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Still downscaling the iPhone 7 Plus resolution down to 1080p?! Still no 1-1 pixel mapping?!

I know nobody else cares...
There was a time (just over a hundred years ago) when people thought that there was nothing more to learn about the universe. There were just these two little problems that needed explained...

Now, that was because they thought they understood everything there was to know, not because they worried that there were limits beyond which they could not know. But, as the article says, trying to guess how much we will learn (or not learn) in the next, say, 100 years, is a very hazardous business.
That may or may not be true, but it's not what we were talking about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts#Logical_f...
If Apple has somehow made Bluetooth non-awful, I'll be interested. But I'm not holding my breath.
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i think they wanted to specifically make sure people don't use these with wires attached. Apple HATES wires. Imagine their marketing people getting heart attacks when some people dare to post pictures of their shiny Apple hardware online and the magic mouse has a wire attached.
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> helps with water proofing

There are plenty of waterproof phones with headphone jacks.
sure thing, then please go and highlight for me where I wrote, suggested, hinted or implied

> So you prefer plaintext
Really? I think they look horrible and will look like people have a q-tip shoved half way up their ear canal.
Yeah, but the convenience is, for example, I get cheap flight tickets, Cortana picks those out of my email and adds the trip to my calendar automatically, etc. How am I going to lie about any of that?

If your answer involves paying cash for airline tickets, then we're back to the high-priced, inconvenient world I'm no longer interested in trying to maintain.

Stuffing databases with fake data is fun when you're signing up for a newspaper paywall, sure, but that's not a sustainable, long-term solution.

This is why I'm looking at law and society, that's the only way these rights will be preserved long-term.
You see the prices on lightning headphones? Cheapest one Apple offers is $150. Searching for best cheap bluetooth headphones finds a bunch clustered around $100.

I lose headphones like crazy, and I'm not an audiophile, so my average spend on headphones is under $20
the problem may have been the low ceiling of the test. For certain tests, getting a single question wrong may drop the IQ from 140 (possible maximum) to 135. Verbal questions can also be a challenge if you don't know obscure vocabulary words.
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I would agree if it said "most" instead of "any". Euler angles are useful. Just be very careful with them. Convert to quaternion as soon as possible and convert back to euler as late as possible when needed.

However, you will never entirely avoid them because they are just too practical. Under careful constraints, they make code interfaces simpler.

This is especially important if you are to expose that code to a multidisciplinary team. There is no way you're going to teach an artist how quaternions work just so they can rotate their stuff around the up axis, when simple yaw-pitch angles cover 99% of their use cases.
Problem is using headphones while charging is my daughters use case (she keeps forgetting to charge the phone) she is as likely to forget to charge headphones
> Mozilla was also the first to integrate the search and address fields

I always attributed this to Opera but I may be wrong
I'm sure someone will make a slitter to enable analog audio + charging. There will probably be an "official" one for $60 and Chinese knockoffs for $5.
It would be interesting to see JavaScript bindings to the LLVM back-end so people could write new compiler front-ends in JavaScript. I see now that JavaScript bindings do exist but are not maintained:

https://github.com/kevinmehall/node-llvm (2013)

https://github.com/dirk/llvm2 (2015)
I have a Pebble Steel and I hate it that Pebble would not fix an inherent "screen tearing" issue that they have with their hardware.
This is why there needs to be a law requiring sellers to support their DRM systems for a required number of years (after last using it making a sale). Either that, or require them to unlock the DRM for affected customer.

As it stands now, sellers can sunset a DRM system with no consideration of its users.
> in a tight pocket

Doesn't sound like an Apple problem to me.
Because it's not an iPhone!
Whenever I'm listening to something and the phone is about to die.

Edit: also in the car (I have an older car with just an AUX jack).
Apple gets a lot of (semi-rightful) flak for going their own way and developing their own tech, protocols, and connectors, but in many cases they were legitimately first and the 'standard' option came later.

