Please keep us updated, on how Linux does perform on an Envy.
I'm hoping not to have to jump through too many hoops to get it to dual boot. HP is Linux friendly so I'm hopeful. I'll probably install Ubuntu Mate, which is Windows-ish.
Bought an HP Envy. Wouldn't boot straight out of the box, just got a blank screen. Took it back to the store and exchanged it the same day. Next one booted and froze. They brought a third one which seemed to boot fine. Got it home. After running more than 10 mins it overheats and freezes/shuts down. Fuck that, and fuck HP.
I got a new Envy last week, and it has worked flawlessly since purchase. Been powered up a minimum 8 hours a day, and only issue is it's a little heavy - but what do I expect from a metal laptop case reminiscent of the old PowerMac G5's Aircraft Al. But its big and beautiful. If I have to work in Windows world, might as well have pretty toys to do it with. Can hardly wait to install Linux on it.
It's a free country, you want a stylish fashionable
phone/laptop, fine, get one, but I'll stick with the thicker ones that have a larger battery.
(and most times are more dependable/rugged than their thinner counterparts).
Your statement is a little at odds with your title. Why do you get pissed at choices? I'll take a bit thicker of a laptop for extra battery life myself, but some people want thin. Some people want tough, some people want thisorthat. Some of us go batshit crazy over the old school headphone jack, and appear to find it the most important part of their computing experience.
As long as I can find the right laptop for me, it's all good. And if you find one that meets your needs - I'm happy for you. But I'm not sick of any of them, just happy they found what they need.
I've had many USB ports and USB plugs break over the years, but never in my life had headphone jacks or plugs break.
You are remarkably lucky then. I've replaced possibly a hundred of the jacks over the years. And that is just the things that were worth repairing.
This isn't to disavow your experience, but it is pretty obvious that for whatever reasons, the most critical need for you is a old school 1/8" phone plug. No adapter, nothing but the plug jack and nothing else. Well, Jackers have a lot of choices. What do they say about protesting too much?
For the same reason the party of the Christian Right never bothers to push a Christian agenda, even when they control all three houses of the American government.
The biggest reason for not outlawing abortion is that if you did, the social conservatives would lose their biggest outrage point, and would have to fall back on the Starbucks coffee cups to get the base spun up.
Well - that's inspiring,and all - but I don't know what it has to do with the issue at hand.
Not surprised it flew over your head. It means your expectations have no evidence to substantiate they can even exist in reality. If you find that's the case, all time and energy spent pursuing unobtainable conditions or things, is WASTE. However, you're free to waste your life as you see fit.
So what are my expectations, exactly? You're still having a little trouble making yourself clear. The tragedy of the commons, which is what I was writing about, is not some back of the envelope wild-assed guess. It's a well known phenomenon that occurs in a common area with little to no entrance requirement. It is also an old concept, first described in the 1800's. But with unfettered access, the guy who wants to talk about his psychosexual hangups and ridicuale intelligent conversation has the same weight as the world renowned expert in something. The world renowned expert has better things to do than argue with the guy, so he or she goes away. The guy with the projection and behavioral issues wins. The whole group loses.
This is exactly what happened to Usenet, it is exactly what is happening to Facebook right now. The proof is out there, but you'll need to do a little google-fu, maybe hit the books a little.
But then, I kinda suspect that you are more like the person who just wants to fuck with people. Thanks for playing!
Actually the ball is still in your court. You are trying to claim that there is a systematic effort to kill patients on organ donor lists and all you have produced is a two half baked sites that appear to run by pro-life sites that would make Terry Schiavo's relatives wince with their conspiracy mongering. The news article is from 14 years ago, couldn't find anything more relevant?
Your conceding the point is noted. If you can't do anything but deride the source, you have failed. Thanks for playing though - Vanna has your copy of the home Slashdot game for you on your way out.
Not that I think Apple should be held accountable here, but since Apple was the one who patented it, its patent status would not have been an impediment for them to include it.
I'm also pretty certain that implementation of a device that is designed to interfere with a communications device would need to be mandated by law. Looking at th eaten stuff, it looks like it would be a weird combination of motion sensors via GPS, The camera being activated, "seeing" scenery motion, and deducing that the person is TWD'ing from that. Other implementatinos require modifications to the vehicle. Right away, I can defeat the first one by simply putting tape over the lens, or holding the phone below where it can see moving scenery.
