Simply because you don't want it to be because of their social-liberal agenda writ inappropriately into a ww2 shooter,, doesn't mean it isn't. Sarcasm isn't much of an actual argument.
Rather, as the summary implied, it's more likely a combination of factors: goofy social agenda PLUS shitty game PLUS pushing loot boxes to the nth degree.
Except the rate of change is remarkable in the modern era - 2 deg latitude from 1900-1920, and 10 deg of latitude the last 10 years.
One might well observe that sort of acceleration pretty much parallels the accelerating warming instrumentally observed over the 20th century as well. If you change the orientation of the magnetosphere to the surface of the earth and the ecliptic by 20deg over a century, one might also suspect that changing orientation would have pretty significant effects on the solar-driven thermic systems on the planet...?
The funny thing is that if the federal government announced a highway from San Diego to Laredo nobody would be batting an eye about the engineering, cost, or construction route (well, some environmentalists would, but they bitch about literally everything). Curiously, though, a wall is an ending financial/engineering challenge?
Is it really fair to force students to learn in, say, typical US office settings (around $150 per sqft to build new) instead of the boutique gorgeous TajMahClassRooms on US universities (latest: U of MN Health Sciences Education Center is $109 mill for 200k sqft or - nearly $550 per sqft)?
....I guess I'm still waiting for the "glut" of Nvidia top end cards to hit the market, somehow I can't comprehend how Nvidia sitting on thousands and thousands of cards in inventory and that hasn't impacted their prices.
"A Facebook spokesperson said the disabled version of the app acts like it's been deleted" So then what's the reasoning preventing us from, y'know, ACTUALLY deleting it?
The implication from the summary "packs desktop hardware into upgradeable laptop" while TECHNICALLY accurate is misleading, in my view.
It implies strongly that the laptop is using desktop-components to be upgradeable. It isn't.
It has a swappable module that contains desktop-caliber graphics modules...not like the bog-standard video card you could buy from Microcenter. Certainly, these modules have to be crafted and sold to you solely by Alienware. At Alienware prices.
This is expected to retail for $2549 but that's going to be the bottom-end, bare bones system. You can easily get a gaming system of that caliber for $300-$400 less at Sager, and you're not buying into 'upgradeability' that is going to be a premium price, either.
Or, you want all your systems to more-or-less simply run, be usable by everyone you hire without substantial retraining, and to run basically every application or game without an issue?
I mean, who'd want THAT in 2019?
I know I'd much rather fuck around with with various builds, bad repositories, driver support, and having to command-line every goddanmned thing. Super way to spend my day, instead of running my business or playing games in the time I have available.
As a small employer myself (I have 4 employees) I'd ENTIRELY DISAGREE.
The new employee may know NOTHING about what they need. That just screams "Best Buy Geeksquad Gangbang Underbody-Rustproofing pricing".
There is a big difference in quality of components between 'home laptop' and 'work laptop'. Some shitty HP Envy is *not* going to be durable enough to run 9+ hours daily week in, week out without issues. I'd recommend the business caliber lines from ASUS, Toshiba (maybe?), Dell.
It also depends on how much of a road-warrior she's going to be? Is she going to be working from a single place (mostly) with the laptop being a laptop for the "just in case" convenience? (I assume this.) I'd offer other recommendations if she'd be constantly working on the road, from cars, coffee shops, customer sites, etc.
I'd set a minimum target around $600-$700 for a decent Dell laptop, plus if they're going to be working at a desk, I'd plunk to dock a decent size monitor 24" or so, a decent keyboard and real mouse (etc will cost probably another $250) so all in about $1k. So much less eyestrain. Oh, and a decent CHAIR is going to cost comparable to that.
In all the "look at all the shit that's not working because of Trump" stories, I have yet to read anyone express the slightest question about - should the Federal government really be running all this stuff?
I sincerely doubt anyone in government has the balls after this shutdown to say "Yeah, y'know, we can probably get along without that, that, and that. Nobody really missed them."
