Just last week we were talking about why people don't update their programs. Changing the UI was a biggie. LibreOffice Draw changed it's UI a year or two back, took me an hour or two to figure out where things went and, when I did, I preferred the old UI.
Ditto ribbons. I've been using them for several years now, still don't like them, much prefer the older way of doing things.
LibreOffice does what I need it to do, as they're changing the UI again I doubt I'll ever update it again.
The fact is that accepting these studies encourages them to murder more people for their organs, which is something we know they are doing [wikipedia.org].
The fact is, they're going to do it anyway. The Chinese place a much lower value on human life than we do. We can ignore their papers, but all that does is let scientists around the world without our ethics to learn stuff much faster than we will.
Larry Niven had the concept of, shit, don't remember what he called it. But 3 speeding tickets made you an organ donor. The Chinese aren't too far from that.
Remember, it wasn't that long ago that they not only shot people in the back of the head, but they billed the family for the price of the bullet (I should check Snopes on that....)
Once he's finally booted out of the FCC he's got several cushy jobs with lots more $$$ at any of the several companies he's helped. The consumer once again is fucked, over and over and over, while the fucker is well compensated.
Last month the battery started to crap out, now takes 5-8 hours to charge, but 90 minutes to drain. Took it to a repair shop yesterday, for the price they quoted I can buy a new one for another $20.
Last 2 cellphones I bought were because the existing batteries died.
I'd love to see a law that requires electronics to have an easily replaced battery. Spending $160 for a new device, as opposed to $30 for a battery, is stuck on stupid.
I have a sister that is 100% into facebook (yeah, fuck you spell check, I'm not gonna capitalize that). She posts family pictures, tagging me, even after I've asked her not to. She's also sent her DNA to at least one company, and I suspect all of them.
The problem? Dad had 14 siblings, mom 8. What are the odds one of my relatives is an asshole? I'm guessing pretty much 100%. So now I have the FBI looking at me. Never mind the worst thing I've done is 80 MPH on the freeway.
The real problem? Suppose one of my relatives is a major asshat, my DNA matches enough that I get arrested. Now I have to spend hundreds of thousands for a lawyer, only to hopefully get the case tossed out of court. Can I sue the FBI for my legal fees? Yeah, you haven't been paying attention. I'm fucked, if lucky I have the money for the lawyer. Otherwise I could be on trial for shit I never did against a government agency with no budget.
You mean the media that got Trump elected? That "democratic left"?
What got Trump elected can be summed up in one word that I don't think I even need to mention, but will anyway:
Hillary
When you start a presidential campaign with 1/3 of the country thinking you should be in prison instead of on the campaign trail then Bad Things Happen (tm).
Before I retired a few years ago I wrote drivers for cameras that went into cellphones. These things were hideously complex, and a minor tweak to some obscure "sets the delta alpha gamma anion setting" could have dramatic effects on the picture quality.
None of the 100+ registers had anything to do with networking. They weren't even directly connected to anything outside the 8-16 bit interface used to talk to them. I can't think of any way these sensors could be used for spying, unless they had a hidden, built in wireless link built in. Which I strongly doubt, as the prices between cameras was pennies per unit.
That said, if a single chip had a camera and network interface (which I never ran across) then there could be issues.
Back then we called them "beer goggles". As in, "that chick is bufugly" went to "hmm, I'll go for it" in the span of a few hours. I suspect women did the same in reverse, but as I have a dick and failed big time at the game I'm, um, shit I just said I've been a loser all my life. We'll just stop posting here. Seriously, STFU. Do not drink that drink.
For once I'm (kinda?) glad my blood pressure meds don't let me ", um, get a hard on? No, die sooner? Fukifino. Oh, question. Die or get laid pretty much depends on who might get naked with me. And if I'd want to get naked with any woman who would get naked with me.
Don't blame the company, blame the politicians who carve out these arcane exemptions to benefit their campaign contributors. If one company can use the exemption then it won't be long before others follow suit.
3 guys sleeping on their desks, 1 desk empty. One guy says "See? I told you Fred was non-essential".
That's pretty much how I view these shutdowns. The asshats responsible not only get paid on time, with their salon, jacuzzi, steam room, and health benefits. They don't look around afterwards and say "Hmm, these people are non-essential, we got ourselves a budget issue . Mebbe we can do without half of them and save some money."
