I highly doubt they went with non-soldered parts due to customer demand for upgradeable parts. In fact, I pretty much guarantee they didn't. Because if it was actually a feature they added for the customers benefit, it wouldn't require you to *void you warranty!* just to upgrade.
More likely as someone else suggested, it just happened to be cheaper this time to not use solder. The fact that you can technically upgrade a few parts is just a fringe benefit.
Most with basic human decency? I'm sorry, but I just can't agree with that. Yes, the measures taken against Germany after WW1 were pretty harsh and probably went too far in some respects. And yes, there were of course large chunks of the population that were not the terrible, evil people who carried out all the atrocities.
But the mass murdering of the Holocaust was a huge, organized and industrialized endeavor. The Nazis murdered some 11 million people in concentration camps, 6 million of which were Jews. An operation of that size, that went on for years, is not something that was or could be done in secret. It's estimated there was some 200,000 people directly involved in carrying it out.
With that many people a part of it, there was no way that large parts of the population didn't know what was going on. And they didn't just start killings them right away. It started as a gradual process, slowly taking away more and more rights for Jews, more and more oppression and marginalization, and progressively stricter policies towards them.
So to me, the fact that there was not wide spread opposition to all that way before they actually started rounding them up says that the general population was okay with it. They had no problem vilifying the Jewish citizens as a scapegoat for Germanys woes, economic problems and general state of being after their humiliating WW1 defeat and subsequent punishment.
Maybe society as a whole was just more bigoted then, but that's still no excuse for a lack of massive, nationwide resistance to the atrocities committed by their government. So I can't agree that most of them had normal human decency.
Bzzzt! Wrong, guess again. The by far most commonly consumed species most definitely is a mushroom, not sure where you came up with that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
And while there is many other species with the active ingredient, they are all still mushrooms.
*The more you know*
Did these 8 significant figure answers actually include the requisite steps to get to these numbers, or was it just an answer? If the previous steps were present and correct, then they probably understand the concepts and just forgot about sig figs. If not, then yeah it was just calculator skill.
Now granted it's been 15 years since I took high school calculus and physics, but even then the teachers were well aware of the concept of only having calculator input skills and a lack of understanding fundamentals.
Any answer that didn't include every step along the way was treated as 100% wrong, even if the answer was right. So I'd bet that if my teachers then were savvy enough to watch for that, then the ones now are no different.
You say you are justified because they are your devices, so he has no expectation of privacy since you own them. But then you turn around and say that even after he bought his own devices, you still actively snoop on him through monitoring all network traffic?
That goes beyond "my device, my rules" and goes firmly in the intrusive spying category. The fact that you can't trust your son even a little, after he's been mature enough to, I assume, get a job and bit his own electronics says volumes about you.
All that accomplishes is making him resent you. You're saying to him that you don't trust him period, on principle. Your obsessive paranoia will just teach him to never trust you and never confide in you about anything serious, because your default assumption about him is that he can't be trusted and you have to spy on him.
Congratulations on driving a long term wedge between you and your kid.
But it actually is a higher state of awareness. You definitely wouldn't claim it's not if you had actually experienced it. Being more aware of all *kinds* of things, particularly pertaining to your own life is a major component of the psychedelic experience.
Why do you think the majority of serious academic study regarding these substances is coming from psychology related fields? Because the hyper awareness of one's own life has enormous potential to help treat PTSD, overcome traumatic life events, etc. In a clinical setting, there can and has been substantial success in treating people.
Your comment about removing the filters is a very good way to put it, arty least for some of the experiences.
As you said, your brain is still receiving all the same external stimuli. But all the extraneous details and noise, for lack of a better word, that your brain usually ignores are instead perceived with the same level of attention that is normally given only to the most relevant parts.
This, in my experience, is why so many people describe it as a higher state of consciousness. You are able to recognize and make connections between so many different ideas and things, whereas normally you wouldn't be aware of the vast majority of them. And critically, IMO, you're able to do this with many different ideas, etc all at the same time.
Man it sure is difficult to defeat ridiculous strawman arguments, very impressive. The vast majority of people aren't saying it's inherently wrong to feel proud of the US.
