My dad had a system downgrade to Windows 10 on him. He didn't want it to. I didn't know until it was too late to go back. He had a nice flatbed scanner that would not work with Win10, as there are no new drivers for it.
Apple's products are pricey, but in many cases no pricier than equivalent alternatives. Just because a Lexus RC-F is expensive doesn't mean it's priced at a premium compared to a Honda. If all you're looking to do is fulfill a set of requirements met by the Honda, then the Lexus isn't targeted at you and would seem to be priced at a premium.
Except it's actually a Honda with a Lexus logo on it. The gas and brake pedals and other controls have been swapped. The built-in stereo only plays music you subscribe to from the manufacturer. The industry standard butt interface (seat) has been courageously removed. You can buy an adapter or a wireless seat that doesn't attach. Each model year is a little bit thinner, so it's hard to get into it, and the gas tank gets smaller, so it can't go very far.
The lack of a decent sized freezer sucks. When I was single, I used to make stuff that froze well. Made big batches of everything and froze them in single serving sizes. Then most days I could just pull something out of the freezer and heat it up.
I am super slow chopping veggies. Prep time kills me. I have a hell of a time getting more than one thing on a plate and all be hot.
SpaceX's eventual plans to go to Mars utilize a different rocket engine - the Raptor. Among other differences from the Merlin enigne (used by the Falcon 9), the Raptor will have spark ignition: no need for these highly combustible lighter fluids.
Yeah, well then... Make sure they bring enough sparks with them.
Heard a story many years ago about crows. Food on the ground, but they would not come down because of a nearby group of people. The group walked behind a building and out the other side and walked away. When they left one of the group behind the building, and the crows would not come down. When nobody stayed behind the building, they came down for the food. Did the crows count the people?
Seagate SG4000 series life expectancy: 32 years
Average HD life expectancy: 50 years
HGST HDS5C series: 167 years
I have always felt like there's a huge disconnect between the advertised life expectancy of products and reality. It seems wrong that they can say that a product will last a long time, yet the short warranty suggests that they are aware that their claims are full of crap.
I hate to say "there oughta be a law", but as a consumer protection, I think that there should be a requirement to have a statement about the expected lifespan of the product, along with a statement about the warranty. This should apply to a great many things.
An example of a label on the package would be one that says "The life expectancy of this product is 50 years. The warranty is therefore a generous 45 years to reflect our confidence in our products."
Or, "We don't expect our products to last much more than a year. Therefore our warranty is only 90 days, and even that is higher than we'd like."
I have them. 20+ dead Seagates... internals and externals. Only 2 drives in the past 10 years have survived... yet I have no dead Hitachis, one dead Samsung and a couple dead WDs.
The problem with anecdotes is you need a lot of them to separate statistics from sheer dumb luck. While Segates are generally shit
This is true. In this case though, I have seen a lot of anecdotal evidence of Seagate drives being crap.
I also have my own anecdotes on the subject. Seagate drives I have had all had abysmally short lives. I never got a big stack of dead Seagate's though, as I stopped buying them. There were some duds at work too, and I told them to stop buying them too.
is encrypted using a weak algorithm, contains a hard-coded password, and is accessible to all users with local non-administrative access to the system it is installed in,"
So weak encryption and a backdoor. Just the kind of thing the FBI and others want.
The reason the Moon landings were so incredible to some people, is because of the sheer huge amounts of money spent on them - hundreds of billions. You could do an awful lot more with the money than say "we stepped on the Moon".
Today that money would be burned up in government inefficiencies, pork, corruption and so on.
So if I read you right, anyone can run a nuc reactor? Point is that if you have to have a specialist in one area, you lose one in another. Then number of people going is rather restrictive.
Can you design or build from scratch a TV or smartphone or computer or car?
