I'm with the original poster. I don't see why it matters whether the mac hardware is "stagnant". I care about whether it does what I want it to do.
My laptop runs everything I want to run fine. Why would I want to "upgrade" to something "better" if it's not actually any better at what I want it to do?
I'd much rather they spend their money fixing system bugs.
I've been using Macs since the mid-90s. And I would like to be changing out my mid-2011 iMac soon.
But the only real differences are that the new skinny iMacs run cooler, and I can't bootcamp Windows 10 on it. Which is fine - My Windows 7 bootcamp has 100 percent uptime and doesn't suffer from Windows 10 update disease.
So unless it breaks on me, I have no good reason to upgrade, unless I go the MacPro route.
And at 7 years, it's getting kinda old. I don't know if Apple can continue just selling replacement keyboards and magic mice.
Do you also remove your license plates? In Norcal at least, FasTrak can use license plate readers for billing. No toll tag required.
However FasTrak does still encourage users to get a toll tag. Suggesting perhaps that plate readers are less reliable than RFID.
In Florida, the toll roads that I've been on are solely Plate readers. The billing can provably be more automated with a toll tag is my guess for using both.
A car with no chip stands out in real time surrounded by other cars with a chip moving down a road...
Removing the chip is not a way around such laws. No chip, no car trip.
Wat? EZ-Pass as a surveillance device is kinda a big fail.
Yeah it might show that you drove past a toll both in Tuckahoe New Jersey at 4:55 p.m., but that's just incidental to the data needed to pay your toll. You're really gonna be pissed to know that there are cameras there that image your face and your license plate.
In Florida they have a system that does away with the toll booth entirely, and takes a photo of the ass end of your car, then sends you a bill in the mail.
Then again, there is the whole concept of the license plate that the privacy set should be up in arms about. Did you know that someone could see your license plate, give it to the police, and they could find you? What an invasion of privacy!
I long ago came to peace with all these things that can as a side effect of using them, can ascertain where you were. My credit card can show where I was when I bought things, just buying fuel or going to a bank puts a dot on the map of my location. Even if I use cash.
But these things are more likely to serve as a very nice alibi than an incrimination.
I some times joke about people needing to move to Idaho, build a compound, stop SS payments and raise chickens to barter for bullets so they go incognito. but seriously, that's about what you are going to need to do to escape the tyranny you perceive when EZ-Pass is in your mind, a tracking system.
Just gave me a reason to suggest ONLY using Chrome to most users. There is no end to the amount of sideloaded shitware extensions that fuck up your browser.
Hmm, I had to use Chrome this morning, and the once stable browser hung on me several times. I wonder if there is any relation. Can't think why, but that's never happened before. Ended up having to use FF.
Looks like some folks with mod points must have been old-school AOL users who don't understand that what I posted wasn't a troll. It was a question. Carry on!
There's these things called "teenagers". They eat a lot.
Har - Our food intake at home was outlandish. During my son's teen years I was playing three games of Ice Hockey a week, and he had at least two, with three practices a week, and often helping on my team. Breakfast, middle morning "snack" Lunch, 3 O'clock "snack", Dinner, 7 O'clock snack, 10 O'Clock snack, and some times something at 3 a.m. if we were feeling a little peckish.
It was like the Tour de France riders, just shoveling food in their mouths constantly just to not lose a lot of weight. My guess is we were packing away around 8-10 Kilocalories a day at least.
I was skeptical of that fact, then we did the math out-loud in my office and I'm starting to suspect that is an extreme low-ball estimate. Daycare alone is $10-12,000 a year so you're halfway there by the time their 10 years old.
Its an inconvenient truth of modern life, but anyone doing a cost analysis will come up with the knowledge that we're doing it all wrong. If you are married, and want to have children, one of the couple should really stay at home with the child until they are in pre-school.
Otherwise you are doing two things. First is that you are spending a lot of money on child care, and the second thing is that you are not raising your child - someone else is.
