You're just a dumb AC. My MBP did the very same thing, the only saving grace was that mine was in a metal drawer and did not overheat so badly to get damaged.
The unbelievably loud sound you just heard was the 140dB whoosh passing over your head. Don't fret though, you're not alone, it appears that some retards with mod points were startled by the sound too...
Don't you hate the moment you click the "Submit" button only to figure out what a stupid comment you just posted?
Despite having a few traits in common (they're both men, born on their respective birthday, and had been involved with disclosing secret stuff), Assange and Snowden are two different persons. If anything, Assange should be dependent upon maintaining President Correa's goodwill.
USB-C sucks from the mechanical p.o.v. when compared to a standard jack connector. More difficult to insert, tiny contacts that wear out much faster.
ANYTHING replacing the round pronged headphone jack has more downsides than real benefits, be it crappy connectors like USB and thunderbolt or BT-enabled (whose battery life sucks).
Qualcomm seems to not be able to learn its lesson(s) when dealing with the Chinese market. They're been shafted at least twice but apparently enjoyed it and want some more.
Or, they're growing desperate despite still being the leader in a few aspects of the mobile chipset, ET for instance.
The overall improvements in the past do not guarantee the same in the future and I'm sure that you're aware of the fact that the golden era of productivity increase is over. To expect that, no matter which challenge, there will always be a technology around the corner to obliterate it is, imho, wishful thinking.
Given that there are fewer and fewer jobs in farming and manufacturing (due to big technology advances) and that the service economy is not working for the large majority of our co-nationals (exactly because there is no intrinsic technology innovation solving their issues), I agree 100% with your sig.
Apparently you too haven't played with Legos in a long time. How much is the buying power of the newly laid-off people? The race to the bottom has short-term benefits (cheaper products means more consumers can afford them) and long-term downsides (lower profits, smaller real-money wages, fewer employed, fewer having the income to spend on things); it's a vicious positive-feedback loop that plays out in decades, that's why the frogs don't jump out of the pot - the thermal gradient is too small.
Regarding the first point, layoffs are happening even at companies posting profits, it's just that these profits are smaller than what they could be (short-term at least) and the investors could sue...
There is no correlation between the four events you're listing.
Oftentimes layoffs are done to prop up the stock value or to move more money towards the top.
A price reduction has no positive influence on the development of new products. Maybe the last one (if you swap it) may make any sense.
The truth is that in the vast majority of situations where a company does deep layoffs the outcome is even worse in the longer term. Low morale and extra stress, productive time lost due to re-arranging the company's structure, reduced capacity to react to new opportunities, they all add up but don't show in a simplistic spreadsheet.
Ahem, the Romans were killing their own; it was punishment for a legion's failure in battle - akin to the modern "the beatings will continue until morale improves"...
yes, but PDF can do all these and much, much better than PowerPoint. Probably the only appeal of PowerPoint is the ability to copy-paste snippets from other MSOffice tools.
Given the way this "country" operates, I'm pretty sure that after each failure heads are rolling, literally. A few more such failures and NK will run out of rocket scientists and missile commanders...
At this stage, he only cares about the California delegates and probably has this fuzzy idea that Fiorina will help him with that - given how much this state loves her (what?)...
Apparently you seem to know very little about how the grid works. Except hydro power, of which California has little, none of the baseload-producing methods can be throttled fast enough to compensate for peaks and troughs of the solar power.
Everything is easy when you don't have the understanding.
Solar panels more than pay for themselves during their lifetimes, usually several times over with today's technology
That's a truckload of BS. Remove the subsidies and you'll be lucky if they break even. Remove the unfair rates the PU has to pay for the energy these panels push into the grid and you're always ending with a net loss.
This law, as applied to San Francisco, serves exactly two purposes: window dressing to make the city look even more "progressive" and enriching a few solar companies, who happen to have their headquarters in the Bay Area. It makes no sense financially because the total available solar radiance for this location is too low; given its weather, San Francisco has relatively few sunny days during the year.
Well, at least you can feel some "internet solidarity". You're at the other end of the contiguous USA for me to meet (and vote for) such an interesting person as you seem to be (as read through most - not all - of your posts on/.), so all I (and others, I'm sure) can offer is written encouragement.
You may get disillusioned b the whole political process, but at least you followed through your inner desire to do something. Kudos!
You're not alone. Dyson is a crappy engineering company but with access to molding presses for nicely-colored plastic parts.
The air blade is so badly designed that it didn't include a means to capture all the water blown off the hands; that water simply drips off the unit and on the restroom's floor. Hard to top this in terms of idiotic engineering...
Hey, why are you singling out California? Most states elect at least one Rep. or Senator who are similar to Feinstein in batshit craziness.... some then develop dreams of grandeur (running for POTUS) so that their idiocy can be displayed on a large scale (Hi Florida! Howdy Texas!)
The detractors in this case are the majority of Republicans (the so-called "Establishment"). The Ds are happy to stand back and enjoy the infighting. Things will change after the Convention, but so far it's been an ugly R-on-R mudfest.
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You're just a dumb AC. My MBP did the very same thing, the only saving grace was that mine was in a metal drawer and did not overheat so badly to get damaged.
