Another example of this is that in Mexico, people driving drunk is something that is often seen. In the US we frown on drunk driving. The arrest records prove that a significant number of Mexican immigrants get caught driving drunk in the US.
Where are you getting that information? I just checked California's DUI statistic for 2010.
Hispanics are slightly over-represented among males, with 48% versus the expected 42%. That over-representation is less than the over-representation of Blacks among both genders, Whites among women, etc. but even those are not all that impressive. The only over-representation that is really noticeable is that of mixed race males, and that of Native Americans and Alaskans.
If you go by national statistics, the picture is not very different (using data from 2016) Natives Americans, Native Alaskans and mixed-race people are over-represented, but a very small part of the total. Most races are slightly over-represented, but no more that can be accounted by the significant under-representation of Asians.
And finally, by self-reporting, Whites are the ones who claim to drive drunk the most. I personally think that self-reporting is bullshit in general, so as far as I can tell, the data suggest only two things:
1) Asians can't drink much, know it, and don't drive under the influence. 2) All other major ethnicities DUI at the expected rates.
You know, I did not like Wonder Woman, and I do think that it is strange that white men no longer seem to be able to win much in the Hugos, but the two free stories are actually pretty good as far as I am concerned. Better than a lot I've read recently, and definitely SciFi, as opposed to fantasy crap.
I no longer read as much SciFi as I used to, and I certainly do not follow new authors before I hear really good things about them. Still, after reading The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palmer I'm definitely putting her on my 'Check everything she writes' list.
I don't know how much of the Hugo is decided by sectarian politics, but the two samples I've checked are worth of the awards. Maybe better works have been passed over, but I do not have any reason to believe it. Now, if anyone has some links to stuff they think is better, I'll definitely give them a chance.
The array implanted in his arm allowed him to use a mechanical manipulator to perform some non-trivial work over a significant distance. He was also receiving tactile feedback. This was far from just implanting a chip under one's skin.
I mean, Kevin Warwick may have made some embarrassing predictions, and participated in some ill-advised publicity stunts, but Project Cyborg was a legitimate proof of concept, both science- and engineering- wise.
Flocks of birds, schools of fish and herds of cattle behave in different ways.
The scientists and engineering who designed those drones are using patterns of behavior specific to flocks of birds, such as exclusion zones, which motivate them to change their course to avoid proximity to others. Anyone who has seen sheep huddling together will understand that what works for birds will not necessarily work for sheep.
Just because throwing a handful of corn makes cats dodge does not mean that chicken will do the same.
I'm one of the idiots who buy a high end phone, and then keep it until it stops working. I'm perfectly happy.
I had a smart phone before the term was coined - I bought a Samsung 'Mobile Intelligent Terminal'. It ran.NET when admitting you liked C# syntax was a faux pas in GNU circles.
I have had a grand total of two smart phones since. All three work. Yes, seriously. My next to last is being used by my daughter as a music player, and I just booted my Sumsung MIT to see whether it still works. It connected to my garage and got refused connection by my Volvo. I felt bad about the poor thing, its feelings must have been hurt.
Yes, I also drive a 1990 Toyota Supra, and a 2004 Volvo S-60R. They were both high end cars, they are both running beautifully 30 and 15 years after they were bought.
I am not saying that your way is worse than mine. But I do not think that I am an idiot for buying what I like the most when I need something, nor for using something that is no longer cutting edge when it does its job.
My niece just got a $300 Windows laptop. My daughter has a 2009 (10?) macBook Pro with Ubuntu 18.04. Guess which one has a better screen, more oomph, and better security.
The operating system is based on BSD, which makes it as good as it is. But Apple's contributions make it worse, up to the point where the OS itself is becoming unsuitable for some tasks.
To add to your long list of example, there are timing issues with certain video cards which make it unsuitable for precise tasks. Quite a few software vendors have issued warnings against the latest OsX versions.