I think the point is more that it's okay, and even necessary, to acknowledge and attempt to change historical and current flaws, problems, etc of America.
So many people like you frame it in this ridiculous false dichotomy that you're either a chest pounding, USA USA chanting, fanatical patriot, or you're a filthy self hating liberal who hates their own country. The reality is much different, beyond the small number of radicals on both ends.
Did you read that back before submitting? You said they used a mode that no end user would ever find themselves using, then immediately say that you are in fact doing so right now.
So devs not count as end users? This is regarding the MacBook pro, a product touted and advertised as a model for power users, a category devs would certainly fall under.
While I agree that the majority of users may never use such a mode, I'd say it's a pretty big stretch to claim that none would.
The assumption when you buy a high end machine aimed at professional or power users is that it will perform as such. So for Apple to defend this by saying no actual users would ever use it in that configuration seems like pretty blatant excuse making and deflecting the issue. Who wants to pay 2x the price when if you actually try to do heavy lifting with it, you get no benefit from the extra expense? I'd be pretty disappointed if I bought it for actual work and found out the battery life was no where near the claimed life when I used it to do more than surf the internet.
In theory, no, but in reality he actually does have a point. AMDs top chips, which still aren't competitive with Intel i7s but at least with the solid i5s, have to be clocked so high to be competitive that their STOCK TDP is 220w. Those require water cooling, as in officially they require it. And so even the chips slightly below that still have ridiculous TDP compared to comparable Intel chips, in the high 100s instead of 75-95w of the Intel chips. So there really isn't any option besides huge heatsinks and powerful fans, unless you want to go with a CLC, at a minimum.
Are you having fun setting up your ridiculous strawmen and knocking them down? You've done it (at least) 3 times that I've noticed so far.
We get it, you think all liberals and anyone who thinks it might be worth trying to deal with climate change are all just out of touch hypocrites. They all hate poor people and don't really care about preserving the planet for future generations, but instead just want to be rich and have nice shit and feel smugly superior to everyone around them.
And we get it, you think it's a double standard to help vulnerable and minority populations, when everyone hates on poor whites and shits on them constantly. Because of course we have a long history in this country of white oppression, from segregation, to denying home loans to those from "bad" neighborhoods, to systemic police bias, and gutting all the suburban, rural, largely white school districts of funding. Sound about right?
When you want to come back and have a discussion with actual facts and not just ridiculous strawmen, then maybe we can get somewhere.
I follow video card technology/news pretty closely, so I think I have a fairly well informed opinion. But here is my take on it.
Basically, what you are saying you generally do is usually not a bad strategy, if you're only looking to spend around $200. That has definitely been true the last 3 generations or so anyways. But while the hype for the new 10x0 series was of course at least a little overblown, for the most part it has actually delivered.
The 1070 for example, depending on OC speed on it and the last gen top tier card, 980 ti, is basically +/- 10%. The msrp for the 1070 is $400, and 3 months ago the 980 ti was at a minimum $550, up to $600 or slightly higher for some of the really nice OC models. The 980 ti is a beast of a card, and still is. But I have to admit I was surprised the 1070 could basically match it.
So assuming the 1060 delivers the same kind of relative performance, I think you'd actually be better off going with this new gen card this time. That's not always true like I said, but IMO this gen delivers more of a bump than the past few iterations.
And it also doesn't hurt that AMD just released an actually competitive midrange card at the perfect time, something they hadn't been too great with last few years I don't think.
So this time, I'd say the new gen is actually your best bet, particularly since it sounds like you'll probably be keeping it for 4 or 5 years.
Hope that helps.
Lol no kidding. He might be talented, but making look like her is sooo creepy. He had to know how creepy it would seem when he showed this to people. The fact that it's modeled after her will probably overshadow any positive attention that he might have received in regards to his skill. That decision took it from possibly a sweet job offer to possibly that restraining order. This guy must have zero social intelligence, wouldn't surprise me if he's an aspie.
