Also your liver and stomach would be subject to DMCS violations since they are consuming/breaking "media" and I have yet to see a liver paying royalties. They can encode the latest single of justing beaver in your rice! and You'll be fined by the tablespoon.
On related news, an outbreak of fainting have been reported in Disney Corp, MAFIAA and ABA headquarters.
Yes I was more on the line of comparing the Thinkpad as a brand that never really put a lot of emphasis on branding it's products compared to another brand that really depends on branding and price strategy. Quality is similar for both brands, but I have better experiences with Thinkpads than Apple laptops, I have a thinkpad from 2001 still running while my iBook is on a box gathering dust because proprietary shit.
Mod up, please open the shop and shipping to developing nations that don't bite on the fad of "appliance computers". I have payed up to 50% more in shipping intermediaries for getting parts only available in your shop, parts that I can't possibly find locally.
When trolls get insightful and informative you know your user base is stagnated.
The article is flamebait and retarded, seems like wishful thinking in an alternate reality coming from Cupertino and the likes. Newegg might as well sell beagle boards, DIY laptops and related accessories. I bet they profit more on selling tablets than "OC-ePEn00rz GTZXX over9000 SX - Ultimate XIII Green Brutal1ty" videocards.
The whole world it's full of such craziness/weird/decadent/mindfuckstuff that you mention, is not specific to Brazil only. Anyway foreigners should not worry if they stick to the plan and don't stray to a bad neighborhood or trust a random friendly guy, same shit that you should do when you travel to a developed nation from South America.
Probably the only nations where you can walk freely are Canada and those super friendly Nordic countries, that is if you're white and don't get yourself in the middle of a NeoNazi gathering. Anyway it's easier to spot a NeoNazi group than a random kid with an UZI about to go batshit insane in the middle of a market.
Can the government stop the import of certain brand just because the competition is moving in? is that legal? Obviously Samsung leveraged or bribed to get that but how do Argentinian government justify such movement? It was my understanding that Argentinians love Apple.
Because nobody else in south America would like an iPad, that fad is strong around here and almost every country have trade agreements with Brazil.
China > USA > $country Brazil > $country
Also south America seems like the only continent thats not having financial problems at the scale of those in USA and EU. Probably the product curve reached the top in developing nations.
tl;dr: we milked people here first, now move on to milk anyone able to pay for our stuff there
Working in marketing for some time, even if I'm an advertising dude (read liberal arts kind of weasel) shields you against the marketing poison. That said, I was a ragging Mac fan by the time Jobs returned but I moved on when they started to control freak everything.
I do it mostly because sometimes I would like Google to track what I'm doing in certain websites, mostly related to my work, that way I get relevant Ads when visiting some blogs or open source developers, If i get to use some open source I usually click on an ad of the website as a way of supporting them. I have actually found nice services or people clicking random Ads.
My private FF sessions reside in bitlockered thumb drives shielded by every script blocker available, I do it from some laptop trough TOR, on some proxies I have installed in lousy maintained cybercafes. I don't do anything illegal but I'm sometimes commissioned to look after sensible information related to political issues or infosec. I don't have to do all this shit when browsing Know your meme, it's a waste of time.
I think he was talking about the versatility that gives working in x86 and having a proper desktop ready to be tweaked the way you need it, is not about cpu achitectures, it's about i/o: having specialized peripherals, grunt power and options for the output. I'm in the same boat as him as I studied Advertising because I have always loved brands and the design itself of a logo and such. But when I was teenager and I got my PC I started to tweak it to the way I need it. Soon I was the PC guy of my neighborhood, even before I started the college and did lot of money then, guess how, fixing the same x86 borked windows ME, making data recoveries and selling parts. I probably have more money thanks to the hackability and the x86-CLONE idiosyncrasies than my marketspeak and design skills.
In a world where everyone have tablets you can't simply make the things he or I did, theres less motivation to learn and do since you're just a consumer of information not a generator because it's really a pain to force a tablet to do something thats not meant to be done tapping and pinching and flicking stuff. If you have 16 you can probably spend the entire afternoon flicking some "photoshops" but in pro/creative/production world one just don't simply ARM into mordor is not like you can't code in a tablet, I coded some really simple Java apps in my old Sonyericsson P900 had the free time - it was a pain - omfg they ran! - meh.
That said I can't wait for our ARM overlords in the desktop so I can finally offer simple, cheap and easy to learn appliances for people that is not going to mess around as we nerds do. When you learn about a new tech trend or related you don't just dismiss it because it does not suit YOUR needs, because probably fits perfectly for the 99.9999999999999999% of the world population, which for all intends and purposes it's more important than you or me or parent.
I'm all for the "one computer per human being" ARM is the way.
How is this news anyway? FB have been doing it since the facebook social plugins took over, more than a year.