-- Lightning pre-dates USB type-C, which fulfill the same usability goal

-- AirPlay pre-dates Miracast

-- Metal pre-dates Vulkan

In some cases, Apple's product was later adopted as the standard:

-- The mini-DisplayPort was their custom connector but later adopted as an official standard

-- the MOV format was adopted for the ISO base container format (MPEG-4 Part 12), which forms the base of MPEG-4 Part 14, commonly known as the 'MP4 container'.

In some cases, they did develop custom tech where open ones existed:

-- ALAC is fairly close in implementation details to FLAC, which pre-dates it.

-- Apple's 'HTTP Live Streaming' came well-after MPEG standard ways of doing HTTP streaming, and is roughly contemporaneous with Adobe's and Microsoft's proprietary ways of adaptive streaming. Later, DASH was developed as a vendor-neutral alternative, and is now the preferred way of doing adaptive streaming via HTTP.

I don't believe that Apple is any more proprietary than a lot of other companies. It's just that they're a tempting target, because they dictate their ecosystem so strongly, and it certainly doesn't help that they ship a lot of locked-down, premium devices.

But blatantly user-hostile changes like removing the headphone jack won't earn them any goodwill.
I imagine it's fairly common, since streaming music (even over WiFi) drains the battery.
And you think the built in DAC on the old iPhones was better?
I hate wires with a passion and love the concept of wireless headphones. But these look like they are shaped just like the wired apple earpods, which fall out of my ears with the slightest movement or breeze. So now I'll also immediately lose them as they fall out on the street.
1) Buying another accessory for my car isn't the solution. What if I drive a rented car?

2) Most people store their music on their phones though.
I just ad the Bluetooth convo with a friend and there seems to be this assumption that "most cars that people buy have bluetooth" but it just doesn't stand up very well when you look at what cars offer bluetooth in their base trim.

http://cars.axlegeeks.com/d/f/Bluetooth

yes, there are 11 pages but if you click on say Dodge and filter by 2016 you'll find only 3 high end vehicles with base trim on bluetooth. This means people actually need to choose Bluetooth which sounds crazy to us why they wouldn't but most people have no idea.
Sounds like you answered your own question.
I especially enjoyed the last second comment under his breath regarding the matte black iPhone 7 pricing.

32GB standard for all models, except the matte black, which will ONLY come in 128GB, and you'll be paying $100 more at $750.

Nice underhanded move by Apple to maximize profit for what will undoubtedly be the most popular color.

First they force everyone to buy the 32GB upgrade last year on the 6S, now you're forced to do the same to 128GB, unless you want a rose colored phone.

The camera upgrade looks nice, but the headphone jack is a joke. Another wire that will inevitably fall apart like the other Apple lightning connectors.

EDIT: Jet Black, NOT Matte Black. Still dumb.
I'm not saying it is good. I'm just saying that there is more than one thing going on here.

I don't think hospitals have any motivation to hide antibiotic-resistant infections ("superbugs") specifically. HOWEVER, the motive to hide hospital-acquired infections[0] is clear!

Here's some mud in the water: what's the difference between a HAI with some bug that is easily killed by antibiotics vs. an antibiotic resistant bug?

As for "tracking it in secret", that's one way to put it, but it will cloud your thinking. :) Your own medical records--specifically blood test lab results--have your name, address, and phone number on them. Consider replacing the word 'secret' with 'private' and re-working the whole thought.

0: http://www.cdc.gov/hai/
I'm in the middle of the spectrum myself. I'm happy to say hi, shake hands, but I need my alone time. I have plenty of friends and they all get it. I could disappear off the map and be a hermit if that's what I really wanted to do. But in the interest of not being without friends I make time to do both.

My son is in college and it's a struggle for him. He wants friends but doesn't want to gladhand to meet people. I get it, but you can't have met friends without meeting people.
> emphasized the speed increase

Isn't the iPhone 6 already "fast enough" for end users?