So most likely the more active automobile modification is in order. So perhaps the distraught family will need to sue auto makers as well.
We can obviously dump a load of righteous anger at the butt plug who rammed into these people, and sadness for the loss of their little girl. When some metastasis H^H^H^H^HH^H lawyer talks them into a a redonkulous lawsuit like this, it is horrible.
Which by the way, every safety patent that was not implemented could be fertile new work for patent trolls, so they can comb through and try to apply the lack of the patented feature is now th ecause of an accident.
Having a dependency on the Russians for transport to ISS and rocket engines for US military payloads has tied the hands of the US when they really should have taken much more severe economic measures against Russia over the Ukrane.
What does NASA use Russian engines in, other than ULA rockets?
"Parts is parts" is a way of saying "you should only think about economics and technology, and not any of the secondary effects." This often leads to disaster.
I bet there are some industries that the North Koreans are really good at. We have a reason, however, for not giving them lots of dollars to spend on anything they want. The Russians are no different.
Well, tell me why the Russian Engines are not good for use, instead of just telling me I am wrong, because reasons.
You can have $70M of your taxpayer dollars used on his rockets, or you can have $160M of your taxpayer dollars go to Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Your choice.
This is kind of how this is supposed to work. There will always be a place for Government launches, and the place for private launch companies will expand. I cannot understand why so many people cannot understand that, unless they are looking to end rocketry altogether.
One might have more sympathy for ULA once they are capable of flying without Russian engines.
That's a non sequitur. Parts is parts, and the Russkies make superlative engines. You don't have to start all over again for every company. NASA uses Russian engines too.
No. I made a comment that had nothing to do w/ homeschooling, and Gr8Apes came in protesting that there would be no children of Religious people to indoctrinate if those parents are home w/ their kids. I suggested to Gr8Apes that he work on the kids of Libs. Unless they've all been aborted by the Lena Dunham wannabes.
Brilliant! Have you stopped going to your to your KKK meetings? Or quit shoting up abortion Clinics.
Stupid Liberal/Conservative Balls to the walls tar and feathering of everyone is so useful. Makes you look like you can carry on an adult conversation.
none of your citations show clear, institutionalized incentives to harvest prior to death, and the Caulk website is completely biased, site of a grieving mom. no indication that this "anesthetics" discussion occurred. i call fake.
Oh You are fake news, everything is fake news, the fake is a fake.
Now it you wish to sit at the big boy table, instead of contributing to the smelly shithole you and your ilk are trying to fester, allow me to give you a little more.
Really? As an Ayn Rand fan I don't find that at all. The Republicans I meet are not fans of hers - either because they're social conservatives (and she's an atheist who skewers religion) or because they're corporatists or for other reasons.
Paul Ryan says that Rand inspired his political career. Requires his staff to read "Atlas Shrugged"
Rand PauPaul says he is a big Fan of Rand, and has read all her novels.
Ron Johnson a far right Republican, calls "Atlas Shrugged" his foundational book.
Ronald Reagan was a fan, Clarence Thomas makes his new Law Clerks watch the Fountainhead movie
I saved the best for last: Ted Cruz, the dominionist for crissakes, calls Rand "one of my all time heroes"!
There are more. The problem of course, is that they are an example of 0% enlightened, 100% Self interest. Selfish pricks who would kill you for the gold in your teeth and bill your family for the cremation expenses.
But the power of immutable self centeredness that Rand embodies is so powerful for others who give not a fuck about anyone else but their "equals" that they can simultaneously praise her, and overlook her atheism, support for abortion and women's rights and all the other things that you would think would be more a matter of associationn for liberals.
I can handle People like Gary Johnson - I know where he is coming from. But Rand considered a hero by a party that has little in common with her other than selfishness and "don't tell me what to do!" is beneath contempt.
Most are hypocrites - just like liberals who pretend that they think people own their own bodies (abortion) but then are for drug laws, prostitution laws and expand the nanny state so that cops will ticket you for not wearing seat belts or helmets.
"In a shocking statement, Dr. Neil Lazar, Director of the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care unit at Toronto General Hospital, says the focus should be on the well-being of donors rather than whether they are legally dead. That could mean giving anesthetics during organ harvesting.
