Are you paying it back for over a lifetime? College Debt sucks, but it is often over after a decade or so. So if you are making 6 figures after 20 years are you still paying the college? What about the fact that you went to Grad School or a different college and change your major and you got a job in that?
The biggest problem is the US, and EU is loosing its global influence, and politically many of these countries, are moving to becoming more isolated. While China who had been historically the isolated country, is started to become more involved in world affairs and trade.
This is bad for US and the EU in general, because as we become more isolated, we cut off more and more potential customers. The growth of the US after WWII was in part mostly from rebuilding the rest of the world. The billions of dollars that went to fix foreign countries = trillion of dollars of future trade. As we create countries, who learned how to deal with the US and created compatible business models, and was able to show and present products they may be interested in buying.
The US and EU have sucked in our dealing with Africa, mostly realizing that the area is too hospitable to colonize, they just left it alone. Not realizing there is a population of workers being under under utilized, and can be supported to be stronger economies, which in turn create more customers.
These systems really shouldn't be called Laptops but Mobile Workstations. I have a High End Performance Laptop myself, and the battery on it is about as good as a UPS. I Keep it plugged in most of the time, and unplug it with enough power to get to the next spot, (That is when I am running it on full). If I cripple it, with switching to Integrated Video and 1080p resolution, then I can get a normal laptop time of 4-6 hours of usage. But running on full power is is only about 30 minutes.
Much like how we have UltraBooks, Laptops, we should classify these suckers as mobile workstations.
Why do you insist that we only look at the failure implementation of ideas, and not look at successes, especially as the successes are better aligned with the size and wealth of America? Look at John Doe, who went bankrupt because he bought a Testla. So if you buy a Testla you will go bankrupt. Well John Doe, had other expenses, and didn't make the salary that would allow him to buy a Testla, while Jane Doe, has a higher salary and less expenses, so the Testla is a better fit for her, and the saving on gas cost will add to her overall financial health.
The Venezuela model, had an economy based on high Gas and Oil prices, they were doing rather well while Gas and Oil prices were high, They can insult America as much as they want, because they had oil and the country was wealthy enough to fund social services. America has a more diverse economy, We can and have survived complete sectors collapsing. The American Economy can handle a lot of problems and still remain strong. A Universal Health Care system if wisely implemented wouldn't hurt the US and would probably be a net benefit, as we keep keep workers working. Because if someone gets sick, and remains sick because they cannot afford health care, will not be working and in general improving the economy.
Now we should look at the issues that other countries have and see if they could happen with the US, and see if we can mitigated this problems such as making sure health care systems are competing for your business, and providers are getting paid for performance and make sure they can keep up with demand.
Universal Medical treatment will cause increase demand, because there are people more willing to seek treatment because before they couldn't afford it, but that needs to be recognized and managed, but not just discredited because it is an issue.
Well you should be. Yes the rich will always get better service. However as medical advancements improve the poorer should be getting the trickle down of these services, and we should see their rate to be proportionally better as well.
But the problem is Medicaid rates are imposed to be extremely low, roughly 1/3 what people are with insurances are paying. Where the government thinks they are being tough negotiators on Medicaid prices, they are actually just pushing the buck to us who are paying for insurance, or self pay, which cases the $300.00 15 Minute Consultation visit, and $10,000 MRI Scan. But a lot of institutions will not have medicaid patients more then just emergency services. So it is nearly impossible for the poor to treat chronic conditions.
The problem isn't that the Rich can pay for top of the line stem cell therapy, while the poor is stuck on getting chemo therapy. But the Rich is getting the Stem Cell therapy, while the poor, is waiting for the cancer to get so bad, that they will need to go to the emergency room to get organs removed from their body.
If we compare other industries, while the rich get the best but the poor is always getting better hand me downs. 10 years ago. The rich would get an iPhone while the poor would have a small flip phone. Today the Rich has the latest iPhone, but the poor has a low end phone with more power then that iPhone 10 years ago. The rich will get the best, but the poor should be getting better as well.
While Chartered by the Catholic Church. They are not owned by it. The church is offering their facilities, for the boy scouts, and most of the scout troop would probably be members of the church, mostly because it feels weird if you are not. But still the administration of the troop is dealt with the BSA and not the church.
