I don't understand what all this hate is about commercials. Without them, I'd never have seen the Geiko Gekko story. And they brought back the Caveman episodes, gloriously spread across my 72" screen!
Regards,
your local insurance salesman
Don't forget catheter ads for men, and the sexualized adult diapers for women.
Or the mesothelioma lawyer fishing expeditions. Maybe if the ads weren't tending toward so damn gross?
It would help if updating was easier. I keep meaning to try Chocolatey or another package manager to make the process easier. The effort of downloading and installing/extracting VLC every time they release an update is too great for me to bother.
As well, many updates don't work as well as what they replace.
Fortunately, the idiots from CA are buying these 1,500 sq ft homes in Central Austin for $500k
I live outside Austin in a 2,400 sq ft home on 1/4 acre, valued at $300k (3x purchase price).
Seems the idiots are staying close to the other idiots and not migrating out to where the normal people are.
That's how it starts. We had a lot of people moving to a rural community about 20 miles out of town. Got the real estate prices jacked up, got themselves elected to the school board, and have pretty much taken over from the farmers. Good luck. Money speaks.
A lot of these Cali transplants bought big McMansions, while I bought my house as a single story. Now that they are aged quite a bit, the McMansion isn't so appealing.
Doesn't the reduced appeal and demand for those homes on the current market cause them to drop in value compared to the rest of the market then?
Oh hell yeah. Some of these people are losing their butts, because at their age - mid 70's early 80's - they want a single story house. But especially since a lot of the people who can afford to buy housing don't want McMansions. They want single stories now.
In addition, snowstorms show that the McMansions are constructed without much insulation. They have nice pristine roofs from all the heat escaping as they warm the neighborhood.
So the combination of not being allowed to build single story homes, and the demand for them might push my house toward a million here soon. In that case I'll sell it and move to a less expensive area, and keep 500 K of the money.
You mean by screaming "Impeach the motherfucker" to a crowd of cheering plebes? That kind of demagoguery?
Is your command of language exposing you as working for the Kremlin? What you are describing is in no way shape or form a demagogue. It doesn't even make sense.
For a site, that is suppose to cover science and technology news, there is a heck of a lot of posts of people just coming up with reasons out of the blue, on why it will fail miserably. While Scientific reporting is general really bad, but there are a lot of things that are worth a shot to try. Especially, if a success could be beneficial.
I dunno if a lot of people have aged into curmudgeon-land, but I agree. These experiments are worthwhile doing. Will it fail? Quite possibly.
But it might work, and it might end up solving the rejection issue. Some of our olde fartes declaring it a failure might just be interested in that.
The only downside I can think of is peripheral. If we make it possible for people to have a brand new strong young heart, there are many other killers waiting in the wings. We've come a good ways in treating cancer, but having many more people surviving heart problems just to go through that long slow death of dementia is hardly an improvement.
But hell yeah, the experiments themselves are pretty cheap - we have the space station, we have the tools, Do it.
Apple has largely abandoned it's computer customers. Everything they do is focused on the iPhone. Macs used to be the go-to for any kind of graphical artist. Now they can't even handle most graphics programs well. It's sad that they abandoned their core artist base to suit kids sitting on coffee shops, showing off their Mac accessory.
Cool story Bro. Using both Apple and Windows, at least my Macs work after updates, and how do I use Windows as the go to when the software I need simply doesn't exist in Windowsworld.
They are all minor releases that simply offer a few bug fixes and security updates, with no new features -- and there are no new features in any of the beta releases for these versions of the operating systems, either.
(...bold mine...)
How else can one interpret this, in light of the latest Apple performance?
It's like the writer dosn't understand that Apple just recently released Mojave.
Or in the bitchabouteverything Apple world, each update must be an entirely new operating system?
No Bogaboga, Apple has updates all the time. But the ones between OS changes do indeed tend to be incremental.
