Yes when you get your impressions from a google search of "Microsoft product unreliable" then you get that impression. In the meantime there are many people who still have working original XBoxes since you picked one product (XBox360) from that one product line and it was widely considered incredibly reliable. Likewise the xbone seems to be perfectly fine in the reliability department as well.
And? The oil industry has the most to lose in the greening of the world which is what makes accurate predictions even more important. This is also why the oil industry are some of the biggest investors in wind and solar energy, they know their days are numbered.
Absolutely nothing changed in the past 10 years that could have had an affect on the prediction.
No federal subsidy changes No multinational agreement to work on climate change No massive change in production causing the prices of solar to plummet No President who actually was somewhat for greening up the country
This is all just the EIA's shortsightedness, or big oil influence, or (insert other blame game whackjob conspiracy).
The take home message from your video is that if someone dedicates the entire weight limit of his carry on allowance to only lithium batteries and then sets it all off in one go, it may burn one or two people and the plane would otherwise land just fine.
And it stated that the batteries were not allowed in checked. So I was puzzled when I heard about the ban on laptops in carry-on.
Loose batteries aren't allowed to be checked and must be brought in carry-on due to the short circuit risk they present. Batteries inside devices, even large ones are fine.
I do travel to a German country town for work quite often. The reason I still have the 20 was a left over from 6 months ago when I got my corporate VISA. It replaced the frigging useless American Express we had which quite often forced me to have a bit of emergency cash.
Not quite. They had specific reasons to not recommend Microsoft hardware, mainly it was reliability. Reliability is something that can change from product to product, especially when your previous product was panned.
Continuing with that same basis without actually testing a product is just setting fire to their credibility.
How the hell is Microsoft continuing to make money? I don't get it. They are hurting in every area as people bail on their garbage, proprietary software left and right.
Oh it's quite simple when you actually look at it rather than applying some of your wishful thinking to the situation.
Where is Microsoft hurting? Not in Windows which still enjoys the largest market share of any desktop OS in the world. Not in Office where most moves away from traditional desktop Office has turned into recurring revenue in the form of Office 365, and sometimes both at once for the same user. Not in the enterprise where they are just finding new ways to up-sell people on yet more stuff (skype for business, sharepoint, etc) Not in Gaming where Microsoft seems to be making close to $2bn per quarter. Not in the Cloud where Microsoft has been closing the gap to AWS more and more every quarter and is now the number 2 service provider by a wide margin to number 3. Not in Hardware with their Surface line of products being highly profitable.
Not in... okay in Mobile they failed miserably.
So maybe if you look beyond the Slashdot comments section you'll realise that MS isn't actually failing at anything that matters and are laughing all the way to the bank.
Don't burn and don't disappear when the power goes out.
They are also completely worthless when the power doesn't come back on after a week. At that point you'll be wishing you invested in canned beans instead.
If you want to design a crypto-currency that actually functions as currency, you gotta design something that isn't used as an investment. Otherwise, speculators are going to ruin it.
Every currency is used as investment, and every currency is speculated. The trick is not in the design but rather in creating a trading volume high enough that speculators can't affect the system simply by buying a small (relatively speaking to real currencies) amount of the currency.
Err no. Some consumers never cared about the difference. These hybrid cards on the other hand were a huge benefit to those people who couldn't get a credit card because of age or credit related issues, or who just plain didn't want to deal with an entire different card just to do online purchases.
Wait, we're talking about litigation and you cite repeatedly examples of government intervention. At least you agree with me.
But then at the end you go back to litigation being good. Oooh yay, a class action suit. I'm sooo locking forward to my $5 gift card I can redeem next time someone opens up a credit card in my name.
Litigation works well for the ambulance chaser looking for a get rich quick windfall. It does fuck all to companies who resolve the issue by putting up a warning label.
Yeah but you'd only be able to use it around a screen keyboard and mouse setup for you, which is kind of the point. You won't be doing shit on your phone while it acts as a phone, and you'll be lucky if it can even make phone calls. So why not carry a NUC around?
