No need to convince me, I believe in the EU. The advantages clearly outweigh the disadvantages. But that doesn't mean we have to move the whole bureaucratic apparatus regularly to please the French.
For the record, the only reason I'd touch the Daily Mail is to burn it. I'm also not anti-EU. Every time I look at the other side of the Atlantic, I'm glad we organized a bureaucratic organism that keeps the worst (rampant anti-consumer practices, TSA and associated backscatter X-ray - emphasis on the X-ray part - scanners, etc.) out of this bloc.
However, I can recognize that they overdo it at times. I'm not familiar with the specific standards involved, but it's perfectly possible that a somewhat poorly-worded document can cause some issues here and there where there are none. I'd say it's a small price to pay for protection against the really nasty stuff.
Full of shit? The current Mac Pro is indeed pretty much EOL.
It hasn't been updated for years (except perhaps a new graphics card or two), so it's still using Nehalem processors. Pretty much everyone else is using Sandy Bridge E and up by now.
We sent our most bureaucratic bureaucrats to a single location (for bonus waste we even move them around regularly!), hoping that they'd start looking at stuff and figuring out ways to make our part of the world safer/more attractive/friendlier/etc.
Sometimes it works. Sometimes they overdo it a bit. Sometimes they act like the true bureaucrats they are.
Actually, plenty of laptops have good 1080p screens these days. Sony Vaio S, newer, high-end Asus Zenbooks, Samsung Smart PC Pro (a.k.a. Series 7), and more, I'm sure.
Since they'll need a screen to horrify people with Lotus Notes, I suggest a hypothetical finest Killbot be equipped with either Microsoft Bob or Clippy.
"I see you're about to be killed by a robot. Do you want to read about Asimov's Laws of Robotics?"
Metro is being shoved in our faces, even on the desktop. Metro apps are supposed to be the new de facto standard for Windows.
Yet, it seems that nobody ever thought about keeping the desktop working as it always did, but better. No, they needed gratuitous changes, like removing the start button (Why? It's still there, serves a similar purpose and doesn't bother anyone), replacing the network pop-ups with a metro panel, moving the power options to the same stupid metro panel...
Metro isn't the problem. The fact that it bleeds into the desktop is.
Dunno about iOS, Android or Windows Phone, but MeeGo has a very effective battery-saving mode, which dims the screen, does not use data connections unless you manually start them and automatically disengages once you start charging it. It won't be as power-efficient as a dumbphone, but it does have a much larger battery.
If your OS of choice isn't as smart, if you want to save your battery, manually shut off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC (may not apply), 3G/4G data and dim the screen.
Considering most phones these days place less emphasis on actual calls than on including millions of features, it's probably more accurate to call them devices.
Windows is very much alive. Plenty of horrible Windows versions before 8. Office is alive and well, and will be for the foreseeable future. Zune doesn't even exist anymore. Windows Phone is suffering mainly from a lack of marketing and some absurd decisions by manufacturers, at least in my region.
That only works if you stay and impose your system. That's politically incorrect these days, so you go in, get people killed, and at the end of it all accomplish little to nothing.
Let me rephrase then: The thing usually called communism, which should be called something along the lines of Leninism, tends to be aggressive towards you
It would be kinda like being charged with conspiracy to commit a felony here for talking with some friends about how you go about robbing a bank; in a purely hypothetical manor.
I can understand a safe, even a safe room, but why would need a bank in your manor? The reason it's hypothetical is because anyone with the cash to have a bank built in their manor has enough cash to want to keep people away, and, again, enough cash to effectively do so.
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No need to convince me, I believe in the EU. The advantages clearly outweigh the disadvantages. But that doesn't mean we have to move the whole bureaucratic apparatus regularly to please the French.
For the record, the only reason I'd touch the Daily Mail is to burn it. I'm also not anti-EU. Every time I look at the other side of the Atlantic, I'm glad we organized a bureaucratic organism that keeps the worst (rampant anti-consumer practices, TSA and associated backscatter X-ray - emphasis on the X-ray part - scanners, etc.) out of this bloc.
