No, precisely the opposite. Those light bags that crumble in UV are a massive contributor to micro plastics in our food cycles. The larger heavier ones tend to sit in dumps, are more likely to be recycled, are more cost effective to recycle. That's before you skipped my comment about green bags being made available.
Let's start a movement to ban the manufacture of trash can liner bags and rely on the plastic bags at the checkout line. It would make more sense.
No let's really frigging not. It's a horrible idea. Less plastic != better. And even if your small bags were somehow better, the evidence of actual plastic consumption and disposal in countries where they've already banned it has shown the ban to be incredibly effective.
How would that have worked for someone on a road trip?
You tell me, you Americans are the ones who still fantasise about writing numbers in a little book, signing a sheet of paper, tearing out the stub and then sending things in the mail.
Case? Way to go. Why not just say you've never seen the product.
And yes, I've upgraded the memory.
What a strange man.
"Use the cloud," you say. I prefer to be cloudfree
I'm cloud free too. That doesn't mean I don't have a sync solution to a service I control. MS? Google? See yourself out and turn in your nerd card at the door.
but it's a lot faster to swap an SSD than restoring from backup
I'll race you: Reinstall windows because of the hardware swap vs take an existing version of windows, and install one app that live syncs. Seriously you make it so hard on yourself. I don't get it.
I don't understand why you're salivating over competitive process size. No one gives a shit about process size as it is only a small factor in performance. And yeah it caught me by surprise. As well as all the market analysts and all the technical writers out there. Maybe you're clairvoyant? Quick give me 6 numbers between 1 and 42.
Even n the face of you talking about Intels tick-tock repeatedly in the past
Errr right. You must have me confused with that other mythical thegarbz who has talked about tick-tock repeatedly in the past, because I sure as hell haven't, and if I would have I probably would have said something along the lines of the tick component of the strategy being a performance joke and the architecture changes being where most of the performance is born out, something where a lot of people have written off AMD until its Zen architecture hit.
You are a fucking joke of a nerd.
Ouch, burn, oh wait I actually feel just fine. I wonder how that other thegarbz is going.
Or back in reality, company fined, shareholders hold executives who are left accountable, executives who over saw the scandal are at very real risk of losing it all given the proceedings under way, and the company has been majorly forced to day track a migration away from diesel which has seen its group release several EVs and work on several more... Unlike US companies.
Say no to paywall articles! Especially say no to paywall articles when the summary makes no frigging sense and one would have to click said article to figure out what the hell is going on.
Good. Those speciality plastic bag manufacturers produce bags that are less likely to break down into microplastics, and are more likely to offer products that biodegrade. They are just as bad as that evil solar panel industry or that nasty electric car industry.
Dual use is not better, especially when you consider the single use plastic bags break down into small parts piece of plastic very quickly. Encouraging people to actually go and choose a replacement bag rather than being given one gives them the opportunity to go green.
Chile isn't the first country to do this, there are examples all over the globe where plastic waste has been successfully reduced by this policy.
Disclosure: I have an animal and buy plastic bags.
It is permissible for merchants to merchants to put whatever the heck they want on their price tags providing that's the price paid on the way out. It's also permissible for merchants to have a minimum order for using card. It's also permissible to charge a surcharge.
They do none of that though because there's actual cost savings in reducing the amount of cash you handle, not just in time, but also at the banks which are increasingly charging for cash deposits around here.
We'll have to agree to disagree. Looking out the window has only ever made it worse for me. Probably because the wing movement differs from the plane movement and it's the only object which I can reference. Maybe your brain processes vision differently to mine.
A peripheral that can only be attached to a laptop via a Thunderbolt USB-C port? Very few casual users will.
Like a display? Seriously if you think this is an edge case you have not been paying attention to the market.
To a laptop that has a USB-C port that does not support attaching external displays and which laptop does not also have some HDMI or DP connector? Never.
Seriously if you think this is an edge case you have not been paying attention to the market.
Yes, they do.
No they don't.
Either that, or they ask at the store.
Bahahahahahahahahahahaha. AHhh yeah that's a return waiting to happen.
