On trick of clickbait like this, or any report that is meant to imply they consumer is being ripped off, is to set the baseline so that your analysis looks valid. It is a valid trick, but a trick nonetheless.
What trick am I using here? I compared specs for MacBook Pro and a Lenovo system that is using the current generation of high end laptop processor (not Xeon). It uses the Cannon Lake PCH. Which, by the way, the Apple one does not. I can give you the exact specs if you want. Apple overcharges for old technology. Period.
Let's look at reality. IN 1995 the top of the line MacBook was $3500. Not fully ticked out, just the top base model. That is $6,000 in todays dollars. I can get a 1 terabyte iPad that does so much more for $2000 in todays dollars.
Moving forward a bit, a Palm V, the PDA without a phone, was around $500. In todays dollars that is $700, without a phone. In 2000 or so, a motorola razr was, inflation adjusted, around $900.
In 2000 a good MacBook pro was $2500. Again, that is almost $4000 dollars in todays dollars.
What does this historical analysis have to do with today’s laptop market? Every single one of those computers were design to be upgraded, by the way. Even the Palm V could have its storage upgraded by use of a memory card.
The reality is the Apple has done a better job of controlling prices than most other companies, given that it is much more aggressive about using top of the line tech. They were the first to use LCD displays. Almost all machines now come with SSD.
First of all, no. You’re wrong. You can buy the top end device from any other manufacturer for less. Apple has done a better job of controlling margins than any other company. There is a huge difference. Oh, and by the way, SSD is NOT the latest tech. Even when it is NVMe SSD. It is still bound by the Serial ATA protocol which limits throughput as well as number of operations that can be performed per second. SATA caps out at 600MB/s. I forget how many individual file operations it can do per second, I think 256. The latest generation of M.2 can do over 4000MB/s AND can do up to 65535 operations per second. Did you miss the part where I indicated that switching from PCIe Sata to PCIe NVMe drops compile times by 70% for one of my projects? That cuts a 30 minute compile down to 10 minutes. That is a HUGE savings in time. So go ahead and brag about Apple using mostly old technology, but Apple just barely even added a driver for M.2 in Mojave and who knows when they will actually manufacture a device that takes advantage of it.
A base iMac is $1300, and I can't get a decent PC all in one for less than a $1000, and that is without and SSD or I7.
Did you read that carefully when you looked at the pricing? That i7 iMac has a 1TB Mechanical drive. The biggest SSD you can get for it? 500GB for a whopping $500. You can get a 1TB M.2 drive for less than that.
One valid criticism is that we expect prices to fall all the time. The response to this is that Apple never sells last year product as the new model. Sure, it might not update for a few years, but you are getting really tech, not whatever fell off the garbage truck this morning,
Your ‘valid response’ to that criticism is that the price doesn’t drop because Apple is using older technology that it picks up at a lower price and therefore has a larger margin on? Are you delirious? I hate to resort to ad hominen attacks, really. But I honestly don’t know how anyone, even Steve Jobs, could type that with a straight face. Let’s be honest, Apple is doing the equivalent of going to TJ MAxx or Marshall’s and buying last year’s overstock to sell to you. And unlike Marshall’s, TJ Maxx, or whoever you like to shop at, they’re charging you extra for the privilege.
What they’re talking about is 100% true. I have tons of Apple devices. Multiple Mac Minis, iPads, iPhones, etc. And I found that the plastic parts of my MacBook Pro (2011) are failing and the hinge for the laptop lid will soon fail entirely. So I started shopping for a replacement. What I found is that the MacBook Air is insanely expensive for the performance you get. And if I buy a MacBook Pro? Also insanely expensive. They solder in all the RAM and NVMe drives. The real kicker for me? Paying $500 for an NVMe SATA drive that I cannot upgrade when I can buy a 1TB NVMe PCIe drive that has WAY better throughput when dealing with smaller files. In fact, the throughput difference is so huge that switching from SATA to PCIe drops a compile time on one of my projects by 70%, So what did I end up doing? I ordered a Lenovo laptop that supports NVMe PCIe, has removeable RAM, AND weighs half a pound less than the MacBook Pro. Oh did I mention that it also has a better processor and almost the exact same battery life? And I am paying $1000 less out the door, including buying my own NVMe PCIe drive to upgrade it with. I will never buy another Apple computer again. The only reason I own an iPhone is due to Apple making its money off of hardware sales and Google making its money off of spying.
I don't believe any of the laptops, tablets or even desktops I've ever owned have come with filter systems on the intakes.
Pretty much every modern desktop computer case comes with a magnetic filter on the intakes for the main tower and the PSU. Takes about two seconds to pull them off, clean them, and stick them back on. My desktop has an even better filter on the front panel that keeps almost all of the dust out of it and I can easily clean it with my vacuum or remove the front panel and wash the filter. It’s about $5 cheaper to use a case that doesn’t have these filters, maybe less.
