Ok, put it another way...
Who will ensure these standards are kept current if no one will pay for them?
Good luck on that.
(p.s. downvote me all you want, Freetards. You know I'm right.)
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Your plug-in things have to conform to UL/IEC/CSA safety standards.
I hate that I've read more than a thousand pages.
I would never expect them to protect my safety if no one was expected to pay these private companies for writing, defending, and everything related to maintaining them.
First of all, MS Office products are where company-critical information converts to an email attachment so it can vanish forever.
Double for the codorker IQ test known as Powerpoints ("WTF is this? Couldn't be bothered to send me a PNG file?").
Since I hate meetings, Atlassian Confluence ranks up there with coffee as my best friend.
But, if I had a choice between meetings in a meeting space or my idiot coworkers holding a meeting I wasn't invited to, next to my cubicle....
Meetings for the win... O_o
"Which means you don't have the conversation you would have because its too much hassle to go to the meeting room with what you need to show the person, so it doesn't get done."
Do you have to be in a conference room? You have no hallways away from cubicles to have a long-ass discussion about stuff most people don't have the necessary background info to process?
I worked for a large company in San Diego who used to put more than 90% of their employees in private offices. It didn't help. People just talked louder.
Arguably, you're impromptu discussions that take longer than 3 minutes or so should be happening on the Wiki where business-critical information and ideas will be harder to lose (unless one of you opted to type up meeting notes after the discussion.)
Still, you're just being lazy and oblivious because *everyone* will use that excuse to talk about the World Cup or the NBA Finals in the middle of a cubicle farm.
Google for a Bloomberg/Businessweek article titled "Apple and Qualcomm's Billion-Dollar War OVER an $18 Part" and get back to us.
"Apple owns a fair chunk of LTE patents". Study the concept of "Standard Essential Patents" and get back to us. Those are the patents that Apple and Qualcomm must cross-license.
Non-SEP patents are exactly what's keeping Apple from a SOC.
But, by all means, go on then.
I'm aware of an app or two that Apple won't consider because they are intended to be offered for free.
Since apartments don't rent for free in Cupertino, not sure why anyone can complain about 30% considering what Apple gives developers to start with.
Since my life revolves around an iPhone (with the Qualcomm modem), this is one case I hope they prevail on. We all lose if they don't.
About 4 or 5 years ago, there's a shopping center on the north end of Seattle that may have the first Microsoft store, to great fanfare. But, after the live band went away, it's an X-box and Surface store.
I care about neither.
Still had to mail-order that box of MS-SQL developer...
VZ investors pay a lot for their spectrum and infastructure.
I have exactly two choices: the best network with the most spectrum coverage or the best in-your-face marketing group with annoying ringtones.
Don't even bother, T-Mobe...
The carrier is shown in the upper left corner of your screen, including your lock screen. Am I the only one who's returned a phone to its owner on that information?
The only company that follows this is Verizon?
F*ck all the other carriers then, I'm sticking with Verizon!
Have a software vendor who struggles with MSFT CRM on a regular basis.
But this might be tolerable compared to a situation (N-2 employer) where borking your password locks you out. If it's after 2PM, you may as well head to the bars because the IT department is on the other coast and won't arrive until 5AM.
Yaay!
and the rental company gives me *two* keyfobs securely fastened together. Not sure if they want to charge me $500 to replace them, don't want to find two keys if they rent this 4-door to a family, or believe that the bulge in my trousers will reduce the chance I will lose them.
But, but.. it's just me...
Beats the one Nissan experience I had near Palm Springs. That AC works well enough to put a big crack across the windshield.
"It would be really interesting to see Apple release Mac OS to OEMs"
The requirement that Windows OS be open and run on all OEM hardware is exactly why Apple (who doesn't waste time with such things) comes out ahead.
One small number of hardware platforms to deal with.
leads to more time adding sexy features, less time figuring out why it no longer works on *that* hardware.
why share if it actually works against you?
"I have always either worked or lived in a place void of a decent signal."
For the record, I have Verizon. Don't drop calls but have LTE dead zones.
My co-workers have AWE and drop calls if they stand up from their cubicles at work or are on the wrong side of my apartment building.
"And that knowledge helped US Airways flight 1549 exactly how ?"
Don't be an idiot.
If a turbine blade breaks off, which is guaranteed if a solid object enters an engine during operation, you don't want blade chunks puncturing the side of the aircraft at supersonic speeds.
We have videos of dead birds being tossed into jet engines to make sure the spectacular failure doesn't take out the entire plane.
They could run the same test with drones, but they don't. Obviously, drones shouldn't be anywhere within a mile of an airport in the first place.
Act of terrorism?
Possibly.
Apple never used the Qualcomm QTR8600 chip that had the FM radio.
They used the RTR8600 chip, which couldn't have FM radio, or the audio codec needed to complete the system.
While 'droids and everyone else used the QTR8600 years back, there's no guarantee anyone connected the FM radio pin on the chip.
I'm proud to say the only time I've listened to FM radio in the past 15 years was when I was in a random rental car and pushed the wrong button. So, Clearchannel and Sinclair can focus on billboards.
But, those who can, do. Those who can't, lead the FCC.
