Not over priced for the professional, what my employer pays for my MacBook pro is negligible compared to their cost for say my insurance or what I'm allowed to spend on training or for that matter the software...just doesn't matter
Yes. You and I are talking about getting a proficient machine to do professional work on, and Homer is comparing it to a cheap one he uses to surf porn. My professional level Windows machine's price is right in the same ballpark as my Mac, which said Mac has software that doesn't exist on the Windows machine.
Some may argue against it, but cost of a Windows PC is a fraction of that for a Mac.
Especially when you buy a cheap PC and a Mac Pro.
IOW Bullshit, for your meme. I have two similar performing devices, an IMac and a good laptop. They are in th esame price range, the PC being 9/10's of the price of the Mac. Insignificant. But yea, I suppose that is a fraction - just not the fraction you meant.
That's why Windows is suffering, because it is not as good at being commercial as the Mac is, and it's not as good as being technically rich as Linux is.
It's far better at hosting games than anything. There really isn't even any competition in this regard.
How do I change hardware on a Chrome OS system? What about games? ChromeOS is fine as long as you can do things in a browser, which by itself is already a huge limitation.
Here's the thing. Most of the world doesn't care about new hardware on a Chrome system. If you are required by work or some other reason to play Windows only games, well then you accept th epiece of shit that Windows ten is. I have one program tht I have to use that is Windows 10 only, and I spend 99 percent of my maintenance time keeping the piece of shit OS working. Any games I want to play I can play on the Mac as well. This is more like a "sucks to be you" moment than a "Windows 10 is awesome" moment I have Chrome, Linux, MacOS and Windows. All except Windows are pretty bulletproof
Or in other words, Microsoft is firmly wedded to the concept of you putting up with whatever shit they want you to consume.
but for now, call it something like "Lane Keeping Assist" and eliminate the headlines "Driver killed while Tesla Autopilot Active".
We are talking about Tesla. Detractors will seize on whatever they can seize on, so the headlines won't go away. Remember the hue and cry when one Tesla caught fire? You would have thought that Musk was hiding a body in the trunk of every Tesla.
Meanwhile Legacy vehicles catch fire every day.
So these stories will not stop, and even a fake positive like this one is seized upon.
The problem is due to the vendor's failure to provide proper drivers in a timely manner. This sounds like it's a blatant attempt to capitalize on many people's hatred for Windows 10 by blaming Microsoft for Intel's (or Asus'?) problem.
Some computer OS providers write their own drivers. Just sayin,
Microsoft's demand that other's write drivers is part of the reason for the hate. That has not changed.
To the point where the Windows ecosystem is now inferior. I had some dual boot system setups that needed a USB to serial adapter. In Linux, they set up perfectly. Windows? Nope. No driver, and none would be available. Had to purchase ones that had the driver. So I tried the adapters on an OSX system. Worked perfectly.
I still say the problem is student loans are even a thing. College costs so much because the have a starry eyed clientele that is by and large unfamiliar with the amount of money involved.
Certainly the structure of the loans need addressed. A student loan should be a loan for books and tuition, and nothing else.
But how did we get here? Even back in the 1970's, there was a obsessive effort to get students and their parents in line with the concept of you were academic and going to college, or you were a piece of shit.
The ever practical but annoying shit that I am, in High School, I took both Academic major and Vocational Electronics. This got me several visits with the counselors and even a long visit with the school principle to dissuade me because I would be thought of as stupid. That's the background.
Over the years, it only got worse. As brainwashed parents and their brainwashed larvae were willing to pay anything for a college education and degree, the schools took advantage of the simple supply and demand that they continually raised tuition, far beyond the inflation rate. Then they started the management game. When I started, we had two accountants. When I retired, we had buildings of them, and accountants and managers far outnumbered the researchers and academics.
Meanwhile the debt piled up on the Students.
With state subsidies going away, the universities just got rid of some of the lowlies and hired a few more managers and upped the tuition some more. So here we are, and how to fix it without making a hellava mess is not terribly apparent.