My current phone is a Moto G 2014 which is still good enough for all my use cases.
I don't know how useful biological ideas will be to urban planning, but this sentence tickled my brain:

"...This can include such things as cataloging bugs and unexpected behaviors in our infrastructure (like how a naturalist might collect insects)"

This sounds like what anybody working on a computer can use at a place like Stack Overflow. People have problems, post a description of it, and somebody else who happens to know helps them. The result of this process is available to others on the web who might have a similar issue.
Most of the time when I'm driving I have my phone connected to my car with an aux cable and charging via lightning.
You could make this complaint about pretty much every academic study ever. Rarely is the underlying data, statistical models, etc. shared publicly.

Should they be (for repeatability and peer review)? Sure, I buy that argument. But it's not a valid reason to criticize this particular study.

And at least it's the source journal article, not a media post!
Another recent paper on this topic: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.08813v3.pdf. It shows how naive lending algorithms can skew against minority groups simply because there is less data available about them, even if their expected repayment rate is the same.

It can be self-reinforcing. Imagine some new demographic group of customers appears, and without any data you make some loans to them. The actual repayment rate will be low, not because that group has a worse distribution than other groups, but simply because you couldn't identify the lowest-risk members. A simplistic ML model would conclude that the new group is more risky.

Of course, smart lenders understand that in order to develop a new customer demographic they need to experiment by lending, with the expectation that their first loans will have high losses, but that in the long run learning about how to identify the low-risk people from that demographic is worthwhile. And they correct for the fact that the first cohort was accepted blind when estimating overall risk for the group.
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Yeah I think Apple dropped the ball on this one. Hoping the EOZ One headphones I bought on Kickstarter last the full 9 hours they claim.
The Galaxy S7 is water proof and sports a typical headphone jack.
Nearly every day in the car.
Should be getting the Pocket CHIP in a couple of weeks. Already developing a game for it. The Pico-8 flavor of Lua is a dream to program for. It hasn't been this easy to develop games since Flash for me.
Robots may bring about dislocation in specific industries, but that's just a disingenuous way of saying "people refuse to change industries or accept jobs they don't like". That's fine, but that's not robots taking all the jobs - just the specific job that specific people want.

Gallup is also being disingenuous when it uses words like "permanently unemployed" to refer to people not seeking work.

Invariably this leads to questions on whether the wages for low-skill jobs should ever exceed their apparent economic worth in the name of a "living wage".

If only there were some sort of Earned Income Tax Credit that could provide less productive people subsidies to maintain a wealthy lifestyle [1] while also giving them incentive to work...

Unlike minimum wages and BI, EITC doesn't exacerbate the problem of people refusing to work and it costs a lot less too. It won't solve technological unemployment, but it will solve your "satisfying life" concern as well as my "people refuse to contribute to society while making demands on it" concern.

[1] I refuse to use the term "living wage", since billions of my fellow humans (luckily on the other side of an imaginary line, so we can ignore them) earn far less than this without dying.
> if I was making music with it

Is iOS used as a platform in professional music making? Is that really a thing?
I think that the point of view depicted in the article completely misses the fact that we are active part of a reality we live in.

It looks like the article (I am not entitled to talk about the original research, since I am not familiar with it by any means) unquestionably assumes that there exists some "real" (platonic, mystical, static, eternal, fundamental?) reality that we are unable to observe due to bounds of evolution. What's the point of this assumption?

When I look around, I see things made by humans for humans using our ideas about the human reality—is this reality "worse" or "less real" than some other reality? Yes, we are far removed from, e.g., a reality of existence of a plant or a bacteria, and the evolution drives us further from it.

