It would be Tumblr. They can't drop in quality because they're already at the bottom.

Yeah because hardly anyone uses Safari on Windows. They're primarily a hardware company so providing software to a competing system that has no hardware benefit for them and no one uses would be a dumb move. Also, no one made you upgrade. My 4S is still on 7 and I still see people using 6. You jumped on the bandwagon early, shit broke and you got upset. Likewise you can't blame them when 3rd party software is coded in a way that easily breaks between versions. Most of my software worked on my iphone 6 just fine. There were just a couple games that were busted. When your app store model has people expect to get free upgrades for life just because they paid $5 once for the app then you get app developers that might not do a great job or won't be fussed to upgrade quickly. Yet if these developers wanted payments for major versions you, like many others, would probably complain.

Works fine for me. Probably a user error.

I tip if I like the cabbie or they did a good job because the difference between £4.00 and £5.00 isn't that big, I don't use them daily and I think it's the right thing to do and they return the favour. Cabbies here are more likely to round the cost down if you're a decent person or if I'm short they'll accept that. But likewise fares are regulated. At the beginning of a new fare season that's ok but if petrol keeps going up they have to eat the cost on short runs. That's not their fault.

I tip but then I don't take a taxi on a daily basis. If I did that's probably a sign I need a car or bike.

Maybe where you live but the taxis here are waiting at key points like the train station and shopping centres so my only wait is few seconds it takes to get off the train or leave the shop. most City centres are like that. If there is a wait it's because it's rush hour. Uber adding, as an example, 20 more cabs, wouldn't completely fix it and if they were so good they'd put the others out of business it would just as bad if not worse.

It's not like they invented regulations to block Uber. They're simply making Uber play by the same rules which is fair. If Uber rather quit offering services to an area rather than comply with the law they're welcome to do that.

Patents don't later forever so unless some miracle happens where someone else makes the technology a success within 20 years then it's pointless. This is assuming Google keeps up with the increasing maintenance costs. It's not just an inflation increase either. The patent system makes it more costly as you work your way through the 20 year term. Assuming Google keeps all their patents for the full 20 years I can't imagine anyone is going to make something similar to driverless cars or google glass a success for at least 10 years. The problem with driverless cars, as an example, isn't just whether the customers are there or not but the cost and size of lidar. Nearly half the cost of Google's driverless car is the lidar unit on the top. That is one hurdle that doesn't look like anyone is close to being able to tackle.

You mean like BP being taken to court over mistakes that were likely caused by contractors? Sorry but people are only in his car based on trust in the Uber brand and the driver still works for Uber. They have some responsibility for hiring bad drivers. They've not done their job to protect their customers properly.

why is Uber astro-turfing slashdot? The site shouldn't be big enough to warrant such tactics.

It's the only logical option. We know the scams aren't legit so if you can't tell the difference then they're all scams.

You can't have anything you dislike removed. However if you're a lazy corporation or a corporation that relies on spying on people then it's in your interest to undermine the law and remove anything requested so the law looks stupid and you can avoid it all together. It doesn't take a genius to see what's happening.

It only benefits the retailers. They have silly requires like SS number and driving licence which I assume is for tracking you but I certainly don't trust that info who companies that have been in the news for questionable security. Plus by excluding credit cards consumers lose the protections they get from credit cards should their phone get lost and on top of being a clunky system of scanning bar codes what stops anyone from using it if they can guess my pass code? Android phones especially are easy to unlock if they're using the finger dragging symbol drawing. Not that iPhones are much harder given its only 4 numbers in most cases.

Most people don't need to do that and unless you're doing serious 3d modelling GIS data processing / interpretation or gaming most desktop apps do not need a core i7 and 16gb of memory. I have an old thinkpad (one of the last IBM labelled ones) and with an SSD and ubuntu is does everything I want except gaming (though it will play TF2 but gets hot at fuck) and it doesn't need all the memory or CPU to do the job. So while that's good that you can do that but for like 99% of people it's unnecessary.

That said you can do 3d modelling, video conversion and 3d gaming on an iPad so of course the hardware will be used to do those things though But most people don't want to do those things on a desktop let alone on an iPad and it doesn't change the fact there are a lot of tasks people want to do and can do on the iPad. Some of them it does better and some things desktops do better. Different tools for different jobs.

The hardware the original ipad had in it would be more of a problem than the software but unless you're obsessive about apps it still works as a device for reading books, surfing the net, watching videos, etc. I suspect the main reason the 1st iPad has a shorter support lifespan was because the hardware was a bit poor but even with that in mind and even if you are totally into apps the idea of having the buy every version of the iPad is entirely unnecessary. It received OS updates for just over 2 years and would have had app support at least until the 2013 which means you could have went from the 1st iPad to a 4th gen one (released end of 2012) and been fully supported which the exception of course where apps would require more power or memory.