Excel lets you do far more dangerous macro programming that the others don't support. That's awesome for people who want to think that they're being more productive burying business logic in fragile, hidden macros than if they were to actually code it up correctly.
Pretty much what everyone "has" to have Excel for are things that could be done better, faster, and more robustly in something like Python or R with proper comments and a CVS. And which could thus be properly backed up.
Excel provides tools to half-ass this analysis work, and if you're a spreadsheet warrior to begin with, it's hard to resist that lure. A bit of googling later, and you've now got a nice cut-and-paste macro to do something. However, lacking any real exposure to proper programming, there's going to be no comments, no CVS, and the code that does this is hidden in a spreadsheet in such a way that a casual user may not even know it's there.
Let this nasty habit pick up steam, and a few years later you end up with someone dependent on fragile, unbacked-up Excel macros, and it all goes to shit when they leave or the spreadsheet gets corrupted. Or another version of Excel comes out. Or someone accidentally deletes the macro, or changes the structure of the spreadsheet.
Good lord! You need to work on your sensitivity training. Some of us have PTSD from using CVS. Please at least switch to SVN so that we don’t all end up crying ourselves to sleep tonight. Not that CVS was terrible, but there were so many simple ways that an incompetent person could mess it up. So if you want to be more generic then say Version Control Software or VCS rather than CVS. It could save a life.
Can someone tell me why I only hear this kind of "E. Coli scare" only in developed countries?
Maybe the local folks in under developed countries have more of an acquired or natural immunity to nasty critters in the water that would make a lot of developed country folks get the backdoor trots?
Having lived in a third world country where people do not know basic rules of sanitation, I can promise you that this is not the case. They have all kinds of illnesses that they blame on being outside when it rains rather than the really disgusting water they should have filtered and then added a little bleach to. I've spent a lot of time hanging out with the people in their little shanty towns and they're constantly sick.
It sold more originally because of XBOX's misteps at the E3 announcement for the XBONE, trying to push digital and make resale of physical harder by tying it to a digital copy license (hilarious since even that year digital was already selling 2:1 vs physical, and it's closed to 5:1 today and people think you are a weirdo for buying physical). So it got off to a bad start, even after MS backtracked on physical media.
Today it's still being outsold because Microsoft decided to not focus on platform exclusives while Sony doubled down on them. As anti-consumer as exclusives are, most console gamers actually bitch about it if a platform doesn't have them. They are not the brightest bunch, but Sony sure loves them for it. They have a bunch of platform exclusive titles and they also took over deals MS had but didn't renew with companies like Activision for timed exclusives for some of their AAA titles.
I'm still waiting for Sony to make controllers big enough for an adult's hands. Pretty sure PlayStation controllers are sized for 5-10 year old kids. I know I have not found their controllers to be comfortable since I was about 13.
In civilized countries they have showers where you can clean up and make yourself presentable.
Really?
I've never seen a shower in a place of normal business. Most everywhere I know of, expects you to show up showered, cleaned and dressed for work when you cross the threshold.
Do your places you describe have lockerrooms/dressing rooms too? I've never heard of such a thing at any regular place of business across the US.
I"m sure there are exceptions, but I'd have to imagine those are far and few between.
Almost every office building I have ever worked in or visited has had a shower for both sexes. You may not be looking in the right place. Sometimes they're with a gym that is available to tenants, and sometimes they are just attached to one of the bathrooms on one of the floors.
Which means that Hillary was able to declassify information related to the State Department and Ivanka is not able to declassify anything.
1) Hillary saying she declassified the information so it was okay files in the face of her excuse that it was okay because the emails weren't marked classified at the time. Which was a big bald-faced lie that she and her supporters made because much of that information is inherently classified. If the SoS receives an email from the ambassador to India on the state of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, that email doesn't have to be stamped by some flunky as "classified" for it to be treated as such.
I am not saying that Hillary was justified in any of the things she did. But she certainly had the power and authority to deem things unclassified and Ivanka does not. This means that if Ivanka did anything that might remotely be classified she's got absolutely no excuse whatsoever for having engaged in the act. Hillary potentially had wiggle room that Ivanka cannot possibly have. So your argument makes zero sense and that is why I am saying it has nothing to do with anything in this comparison. You're being a partisan hack making an assclown out of yourself trying to justify Ivanka's violation of the law by saying that it is somehow better than Hillary's violation of the law.
And since you appear to be particularly obtuse let me make it clear to you: Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server was not a direct violation of the law when she did it. It was only a violation of the law if (and we all know it did) it had improperly handled classified information. After Hillary did this, the federal government passed a law making it explicitly illegal to do exactly what Ivanka did regardless of the content of the emails. Is clear enough for you or do I need to try to dumb it down to preschool vocabulary so that you can actually comprehend what is going on instead of trying to make excuses. Hillary and Ivanka have both violated the law and ought to be on probation with their civil rights removed at the very least. I would prefer that they both be in federal prison, where they belong.
