Yeah, geeks tend to measure their intelligence by how many books they own.
"if I decide to lend one"
I take that to mean you aren't already loaning them. I suspect you'll find you won't be loaning many, because who's going to look at your collection when they could look at the library, or since you'll have things potentially interesting to geeks, they'll be looking to buy their own so they can increase their apparent intelligence. Mostly, though, you're the only one who cares about your collection of books. Don't try to one-up your geeky friends in this very personal thing. They won't like it.
So, keep it simple. A pad of paper, in case you loan any. Because you won't be loaning many.
Rather than evaluating it as a cabling problem, evaluate it as too much equipment for the task. Why do you have all this stuff?
What are all your external drives for? Why are they external? Do they all need to be connected all the time? Could they be replaced with fewer, larger drives? Could they be mounted internally? Would a new case help?
Are all those monitors actually helpful, or are they just cool? Would fewer, larger monitors be more useful? Could remote desktop be used to eliminate some of them?
What;s the second machine for? Is it doing something useful or is it a "file server" or some other excuse to keep obsolete equipment around?
Do you really need a network switch in addition to a router?
A 90% reduction is a payable amount for someone of the middle class. It might take garnishing wages and years of payments, but $150,000 is a payable amount. $1.5M probably is not.
Does the winner of a suit like this have the option of seeking a lower award? It'd seem to be advantageous to ask for a payable amount.
Or maybe he's not as smart as he thinks he is, and refuses to do things he doesn't think of himself. Maybe he's a one-trick pony and everyone would be better off not listening to anything he says outside his area of expertise. Maybe he really is smart but won't do anything he doesn't find interesting.
I have a lifetime better-than-50% rate of turning interviews into job offers, and I don't lie in interviews. Maybe my success rate is *because* I present myself plausibly. I know on the other side of the table the only hiree I've been delighted with as a co-worker is someone who was modest and honest in the interview.
You'd probably have gotten an amused and approving 'd'oh!' from your co-workers over the bios thing if you didn't already have a reputation for being the over-anxious newbie. The lesson is this: don't rub their noses in your eagerness to learn everything. It's not as impressive as you think it is. They've already figured out how much new stuff is actually useful in their lives. You will, too. Celebrate your actual successes (like the bios thing) modestly and with good humor.
...so it won't be at all unusual to not see people wearing these.
Ever seen a woman wearing an in-ear phone? Ever seen a man wearing an in-ear phone and not thought it looked silly? Or that he likes his technology a wee bit too much?
OEMs are more pragmatic than that. If it's a salable tech that is already developed and offered by a major player like Intel, they'll use it, whether it smells of Apple seconds or not.
I don't just want an elected official to do what I say. If I'm honest I'll admit that I don't give things that aren't my full-time job enough consideration to make decisions I want acted on. I want my elected official to spend more time considering it that I did. I want him to take into account my wishes, and the wishes of everyone else he represents, but also do some research that I didn't do, surround himself with experts that I don't have access to, and talk to people that aren't in my social circles, and make a better decision than I can. I vote for people I hope can do these things with diligence and integrity, not people who will vote the will of a million uninformed people.
The task proves difficult, so we denigrate the task?
"Having to fool a human" is not the point. Fooling a human is a measure of achievement, not an end in itself. Yes, a machine that can solve human problems but doesn't appear to be human is a useful thing. But one that appears to be human demonstrates specific capabilities that are also very useful. Natural language processing, for one. Serving as a companion is another, possibly creepy but technically awesome and potentially game-changing one. Being able to fool a human is a demonstration of proficiency in these kinds of things.
iPhone users use less data on average because many of them don't even need a data plan. But they must pay for one. A "high-end 4G Android device", on the other hand, is more likely to be chosen by the spec-optimizing, lives-on-the-internet, gonna-use-everything-I-paid for geek crowd.
However, if you convince people that they deserve freedom, they will start rejecting nonfree software whether it is technically inferior or technically superior, because they will see that free software is ethically superior.
Blowing a mod point to say this is a geek pipe dream. Normal people don't give a rat's ass about geek dogma.
Amazon reviews are so thoroughly gamed it wouldn't surprise me one bit to learn there's a campaign/reward system in place for highlighting passages in ebooks that Amazon is more than happy to ignore. Some of their "top reviewers" sell search optimization services and are brazen enough to advertise them in their Amazon profiles.
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Yeah, geeks tend to measure their intelligence by how many books they own.
"if I decide to lend one"
I take that to mean you aren't already loaning them. I suspect you'll find you won't be loaning many, because who's going to look at your collection when they could look at the library, or since you'll have things potentially interesting to geeks, they'll be looking to buy their own so they can increase their apparent intelligence. Mostly, though, you're the only one who cares about your collection of books. Don't try to one-up your geeky friends in this very personal thing. They won't like it.
So, keep it simple. A pad of paper, in case you loan any. Because you won't be loaning many.
The chip is an Apple design. Samsung is just the foundry.
Do you even know what a vendetta is? Please explain this vendetta Gabon has.
