My Newegg order history shows 8 total DVD drives. Plus one laptop with a DVD. Dang,within the years 2003-2008... reduces it to 2 drives, one laptop with a DVD. I'm sure there were more dammit... Then again it doesn't say I have to prove it. I bought some locally from the local computer store. If I got $30 from these guys I would be shocked.
Agreed. With all the phones & tablets & the apparent attitude that PCs are dying, everyone still uses them. My stepson lives in a co-op with a ton of other 20somethings & not all of the own a PC but they sure like to use his when they have a need. Our local library's machines are almost always in use with people waiting. I sure as hell can't do any real work without a PC.
The demise of the PC is desire of the the greedy men that rule the world. Lock them down, no more of this wild west internet stuff. They've been telling us the PC is dying for years now & iOS, Android & now windows fucking 10 (still mostly open though) IS THE FUTURE. I wonder if some day using regular PC on a public network will be outlawed.
A 7+ year old PC is fast enough for most. This is the only reason PC sales are not what they once where.
Agreed. Every asshole co-worker is not necessarily gaslighting you. Even with spreading innuendos, outright lies, backstabbing, & direct sabotage, it's not gaslighting, it's a common problem of having a asshole co-worker. IMO %50 of the population of this planet are assholes so chances are good that changing jobs fixes nothing.
I've dealt with these ongoing issues using direct confrontation, building good relationships with the non-asshole co-workers, & being damn sure I do my job very well. The reasons these assholes behave the way they do is because they feel threatened by you. I just continue to directly confront them until they back off & do my job obsessively well. Soon enough they will back off or show they incompetency.
I've gave it more than a few seconds of thought, pretty much on a daily basis while sitting there waiting. This may be slightly off topic because the article is about clock speeds, but what I said, if you read carefully, is I am waiting on a computer (& network). Of course it's a lot of things combined that causes me to be waiting.
My personal desktop runs a i7 at 4GHz, 16 gig RAM, two 500 gig SSDs striped, an a nVidia 960. Runs like a champ, but when using it for work, I still find myself waiting.
A lot of things need to be improved to get where I would like computers to be. Higher clock speeds would be one of them.
My dream (fantasy?!) is for computers (& networks!!) that are faster than me. It should be waiting on me, not me waiting on it. All day long I wait on my computer. They are not even close to being fast enough. It doesn't help at all that the software seems to be slower than ever.
No. $25-$50? No. Yes, I have a good sound system & a large LED screen at home but it does not replace the movie theater experience. I generally pay $8 & smuggle my popcorn & beverage in, why would I ever pay $25 or more?
Social Security: little chance of saving it. Retirees can live with their kids if they were unable to save enough. That is if they have kids, otherwise keep working.
Age Discrimination: no chance of Medicare expansion, healthcare is too expensive to hire older people.
Woman's right to choose: Overturning of Roe v Wade. Abortions will be illegal in many states. They will still happen, likely more abortions but they will be illegal.
Environment: Climate change aside, more pollution in our air, rivers & lakes. It's in the Republican Platform, read it.
Marriage equality
Outsourcing of jobs
Wage equality
Ran outa time, but the list goes on. The majority of the Trump voted fucked themselves & don't even know it . But don't worry, your guns are safe, like they ever were in any danger. Idiocracy was a documentary
You're talking about something a bit different, but it still applies IMO. When private industry won't/can't supply what the people want/need, then it is the duty of the government to do so. At least FDR thought so, The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 is why the rural areas finally started getting electricity.
Municipal ISPs could provide the competition to force Comcrap, ATT, & the rest to improve their service. But that would take electing leaders that actually represent the people.
But it appears I will have to go with a adblocker now.
Careful, most only remove the div/object from sight, they don't stop them from actually downloading.
Really, I did not know that. Do you or anyone else have any suggestions as to what to use? Does NoScipt block it all? I've seen some sites that won't allow you to see their content if you block their ads. As long as that does not proliferate, no big deal, I'll just not use those sites.
OK fine, good shot. But you understand, the mosquitoes were out in force do to recent rains so after sunset we were chased inside.
The cabin was a payoff for computer repairs. A friend of mine has a few businesses & suffers from the usual computer problems & I've been fixing them for years. I used to get gym membership but he sold it.
When we were on vacation to a nice cabin on a lake that had no Internet, I tethered off my phone. Just my wife & I doing normal surfing in the evenings & yes I knew I would go over my 6 gig cap... It occurred to me that I am paying top download the ads on all websites.
While I understand websites aren't free & other than Google, no one is really making much money with these ads. But it appears I will have to go with a adblocker now. Fucking Comcrap starts their cap on us next month. I wonder how much data is being chewed up by advertisements?
I used to have Uverse. A couple years ago I asked Comcrap to beat their prices & they did, substantially. Lately I've been eyeing Uverse again because Comcrap's deals will expire sometime soon. Condo here, no dish allowed.
Losing competition is not something to celebrate. Not everyone can have a dish & I'm sure Comcrap knows that.