2) Are you arguing that she wasn't mishandling classified information, because the act of mishandling it made it declassified? David Petraus, who was prosecuted for sharing state secrets with his mistress, would be fascinated by your idea and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Where did you get this foolish idea that I was trying to argue anything in favor of Hillary? All I stated was that Hillary had more discretion of classified material than Ivanka ever has. I then indicated what laws were enforceable at the time that each of them mishandled emails. You are bat shit insane.
What has that got to do with anything?
It has EVERYTHING to do with it. Partisan hacks are making ass clowns out of themselves by comparing Ivananka using private email for a month to Hillary mishandling classified information on her home server for years.
Ivanka should go to prison because she specifically engaged in this activity AFTER a federal law was passed prohibiting it.
Uh huh. If you want to make that argument, knock yourself out. But don't pretend it's in the same universe as Hillary's email server. You wouldn't want to make an ass clown out of yourself, would you?
Why would I pretend that Ivanka's use of private email is in the same universe as Hillary Clintons? They are not comparable, as I've mentioned because one's use was explicitly a crime and the other's was not, in and of itself, a crime. Therefore the only person trying to make any sort of comparison between the two is you. And why are you doing that? Because you're a partisan assclown, just as you're accusing me of being. I don't like either one of those jackasses. But we can all see that you had to climb up from your spot under Trump's desk to take a moment to shill on his behalf. I hope he was kind enough to buy you a pair of knee pads.
Not only does Beijing have a much cleaner, more efficient, and more prolific subway system than NYC, but it also only costs $0.25 per ride.
Hmm, I don't think I'd be willing to live in that depressive communist dictatorship in order to just get cheap trains on time.
I'm not saying that anyone would want to live in such a regime. But the ridership increases dramatically when trains are incredibly affordable. That reduces traffic immensely and also improves the air quality of the whole region. Transit, where viable, should run at a loss and be subsidized by taxes, in my opinion. Places like California that have ridiculous urban sprawl should not be spending as much money to subsidize transit as they do.
One of my friends finds that a 60 minute bicycle ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan is much less stressful and often faster than taking the train because there are so many service disruptions on MTA. His bicycle trip is entirely predictable and easily scheduled.
And, how much of the year, exactly is this a viable option? He rides his bike an hour each way in snow/ice? Rain? I think I heard it gets hot up there too part of the year, so he works while resembling a human sweat stain?
In civilized countries they have showers where you can clean up and make yourself presentable. He showers at the office. He does not bicycle in the rain but does in the snow as long as it is not actively snowing. He'll take his bicycle on the train if necessary but that is a huge pain in NYC. I do know someone who lives in the Netherlands who does bike to work every day, rain or shine, blistering heat or freezing cold.
The people in corporations don't lose their rights because they operate a corporation.
How are the people running the corporation having their rights infringed? They still have all the first amendment rights in the world. If you want a corporation to have rigths, then corporations and their boards should be held criminally liable for its actions up to, and including, the death penalty for violating laws that result in harm to or deaths of individuals as well as damage or harm to people's properties and the environment. If a corporation is willing to face dissolution for violating the law (such as VW's bypass of EPA regulations), then they deserve rights.
"The subway service and the bus service has become unreliable enough for people to stop using it. If people aren't using it, there's less money, and they have to keep raising fares without delivering better service."
The solution to this problem isn't increasing fares or reducing services.
It's identifying (and rectifying) why services have become unreliable to the point people don't want to use them.
My friend stopped taking NYC subway because there are constant service interruptions and there's no way to know when you'll get where you're trying to go. According to him, most of those service interruptions are caused by people jumping on the tracks, requiring medical attention on the train, etc.
Oh Bull Shit. Seriously. What, you want people riding for free? Who is to pay maintenance to the tracks and cars? Who is to pay for police protection both on the trains and at the stations. You are an idiot. It isn't free, and 25 cents is not an outrageous increase.
Not only does Beijing have a much cleaner, more efficient, and more prolific subway system than NYC, but it also only costs $0.25 per ride. I think NYC would be much nicer to visit if they had more frequent subway service and cleaner stations. I know my friends who live there would appreciate that, too. One of my friends finds that a 60 minute bicycle ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan is much less stressful and often faster than taking the train because there are so many service disruptions on MTA. His bicycle trip is entirely predictable and easily scheduled. MTA is not, at least not in my experience or his.
> The real question is why are the fares still $2.75?
My conspiratorial thought on the matter is, because it makes it a bit more difficult to use all the funds on your MetroCard. Basically they count on people discarding the residual balance and buying a new card they can charge an extra buck for.
Unless you're buying a new card for $6.50 ($5.50 balance plus $1 fee for the new card) any other default amount doesn't divide evenly, and the 5% discount you get when buying more credit makes the math even harder. The result is you always end up with less than $2.75 on the card.
And you'd be absolutely amazed how few people know you can refill them, despite it being clearly advertised.