How hard is to set up a Firefox session exclusive for the use of this social media stuff? really? its faster and convenient that stacking layers and layers of blockers in the way of your everyday browsing. Or use different browsers for each task. Suckerberg sure it's amused by the time and effort some people put into staying away from facebook tracking WHILE having a facebook account.
Protip: The more you try to hide what you do, the more someone would try to see what you're hiding. You think trackers don't have a special table in the database for "tin_foil_subset"? right.
That would make this people spend more time in FB ergo more page views for Facebook's ads: they don't just annoy you, the do the annoyance/profit ratio calculations and the later probably is 70% of the priority.
I'm sure the universe have the likes of a "Galactic TSA" You think anal probes were exaggerated? You don't want to know what the Galactic TSA can do to protect the universe from the plague.
Which direction are neutrinos traveling in reference to the earth's rotation? Could something like that affect the results? I imagine it's the same (on a very tiny scale) as to run down in electric stairs that are going down. Let's see: http://g.co/maps/m8wky. I'm curious can anyone elaborate?
Also, thats awfully close to the earthquake struck city of L'Aquila, I hope no Italian get this news because if theres a quake there in the following days the CERN scientist risk getting charged with manslaughter:/ for "debunking theories of death scientist that unfolds the wrath of Hades causing earthquakes"
Nobody shed a tear for the dinosaurs. Nobody will shed a tear for USA.
FTFY and I don't agree, theres too many people that profi^h^h^h^supports your own weight and stupidity and nobody (excluding desk communist that think China is actually communism) would like to see China taking your spot.
How... wait, wh.. why people don't understand that rectangles with rounded corners are a cornerstone design element that prevents the user from holding it wrong!? Leave Apple alone!/s
You answered your own question, you're a professor, use the PC to do real and important stuff when it's needed, you're not hip enough == not Apple's target market, and thats why you don't see any added value in it.
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Well, In fact I'm mostly Jew, non practican. ohhh you are one of those that think everyone below the Rio Grande is a nigga, carry on.
Also your liver and stomach would be subject to DMCS violations since they are consuming/breaking "media" and I have yet to see a liver paying royalties. They can encode the latest single of justing beaver in your rice! and You'll be fined by the tablespoon.
On related news, an outbreak of fainting have been reported in Disney Corp, MAFIAA and ABA headquarters.
How dares Amazon to use rectangles and rounded corners anyway.
I can do the same in my hellhole, w/out the redneckery that is.
Well lets just wait for Al Jazeera's take on the events.
Yeah! sure! Al Jazeera is the holy incarnation of independent news.
Try RT
Yes I was more on the line of comparing the Thinkpad as a brand that never really put a lot of emphasis on branding it's products compared to another brand that really depends on branding and price strategy. Quality is similar for both brands, but I have better experiences with Thinkpads than Apple laptops, I have a thinkpad from 2001 still running while my iBook is on a box gathering dust because proprietary shit.
Mod up, please open the shop and shipping to developing nations that don't bite on the fad of "appliance computers". I have payed up to 50% more in shipping intermediaries for getting parts only available in your shop, parts that I can't possibly find locally.
When trolls get insightful and informative you know your user base is stagnated.
The article is flamebait and retarded, seems like wishful thinking in an alternate reality coming from Cupertino and the likes. Newegg might as well sell beagle boards, DIY laptops and related accessories. I bet they profit more on selling tablets than "OC-ePEn00rz GTZXX over9000 SX - Ultimate XIII Green Brutal1ty" videocards.
How you dare to compare "real hardware that don't abuse marketing" to "toys that would be nothing but a toy without marketing" ?
The whole world it's full of such craziness/weird/decadent/mindfuckstuff that you mention, is not specific to Brazil only. Anyway foreigners should not worry if they stick to the plan and don't stray to a bad neighborhood or trust a random friendly guy, same shit that you should do when you travel to a developed nation from South America.
Probably the only nations where you can walk freely are Canada and those super friendly Nordic countries, that is if you're white and don't get yourself in the middle of a NeoNazi gathering. Anyway it's easier to spot a NeoNazi group than a random kid with an UZI about to go batshit insane in the middle of a market.
Can the government stop the import of certain brand just because the competition is moving in? is that legal? Obviously Samsung leveraged or bribed to get that but how do Argentinian government justify such movement? It was my understanding that Argentinians love Apple.
Because nobody else in south America would like an iPad, that fad is strong around here and almost every country have trade agreements with Brazil.
China > USA > $country
Brazil > $country
Also south America seems like the only continent thats not having financial problems at the scale of those in USA and EU. Probably the product curve reached the top in developing nations.
tl;dr: we milked people here first, now move on to milk anyone able to pay for our stuff there
Working in marketing for some time, even if I'm an advertising dude (read liberal arts kind of weasel) shields you against the marketing poison. That said, I was a ragging Mac fan by the time Jobs returned but I moved on when they started to control freak everything.
