He doesn't have to be "right". We live in a democracy. We tolerate the "wrong". In fact, we tolerate the "really really wrong". That's what separates us from Communists and Nazis.
He's free to his opinion in broad terms and also in terms of each individual issue he mentioned.
This highlights the problem of a study of this kind. You might like today's Republican and despise tomorrows. They're not made in a factory. Nor should they appear as such.
THAT is another problematic aspect of Communism and Fascism. Too much "party discipline".
If there aren't plenty of DINOs and RINOs, then it's not a democracy.
When you can buy 10 mechanical drives for the price of one, the speed advantage of the SSD may not matter so much anymore. If a pricey SSD is only twice as fast as a cheap HDD, then you only need 2 of them to blow past an SSD.
The problem here is "high end" and sorting out what that means while paying for it and avoiding notoriously bad brands (like OCZ).
I keep some of my HTPCs powered off and disconnected from wall power. We treat these machines as video appliances, like souped up Roku's and even with those we aren't so impatient that we would care about trimming 30 seconds off the boot time.
The fact that something can be accessed with a court order does not make it public. Your personal papers are free from search and seizure. The fact that it's easy enough for a burglar to steal doesn't alter their private nature or your rights.
Apple did it's own thing for a very long time. The result that Apple was marginalized and nearly forgotten until Steve Jobs came back. At which point he pretty much abdicated the PC market.
History is now repeating itself with Apple's new consumer electronics business.
If you don't buy seeds or herbicide then you aren't a customer. You aren't even a customer of the farmer that uses the seed or herbicide. You're several levels removed.
Without the Internet, you would likely not even know who they were.
Unfortunately, Monsanto and Blackwater weren't in the tournament.
The site is called CONSUMERIST. So, you know it's going to be about CONSUMER concerns. It's not going to be a sounding board for every random Chomsky wannabe.
> note: jedidiah is a gnu/hippie who's angry that Apple took-over the *nix desktop market.
MacOS is it's own proprietary OS and always has been. To what degree it has Unix embedded in it (for corporate cost savings) has about as much relevance to the typical user as the Linux kernel running in a Tivo or Sony BluRay player.
It must really suck to be a MacOS fanboy. They make hardware that's either lame and limiting or really expensive. That has to be the worst part about wanting to run MacOS: needing to buy Apple hardware.
Macs suck as PCs. It doesn't matter if you've deluded yourself into believing they're Unix workstations.
That's the fun part about all of this. If you've bought a serious Mac you are locked out of all of this shiny newness. You can't get an upgrade card for it either.
Systems that NEED an external card cage to make up for things that are missing in the original product.
"Worry not if that low profile machine or laptop has a GPU mocked by everyone. You can buy a big ugly expensive box to attach to your pretty little Apple."
I am sure that you would also claim that Firewire rules the world too.
With all of the costs and extra gear involved. You might as well just have another PC. The real problem here isn't that Apple laptops are lame but that there isn't a seamless experience between different devices on an Apple network.
The Cloud concept there doesn't quite live up to the hype.
"Religious Purity" really has nothing to do with it.
It's the same bother for a Linux user to dinker with Windows as it is for a Windows user to dinker with Linux. At least the copy of Linux is going to be free.
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> Assuming that your opinion is the "right"
He doesn't have to be "right". We live in a democracy. We tolerate the "wrong". In fact, we tolerate the "really really wrong". That's what separates us from Communists and Nazis.
He's free to his opinion in broad terms and also in terms of each individual issue he mentioned.
This highlights the problem of a study of this kind. You might like today's Republican and despise tomorrows. They're not made in a factory. Nor should they appear as such.
THAT is another problematic aspect of Communism and Fascism. Too much "party discipline".
If there aren't plenty of DINOs and RINOs, then it's not a democracy.
Yes. Quite. Blacklisting 4 Indian companies would leave plenty for everyone else.
Immigrants are great, but only so long as they have the same rights as the guy that wants to import/exploit them.
When you can buy 10 mechanical drives for the price of one, the speed advantage of the SSD may not matter so much anymore. If a pricey SSD is only twice as fast as a cheap HDD, then you only need 2 of them to blow past an SSD.
The problem here is "high end" and sorting out what that means while paying for it and avoiding notoriously bad brands (like OCZ).
SSD is already really expensive to begin with.
