The young kids today are incredibly weak. asking them to carry 4 pounds or more will crush them within minutes and they will be on the ground crying for help. I saw a hipster yesterday dying under the weight of an ipad Pro unable to lift it off of him, when I went over to help him it was too late. between the loss of blood from his skinny jeans and the sheer weight of a 12" ipad pro on his chest he died.
Maybe the next generation will be stronger and not so sickly.
ram takes 6 seconds to upgrade. I'm rocking 16gb in mine. I also am rocking dual hard drives. a 1TB ssd drive and a 1tb spinning drive in place of the useless optical drive in my late 2012 15" MBP. being a quad i7 that was the fastest option at that time, it's still faster even in all the benchmarks than the new Lenovo I was given at work.
Sad that a late 2012 laptop kicks the ass out of what companies are selling today at the $1000 pricepoint.
All phone makers are guilt of this retardation of thinner.
I want an iphone 6 plus that is 2X thick and gives me 4 days between charges. Sadly all the freaking add on cases that can do this are 4X thicker with a lot of wasted space for plastic and you cant buy a nice aluminum one that is well designed.
Even the apple battery case is a fat ugly monster.
17" 4K screen and a 8 core XEON processor with 3 SSD 0.2 slots to raid with. and a killer dual video card setup make this a $5000 STFU Windows Fanboi powerhouse.
Sadly they dont care about us professionals that need screen and processor power coupled with raw speed. They cater to the "i surf the internet" crowds with this low power long battery life that care about thinner and lighter more than actually having a computer that can run anything.
You all can go Fuck yourselves. I will print whatever the hell I want in my home for my own uses. You can go and cry to your $1000 an hour psychiatrists as to why I am ruining your life.
Oh and to the MPAA... fuck yes I'll download a car! Doing it right now as a matter of fact as I want to print the Subaru Boxer engine model that is out there.
The freaking kiddies that think they know everything..
They cant fax anything to save their life. They dont know how to use their voicemail.. They are confused by the copy machine.
Us old farts, we have EXPERIENCE and we can adapt to new stuff faster. Stuff it in your eye sockets you little snot nosed punks.
There is a reason why I just landed a job kicking out all the kiddies with fresh degrees with my 20 years of experience. I adapt faster and easier because nothing "new" is really actually new. It's a rehash of an older thing passed off as new. Your shiny new chat systems like SLACK? It's basically a copy of an IRC channel, not new technology in any way.
Texting and instant messaging? Kiddies, I was doing BBS messaging before your mother was old enough to breed.
BMW makes 10 keys for your car when it's made. when you lose all 10 keys, the dealership is required to point and laugh at you while live streaming to youtube.
It takes a few days for the key to arrive for your car, It's part of the punishment for being a dimwit and losing all your sets of keys.... because your car was sold with 3 freaking sets.
Note: if you buy a used bmw and they dont hand you all 3 sets, the previous owners are scumbags, or the dealership is a scumbag. They "found" my extra 2 sets when I said.. "nope, no deal. I dont want to buy a car that someone else has a key to."
Suddenly the dealer found the other set and the valet key.
There are plenty of tools to get rid of their "no fly zones" in the firmware.
Honestly it's really stupid that they are doing this, the manufacturer is trying to enforce things? tomorrow GM will release cars that will not go above the speed limit and jam on the brakes when a light turns yellow.
This is incredibly easy to do.. Sadly Most Point of Sale programmers are barely able to write software that compiles let alone something useable. The POS industry is the absolute worst in programmer quality as well as equipment design and stability. Once you see inside even the latest and greatest devices you want to stop using your credit card everywhere. These POS systems are horribly insecure and basically chewing gum and tape holding them together.
I have looked at this several times. No way this thing can survive being outside 24/7/365. It's not waterproof where it counts, it needs a whole lot of refinement to make it to an actual 1.0 release device that can last outside through all types of weather for at least 3-4 years. The gantry is not self cleaning or sealed in any way, same for the tracks.
It's a great idea. and a fantastic early beta. but they need some industrial robotics guys to show them how to make it survive weather.
Currently that is very close to the Polycom Scam...
Buy Polycom Video Conference device. Wait 3 years and need an update to fix a security hole Polycom had in their software. Pay EXTORTION FEES of 4 years of Support contract to access that download. The current year and the previous 3 years.