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Using your own personal VPN connected to your home network or rather "secure network" is a good idea. Why bother with remote desktop to another computer connected via VPN when you can set your VPN client to route ALL traffic to the VPN server?
For a variety of reasons. My bank account websites do not allow me to connect with a new web browser without authenticating it. It also keeps the website history and other information off of the laptop in case it gets lost or stolen (assuming they can bypass disk encryption). Sometimes I just bring an iPad and this lets me use the desktop at home as a full fledged computer for the times when a mobile browser is not ideal. It really just depends on what I am doing and what I have with me.
They did find an issue with it. They said it was illegal. They just didn't think it was a big enough infraction to warrant formal criminal charges. Law enforcement agencies prosecute only a small fraction of crimes.
Well that is a bit disingenuous. Comey actually said that he could not find a prosecutor willing to take the case. And since the Department of Justice would have to launch that prosecution, it was the Attorney General that let the people down. I will say that the former director of the CIA was actually going to be prosecuted for less during Clinton's administration but the president granted the former director a pardon before prosecution was fully under way.
Still don't trust public WiFi no matter how good the security of websites have become. And why should I trust it? There's no reason to. I can either tether to my phone or use the hotel WiFi. Cost to me is about the same. I'll use my phone unless I am in a foreign country and the WiFi is faster than my cellular data. But no matter where I am I always VPN to a "secure network" and use remote desktop to surf the web on a machine on that "trusted network." There's no need to trust someone else's network. Though once it leaves my LAN it ends up in an untrusted network regardless.
Rage against the opposing party for using private email accounts only to do the same thing herself two years later.
Set up a private email server in her own house the way Hillary did.
Send thousands of classified emails from said account.
Destroy thousands of pieces of evidence while under FBI investigation.
This is taking butthurt partisan false equivalencies to 11.
But when Ivanka did this it was a federal crime to use a personal email address for official business. And while you can claim she was an "unofficial" advisor, she had an office in the white house and they only claimed she was an unofficial advisor. If you have a government office, you are a government employee or office holder. What Hillary did that was illegal was to send emails that were classified through her personal email server.
After advising her father in an unofficial capacity for the first two months of his administration, she was appointed Advisor to the President, a government employee, on March 29, 2017. She takes no salary.[3] Prior to becoming a federal employee, she used a personal email for government work.
In other words, her e-mails were not an issue because she was not yet a Federal employee. But let's go ahead and consider that equivalent to the Secretary of State running a private server in her bathroom, and passing thousands of classified and Top Secret e-mails through it. By all means, show your hypocrisy!
She had an office in the white house during that time. She was a government official whether the administration considered her to be one or not.
Ivanka Trump is a Senior Adviser to the President,
Which happened after her emails from a private server, at least according to Newsweek.
Ivanka Trump is a Senior Adviser to the President, which is an official government position. Complete with all of us sending her a paycheck.
Still a complete horseshit equivalency - even if she's been using private email since joining the White House staff. She's not an Original Classification Authority, the way Hillary was, trading in the highest levels of classified information as a part of her job. Nor has Ivanka set up her own private email server in Jared's house, nor has she used it exclusively.
Which means that Hillary was able to declassify information related to the State Department and Ivanka is not able to declassify anything. What has that got to do with anything? If anything, that means that Hillary was less likely to run afoul of the law. Hillary should have gone to prison because her mail server contained classified material. Ivanka should go to prison because she specifically engaged in this activity AFTER a federal law was passed prohibiting it. Ignorance of the law is no justification for its violation. They should have warned her earlier. And she was a de facto senior advisor to the president even before she was officially given the title. She had an office in the white house, whether she was officially titled as an advisor or not she was, for all intents and purposes, a government official. She had to be to have an office in the white house.
The dead fish is probably waste products from Norway's large fishing and fish farming industry.
What? All this time I was imagining a room full of aspiring chemists performing stoichiometry calculations. I tried to Google an example but apparently only my chemistry teacher has ever called them dead fish calculations. Oh well.
Don't believe anything you read on Zerohedge. It's basically the Daily Stormer with stock numbers and their articles are far more likely to be copypasta from Infowars than anything real.
Damn it! If Copypasta is good enough for my code it's good enough for your news!
Are you kidding?! I have had three Dyson vacuum cleaners, one or two of those “bladeless” fans, and one other piece of his garbage. They are crap, don’t last, and really just have a bunch of extra plastic to try to look cool. Everything died within 2 years, but the fans take the cake. Simply no way to clean the high pressure fan, so in a dusty environment it gunks up internally in a couple months and becomes useless.
As for the vacuums, give me a Miele any day; the bags are a feature, not a bug.
Don’t know what you’re doing wrong but I bought one of the animal cordless Dyson vacuums on Amazon as a refurbished unit. Cost me like $150 and it has been going strong for over 5 years.
Whatever you do, DON'T CROSS THE BEAMS!!! That would be Bad(TM).