I do it mostly because sometimes I would like Google to track what I'm doing in certain websites, mostly related to my work, that way I get relevant Ads when visiting some blogs or open source developers, If i get to use some open source I usually click on an ad of the website as a way of supporting them. I have actually found nice services or people clicking random Ads.
My private FF sessions reside in bitlockered thumb drives shielded by every script blocker available, I do it from some laptop trough TOR, on some proxies I have installed in lousy maintained cybercafes. I don't do anything illegal but I'm sometimes commissioned to look after sensible information related to political issues or infosec. I don't have to do all this shit when browsing Know your meme, it's a waste of time.
I think he was talking about the versatility that gives working in x86 and having a proper desktop ready to be tweaked the way you need it, is not about cpu achitectures, it's about i/o: having specialized peripherals, grunt power and options for the output. I'm in the same boat as him as I studied Advertising because I have always loved brands and the design itself of a logo and such. But when I was teenager and I got my PC I started to tweak it to the way I need it. Soon I was the PC guy of my neighborhood, even before I started the college and did lot of money then, guess how, fixing the same x86 borked windows ME, making data recoveries and selling parts. I probably have more money thanks to the hackability and the x86-CLONE idiosyncrasies than my marketspeak and design skills.
In a world where everyone have tablets you can't simply make the things he or I did, theres less motivation to learn and do since you're just a consumer of information not a generator because it's really a pain to force a tablet to do something thats not meant to be done tapping and pinching and flicking stuff. If you have 16 you can probably spend the entire afternoon flicking some "photoshops" but in pro/creative/production world one just don't simply ARM into mordor is not like you can't code in a tablet, I coded some really simple Java apps in my old Sonyericsson P900 had the free time - it was a pain - omfg they ran! - meh.
That said I can't wait for our ARM overlords in the desktop so I can finally offer simple, cheap and easy to learn appliances for people that is not going to mess around as we nerds do. When you learn about a new tech trend or related you don't just dismiss it because it does not suit YOUR needs, because probably fits perfectly for the 99.9999999999999999% of the world population, which for all intends and purposes it's more important than you or me or parent.
I'm all for the "one computer per human being" ARM is the way.
How is this news anyway? FB have been doing it since the facebook social plugins took over, more than a year.
How hard is to set up a Firefox session exclusive for the use of this social media stuff? really? its faster and convenient that stacking layers and layers of blockers in the way of your everyday browsing. Or use different browsers for each task. Suckerberg sure it's amused by the time and effort some people put into staying away from facebook tracking WHILE having a facebook account.
Protip: The more you try to hide what you do, the more someone would try to see what you're hiding. You think trackers don't have a special table in the database for "tin_foil_subset"? right.
and start all kinds of crap over it.
That would make this people spend more time in FB ergo more page views for Facebook's ads: they don't just annoy you, the do the annoyance/profit ratio calculations and the later probably is 70% of the priority.
imagine GOATSE in 5D!
I'm sure the universe have the likes of a "Galactic TSA" You think anal probes were exaggerated? You don't want to know what the Galactic TSA can do to protect the universe from the plague.
Which direction are neutrinos traveling in reference to the earth's rotation? Could something like that affect the results? I imagine it's the same (on a very tiny scale) as to run down in electric stairs that are going down. Let's see: http://g.co/maps/m8wky. I'm curious can anyone elaborate?
Also, thats awfully close to the earthquake struck city of L'Aquila, I hope no Italian get this news because if theres a quake there in the following days the CERN scientist risk getting charged with manslaughter :/ for "debunking theories of death scientist that unfolds the wrath of Hades causing earthquakes"
Nobody shed a tear for the dinosaurs. Nobody will shed a tear for USA.
FTFY and I don't agree, theres too many people that profi^h^h^h^supports your own weight and stupidity and nobody (excluding desk communist that think China is actually communism) would like to see China taking your spot.
The "crumble" is certainly a thing that you can't blame on anyone else but you, and a thing that can only be fixed by You. I know textbooks conditioned you all to thing that USA == the whole world, but lets get serious, you economy flops would piss in the face of a lot of people but the world as a whole will keep going on. I don't really think the next economic meltdown will cause the extinction of the human race (© 2001 Discovery Networks ), or am I missing something?
Seems fine, thing is I store my relevant session folders separately in encrypted disks*, going to try it anyway. Thanks for the tip.
* what? doesn't everybody do the same? This is the year of rootkit in the bios!
How... wait, wh.. why people don't understand that rectangles with rounded corners are a cornerstone design element that prevents the user from holding it wrong!? Leave Apple alone! /s
LG Prada 2006
Rectangle: check
Rectangle with rounded corners: check
rectangle with rounded corners and capacitative touchscreen: check
You answered your own question, you're a professor, use the PC to do real and important stuff when it's needed, you're not hip enough == not Apple's target market, and thats why you don't see any added value in it.