My UID is pretty old. I remember GNAA, frosty piss, hot gritz, JonKatz and Roblimo, etc., etc..
Slashdot is a mere shadow of what it once was. The moderation system is beyond broken. MOST of the posts here should be moderated away yet aren't. The seedy underbelly was always there, but now it's being elevated to the top. OP is right,/. has been overrun with the maggots. I'd estimate a good 80% of every story's comments are shitposts and racist bullshit. It didn't used to be that way.
Unless you've got data to back up your claims you're talking out your ass and acting like a pompous jerk to boot.
I've no issue with their HDMI and USB cables, but don't buy their 3D printer filament because the $2 I'd save isn't worth the potential hassles against the CCTree filament that I've had great success with.
Everything is a value judgement. There's no need to act like you're some superior being because you *feel* they're rebranding subpar products to make people feel good.
I have the USB A to micro/usbc/lightning version of this cable -- I fucking love these things. I didn't think they had a C version which worked with the macs though.
most credit cards offer device warranties through the card vendor. Amazon offers a warranty on a lot of devices it sells as well, although not for this specific one.
same here. I'm seriously considering an ipad pro only for the screen real estate and the fast rendering of shitty PDFs. I'd love an epaper display but I've not found one that is even close to rendering scanned book PDFs fast enough or with enough resolution to make it usable.
The only way you'd have a 30m turnaround on these keyboards if an all-out system replacement. The keyboards are tack-welded to the case in about 50 locations. It's nuts.
I'm rather sick of this pursuit of thin at all costs. Give me something useful and use that extra few mm for more battery, not less. I strongly suspect it's Ive who's behind this continuous pursuit toward two-dimensional computing.
This is what I've been using to synchronize my projects folder across four computers (one being a roaming laptop and one being a file server with undelete). I think my folder size is on the order of 50G now and it's still working pretty decently. Occasionally it gets a little confused because OSX's filesystem is case insensitive by default, but it's never lost my data. I love this software.
I have a J5Create Dock which uses an MCT usb-to-HDMI chip and it's been broken (extremely high CPU use) since June. J5Create doesn't make the driver, MCT does, and they seem completely uninterested in fixing it.
My DisplayLink based docks work great, and I'll be holding off on the update until I can figure out whether this is permanent or not. Sigh.
Nonsense. Cable is the worst thing for kids. A constant stream of commercials demanding their attention, a thousand channels of shit. My three (14, 9, 5) only ever see commercials when they're at a friend's house and the interruption drives them nuts. Netflix has a good selection of kid's content and between plex and what we rent from appletv... the rest is covered.
Really? My i7, 8GB 11" Air is plenty fast, and I can do some pretty intense stuff on it at times (VMs, FPGA synthesis, compiling large software sets)...
The RAM is a bit of a limitation for some of those, but it's hardly a slouch.
Funny, I've been rocking an 11" Air for the last 7 years (6 with the current one). I do EDA and embedded software development. Running VMs, sometimes two external monitors (one TB, one USB3) and do a fair amount of high speed data acquisition.
It's been the best damned laptop I've ever bought, and aside from wanting (not needing) a 1080p+ display and 16GB of RAM, this laptop has been *amazing*.
I ran some of my own ARM code through this. While I did build with -Os, I did not strip the.elf. The source it produced was a reasonable approximation of what I wrote, but it was far from legible. Little things like using hexadecimal for memory addresses are a minor nitpick, but I found it had trouble even with basic interrupt handlers. I would have expected something aimed at targeting embedded systems would do a better job of of this, but still... very interesting (and very fast)!
I have been running Altium in a VMWare Fusion (and now ESXi) VM for over 3 years now. Works great, although the caveat on ESXi is that you *do* need a real video card exposed to the VM. It doesn't have to be fancy; I'm using a Radeon 5400 in a Dell C6100 blade server.
That's been the only real windows-only software that I run. My wife uses Accpac and Quicken on another VM on that server. Everything else I can hit with either OSX (our native OS) or Linux VMs.
I'm a big guy, big hands. touch typist for the last 24+ years. Spend all day typing (embedded systems engineer). I have been using a 2012 11" Air every single day. I have *zero* issues with the touchpad. None, zero.
In fact the only real issue I have with the Air is that the keyboard can get kind of warm at times when the laptop's doing some real computation. I prefer an external keyboard then but only for that reason.
I can certainly understand that some people do, and when I'm using Altium (schematic capture and layout) I do use a bluetooth mouse because it's much easier to use than a trackpad for those specific tasks, but I find the touchpad far better for most of my mousing around. This was the case even 18ish years ago when I was using Linux as my primary desktop on genuine Thinkpads (before Lenovo was sold off).
The trackpad on Windows (and Linux) is bad, but it's certainly not awful. It's a total null issue on OSX though as far as I'm concerned.
Uhhh, GPS chips are required by law to disable for altitudes and velocities common for missiles.
