I have a portable Bluetooth speaker that is on wheels and have a handle like a suitcase that I can take all over the house or tailgating even. That's smart enough for me.
I don't think it's a problem as just because a smart phone has become "good enough" does not mean that there aren't plenty of other things that aren't "good enough" and worth improving upon or that we have invented everything that we need or would like to have.
This is such an American thing to say (disclaimer: I'm American). The problem with American culture is it wants "better stuff" not "better lives". Why "better stuff"? Well for the most part so you can show it off to your friends and say "wowee, don't you wish you could be me? I'm so cool." While you've managed to pull this off and everyone might admire you, you wake up every day thinking "fuck my life". This is why we are working longer hours to buy more stuff that we don't have any time to use. You've been suckered into the American commercialism/materialism trap.
You're only here for a relatively short amount of time. How much stuff do you really need to be content in life? How much time do you need? See, that's the big question. How much is your finite time here worth? What good is having a big house filled with stuff if you're slaving away at a job you hate while your stuff is collecting dust? That's the trap.
What's remarkable to me is that very few Americans ever question it and that's quite disturbing. Fight Club captured the idea quite eloquently in this scene. "The things you own, end up owning you." So chillingly true and yet another sucker falls into it every day and supports the system that mass produces the hand cuffs. I hope one day America wakes up and realizes there's more to life than expensive cars, clothes and gadgets.
Yes, but there comes a point where "good enough" is not worth the cost of improving.
That's precisely my point. Moreover, what happens when the improvement in terms of effect to quality of life is so negligible that you can't formulate a value proposition for a sale? What then? Unemployment line?
I believe the term that you need is "market saturation" of "good enough goods". The new devices promise more CPU and GPU power, but most people including me do not tap that power. It also does not help that recent OS versions have changed graphics, and people do not want to learn old things anew.
According to free market capitalism there is no such thing as "good enough goods". There are supposed to be an infinite amount of innovation of products and services to sell in the market and produce capital. That's the entire underpinning of the entire Capitalist economic system. If we suddenly run out of new products and services to sell because no one desires anything better and everyone is cool with life as-is, the whole market collapses. What do we do then?
So now that you are aware of the great social injustice you are committing by your own extravagant consumption, will you give those things up?
Awwww such an arrogant, narcissistic SJW. Why don't you donate all your worldly positions and move to Africa to help the poor? Oh, won't do that? I guess you're a hypocrite then. All talk and no action like most SJW's. You just want the attention.
Per-capita pollution is the wrong way to measure environmental impact, because my arrogant western exceptionalist ass wants to go on consuming dozens the times the amount of resources as people in other countries
FTFY
You think China cares about the best interest of the world? Russia too? Your hippie idealism is adorable. Let me know where your emerald forest is filled with fairies and unicorns, I'd like to live there too.
The USA used to be that bad. Then we made the EPA, and spent the next 40 years cleaning
I'm glad someone on Slashdot finally admitted that the USA has improved in this regard instead of everyone trying to make it out like the United States is the worst of the pollution offenders. It's China, hands down. Evidence that the USA has improved dramatically over the past 20 years. I'm surprised you didn't get modded down making this factual claim.
Aweeeee... you're such an adorable sociopath with all your insults. How's that superiority complex treating you? Did you get your daily quota of insults to make your fragile ego feel better? Maybe you should call your Mommy?
In 2018? Apples quality control really is on the slide.
Either it can't process the utf8 code or its crashing when it doesn't have the font installed. Either way, these were solved problems 30 years ago, never mind now.
I don't think it was solved 30 years ago. That would have been 1988 when the C64, Apple IIe and Atari 800XL roamed the earth. But it was awhile ago. For the uninitiated, check this out.
No real content and then in an article titled "Windows 10 Is Adding an Ultimate Performance Mode For Pros", we have this paragraph at the bottom as extra filler because there wasn't really any content:
There are additions for people using everyday PCs. Like Samsung, Microsoft is moving toward more familiar emoji. It also helps you search for those emoji in more languages, and provides you more control over file system access for Universal Windows Platform apps. As a rule, though, this preview is aimed at pros who want to see how well a workstation can run when there's nothing holding it back.
