Don't forget arsenic, it's all natural and a great substitute for sugar on your sugar cookies! And all natural botulinin, and all natural radon gas in your basement
#naturallife4eva!
Seriously though, Slashdot really needs to have a hard look at removing AC posting. Just look at all the crap comments on this topic and others, all of them are ACs and more than a few of them seem to be bot directed.
> Zika wasn't a problem in South America until genetically modified mosquito were released in Brazil.
That smells like bullshit. Got any proof other than a random tinfoil shoutout from an anonymous coward account? Doing a few searches shows that this sounds like a new wingnut talking point, ignoring actual facts.
> Social security, when it was established, was meant to be one leg of a stool,
What's the stool look like to those millions of people who are working "full time" jobs of 32 hours on minimum wage and rotating schedules so they can't even go get a second job? Those same people on food stamps to eat?
And back when Social Security was first established, a person with a full time job was paid a living wage. Not any more.
> To say the reason for their status is that they lack competence is beyond insulting.
Don't let it get to you. That sort of logic is what people in their idiot teen years acquire when they read Ayn Rand. Most grow out of it once they hit the real world. Most.
> You can form a co-op buy the now unused equipment and start manufacturing another product or under another brand.
Are you delusional? Name the last successful car company to get started as a "coop" shoestring operation by a bunch of laid off workers. Go on, I'll wait...
Hell, look at the shit Tesla gets from everyone and they've got billions behind them.
>And as time goes on long range electric vehicles will become cheaper
To an extent. There hasn't been an "ah ha" breakthrough in battery storage in a while, at least not a commercially viable one, and the battery pack is one of the biggest expenses AND the limiting factor with public perception. There's a reason the Leaf and many others like the Hyundai Ioniq, the BMW i3, the Kia Soul EV, etc all have ranges of 150 miles or less, the battery pack's bulk, cost to produce and bottlenecks in the supply chain. Until batteries are both cheaper and produced in FAR greater numbers, the PHEV is the way to go for the transitional phase.
PHEVs cost the same or a little more up front but again, don't have the range anxiety and can be produced in far greater numbers from the same amount of battery cells than pure EVs. Like you can build 50 Bolt competitors, or 250 Volt competitors from the same load of batteries. Which makes better sense?
Well... until the next recession hits anyway. Then people will buy cheap foreign cars that get 30+ mpg because they can't afford to pay for SUV levels of efficiency.
Which is stupid because the Volt's medium distance hybrid tech should have been baked into every single vehicle that Chevy and GM made. All of the benefits of electric commute with no range anxiety and a much cheaper battery pack. So of course they axe it.
The ICE to battery transition period is going to stretch out into decades.
> Like most drug dealers, I would assume many Facebook employees don't use their own product.
A lot of corporations seem to be like that. A friend of mine's sister is a mid range exec at Bell Canada and her company issued cellphone is on the Bell network, but her TV service, home phone and internet are not. When I asked her jokingly if she wasn't a "team player", she looked at me and told me flat out that most of the people she works with at Bell only use Bell services if they have no choice in the matter - like a company issued cellphone.
Yep, and you demonstrate that wonderfully. The AMD Threadripper is better for some things, the Intel chip is better for some things, and *depending on your needs and budget* each could be "better".
Intel wins the IPCs, but is crushingly expensive. Many people would take the half price of the AMD part and be quite happy with it. Others for whom money isn't that much of an object will go with the 9980XE. Still others who need Blender, Cinebench or POVRay workloads done would be fools to buy anything but the Threadripper.
All in all, everyone has a different need and will cherrypick based on that need.
Except if you read the story, you'd see that the division when it was sold already employed the brothers Sam and Dan Houser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Houser
Not to say you're totally wrong though. I could see the music label making any number of boneheaded decisions that would have completely screwed up any chance of success for the fledgling game company through either incompetence or malice.
> The summary does, though. Anyway: this story can be summarized by "Execs fail(ed) to predict the future, and isn't that dumb?".
Sure, but if you read the whole story you'd also see that one of the execs saw the future, fought a losing battle to keep the company in house with his short sighted bosses, and then later struck out on his own and maneuvered to bring that which he saw value in under his control:
“We hired a team, and we started acquiring properties for distribution, and just on the eve of watching our first release [hit the market], Thomas Middelhoff, who was then [head] of Bertelsmann, forced us to divest BMG Interactive – over my noisy objections,” says Zelnick....“I couldn’t have protested more but, at the end of the day, I had a boss.”