I've encountered them in my work with computer vision as applied to robotic CNC-cell control. My wife has encountered them in her work in research psychology. This is, for example, a direct quote from http://psychtoolbox.org/requirements for Psychtoolbox-3, one of the foremost tools for vision and neuroscience research:
Use on Apple Mac OS X is still supported but strongly discouraged if you need any kind of reliable timing for visual stimulus presentation or trustworthy visual stimulation at all, due to the large number of bugs in the Apple operating system.
There was a time where I would happily convert my wife's Apple laptops into Linux boxes. I really liked the hardware. Now, even the hardware is becoming substandard.
You just admitted that you did something that you could 'possibly' believe would kill the president. If the Secret Service wanted to make a point, they could create serious trouble for you.
You do not know when someone in charge of trawling for 'warning signs' will have a bad day, or will have goofed off for a few hours, and will need a few 'findings'.
People have spent weeks and even months for posting something that is an obvious joke. And this is not even going into 'this could have been considered intimidating by a reasonable reader.'
Some of these are still around, and possibly going strong, at least in places with a lot of students. They carry obscure movies and DVDs, and you can find weird people willing to argue about movies.
The Video Paradiso/Rhino Records combo is still doing fine in Claremont, CA, with its numerous colleges, and all the nice restaurants nearby. I know similar places in Cambridge, MA.
But the Blockbuster stores were all about efficiency and had no personality. So when someone with better efficiency and less personality came along, they died. The boutique stores remain... but will probably not survive those of us who remember them fondly at their heyday.
And frankly, they are an affectation. I have no real reason to rent a DVD no matter how obscure. I think I am just making myself feel virtuous instead of finding it on one of the Russian / Ukrainian / Bulgarian web sites. And I know someone who took Chinese in college so that he could pirate in more places.
That would not surprise me. Off the top of my head, in order of effectiveness: 1) Park your car at the pump in question. 2) Put a "Out of Order" sign on the pump in question. This way, anyone using the pump is obviously in cahoots with the hackers. 3) Master emergency switch. In 90mn, no gas station makes nearly $2,000 pure profit. 4) Call the police... maybe the response time for property crimes is high, but still.
If those cheap people are competent, then it should work out fine, and the sites should flourish.
if p then q does not mean that id not p you can infer not q without more information.
If you accept "if p, then q" you can conclude "if not q, then not p".
Applying that to the original quote results "The sites are not flourishing, thus the cheap people were not competent." I think that this is exactly what the poster meant to imply.
Can you please explain to me how you can possibly 'trigger' your microphone only after when you detect an 'inaudible' signal from the TV? If they have a way to detect a signal before turning on the microphone, it's sure worth a patent!
Of course, I'm just being facetious. It's probably the summary that is misguiding, as usual. In order to detect the signal, the microphone needs to be already on, i.e. the Facebook app has to already be listening to everything the phone hears. The patent is probably only about taking action afterward (sending the record home) I just love it how they assume that they will be monitoring everything around your phone. Well, those that allow it deserve it.
I know everyone harps about 1984, but I think that Lacey and His Friends was a lot more on the ball. Not quite as scary, but a lot more likely. And when I say "not as scary" it's only because what passes for the 'good' guy (a convicted rapist serving as a cop, and murdering people in cold-blood) usually prevents his (worse) antagonists from succeeding.
> Imagine paying full retail for a 2002 model year car.
Are you kidding me?
If I could buy a factory new 2002 Toyota Supra, I'd do it without a second of thought. A few years ago, I bought a low mileage 1989 Supra with a blown engine, spent less than $10,000 dollars on it, and have a 460hp car that I love. It's my daily driver. I could resell it with a 50% profit without trying... this does not include my labor, but I enjoyed it.
But to get my hands on low miles Mk IV? One that no one has abused, or stupidly modified? Oh, boy...
