I'm getting an SSD and upgrading my 2008 macbook pro to 10.8, I don't really see a need to buy a new computer.
You're glad to have be in before the lock - my '06 Powerbook G4 isn't. My 7-year old Powerbook, which cost $2k new, is getting less viable for everyday use by the minute. Time for a Debian PPC install, I guess...
In those times there was simply not enough land to give each son a piece of the family tracts of land, so yeah, venturing out to sea was basically their only option. It is however an astonishing testimony to their persistence and ability to withstand hardships that they landed on another continent. Having to go cross-continent in a modern flying machine isn't exactly my idea of a fun time, even with all my electronic gadgets - I can't imagine what it must be like to be on a wooden ship for a year or more, without any clear purpose or target and very little distraction. Optical compass or not - the Norsemen pulled of some spectacular achievements.
People paying attention to the nukes is a good thing. You don't want those things to go missing like when the USSR imploded. Lots and lots of fissile material went missing...
The HD3000 in my Thinkpad E330 runs 3D games quite well on a 1920x1080; don't see what all the disappointment is all about. If you want something that will run Skyrim at full HQ in Retina quality you shouldn't have bought a Chromebook in the first place.
The French still managed to gift the US a statue of liberty if all they do all day is drink wine and speculate about the impending Communist world revolution.
I now realise my life is a hollow void of nothingness and despair without the latest and greatest in phone software.... Oh no, I really don't give a shit. The phone works and does what I want it to do. If you want to install nightlies every day, more power to you. You're a very, very small minority.
We make lots of money on battery replacement and charging £50 for an extra 8GB of storage.
People want thin phones and having a replaceable battery limits this within phone design constraints. I seriously doubt HTC makes money on the added hassle of RMA'ing a phone, prying it open, replacing the battery, sending it back and doing all the accompanying paperwork, even if the customer pays for it.
I call BS. Both my Desire and One X received plenty updates throughout their life cycles. If operators choose to withhold updates because they're incompatible with whatever crappy bloatware the operator loaded on your phone, then that's not HTC's problem.
A bald eagle swoops down and rips your HTC One from your hands. Now if you had an SD card... Wait, what?
All these what-if scenarios are nice to conjure up but looking at sales figures I guess most people couldn't care less about removable batteries and SD cards. I for one can't and I appreciate the added slimness of my One X over my previous, bulky Desire (which did have a removable battery, that I haven't needed to replace in the past 3 years...)
Really? My unrooted One X runs Android 4.1.1. Not bleeding edge, admittedly, but I have received about 4 pushed OTA updates in the 8 months I've had this phone.
Moving to a non-standard work may not be very effective, but it sure saves me time checking access logs. Since I moved to a non-standard port, I've had to deal with maybe 5 attempts a day - which is much better than 50 a day!
Agreed, it would have to be offset against all the other costs (like fuel prices) and the (supposedly) increased yield per acre, otherwise this big percentage thing is pretty meaningless.
When I built my new server I had a choice: either re-purpose an old ATX PSU I had collecting dust, or buy a new hyper-efficient PicoPSU or similar bronze/silver certified PSU. I did the math and decided I had to run the server for over 5 years 24/7 on that PicoPSU just to see any appreciable financial gain.
Also, I have to justify the fact that I just can't seem to throw away anything computer related, no matter how old and obsolete it is;-)
No more mod points for today, but thanks for explaining green1 and hairyfeet! I always assumed "flash" meant full wipe of chip, then new stuff on chip. Apparently not so. I'll be more careful in the future....
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I'm getting an SSD and upgrading my 2008 macbook pro to 10.8, I don't really see a need to buy a new computer.
You're glad to have be in before the lock - my '06 Powerbook G4 isn't. My 7-year old Powerbook, which cost $2k new, is getting less viable for everyday use by the minute. Time for a Debian PPC install, I guess...
