Well with all the new restrictions I am better off going to the movies myself. I live near a small theater that normally charges only $5.00 for a ticket.
Don't forget nostalgia blinders. The old joke or idea may just trigger an emotion of a happy time for you or a happy time within a painful time. If you go to a concert of a long time loved musical band, and you find their take of that popular song you once loved is different. Is now somehow different, you just don't get the same emotional response then from the recording.
Probably because the rest of us understands how how globalization works.
Hollywood is a world renown for being a hub for movie and television production. They have a lot of talent concentrated in one spot. Vs the BBC who in general known for cheesy effects and production problems. Just compare Red Dwarf with Start Trek: The Next Generation in terms of production.
Compared to American shows, BBC tends to be low volume only a few episodes per season. So they need to make sure each episode really counts. There is enough hype about the show. But a 1 minute clip taken out of context which may or may not be actually in the final cut. Can give the viewers the wrong impression of the show.
Lets say for the 10th doctor release they showed the "Timelord Victorious" speech. Where in the story shows the doctor at his lowest and most vulnerable. Would make him seem like a villain not the hero.
Why do you automatically assume that a female doctor added to the show was there to be politically correct? I mean we had only two words from her official debut. In terms of narrative purposes We already had 12 (or is it 13) Changes in actors that bring a different take to the character the Doctor. Grumpy, Hobo, Super Spy, Bohemian, Jock, Egotist, Strategist,..., Warrior, Resentful, Vengeful, Goofball, and Unsure.
Lately narrative can write Female Hero's who are not so stereotypical and more general human. Where the gender is who they are, but not what guides the stories.
Even a decade ago, it would had been politically correct to make a female doctor. But I doubt they would had been able to write a good one, with companions such as Rose and Martha showing the pitfalls in popular narrative of the time. However I think they are getting much better now, and can keep a compelling narrative with a female doctor now.
When you are young the tropes and ideas whatever they are are new and novel to you. So they are interesting new ideas no matter how old they are. Then as you get older they become the same old thing over and over again.
The TV Shows/Movies/Music when you were the ages of 8-18 just isn't as good anymore with a noticeable decline seeming to happen at ages 20-25 By the time you reach your 50's and 60's such media is considered threatening to your way of life.
Before the age of 8 or so, your understanding on what is happening in media and arts is rather limited. By the age of 8 or so your brain has developed to a point where you can understand abstract concepts and realize the meaning behind the art form. During the next decade you can absorb and comprehend such stories and topic, Until early adulthood. After that these things are becoming repetitive and tiresome. Your viewing of such media declines because it reward is lessen, and other responsibility take president. Then as you get near retirement age, your responsibilities decline, and then are exposed to such media again nearly a half a century later you find that the same-old actually had changed and is promoting a life style and culture that you are not comfortable with and take it as a threatening message.
I doubt That most people cannot type 120 word per minute in general. I can normally do 60-100 myself and I have been typing for about 35 years.
Mostly what is slowing me down is making sure that I am am spelling the words correctly and making sure my fingers do not go out of sync with what I am trying to write.
Normally the old typing speed calculations of 120 wpm is for straight transcription typing where what you need to type is in front of you and you are copying what needs to be written. However being that most people don't do normal secretary jobs anymore. So they are thinking about what they will want before they type it.
With that all being said. I still would like a keyboard, I use a Mechanical Keyboard normally myself, also when getting a laptop the quality of the keyboard is on my list too. (Hence why I avoid Toshiba laptops like a plague). Having a physical response for an action that you actually do a high speed is actually extremely helpful if there is tactile feedback. I am good at typing with my phone as well with a touch screen. But I cannot continue with a long message, otherwise I have to constantly realign with my eyes to the keyboard to make sure I am correct vs feeling for the F and J key that have an indent on them to realign you hands quickly and easily.
Argument 1: Trackpoint have been shown to be actually slower and less accurate then track pads. (while I do like Trackpoint myself, because it keeps my hand on the keyboard) but in terms of mouse ability is is worse. Argument 2: Telling you boss to pay more for a laptop because you can put it back together easier after you take it apart, will bring up the question on why are you taking it apart in the first place. Argument 3: Your job is to use the computer not to fix it. They have global system contracts for repair. Saving tens of thousands of dollars on a new system, is worth it if it costs 5 thousand more over its life span to fix it.
The issue isn't comparing a ThinkPad with a business caliber laptop. But convincing to get ThinkPads compared to the Cheapo sub $600 laptop with the same specs at best buy.