I keep some of my HTPCs powered off and disconnected from wall power. We treat these machines as video appliances, like souped up Roku's and even with those we aren't so impatient that we would care about trimming 30 seconds off the boot time.
Those get powered on every time they're used.
The fact that something can be accessed with a court order does not make it public. Your personal papers are free from search and seizure. The fact that it's easy enough for a burglar to steal doesn't alter their private nature or your rights.
Apple did it's own thing for a very long time. The result that Apple was marginalized and nearly forgotten until Steve Jobs came back. At which point he pretty much abdicated the PC market.
History is now repeating itself with Apple's new consumer electronics business.
You seem to have a strange combination of superficial sincere interest and cluelessness. They're really kind of at odds with each other.
Never tried? Never looked into it?
More than anything your question seems like an excuse to propagate doubt.
The core team from Westwood never left. They formed their own studio afterwards and continued to make RTS games.
Perhaps that's what everyone needs to do. Track down the old talent. See where they are hiding. Buy those games instead.
EA is an industry stifling behemoth much like any of the companies you named.
A couple of those other companies also qualify as "mere entertainment".
Don't be an ignorant git.
If you don't buy seeds or herbicide then you aren't a customer. You aren't even a customer of the farmer that uses the seed or herbicide. You're several levels removed.
Without the Internet, you would likely not even know who they were.
Unfortunately, Monsanto and Blackwater weren't in the tournament.
The site is called CONSUMERIST. So, you know it's going to be about CONSUMER concerns. It's not going to be a sounding board for every random Chomsky wannabe.
Employees are being kept at the office.
This primarily benefits the employer.
It all depends on what kind of taxation entity you are.
If you are a non-employee, there are a lot of things you can deduct. If you are a business entity, then the tax code is created in your favor.
I get more than 375MB/sec (total) from cheap SATA ports bundled on a cheap consumer PC motherboard. The pro grade stuff has to be better than that.
A cheap consumer spinny drive can manage 200MB/s by itself.
It's a shame that 10G ethernet is not cheap and commonplace.
650MB/s? That's all? I can get nearly that much just by putting drives into a PC. I get nearly that much from the drives in my PC.
You're out of touch with what PCs can do if you think those numbers are going to blow the rest of us away.
Doing that over a distance would be more interesting.
> note: jedidiah is a gnu/hippie who's angry that Apple took-over the *nix desktop market.
MacOS is it's own proprietary OS and always has been. To what degree it has Unix embedded in it (for corporate cost savings) has about as much relevance to the typical user as the Linux kernel running in a Tivo or Sony BluRay player.
It must really suck to be a MacOS fanboy. They make hardware that's either lame and limiting or really expensive. That has to be the worst part about wanting to run MacOS: needing to buy Apple hardware.
Macs suck as PCs. It doesn't matter if you've deluded yourself into believing they're Unix workstations.
That's the fun part about all of this. If you've bought a serious Mac you are locked out of all of this shiny newness. You can't get an upgrade card for it either.
> What exactly are the poor engineering choices
Systems that NEED an external card cage to make up for things that are missing in the original product.
"Worry not if that low profile machine or laptop has a GPU mocked by everyone. You can buy a big ugly expensive box to attach to your pretty little Apple."
...for differing values of large.
I am sure that you would also claim that Firewire rules the world too.
With all of the costs and extra gear involved. You might as well just have another PC. The real problem here isn't that Apple laptops are lame but that there isn't a seamless experience between different devices on an Apple network.
The Cloud concept there doesn't quite live up to the hype.
Obviously he's been exposed to too much Apple marketing.
Apple is pushing this stuff hard to make up for their poor engineering choices. Beyond that, it's value and appeal is pretty dubious.
> Linux's lack of standardization
That would be the lack of standardization that prevents me from running Oracle on some random unsupported distribution?
It case you missed it, that was sarcasm.
apt-get install what-I-need-and-nothing-else
Did the server version of Ubuntu suddenly disappear?
Running an alien OS is a lot of bother.
"Religious Purity" really has nothing to do with it.
It's the same bother for a Linux user to dinker with Windows as it is for a Windows user to dinker with Linux. At least the copy of Linux is going to be free.
Not just a Fisher Price toy but a $1000 Fisher Price toy.
It's like the 2014 Ferraris coming with a governor that only lets you do 20 MPH.