NYC was run well by Rudy Giuliani and then Mike Bloomberg. The city changed for the better dramatically under their management.
Then in 2014 New Yorkers elected Bill "Don't bother me, I'm napping" De Blasio. It's not all De Blasio's fault but he and Governor Andrew "I Inherited this job from my father" Cuomo can't play nice and the MTA is run and funded by Albany.
They were both just re-elected because they are doing such a great job.
If you think those two are entertaining, just wait until Alexandria "Just pay for it" Ocasio-Cortez comes to the table with her flavor of financial wizardry.
"...The process described in the patent involves parking the car in the sun, opening the windows slightly, and optionally turning the engine, heater and fan on...A lot of technology is involved in the patent application."
You parked the car in the sun, cracked the windows, and turned on the fan. This is now considered "science" when removing a smell from a car interior?
A generation ago we called this common sense.
I guess I'm getting too old for such patented stupidity.
And no, putting this "technology" into an autonomous car doesn't make you a genius. That just makes you greedy because you're going to charge the customer another $2000 for some bullshit feature they never asked for. Also known as 21st Century product design.
My advice? Buy stocks. Because you can't beat 'em and won't leave 'em (en masse) to stand up to this bullshit.
Throwing your support behind the greatest bully "because you can't beat'em" did not work out all that great for Nazi Germany. Stop being part of the problem. It's the least you can do for the world.
Oh Great Moral One, please enlighten me as to your ethically clean and morally sound investment portfolio. I'd love to hear a funny story of ignorance.
Investing is hardly part of the problem. Idiots who stand in line for days waiting to buy a $1000+ smartphone are feeding that problem a hell of a lot more than I ever will. And you will never have enough consumers that get off their ass and take action to stop using or buying products, no matter how badly they're treated. As I said before, they're will always be plenty of demand, and even if there wasn't, mega-corps facing risk of failure would qualify for a Too Big To Fail bailout on the taxpayer dime, thanks to history.
""Why does our company suck at having a moral compass?"
Because Greed N. Corruption is CEO of US Capitalism, and has been for a long time now.
And Facebook is hardly the only one who's morally bankrupt here. All the other mega-corporations do it. They're just not standing in the spotlight, live-streaming their dirty laundry for the world to see right now. Even if they were, they wouldn't care.
The world is so flat right now that all of the mega-corps always have plenty of customers. Corporate Arrogance is the standard by which they act. They're going to do what makes them money, and no longer give a shit about how they treat you or what you want. That is why you repeatedly hear stories about companies doing shit that seems to make little or no sense from a consumer demand standpoint, with the end result being more profit, which is all that matters. This is why you have $1000 smartphones with a ton of bullshit features you never asked for bolted to non-removable shitty batteries. This is why you new cars come with $10,000 worth of shit you don't want, but is now standard.All new computers will soon have soldered memory and storage with no upgrade options. It's become almost impossible to find a new non-Smart TV, and soon will be the case for every appliance in your house.
My advice? Buy stocks. Because you can't beat 'em and won't leave 'em (en masse) to stand up to this bullshit.
The Android platform isn't just about the OS. You also have the bundled apps and the Play store rather than Apple store. Suggesting that the only difference between Apple and Android is iOS vs Linux at the core is either disingenuous or a reflection of a phenomenal level of ignorance.
The statement was directed at "Americans", which 99% of them don't care what mechanisms are behind the curtain that makes their black box of magical apps work. All they care about is if XX app works on my phone, because that's what I use. Bundled apps, default apps, Play store, Apple Store...names are irrelevant from a consumer standpoint because they all do the same damn thing. And the worlds most popular apps are developed for both platforms, which I don't see that changing anytime soon regardless of OS dominance.
If the statement was directed at those who do have legitimate reasons to care (software developers, engineers, etc.) then it would make sense.
He at least KNOWS that he has to ask experts for technical questions. It's the half-knowledge that's most dangerous.
Uh, when you have to ask the experts about everything pertaining to your position, it tends to question the entire point of putting an idiot in charge. Might as well put a 3-year old in the position.
Half-knowledge may be dangerous, but NO knowledge is worthless, and can end up just as being dangerous due to the person being easily manipulated due to sheer ignorance.