"In 2007, Zelnick Media Capital led the acquisition of New York-based Take-Two Interactive. As a result, Strauss Zelnick became the video game company’s CEO & Chairman, and its largest shareholder."
> Indeed - there are cheaper ways to go. Iâ(TM)m happy to pay for good hardware
So happy you're not posting in the standard ANSI character set? There is paying for good hardware and then there is OVERpaying. And that's what you're doing. If Intel can fit m2 slots into a NUC that is 1/4 the size of a Mac Mini, Apple could do it too. They just chose not to because they know their fanbase will happily pay them too much money. Courageous even, according to Tim Cook.
> . Enjoy your Chinese smartphone and DIY hardware. To each their own.
Korean actually. S7, all I need is phone calls, texts and light web browsing, no need to be stupid and pay too much for a premium phone. And my scratchbuilt Ryzen system does kick a lot of ass and all in - including a Ti1060 - cost less than that low end Mac Mini. As a hardware buyer for my employer, I also got a great chuckle out of Apple's suggestions on their new Mac Mini page that the Mac Mini might be in any way, shape or form a suitable server farm device to be bought by the rackload. At those prices there are FAR better options.
> Hell - Iâ(TM)d probably pay more than theyâ(TM)re asking - and often do, to get Applecare
Or you could do like I do and just buy decent hardware that you *don't* expect to have to use a pricy warranty on. As you say though, to each their own.
There's a difference between a company making an honest amount of money, and a company gouging their customer base. Looking at Apple Canada's site today (because I'm in Canada) I see that going from 128GB of storage to 256GB on the new Mini Apple is charging $240 CDN. Like fuck right off - dozens of brand new 256GB m2 SSDs on newegg.ca are selling for between $100-$120. For the whole 256GB, not an "upgrade". Apple is making at least a $180 of pure profit off that $240. That's horseshit.
It's funny because you said "decent" but the spec says 16GB which I thought we covered and I stated unequivocally that 16 GB for an Android device is NOT decent....
If I want a 16GB device for under $200CDN I can get one in Canada from Lenovo, or Asus or Toshiba or Acer. And ALL of them have 16GB of storage. That. Is. The. Problem.
And I used to be able to get the latest reference Nexus tablet for $249 CDN.... And besides, not interested in an iDevice. Especially not one that's north of $400 in CDN.
> The Amazon Kindle Fire 10 HD 32GB (plus microSD card slot if you need more) is $150, on sale for less every other month or so
I guess you missed the part where I specifically said I'd love to buy one but Amazon doesn't sell them to Canada. The.ca site only has the 7 and 8" tablet, and the.com site will not ship to Canada. I am probably going to end up having an acquaintance in the US buy one for me and bring it with them when they come up for the holidays next month. Definitely not what I'd call convenient or open to everyone in Canada...
> You can also buy a "crap" tablet with 2gb memory, 32gb local storage and an sd slot for $100 or so
Been there, done that. If you like a tablet that has shit quality and maybe the battery lasts 2 months before it stops charging, fill your boots.
> And I kind of like the fact that there are still places that don't force you to give information to post a comment.
The problem with that is we now have bots and low effort sponsored shitposters flooding Slashdot. Like I said, go have a gander at that last thread to see exactly how bad it can be, literally dozens of the same post flooding the comments. That's either a bot or a really Patriotic Citizen in action.
You can miss the old Internet all you want, it sadly won't bring it back. And letting the chaff drown out the wheat has already put a damper on me visiting Slashdot as much as I used to. The worse it gets, the fewer people will actually bother coming here. Something has to be done as relying on peoples' better nature is a sick joke these days.
> They're selling replacements only at this point.
Actually they're not. Here's the problem. Tablets for a while were a competitive market where there was actually decent value for money. Now? You want an Android tablet you have two choices - Buy something for under $200 US and get a device with a shit 16GB of storage or spend a lot more for a device with proper storage. 16GB on Android is terrible these days because 11-12GB is eaten up before you take it out of the box, and once you install a few apps, it starts to bog. You need 32GB but many of what used to be mid-range devices now only offer 16GB and if you want more storage you have to go a couple of steps up in devices compared to what you were expecting, which costs a lot more.
As a result I'm still using my older tablet because in Canada the nearest 32GB device I'd want is over $400 CDN. There's no more competition so either you fork over a ton of money for a higher end Samsung or Asus, or you buy a shit tablet. A glimmer of hope has come in Amazon finally bringing the Fire north of the border and keeping good pricing, but they for reasons that have not been expounded on will not sell the 10" Fire up here, which is the one I'd be interested in. Maybe next year. Or maybe Asus will drop the price of their 10" 64 GB tablet. But probably not.
