They are all shameless party rags and you are kidding yourself if you believe otherwise. You're just drinking a different flavor of Kool-Aid and belong to a different cult.
Considering that this is the age of Alexa, that's not a bad approach. People will happily subject themselves to the modern version of Big Brother for a small bit of convenience.
> They aren't but they consider being called "nazi" a compliment
No, you've just abused the term (and all of the others) to the point where they no longer have any meaning. The insult only makes YOU look like a lazy idiot at this point.
Dependence on these kinds of insults makes your brain rot. You can't make a real argument anymore. Your mind has atrophied.
> How about a better approach to healthcare in your country, where you should be able to get life saving treatment for decades without bankrupting you or your dependents...?
I would rather have more competent health care and my nurses not needing to use a food bank.
It never ceases to amaze me how broke idiots want to value money they don't even have more then their life.
> Why shouldn't they be able to use public info to build an automated panopticon to track definitively where everyone is at all times?
Why shouldn't anyone? This is a basic liberty issue. What isn't explicitly forbidden is allowed in a free society. Anyone can do it. I could probably cobble something together myself. That's just the nature of technology in a sophisticated society.
You are whining about the wrong part of the equation.
It's the panopticon that's the problem.
Data that might make it more useful is just a red herring.
No. The underlying problem has nothing to do with race. The real problem is that you are trying to punish people based on future crimes. This is the problem of letting your brain rot because you can't do anything but play the race card.
Word. There are serious embedded OSes available. No need to run Windows or even Linux. These are high margin devices with no need to be "cheap" about any part of it.
> Some companies run multi-million dollar hardware/software to control their factory machines. An upgrade will have a multi-million price tag.
Sounds like something that should be set in stone and not subject to the whims of CONSUMER ideas on how systems should be updated.
This is an installation that shouldn't be set up to be vulnerable to the usual sorts of nonsense that plague Windows machines. Doesn't matter how new of a version of Windows they are running.
Short of certain AAA games that don't exist on any other platform, there really hasn't been a compelling reason to bother with WinDOS in a long time. It's simply no longer the "default necessary option". Those days have been over for awhile now.
As a Texan I have no problem with it. This nonsense you are peddling can be used against me by my enemies in California and New York that want to destroy my local health care system. They've already kicked me in the balls hard with Obamacare.
All perps that get arrested get separated from their families.
That is why you go to the actual border rather than trying to sneak across the middle of the dessert.
It's funny how none of you screeching virtue signallers have stopped to consider the implications of dragging a 2 year old across the Arizona desert in summer.
> If you bought a Mac Mini in 2012, you actually don't fucking need a new one now. For what purpose?
The old one died. I had several Minis. They were by far the most unreliable machines I ever owned.
Even assuming they didn't DIE, there is a strong likelihood that newer software would be too much for them. They tend to be quite anemic machines barely fit for purpose. They are marginal at best and highly likely to be knackered by a newer OS or apps.
> its a sad state of affairs when anythning new in technology is greeted with an adenoidal whining of "I dont need this so what's the point?"
So you've got wrapped stacks of cash you can just throw into a fire pit and burn?
If not, then you have to consider how you are going to benefit from this overpriced monstrosity. The guys shouting out "CAD" at least have a reasonable answer beyond "It's new and shiny you fucking Luddite."
My old bruiser still crushes most laptops (both literally and figuratively). That doesn't mean I am going to be sanctimonious ass to people who think it's a bit much.
I'm amused by how you mindless butt hurt morons have actually avoided answering the question. Back in the day, it was pretty easy to come up with very good reasons why you wanted more RAM than the Borg Cube would allow for.
Most people don't use laptops as workstation replacements. Even those of us that have workstations and bruiser laptops can find it hard to exploit all of RAM we already have.
If you've got any actual practical experience (rather than mindless snark), we're all ears.
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They are all shameless party rags and you are kidding yourself if you believe otherwise. You're just drinking a different flavor of Kool-Aid and belong to a different cult.
> In my moms youth having "wrong" DNA was chriminal.
Deranged comparisons like this are a form of Holocaust denial.
Considering that this is the age of Alexa, that's not a bad approach. People will happily subject themselves to the modern version of Big Brother for a small bit of convenience.
> They aren't but they consider being called "nazi" a compliment
No, you've just abused the term (and all of the others) to the point where they no longer have any meaning. The insult only makes YOU look like a lazy idiot at this point.
Dependence on these kinds of insults makes your brain rot. You can't make a real argument anymore. Your mind has atrophied.
> How about a better approach to healthcare in your country, where you should be able to get life saving treatment for decades without bankrupting you or your dependents...?
I would rather have more competent health care and my nurses not needing to use a food bank.
It never ceases to amaze me how broke idiots want to value money they don't even have more then their life.
