Exactly. I was even today eying a resort in Phillipines were the salaries and shit and their attention to the customer...well, it leaves a bit to desire, and they all an "all inclusive" service on line with Bora Bora prices.... hello, you are D-R-E-A-M-I-N-G. No fucking way.
The thing is that they are making that for two nights... If they just halved the priced, they might have had a customer...
You are both autistic, and are wasting your time. Just get a micro-ruler, and see which one got a bigger penis, and honestly, please do it off slashdot.
I like the form factor of the ZenBook ; however the system is seriously handicapped in too many ways, starting with the lack of standard connectivity ports, and the price point is too high for what it delivers. I also would not mind having it in a slightly bigger form factor.
As I said up above, Lenovo Ideapad seem to work well with FreeBSD and Linux, they are cheap, and have a very attractive form factor. The most noticeable downside is the quality of the screen. I have yet to test OpenBSD on them.
| Subnotebooks that "just work" with GNU/Linux used to be easy to find until the end of 2012 [slashdot.org]. System76 and Dell currently don't have anything below 13 inches or below $700. Installing Linux on Bay Trail devices that shipped with Windows, such as the ASUS T100TA and X205TA, has left things like Bluetooth, built-in Wi-Fi, webcam, and suspend broken. And before you bust out "Android is Linux; try a tablet and a Bluetooth keyboard":
I just bought a 14'' Lenovo Ideapad for testing and travelling device for 190 Euros in a promotion with 4GB RAM and a very nice wifi 5GHz/2.4GHz.
While the Celeron CPU leaves much to desire, you can buy it in the form factor of 11'' or 14'' (and 15''...not sure); running here FreeBSD with everything configured in it (except bluetooth, that in all fairness I have not dedicated time enough to "fix").
Linux seems equally running well on it, though I am not interested due to security concerns and the system political fiasco.
That is the idea. Someone bought up legislation to make Uber less competitive... It does take it to be very imaginative to understand what is going on.
Are the landlords dirty? When socialist laws in countries with pseudo-socialist traditions make laws that effectively turn the rented property into an house of the tenant, making even tremendously difficult to evict them even if they do not pay, and forces you to do maintenance in very old properties, that you do not "own" anymore, and that exceed in many orders of magnitude the rent value...heck, where property tax is often superior to the rent, and you keep paying it just hoping the tenants drop dead, and you finally receive your inheritance...Where effectively the landlords are being "milked" for the good of "society"... the only option if you want to keep your house yours, it to rent it to non-permament "guests".
Some people should not have computers;
Others obviously should not have smartphones
Even others, supposedly educated, have the tools but do not know how to interpret them, and the biggest offenders are IT people.
It is a shame that common sense seems to go out of the window for the majority when people start using technology; some people would not believe such a tale if they heard it from a stranger, however they believe in everything they hear in some shady email or site; some people would not expose their private bits on the supermakert, yet we already heard of the fappening with Holywood trash....and I bet it wont be the last time.
Says the honourable AC. I would swear I only started hearing about apps in the last few years, and it surely was not due to lacking Internet exposure since 1993 at least.
And it is a question also of doing the math...between all the ongoing maintenance expenses, devaluation, and taxes, when you are retired, right now, it is probably cheaper to hire Uber or hire a car when you really need to do a long travel, than owning a car.
The problem is that you also rob a lot of independency to old folks who cannot already walk very well, and depend on a car every day to do their small errands.
Wake and smell the coffee. Millennials wont be able to afford many things, and the previous generation is fucked wether they have children or not.
If they have children, well guess who will be "helping" them to enable their bosses to keep going paying them peanuts;
if they do not have children, they will be heavily taxed, and their gold and savings directly confiscated, or savings severely diminished due to negative taxation.
Having a car is also being heavily taxed, both in gas, in repairs, in absurd sale taxes in many countries, hefty insurance, mandatory regular inspections and mandatory driving license renewals, that will be shorter and shorter as time goes on.
