You're welcome. Don't forget to watch criticism videos of her stuff as well, though. Most of those are NOT trolls, but people who have legitimate criticism and can't comment on the video since she turns off all comments on all of her videos (except the Kickstarter one that made her $150K, that is.)
You don't seem to see the big picture here. That's how Anita does it! It's all about the money and attention, and Anita plays Internet trolls and the hearts of feminists like fiddles. The only YouTube video she has ever posted and allowed comments on was the one she did for Kickstarter. Everything she's made before or since is intentionally locked down so no one can discuss it, but for some "strange" reason she happened to allow comments on that one single video. By doing so, she was able to vent all the frustration out of people who were critical of her videos and allowed the usual Internet trolls in.
Trolls be trollin' and the nasty shit some of them say (most of them 13-year-olds or actual manifestations of a basement-dweller stereotype, mind you: obnoxious behind a keyboard but totally and pitifully harmless in real life) gives Anita massive evidence to show to sympathetic parties to encourage many and/or large donations to combat the abuse. She isn't stupid. She fooled both sides and played them against each other masterfully.
The people who gave her money are the stupid ones here, though. They gleefully tossed out thousands of dollars without even noticing that Anita played the comment game like she did to maximize their sympathy feels (and convert some of them into cash.) Legitimate criticism of her series and her behavior to get that money in the first place can be found far and wide, and the people who make videos about it often do so respectfully. Of course, no one in media pays attention to legitimate criticism, but when a Twitter account of questionable credibility "runs her out of her home" that's sensational, exceptional, click-grabbing, and therefore "newsworthy." We'll never see an article about how Anita is a professional salesperson or how the content of her "Tropes" series is often quite contradictory against itself. That's not sensational, it's just rational, and rational things have no place in the "news."
Because that's what Anita does. Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn share something other than the same PR firm: they have mastered the art of troll-baiting and false flagging for profit. They use trolls as a pity pivot to gain funding. Zoe's monthly income from Patreon has gone up drastically since her scandal began, and she's now being given over $2500 a month there with no accountability attached. That's a lot of free monthly income and it's all thanks to the power of media and 4chan and Reddit mixed with a little scandal and a professional damseller in distress. Anita got a $150K lump sum for largely the same reason: poking the trolls to get them to say really mean things, then pointing at them and shouting "this is why we need this video campaign! I also somehow came to believe that people disagreeing with me confirms my beliefs are valid!"
What 4chan and Reddit need to realize is that the frenzy they whip up directly financially benefits the people who they are trying to fight against, and strongly so. There seems to be no end to the bottom of feminists' wallets as long as you're willing to briefly drag your likeness through the mud for a few weeks to garner their sympathy.
Anita's early "Tropes" videos suggested what she'd like to see in a video game. What people didn't seem to broadcast was how Anita's master plan for a game that she'd be happy with falls directly into the exact same tropes that she is critical of. This is the problem with painting anything with a broad brush: at some point NO ONE who goes by such rules can possibly do anything right unless they simply do nothing at all. The underlying game seems to be to make everything vaguely unacceptable, then selectively clarify as time moves forward such that what you like sounds morally OK while what you dislike is evil and is all that is wrong with the world.
Anita has a reputation for exploiting "trolls" for personal profit, so I don't buy any of it. The only video she enabled YouTube comments on was the Kickstarter one. Why? So that she could show people how abused she was and get pity money for it. The rabbit hole for Sarkeesian goes pretty deep. It's hard to trust her on her word when it comes to trolling because she used trolling to get $150K in sympathy cash.
I saw the images of the tweets she received. "Credible" is not even in the room while they're being read: no picture, no name, not an aged account, and obvious troll is obvious.
Clockless logic circuits might be an interesting workaround for the communication problem. The other side of the chip starts working when the data CAN make it over there, for example. I don't claim to know much about CPU design beyond how the work on a basic logical level, but I'd love to hear the opinions of someone here who does regarding CPUs and asynchronous logic.
My Netflix app started to throw a strange error. Removing and reinstalling did nothing to help. I know many other people with the same problem. Netflix on Silverlight in a browser worked fine and continues to do so. Eventually I just moved back to Windows 7 and left those bad memories behind.
I vote Libertarian when candidates are available for a position. The problem is that everyone else doesn't. Those people are what's wrong with the political process.
North Carolina has been passing some batshit crazy laws ever since the Republicans managed to get a large enough number of seats to run the show as they please. I had hoped that they would fix some of the problems with the batshit things that had been piling on before them, but instead they made things ten times worse. I hate both parties. They're equally scummy. It makes one feel powerless to know that voting the bums out always means voting more bums in that are not any better in the end.