Yes, there are feral hives. Supposedly all were wiped out due to mites & "Colony Collapse Disorder" back 10 years ago. The theory is the new feral hives spread from commercial/hobbyist hives. Back in 2012 my tomatillo plants were covered in European honey bees & I had a bumper crop of tomatillos. 2013, nearly zero. Yes, pollination still happened but I got half the tomatillos. 2014 there were more bees, likely from a local hobbyist. This year, there are a decent amount, but nothing like 2012. They do go as far as 1.5 miles from their hives
You mentioned blueberries. Blueberries are particularly bee dependent. Commercial farms rely on commercial beekeepers (& have their own hives) as do dozens of other crops, like almonds, fruit trees, etc. Almond groves in particular have no wild insects nearby at all & are completely reliant on migrant beekeepers. That goes both ways, Beekeeping & the honey industry has never been very profitable & has come to rely on income from farmers to survive.
Furthermore, a large proportion of our staple crops (rice, wheat, corn, oats, etc.) do not depend on insect pollinators of any sort, and of the ones that do depend on insect pollination there are usually multiple species that are up for the task. Yes, the honeybee has fallen on hard times lately but even if every honeybee in the world was killed, there's definitely not going to be any sort of famine and no plants native to North America would die off as a result.
The mass production of many foods rely almost entirely on beekeepers hauling their hives to the farms. From almonds to apples, some, like watermelon, the honeybee is essential. If we lost all honeybees? Famine is unlikely, but shortages & high prices are. There are alternatives to honeybees, but would not produce the massive amounts of food per acre farmers are currently getting.
That being said, of course we should spray. We just have to be smarter than the average county worker in Florida.
Maybe they love fetuses but hate babies. Or maybe they like control over women & still hate babies. Or maybe not, I'm not a Republican... or a Democrat for that matter. They do seem to hate infrastructure investment though.
You think... well, you would be wrong about your thoughts. I've certainly have not read all of the platform, only some of it, the parts I was referring to. Whoever wins the election, it won't matter much what they personally think or plan to do, the president does not pass laws. So Trump can shoot off his big fat goofy ass mouth all he likes but he won't be able to do much without the backing of Congress.
You really need to read the platform because you should not be confused & ignorant as to what you are actually voting for. The party, not the person, whether you like it (or believe it) or not.
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My Newegg order history shows 8 total DVD drives. Plus one laptop with a DVD. Dang,within the years 2003-2008... reduces it to 2 drives, one laptop with a DVD. I'm sure there were more dammit... Then again it doesn't say I have to prove it. I bought some locally from the local computer store. If I got $30 from these guys I would be shocked.
Agreed. With all the phones & tablets & the apparent attitude that PCs are dying, everyone still uses them. My stepson lives in a co-op with a ton of other 20somethings & not all of the own a PC but they sure like to use his when they have a need. Our local library's machines are almost always in use with people waiting. I sure as hell can't do any real work without a PC.
The demise of the PC is desire of the the greedy men that rule the world. Lock them down, no more of this wild west internet stuff. They've been telling us the PC is dying for years now & iOS, Android & now windows fucking 10 (still mostly open though) IS THE FUTURE. I wonder if some day using regular PC on a public network will be outlawed.
A 7+ year old PC is fast enough for most. This is the only reason PC sales are not what they once where.
Has the baby been born that will live to it's 200th birthday?
Agreed. Every asshole co-worker is not necessarily gaslighting you. Even with spreading innuendos, outright lies, backstabbing, & direct sabotage, it's not gaslighting, it's a common problem of having a asshole co-worker. IMO %50 of the population of this planet are assholes so chances are good that changing jobs fixes nothing.
I've dealt with these ongoing issues using direct confrontation, building good relationships with the non-asshole co-workers, & being damn sure I do my job very well. The reasons these assholes behave the way they do is because they feel threatened by you. I just continue to directly confront them until they back off & do my job obsessively well. Soon enough they will back off or show they incompetency.
I've gave it more than a few seconds of thought, pretty much on a daily basis while sitting there waiting. This may be slightly off topic because the article is about clock speeds, but what I said, if you read carefully, is I am waiting on a computer (& network). Of course it's a lot of things combined that causes me to be waiting.
My personal desktop runs a i7 at 4GHz, 16 gig RAM, two 500 gig SSDs striped, an a nVidia 960. Runs like a champ, but when using it for work, I still find myself waiting.
A lot of things need to be improved to get where I would like computers to be. Higher clock speeds would be one of them.
My dream (fantasy?!) is for computers (& networks!!) that are faster than me. It should be waiting on me, not me waiting on it. All day long I wait on my computer. They are not even close to being fast enough. It doesn't help at all that the software seems to be slower than ever.
No. $25-$50? No. Yes, I have a good sound system & a large LED screen at home but it does not replace the movie theater experience. I generally pay $8 & smuggle my popcorn & beverage in, why would I ever pay $25 or more?
Social Security: little chance of saving it. Retirees can live with their kids if they were unable to save enough. That is if they have kids, otherwise keep working.
Age Discrimination: no chance of Medicare expansion, healthcare is too expensive to hire older people.
Woman's right to choose: Overturning of Roe v Wade. Abortions will be illegal in many states. They will still happen, likely more abortions but they will be illegal.
