hexclock

gavinthain said:

Answer these as honesty as you can?

If you make a mistake at work, how would you like to be treated? 

Do you ever make mistakes?

dewme said:

I've long wondered why all license (registration) plates or perhaps the vehicles themselves do not have a transponder so vehicles can be identified from a distance, like IFF transponders on aircraft and ships. The US should also consider having a country-wide vehicle identity system instead of every state having dozens of stupid vanity plates. Why do people have an emotional attachment to a license plate? The vehicle identity tag should be like a MAC ID on Ethernet or a GUID used in software. Build the identity tag into all vehicles, including buggies, bicycles, scooters, skate boards, etc. In other words, the 3rd Gen AirTags.

I know, boo hoo hoo on privacy, but public road space should be treated like airspace and access to it more tightly controlled. In today's highly connected environment the notion of privacy is largely an illusion. With improvements in AI and improvements in vision, voice, devices pinging connection points that have geo metadata, and other forms of surveillance, detection, and tracking systems including toll tag readers, the ability to move around the country anonymously is declining very rapidly. Hey, it's not like I'm advocating for a universal system to remotely disable vehicles, but that is probably not a bad idea now that I think about it. 

This probably requires a bit more thought ...

SuntanIronMan said:

hexclock said:

SuntanIronMan said:

charlesn said:

Pema said:

Beating a dead donkey this is what this is. Another iPhone (yawn): iPhone 16e (aka the Dud) and now the iPhone Fold (another dud). And in another four years: the iPhone Anniversary Edition - 20th Phone. What does it do? Makes phone call, text messages and oh yes the entire back is covered with cameras. Other than that, nada. Other than over-complicating an iOS with myriad functionality that everyone keeps turning off because it is getting in the way of working and eats up gobs of memory. 

And, oh yes, let's not forget Apple Intelligence. Which Microsoft shuttered last week is starting to look a lot like the dot.com boom of the Y2K. 

Talk about eating the same meal that Steve Jobs cooked all those years ago. Must be surely getting stale by now. 

And the new vision: the Vision Pro aka the dead horse. 

Apple needs new blood rather than stirring the same pot ad infinitum. 

And meanwhile, in the real world: Apple's booming sales keep fueling record-setting revenues and profits, it's the world's most valuable company, its stock price sits near its all-time highs and it just won its 18th straight World's Most Admired Company award. But The Cult of Dead Steve just can't abide a level of consistent, record-setting success that exceeds what Apple achieved under Jobs. 

World’s Most Admired Company Awards is… kind of a misnomer. 

But yes, Apple has won that award 18 times in a row.

Does that make Apple the Beyoncé of the Most Admired Company Awards?

I don’t understand the reference (joke?). Beyoncé famously only just now won the Grammy for “Album of the Year” for the first time ever in her career (despite having been making amazing music for 25+ years). If anything, Beyoncé the exact opposite of Apple winning the Most Admired Company award for 18 years in a row. 

SuntanIronMan said:

charlesn said:

Pema said:

Beating a dead donkey this is what this is. Another iPhone (yawn): iPhone 16e (aka the Dud) and now the iPhone Fold (another dud). And in another four years: the iPhone Anniversary Edition - 20th Phone. What does it do? Makes phone call, text messages and oh yes the entire back is covered with cameras. Other than that, nada. Other than over-complicating an iOS with myriad functionality that everyone keeps turning off because it is getting in the way of working and eats up gobs of memory. 

And, oh yes, let's not forget Apple Intelligence. Which Microsoft shuttered last week is starting to look a lot like the dot.com boom of the Y2K. 

Talk about eating the same meal that Steve Jobs cooked all those years ago. Must be surely getting stale by now. 

And the new vision: the Vision Pro aka the dead horse. 

Apple needs new blood rather than stirring the same pot ad infinitum. 

And meanwhile, in the real world: Apple's booming sales keep fueling record-setting revenues and profits, it's the world's most valuable company, its stock price sits near its all-time highs and it just won its 18th straight World's Most Admired Company award. But The Cult of Dead Steve just can't abide a level of consistent, record-setting success that exceeds what Apple achieved under Jobs. 

World’s Most Admired Company Awards is… kind of a misnomer. 

But yes, Apple has won that award 18 times in a row.