Maybe it's the evolution process that creates very realities?
from the article - "Notice and consent is an absurd legal fiction."

it shouldn't be. "Notice and consent" should instead be a class taught in high schools. The ability to read, understand and NEGIOTIAGE these agreements should be within the mental grasp of everyone.
That's a great idea. Would be neat to have one earbud in for inevitable siri api integrations too, so I can have my emails and texts and slack messages read to me.
Team Communication does need to be free and does not "require" task management. You will be able to mix and match so only the ones who need tasks pay for it. The "creatively" word means we intend to price it so an Admin does not have to make a decision on adding cost EVERY TIME one more person needs Tasks.

Since Ryver team comm matches up very well against what Slack charges for, it seems a reasonable (at least) claim to be entirely free vs Slack.
I do quite regularly.
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It's considerably simpler to hire people initially as contractors in the US. But hiring in general is a lot simpler, not to mention firing.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is AirPods seem super useful for taking phone calls and all the other apps such as Snapchat, I would wear them off all day.

Airpods might become the virtual reality for your ears.
This, IMHO phones are not supposed to be jewelry.
I too like it as well but because of a different author and story: "The Last Question" by Asimov [1]. It is a short but a must read (and it is free to read as well). It is one of the most beautiful and optimistic scifi stories. Asimov was and still is so ahead of his time.

[1]: http://multivax.com/last_question.html
I agree. I used to use NoScript, RequestPolicy, and BetterPrivacy, but I finally realized I was spending far more time tuning policies than I was actually using the web. And they were TOTALLY unusable by non technically inclined people.

My compromise now is to use uBlock Origin (virtually never breaks anything), HTTPS Everywhere (on rare occasion breaks a site), Self-Destructing Cookies (by design cannot break sites), and 3rd-party cookies disabled.

The only thing that banning 3rd-party cookies broke was CapitalOne360's gateway into regular CapitalOne, but they even managed to fix this in recent months.
Yes, I think this is right. I have very privacy-conscious tech habits, and companies have some data on me, but probably far less than on the typical user of modern services. Some ways I protect myself:

1. Google account - I have one because it's required for Android, but I have never used Gmail, do not search from my Google account or ever log into it from my browser.

2. Facebook or any subsidiaries - never.

3. General Web browsing - reject 3rd party cookies automatically, browse with uBlock Origin, disabled JavaScript (via ScriptSafe) with selective enabling of scripts, Privacy Badger.

4. Only enter my real name online for things I explicitly need/want associated with me. Only enter my real address if actually needed for a delivery or other reason.

5. My mail client is set not to load remote images, which protects me from those 1x1 tracking images.

Many of these make the Internet a better experience, and certainly protect my privacy to a large degree. Yes, corporations have some data on me, but not much, and it's not all correct. I also don't feel I'm missing out on too much cool tech stuff, a lot of the privacy-unfriendly stuff is entirely unnecessary, for me at least, or replaced by alternatives that are not much worse.
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Or either of the last two generation Moto G phones, starting at $180.
What's needed for your situation is a little doo-dad that tethers the dongle to your headphones, so you can disconnect it freely and not lose it.
I don't know, I own 4 watches of varying functions/prices. Those who love horology treat it like car nuts -- it's less about practicality and advancements and more about the sentiment behind it. I'd take my 21 jewel seiko SKX007 over any smartwatch any day of the week. To me, and many other watch lovers, the Apple Watch really is just a watch by name only.
DCP developer here. DCP track files are MXF. SMPTE ST 377:2004 (MXF) predates SMPTE ST 429-3:2007 (DCP Sound and Picture.) ST 377 is a normative reference of ST 429-3. There is no zip file. There is no central registration for encryption. Each Media Block has a 2k RSA key (usually generated inside the FIPS 140 boundary), and each content distributor has a collection of the respective X.509 certificates.
Often enough, actually, when I'm driving. My car has a stereo-USB connection that works very well most of the time, allowing me to charge my phone and cycle through my music collection. Its charging speed is slow though, going only at maybe what, 500mA, 1A if I'm lucky? It takes even longer if I'm using Google Maps. To counteract this problem, I've recently started using a power converter, that I normally have for charging my laptop, to charge my phone because it offers a 2.1A USB port that works a LOT better for me.

