I've personally seen what the Apple approach to design leads to. Proper operating temperatures seem to be a distant afterthought. Effective cooling is heresy.
> People aren't buying the old one. Apple's customers don't want the size.
If people aren't buying the old one, it probably has nothing to do with it's size. It probably has to do with the fact that it is OLD. Being OLD, it's probably it is out of date and is about to be superceded with something new.
Being OLD it probably also has poor price performance relative to other PC workstations.
Short of being designed as an insult to the IT guys that have to maintain this stuff, it's also a much needed hardware update with stuff like a current CPU.
ANY rifle is far superior to the sort of "scatter gun" that idiots from the Blue contingent like to advocate.
Most of the mystique surrounding these weapons is driven by fundemental misunderstandings of how they are used by professionals. Such professionals do not employ them as if they are recreating a scene out of some gangster movie or an A-Team episode.
Rifles are intended to be controlled precision weapons. Their advantage is range and accuracy. This is something that the AK-47 gets knocked for.
Beyond the magazine, "weapons of war" aren't terribly impressive. Some like the M-16 are actually a little underpowered when it comes to larger game.
The hysteria surrounding infantry rifles is mostly driven by willful ignorance.
Media played on real Linux doesn't have any of the unskippable ad nonsense you see on a conventional BD player. Any of my desktop or HTPC players also have better navigation controls. I can much more reliably control those interfaces across multiple devices and not need to buy a single brand or model of console.
ALL PC based streaming video implementations kind of suck. So it's hard to argue against a $60 streamer appliance.
...which is all refuted by a simple counterexample: MacOS.
Apple never bought into this bend over and say ahh deal which is why Macs support neither BluRay nor CableCard.
Yet they have Netflix player.
So it's clearly not "Linux hippies" that are the problem.
HELL. Two competing subscription streaming services run just fine on Linux (namely Amazon & Hulu).
Netflix upper management just decided to get into bed with Microsoft and make some poor technology choices. It has nothing to do with things "imposed externally by media moguls".
Give most people a free choice and they will probably fall in line with "conventional gender roles". Some people will cross the lines regardless of what society or their family have to say on the matter. On the other hand, many people can be successfully pushed into fields they would not otherwise persue. This is common in other countries where there is not the same stigma attached to technical professions that you see in the US.
Even among men, selling is more highly valued than building.
Java ran on a 486. The first attempts at Java desktop applications occured in the era when the 486 was still relevant. I even remember trying to run a Java office suite on my 486 at the time.
It worked... kind of. It was painful and slow but it ran.
Why should social graces matter? It's work. You make it sound like the only reason that a woman would be in an IT shop is to find a husband. The fact that your coworkers aren't good breeding material shouldn't be an issue. Neither should be the fact that you wouldn't even want to socialize with them.
it's work. Something you do to feed yourself and keep dry.
The same office bullshit happens everywhere regardless of what kind of work you're doing or what kind of company you're working for. People are people and most of them are idiots.
The only real issue is whether or not IT is the kind of work you want to do. The same goes for anything else including sales or masonry.
There was a time when there were ZERO women in the workforce. In those days about 150 years ago, it was true that nearly all nurses were men. Secretaries were all men too.
That doesn't have much relevance to what's occured in the last 100 years though. Certainly not the last 50.
The "ugly" ones don't need the affirmative action. They're just as geeky as anyone else. They can go toe to toe with the guys on their own terms. They can also push back on any bullshit.
Sexism and anti-intellectualism in the wider culture is far more of a problem than what goes on in STEM programs of any sort.
> It was awarded to a company that specialized in landing government contracts. To the person in the bidding process, it would appear to be awarded to a company with a proven track record.
In other words, the entire system is corrupt just as the OP implied.
> You only got to where you are because you were in the right place at the right time. Not everyone is so lucky.
No. He got where he is today because he isn't some worthless sheep that would fit in better in some European welfare state. If you are working class, you really have no one to blame but yourself for how your life turned out. There are enough handouts even in the US that you really don't have an excuse.
Some people do whatever it takes. Others just make excuses and whine.
These people are probably too stupid to come to these conclusions on their own. They probably need some rabble rouser leading them around by the nose.
This sort of nonsense is really sad in a town like SFO that has ALWAYS been a boom town. It was founded as such and continues to experience various "rush" cycles. It's nothing remotely new. It has nothing to do with the "techies". It's just the nature of the place.
