Honestly, if they'd just iterated the 2015 MacBook Pro, I'd have been happy. I've used the 2016 and 2017 versions at various times, and I'm not a fan.
My 2015 MBP was in the shop for a couple weeks (needed a trackpad/keyboard cable replaced, and for some reason the local Apple shop was having trouble getting it), so I had to use one of the 2016 models for that duration. After two weeks I thought the keyboard sucked just as much as I did on day one. And having to use a dongle for just about everything drove me nuts. I have to connect my laptop to displays and devices regularly - tell me, what good was it to shave a fraction of a millimeter off while simultaneously adding the requirement of carrying one or more dongles around?
Hopefully this 2015 Mac runs well for many years... but I'm not sure what I'll get when the time comes to replace it. I'm reasonably certain it won't be an Apple laptop, assuming they're anything like the current models - and if Ive, Cook, and Co. are still running things, those future laptops will probably still put style over functionality - they may very well have no ports at all!
After a bunch of so-called deficit hawks and fiscal conservatives were finished with their 1 trillion dollar giveaway to the rich, they had to do something they could point at in November to reclaim their conservative bona fides. So they're going to attempt gutting every non-military program in the federal budget.
Still even when the flue vaccine misses its mark, it still normally lessons the symptoms if you are to get the flu. It can be the difference between being out of work (feeling like crap) for a week vs being in the hospital for a week and out of work for an additional week.
Anecdote time.
My wife, daughter, and I all got the flu shot. Unfortunately my wife and daughter also have some immune deficiency issues, which makes the vaccine less effective even in good years. This year both of them got the flu and were out sick about a week and a half. I caught it (or, at a minimum, something very much like it) midway through that period - but I was only down about three days, and never got as sick as they did.
It's certainly possible my bug was not the same one, but the timing and symptoms lead me to believe it was the flu and the vaccine did help ameliorate my symptoms.
For a class this semester, Mr. Yermack originally booked a lecture hall that could fit 180 students, but he had to move the course to the largest lecture hall at N.Y.U. when enrollment kept going up. He now has 225 people signed up for the class.
If only there were some means by which colleges could limit the number of students allowed to sign up for a particular course offering... perhaps, someday, they'll come up with one.
I wouldn't call someone handing over a bag at the pick-up desk "human interaction," certainly not more than someone handing over a bag at my door.
Having experienced both types of interactions, and also conversing in both types of situations... I'm going to disagree with you. Generally the person at the "pick-up desk", to use your phrase, is much more open to conversation than a harried delivery driver.
I will order food to go on occasion; but I am just as happy picking it up myself as opposed to having some third party deliver it.
I find human interaction interesting and enjoyable, most of the time... but maybe I'm in the minority. Plus my experience with a lot of these dot-com-two-point-oh businesses has left a bad impression with me, given how poorly they treat their employees - so I'm not motivated to contribute to those businesses' survival.
Nobody wants a wristwatch. The market was never big, and is shrinking. They serve no purpose that your pocket watch doesn’t already fill, better. Their market is literally people too lazy to take their watch out of their pocket. Just accept that nobody found the reality as cool as it seemed in Jules Verne novels, and let it die already.
On the other hand, my benefits are way better than most of my IT friends working in the private sector, and the "feel" is different. For me, anyway, this is the best fit.
And I f the information in Wikipedia isn’t original, it should not get cited. The problem I’ve found with Wikipedia is that some of its smartest-sounding text on technical subjects is lifted verbatim from elsewhere - sometimes referenced, sometimes not.
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I dunno... I think the real problem with his satellite radio plans was the flagship “all Space Oddity, all the time” station.
I mean, I like Bowie as much as the next guy - but how about mixing it up a little bit? At least throw a little Modern Love into the mix on occasion.
After you’re dead, your family doesn’t have to rush as much to make sure you’re buried before you start to decompose.
I was not a huge fan of Star Trek: Voyager - but, in my mind, one of the funnier scenes occurred when they ran across an old pickup in space.
If you like it, you should'a put a ring on it
If you like it, you should'a put a ring on it
(I'm not sure if Slashdotters would typically know a Beyonce song - but this one was featured in an XKCD comic a few years ago)
I suspect people who are paid to do Linux system administration do not make up a significant percentage of Linux Journal's readership.
Honestly, if they'd just iterated the 2015 MacBook Pro, I'd have been happy. I've used the 2016 and 2017 versions at various times, and I'm not a fan.