Many may have never even had a sum on the same order of magnitude their total debt will be when they finish school if they take the loan.
It is a pity that students aren't taught basic money handling skills in middle through high school. I suspect the Universities would oppose that, because the math is simple and compelling. The loan cost, plus the prospects of employment in your "field", shows that few majors will allow you to pay off your debt.
If we stopped doing federal loans, and removed the bankruptcy protections, these collateralized loans would mostly disappear form the market place.
Exactly THIS! It would be seriously opposed by the Universities, but that's just proof it is on point.
Two things would happen, collage would get cheaper, and focus on core objectives.
It would certainly make things interesting for a while. The question is what to do with all of those middle managers and accountants.
But their house of cards is all built on the idea that a philosophy major is as important as a chemical engineer. That a gender studies degree is as important as an MBA.
Because at present, a person can get a loan and build up 100 K or more of debt, and upon graduation, is not looking at employment opportunities that will allow them to realistically be able to repay the loan. Its simple math.
So while it is nice to have majors like English, philosophy and gender studies, the idea those are not fields that have a post-graduate employment system other than new professors at the university, and with hundreds of students looking at 2 or 3 jobs, the math likewise doesn't work.
I'd even suggest cutting back on student loans for majors that only prepare you to work at McDonald's.
That wasn't trickle down, that was banking deregulation and mortgage backed securities..
Trickle down never fails. We should follow it to it's obvious conclusion and have only one person in the USA having all of the money - then we'll all have jobs and work for free and be rich.
Are we talking about the same "Trickle Down" that ended in the greatest recession in the history of the country? The one that needed major bail outs to the auto, finance, and banking industries? The one that still dropped like a stone even after the use once every 50 years foreign income tax credit that brought all that stashed foreign cash in?
Yeah. sycodon is reciting alternate fact history. He probably thinks that Germany is sunnier than the USA too, if ya know what I mean.
How much does it cost to change the batteries in a Tesla?
Ah, Captain non-sequitur!
If you are somehow bringin up the battey replacement cost of a Tesla and think that it has anything to do with this subject - seriously, I want you to put together the exact reason why this bizzare riposte is relevant.
But I have things to do tonight, and the rest of your post was silly, so give me numbers. My research on the subsidies is out here on Slashdot, and you can search - I'm not going to do it all over again for someone that posts Mitch McConnell talking points.
Meanwhile, thanks for playing.
Big Oil Subsidies? And what exactly ARE those? I'm tired of hearing this lie...
Explain how the dollars of a tax break are different than a subsidy. You can call it a lie all you want, but it's money they wouldn't have otherwise, and the stakeholders are serviced with it, just the same as if the money was given to them in a check written by the government you hate.
The lie is that there is somehow this certain money that isn't actual money, and that money which is really really money.
Because powering my home is the same thing as powering a city.
GTFO
Okay. Tell me why the battery leveling system in Los Angelous won't work. All of the basics are right there. Its real and its happening.
Things like syncing the AC, and all of the other aspects are right there. The only thing different is the production of th eAlternating current from the Batteries, and getting the charging current to them. It's all been done already. And as engineering goes, it isn't terribly complex.
If you took $250 million from each Billionaire jetting around the world talking about Global Warming, they could probably build a demonstration plant that could run Vegas or Tuscon.
Do that, prove it works, then come to the taxpayers.
Hopefully it will work as well as No Child Left Behind, Trickle Down Economics, and abstinence based sex education.
Tell me though - exactly what is the show stopper you envision that makes you think this won't work? The concept to me at least is so simple that the only thing left is the scaling.
The fact that he is wanting other people to pay for it first demonstrates his lack of faith in his vision.
Yes, because vision doesn't accept tax dollars? I'm not certain of your point? Even Oil and Gas get subsidies or tax breaks.
But more to the point is that you aren't going to power the whole country from a corner of Nevada, you are going to need many places. generating power. It's because of that Ohm's law that deniers want to have a vote and repeal. (that's a carryover joke from annother thread)
Unfortunately, for most of humanity, including basically all politicians and their fans, that is completely true. Only a small part of the human race qualifies as rational and these people do not seek power.
