Yeah, I had to replace several peripherals as I moved away from being a Mac user.
More and more about Apple's direction after Jobs' return began to turn me off.
The switch to translucent plastic everything, the abandonment of legacy connections, going with NeXT instead of BeOS(Long term that was probably a better choice but at the time, it rubbed me the wrong way), re-labeling what should have been MacOS 7.7 to OS 8 to sever the relationship with the cloners, and game availability all worked together to change my mind about wanting to be an Mac user anymore.
The Democratic establishment and the Clinton camp are completely refusing to do any honest introspection about their loss.
Hillary lost because she was the WORST POSSIBLE CANDIDATE for the election.
She lost to Trump, the worst Republican candidate in three generations and it's nobody's fault but her own.
She failed to learn the lesson of Romney's 47% comment and insulted roughly 1/4 of the voting public by calling them Deplorables.
She ignored the concerns of people in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. She assumed that they were just going to be her states. She just assumed that it was her turn and she couldn't lose. She insulted a very influential force in middle America by declaring the NRA to be her enemy.
The DNC pulled dirty, underhanded tricks to deliver the nomination to her and they paid for it in the general election. Seth Rich's leaks of their internal emails put all of their dirty business up for public scrutiny.
They're completely refusing to acknowledge that they were wrong or what happened.
Hillary is still making excuses about misogyny, Russian hackers and James Comey.
I wouldn't say that Trump is more honorable. I do happen to think that she is less honorable than Trump but I voted for the one person who had a chance of stopping Hillary.
I'm not certain that it was ever clear that the population supported Sanders but it could/would have supported him with less hesitation, had he been the nominee.
WikiLeaks showed how the DNC intentionally sabotaged Bernie and had further plans to escalate into anti-semitism if he had been able to overcome their previous meddling.
Hillary had the effect of pushing a lot of voters into the Trump column. Voters who would have otherwise stayed at home or voted third party if she wasn't the nominee. Voters like me.
I wouldn't have voted for Bernie but I do have a lot of respect for him. I believe him to be an honorable person. I can have an honest disagreement with an honorable person and retain that respect. Hillary is not honorable.
First, I got rid of my ISA modem. Then, I got rid of my discreet 3D accelerator. Then, I got rid of my PS/2 mouse and keyboard. Then, I got rid of my AGP video card. Then, I got rid of my CRT monitor. Then, I got rid of my discreet sound card.
It was all incremental. One or two pieces at a time. It wasn't nearly as daunting a task as I faced when I re-evaluated whether or not to remain a Mac user.
I wish I had never gotten rid of my Mac Plus. I still have a few old machines lying around, a couple of 6100 series machines, a 6200, a 6400, a beige G3 and a G4. It broke my heart to move on from Apple but it was time.
I have really been missing one old game in particular, I've been thinking about maxing out one of those old machines to play it in its full glory with multiple monitors and all. I can probably throw together what would have once been a $10k machine for a couple hundred today.
The slowly part is what made it tolerable in the PC world.
Having to replace one kind of peripheral every time you get a new motherboard isn't as big of a burden as having to replace everything when you get a new computer.
This is a bit why, after using macs and OSX for 15 years that I have walked away from them. I can't keep up with the pace that Apple has set for consumers.
I walked away from Apple in 2000 over a similar kind of thing.
The elimination of SCSI, ADB and traditional serial ports meant that if I wanted a new Mac, I was going to have to replace all of my peripherals and that was just a bridge too far.
The biggest benefit that I found in working at home was how it effectively shortened my work day.
I saved between 1 and 2 hours per day by not commuting and having the option of stopping for just a few minutes to have lunch was also a big time saver.
I was working at a movie theater in July of 1996 and I remember Siskel and Ebert giving Independence Day two thumbs down, something like 24-48 hours before it went on to have the biggest (at that point in time) opening in history.
It wasn't the greatest movie ever but it was an entertaining summer movie. Sometimes, that's all it takes to be a commercial success.
10 S should fail, it should fail and die, then the idiots who conceived and approved this monstrosity should be fired and ostracized from the IT community forever.
It's a step backwards for computing. I bailed on Apple before they built their walled garden and I'd bail on Microsoft if it looks like this is going to be the future of their OS.
My previous position was in a company that had a 45 day password expiry policy. My password was only as complex as it had to be to fit the rule but wasn't very good.
My current position has a 6 month expiry. I use a much stronger password.
If you make it cheaper to legally avoid the tax than to pay it, your taxes are too high.
