I was just looking for the picture with the toy cat and his finger to his mouth, but this web site sums everything up too perfectly: http://www.stopelonmusk.org/ The man is a living meme.
For a moment I was worried that SpaceX's attempt to land on Mars (without humans) was going to be delayed. Oh no, that would push it back by two years until the orbits line up again! (not that it won't probably get delayed by a cycle anyhow)
Then I realized it was those scammy Mars colonly guys that I had forgotten about.
Sound is more important than screen resolution anyhow, I learned this back in '98 or so when DVD was new and the price of Dolby Digital amps started to come down because it was no longer limited to laserdisc setups. Even just a good 5.1 setup is great improvement over TV speakers. Since broadcast TV went digital, most prime time shows now have 5.1 audio. And by 5.1 I mean actual speakers placed around the room, including a sub-woofer, not the TV's built-in sound bar speakers. (although the sound from those sound bars can sometimes be quite good)
TFA should have come up with a clickbait name for the bonds to keep up the Filthy Rich Evil Apple hating theme, like maybe iNotes. They could even say that they're printed on aluminum paper or something.
4) Updates sometime reboot the computer while you are working (too hard to test?)
That can happen even with Windows 7 on a desktop, but at least you can (usually) reliably disable automatic updates with Windows 7. Enjoy your Redmond spyware!
my old PPC macbook pro 17 that lasted me 2 times what the Lenovo did
They were just called "PowerBook G4". I had two of them and one of the first Intel models, all with the "Aluminum" case. They were freaking horrible. I don't know what was worse, the optical drive going out of alignment with the slot in the case (have to field-strip it to eject a disk), the crappy latch (won't stay closed), or the metal surface that pitted like crazy with the skin oils from my hands. The keyboard key tops wore down badly with my touch-typing, too. My Unibody has some keys messed up now, but not nearly as bad after over four years of daily use. And you're comparing that favorably with your Lenovo?
12) The trackpad sometimes acts on his own, I got used to it but still have some d'oh moments from time to time
In my opinion, PC trackpads are universally horrible, just less so lately. To be fair, I think part of the problem was Apple buying up the company making the best trackpads, but I have never failed to be annoyed by the "tap to click" feature (enabled by default in mouse emulation mode, so you have to install a driver to turn it off!) giving rogue clicks.
If I have to replace my Late-2011-17", I'll probably look into a hackintosh on a higher-end laptop. Between EFI, and Apple using so much standard chipset stuff, there are apparently a few good options out there. Also, I only recently upgraded to 10.9, and it's probably easier to get a hackintosh working two or three versions back.
I would be happy to see an up-to-date version of my Late-2011 17" (bought in mid-2012 and still going strong), with the replaceable RAM (32GB this time, please!) and full 2.5" SATA. I still don't need that Retina crap (producing a Retina screen that large was probably one of the reasons they killed the 17"), but I would be fine with with SSD and SD card slots instead of the optical drive and Express Card slot. And I am even willing to wait a year or so for Intel to finish making mobile versions of their new architecture.
I'm really not happy about soldering down RAM and even SSD in their latest top-of-the-line "Pro" models.
Seriously, this thing is the best Mac I've ever bought new, second would be a G4 "Windtunnel" (4 HD and 2 optical drive bays!) that I got at a CompUSA back in 2002 or so that lasted over 10 years and a re-spackling of the CPU heat sink (which took 15 minutes!) before it suddenly died one day such that it wouldn't even turn on. I haven't had time to rebuild it properly, but I have since acquired two Mac Minis from the 2010-2012 era to replace it. Really, 2011 was the peak of good hardware from Apple. It was also the year that Steve Jobs died.
Don't move to the central U.S. The soil there makes basements a bad idea, and even if you do have one of the few places that are geologically stable enough for it, you won't find someone who knows how to make a basement due to lack of demand. (or it will be too expensive because you have to cut into rock)
I still always get confused about this too. The first thing I did was check him on Wikipedia because I knew I was going to be wrong. Even worse, the first thing that popped into my head was "Johnny Fever", followed by "oh wait that's wrong, too".