Don't be so melodramatic.
I didn't post this on Slashdot. I didn't write the original article. I didn't make the decision not to include USB-C in the Surface 2015 because the standard is fucked. If you can't see the problems then you have not been paying atten... I'm getting tired of repeating myself.
No I'm saying like I'm glad I have a choice unlike the 90s where all you got was beige boxes and rectangular bricks. I can count the number of times I've upgraded a serious laptop on the none existent fingers of a quadruple amputee.
Many of us don't give a crap about that kind of thing. Many of us also live in countries where strong consumer protections mean those strange things you call "extended warranties" aren't even offered, we just call them warranties.
Use cases differ. Enjoy carrying around your luggable. Personally I can't stand using the serious laptop work issued me
Solar with energy storage has a capacity factor that's near that of nuclear.
Negative. Batteries do not make solar panels produce more energy. Actually quite the opposite, energy storage is required precisely because the capacity factor is not only low, but also inconsistent throughout the day.
The only way to get a solar panel to have even near the same capacity as nuclear is to mount it on a space craft and shoot it into the sky where the sun always shines.
Thin, small, high end device costing over $1000? Yes please. Why carry a brick for a repair I will never do, or an upgrade it won't ever need?
Seriously though upgradability? Sounds like a throwback to the 90s. Repairability? That's what warranties are for, and the device that takes the most abuse (keyboard) is removable.
Of course not. My battery dies long before that. But we all know gamers only ever game in 1h time windows, and that there's nothing negative about cycling laptop batteries.
You sound like someone complaining that you Ferrari is shit because you can't use it to move furniture....
Actually I quite specifically complained that my Ferrari is shit because it overheats when I push the accellerator down to hard. Your analogy is bad. It is only high end and actual workstation laptops that are suffering from this issue.
I really don't understand how you can claim the windows don't help.
Do you not look out of a window when flying? For half the flight you will see absolutely nothing. In fog you see absolutely nothing. On a clear day you will see absolutely nothing (horrizon disappears). You have no reference frame then windows don't help.
The point is there is a narrow range of scenarios during flight where windows will help you. It is very different to driving in a car.
What's wrong is parents who say "I'm busy; we'll set up your bank account sometime next week" every week, and until then, use the child's lack of a bank account to keep the child in a bubble
Stupid arguement. A parent that is too busy to help a child to set up a bank account is too busy to bring up a child in a general case. Speaking of children, do you typically see young underage entrepeneurs running large businesses or more likely, the parents who are "too busy" to have children are "too busy" to give them pocket money. As for the bubble? I can't remember needing cash to play as a child. How incredibly bubbled I must have been.
When you bought that stick of gum, how much of the transaction did the banks keep as their fee?
There's a very clear answe to this: Don't give a shit. I paid for the cost of the gum as shown on the price tag (a concept foreign to Americans I know). If there was an additional cost to the business that's not my problem. However in a cashless world the additional cost to the business is greatly offset by not having to deal with cash, the accoutning and managing of which is a significant expence.
Then perhaps petrol station customers where you live have shown themselves more trustworthy than petrol station customers where I live.
Maybe, maybe not. Details were taken down and I'm sure a few people got reported to the police as a result. A large portion of the things you will do in your life will be paid for after the fact. Not every transaction is cleared at the point of purchase, so why do you suddenly have a trust issue in this one example?
I think the idiot is the one paying good price when a refurbished unit is just fine. By the way putting AS-IS on the package does not absolve consumers of protection or companies of responsibility. If the device is defective they still need to honor the warranty, repair, or replace.
Most stuff that is sold as refurbished is in perfect condition.
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I don't know who Microsoft think they are.
A company on the fast track to becoming one of the most valuable in the world?
then reusing the first bag is definitely a win
No, precisely the opposite. Those light bags that crumble in UV are a massive contributor to micro plastics in our food cycles. The larger heavier ones tend to sit in dumps, are more likely to be recycled, are more cost effective to recycle. That's before you skipped my comment about green bags being made available.