Performance and feature wise, they are quite comparable. Modified, 400+ horsepower, manual transmission, turbo charger, hydraulic suspension, aftermarket inter-cooler and downpipe, - it's true for both my Volvo S60-R and my Toyota Supra. And the mileage per year of the Supra is nearly double.
Of course, the Volvo was purchased in 2004, which is modern only for an old fart like me. I have been keeping up to date with the industry (I work for an aftermarket automotive manufacturer) and hardware has not changed all that much unless you are talking about electromotive, auto-pilot, etc. systems.
The Toyota Supra and Volvo S60-R was both high tech and somewhat experimental when they came out, and they both pushed the envelope quite a bit. That they are cheaper to maintain than a pedestrian car like the Audi A4 is telling.
My apartment complex frowns on people doing car repairs in the parking lot. I don't have a decent jack to lift the car. I don't have the tools to do the work.
I wouldn't advise you to do the work yourself unless you are genuinely curious, or think you'd enjoy it. For example, I love working on my Supra, but hate, HATE, HATE working on my wife's Audi.
But, if you really want to try it, many auto parts stores, at least in California, will lend you tools and a workspace... for a price, or if it is something minor and bays are available, for a wink and nod.
The article you linked is very interesting, but very hard to believe.
For example, Volvo is rated as the fourth most expensive brand to maintain, at more than 12K per 10 years. But in the top twenty most expensive to maintain models, Volvo does not appear even once, while Audi, ranked fifth, shows up a few times. Not only that, but the list of specific models drops under 12K/10y, without Volvo appearing at all. You cannot have an average of $12,000 for maintenance if all your models are below $11,200.
And there are two more things that conflict with my understanding of mathematics, without even going into those which conflict with my anecdotal evidence.
I would not rely on that article for much.
Toyotas are easy to maintain, though. My 29 year old Supra has been the cheapest car to maintain of the five my family owns (in the few years since I rebuilt the engine) and has the highest mileage in those five years. The other four are an Audi, a Volvo, a Honda and an Acura, in descending order of expenses.
"Majority of non-gearheads have poor driving skills, spend money badly"
Would the above statement be well received as to explain why most Kia models sell more units than most Ferrari models? Hell, I drive a 28 old Supra, and I do all of my gaming on PC, and I still think that it's an elitist statement.
We all seek different things from gaming, and I assume that those who game on mobile devices scratch their itch just as well as I scratch mine.
There's not a single browser on the market today that I would actively recommend.
If Lynx crashes, we have Emacs. (Emacs has a browser, doesn't it? It has everything else.)
Extra points if you rework "Dem Bones" song for this.
Of course, Emacs has browsers.
It has had text browsers for more than a decade... and for the last few years, one has been able to watch YouTube, if one wishes.
To be honest, I only browse text heavy sites in Emacs, like Slashdot, Wkipedia, Oracle's Java specs, MSDN, etc. but for those, I actually strongly recommend it. You were joking with 'If Lynx crashes', but if you weren't I'd still recommend Emacs's EWW before Lynx. Easy to search, fully programmable, and intimately familiar, if you have been using Emacs for half a century (I know, I know, it only feels like it)
If you use Emacs for text editing a lot, as I do, it's a no-brainer. Emacs is the Swiss Army Knife of editors... if the Swiss Army Knife had attachments for a satellite phone, water purification, Sudoku puzzle generation... and of a course wheelbarrow handles and wheel.
In '93 I was at MIT, and knew people in the MIT X Consortium. This was before it left MIT to become the X Con, Inc. Motif and the Common Environment were still more than an year in the future.
Getting X Windows to run on linux was an ordeal, even for the best X wizards in the world, even on hardware handpicked for that purpose. Installing it on off the shelf PCs, just because someone asked you? Bullshit. This was a time were an IBM PS/2 was still considered serviceable hardware, and anyone who wanted to do 'real work' was angling for a DEC 5000, SUN Spark, etc.