I remember when it was just a hard disk defraggler, and the version that everybody shared around had a bug where it could duplicate the last sector of a directory if it ended on a sector boundary. Nostalgia, man.
This is another fad that will flop, just like the CD-I/MPC multimedia crap from the '90s that gave us a bunch of dumb rail shooters over low-resolution low-color FMV. And CD-ROM encyclopedias.
At least in the case of Trac-Fone, you can buy a card at a retailer like Wal-Mart to recharge your phone, instead of doing it through your phone at the risk of your credit card company freaking out. In any case, I'm still keeping a non-mobile as my main number.
Also, constantly working more than 40 hours (in other words, more than just a crunch week every few months) leaves you too tired and making mistakes that result in no net performance increase. All it does is make PHBs happy because they usually think that an hour worked is always an hour worked, and if we're throwing more hours at something it must be getting done faster!
He's there to teach them programming, not how to turn the damn things on. What's next, teaching them how to breathe? I guess they'll be okay as long as there's a fryolator class. ("Do not stick your hand into the boiling oil! Not even if you just dropped your phone into it!")
That's why the documents should live on a common server in another room, not on one guy's craptop in the machine shop. But keeping a common copy of changes at hand for multiple people to work on without sitting down at a computer to check on something, that's one of the few really good reasons to keep paper around.
It's not just a millennial thing. I'm 52 (late 1964, right on the line of boomer/genx) and gave up printing everything out around 2006. Mostly I just got tired of the clutter (the same reason I started using cloth bags for groceries, I couldn't resist holding on to those old plastic bags just in case, then I had too many of them fail), and maybe computers got just better enough (both in speed and displays). About the only thing I would want to print out now, other than stuff to sign and give to other people, is a one or two page quick reference summary of stuff that doesn't have to be constantly updated that you can pin to a cubicle wall.
Hmmm, displays getting better? I suppose part of it was wide screens on laptops, in addition to employment changes for me, that corresponds roughly with the time that Apple went with Intel. I already had a wide-screen G4 PowerBook, so I was already getting used to doing things side-by-side. I've had my web browser at about 1000x1000 for years now, leaving the left 40% of the screen for other stuff. Sometimes I'll even divide that vertically in half or 30/70, so I can watch a video while doing other stuff. And if I'm playing a video game, it's usually running on a different computer (Macs still aren't great for gaming) while I take notes on the laptop. Why wait for a printout when your screen is big enough to put your documentation side-by-side with your code, or if you can view it on another display entirely?
Back until around 2006 or so, I used to print out source code/API documentation/chip documentation all the time. I even developed ways of stapling them to be as convenient to use as possible.
Then something happened, and I finally started to give up the printouts. Computers became a little more powerful (removing the lag of reading PDFs), screens a little higher resolution (making more of a page readable, and full HD resolution is good for two-page viewing), and I probably also got tired of printing and stapling shit all the time. My change in employment situation surely helped too, by not having a duplex printer at hand anymore. Now that I am cleaning out a bunch of old stuff in the process of moving residence, I am surprised when I find an old printout and realize that at one time I actually wanted to print something like that out, when now I'd just drop its PDF into a folder.
I suppose I would still do it if I wanted to do something like print out some new code and take it to lunch to mark up and hilite marker it as I try to understand it, but I'll never print out a manual or reference documentation ever again, other than one or two page summaries that I can pin up on the cubicle wall.
After it is obvious what is happening, you create folder called 'idiots' and redirect all these emails into that group by outlook/whatever rule.
When I worked at Cisco back in the early 2Ks, we had reply-all storms every few months. Everyone joked that perpetuating them was the best way to get onto the "bottom 5%" list.
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I was just looking for the picture with the toy cat and his finger to his mouth, but this web site sums everything up too perfectly: http://www.stopelonmusk.org/ The man is a living meme.
Wow, you're actually dumb enough to believe that badly shopped photo is real? The original is Kenny G.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CXf-rerWEAESC9E.jpg (linkifying the AC's url)
They just needed the courage to have a "one-button control scheme" for Mario.