> Communism doesn't work for several reasons, as demonstrated by history but no matter what the idealists like to keep trotting it out as a viable solution.
Communism actually DOES work, what it doesn't do is SCALE to a national level. I find it hilarious that posters online - many of them American - completely forget that the US and sections of Canada have had communistic communities that have been running for centuries on their soil. I of course refer to the Amish, the Hutteries, the Mennonites, etc.
All of these groups have realized long ago that their brand of Communism works fine, but it only works so long as the societal bonds of close-ish association are there. Community pressure to help and conform is your "enforcer" there. To ensure that works correctly, the colonies have an upper population ceiling - usually around 500 people or so. As the colony gets close to that cap, plans are made to split the colony and found a new one, and then when the volunteers for the new colony leave, the population cap is safely preserved for both colonies for a couple of generations.
> Seems a bit shady though that you put your stuff out for free that someone else can pick it up, package it and sell it on.
But that's not what Red Hat does, or what you pay for with a RHN license. You're paying for the ability to call/email someone at a company for help on any related problem and they are contractually obligated to assist you. Which is why businesses use Red Hat instead of CentOS.
You're not paying for the software working, you're paying for someone to talk to and possibly sue a bit if something goes wonky. That's what Red Hat brings to the table. Complaining about them making money off that is like complaining that your corner mechanic isn't giving Ford a cut on all the work they're doing on your Fiesta.
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> They were not a tech company involving themselves in something that is best left to biologists and ecologists.
So what you think a bunch of Scala coders got bored at Google and started genetically manipulating mosquitos?
What's Bayer? Merck? Bio TECH companies. Bayer and Merck also have a lot of non bio subdivisions but nobody hassles them about those.
Maybe Alphabet, a giant TECH company made a biotech division and staffed it with biologists, geneticists and ecologists? Think that's possible?
But no, it's probably the Scala guys.
Don't forget arsenic, it's all natural and a great substitute for sugar on your sugar cookies! And all natural botulinin, and all natural radon gas in your basement
#naturallife4eva!
Seriously though, Slashdot really needs to have a hard look at removing AC posting. Just look at all the crap comments on this topic and others, all of them are ACs and more than a few of them seem to be bot directed.
> Zika wasn't a problem in South America until genetically modified mosquito were released in Brazil.
That smells like bullshit. Got any proof other than a random tinfoil shoutout from an anonymous coward account? Doing a few searches shows that this sounds like a new wingnut talking point, ignoring actual facts.
> Usually these world-improvers are bright eyed hacks that get it wrong and make things worse, sometimes massively so.
Citation needed. Similar "bright eyed hacks" wiped out polio and smallpox, and are trying to do the same to malaria.
> Social security, when it was established, was meant to be one leg of a stool,
What's the stool look like to those millions of people who are working "full time" jobs of 32 hours on minimum wage and rotating schedules so they can't even go get a second job? Those same people on food stamps to eat?
And back when Social Security was first established, a person with a full time job was paid a living wage. Not any more.
> To say the reason for their status is that they lack competence is beyond insulting.
Don't let it get to you. That sort of logic is what people in their idiot teen years acquire when they read Ayn Rand. Most grow out of it once they hit the real world. Most.
> You can form a co-op buy the now unused equipment and start manufacturing another product or under another brand.
Are you delusional? Name the last successful car company to get started as a "coop" shoestring operation by a bunch of laid off workers. Go on, I'll wait...
Hell, look at the shit Tesla gets from everyone and they've got billions behind them.
>And as time goes on long range electric vehicles will become cheaper
To an extent. There hasn't been an "ah ha" breakthrough in battery storage in a while, at least not a commercially viable one, and the battery pack is one of the biggest expenses AND the limiting factor with public perception. There's a reason the Leaf and many others like the Hyundai Ioniq, the BMW i3, the Kia Soul EV, etc all have ranges of 150 miles or less, the battery pack's bulk, cost to produce and bottlenecks in the supply chain. Until batteries are both cheaper and produced in FAR greater numbers, the PHEV is the way to go for the transitional phase.
PHEVs cost the same or a little more up front but again, don't have the range anxiety and can be produced in far greater numbers from the same amount of battery cells than pure EVs. Like you can build 50 Bolt competitors, or 250 Volt competitors from the same load of batteries. Which makes better sense?
