"Hooking up a home entertainment system? It's a bunch of cables that go from one component to the next. How is this any harder than it ever was? 30 years ago, people would buy all the components, and spend an hour or two connecting everything up, and be proud of how it all worked when they were finished. Now, they'll call some big box home theater idiots, have them connect it all, and be proud of how much money they spent doing it."
It's because people today are more stupid than the idiots from big box trendy name but low end home theater store.... Honestly, they are. It's easier than hell today, HDMI from Bluray to reciever to big TV. hook up speakers following the color code so you dont have to think... It has connectors so you dont hurt yourself.
People today are simply either really lazy or complete idiots. And from what I have seen, I'm leaning towards the idiot side of the argument. These people don't even bother to research a purchase. Everything they do including cars is all impulse... This is a tell tale of the idiot syndrome.
Just like last week, The new sales manager learned new respect for us in IT. He learned that if you bitch to the CIO about your laptop, then you will get the crappiest replacement we can find. Enjoy that Panasonic Toughbook CF-28 we found in the basement "to throw away" pile. Oh and setting his ethernet ports to be forced 10baseT half duplex will make a nice dent.
Anyone know where I can get toner for a LaserJet-III? He is also whining that he does not have a private printer as well.....
I own several guns, well lots of guns. A couple that require an assault weapon license, and one that scares the beejesus out of anyone that sees it (AR50) and I dont kill people. I kill paper and buckets that explode when I hit the target just right. I'm your first line of defense when the exploding buckets attack.
I just hope they announce themselves if they ever come into my home, or I hope the body armor can take a couple of 12 gauge slugs. the first cop to come through my window unannounced will be more dead than a frog in a blender. And yes I will be armed before they come through the window, the dog will go nuts the second they enter the yard, and all the yard lights will turn on from the motion sensors.
Because we all know that guys that have sex crimes against them have Claymores set up all over the place and sleeps with a live grenade in his hand.
Get real you idiot. Every cop and the one who was in charge needs to be forced to pay this guy restitution. But it does not work that way in the United states. Cops are not liable for their actions. They have no oversight and no consequences to their actions.
Actually you cant sue. In many states they have passed laws that make it impossible to sue the police for doing their job. If during a bust they accidentally kill your family, the offending officer will be punished with a few weeks of paid vacation. They can do anything they want to you for any reason without recourse.
You mean after the Newspaper prints the story with his face and his full address? and then after the cops find him innocent the newspaper will not bother reporting that on the front page like they did when he was arrested?
Yes it does. That's how we protect "freedom" here. It's like how the freedom of all Airline travellers is protected by being groped and looked at naked..
Exactly, but most alarmists that want more protection from the bogeyman they imagine want the cops to be more violent. Honestly, I have met people that wish the cops could simply kill people suspected of crime.
I ask what about the innocent? their response,,,, "The cops wont shoot innocent people"
"The idea of being able to ditch your table full of remote controls and just use your hands and voice to interact with the TV is compelling."
So the reporter did not know that for LESS than the price of the Xbox device you could have bought a Universal programmable remote and Ditched that table full of remotes for a SINGLE remote?
I love tech reporters that do not know ANYTHING at all about tech.
NOT! Everyone knows the Sol system mass relay will be detected by a Nasa probe in 2039 when they finally go and take a look at Pluto and discover it's moon is not a natural formation but some kind of alien device encased in a ball of dirty ice.
"Just spend enough to make it work. What's the most common solution? Let's do that." "I want to spend as much money as necessary to get what I'm told is the best and shiniest system possible."
Ok...
Just spend enough to meet my needs - Base macbook - $999.99 Best and shineiest Laptop, I want people looking at me RGB lighting encrusted Alienware laptop $3599.99 And then the linux guys... From $299.00 garbage laptop for a student living in a closet, to the Uber L33t Haxor running it on a Panasonic Toughbook that cost him $5500 so he can look Uber L33t with his bombproof laptop with a handle and his long black trench coat.