These are the five things included in "Infrastructure":
Transportation: roads, bridges, public transit, rail, airports, and maritime and inland waterway ports.
Broadband (and other high-speed data and communication conduits).
Water and Waste: drinking water, wastewater, storm water, land revitalization, and Brownfields.
Power and Electric: governmental generation, transmission, and distribution facilities.
Water Resources: flood risk management, water supply, and waterways.
I'm pretty sure Broadband is the least important of all of these. Also, Google and Verizon are already following out Fiber. It's only a matter of time before we have that.
If you go back far enough into gaming history [back to when Bill Gates was running Microsoft, before Ballmer took over], you would get to a heated competition between two graphics APIs. First, there was OpenGL, the "Open Graphics Library", which is somewhat self-declarative. The other was "DirectX", which was driven and maintained by Microsoft
Let me dust the cob webs off on your post. Your point is not really that important anymore. It was important 5-10 years ago though. The new game in town is DirectX 12 vs. Vulkan. Vulkan is cross-platform but yet we still don't see the games on Linux, why is that? There's no excuse right now based on Graphics API. Vulkan delivers an equivalent or better experience both in terms of fidelity and performance compared to DirectX.
However, if you want to go back in the time machine. Where Microsoft pulled ahead of OpenGL significantly was when programmable pixel shaders were introduced. OpenGL lagged behind on support for that and it made a huge difference in graphics quality in terms of lighting, reflective materials, etc. That's no longer an issue though with Vulkan.
Most games don't natively run on Linux. It's just not taken seriously as a PC gaming platform. PS4 runs Orbis OS, a modified version of FreeBSD but games have to be written specifically for that platform. The problem here is cross-platform and for some reason, at least for PC's, it's preferable to write games for Windows and only in some cases make them compile cross platform to run on Linux. If I remember correctly, some of that has to do with inconsistent drivers and too many distros of Linux. Maybe someone can really shed some light on more specifics about this problem? I've said it a million times, if Ubuntu supported all the software I run on Windows 10, I would ditch Windows without blinking and forget it even existed but something is in the way and has been in the way for a long time. Can someone shed some light on that?
War was actually not as dangerous as you seem to imply. The single biggest killer was disease. Then there is the conflation of casualties with deaths. For example The Battle of Gettysburg which was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War involved 175,000 or more soldiers resulted in around 51,000 casualties. Of those 51,000 casualties there were only 7,863 deaths, the rest were injuries and captured or missing.
Yes, disease was indeed a problem but you are down-playing the amount of killing that has occurred since the dawn of human civilization. Go do some honest research about how many deaths humans have caused over time. World War 2, the Crusades, the countless tribal wars. It's staggering. We actually don't know the exact number but it's very high. I suspect why no one ever attempts to do a tally is because it's avoiding a psychologically uncomfortable truth. We don't like to view ourselves as the aggressive, territorial and violent instinctive species we are. Very few of us have the cognitive capacity for the type of rational self control to completely suppress those urges. Even if the number were as low as you seem to think it is, the idea that no one ever questions whether such behavior is acceptable and just thinks it's a "normal" part of our culture and history is disturbing.
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I have a portable Bluetooth speaker that is on wheels and have a handle like a suitcase that I can take all over the house or tailgating even. That's smart enough for me.
I don't think it's a problem as just because a smart phone has become "good enough" does not mean that there aren't plenty of other things that aren't "good enough" and worth improving upon or that we have invented everything that we need or would like to have.
This is such an American thing to say (disclaimer: I'm American). The problem with American culture is it wants "better stuff" not "better lives". Why "better stuff"? Well for the most part so you can show it off to your friends and say "wowee, don't you wish you could be me? I'm so cool." While you've managed to pull this off and everyone might admire you, you wake up every day thinking "fuck my life". This is why we are working longer hours to buy more stuff that we don't have any time to use. You've been suckered into the American commercialism/materialism trap.