My 2015 MBP was in the shop for a couple weeks (needed a trackpad/keyboard cable replaced, and for some reason the local Apple shop was having trouble getting it), so I had to use one of the 2016 models for that duration. After two weeks I thought the keyboard sucked just as much as I did on day one. And having to use a dongle for just about everything drove me nuts. I have to connect my laptop to displays and devices regularly - tell me, what good was it to shave a fraction of a millimeter off while simultaneously adding the requirement of carrying one or more dongles around?
Hopefully this 2015 Mac runs well for many years... but I'm not sure what I'll get when the time comes to replace it. I'm reasonably certain it won't be an Apple laptop, assuming they're anything like the current models - and if Ive, Cook, and Co. are still running things, those future laptops will probably still put style over functionality - they may very well have no ports at all!
After a bunch of so-called deficit hawks and fiscal conservatives were finished with their 1 trillion dollar giveaway to the rich, they had to do something they could point at in November to reclaim their conservative bona fides. So they're going to attempt gutting every non-military program in the federal budget.
Eating garlic regularly should help you avoid colds, since it would probably lead to people keeping further away from you.
Eating dog poop would probably be even more effective in that regard.
Still even when the flue vaccine misses its mark, it still normally lessons the symptoms if you are to get the flu. It can be the difference between being out of work (feeling like crap) for a week vs being in the hospital for a week and out of work for an additional week.
Anecdote time.
My wife, daughter, and I all got the flu shot. Unfortunately my wife and daughter also have some immune deficiency issues, which makes the vaccine less effective even in good years. This year both of them got the flu and were out sick about a week and a half. I caught it (or, at a minimum, something very much like it) midway through that period - but I was only down about three days, and never got as sick as they did.
It's certainly possible my bug was not the same one, but the timing and symptoms lead me to believe it was the flu and the vaccine did help ameliorate my symptoms.
Yeah, there’s an unexplored story there too...
Also, the biathlon has been moved to a wooded area outside of Chernobyl.
That’s because there was a woman standing behind him who wasn’t accompanied by her husband and had authority over a bunch of men.
For a class this semester, Mr. Yermack originally booked a lecture hall that could fit 180 students, but he had to move the course to the largest lecture hall at N.Y.U. when enrollment kept going up. He now has 225 people signed up for the class.
If only there were some means by which colleges could limit the number of students allowed to sign up for a particular course offering... perhaps, someday, they'll come up with one.
Dear Click and Clack, My car has termites - please help!
I wouldn't call someone handing over a bag at the pick-up desk "human interaction," certainly not more than someone handing over a bag at my door.
Having experienced both types of interactions, and also conversing in both types of situations... I'm going to disagree with you. Generally the person at the "pick-up desk", to use your phrase, is much more open to conversation than a harried delivery driver.
I will order food to go on occasion; but I am just as happy picking it up myself as opposed to having some third party deliver it.
I find human interaction interesting and enjoyable, most of the time... but maybe I'm in the minority. Plus my experience with a lot of these dot-com-two-point-oh businesses has left a bad impression with me, given how poorly they treat their employees - so I'm not motivated to contribute to those businesses' survival.
Nobody wants a wristwatch. The market was never big, and is shrinking. They serve no purpose that your pocket watch doesn’t already fill, better. Their market is literally people too lazy to take their watch out of their pocket. Just accept that nobody found the reality as cool as it seemed in Jules Verne novels, and let it die already.
Exactly. Don’t blame the Oxford comma for less-than-optimal sentence construction.
We had a public information “specialist” who would frequently make dumb mistakes like that. It drove me nuts.
No, there are two classes of people. Punctuation pendants is the first class. Grammar goons and comma connoisseurs is the second class.
Nonsense. I’ve known comma connoisseurs who were rather restrained in their grammar criticisms.
There's been a massive leak of the Android codebase, too. If you're quick you can download a copy here: https://tinyurl.com/4x7rfdd
Who is this mysterious elite hacker "GPL", anyway? I wonder if ESR or RMS might know?
On the other hand, my benefits are way better than most of my IT friends working in the private sector, and the "feel" is different. For me, anyway, this is the best fit.
And I f the information in Wikipedia isn’t original, it should not get cited. The problem I’ve found with Wikipedia is that some of its smartest-sounding text on technical subjects is lifted verbatim from elsewhere - sometimes referenced, sometimes not.
Shouldn't this have been leaked on Pornhub rather than Github?
Over the next 3-5 years, every other Alphabet "company" will merge with Google. Then Alphabet itself will rebrand as Google.