Personal intrusion? your cellphone provider has a nice database of your every move that is accurate. They've had this for years. THAT is what you need to be outraged about, not a file that is safely on your phone that is not sent to anyone.
You know what, people like you that cant be bothered to actually look at the data yourself or do any research but are loudly speculating are a big part of the problem. If you took a few minutes and looked you would see that it's cellphone tower locations. anyone that took a few minutes to correlate their data would have seen it. ALL CELLPHONES that do the "enhanced fake GPS" that uses cellphone towers for a fake gps in the phone as well as a faster location before the gps get's a real fix do this. The same data cache is in nokias and android phones.
But no, let's not find out what it is let's wildly speculate and try to punch holes in the story of the one guy that did take the time to look and then told everyone they were all being idiots. Me, I quietly sat there watching the fools go into panic mode over nothing. I got quite a laugh out of this over the past 48 hours.
You are the one that "fucked up" apple is doing what android phones are doing as well as most other cellphones are doing.
I run a proper oil filter so I never get the sandpaper effect. And I have not only taken apart 20+ engines, but I have actually taken apart engines I have owned it's entire life. Many people will claim they changed the oil regularly. they lie. Every engine that I open up and looks like new actually had the oil changed every 3000-10000 miles. the ones that have a lot of wear always have tons of sludge and crud in them that indicate years of no oil changes and abuse like dumping in "miracles in a bottle"
Every one of the gunked engines have evidence of ring failure or excessive blow-by. One had a 1/8th inch hole in the piston and from what I could tell they drove it for thousands of miles after that from the gunk build up around the hole. Several were from improper assembly at the plant.
Best way is to pay $20.00 for an oil analysis. Send a sample to blackstone labs and they will tell you how often to change your oil based o n the car and your driving habits.
For my honda civic, I sent them a sample after 10,000 miles and they said that I can easily go 20,000 miles on the oil before I would see any effects of lubrication breakdown or contamination that would cause sludge. so I go 13,000 miles and after 90,000 miles on the car it still comes out looking like clean oil after driving 3,000 miles after the car screams that an oil change is needed.
Modern engines from the past 5 years are massively better built than the junk from only 10 years ago. the GM 3400 engine is utter crap that one could not go 4000 miles highway without turning the oil black.
"A $15 laser solution that doesn't improve efficiency but that lasts 100,000 miles is worth the money. If you had one that doubles efficiency but doesn't do last any longer, it can probably cost more and be worth it."
so you would pay more for something that gives zero gains?
Current modern plugs already go 100,000 without needing to be changed.
"Iridium" and platinum plugs have reduced that problem so much that it's irrelevant. you can get well over 100,000 miles out of a modern set of plugs. Its not like the old days of mild steel where you had to re gap them every 12,000 miles.
Problem is most cars use "batch fire" injectors. I.E. your 6 cyl engine fires ALL 6 injectors every time. It's because a lot of car manufacturers are too lazy to put in the parts to make it a true sequential injector firing. Newer cars are doing it now because of the EPA regs to get fuel economy up, but before 2010 most batch fired all at once every time. I have reprogrammed stock ECMs to do sequential firing, but you need a sensor on the cam giving you position pulses, and/or a sensor on the crank.
Most cars fuel injection is barely above a glorified carburetor. they have the potential to do more.
as for WOT problem, that is easy to take care of. in racing we would have the ecm fire a second set of 2 large injectors higher in the plenum to make up for the other injectors. this reduces the problem of duty cycle and you dont have to go insane in injector flow size. when you hit WOT, those injectors start firing to enrich the air flow.
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"Hooking up a home entertainment system? It's a bunch of cables that go from one component to the next. How is this any harder than it ever was? 30 years ago, people would buy all the components, and spend an hour or two connecting everything up, and be proud of how it all worked when they were finished. Now, they'll call some big box home theater idiots, have them connect it all, and be proud of how much money they spent doing it."
It's because people today are more stupid than the idiots from big box trendy name but low end home theater store.... Honestly, they are. It's easier than hell today, HDMI from Bluray to reciever to big TV. hook up speakers following the color code so you dont have to think... It has connectors so you dont hurt yourself.