Really? Whole family machine gunned down in the street? I watched the video of the old man punching the restrained man being escorted out, it's pretty hard to defend.
But apparently people like you will still try, and wish mass murder on someone's entire family.
And conservatives wonder why so many people see gun rights enthusiasts as crazed gun nutters? Pretty good example right here. First and only solution is shoot, shoot, shoot! What a (complete lack of) surprise.
Thank you. I am continually amazed at the number of people who think not being able to be part of a private event equates to censorship. I mean is it really so hard top understand that it's government who is supposed to be forbidden from censorship. It's not a difficult concept, but people fail to comprehend it all the time.
I'm with you on this one. Like you said, he can't go back and undo what he already said and did. And while it's possible the change of mind might just be to save face, no one knows that for sure. So if you take their statement about it not contributing to the discussion at face value, then yeah I'd say it's a net positive. A big public showing is something the anti vax crowd would have loved; they would probably interpret it as giving them legitimacy. So regardless of the true intentions of those who pulled it, the end result is still a net win, IMO.
I know this is Slashdot and all, so the suggestion to rtfa is somewhat ridiculous, but the lead researcher actually addressed that very point. She said that could very well be the case, and they weren't making a claim one way or the other in that regard.
I think rtb kind of has a point, some medicine costs are just obscene, particularly in a hospital setting. My dad is an ER pharmacist, so I get to hear all kinds of stuff about insane drug prices. One example: someone came in recently that had been bitten by a dog, and they didn't know if it had rabies or not. He didn't have insurance. And with rabies, you can't just wait and see if symptoms appear, if you have contacted it, the antidote must be given long beefier symptoms appear, or you could be in trouble. And the price for the antidote paying with no insurance? $40,000. So hmmm, just pray the dog didn't have it? Blow 40k incase it did? No good choices there.
wow I totally apologize about that wall of text, I'm posting through the mobile site on my phone and obviously did something wrong. I used enter and had that broken into like 10 paragraphs, but I guess I did it wrong. but it's still worth a read and a response if you have the patience. sorry and thanks.
I'm going to have to agree at least partially with rhook on this one, based on a personal experience. Now I am not talking about regarding a warrant specifically, but just in a more general sense.
I am not proud of this, nor do I often advertise it, but I used to be an addict with a horrible heroin/opiate problem. And like many addicts, I stole all kinds of shit to feed my habit. I was caught once in the act of stealing a couple hundred dollars worth of 3DS cartridges from the wonderful retail behemoth that is Wal-Mart.
Long story short, I had taken them out of the packaging and just had them in my pockets. I was stopped right at the door, they had seen me on camera. I had done this a bunch of times at other Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc stores, but this time I finally got caught. They called the cops and took me back into the loss prevention office. They saw it on the cameras.
I mentioned the couple hundred dollar part because being under $500, it was just a class A misdemeanor, the highest misdemeanor before it becomes a felony. The cops came, I didn't tell them anything cause they just watched the tape, denying it would have been useless. But they asked me a bunch of stuff just about where I lived, just basic pedigree information.
He explained to me that it was SOP to arrest me, but for whatever reason be decided to trust me to just show up on my own at the court date he set. I was shocked and very grateful because no one would have bailed me out. The date was almost 2 months away, it was quite a while. I ended up getting into and finishing rehab before I ever went to court, and with that I ultimately avoided any jail time and just had probation and fines.
I say all that to contrast to a couple years before that, where I did the same thing in another city. The circumstances were almost identical: under 500 misdemeanor, caught leaving store, etc. But that time they simply got my personal info and took me promptly to jail. The cops didn't even consider just giving me a summons.
So I am not a lawyer and confess ignorance about most police procedures and relevant law, but I know they have at least some discretion in regards to arresting on the spot vs issuing a summons.
Just my 2 cents and personal anecdotal (NOT ACTUAL EVIDENCE) experience.
it's not even necessarily just large companies that do this. my mother is a partner in a small CPA firm with about a dozen partners total, and about 50 employees total. now granted it is a total disaster because of many "distressed" old men in poor health sky rocketing their costs, but they do the same thing. they pay for it.