Let's start a movement to ban the manufacture of trash can liner bags and rely on the plastic bags at the checkout line. It would make more sense.
No let's really frigging not. It's a horrible idea. Less plastic != better. And even if your small bags were somehow better, the evidence of actual plastic consumption and disposal in countries where they've already banned it has shown the ban to be incredibly effective.
How would that have worked for someone on a road trip?
You tell me, you Americans are the ones who still fantasise about writing numbers in a little book, signing a sheet of paper, tearing out the stub and then sending things in the mail.
Case? Way to go. Why not just say you've never seen the product.
And yes, I've upgraded the memory.
What a strange man.
"Use the cloud," you say. I prefer to be cloudfree
I'm cloud free too. That doesn't mean I don't have a sync solution to a service I control. MS? Google? See yourself out and turn in your nerd card at the door.
but it's a lot faster to swap an SSD than restoring from backup
I'll race you: Reinstall windows because of the hardware swap vs take an existing version of windows, and install one app that live syncs. Seriously you make it so hard on yourself. I don't get it.
So, why don't you complain to the "high-end and actual workstation laptop" manufacturers?
Err people do.
I don't understand why you're salivating over competitive process size. No one gives a shit about process size as it is only a small factor in performance. And yeah it caught me by surprise. As well as all the market analysts and all the technical writers out there. Maybe you're clairvoyant? Quick give me 6 numbers between 1 and 42.
Even n the face of you talking about Intels tick-tock repeatedly in the past
Errr right. You must have me confused with that other mythical thegarbz who has talked about tick-tock repeatedly in the past, because I sure as hell haven't, and if I would have I probably would have said something along the lines of the tick component of the strategy being a performance joke and the architecture changes being where most of the performance is born out, something where a lot of people have written off AMD until its Zen architecture hit.
You are a fucking joke of a nerd.
Ouch, burn, oh wait I actually feel just fine. I wonder how that other thegarbz is going.
Or back in reality, company fined, shareholders hold executives who are left accountable, executives who over saw the scandal are at very real risk of losing it all given the proceedings under way, and the company has been majorly forced to day track a migration away from diesel which has seen its group release several EVs and work on several more... Unlike US companies.
Say no to paywall articles! Especially say no to paywall articles when the summary makes no frigging sense and one would have to click said article to figure out what the hell is going on.
what the hell is this??
I would click the link but I can't read it.
Good. Those speciality plastic bag manufacturers produce bags that are less likely to break down into microplastics, and are more likely to offer products that biodegrade. They are just as bad as that evil solar panel industry or that nasty electric car industry.
They aren't single use for a great many people
Dual use is not better, especially when you consider the single use plastic bags break down into small parts piece of plastic very quickly. Encouraging people to actually go and choose a replacement bag rather than being given one gives them the opportunity to go green.
Chile isn't the first country to do this, there are examples all over the globe where plastic waste has been successfully reduced by this policy.
Disclosure: I have an animal and buy plastic bags.
It is permissible for merchants to merchants to put whatever the heck they want on their price tags providing that's the price paid on the way out. It's also permissible for merchants to have a minimum order for using card. It's also permissible to charge a surcharge.
They do none of that though because there's actual cost savings in reducing the amount of cash you handle, not just in time, but also at the banks which are increasingly charging for cash deposits around here.
My experience is different.
We'll have to agree to disagree. Looking out the window has only ever made it worse for me. Probably because the wing movement differs from the plane movement and it's the only object which I can reference. Maybe your brain processes vision differently to mine.
A peripheral that can only be attached to a laptop via a Thunderbolt USB-C port? Very few casual users will.
Like a display? Seriously if you think this is an edge case you have not been paying attention to the market.
To a laptop that has a USB-C port that does not support attaching external displays and which laptop does not also have some HDMI or DP connector? Never.
Seriously if you think this is an edge case you have not been paying attention to the market.
Yes, they do.
No they don't.
Either that, or they ask at the store.
Bahahahahahahahahahahaha. AHhh yeah that's a return waiting to happen.
Don't be so melodramatic.