"...it's still a rational decision to make Americans use Android. Android is the dominant operating system in many regions outside of the U.S., including South America, Europe, Russia, South Asia, and parts of the Middle East."
I'm not here to get the iNerds and 'Droid Dorks all fired up, I merely question how the hell OS dominance equates to a rational decision to make Americans use a particular smartphone OS. Smartphones have become black box devices that run apps (go ahead, ask an smartphone user to find the "operating system" on their phone), and all smartphones pretty much do the same damn thing. The OS that the consumer can hardly touch is damn near irrelevant.
And where it works outside the U.S. is becoming more and more irrelevant for Americans too. They spent all their travel money on a $1000+ fashion accessory and an unlimited everything plan. They can hardly afford to change their mind, let alone their location.
Surely you can have a dead mans switch wiping the phone. When questioned later, just admit to having such an app. There are many valid reasons for having a phone that auto-wipes. Don't want the abusive husband to find out about her lover, perhaps? Or perhaps she takes naughty pictures of herself, and don't want those to leak out if the phone ever gets stolen or lost?
Clearly you've never dealt with the US legal system. I don't give a shit what "legitimate" reason you have for using a dead mans switch on your phone, I can promise you it WILL be viewed as destruction of evidence, and you WILL be charged for it. Plain and simple.
You're free to set up any security policy you like in advance, even a dead man's switch if you want but taking active hostile action against a police investigation is not accepted in any legal system. Now I'm sure the US legal system has a lot of other issues, but I really fail to see how this makes them the bad guy. Not even a little.
Your logic is truly baffling if you think we're "free" to do as we wish here.
In the real word a "dead mans switch" is called Corporate MDM Security Policy which dictates wiping the phone after XX number of failed password attempts. I can see police accidentally or purposely attempting to get into a suspects phone which might trigger such a policy that they would be unaware of. I can also see police failing to "hack" a device resulting in a device wipe, ALL of which would be immediately turned into a charge of destroying evidence, which the suspect would have to spend a shitload of money proving otherwise, even if they had zero culpability. Not exactly a "free" solution by any means.
I'm sorry, but assuming there is a simple answer here is just plain wrong, especially since police have proven time and time again that they are technically incompetent. The only solution I've seen here that might work is a policy that dictates an immediate confiscation of an electronic device from a suspect, and that device placed into a locked box that would require at least two people (3rd party to the police) to open and perform forensic analysis. Any device found wiped or tampered with would automatically launch a full investigation to determine exactly how data was erased and who was responsible.
You're right. The US legal system does have a lot of issues. This is certainly one of them, and they don't have a good solution that actually protects information and avoids false charges.
I worked for a company where a maintenance guy who was closing in on 80 and could have retired at 60 refused to leave and refused to train a successor. "If I train a replacement, I'll get replaced." (False. That would be age discrimination.)
So, what exactly is the excuse that our prominent lawmakers have for continuing to work beyond their mental and physical capacity?
That maintenance guy affected a single company. A lawmaker continuing to work when they shouldn't can affect an entire nation. Due to the funding issues with our Social Security program, we sadly can't afford a forced retirement policy. So, is the answer more mental and physical screenings for those who wish to work well into their golden years? The elderly will hold considerable power, so will this be deemed as some sort of age discrimination too?
I remember when people "expected" an optical drive in their computers, are you still mad at Apple for not including that as standard equipment on their computers? I'm not sure if kids these days even know that a CD or DVD were used in computers, I mean other than to play music and movies on them.
Perhaps you should sit and ponder about this. You might find that you answered your own question.
A top-of-the-line Mac Mini (that still had user-replaceable storage and memory) was barely over $1000 in 2012. A top-of-the-line Mac Mini is now over $4000, and Apple labels this as their "entry-level" model.
That was 4 cores and seven years ago. Also with that money comes a computer with ThunderBolt 3, 10Gb Ethernet, SSD, and far more RAM. Apparently some people believe it's worth the price.
I didn't even bother to include the 10Gb Ethernet option (winner for Most Pointless Feature) when configuring a $4000+ Mac Mini.
