Apple, your excuse last time for removing the headphone jack was to make room and meet the demand of being able to essentially waterproof the hardware.
What's your bullshit excuse this time? iPad Pro customers were actually demanding a smaller bezel? They asked to remove the headphone jack? Spin me another tall tale, O' Faithful master of the Proprietary, because you sure as shit can't offer me any proof that people asked for this.
You call it "courage". I call it Corporate Arrogance. And I hope you eventually learn that not listening to the customer is not the way to do business.
I regret to inform you that if your dual decoder is old enough to have a Motorola label, it is not RoHS compliant, and may contain lead that should not be consumed.
I regret to inform you that the consumption of dual decoders is a lot lower than you think. Hell, I had to move my oven-roasted decoders with a side of hot mercury to Two-fer Tuesdays just to keep it on the menu.
Most dedicated systems like this does not belong on the internet, period. So unless there is some flaw or feature need, don't update and it will still work exactly as it did yesterday. And the day before, and the day before that.
A few years from now a medical lawsuit will award millions due to proven negligence that resulted in a death. What makes this particular case different is the fact that the patient was in your "old-fashioned" hospital, where all of your "dedicated systems" are offline and not connected to the "real-time cloud monitoring services" offered by larger hospitals.
Of course, your hospital insurance goes up by 50% because your mentality regarding hardware went the way of the Dodo bird a decade ago. Eventually you understand that the industry driving change is capitalism itself, and you will eventually tow the line by spending tens of thousands of dollars every year supporting those businesses that need to survive by selling you the latest and greatest medical hardware.
In case you were still completely dismissive of this theory, understand why very expensive machines now do many things a human is still capable of doing.
....don't buy it.
I've seen SO many people whining about MS' forced reboots, etc. STOP!
If there is not a sensible option available, demand that your vendor make a version that can be sensibly updated. Too many purchasing decisions just don't have any sensible criteria. ("Oh, it's built on Win XP and you aren't updating it? OK - scratch!")
I'm sorry, but you really need to understand the importance of environment before dolling out advice on "sensible criteria", especially when taking into account the instability and risk that can be introduced with patching a medical device.
If it's not broken, don't fix it should to be proven invalid instead of automatically dismissed. Sometimes the best thing to do, is nothing at all.
...This is simply Amazon creating quite possibly the worlds largest single day beta test of new infrastructure code, and done annually. The big difference this year is that something didn't work right, so engineers were right on the spot to scale things up manually by hand.
"Currently out of capacity for scaling,"
And I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out what the real problem was, because running out of hardware is kind of what the comment above implies, not that there was some glitch to fix in "new infrastructure code".
And scale things up by hand? On Prime Day? That's kind of like telling a NASCAR pit crew they're gonna have to change tires on the car while it's still racing around the track.
"...ran the same test again with the 2018 MacBook Pro in the freezer, and in cooler temperatures, the i9 chip was able to offer outstanding performance, cutting that render time down to 27 minutes and beating out the 2017 MacBook Pro."
So, the answer is to put all the fanbois in the freezer?
Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the fanbois, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key. - Carl Spackler
So, how do you convince a drug company to spend the (sometimes) billions to develop a new drug if they're never going to sell enough of it to recover the billions?
Well, I would first require a detailed audit of that billion-dollar price tag. After getting rid of 70% of the wasted overhead, the cost would likely drop considerably. Or you would pressure companies into reducing the cost by 70%, as I would imagine they would do anything to avoid an audit that would reveal how much excess there is in that R&D price tag.
I would argue that anyone who thinks it is reasonable that drug companies should be able to charge whatever they like for literally life saving drugs, then you sir, are a complete and total sack of shit and the reason why we cannot have nice things. So, go fuck yourself.
You claim to "get it", but I wonder if you really do because of who you are looking to blame. You may not like my answer here, but allow me to clarify.
We've carved up this planet into countries. Countries with borders identifying what is ours, and what is theirs. Resource management is a critical function of any government due to a finite amount of resources being consumed by a pool of citizens that grows larger every year. Part of resource management is creating polices that essentially ensure death, because population control is a key component of resource management.