Pray they dont alter the deal any further, and kiss the ring of Polycom Don.
Cisco and other big companies like them need to have their executives punched in the taint.
Completely at the feet of the banks. They needed to get off their asses and spend a tiny bit of their immense profits to fucking switch over. The banks could send every retailler a new chip reader for every register for free and STILL make record profits every quarter.
So blame the Banks and the Greedy assholes that run those banks.
I'm for bringing back all the heavy handed bank regulation from before 1980. Fuck the bankers.
writing once is enough. It's an urban myth that you have to do it more than once to obliterate the data. Manybe with old 10megabyte RLL and MFM drives you could easily recover information as the head was miles wide and the slop from the track move was insane enough that you cna easily see it. bot for the past 10 years a single wipe of zeros will make it impossible for the worlds best hackers to read the data on a modern hard drive.
Everything has been within Earth's and the suns gravity well. Call me when we send people outside the heliosphere and then do research on them as THAT is deep space.
Not the end of the driveway stuff we have done so far.
to get our internet from the cable provider as they is no other choice due to the illegal monopoly tricks cable companies use like "franchise fees" in cities to make it more difficult for competition to come in to the town.
So my cost is close to the cable number because I am punished for having internet without cable. $80 a month for 15meg
Because comcast rapes us in towns where there is zero competition.
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The young kids today are incredibly weak. asking them to carry 4 pounds or more will crush them within minutes and they will be on the ground crying for help.
I saw a hipster yesterday dying under the weight of an ipad Pro unable to lift it off of him, when I went over to help him it was too late. between the loss of blood from his skinny jeans and the sheer weight of a 12" ipad pro on his chest he died.
Maybe the next generation will be stronger and not so sickly.
ram takes 6 seconds to upgrade. I'm rocking 16gb in mine.
I also am rocking dual hard drives. a 1TB ssd drive and a 1tb spinning drive in place of the useless optical drive in my late 2012 15" MBP.
being a quad i7 that was the fastest option at that time, it's still faster even in all the benchmarks than the new Lenovo I was given at work.
Sad that a late 2012 laptop kicks the ass out of what companies are selling today at the $1000 pricepoint.
All phone makers are guilt of this retardation of thinner.
I want an iphone 6 plus that is 2X thick and gives me 4 days between charges. Sadly all the freaking add on cases that can do this are 4X thicker with a lot of wasted space for plastic and you cant buy a nice aluminum one that is well designed.
Even the apple battery case is a fat ugly monster.
Give us a real pro macbook.
17" 4K screen and a 8 core XEON processor with 3 SSD 0.2 slots to raid with. and a killer dual video card setup make this a $5000 STFU Windows Fanboi powerhouse.
Sadly they dont care about us professionals that need screen and processor power coupled with raw speed. They cater to the "i surf the internet" crowds with this low power long battery life that care about thinner and lighter more than actually having a computer that can run anything.
All that solar is making the sun dimmer! Oh and all that wind power is slowing the rotation of the earth! Senator Joe Bartan (R) said it was true!
You all can go Fuck yourselves. I will print whatever the hell I want in my home for my own uses. You can go and cry to your $1000 an hour psychiatrists as to why I am ruining your life.
Oh and to the MPAA... fuck yes I'll download a car! Doing it right now as a matter of fact as I want to print the Subaru Boxer engine model that is out there.
Sure break out that 4 digit...
Show Off.
That's AUDI .. Your thinking is from the 1990's. This is the 2010's and this decade it's Audi.
Honestly, This is how bad it has become in the USA? This is considered invented?
That means the kids that actually learn Arduino programming and make sumo bots are Fucking Alien Technomancer Magicians!
The freaking kiddies that think they know everything..
They cant fax anything to save their life.
They dont know how to use their voicemail..
They are confused by the copy machine.
Us old farts, we have EXPERIENCE and we can adapt to new stuff faster. Stuff it in your eye sockets you little snot nosed punks.
There is a reason why I just landed a job kicking out all the kiddies with fresh degrees with my 20 years of experience. I adapt faster and easier because nothing "new" is really actually new. It's a rehash of an older thing passed off as new. Your shiny new chat systems like SLACK? It's basically a copy of an IRC channel, not new technology in any way.
Texting and instant messaging? Kiddies, I was doing BBS messaging before your mother was old enough to breed.