And lets not forget that Windows NT came out in '93, and the people who groked linux had access to NT as well. Shit on 3.11 all you want, or laugh at the number of times you needed to restart your box while installing NT, but in '93 NT was quite serviceable. I am not quite sure when I started using gcc on NT, but in the Summer of '94 I had three separate projects for US manufacturers, and they all all wanted my programs to run on NT.
NT was a real operating system, no ifs, no buts. As soon anyone got a taste of it, 3.11 was immediately forgotten. At the time, linux did not look that promising, at least to me and the people I knew. At the time, when asked to guess which of UNIX+RISK, linux, and Windows NT was going to rule the future, few people would have chosen linux.
Even most older devices were not designed with the expectation that they would get 1.5V from their alkaline batteries. The voltage drops pretty steeply with the charge, so a well made device would be able to function at lower voltage... or it would require frequent battery changes, and waste a large portion of the charge.
A big part of the perception of "rechargeable batteries do not work" is a consequence of self-discharge. There was a period when most, if not all, rechargeable batteries lost charge very quickly even when not in use. Fortunately, there are modern brands that do not suffer from it, or at least, not so much that I'd notice.
Personally, I use Eneloops from Panasonic, and have no complaints. They are expensive, but in the long run, they seem to be best. A friend of mine who keep adding devices to his company's warehouses has tried AmazonBasics, and says they are crap, and something called Powerex Imediate (or similar) and swears by the latter.
I do not think that the anger is with the high price, but with the perception that the high price translates into high quality, and the perception that unless you are proudly displaying an Apple product, you are a penniless peasant who cannot afford the real deal.
There are many competitor products that are significantly powerful, and infinitely more customizeable. Sure, Macs may be great out of the box - "they just work", or whatever... but I know that for gaming, software development, and education, a properly installed and configured Linux or Windows box can be made a lot more useful. For artistic endeavors... I'm not qualified to judge.
No one tries to convince me that I should start smoking to remain healthy, or that gambling is better than proper saving and investing. But when some people see that my laptop is a ThinkPad or that my wife uses a Surface, they ask me why I don't upgrade to Apple product...
As a car analogy, it's like when you are driving a 28 years old Supra with 560 horsepower and pristine original paint, and your coworker with a low end Boxster is saying how 'that old heap in the parking lot' brings the company image down.
It's mildly funny, and completely incorrect. It is incorrect and nonsensical on so many levels that "informative" moderation can only be a cruel joke... especially considering that looking up the term may not be so easy for a non-native speaker. A bit of refinement works just fine, but plain "High Roller" will not get you anywhere.
In any case, here is the real meaning:
A high roller is a person who gambles with a lot of money, usually by favoring high stakes. They may be a chronic loser, or they may win more often than not, by being skilled, knowledgeable, and discriminating in their choice of game.
Casinos keep track of such people, both because they like to pamper losers into remaining with the casino, and because they often ban winners for suspected cheating, or just for being bad for business.
This is a pretty valuable database, similar to databases of elderly people who fall for telephone scams.
Sandman, Watchmen, and Transmetropolitan would be my "best three series", if we stick to those originating in English. Which one is my current favorite depends on the mood in which I happen to be.
Lucifer, Hellraiser (John Constantine), Preacher, The Books of Magic (Tim Hunter), The Boys, Stray Bullets... there is a ton of other series I've enjoyed, and which I reread occasionally. But the ones above are the ones I consider "must read".
Should one start with them? Probably not. It's best to start with something short, fun and sweet, or maybe pick up a maganize which includes a number of stories and styles, and then search for more of what you like.
Although, now that I think about it, those magazines were popular and common when I was growing up, but I have not seen any for a long time. To be honest, once my daughter came along, I stopped buying comics... and 90% of what I own will be unsuitable for her for a long, long time.
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Where are you getting that information? I just checked California's DUI statistic for 2010.
Hispanics are slightly over-represented among males, with 48% versus the expected 42%. That over-representation is less than the over-representation of Blacks among both genders, Whites among women, etc. but even those are not all that impressive. The only over-representation that is really noticeable is that of mixed race males, and that of Native Americans and Alaskans.