He and his co-authors, Dr. Maxwell J. Smith of the University of Toronto, and David Rodriguez-Arias of Universidad del Pais Vasco in Spain, advocate replacing the current “dead-donor rule” with a policy that educates the public about the true nature of patients used in transplants, obtain informed consent from everyone — and ensure the donor does not suffer during the organ harvesting. The study was published in the American Journal of Bioethics.
The authors state frankly that under current practices donors may be technically still alive when organs are harvested – a necessary condition to produce healthy, living organs. Because of this, they say that protocol requiring a donor’s death is “dangerously misleading,” and could overlook the well-being of the donor who may still be able to suffer during the harvesting procedure.
All I know is that if I need anesthetics while they are ripping me apart, I might have a few concerns about whether I am dead or not.
At least here in the US, that won't change anything. The unemployed will still happily vote against anything that smacks of "socialism". It's a religion to us here. People here would rather shoot themselves (and their family members) in the head than enroll in social services.
Minor correction. The most "anti-socialist" po folk I know, those who instinctively reach for their rifles when they hear "liberal", are consuming shitloads of social programs, from SS diability to medicaid to WIC to food stamps to free cell phones.
They know they are deserving, and maybe their relatives, but no one else should be getting free shit.
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Please keep us updated, on how Linux does perform on an Envy.
I'm hoping not to have to jump through too many hoops to get it to dual boot. HP is Linux friendly so I'm hopeful. I'll probably install Ubuntu Mate, which is Windows-ish.
So what do you recommend? Which laptop were you able to use for more than 10 mins?
I think AC might be full of shit. My new Envy is a pretty sweet bit of kit, and it stretches credulity that multiple laptops would be duds.
Bought an HP Envy. Wouldn't boot straight out of the box, just got a blank screen. Took it back to the store and exchanged it the same day. Next one booted and froze. They brought a third one which seemed to boot fine. Got it home. After running more than 10 mins it overheats and freezes/shuts down. Fuck that, and fuck HP.
I got a new Envy last week, and it has worked flawlessly since purchase. Been powered up a minimum 8 hours a day, and only issue is it's a little heavy - but what do I expect from a metal laptop case reminiscent of the old PowerMac G5's Aircraft Al. But its big and beautiful. If I have to work in Windows world, might as well have pretty toys to do it with. Can hardly wait to install Linux on it.
It's a free country, you want a stylish fashionable phone/laptop, fine, get one, but I'll stick with the thicker ones that have a larger battery. (and most times are more dependable/rugged than their thinner counterparts).
Your statement is a little at odds with your title. Why do you get pissed at choices? I'll take a bit thicker of a laptop for extra battery life myself, but some people want thin. Some people want tough, some people want thisorthat. Some of us go batshit crazy over the old school headphone jack, and appear to find it the most important part of their computing experience.
As long as I can find the right laptop for me, it's all good. And if you find one that meets your needs - I'm happy for you. But I'm not sick of any of them, just happy they found what they need.
I've had many USB ports and USB plugs break over the years, but never in my life had headphone jacks or plugs break.
You are remarkably lucky then. I've replaced possibly a hundred of the jacks over the years. And that is just the things that were worth repairing.
This isn't to disavow your experience, but it is pretty obvious that for whatever reasons, the most critical need for you is a old school 1/8" phone plug. No adapter, nothing but the plug jack and nothing else. Well, Jackers have a lot of choices. What do they say about protesting too much?
My ethics state it is fine to push my ethics on others.
By telling me not to push my ethics on you, you are actually pushing your ethics on me.
Fundamentalist Christian, right?
Nice try, but your ability to decode marketing shit is weak.
First, the summary actually says enough charge for 5 hours use in 5 minutes, not 7 hours.
Address that, not your non sequitur idle current jeremiad.
Before marking this troll, look at that 7 hour charge in 5 minutes claim.
Mostly I want to go out and kill others. Harvesting their internal organs is just a bonus.
Hey - everyone has to have a hobby.
Detecting if the driver is using face time as opposed to a passenger is almost impossible
There should be a federal law that locks all features on a phone except hands free calls for drivers
Are you a politician? Because that's usually the ones who try to solve "impossible" by making a law.