> People are buying SUVs and trucks
Well... until the next recession hits anyway. Then people will buy cheap foreign cars that get 30+ mpg because they can't afford to pay for SUV levels of efficiency.
Which is stupid because the Volt's medium distance hybrid tech should have been baked into every single vehicle that Chevy and GM made. All of the benefits of electric commute with no range anxiety and a much cheaper battery pack. So of course they axe it.
The ICE to battery transition period is going to stretch out into decades.
> Why leave Earth other than to feel like you're important?
I have all these eggs in a single basket. Surely nothing will ever happen to that basket! Just ask the dinosaurs. Oh... wait.
> Like most drug dealers, I would assume many Facebook employees don't use their own product.
A lot of corporations seem to be like that. A friend of mine's sister is a mid range exec at Bell Canada and her company issued cellphone is on the Bell network, but her TV service, home phone and internet are not. When I asked her jokingly if she wasn't a "team player", she looked at me and told me flat out that most of the people she works with at Bell only use Bell services if they have no choice in the matter - like a company issued cellphone.
Yep, and you demonstrate that wonderfully. The AMD Threadripper is better for some things, the Intel chip is better for some things, and *depending on your needs and budget* each could be "better".
Intel wins the IPCs, but is crushingly expensive. Many people would take the half price of the AMD part and be quite happy with it. Others for whom money isn't that much of an object will go with the 9980XE. Still others who need Blender, Cinebench or POVRay workloads done would be fools to buy anything but the Threadripper.
All in all, everyone has a different need and will cherrypick based on that need.
Except if you read the story, you'd see that the division when it was sold already employed the brothers Sam and Dan Houser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Houser
Not to say you're totally wrong though. I could see the music label making any number of boneheaded decisions that would have completely screwed up any chance of success for the fledgling game company through either incompetence or malice.
> The summary does, though. Anyway: this story can be summarized by "Execs fail(ed) to predict the future, and isn't that dumb?".
Sure, but if you read the whole story you'd also see that one of the execs saw the future, fought a losing battle to keep the company in house with his short sighted bosses, and then later struck out on his own and maneuvered to bring that which he saw value in under his control:
“We hired a team, and we started acquiring properties for distribution, and just on the eve of watching our first release [hit the market], Thomas Middelhoff, who was then [head] of Bertelsmann, forced us to divest BMG Interactive – over my noisy objections,” says Zelnick....“I couldn’t have protested more but, at the end of the day, I had a boss.”
"In 2007, Zelnick Media Capital led the acquisition of New York-based Take-Two Interactive. As a result, Strauss Zelnick became the video game company’s CEO & Chairman, and its largest shareholder."
> Indeed - there are cheaper ways to go. Iâ(TM)m happy to pay for good hardware
So happy you're not posting in the standard ANSI character set? There is paying for good hardware and then there is OVERpaying. And that's what you're doing. If Intel can fit m2 slots into a NUC that is 1/4 the size of a Mac Mini, Apple could do it too. They just chose not to because they know their fanbase will happily pay them too much money. Courageous even, according to Tim Cook.
> . Enjoy your Chinese smartphone and DIY hardware. To each their own.
Korean actually. S7, all I need is phone calls, texts and light web browsing, no need to be stupid and pay too much for a premium phone. And my scratchbuilt Ryzen system does kick a lot of ass and all in - including a Ti1060 - cost less than that low end Mac Mini. As a hardware buyer for my employer, I also got a great chuckle out of Apple's suggestions on their new Mac Mini page that the Mac Mini might be in any way, shape or form a suitable server farm device to be bought by the rackload. At those prices there are FAR better options.
> Hell - Iâ(TM)d probably pay more than theyâ(TM)re asking - and often do, to get Applecare
Or you could do like I do and just buy decent hardware that you *don't* expect to have to use a pricy warranty on. As you say though, to each their own.
There's a difference between a company making an honest amount of money, and a company gouging their customer base. Looking at Apple Canada's site today (because I'm in Canada) I see that going from 128GB of storage to 256GB on the new Mini Apple is charging $240 CDN. Like fuck right off - dozens of brand new 256GB m2 SSDs on newegg.ca are selling for between $100-$120. For the whole 256GB, not an "upgrade". Apple is making at least a $180 of pure profit off that $240. That's horseshit.
