They said that about radio. They said that about TV. They said that about computers. They said that about dumbphones. They said that about smartphones. They're now saying that about apps.
Following the Grenfell disaster in London, flats up and down the country have been valued at £0 and are thus unmortgagable due to their use of cladding material that no longer is deemed safe.
A few of the consumer broker apps have a 'practice mode' with a few tens of thousand of virtual practice cash to use with the price reacting to real market data - you could do this in real time!
It probably is true but as with all cost/currency comparisons you can't really look at the raw pre-tax figures in isolation to know if someone has more buying power doing the same job in one country or another.
Everything from the price of broadband, pint of milk, loaf of bread, healthcare, car costs, etc etc contributes to someones buying power vs their salary
>No, but I mean all cars for some time now have to include anti-collision radar as standard,
The way these work is by tracking other moving objects around you rather than stationary objects you are approaching.
It'll track another car to see if it emergency brakes or changes lane too close to you, but it won't track a parked car on the road that you side swipe or head into etc.
I've been lucky enough to work for two 'fairly progressive' organisations in a row (by UK standards in terms of work/life balance, working from home, flexi time, general attitudes around 'how to do good work' (outcomes vs outputs, etc) and all that jazz.)
I figure after 2 in a row, the next place has got to be step backward a good 5-10 years. I'm putting it off as long as possible.
Though saying that the first place I worked was firmly stuck in the 1970s so maybe I got it all out the way in those first 3 years.
Volume adjustment is actually a great example of why I hate the touchbar.
- I can't adjust the volume without looking at it. Because the touchbar is flat with no haptic feedback when I land on a button, it's hard to remember the exact position of the volume 'button' without looking. Sounds trivial - but combined with point 2....
- The way the volume control expands - it actually moves the 'volume down' button AWAY from your finger, which again requires me to keep looking at the control.
This means that when a loud song comes on, it can take 2-3 seconds to quickly turn the volume down in total. I could do that with one single keypress in half a second or less on a keyboard, without needing to look at the keyboard.
That can also be the difference between missing a key detail from a quiet speaker on a Hangout.
Flashy, but it's a terrible user experience by every metric other than looks, I guess.
I guess in reality, the physicality of the art plays a big part of how you experience and appreciate these types of pieces.
The textures and subtle tones, the method of craft, the interplay between mixed media, the energy (or lack of), the emotion (or lack of) etc and so on.