Yes, which means there's a great market opportunity for local shops to open, of which one may become the next Radio Shack. I'd love a shop (even if it's a dank, basement style shop of yore) where I could see and demo 3D printers (and print stuff for you for a price), arduino/netduino boards, with classes on making/doing. Make it like a gaming store. Hell, you could probably sell magic cards, too (not like they take up a lot of space), but I digress. it's always fun to have a place one can go to talk shop. IRC works for many, but sometimes, a cold beer with a new friend is irreplaceable. The problem is online pricing will always beat store prices (if that store wants to stay in business), so there will have to be some sort of incentive to get people to come out. Bands are having this problem, as is the movie industry. Everyone wants to save a dollar, not sure how to convince people to buy it there.
Who didn't think mainframes were like the epitome of cool back in the 80s/90s? Who doesn't, now, want one of those massive computer-as-art Cray installations, with the comfy couch and the processor coolant trickling across some sculpture that served as eye candy as well as a radiator, and the subtle blinkenlights flashing away, seemingly at random? And then came the Beowulf.
Yeah, I don't get this. I use Win8.1 mostly full-time at home (when I'm not on my chromebook or my work laptop) and while I've learned to tolerate win 8.1's bullshit, I still find myself looking at buying a Win 7 Pro license on occasion.
Yep. Get rid of metro and 100% of my issues go away. When I press the start key, I don't want you to flip into a touch screen mode on my non-touch screen laptop and make me forget what the fuck I wanted to do.
Or maybe you'd like to say "If only the Muslims would fight ISIS and the fundamentalists!" I mean, who do you think the YPK is made up of? Or Hezbollah (which, oddly enough is an ally in the fight against ISIS and their ilk)?
The fact is, there are MANY MANY MANY Muslims who are sick of this shit, just like non-Muslims. And they speak out against their backwards, inbred rednecks. The media is loathe to report this side of the story (see the Fergeson protests.. the media only concentrated on the trouble makers, not the hundreds/thousands who protested without managing to rob stores and burn shit down). All it takes is a cursory look around and you realize that money is to be made by sensationalism, and you've been had.
1) The submitter could be living in some shared squat space in SFO where the space for a desktop would be a luxury. The cost of housing is prohibitively expensive in some areas and frankly, even though Los Angeles isn't quite to that level, I find myself cramped enough in my 350 sqft studio apartment that I ended up selling my Powermac G5 because I kept kicking it with my shin everytime I squeezed between the desk and the couch. I have literally no space in my apartment for a desktop. I use a laptop sitting askew on my desk, hooked to an external monitor (hooray! dual screens), and have the freedom to just pack the laptop up and go to my gf's house, or to work, whatever (daily occurence). I don't necessarily need the full power of a desktop, but due to my filmmaking efforts I really use the discrete graphics and some storage options for desktops. Basically: Visual Studio, Adobe CC suite, World of Warcraft, and Chrome is where I spend 99.9% of my time.
I'm currently contemplating the MSI WS60 (Core i7 4710MQ?, 16gb RAM, 2x128gb SSDs in RAID0, 1x1TB 7200rpm spinner, Quadro something or other) and GS60 Ghost Pro something something (same as WS60 but with 6gb nVidia GTX 970m and no thunderbolt). Both are available with 4k screens, but that's overkill for my purposes (external monitor for that).
Preferably human-like life, with sexual reproduction. And compatible female equivalent bits for interfacing. And hopes that the male equivalents don't have bigger dongs than human males.
I've watched Star Trek. I know how to handle inter-species relations.
You can still buy lots of cassette players.. Urban Outfitters sells them (*shudder*), for example. Bestbuy has a few models, etc. The Walkman may be what you're thinking of, and that's true, Sony discontinued that IIRC. But as to the consumers, I really don't know either. I'm old and I'm too tired to question what young people want these days. I swear, kids will be wanting Commodore 64s and dial-up BBSes again soon.
My band(s) has already given up any notion of making any money on digital sales or streams, not to mention CDs. We press records and cassettes these days, and do CDRs of live show recordings and that's it. No CD press runs at all. Weird how it seems we're back in 1992. (CDs basically mean they sit around in boxes in the garage, taking up space. We've sold out of every record and (recently) cassette we've produced. It's still not a huge number (like 300 or so of each.. for a local band that's not bad) and none of us can quit our day jobs, but basically one record or one cassette sale is > everything we've gotten from digital at this point).