Part of the problem is the Catholic Church is so much bigger (World wide institution). Then there is tricky area of Forgiveness of Sins, as part of the religious teaching. Also the problem is with the Administration and Management (Bishops and Cardinals) also have life time commitments, this in turn gives them extra feeling of empowerment, as their jobs are not so much in threat, yes the Pope can fire them, but there are a lot of Bishops then Pope, it is nearly impossible for such person to properly review all cases, and needs to rely on other Bishops and Cardinals to help do the work, creating a conflict of interest.
Overall reduce size of your technology, and power consumption. I don't like the idea of integrated everything chips myself. But they are advantages in integrated.
Here is the big question. Your current chips probably are vulnerable to the problem. If you are holding off until they fix the problem, you will still be volnernable, and running a slower, outdated, and perhaps non-upgradable computer.
Nearly any institution of size, has some absurdities, what makes them worse, is if they have a reputation of being for the greater good. Academic, Religions, Youth Groups, Not for Profit, health care, sports teams, political parties... All have a dark underside, that people will ignore or disbelieve because they only see the outward good that they do. The reason why the Catholic Church and The Boy Scouts of America, was able to cover up generations of sexual abuse, is because of their general reputation of being groups who are on the moral high ground. And when such problems occurred, their dark underside usually mostly in Administration and Management, are more concerned about the institutions reputation then the people that got hurt, and this reputation then reinforced such decisions, because they were such a "good" organization they believed their statements, and people who stood up against them were often seen as the bad guys, who would oppose such groups of purity.
We as a culture need to stop putting groups and people on a high pedestal, and realize they are just as faulty as the rest of the population. While we can welcome their good works, we need to be vigilant on abuses in their system. There are aspects of Universities that are broken, but we just can't discredit all of universities, due to some broken systems, but we should pressure them to fix what is broken.
We have agreed on a set of Box types of holding letters and small packages. We call them Mail Boxes. There are different types one for Cities, and other for more rural areas, they are types for businesses with a lock and key. We basically need a bigger box,
True you are not paying attention, because things actually work so smoothly in Windows 10, that you don't need to focus on keeping your OS running.
Ok, I am being a bit sarcastic here. But Windows 10, doesn't suck that much, and Linux isn't that much better of an OS. I have a system with rather new hardware (With hardware designed for Linux, from System 76), and it duel boots Windows and Linux. And oddly enough windows runs faster and smoother for most application then Linux does.
No Linux runs well on the system, and Windows 10 has its issues too. But it isn't like a Windows 10 user is so far behind in 2019 a Linux user.
The old term which I feel should be relevant for Politician is "Public Servant". We as citizens are THEIR BOSS, not the other way around. We grant elected officials the power to create laws, enforce them, provide judgement... They may be bosses of down their government bureaucracy, however we are their boss, who should be electing them in and out of their position.
Being that we are their bosses, they shouldn't have the right to block negative feedback on the professional pages.
The question really comes down to what type of work they will be doing? If they will be traveling a lot then they may be better off with a little more expensive Lenovo Thinkbad Carbon or a Dell XPS which are smaller and have good performance. If not, then the T series is probably the best bang for the buck.
For business systems, it is best to be boring, get a well known brand, just so you have good support (including being able to stop at you closest tech store and get a new charger if needed)
For your home system, you can break the mold, but for buisness, unless there is something special you need, just go with a good brand, and get something rather rugged.
Well the guy thought he was all that. A super genius Business man and programmer because he wrote an Application in Visual Basic. While he was still employed at the company, we knew about his ego, so we all kinda played dumb with him, during the period of knowledge transfer. So his ego, with us playing to it, just so we can get the information much quicker from him, he just thought we were idiots. He thought he could get away with saying he was running with an older version of the software without any ways to prove it. However, he didn't realize how much we were playing dumb. When we saw that the same day he quit, a handful of customers just dropped service, saying they went with another company that could deal with all their data without any interruption. Some of the customers he contacted basically squealed back to us, (Mostly because if they switched they were going to get a lawsuit too). I gave the legal team digital signatures to search for on his server to prove what version of the software was running.