Given a choice, which would you rather have come to your village:
1. A carefully designed, programmed and tested robot
2. A squad of soldiers that haven't slept in two days or eaten in 18 hours, and who just medevaced a comrade who had his leg blown off below the knee by a booby trap
Are you really sure you want a human decision maker "in the loop"?
1. A carefully designed, programmed (to kill all humans) and tested robot
I'll be asking for 10% of my money back from intel.
For people who have bleeding edge top of the line stuff, the last 10% performance probably cost them 50% more. (That's a bit of a random guess, but you get the idea. Performance/cost is not linear.)
We're still getting 90% (or better, supposedly) of what we asked for.
I think it would be reasonable to expect a 10% discount on the next Intel CPU, though, and Intel should eat the hit to their profits that would result.
What about folks who can't currently afford anything new, and have an Intel based system that just manages to play the games they like to play? Well 90% of what they paid for might not cut it. Is a 10% discount on something new any good to them? Not when they can't afford the other 90% to get something new. A 10% rebate won't be that helpful as their computer stutters through their games.
It would be simple to encrypt a bunch of random stuff on a drive. Leave it with someone else, and accuse them of having child porn on it, and they go to jail swearing that they can't decrypt and that it isn't theirs.
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My dad had a system downgrade to Windows 10 on him. He didn't want it to. I didn't know until it was too late to go back. He had a nice flatbed scanner that would not work with Win10, as there are no new drivers for it.
Kill Michael Jackson: Two years in jail
Copy his songs: Six years in jail
Apple's products are pricey, but in many cases no pricier than equivalent alternatives. Just because a Lexus RC-F is expensive doesn't mean it's priced at a premium compared to a Honda. If all you're looking to do is fulfill a set of requirements met by the Honda, then the Lexus isn't targeted at you and would seem to be priced at a premium.
Except it's actually a Honda with a Lexus logo on it. The gas and brake pedals and other controls have been swapped. The built-in stereo only plays music you subscribe to from the manufacturer. The industry standard butt interface (seat) has been courageously removed. You can buy an adapter or a wireless seat that doesn't attach. Each model year is a little bit thinner, so it's hard to get into it, and the gas tank gets smaller, so it can't go very far.
The lack of a decent sized freezer sucks. When I was single, I used to make stuff that froze well. Made big batches of everything and froze them in single serving sizes. Then most days I could just pull something out of the freezer and heat it up.
I am super slow chopping veggies. Prep time kills me. I have a hell of a time getting more than one thing on a plate and all be hot.
A joke is that if you cook fish in a cast iron pan, then it becomes your fish pan forever. Many meals afterwards will have that fishy flavor.
That's more truth than joke. I remember (probably 35 years ago) having fish flavored pancakes. I was not pleased.
No evidence that organic based foods are safer than regular foods
Organic food was "regular food" for millions of years. The crap we eat today is does not deserve the term "regular food".
SpaceX's eventual plans to go to Mars utilize a different rocket engine - the Raptor. Among other differences from the Merlin enigne (used by the Falcon 9), the Raptor will have spark ignition: no need for these highly combustible lighter fluids.
Yeah, well then... Make sure they bring enough sparks with them.
The teeny tiny fraction adds up, because you need more fuel to lift that, then you need more fuel to lift the extra fuel.. and so on.
Exactly. Most of the fuel on a rocket is there to lift the weight of the fuel.
Heard a story many years ago about crows. Food on the ground, but they would not come down because of a nearby group of people. The group walked behind a building and out the other side and walked away. When they left one of the group behind the building, and the crows would not come down. When nobody stayed behind the building, they came down for the food. Did the crows count the people?
We always suspected he was a Persian cat away from being a supervision. Now I have incontrovertible proof!
What proof? Did you see him at a laser eye surgery clinic or something?
Seagate SG4000 series life expectancy: 32 years Average HD life expectancy: 50 years HGST HDS5C series: 167 years
I have always felt like there's a huge disconnect between the advertised life expectancy of products and reality. It seems wrong that they can say that a product will last a long time, yet the short warranty suggests that they are aware that their claims are full of crap.