But then again, there's a lot of us old farts who still have a nice Vinyl collection collecting dust. Say what we will about the immediacy and portability of digital media, I get really irritated having to redownload/sync my media (especially CD and odds and ends picked up from bands on the internet) on my laptop. Yes, I can't take my vinyl with me on the go (and for that, I have my phone). but for lounging around the house on saturday afternoon, sometimes picking up an old record (or new one) has a bit of nostalgia that I can sit back and enjoy while sipping a coffee.
There's a coming anti-digital storm: Vinyl, Instant Film, cassette tapes, now we just need to see super 8 and 16 for film. Too many hacks, too many insecure sites, and people finally coming to the realization that maybe, just maybe, they shouldn't put everything they do online for anyone and everyone to see or "steal". I'm okay with this.
Sometimes I wonder if IE's biggest problem these days is marketing and the negative reputation they've built with older version of IE. I had to use IE recently here at work and it's not bad; certainly not the horrible, buggy, bloated POS it was in the 90s (comparatively speaking). I still prefer IE and Mozilla (plugins, etc), but if faced with a modern IE I wouldn't loathe it. So, IE isn't so bad anymore. But because it was so shitty for the longest time, I really don't want to go back to it. Perhaps this is what MS has realized: They're going to have to change the name so people won't associate the new browser with bad memories of the past...
:: shrug:: I've been touch typing since the 80s (Yeah, I'm most likely a youngin to you) but I find backlit keyboards to be the most indispensable improvement made to keyboards. I want mechanical, backlit keyboard. No one but my gf comes over, so it's not a matter of being "cool" (I have a guitar for that). It might be from the callouses on my fingertips (see guitar), but I often fumble looking for the nubs on f and j, and a quick glance at the keyboard puts me straight. Does this mean I'm not a power user? I'll cry myself to sleep about that later.
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Yes, which means there's a great market opportunity for local shops to open, of which one may become the next Radio Shack. I'd love a shop (even if it's a dank, basement style shop of yore) where I could see and demo 3D printers (and print stuff for you for a price), arduino/netduino boards, with classes on making/doing. Make it like a gaming store. Hell, you could probably sell magic cards, too (not like they take up a lot of space), but I digress. it's always fun to have a place one can go to talk shop. IRC works for many, but sometimes, a cold beer with a new friend is irreplaceable. The problem is online pricing will always beat store prices (if that store wants to stay in business), so there will have to be some sort of incentive to get people to come out. Bands are having this problem, as is the movie industry. Everyone wants to save a dollar, not sure how to convince people to buy it there.
Who didn't think mainframes were like the epitome of cool back in the 80s/90s? Who doesn't, now, want one of those massive computer-as-art Cray installations, with the comfy couch and the processor coolant trickling across some sculpture that served as eye candy as well as a radiator, and the subtle blinkenlights flashing away, seemingly at random? And then came the Beowulf.
Just don't crack a joke about a dongle.
What's wrong with inflation? If anything, it's a flat-tax that certain segments keep talking about. Use it or lose it.
My Note 4 gives me a "Unfortunately, Touchwiz Home has stopped" or somesuch error about every 3 minutes of use... Really annoying.
Yeah, I don't get this. I use Win8.1 mostly full-time at home (when I'm not on my chromebook or my work laptop) and while I've learned to tolerate win 8.1's bullshit, I still find myself looking at buying a Win 7 Pro license on occasion.
Yep. Get rid of metro and 100% of my issues go away. When I press the start key, I don't want you to flip into a touch screen mode on my non-touch screen laptop and make me forget what the fuck I wanted to do.
next question?
Like this guy? http://www.npr.org/2014/09/25/...
Or these guys? http://rt.com/uk/184112-britis...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor... (and holy shit that's the Saudis)
Or maybe you'd like to say "If only the Muslims would fight ISIS and the fundamentalists!"
I mean, who do you think the YPK is made up of? Or Hezbollah (which, oddly enough is an ally in the fight against ISIS and their ilk)?
The fact is, there are MANY MANY MANY Muslims who are sick of this shit, just like non-Muslims. And they speak out against their backwards, inbred rednecks. The media is loathe to report this side of the story (see the Fergeson protests.. the media only concentrated on the trouble makers, not the hundreds/thousands who protested without managing to rob stores and burn shit down). All it takes is a cursory look around and you realize that money is to be made by sensationalism, and you've been had.