No I didn't and there was a good reason. The N900 was like a ugly girl who says yes to sex with a desperate 40 year old virgin. It ticked the boxes that make geeks get an uncontrollable erection. Unfortunately it also ticked the box as probably the single least user friendly and hardest to use phone on the market and to drive home the insult I'm including Windows Mobile 6 in that category.
A lot of people said Nokia let it down by dropping it, but the reality was in the sales figures. Its biggest letdown was Linux and the fact that it wasn't nicely optimised for that it was, a computer with a sub 4" screen and a horrific input method.
In most of the non urgent medical conditions they don't get upgraded. Being unable to move your leg at all doesn't make knee surgery urgent it just labels you as disabled. Likewise on many other non urgent cases. Anything that upgrades to a life threatening case automatically through time is classed as urgent already.
So eat less. It's quite simple. Ever see a fat man on a food strike? Your body can go something like 40 days without food before you pass, for the first half of it it will spend most of its time consuming your own fat.
Dieting is stupid if you want to lose weight permanently. Dieting is perfect if you need to lose weight temporarily for something like life threatening surgery.
Also cut out the carbs and it will promote the consumption of fat cells.
What about people who like running or sports? They are putting extra stain on their knees. Should they be required to give up running for good to get that knee fixed?
Am answer in three parts: 1. No one is being asked to give up anything permanently and yes a runner would be asked to rest before and after surgery lest they end up with serious complications.
2. The health benefits of running outweigh the downsides on the knees. Can you say the same about being a fat tub of lard? Your comparison is as usual in these debates, stupid.
3. Weight gain may be a common symptom, but the relationship is not casual. It is simply due to issues relating to balance. Just because you're immobile doesn't mean you automatically gain weight and sure as hell doesn't mean you can't lose it by eating less.
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Frankly I'm far more terrified of a white woman in her pajamas who specifically called the police for help in the first place.
Yes when you get your impressions from a google search of "Microsoft product unreliable" then you get that impression. In the meantime there are many people who still have working original XBoxes since you picked one product (XBox360) from that one product line and it was widely considered incredibly reliable. Likewise the xbone seems to be perfectly fine in the reliability department as well.
The same can be said for all their hardware.
The EIA is a oil industry funded group!
And? The oil industry has the most to lose in the greening of the world which is what makes accurate predictions even more important. This is also why the oil industry are some of the biggest investors in wind and solar energy, they know their days are numbered.
Absolutely nothing changed in the past 10 years that could have had an affect on the prediction.
No federal subsidy changes
No multinational agreement to work on climate change
No massive change in production causing the prices of solar to plummet
No President who actually was somewhat for greening up the country
This is all just the EIA's shortsightedness, or big oil influence, or (insert other blame game whackjob conspiracy).
Why would you check a laptop anyway? I mean unless you wanted it to get stolen of course.
The take home message from your video is that if someone dedicates the entire weight limit of his carry on allowance to only lithium batteries and then sets it all off in one go, it may burn one or two people and the plane would otherwise land just fine.
An acceptable risk all around.
And it stated that the batteries were not allowed in checked. So I was puzzled when I heard about the ban on laptops in carry-on.
Loose batteries aren't allowed to be checked and must be brought in carry-on due to the short circuit risk they present. Batteries inside devices, even large ones are fine.
I do travel to a German country town for work quite often. The reason I still have the 20 was a left over from 6 months ago when I got my corporate VISA. It replaced the frigging useless American Express we had which quite often forced me to have a bit of emergency cash.
Armatures these days....
Tell me about it. You'd think they'd never generated power from a changing magnetic flux before.
Not quite. They had specific reasons to not recommend Microsoft hardware, mainly it was reliability. Reliability is something that can change from product to product, especially when your previous product was panned.
Continuing with that same basis without actually testing a product is just setting fire to their credibility.
Like do CR actually report on products anymore or do they just ask a magic eight-ball?
How the hell is Microsoft continuing to make money? I don't get it. They are hurting in every area as people bail on their garbage, proprietary software left and right.
Oh it's quite simple when you actually look at it rather than applying some of your wishful thinking to the situation.
Where is Microsoft hurting?
Not in Windows which still enjoys the largest market share of any desktop OS in the world.
Not in Office where most moves away from traditional desktop Office has turned into recurring revenue in the form of Office 365, and sometimes both at once for the same user.