Thank god you're nothing but one of those fake Ghostbusters you see on TV. You'd probably cross the streams and kill us all if you ever tried to man up and bust ghosts for real.
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On trick of clickbait like this, or any report that is meant to imply they consumer is being ripped off, is to set the baseline so that your analysis looks valid. It is a valid trick, but a trick nonetheless.
What trick am I using here? I compared specs for MacBook Pro and a Lenovo system that is using the current generation of high end laptop processor (not Xeon). It uses the Cannon Lake PCH. Which, by the way, the Apple one does not. I can give you the exact specs if you want. Apple overcharges for old technology. Period.
Let's look at reality. IN 1995 the top of the line MacBook was $3500. Not fully ticked out, just the top base model. That is $6,000 in todays dollars. I can get a 1 terabyte iPad that does so much more for $2000 in todays dollars.
Moving forward a bit, a Palm V, the PDA without a phone, was around $500. In todays dollars that is $700, without a phone. In 2000 or so, a motorola razr was, inflation adjusted, around $900.
In 2000 a good MacBook pro was $2500. Again, that is almost $4000 dollars in todays dollars.
What does this historical analysis have to do with today’s laptop market? Every single one of those computers were design to be upgraded, by the way. Even the Palm V could have its storage upgraded by use of a memory card.
The reality is the Apple has done a better job of controlling prices than most other companies, given that it is much more aggressive about using top of the line tech. They were the first to use LCD displays. Almost all machines now come with SSD.
First of all, no. You’re wrong. You can buy the top end device from any other manufacturer for less. Apple has done a better job of controlling margins than any other company. There is a huge difference. Oh, and by the way, SSD is NOT the latest tech. Even when it is NVMe SSD. It is still bound by the Serial ATA protocol which limits throughput as well as number of operations that can be performed per second. SATA caps out at 600MB/s. I forget how many individual file operations it can do per second, I think 256. The latest generation of M.2 can do over 4000MB/s AND can do up to 65535 operations per second. Did you miss the part where I indicated that switching from PCIe Sata to PCIe NVMe drops compile times by 70% for one of my projects? That cuts a 30 minute compile down to 10 minutes. That is a HUGE savings in time. So go ahead and brag about Apple using mostly old technology, but Apple just barely even added a driver for M.2 in Mojave and who knows when they will actually manufacture a device that takes advantage of it.
A base iMac is $1300, and I can't get a decent PC all in one for less than a $1000, and that is without and SSD or I7.
Did you read that carefully when you looked at the pricing? That i7 iMac has a 1TB Mechanical drive. The biggest SSD you can get for it? 500GB for a whopping $500. You can get a 1TB M.2 drive for less than that.
One valid criticism is that we expect prices to fall all the time. The response to this is that Apple never sells last year product as the new model. Sure, it might not update for a few years, but you are getting really tech, not whatever fell off the garbage truck this morning,
Your ‘valid response’ to that criticism is that the price doesn’t drop because Apple is using older technology that it picks up at a lower price and therefore has a larger margin on? Are you delirious? I hate to resort to ad hominen attacks, really. But I honestly don’t know how anyone, even Steve Jobs, could type that with a straight face. Let’s be honest, Apple is doing the equivalent of going to TJ MAxx or Marshall’s and buying last year’s overstock to sell to you. And unlike Marshall’s, TJ Maxx, or whoever you like to shop at, they’re charging you extra for the privilege.
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You believe Apple isn't spying?
Not like Google is. Like I said, Apple makes its money on hardware. The more Google spies, the more valuable you are to them.
What they’re talking about is 100% true. I have tons of Apple devices. Multiple Mac Minis, iPads, iPhones, etc. And I found that the plastic parts of my MacBook Pro (2011) are failing and the hinge for the laptop lid will soon fail entirely. So I started shopping for a replacement. What I found is that the MacBook Air is insanely expensive for the performance you get. And if I buy a MacBook Pro? Also insanely expensive. They solder in all the RAM and NVMe drives. The real kicker for me? Paying $500 for an NVMe SATA drive that I cannot upgrade when I can buy a 1TB NVMe PCIe drive that has WAY better throughput when dealing with smaller files. In fact, the throughput difference is so huge that switching from SATA to PCIe drops a compile time on one of my projects by 70%, So what did I end up doing? I ordered a Lenovo laptop that supports NVMe PCIe, has removeable RAM, AND weighs half a pound less than the MacBook Pro. Oh did I mention that it also has a better processor and almost the exact same battery life? And I am paying $1000 less out the door, including buying my own NVMe PCIe drive to upgrade it with. I will never buy another Apple computer again. The only reason I own an iPhone is due to Apple making its money off of hardware sales and Google making its money off of spying.
US: Nobody can do anything more embarrassing than us. Just look at the 'president' we've elected.
Australia: Hold my beer...
I don't believe any of the laptops, tablets or even desktops I've ever owned have come with filter systems on the intakes.
