Every component that's integrated to the board eliminates plug, sockets and cables. This is how Apple gives the then, clean lines that they assume consumers love.
FTFY - personally, I'll take versatility and usability over "clean lines" any day of the week.
Ok, then; how about "Good luck finding a laptop that you can upgrade anything but the main drive and perhaps the RAM. And even the SSD in the MBPwRD is theoretically upgradeable, since it is on a subassembly with a connector.
How about not moving the goalposts every time someone points out one of your posts as the blatant fanboi-ism that they are? Hell, you could have went ahead and asked your follow up without looking like an ass, just by prepending "You're right about that, but" to your response.
To answer your new question, I have an old Dell 1500 series that now sports a custom matte display (which I prefer over the stock glossy one), a Blu-ray burner (stock was a DVD-ROM drive), an upgraded CPU (original was 1.8 Ghz Core II Duo, swapped with 2.6 Ghz version), and of course, maxed out RAM and a big-ass HDD.
Sure, I'm pretty much stuck with the crap-tastic Intel G45 graphics setup, but I was still able to upgrade far more than the RAM and disk space as you implied.
Here's an easy way to tell whether they're doing it for "safety", or just to increase their own profits -- if they give copies of the security key to end users, their motives are probably good. If they won't even give the code to mechanics, and force field replacement of expensive parts that could be repaired if the mechanic had the code, then they're doing it for their own benefit.
Oh, they'll give it to the mechanic's, alright - that is, the one's who work for their dealership.
Cars have actually been going that way for years, in a shameless attempt to kill of independent shops and shadetree mechanics; the process goes like this:
- new model of Car X comes out
- new model requires a special tool for trivial adjustment, i.e. toe adjustment on the steering wheels
- manufacturer patents the tool, so only they can make/sell it
- manufacturer refuses to sell the tool to anyone other than one of their own branded shops
- customers are forced to take Car X to the manufacturer branded dealership to have trivial repair made, at more than double what it would cost for an independent shop to make the same repair
Source: One of my many trades (one, specifically, that I actually have an education in) is 'auto mechanic.')
Or until the president is unable to perform their duties.
Maybe that's the point.
I suspect Mitt's reason for choosing Ryan is similar to Obama's rationale for selecting Biden, and Bush picking Cheney* - nobody's going assassinate Andy, knowing Barney is next in line to be Sheriff.
* OK, maybe Bush didn't have a lot of choice in that selection, you don't typically say 'no' to a Sith Lord.
Not to say the government of today isn't chock-full of waste and bloat, just pointing out facts.
Not "Going out of Business," Persay...
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More like "Business going out.. of country"
Yea, I'm accusing them of ditching the American staff that grew the company into what it is today, so they can outsource the jobs to the 3rd World. Here's hoping they prove me wrong.
Though if the religious war in the US ever turns into a shooting war it could get ugly for the atheists since I suspect that the Bible thumpers the same demographic as the gun owners who think owning automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition is a constitutional right.
A) Not all of us are Bible-thumpers
B) We don't 'think' it's a Constitutional right, we know it is.
It's a race for dominance as the stupidest state in the nation.
Most stupid; 'stupidest' is not a word.
It is a word
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stupidest
stupid (stpd, sty-)
adj. stupider, stupidest
1. Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.
2. Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
3. Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless: a stupid mistake.
4. Dazed, stunned, or stupefied.
5. Pointless; worthless: a stupid job.
n.
Well, heck, it's on the internet, so it must be true!
Seriously, though, I don't care what thefreedictionary.com says, "stupider" and "stupidest" are not fucking words. Ask an English teacher.
An equally good question, if the (incorporated) banks are being fined less than 1% of what they knowingly stole/laundered, wouldn't that mean that, under the 14th Amendment, any individual who steals/launders money should be fined a similar amount?
If "corporations are people, too," then doesn't it also parse that people are corporations, or at least that corporations should be held to the same legal standard as people?
As for audio and video recordings, they would be lost unless you can find some way to record them on a non-erasable format like a vinyl record. RCA developed a record that could store video but the quality was no better than VHS..
Come to think of it, SSTV vinyls sound like kind of a neat thing to do anyway, just for kicks...
With MPEG4 compression that could be upped to HD quality, but you would still lose a lot of high frequency movie content (1080i =/= 2000p of today's movies).
If all we're talking about is preserving current knowledge for future societies to grep from our ashes, something tells me video quality will not be a major priority.
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) has agreed to pay the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) $340 million to settle charges that the British bank concealed over $250 billion in transactions with Iranian clients and deliberately lied to New York banking regulators.