Is a woman. /misogyny
1) The submitter could be living in some shared squat space in SFO where the space for a desktop would be a luxury. The cost of housing is prohibitively expensive in some areas and frankly, even though Los Angeles isn't quite to that level, I find myself cramped enough in my 350 sqft studio apartment that I ended up selling my Powermac G5 because I kept kicking it with my shin everytime I squeezed between the desk and the couch. I have literally no space in my apartment for a desktop. I use a laptop sitting askew on my desk, hooked to an external monitor (hooray! dual screens), and have the freedom to just pack the laptop up and go to my gf's house, or to work, whatever (daily occurence). I don't necessarily need the full power of a desktop, but due to my filmmaking efforts I really use the discrete graphics and some storage options for desktops. Basically: Visual Studio, Adobe CC suite, World of Warcraft, and Chrome is where I spend 99.9% of my time.
I'm currently contemplating the MSI WS60 (Core i7 4710MQ?, 16gb RAM, 2x128gb SSDs in RAID0, 1x1TB 7200rpm spinner, Quadro something or other) and GS60 Ghost Pro something something (same as WS60 but with 6gb nVidia GTX 970m and no thunderbolt). Both are available with 4k screens, but that's overkill for my purposes (external monitor for that).
And to think, some folks think we could have *no* government at all because private parties would never do such things...
Preferably human-like life, with sexual reproduction. And compatible female equivalent bits for interfacing. And hopes that the male equivalents don't have bigger dongs than human males.
I've watched Star Trek. I know how to handle inter-species relations.
You can still buy lots of cassette players.. Urban Outfitters sells them (*shudder*), for example. Bestbuy has a few models, etc. The Walkman may be what you're thinking of, and that's true, Sony discontinued that IIRC. But as to the consumers, I really don't know either. I'm old and I'm too tired to question what young people want these days. I swear, kids will be wanting Commodore 64s and dial-up BBSes again soon.
My band(s) has already given up any notion of making any money on digital sales or streams, not to mention CDs. We press records and cassettes these days, and do CDRs of live show recordings and that's it. No CD press runs at all. Weird how it seems we're back in 1992. (CDs basically mean they sit around in boxes in the garage, taking up space. We've sold out of every record and (recently) cassette we've produced. It's still not a huge number (like 300 or so of each.. for a local band that's not bad) and none of us can quit our day jobs, but basically one record or one cassette sale is > everything we've gotten from digital at this point).
Typical.
But then again, there's a lot of us old farts who still have a nice Vinyl collection collecting dust. Say what we will about the immediacy and portability of digital media, I get really irritated having to redownload/sync my media (especially CD and odds and ends picked up from bands on the internet) on my laptop. Yes, I can't take my vinyl with me on the go (and for that, I have my phone). but for lounging around the house on saturday afternoon, sometimes picking up an old record (or new one) has a bit of nostalgia that I can sit back and enjoy while sipping a coffee.
There's a coming anti-digital storm: Vinyl, Instant Film, cassette tapes, now we just need to see super 8 and 16 for film. Too many hacks, too many insecure sites, and people finally coming to the realization that maybe, just maybe, they shouldn't put everything they do online for anyone and everyone to see or "steal". I'm okay with this.
raises all turds, too.
Ugh, sorry, trying to type and take a call at the same time.. I meant I still prefer Chrome and Mozilla, not IE and Mozilla.
Sometimes I wonder if IE's biggest problem these days is marketing and the negative reputation they've built with older version of IE. I had to use IE recently here at work and it's not bad; certainly not the horrible, buggy, bloated POS it was in the 90s (comparatively speaking). I still prefer IE and Mozilla (plugins, etc), but if faced with a modern IE I wouldn't loathe it. So, IE isn't so bad anymore. But because it was so shitty for the longest time, I really don't want to go back to it. Perhaps this is what MS has realized: They're going to have to change the name so people won't associate the new browser with bad memories of the past...
No shit. I wish they'd put some work into links2.
HA! Let me just go ahead and write you a check...
My favorite console is still my GBA Micro.
:: shrug :: I've been touch typing since the 80s (Yeah, I'm most likely a youngin to you) but I find backlit keyboards to be the most indispensable improvement made to keyboards. I want mechanical, backlit keyboard. No one but my gf comes over, so it's not a matter of being "cool" (I have a guitar for that). It might be from the callouses on my fingertips (see guitar), but I often fumble looking for the nubs on f and j, and a quick glance at the keyboard puts me straight. Does this mean I'm not a power user? I'll cry myself to sleep about that later.
And there ain't nothing wrong with that.
... gamergate is actually about ethics in quests?