People today are simply either really lazy or complete idiots. And from what I have seen, I'm leaning towards the idiot side of the argument. These people don't even bother to research a purchase. Everything they do including cars is all impulse... This is a tell tale of the idiot syndrome.
"At what point did building stuff on your own become something so rare?"
It started in the 80's, about the time Cable TV became common. The general IQ of humanity has been dropping steadily ever since.
Switch away from edible soy based environmentally friendly ethernet cables. OR buy the spicy red ones. I hear goats dont like spicy.
You are right. There are a lot of poor abused CxO's that want their life back.
Damn you evil people, just let them live their poor wretched lives. Many try and survive on 8 figure incomes... Can you imagine!
IT get's sold on the server's hard drives on ebay or at the Liquidation auction.
I have a friend that has a large chunk of the "pets.com" database from the old server he bought years ago.
Yup...
Just like last week, The new sales manager learned new respect for us in IT. He learned that if you bitch to the CIO about your laptop, then you will get the crappiest replacement we can find. Enjoy that Panasonic Toughbook CF-28 we found in the basement "to throw away" pile. Oh and setting his ethernet ports to be forced 10baseT half duplex will make a nice dent.
Anyone know where I can get toner for a LaserJet-III? He is also whining that he does not have a private printer as well.....
long hours, potentially hazardous working conditions (get splashed with 1 mol sulfuric acid.), and heavy work loads.
Yeah, there is a reason I gave up my career and degree in chemistry for IT.
I own several guns, well lots of guns. A couple that require an assault weapon license, and one that scares the beejesus out of anyone that sees it (AR50) and I dont kill people. I kill paper and buckets that explode when I hit the target just right. I'm your first line of defense when the exploding buckets attack.
I just hope they announce themselves if they ever come into my home, or I hope the body armor can take a couple of 12 gauge slugs. the first cop to come through my window unannounced will be more dead than a frog in a blender. And yes I will be armed before they come through the window, the dog will go nuts the second they enter the yard, and all the yard lights will turn on from the motion sensors.
Because we all know that guys that have sex crimes against them have Claymores set up all over the place and sleeps with a live grenade in his hand.
Get real you idiot. Every cop and the one who was in charge needs to be forced to pay this guy restitution. But it does not work that way in the United states. Cops are not liable for their actions. They have no oversight and no consequences to their actions.
Actually you cant sue. In many states they have passed laws that make it impossible to sue the police for doing their job. If during a bust they accidentally kill your family, the offending officer will be punished with a few weeks of paid vacation. They can do anything they want to you for any reason without recourse.
And states are passing laws to encourage it.
You mean after the Newspaper prints the story with his face and his full address? and then after the cops find him innocent the newspaper will not bother reporting that on the front page like they did when he was arrested?
Yes it does. That's how we protect "freedom" here.
It's like how the freedom of all Airline travellers is protected by being groped and looked at naked..
Exactly, but most alarmists that want more protection from the bogeyman they imagine want the cops to be more violent. Honestly, I have met people that wish the cops could simply kill people suspected of crime.
I ask what about the innocent? their response,,,, "The cops wont shoot innocent people"
"The idea of being able to ditch your table full of remote controls and just use your hands and voice to interact with the TV is compelling."
So the reporter did not know that for LESS than the price of the Xbox device you could have bought a Universal programmable remote and Ditched that table full of remotes for a SINGLE remote?
I love tech reporters that do not know ANYTHING at all about tech.
So the Cthulhu particle then?
Coffee is not a god drink....
a good Mead or beer, now that's a drink of the gods.... but certainly not coffee. Even a really good coffee.
NOT! Everyone knows the Sol system mass relay will be detected by a Nasa probe in 2039 when they finally go and take a look at Pluto and discover it's moon is not a natural formation but some kind of alien device encased in a ball of dirty ice.
"Just spend enough to make it work. What's the most common solution? Let's do that."
"I want to spend as much money as necessary to get what I'm told is the best and shiniest system possible."
Ok...