The unbelievably loud sound you just heard was the 140dB whoosh passing over your head. Don't fret though, you're not alone, it appears that some retards with mod points were startled by the sound too...
Don't you hate the moment you click the "Submit" button only to figure out what a stupid comment you just posted?
Despite having a few traits in common (they're both men, born on their respective birthday, and had been involved with disclosing secret stuff), Assange and Snowden are two different persons. If anything, Assange should be dependent upon maintaining President Correa's goodwill.
they would create a new Shakespeare play in no time at all. Better than coding.
USB-C sucks from the mechanical p.o.v. when compared to a standard jack connector. More difficult to insert, tiny contacts that wear out much faster.
ANYTHING replacing the round pronged headphone jack has more downsides than real benefits, be it crappy connectors like USB and thunderbolt or BT-enabled (whose battery life sucks).
Qualcomm seems to not be able to learn its lesson(s) when dealing with the Chinese market. They're been shafted at least twice but apparently enjoyed it and want some more.
Or, they're growing desperate despite still being the leader in a few aspects of the mobile chipset, ET for instance.
The overall improvements in the past do not guarantee the same in the future and I'm sure that you're aware of the fact that the golden era of productivity increase is over. To expect that, no matter which challenge, there will always be a technology around the corner to obliterate it is, imho, wishful thinking.
Given that there are fewer and fewer jobs in farming and manufacturing (due to big technology advances) and that the service economy is not working for the large majority of our co-nationals (exactly because there is no intrinsic technology innovation solving their issues), I agree 100% with your sig.
Apparently you too haven't played with Legos in a long time. How much is the buying power of the newly laid-off people? The race to the bottom has short-term benefits (cheaper products means more consumers can afford them) and long-term downsides (lower profits, smaller real-money wages, fewer employed, fewer having the income to spend on things); it's a vicious positive-feedback loop that plays out in decades, that's why the frogs don't jump out of the pot - the thermal gradient is too small.
Regarding the first point, layoffs are happening even at companies posting profits, it's just that these profits are smaller than what they could be (short-term at least) and the investors could sue...
"because that's where the money is"
There is no correlation between the four events you're listing.
Oftentimes layoffs are done to prop up the stock value or to move more money towards the top.
A price reduction has no positive influence on the development of new products. Maybe the last one (if you swap it) may make any sense.
The truth is that in the vast majority of situations where a company does deep layoffs the outcome is even worse in the longer term. Low morale and extra stress, productive time lost due to re-arranging the company's structure, reduced capacity to react to new opportunities, they all add up but don't show in a simplistic spreadsheet.
Ahem, the Romans were killing their own; it was punishment for a legion's failure in battle - akin to the modern "the beatings will continue until morale improves"...
yes, but PDF can do all these and much, much better than PowerPoint. Probably the only appeal of PowerPoint is the ability to copy-paste snippets from other MSOffice tools.
Given the way this "country" operates, I'm pretty sure that after each failure heads are rolling, literally. A few more such failures and NK will run out of rocket scientists and missile commanders...
At this stage, he only cares about the California delegates and probably has this fuzzy idea that Fiorina will help him with that - given how much this state loves her (what?)...
Can you provide a credible reference instead of a fact-free brochure posted by an entity partial to the subject?
Apparently you seem to know very little about how the grid works. Except hydro power, of which California has little, none of the baseload-producing methods can be throttled fast enough to compensate for peaks and troughs of the solar power.
Everything is easy when you don't have the understanding.
Solar panels more than pay for themselves during their lifetimes, usually several times over with today's technology
That's a truckload of BS. Remove the subsidies and you'll be lucky if they break even. Remove the unfair rates the PU has to pay for the energy these panels push into the grid and you're always ending with a net loss.
This law, as applied to San Francisco, serves exactly two purposes: window dressing to make the city look even more "progressive" and enriching a few solar companies, who happen to have their headquarters in the Bay Area. It makes no sense financially because the total available solar radiance for this location is too low; given its weather, San Francisco has relatively few sunny days during the year.
Yeah, AMD's leadership seems to be too stupid these days to learn anything from Qualcomm's plight...
So far so good...
Well, at least you can feel some "internet solidarity". You're at the other end of the contiguous USA for me to meet (and vote for) such an interesting person as you seem to be (as read through most - not all - of your posts on /.), so all I (and others, I'm sure) can offer is written encouragement.
You may get disillusioned b the whole political process, but at least you followed through your inner desire to do something. Kudos!
You're not alone. Dyson is a crappy engineering company but with access to molding presses for nicely-colored plastic parts.
The air blade is so badly designed that it didn't include a means to capture all the water blown off the hands; that water simply drips off the unit and on the restroom's floor. Hard to top this in terms of idiotic engineering...
Hey, why are you singling out California? Most states elect at least one Rep. or Senator who are similar to Feinstein in batshit craziness.... some then develop dreams of grandeur (running for POTUS) so that their idiocy can be displayed on a large scale (Hi Florida! Howdy Texas!)
Thank you for pointing out that nowadays there are many more idiots in business environments!
The detractors in this case are the majority of Republicans (the so-called "Establishment"). The Ds are happy to stand back and enjoy the infighting. Things will change after the Convention, but so far it's been an ugly R-on-R mudfest.
duh! the phonetically correct but badly spelled "you're right"