Next up? We need to have a vote on Ohm's law! All resistance must be eliminated!
Took out the camera and headed off to some of the overlooks in the mountains near me. No luck, as it was cloudy to the north, and a little hazy as well. Directly overhead was nice and clear.
Chatted with a couple guys who were out trying to see the lights as well. Drove on through the woods Found a man and woman at a south looking overlook, standing outside a pickup truck. I slowed down to tell them they were looking the wrong way, but they weren't interested in talking, or her even looking. Drove a little farther and saw why. Her car was parked a little further up the road. I had stumbled upon an affair. Oops! Never know what you are going to see in the mountains at midnight.
Anyone who thought my post was offtopic needs to read it again - if they dare. Renewables are connected with climate change, and the opposition to them is both anti-science and denialism. But it's the same attitude - denialists think that they can change the laws of physics with their opinion. I understand that the House of REpresentatives has come up with a way to create superconductors by having a vote to repeal Ohm's Law.
I'm hardly a Republican, but there is a huge problem at Universities in the USA.
Perhaps a result of third wave feminism, plus the desire for safe spaces where no other opinion is allowed, and the helicoptering parentage has turned Universities into what might best be described as a looney bin. This is coming from a person who spent a career there.
This does not negate the value of an education, in fact, an education where you are prepared for a career, while being exposed to a multitude of opinions, and with critical thinking being exercised is an excellent thing, very critical IMO.
But Universities have morphed into something else. In general, there are a lot more women now attending college then men.http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/06/womens-college-enrollment-gains-leave-men-behind/
This is not limited to America https://www.theguardian.com/ed.... The Guardian briefly and dangerously touches on the idea that it might be cultural.
The that's racist-that's-sexist-that's prejudiced crowd has managed to get comedians JerrySeinfeld, Chris Rock and Larry the cable guy to agree on something, no small feat. But they won't play campuses because of the hostile environment of people who cannot abide by any opinion but their own.
So while I don't ascribe to the Republicans personal vendetta against Universities, they are not incorrect. Universities have a huge problem. I would recommend anyone - male of female - looking for a college education to get it through an online institution, and avoid the cesspool that Universities have become. Which is a whacky tyranny of the left, which is as onerous as the whacky tyranny of the right.
Honestly, I have no idea which way it will go, but it seems like an experiment worth trying. Even without the laser-firing robots.
It's pretty much a self limiting experiment. Sterility in one area won't affect the whole world, and if people want to re-introduce the little buggers they can.
What so many people don't understand is that many places would be just about unlivable without control methods. The nice thing about this control method is that it doesn't involve neurotoxins.
Hopefully this will work out and they can extend this sort of eradication to ticks. For my money they are worse than mosquitoes. In my area we had a real bad tick problem a few years ago. Something had decimated the mouse population, and the ticks turned to humans to get their blood meals.
The concerns are the effect on the possum population, who feed on ticks - maybe an alternative control program there? Anyhow, I for one welcome the experiment.
Normally, Slashdot would be all up in arms about even "anonymized" metadata that might get put out by some outfit, screaming about the American three letter agencies or Google. I share some of that concern.
What occurs in a story about direct publishing of names and other actual personal info?
Deflection, and every attempt to change the subject you can imagine. This is an interesting trend we have here. The amount of deflection is ramped up with the provable veracity of the story. This is not consistent with the meme of the intrepid and privacy focused Slashdot user. It is consistent with some other online trends.
If you are outraged now, but were not last year, then your outrage is dishonest political spectacle.
Dammit Boris, Your post was too many levels of deflection. No rubles for you until you post better. Get back to work and do better work for the motherland.
Drooling SJw globalist bullshit. Warmists never win! You ought to have your tongue cut-out and served at Seattle Pike Place Market along with catfish and raw perch-roe.
Oh, such internet muscles. Come back when you can talk with the adults.