For a moment I was worried that SpaceX's attempt to land on Mars (without humans) was going to be delayed. Oh no, that would push it back by two years until the orbits line up again! (not that it won't probably get delayed by a cycle anyhow)
Then I realized it was those scammy Mars colonly guys that I had forgotten about.
This new CPU has a security feature with a theoretical security flaw that at its worst will only make things as bad as they already are right now.
Sound is more important than screen resolution anyhow, I learned this back in '98 or so when DVD was new and the price of Dolby Digital amps started to come down because it was no longer limited to laserdisc setups. Even just a good 5.1 setup is great improvement over TV speakers. Since broadcast TV went digital, most prime time shows now have 5.1 audio. And by 5.1 I mean actual speakers placed around the room, including a sub-woofer, not the TV's built-in sound bar speakers. (although the sound from those sound bars can sometimes be quite good)
TFA should have come up with a clickbait name for the bonds to keep up the Filthy Rich Evil Apple hating theme, like maybe iNotes. They could even say that they're printed on aluminum paper or something.
$200,000k in debt is huge? That's less than a typical mortgage in California, with $180,000 being a decent income.
I still don't understand why a "news feed" needs 35-year-old games that we got tired of 30 years ago.
4) Updates sometime reboot the computer while you are working (too hard to test?)
That can happen even with Windows 7 on a desktop, but at least you can (usually) reliably disable automatic updates with Windows 7. Enjoy your Redmond spyware!
my old PPC macbook pro 17 that lasted me 2 times what the Lenovo did
They were just called "PowerBook G4". I had two of them and one of the first Intel models, all with the "Aluminum" case. They were freaking horrible. I don't know what was worse, the optical drive going out of alignment with the slot in the case (have to field-strip it to eject a disk), the crappy latch (won't stay closed), or the metal surface that pitted like crazy with the skin oils from my hands. The keyboard key tops wore down badly with my touch-typing, too. My Unibody has some keys messed up now, but not nearly as bad after over four years of daily use. And you're comparing that favorably with your Lenovo?
12) The trackpad sometimes acts on his own, I got used to it but still have some d'oh moments from time to time
In my opinion, PC trackpads are universally horrible, just less so lately. To be fair, I think part of the problem was Apple buying up the company making the best trackpads, but I have never failed to be annoyed by the "tap to click" feature (enabled by default in mouse emulation mode, so you have to install a driver to turn it off!) giving rogue clicks.
If I have to replace my Late-2011-17", I'll probably look into a hackintosh on a higher-end laptop. Between EFI, and Apple using so much standard chipset stuff, there are apparently a few good options out there. Also, I only recently upgraded to 10.9, and it's probably easier to get a hackintosh working two or three versions back.
I would be happy to see an up-to-date version of my Late-2011 17" (bought in mid-2012 and still going strong), with the replaceable RAM (32GB this time, please!) and full 2.5" SATA. I still don't need that Retina crap (producing a Retina screen that large was probably one of the reasons they killed the 17"), but I would be fine with with SSD and SD card slots instead of the optical drive and Express Card slot. And I am even willing to wait a year or so for Intel to finish making mobile versions of their new architecture.
I'm really not happy about soldering down RAM and even SSD in their latest top-of-the-line "Pro" models.
Seriously, this thing is the best Mac I've ever bought new, second would be a G4 "Windtunnel" (4 HD and 2 optical drive bays!) that I got at a CompUSA back in 2002 or so that lasted over 10 years and a re-spackling of the CPU heat sink (which took 15 minutes!) before it suddenly died one day such that it wouldn't even turn on. I haven't had time to rebuild it properly, but I have since acquired two Mac Minis from the 2010-2012 era to replace it. Really, 2011 was the peak of good hardware from Apple. It was also the year that Steve Jobs died.
They learned their lesson from Tay.
Some simple filenames are illegal. You will find which ones when a client is using your program.
COM3 on, don't let them CON you, when you're on the CLOCK$ is $ and you can't be wasting time! You have to put all LPT that behind you!