So you want your city to turn into Fresno or Detroit? Good luck with that.
> Where exactly does one find a job in Nowhere, Montana?
Pound the pavement. Knock on doors.
If you have no real job skills then it doesn't really matter who you are tying to get a job from and what job you are applying for.
On the other hand, there's a big gaping chasm between San Francisco and Bozeman, Montana. There are any number of less extreme places you could seek out for a better life.
Some people actually seek those out. They don't just sit on their asses and expect someone else to rescue them like some sort of welfare mother or somesuch.
That's why immigrants are so great. They represent the people with the initiative to try and change their destiny.
He's not the one that's clueless, you are. A tradesman who gets the benefit of overtime pay can make more than a "techie" while working the same hours.
Most "techies" are just as abused by "the man" as these idiots attacking private busses.
HELL, we even have to worry about the same offshoring that the manufacturing industries endured in the 80s.
If these morons are chasing away the tech companies, one has to wonder who they think will provide jobs to anyone once they get their way.
Most employers suck. The larger an employer is, the more likely they are to suck worse.
Defending against the trained monkeys you've designed your enterprise to be run by is a considerable challenge that leads to predictable results.
Once you get past the monkeys, many of those constraints are stupid and counter-productive and should be violated by anyone that has enough of a clue to fend for themselves.
In an attack of this kind, the mag stripe is likely entirely irrelevant. So it doesn't matter what security features are embedded in the card. Sooner or later, the card is going to have to be verified against a remote system and everything you need is going to be pure information past that point.
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I certainly won't take YOUR word for that.
I've personally seen what the Apple approach to design leads to. Proper operating temperatures seem to be a distant afterthought. Effective cooling is heresy.
> Everyone has their own preference, even professionals. Surprising right?
Keep on feeding those excuses to yourself.
> People aren't buying the old one. Apple's customers don't want the size.
If people aren't buying the old one, it probably has nothing to do with it's size. It probably has to do with the fact that it is OLD. Being OLD, it's probably it is out of date and is about to be superceded with something new.
Being OLD it probably also has poor price performance relative to other PC workstations.
Short of being designed as an insult to the IT guys that have to maintain this stuff, it's also a much needed hardware update with stuff like a current CPU.
You are confusing tools for professionals with overpriced doo-dads intended to fool other people into believing that you are wealthy.
> Except, and I hate to be a wet blanket, but the people who did the things that need apologizing for are long dead, too.
You mean like the British head of state?
She's the one that pardoned him.
He lived in the Soviet Union. He either did what he was told or he would be sent to a Gulag. He could have been sent to a Gulag anyways.
Short of defecting, he really didn't have much say in his own destiny.
No. What he had access to was a Nazi rifle he could easily copy.
ANY rifle is far superior to the sort of "scatter gun" that idiots from the Blue contingent like to advocate.
Most of the mystique surrounding these weapons is driven by fundemental misunderstandings of how they are used by professionals. Such professionals do not employ them as if they are recreating a scene out of some gangster movie or an A-Team episode.
Rifles are intended to be controlled precision weapons. Their advantage is range and accuracy. This is something that the AK-47 gets knocked for.
Beyond the magazine, "weapons of war" aren't terribly impressive. Some like the M-16 are actually a little underpowered when it comes to larger game.
The hysteria surrounding infantry rifles is mostly driven by willful ignorance.
>> People watch netflix on a computer? Why?
>
> It saves space when your computer can act as the TV too.
Hardly.
Even next to a even a low profile computer, a streamer appliance looks like the tranceiver for an after market IR remote.
> B-b-but fweeeeedum!
Media played on real Linux doesn't have any of the unskippable ad nonsense you see on a conventional BD player. Any of my desktop or HTPC players also have better navigation controls. I can much more reliably control those interfaces across multiple devices and not need to buy a single brand or model of console.
ALL PC based streaming video implementations kind of suck. So it's hard to argue against a $60 streamer appliance.
...which is all refuted by a simple counterexample: MacOS.
Apple never bought into this bend over and say ahh deal which is why Macs support neither BluRay nor CableCard.
Yet they have Netflix player.
So it's clearly not "Linux hippies" that are the problem.
HELL. Two competing subscription streaming services run just fine on Linux (namely Amazon & Hulu).