...If crypto currency has crashed and there's a glut of these top end gpus, such that their stock crashed and a class action suit is rolling....where can I get that crazy cheap GPU? I can certainly use one, and there should be rivers of them for sale cheap, no?
"Miners have said digital technologies like artificial intelligence, or AI, will revolutionize one of the world's oldest industries in the same way it has changed other businesses, from retail to hailing a cab"
AI will change mining the exactly same way it has so far changed retail and 'hailing a cab' - that is, not at all (since AI doesn't actually EXIST yet).
Seriously, what's next - people "reporting" on how antigravity, fusion, and magic spells* will improve businesses bottom lines as well? How fucking stupid are journalists (and, apparently, CEOs) who believe this shit?
IANAL but AFAIK it's an administrative ruling from the Fed, which has the force of law unless there's superceding legislation.
https://www.federalreserve.gov... Is it legal for a business in the United States to refuse cash as a form of payment? Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," states: "United States coins and currency [including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks] are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above is a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law which says otherwise.
As far as I'm aware, if the rule is established and posted clearly before the transaction, most courts will find that private businesses can set any sort of policy they want - they may only accept payment in Corgis, for example. Then it's the customer's choice if they use that vendor UNDER THOSE TERMS.
But if that is not stated before the transaction, then they MUST accept US legal tender.
? Not disputing your fact at all, but if this difference results in any meaningful shortening of the life of a screen, them oled's as a tech are rubbish.
If Bay Area counties are paying college grads less or jobs are harder to find then...maybe consider leaving the Bay Area?...not sure it takes a college degree to figure that out?
This tells you everything you need to know: "Scientist Mark Svoboda started the drought map 20 years ago, when Congress took an interest after drought struck Washington, D.C."
There have been occasional short and long droughts across the US forever. Grapes of Wrath, anyone? But it suddenly becomes "of interest" to the Federal government when congress people suddenly can't (have some illegal lawn care worker) water their lawns.
The current "crisis" is mostly one of reporting; utterly pedestrian in it's extent and well within the norm of the past century's variability. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
"...encouraging students to teach one another would likely improve comprehension...." Except you can't really COMPEL that behavior, and woe betide the poor little bastard that has to learn from the kid going through the motions.
Basically the kids who would benefit from this (and I agree, it would be a good idea in limited implementation) are ALREADY good students likely maximizing their value from school.
Frankly, (we had 4 kids who recently departed their teens) what I've seen in public education is that there are indeed more opportunities for kids who really want to take off (mostly), as well as more resources for the very-most-bottom special needs kids who *might* eventually learn to eat with silverware...but in the middle, there's a growing chasm of "I don't give a shit" where kids can 'just get by' with minimal effort, minimal reward, free of any compulsion to do better...they may even coast through some low-effort college and graduate with no ambition, no prospects, and wondering why they can't find a perfunctory occupation to coast through the rest of their lives.
...they have a popular product that is FREE TO PLAY and people are (to me, crazily) spending shit-tons of cash on vanity items.
It's literally the most ephemeral, non-utilitarian way someone can spend money and is entirely voluntary - it's certainly no more stupid than buying "3 more turns" on Kandy Krush, and King has been raking in >$1bn a year for a while now.
Pretty sure we've nailed down the new opiate of the masses, though.
JP Leary is just another tired Marxist who wishes he could have stormed the barrikady with Lenin, Stalin, and the gang. Haymarket books is likewise a collection of aging hippies and millennial socialists romanticising the glory days of axe-handle-swinging unionists throwing bombs at police.
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Simply because you don't want it to be because of their social-liberal agenda writ inappropriately into a ww2 shooter,, doesn't mean it isn't. Sarcasm isn't much of an actual argument.
Rather, as the summary implied, it's more likely a combination of factors: goofy social agenda PLUS shitty game PLUS pushing loot boxes to the nth degree.
Except the rate of change is remarkable in the modern era - 2 deg latitude from 1900-1920, and 10 deg of latitude the last 10 years.