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Not over priced for the professional, what my employer pays for my MacBook pro is negligible compared to their cost for say my insurance or what I'm allowed to spend on training or for that matter the software...just doesn't matter
Yes. You and I are talking about getting a proficient machine to do professional work on, and Homer is comparing it to a cheap one he uses to surf porn. My professional level Windows machine's price is right in the same ballpark as my Mac, which said Mac has software that doesn't exist on the Windows machine.
Some may argue against it, but cost of a Windows PC is a fraction of that for a Mac.
Especially when you buy a cheap PC and a Mac Pro.
IOW Bullshit, for your meme. I have two similar performing devices, an IMac and a good laptop. They are in th esame price range, the PC being 9/10's of the price of the Mac. Insignificant. But yea, I suppose that is a fraction - just not the fraction you meant.
That's why Windows is suffering, because it is not as good at being commercial as the Mac is, and it's not as good as being technically rich as Linux is.
It's far better at hosting games than anything. There really isn't even any competition in this regard.
Wow. That's great - Congratulations!
How do I change hardware on a Chrome OS system? What about games? ChromeOS is fine as long as you can do things in a browser, which by itself is already a huge limitation.
Here's the thing. Most of the world doesn't care about new hardware on a Chrome system. If you are required by work or some other reason to play Windows only games, well then you accept th epiece of shit that Windows ten is. I have one program tht I have to use that is Windows 10 only, and I spend 99 percent of my maintenance time keeping the piece of shit OS working. Any games I want to play I can play on the Mac as well. This is more like a "sucks to be you" moment than a "Windows 10 is awesome" moment I have Chrome, Linux, MacOS and Windows. All except Windows are pretty bulletproof
Or in other words, Microsoft is firmly wedded to the concept of you putting up with whatever shit they want you to consume.
but for now, call it something like "Lane Keeping Assist" and eliminate the headlines "Driver killed while Tesla Autopilot Active".
We are talking about Tesla. Detractors will seize on whatever they can seize on, so the headlines won't go away. Remember the hue and cry when one Tesla caught fire? You would have thought that Musk was hiding a body in the trunk of every Tesla.
Meanwhile Legacy vehicles catch fire every day.
So these stories will not stop, and even a fake positive like this one is seized upon.
The problem is due to the vendor's failure to provide proper drivers in a timely manner. This sounds like it's a blatant attempt to capitalize on many people's hatred for Windows 10 by blaming Microsoft for Intel's (or Asus'?) problem.
Some computer OS providers write their own drivers. Just sayin,
Microsoft's demand that other's write drivers is part of the reason for the hate. That has not changed.
To the point where the Windows ecosystem is now inferior. I had some dual boot system setups that needed a USB to serial adapter. In Linux, they set up perfectly. Windows? Nope. No driver, and none would be available. Had to purchase ones that had the driver. So I tried the adapters on an OSX system. Worked perfectly.
The hate is well and truly earned.
I still say the problem is student loans are even a thing. College costs so much because the have a starry eyed clientele that is by and large unfamiliar with the amount of money involved.
Certainly the structure of the loans need addressed. A student loan should be a loan for books and tuition, and nothing else.
But how did we get here? Even back in the 1970's, there was a obsessive effort to get students and their parents in line with the concept of you were academic and going to college, or you were a piece of shit.
The ever practical but annoying shit that I am, in High School, I took both Academic major and Vocational Electronics. This got me several visits with the counselors and even a long visit with the school principle to dissuade me because I would be thought of as stupid. That's the background.
Over the years, it only got worse. As brainwashed parents and their brainwashed larvae were willing to pay anything for a college education and degree, the schools took advantage of the simple supply and demand that they continually raised tuition, far beyond the inflation rate. Then they started the management game. When I started, we had two accountants. When I retired, we had buildings of them, and accountants and managers far outnumbered the researchers and academics.
Meanwhile the debt piled up on the Students.
With state subsidies going away, the universities just got rid of some of the lowlies and hired a few more managers and upped the tuition some more. So here we are, and how to fix it without making a hellava mess is not terribly apparent.