Thunderbolt 3 (runner-up for Most Pointless Feature) only impresses people who want to pay an equally asinine price for some peripheral that likely doesn't even justify that proprietary connection. No doubt it can perform. No doubt you're gonna pay a shitload of money to actually use it. It's kind of like arguing about the benefits of a "free" 5th-wheel option on a $50,000 truck; the feature is pointless without attaching something big and expensive to it.
Is 2TB worth of non-removable storage supposed to impress me? I guess for $1400, I should be impressed that consumers can bend over that far.
If you don't like it then don't buy one.
Apple doesn't care what consumers "like", so that's irrelevant. They care about what features and options make them the most money. Those who will actually buy a $4000+ Mac Mini are rare. Those who will actually use a $4000+ Mac Mini are even rarer.
A top-of-the-line Mac Mini is now over $4000, and Apple labels this as their "entry-level" model.
You are being ridiculous. The "top-of-the-line" Mac Mini is so expensive because it can be upgraded to 64 GB Ram / 2TB SSD. Would it make you happier if it could be upgraded to 32GB / 1TB only for much less money?
BTW. You can upgrade the RAM yourself, and there are four thunderbolt parts where you can attach the fastest and biggest SSD drives you can find.
Mac Minis are not meant to be massive performance machines regardless of their configuration. The 2018 model is no different than the 2012 model in this regard (other than the now asinine price). A 2TB SSD option for $1400? Is that supposed to impress me in 2018? And a 32GB/1TB configuration is still almost $2000.
Compared to the previous model it seems Apple decided to ditch the 2.5" spinner in an effort to give us removable RAM in the same form factor. Let's face it, Apple was never going to increase the thickness of the Mac Mini to allow for both swappable RAM and storage. They only want to make things smaller and thinner.
Uh, hate to point out the obvious, but the dimensions of the 2018 Mac Mini are exactly the same as the 2012 Mac Mini that held two 2.5" hard drives, and had user-replaceable memory (2 slots).
Quite frankly, I'm shocked to find that the memory can be upgraded, but since they're charging consumers $1400 to max out the memory on this model, that's hardly a concession. 95% of consumers can't even spell RAM let alone know how to replace it, so Apple will continue ripping off consumers for memory upgrades.
We're not in the '90s anymore, big breakthroughs in performance are not going to happen. There is no point in upgrading. We need reliable tools and that's what we, the majority of consumers, want. You nerds can wank off to raspies and other crap kit.
If you truly feel there's "no point" in supporting user-replaceable options, then tell me the fucking point of paying Apple $1400 for 64GB of Apple memory. Or $1400 for a 2TB SSD.
You're right. We're not in the 90's anymore. In the 90's, I didn't have to get a "gig" job just to afford this shit.
And consumers don't give a shit about reliability. If they did, they would demand their most expensive electronic investment (smartphones) have user-replaceable batteries to make them last more than a fucking year or two.
There might be a point to be made regarding the SSD; but aren't we getting a bit ridiculous, expecting a socketed CPU in a computer the size of a ham sandwich?
"Ridiculous" left conversations about Apple hardware long ago. Apple went right past Ludicrous (too "Tesla-y") and went straight to Asinine mode in the last few years, and dismissive attitudes are why we now have soldered CPUs. Soon, people will be dismissing soldered hard drives and memory as "expected", and this mentality will infect every other company selling hardware.
A top-of-the-line Mac Mini (that still had user-replaceable storage and memory) was barely over $1000 in 2012. A top-of-the-line Mac Mini is now over $4000, and Apple labels this as their "entry-level" model. Speaking of memory upgrades, that'll cost you $1400 for 64GB of Apple memory. You've got to be fucking kidding me. If the CPI was tied to this company's profit margins, millionaire would describe poverty.
Not sure what I despise more; Apple's greed, or the consumers who demand it.
Yeah, so it turns out pretty much every noncommercial toilet in America is a joke. The seals fail. They just fail. The huge amount of waste that arises from *having toilets with sucky designs in almost every home in the country* is insane.
The fix is pretty simple: whenever a toilet shows up in a landfill or dumpster, bill the manufacturer.
We don't do that, so every producer has an incentive to make toilets crappy enough that they fail within a few years.
