That's a bit optimistic. Some of them are total schmucks that couldn't find their way out of a wet paper bag. Some of them can't even manage as well as some of the quacks.
I kid you not. The first doc I saw regarding my current condition missed obvious stuff that a genuine quack managed to see.
A lot of people in a similar situation are mired by "professionals" who don't do well enough to understand what's going on even if they do manage to catch the obvious physical symptoms.
Like anything else, Sturgeons law applies. Let the patient beware.
You could be harboring a nasty surprise yourself...
No. We just don't buy the whitewash. It's a really old trick. It's like anything else the guy ever did. He just copies things that other people have already done. He usually does so badly.
Running a real test will not "take days". However, a blood test may not be helpful for days. The last doctor we imported for treatment was like this. Despite the fact that he was starting to exhibit symptoms, blood tests didn't indicate he had Ebola.
Properly quarantining people is problematic enough when it's just one obnoxious nurse. Forget about an entire plane full of entitled 1st worlders.
MP3 players arose in a time when PCs in general were still primitive. They suffered because of this. A lot of peripherals from that time were more difficult to deal with on a PC. It wasn't just MP3 players.
At that time, pretending that people didn't have anything besides a USB port (or Firewire port) was a double edged sword.
At that time, CD ripping was already simple. Buying ready made content was only a problem because of a sandbagging cartel.
Major broadcast network shows are available everywhere. They're on Hulu. They're on network specific websites. They're on Amazon. HELL, they're even on iTunes.
Then there's PVR technology that's been with us for 15 years already.
If you can't manage with all of that, doing nothing more but change the transport layer of your cable service really isn't going to help you.
Streaming "real time"? Who fucking cares? This is 2015, not 1965. The only stuff where "real time" actually matters any more is SPORTS and that's already covered by a number of other options including what Apple is copying.
Apple has no advantage here. They aren't a prime mover. They aren't a better mover. They aren't even the first to offer this particular variation.
Also, if people can't handle new technology, Apple isn't really going to help them. They can just stick with their old cable subscription (or even an antenna). The Apple approach of "easy equals crippled" isn't really going to help here.
The "clueless rube" contingent in this context isn't even on the table here.
Nonsense. It's intentionally obfuscated to the point where it differs more from the surrounding English than different European language families do. It's interesting to catch the borrowed words between languages where people aren't trying to be obtuse with one another.
Something like ebonics is fundementally anti-social and anti-assimilationist.
No. You would just lock people in cages with other animals instead. It achieves much the same end. YOU would likely think that it achieves the same end if it were done to you.
So ultimately you're no more "enlightened" for opting for a long period of torment over a swift exectuion.
The maker of SWATCH of all things is not a terribly good source here. He's just another loser. I don't see the Swiss watch crowd being too impressed by the Apple product. Apple might get some sales but it will likely be just people who are already part of the iCult. I don't see them causing a mass exodus from the Swiss brands.
It's much like trying to declare the demise of the PC. Those people know what they want and it's not the new shiny shiny.
...except it's expensive to travel with. If I go outside the country, the phone pretty much turns into an Archos. It's not terribly useful anymore. Certainly not as useful as it could be.
Any time that my phone becomes a paperweight due to poor network access or highway robbery network prices, the watch comes out of hiding.
I have an expensive watch because it's a match for the wife's. Beyond that, I would never pay a lot of money for any sort of watch.
That's just retarded. Have a tantrum like a little baby just because developers won't go to an unecessary EXTRA step just to please you? That's just stupid.
The Steam experience is seamless on Linux just like it is on Windows and that's really all that matters on the end.
If you are going to whine about irrelevant nonsense, at least whine about the DRM. At least that's associated with some moral high ground rather than being totally irrelevant nonsense.
>> Once it works with Mac or Linux making it work with the other is trivial. > > Are you for serious? Maybe if your middleware supports Linux yea, otherwise not so much.
Of course he's serious.
Once you get past coding for DirectX only, the gap between that and the next thing is MUCH smaller. That's why Mac companies are doing the most interesting Linux ports right now.
If it were me, I would have just bought a proper laptop for the purpose to begin with. I'm not sure I would go for this Optimus stuff even if I were running Windows. It all seems like a very bad hack.
You can make things easier for yourself if you really want to.
It's not genuinely portable unless it's actually useful as it was sold to you. If it's a travelling octopus, then it's not really portable. It's a bad hack that should get as much derision from hipster computer users as "power users" do.
It's a total double standard on the part of the fanboys here.