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I highly doubt they went with non-soldered parts due to customer demand for upgradeable parts. In fact, I pretty much guarantee they didn't. Because if it was actually a feature they added for the customers benefit, it wouldn't require you to *void you warranty!* just to upgrade. More likely as someone else suggested, it just happened to be cheaper this time to not use solder. The fact that you can technically upgrade a few parts is just a fringe benefit.
Most with basic human decency? I'm sorry, but I just can't agree with that. Yes, the measures taken against Germany after WW1 were pretty harsh and probably went too far in some respects. And yes, there were of course large chunks of the population that were not the terrible, evil people who carried out all the atrocities. But the mass murdering of the Holocaust was a huge, organized and industrialized endeavor. The Nazis murdered some 11 million people in concentration camps, 6 million of which were Jews. An operation of that size, that went on for years, is not something that was or could be done in secret. It's estimated there was some 200,000 people directly involved in carrying it out. With that many people a part of it, there was no way that large parts of the population didn't know what was going on. And they didn't just start killings them right away. It started as a gradual process, slowly taking away more and more rights for Jews, more and more oppression and marginalization, and progressively stricter policies towards them. So to me, the fact that there was not wide spread opposition to all that way before they actually started rounding them up says that the general population was okay with it. They had no problem vilifying the Jewish citizens as a scapegoat for Germanys woes, economic problems and general state of being after their humiliating WW1 defeat and subsequent punishment. Maybe society as a whole was just more bigoted then, but that's still no excuse for a lack of massive, nationwide resistance to the atrocities committed by their government. So I can't agree that most of them had normal human decency.
Bzzzt! Wrong, guess again. The by far most commonly consumed species most definitely is a mushroom, not sure where you came up with that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... And while there is many other species with the active ingredient, they are all still mushrooms. *The more you know*
That was standard practice as well when I was in high school 15 years ago, don't think that's a new concept.
Did these 8 significant figure answers actually include the requisite steps to get to these numbers, or was it just an answer? If the previous steps were present and correct, then they probably understand the concepts and just forgot about sig figs. If not, then yeah it was just calculator skill. Now granted it's been 15 years since I took high school calculus and physics, but even then the teachers were well aware of the concept of only having calculator input skills and a lack of understanding fundamentals. Any answer that didn't include every step along the way was treated as 100% wrong, even if the answer was right. So I'd bet that if my teachers then were savvy enough to watch for that, then the ones now are no different.
You say you are justified because they are your devices, so he has no expectation of privacy since you own them. But then you turn around and say that even after he bought his own devices, you still actively snoop on him through monitoring all network traffic? That goes beyond "my device, my rules" and goes firmly in the intrusive spying category. The fact that you can't trust your son even a little, after he's been mature enough to, I assume, get a job and bit his own electronics says volumes about you. All that accomplishes is making him resent you. You're saying to him that you don't trust him period, on principle. Your obsessive paranoia will just teach him to never trust you and never confide in you about anything serious, because your default assumption about him is that he can't be trusted and you have to spy on him. Congratulations on driving a long term wedge between you and your kid.
But it actually is a higher state of awareness. You definitely wouldn't claim it's not if you had actually experienced it. Being more aware of all *kinds* of things, particularly pertaining to your own life is a major component of the psychedelic experience. Why do you think the majority of serious academic study regarding these substances is coming from psychology related fields? Because the hyper awareness of one's own life has enormous potential to help treat PTSD, overcome traumatic life events, etc. In a clinical setting, there can and has been substantial success in treating people.
Your comment about removing the filters is a very good way to put it, arty least for some of the experiences. As you said, your brain is still receiving all the same external stimuli. But all the extraneous details and noise, for lack of a better word, that your brain usually ignores are instead perceived with the same level of attention that is normally given only to the most relevant parts. This, in my experience, is why so many people describe it as a higher state of consciousness. You are able to recognize and make connections between so many different ideas and things, whereas normally you wouldn't be aware of the vast majority of them. And critically, IMO, you're able to do this with many different ideas, etc all at the same time.