Doesn't the new house construction increase supply? As a west coaster who went to CA for a job and then back home a few years later my impression of the CA home market is that government restrictions on supply are the main culprit for the high cost of housing there. As long as supply can work to meet demand it seems like things should mostly stay in check.
Remember the demand side. When the Cali retirees moved here, they drove prices up. Yes, a lot of contractors made houses, but these people were willing to pay a lot of money. The demand definitely outstripped the supply.
As a reference, my house darn near doubled in price - during the great depression. I still get a lot of offers from real estate companies. A lot of these Cali transplants bought big McMansions, while I bought my house as a single story. Now that they are aged quite a bit, the McMansion isn't so appealing.
One of the funniest things is that most covenents in the developments banned single story houses. Which is exactly what people want now.
Not everybody who leaves California is a Democrat. Many of the ones who leave California are sick of the demogoguery.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
A demagogue or rabble-rouser is a leader in a democracy who gains popularity by exploiting prejudice and ignorance among the common people, whipping up the passions of the crowd and shutting down reasoned deliberation. Demagogues overturn established customs of political conduct, or promise or threaten to do so.
Sounds more like the party of the moral high ground.
I think what the above poster was worried about was californians coming here, driving up housing prices, and making the area unaffordable to locals.
I may already own my house, but a raise in property rates affects taxes which can knock me out of my house
Exactly! And it's kind of hard to figure out how he decided to miss that point.
For sycodon:
People move into an area. They need housing.
Supply and demand my bois! If there is demand, the price goes up.
Coupled with these people coming from California who are used to much higher housing prices, and will happily pay for what seems like a real bargain even if it seems high by local standards.
Then there will be plenty of contractors willing to build these higher priced houses.
Locals who won't be making as much money as the newcomers then get shut out of the market.
This is simple market supply and demand, and exactly what happened in my area - not liberal socialism or whatever axe you have to grind.
Texas has a Constitutional block on a state income tax and many other of the socialists style (it's not actual socialism) programs.
Don't come here looking for a hand out, you will be sorely disappointed. Make no mistake, if you fall on hard times, you have resources. But if you come here to leach, you will likely end up living under a bridge in Austin or Houston.
Never heard of Poe's law? A person can write the batshit craziest thing, and it is indistinguishable from the batshit craziest idea floating around in someone else's head.
Well then, if there is an actual exodus, you can expect Texas to become the next California.
In our area, we got a lot of retireees from California. They sold their overvalued homes before the great recession, and drove up real estate prices because theat 2000 sq foot rance they sold would buy a 2.1 story McMansion here.
So locals making local money couldn't afford to buy localhouses, and the Cali transplant retireees are dying off.
Good luck, and hope that they don't do the same for Texas.
A major issue I see in many areas is a lack of technological confidence to be able to point out when nearly everyone else is doing it wrong. Women are more agreeable, which is the opposite of what you need if you want to make a large scale positive difference.
That's in interesting statement. Some years ago, I was talking with a co-worker. The subject of gender differences came up, and I asked her what she considered the main difference between men and women in the workplace was.
"While its very important to me that you like me, You don't give a fuck if I like you or not."
I was shocked "But I do like you - a lot!"
"That's not the point - I know you like me, but I also know if I didn't like you, you wouldn't think anything of that."
So yeah, that agreeable business permeates so much. She further told me that just telling me that took a lot of what she considered bravery.
My opinion isn't based on a single anecdote, but many from hyper-performing family and friends along with many personal. To make a real difference, you need to fight the norm. And you can't just blindly fight it. You need to have backing talent, confidence, and people skills. Then you have the issue that your personal performance is about the same or possibly even worse than everyone else's, but your contribution is greatly more than everyone else because you just made everyone more productive. Difficult to objectively measure, but can be subjectively understood and recognized.
Can't say I disagree with any of this. Another part of all of this is that the business of being assertive doesn't mean being an asshole. My co-workers and I would argue endlessly, but we weren't pissed off. We were working problems. You can't work problems if you can't push for the solutions. So if everyone is on the same page, most of them are of no use.