The smart money is on having a child during the prime reproductive years, then building a career during your late 20s. Its done backwards now, especially from the female end. Start a career, then in your mid thirties look for a husband, maybe freeze your eggs for later fertility treatments. Assuming you find a man who wants to start raising a family in their mid forties, and the fertility treatments take, you are then in your 60s by the time the kid leaves home. Assuming those children likewise wait until their mid 40's to attempt to have children, there is a real good chance that many people will never see their grandchildren. Or perhaps take their 3 year old to visit Grandma in the dementia unit at the nursing home.
The additional food cost is probably negligible, but the medical and, eventually, the auto insurance sure as hell isn't. Then clothing and after school activities would easily put you over that mark. That doesn't even mention vacations. It's a quarter million to raise a child, but how much is it to raise a functional kid?
We had our son in travel Hockey, which is incredibly expensive. The protective equipment for a growing boy, the ice time and association costs, the travel and hotels, the summer training camps, and yup, the insurance. The low cost option at my workplace wouldn't work for traveling - so I paid hundreds more a month.
Not complaining - I could afford it. But the cost analysis is shocking.
The ocean pollution problem apparently comes from ten rivers located in Asia. North and South America are not killing whales. This is just another pointless feel-good move to show that "they care" in Chile.
That's pretty much my assessment - macro sized plastic from third world countries, and microsphere plastic from developed places.
Cites provided because the prominent search results blame countries that already recycle a lot of plastic. Making someone in those countries feel guilty about themselves, while doing nothing about the Pacific Rim countries will accomplish exactly nothing.
This is not to say plastic in the oceans is not a problem. It's that completely eliminating the first world contributions to the problem will stall out at a 10 percent reduction.
Paper bags? How did people survive before plastic bags were invented?
It isn't like paper bags have no environmental footprint.
So people will whine about that. I'm not certain that recycled paper will be very good for grocery bags, because every time paper is recycled, the individual fibers get shorter and shorter. I think Trader Joe's uses recycled, and their paper bags are pretty weak.
I don't see any point. Firstly, because it's Microsoft, of which I'm not a great fan so to say. Secondly, because the only purpose of this chase to sell new devices is to keep up falling profits. Tablet devices are no longer a novelty and new models do not bring any breakthroughs in functionality. They only serve the manufacturer and harm budgets of customers for naught in return.
This. I wanted an inexpensive Windows based Tablet with Keyboard. So I could hab bought a Surface. Oh - but there is that inexpensive part. So my new breakfast semi disposable computer is a ultra cheap Insignia. Works well for Web and email, and if it breaks I don't give a damn.
Tablets fill a really important niche. They are far better than a phone for casual web browsing. They offer a lot more space for various applications. They are obviously mobile. I have a great Netflix experience with them while sitting in a room without a TV.
I was on the iPad path, but got totally fed up once my iPad-2 became completely unusable about 2 years after I bought it, which was about 2 years after my iPad-1 became completely unusable. I bought a Surface 3 a little over two years ago, and it still works perfectly, my only complaint is that the battery life is getting short. I don't want a laptop - I already have a powerful desktop to run various apps, and I also don't want to squint and look at my phone all the time while I'm not sitting at my desk.
Plus, the keyboard-cover of the surface makes it really stand out from an iPad, and I was able to pick up a low-cost dock so that I can bring my surface to work for segregated usage.
For what you describe, my cheap little go to breakfast computer, a Windows tablet convertable by insignia works great. Cost a bit over a hundred.
The Surface tablet line isn't a tablet in the sense of the iPad, Android, etc. It's a full fledged Windows laptop in tablet format.
The Surface line is the true pinnacle of personal computing, so advanced in features, so unparalleled in ease of use and user satisfaction, that we have entered an entire new era of computing perfection, with the unquestioned leader, and true soul of the world of Computing, Microsoft bravely leading us at the helm, and who will undoubtably be the sole computer maker in 5 years, as everyone else simply gives up and opens pizza restaurants.
Just gave me a reason to suggest ONLY using Chrome to most users. There is no end to the amount of sideloaded shitware extensions that fuck up your browser.
Hmm, I had to use Chrome this morning, and the once stable browser hung on me several times. I wonder if there is any relation. Can't think why, but that's never happened before. Ended up having to use FF.
Ok, so you find out his email address is chosun@whatever.net.