Cigarettes are one of the worst things man has ever created. Countless lives and trillions of dollars have been spent fighting to save those from one of the most addictive products on the entire planet. It's one of those things I wish we could un-invent, and the profits and behavior from Big Tobacco is truly disgusting. That said, there is no denying the fact that cigarettes have helped with population control over the last hundred years, which is one of the main reasons that deadly product is legal and thus supported by the government. Same goes for alcohol (cue the haters). Imagine the government policies regarding resource management if the planet had a billion or two more people on it because government sensibly outlawed deadly products. We would probably find even more nonsensical reasons to engage in warmongering just to cull the population. No, dying prematurely on a battlefield isn't any better than dying prematurely in a hospital bed, but both are created by government policy.
Call it "disgusting". Call it sick and twisted. Call it a death warrant for anyone who succumbs to an expensive disease. Whatever you do, understand that the only one who's ever going to effect real change is YOU, a citizen and voting taxpayer. You sure as hell aren't going to get change from those who are profiting the most from "disgusting" behavior, which includes Big Pharma AND government.
Is it just me or is there anyone else out there wondering why in this day and age it's impossible to buy a small phone?
Apple still offers the iPhone SE, and there are likely quite a few more models available on the Android platform. Guess the question is what prevents you from buying one?
Believe me I share you frustration with oversized phones and pointless featurecreep creating the need for larger form factors (who needs five freakin' cameras?!?), but there are alternatives available.
I'm assuming you were joking when asking for a feature that you would struggle to find something to talk to. Bluetooth, NFC, WiFi, and cloud options make obsolete data transfer options, obsolete.
The disease of Obscene Greed has proven to be limitless, and we'll soon be counting the world's trillionaires.
The disease of Obscene Envy is equally boundless it seems.
Being a control freak imprisoned by your own creation, unable to go out in public without armed escort and incapable of retiring to enjoy life? Hated by thousands, including your own abused employees? Known for getting rich by undercutting every middle man and wiping out hundreds of competing businesses?
Yeah, fuck that. I'll take my average life (and Freedoms) any day. No envy here.
...Seems reasonable to me that someone who starts a company in his garage and eventually takes it public gets some chunk of stock when that happens. Is he somehow evil because the company was quite successful in the years that followed?
I never said he was evil. I haven't worked for him. I merely said he is afflicted with the same disease that many others are afflicted with. Could he find someone qualified to run his business? Certainly. Will he? No, because he's also a Control freak. Even with thousands of employees, he doesn't trust any of them at the helm.
Most people define success as growing a business large enough to the point where they can just enjoy life while work is delegated, not become imprisoned by their own creation. That's just sad, and is exactly what I'm talking about when I define Greed as a disease.
"Roku's New Wireless Speakers Automatically Turn Loud Commercials Down"
How is it that Roku managed to do something that the entire US Congress and the FCC cannot do?
Congress passed the CALM Act almost a decade ago. It was supported by every member. They put the FCC in charge of enforcement (because it's their damn job), and allowed citizens to police and report violations. And the purpose of the law could not have been any more black and white.
And yet here we are, several years later, STILL bitching about loud TV commercials and not a damn thing any lawmaker wasted their time on did anything to curb or prevent that.
Are there bigger fish to fry? Yeah. Always. Shut the hell up with that bullshit excuse already unless you're only going to allow Congress to work on "important things". If Congress can't even get something as simple as this right, then we sure as shit shouldn't entrust them with anything that's critical.
No wonder Drain the Swamp was so popular this time around.
If you're pondering this, you're wasting your time. The disease of Obscene Greed has proven to be limitless, and we'll soon be counting the world's trillionaires.
With all our advancements in tech it's rather ironic that typing skills are still a considerable productivity booster in the 21st century workplace. And based on all the marketing we've been hearing from Dragon over the last 20+ years, keyboards should have died long ago, and an infant should be able to control a computer with crying and wet farts by now.
(Visiting alien life) - "The travel brochure said 'advanced species' for this planet. Advanced my ass. They still use keyboards."
Rats have been co-evolving with humans very successfully. They're going to be very difficult to alter our ecological balance with.
Uh, the 14th Century has one hell of a different view when it comes to rats "co-evolving with humans very successfully". Tends to happen when a plague perpetuated by them wipes out 20% of the world population.