In fact, the reality is that the middle class is ever shrinking, and the government does not see eye to eye you having disposal incoming because it is "their money" you are depriving, essential money to "give to the poor"...so any car owner is targeted as having sufficient disposable income to be robbed.
So put it other way, both millennials and their parents are fucked, and the current generations bellow 60-50 years old wont be able to afford having a car in their old age - at least if they stay in Europe or the olde USA.
I actually started playing and had some training with a ZX Spectrum 48K from Sinclair, and my parents gave me a compatible one, a Timex 2048 made in Portugal when I was 14, in 1984.
I started using BASIC in the Summer, and went full Z80 assembly by Xmas.
Later on in 1995 I wrote the first ZX Spectrum emulation for Windows.
This little computer was invaluable to establish the basis for what I do today.
So so. Maybe better than the USA, but not that much different.
However, I do remember quite well I exchanged English schools because I could not stand any longer a very large ignorant Canadian English teacher know-it-all, that ridiculed what you said, even when you were right and she was wrong.
And I was the customer there, I cant just picture what would happen if I had the misfortune to have such teacher in the public system...
The best overall savings is finding a way to get corporate rating. When I was an expat, my father had connections in my home country where he would get me a room in a 4 start hotel for half price or less when I was in holidays out of our home town.
I would not give a fuck about looking like a twat.
I do care however of the price of driving around, flying to someplace else and renting a room is so much cheaper.
When I am carried way writing something I often manage to type coherent phrases *without* a spelling corrector, and it was not exactly what I was thinking of.
How I am able to do that, baffles me.
Even better, I am able to that in a couple of (human) languages.
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Exactly. I was even today eying a resort in Phillipines were the salaries and shit and their attention to the customer...well, it leaves a bit to desire, and they all an "all inclusive" service on line with Bora Bora prices.... hello, you are D-R-E-A-M-I-N-G. No fucking way.
The thing is that they are making that for two nights... If they just halved the priced, they might have had a customer...
You are both autistic, and are wasting your time. Just get a micro-ruler, and see which one got a bigger penis, and honestly, please do it off slashdot.
I like the form factor of the ZenBook ; however the system is seriously handicapped in too many ways, starting with the lack of standard connectivity ports, and the price point is too high for what it delivers. I also would not mind having it in a slightly bigger form factor.
As I said up above, Lenovo Ideapad seem to work well with FreeBSD and Linux, they are cheap, and have a very attractive form factor. The most noticeable downside is the quality of the screen. I have yet to test OpenBSD on them.
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| Subnotebooks that "just work" with GNU/Linux used to be easy to find until the end of 2012 [slashdot.org]. System76 and Dell currently don't have anything below 13 inches or below $700. Installing Linux on Bay Trail devices that shipped with Windows, such as the ASUS T100TA and X205TA, has left things like Bluetooth, built-in Wi-Fi, webcam, and suspend broken. And before you bust out "Android is Linux; try a tablet and a Bluetooth keyboard":
I just bought a 14'' Lenovo Ideapad for testing and travelling device for 190 Euros in a promotion with 4GB RAM and a very nice wifi 5GHz/2.4GHz.
While the Celeron CPU leaves much to desire, you can buy it in the form factor of 11'' or 14'' (and 15''...not sure); running here FreeBSD with everything configured in it (except bluetooth, that in all fairness I have not dedicated time enough to "fix").
Linux seems equally running well on it, though I am not interested due to security concerns and the system political fiasco.
That is the idea. Someone bought up legislation to make Uber less competitive... It does take it to be very imaginative to understand what is going on.