Just spend enough to meet my needs - Base macbook - $999.99
Best and shineiest Laptop, I want people looking at me RGB lighting encrusted Alienware laptop $3599.99
And then the linux guys... From $299.00 garbage laptop for a student living in a closet, to the Uber L33t Haxor running it on a Panasonic Toughbook that cost him $5500 so he can look Uber L33t with his bombproof laptop with a handle and his long black trench coat.
Personal intrusion? your cellphone provider has a nice database of your every move that is accurate. They've had this for years. THAT is what you need to be outraged about, not a file that is safely on your phone that is not sent to anyone.
You know what, people like you that cant be bothered to actually look at the data yourself or do any research but are loudly speculating are a big part of the problem. If you took a few minutes and looked you would see that it's cellphone tower locations. anyone that took a few minutes to correlate their data would have seen it. ALL CELLPHONES that do the "enhanced fake GPS" that uses cellphone towers for a fake gps in the phone as well as a faster location before the gps get's a real fix do this. The same data cache is in nokias and android phones.
But no, let's not find out what it is let's wildly speculate and try to punch holes in the story of the one guy that did take the time to look and then told everyone they were all being idiots. Me, I quietly sat there watching the fools go into panic mode over nothing. I got quite a laugh out of this over the past 48 hours.
You are the one that "fucked up" apple is doing what android phones are doing as well as most other cellphones are doing.
P.S. for the losers that are going to say "citation please" about the android phones... look for yourself.... https://github.com/packetlss/android-locdump
I run a proper oil filter so I never get the sandpaper effect. And I have not only taken apart 20+ engines, but I have actually taken apart engines I have owned it's entire life. Many people will claim they changed the oil regularly. they lie. Every engine that I open up and looks like new actually had the oil changed every 3000-10000 miles. the ones that have a lot of wear always have tons of sludge and crud in them that indicate years of no oil changes and abuse like dumping in "miracles in a bottle"
Every one of the gunked engines have evidence of ring failure or excessive blow-by. One had a 1/8th inch hole in the piston and from what I could tell they drove it for thousands of miles after that from the gunk build up around the hole. Several were from improper assembly at the plant.
Best way is to pay $20.00 for an oil analysis. Send a sample to blackstone labs and they will tell you how often to change your oil based o n the car and your driving habits.
For my honda civic, I sent them a sample after 10,000 miles and they said that I can easily go 20,000 miles on the oil before I would see any effects of lubrication breakdown or contamination that would cause sludge. so I go 13,000 miles and after 90,000 miles on the car it still comes out looking like clean oil after driving 3,000 miles after the car screams that an oil change is needed.
Modern engines from the past 5 years are massively better built than the junk from only 10 years ago. the GM 3400 engine is utter crap that one could not go 4000 miles highway without turning the oil black.
"A $15 laser solution that doesn't improve efficiency but that lasts 100,000 miles is worth the money. If you had one that doubles efficiency but doesn't do last any longer, it can probably cost more and be worth it."
so you would pay more for something that gives zero gains?
Current modern plugs already go 100,000 without needing to be changed.
"Iridium" and platinum plugs have reduced that problem so much that it's irrelevant. you can get well over 100,000 miles out of a modern set of plugs. Its not like the old days of mild steel where you had to re gap them every 12,000 miles.
Problem is most cars use "batch fire" injectors. I.E. your 6 cyl engine fires ALL 6 injectors every time. It's because a lot of car manufacturers are too lazy to put in the parts to make it a true sequential injector firing. Newer cars are doing it now because of the EPA regs to get fuel economy up, but before 2010 most batch fired all at once every time. I have reprogrammed stock ECMs to do sequential firing, but you need a sensor on the cam giving you position pulses, and/or a sensor on the crank.
Most cars fuel injection is barely above a glorified carburetor. they have the potential to do more.
as for WOT problem, that is easy to take care of. in racing we would have the ecm fire a second set of 2 large injectors higher in the plenum to make up for the other injectors. this reduces the problem of duty cycle and you dont have to go insane in injector flow size. when you hit WOT, those injectors start firing to enrich the air flow.