Man it sure is difficult to defeat ridiculous strawman arguments, very impressive. The vast majority of people aren't saying it's inherently wrong to feel proud of the US. I think the point is more that it's okay, and even necessary, to acknowledge and attempt to change historical and current flaws, problems, etc of America. So many people like you frame it in this ridiculous false dichotomy that you're either a chest pounding, USA USA chanting, fanatical patriot, or you're a filthy self hating liberal who hates their own country. The reality is much different, beyond the small number of radicals on both ends.
Did you read that back before submitting? You said they used a mode that no end user would ever find themselves using, then immediately say that you are in fact doing so right now. So devs not count as end users? This is regarding the MacBook pro, a product touted and advertised as a model for power users, a category devs would certainly fall under. While I agree that the majority of users may never use such a mode, I'd say it's a pretty big stretch to claim that none would. The assumption when you buy a high end machine aimed at professional or power users is that it will perform as such. So for Apple to defend this by saying no actual users would ever use it in that configuration seems like pretty blatant excuse making and deflecting the issue. Who wants to pay 2x the price when if you actually try to do heavy lifting with it, you get no benefit from the extra expense? I'd be pretty disappointed if I bought it for actual work and found out the battery life was no where near the claimed life when I used it to do more than surf the internet.
In theory, no, but in reality he actually does have a point. AMDs top chips, which still aren't competitive with Intel i7s but at least with the solid i5s, have to be clocked so high to be competitive that their STOCK TDP is 220w. Those require water cooling, as in officially they require it. And so even the chips slightly below that still have ridiculous TDP compared to comparable Intel chips, in the high 100s instead of 75-95w of the Intel chips. So there really isn't any option besides huge heatsinks and powerful fans, unless you want to go with a CLC, at a minimum.
Are you having fun setting up your ridiculous strawmen and knocking them down? You've done it (at least) 3 times that I've noticed so far. We get it, you think all liberals and anyone who thinks it might be worth trying to deal with climate change are all just out of touch hypocrites. They all hate poor people and don't really care about preserving the planet for future generations, but instead just want to be rich and have nice shit and feel smugly superior to everyone around them. And we get it, you think it's a double standard to help vulnerable and minority populations, when everyone hates on poor whites and shits on them constantly. Because of course we have a long history in this country of white oppression, from segregation, to denying home loans to those from "bad" neighborhoods, to systemic police bias, and gutting all the suburban, rural, largely white school districts of funding. Sound about right? When you want to come back and have a discussion with actual facts and not just ridiculous strawmen, then maybe we can get somewhere.
I follow video card technology/news pretty closely, so I think I have a fairly well informed opinion. But here is my take on it. Basically, what you are saying you generally do is usually not a bad strategy, if you're only looking to spend around $200. That has definitely been true the last 3 generations or so anyways. But while the hype for the new 10x0 series was of course at least a little overblown, for the most part it has actually delivered. The 1070 for example, depending on OC speed on it and the last gen top tier card, 980 ti, is basically +/- 10%. The msrp for the 1070 is $400, and 3 months ago the 980 ti was at a minimum $550, up to $600 or slightly higher for some of the really nice OC models. The 980 ti is a beast of a card, and still is. But I have to admit I was surprised the 1070 could basically match it. So assuming the 1060 delivers the same kind of relative performance, I think you'd actually be better off going with this new gen card this time. That's not always true like I said, but IMO this gen delivers more of a bump than the past few iterations. And it also doesn't hurt that AMD just released an actually competitive midrange card at the perfect time, something they hadn't been too great with last few years I don't think. So this time, I'd say the new gen is actually your best bet, particularly since it sounds like you'll probably be keeping it for 4 or 5 years. Hope that helps.
Lol no kidding. He might be talented, but making look like her is sooo creepy. He had to know how creepy it would seem when he showed this to people. The fact that it's modeled after her will probably overshadow any positive attention that he might have received in regards to his skill. That decision took it from possibly a sweet job offer to possibly that restraining order. This guy must have zero social intelligence, wouldn't surprise me if he's an aspie.