True, but it's straighforward to demodulate and calculate your 3D position without a canned GPS chip. Anyone building ballistic missile has the technical ability to easily work around these built-in cutoffs by simply doing their own signal processing and math.
I definitely don't see the reason to wire with cat6; cat5 is more than enough for 99.9% of what people are using in a house. I'd run fiber + cat5 to the TVs and anywhere else you can forsee enormous bandwidth; for everything else there's wifi and cat5. Cat6 is expensive and 10gbe is cheaper as fiber anyway, as 10gbe copper is power hungry and expensive as hell.
If I were to wire a new home I'd run a cheap vacuum cleaner conduit from the basement to the attic; all drops for any upstairs rooms would go through the conduit, making all the upstairs runs *trivial* to change/upgrade if need be. I'd have a dedicated run (power and network) for a main floor and upstairs closet (a central one on each floor anyway) for wifi, the power is there so it can be tied into the same UPS that's keeping your basement infrastructure powered.
I was so excited about openmoko when I first heard about it. I followed it right up until the day they revealed what it'd look like: a fucking stretched-out hockey puck.
I don't care how good your hardware is. I don't care how pure your business ethics or design philosophy is. If you make a device that looks idiotic, it will fail.
Not sure what the snark is for; I consider myself a professional (embedded hw design, software development, etc.) and have been using an 11" Air as my daily use machine since 2012. Yes, the one with the 1280x800 screen (no retina available).
I did put the i7 and 8GB on it, and even as I type this I've got a Win7 VM running CCES doing Analog Devices DSP work going and Nordic nRF51822 development under OSX in a shell.
You don't need a 15" or 17" screen to use a computer, although I do agree more pixels would be nice in those 11". 16GB of RAM would be nice too, but neither the retina screen nor the 16GB are *needed*. I do quite well on this thing.
While I would *love* to see that happen (no fucking way I'm buying the current models, my 2012 11" i7 Air is almost perfect, just more RAM and retina would be nice), I don't think it'll happen. I don't think Apple is going to back down on the keyboard. In fact, I'm expecting them to go to an all-glass keyboard with no force feedback. Ugh.
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My UID is pretty old. I remember GNAA, frosty piss, hot gritz, JonKatz and Roblimo, etc., etc..
Slashdot is a mere shadow of what it once was. The moderation system is beyond broken. MOST of the posts here should be moderated away yet aren't. The seedy underbelly was always there, but now it's being elevated to the top. OP is right, /. has been overrun with the maggots. I'd estimate a good 80% of every story's comments are shitposts and racist bullshit. It didn't used to be that way.
Unless you've got data to back up your claims you're talking out your ass and acting like a pompous jerk to boot.
I've no issue with their HDMI and USB cables, but don't buy their 3D printer filament because the $2 I'd save isn't worth the potential hassles against the CCTree filament that I've had great success with.
Everything is a value judgement. There's no need to act like you're some superior being because you *feel* they're rebranding subpar products to make people feel good.
No, it's not really that bad. OP's just paranoid or demands colour-coordination for his dongles. Both are silly reasons.
mouse and keyboard are easily solved with bluetooth.
I have the USB A to micro/usbc/lightning version of this cable -- I fucking love these things. I didn't think they had a C version which worked with the macs though.
most credit cards offer device warranties through the card vendor. Amazon offers a warranty on a lot of devices it sells as well, although not for this specific one.
same here. I'm seriously considering an ipad pro only for the screen real estate and the fast rendering of shitty PDFs. I'd love an epaper display but I've not found one that is even close to rendering scanned book PDFs fast enough or with enough resolution to make it usable.
oh? which laptop do you have that is available from multiple vendors?
I normally agree with you but this is an asinine comment.
The only way you'd have a 30m turnaround on these keyboards if an all-out system replacement. The keyboards are tack-welded to the case in about 50 locations. It's nuts.
I'm rather sick of this pursuit of thin at all costs. Give me something useful and use that extra few mm for more battery, not less. I strongly suspect it's Ive who's behind this continuous pursuit toward two-dimensional computing.
This is what I've been using to synchronize my projects folder across four computers (one being a roaming laptop and one being a file server with undelete). I think my folder size is on the order of 50G now and it's still working pretty decently. Occasionally it gets a little confused because OSX's filesystem is case insensitive by default, but it's never lost my data. I love this software.
No, not every single dock.
I have a J5Create Dock which uses an MCT usb-to-HDMI chip and it's been broken (extremely high CPU use) since June. J5Create doesn't make the driver, MCT does, and they seem completely uninterested in fixing it.
My DisplayLink based docks work great, and I'll be holding off on the update until I can figure out whether this is permanent or not. Sigh.
Cable only makes sense for people who have kids.
Nonsense. Cable is the worst thing for kids. A constant stream of commercials demanding their attention, a thousand channels of shit. My three (14, 9, 5) only ever see commercials when they're at a friend's house and the interruption drives them nuts. Netflix has a good selection of kid's content and between plex and what we rent from appletv... the rest is covered.
