with the skills required to train your H1-B replacement.