I think the guy was bipolar, and did all this during a manic episode (within a period of a weekend). He was in general unhappy when he sold the company, that he no longer had control of the big decisions. How we decided to give everyone extra monitors so they don't print boxes of paper every day, then have them scan them back in to the system and then shred the boxes of paper. Also the guy was a bigot, he didn't like that we brought in a manager who happened to be Indian to manage the day to day activities as well.
Being that we are moving to an economy where products are shipped to us. Having a one way deposit of packages may be the better option then trying to give companies a key to your house. You get increased security, plus such a device can be used with other competing services.
Well there is a few reasons. 1. 4k needs a more powerful GPU. Most laptops like having the low powered integrated GPU. I have a 1070 on my laptop when I kick that guy off, my battery drops like a rock, I need to switch to internal GPU for the advertised usage amounts. 2. Not all Apps work well in 4k. Windows and Linux. Incompatible apps, are SMALL, Really Small. to put it in context. The old CGA-VGA Resolution of 320x200 can be handled in Text mode on a 4k display where each character is about the size of the old pixels. Or some apps layout really funky when dealing with Zoom. 3. Lower Framerate in 4k. This article is boasting about 230 hz display. A laptop in 4k you can probably be lucky at 60hz. 4. Display Technologies. OLED, High brightness, High Contrast... There is only so much features you can afford on your laptop display. 5. Extra Processing for little value. Even outside the GPU there is more processing involved in a bigger display. 6. Video RAM can be used to external displays. I have found multiple displays to be superior to higher resolution displays for work. 7. How many people really can tell the difference? Sure if you flip from 1k to 4k you can probably see the difference. But if you just give them the system, the probably wouldn't see much of a difference. (they may think the text is a bit blurry) 8. Keeping the laptop affordable. Most people do not want to pay more then $1500 for a laptop. a 4k display may raise the price up a lot. 9. Repairing and parts. They probably have a bunch of 1k displays that they use across 2 or 3 different product lines, and if one gets damaged they can get a replacement part easier and cheaper. 10. It is a laptop. Not a desktop or a home entertainment system. They should be for computing with long battery life. A 4k Display turns it into more of a mobile workstation then a Laptop. There isn't much demand for Mobile workstations.
I think it is more to the fact, that AMD makes a set of chips which are a little better then Intel, then they ride that train until the chips are out of date, while Intel keeps their designs up to date,
Back in the Mid 2000's with the Multi-Core (Core 2 Duo) chips really shook up the competition back then. And put AMD into a 13+ year tail spin.
The problem is going with Intel you are probably going to get the fastest chip for its model. While with AMD you might be able to get the best performance for the dollar.
The problem with budget technology is not like budget automobiles. The difference between a $400 phone vs a $1000 phone or the difference between a $900 laptop of a $2500 laptop, may not scale well to value per what you get. However the difference in how much the extra money will effect your quality of life is rather slim. Sure I would probably be happier with and extra $1600 in my pocket. But If I am to save up for a new Laptop, the extra money is already gone in my head, because that is what I was saving up for. Unlike paying $20,000 vs $80,000 for a car. Unless you are really able to save up 80k, chances are you will be getting it via a loan. Thus having to pay a higher monthly fee, the happiness of all the bells and whistles of the 80k car will be dealing with a constant stress of paying a monthly bill. In which if my job was terminated or had a pay cut, the car would make my life more difficult. Vs. having that more expensive computer, which you probably could keep using a few more years longer until you get back to a better place.
People naturally would like to get the best. Or at least perceived as the best. AMD sometimes can get there, but Intel is there more often.
The problem isn't the integration between the system. But the fact that the Telco services are so security poor. Sure I can fake a text, from an other person. However the Telco can find a way to bill me for that text, but they cannot confirm to the recipiant that the text came from me or not, and whom.
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Are you paying it back for over a lifetime?
College Debt sucks, but it is often over after a decade or so. So if you are making 6 figures after 20 years are you still paying the college? What about the fact that you went to Grad School or a different college and change your major and you got a job in that?