Pretty much every modern desktop computer case comes with a magnetic filter on the intakes for the main tower and the PSU. Takes about two seconds to pull them off, clean them, and stick them back on. My desktop has an even better filter on the front panel that keeps almost all of the dust out of it and I can easily clean it with my vacuum or remove the front panel and wash the filter. It’s about $5 cheaper to use a case that doesn’t have these filters, maybe less.
Excel lets you do far more dangerous macro programming that the others don't support. That's awesome for people who want to think that they're being more productive burying business logic in fragile, hidden macros than if they were to actually code it up correctly.
Pretty much what everyone "has" to have Excel for are things that could be done better, faster, and more robustly in something like Python or R with proper comments and a CVS. And which could thus be properly backed up.
Excel provides tools to half-ass this analysis work, and if you're a spreadsheet warrior to begin with, it's hard to resist that lure. A bit of googling later, and you've now got a nice cut-and-paste macro to do something. However, lacking any real exposure to proper programming, there's going to be no comments, no CVS, and the code that does this is hidden in a spreadsheet in such a way that a casual user may not even know it's there.
Let this nasty habit pick up steam, and a few years later you end up with someone dependent on fragile, unbacked-up Excel macros, and it all goes to shit when they leave or the spreadsheet gets corrupted. Or another version of Excel comes out. Or someone accidentally deletes the macro, or changes the structure of the spreadsheet.
Good lord! You need to work on your sensitivity training. Some of us have PTSD from using CVS. Please at least switch to SVN so that we don’t all end up crying ourselves to sleep tonight. Not that CVS was terrible, but there were so many simple ways that an incompetent person could mess it up. So if you want to be more generic then say Version Control Software or VCS rather than CVS. It could save a life.
Can someone tell me why I only hear this kind of "E. Coli scare" only in developed countries?
Maybe the local folks in under developed countries have more of an acquired or natural immunity to nasty critters in the water that would make a lot of developed country folks get the backdoor trots?
Having lived in a third world country where people do not know basic rules of sanitation, I can promise you that this is not the case. They have all kinds of illnesses that they blame on being outside when it rains rather than the really disgusting water they should have filtered and then added a little bleach to. I've spent a lot of time hanging out with the people in their little shanty towns and they're constantly sick.
It sold more originally because of XBOX's misteps at the E3 announcement for the XBONE, trying to push digital and make resale of physical harder by tying it to a digital copy license (hilarious since even that year digital was already selling 2:1 vs physical, and it's closed to 5:1 today and people think you are a weirdo for buying physical). So it got off to a bad start, even after MS backtracked on physical media. Today it's still being outsold because Microsoft decided to not focus on platform exclusives while Sony doubled down on them. As anti-consumer as exclusives are, most console gamers actually bitch about it if a platform doesn't have them. They are not the brightest bunch, but Sony sure loves them for it. They have a bunch of platform exclusive titles and they also took over deals MS had but didn't renew with companies like Activision for timed exclusives for some of their AAA titles.
I'm still waiting for Sony to make controllers big enough for an adult's hands. Pretty sure PlayStation controllers are sized for 5-10 year old kids. I know I have not found their controllers to be comfortable since I was about 13.
Really?
I've never seen a shower in a place of normal business. Most everywhere I know of, expects you to show up showered, cleaned and dressed for work when you cross the threshold.
Do your places you describe have lockerrooms/dressing rooms too? I've never heard of such a thing at any regular place of business across the US.
I"m sure there are exceptions, but I'd have to imagine those are far and few between.
Almost every office building I have ever worked in or visited has had a shower for both sexes. You may not be looking in the right place. Sometimes they're with a gym that is available to tenants, and sometimes they are just attached to one of the bathrooms on one of the floors.
1) Hillary saying she declassified the information so it was okay files in the face of her excuse that it was okay because the emails weren't marked classified at the time. Which was a big bald-faced lie that she and her supporters made because much of that information is inherently classified. If the SoS receives an email from the ambassador to India on the state of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, that email doesn't have to be stamped by some flunky as "classified" for it to be treated as such.
I am not saying that Hillary was justified in any of the things she did. But she certainly had the power and authority to deem things unclassified and Ivanka does not. This means that if Ivanka did anything that might remotely be classified she's got absolutely no excuse whatsoever for having engaged in the act. Hillary potentially had wiggle room that Ivanka cannot possibly have. So your argument makes zero sense and that is why I am saying it has nothing to do with anything in this comparison. You're being a partisan hack making an assclown out of yourself trying to justify Ivanka's violation of the law by saying that it is somehow better than Hillary's violation of the law.
And since you appear to be particularly obtuse let me make it clear to you: Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server was not a direct violation of the law when she did it. It was only a violation of the law if (and we all know it did) it had improperly handled classified information. After Hillary did this, the federal government passed a law making it explicitly illegal to do exactly what Ivanka did regardless of the content of the emails. Is clear enough for you or do I need to try to dumb it down to preschool vocabulary so that you can actually comprehend what is going on instead of trying to make excuses. Hillary and Ivanka have both violated the law and ought to be on probation with their civil rights removed at the very least. I would prefer that they both be in federal prison, where they belong.