I didn't post this on Slashdot. I didn't write the original article. I didn't make the decision not to include USB-C in the Surface 2015 because the standard is fucked. If you can't see the problems then you have not been paying atten... I'm getting tired of repeating myself.
No I'm saying like I'm glad I have a choice unlike the 90s where all you got was beige boxes and rectangular bricks. I can count the number of times I've upgraded a serious laptop on the none existent fingers of a quadruple amputee.
Many of us don't give a crap about that kind of thing. Many of us also live in countries where strong consumer protections mean those strange things you call "extended warranties" aren't even offered, we just call them warranties.
Use cases differ. Enjoy carrying around your luggable. Personally I can't stand using the serious laptop work issued me
Solar with energy storage has a capacity factor that's near that of nuclear.
Negative. Batteries do not make solar panels produce more energy. Actually quite the opposite, energy storage is required precisely because the capacity factor is not only low, but also inconsistent throughout the day.
The only way to get a solar panel to have even near the same capacity as nuclear is to mount it on a space craft and shoot it into the sky where the sun always shines.
Thin, small, high end device costing over $1000? Yes please. Why carry a brick for a repair I will never do, or an upgrade it won't ever need?
Seriously though upgradability? Sounds like a throwback to the 90s. Repairability? That's what warranties are for, and the device that takes the most abuse (keyboard) is removable.
I'll stick with being crippled thanks.
You do this all day?
Of course not. My battery dies long before that. But we all know gamers only ever game in 1h time windows, and that there's nothing negative about cycling laptop batteries.
You sound like someone complaining that you Ferrari is shit because you can't use it to move furniture....
Actually I quite specifically complained that my Ferrari is shit because it overheats when I push the accellerator down to hard. Your analogy is bad. It is only high end and actual workstation laptops that are suffering from this issue.
I really don't understand how you can claim the windows don't help.
Do you not look out of a window when flying? For half the flight you will see absolutely nothing. In fog you see absolutely nothing. On a clear day you will see absolutely nothing (horrizon disappears). You have no reference frame then windows don't help.
The point is there is a narrow range of scenarios during flight where windows will help you. It is very different to driving in a car.
What's wrong is parents who say "I'm busy; we'll set up your bank account sometime next week" every week, and until then, use the child's lack of a bank account to keep the child in a bubble
Stupid arguement. A parent that is too busy to help a child to set up a bank account is too busy to bring up a child in a general case. Speaking of children, do you typically see young underage entrepeneurs running large businesses or more likely, the parents who are "too busy" to have children are "too busy" to give them pocket money. As for the bubble? I can't remember needing cash to play as a child. How incredibly bubbled I must have been.
When you bought that stick of gum, how much of the transaction did the banks keep as their fee?
There's a very clear answe to this: Don't give a shit. I paid for the cost of the gum as shown on the price tag (a concept foreign to Americans I know). If there was an additional cost to the business that's not my problem. However in a cashless world the additional cost to the business is greatly offset by not having to deal with cash, the accoutning and managing of which is a significant expence.
Then perhaps petrol station customers where you live have shown themselves more trustworthy than petrol station customers where I live.
Maybe, maybe not. Details were taken down and I'm sure a few people got reported to the police as a result. A large portion of the things you will do in your life will be paid for after the fact. Not every transaction is cleared at the point of purchase, so why do you suddenly have a trust issue in this one example?
So NVIDIA doesn't have discrete graphics cards? https://www.neowin.net/news/nv...
None of the CEOs went to jail.
Who said anything about CEOs? That's called goal-post moving.
When some idiot buys AS-IS because it's cheaper
I think the idiot is the one paying good price when a refurbished unit is just fine. By the way putting AS-IS on the package does not absolve consumers of protection or companies of responsibility. If the device is defective they still need to honor the warranty, repair, or replace.
Most stuff that is sold as refurbished is in perfect condition.
but would then turn around and sue you if it turned out bad.
What the hell is wrong with Americans that they turn to suing for every little disagreement?
Just ignore those parts; what's left is still better than anything else on the market.
No one said it wasn't, but just because it's the best doesn't mean we need to give up our god given right to complain about it :-D