kevin kee

Baldwyn said:

I guess it's better for Apple that their workers kill themselves at Foxconn? Typical Cupertino propaganda. 

So wrong in many levels and I never could respect people who wished death of others. You are straight to my ignore list.

22july2013 said:

What's the real reason for not giving us this information?

The "real" reason is, as Maestri succinctly said, "A unit of sale is less relevant today than it was in our past,"

holyone said:

Wait since when are the tables cordless, or am I just seeing things,


There's no slinky cord under these, is this new ?

The tables are custom made. The cords are through the legs to the floor underneath directly. There is a gap inside the table for trenching, each to individual devices through a small hole under the device stands.

larrystar said:

 I love Apple but I’m tired of them saying the iPhone X is full screen there’s clearly a black  bezel around the phone and that very ugly notch,  then the camera bump really and they want at least $1000 for this 64 gigs it’s time to take a stand and say no.

I am tired of people saying it is not full screen just because of 1mm ‘bezel’ to protect your screen from gripping hand. I am tired of people parroting trolls in this forum. I am tired of all of these newbies popping out of nowhere and talking like a dumb clown (sorry, Pennywise) in the forum.

First time seeing the screen and I was blown away. The display is out of this world.

You don't have to be a real estate agent to appreciate the wide angle, they are useful in many circumstances. Besides you still can use telephoto lens (52mm equivalent) for 'zoom in' with 11 Pro. Since we are more likely comparing 11 to XR (which what it replaces with), the 11 has a dual rear camera setup. It adds an ultra-wide-angle camera lens to the iPhone XR’s wide-angle lens. The upgrade has a 12MP resolution, 13mm focal length, f/2.4 aperture and a five-element lens. Additionally, the iPhone 11’s wide-angle sensor has 12MP resolution, 26mm focal length, f/1.l8 aperture width and a six-element lens. The wide-angle lens is the same that’s present on the iPhone XR, but the iPhone 11 improves in some areas. The biggest upgrade on the smartphone will come through a new feature dubbed as Deep Fusion. Deep Fusion makes the iPhone 11’s A13 chip analyze 24 million pixels in one second and optimize the resulting photograph for noise, texture, color accuracy and other photographic parameters. It’s also possible that the iPhone 11’s wide-angle sensor supports more focus pixels, but unless a sensor teardown takes place, this can not be confirmed.

SpamSandwich said:

I’d definitely recommend a person who buys a new iPhone or iPad to sign up for the free trial period of one year, however the Apple TV app itself is not very good. This is especially true for anyone who likes to download their movies or shows to watch later with no Internet connection. The app absolutely sucks for this use case.

Each episodes has a download button underneath for offline viewing.

Soli said:

kevin kee said:

As above poster said above, flu vaccine prevents you from getting sick. There are so much unknown about the coronavirus that is equally daunting for it to become potentially pandemic as well as harmless in the future. We just don't know and that makes prevention measurement all the more important.

No, it doesn't. It reduces the potential for risk. There is no magic bullet at this point with the annual flu vaccine. But let's be clear about your statement regarding this assertion that the vaccine is effectively a "cure," there are still 8,000 deaths this season from the flu in the US, so why should Americans be more afraid of the flu (and countless others things) over 11 cases of people now under quarantine? The numbers don't work out in your favor.

Despite the morbidity and mortality with flu, there's a certainty of seasonal flu. You could predict pretty accurately what the range of the mortality is and the hospitalizations will be, and when the seasonal ended. 

Compare to that, 2019-nCoV is something of a wild card in terms of how far it will spread and how many deaths it will cause. You said 8,000 deaths this season from the flu, how can you be certain it would not be 8,000,000 deaths alone in a year time from nCoV? Scientists are racing to find out more about 2019-nCoV, and our understanding of the virus and the threat it poses may change as new information becomes available. Based on what we know so far, here's how it compares with the flu.

Severity
So far this flu season, about 1% of people in the United States have developed symptoms severe enough to be hospitalized, which is similar to the rate last season, according to data from the CDC. Of the more than 20,000 cases reported in China so far, about 14% have been classified as severe, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO) posted Tuesday (Feb. 4).

Death Rate
So far this flu season, about 0.05% of people who caught the flu have died from the virus in the U.S., according to CDC data.  Throughout the outbreak, the death rate for 2019-nCoV has been about 2%. 

Transmission
The measure scientists use to determine how easily a virus spreads is known as the "basic reproduction number," or R0 (pronounced R-nought). This is an estimate of the average number of people who catch the virus from a single infected person, Live science previously reported. The flu has an R0 value of about 1.3. A study published Jan. 29 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) estimated an R0 value for the new coronavirus to be 2.2, meaning each infected person has been spreading the virus to an average of 2.2 people.

Risk of Infection
The CDC estimates that, on average, about 8% of the U.S. population gets sick with the flu each season. It's unknown how the situation with this virus in the U.S. will unfold but with high transmission, without prevention, it can escalate quickly.

Prevention
Unlike seasonal flu, for which there is a vaccine to protect against infection, there is no vaccine for 2019-nCoV. 

hodar said:

Yes, it will get faster - but this is not due to any major accomplishments by Apple.

This is largely due to the work being done by very bright people at AMD/Intel/nVidia - who are enabling Apple to benefit.  It would be interesting to benchmark the price/Performance of the A-series chips from Apple in a desktop/server application, against AMD/Intel/nVidia and work in that direction.

But, currently - to give credit to Apple, is akin to giving credit to the cock that crows every morning at sunrise.

And that is the problem right there: not enough credits to Apple when it's due, all blames on Apple when it's not.

stoneyg said:

AppleInsideOutsider said:

Yawn

I need a better phone, not a computer, not a tracker

better battery , rugged , not burdened by complications that drift attention far from the tasks at hand

Privacy

without "features" that only add complexity.

Get the core solid

it ain't

 I don't walk around staring into my hand , like Narcissus into the pond.

Go back to the Design philosophy you abandoned years ago.

You are high on your own gas

Curious what in your opinion is needed for a better "phone." I can't think of many improvements that are left for phone functionality, but I could missing your point.

Basically he wanted a flip phone. But what do I know. I think 11 Pro is a solid phone with just the right amount of everything: excellent battery life, best processor, better AI engine, better water resistant, excellent screen and one thing I really like to play more: the camera.