2) Are you arguing that she wasn't mishandling classified information, because the act of mishandling it made it declassified? David Petraus, who was prosecuted for sharing state secrets with his mistress, would be fascinated by your idea and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Where did you get this foolish idea that I was trying to argue anything in favor of Hillary? All I stated was that Hillary had more discretion of classified material than Ivanka ever has. I then indicated what laws were enforceable at the time that each of them mishandled emails. You are bat shit insane.
What has that got to do with anything?
It has EVERYTHING to do with it. Partisan hacks are making ass clowns out of themselves by comparing Ivananka using private email for a month to Hillary mishandling classified information on her home server for years.
Uh huh. If you want to make that argument, knock yourself out. But don't pretend it's in the same universe as Hillary's email server. You wouldn't want to make an ass clown out of yourself, would you?
Why would I pretend that Ivanka's use of private email is in the same universe as Hillary Clintons? They are not comparable, as I've mentioned because one's use was explicitly a crime and the other's was not, in and of itself, a crime. Therefore the only person trying to make any sort of comparison between the two is you. And why are you doing that? Because you're a partisan assclown, just as you're accusing me of being. I don't like either one of those jackasses. But we can all see that you had to climb up from your spot under Trump's desk to take a moment to shill on his behalf. I hope he was kind enough to buy you a pair of knee pads.
Hmm, I don't think I'd be willing to live in that depressive communist dictatorship in order to just get cheap trains on time.
I'm not saying that anyone would want to live in such a regime. But the ridership increases dramatically when trains are incredibly affordable. That reduces traffic immensely and also improves the air quality of the whole region. Transit, where viable, should run at a loss and be subsidized by taxes, in my opinion. Places like California that have ridiculous urban sprawl should not be spending as much money to subsidize transit as they do.
One of my friends finds that a 60 minute bicycle ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan is much less stressful and often faster than taking the train because there are so many service disruptions on MTA. His bicycle trip is entirely predictable and easily scheduled.
And, how much of the year, exactly is this a viable option? He rides his bike an hour each way in snow/ice? Rain? I think I heard it gets hot up there too part of the year, so he works while resembling a human sweat stain?
In civilized countries they have showers where you can clean up and make yourself presentable. He showers at the office. He does not bicycle in the rain but does in the snow as long as it is not actively snowing. He'll take his bicycle on the train if necessary but that is a huge pain in NYC. I do know someone who lives in the Netherlands who does bike to work every day, rain or shine, blistering heat or freezing cold.
The people in corporations don't lose their rights because they operate a corporation.
How are the people running the corporation having their rights infringed? They still have all the first amendment rights in the world. If you want a corporation to have rigths, then corporations and their boards should be held criminally liable for its actions up to, and including, the death penalty for violating laws that result in harm to or deaths of individuals as well as damage or harm to people's properties and the environment. If a corporation is willing to face dissolution for violating the law (such as VW's bypass of EPA regulations), then they deserve rights.
From the summary:
"The subway service and the bus service has become unreliable enough for people to stop using it. If people aren't using it, there's less money, and they have to keep raising fares without delivering better service."
The solution to this problem isn't increasing fares or reducing services.
It's identifying (and rectifying) why services have become unreliable to the point people don't want to use them.
My friend stopped taking NYC subway because there are constant service interruptions and there's no way to know when you'll get where you're trying to go. According to him, most of those service interruptions are caused by people jumping on the tracks, requiring medical attention on the train, etc.
Oh Bull Shit. Seriously. What, you want people riding for free? Who is to pay maintenance to the tracks and cars? Who is to pay for police protection both on the trains and at the stations. You are an idiot. It isn't free, and 25 cents is not an outrageous increase.
Not only does Beijing have a much cleaner, more efficient, and more prolific subway system than NYC, but it also only costs $0.25 per ride. I think NYC would be much nicer to visit if they had more frequent subway service and cleaner stations. I know my friends who live there would appreciate that, too. One of my friends finds that a 60 minute bicycle ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan is much less stressful and often faster than taking the train because there are so many service disruptions on MTA. His bicycle trip is entirely predictable and easily scheduled. MTA is not, at least not in my experience or his.
> The real question is why are the fares still $2.75?
My conspiratorial thought on the matter is, because it makes it a bit more difficult to use all the funds on your MetroCard. Basically they count on people discarding the residual balance and buying a new card they can charge an extra buck for.
Unless you're buying a new card for $6.50 ($5.50 balance plus $1 fee for the new card) any other default amount doesn't divide evenly, and the 5% discount you get when buying more credit makes the math even harder. The result is you always end up with less than $2.75 on the card.
And you'd be absolutely amazed how few people know you can refill them, despite it being clearly advertised. =Smidge=
I thought you could recharge your MTA cards?