You either think "neat, his name sounds like a word, that's hilarious!", or you blindly carry on with your life, oblivious to the humour.
In what gray area of troubled thinking do you stop and ask "Why would you use your own name as your email address?" in order to set him up for his "few are chosun" bit?
Unless you mean to say "none of this happened at all, ever, but it's the only way I could think of to set up this joke".
You have to admit, there aren't that many Cho Suns's around. It might be the Wong sort of name for many people
Facebook also didn't address Democratic Sen. Patrick J. Leahy's concerns. He asked Facebook to detail if the Obama campaign in 2012 had violated "any of Facebook's policies, and thereby get banned from the platform." Facebook said: "Both the Obama and Romney campaigns had access to the same tools, and no campaign received any special treatment from Facebook."
Leahy's "concern" is clearly to try to exonerate the Obama campaign and get the "Trump used teh (now) evil Facebook data slurping" weapon back.
Gee Boris, the only people worried about the Kenyan Terror Baby's Facebook use are people who can't see the difference between taking out political ads and providing Ukranian hookers on demand.
Also it isn't what you do, but how you do it.
For the most part the Obama campaign was about bringing in voters to vote for him, while Cambridge Analytica was using the data to prevent people from voting for the opposition.
Democracy is about people voting their opinions. Ideally everyone should be voting for good or for ill.
Exactly. While the shills are braying about O'blama as somehow a crime dwarfing Cambridge Analytica's actions, it is telling that in a Republican controlled Congress, that is happy to spend money investigating and re-investigating "liberal crimes", that we're not investigating O'blama for this.
I still like my idea of shipping everything returned to Germany at full price plus shipping, all to be covered by Germany. Who could oppose that - especially when the good people of Germany are demanding to control what Amazon does? Step up and do your duty.
I'm confused - do you think Amazon Germany should NOT be subject to German laws?
Germany is only one country, As the European Union has shown, they want world domination. All of it - every single return sent back to Amazon must go to Germany.
I think that the scientists are unworthy of grants.
Hi Donald - glad to see you are diversifying from twitter but sadly, no, that's still not how science works. Scientific grants are paid to fund research to find out what actually happens, you are thinking of "political contributions" which are paid to guarantee a particular result.
We need to make certain that only the never before done breakthroughs that are 100 percent guaranteed to work are funded.
He was first appointed to the FCC by Obama. It's not like he gets an extra vote for being Chairman.
The chairman determines the agenda, and he was the minority Republican member with two demoncraps. So now you control the agenda, have a built in two to one vote, and you really think he has no power?
Let's chat about 3 to 1 margins. So yeah, he kinda does get the automatic majority.
Pretty sure you can buy almost anything at your local secondhand store on an "AS-IS, No Refunds" basis.
Yet many people are taken to court over as-is sales. Most plaintiffs lose. The only ones who don't can prove fraud. So guess what the plaintiffs claim. But you're still dragged through the mud.
I still like my idea of shipping everything returned to Germany at full price plus shipping, all to be covered by Germany. Who could oppose that - especially when the good people of Germany are demanding to control what Amazon does? Step up and do your duty.
There's plenty of people out there who'd say they'd take the risk for a lower price, but would then turn around and sue you if it turned out bad. They'd probably win, too, no matter what they signed; there are consumer rights you can't sign away. So Amazon can't resell this junk.
Exactly. If I was Amazon, I would strike a deal with the German Government, requiring the German Government to pay full price plus shipping, all to be sold by the German Government. In this way, the good people of Germany will insure that no resources are wasted, and will be very happy as their wholesome wishes are fulfilled.P>
My Goodness, they will demand total control over everything life if you let them.
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I'm with the original poster. I don't see why it matters whether the mac hardware is "stagnant". I care about whether it does what I want it to do.
My laptop runs everything I want to run fine. Why would I want to "upgrade" to something "better" if it's not actually any better at what I want it to do?
I'd much rather they spend their money fixing system bugs.
I've been using Macs since the mid-90s. And I would like to be changing out my mid-2011 iMac soon.