Uh, where exactly are you getting your data that confirms we're throwing away toilets every few years? My last house still had the avocado green and harvest gold toilets installed from the 70's (no, I'm not joking), and my current house still has the original hardware that's almost 20 years old. Yes, internal hardware like the flapper breaks down over time (more likely due to the chlorinated water attacking the rubber material), but you don't rip a toilet out of a house because the guts fail. Every toilet I've replaced has been due to something other than breakage (color, height, shape, water capacity, etc.)
Much like consumer electronics, fashion has put more hardware into landfills than function has.
Personally, I do agree and have a problem with the "disabled, elderly, or traveling" detail, but then I really start to wonder how much of that information you can easily glean elsewhere (VA, AARP, etc.) Ironically, the campaign would have broken the law had they not released this voter information, so perhaps we should get our shit straight when it comes to laws regulating voter information vs. PII.
What really bothers me though is the seemingly instant panic we throw ourselves into because we find data in "aggregate". Having one pound of shit doesn't magically turn into something else when you add another 99 pounds to it, You just have more of the same shit. Before PII, SPI, GDPR, NIST and the other 31 flavors of ice screen started freezing data, do you know what we used to call an aggregate list of names, addresses, and phone numbers?
The White Pages.
Which of course is online now, searchable by anyone, and includes far more detail than we would have ever shoved in a phone book.
And if we're going to use the excuse of criminal efficiency, then I would argue that Home Depot selling shitty door locks and renting moving vans without performing a full criminal background investigation contributes to the "efficiency" of criminals. Besides, peoples own narcissism tends to be their downfall. Criminals define social media as one-stop shopping now.
>> You gonna vote?
If you express yourself with words like "gonna", please don't vote.
If you think the target audience is concerned about slang, might I remind you that we now have a full compliment of emojis built into our desktop operating systems.
I want Medicare for All. Saves money, works in every country that tried it and covers everyone. 45,000 Americans die of treatable illnesses every year. I don't want to be one of them.
45,000 you say?
200,000 - 400,000 deaths occur every year in the United States due to medical error. It's considered one of our top leading causes of death now. And we question why people tend to avoid hospitals?
Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it.
I don't know where you got your hard on for "nobody is personally accountable these days and the problem is always that" but it's not emotionally healthy or mature and says a lot more about you than any supposed wisdom you think you might have.
Personal accountability is one of those things that tends to affect a shitload of things in your life, both good and bad. And obesity is overwhelmingly attributed to personal decisions, so my theory is hardly delusional. No it's not "always" that. In this case, it's about 95% that.
That said, perhaps we should look at TFA to see what kind of crisis this actually is:
"...by age 10, children suffering high early exposure were almost 1kg heavier on average than those with low exposure."
Today, over 30% of children aged 2 - 19 are overweight or obese, and that's before you account for a whopping one kilogram difference by age 10 due to bad air.
This is sensationalist reporting at best, and is hardly worth a debate on the importance of personal accountability. And if you truly think that ingraining the importance of personal accountability is somehow unhealthy, take a good hard look at what happens to emotional health and maturity when you absolve kids of it.
How dare you accuse those who should be! You must be some kind of racist.
Personal accountability was deemed unethical and immoral. Seems it doesn't help move #PerpetualVictims forward towards their special flavor of "progress".
"...the lithium-ion batteries in smartphones are hitting an inflection point where they simply can't keep up."
Lithium-ion performance tends to degrade when processing bullshit features no one asked for, to include Bendgate-grade designs. Perhaps vendors could do us a favor and stop giving us more "innovation".
Of course, that might result in more reliable products that could last longer. Greed N. Corruption won't stand for that shit, and consumers don't care enough to change the inevitable path towards the destruction of ownership. The obvious solution is to rent you shitty hardware instead of improving it.
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NYC was run well by Rudy Giuliani and then Mike Bloomberg. The city changed for the better dramatically under their management.
Then in 2014 New Yorkers elected Bill "Don't bother me, I'm napping" De Blasio. It's not all De Blasio's fault but he and Governor Andrew "I Inherited this job from my father" Cuomo can't play nice and the MTA is run and funded by Albany.
They were both just re-elected because they are doing such a great job.