"and before you accuse me of living in a basement, make sure to note my account number."
How cute, 6 digit UID and you think you are an "old timer here"
To make dealerships more money.
BMW makes 10 keys for your car when it's made. when you lose all 10 keys, the dealership is required to point and laugh at you while live streaming to youtube.
It takes a few days for the key to arrive for your car, It's part of the punishment for being a dimwit and losing all your sets of keys.... because your car was sold with 3 freaking sets.
Note: if you buy a used bmw and they dont hand you all 3 sets, the previous owners are scumbags, or the dealership is a scumbag. They "found" my extra 2 sets when I said.. "nope, no deal. I dont want to buy a car that someone else has a key to."
Suddenly the dealer found the other set and the valet key.
There are plenty of tools to get rid of their "no fly zones" in the firmware.
Honestly it's really stupid that they are doing this, the manufacturer is trying to enforce things? tomorrow GM will release cars that will not go above the speed limit and jam on the brakes when a light turns yellow.
Yep. 99.9764% of all consumers care about "price" first and "sustainability and green-ness" absolutely dead last.
Not one consumer will pay 25% more for a computer that is compostable and will not poison the environment after it is thrown away.
"They envision a world where users upgrade their computers by simply popping in a new card "
Intel had the same idea... and it was a giant failure.
Unless the "card" is a whole new computer that slots into a thin plastic case, this is 100% impossible.
This is incredibly easy to do.. Sadly Most Point of Sale programmers are barely able to write software that compiles let alone something useable. The POS industry is the absolute worst in programmer quality as well as equipment design and stability. Once you see inside even the latest and greatest devices you want to stop using your credit card everywhere. These POS systems are horribly insecure and basically chewing gum and tape holding them together.
I have looked at this several times. No way this thing can survive being outside 24/7/365. It's not waterproof where it counts, it needs a whole lot of refinement to make it to an actual 1.0 release device that can last outside through all types of weather for at least 3-4 years. The gantry is not self cleaning or sealed in any way, same for the tracks.
It's a great idea. and a fantastic early beta. but they need some industrial robotics guys to show them how to make it survive weather.
Currently that is very close to the Polycom Scam...
Buy Polycom Video Conference device.
Wait 3 years and need an update to fix a security hole Polycom had in their software.
Pay EXTORTION FEES of 4 years of Support contract to access that download. The current year and the previous 3 years.
Pray they dont alter the deal any further, and kiss the ring of Polycom Don.
Cisco and other big companies like them need to have their executives punched in the taint.
Completely at the feet of the banks. They needed to get off their asses and spend a tiny bit of their immense profits to fucking switch over. The banks could send every retailler a new chip reader for every register for free and STILL make record profits every quarter.
So blame the Banks and the Greedy assholes that run those banks.
I'm for bringing back all the heavy handed bank regulation from before 1980. Fuck the bankers.
writing once is enough. It's an urban myth that you have to do it more than once to obliterate the data. Manybe with old 10megabyte RLL and MFM drives you could easily recover information as the head was miles wide and the slop from the track move was insane enough that you cna easily see it. bot for the past 10 years a single wipe of zeros will make it impossible for the worlds best hackers to read the data on a modern hard drive.
And sadly NOBODY has been to deep space.
Everything has been within Earth's and the suns gravity well. Call me when we send people outside the heliosphere and then do research on them as THAT is deep space.
Not the end of the driveway stuff we have done so far.
Yes it does.
If you go to space, your chances of dying on a motorcycle go up drastically. Same amount as your chances of becoming a senator and punching someone.
So if you want a political career, go to space, you will easily become a senator.
That is easy to get a larger sample.
Pack all the politicians in Congress and who are currently running for positions and launch them into space. We can check on them in a few years.
Plus it will solve a HUGE problem down here at the same time.... It's a WIN-WIN!
Anyone DDOSing is a complete worthless asshole.
Anyone doing this to Gmane is the worlds biggest asshole.
So shut it down, the current generation of little shits dont deserve the cool stuff we had when the internet was started.
to get our internet from the cable provider as they is no other choice due to the illegal monopoly tricks cable companies use like "franchise fees" in cities to make it more difficult for competition to come in to the town.
So my cost is close to the cable number because I am punished for having internet without cable. $80 a month for 15meg
Because comcast rapes us in towns where there is zero competition.