This idea is like the Honey Pot idea for network protection.
This was popular 20 years ago, where most hacking was targeted at a network, by individuals. You get a system to similar an insecure pc, have the hackers break in think they are getting away with murder, while it collects information on who is hacking it and how. And using that information to protect your real network.
Hacking rarely works like that now. Either it is fully automated so a honey pot server would just be a statistical issue while the other servers are getting hit, or if it is more targeted it will often go in via stupid users on the inside of the firewall.
Most security glitches are not bugs in the traditional sense. For the most part buffer overflows have been fixed. But from lazy software development from developers not thinking about security at the time.
The biggest problem I had with phones over the past 20+ years. Is the connector on the phone wearing out or getting corroded over time, this seem to force me to upgrade about 1/3 of all my phones. The other 1/3 was from physical/water damage the last third was just from them being to outdated for how I use the device.
So with wireless charging+waterproofing phones can save me more then 1/2 of my needs to get a new device and expand my usage for the phone for years.
I use wireless charging and I prefer them. Sometimes I may need to charge while I want to use the phone. I just hold the charger with the phone. Only slightly more annoying then trying to use your phone while it is charging with a wire sticking out of it.
However the phones of the old days use to have charging cradles so you had the same problem The wired charger we see today isn't because of a superior design, but because it was cheaper.
If you have a High End Gaming Laptop you are going to need different power requirements then say an ultra book with an Atom Processor. The issue seems to be the power connectors is less of an environmental concern then the batteries. or the devices themselves. For the most part Power Converters have the most recyclable parts in them. A lot of copper and metal.
Being that most phones even with heavy usage can be charged over night and last a full day. The usage while wired is less of a concern then it has been. With incremental upgrade. I am sure that wireless charging will be the future. Especially if such devices can get a full 48 hour usage off of them.
Even the Cable, You either have Micro-USB, USB-C or Thunderbolt (for Apple) The direction that Apple is going in as well with others, is wireless charging. So we can have the wireless charger with a normal USB to Micro USB connection. Because size isn't an issue with a charging station.
I have ran across some problems with Think Pads in the past. About 10 years ago Work gave me a Think Pad that just wouldn't load the wireless network card. To make it worse, I worked in a Linux shop, I was the only person (with that model of laptop) who was using Windows for development, just because I couldn't move from my desk if I were in Linux.
That said, I hadn't had much trouble with other models.
That is the annoying thing about buying computers. Trying to compare say a Think Pad vs a Cheap Laptop makes it nearly impossible. The both show the same Specs. But there are these tiny changes which are not advertised or explained. And it makes it harder for you to explain why you want to pay more. USB3 can handle 5gbs of data. Which is enough for most devices... However the issue comes in when you start using multiple devices at the same time. So that USB SSD if is doing a lot of reading, will slow down your network speed. Due to USB being Serial.
Failure is an important part of the living process. (not just for children but for adults too)
Our culture is teaching us to be afraid of failure, we need to fail, and be allowed to fix it. That being said, if we need help it should be provided.
Failing in itself isn't a bad thing, but what you do afterwards is. Learning for failure helps improve ourselves. Learning to avoid what we failed at degrades ourselves.
That and I expect approved devices if having tracking on them would have appropriate safeguards with the vendors. Otherwise the bad guys can just buy Google Ads, that would target troops, and based on their impression counts, they can keep track of the opposing troops.
I haven't really found a good email client. So like most people I stick with what I know. If you are an outlook user, compared to a Thunderbird what are you getting that is going to make you drop it in awe of the other client?
That is what is called in the industry as vendor lock in. They sell you a wonderfully integrated system, which is all fine and good until you want to De-integrate with the system. Then you need to make the choice, loose features, or replace entire system.
A system that uses Open Standards may have all the features, but will require some additional setup work. As Emails, Calendars, Contacts, Single Signon authentication are all different protocols, and can be managed across may different servers vs an exchange server which does it all... Except when something new comes out.
Prices will go up, until people reach a point where they can consider their phone good enough. Where the demand for a new phone is becomes much smaller. Then we can allow the cost of components to go down to offer cheaper phones.
Right now there is no race to the bottom for phones. As I expect many of these companies have learned from the PC industry from the late 1990's and early 2000's
Where PC manufactures stopped focusing on quality and focused on price. Cheap-o keyboards and mice, Celeron processors (which were in general Pentium chips that pass the full QC Test, but still functioned). Win-devices such as win modems which were in essence D2A and A2D converters that were handled by the PC. So we have the like of Gateway-2000 which was once considered a Quality System, Race to the bottom as a cheap crappy system that no one wanted to use. Then came Dell which did the same thing.