You're only here for a relatively short amount of time. How much stuff do you really need to be content in life? How much time do you need? See, that's the big question. How much is your finite time here worth? What good is having a big house filled with stuff if you're slaving away at a job you hate while your stuff is collecting dust? That's the trap.
What's remarkable to me is that very few Americans ever question it and that's quite disturbing. Fight Club captured the idea quite eloquently in this scene. "The things you own, end up owning you." So chillingly true and yet another sucker falls into it every day and supports the system that mass produces the hand cuffs. I hope one day America wakes up and realizes there's more to life than expensive cars, clothes and gadgets.
What it lacks is adequate talent to deal with the adversaries. That exceptional talent comes with a high price tag. Champagne taste, beer budget.
Yes, but there comes a point where "good enough" is not worth the cost of improving.
That's precisely my point. Moreover, what happens when the improvement in terms of effect to quality of life is so negligible that you can't formulate a value proposition for a sale? What then? Unemployment line?
I believe the term that you need is "market saturation" of "good enough goods". The new devices promise more CPU and GPU power, but most people including me do not tap that power. It also does not help that recent OS versions have changed graphics, and people do not want to learn old things anew.
According to free market capitalism there is no such thing as "good enough goods". There are supposed to be an infinite amount of innovation of products and services to sell in the market and produce capital. That's the entire underpinning of the entire Capitalist economic system. If we suddenly run out of new products and services to sell because no one desires anything better and everyone is cool with life as-is, the whole market collapses. What do we do then?
So now that you are aware of the great social injustice you are committing by your own extravagant consumption, will you give those things up?
Awwww such an arrogant, narcissistic SJW. Why don't you donate all your worldly positions and move to Africa to help the poor? Oh, won't do that? I guess you're a hypocrite then. All talk and no action like most SJW's. You just want the attention.
FTFY
You think China cares about the best interest of the world? Russia too? Your hippie idealism is adorable. Let me know where your emerald forest is filled with fairies and unicorns, I'd like to live there too.
Uh, absolute values, yes. Per-capita values, it's still 2× the amount that China pollutes, from the wikipedia page that you linked.
The Earth doesn't give two shits about per capita, it cares about total pollution. Try again if you really care about the planet.
I think it has more to do with this. I mean we're takling about the APPLE headquarters here. :)
The USA used to be that bad. Then we made the EPA, and spent the next 40 years cleaning
I'm glad someone on Slashdot finally admitted that the USA has improved in this regard instead of everyone trying to make it out like the United States is the worst of the pollution offenders. It's China, hands down. Evidence that the USA has improved dramatically over the past 20 years. I'm surprised you didn't get modded down making this factual claim.
So.. if I take a picture of a billboard sign on a highway and post it to Facebook, is it copyright infringement?
Aweeeee... you're such an adorable sociopath with all your insults. How's that superiority complex treating you? Did you get your daily quota of insults to make your fragile ego feel better? Maybe you should call your Mommy?
In 2018? Apples quality control really is on the slide.
Either it can't process the utf8 code or its crashing when it doesn't have the font installed. Either way, these were solved problems 30 years ago, never mind now.
I don't think it was solved 30 years ago. That would have been 1988 when the C64, Apple IIe and Atari 800XL roamed the earth. But it was awhile ago. For the uninitiated, check this out.
There are all kinds of turbo buttons. What's your point?
Nice try. The turbo button was a way to change the FSB multipler which is a hardware feature not an operating system feature.
If Windows isn't already tuned to give you raw horse power and performance, then switch to Linux based OS.
As soon as Linux runs all the games and apps we know and love, it will be the end of Microsoft.
No it really doesn't. It shipped at about 8-9 and now disables its own bloatware so it can actually go to 10.