There should be a law against that.
For the same reason the party of the Christian Right never bothers to push a Christian agenda, even when they control all three houses of the American government.
The biggest reason for not outlawing abortion is that if you did, the social conservatives would lose their biggest outrage point, and would have to fall back on the Starbucks coffee cups to get the base spun up.
Well - that's inspiring,and all - but I don't know what it has to do with the issue at hand.
Not surprised it flew over your head. It means your expectations have no evidence to substantiate they can even exist in reality. If you find that's the case, all time and energy spent pursuing unobtainable conditions or things, is WASTE. However, you're free to waste your life as you see fit.
So what are my expectations, exactly? You're still having a little trouble making yourself clear. The tragedy of the commons, which is what I was writing about, is not some back of the envelope wild-assed guess. It's a well known phenomenon that occurs in a common area with little to no entrance requirement. It is also an old concept, first described in the 1800's. But with unfettered access, the guy who wants to talk about his psychosexual hangups and ridicuale intelligent conversation has the same weight as the world renowned expert in something. The world renowned expert has better things to do than argue with the guy, so he or she goes away. The guy with the projection and behavioral issues wins. The whole group loses.
This is exactly what happened to Usenet, it is exactly what is happening to Facebook right now. The proof is out there, but you'll need to do a little google-fu, maybe hit the books a little.
But then, I kinda suspect that you are more like the person who just wants to fuck with people. Thanks for playing!
Actually the ball is still in your court. You are trying to claim that there is a systematic effort to kill patients on organ donor lists and all you have produced is a two half baked sites that appear to run by pro-life sites that would make Terry Schiavo's relatives wince with their conspiracy mongering. The news article is from 14 years ago, couldn't find anything more relevant? Your conceding the point is noted. If you can't do anything but deride the source, you have failed. Thanks for playing though - Vanna has your copy of the home Slashdot game for you on your way out.
Money is worthless if you can't spend it, and killing lots of people means less people to buy stuff from you or pay rent.
You aren't wrong.
Not that I think Apple should be held accountable here, but since Apple was the one who patented it, its patent status would not have been an impediment for them to include it.
I'm also pretty certain that implementation of a device that is designed to interfere with a communications device would need to be mandated by law. Looking at th eaten stuff, it looks like it would be a weird combination of motion sensors via GPS, The camera being activated, "seeing" scenery motion, and deducing that the person is TWD'ing from that. Other implementatinos require modifications to the vehicle. Right away, I can defeat the first one by simply putting tape over the lens, or holding the phone below where it can see moving scenery.
So most likely the more active automobile modification is in order. So perhaps the distraught family will need to sue auto makers as well.
We can obviously dump a load of righteous anger at the butt plug who rammed into these people, and sadness for the loss of their little girl. When some metastasis H^H^H^H^HH^H lawyer talks them into a a redonkulous lawsuit like this, it is horrible.
Which by the way, every safety patent that was not implemented could be fertile new work for patent trolls, so they can comb through and try to apply the lack of the patented feature is now th ecause of an accident.
Having a dependency on the Russians for transport to ISS and rocket engines for US military payloads has tied the hands of the US when they really should have taken much more severe economic measures against Russia over the Ukrane.
Life in a world of globalization.
What does NASA use Russian engines in, other than ULA rockets?
"Parts is parts" is a way of saying "you should only think about economics and technology, and not any of the secondary effects." This often leads to disaster.
I bet there are some industries that the North Koreans are really good at. We have a reason, however, for not giving them lots of dollars to spend on anything they want. The Russians are no different.
Well, tell me why the Russian Engines are not good for use, instead of just telling me I am wrong, because reasons.
You can have $70M of your taxpayer dollars used on his rockets, or you can have $160M of your taxpayer dollars go to Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Your choice.
This is kind of how this is supposed to work. There will always be a place for Government launches, and the place for private launch companies will expand. I cannot understand why so many people cannot understand that, unless they are looking to end rocketry altogether.
One might have more sympathy for ULA once they are capable of flying without Russian engines.
That's a non sequitur. Parts is parts, and the Russkies make superlative engines. You don't have to start all over again for every company. NASA uses Russian engines too.
