"It did for desktops but that is because size doesn't tend to be part of the design criteria for a desktop. Cooling is a big issue on notebooks as is power use which really isn't an issue on most desktops."
Both these considerations can be addressed by standard form-factors. Neither consideration requires a variety of solutions outside what a standard form-factor (which is different and to be distinguished from an exact design!) could offer.
"That would really restrict innovation if they did that."
Well-designed form factors did the opposite for desktops.
The standard PC form-factors fostered component innovation because development could be devoted to specific components with the assurance that they would have a standard "home" and a large potential market.
That FREED them to compete on performance, which reinforced the value of standard form factors, and is why you can select from any number of standard PC cases today.
"And closing Guantanamo, and ending the the violations of civil liberties, and ending rendition/torture, etc., etc. "
Those issues were mere rallying cries, without much real support. The average American views Islamists as enemies and doesn't care if they are disappeared, much less subject to the luxuries of Gitmo.
"And then the grass-roots loony fucknut republican hate-machine would start spewing its disgusting insanity all over the place, calling for Obama to be executed as some heathen gay-loving whore of babylon."
How would that be different?
They'll do that whatever he does, rendering the Teflon Uncle Tom act useless (though it DID work, along with Not Being Bush, to get elected.)
Now he's wrapped up in getting ready for a second term, so he can't man up and go on the offensive. His base has NO CHOICE but to vote for him, or they'll get a Teabagger. He can take them for granted.
Laptop makers have NO REASON to standardize. The ideal consumer product is shitcanned at point of purchase by a delighted customer (toilet paper comes to mind).
Desktop PC form-factors made maintenance, part sourcing, and upgrading easy, but didn't help kill off old PCs.
Notebook makers OTOH can count on the failure of key components such as batteries to render their products "beyond economical repair". Combine that with low prices and crap build quality, and you have the recipe for repeat sales. (Good to foster performance upgrades, not so good for economy and ease of maintenance.)
"The best way to reduce mineral scarcity, eliminate the psychopaths who consume resources beyond all reason, no more mega yachts, mansions, private jets et al. the planet can no longer cope with them."
Nice rage, but the above listed uses consume a trivial amount of resources compared to more mundane but widespread consumption.
"the rest of us the majority still should consider all future generations of humanity in the way we use and abuse our mutual resources, not just the next but thousands of years even hundreds of thousands of years into the future."
"It's difficult for me to take the Declaration of Independence seriously when blacks didn't get rights until almost 200 years later... not to mention the plight of Native Americans, Japanese-Americans, etc."
Of course all history should be judged morally from your superior moral perspective, rather than evaluated by its actual effect on the world.
BTW, the right of conquest was then perfectly normal practice (therefore not wrong, for "wrong" is subjective), and its practitioners included Native Americans (participants in the French and Indian War, etc) and Japanese, though the Japanese were busy with domestic affairs and had not yet met Commodore Perry.:)
"Unfortunately here in the US this would require a change to the law the healthcare industry bought that says you can't buy contacts or prescription glasses without a recent (within one year) prescription from an optometrist. Both contacts and prescription eyeglasses are classified as "medical devices"... It's quite a racket."
Fuck the law, just buy online and lie about the prescription. I'll lie to anyone who obstructs me for no good reason. I don't owe human obstacles anything. They can cram their scam where the sun doesn't shine.
Another scam is the restriction on getting "medical" oxygen without a prescription, yet the same (yes, I checked thoroughly) oxygen is sold for welding (and is often used by general aviation flyers and mixed-gas divers). I already use medical cylinders (filled off my large cylinder using a transfill adapter) to feed my mobile cutting torch, and if I ever have the need the same cylinders will feed me.
I'd like an app like that for Linux so people can test their vision at home, multiple times, and optimize prescriptions for different distances (for example, close work like soldering).
With the availability of an eye test app, people who know their eye health is good can refine their prescription cheaply (buying online instead of getting ass-raped for the same lens/frame combo locally) and save playing eye test/prescription/purchase roulette.
This is an excellent opportunity to unplug. There are two kinds of communication when overseas: "business" and "bullshit". You can delete the latter and slash your access requirements.
Go explore China and make friends with the locals, eat tasty food, walk around, stuff like that. 4chan will still be there when you get home.
The USAF surplused MANY pallets of Dells that died from bad caps, as it wasn't worth getting them fixed and having a questionable machine. We had numerous machines fail at our base that I knew of.
I'm delighted to see Dell take a hit. I particularly despise their proprietary form-factors which amount to vendor lock. Fuck 'em.
"It conflicts with the Christian moral agenda in the first place in so many ways..."
Not in practice, by which one should judge religions. Religionists wish to be judged according to theory cherry-picked from their fantasy books, instead of what their movement does.
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"It did for desktops but that is because size doesn't tend to be part of the design criteria for a desktop.
Cooling is a big issue on notebooks as is power use which really isn't an issue on most desktops."
Both these considerations can be addressed by standard form-factors. Neither consideration requires a variety of solutions outside what a standard form-factor (which is different and to be distinguished from an exact design!) could offer.
"Even cars don't have standardized batteries. Ok, they do, but there are something like 20-30 different standardized car battery types."
That's another way to sell overpriced batteries, and wasn't so pronounced until the last couple of decades. IAAM (I Am A Mechanic).
They DO have standard connections (side post, top post, etc) and voltages, facilitating much wider interchange than is listed in vendor literature.
"That would really restrict innovation if they did that."
Well-designed form factors did the opposite for desktops.
The standard PC form-factors fostered component innovation because development could be devoted to specific components with the assurance that they would have a standard "home" and a large potential market.
That FREED them to compete on performance, which reinforced the value of standard form factors, and is why you can select from any number of standard PC cases today.