But SCB is not an isolated case. In 2009, Lloyds Bank and Credit Suisse were fined $350 million and $536 million, respectively, for allegedly removing or altering information to conceal prohibited transactions with Iranian clients and customers from other sanctioned countries. In 2010, ABN Amro and Barclays were docked $500 million and $298 million, respectively, for allegedly committing similar crimes. Then, this June, ING Bank paid the largest ever fine -- $619 million -- against a bank for allegedly moving billions illegally through the U.S. financial system on behalf of Iranian and Cuban clients...
While five banks have entered into deferred prosecution agreements with the DOJ and agreed to pay fines in the hundreds of millions of dollars, no bank official has been criminally prosecuted and punished.
Ummm, why don't we worry about cleaning up the real sources of excessive money laundering first?
Of course, I'm talking about BANKS, which are far more of a problem than BitCoin or MMOs...for evidence, just look at the headlines of oh, the last 10 years?
The BANKS already gave the mob, er, government, their cut, so they get a free pass.
well yes it's bullshit, but it was spouted by some guy named Nick Selby... it's not what the judge said.
The judge compared it to police finding a suspect's location by using a dog to track his scent, which they are allowed to do.
Here is the explanation the judge gave regarding tracking with dogs:
"Otherwise, dogs could not be used to track a fugitive if the fugitive did not know that the dog hounds had his scent."
Unless being suspected of a crime now equates to conviction + escape from custody, that little anecdote is utter bullshit.
I would say I'm shocked that a judge would exhibit such a blatantly wrong understanding of the law, but these days, I would find it more surprising if he didn't.
Thats why this decision applies to disposable phones and not regular ones.
Right, because as we all know, cellular carriers are well known for their respecting user privacy in the face of illegitimate requests from law enforcement.../sarc
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Every component that's integrated to the board eliminates plug, sockets and cables. This is how Apple gives the then, clean lines that they assume consumers love.
FTFY - personally, I'll take versatility and usability over "clean lines" any day of the week.
Ok, then; how about "Good luck finding a laptop that you can upgrade anything but the main drive and perhaps the RAM. And even the SSD in the MBPwRD is theoretically upgradeable, since it is on a subassembly with a connector.
How about not moving the goalposts every time someone points out one of your posts as the blatant fanboi-ism that they are? Hell, you could have went ahead and asked your follow up without looking like an ass, just by prepending "You're right about that, but" to your response.
To answer your new question, I have an old Dell 1500 series that now sports a custom matte display (which I prefer over the stock glossy one), a Blu-ray burner (stock was a DVD-ROM drive), an upgraded CPU (original was 1.8 Ghz Core II Duo, swapped with 2.6 Ghz version), and of course, maxed out RAM and a big-ass HDD.
Sure, I'm pretty much stuck with the crap-tastic Intel G45 graphics setup, but I was still able to upgrade far more than the RAM and disk space as you implied.
And they said
"Aren't you the suicide bomber,
who blew up the bus last year?"
I said "No"
They punched me
I said "think logically"
and they said
"You think logically!"
And I said
"... what?"
-- Tripod, "Suicide Bomber"
Because if the police were to stop him with deadly or non-deadly force,
Point #1: The police will arrive too late to save you. Also, as the SCOTUS decided, protecting you is not their job, anyway.
the risk of me getting sued or going to jail is close to nil.
If I were to do it, the risk is considerably higher.
Point #2: Dead men tell no tales; get a gun (and, of course, learn how to use it).
"Invent" means a lot more than making a YouTube video. You need to bring a product to market at a reasonable cost.
Invention != Marketing.
[Marketing] is where Apple excels and Samsung excels in copying.
Welcome to Capitalism, comrade.
Here's an easy way to tell whether they're doing it for "safety", or just to increase their own profits -- if they give copies of the security key to end users, their motives are probably good. If they won't even give the code to mechanics, and force field replacement of expensive parts that could be repaired if the mechanic had the code, then they're doing it for their own benefit.
Oh, they'll give it to the mechanic's, alright - that is, the one's who work for their dealership.
Cars have actually been going that way for years, in a shameless attempt to kill of independent shops and shadetree mechanics; the process goes like this:
- new model of Car X comes out
- new model requires a special tool for trivial adjustment, i.e. toe adjustment on the steering wheels
- manufacturer patents the tool, so only they can make/sell it
- manufacturer refuses to sell the tool to anyone other than one of their own branded shops
- customers are forced to take Car X to the manufacturer branded dealership to have trivial repair made, at more than double what it would cost for an independent shop to make the same repair
Source: One of my many trades (one, specifically, that I actually have an education in) is 'auto mechanic.')
Politifact is useless. You won't believe me so I won't even cite, Google it yourself.
This, then
Or until the president is unable to perform their duties.
Maybe that's the point.