Yes they are some budget phones out there. But they are not trying to compete against the Samsung or Apple, they are tageting the people who wouldn't get a Samsung or Apple anyways.
Well division of labor over gender is Sexism. However, I think get your actual point. The move to Equal Rights did have a trade-off that seem to negatively affect family structure. Communities are vacant from 9-5. And we rely on institutions to care for our children while families are out working.
I think one of the biggest issues was while the culture changed for Equal Rights, business culture didn't change.
Many jobs (where the work conditions are safe) could allow you to have your kids with you all day, and if enough other kids are there too, they can be playing in the office together with the other employees keeping an eye out for them, and yourself keeping an eye on the other children too. But most businesses want to keep the "professional" image standard. And if children are bought to work they are placed in a Day Care setting. Where you can be Mr. Office Drone, or Big Boss Man. while the kids are in a protected environment.
The problem is far more expansive then just what schools are doing. It is the entire culture and "Stranger Danger". Sure we want our kids to go out and play. But... The need to be supervised by a trusted adult (so the kids play time is around adults schedules) Cannot play with kids who are a bad influence Cannot walk past particular areas Need to setup a formal time to play with other kids Anyone new you that you don't know (adult or child) must be dealt with cautiously Also... Adults cannot discipline other children kids. Laws are written where if your kids are playing unsupervised could count a neglect. We do not know our neighbors so much anymore
So for a child outside play of any useful amount is a lot of work and touted as a scary thing.. So they are better off staying at home playing video games.
Being it takes a village to raise a child idea has been replaced with parents have ultimate authority and responsibility it is now kids who are suffering from a cultural shift from media exaggeration. Reports of dozens of child abductions a year across the country of 300 million people. Makes the problem seem bigger then it actually is. There are bigger issues such as child abuse that happens in larger number that are rarely covered.
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Well with all the new restrictions I am better off going to the movies myself. I live near a small theater that normally charges only $5.00 for a ticket.
Don't forget nostalgia blinders. The old joke or idea may just trigger an emotion of a happy time for you or a happy time within a painful time.
If you go to a concert of a long time loved musical band, and you find their take of that popular song you once loved is different. Is now somehow different, you just don't get the same emotional response then from the recording.
Probably because the rest of us understands how how globalization works.
Hollywood is a world renown for being a hub for movie and television production. They have a lot of talent concentrated in one spot. Vs the BBC who in general known for cheesy effects and production problems. Just compare Red Dwarf with Start Trek: The Next Generation in terms of production.
Compared to American shows, BBC tends to be low volume only a few episodes per season. So they need to make sure each episode really counts.
There is enough hype about the show. But a 1 minute clip taken out of context which may or may not be actually in the final cut. Can give the viewers the wrong impression of the show.
Lets say for the 10th doctor release they showed the "Timelord Victorious" speech. Where in the story shows the doctor at his lowest and most vulnerable. Would make him seem like a villain not the hero.
Why do you automatically assume that a female doctor added to the show was there to be politically correct? ..., Warrior, Resentful, Vengeful, Goofball, and Unsure.
I mean we had only two words from her official debut. In terms of narrative purposes We already had 12 (or is it 13) Changes in actors that bring a different take to the character the Doctor.
Grumpy, Hobo, Super Spy, Bohemian, Jock, Egotist, Strategist,
Lately narrative can write Female Hero's who are not so stereotypical and more general human. Where the gender is who they are, but not what guides the stories.
Even a decade ago, it would had been politically correct to make a female doctor. But I doubt they would had been able to write a good one, with companions such as Rose and Martha showing the pitfalls in popular narrative of the time. However I think they are getting much better now, and can keep a compelling narrative with a female doctor now.
The DMCA tended to put too much responsibility on the content storage company then the individual copyright violator.
Yes it is easier to target the storage company vs the violator. But it doesn't solve the problem, of the violation, and it just shifts where they go.
Perhaps you are just old.
When you are young the tropes and ideas whatever they are are new and novel to you. So they are interesting new ideas no matter how old they are. Then as you get older they become the same old thing over and over again.
The TV Shows/Movies/Music when you were the ages of 8-18 just isn't as good anymore with a noticeable decline seeming to happen at ages 20-25
By the time you reach your 50's and 60's such media is considered threatening to your way of life.