Cable TV is an abomination and needs to die.
Really? My i7, 8GB 11" Air is plenty fast, and I can do some pretty intense stuff on it at times (VMs, FPGA synthesis, compiling large software sets)...
The RAM is a bit of a limitation for some of those, but it's hardly a slouch.
Replace the battery. My 2012 11" Air is doing just fine with a new battery from amazon.
Funny, I've been rocking an 11" Air for the last 7 years (6 with the current one). I do EDA and embedded software development. Running VMs, sometimes two external monitors (one TB, one USB3) and do a fair amount of high speed data acquisition.
It's been the best damned laptop I've ever bought, and aside from wanting (not needing) a 1080p+ display and 16GB of RAM, this laptop has been *amazing*.
I ran some of my own ARM code through this. While I did build with -Os, I did not strip the .elf. The source it produced was a reasonable approximation of what I wrote, but it was far from legible. Little things like using hexadecimal for memory addresses are a minor nitpick, but I found it had trouble even with basic interrupt handlers. I would have expected something aimed at targeting embedded systems would do a better job of of this, but still... very interesting (and very fast)!
I have been running Altium in a VMWare Fusion (and now ESXi) VM for over 3 years now. Works great, although the caveat on ESXi is that you *do* need a real video card exposed to the VM. It doesn't have to be fancy; I'm using a Radeon 5400 in a Dell C6100 blade server.
That's been the only real windows-only software that I run. My wife uses Accpac and Quicken on another VM on that server. Everything else I can hit with either OSX (our native OS) or Linux VMs.
Out of curiosity, where do you find work that allows you to program in Scala?
I don't know what you're talking about.
I'm a big guy, big hands. touch typist for the last 24+ years. Spend all day typing (embedded systems engineer). I have been using a 2012 11" Air every single day. I have *zero* issues with the touchpad. None, zero.
In fact the only real issue I have with the Air is that the keyboard can get kind of warm at times when the laptop's doing some real computation. I prefer an external keyboard then but only for that reason.
I can certainly understand that some people do, and when I'm using Altium (schematic capture and layout) I do use a bluetooth mouse because it's much easier to use than a trackpad for those specific tasks, but I find the touchpad far better for most of my mousing around. This was the case even 18ish years ago when I was using Linux as my primary desktop on genuine Thinkpads (before Lenovo was sold off).
The trackpad on Windows (and Linux) is bad, but it's certainly not awful. It's a total null issue on OSX though as far as I'm concerned.
Uhhh, GPS chips are required by law to disable for altitudes and velocities common for missiles.
True, but it's straighforward to demodulate and calculate your 3D position without a canned GPS chip. Anyone building ballistic missile has the technical ability to easily work around these built-in cutoffs by simply doing their own signal processing and math.
I definitely don't see the reason to wire with cat6; cat5 is more than enough for 99.9% of what people are using in a house. I'd run fiber + cat5 to the TVs and anywhere else you can forsee enormous bandwidth; for everything else there's wifi and cat5. Cat6 is expensive and 10gbe is cheaper as fiber anyway, as 10gbe copper is power hungry and expensive as hell.
If I were to wire a new home I'd run a cheap vacuum cleaner conduit from the basement to the attic; all drops for any upstairs rooms would go through the conduit, making all the upstairs runs *trivial* to change/upgrade if need be. I'd have a dedicated run (power and network) for a main floor and upstairs closet (a central one on each floor anyway) for wifi, the power is there so it can be tied into the same UPS that's keeping your basement infrastructure powered.
I was so excited about openmoko when I first heard about it. I followed it right up until the day they revealed what it'd look like: a fucking stretched-out hockey puck.
I don't care how good your hardware is. I don't care how pure your business ethics or design philosophy is. If you make a device that looks idiotic, it will fail.
Not sure what the snark is for; I consider myself a professional (embedded hw design, software development, etc.) and have been using an 11" Air as my daily use machine since 2012. Yes, the one with the 1280x800 screen (no retina available).
I did put the i7 and 8GB on it, and even as I type this I've got a Win7 VM running CCES doing Analog Devices DSP work going and Nordic nRF51822 development under OSX in a shell.
You don't need a 15" or 17" screen to use a computer, although I do agree more pixels would be nice in those 11". 16GB of RAM would be nice too, but neither the retina screen nor the 16GB are *needed*. I do quite well on this thing.
I do too. I have my own gitlab server and my schematics, layouts and simulation data are all in there (along with the firmware).
While I would *love* to see that happen (no fucking way I'm buying the current models, my 2012 11" i7 Air is almost perfect, just more RAM and retina would be nice), I don't think it'll happen. I don't think Apple is going to back down on the keyboard. In fact, I'm expecting them to go to an all-glass keyboard with no force feedback. Ugh.