Rule number two is that there is no such thing as security on the internet.
Not true at all. Security is always a relative state and as such there is reasonable security possible. Security becomes more difficult against focused, experienced, and/or well financed attackers but even then it's possible. Perfect security against all conceivable threats is impossible but that's like saying we shouldn't lock our doors because someone might own a battering ram. Security is always relative to the circumstances and likely threats one might face.
Well, if you insist. Perhaps I'm paranoid or just don't know as much as I think I do. That happens. I'm still not putting anything there that I don't consider public.
Rule number two is that there is no such thing as security on the internet.
There's no such thing as safety while driving a car so why wear a seatbelt? Why have airbags?
There's no such thing as security at home so why have locks on the doors? Why have security systems?
It's pretty simple. Almost no one is trying to run in to me.
But there are a lot of people and groups out there on the intertoobz that do have harmful intent, are mining you, or at best, simply trying to figure out who's saying what. It's an inherently insecure medium.
Want to get yourself noticed and considered interesting really quick? Run Tor.
If for some reason I wanted to commit crimes, the intertoobz is the last place I would have any activity related to the crime. I have my system battened down pretty good. But I'm not fooling myself. You shouldn't either.
You conflate the entire not right wing world as somehow being Social Justice Warriors. This is not true, any more than saying all Republicans are active Klan members and White Supremacists. The no difference infinite gender crowd are just kooks, like the White supremacists are kooks.
Y'all oughta stop that. There are a whole lot of us who aren't what you might call in your camp who agree that in general, there are differences between men and women in both physique, and mental outlook. Not all, but enough to make trying to shoehorn this generality into no difference at all to maybe be more useful to you than your making them your enemy.
I apologize. I got a bit worked up there.. What I should have said was "radical liberals". Your statement is absolutely correct.
No problem. We're on the same page in fact. My motto is "So many kooks, so few meteor strikes."
I would just submit that there IS a point at which pulling energy from the wind may actually have consequences, as ridiculous as that may sound.
It's the difference between principle and practice.
Converting the energy from wind to electricity cannot not have some effect. There will be slowing of the wind, some heat somewhere. From a tiny demonstration wind turbine up.
But the wind energy extraction process is pretty darn inefficient. And at what is essential point source extraction, the effects will be pretty local and small.
If everyone harvested the wind and the waves, there'd be no wind and waves. This solution simply does not scale.
Are you perhaps related to the guy back in the day who said cars can't travel faster than fifteen miles per hour because all of the air in the cab would be sucked out the back?
Adding turbines would reduce the load on non-renewable energy, a net positive. In fact, the Altamont pass in the East Bay Area is a very well-utilized wind farm that could easily be expanded
The Allegheny Front in Pennsylvania is another place where wind is being exploited. Along the front, the wind pretty much never stops. And we're not finished either. Hasn't been any talk of building new fossil fuel turbines lately.
Fun stuff: Some folks have been yapping about "What do you do when the wind turbines wear out?" as if they have stumbled upon some fatal flaw. Well if you have a field of hundreds of individual turbines, you just go up and refurb or replace them one by one.
As compared to a worn out coal or gas powered turbine? I suppose they never need replaced....
Rule number one is that someone using a VPN probably has a reason for that.
And yeah, a lot of people aren't much more savvy than hearing "VPN's are secure!" so when you have the combination of wanting to have privacy fro some reason, and lack of savvy, you have a ripe spying market that thinks it is secure and more likely to share stuff.
Especially when it's free.
Rule number two is that there is no such thing as security on the internet.
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I don't understand what all this hate is about commercials. Without them, I'd never have seen the Geiko Gekko story. And they brought back the Caveman episodes, gloriously spread across my 72" screen!
Regards, your local insurance salesman
Don't forget catheter ads for men, and the sexualized adult diapers for women.