You're on crack. Most of that stuff is specialized. Although it shouldn't matter for true professionals. They shouldn't be nearly that rigid. Neither should the corporations that hire them.
The real problem is that corporations think they can treat people like dirt. It's all take and no give. So if someone is not already a custom made perfect fit, they won't be considered.
I have witnessed both the "abused talent" and the "scab" myself firsthand. The H1B is a great tool of oppression and it really is used to suppress wages. How could it not? It leaves an employee in a completely vulnerable position.
Companies will cheat if they can. The H1B is just one such cheat that helps undermine a more natural market dynamic.
It's the application of technology of various kinds to bring light to activities of an exclusive club that would not have otherwise remained secret. It's an application of pervasive surveillance technology combined with online services to publish the results of surveillance (or recording). It's also an interesting free speech question.
In the real 1984 it's not Big Brother you have to worry about.
Relative to Google's own requirements for Chrome, it's an improvement. Relative to someone interested in a real OS or Linux in particular, Chrome already jumped the shark anyways.
The "need" for power, boils down to how creative they are. If they are more creative. They will likely find use for the extra power. That's what the P in PC stands for: PERSONAL.
Genuine voice recognition will gobble up cycles.
What other things have I not thought of? Hard to say. That's rather the point. It's better not to handicap the end user just because we might not have thought of something.
On the other hand, it's been commonplace to carry your gun everywhere in some places. The entire planet is not a concrete jungle in the style of Coruscant quite yet.
Taking your gun to school is only seen as a problem because some people choose to act hysterically when it comes to a particular bit of modern technology. They wallow in their fear and ignorance and take great pride in it. They confuse ignorance with sophistication.
It's seen as "something that's not done" simply because it's taboo and there's a good part of the population that chooses to be intolerant.
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That's a bit optimistic. Some of them are total schmucks that couldn't find their way out of a wet paper bag. Some of them can't even manage as well as some of the quacks.
I kid you not. The first doc I saw regarding my current condition missed obvious stuff that a genuine quack managed to see.
A lot of people in a similar situation are mired by "professionals" who don't do well enough to understand what's going on even if they do manage to catch the obvious physical symptoms.
Like anything else, Sturgeons law applies. Let the patient beware.
You could be harboring a nasty surprise yourself...
No. We just don't buy the whitewash. It's a really old trick. It's like anything else the guy ever did. He just copies things that other people have already done. He usually does so badly.
Running a real test will not "take days". However, a blood test may not be helpful for days. The last doctor we imported for treatment was like this. Despite the fact that he was starting to exhibit symptoms, blood tests didn't indicate he had Ebola.
Properly quarantining people is problematic enough when it's just one obnoxious nurse. Forget about an entire plane full of entitled 1st worlders.
The only one committing a logical fallacy is YOU.
He is not comparing this new Apple nonsense to some unobtainable ideal. He's comparing it to what he can already use TODAY.
I guess that makes your argument a false strawman.
He can use a plethora of streaming options that already constitute "Nirvana". He could also use well established PVR technology.
The ads really are a showstopper. I think the last time I had to sit through cable ads was back before Steve Jobs returned to Apple.
MP3 players arose in a time when PCs in general were still primitive. They suffered because of this. A lot of peripherals from that time were more difficult to deal with on a PC. It wasn't just MP3 players.
At that time, pretending that people didn't have anything besides a USB port (or Firewire port) was a double edged sword.
At that time, CD ripping was already simple. Buying ready made content was only a problem because of a sandbagging cartel.
Major broadcast network shows are available everywhere. They're on Hulu. They're on network specific websites. They're on Amazon. HELL, they're even on iTunes.
Then there's PVR technology that's been with us for 15 years already.
If you can't manage with all of that, doing nothing more but change the transport layer of your cable service really isn't going to help you.
Streaming "real time"? Who fucking cares? This is 2015, not 1965. The only stuff where "real time" actually matters any more is SPORTS and that's already covered by a number of other options including what Apple is copying.
Apple has no advantage here. They aren't a prime mover. They aren't a better mover. They aren't even the first to offer this particular variation.
Also, if people can't handle new technology, Apple isn't really going to help them. They can just stick with their old cable subscription (or even an antenna). The Apple approach of "easy equals crippled" isn't really going to help here.
The "clueless rube" contingent in this context isn't even on the table here.
Nonsense. It's intentionally obfuscated to the point where it differs more from the surrounding English than different European language families do. It's interesting to catch the borrowed words between languages where people aren't trying to be obtuse with one another.