No. I made a comment that had nothing to do w/ homeschooling, and Gr8Apes came in protesting that there would be no children of Religious people to indoctrinate if those parents are home w/ their kids. I suggested to Gr8Apes that he work on the kids of Libs. Unless they've all been aborted by the Lena Dunham wannabes.
Brilliant! Have you stopped going to your to your KKK meetings? Or quit shoting up abortion Clinics.
Stupid Liberal/Conservative Balls to the walls tar and feathering of everyone is so useful. Makes you look like you can carry on an adult conversation.
none of your citations show clear, institutionalized incentives to harvest prior to death, and the Caulk website is completely biased, site of a grieving mom. no indication that this "anesthetics" discussion occurred. i call fake.
Oh You are fake news, everything is fake news, the fake is a fake.
Now it you wish to sit at the big boy table, instead of contributing to the smelly shithole you and your ilk are trying to fester, allow me to give you a little more.
http://news.nationalpost.com/n...
http://www.organfacts.net/news... https://www.lifesitenews.com/n...
Now you silly fake news child
Prove
Me
Wrong.
I gav the citations, now you can prove them wrong, so the balls in your court, or I just call ya a denier. I'll wait.
Really? As an Ayn Rand fan I don't find that at all. The Republicans I meet are not fans of hers - either because they're social conservatives (and she's an atheist who skewers religion) or because they're corporatists or for other reasons.
Paul Ryan says that Rand inspired his political career. Requires his staff to read "Atlas Shrugged"
Rand PauPaul says he is a big Fan of Rand, and has read all her novels.
Ron Johnson a far right Republican, calls "Atlas Shrugged" his foundational book.
Ronald Reagan was a fan, Clarence Thomas makes his new Law Clerks watch the Fountainhead movie
I saved the best for last: Ted Cruz, the dominionist for crissakes, calls Rand "one of my all time heroes"!
There are more. The problem of course, is that they are an example of 0% enlightened, 100% Self interest. Selfish pricks who would kill you for the gold in your teeth and bill your family for the cremation expenses.
But the power of immutable self centeredness that Rand embodies is so powerful for others who give not a fuck about anyone else but their "equals" that they can simultaneously praise her, and overlook her atheism, support for abortion and women's rights and all the other things that you would think would be more a matter of associationn for liberals.
I can handle People like Gary Johnson - I know where he is coming from. But Rand considered a hero by a party that has little in common with her other than selfishness and "don't tell me what to do!" is beneath contempt. Most are hypocrites - just like liberals who pretend that they think people own their own bodies (abortion) but then are for drug laws, prostitution laws and expand the nanny state so that cops will ticket you for not wearing seat belts or helmets.
I'd rather them not turn me off prematurely just so they can steal my organs, thanks.
Cases in point: http://legalpublication.blogsp...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/or...
And here's the icing on the cake: http://www.melissacaulk.com/th...
I'll just leave this here form the article:
"In a shocking statement, Dr. Neil Lazar, Director of the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care unit at Toronto General Hospital, says the focus should be on the well-being of donors rather than whether they are legally dead. That could mean giving anesthetics during organ harvesting.
He and his co-authors, Dr. Maxwell J. Smith of the University of Toronto, and David Rodriguez-Arias of Universidad del Pais Vasco in Spain, advocate replacing the current “dead-donor rule” with a policy that educates the public about the true nature of patients used in transplants, obtain informed consent from everyone — and ensure the donor does not suffer during the organ harvesting. The study was published in the American Journal of Bioethics.
The authors state frankly that under current practices donors may be technically still alive when organs are harvested – a necessary condition to produce healthy, living organs. Because of this, they say that protocol requiring a donor’s death is “dangerously misleading,” and could overlook the well-being of the donor who may still be able to suffer during the harvesting procedure.
All I know is that if I need anesthetics while they are ripping me apart, I might have a few concerns about whether I am dead or not.
At least here in the US, that won't change anything. The unemployed will still happily vote against anything that smacks of "socialism". It's a religion to us here. People here would rather shoot themselves (and their family members) in the head than enroll in social services.
Minor correction. The most "anti-socialist" po folk I know, those who instinctively reach for their rifles when they hear "liberal", are consuming shitloads of social programs, from SS diability to medicaid to WIC to food stamps to free cell phones.
They know they are deserving, and maybe their relatives, but no one else should be getting free shit.