Before the age of 8 or so, your understanding on what is happening in media and arts is rather limited.
By the age of 8 or so your brain has developed to a point where you can understand abstract concepts and realize the meaning behind the art form. During the next decade you can absorb and comprehend such stories and topic, Until early adulthood. After that these things are becoming repetitive and tiresome.
Your viewing of such media declines because it reward is lessen, and other responsibility take president. Then as you get near retirement age, your responsibilities decline, and then are exposed to such media again nearly a half a century later you find that the same-old actually had changed and is promoting a life style and culture that you are not comfortable with and take it as a threatening message.
I doubt That most people cannot type 120 word per minute in general.
I can normally do 60-100 myself and I have been typing for about 35 years.
Mostly what is slowing me down is making sure that I am am spelling the words correctly and making sure my fingers do not go out of sync with what I am trying to write.
Normally the old typing speed calculations of 120 wpm is for straight transcription typing where what you need to type is in front of you and you are copying what needs to be written. However being that most people don't do normal secretary jobs anymore. So they are thinking about what they will want before they type it.
With that all being said. I still would like a keyboard, I use a Mechanical Keyboard normally myself, also when getting a laptop the quality of the keyboard is on my list too. (Hence why I avoid Toshiba laptops like a plague). Having a physical response for an action that you actually do a high speed is actually extremely helpful if there is tactile feedback. I am good at typing with my phone as well with a touch screen. But I cannot continue with a long message, otherwise I have to constantly realign with my eyes to the keyboard to make sure I am correct vs feeling for the F and J key that have an indent on them to realign you hands quickly and easily.
Argument 1: Trackpoint have been shown to be actually slower and less accurate then track pads. (while I do like Trackpoint myself, because it keeps my hand on the keyboard) but in terms of mouse ability is is worse.
Argument 2: Telling you boss to pay more for a laptop because you can put it back together easier after you take it apart, will bring up the question on why are you taking it apart in the first place.
Argument 3: Your job is to use the computer not to fix it. They have global system contracts for repair. Saving tens of thousands of dollars on a new system, is worth it if it costs 5 thousand more over its life span to fix it.
The issue isn't comparing a ThinkPad with a business caliber laptop. But convincing to get ThinkPads compared to the Cheapo sub $600 laptop with the same specs at best buy.
This idea is like the Honey Pot idea for network protection.
This was popular 20 years ago, where most hacking was targeted at a network, by individuals. You get a system to similar an insecure pc, have the hackers break in think they are getting away with murder, while it collects information on who is hacking it and how. And using that information to protect your real network.
Hacking rarely works like that now. Either it is fully automated so a honey pot server would just be a statistical issue while the other servers are getting hit, or if it is more targeted it will often go in via stupid users on the inside of the firewall.
Most security glitches are not bugs in the traditional sense. For the most part buffer overflows have been fixed. But from lazy software development from developers not thinking about security at the time.
The biggest problem I had with phones over the past 20+ years. Is the connector on the phone wearing out or getting corroded over time, this seem to force me to upgrade about 1/3 of all my phones. The other 1/3 was from physical/water damage the last third was just from them being to outdated for how I use the device.
So with wireless charging+waterproofing phones can save me more then 1/2 of my needs to get a new device and expand my usage for the phone for years.
I use wireless charging and I prefer them. Sometimes I may need to charge while I want to use the phone. I just hold the charger with the phone. Only slightly more annoying then trying to use your phone while it is charging with a wire sticking out of it.
However the phones of the old days use to have charging cradles so you had the same problem The wired charger we see today isn't because of a superior design, but because it was cheaper.
If you have a High End Gaming Laptop you are going to need different power requirements then say an ultra book with an Atom Processor.
The issue seems to be the power connectors is less of an environmental concern then the batteries. or the devices themselves. For the most part Power Converters have the most recyclable parts in them. A lot of copper and metal.
Being that most phones even with heavy usage can be charged over night and last a full day. The usage while wired is less of a concern then it has been. With incremental upgrade. I am sure that wireless charging will be the future. Especially if such devices can get a full 48 hour usage off of them.
My bad I got them confused. I guess the Lightning cable came out before Thunderbolt. Because light travels faster then sound.
Even the Cable, You either have Micro-USB, USB-C or Thunderbolt (for Apple)
The direction that Apple is going in as well with others, is wireless charging. So we can have the wireless charger with a normal USB to Micro USB connection.
Because size isn't an issue with a charging station.
Being this is a feature common in Windows system... I don't see this a big change. Other then not needing windows to do the upgrade.