Many may have never even had a sum on the same order of magnitude their total debt will be when they finish school if they take the loan.
It is a pity that students aren't taught basic money handling skills in middle through high school. I suspect the Universities would oppose that, because the math is simple and compelling. The loan cost, plus the prospects of employment in your "field", shows that few majors will allow you to pay off your debt.
If we stopped doing federal loans, and removed the bankruptcy protections, these collateralized loans would mostly disappear form the market place.
Exactly THIS! It would be seriously opposed by the Universities, but that's just proof it is on point.
Two things would happen, collage would get cheaper, and focus on core objectives.
It would certainly make things interesting for a while. The question is what to do with all of those middle managers and accountants.
But their house of cards is all built on the idea that a philosophy major is as important as a chemical engineer. That a gender studies degree is as important as an MBA.
Because at present, a person can get a loan and build up 100 K or more of debt, and upon graduation, is not looking at employment opportunities that will allow them to realistically be able to repay the loan. Its simple math.
So while it is nice to have majors like English, philosophy and gender studies, the idea those are not fields that have a post-graduate employment system other than new professors at the university, and with hundreds of students looking at 2 or 3 jobs, the math likewise doesn't work.
I'd even suggest cutting back on student loans for majors that only prepare you to work at McDonald's.
That wasn't trickle down, that was banking deregulation and mortgage backed securities..
Trickle down never fails. We should follow it to it's obvious conclusion and have only one person in the USA having all of the money - then we'll all have jobs and work for free and be rich.
Are we talking about the same "Trickle Down" that ended in the greatest recession in the history of the country? The one that needed major bail outs to the auto, finance, and banking industries? The one that still dropped like a stone even after the use once every 50 years foreign income tax credit that brought all that stashed foreign cash in?
Yeah. sycodon is reciting alternate fact history. He probably thinks that Germany is sunnier than the USA too, if ya know what I mean.
How much does it cost to change the batteries in a Tesla?
Ah, Captain non-sequitur!
If you are somehow bringin up the battey replacement cost of a Tesla and think that it has anything to do with this subject - seriously, I want you to put together the exact reason why this bizzare riposte is relevant. But I have things to do tonight, and the rest of your post was silly, so give me numbers. My research on the subsidies is out here on Slashdot, and you can search - I'm not going to do it all over again for someone that posts Mitch McConnell talking points. Meanwhile, thanks for playing.
Big Oil Subsidies? And what exactly ARE those? I'm tired of hearing this lie...
Explain how the dollars of a tax break are different than a subsidy. You can call it a lie all you want, but it's money they wouldn't have otherwise, and the stakeholders are serviced with it, just the same as if the money was given to them in a check written by the government you hate.
The lie is that there is somehow this certain money that isn't actual money, and that money which is really really money.
Its money all the way down.
Because powering my home is the same thing as powering a city.
GTFO
Okay. Tell me why the battery leveling system in Los Angelous won't work. All of the basics are right there. Its real and its happening.
Things like syncing the AC, and all of the other aspects are right there. The only thing different is the production of th eAlternating current from the Batteries, and getting the charging current to them. It's all been done already. And as engineering goes, it isn't terribly complex.
How about instead of waiting on Elon to save your ass, you do it yourself?
His plan is to be raptured.
If you took $250 million from each Billionaire jetting around the world talking about Global Warming, they could probably build a demonstration plant that could run Vegas or Tuscon.
Do that, prove it works, then come to the taxpayers.
Hopefully it will work as well as No Child Left Behind, Trickle Down Economics, and abstinence based sex education. Tell me though - exactly what is the show stopper you envision that makes you think this won't work? The concept to me at least is so simple that the only thing left is the scaling.
The fact that he is wanting other people to pay for it first demonstrates his lack of faith in his vision.
Yes, because vision doesn't accept tax dollars? I'm not certain of your point? Even Oil and Gas get subsidies or tax breaks.
