I’m only using 92 GB, and am not careful about storage other than deleting pictures I don’t want. I don’t mind them starting at 128 GB.

That said, as cheap as memory is, going to 1 TB should not cost hundreds.

I’m pretty sure he boned Ashley Judd that one time.

And most of those references were dated by the time the episode was out.

It was not Ed O’Neill. He was voiced by David Herman, who also voiced Scruffy and Leela’s father.

As a millennial who is now the same age as Al, I get it a lot more. When you are 40, come home from a job you hate that doesn’t pay enough, and are physically and mentally exhausted, yeah, sex isn’t as appealing, even if married to Katey Sagal. You just want to plop down on the couch, turn off your brain, and be left alone. Peggy being horny is just a reminder that his wife refuses to work (neither outside nor inside the home) and has more energy.

But also remember they originally offered the role to Rosanne Barr, which would have been even more understandable.

The cost of many upgrades this early in the cycle is bugs. Many hold off until we get to the X.1 version.

Wired says 20 watts: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-iphone-15-usb-c/

In any case, my point is that USB-A still works and you don’t have to immediately replace anything.

I use USB-A, and it never takes that much time. Perhaps your bricks do not offer 4-5 amps, as many USB-A chargers do. Apple’s USB-A bricks sucked. I think they may have been 1 amp (i.e. 5 watts)

Apple still limits USB-C charging to 20 watts. They do not support USB Power Delivery.

My point is more that you don’t need to rush out and change all your chargers. Replace only as needed. It isn’t like you can’t charge from USB-A.

They make USB-A to USB-C cables. While I get Apple provides only a USB-C cable, there is no need for a new charger. USB-A will die hard at my house.

The point is to have a universal cable. No more, no less. I burn through cables as it is, so I don’t think it’s that big of a deal as far as additional waste.

Well, we’re boned.

I have read variations on this theory before, and I get how it makes sense. I also don’t doubt Cochrane may have made some innovations. But I doubt that is why he was considered the inventor.

The NX-01 was the first Warp 5 starship from earth, and the Vulcans and Andorrans at least have already surpassed Warp 5. If earth developed the superior technology, is it likely that Vulcan developed at first?

No, I think the explanation is that Zephram Cochrane makes a better story. One man developing the technology mostly himself out of the ashes of a global nuclear war is far better than dozens (or more) Vulcan scientists contributing incrementally from the comfortable confines of the Vulcan science academy. Perhaps his idea also makes the best framework for explaining to new students the basics of warp fields.

Also, Earth is the impetus for forming the Federation, even if the Vulcans, Andorrians, and Tellerites were also founding members. Given how they hated each other, they never would have joined without Earth. So in that way, Earth’s origin is essentially the Federation’s.

Ok, that was 2018. Apple dropped Google Maps in 2012.

Yes, they track anonymous location data. The point is, Apple didn’t have a problem with it and was in fact not happy they didn’t get the data for themselves. In fact, Apple Maps does the same.

The article you posted is nothing to do with pulling Google Maps as a default app and is, in fact, specific to Android.

And that’s just it: I’m a Windows guy. Engineering programs just are not on Mac. My iPhone is my only Apple product. So Google is what better integrates for me.

Google Latitude, the product mentioned in the article, was purely opt-in. There was no privacy issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Latitude

It seems the issue was Google not offering the same maps experience through the API versus native Android, having to pay Google for it, not getting the location data Google was getting, and the general issue of working with a competitor.

Still, Apple Maps launched as an inferior product, even worse than what they complained about Google offering. As such, many just added Google Maps back in as an app as soon as it was available.

You really think it was solely Apple making a privacy stand and not being pissed at the competition?

Heck, I’ve never even seen evidence of your claims. Not that Google doesn’t track stuff, but so does Apple. Someone was bragging to me about the data Apple collects in another post.

They should have had offline maps at launch. And Apple certainly has the resources to launch a very polished product from the start. They rushed it because the wanted to kill the Google partnership ASAP as Android grew.

Frankly, it just adds to reasons I am pissed at Apple. Dark Sky was an incredible app, and even as Apple bought it and supposedly incorporated it into Apple Weather, Apple Weather is and remains hot garbage. The radar doesn’t load 90% of the time and the interface sucks. Try telling me Apple Weather is a new product.

I use google for most things, for several reasons:

1. Google seems to have more data. Hours, reviews, photos, including usually more recent and frequent street views. They also have pretty good live traffic data
2. Access to offline maps. Nice to have a backup when you have no service. As far as I know, Apple Maps doesn’t offer offline maps except for your current route.
3. It syncs with my desktop use of google maps, including custom maps.
4. Apple Maps sucked when it first came out. Left a bad taste in my mouth
5. For navigation, unless I need an offline maps, I use Waze. Not part of Google maps, but owned by google.

It was night and day when he came in. The show went from mediocre and not what I wanted out of Trek prequel show to just outright bad with the Xindi arc, but then came back to be exactly the prequel I wanted. It even fixed earlier seasons with its 3 episode Kir’shara arc that explained why Enterprise Vulcans seemingly became antagonists that eschewed things like mind melds and other familiar aspects of their culture.

Then when they canceled it, they got rid of him and gave us a truly awful finalie that crapped on the show and everything Manno Coto built.

Purely from an in-universe perspective, he really seems to do it less once he learns that his people are the Founders of the Dominion. Perhaps he shapeshifts less to differentiate himself from their fascist rule, or so that few recognize him as a founder. We also see he is uncomfortable with the Vorta and Jem’hadar seeing him as a god.

DS9 did it great. So did First Contact. But action for action’s sake sucked (I’m looking at you, NuTrek). We don’t need to Michael Bayify Star Trek.