I bought a Samsung TV 6 weeks ago. This fucker serves me ads every time I change inputs to TV, and when I use the program guide. Really? I don't remember reading that you would serve me ads when I signed the paperwork required to bring this thing home.
The UI sucks ass. Looking at my firewall logs this fucker is like a needy 12 year old girl on the phone to her 30 y/o "boyfriend"
I suspect that by the end of the week I'll be taking my TV off the internet. The plusses I get with having the smart part being smart are way outweighed by the minuses I get having this PoS connected to my network.
tl;dr: don't buy a Samsung TV. It spies on you, shows ads all the time, and on top of that the UI is the worst PoS I've seen since the 90's, when companies rushed to slam GUIs on top of their command line tools.
From the article, some 71 year old dude is saying "it makes him experience new destinations".
I'm 60. Smartphones came out 11-12 years ago. If you're 71 years old and need a smartphone to experience new destinations then I'm guessing you have bigger issues in your life than lack of a phone.
What gets me are the surveys "do you sleep with your smart phone". Guess what? Soon as they were available I got a wireless phone. Think '82 or so. I slept with that phone. Fast forward 35 years, wireless handset got replaced with a smartphone. Guess what? I slept with my smartphone for years. Then dad died, and I realized I was the 3rd or 4th person anyone would call in case of emergency. Now my cellphone charges in the living room while I sleep with my cat in the bedroom.
I bought a Samsung TV last month and I gotta say the UI, to be kind, sucks. 2 examples:
1) Every time you change the input to TV, or use the guide, the bottom half of the screen turns into an ad. Very annoying.
2) You can set an HDMI input to game mode to cut down on lag. But when I turn off my PS4 that HDMI input goes away. It comes back when you turn the PS4 on, but so much for switching inputs before turning on the PS4. That's annoying. What is frustrating is, when the HDMI comes back it forgets it's a game system. So you have to reconfigure it. Every. Fucking. Time.
I could go on and on but just take my word for it, I think I like Congress more than this TV's UI. Had I known I'd have never bought this TV.
All those gases released get bottled up and sent to Mar a Lago. Preferably upwind.
I hate to say, I agree with a lot of what Trump is doing. He's doing it badly, and fucking up left and right, but he's at least taking a stand and forcing everyone else to deal with it. He is pretty much trying to force Congress to address issues that have been festering for decades.
I live in San Diego. Every year we get sewage from Tijuana. Mexico, well, doesn't give a shit doesn't apply here but you know what I mean. Brian Bilbray used a bulldozer 30-40 years ago to re-route that sewage back to Mexico. He got sued and went on to Congress. The problem remains, as seen by the rain 3 days ago. The current mayor is suing, um, someone, such that even if he wins nothing will happen.
Letter in today's newspaper said Tijuana sewage has been a problem since before I was born (1955 I think it was).
Not a Trump fan, but sometimes you just have to say "Fuck you, this has been going on long enough, so fuck you"
/ Immigration? He's got that covered // The wall? Stupid idea but, from where I sit, he looks better than Schumer/Pelosi /// The Schumer/Pelosi alternative? crickets
Slashies don't communicate my distaste for realizing I agree a lot with Trump, albeit I hate his methods.
1) When I hike. Plug my earbuds into my phone and I'm good for hours, long as the phone is charged. No headphone jack means $100-200 for new earbuds that sound as good as what I have now
2) At home. Plug my wireless headphones into my phone and I'm good till I have to take out the trash, or whatever. No headphone jack means I spend $100-$300 for new wireless headphones. Yeah this sounds stupid. Thing is, my wireless headphones sound better than my current sound system, and I wear them for 2-3 hours a day
In other words, take away my headphone jack and you can add a few hundred $$$ to the price of your phone for me to get back to normal.
OTOH:
1) My hikes could be from the basement to Mom's fridge. I never really said.
2) It's a basement, mom's drunk. watevs
3 hours to copy stuff from the disc to the PS4. Really? At least I can download Fortnight. 5 hour download? Really? And What's This Feature? It's downloading at 20% the speed of the internet I'm paying for.
It's effin Christmas, I got a toy, I want to play with my toy. dafuq?