But the only real differences are that the new skinny iMacs run cooler, and I can't bootcamp Windows 10 on it. Which is fine - My Windows 7 bootcamp has 100 percent uptime and doesn't suffer from Windows 10 update disease.
So unless it breaks on me, I have no good reason to upgrade, unless I go the MacPro route.
And at 7 years, it's getting kinda old. I don't know if Apple can continue just selling replacement keyboards and magic mice.
Stories like this make me angry.
Huh, We wouold never have guessed. Perhaps a move to Northern Nunavut is advised for your peace of mind.
Do you also remove your license plates? In Norcal at least, FasTrak can use license plate readers for billing. No toll tag required.
However FasTrak does still encourage users to get a toll tag. Suggesting perhaps that plate readers are less reliable than RFID.
In Florida, the toll roads that I've been on are solely Plate readers. The billing can provably be more automated with a toll tag is my guess for using both.
A car with no chip stands out in real time surrounded by other cars with a chip moving down a road... Removing the chip is not a way around such laws. No chip, no car trip.
Wat? EZ-Pass as a surveillance device is kinda a big fail.
Yeah it might show that you drove past a toll both in Tuckahoe New Jersey at 4:55 p.m., but that's just incidental to the data needed to pay your toll. You're really gonna be pissed to know that there are cameras there that image your face and your license plate.
In Florida they have a system that does away with the toll booth entirely, and takes a photo of the ass end of your car, then sends you a bill in the mail.
Then again, there is the whole concept of the license plate that the privacy set should be up in arms about. Did you know that someone could see your license plate, give it to the police, and they could find you? What an invasion of privacy!
I long ago came to peace with all these things that can as a side effect of using them, can ascertain where you were. My credit card can show where I was when I bought things, just buying fuel or going to a bank puts a dot on the map of my location. Even if I use cash.
But these things are more likely to serve as a very nice alibi than an incrimination.
I some times joke about people needing to move to Idaho, build a compound, stop SS payments and raise chickens to barter for bullets so they go incognito. but seriously, that's about what you are going to need to do to escape the tyranny you perceive when EZ-Pass is in your mind, a tracking system.
Just gave me a reason to suggest ONLY using Chrome to most users. There is no end to the amount of sideloaded shitware extensions that fuck up your browser.
Hmm, I had to use Chrome this morning, and the once stable browser hung on me several times. I wonder if there is any relation. Can't think why, but that's never happened before. Ended up having to use FF.
Looks like some folks with mod points must have been old-school AOL users who don't understand that what I posted wasn't a troll. It was a question. Carry on!
The additional food cost is probably negligible
There's these things called "teenagers". They eat a lot.
Har - Our food intake at home was outlandish. During my son's teen years I was playing three games of Ice Hockey a week, and he had at least two, with three practices a week, and often helping on my team. Breakfast, middle morning "snack" Lunch, 3 O'clock "snack", Dinner, 7 O'clock snack, 10 O'Clock snack, and some times something at 3 a.m. if we were feeling a little peckish.
It was like the Tour de France riders, just shoveling food in their mouths constantly just to not lose a lot of weight. My guess is we were packing away around 8-10 Kilocalories a day at least.
I was skeptical of that fact, then we did the math out-loud in my office and I'm starting to suspect that is an extreme low-ball estimate. Daycare alone is $10-12,000 a year so you're halfway there by the time their 10 years old.
Its an inconvenient truth of modern life, but anyone doing a cost analysis will come up with the knowledge that we're doing it all wrong. If you are married, and want to have children, one of the couple should really stay at home with the child until they are in pre-school.
Otherwise you are doing two things. First is that you are spending a lot of money on child care, and the second thing is that you are not raising your child - someone else is.
The smart money is on having a child during the prime reproductive years, then building a career during your late 20s. Its done backwards now, especially from the female end. Start a career, then in your mid thirties look for a husband, maybe freeze your eggs for later fertility treatments. Assuming you find a man who wants to start raising a family in their mid forties, and the fertility treatments take, you are then in your 60s by the time the kid leaves home. Assuming those children likewise wait until their mid 40's to attempt to have children, there is a real good chance that many people will never see their grandchildren. Or perhaps take their 3 year old to visit Grandma in the dementia unit at the nursing home.
