Yes, and that's the whole point of his manouver. Allege that there might be [some] russian votes in it. That way you poison the well/pool or whatever and as a consequence you destroy the weight behind the votes making them null and void. Good manouver, but absolutely transparent, worthless and dishonest.

"Sorry, this content is not available in your region." The shit is ridiculous, I don't understand why they would block EU users from viewing their content.

Depends on the airline and/or class. I've been on many flights relatively recently where they have metal cutlery no problem.

Settings -> Sounds.

On every iphone since the original one. I don't know how simpler can it be? Also if you change the volume slider there, it will preview the volume. It is as easy as that.
Tell me how to do this on an android phone. You can't, because each one has it on a different place.
iPhone can be criticised on a lot of issues, but this one absolutely cannot.

The best camera is the one you have with you. So if you can get a good camera with your phone that is great.

I agree. The thing is, nobody wants to do an extra mile for anything. People there are overworked as it is. But if you make it a part of company policy (or safety policy, SMS or whatever) then it would be done. And for that to be included it usually has to come from IMO or some bad stuff has to happen.

Scheduled drills are relatively bad in my opinion. When I worked on cruise ships you always knew at least day in advance when the drill is going to be held. We even had meetings on the Bridge just before the drill to discuss where the fire is going to be, what fire parties are going to respond and how. A lot of crew didn't know where the fire is, but usually it didn't matter to them. Everything was completely staged and in my opionion, and a lot of other people, not very effective. The drill had to look good and it was just rehearsed like a stage play.

The consequence was that crew just get used to it and prepare for it in advance. They take their lifejackets to the muster stations, start gathering in front of fire lockers etc even without signals given. All of this is bad and was discouraged though.

We had a good opportunity when we were sailing for a few days without passengers to do a drill at sea during the night. I've suggested this to the Master, but he just shrugged and was worried that someone might fall over the ship and drown in panic as they never had a drill during the night (or at sea for that matter...).

But still, if you want to be prepared for an emergency, your drills have to reflect that emergency. So they are not announced and made as real as possible. People learn fast, don't underestimate them.

I think that the root cause of all of this translation "problems" is that the words in question (smartphone, e-mail etc) were mostly invented by english speaking groups or people. So those concepts were named according some english language standards.

If say e-mail was invented by some french team, I'm sure that the name would be different and at least big part of the world would use that word for that concept.

I do agree that the english language is spread much more over the world, so the french linguists are probably having fits of fury because of that and the invention/naming problem.

There is a quite a difference between say browsing the internet fine and the stuff being dog slow that a person can find it unusable.

Yes, you can say that this works or that works. But working very very slow, and stuff being unresponsive most of the time is not something I call normal or desirable. It is simply obsolete. And if I could downgrade my ipad 2 to whatever iOS was at the time I would do it without delay. It is just unusable.

You mostly answered your own question, but GoPro was cool at the begginning because there wasn't any other small action camera which was affordable. At the time when gopro was released, the cameras were usually custom made and very expensive (for pros basically). So the gopro guys probably took an okay chip and, coupled it with other electronics and a battery, made a hard case and that was it. But the price was the best part really because it was relatively cheap. Those cameras were used everywhere and they were quick to replace the much more expensive custom ones as it was good enough for a lot of things (say one off explosions etc). Viewers noticed that and it was a nice marketing in a way.

A lot of those cameras are still sold because people still want to record their stuff. And not do it with their fragile and bulky $800+ phones.

The original iPhone was a sleek-looking featurephone that could not hold a candle to the true flagship smartphone of that year, the N95.

That is very false. It was obvious that iphone was something completely different. No custom apps? No problem, N95 had complete shit ones anyway. Default apps? iphone had those miles better, easier to use and much nicer to look at. The display was huge at the time. But the most important thing was the internet browser. It was a desktop one while Nokia had a browser which looked like it was made in WW2.

The revolutionary stuff was that you could have the whole internet in your pocket which was pretty much unthinkable at the time. The iphone 2G started a snowball, and brought much much cheaper data plans and phones which a lot of people use as primary "computers". It really does deserve credit where credit is due.

Which is kind of sad because the kids who could afford cars were richer then than the kids who can buy phones today.

As an example, I challenge any normal user to find screen saver settings in windows 10 without using start/search. It is actually difficult to find.

The old iPad Mini 2 and iPhone 5S which were available since the late 2013 are still running the latest iOS 11.

Sure they are. By being slower than a slideshow. And battery life was killed on all devices (except iphone 8) by iOS11.

This what you're saying actually is a matter of your time zone not being properly chosen.