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Re:Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker on Saturday November 29, 2025 @02:32PM (#46090101)
This is really cool!

Only enhancement I can think of would be the option of using the FAA published (and free) sectional maps instead of the satellite view. In combination with the 3d airspace you did, would be amazing!

Re:iPhone Cameras Are Good on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @08:35PM (#44729846)
There are three different lenses on the iPhone 16 Pro. Which one gets used is determined by the "zoom" level you pick. The "0.5x" picks the widest angle lens, the "1x" and "2x" use the same lens, and the "5x" uses the third lens.

If you wish to reduce optical distortion and can get farther away from the subject, you'll want to pick the "5x" zoom. Think somebody else here said it was a 105mm equivalent, which sounds about right.

Intermediate values are obviously crops... although given that the 0.5x and the 1x lens are both 48mp sensors (IIRC), and the resulting image is typically 12mp, it doesn't make as big of a quality difference as one might ordinarily think.

Re:Apple is launching its own password manager app on Monday June 10, 2024 @02:55PM (#40636976)
They did say there was a windows client in the keynote.
Re:The UBI should be inadequate on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:25PM (#38234164)
I don't see how it would cause rent to rise, unless it somehow increased demand for housing.

Which, I suppose, it might if it made it possible for the homeless to actually be able to find homes.... of course, I fail to see how that would be a bad thing.

Re:The UBI should be inadequate on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:19PM (#38234104)
Why should my tax dollars subsidize businesses who don't want to provide enough incentive for people to come work for them?

I'm all for a UBI, but it should be enough to live on, and not (effectively) just the government paying wages on behalf of companies who don't want to pay for labor.

Full pension, and a gold watch I'm sure. What else?
That's a fairly psychopathic take on the situation.
The Porsche Taycan has a two speed transmission that works quite well, so while Tesla couldn't pull it off, it's clearly possible.
Re:Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter on Monday April 04, 2022 @05:05PM (#30911919)
You mean the state with one of the lowest effective property tax rates in the country? Your property tax is pegged to 1% of the purchase price, and essentially never goes up ever again.

One of the only (if not the only) state where that happens.

The main reason not to own in CA is the insane purchase price, not the taxes.

Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016) on Friday March 11, 2022 @06:44PM (#30647521)
To be fair, it's not really like Prius's out there accelerate regardless of intention.
My local whole foods in SF (Noe Valley) is very frequently sold out of produce I want. Broccoli, spinach, and onions in particular it seems.

Super frustrating.

Re:Apple File System on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @08:35PM (#11906468)
The thing that killed ZFS on the Mac was the NetApp lawsuit over it against Sun.
Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results on Monday October 20, 2014 @09:23PM (#8485477)
Well, if it makes you feel any better, I sold 14k shares (adjusted for splits) back in 2002 to buy a used car.

Didn't have nearly as much room as that house I coulda bought in SF. :-/

Re:Apple Dev Center outage on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:37PM (#6073822)
California state law requires companies to disclose security breaches. So, if such a thing did occur, you should expect to see one sometime within the next few days.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_breach_notification_la...

If you don't see such a notice, than it is (was) likely some other issue.

Re:How Tesla is Circumventing Dealerships on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @04:55PM (#4481420)
To be fair, _all_ of them would have closed without the massive government bailout.

If the American auto industry had totally collapsed, there wouldn't have been any cars to sell.

Unfortunately for Samsung, the court is likely to see it as "Eff You, Judge"; which is unlikely to work out for them very well.
Re:Google out-Appling Apple at the browser on Monday December 19, 2011 @02:48PM (#3370856)
I'm happy that the two are separate in Safari. The combined address / search bar is one of the things that I really don't like about Chrome, and part of why I don't use it. Searching and typing in an address are distinctly different tasks.
Re:~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion on Thursday September 08, 2011 @08:10PM (#2976228)
Release the option key before clicking?