The additional food cost is probably negligible, but the medical and, eventually, the auto insurance sure as hell isn't. Then clothing and after school activities would easily put you over that mark. That doesn't even mention vacations. It's a quarter million to raise a child, but how much is it to raise a functional kid?
We had our son in travel Hockey, which is incredibly expensive. The protective equipment for a growing boy, the ice time and association costs, the travel and hotels, the summer training camps, and yup, the insurance. The low cost option at my workplace wouldn't work for traveling - so I paid hundreds more a month.
Not complaining - I could afford it. But the cost analysis is shocking.
buttery male?
Slippery shiny he-dolphin?
The ocean pollution problem apparently comes from ten rivers located in Asia. North and South America are not killing whales. This is just another pointless feel-good move to show that "they care" in Chile.
That's pretty much my assessment - macro sized plastic from third world countries, and microsphere plastic from developed places.
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/1...
http://www.digitaljournal.com/...
Cites provided because the prominent search results blame countries that already recycle a lot of plastic. Making someone in those countries feel guilty about themselves, while doing nothing about the Pacific Rim countries will accomplish exactly nothing.
This is not to say plastic in the oceans is not a problem. It's that completely eliminating the first world contributions to the problem will stall out at a 10 percent reduction.
Stop using practice-babies and have an actual baby instead. And use cloth, not disposable.
The "actual baby" is only for wealthy people today. https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Obviously some folks rely on the guvmint to help, but yeah, it cost my wife and I over a quarter million to raise one kid.
Paper bags? How did people survive before plastic bags were invented?
It isn't like paper bags have no environmental footprint.
So people will whine about that. I'm not certain that recycled paper will be very good for grocery bags, because every time paper is recycled, the individual fibers get shorter and shorter. I think Trader Joe's uses recycled, and their paper bags are pretty weak.
I don't see any point. Firstly, because it's Microsoft, of which I'm not a great fan so to say. Secondly, because the only purpose of this chase to sell new devices is to keep up falling profits. Tablet devices are no longer a novelty and new models do not bring any breakthroughs in functionality. They only serve the manufacturer and harm budgets of customers for naught in return.
This. I wanted an inexpensive Windows based Tablet with Keyboard. So I could hab bought a Surface. Oh - but there is that inexpensive part. So my new breakfast semi disposable computer is a ultra cheap Insignia. Works well for Web and email, and if it breaks I don't give a damn.
Tablets fill a really important niche. They are far better than a phone for casual web browsing. They offer a lot more space for various applications. They are obviously mobile. I have a great Netflix experience with them while sitting in a room without a TV.
I was on the iPad path, but got totally fed up once my iPad-2 became completely unusable about 2 years after I bought it, which was about 2 years after my iPad-1 became completely unusable. I bought a Surface 3 a little over two years ago, and it still works perfectly, my only complaint is that the battery life is getting short. I don't want a laptop - I already have a powerful desktop to run various apps, and I also don't want to squint and look at my phone all the time while I'm not sitting at my desk.
Plus, the keyboard-cover of the surface makes it really stand out from an iPad, and I was able to pick up a low-cost dock so that I can bring my surface to work for segregated usage.
For what you describe, my cheap little go to breakfast computer, a Windows tablet convertable by insignia works great. Cost a bit over a hundred.
The Surface tablet line isn't a tablet in the sense of the iPad, Android, etc. It's a full fledged Windows laptop in tablet format.
The Surface line is the true pinnacle of personal computing, so advanced in features, so unparalleled in ease of use and user satisfaction, that we have entered an entire new era of computing perfection, with the unquestioned leader, and true soul of the world of Computing, Microsoft bravely leading us at the helm, and who will undoubtably be the sole computer maker in 5 years, as everyone else simply gives up and opens pizza restaurants.
Just gave me a reason to suggest ONLY using Chrome to most users. There is no end to the amount of sideloaded shitware extensions that fuck up your browser.
Hmm, I had to use Chrome this morning, and the once stable browser hung on me several times. I wonder if there is any relation. Can't think why, but that's never happened before. Ended up having to use FF.