The biggest problem is the US, and EU is loosing its global influence, and politically many of these countries, are moving to becoming more isolated. While China who had been historically the isolated country, is started to become more involved in world affairs and trade.
This is bad for US and the EU in general, because as we become more isolated, we cut off more and more potential customers. The growth of the US after WWII was in part mostly from rebuilding the rest of the world. The billions of dollars that went to fix foreign countries = trillion of dollars of future trade. As we create countries, who learned how to deal with the US and created compatible business models, and was able to show and present products they may be interested in buying.
The US and EU have sucked in our dealing with Africa, mostly realizing that the area is too hospitable to colonize, they just left it alone. Not realizing there is a population of workers being under under utilized, and can be supported to be stronger economies, which in turn create more customers.
That will fall under petty cash vouchers. How much money did they make from this?
These systems really shouldn't be called Laptops but Mobile Workstations. I have a High End Performance Laptop myself, and the battery on it is about as good as a UPS. I Keep it plugged in most of the time, and unplug it with enough power to get to the next spot, (That is when I am running it on full). If I cripple it, with switching to Integrated Video and 1080p resolution, then I can get a normal laptop time of 4-6 hours of usage. But running on full power is is only about 30 minutes.
Much like how we have UltraBooks, Laptops, we should classify these suckers as mobile workstations.
Why do you insist that we only look at the failure implementation of ideas, and not look at successes, especially as the successes are better aligned with the size and wealth of America?
Look at John Doe, who went bankrupt because he bought a Testla. So if you buy a Testla you will go bankrupt.
Well John Doe, had other expenses, and didn't make the salary that would allow him to buy a Testla,
while Jane Doe, has a higher salary and less expenses, so the Testla is a better fit for her, and the saving on gas cost will add to her overall financial health.
The Venezuela model, had an economy based on high Gas and Oil prices, they were doing rather well while Gas and Oil prices were high, They can insult America as much as they want, because they had oil and the country was wealthy enough to fund social services.
America has a more diverse economy, We can and have survived complete sectors collapsing. The American Economy can handle a lot of problems and still remain strong. A Universal Health Care system if wisely implemented wouldn't hurt the US and would probably be a net benefit, as we keep keep workers working. Because if someone gets sick, and remains sick because they cannot afford health care, will not be working and in general improving the economy.
Now we should look at the issues that other countries have and see if they could happen with the US, and see if we can mitigated this problems such as making sure health care systems are competing for your business, and providers are getting paid for performance and make sure they can keep up with demand.
Universal Medical treatment will cause increase demand, because there are people more willing to seek treatment because before they couldn't afford it, but that needs to be recognized and managed, but not just discredited because it is an issue.
Well you should be.
Yes the rich will always get better service. However as medical advancements improve the poorer should be getting the trickle down of these services, and we should see their rate to be proportionally better as well.
But the problem is Medicaid rates are imposed to be extremely low, roughly 1/3 what people are with insurances are paying. Where the government thinks they are being tough negotiators on Medicaid prices, they are actually just pushing the buck to us who are paying for insurance, or self pay, which cases the $300.00 15 Minute Consultation visit, and $10,000 MRI Scan. But a lot of institutions will not have medicaid patients more then just emergency services. So it is nearly impossible for the poor to treat chronic conditions.
The problem isn't that the Rich can pay for top of the line stem cell therapy, while the poor is stuck on getting chemo therapy. But the Rich is getting the Stem Cell therapy, while the poor, is waiting for the cancer to get so bad, that they will need to go to the emergency room to get organs removed from their body.
If we compare other industries, while the rich get the best but the poor is always getting better hand me downs. 10 years ago. The rich would get an iPhone while the poor would have a small flip phone. Today the Rich has the latest iPhone, but the poor has a low end phone with more power then that iPhone 10 years ago. The rich will get the best, but the poor should be getting better as well.
While Chartered by the Catholic Church. They are not owned by it. The church is offering their facilities, for the boy scouts, and most of the scout troop would probably be members of the church, mostly because it feels weird if you are not. But still the administration of the troop is dealt with the BSA and not the church.