One might well observe that sort of acceleration pretty much parallels the accelerating warming instrumentally observed over the 20th century as well. If you change the orientation of the magnetosphere to the surface of the earth and the ecliptic by 20deg over a century, one might also suspect that changing orientation would have pretty significant effects on the solar-driven thermic systems on the planet...?
It only matters until they replace the troublesome, expensive, neurotic human actors anyway.
The funny thing is that if the federal government announced a highway from San Diego to Laredo nobody would be batting an eye about the engineering, cost, or construction route (well, some environmentalists would, but they bitch about literally everything).
Curiously, though, a wall is an ending financial/engineering challenge?
"...the oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago..."
And alternative title could be "Experts estimates off by 40%; still vehemently claiming they're 'experts'."
Did we forget this posting from the ancient days of ...yesterday?
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
This one is nearly NINE POUNDS.
It IS a briefcase.
Is it really fair to force students to learn in, say, typical US office settings (around $150 per sqft to build new) instead of the boutique gorgeous TajMahClassRooms on US universities (latest: U of MN Health Sciences Education Center is $109 mill for 200k sqft or - nearly $550 per sqft)?
....I guess I'm still waiting for the "glut" of Nvidia top end cards to hit the market, somehow I can't comprehend how Nvidia sitting on thousands and thousands of cards in inventory and that hasn't impacted their prices.
"A Facebook spokesperson said the disabled version of the app acts like it's been deleted"
So then what's the reasoning preventing us from, y'know, ACTUALLY deleting it?
The implication from the summary "packs desktop hardware into upgradeable laptop" while TECHNICALLY accurate is misleading, in my view.
It implies strongly that the laptop is using desktop-components to be upgradeable. It isn't.
It has a swappable module that contains desktop-caliber graphics modules...not like the bog-standard video card you could buy from Microcenter. Certainly, these modules have to be crafted and sold to you solely by Alienware. At Alienware prices.
This is expected to retail for $2549 but that's going to be the bottom-end, bare bones system. You can easily get a gaming system of that caliber for $300-$400 less at Sager, and you're not buying into 'upgradeability' that is going to be a premium price, either.
"Digital Hoarding Can Make Us Feel Just as Stressed and Overwhelmed as Physical Clutter,"
(Closes the tab to https://www.techradar.com/news...)
(Quietly sets down the 4TB external drive he was considering to add to the other three...)
Oh?...I....um, ok, nevermind.
Or, you want all your systems to more-or-less simply run, be usable by everyone you hire without substantial retraining, and to run basically every application or game without an issue?
I mean, who'd want THAT in 2019?
I know I'd much rather fuck around with with various builds, bad repositories, driver support, and having to command-line every goddanmned thing. Super way to spend my day, instead of running my business or playing games in the time I have available.
As a small employer myself (I have 4 employees) I'd ENTIRELY DISAGREE.
The new employee may know NOTHING about what they need. That just screams "Best Buy Geeksquad Gangbang Underbody-Rustproofing pricing".
There is a big difference in quality of components between 'home laptop' and 'work laptop'. Some shitty HP Envy is *not* going to be durable enough to run 9+ hours daily week in, week out without issues. I'd recommend the business caliber lines from ASUS, Toshiba (maybe?), Dell.
I know reviews can be gamed, but I don't disagree with most of the discussion here: https://www.techradar.com/news...
It also depends on how much of a road-warrior she's going to be? Is she going to be working from a single place (mostly) with the laptop being a laptop for the "just in case" convenience? (I assume this.) I'd offer other recommendations if she'd be constantly working on the road, from cars, coffee shops, customer sites, etc.
I'd set a minimum target around $600-$700 for a decent Dell laptop, plus if they're going to be working at a desk, I'd plunk to dock a decent size monitor 24" or so, a decent keyboard and real mouse (etc will cost probably another $250) so all in about $1k. So much less eyestrain. Oh, and a decent CHAIR is going to cost comparable to that.
