I use a 5 YO Lenovo W530 as a replacement for a desktop machine at home. It has a quad core i7, 32 GB of RAM, and 2GB Quadro graphics board built in. I use it for CAD and 3D mesh manipulation, among the usual things. I plug in an external keyboard, 3D mouse, regular mouse, 32" display, and speakers. It literally replaced an aging desktop that had so many fans it sounded like a vacuum cleaner. Now it's quiet, and having a battery is great if there's a power failure. I spent about $350 on the W530 and all the stuff to put in it.
Most (all?) CAD uses only a single core. Fusion 360 will use all available cores, but only for renderings. I think a lot of video editing software will use multiple cores.
No, probably not. As Toshiro Mifune once said in one of his many movies, translated to English for wider appreciation of the wisdom of his words: "the only cure for stupidity is death".
But seriously, I don't answer calls from unknown sources. They get sent to voicemail. Next, I check the voice mail and if it is indeed someone I never want to talk to I add the number to my contact called Shit List. There are about 300 numbers in that contact. I chose an excellent image to use for the "Shit List" caller: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9f/6...
Back before I became an engineer years ago, I used to read the engineering magazines annual salary surveys. It always looked awesome. Then I looked at who they surveyed- engineering managers, who had incentive to make it sound like engineering pay was much higher than it actually was.
Who in their right mind would survey parents about what their teen-age kids are doing?
If you're going to survey people about something, you have to survey the people you want to know about. Not their parents.
How do you know what they're doing with that data? Maybe they're creating a list of all your "crimes" committed via the internet (porn surfing, trolling, downloading copyrighted stuff) and everyone you communicate with by phone, and preparing warrants on millions of people, and one night, when you're sleeping comfortably, they'll kick in your door, scare your children, and take you away to a re-education camp with all the other degenerates they scoop up in the same operation.
It seems odd that people who are so paranoid about their second amendment rights will fight any attempt to regulate firearms at all because, well, it starts you on the slippery slope to the government taking away your guns, and yet when the feds are scooping up data on millions of people for unknown purposes is just Okey-dokey.
I'll bet if they were preparing a database of the guns people own you'd be pretty upset about it. How do you know they aren't doing that?
The ridiculous number of commercials on broadcast TV (and cable-only channels) is another big reason for cord-cutting. You can subscribe to commercial free services on-line (Hulu, Netflix, etc.) without having to also pay for 150 channels of commercials you don't have any interest in.
I know it may be difficult for a "might-makes-right" mentality to grasp, but here's the thing: numbers may make them the mainstream, but it doesn't make them less kooky. Intelligence, like beauty, is a rare thing among humans, especially American humans. Our "democracy" is controlled by the mainstream of nitwits, kooks, etc. The Electoral College failed to fulfill its purpose in the last election. That's how we ended up where we are now (that and the help of the Russians).
I predict that the hipster-doofusses who are reviving vinyl records (you know, neck beards and man-buns) will eventually catch on to AM radio and it, too, will become a thing again - for a little while, until they discover CDs and FM radio...
crap that is broadcast on it all day, every day. Right wing political rants, conspiracy theorists, and religious kooks have taken over all the space between the baseball games. Every station broadcasts continuous running advertisements interrupted occasionally by "programming", which is itself mostly advertising. We have a lot of stupid people in the US, but how even they listen to that for more than a few minutes at a time?
AM broadcast radio is going the same way SW radio (also AM broadcast, except at higher frequencies) did back in the 80s and 90s. The big players give up on it, then the religious nuts take over, then it fades into obscurity.
I'm convinced they have two marketing systems (may be more). The first sells the products with full warranty to people with more money than time to shop. The second sells "refurbs" through discount outlets with reduced warranty to cheapskates who don't want to pay full price.
Either that, or they have huge quality control problems and the refurbs really are refurbs. I doubt they could stay in business if their quality was that bad.
the "ribbon" format for menus in Office many years ago. It was dumb back then and it's still dumb.
But who uses a computer to do any work anymore? Computers are media consumption devices, or more correctly, advertising consumption and surveillance/data gathering devices. Who cares where the users think the tabs and chrome should be located?
AI as it is now, and in the future, will serve its wealthy masters. They do not benefit from the rest of us being healthy, happy, or anything else, and will surely turn to us as a food source when and if the time comes.
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Man! Those dudes were right! Next they'll be beaming thoughts into peoples' heads.
I use a 5 YO Lenovo W530 as a replacement for a desktop machine at home. It has a quad core i7, 32 GB of RAM, and 2GB Quadro graphics board built in. I use it for CAD and 3D mesh manipulation, among the usual things. I plug in an external keyboard, 3D mouse, regular mouse, 32" display, and speakers. It literally replaced an aging desktop that had so many fans it sounded like a vacuum cleaner. Now it's quiet, and having a battery is great if there's a power failure. I spent about $350 on the W530 and all the stuff to put in it.