If it's less expensive to pay an administrative and support staff than to pay the tax, the tax is too high.
In the example I referenced, if it's less expensive to pay a secretary to manage your days, plan your travel and buy a second home out of state, the tax is too high.
If the police have strong evidence that the stolen diamonds are in your wall safe, and that the things is rigged to blow if they try to crack it - do you think a judge could NOT compel you to give up the combination ?
A judge could order it but s/he cannot compel it.
One basically has two options. Either "No. I refuse to comply with your order." or "I'd like to give you what you want but it's been so long since I used that, I have forgotten the combination."
Far more important was preventing the crimes from happening in the first place, and defusing potentially violent situations rather than escalating them. By these measures, women are, on average, better police officers than men.
I'll concede that this is anecdotal and not data but I've experienced that female officers are worse at deescalation than male officers because they don't have the physicality necessary to step in and break up disputes.
When two guys get into a heated argument, a male officer can step between them and tell them to cool it. A female officer has to draw a weapon to do that.
this is one of several methods that apple and google and many other companies use to steal tens of billions of dollars from citizens in dozens of countries every year.
It's not stealing. It's obeying the law.
The thing that people who advocate for onerous taxation never acknowledge is than when you tax too heavily, you incentivize this kind of behavior.
I still remember learning that some super-wealthy individuals pay people to manage their schedules so they don't spend too many days in places where personal income taxes are too high. At first I was shocked but then, I thought that it made sense. My money is MINE. I'm not going to voluntarily surrender more of it to the government than I have to. If there is a way for me to legally reduce my tax burden, I'll do it. It stands to reason that if a thousandaire like me would do it, a millionaire or billionaire would do it too.
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Yeah, I had to replace several peripherals as I moved away from being a Mac user.
More and more about Apple's direction after Jobs' return began to turn me off.
The switch to translucent plastic everything, the abandonment of legacy connections, going with NeXT instead of BeOS(Long term that was probably a better choice but at the time, it rubbed me the wrong way), re-labeling what should have been MacOS 7.7 to OS 8 to sever the relationship with the cloners, and game availability all worked together to change my mind about wanting to be an Mac user anymore.
LK
The Democratic establishment and the Clinton camp are completely refusing to do any honest introspection about their loss.
Hillary lost because she was the WORST POSSIBLE CANDIDATE for the election.
She lost to Trump, the worst Republican candidate in three generations and it's nobody's fault but her own.
She failed to learn the lesson of Romney's 47% comment and insulted roughly 1/4 of the voting public by calling them Deplorables.
She ignored the concerns of people in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. She assumed that they were just going to be her states. She just assumed that it was her turn and she couldn't lose. She insulted a very influential force in middle America by declaring the NRA to be her enemy.
The DNC pulled dirty, underhanded tricks to deliver the nomination to her and they paid for it in the general election. Seth Rich's leaks of their internal emails put all of their dirty business up for public scrutiny.
They're completely refusing to acknowledge that they were wrong or what happened.
Hillary is still making excuses about misogyny, Russian hackers and James Comey.
LK
I would have most likely voted for Darrel Castle as a protest. In 2012, I cast a protest vote because I couldn't support Romney or Obama.
LK
I wouldn't say that Trump is more honorable. I do happen to think that she is less honorable than Trump but I voted for the one person who had a chance of stopping Hillary.
LK
I'm not certain that it was ever clear that the population supported Sanders but it could/would have supported him with less hesitation, had he been the nominee.
WikiLeaks showed how the DNC intentionally sabotaged Bernie and had further plans to escalate into anti-semitism if he had been able to overcome their previous meddling.
Hillary had the effect of pushing a lot of voters into the Trump column. Voters who would have otherwise stayed at home or voted third party if she wasn't the nominee. Voters like me.
I wouldn't have voted for Bernie but I do have a lot of respect for him. I believe him to be an honorable person. I can have an honest disagreement with an honorable person and retain that respect. Hillary is not honorable.
LK
First, I got rid of my ISA modem.
Then, I got rid of my discreet 3D accelerator.
Then, I got rid of my PS/2 mouse and keyboard.
Then, I got rid of my AGP video card.
Then, I got rid of my CRT monitor.
Then, I got rid of my discreet sound card.
It was all incremental. One or two pieces at a time. It wasn't nearly as daunting a task as I faced when I re-evaluated whether or not to remain a Mac user.