Are the landlords dirty? When socialist laws in countries with pseudo-socialist traditions make laws that effectively turn the rented property into an house of the tenant, making even tremendously difficult to evict them even if they do not pay, and forces you to do maintenance in very old properties, that you do not "own" anymore, and that exceed in many orders of magnitude the rent value...heck, where property tax is often superior to the rent, and you keep paying it just hoping the tenants drop dead, and you finally receive your inheritance...Where effectively the landlords are being "milked" for the good of "society"... the only option if you want to keep your house yours, it to rent it to non-permament "guests".
Some people should not have computers;
Others obviously should not have smartphones
Even others, supposedly educated, have the tools but do not know how to interpret them, and the biggest offenders are IT people.
It is a shame that common sense seems to go out of the window for the majority when people start using technology; some people would not believe such a tale if they heard it from a stranger, however they believe in everything they hear in some shady email or site; some people would not expose their private bits on the supermakert, yet we already heard of the fappening with Holywood trash....and I bet it wont be the last time.
Says the honourable AC. I would swear I only started hearing about apps in the last few years, and it surely was not due to lacking Internet exposure since 1993 at least.
And it is a question also of doing the math...between all the ongoing maintenance expenses, devaluation, and taxes, when you are retired, right now, it is probably cheaper to hire Uber or hire a car when you really need to do a long travel, than owning a car.
The problem is that you also rob a lot of independency to old folks who cannot already walk very well, and depend on a car every day to do their small errands.
Wake and smell the coffee. Millennials wont be able to afford many things, and the previous generation is fucked wether they have children or not.
If they have children, well guess who will be "helping" them to enable their bosses to keep going paying them peanuts;
if they do not have children, they will be heavily taxed, and their gold and savings directly confiscated, or savings severely diminished due to negative taxation.
Having a car is also being heavily taxed, both in gas, in repairs, in absurd sale taxes in many countries, hefty insurance, mandatory regular inspections and mandatory driving license renewals, that will be shorter and shorter as time goes on.
In fact, the reality is that the middle class is ever shrinking, and the government does not see eye to eye you having disposal incoming because it is "their money" you are depriving, essential money to "give to the poor"...so any car owner is targeted as having sufficient disposable income to be robbed.
So put it other way, both millennials and their parents are fucked, and the current generations bellow 60-50 years old wont be able to afford having a car in their old age - at least if they stay in Europe or the olde USA.
I actually started playing and had some training with a ZX Spectrum 48K from Sinclair, and my parents gave me a compatible one, a Timex 2048 made in Portugal when I was 14, in 1984.
I started using BASIC in the Summer, and went full Z80 assembly by Xmas.
Later on in 1995 I wrote the first ZX Spectrum emulation for Windows.
This little computer was invaluable to establish the basis for what I do today.
If it were only that....their modem is also crap, and you are better off if you are not sharing it with others.
They seem to be able to get things working, which is better than most...
So so. Maybe better than the USA, but not that much different. However, I do remember quite well I exchanged English schools because I could not stand any longer a very large ignorant Canadian English teacher know-it-all, that ridiculed what you said, even when you were right and she was wrong.
And I was the customer there, I cant just picture what would happen if I had the misfortune to have such teacher in the public system...
As I commented before, I do not even know my social media passwords. Random passwords+2FA
I just bought an el cheapo Lenovo, and testing FreeBSD on it. If I am satisfied with the experience, my next laptop *wont be a Mac*.
Often you leave both.
The best overall savings is finding a way to get corporate rating. When I was an expat, my father had connections in my home country where he would get me a room in a 4 start hotel for half price or less when I was in holidays out of our home town.
Who said they do not charge more expensive prices for shitty rooms for you to book them?
I would not give a fuck about looking like a twat.
I do care however of the price of driving around, flying to someplace else and renting a room is so much cheaper.
I did not follow you....What prevents me from taking a van and sleeping on it?
Anything against commercial VPNs?
When I am carried way writing something I often manage to type coherent phrases *without* a spelling corrector, and it was not exactly what I was thinking of.
How I am able to do that, baffles me.
Even better, I am able to that in a couple of (human) languages.