Why does this matter? Because I can still have my phone's audio going to the car by way of an AUX cable.
The Pokemon Go app should allow a way to catch a Pokemon via the watch itself. In the demo today, it seemed that one has to take out their iPhone to catch a Pokemon. If so, I think it won't be a great feature.
If you're happy with that kind of marginal existence, then that's great. It works for you.

I don't want to lose touch with people, because I don't view my contact with people as being part of a "hivemind". I view my time on Earth as one marked by civic and human engagement, where I want to share my ideas, bounce them off other people, strive to improve my community and the world, etc.

Stepping away from that to be a hermit, intellectually speaking? No thank you--there's too much living to do.

Besides, I realize that you don't really know me at all, and are just offering your comments out in a general sense, but it's pretty presumptuous to assert that people who want to live in a connected world are less likely to think interesting thoughts or develop their own sense of taste. Silly, too.
Or being on long (support) conference calls whilst keeping your phone charged.
> Even with the new color temperature adjustments on the iPhone, looking at the screen in the dark is quite unpleasant.

I use the Accessibility-Zoom Filter-Low Light setting to cut the brightness in half, then mapped to a triple-tap on the home button to dim the screen. Even with that, and the screen at the lowest, it's pretty bright at night. I never understood why hardware manufacturers don't let you make the display darker...
I do almost every day in my (circa 2007) car which has a 3.5mm aux jack and no Bluetooth.

There are lighter-plug Bluetooth receivers that have an analog out specifically for cars, I'll likely have to buy one of I end up getting the 7.
That's a bit of a mischaracterization. Drew said that he was working on the same thing as me; I didn't respond, because my response would have been "no, you're not; I'm building a secure backup tool" and I didn't want to antagonize people any further.
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Interesting, and I think you may be right. I do think women choose c-sections because the are scared of natural birth for whatever reason.

It's probably true that there is some demographic component to this correlation, though I would assume the would control for that.
Exactly. They should have a detachable cable which basically turns them into regular earphones (while simultaneously charging them). I suspect many people would simply leave them attached to the cable at all times, just as they do with their current earphones.

Then, you could unhook them if you wanted to go wireless for a jog or something.
Skin color tones so you look as if you have tumors dangling out of your ears? I don't think so.

A stark white is perfect: high-contrast, but not flashy.
Even if Apple doesn't make such an adapter, third parties undoubtedly will.
> One would think this would be the best/most obvious application.

Holding some features back for the next model, perhaps. They have to smooth out the 'wow factor' for each model to keep growth steady.
They solved hard problems in need of solutions. Kudos to the team designing this!

My problems with earbuds is they fall out, some quicker then others. But they will fall out, making me stress about it and as a result giving me a substandard experience.

I hope improved future versions will give the ability to order personalized earbuds based on a 3d-ear measurement.

Until that time, I'll keep using the Bose QuietComfort 25.
You _could_ buy two sets to get around this limitation.
very often, it's a great way to dj to an arbitrary device, plug 3.5mm aux cable and charger, apply shuffle, enjoy music. i would hate to drain my battery playing music with my phone when it's sitting next to an outlet and is only incapable of charging due to poor design decisions.

maybe they'll make a lightning hub/splitter so you can do both?
The Theranos story reminds me of an episode of "The Big Bang Theory". Sheldon gets sent to jail. Why? Why do you think, for doing the same crap he always does but this time to a judge.

Theranos followed a standard SV script, sell the vision, create a barely working product. get people to use it, iterate.

You just can't do that in a regulated space especially when you can put people's lives at risk.
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Looking at the last slide "Automatic setup. Seamless switching."

What exactly is the W1? Can it work with an older MacBook, or would you need a not-yet-announced MacBook?
The dock allows for charging and listening through a 3.5mm jack simultaneously so an adapter to charge and listen should be possible. http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MNN62AM/A/iphone-lightning...