I wish I had never gotten rid of my Mac Plus. I still have a few old machines lying around, a couple of 6100 series machines, a 6200, a 6400, a beige G3 and a G4. It broke my heart to move on from Apple but it was time.
I have really been missing one old game in particular, I've been thinking about maxing out one of those old machines to play it in its full glory with multiple monitors and all. I can probably throw together what would have once been a $10k machine for a couple hundred today.
LK
The slowly part is what made it tolerable in the PC world.
Having to replace one kind of peripheral every time you get a new motherboard isn't as big of a burden as having to replace everything when you get a new computer.
LK
Don't be so sure. I was under the impression that nominating him last year was a guaranteed way to lose.
I completely underestimated how terrible of a candidate the DNC would choose.
LK
This is a bit why, after using macs and OSX for 15 years that I have walked away from them. I can't keep up with the pace that Apple has set for consumers.
I walked away from Apple in 2000 over a similar kind of thing.
The elimination of SCSI, ADB and traditional serial ports meant that if I wanted a new Mac, I was going to have to replace all of my peripherals and that was just a bridge too far.
LK
The biggest benefit that I found in working at home was how it effectively shortened my work day.
I saved between 1 and 2 hours per day by not commuting and having the option of stopping for just a few minutes to have lunch was also a big time saver.
My days went from 10-11 to 8-8.5 hours.
LK
I was working at a movie theater in July of 1996 and I remember Siskel and Ebert giving Independence Day two thumbs down, something like 24-48 hours before it went on to have the biggest (at that point in time) opening in history.
It wasn't the greatest movie ever but it was an entertaining summer movie. Sometimes, that's all it takes to be a commercial success.
LK
But Netcraft confirms it.
LK
I too am under the impression that such recordings exist, somewhere.
LK
In my real estate market, I pay almost the same amount to buy as it would cost me to rent a house like mine.
LK
I just enjoy prodding people like you.
LK
and this one is stupid.
10 S should fail, it should fail and die, then the idiots who conceived and approved this monstrosity should be fired and ostracized from the IT community forever.
It's a step backwards for computing. I bailed on Apple before they built their walled garden and I'd bail on Microsoft if it looks like this is going to be the future of their OS.
LK
My previous position was in a company that had a 45 day password expiry policy. My password was only as complex as it had to be to fit the rule but wasn't very good.
My current position has a 6 month expiry. I use a much stronger password.
This is common sense to me.
LK
If you make it cheaper to legally avoid the tax than to pay it, your taxes are too high.
If it's less expensive to pay an administrative and support staff than to pay the tax, the tax is too high.
In the example I referenced, if it's less expensive to pay a secretary to manage your days, plan your travel and buy a second home out of state, the tax is too high.
LK
Depending on what kind of evidence they might find, it's preferable to take the contempt finding.
LK
If the police have strong evidence that the stolen diamonds are in your wall safe, and that the things is rigged to blow if they try to crack it - do you think a judge could NOT compel you to give up the combination ?
A judge could order it but s/he cannot compel it.
One basically has two options. Either "No. I refuse to comply with your order." or "I'd like to give you what you want but it's been so long since I used that, I have forgotten the combination."
LK
Far more important was preventing the crimes from happening in the first place, and defusing potentially violent situations rather than escalating them. By these measures, women are, on average, better police officers than men.
I'll concede that this is anecdotal and not data but I've experienced that female officers are worse at deescalation than male officers because they don't have the physicality necessary to step in and break up disputes.
When two guys get into a heated argument, a male officer can step between them and tell them to cool it. A female officer has to draw a weapon to do that.
LK
Damned newbz can't be trusted.
LK
this is one of several methods that apple and google and many other companies use to steal tens of billions of dollars from citizens in dozens of countries every year.
It's not stealing. It's obeying the law.
The thing that people who advocate for onerous taxation never acknowledge is than when you tax too heavily, you incentivize this kind of behavior.
I still remember learning that some super-wealthy individuals pay people to manage their schedules so they don't spend too many days in places where personal income taxes are too high. At first I was shocked but then, I thought that it made sense. My money is MINE. I'm not going to voluntarily surrender more of it to the government than I have to. If there is a way for me to legally reduce my tax burden, I'll do it. It stands to reason that if a thousandaire like me would do it, a millionaire or billionaire would do it too.
LK
I change cable providers ever two years but I have kept Netflix ever since I signed up for it.
I came across the first episode on FB and I watched it. I liked it. I will watch the season when it's officially released.
LK