Don't move to the central U.S. The soil there makes basements a bad idea, and even if you do have one of the few places that are geologically stable enough for it, you won't find someone who knows how to make a basement due to lack of demand. (or it will be too expensive because you have to cut into rock)
I still always get confused about this too. The first thing I did was check him on Wikipedia because I knew I was going to be wrong. Even worse, the first thing that popped into my head was "Johnny Fever", followed by "oh wait that's wrong, too".
I remember when it was just a hard disk defraggler, and the version that everybody shared around had a bug where it could duplicate the last sector of a directory if it ended on a sector boundary. Nostalgia, man.
This is another fad that will flop, just like the CD-I/MPC multimedia crap from the '90s that gave us a bunch of dumb rail shooters over low-resolution low-color FMV. And CD-ROM encyclopedias.
Paragraph breaks would have helped somewhat. Fuck walls of text.
At least in the case of Trac-Fone, you can buy a card at a retailer like Wal-Mart to recharge your phone, instead of doing it through your phone at the risk of your credit card company freaking out. In any case, I'm still keeping a non-mobile as my main number.
Also, constantly working more than 40 hours (in other words, more than just a crunch week every few months) leaves you too tired and making mistakes that result in no net performance increase. All it does is make PHBs happy because they usually think that an hour worked is always an hour worked, and if we're throwing more hours at something it must be getting done faster!
He's there to teach them programming, not how to turn the damn things on. What's next, teaching them how to breathe? I guess they'll be okay as long as there's a fryolator class. ("Do not stick your hand into the boiling oil! Not even if you just dropped your phone into it!")
That's why the documents should live on a common server in another room, not on one guy's craptop in the machine shop. But keeping a common copy of changes at hand for multiple people to work on without sitting down at a computer to check on something, that's one of the few really good reasons to keep paper around.
It's not just a millennial thing. I'm 52 (late 1964, right on the line of boomer/genx) and gave up printing everything out around 2006. Mostly I just got tired of the clutter (the same reason I started using cloth bags for groceries, I couldn't resist holding on to those old plastic bags just in case, then I had too many of them fail), and maybe computers got just better enough (both in speed and displays). About the only thing I would want to print out now, other than stuff to sign and give to other people, is a one or two page quick reference summary of stuff that doesn't have to be constantly updated that you can pin to a cubicle wall.
Hmmm, displays getting better? I suppose part of it was wide screens on laptops, in addition to employment changes for me, that corresponds roughly with the time that Apple went with Intel. I already had a wide-screen G4 PowerBook, so I was already getting used to doing things side-by-side. I've had my web browser at about 1000x1000 for years now, leaving the left 40% of the screen for other stuff. Sometimes I'll even divide that vertically in half or 30/70, so I can watch a video while doing other stuff. And if I'm playing a video game, it's usually running on a different computer (Macs still aren't great for gaming) while I take notes on the laptop. Why wait for a printout when your screen is big enough to put your documentation side-by-side with your code, or if you can view it on another display entirely?
Back until around 2006 or so, I used to print out source code/API documentation/chip documentation all the time. I even developed ways of stapling them to be as convenient to use as possible.
Then something happened, and I finally started to give up the printouts. Computers became a little more powerful (removing the lag of reading PDFs), screens a little higher resolution (making more of a page readable, and full HD resolution is good for two-page viewing), and I probably also got tired of printing and stapling shit all the time. My change in employment situation surely helped too, by not having a duplex printer at hand anymore. Now that I am cleaning out a bunch of old stuff in the process of moving residence, I am surprised when I find an old printout and realize that at one time I actually wanted to print something like that out, when now I'd just drop its PDF into a folder.
I suppose I would still do it if I wanted to do something like print out some new code and take it to lunch to mark up and hilite marker it as I try to understand it, but I'll never print out a manual or reference documentation ever again, other than one or two page summaries that I can pin up on the cubicle wall.
After it is obvious what is happening, you create folder called 'idiots' and redirect all these emails into that group by outlook/whatever rule.
When I worked at Cisco back in the early 2Ks, we had reply-all storms every few months. Everyone joked that perpetuating them was the best way to get onto the "bottom 5%" list.