Tune in tomorrow, when I tell you how much I like BOPS4 (not expecting much, didn't like 1 and 2, skipped 3), and Fortnight (not expecting much, players with 1+ year experience will use n00bs like me to rank up experience points.
PS: BOPS4 downloaded, now is downloading an 8 hour patch. What happened to the days when you ran off to 7/11 to buy batteries?
PPS: Tune in tomorrow, when I actually get to play my Christmas gift.
PPPS: I've done the math, both the BOPS4 and Fortnight download combined are at 20% of what I'm paying for.
Back in the early/mid 80's my company bought 4 DEC PC clones for something like $3500 each (PC at the time were about $2k, depending on options). They sucked on multiple levels. The one I remember is the OS (MS-DOS) didn't come with the format program, you had to buy formatted discs from DEC for like $2 each. Or get one of your engineers to format a $0.25 disc at home and bring it in. Whatever. The managers that got them soon gave them to senior engineers, who soon gave them to team leads, who soon realized nobody wanted them. At that point every engineer worth a damn had their own PC at home that cost half as much and was twice as powerful.
Company ended up donating them to a charity or school, and deducted the full purchase price from their taxes. How do I know this? The president of the company, in a company wide meeting, said so.
So $BigNetwork isn't responsible if they run an ad along the lines of "Jews must be eradicated" because they didn't create the ad?
I understand I'm getting old and it's getting harder and harder to monitor this stuff. But seems to me if you use your resources to broadcast such blatant bullshit then the resulting avalanche of crap needs to, and will, fall on your head.
Oh, the company that bought the ad time went broke yesterday? Guess what. They planned to do that. You chose to take their money and run the ad. So sad, too bad. Except not sad at all. Fuck you.
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Just last week we were talking about why people don't update their programs. Changing the UI was a biggie. LibreOffice Draw changed it's UI a year or two back, took me an hour or two to figure out where things went and, when I did, I preferred the old UI.
Ditto ribbons. I've been using them for several years now, still don't like them, much prefer the older way of doing things.
LibreOffice does what I need it to do, as they're changing the UI again I doubt I'll ever update it again.
The fact is that accepting these studies encourages them to murder more people for their organs, which is something we know they are doing [wikipedia.org].
The fact is, they're going to do it anyway. The Chinese place a much lower value on human life than we do. We can ignore their papers, but all that does is let scientists around the world without our ethics to learn stuff much faster than we will.
Larry Niven had the concept of, shit, don't remember what he called it. But 3 speeding tickets made you an organ donor. The Chinese aren't too far from that.
Remember, it wasn't that long ago that they not only shot people in the back of the head, but they billed the family for the price of the bullet (I should check Snopes on that....)
Once he's finally booted out of the FCC he's got several cushy jobs with lots more $$$ at any of the several companies he's helped. The consumer once again is fucked, over and over and over, while the fucker is well compensated.
Last month the battery started to crap out, now takes 5-8 hours to charge, but 90 minutes to drain. Took it to a repair shop yesterday, for the price they quoted I can buy a new one for another $20.
Last 2 cellphones I bought were because the existing batteries died.
I'd love to see a law that requires electronics to have an easily replaced battery. Spending $160 for a new device, as opposed to $30 for a battery, is stuck on stupid.
I have a sister that is 100% into facebook (yeah, fuck you spell check, I'm not gonna capitalize that). She posts family pictures, tagging me, even after I've asked her not to. She's also sent her DNA to at least one company, and I suspect all of them.
The problem? Dad had 14 siblings, mom 8. What are the odds one of my relatives is an asshole? I'm guessing pretty much 100%. So now I have the FBI looking at me. Never mind the worst thing I've done is 80 MPH on the freeway.
The real problem? Suppose one of my relatives is a major asshat, my DNA matches enough that I get arrested. Now I have to spend hundreds of thousands for a lawyer, only to hopefully get the case tossed out of court. Can I sue the FBI for my legal fees? Yeah, you haven't been paying attention. I'm fucked, if lucky I have the money for the lawyer. Otherwise I could be on trial for shit I never did against a government agency with no budget.
Still not gonna let you vape in a meeting though. It's your disgusting habit, not mine. Go away.
You mean the media that got Trump elected? That "democratic left"?