Environment: Climate change aside, more pollution in our air, rivers & lakes. It's in the Republican Platform, read it.
Marriage equality
Outsourcing of jobs
Wage equality
Ran outa time, but the list goes on. The majority of the Trump voted fucked themselves & don't even know it . But don't worry, your guns are safe, like they ever were in any danger. Idiocracy was a documentary
You're talking about something a bit different, but it still applies IMO. When private industry won't/can't supply what the people want/need, then it is the duty of the government to do so. At least FDR thought so, The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 is why the rural areas finally started getting electricity.
Municipal ISPs could provide the competition to force Comcrap, ATT, & the rest to improve their service. But that would take electing leaders that actually represent the people.
But it appears I will have to go with a adblocker now.
Careful, most only remove the div/object from sight, they don't stop them from actually downloading.
Really, I did not know that. Do you or anyone else have any suggestions as to what to use? Does NoScipt block it all? I've seen some sites that won't allow you to see their content if you block their ads. As long as that does not proliferate, no big deal, I'll just not use those sites.
OK fine, good shot. But you understand, the mosquitoes were out in force do to recent rains so after sunset we were chased inside.
The cabin was a payoff for computer repairs. A friend of mine has a few businesses & suffers from the usual computer problems & I've been fixing them for years. I used to get gym membership but he sold it.
When we were on vacation to a nice cabin on a lake that had no Internet, I tethered off my phone. Just my wife & I doing normal surfing in the evenings & yes I knew I would go over my 6 gig cap... It occurred to me that I am paying top download the ads on all websites.
While I understand websites aren't free & other than Google, no one is really making much money with these ads. But it appears I will have to go with a adblocker now. Fucking Comcrap starts their cap on us next month. I wonder how much data is being chewed up by advertisements?
BTW fuck them & their throttling plans.
Interesting. I might be able to pull something off but as I said elsewhere, I might still have a line of sight issue.
HA! Let's see what the board has to say bout that! I might still have a line of sight issue.
I used to have Uverse. A couple years ago I asked Comcrap to beat their prices & they did, substantially. Lately I've been eyeing Uverse again because Comcrap's deals will expire sometime soon. Condo here, no dish allowed.
Losing competition is not something to celebrate. Not everyone can have a dish & I'm sure Comcrap knows that.
Yes, there are feral hives. Supposedly all were wiped out due to mites & "Colony Collapse Disorder" back 10 years ago. The theory is the new feral hives spread from commercial/hobbyist hives. Back in 2012 my tomatillo plants were covered in European honey bees & I had a bumper crop of tomatillos. 2013, nearly zero. Yes, pollination still happened but I got half the tomatillos. 2014 there were more bees, likely from a local hobbyist. This year, there are a decent amount, but nothing like 2012. They do go as far as 1.5 miles from their hives
You mentioned blueberries. Blueberries are particularly bee dependent. Commercial farms rely on commercial beekeepers (& have their own hives) as do dozens of other crops, like almonds, fruit trees, etc. Almond groves in particular have no wild insects nearby at all & are completely reliant on migrant beekeepers. That goes both ways, Beekeeping & the honey industry has never been very profitable & has come to rely on income from farmers to survive.
Without bees there would be less food.
...or county workers in S.C.
Furthermore, a large proportion of our staple crops (rice, wheat, corn, oats, etc.) do not depend on insect pollinators of any sort, and of the ones that do depend on insect pollination there are usually multiple species that are up for the task. Yes, the honeybee has fallen on hard times lately but even if every honeybee in the world was killed, there's definitely not going to be any sort of famine and no plants native to North America would die off as a result.
The mass production of many foods rely almost entirely on beekeepers hauling their hives to the farms. From almonds to apples, some, like watermelon, the honeybee is essential. If we lost all honeybees? Famine is unlikely, but shortages & high prices are. There are alternatives to honeybees, but would not produce the massive amounts of food per acre farmers are currently getting.
That being said, of course we should spray. We just have to be smarter than the average county worker in Florida.
This is after they wake up in the morning & all their hives are silent. Yes, if those with the financial resources, will recover.
There are very few feral bee hives in North America. Those that are there are likely spread from professional beekeeper's or hobbyist hives.
Are traces of cocaine the same as the "we smelled marijuana"? Was the cash found first, then they somehow found some "traces of cocaine"?
Never joke about marketing. Anonymized data will somehow become non-anonymized once they see money being left on the table.
Maybe they love fetuses but hate babies. Or maybe they like control over women & still hate babies. Or maybe not, I'm not a Republican... or a Democrat for that matter. They do seem to hate infrastructure investment though.
You think... well, you would be wrong about your thoughts. I've certainly have not read all of the platform, only some of it, the parts I was referring to. Whoever wins the election, it won't matter much what they personally think or plan to do, the president does not pass laws. So Trump can shoot off his big fat goofy ass mouth all he likes but he won't be able to do much without the backing of Congress.
You really need to read the platform because you should not be confused & ignorant as to what you are actually voting for. The party, not the person, whether you like it (or believe it) or not.