Ok, so you find out his email address is chosun@whatever.net.
You either think "neat, his name sounds like a word, that's hilarious!", or you blindly carry on with your life, oblivious to the humour.
In what gray area of troubled thinking do you stop and ask "Why would you use your own name as your email address?" in order to set him up for his "few are chosun" bit?
Unless you mean to say "none of this happened at all, ever, but it's the only way I could think of to set up this joke".
You have to admit, there aren't that many Cho Suns's around. It might be the Wong sort of name for many people
Logic and facts aren't really your thing, apparently...
Whoosh.
Go read a history book. Then you might understand that little post of dark humor.
The cleverest thing you did today was post as AC. So you got that going for you. Which is nice.
Facebook also didn't address Democratic Sen. Patrick J. Leahy's concerns. He asked Facebook to detail if the Obama campaign in 2012 had violated "any of Facebook's policies, and thereby get banned from the platform." Facebook said: "Both the Obama and Romney campaigns had access to the same tools, and no campaign received any special treatment from Facebook."
Leahy's "concern" is clearly to try to exonerate the Obama campaign and get the "Trump used teh (now) evil Facebook data slurping" weapon back.
Gee Boris, the only people worried about the Kenyan Terror Baby's Facebook use are people who can't see the difference between taking out political ads and providing Ukranian hookers on demand.
And those who are paid to.
Oh, and I forgot - Infowars fans
Also it isn't what you do, but how you do it. For the most part the Obama campaign was about bringing in voters to vote for him, while Cambridge Analytica was using the data to prevent people from voting for the opposition.
Democracy is about people voting their opinions. Ideally everyone should be voting for good or for ill.
Exactly. While the shills are braying about O'blama as somehow a crime dwarfing Cambridge Analytica's actions, it is telling that in a Republican controlled Congress, that is happy to spend money investigating and re-investigating "liberal crimes", that we're not investigating O'blama for this.
I still like my idea of shipping everything returned to Germany at full price plus shipping, all to be covered by Germany. Who could oppose that - especially when the good people of Germany are demanding to control what Amazon does? Step up and do your duty.
I'm confused - do you think Amazon Germany should NOT be subject to German laws?
Germany is only one country, As the European Union has shown, they want world domination. All of it - every single return sent back to Amazon must go to Germany.
I think that the scientists are unworthy of grants.
Hi Donald - glad to see you are diversifying from twitter but sadly, no, that's still not how science works. Scientific grants are paid to fund research to find out what actually happens, you are thinking of "political contributions" which are paid to guarantee a particular result.
We need to make certain that only the never before done breakthroughs that are 100 percent guaranteed to work are funded.
Second, no one told these folks that ESD stands for Electro-Static Discharge?
He was first appointed to the FCC by Obama. It's not like he gets an extra vote for being Chairman.
The chairman determines the agenda, and he was the minority Republican member with two demoncraps. So now you control the agenda, have a built in two to one vote, and you really think he has no power? Let's chat about 3 to 1 margins. So yeah, he kinda does get the automatic majority.
But hey, I get it.... "HER EMAIL!!!"
Pretty sure you can buy almost anything at your local secondhand store on an "AS-IS, No Refunds" basis.
Yet many people are taken to court over as-is sales. Most plaintiffs lose. The only ones who don't can prove fraud. So guess what the plaintiffs claim. But you're still dragged through the mud.
I still like my idea of shipping everything returned to Germany at full price plus shipping, all to be covered by Germany. Who could oppose that - especially when the good people of Germany are demanding to control what Amazon does? Step up and do your duty.
There's plenty of people out there who'd say they'd take the risk for a lower price, but would then turn around and sue you if it turned out bad. They'd probably win, too, no matter what they signed; there are consumer rights you can't sign away. So Amazon can't resell this junk.
Exactly. If I was Amazon, I would strike a deal with the German Government, requiring the German Government to pay full price plus shipping, all to be sold by the German Government. In this way, the good people of Germany will insure that no resources are wasted, and will be very happy as their wholesome wishes are fulfilled.P> My Goodness, they will demand total control over everything life if you let them.