New Zealand has had their fair share of fun with rats too.
So the Chinese Govt and Intelligence has gone Full Big-Brother in creating a surveillance state, what's missing is an official statement that if you use electronic devices in China then you will be tracked. In contrast, US Intelligence has taken half measures by creating/finding backdoors of their own. Which of these approaches is worse?
If an organization hides their power, they often do so because they know someone could take it away from them, particularly when that activity is legally questionable.
When an organization is arrogant enough to essentially broadcast their power and rub it in your fucking face, they do so because they know there's not a damn thing you or anyone else can do about it.
Both approaches are bad, but China has gone from bad to worse.
It costs money to process. So the alternative is that the rest of us pay to process your complaint. I'm sure your complaint is serious, but I'll bet the FCC spends lots of resources (tax dollars) investigating stupid complaints.
So what? That's the cost of doing business. Hell, for a taxpayer-funded organization, it's the justification of their existence.
And besides, what you're implying should be reflected in cost reductions and ultimately budget cuts for the FCC. As a seasoned US taxpayer, I can fucking promise you neither of those will happen, so what exactly was the point of this exercise other than creating revenue streams and ensuring the common man cannot afford to actually use the tools their taxes are (allegedly) paying for?
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...backups were ok, even if a year old
At the speed of business today, year-old data is not a "backup". That's a fucking time capsule.
And if that DR plan is "OK", then I have to question why this organization wasted money upgrading their typewriters years ago...
Apple, your excuse last time for removing the headphone jack was to make room and meet the demand of being able to essentially waterproof the hardware.
What's your bullshit excuse this time? iPad Pro customers were actually demanding a smaller bezel? They asked to remove the headphone jack? Spin me another tall tale, O' Faithful master of the Proprietary, because you sure as shit can't offer me any proof that people asked for this.
You call it "courage". I call it Corporate Arrogance. And I hope you eventually learn that not listening to the customer is not the way to do business.
I regret to inform you that if your dual decoder is old enough to have a Motorola label, it is not RoHS compliant, and may contain lead that should not be consumed.
I regret to inform you that the consumption of dual decoders is a lot lower than you think. Hell, I had to move my oven-roasted decoders with a side of hot mercury to Two-fer Tuesdays just to keep it on the menu.
Most dedicated systems like this does not belong on the internet, period. So unless there is some flaw or feature need, don't update and it will still work exactly as it did yesterday. And the day before, and the day before that.
A few years from now a medical lawsuit will award millions due to proven negligence that resulted in a death. What makes this particular case different is the fact that the patient was in your "old-fashioned" hospital, where all of your "dedicated systems" are offline and not connected to the "real-time cloud monitoring services" offered by larger hospitals.
Of course, your hospital insurance goes up by 50% because your mentality regarding hardware went the way of the Dodo bird a decade ago. Eventually you understand that the industry driving change is capitalism itself, and you will eventually tow the line by spending tens of thousands of dollars every year supporting those businesses that need to survive by selling you the latest and greatest medical hardware.
In case you were still completely dismissive of this theory, understand why very expensive machines now do many things a human is still capable of doing.
....don't buy it. I've seen SO many people whining about MS' forced reboots, etc. STOP! If there is not a sensible option available, demand that your vendor make a version that can be sensibly updated. Too many purchasing decisions just don't have any sensible criteria. ("Oh, it's built on Win XP and you aren't updating it? OK - scratch!")
I'm sorry, but you really need to understand the importance of environment before dolling out advice on "sensible criteria", especially when taking into account the instability and risk that can be introduced with patching a medical device.
If it's not broken, don't fix it should to be proven invalid instead of automatically dismissed. Sometimes the best thing to do, is nothing at all.
...This is simply Amazon creating quite possibly the worlds largest single day beta test of new infrastructure code, and done annually. The big difference this year is that something didn't work right, so engineers were right on the spot to scale things up manually by hand.
"Currently out of capacity for scaling,"
And I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out what the real problem was, because running out of hardware is kind of what the comment above implies, not that there was some glitch to fix in "new infrastructure code".