Not in the enterprise where they are just finding new ways to up-sell people on yet more stuff (skype for business, sharepoint, etc)
Not in Gaming where Microsoft seems to be making close to $2bn per quarter.
Not in the Cloud where Microsoft has been closing the gap to AWS more and more every quarter and is now the number 2 service provider by a wide margin to number 3.
Not in Hardware with their Surface line of products being highly profitable.
Not in ... okay in Mobile they failed miserably.
So maybe if you look beyond the Slashdot comments section you'll realise that MS isn't actually failing at anything that matters and are laughing all the way to the bank.
Don't burn and don't disappear when the power goes out.
They are also completely worthless when the power doesn't come back on after a week. At that point you'll be wishing you invested in canned beans instead.
If you want to design a crypto-currency that actually functions as currency, you gotta design something that isn't used as an investment. Otherwise, speculators are going to ruin it.
Every currency is used as investment, and every currency is speculated. The trick is not in the design but rather in creating a trading volume high enough that speculators can't affect the system simply by buying a small (relatively speaking to real currencies) amount of the currency.
The consumers never cared about the difference.
Err no. Some consumers never cared about the difference. These hybrid cards on the other hand were a huge benefit to those people who couldn't get a credit card because of age or credit related issues, or who just plain didn't want to deal with an entire different card just to do online purchases.
Express ones don't. But really why would you carry cash in Europe? I've had the same "emergency" 20euro note in my wallet for the past 6 months.
Why? I mean what's in it for Google? Or do you insist they start a new department called Google Charity?
Wait, we're talking about litigation and you cite repeatedly examples of government intervention. At least you agree with me.
But then at the end you go back to litigation being good. Oooh yay, a class action suit. I'm sooo locking forward to my $5 gift card I can redeem next time someone opens up a credit card in my name.
Litigation works well for the ambulance chaser looking for a get rich quick windfall. It does fuck all to companies who resolve the issue by putting up a warning label.
Yeah but you'd only be able to use it around a screen keyboard and mouse setup for you, which is kind of the point. You won't be doing shit on your phone while it acts as a phone, and you'll be lucky if it can even make phone calls. So why not carry a NUC around?
No I didn't and there was a good reason. The N900 was like a ugly girl who says yes to sex with a desperate 40 year old virgin. It ticked the boxes that make geeks get an uncontrollable erection. Unfortunately it also ticked the box as probably the single least user friendly and hardest to use phone on the market and to drive home the insult I'm including Windows Mobile 6 in that category.
A lot of people said Nokia let it down by dropping it, but the reality was in the sales figures. Its biggest letdown was Linux and the fact that it wasn't nicely optimised for that it was, a computer with a sub 4" screen and a horrific input method.
Nothing hard about it providing you don't expect any users to be able to use the software.
Yes that's exactly what we are talking about, and no arbitrary linux distros are suited for the human interaction model of a smartphone.
In most of the non urgent medical conditions they don't get upgraded. Being unable to move your leg at all doesn't make knee surgery urgent it just labels you as disabled. Likewise on many other non urgent cases. Anything that upgrades to a life threatening case automatically through time is classed as urgent already.
So eat less. It's quite simple. Ever see a fat man on a food strike? Your body can go something like 40 days without food before you pass, for the first half of it it will spend most of its time consuming your own fat.
Dieting is stupid if you want to lose weight permanently. Dieting is perfect if you need to lose weight temporarily for something like life threatening surgery.
Also cut out the carbs and it will promote the consumption of fat cells.
What about people who like running or sports? They are putting extra stain on their knees. Should they be required to give up running for good to get that knee fixed?
Am answer in three parts:
1. No one is being asked to give up anything permanently and yes a runner would be asked to rest before and after surgery lest they end up with serious complications.
2. The health benefits of running outweigh the downsides on the knees. Can you say the same about being a fat tub of lard? Your comparison is as usual in these debates, stupid.
3. Weight gain may be a common symptom, but the relationship is not casual. It is simply due to issues relating to balance. Just because you're immobile doesn't mean you automatically gain weight and sure as hell doesn't mean you can't lose it by eating less.