Or the mesothelioma lawyer fishing expeditions. Maybe if the ads weren't tending toward so damn gross?
It would help if updating was easier. I keep meaning to try Chocolatey or another package manager to make the process easier. The effort of downloading and installing/extracting VLC every time they release an update is too great for me to bother.
As well, many updates don't work as well as what they replace.
Fortunately, the idiots from CA are buying these 1,500 sq ft homes in Central Austin for $500k
I live outside Austin in a 2,400 sq ft home on 1/4 acre, valued at $300k (3x purchase price).
Seems the idiots are staying close to the other idiots and not migrating out to where the normal people are.
That's how it starts. We had a lot of people moving to a rural community about 20 miles out of town. Got the real estate prices jacked up, got themselves elected to the school board, and have pretty much taken over from the farmers. Good luck. Money speaks.
A lot of these Cali transplants bought big McMansions, while I bought my house as a single story. Now that they are aged quite a bit, the McMansion isn't so appealing.
Doesn't the reduced appeal and demand for those homes on the current market cause them to drop in value compared to the rest of the market then?
Oh hell yeah. Some of these people are losing their butts, because at their age - mid 70's early 80's - they want a single story house. But especially since a lot of the people who can afford to buy housing don't want McMansions. They want single stories now.
In addition, snowstorms show that the McMansions are constructed without much insulation. They have nice pristine roofs from all the heat escaping as they warm the neighborhood.
So the combination of not being allowed to build single story homes, and the demand for them might push my house toward a million here soon. In that case I'll sell it and move to a less expensive area, and keep 500 K of the money.
You mean by screaming "Impeach the motherfucker" to a crowd of cheering plebes? That kind of demagoguery?
Is your command of language exposing you as working for the Kremlin? What you are describing is in no way shape or form a demagogue. It doesn't even make sense.
For a site, that is suppose to cover science and technology news, there is a heck of a lot of posts of people just coming up with reasons out of the blue, on why it will fail miserably. While Scientific reporting is general really bad, but there are a lot of things that are worth a shot to try. Especially, if a success could be beneficial.
I dunno if a lot of people have aged into curmudgeon-land, but I agree. These experiments are worthwhile doing. Will it fail? Quite possibly.
But it might work, and it might end up solving the rejection issue. Some of our olde fartes declaring it a failure might just be interested in that.
The only downside I can think of is peripheral. If we make it possible for people to have a brand new strong young heart, there are many other killers waiting in the wings. We've come a good ways in treating cancer, but having many more people surviving heart problems just to go through that long slow death of dementia is hardly an improvement.
But hell yeah, the experiments themselves are pretty cheap - we have the space station, we have the tools, Do it.
Apple has largely abandoned it's computer customers. Everything they do is focused on the iPhone. Macs used to be the go-to for any kind of graphical artist. Now they can't even handle most graphics programs well. It's sad that they abandoned their core artist base to suit kids sitting on coffee shops, showing off their Mac accessory.
Cool story Bro. Using both Apple and Windows, at least my Macs work after updates, and how do I use Windows as the go to when the software I need simply doesn't exist in Windowsworld.
They are all minor releases that simply offer a few bug fixes and security updates, with no new features -- and there are no new features in any of the beta releases for these versions of the operating systems, either.
(...bold mine...)
How else can one interpret this, in light of the latest Apple performance?
It's like the writer dosn't understand that Apple just recently released Mojave.
Or in the bitchabouteverything Apple world, each update must be an entirely new operating system?
No Bogaboga, Apple has updates all the time. But the ones between OS changes do indeed tend to be incremental.
Doesn't the new house construction increase supply? As a west coaster who went to CA for a job and then back home a few years later my impression of the CA home market is that government restrictions on supply are the main culprit for the high cost of housing there. As long as supply can work to meet demand it seems like things should mostly stay in check.
Remember the demand side. When the Cali retirees moved here, they drove prices up. Yes, a lot of contractors made houses, but these people were willing to pay a lot of money. The demand definitely outstripped the supply.
