Ahh the old we know better than the users line.

Users who use teleconferencing apps, or god forbid something as simple as skype. My technophobe mother does this too. Then there's every computer at work which comes with a USB headset incase we need to do an online meeting or something. God forbid I actually want to play a computer game and plug in my headset mid game because someone next door started building and my teammates are sick if hearing a circular saw come through the mic.

No use cases, none what so ever clearly.

As a side note, YOU are the reason it will never be the year of Linux on desktop.

Well at least he's no Tony Abbott. We actually made an effort (admittedly by a lying politician who said she won't introduce a carbon tax), only to roll backwards only a few years later.

I have some shocking news for you, immediate proximity to a border has very little to do with trade, and your arguments sound similar to those of the USA when they complained about China.

The reality is that climate change targets are not about cutting back, but rather about changing the way things are done. Case in point, read the article. South Australia hasn't gutted it's industry, it hasn't shutdown major polluters, and it hasn't caused a rise in the price of energy. You do this by subsidising green energy or penalising dirty energy, and you do it in a way that impacts future designs.

What's Canada going to do, decide no power plants will be built in the country and buy all the power from the USA? The same USA which is building several solar concentration plants and which are actually driving some green projects on a state level? Or they can create incentives to reduce emissions, again like South Australia where the government offered free energy assessments and the federal government offered a (unfortunately somewhat mismanaged) home insulation scheme. Or you could put restrictions on emissions with tariffs.

Being green costs money, but you can lock the money into a country using artificial barriers. One way or the other it's the end user who has to pay to be green and giving them an option to not be green elsewhere is what drives business away.

Right now this may just be some random blog from someone careless that has been over publicised. As others have pointed out there are photos of other phones which have bent too, but it's hardly a widely reported problem.

Now it could very well be that the iPhone 6 has a design flaw, and we could see Tim Cook attempt to revive the reality distortion field of yesteryears by jumping up on stage and bending a Samsung and saying "see all phones do this" (see the you're holding it wrong debacle).

Or it could be nothing.

Time will tell.

Well every phone will do something if you treat it a certain way. The question is just how wide spread the "problem" is. In the video the guy looks like he's putting quite a lot of stress on the phone, yet others are reporting that it bent just sitting in their front pocket (unlikely). The same problem can be said about cracked screens. I keep hearing from people how fragile the screens are in various phones including the model I own. Some people say the screen cracked in their front pocket without any stress, in the meantime I abused my phone like no phone ever should be and despite dents and scratches and bits of plastic falling off the screen is still perfect.

So the question is, is this some isolated issue from a few vocal people which got publicised (I never heard of other phones bending before this, but now people are coming out of the woodworks), or is the iPhone 6 really that much more fragile. The debate reminds me of the "you're holding it wrong scandal" where people were claiming it wasn't a real problem and that any phone's signal drops when you hold it.

I guess time will tell.

What's that you said? China produces half the CO2 emissions per capita? Actually is significantly less than half enjoying the lovely 55th place in emissions per capita ranked globally. But I guess the USA should be proud of being the highest ranked nation that doesn't have an insane oil or coal industry like the 11 nations above it.

I came here to post just this. America is one of the worst examples of climate policy. I believe they took the position of saying if developing countries don't need to sign up then why should we. Capitalism at it's finest, the "first mover" advantage.

Not as disappointing as Canada though. At least everyone expects the USA to be a global ass, it's a shame Canada simply threw the environment into the "too hard" basket.

Your comment is especially dense. Init scripts do suck and systemd is FAR from the first to try and work around their many shortcomings. As one article put it, they just so happen to be the first guys who were able to market it to be the default in major distros. That and they crammed every other solution into one box and shipped it which is not nice, but init scripts have plenty of complaints about them.

Speaking of did you realise we used phones with actual buttons for decades too? Oh and horses, oh the horror. The time frame we used something is NEVER a good indicator for any of its qualities.

As for Pulseaudio, yeah it was flaky, but at least it worked sometimes. How many other audio systems can you mention in Linux which seamlessly allowed you to add devices to an audio stream, hot plug blue-tooth headsets, or change destinations of streams without interrupting them? Yes it too has warts, but so did its nasty-in-other-ways predecessors.

The problem is that usability experts are actually few and far between. Usability experts have been replaced with User eXperience experts and they kind of kicked off this nightmare of crap design. I like the Microsoft story of how the "Start" button came to exist. Without a requirement for usability experts to weigh in they actually beta tested many versions of windows with various designs, and each time wondered how to get users to click on the thing. Put the word "Start" on the button and suddenly everyone instinctively knew what to do.

Now we are in a world of UX design where people don't seem to care anymore what the users think but only seem to care about how their product looks like. I'm going to buck the trend and actually say I like the theme of Windows 8. Flat and trendy works for me, but the UX design is a nightmare without any of the queues that a user needs to identify how something should happen.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that maybe the UX guys are right and we're not optimally using the desktop. But if a user can't figure out how to use your desktop (see and endless stream of youtube how-to videos on Windows 8 showing people such advanced things like .... turning their computer off) then you have failed. The users absolutely need to be part of the equation.

And one of the reports I read is that the rise in costs have convinced many to adopt solar PV stations at home. It's quite interesting seeing the increased generation requirements offset by people not sucking from the grid. That makes it far easier to put in peaking systems and renewables rather than continuous base load.

IP67 is suitable for dropping in the dunny.
IP68 is if you intend to leave it, flush it and go and collect it from the lost property at the local sewage treatment center.

Well maybe not quite, but still you don't need continuous immersion protection when IP67 is designed almost exactly for your use case.

Sounds like an problem specific to your phone. I've never experienced this and I seem to handover between WiFi and cell, or different WiFi networks without issue. Not seamless ofcourse I do get a network connection dropped but it comes right back and continues where it left off.

Why? If the original data is sound enough for scientific analysis why recreate it? If the original data is truly sound, isn't there a great scope of things to go wrong by repeating the collection process?

The only reason I see not to re-use the data is if it is believed to not be sound, that the data is time dependent and no longer relevant, or that a modern method of data collection would yield more accurate results and would change the conclusion of the paper.

Funny you should say that. There are several systemd features which cater specifically to servers, such as monitoring of daemon states, and then there's that hot plug comment, certainly you wouldn't want a hot plug ability on a device that you don't have a chance to turn off right? Right?

Seriously systemd is not the answer. But claiming the features of systemd is not something desirable to have on a server is plainly absurd. If I were to build a server now I certainly wouldn't want systemd, but I would be looking for something with udev, daemontools, or similar functionality.

iPhone is a product, and Android is a product, just part of two different industries.
Phones are an industry, and operating systems are an industry.