I have ran across some problems with Think Pads in the past. About 10 years ago Work gave me a Think Pad that just wouldn't load the wireless network card. To make it worse, I worked in a Linux shop, I was the only person (with that model of laptop) who was using Windows for development, just because I couldn't move from my desk if I were in Linux.
That said, I hadn't had much trouble with other models.
That is the annoying thing about buying computers. Trying to compare say a Think Pad vs a Cheap Laptop makes it nearly impossible.
The both show the same Specs. But there are these tiny changes which are not advertised or explained.
And it makes it harder for you to explain why you want to pay more.
USB3 can handle 5gbs of data. Which is enough for most devices... However the issue comes in when you start using multiple devices at the same time. So that USB SSD if is doing a lot of reading, will slow down your network speed. Due to USB being Serial.
Failure is an important part of the living process. (not just for children but for adults too)
Our culture is teaching us to be afraid of failure, we need to fail, and be allowed to fix it. That being said, if we need help it should be provided.
Failing in itself isn't a bad thing, but what you do afterwards is. Learning for failure helps improve ourselves. Learning to avoid what we failed at degrades ourselves.
That and I expect approved devices if having tracking on them would have appropriate safeguards with the vendors.
Otherwise the bad guys can just buy Google Ads, that would target troops, and based on their impression counts, they can keep track of the opposing troops.
I haven't really found a good email client.
So like most people I stick with what I know.
If you are an outlook user, compared to a Thunderbird what are you getting that is going to make you drop it in awe of the other client?
That is what is called in the industry as vendor lock in.
They sell you a wonderfully integrated system, which is all fine and good until you want to De-integrate with the system. Then you need to make the choice, loose features, or replace entire system.
A system that uses Open Standards may have all the features, but will require some additional setup work. As Emails, Calendars, Contacts, Single Signon authentication are all different protocols, and can be managed across may different servers vs an exchange server which does it all... Except when something new comes out.
Prices will go up, until people reach a point where they can consider their phone good enough. Where the demand for a new phone is becomes much smaller. Then we can allow the cost of components to go down to offer cheaper phones.
Right now there is no race to the bottom for phones. As I expect many of these companies have learned from the PC industry from the late 1990's and early 2000's
Where PC manufactures stopped focusing on quality and focused on price. Cheap-o keyboards and mice, Celeron processors (which were in general Pentium chips that pass the full QC Test, but still functioned). Win-devices such as win modems which were in essence D2A and A2D converters that were handled by the PC.
So we have the like of Gateway-2000 which was once considered a Quality System, Race to the bottom as a cheap crappy system that no one wanted to use. Then came Dell which did the same thing.
Yes they are some budget phones out there. But they are not trying to compete against the Samsung or Apple, they are tageting the people who wouldn't get a Samsung or Apple anyways.
Well division of labor over gender is Sexism.
However, I think get your actual point. The move to Equal Rights did have a trade-off that seem to negatively affect family structure. Communities are vacant from 9-5. And we rely on institutions to care for our children while families are out working.
I think one of the biggest issues was while the culture changed for Equal Rights, business culture didn't change.
Many jobs (where the work conditions are safe) could allow you to have your kids with you all day, and if enough other kids are there too, they can be playing in the office together with the other employees keeping an eye out for them, and yourself keeping an eye on the other children too.
But most businesses want to keep the "professional" image standard. And if children are bought to work they are placed in a Day Care setting. Where you can be Mr. Office Drone, or Big Boss Man. while the kids are in a protected environment.
The problem is far more expansive then just what schools are doing. It is the entire culture and "Stranger Danger".
Sure we want our kids to go out and play.
But...
The need to be supervised by a trusted adult (so the kids play time is around adults schedules)
Cannot play with kids who are a bad influence
Cannot walk past particular areas
Need to setup a formal time to play with other kids
Anyone new you that you don't know (adult or child) must be dealt with cautiously
Also...
Adults cannot discipline other children kids.
Laws are written where if your kids are playing unsupervised could count a neglect.
We do not know our neighbors so much anymore
So for a child outside play of any useful amount is a lot of work and touted as a scary thing.. So they are better off staying at home playing video games.
Being it takes a village to raise a child idea has been replaced with parents have ultimate authority and responsibility it is now kids who are suffering from a cultural shift from media exaggeration. Reports of dozens of child abductions a year across the country of 300 million people. Makes the problem seem bigger then it actually is. There are bigger issues such as child abuse that happens in larger number that are rarely covered.