Part of the problem is the Catholic Church is so much bigger (World wide institution). Then there is tricky area of Forgiveness of Sins, as part of the religious teaching. Also the problem is with the Administration and Management (Bishops and Cardinals) also have life time commitments, this in turn gives them extra feeling of empowerment, as their jobs are not so much in threat, yes the Pope can fire them, but there are a lot of Bishops then Pope, it is nearly impossible for such person to properly review all cases, and needs to rely on other Bishops and Cardinals to help do the work, creating a conflict of interest.
Overall reduce size of your technology, and power consumption. I don't like the idea of integrated everything chips myself. But they are advantages in integrated.
Here is the big question. Your current chips probably are vulnerable to the problem. If you are holding off until they fix the problem, you will still be volnernable, and running a slower, outdated, and perhaps non-upgradable computer.
Nearly any institution of size, has some absurdities, what makes them worse, is if they have a reputation of being for the greater good. Academic, Religions, Youth Groups, Not for Profit, health care, sports teams, political parties... All have a dark underside, that people will ignore or disbelieve because they only see the outward good that they do. The reason why the Catholic Church and The Boy Scouts of America, was able to cover up generations of sexual abuse, is because of their general reputation of being groups who are on the moral high ground. And when such problems occurred, their dark underside usually mostly in Administration and Management, are more concerned about the institutions reputation then the people that got hurt, and this reputation then reinforced such decisions, because they were such a "good" organization they believed their statements, and people who stood up against them were often seen as the bad guys, who would oppose such groups of purity.
We as a culture need to stop putting groups and people on a high pedestal, and realize they are just as faulty as the rest of the population. While we can welcome their good works, we need to be vigilant on abuses in their system. There are aspects of Universities that are broken, but we just can't discredit all of universities, due to some broken systems, but we should pressure them to fix what is broken.
Well you need to pay for it first.
We have agreed on a set of Box types of holding letters and small packages. We call them Mail Boxes. There are different types one for Cities, and other for more rural areas, they are types for businesses with a lock and key. We basically need a bigger box,
True you are not paying attention, because things actually work so smoothly in Windows 10, that you don't need to focus on keeping your OS running.
Ok, I am being a bit sarcastic here. But Windows 10, doesn't suck that much, and Linux isn't that much better of an OS. I have a system with rather new hardware (With hardware designed for Linux, from System 76), and it duel boots Windows and Linux. And oddly enough windows runs faster and smoother for most application then Linux does.
No Linux runs well on the system, and Windows 10 has its issues too. But it isn't like a Windows 10 user is so far behind in 2019 a Linux user.
The old term which I feel should be relevant for Politician is "Public Servant". We as citizens are THEIR BOSS, not the other way around. We grant elected officials the power to create laws, enforce them, provide judgement... They may be bosses of down their government bureaucracy, however we are their boss, who should be electing them in and out of their position.
Being that we are their bosses, they shouldn't have the right to block negative feedback on the professional pages.
The question really comes down to what type of work they will be doing?
If they will be traveling a lot then they may be better off with a little more expensive Lenovo Thinkbad Carbon or a Dell XPS which are smaller and have good performance.
If not, then the T series is probably the best bang for the buck.
For business systems, it is best to be boring, get a well known brand, just so you have good support (including being able to stop at you closest tech store and get a new charger if needed)
For your home system, you can break the mold, but for buisness, unless there is something special you need, just go with a good brand, and get something rather rugged.
Why are you on Slashdot, if you hate science this much?
Well the guy thought he was all that. A super genius Business man and programmer because he wrote an Application in Visual Basic.
While he was still employed at the company, we knew about his ego, so we all kinda played dumb with him, during the period of knowledge transfer. So his ego, with us playing to it, just so we can get the information much quicker from him, he just thought we were idiots. He thought he could get away with saying he was running with an older version of the software without any ways to prove it. However, he didn't realize how much we were playing dumb. When we saw that the same day he quit, a handful of customers just dropped service, saying they went with another company that could deal with all their data without any interruption. Some of the customers he contacted basically squealed back to us, (Mostly because if they switched they were going to get a lawsuit too). I gave the legal team digital signatures to search for on his server to prove what version of the software was running.