We already have a system in place. It's used by medical professionals. It's called alcohol gel.
Very handy for being many places in the world that expect you to wash with cold water or don't have an acceptable means to dry yourself.
Even places that are over hyped in the kind of America bashing videos that George Takei shares have places that don't cut the mustard.
> Why shouldn't they be able to use public info to build an automated panopticon to track definitively where everyone is at all times?
Why shouldn't anyone? This is a basic liberty issue. What isn't explicitly forbidden is allowed in a free society. Anyone can do it. I could probably cobble something together myself. That's just the nature of technology in a sophisticated society.
You are whining about the wrong part of the equation.
It's the panopticon that's the problem.
Data that might make it more useful is just a red herring.
No. The underlying problem has nothing to do with race. The real problem is that you are trying to punish people based on future crimes. This is the problem of letting your brain rot because you can't do anything but play the race card.
> Well, the fact is that most people in jail are from the lower socio economic class and in the USA that means blacks.
No it doesn't. Quit being such a racist.
Still beats the mob forcing our philosophers to drink hemlock.
At this point in time, thanks to modern liberals abandoning core liberal values, this is a very real problem and not just a silly bit of snark.
Word. There are serious embedded OSes available. No need to run Windows or even Linux. These are high margin devices with no need to be "cheap" about any part of it.
Then use AIX and run a better arch like PPC.
> It's an *imaging* machine which puts out gigabytes of 3D data.
Sounds like the perfect place for Unix of any sort really. Windows tends to break spectacularly when you force it to do heavy lifting to or to scale.
Given the price points here, you could just go straight to AIX.
Yes. They were so atrocious that they started the PVR revolution.
> Some companies run multi-million dollar hardware/software to control their factory machines. An upgrade will have a multi-million price tag.
Sounds like something that should be set in stone and not subject to the whims of CONSUMER ideas on how systems should be updated.
This is an installation that shouldn't be set up to be vulnerable to the usual sorts of nonsense that plague Windows machines. Doesn't matter how new of a version of Windows they are running.
Short of certain AAA games that don't exist on any other platform, there really hasn't been a compelling reason to bother with WinDOS in a long time. It's simply no longer the "default necessary option". Those days have been over for awhile now.
You can get over the Stockholm Syndrome now.
As a Texan I have no problem with it. This nonsense you are peddling can be used against me by my enemies in California and New York that want to destroy my local health care system. They've already kicked me in the balls hard with Obamacare.
All perps that get arrested get separated from their families.
That is why you go to the actual border rather than trying to sneak across the middle of the dessert.
It's funny how none of you screeching virtue signallers have stopped to consider the implications of dragging a 2 year old across the Arizona desert in summer.
> The healthiest diet is a plant-based diet.
Humans SUCK at digesting plants. We don't have the enzymes for it. We don't have the stomachs for it.
The vast bulk of the plants we grow for our own use are completely inedible to us.
> If you bought a Mac Mini in 2012, you actually don't fucking need a new one now. For what purpose?
The old one died. I had several Minis. They were by far the most unreliable machines I ever owned.
Even assuming they didn't DIE, there is a strong likelihood that newer software would be too much for them. They tend to be quite anemic machines barely fit for purpose. They are marginal at best and highly likely to be knackered by a newer OS or apps.
> Why? You guys are acting like it is 1995. Those days are over. Computing is only going to get MORE expensive, not less
That's only true if you're an Apple chump.
> Old macs are generally inline with old PC's
Except "Old Macs" are your only option. "Old Macs" are being sold as "New Macs" at the same high price points Apple has long be famous for.
Outside of the Apple reality distortion field I can get an "Old PC" for CHEAP or a MUCH better "New PC".
Consider this another iteration of "ANY monopoly is bad".
> its a sad state of affairs when anythning new in technology is greeted with an adenoidal whining of "I dont need this so what's the point?"
So you've got wrapped stacks of cash you can just throw into a fire pit and burn?
If not, then you have to consider how you are going to benefit from this overpriced monstrosity. The guys shouting out "CAD" at least have a reasonable answer beyond "It's new and shiny you fucking Luddite."
My old bruiser still crushes most laptops (both literally and figuratively). That doesn't mean I am going to be sanctimonious ass to people who think it's a bit much.
>VirtualBox
Possibly. You also have to consider IO contention too. So I would be inclined to concentrate more resources on storage.
I'm amused by how you mindless butt hurt morons have actually avoided answering the question. Back in the day, it was pretty easy to come up with very good reasons why you wanted more RAM than the Borg Cube would allow for.
Most people don't use laptops as workstation replacements. Even those of us that have workstations and bruiser laptops can find it hard to exploit all of RAM we already have.
If you've got any actual practical experience (rather than mindless snark), we're all ears.