As a reference, my house darn near doubled in price - during the great depression. I still get a lot of offers from real estate companies. A lot of these Cali transplants bought big McMansions, while I bought my house as a single story. Now that they are aged quite a bit, the McMansion isn't so appealing.
One of the funniest things is that most covenents in the developments banned single story houses. Which is exactly what people want now.
Not everybody who leaves California is a Democrat. Many of the ones who leave California are sick of the demogoguery.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
A demagogue or rabble-rouser is a leader in a democracy who gains popularity by exploiting prejudice and ignorance among the common people, whipping up the passions of the crowd and shutting down reasoned deliberation. Demagogues overturn established customs of political conduct, or promise or threaten to do so.
Sounds more like the party of the moral high ground.
I think what the above poster was worried about was californians coming here, driving up housing prices, and making the area unaffordable to locals.
I may already own my house, but a raise in property rates affects taxes which can knock me out of my house
Exactly! And it's kind of hard to figure out how he decided to miss that point.
For sycodon:
People move into an area. They need housing.
Supply and demand my bois! If there is demand, the price goes up.
Coupled with these people coming from California who are used to much higher housing prices, and will happily pay for what seems like a real bargain even if it seems high by local standards.
Then there will be plenty of contractors willing to build these higher priced houses.
Locals who won't be making as much money as the newcomers then get shut out of the market. This is simple market supply and demand, and exactly what happened in my area - not liberal socialism or whatever axe you have to grind.
No.
Texas has a Constitutional block on a state income tax and many other of the socialists style (it's not actual socialism) programs.
Don't come here looking for a hand out, you will be sorely disappointed. Make no mistake, if you fall on hard times, you have resources. But if you come here to leach, you will likely end up living under a bridge in Austin or Houston.
Whoosh!
Tell that to the 350 people a day moving to Austin from California.
Bragging about what is going to happen, eh AC? That redness you love is going to turn purple, then you'll be awash in leeburls.
because typical americans cannot detect sarcasm
enjoy the high taxes of CA
Never heard of Poe's law? A person can write the batshit craziest thing, and it is indistinguishable from the batshit craziest idea floating around in someone else's head.
"There is no exodus of people and companies from California to Texas"
Keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile in the real world.
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2018/12/13/1-800-companies-left-california-in-a-year-with.html
Well then, if there is an actual exodus, you can expect Texas to become the next California.
In our area, we got a lot of retireees from California. They sold their overvalued homes before the great recession, and drove up real estate prices because theat 2000 sq foot rance they sold would buy a 2.1 story McMansion here.
So locals making local money couldn't afford to buy localhouses, and the Cali transplant retireees are dying off.
Good luck, and hope that they don't do the same for Texas.
Indeed:
Facebook Appears To Be Quietly Building Laser Satellites For *ahem* Global Domination
Cambridge Analytica needs more Data! That and apparently more Ukrainian women.
A major issue I see in many areas is a lack of technological confidence to be able to point out when nearly everyone else is doing it wrong. Women are more agreeable, which is the opposite of what you need if you want to make a large scale positive difference.
That's in interesting statement. Some years ago, I was talking with a co-worker. The subject of gender differences came up, and I asked her what she considered the main difference between men and women in the workplace was.
"While its very important to me that you like me, You don't give a fuck if I like you or not."
I was shocked "But I do like you - a lot!"
"That's not the point - I know you like me, but I also know if I didn't like you, you wouldn't think anything of that."
So yeah, that agreeable business permeates so much. She further told me that just telling me that took a lot of what she considered bravery.
My opinion isn't based on a single anecdote, but many from hyper-performing family and friends along with many personal. To make a real difference, you need to fight the norm. And you can't just blindly fight it. You need to have backing talent, confidence, and people skills. Then you have the issue that your personal performance is about the same or possibly even worse than everyone else's, but your contribution is greatly more than everyone else because you just made everyone more productive. Difficult to objectively measure, but can be subjectively understood and recognized.