In all the "look at all the shit that's not working because of Trump" stories, I have yet to read anyone express the slightest question about - should the Federal government really be running all this stuff?
I sincerely doubt anyone in government has the balls after this shutdown to say "Yeah, y'know, we can probably get along without that, that, and that. Nobody really missed them."
http://thefederalist.com/2014/...
...If crypto currency has crashed and there's a glut of these top end gpus, such that their stock crashed and a class action suit is rolling....where can I get that crazy cheap GPU? I can certainly use one, and there should be rivers of them for sale cheap, no?
"Miners have said digital technologies like artificial intelligence, or AI, will revolutionize one of the world's oldest industries in the same way it has changed other businesses, from retail to hailing a cab"
AI will change mining the exactly same way it has so far changed retail and 'hailing a cab' - that is, not at all (since AI doesn't actually EXIST yet).
Seriously, what's next - people "reporting" on how antigravity, fusion, and magic spells* will improve businesses bottom lines as well? How fucking stupid are journalists (and, apparently, CEOs) who believe this shit?
*cf dark energy, blockchain, etc
IANAL but AFAIK it's an administrative ruling from the Fed, which has the force of law unless there's superceding legislation.
https://www.federalreserve.gov...
Is it legal for a business in the United States to refuse cash as a form of payment?
Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," states: "United States coins and currency [including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks] are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above is a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law which says otherwise.
Why the fuck is US tech going to benefit China?
As far as I'm aware, if the rule is established and posted clearly before the transaction, most courts will find that private businesses can set any sort of policy they want - they may only accept payment in Corgis, for example. Then it's the customer's choice if they use that vendor UNDER THOSE TERMS.
But if that is not stated before the transaction, then they MUST accept US legal tender.
?
Not disputing your fact at all, but if this difference results in any meaningful shortening of the life of a screen, them oled's as a tech are rubbish.
If Bay Area counties are paying college grads less or jobs are harder to find then...maybe consider leaving the Bay Area? ...not sure it takes a college degree to figure that out?
This tells you everything you need to know:
"Scientist Mark Svoboda started the drought map 20 years ago, when Congress took an interest after drought struck Washington, D.C."
There have been occasional short and long droughts across the US forever. Grapes of Wrath, anyone? But it suddenly becomes "of interest" to the Federal government when congress people suddenly can't (have some illegal lawn care worker) water their lawns.
The current "crisis" is mostly one of reporting; utterly pedestrian in it's extent and well within the norm of the past century's variability.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
"...encouraging students to teach one another would likely improve comprehension...."
Except you can't really COMPEL that behavior, and woe betide the poor little bastard that has to learn from the kid going through the motions.
Basically the kids who would benefit from this (and I agree, it would be a good idea in limited implementation) are ALREADY good students likely maximizing their value from school.
Frankly, (we had 4 kids who recently departed their teens) what I've seen in public education is that there are indeed more opportunities for kids who really want to take off (mostly), as well as more resources for the very-most-bottom special needs kids who *might* eventually learn to eat with silverware...but in the middle, there's a growing chasm of "I don't give a shit" where kids can 'just get by' with minimal effort, minimal reward, free of any compulsion to do better...they may even coast through some low-effort college and graduate with no ambition, no prospects, and wondering why they can't find a perfunctory occupation to coast through the rest of their lives.
...they have a popular product that is FREE TO PLAY and people are (to me, crazily) spending shit-tons of cash on vanity items.
It's literally the most ephemeral, non-utilitarian way someone can spend money and is entirely voluntary - it's certainly no more stupid than buying "3 more turns" on Kandy Krush, and King has been raking in >$1bn a year for a while now.
Pretty sure we've nailed down the new opiate of the masses, though.
JP Leary is just another tired Marxist who wishes he could have stormed the barrikady with Lenin, Stalin, and the gang. Haymarket books is likewise a collection of aging hippies and millennial socialists romanticising the glory days of axe-handle-swinging unionists throwing bombs at police.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/aut...
Fuck radicals of both ends of the spectrum. We need to ignore them more.