Netflix upper management just decided to get into bed with Microsoft and make some poor technology choices. It has nothing to do with things "imposed externally by media moguls".
Give most people a free choice and they will probably fall in line with "conventional gender roles". Some people will cross the lines regardless of what society or their family have to say on the matter. On the other hand, many people can be successfully pushed into fields they would not otherwise persue. This is common in other countries where there is not the same stigma attached to technical professions that you see in the US.
Even among men, selling is more highly valued than building.
Why should that trend be resisted among women.
Java ran on a 486. The first attempts at Java desktop applications occured in the era when the 486 was still relevant. I even remember trying to run a Java office suite on my 486 at the time.
It worked... kind of. It was painful and slow but it ran.
Why should social graces matter? It's work. You make it sound like the only reason that a woman would be in an IT shop is to find a husband. The fact that your coworkers aren't good breeding material shouldn't be an issue. Neither should be the fact that you wouldn't even want to socialize with them.
it's work. Something you do to feed yourself and keep dry.
The same office bullshit happens everywhere regardless of what kind of work you're doing or what kind of company you're working for. People are people and most of them are idiots.
The only real issue is whether or not IT is the kind of work you want to do. The same goes for anything else including sales or masonry.
There was a time when there were ZERO women in the workforce. In those days about 150 years ago, it was true that nearly all nurses were men. Secretaries were all men too.
That doesn't have much relevance to what's occured in the last 100 years though. Certainly not the last 50.
The "ugly" ones don't need the affirmative action. They're just as geeky as anyone else. They can go toe to toe with the guys on their own terms. They can also push back on any bullshit.
Sexism and anti-intellectualism in the wider culture is far more of a problem than what goes on in STEM programs of any sort.
> It was awarded to a company that specialized in landing government contracts. To the person in the bidding process, it would appear to be awarded to a company with a proven track record.
In other words, the entire system is corrupt just as the OP implied.
> You only got to where you are because you were in the right place at the right time. Not everyone is so lucky.
No. He got where he is today because he isn't some worthless sheep that would fit in better in some European welfare state. If you are working class, you really have no one to blame but yourself for how your life turned out. There are enough handouts even in the US that you really don't have an excuse.
Some people do whatever it takes. Others just make excuses and whine.
These people are probably too stupid to come to these conclusions on their own. They probably need some rabble rouser leading them around by the nose.
This sort of nonsense is really sad in a town like SFO that has ALWAYS been a boom town. It was founded as such and continues to experience various "rush" cycles. It's nothing remotely new. It has nothing to do with the "techies". It's just the nature of the place.
So you want your city to turn into Fresno or Detroit? Good luck with that.
> Where exactly does one find a job in Nowhere, Montana?
Pound the pavement. Knock on doors.
If you have no real job skills then it doesn't really matter who you are tying to get a job from and what job you are applying for.
On the other hand, there's a big gaping chasm between San Francisco and Bozeman, Montana. There are any number of less extreme places you could seek out for a better life.
Some people actually seek those out. They don't just sit on their asses and expect someone else to rescue them like some sort of welfare mother or somesuch.
That's why immigrants are so great. They represent the people with the initiative to try and change their destiny.
> You are clueless.
He's not the one that's clueless, you are. A tradesman who gets the benefit of overtime pay can make more than a "techie" while working the same hours.
Most "techies" are just as abused by "the man" as these idiots attacking private busses.
HELL, we even have to worry about the same offshoring that the manufacturing industries endured in the 80s.
If these morons are chasing away the tech companies, one has to wonder who they think will provide jobs to anyone once they get their way.
Most employers suck. The larger an employer is, the more likely they are to suck worse.
Defending against the trained monkeys you've designed your enterprise to be run by is a considerable challenge that leads to predictable results.
Once you get past the monkeys, many of those constraints are stupid and counter-productive and should be violated by anyone that has enough of a clue to fend for themselves.
> Me and the boys fuck your wife while you tinker with your nerd shit.
My wife? You can't handle my wife.
Compared to many of the people that manage to have the job title of "developer" in corporations, a "hobbyist" would be a step up.
In an attack of this kind, the mag stripe is likely entirely irrelevant. So it doesn't matter what security features are embedded in the card. Sooner or later, the card is going to have to be verified against a remote system and everything you need is going to be pure information past that point.
Same goes for those stupid electronic signatures.
Perhaps the greatest aid to counterfeiting ever.