If you go by national statistics, the picture is not very different (using data from 2016) Natives Americans, Native Alaskans and mixed-race people are over-represented, but a very small part of the total. Most races are slightly over-represented, but no more that can be accounted by the significant under-representation of Asians.
And finally, by self-reporting, Whites are the ones who claim to drive drunk the most. I personally think that self-reporting is bullshit in general, so as far as I can tell, the data suggest only two things:
1) Asians can't drink much, know it, and don't drive under the influence.
2) All other major ethnicities DUI at the expected rates.
So basically, you are spouting ignorant bullshit.
You know, I did not like Wonder Woman, and I do think that it is strange that white men no longer seem to be able to win much in the Hugos, but the two free stories are actually pretty good as far as I am concerned. Better than a lot I've read recently, and definitely SciFi, as opposed to fantasy crap.
I no longer read as much SciFi as I used to, and I certainly do not follow new authors before I hear really good things about them. Still, after reading The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palmer I'm definitely putting her on my 'Check everything she writes' list.
I don't know how much of the Hugo is decided by sectarian politics, but the two samples I've checked are worth of the awards. Maybe better works have been passed over, but I do not have any reason to believe it. Now, if anyone has some links to stuff they think is better, I'll definitely give them a chance.
Don't minimize Project Cyborg.
The array implanted in his arm allowed him to use a mechanical manipulator to perform some non-trivial work over a significant distance. He was also receiving tactile feedback. This was far from just implanting a chip under one's skin.
I mean, Kevin Warwick may have made some embarrassing predictions, and participated in some ill-advised publicity stunts, but Project Cyborg was a legitimate proof of concept, both science- and engineering- wise.
Flocks of birds, schools of fish and herds of cattle behave in different ways.
The scientists and engineering who designed those drones are using patterns of behavior specific to flocks of birds, such as exclusion zones, which motivate them to change their course to avoid proximity to others. Anyone who has seen sheep huddling together will understand that what works for birds will not necessarily work for sheep.
Just because throwing a handful of corn makes cats dodge does not mean that chicken will do the same.
I'm one of the idiots who buy a high end phone, and then keep it until it stops working. I'm perfectly happy.
I had a smart phone before the term was coined - I bought a Samsung 'Mobile Intelligent Terminal'. It ran .NET when admitting you liked C# syntax was a faux pas in GNU circles.
I have had a grand total of two smart phones since. All three work. Yes, seriously. My next to last is being used by my daughter as a music player, and I just booted my Sumsung MIT to see whether it still works. It connected to my garage and got refused connection by my Volvo. I felt bad about the poor thing, its feelings must have been hurt.
Yes, I also drive a 1990 Toyota Supra, and a 2004 Volvo S-60R. They were both high end cars, they are both running beautifully 30 and 15 years after they were bought.
I am not saying that your way is worse than mine. But I do not think that I am an idiot for buying what I like the most when I need something, nor for using something that is no longer cutting edge when it does its job.
My niece just got a $300 Windows laptop. My daughter has a 2009 (10?) macBook Pro with Ubuntu 18.04. Guess which one has a better screen, more oomph, and better security.
Don't worry about the guy with the 1kg gold bar. Worry about the guy with 150g of lead in his magazine.
Nope. They are not aerodynamic enough for that. Falling off a cargo plane, maybe. Falling off a balloon in the stratosphere, definitely.
The operating system is based on BSD, which makes it as good as it is. But Apple's contributions make it worse, up to the point where the OS itself is becoming unsuitable for some tasks.
To add to your long list of example, there are timing issues with certain video cards which make it unsuitable for precise tasks. Quite a few software vendors have issued warnings against the latest OsX versions.