And scale things up by hand? On Prime Day? That's kind of like telling a NASCAR pit crew they're gonna have to change tires on the car while it's still racing around the track.
New iPhones 8 are thicker and heavier than the 7...
Uh, after Bendgate, making that form factor slightly thicker probably isn't a bad idea. Just saying.
It's almost as if Apple doesn't understand what a computer is for.
Based on how many they still sell, I'd say they know exactly what a computer is for; their target audience*
* = Actual computer skill not required. Packaged by fashion, not function. Contents may settle after shipping.
"...ran the same test again with the 2018 MacBook Pro in the freezer, and in cooler temperatures, the i9 chip was able to offer outstanding performance, cutting that render time down to 27 minutes and beating out the 2017 MacBook Pro."
So, the answer is to put all the fanbois in the freezer?
Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the fanbois, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key. - Carl Spackler
And the counterpoint...
So, how do you convince a drug company to spend the (sometimes) billions to develop a new drug if they're never going to sell enough of it to recover the billions?
Well, I would first require a detailed audit of that billion-dollar price tag. After getting rid of 70% of the wasted overhead, the cost would likely drop considerably. Or you would pressure companies into reducing the cost by 70%, as I would imagine they would do anything to avoid an audit that would reveal how much excess there is in that R&D price tag.
I would argue that anyone who thinks it is reasonable that drug companies should be able to charge whatever they like for literally life saving drugs, then you sir, are a complete and total sack of shit and the reason why we cannot have nice things. So, go fuck yourself.
You claim to "get it", but I wonder if you really do because of who you are looking to blame. You may not like my answer here, but allow me to clarify.
We've carved up this planet into countries. Countries with borders identifying what is ours, and what is theirs. Resource management is a critical function of any government due to a finite amount of resources being consumed by a pool of citizens that grows larger every year. Part of resource management is creating polices that essentially ensure death, because population control is a key component of resource management.
Cigarettes are one of the worst things man has ever created. Countless lives and trillions of dollars have been spent fighting to save those from one of the most addictive products on the entire planet. It's one of those things I wish we could un-invent, and the profits and behavior from Big Tobacco is truly disgusting. That said, there is no denying the fact that cigarettes have helped with population control over the last hundred years, which is one of the main reasons that deadly product is legal and thus supported by the government. Same goes for alcohol (cue the haters). Imagine the government policies regarding resource management if the planet had a billion or two more people on it because government sensibly outlawed deadly products. We would probably find even more nonsensical reasons to engage in warmongering just to cull the population. No, dying prematurely on a battlefield isn't any better than dying prematurely in a hospital bed, but both are created by government policy.
Call it "disgusting". Call it sick and twisted. Call it a death warrant for anyone who succumbs to an expensive disease. Whatever you do, understand that the only one who's ever going to effect real change is YOU, a citizen and voting taxpayer. You sure as hell aren't going to get change from those who are profiting the most from "disgusting" behavior, which includes Big Pharma AND government.
Is it just me or is there anyone else out there wondering why in this day and age it's impossible to buy a small phone?
Apple still offers the iPhone SE, and there are likely quite a few more models available on the Android platform. Guess the question is what prevents you from buying one?
Believe me I share you frustration with oversized phones and pointless featurecreep creating the need for larger form factors (who needs five freakin' cameras?!?), but there are alternatives available.
And bring back the IR emitter while we're at it.
I'm assuming you were joking when asking for a feature that you would struggle to find something to talk to. Bluetooth, NFC, WiFi, and cloud options make obsolete data transfer options, obsolete.
The disease of Obscene Greed has proven to be limitless, and we'll soon be counting the world's trillionaires.
The disease of Obscene Envy is equally boundless it seems.
Being a control freak imprisoned by your own creation, unable to go out in public without armed escort and incapable of retiring to enjoy life? Hated by thousands, including your own abused employees? Known for getting rich by undercutting every middle man and wiping out hundreds of competing businesses?
Yeah, fuck that. I'll take my average life (and Freedoms) any day. No envy here.
...Seems reasonable to me that someone who starts a company in his garage and eventually takes it public gets some chunk of stock when that happens. Is he somehow evil because the company was quite successful in the years that followed?