What got Trump elected can be summed up in one word that I don't think I even need to mention, but will anyway:
Hillary
When you start a presidential campaign with 1/3 of the country thinking you should be in prison instead of on the campaign trail then Bad Things Happen (tm).
Before I retired a few years ago I wrote drivers for cameras that went into cellphones. These things were hideously complex, and a minor tweak to some obscure "sets the delta alpha gamma anion setting" could have dramatic effects on the picture quality.
None of the 100+ registers had anything to do with networking. They weren't even directly connected to anything outside the 8-16 bit interface used to talk to them. I can't think of any way these sensors could be used for spying, unless they had a hidden, built in wireless link built in. Which I strongly doubt, as the prices between cameras was pennies per unit.
That said, if a single chip had a camera and network interface (which I never ran across) then there could be issues.
Mexicans like whatever you call what they like (I do Zunba twice a week, music is a lot like I hear when I head into Mexico)
Americans like pop or heavy metal
Canadians like, hell, I have no idea what they like. And I even know a Canadian!
Back then we called them "beer goggles". As in, "that chick is bufugly" went to "hmm, I'll go for it" in the span of a few hours. I suspect women did the same in reverse, but as I have a dick and failed big time at the game I'm, um, shit I just said I've been a loser all my life. We'll just stop posting here. Seriously, STFU. Do not drink that drink.
For once I'm (kinda?) glad my blood pressure meds don't let me ", um, get a hard on? No, die sooner? Fukifino. Oh, question. Die or get laid pretty much depends on who might get naked with me. And if I'd want to get naked with any woman who would get naked with me.
They'll just bury it somewhere in the EULA, which nobody reads, and carry on as usual.
So, you finally got your shit together just as the row of outhouses you rely on get bulldozed?
Someone is gonna get a real surprise, RSN.
Apple, who has usually had (IMHO) second rate hardware for over inflated prices, but they care about user's privacy. Or everyone else.
You can come up with new software algorithms, and new ways to arrange transistors, without making those transisters smaller and smaller.
Someone is so focused on that tree they're about to walk into that they don't notice they're in a forest.
Don't blame the company, blame the politicians who carve out these arcane exemptions to benefit their campaign contributors. If one company can use the exemption then it won't be long before others follow suit.
3 guys sleeping on their desks, 1 desk empty. One guy says "See? I told you Fred was non-essential".
That's pretty much how I view these shutdowns. The asshats responsible not only get paid on time, with their salon, jacuzzi, steam room, and health benefits. They don't look around afterwards and say "Hmm, these people are non-essential, we got ourselves a budget issue . Mebbe we can do without half of them and save some money."
I bought a Samsung TV 6 weeks ago. This fucker serves me ads every time I change inputs to TV, and when I use the program guide. Really? I don't remember reading that you would serve me ads when I signed the paperwork required to bring this thing home.
The UI sucks ass. Looking at my firewall logs this fucker is like a needy 12 year old girl on the phone to her 30 y/o "boyfriend"
I suspect that by the end of the week I'll be taking my TV off the internet. The plusses I get with having the smart part being smart are way outweighed by the minuses I get having this PoS connected to my network.
tl;dr: don't buy a Samsung TV. It spies on you, shows ads all the time, and on top of that the UI is the worst PoS I've seen since the 90's, when companies rushed to slam GUIs on top of their command line tools.
From the article, some 71 year old dude is saying "it makes him experience new destinations".
I'm 60. Smartphones came out 11-12 years ago. If you're 71 years old and need a smartphone to experience new destinations then I'm guessing you have bigger issues in your life than lack of a phone.
What gets me are the surveys "do you sleep with your smart phone". Guess what? Soon as they were available I got a wireless phone. Think '82 or so. I slept with that phone. Fast forward 35 years, wireless handset got replaced with a smartphone. Guess what? I slept with my smartphone for years. Then dad died, and I realized I was the 3rd or 4th person anyone would call in case of emergency. Now my cellphone charges in the living room while I sleep with my cat in the bedroom.
I bought a Samsung TV last month and I gotta say the UI, to be kind, sucks. 2 examples:
1) Every time you change the input to TV, or use the guide, the bottom half of the screen turns into an ad. Very annoying.