Using your own personal VPN connected to your home network or rather "secure network" is a good idea. Why bother with remote desktop to another computer connected via VPN when you can set your VPN client to route ALL traffic to the VPN server?
For a variety of reasons. My bank account websites do not allow me to connect with a new web browser without authenticating it. It also keeps the website history and other information off of the laptop in case it gets lost or stolen (assuming they can bypass disk encryption). Sometimes I just bring an iPad and this lets me use the desktop at home as a full fledged computer for the times when a mobile browser is not ideal. It really just depends on what I am doing and what I have with me.
They didn't find an issue with Clinton's use
They did find an issue with it. They said it was illegal. They just didn't think it was a big enough infraction to warrant formal criminal charges. Law enforcement agencies prosecute only a small fraction of crimes.
Well that is a bit disingenuous. Comey actually said that he could not find a prosecutor willing to take the case. And since the Department of Justice would have to launch that prosecution, it was the Attorney General that let the people down. I will say that the former director of the CIA was actually going to be prosecuted for less during Clinton's administration but the president granted the former director a pardon before prosecution was fully under way.
Still don't trust public WiFi no matter how good the security of websites have become. And why should I trust it? There's no reason to. I can either tether to my phone or use the hotel WiFi. Cost to me is about the same. I'll use my phone unless I am in a foreign country and the WiFi is faster than my cellular data. But no matter where I am I always VPN to a "secure network" and use remote desktop to surf the web on a machine on that "trusted network." There's no need to trust someone else's network. Though once it leaves my LAN it ends up in an untrusted network regardless.
Ivanka didn't:
Set up a private email server in her own house the way Hillary did.
Send thousands of classified emails from said account.
Destroy thousands of pieces of evidence while under FBI investigation.
This is taking butthurt partisan false equivalencies to 11.
But when Ivanka did this it was a federal crime to use a personal email address for official business. And while you can claim she was an "unofficial" advisor, she had an office in the white house and they only claimed she was an unofficial advisor. If you have a government office, you are a government employee or office holder. What Hillary did that was illegal was to send emails that were classified through her personal email server.
About her use of e-mail:
After advising her father in an unofficial capacity for the first two months of his administration, she was appointed Advisor to the President, a government employee, on March 29, 2017. She takes no salary.[3] Prior to becoming a federal employee, she used a personal email for government work.
In other words, her e-mails were not an issue because she was not yet a Federal employee. But let's go ahead and consider that equivalent to the Secretary of State running a private server in her bathroom, and passing thousands of classified and Top Secret e-mails through it. By all means, show your hypocrisy!
She had an office in the white house during that time. She was a government official whether the administration considered her to be one or not.
Which happened after her emails from a private server, at least according to Newsweek.
Still a complete horseshit equivalency - even if she's been using private email since joining the White House staff. She's not an Original Classification Authority, the way Hillary was, trading in the highest levels of classified information as a part of her job. Nor has Ivanka set up her own private email server in Jared's house, nor has she used it exclusively.
Which means that Hillary was able to declassify information related to the State Department and Ivanka is not able to declassify anything. What has that got to do with anything? If anything, that means that Hillary was less likely to run afoul of the law. Hillary should have gone to prison because her mail server contained classified material. Ivanka should go to prison because she specifically engaged in this activity AFTER a federal law was passed prohibiting it. Ignorance of the law is no justification for its violation. They should have warned her earlier. And she was a de facto senior advisor to the president even before she was officially given the title. She had an office in the white house, whether she was officially titled as an advisor or not she was, for all intents and purposes, a government official. She had to be to have an office in the white house.
The dead fish is probably waste products from Norway's large fishing and fish farming industry.
What? All this time I was imagining a room full of aspiring chemists performing stoichiometry calculations. I tried to Google an example but apparently only my chemistry teacher has ever called them dead fish calculations. Oh well.
Don't believe anything you read on Zerohedge. It's basically the Daily Stormer with stock numbers and their articles are far more likely to be copypasta from Infowars than anything real.
Damn it! If Copypasta is good enough for my code it's good enough for your news!
Are you kidding?! I have had three Dyson vacuum cleaners, one or two of those “bladeless” fans, and one other piece of his garbage. They are crap, don’t last, and really just have a bunch of extra plastic to try to look cool. Everything died within 2 years, but the fans take the cake. Simply no way to clean the high pressure fan, so in a dusty environment it gunks up internally in a couple months and becomes useless.
As for the vacuums, give me a Miele any day; the bags are a feature, not a bug.
Don’t know what you’re doing wrong but I bought one of the animal cordless Dyson vacuums on Amazon as a refurbished unit. Cost me like $150 and it has been going strong for over 5 years.
Whatever you do, DON'T CROSS THE BEAMS!!! That would be Bad(TM).
Thank god you're nothing but one of those fake Ghostbusters you see on TV. You'd probably cross the streams and kill us all if you ever tried to man up and bust ghosts for real.