I never said he was evil. I haven't worked for him. I merely said he is afflicted with the same disease that many others are afflicted with. Could he find someone qualified to run his business? Certainly. Will he? No, because he's also a Control freak. Even with thousands of employees, he doesn't trust any of them at the helm.
Most people define success as growing a business large enough to the point where they can just enjoy life while work is delegated, not become imprisoned by their own creation. That's just sad, and is exactly what I'm talking about when I define Greed as a disease.
"Roku's New Wireless Speakers Automatically Turn Loud Commercials Down"
How is it that Roku managed to do something that the entire US Congress and the FCC cannot do?
Congress passed the CALM Act almost a decade ago. It was supported by every member. They put the FCC in charge of enforcement (because it's their damn job), and allowed citizens to police and report violations. And the purpose of the law could not have been any more black and white.
And yet here we are, several years later, STILL bitching about loud TV commercials and not a damn thing any lawmaker wasted their time on did anything to curb or prevent that.
Are there bigger fish to fry? Yeah. Always. Shut the hell up with that bullshit excuse already unless you're only going to allow Congress to work on "important things". If Congress can't even get something as simple as this right, then we sure as shit shouldn't entrust them with anything that's critical.
No wonder Drain the Swamp was so popular this time around.
How is a stock with a P/E ratio of negative 28 worth $90?
Wow.
It's like I'm reading Slashdot, circa early 2001.
If only there were some historical event that could possibly give us some insight as to what could happen if we keep up this financial stupidity...
When is enough money enough money? I ponder...
If you're pondering this, you're wasting your time. The disease of Obscene Greed has proven to be limitless, and we'll soon be counting the world's trillionaires.
By comparison, these companies were founded by kids. What exactly did experienced professionals expect?
Those who were not around for the dot-bomb history lesson now know that Entertainment 720 was more documentary than satire.
I can't wait for a Lord of the Flies version
"Pfft. Mere child's play." - General Zaroff
With all our advancements in tech it's rather ironic that typing skills are still a considerable productivity booster in the 21st century workplace. And based on all the marketing we've been hearing from Dragon over the last 20+ years, keyboards should have died long ago, and an infant should be able to control a computer with crying and wet farts by now.
(Visiting alien life) - "The travel brochure said 'advanced species' for this planet. Advanced my ass. They still use keyboards."
Rats have been co-evolving with humans very successfully. They're going to be very difficult to alter our ecological balance with.
Uh, the 14th Century has one hell of a different view when it comes to rats "co-evolving with humans very successfully". Tends to happen when a plague perpetuated by them wipes out 20% of the world population.
New Zealand has had their fair share of fun with rats too.
I hope there's a ton of "influencers" in this purge. They're the most fakety-fake-fake of all "media personalities."
Uh, there's a difference between a fake account and a fake personality.
A Kardashian is a fake personality.
A fake account is what a Kardashian buys to perpetuate their fake personality.
At the end of the day it won't matter. This bullshit move isn't going to restore trust any more than a little blue checkmark did.
So the Chinese Govt and Intelligence has gone Full Big-Brother in creating a surveillance state, what's missing is an official statement that if you use electronic devices in China then you will be tracked. In contrast, US Intelligence has taken half measures by creating/finding backdoors of their own. Which of these approaches is worse?
If an organization hides their power, they often do so because they know someone could take it away from them, particularly when that activity is legally questionable.
When an organization is arrogant enough to essentially broadcast their power and rub it in your fucking face, they do so because they know there's not a damn thing you or anyone else can do about it.
Both approaches are bad, but China has gone from bad to worse.
It costs money to process. So the alternative is that the rest of us pay to process your complaint. I'm sure your complaint is serious, but I'll bet the FCC spends lots of resources (tax dollars) investigating stupid complaints.
So what? That's the cost of doing business. Hell, for a taxpayer-funded organization, it's the justification of their existence.
And besides, what you're implying should be reflected in cost reductions and ultimately budget cuts for the FCC. As a seasoned US taxpayer, I can fucking promise you neither of those will happen, so what exactly was the point of this exercise other than creating revenue streams and ensuring the common man cannot afford to actually use the tools their taxes are (allegedly) paying for?