I've encountered them in my work with computer vision as applied to robotic CNC-cell control. My wife has encountered them in her work in research psychology. This is, for example, a direct quote from http://psychtoolbox.org/requirements for Psychtoolbox-3, one of the foremost tools for vision and neuroscience research:
Use on Apple Mac OS X is still supported but strongly discouraged if you need any kind of reliable timing for visual stimulus presentation or trustworthy visual stimulation at all, due to the large number of bugs in the Apple operating system.
There was a time where I would happily convert my wife's Apple laptops into Linux boxes. I really liked the hardware. Now, even the hardware is becoming substandard.
You should not say things like this.
You just admitted that you did something that you could 'possibly' believe would kill the president. If the Secret Service wanted to make a point, they could create serious trouble for you.
You do not know when someone in charge of trawling for 'warning signs' will have a bad day, or will have goofed off for a few hours, and will need a few 'findings'.
People have spent weeks and even months for posting something that is an obvious joke. And this is not even going into 'this could have been considered intimidating by a reasonable reader.'
Some of these are still around, and possibly going strong, at least in places with a lot of students. They carry obscure movies and DVDs, and you can find weird people willing to argue about movies.
The Video Paradiso/Rhino Records combo is still doing fine in Claremont, CA, with its numerous colleges, and all the nice restaurants nearby. I know similar places in Cambridge, MA.
But the Blockbuster stores were all about efficiency and had no personality. So when someone with better efficiency and less personality came along, they died. The boutique stores remain... but will probably not survive those of us who remember them fondly at their heyday.
And frankly, they are an affectation. I have no real reason to rent a DVD no matter how obscure. I think I am just making myself feel virtuous instead of finding it on one of the Russian / Ukrainian / Bulgarian web sites. And I know someone who took Chinese in college so that he could pirate in more places.
That would not surprise me. Off the top of my head, in order of effectiveness:
1) Park your car at the pump in question.
2) Put a "Out of Order" sign on the pump in question. This way, anyone using the pump is obviously in cahoots with the hackers.
3) Master emergency switch. In 90mn, no gas station makes nearly $2,000 pure profit.
4) Call the police... maybe the response time for property crimes is high, but still.
If you accept "if p, then q" you can conclude "if not q, then not p".
Applying that to the original quote results "The sites are not flourishing, thus the cheap people were not competent." I think that this is exactly what the poster meant to imply.
What you're quipping is correct, but irrelevant.
Oh, really? They are already doing it?
Can you please explain to me how you can possibly 'trigger' your microphone only after when you detect an 'inaudible' signal from the TV? If they have a way to detect a signal before turning on the microphone, it's sure worth a patent!
Of course, I'm just being facetious. It's probably the summary that is misguiding, as usual. In order to detect the signal, the microphone needs to be already on, i.e. the Facebook app has to already be listening to everything the phone hears. The patent is probably only about taking action afterward (sending the record home) I just love it how they assume that they will be monitoring everything around your phone. Well, those that allow it deserve it.
I know everyone harps about 1984, but I think that Lacey and His Friends was a lot more on the ball. Not quite as scary, but a lot more likely. And when I say "not as scary" it's only because what passes for the 'good' guy (a convicted rapist serving as a cop, and murdering people in cold-blood) usually prevents his (worse) antagonists from succeeding.
Sabotage at Tesla? Given that Elon Musk is mentioning a confession, I buy it completely.
Sabotage coordinated by a competitor or a company that feels threatened? Possible, but very hard to prove if engineered by a half-competent person.
Publicly announcing it without hard proof? Probably counter-productive.
Sending an e-mail to the employees before the internal investigation is completed, and the stock holder notified? Puzzling to say the least.
> Imagine paying full retail for a 2002 model year car.
Are you kidding me?
If I could buy a factory new 2002 Toyota Supra, I'd do it without a second of thought. A few years ago, I bought a low mileage 1989 Supra with a blown engine, spent less than $10,000 dollars on it, and have a 460hp car that I love. It's my daily driver. I could resell it with a 50% profit without trying... this does not include my labor, but I enjoyed it.
