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So you hear well but understand poorly?


It seems very telling to me that the Standard Windows Desktop is generally considered a wasteland of discarded program and file icons, basically where you throw your digital trash...yet iOS decided that this was the design they wanted for the main start page of their OS.

No wonder there is such a divide among users. I don't think age has anything to do with it though.


The huge difference here is that on iOS you don't have random files lying around your home screen. The springboard is for apps, with a dock for the most common ones to persist between screens.

On Windows (and macOS) the desktop is fundamentally different, used differently, and is often obscured by your windowed content.


No, instead you had unremovable "useful" apps like "Apple Watch" instead.

Luckly they managed to at least let users hide that in iOS10, but it's still a cesspool of rarely used apps.


If by cesspool you mean a single folder on a hidden home page containing unused default apps, then yes, I suppose you're correct.


If by "single folder on a hidden home page containing unused default apps" you mean "App draw", then you've described Androids (arguably superior) default UX.

Put another way.. You're manually 'fixing' the iOS UX to operate like the Android "default"?


That sounds ridiculous to me.

Do you use a paper towel so that you don't have to touch the door handle on your way out of the bathroom, too?


Yes, I do. I've seen too many men piss, zip and walk out without washing.


I'm guessing that water in San Diego is the absolute stalest you can get in the US. The water San Diego receives is either piped over the mountains from Arizona or comes from way upstate...after Los Angeles has their pick.

There is no doubt that it is not good water. It is so high in salt content that the avocado growers complain about using it. If all you're doing is trying to stay alive then by all means, drink up.


If people were at home when the quake struck it doesn't seem unlikely to me that only 1 in 100 would be in the immediate vicinity of their phone. (Maybe 1 in 100 is a strech, but 1 in 20?)

Who carries their phone in their pocket at home?


Sounds to me more like the difference between using the flash or not.


Sort of, except the "camera" can't make any use of "light" generated by anything other than the flash.


I'm not sure if 'Surface Detail' is a book or a movie, but I assumed there was more to it than a two sentence description.


I'm not sure that an open source AI for air combat would get you very far...depending on the licensing terms.


All the figures I have seen have pointed to large increases in food prices. Where are they getting their figures that food prices have dropped?


Where are you getting figures that food prices have increased as a percentage of total income? I've only seen that they've decreased, and GP post gave a link supporting his position.


It's macro vs. micro. Over the past 50 years food prices have fallen, but since the great recession they've risen considerably (though still nowhere near what they were 50 years ago.)


Fingerprinting turned out to be one of the biggest crime-fighting tools of the 20th century. Does that debaffle it a bit?


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