Most (all?) CAD uses only a single core. Fusion 360 will use all available cores, but only for renderings. I think a lot of video editing software will use multiple cores.
I'll buy one for $300 in about 5 years!
for flat-eartherism.
No, probably not. As Toshiro Mifune once said in one of his many movies, translated to English for wider appreciation of the wisdom of his words: "the only cure for stupidity is death".
If it doesn't put the coal miners back to work it isn't going to go anywhere. #MAGA!
Japan doesn't have self-driving commuter trains. They're going to put self driving cars on the road? hmmmm.
I asked a friend why they still have drivers on trains and he said he thinks it is because they have to have someone to blame if there's an accident.
But seriously, I don't answer calls from unknown sources. They get sent to voicemail. Next, I check the voice mail and if it is indeed someone I never want to talk to I add the number to my contact called Shit List. There are about 300 numbers in that contact. I chose an excellent image to use for the "Shit List" caller: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9f/6...
Back before I became an engineer years ago, I used to read the engineering magazines annual salary surveys. It always looked awesome. Then I looked at who they surveyed- engineering managers, who had incentive to make it sound like engineering pay was much higher than it actually was.
Who in their right mind would survey parents about what their teen-age kids are doing?
If you're going to survey people about something, you have to survey the people you want to know about. Not their parents.
Duh!
What sort of "like, really smart... and very stable genius" manages to lose money in the gambling industry?
The "internet" is stupid.
What's next, an optical illusion that looks like a vase, no, wait, it looks like two faces, no wait, it looks like a vase...
#deathto game and be hated in the nation.
writing and reading about Bitcoin...
all the misuses of there, their, they're, your, you're, its, it's, seem, seam, peak, peek, then, then, loose, lose, etc., I'm all for it.
had google write an email in one of my gmail accounts to my other gmail account, and then have google write the response in that account?
How do you know what they're doing with that data? Maybe they're creating a list of all your "crimes" committed via the internet (porn surfing, trolling, downloading copyrighted stuff) and everyone you communicate with by phone, and preparing warrants on millions of people, and one night, when you're sleeping comfortably, they'll kick in your door, scare your children, and take you away to a re-education camp with all the other degenerates they scoop up in the same operation.
It seems odd that people who are so paranoid about their second amendment rights will fight any attempt to regulate firearms at all because, well, it starts you on the slippery slope to the government taking away your guns, and yet when the feds are scooping up data on millions of people for unknown purposes is just Okey-dokey.
I'll bet if they were preparing a database of the guns people own you'd be pretty upset about it. How do you know they aren't doing that?
Does this rise to the level of tyranny that all the 2nd amendment proponents say they need their guns to protect themselves from?
of the attacker and turn it on."
And if it doesn't work, you've stopped that truck full of explosives and it only cost one soldier and a truck full of worthless electronics...
The ridiculous number of commercials on broadcast TV (and cable-only channels) is another big reason for cord-cutting. You can subscribe to commercial free services on-line (Hulu, Netflix, etc.) without having to also pay for 150 channels of commercials you don't have any interest in.
I know it may be difficult for a "might-makes-right" mentality to grasp, but here's the thing: numbers may make them the mainstream, but it doesn't make them less kooky. Intelligence, like beauty, is a rare thing among humans, especially American humans. Our "democracy" is controlled by the mainstream of nitwits, kooks, etc. The Electoral College failed to fulfill its purpose in the last election. That's how we ended up where we are now (that and the help of the Russians).
I predict that the hipster-doofusses who are reviving vinyl records (you know, neck beards and man-buns) will eventually catch on to AM radio and it, too, will become a thing again - for a little while, until they discover CDs and FM radio...
crap that is broadcast on it all day, every day. Right wing political rants, conspiracy theorists, and religious kooks have taken over all the space between the baseball games. Every station broadcasts continuous running advertisements interrupted occasionally by "programming", which is itself mostly advertising. We have a lot of stupid people in the US, but how even they listen to that for more than a few minutes at a time?
AM broadcast radio is going the same way SW radio (also AM broadcast, except at higher frequencies) did back in the 80s and 90s. The big players give up on it, then the religious nuts take over, then it fades into obscurity.
I'm convinced they have two marketing systems (may be more). The first sells the products with full warranty to people with more money than time to shop. The second sells "refurbs" through discount outlets with reduced warranty to cheapskates who don't want to pay full price.
Either that, or they have huge quality control problems and the refurbs really are refurbs. I doubt they could stay in business if their quality was that bad.
Zackly dat!
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the "ribbon" format for menus in Office many years ago. It was dumb back then and it's still dumb.
But who uses a computer to do any work anymore? Computers are media consumption devices, or more correctly, advertising consumption and surveillance/data gathering devices. Who cares where the users think the tabs and chrome should be located?
AI as it is now, and in the future, will serve its wealthy masters. They do not benefit from the rest of us being healthy, happy, or anything else, and will surely turn to us as a food source when and if the time comes.