But to get my hands on low miles Mk IV? One that no one has abused, or stupidly modified? Oh, boy...
Performance and feature wise, they are quite comparable. Modified, 400+ horsepower, manual transmission, turbo charger, hydraulic suspension, aftermarket inter-cooler and downpipe, - it's true for both my Volvo S60-R and my Toyota Supra. And the mileage per year of the Supra is nearly double.
Of course, the Volvo was purchased in 2004, which is modern only for an old fart like me. I have been keeping up to date with the industry (I work for an aftermarket automotive manufacturer) and hardware has not changed all that much unless you are talking about electromotive, auto-pilot, etc. systems.
The Toyota Supra and Volvo S60-R was both high tech and somewhat experimental when they came out, and they both pushed the envelope quite a bit. That they are cheaper to maintain than a pedestrian car like the Audi A4 is telling.
My apartment complex frowns on people doing car repairs in the parking lot. I don't have a decent jack to lift the car. I don't have the tools to do the work.
I wouldn't advise you to do the work yourself unless you are genuinely curious, or think you'd enjoy it. For example, I love working on my Supra, but hate, HATE, HATE working on my wife's Audi.
But, if you really want to try it, many auto parts stores, at least in California, will lend you tools and a workspace... for a price, or if it is something minor and bays are available, for a wink and nod.
The article you linked is very interesting, but very hard to believe.
For example, Volvo is rated as the fourth most expensive brand to maintain, at more than 12K per 10 years. But in the top twenty most expensive to maintain models, Volvo does not appear even once, while Audi, ranked fifth, shows up a few times. Not only that, but the list of specific models drops under 12K/10y, without Volvo appearing at all. You cannot have an average of $12,000 for maintenance if all your models are below $11,200.
And there are two more things that conflict with my understanding of mathematics, without even going into those which conflict with my anecdotal evidence.
I would not rely on that article for much.
Toyotas are easy to maintain, though. My 29 year old Supra has been the cheapest car to maintain of the five my family owns (in the few years since I rebuilt the engine) and has the highest mileage in those five years. The other four are an Audi, a Volvo, a Honda and an Acura, in descending order of expenses.
"Majority of non-gearheads have poor driving skills, spend money badly"
Would the above statement be well received as to explain why most Kia models sell more units than most Ferrari models? Hell, I drive a 28 old Supra, and I do all of my gaming on PC, and I still think that it's an elitist statement.
We all seek different things from gaming, and I assume that those who game on mobile devices scratch their itch just as well as I scratch mine.
If Lynx crashes, we have Emacs. (Emacs has a browser, doesn't it? It has everything else.)
Extra points if you rework "Dem Bones" song for this.
Of course, Emacs has browsers.
It has had text browsers for more than a decade... and for the last few years, one has been able to watch YouTube, if one wishes.
To be honest, I only browse text heavy sites in Emacs, like Slashdot, Wkipedia, Oracle's Java specs, MSDN, etc. but for those, I actually strongly recommend it. You were joking with 'If Lynx crashes', but if you weren't I'd still recommend Emacs's EWW before Lynx. Easy to search, fully programmable, and intimately familiar, if you have been using Emacs for half a century (I know, I know, it only feels like it)
If you use Emacs for text editing a lot, as I do, it's a no-brainer. Emacs is the Swiss Army Knife of editors... if the Swiss Army Knife had attachments for a satellite phone, water purification, Sudoku puzzle generation... and of a course wheelbarrow handles and wheel.
In '93 I was at MIT, and knew people in the MIT X Consortium. This was before it left MIT to become the X Con, Inc. Motif and the Common Environment were still more than an year in the future.
Getting X Windows to run on linux was an ordeal, even for the best X wizards in the world, even on hardware handpicked for that purpose. Installing it on off the shelf PCs, just because someone asked you? Bullshit. This was a time were an IBM PS/2 was still considered serviceable hardware, and anyone who wanted to do 'real work' was angling for a DEC 5000, SUN Spark, etc.