I think the guy was bipolar, and did all this during a manic episode (within a period of a weekend). He was in general unhappy when he sold the company, that he no longer had control of the big decisions. How we decided to give everyone extra monitors so they don't print boxes of paper every day, then have them scan them back in to the system and then shred the boxes of paper. Also the guy was a bigot, he didn't like that we brought in a manager who happened to be Indian to manage the day to day activities as well.
Where the heck do you live. I have never seen such a thing.
Being that we are moving to an economy where products are shipped to us. Having a one way deposit of packages may be the better option then trying to give companies a key to your house. You get increased security, plus such a device can be used with other competing services.
Did you factor the inverse square rule?
While an 80" TV is quite big, you can still normally eclipse it with your phone at around that 50 cm away.
Plus also for a TV you will be watching moving images, vs a static high contrast image like on your phone.
Then post a story on Slashdot, of upcoming technology that you think would fit you niche.
Well there is a few reasons.
1. 4k needs a more powerful GPU. Most laptops like having the low powered integrated GPU. I have a 1070 on my laptop when I kick that guy off, my battery drops like a rock, I need to switch to internal GPU for the advertised usage amounts.
2. Not all Apps work well in 4k. Windows and Linux. Incompatible apps, are SMALL, Really Small. to put it in context. The old CGA-VGA Resolution of 320x200 can be handled in Text mode on a 4k display where each character is about the size of the old pixels. Or some apps layout really funky when dealing with Zoom.
3. Lower Framerate in 4k. This article is boasting about 230 hz display. A laptop in 4k you can probably be lucky at 60hz.
4. Display Technologies. OLED, High brightness, High Contrast... There is only so much features you can afford on your laptop display.
5. Extra Processing for little value. Even outside the GPU there is more processing involved in a bigger display.
6. Video RAM can be used to external displays. I have found multiple displays to be superior to higher resolution displays for work.
7. How many people really can tell the difference? Sure if you flip from 1k to 4k you can probably see the difference. But if you just give them the system, the probably wouldn't see much of a difference. (they may think the text is a bit blurry)
8. Keeping the laptop affordable. Most people do not want to pay more then $1500 for a laptop. a 4k display may raise the price up a lot.
9. Repairing and parts. They probably have a bunch of 1k displays that they use across 2 or 3 different product lines, and if one gets damaged they can get a replacement part easier and cheaper.
10. It is a laptop. Not a desktop or a home entertainment system. They should be for computing with long battery life. A 4k Display turns it into more of a mobile workstation then a Laptop. There isn't much demand for Mobile workstations.
I think it is more to the fact, that AMD makes a set of chips which are a little better then Intel, then they ride that train until the chips are out of date, while Intel keeps their designs up to date,
Back in the Mid 2000's with the Multi-Core (Core 2 Duo) chips really shook up the competition back then. And put AMD into a 13+ year tail spin.
The problem is going with Intel you are probably going to get the fastest chip for its model. While with AMD you might be able to get the best performance for the dollar.
The problem with budget technology is not like budget automobiles. The difference between a $400 phone vs a $1000 phone or the difference between a $900 laptop of a $2500 laptop, may not scale well to value per what you get. However the difference in how much the extra money will effect your quality of life is rather slim. Sure I would probably be happier with and extra $1600 in my pocket. But If I am to save up for a new Laptop, the extra money is already gone in my head, because that is what I was saving up for. Unlike paying $20,000 vs $80,000 for a car. Unless you are really able to save up 80k, chances are you will be getting it via a loan. Thus having to pay a higher monthly fee, the happiness of all the bells and whistles of the 80k car will be dealing with a constant stress of paying a monthly bill. In which if my job was terminated or had a pay cut, the car would make my life more difficult. Vs. having that more expensive computer, which you probably could keep using a few more years longer until you get back to a better place.
People naturally would like to get the best. Or at least perceived as the best. AMD sometimes can get there, but Intel is there more often.
The problem isn't the integration between the system. But the fact that the Telco services are so security poor.
Sure I can fake a text, from an other person. However the Telco can find a way to bill me for that text, but they cannot confirm to the recipiant that the text came from me or not, and whom.