If you think those two are entertaining, just wait until Alexandria "Just pay for it" Ocasio-Cortez comes to the table with her flavor of financial wizardry.
"...The process described in the patent involves parking the car in the sun, opening the windows slightly, and optionally turning the engine, heater and fan on...A lot of technology is involved in the patent application."
You parked the car in the sun, cracked the windows, and turned on the fan. This is now considered "science" when removing a smell from a car interior? A generation ago we called this common sense.
I guess I'm getting too old for such patented stupidity.
And no, putting this "technology" into an autonomous car doesn't make you a genius. That just makes you greedy because you're going to charge the customer another $2000 for some bullshit feature they never asked for. Also known as 21st Century product design.
My advice? Buy stocks. Because you can't beat 'em and won't leave 'em (en masse) to stand up to this bullshit.
Throwing your support behind the greatest bully "because you can't beat'em" did not work out all that great for Nazi Germany. Stop being part of the problem. It's the least you can do for the world.
Oh Great Moral One, please enlighten me as to your ethically clean and morally sound investment portfolio. I'd love to hear a funny story of ignorance.
Investing is hardly part of the problem. Idiots who stand in line for days waiting to buy a $1000+ smartphone are feeding that problem a hell of a lot more than I ever will. And you will never have enough consumers that get off their ass and take action to stop using or buying products, no matter how badly they're treated. As I said before, they're will always be plenty of demand, and even if there wasn't, mega-corps facing risk of failure would qualify for a Too Big To Fail bailout on the taxpayer dime, thanks to history.
""Why does our company suck at having a moral compass?"
Because Greed N. Corruption is CEO of US Capitalism, and has been for a long time now.
And Facebook is hardly the only one who's morally bankrupt here. All the other mega-corporations do it. They're just not standing in the spotlight, live-streaming their dirty laundry for the world to see right now. Even if they were, they wouldn't care.
The world is so flat right now that all of the mega-corps always have plenty of customers. Corporate Arrogance is the standard by which they act. They're going to do what makes them money, and no longer give a shit about how they treat you or what you want. That is why you repeatedly hear stories about companies doing shit that seems to make little or no sense from a consumer demand standpoint, with the end result being more profit, which is all that matters. This is why you have $1000 smartphones with a ton of bullshit features you never asked for bolted to non-removable shitty batteries. This is why you new cars come with $10,000 worth of shit you don't want, but is now standard. All new computers will soon have soldered memory and storage with no upgrade options. It's become almost impossible to find a new non-Smart TV, and soon will be the case for every appliance in your house.
My advice? Buy stocks. Because you can't beat 'em and won't leave 'em (en masse) to stand up to this bullshit.
The Android platform isn't just about the OS. You also have the bundled apps and the Play store rather than Apple store. Suggesting that the only difference between Apple and Android is iOS vs Linux at the core is either disingenuous or a reflection of a phenomenal level of ignorance.
The statement was directed at "Americans", which 99% of them don't care what mechanisms are behind the curtain that makes their black box of magical apps work. All they care about is if XX app works on my phone, because that's what I use. Bundled apps, default apps, Play store, Apple Store...names are irrelevant from a consumer standpoint because they all do the same damn thing. And the worlds most popular apps are developed for both platforms, which I don't see that changing anytime soon regardless of OS dominance.
If the statement was directed at those who do have legitimate reasons to care (software developers, engineers, etc.) then it would make sense.
He at least KNOWS that he has to ask experts for technical questions. It's the half-knowledge that's most dangerous.
Uh, when you have to ask the experts about everything pertaining to your position, it tends to question the entire point of putting an idiot in charge. Might as well put a 3-year old in the position.
Half-knowledge may be dangerous, but NO knowledge is worthless, and can end up just as being dangerous due to the person being easily manipulated due to sheer ignorance.
"...it's still a rational decision to make Americans use Android. Android is the dominant operating system in many regions outside of the U.S., including South America, Europe, Russia, South Asia, and parts of the Middle East."