"And closing Guantanamo, and ending the the violations of civil liberties, and ending rendition/torture, etc., etc. "
Those issues were mere rallying cries, without much real support. The average American views Islamists as enemies and doesn't care if they are disappeared, much less subject to the luxuries of Gitmo.
He could afford to drop them, so he did.
"And then the grass-roots loony fucknut republican hate-machine would start spewing its disgusting insanity all over the place, calling for Obama to be executed as some heathen gay-loving whore of babylon."
How would that be different?
They'll do that whatever he does, rendering the Teflon Uncle Tom act useless (though it DID work, along with Not Being Bush, to get elected.)
Now he's wrapped up in getting ready for a second term, so he can't man up and go on the offensive. His base has NO CHOICE but to vote for him, or they'll get a Teabagger. He can take them for granted.
Laptop makers have NO REASON to standardize.
The ideal consumer product is shitcanned at point of purchase by a delighted customer (toilet paper comes to mind).
Desktop PC form-factors made maintenance, part sourcing, and upgrading easy, but didn't help kill off old PCs.
Notebook makers OTOH can count on the failure of key components such as batteries to render their products "beyond economical repair". Combine that with low prices and crap build quality, and you have the recipe for repeat sales. (Good to foster performance upgrades, not so good for economy and ease of maintenance.)
"Democrats, meanwhile, are too busy compromising, selling-out, and generally acting incompetent to offer any real resistance. Sad, sad, sad."
Their principles aren't different except in degree. Note how fast gay rights went under the bus after the election. :)
"That's very difficult to imagine - even Cthulhu has some principles."
I wouldn't compare Cthulhu to Fox News. He'll be even more pissed off when he wakes up.
Take the pics from a mounted tripod or other support on the flying bridge of an appropriate boat.
It may make artistic shots more difficult (so what?) but the ability to take hundreds of pics can compensate for lack of easy informational shots.
There is no reason vessels should be so dangerously close to equipment. 300 feet makes much more sense.
As for picture quality, a good camera can capture very high levels of detail at 300 feet.
"The best way to reduce mineral scarcity, eliminate the psychopaths who consume resources beyond all reason, no more mega yachts, mansions, private jets et al. the planet can no longer cope with them."
Nice rage, but the above listed uses consume a trivial amount of resources compared to more mundane but widespread consumption.
"the rest of us the majority still should consider all future generations of humanity in the way we use and abuse our mutual resources, not just the next but thousands of years even hundreds of thousands of years into the future."
Precisely why should we do this?
"The people who run California are doing a terrible job."
The public of California are doing a terrible job. The price of freedom is vigilance.
Inaction is consent to incompetence, tyranny, and incompetent tyranny.
"It's difficult for me to take the Declaration of Independence seriously when blacks didn't get rights until almost 200 years later... not to mention the plight of Native Americans, Japanese-Americans, etc."
Of course all history should be judged morally from your superior moral perspective, rather than evaluated by its actual effect on the world.
BTW, the right of conquest was then perfectly normal practice (therefore not wrong, for "wrong" is subjective), and its practitioners included Native Americans (participants in the French and Indian War, etc) and Japanese, though the Japanese were busy with domestic affairs and had not yet met Commodore Perry. :)
"I'm a bit confused to what I need my organs for once I'm dead."
Um, co-located necrosis? :)
"Unfortunately here in the US this would require a change to the law the healthcare industry bought that says you can't buy contacts or prescription glasses without a recent (within one year) prescription from an optometrist. Both contacts and prescription eyeglasses are classified as "medical devices"... It's quite a racket."
Fuck the law, just buy online and lie about the prescription. I'll lie to anyone who obstructs me for no good reason. I don't owe human obstacles anything. They can cram their scam where the sun doesn't shine.
Another scam is the restriction on getting "medical" oxygen without a prescription, yet the same (yes, I checked thoroughly) oxygen is sold for welding (and is often used by general aviation flyers and mixed-gas divers). I already use medical cylinders (filled off my large cylinder using a transfill adapter) to feed my mobile cutting torch, and if I ever have the need the same cylinders will feed me.
Great idea for the developed world too.
I'd like an app like that for Linux so people can test their vision at home, multiple times, and optimize prescriptions for different distances (for example, close work like soldering).
With the availability of an eye test app, people who know their eye health is good can refine their prescription cheaply (buying online instead of getting ass-raped for the same lens/frame combo locally) and save playing eye test/prescription/purchase roulette.
"Third, let's take away all the things that make going to college fun."
All? What happened to binge drinking (in my day that was "normal drinking") and mindless fornication?
This is an excellent opportunity to unplug. There are two kinds of communication when overseas: "business" and "bullshit". You can delete the latter and slash your access requirements.
Go explore China and make friends with the locals, eat tasty food, walk around, stuff like that. 4chan will still be there when you get home.
Some current models may be pure BTX (I've not gutted one to see if the internals conform) but that's a recent change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_OptiPlex
The USAF surplused MANY pallets of Dells that died from bad caps, as it wasn't worth getting them fixed and having a questionable machine.
We had numerous machines fail at our base that I knew of.
I'm delighted to see Dell take a hit. I particularly despise their proprietary form-factors which amount to vendor lock. Fuck 'em.
Agreed, and I'm a married hetero. People should separate their superstition from law in a secular democracy.
"It conflicts with the Christian moral agenda in the first place in so many ways..."
Not in practice, by which one should judge religions. Religionists wish to be judged according to theory cherry-picked from their fantasy books, instead of what their movement does.
God Hates Fags, so reject religion.
That's because the "breakthroughs" are referred to as such out of wishful thinking.
It is a waste to Slashvertise them.
There is no obligation to disseminate entertainment.
"Fuck you Sony!"
Means nothing if you still buy their products.