You mean this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SM-T580-10-1-Inch-Touchscreen-Android/dp/B076MMCTWP/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1541712323&sr=1-3&keywords=samsung+galaxy+tab+a+10.1&dpID=41S6q8fmWUL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
It's funny because you said "decent" but the spec says 16GB which I thought we covered and I stated unequivocally that 16 GB for an Android device is NOT decent....
If I want a 16GB device for under $200CDN I can get one in Canada from Lenovo, or Asus or Toshiba or Acer. And ALL of them have 16GB of storage. That. Is. The. Problem.
And I used to be able to get the latest reference Nexus tablet for $249 CDN.... And besides, not interested in an iDevice. Especially not one that's north of $400 in CDN.
> The Amazon Kindle Fire 10 HD 32GB (plus microSD card slot if you need more) is $150, on sale for less every other month or so
I guess you missed the part where I specifically said I'd love to buy one but Amazon doesn't sell them to Canada. The .ca site only has the 7 and 8" tablet, and the .com site will not ship to Canada. I am probably going to end up having an acquaintance in the US buy one for me and bring it with them when they come up for the holidays next month. Definitely not what I'd call convenient or open to everyone in Canada...
> You can also buy a "crap" tablet with 2gb memory, 32gb local storage and an sd slot for $100 or so
Been there, done that. If you like a tablet that has shit quality and maybe the battery lasts 2 months before it stops charging, fill your boots.
> And I kind of like the fact that there are still places that don't force you to give information to post a comment.
The problem with that is we now have bots and low effort sponsored shitposters flooding Slashdot. Like I said, go have a gander at that last thread to see exactly how bad it can be, literally dozens of the same post flooding the comments. That's either a bot or a really Patriotic Citizen in action.
You can miss the old Internet all you want, it sadly won't bring it back. And letting the chaff drown out the wheat has already put a damper on me visiting Slashdot as much as I used to. The worse it gets, the fewer people will actually bother coming here. Something has to be done as relying on peoples' better nature is a sick joke these days.
Did you check the comments of the last story that was posted? It's a perfect demonstration of why Slashdot needs to drop the ability to post AC...
> They're selling replacements only at this point.
Actually they're not. Here's the problem. Tablets for a while were a competitive market where there was actually decent value for money. Now? You want an Android tablet you have two choices - Buy something for under $200 US and get a device with a shit 16GB of storage or spend a lot more for a device with proper storage. 16GB on Android is terrible these days because 11-12GB is eaten up before you take it out of the box, and once you install a few apps, it starts to bog. You need 32GB but many of what used to be mid-range devices now only offer 16GB and if you want more storage you have to go a couple of steps up in devices compared to what you were expecting, which costs a lot more.
As a result I'm still using my older tablet because in Canada the nearest 32GB device I'd want is over $400 CDN. There's no more competition so either you fork over a ton of money for a higher end Samsung or Asus, or you buy a shit tablet. A glimmer of hope has come in Amazon finally bringing the Fire north of the border and keeping good pricing, but they for reasons that have not been expounded on will not sell the 10" Fire up here, which is the one I'd be interested in. Maybe next year. Or maybe Asus will drop the price of their 10" 64 GB tablet. But probably not.
> Communism doesn't work for several reasons, as demonstrated by history but no matter what the idealists like to keep trotting it out as a viable solution.
Communism actually DOES work, what it doesn't do is SCALE to a national level. I find it hilarious that posters online - many of them American - completely forget that the US and sections of Canada have had communistic communities that have been running for centuries on their soil. I of course refer to the Amish, the Hutteries, the Mennonites, etc.
All of these groups have realized long ago that their brand of Communism works fine, but it only works so long as the societal bonds of close-ish association are there. Community pressure to help and conform is your "enforcer" there. To ensure that works correctly, the colonies have an upper population ceiling - usually around 500 people or so. As the colony gets close to that cap, plans are made to split the colony and found a new one, and then when the volunteers for the new colony leave, the population cap is safely preserved for both colonies for a couple of generations.
> Seems a bit shady though that you put your stuff out for free that someone else can pick it up, package it and sell it on.
But that's not what Red Hat does, or what you pay for with a RHN license. You're paying for the ability to call/email someone at a company for help on any related problem and they are contractually obligated to assist you. Which is why businesses use Red Hat instead of CentOS.
You're not paying for the software working, you're paying for someone to talk to and possibly sue a bit if something goes wonky. That's what Red Hat brings to the table. Complaining about them making money off that is like complaining that your corner mechanic isn't giving Ford a cut on all the work they're doing on your Fiesta.