I don't see how this is targeted at Apple iPhones. Every iPhone made to date has a battery that is replaceable not just by independent repair shops, but also by end users themselves equipped with cheap kits from places like iFixit. For $25 (5 less than the temporary reduced price from Apple for battery replacement) I get everything I need to replace my iPhone 6S batter in this kit, and don't have to deal with the hassle of getting to an Apple store, scheduling appointment, having them tell me battery is not in stock and to come back, etc.

https://www.ifixit.com/Store/i...

The horrors of not having municipal waste collection...
My neighborhood organizes itself to negotiate bulk rates and then contract with a single waste company all households then use for collection.

I'm seeing a lot of "give them two weeks notice or you'll get screwed" type posts.

I just watched someone senior and technical (and valuable) do a multi-year transition into retirement. He was not the kind of guy to give only 2 weeks notice, but also his management was not the type to screw him over. Everyone won. It was really neat to be near such a smooth/amiacable changing of the guard.

There are surely plenty of cases where people get screwed.

Gauge how valuable you really are...and how much mutual respect/trust exists in the employment relationship. Act accordingly.

A few posts seem to strike a safe balance: Give notice when you're willing/able to be gone (not before) but be willing to stick around for transition. I assume the fellow in the case I'm familiar with would have been more than OK (financially) leaving years earlier (so technically gave notice when ready to leave), but the transition happened because it was mutually-beneficial. He was able to ease into retirement (longer and more-frequent vacations, maybe shorter work weeks) and they were able to ease into not having him around. Neither party tried to screw the other in any way.

WebOS - like the old Palm Pre phones and the new LG TVs.

"Comcast isn't feeling any pressure to upgrade its lines to fiber"

Their infrastructure is coax. If I read the DOCSIS wikipedia page correctly that coax is good for 10gig downstream / 1gig upstream currently and soon 10g/10g.

Why would they convert to fiber? What would they gain from fiber except a lot of expense to convert from one to the other?

Was your S7 made in 2015? No OS updates?

Agree with this guy. I fit the article's stated demographic of "youngish in the early 2000s" and I have also NEVER experienced a custom ringback tone.

They don't trust the government to protect internet access, but they want the government to do it anyway. SMH

"Have" is correct. Let me help you parse the sentence...

"Samsung's Calls For Industry To Embrace Its Battery Check Process as a New Standard Have Been Ignored."

"Samsung's Calls...Have Been Ignored"

(It is not "Samsung's New Standard Have Been Ignored" as you seem to be reading it.)

A lot of regulation ends up being a great conduit for crony capitalism. When you regulate an industry you make it subject to regulatory capture (the industry ends up writing its own rules). You also entrench large businesses because smaller ones don't have the resources to comply with complex regulations and/or lobby for their interests. The big businesses that are most-successful RE regulatory capture (probably large content creators like Google/Facebook/Netflix in this example) get their business models entrenched/favored.

There is a problem with correlating this market share number (% of sales of new devices) with the market share number developers and such would be interested in (% of active devices in use). Many (not all) android phones are disposable and can be out of date (especially RE os version) before they leave the store. Many iOS devices, on the other hand, remain in use (and running current OS version) for 4 years. THAT creates a large, target-able user base for developers/etc.

Nope, one in the back, some kind of differential so the two sides are not locked together. Under decent acceleration while turning you can tell they're not torque-vectored optimally (most power to outside). It's unfortunate. For the price I had assumed Model-Ss were AWD with 4 motors and logic to torque-vector nicely (like Acura's SH-AWD does in the rear). Guess we have to wait for the F (for Four-motors) variant.

You financed a depreciating asset? That's just crazy. (It's all relative)

4 front-facing camera 3D system with gyroscopic sensors may make for a neat "dynamic perspective."

I'd rather use them to take 3D scans of things I'd like replicated (with or without modifications) through a 3D printing service like this.

I think it is inaccurate to say these were (EDS) folks who already worked on the GM account. I think these were internal HP-IT folks (that never serviced GM acct) who have been following Randy Mott around (from WalMart to Dell to HP to GM). Where I'm assuming that HP has a problem is that their employment contracts include promises that you won't poach other employees when you leave, and this is obviously happening if folks are leaving together as groups.