Really? Whole family machine gunned down in the street? I watched the video of the old man punching the restrained man being escorted out, it's pretty hard to defend. But apparently people like you will still try, and wish mass murder on someone's entire family. And conservatives wonder why so many people see gun rights enthusiasts as crazed gun nutters? Pretty good example right here. First and only solution is shoot, shoot, shoot! What a (complete lack of) surprise.
Thank you. I am continually amazed at the number of people who think not being able to be part of a private event equates to censorship. I mean is it really so hard top understand that it's government who is supposed to be forbidden from censorship. It's not a difficult concept, but people fail to comprehend it all the time.
I'm with you on this one. Like you said, he can't go back and undo what he already said and did. And while it's possible the change of mind might just be to save face, no one knows that for sure. So if you take their statement about it not contributing to the discussion at face value, then yeah I'd say it's a net positive. A big public showing is something the anti vax crowd would have loved; they would probably interpret it as giving them legitimacy. So regardless of the true intentions of those who pulled it, the end result is still a net win, IMO.
I know this is Slashdot and all, so the suggestion to rtfa is somewhat ridiculous, but the lead researcher actually addressed that very point. She said that could very well be the case, and they weren't making a claim one way or the other in that regard.
I think rtb kind of has a point, some medicine costs are just obscene, particularly in a hospital setting. My dad is an ER pharmacist, so I get to hear all kinds of stuff about insane drug prices. One example: someone came in recently that had been bitten by a dog, and they didn't know if it had rabies or not. He didn't have insurance. And with rabies, you can't just wait and see if symptoms appear, if you have contacted it, the antidote must be given long beefier symptoms appear, or you could be in trouble. And the price for the antidote paying with no insurance? $40,000. So hmmm, just pray the dog didn't have it? Blow 40k incase it did? No good choices there.
wow I totally apologize about that wall of text, I'm posting through the mobile site on my phone and obviously did something wrong. I used enter and had that broken into like 10 paragraphs, but I guess I did it wrong. but it's still worth a read and a response if you have the patience. sorry and thanks.
I'm going to have to agree at least partially with rhook on this one, based on a personal experience. Now I am not talking about regarding a warrant specifically, but just in a more general sense. I am not proud of this, nor do I often advertise it, but I used to be an addict with a horrible heroin/opiate problem. And like many addicts, I stole all kinds of shit to feed my habit. I was caught once in the act of stealing a couple hundred dollars worth of 3DS cartridges from the wonderful retail behemoth that is Wal-Mart. Long story short, I had taken them out of the packaging and just had them in my pockets. I was stopped right at the door, they had seen me on camera. I had done this a bunch of times at other Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc stores, but this time I finally got caught. They called the cops and took me back into the loss prevention office. They saw it on the cameras. I mentioned the couple hundred dollar part because being under $500, it was just a class A misdemeanor, the highest misdemeanor before it becomes a felony. The cops came, I didn't tell them anything cause they just watched the tape, denying it would have been useless. But they asked me a bunch of stuff just about where I lived, just basic pedigree information. He explained to me that it was SOP to arrest me, but for whatever reason be decided to trust me to just show up on my own at the court date he set. I was shocked and very grateful because no one would have bailed me out. The date was almost 2 months away, it was quite a while. I ended up getting into and finishing rehab before I ever went to court, and with that I ultimately avoided any jail time and just had probation and fines. I say all that to contrast to a couple years before that, where I did the same thing in another city. The circumstances were almost identical: under 500 misdemeanor, caught leaving store, etc. But that time they simply got my personal info and took me promptly to jail. The cops didn't even consider just giving me a summons. So I am not a lawyer and confess ignorance about most police procedures and relevant law, but I know they have at least some discretion in regards to arresting on the spot vs issuing a summons. Just my 2 cents and personal anecdotal (NOT ACTUAL EVIDENCE) experience.
it's not even necessarily just large companies that do this. my mother is a partner in a small CPA firm with about a dozen partners total, and about 50 employees total. now granted it is a total disaster because of many "distressed" old men in poor health sky rocketing their costs, but they do the same thing. they pay for it.