And lets not forget that Windows NT came out in '93, and the people who groked linux had access to NT as well. Shit on 3.11 all you want, or laugh at the number of times you needed to restart your box while installing NT, but in '93 NT was quite serviceable. I am not quite sure when I started using gcc on NT, but in the Summer of '94 I had three separate projects for US manufacturers, and they all all wanted my programs to run on NT.
NT was a real operating system, no ifs, no buts. As soon anyone got a taste of it, 3.11 was immediately forgotten. At the time, linux did not look that promising, at least to me and the people I knew. At the time, when asked to guess which of UNIX+RISK, linux, and Windows NT was going to rule the future, few people would have chosen linux.
Even most older devices were not designed with the expectation that they would get 1.5V from their alkaline batteries. The voltage drops pretty steeply with the charge, so a well made device would be able to function at lower voltage... or it would require frequent battery changes, and waste a large portion of the charge.
A big part of the perception of "rechargeable batteries do not work" is a consequence of self-discharge. There was a period when most, if not all, rechargeable batteries lost charge very quickly even when not in use. Fortunately, there are modern brands that do not suffer from it, or at least, not so much that I'd notice.
Personally, I use Eneloops from Panasonic, and have no complaints. They are expensive, but in the long run, they seem to be best. A friend of mine who keep adding devices to his company's warehouses has tried AmazonBasics, and says they are crap, and something called Powerex Imediate (or similar) and swears by the latter.
Here is a theory.
I do not think that the anger is with the high price, but with the perception that the high price translates into high quality, and the perception that unless you are proudly displaying an Apple product, you are a penniless peasant who cannot afford the real deal.
There are many competitor products that are significantly powerful, and infinitely more customizeable. Sure, Macs may be great out of the box - "they just work", or whatever... but I know that for gaming, software development, and education, a properly installed and configured Linux or Windows box can be made a lot more useful. For artistic endeavors... I'm not qualified to judge.
No one tries to convince me that I should start smoking to remain healthy, or that gambling is better than proper saving and investing. But when some people see that my laptop is a ThinkPad or that my wife uses a Surface, they ask me why I don't upgrade to Apple product...
As a car analogy, it's like when you are driving a 28 years old Supra with 560 horsepower and pristine original paint, and your coworker with a low end Boxster is saying how 'that old heap in the parking lot' brings the company image down.
This is modded informative. Seriously?
It's mildly funny, and completely incorrect. It is incorrect and nonsensical on so many levels that "informative" moderation can only be a cruel joke... especially considering that looking up the term may not be so easy for a non-native speaker. A bit of refinement works just fine, but plain "High Roller" will not get you anywhere.
In any case, here is the real meaning:
A high roller is a person who gambles with a lot of money, usually by favoring high stakes. They may be a chronic loser, or they may win more often than not, by being skilled, knowledgeable, and discriminating in their choice of game.
Casinos keep track of such people, both because they like to pamper losers into remaining with the casino, and because they often ban winners for suspected cheating, or just for being bad for business.
This is a pretty valuable database, similar to databases of elderly people who fall for telephone scams.
Sandman, Watchmen, and Transmetropolitan would be my "best three series", if we stick to those originating in English. Which one is my current favorite depends on the mood in which I happen to be.
Lucifer, Hellraiser (John Constantine), Preacher, The Books of Magic (Tim Hunter), The Boys, Stray Bullets... there is a ton of other series I've enjoyed, and which I reread occasionally. But the ones above are the ones I consider "must read".
Should one start with them? Probably not. It's best to start with something short, fun and sweet, or maybe pick up a maganize which includes a number of stories and styles, and then search for more of what you like.
Although, now that I think about it, those magazines were popular and common when I was growing up, but I have not seen any for a long time. To be honest, once my daughter came along, I stopped buying comics... and 90% of what I own will be unsuitable for her for a long, long time.