Nothing is really known about me.ga
Seriously?
and so the only reason they have to shut it down is because it's a 'successor' to megaupload
Doesn't that say quite a bit about it? See, quite a bit is known about me.ga.
and they have a vendetta against Kim Dotcom.
Because the only way anyone would object to megaupload is if they don't like Kim Dotcom? Seriously?
Grow up.
Rather than evaluating it as a cabling problem, evaluate it as too much equipment for the task. Why do you have all this stuff?
What are all your external drives for? Why are they external? Do they all need to be connected all the time? Could they be replaced with fewer, larger drives? Could they be mounted internally? Would a new case help?
Are all those monitors actually helpful, or are they just cool? Would fewer, larger monitors be more useful? Could remote desktop be used to eliminate some of them?
What;s the second machine for? Is it doing something useful or is it a "file server" or some other excuse to keep obsolete equipment around?
Do you really need a network switch in addition to a router?
USB hubs? Plural? What for?
A 90% reduction is a payable amount for someone of the middle class. It might take garnishing wages and years of payments, but $150,000 is a payable amount. $1.5M probably is not.
Does the winner of a suit like this have the option of seeking a lower award? It'd seem to be advantageous to ask for a payable amount.
And most people recognize that it's odd that tech geeks care so much about choices other people make, and about products they don't own.
*FO to report a call as abusive or illegal. Too high a percentage of *FO responses gets your service terminated.
Or maybe he's not as smart as he thinks he is, and refuses to do things he doesn't think of himself. Maybe he's a one-trick pony and everyone would be better off not listening to anything he says outside his area of expertise. Maybe he really is smart but won't do anything he doesn't find interesting.
It's been almost a decade since I dropped local landline service, where I was paying $5/mo for an unlisted number, and I paid that for years.
I have a lifetime better-than-50% rate of turning interviews into job offers, and I don't lie in interviews. Maybe my success rate is *because* I present myself plausibly. I know on the other side of the table the only hiree I've been delighted with as a co-worker is someone who was modest and honest in the interview.
at least not here in the US. If you go back to my parents generation all the families had 5-7 children without fail.
What are you, like, 140 years old?
Commercial trucking may go to natural gas. Once that's well along, getting it deeper into the suburbs for light vehicles may not be a stretch.
You'd probably have gotten an amused and approving 'd'oh!' from your co-workers over the bios thing if you didn't already have a reputation for being the over-anxious newbie. The lesson is this: don't rub their noses in your eagerness to learn everything. It's not as impressive as you think it is. They've already figured out how much new stuff is actually useful in their lives. You will, too. Celebrate your actual successes (like the bios thing) modestly and with good humor.
Scientific installations used to use Solaris a lot. Linux isn't better. It's just cheaper.
...so it won't be at all unusual to not see people wearing these.
Ever seen a woman wearing an in-ear phone?
Ever seen a man wearing an in-ear phone and not thought it looked silly? Or that he likes his technology a wee bit too much?
OEMs are more pragmatic than that. If it's a salable tech that is already developed and offered by a major player like Intel, they'll use it, whether it smells of Apple seconds or not.
Everyone was telling everybody else everything about themselves - their name, their phone #, their address, their hobby... everything
OMG the horror. People making social connections and finding things to talk about.
I don't just want an elected official to do what I say. If I'm honest I'll admit that I don't give things that aren't my full-time job enough consideration to make decisions I want acted on. I want my elected official to spend more time considering it that I did. I want him to take into account my wishes, and the wishes of everyone else he represents, but also do some research that I didn't do, surround himself with experts that I don't have access to, and talk to people that aren't in my social circles, and make a better decision than I can. I vote for people I hope can do these things with diligence and integrity, not people who will vote the will of a million uninformed people.
The task proves difficult, so we denigrate the task?
"Having to fool a human" is not the point. Fooling a human is a measure of achievement, not an end in itself. Yes, a machine that can solve human problems but doesn't appear to be human is a useful thing. But one that appears to be human demonstrates specific capabilities that are also very useful. Natural language processing, for one. Serving as a companion is another, possibly creepy but technically awesome and potentially game-changing one. Being able to fool a human is a demonstration of proficiency in these kinds of things.
They can be unfair with flat-rate pricing just as easily as they can with metered pricing.
iPhone users use less data on average because many of them don't even need a data plan. But they must pay for one. A "high-end 4G Android device", on the other hand, is more likely to be chosen by the spec-optimizing, lives-on-the-internet, gonna-use-everything-I-paid for geek crowd.
However, if you convince people that they deserve freedom, they will start rejecting nonfree software whether it is technically inferior or technically superior, because they will see that free software is ethically superior.
Blowing a mod point to say this is a geek pipe dream. Normal people don't give a rat's ass about geek dogma.
Amazon reviews are so thoroughly gamed it wouldn't surprise me one bit to learn there's a campaign/reward system in place for highlighting passages in ebooks that Amazon is more than happy to ignore. Some of their "top reviewers" sell search optimization services and are brazen enough to advertise them in their Amazon profiles.
*than is apparent