I suspect Mitt's reason for choosing Ryan is similar to Obama's rationale for selecting Biden, and Bush picking Cheney* - nobody's going assassinate Andy, knowing Barney is next in line to be Sheriff.
* OK, maybe Bush didn't have a lot of choice in that selection, you don't typically say 'no' to a Sith Lord.
Nearly everything our government does is important to someone but it's clear from our high taxes and massive deficit that we just can't afford it all.
What're you, poor or middle class?
All sardonic social commentary aside, tax rates, at least on the wealthiest of Americans (that's not you nor I, BTW), is the lowest it's been in over half a century.
Not to say the government of today isn't chock-full of waste and bloat, just pointing out facts.
More like "Business going out.. of country"
Yea, I'm accusing them of ditching the American staff that grew the company into what it is today, so they can outsource the jobs to the 3rd World.
Here's hoping they prove me wrong.
http://m5.paperblog.com/i/8/82628/hero-comparison-wikileaks-vs-facebook-assange-L-NiA62d.jpeg
Oh, hell yea, that is goin' up on mah facebook wall!
Who decides what is and isn't ethical? Have we all ceded that responsibility to Mr. Assange and not our elected officials?
I'm sorry, but what ever gave you the indication that we trusted our 'elected' officials to be the keepers of proper ethics to begin with?
Or "The private detective you're banging lied - your husband isn't cheating on you"
FTFY
Though if the religious war in the US ever turns into a shooting war it could get ugly for the atheists since I suspect that the Bible thumpers the same demographic as the gun owners who think owning automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition is a constitutional right.
A) Not all of us are Bible-thumpers
B) We don't 'think' it's a Constitutional right, we know it is.
It's a race for dominance as the stupidest state in the nation.
Most stupid; 'stupidest' is not a word.
It is a word http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stupidest stupid (stpd, sty-) adj. stupider, stupidest 1. Slow to learn or understand; obtuse. 2. Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes. 3. Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless: a stupid mistake. 4. Dazed, stunned, or stupefied. 5. Pointless; worthless: a stupid job. n.
Well, heck, it's on the internet, so it must be true!
Seriously, though, I don't care what thefreedictionary.com says, "stupider" and "stupidest" are not fucking words. Ask an English teacher.
It's a race for dominance as the stupidest state in the nation.
Most stupid; 'stupidest' is not a word.
I'd say whichever state you received your education from is obviously a front runner in that race...
Yea, too bad USB can't transfer data...
Perhaps it could have a Universal Bus that can send data perhaps Serially.
Brilliant!
Quickly now, let's write up an RFC and patent that shit before anyone beats us to it!
Good question;
An equally good question, if the (incorporated) banks are being fined less than 1% of what they knowingly stole/laundered, wouldn't that mean that, under the 14th Amendment, any individual who steals/launders money should be fined a similar amount?
If "corporations are people, too," then doesn't it also parse that people are corporations, or at least that corporations should be held to the same legal standard as people?
As for audio and video recordings, they would be lost unless you can find some way to record them on a non-erasable format like a vinyl record. RCA developed a record that could store video but the quality was no better than VHS. .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television
Come to think of it, SSTV vinyls sound like kind of a neat thing to do anyway, just for kicks...
With MPEG4 compression that could be upped to HD quality, but you would still lose a lot of high frequency movie content (1080i =/= 2000p of today's movies).
If all we're talking about is preserving current knowledge for future societies to grep from our ashes, something tells me video quality will not be a major priority.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/opinion/banks-too-big-to-prosecute/index.html
Ummm, why don't we worry about cleaning up the real sources of excessive money laundering first?
Of course, I'm talking about BANKS, which are far more of a problem than BitCoin or MMOs...for evidence, just look at the headlines of oh, the last 10 years?
The BANKS already gave the mob, er, government, their cut, so they get a free pass.
No offense meant toward my Sicilian friends.
Think you're funny, don'tcha?
Yea, me too. Good one.
In the particular branch of backwoods I inhabit, T-Mobile is actually pretty good signal wise.
Sprint is the no-go here; too bad, I really like the way the set up their plans...
well yes it's bullshit, but it was spouted by some guy named Nick Selby... it's not what the judge said.
The judge compared it to police finding a suspect's location by using a dog to track his scent, which they are allowed to do.
Here is the explanation the judge gave regarding tracking with dogs:
Unless being suspected of a crime now equates to conviction + escape from custody, that little anecdote is utter bullshit.
I would say I'm shocked that a judge would exhibit such a blatantly wrong understanding of the law, but these days, I would find it more surprising if he didn't.
Thats why this decision applies to disposable phones and not regular ones.
Right, because as we all know, cellular carriers are well known for their respecting user privacy in the face of illegitimate requests from law enforcement... /sarc