Preventing overheating, shorts, and accidental puncture adds bulk, cost and weight. Or, you could invent a phone that runs on a hearing-aid battery (basically, a piece of cardboard).
Those cells are too small to do anything exciting.
Wherever you go, some idiot will jam his car keys into the same pocket as a battery and sit down, puncturing the battery or deforming the case and shorting out the protection electronics *that* *must* *be* *in* *the* *pack*.
A worldwide news event and hysteria ensues, the TSA warns you against carrying this phone model anywhere on an aircraft. Just because his pants caught on fire while he was highway driving, dooming that phone to obscurity for being "unsafe".
Removable batteries put you in the granny-panties league. Good luck on that.
After I clean my glasses, I wipe my 7+ off with the alcohol wipe. Looks like new, thanks to the Otterbox.
Not sure what you guys are whining about...
If these were easy for anything less than a mall kiosk to replace, what would keep an enterprising individual from pointing a gun in your face and demanding you hand over your looks-like-new fondleslab?
Answer: weird screws and weirder glue..
I mean, duh?
from their Airtouch/AMPS days.
Sprint used to be called Sprint PCS.
PCS indicates the bulk of their spectrum licenses are at 1.8gHz, which has coverage disadvantages compared to 800mHz that Verizon, US Cellular, and AT&T use.
It's high school physics, y'all.
In the end, I gladly pay Verizon for two reasons: my iPhone always has Qualcomm inside and I have to be standing in an elevator in a fringe area to drop LTE coverage.
And, I am on the border of an AT&T dead zone, which I blame San Jose real estate costs on.
Uh, isn't ElReg chock full of articles where Uber is deliberately screwing their drivers to pay for driverless car technology with the ultimate hope of screwing everyone else?
At least those medallions appreciate in value. At a certain price point, you don't have a glut of taxi services clogging the roadways agressively fighting over a limited number of customers. They're in a position to drive safe, be responsible, and in my experience, actually give a damn to care about customer service.
"Banning alternatives".
No one wins when pickup areas around airports are a parkinglot of Uber drivers trying to snare fares.
My avoidance of Uber has everything to do with the observation that in the bay area, the majority of cars that slam on the brakes in traffic or double park while staring down at their phones...are Uber drivers.
Never mind that a former coworker lost his life in a Nissan when his Uber driver pulled into traffic and was T-Boned. Sleep deprived? Don't care.
F*ck Uber. Follow the laws or GTFO.
Actually, if you are familiar with IEC/CSA safety standards, you would understand that 100% electrical isolation from a mains power source (both hot and neutral) with several thousand volts of breakdown prevention is expected between the low-voltage side and the mains side..
Clearly, this is not your field of study.
So, the cost-conscious engineers who made this adaptor would assume the wider blade on the AC plug would always, always, always connect to the neutral bus bar inside your central breaker box and someone would never, ever install their own outlet and swap hot and neutral.
Not pursuing Apple certification, I can assume someone faked or ignored CSA safety standards, did not fully isolate the mains side from the low-voltage side, and assumed the shield and ground of your USB cable is always always always connected to neutral in the breaker box.
Except this time, it wasn't. It was swapped. And, it cost this moron his life.
Don't be that moron.
We will discover in a couple of weeks if Lightning lives on, or dies with iPhone 7.
Wouldn't surprise me if the real goal: discourage future charger cable standards that require licensing or the hassle of pirating the security chip inside.
You do realize that a chip is necessary as the cable is ambi-dextrous to unswap the pins if needed?
http://time.com/4722215/man-electrocuted-iphone-charger/
It's because of idiots like this who *buy* these cables...
It should be wildly impossible for 120V to show up at the dangly end of a USB cable.
Because of this, It's not up to you to decide whether all third-party players can sell you a cable on a street corner in NYC to power an expensive handheld device that might still be (in your mind) covered under warranty.
"strangle competitors by penalising customer with differential patent licensing fees as the patents are expiring"
Umm.. What?
Now that Apple is refusing to pay licensing fees to Qualcomm, iPhone prices have changed how, exactly? You're saying $20 in royalties on a shiny $800 phone from Cupertino is excessive?
Apparently Mediatek's modem technology, like Icera's, comes up short.
Explain how this is Qualcomm's fault.
$2300 80" Vizio can't find the DNS server half the time on a hard network connection.
~$60 Apple Series 4 TV box? Since it was released, never once a problem.
It's Android. Have low expectations and you won't be left with a $2,300 brick hanging on the wall that requires two people and a rental truck to move.
I've been told (as I manually copy a 250+item electronics bom, one..cell..at..a..time.. into a SAP web form) SAP has the best automation for companies with a ton of currency conversion and country jurisdiction headaches.
Only other thing I remember is documentation that caused more questions than it answered.
"How about you wire the damn thing properly when it's built?"
Eh... Buildings built after Clinton left office usually support more than one provider (Fios, Uverse, and whatever the cableTV provider is.)
Past few years, it's always RG6 and Cat 5 in the walls and the building has conduit to the wiring closet or demarcation point where new fiber could be pulled at some point.
More than a decade ago, Cat5 wasn't cheap and everyone thought RG6/Coax would live forever.