Can't say I disagree with any of this. Another part of all of this is that the business of being assertive doesn't mean being an asshole. My co-workers and I would argue endlessly, but we weren't pissed off. We were working problems. You can't work problems if you can't push for the solutions. So if everyone is on the same page, most of them are of no use.
Rule number two is that there is no such thing as security on the internet.
Not true at all. Security is always a relative state and as such there is reasonable security possible. Security becomes more difficult against focused, experienced, and/or well financed attackers but even then it's possible. Perfect security against all conceivable threats is impossible but that's like saying we shouldn't lock our doors because someone might own a battering ram. Security is always relative to the circumstances and likely threats one might face.
Well, if you insist. Perhaps I'm paranoid or just don't know as much as I think I do. That happens. I'm still not putting anything there that I don't consider public.
Rule number two is that there is no such thing as security on the internet.
There's no such thing as safety while driving a car so why wear a seatbelt? Why have airbags?
There's no such thing as security at home so why have locks on the doors? Why have security systems?
It's pretty simple. Almost no one is trying to run in to me.
But there are a lot of people and groups out there on the intertoobz that do have harmful intent, are mining you, or at best, simply trying to figure out who's saying what. It's an inherently insecure medium.
Want to get yourself noticed and considered interesting really quick? Run Tor.
If for some reason I wanted to commit crimes, the intertoobz is the last place I would have any activity related to the crime. I have my system battened down pretty good. But I'm not fooling myself. You shouldn't either.
You conflate the entire not right wing world as somehow being Social Justice Warriors. This is not true, any more than saying all Republicans are active Klan members and White Supremacists. The no difference infinite gender crowd are just kooks, like the White supremacists are kooks.
Y'all oughta stop that. There are a whole lot of us who aren't what you might call in your camp who agree that in general, there are differences between men and women in both physique, and mental outlook. Not all, but enough to make trying to shoehorn this generality into no difference at all to maybe be more useful to you than your making them your enemy.
I apologize. I got a bit worked up there.. What I should have said was "radical liberals". Your statement is absolutely correct.
No problem. We're on the same page in fact. My motto is "So many kooks, so few meteor strikes."
I would just submit that there IS a point at which pulling energy from the wind may actually have consequences, as ridiculous as that may sound.
It's the difference between principle and practice.
Converting the energy from wind to electricity cannot not have some effect. There will be slowing of the wind, some heat somewhere. From a tiny demonstration wind turbine up.
But the wind energy extraction process is pretty darn inefficient. And at what is essential point source extraction, the effects will be pretty local and small.
If everyone harvested the wind and the waves, there'd be no wind and waves. This solution simply does not scale.
Are you perhaps related to the guy back in the day who said cars can't travel faster than fifteen miles per hour because all of the air in the cab would be sucked out the back?
I think you done went Whhoosh.
Adding turbines would reduce the load on non-renewable energy, a net positive. In fact, the Altamont pass in the East Bay Area is a very well-utilized wind farm that could easily be expanded
The Allegheny Front in Pennsylvania is another place where wind is being exploited. Along the front, the wind pretty much never stops. And we're not finished either. Hasn't been any talk of building new fossil fuel turbines lately.
Fun stuff: Some folks have been yapping about "What do you do when the wind turbines wear out?" as if they have stumbled upon some fatal flaw. Well if you have a field of hundreds of individual turbines, you just go up and refurb or replace them one by one.
As compared to a worn out coal or gas powered turbine? I suppose they never need replaced....
And yeah, a lot of people aren't much more savvy than hearing "VPN's are secure!" so when you have the combination of wanting to have privacy fro some reason, and lack of savvy, you have a ripe spying market that thinks it is secure and more likely to share stuff.
Especially when it's free.
Rule number two is that there is no such thing as security on the internet.
Especially if it's not from the eastern time zone.