However, I can recognize that they overdo it at times. I'm not familiar with the specific standards involved, but it's perfectly possible that a somewhat poorly-worded document can cause some issues here and there where there are none. I'd say it's a small price to pay for protection against the really nasty stuff.
Full of shit? The current Mac Pro is indeed pretty much EOL.
It hasn't been updated for years (except perhaps a new graphics card or two), so it's still using Nehalem processors. Pretty much everyone else is using Sandy Bridge E and up by now.
This is the EU.
We sent our most bureaucratic bureaucrats to a single location (for bonus waste we even move them around regularly!), hoping that they'd start looking at stuff and figuring out ways to make our part of the world safer/more attractive/friendlier/etc.
Sometimes it works. Sometimes they overdo it a bit. Sometimes they act like the true bureaucrats they are.
I'd say this time they overdid it a bit.
I'll admit it was. For some reason, I forgot to add meaningful details to what I wrote, hence the confusion.
You mentioned that you need a 17" monster if you want a 1080p screen. I mentioned 3 different lines, none of which is 17".
Or: Buy the game and grab a pirate version that allows you to play without their Origin crap.
Actually, plenty of laptops have good 1080p screens these days. Sony Vaio S, newer, high-end Asus Zenbooks, Samsung Smart PC Pro (a.k.a. Series 7), and more, I'm sure.
Wouldn't it be funny to stick the guy in a cage and put his cage inside an ape's cage?
A Zoo within a Zoo. Bonus points if we get the apes to take care of him.
I hope Ahmadinejad enjoyed his trip.
Since they'll need a screen to horrify people with Lotus Notes, I suggest a hypothetical finest Killbot be equipped with either Microsoft Bob or Clippy.
"I see you're about to be killed by a robot. Do you want to read about Asimov's Laws of Robotics?"
That's nice, but there's a problem:
Metro is being shoved in our faces, even on the desktop. Metro apps are supposed to be the new de facto standard for Windows.
Yet, it seems that nobody ever thought about keeping the desktop working as it always did, but better. No, they needed gratuitous changes, like removing the start button (Why? It's still there, serves a similar purpose and doesn't bother anyone), replacing the network pop-ups with a metro panel, moving the power options to the same stupid metro panel...
Metro isn't the problem. The fact that it bleeds into the desktop is.
Dunno about iOS, Android or Windows Phone, but MeeGo has a very effective battery-saving mode, which dims the screen, does not use data connections unless you manually start them and automatically disengages once you start charging it. It won't be as power-efficient as a dumbphone, but it does have a much larger battery.
If your OS of choice isn't as smart, if you want to save your battery, manually shut off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC (may not apply), 3G/4G data and dim the screen.
Considering most phones these days place less emphasis on actual calls than on including millions of features, it's probably more accurate to call them devices.
It'd probably be enough for a large portion of our galaxy, too.
That just halves the typical usability time frame for your average Windows 95 installation.
Why's not the question. It's where. Where the hell would they get the money to buy any division of microsoft?
Windows is very much alive. Plenty of horrible Windows versions before 8. Office is alive and well, and will be for the foreseeable future. Zune doesn't even exist anymore. Windows Phone is suffering mainly from a lack of marketing and some absurd decisions by manufacturers, at least in my region.
That only works if you stay and impose your system. That's politically incorrect these days, so you go in, get people killed, and at the end of it all accomplish little to nothing.
Let me rephrase then: The thing usually called communism, which should be called something along the lines of Leninism, tends to be aggressive towards you
Considering that communism in practice is restricted to Leninism and below, I'd say it's irrelevant if Marx wanted democracy or not.
What nexus devices have removable covers? The Nexus 7 doesn't, dunno about the others though.
It would be kinda like being charged with conspiracy to commit a felony here for talking with some friends about how you go about robbing a bank; in a purely hypothetical manor.
I can understand a safe, even a safe room, but why would need a bank in your manor? The reason it's hypothetical is because anyone with the cash to have a bank built in their manor has enough cash to want to keep people away, and, again, enough cash to effectively do so.
communism tends to be aggressive towards you.
your average monarchist totalitarian couldn't care less, as long as he lives as king and you don't piss him off.
Ok, as long as you removed the damned gas from that list.