I hate to say "there oughta be a law", but as a consumer protection, I think that there should be a requirement to have a statement about the expected lifespan of the product, along with a statement about the warranty. This should apply to a great many things.
An example of a label on the package would be one that says "The life expectancy of this product is 50 years. The warranty is therefore a generous 45 years to reflect our confidence in our products."
Or, "We don't expect our products to last much more than a year. Therefore our warranty is only 90 days, and even that is higher than we'd like."
I have them. 20+ dead Seagates... internals and externals. Only 2 drives in the past 10 years have survived... yet I have no dead Hitachis, one dead Samsung and a couple dead WDs.
The problem with anecdotes is you need a lot of them to separate statistics from sheer dumb luck. While Segates are generally shit
This is true. In this case though, I have seen a lot of anecdotal evidence of Seagate drives being crap.
I also have my own anecdotes on the subject. Seagate drives I have had all had abysmally short lives. I never got a big stack of dead Seagate's though, as I stopped buying them. There were some duds at work too, and I told them to stop buying them too.
This administration is determined to make the USA more like a third world country.
This administration is determined to make China look more like a first world country.
They are switching. Make America Stone Aged again!
the three Amazon ones are plugged into real speakers via the headphone jack whereas the Google one stupidly leaves out this feature.
How courageous of them. I'm sure it made it slimmer or something.
is encrypted using a weak algorithm, contains a hard-coded password, and is accessible to all users with local non-administrative access to the system it is installed in,"
So weak encryption and a backdoor. Just the kind of thing the FBI and others want.
The reason the Moon landings were so incredible to some people, is because of the sheer huge amounts of money spent on them - hundreds of billions. You could do an awful lot more with the money than say "we stepped on the Moon".
Today that money would be burned up in government inefficiencies, pork, corruption and so on.
So if I read you right, anyone can run a nuc reactor? Point is that if you have to have a specialist in one area, you lose one in another. Then number of people going is rather restrictive.
Can you design or build from scratch a TV or smartphone or computer or car?
Can you operate them?
Given a choice, which would you rather have come to your village:
1. A carefully designed, programmed and tested robot
2. A squad of soldiers that haven't slept in two days or eaten in 18 hours, and who just medevaced a comrade who had his leg blown off below the knee by a booby trap
Are you really sure you want a human decision maker "in the loop"?
1. A carefully designed, programmed (to kill all humans) and tested robot
Banks, airports, hotels and even public toilets are all trying to verify people's identities by analyzing their faces.
For a second there I thought it said feces (faeces).
I wondered if it was a collaboration with Weird Al Yankovic.
people have said "what do I need a faster PC for?"
To compensate for the Meltdown and Spectre mitigations.
I'll be asking for 10% of my money back from intel.
For people who have bleeding edge top of the line stuff, the last 10% performance probably cost them 50% more. (That's a bit of a random guess, but you get the idea. Performance/cost is not linear.)
people dont get that 10% will only be for certen use cases sense most games are not cpu heavy you probably wont see any difference at all.
Cities Skylines. Very CPU intensive. Population and traffic simulation. It's going to lower the city size you can simulate.
We're still getting 90% (or better, supposedly) of what we asked for.
I think it would be reasonable to expect a 10% discount on the next Intel CPU, though, and Intel should eat the hit to their profits that would result.
What about folks who can't currently afford anything new, and have an Intel based system that just manages to play the games they like to play? Well 90% of what they paid for might not cut it. Is a 10% discount on something new any good to them? Not when they can't afford the other 90% to get something new. A 10% rebate won't be that helpful as their computer stutters through their games.
It would be simple to encrypt a bunch of random stuff on a drive. Leave it with someone else, and accuse them of having child porn on it, and they go to jail swearing that they can't decrypt and that it isn't theirs.