In those times there was simply not enough land to give each son a piece of the family tracts of land, so yeah, venturing out to sea was basically their only option. It is however an astonishing testimony to their persistence and ability to withstand hardships that they landed on another continent. Having to go cross-continent in a modern flying machine isn't exactly my idea of a fun time, even with all my electronic gadgets - I can't imagine what it must be like to be on a wooden ship for a year or more, without any clear purpose or target and very little distraction. Optical compass or not - the Norsemen pulled of some spectacular achievements.
People paying attention to the nukes is a good thing. You don't want those things to go missing like when the USSR imploded. Lots and lots of fissile material went missing...
The HD3000 in my Thinkpad E330 runs 3D games quite well on a 1920x1080; don't see what all the disappointment is all about. If you want something that will run Skyrim at full HQ in Retina quality you shouldn't have bought a Chromebook in the first place.
cool toys like Unity and the Dash.
Thanks, I needed a laugh :)
...And it didn't really work, apparantly. France is only two placed behind the US in GDP per hour worked.
The French still managed to gift the US a statue of liberty if all they do all day is drink wine and speculate about the impending Communist world revolution.
I now realise my life is a hollow void of nothingness and despair without the latest and greatest in phone software. ... Oh no, I really don't give a shit. The phone works and does what I want it to do. If you want to install nightlies every day, more power to you. You're a very, very small minority.
We make lots of money on battery replacement and charging £50 for an extra 8GB of storage.
People want thin phones and having a replaceable battery limits this within phone design constraints. I seriously doubt HTC makes money on the added hassle of RMA'ing a phone, prying it open, replacing the battery, sending it back and doing all the accompanying paperwork, even if the customer pays for it.
^^ This. The camera on my brick-sized Nokia N82 was absolutely fantastic and included a real xenon flash. Best camera phone I ever owned.
I call BS. Both my Desire and One X received plenty updates throughout their life cycles. If operators choose to withhold updates because they're incompatible with whatever crappy bloatware the operator loaded on your phone, then that's not HTC's problem.
A bald eagle swoops down and rips your HTC One from your hands. Now if you had an SD card... Wait, what? All these what-if scenarios are nice to conjure up but looking at sales figures I guess most people couldn't care less about removable batteries and SD cards. I for one can't and I appreciate the added slimness of my One X over my previous, bulky Desire (which did have a removable battery, that I haven't needed to replace in the past 3 years...)
Really? My unrooted One X runs Android 4.1.1. Not bleeding edge, admittedly, but I have received about 4 pushed OTA updates in the 8 months I've had this phone.
Moving to a non-standard work may not be very effective, but it sure saves me time checking access logs. Since I moved to a non-standard port, I've had to deal with maybe 5 attempts a day - which is much better than 50 a day!
Argh. STOLEN, not BROKEN.
If I buy a video camera from a pawn shop which turns out to be broken, what does that mean for the blockbuster movie I made with that camera?
I think all the selective breeding we've been doing to corn in the past hundreds (if not thousands) of years counts as GMO.
So this would actually have to be dealt with like someone who is handling stolen goods. Right?
Are you saying that sweet corn isn't in fact a GMO?
Agreed, it would have to be offset against all the other costs (like fuel prices) and the (supposedly) increased yield per acre, otherwise this big percentage thing is pretty meaningless.
I think I prefer having bug parts in my food to having Roundup(R)(tm) remains. I mean, bugs are 100% natural and organic.
When I built my new server I had a choice: either re-purpose an old ATX PSU I had collecting dust, or buy a new hyper-efficient PicoPSU or similar bronze/silver certified PSU. I did the math and decided I had to run the server for over 5 years 24/7 on that PicoPSU just to see any appreciable financial gain. Also, I have to justify the fact that I just can't seem to throw away anything computer related, no matter how old and obsolete it is ;-)
I wasn't really being serious.
All maxed out it might just be able to run the newest Ubuntu.
No more mod points for today, but thanks for explaining green1 and hairyfeet! I always assumed "flash" meant full wipe of chip, then new stuff on chip. Apparently not so. I'll be more careful in the future....