I'm not here to get the iNerds and 'Droid Dorks all fired up, I merely question how the hell OS dominance equates to a rational decision to make Americans use a particular smartphone OS. Smartphones have become black box devices that run apps (go ahead, ask an smartphone user to find the "operating system" on their phone), and all smartphones pretty much do the same damn thing. The OS that the consumer can hardly touch is damn near irrelevant.
And where it works outside the U.S. is becoming more and more irrelevant for Americans too. They spent all their travel money on a $1000+ fashion accessory and an unlimited everything plan. They can hardly afford to change their mind, let alone their location.
Surely you can have a dead mans switch wiping the phone. When questioned later, just admit to having such an app. There are many valid reasons for having a phone that auto-wipes. Don't want the abusive husband to find out about her lover, perhaps? Or perhaps she takes naughty pictures of herself, and don't want those to leak out if the phone ever gets stolen or lost?
Clearly you've never dealt with the US legal system. I don't give a shit what "legitimate" reason you have for using a dead mans switch on your phone, I can promise you it WILL be viewed as destruction of evidence, and you WILL be charged for it. Plain and simple.
We really need to figure out a way to secure BGP announcements.
Wrong.
We really need a way to figure out a solution instead of bitching about the same problem for fifteen fucking years.
This is like bitching about WEP security in 2018. We kind of deserve it at this point.
You're free to set up any security policy you like in advance, even a dead man's switch if you want but taking active hostile action against a police investigation is not accepted in any legal system. Now I'm sure the US legal system has a lot of other issues, but I really fail to see how this makes them the bad guy. Not even a little.
Your logic is truly baffling if you think we're "free" to do as we wish here.
In the real word a "dead mans switch" is called Corporate MDM Security Policy which dictates wiping the phone after XX number of failed password attempts. I can see police accidentally or purposely attempting to get into a suspects phone which might trigger such a policy that they would be unaware of. I can also see police failing to "hack" a device resulting in a device wipe, ALL of which would be immediately turned into a charge of destroying evidence, which the suspect would have to spend a shitload of money proving otherwise, even if they had zero culpability. Not exactly a "free" solution by any means.
I'm sorry, but assuming there is a simple answer here is just plain wrong, especially since police have proven time and time again that they are technically incompetent. The only solution I've seen here that might work is a policy that dictates an immediate confiscation of an electronic device from a suspect, and that device placed into a locked box that would require at least two people (3rd party to the police) to open and perform forensic analysis. Any device found wiped or tampered with would automatically launch a full investigation to determine exactly how data was erased and who was responsible.
You're right. The US legal system does have a lot of issues. This is certainly one of them, and they don't have a good solution that actually protects information and avoids false charges.
I worked for a company where a maintenance guy who was closing in on 80 and could have retired at 60 refused to leave and refused to train a successor. "If I train a replacement, I'll get replaced." (False. That would be age discrimination.)
So, what exactly is the excuse that our prominent lawmakers have for continuing to work beyond their mental and physical capacity?
That maintenance guy affected a single company. A lawmaker continuing to work when they shouldn't can affect an entire nation. Due to the funding issues with our Social Security program, we sadly can't afford a forced retirement policy. So, is the answer more mental and physical screenings for those who wish to work well into their golden years? The elderly will hold considerable power, so will this be deemed as some sort of age discrimination too?
I remember when people "expected" an optical drive in their computers, are you still mad at Apple for not including that as standard equipment on their computers? I'm not sure if kids these days even know that a CD or DVD were used in computers, I mean other than to play music and movies on them.
Perhaps you should sit and ponder about this. You might find that you answered your own question.
A top-of-the-line Mac Mini (that still had user-replaceable storage and memory) was barely over $1000 in 2012. A top-of-the-line Mac Mini is now over $4000, and Apple labels this as their "entry-level" model.
That was 4 cores and seven years ago. Also with that money comes a computer with ThunderBolt 3, 10Gb Ethernet, SSD, and far more RAM. Apparently some people believe it's worth the price.
I didn't even bother to include the 10Gb Ethernet option (winner for Most Pointless Feature) when configuring a $4000+ Mac Mini.
Thunderbolt 3 (runner-up for Most Pointless Feature) only impresses people who want to pay an equally asinine price for some peripheral that likely doesn't even justify that proprietary connection. No doubt it can perform. No doubt you're gonna pay a shitload of money to actually use it. It's kind of like arguing about the benefits of a "free" 5th-wheel option on a $50,000 truck; the feature is pointless without attaching something big and expensive to it.