But more to the point is that you aren't going to power the whole country from a corner of Nevada, you are going to need many places. generating power. It's because of that Ohm's law that deniers want to have a vote and repeal. (that's a carryover joke from annother thread)
Unfortunately, for most of humanity, including basically all politicians and their fans, that is completely true. Only a small part of the human race qualifies as rational and these people do not seek power.
Next up? We need to have a vote on Ohm's law! All resistance must be eliminated!
Chatted with a couple guys who were out trying to see the lights as well. Drove on through the woods Found a man and woman at a south looking overlook, standing outside a pickup truck. I slowed down to tell them they were looking the wrong way, but they weren't interested in talking, or her even looking. Drove a little farther and saw why. Her car was parked a little further up the road. I had stumbled upon an affair. Oops! Never know what you are going to see in the mountains at midnight.
Anyone who thought my post was offtopic needs to read it again - if they dare. Renewables are connected with climate change, and the opposition to them is both anti-science and denialism. But it's the same attitude - denialists think that they can change the laws of physics with their opinion. I understand that the House of REpresentatives has come up with a way to create superconductors by having a vote to repeal Ohm's Law.
Perhaps a result of third wave feminism, plus the desire for safe spaces where no other opinion is allowed, and the helicoptering parentage has turned Universities into what might best be described as a looney bin. This is coming from a person who spent a career there.
This does not negate the value of an education, in fact, an education where you are prepared for a career, while being exposed to a multitude of opinions, and with critical thinking being exercised is an excellent thing, very critical IMO.
But Universities have morphed into something else. In general, there are a lot more women now attending college then men.http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/06/womens-college-enrollment-gains-leave-men-behind/
This is not limited to America https://www.theguardian.com/ed.... The Guardian briefly and dangerously touches on the idea that it might be cultural.
Dr Helen Smith gives a veiewpoint http://www.educationviews.org/...
The that's racist-that's-sexist-that's prejudiced crowd has managed to get comedians JerrySeinfeld, Chris Rock and Larry the cable guy to agree on something, no small feat. But they won't play campuses because of the hostile environment of people who cannot abide by any opinion but their own.
So while I don't ascribe to the Republicans personal vendetta against Universities, they are not incorrect. Universities have a huge problem. I would recommend anyone - male of female - looking for a college education to get it through an online institution, and avoid the cesspool that Universities have become. Which is a whacky tyranny of the left, which is as onerous as the whacky tyranny of the right.
Honestly, I have no idea which way it will go, but it seems like an experiment worth trying. Even without the laser-firing robots.
It's pretty much a self limiting experiment. Sterility in one area won't affect the whole world, and if people want to re-introduce the little buggers they can.
What so many people don't understand is that many places would be just about unlivable without control methods. The nice thing about this control method is that it doesn't involve neurotoxins.
Hopefully this will work out and they can extend this sort of eradication to ticks. For my money they are worse than mosquitoes. In my area we had a real bad tick problem a few years ago. Something had decimated the mouse population, and the ticks turned to humans to get their blood meals.
The concerns are the effect on the possum population, who feed on ticks - maybe an alternative control program there? Anyhow, I for one welcome the experiment.
It is also a non-native species which got here once, why would it not just get here again?
The TSA will keep them out this time.
What occurs in a story about direct publishing of names and other actual personal info?
Deflection, and every attempt to change the subject you can imagine. This is an interesting trend we have here. The amount of deflection is ramped up with the provable veracity of the story. This is not consistent with the meme of the intrepid and privacy focused Slashdot user. It is consistent with some other online trends.
If you are outraged now, but were not last year, then your outrage is dishonest political spectacle.
Dammit Boris, Your post was too many levels of deflection. No rubles for you until you post better. Get back to work and do better work for the motherland.
..to not give a fuck about your privacy.
Nice deflection Kellyanne!
Drooling SJw globalist bullshit. Warmists never win! You ought to have your tongue cut-out and served at Seattle Pike Place Market along with catfish and raw perch-roe.
Oh, such internet muscles. Come back when you can talk with the adults.