2) You can set an HDMI input to game mode to cut down on lag. But when I turn off my PS4 that HDMI input goes away. It comes back when you turn the PS4 on, but so much for switching inputs before turning on the PS4. That's annoying. What is frustrating is, when the HDMI comes back it forgets it's a game system. So you have to reconfigure it. Every. Fucking. Time.
I could go on and on but just take my word for it, I think I like Congress more than this TV's UI. Had I known I'd have never bought this TV.
All those gases released get bottled up and sent to Mar a Lago. Preferably upwind.
// The wall? Stupid idea but, from where I sit, he looks better than Schumer/Pelosi
/// The Schumer/Pelosi alternative? crickets
I hate to say, I agree with a lot of what Trump is doing. He's doing it badly, and fucking up left and right, but he's at least taking a stand and forcing everyone else to deal with it. He is pretty much trying to force Congress to address issues that have been festering for decades.
I live in San Diego. Every year we get sewage from Tijuana. Mexico, well, doesn't give a shit doesn't apply here but you know what I mean. Brian Bilbray used a bulldozer 30-40 years ago to re-route that sewage back to Mexico. He got sued and went on to Congress. The problem remains, as seen by the rain 3 days ago. The current mayor is suing, um, someone, such that even if he wins nothing will happen.
Letter in today's newspaper said Tijuana sewage has been a problem since before I was born (1955 I think it was).
Not a Trump fan, but sometimes you just have to say "Fuck you, this has been going on long enough, so fuck you"
/ Immigration? He's got that covered
Slashies don't communicate my distaste for realizing I agree a lot with Trump, albeit I hate his methods.
1) When I hike. Plug my earbuds into my phone and I'm good for hours, long as the phone is charged. No headphone jack means $100-200 for new earbuds that sound as good as what I have now
2) At home. Plug my wireless headphones into my phone and I'm good till I have to take out the trash, or whatever. No headphone jack means I spend $100-$300 for new wireless headphones. Yeah this sounds stupid. Thing is, my wireless headphones sound better than my current sound system, and I wear them for 2-3 hours a day
In other words, take away my headphone jack and you can add a few hundred $$$ to the price of your phone for me to get back to normal.
OTOH:
1) My hikes could be from the basement to Mom's fridge. I never really said.
2) It's a basement, mom's drunk. watevs
3 hours to copy stuff from the disc to the PS4. Really? At least I can download Fortnight. 5 hour download? Really? And What's This Feature? It's downloading at 20% the speed of the internet I'm paying for.
It's effin Christmas, I got a toy, I want to play with my toy. dafuq?
Tune in tomorrow, when I tell you how much I like BOPS4 (not expecting much, didn't like 1 and 2, skipped 3), and Fortnight (not expecting much, players with 1+ year experience will use n00bs like me to rank up experience points.
PS: BOPS4 downloaded, now is downloading an 8 hour patch. What happened to the days when you ran off to 7/11 to buy batteries?
PPS: Tune in tomorrow, when I actually get to play my Christmas gift.
PPPS: I've done the math, both the BOPS4 and Fortnight download combined are at 20% of what I'm paying for.
I was 10 years old at the time, some 4-5 years later the 2 most popular posters were Earthrise and Dark Side of the Moon.
Back in the early/mid 80's my company bought 4 DEC PC clones for something like $3500 each (PC at the time were about $2k, depending on options). They sucked on multiple levels. The one I remember is the OS (MS-DOS) didn't come with the format program, you had to buy formatted discs from DEC for like $2 each. Or get one of your engineers to format a $0.25 disc at home and bring it in. Whatever. The managers that got them soon gave them to senior engineers, who soon gave them to team leads, who soon realized nobody wanted them. At that point every engineer worth a damn had their own PC at home that cost half as much and was twice as powerful.
Company ended up donating them to a charity or school, and deducted the full purchase price from their taxes. How do I know this? The president of the company, in a company wide meeting, said so.
So $BigNetwork isn't responsible if they run an ad along the lines of "Jews must be eradicated" because they didn't create the ad?
I understand I'm getting old and it's getting harder and harder to monitor this stuff. But seems to me if you use your resources to broadcast such blatant bullshit then the resulting avalanche of crap needs to, and will, fall on your head.
Oh, the company that bought the ad time went broke yesterday? Guess what. They planned to do that. You chose to take their money and run the ad. So sad, too bad. Except not sad at all. Fuck you.