Something like ebonics is fundementally anti-social and anti-assimilationist.
No. You would just lock people in cages with other animals instead. It achieves much the same end. YOU would likely think that it achieves the same end if it were done to you.
So ultimately you're no more "enlightened" for opting for a long period of torment over a swift exectuion.
> And back in 2007 you'd be telling us the iPhone would present no threat to BlackBerry.
Except an iPhone is much more like a Blackberry than any Apple product is similar to a Swiss watch.
The maker of SWATCH of all things is not a terribly good source here. He's just another loser. I don't see the Swiss watch crowd being too impressed by the Apple product. Apple might get some sales but it will likely be just people who are already part of the iCult. I don't see them causing a mass exodus from the Swiss brands.
It's much like trying to declare the demise of the PC. Those people know what they want and it's not the new shiny shiny.
...except it's expensive to travel with. If I go outside the country, the phone pretty much turns into an Archos. It's not terribly useful anymore. Certainly not as useful as it could be.
Any time that my phone becomes a paperweight due to poor network access or highway robbery network prices, the watch comes out of hiding.
I have an expensive watch because it's a match for the wife's. Beyond that, I would never pay a lot of money for any sort of watch.
That's just retarded. Have a tantrum like a little baby just because developers won't go to an unecessary EXTRA step just to please you? That's just stupid.
The Steam experience is seamless on Linux just like it is on Windows and that's really all that matters on the end.
If you are going to whine about irrelevant nonsense, at least whine about the DRM. At least that's associated with some moral high ground rather than being totally irrelevant nonsense.
>> Once it works with Mac or Linux making it work with the other is trivial.
>
> Are you for serious? Maybe if your middleware supports Linux yea, otherwise not so much.
Of course he's serious.
Once you get past coding for DirectX only, the gap between that and the next thing is MUCH smaller. That's why Mac companies are doing the most interesting Linux ports right now.
If it were me, I would have just bought a proper laptop for the purpose to begin with. I'm not sure I would go for this Optimus stuff even if I were running Windows. It all seems like a very bad hack.
You can make things easier for yourself if you really want to.
It's not genuinely portable unless it's actually useful as it was sold to you. If it's a travelling octopus, then it's not really portable. It's a bad hack that should get as much derision from hipster computer users as "power users" do.
It's a total double standard on the part of the fanboys here.
In 10 years time, the Apple Watch will be a non-functioning piece of trash. You will be lucky if an Apple Watch outlasts a Timex. Never mind a Rolex.
No. One child's life is not worth imposing a police state.
You're on crack. Most of that stuff is specialized. Although it shouldn't matter for true professionals. They shouldn't be nearly that rigid. Neither should the corporations that hire them.
The real problem is that corporations think they can treat people like dirt. It's all take and no give. So if someone is not already a custom made perfect fit, they won't be considered.
Great. An H1B shill.
I have witnessed both the "abused talent" and the "scab" myself firsthand. The H1B is a great tool of oppression and it really is used to suppress wages. How could it not? It leaves an employee in a completely vulnerable position.
Companies will cheat if they can. The H1B is just one such cheat that helps undermine a more natural market dynamic.
It's the application of technology of various kinds to bring light to activities of an exclusive club that would not have otherwise remained secret. It's an application of pervasive surveillance technology combined with online services to publish the results of surveillance (or recording). It's also an interesting free speech question.
In the real 1984 it's not Big Brother you have to worry about.
No. You're just confusing "newer" with "progress".
They aren't the same thing by a long shot.
Relative to Google's own requirements for Chrome, it's an improvement. Relative to someone interested in a real OS or Linux in particular, Chrome already jumped the shark anyways.
Everyone finds larger screens useful.
The "need" for power, boils down to how creative they are. If they are more creative. They will likely find use for the extra power. That's what the P in PC stands for: PERSONAL.
Genuine voice recognition will gobble up cycles.
What other things have I not thought of? Hard to say. That's rather the point. It's better not to handicap the end user just because we might not have thought of something.
On the other hand, it's been commonplace to carry your gun everywhere in some places. The entire planet is not a concrete jungle in the style of Coruscant quite yet.
Taking your gun to school is only seen as a problem because some people choose to act hysterically when it comes to a particular bit of modern technology. They wallow in their fear and ignorance and take great pride in it. They confuse ignorance with sophistication.
It's seen as "something that's not done" simply because it's taboo and there's a good part of the population that chooses to be intolerant.