Is 2TB worth of non-removable storage supposed to impress me? I guess for $1400, I should be impressed that consumers can bend over that far.
If you don't like it then don't buy one.
Apple doesn't care what consumers "like", so that's irrelevant. They care about what features and options make them the most money. Those who will actually buy a $4000+ Mac Mini are rare. Those who will actually use a $4000+ Mac Mini are even rarer.
A top-of-the-line Mac Mini is now over $4000, and Apple labels this as their "entry-level" model.
You are being ridiculous. The "top-of-the-line" Mac Mini is so expensive because it can be upgraded to 64 GB Ram / 2TB SSD. Would it make you happier if it could be upgraded to 32GB / 1TB only for much less money? BTW. You can upgrade the RAM yourself, and there are four thunderbolt parts where you can attach the fastest and biggest SSD drives you can find.
Mac Minis are not meant to be massive performance machines regardless of their configuration. The 2018 model is no different than the 2012 model in this regard (other than the now asinine price). A 2TB SSD option for $1400? Is that supposed to impress me in 2018? And a 32GB/1TB configuration is still almost $2000.
Not miles. The only countries still not using the metric system are the USA, Belize, Myanmar and Liberia. Not the United Arab Emirates.
They're surrounded by a metric fuckton of worthless shit.
Better?
Compared to the previous model it seems Apple decided to ditch the 2.5" spinner in an effort to give us removable RAM in the same form factor. Let's face it, Apple was never going to increase the thickness of the Mac Mini to allow for both swappable RAM and storage. They only want to make things smaller and thinner.
Uh, hate to point out the obvious, but the dimensions of the 2018 Mac Mini are exactly the same as the 2012 Mac Mini that held two 2.5" hard drives, and had user-replaceable memory (2 slots).
Quite frankly, I'm shocked to find that the memory can be upgraded, but since they're charging consumers $1400 to max out the memory on this model, that's hardly a concession. 95% of consumers can't even spell RAM let alone know how to replace it, so Apple will continue ripping off consumers for memory upgrades.
We're not in the '90s anymore, big breakthroughs in performance are not going to happen. There is no point in upgrading. We need reliable tools and that's what we, the majority of consumers, want. You nerds can wank off to raspies and other crap kit.
If you truly feel there's "no point" in supporting user-replaceable options, then tell me the fucking point of paying Apple $1400 for 64GB of Apple memory. Or $1400 for a 2TB SSD.
You're right. We're not in the 90's anymore. In the 90's, I didn't have to get a "gig" job just to afford this shit.
And consumers don't give a shit about reliability. If they did, they would demand their most expensive electronic investment (smartphones) have user-replaceable batteries to make them last more than a fucking year or two.
There might be a point to be made regarding the SSD; but aren't we getting a bit ridiculous, expecting a socketed CPU in a computer the size of a ham sandwich?
"Ridiculous" left conversations about Apple hardware long ago. Apple went right past Ludicrous (too "Tesla-y") and went straight to Asinine mode in the last few years, and dismissive attitudes are why we now have soldered CPUs. Soon, people will be dismissing soldered hard drives and memory as "expected", and this mentality will infect every other company selling hardware.
A top-of-the-line Mac Mini (that still had user-replaceable storage and memory) was barely over $1000 in 2012. A top-of-the-line Mac Mini is now over $4000, and Apple labels this as their "entry-level" model. Speaking of memory upgrades, that'll cost you $1400 for 64GB of Apple memory. You've got to be fucking kidding me. If the CPI was tied to this company's profit margins, millionaire would describe poverty.
Not sure what I despise more; Apple's greed, or the consumers who demand it.
Yeah, so it turns out pretty much every noncommercial toilet in America is a joke. The seals fail. They just fail. The huge amount of waste that arises from *having toilets with sucky designs in almost every home in the country* is insane.
The fix is pretty simple: whenever a toilet shows up in a landfill or dumpster, bill the manufacturer.
We don't do that, so every producer has an incentive to make toilets crappy enough that they fail within a few years.