There are additions for people using everyday PCs. Like Samsung, Microsoft is moving toward more familiar emoji. It also helps you search for those emoji in more languages, and provides you more control over file system access for Universal Windows Platform apps. As a rule, though, this preview is aimed at pros who want to see how well a workstation can run when there's nothing holding it back.
We sent up an expensive space probe to take a selfie!
Once upon a time there was a plan to build a space elevator. Next project: Space Selfie Stick
As for the "least important" of all five, you're assuming from a state of none of them existing.
Absolutely not and by the way stop asserting you can read my mind:
Transportation Rating: D
Drinking Water Rating: D
Energy Rating: D+
Full Infrastructure Report Card
Next time do 5 minutes of research with Google.
Resources are already pretty good. Repeat for broadband vs. X for the entire list.
See above, the facts disagree with you.
I can finally get parts for my Porsche collection said no Slashdot member ever.
These are the five things included in "Infrastructure":
Transportation: roads, bridges, public transit, rail, airports, and maritime and inland waterway ports.
Broadband (and other high-speed data and communication conduits).
Water and Waste: drinking water, wastewater, storm water, land revitalization, and Brownfields.
Power and Electric: governmental generation, transmission, and distribution facilities.
Water Resources: flood risk management, water supply, and waterways.
I'm pretty sure Broadband is the least important of all of these. Also, Google and Verizon are already following out Fiber. It's only a matter of time before we have that.
If you go back far enough into gaming history [back to when Bill Gates was running Microsoft, before Ballmer took over], you would get to a heated competition between two graphics APIs. First, there was OpenGL, the "Open Graphics Library", which is somewhat self-declarative. The other was "DirectX", which was driven and maintained by Microsoft
Let me dust the cob webs off on your post. Your point is not really that important anymore. It was important 5-10 years ago though. The new game in town is DirectX 12 vs. Vulkan. Vulkan is cross-platform but yet we still don't see the games on Linux, why is that? There's no excuse right now based on Graphics API. Vulkan delivers an equivalent or better experience both in terms of fidelity and performance compared to DirectX.
However, if you want to go back in the time machine. Where Microsoft pulled ahead of OpenGL significantly was when programmable pixel shaders were introduced. OpenGL lagged behind on support for that and it made a huge difference in graphics quality in terms of lighting, reflective materials, etc. That's no longer an issue though with Vulkan.
Most games don't natively run on Linux. It's just not taken seriously as a PC gaming platform. PS4 runs Orbis OS, a modified version of FreeBSD but games have to be written specifically for that platform. The problem here is cross-platform and for some reason, at least for PC's, it's preferable to write games for Windows and only in some cases make them compile cross platform to run on Linux. If I remember correctly, some of that has to do with inconsistent drivers and too many distros of Linux. Maybe someone can really shed some light on more specifics about this problem? I've said it a million times, if Ubuntu supported all the software I run on Windows 10, I would ditch Windows without blinking and forget it even existed but something is in the way and has been in the way for a long time. Can someone shed some light on that?
War was actually not as dangerous as you seem to imply. The single biggest killer was disease. Then there is the conflation of casualties with deaths. For example The Battle of Gettysburg which was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War involved 175,000 or more soldiers resulted in around 51,000 casualties. Of those 51,000 casualties there were only 7,863 deaths, the rest were injuries and captured or missing.
Yes, disease was indeed a problem but you are down-playing the amount of killing that has occurred since the dawn of human civilization. Go do some honest research about how many deaths humans have caused over time. World War 2, the Crusades, the countless tribal wars. It's staggering. We actually don't know the exact number but it's very high. I suspect why no one ever attempts to do a tally is because it's avoiding a psychologically uncomfortable truth. We don't like to view ourselves as the aggressive, territorial and violent instinctive species we are. Very few of us have the cognitive capacity for the type of rational self control to completely suppress those urges. Even if the number were as low as you seem to think it is, the idea that no one ever questions whether such behavior is acceptable and just thinks it's a "normal" part of our culture and history is disturbing.