Uh, where exactly are you getting your data that confirms we're throwing away toilets every few years? My last house still had the avocado green and harvest gold toilets installed from the 70's (no, I'm not joking), and my current house still has the original hardware that's almost 20 years old. Yes, internal hardware like the flapper breaks down over time (more likely due to the chlorinated water attacking the rubber material), but you don't rip a toilet out of a house because the guts fail. Every toilet I've replaced has been due to something other than breakage (color, height, shape, water capacity, etc.)
Much like consumer electronics, fashion has put more hardware into landfills than function has.
Personally, I do agree and have a problem with the "disabled, elderly, or traveling" detail, but then I really start to wonder how much of that information you can easily glean elsewhere (VA, AARP, etc.) Ironically, the campaign would have broken the law had they not released this voter information, so perhaps we should get our shit straight when it comes to laws regulating voter information vs. PII.
What really bothers me though is the seemingly instant panic we throw ourselves into because we find data in "aggregate". Having one pound of shit doesn't magically turn into something else when you add another 99 pounds to it, You just have more of the same shit. Before PII, SPI, GDPR, NIST and the other 31 flavors of ice screen started freezing data, do you know what we used to call an aggregate list of names, addresses, and phone numbers?
The White Pages.
Which of course is online now, searchable by anyone, and includes far more detail than we would have ever shoved in a phone book.
And if we're going to use the excuse of criminal efficiency, then I would argue that Home Depot selling shitty door locks and renting moving vans without performing a full criminal background investigation contributes to the "efficiency" of criminals. Besides, peoples own narcissism tends to be their downfall. Criminals define social media as one-stop shopping now.
>> You gonna vote? If you express yourself with words like "gonna", please don't vote.
If you think the target audience is concerned about slang, might I remind you that we now have a full compliment of emojis built into our desktop operating systems.
I want Medicare for All. Saves money, works in every country that tried it and covers everyone. 45,000 Americans die of treatable illnesses every year. I don't want to be one of them.
45,000 you say?
200,000 - 400,000 deaths occur every year in the United States due to medical error. It's considered one of our top leading causes of death now. And we question why people tend to avoid hospitals?
Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it.
I don't know where you got your hard on for "nobody is personally accountable these days and the problem is always that" but it's not emotionally healthy or mature and says a lot more about you than any supposed wisdom you think you might have.
Personal accountability is one of those things that tends to affect a shitload of things in your life, both good and bad. And obesity is overwhelmingly attributed to personal decisions, so my theory is hardly delusional. No it's not "always" that. In this case, it's about 95% that.
That said, perhaps we should look at TFA to see what kind of crisis this actually is:
"...by age 10, children suffering high early exposure were almost 1kg heavier on average than those with low exposure."
Today, over 30% of children aged 2 - 19 are overweight or obese, and that's before you account for a whopping one kilogram difference by age 10 due to bad air.
This is sensationalist reporting at best, and is hardly worth a debate on the importance of personal accountability. And if you truly think that ingraining the importance of personal accountability is somehow unhealthy, take a good hard look at what happens to emotional health and maturity when you absolve kids of it.
My first wish is for you to get back in that bottle. My second is for you to stay there.
Doesn't matter what the third one is - it's as likely to come true as the others.
Didn't you hear? Blockchain will put the genie back in the bottle.
Well, OK, technically it's blockchain with a sprinkling of dark matter blended with the Mandela effect and red-wine vinega...damn, I've said too much.
and eating too much. probably more the fault.
How dare you accuse those who should be! You must be some kind of racist.
Personal accountability was deemed unethical and immoral. Seems it doesn't help move #PerpetualVictims forward towards their special flavor of "progress".
"...the lithium-ion batteries in smartphones are hitting an inflection point where they simply can't keep up."
Lithium-ion performance tends to degrade when processing bullshit features no one asked for, to include Bendgate-grade designs. Perhaps vendors could do us a favor and stop giving us more "innovation".
Of course, that might result in more reliable products that could last longer. Greed N. Corruption won't stand for that shit, and consumers don't care enough to change the inevitable path towards the destruction of ownership. The obvious solution is to rent you shitty hardware instead of improving it.