Back on topic, something I witness with regularity is that anyone who lives in a rural area can't even get DSL. CenturyLink doesn't put in the equipment needed to reach a surprisingly large number of people. Probably 1/3 of the county is on dial-up, satellite, or 3G-if-you're-lucky cell provider based Internet access. I know one guy who has a Verizon MiFi that he has to place in a box in his front yard and then use a wireless repeater to make it reach his home. The cities can't "compete" with CenturyLink due to the bullshit NC law that de facto outlaws municipal broadband, but CenturyLink doesn't give half a crap about servicing the entirety of the county. The cable providers (Charter, Time Warner) aren't any better, but their existing delivery infrastructure is far more limited and would take longer to build up.
The bottom line is that the monopoly ISPs won't spend any money to service more people while taking money from rural broadband initiatives to do just that, and towns that want to fix that problem for citizens are legally barred from doing so. In terms of Internet access, this state of affairs is borderline totalitarianism and should not exist in America.
Hey, that's an interesting unit. Thanks for bringing it up. It's not quite as thin as an Air but damn if it doesn't tear the Air apart in almost every respect.
You can't call on the "different use cases matter" argument and then claim that the opinion derived from a specific use case is "so obviously wrong." Pick one.
Unemployed college age kids appreciate your benevolence and your prevention of them becoming "gas station slaves." They are happy that you have made the choice for them to remain unemployed and "free," and they certainly will not read your comment and think "being paid something is better than being paid nothing and going nowhere in life."/heapsofsarcasm
For small businesses, employee wages can be the majority of the expenses paid by the business. Take a very small business (let's say it's lawn care or a computer repair place) that makes a gross $100,000 a year and pays two helpers plus the company's owner $10 an hour 40 hours a week (ignoring taxes and other overhead for simplicity). Assuming two weeks worth of unpaid days off per year, each of those people consumes 20% ($20,000) of the gross income for a total of 60% of all gross income going to paying everyone that works there. If the minimum wage is driven to $11/hr, the business will forcibly lose an additional 6% of its gross income to wages. The owner will have to decide between passing the overhead to the customer by raising rates (potentially losing customers due to the rate hike) or terminating a helper plus working longer hours to compensate. This type of hard choice happens all the time for small businesses anytime a major unexpected change occurs in the mechanics of the world that power that business. Computer repair shops weren't doing so hot a few years ago when Thailand flooded and new hard drive prices literally doubled overnight, for example; I wonder how many of them went out of business because of the spike.
Everyone seems to point at Wal-Mart and McDonald's when these discussions come up, but small and family-operated businesses are still the majority of the economy and the situation for them is very different from that of a large publicly traded corporation.\
One more thing to remember is that a small business with less than five employees doesn't have to report hiring and firing to the government. If 100,000 very small businesses fired one employee each, you'd never see it in the national [un]employment figures. Some places also pay people "under the table," further hiding the employment losses when they fire their secret workers.
The S200E power adapter is easily found. Replacement adapters are $10 or less on eBay. The rest of your statements are subjective and/or workload-dependent and therefore irrelevant.
You're looking at the Early 2014 Haswell 11" Macbook Air. The S200E has been out for over a year now; you're not even comparing apples to apples. I'm going to roll with the mid-2013 Air even though that's still newer than the S200E and thus is still not quite fair.
How is my S200E better than a mid-2013 Macbook Air? Price: $510 ($430 for the S200E + $80 for a 120GB SSD) vs. $899 = I paid $389 less. I can buy another S200E base unit for that price today. Physical attributes: S200E is thicker and heavier than the Air but is still a solid aluminum chassis (other than the rubberized bottom) that doesn't tweak, crack, and break as easily as the Air; the rubberized bottom also makes the unit much less slippery overall. Servicing the S200E is also very easy. The Air might be a little lighter, but in a backpack full of other stuff, why complain about an extra half a pound, especially when it means a much sturdier unit? CPU: The Air is a Haswell i5-4250U; the S200E is an Ivy Bridge i3-3217U; this obviously makes the Air's CPU more powerful (PassMark: 3419) than the S200E's CPU (Passmark: 2292). However, my purchase was partly based on picking a low power consumption laptop to attach to a set of solar panels, not on maximum CPU performance; that i5 is 15W TDP while the i3 is 10W TDP (1/3 lower). I don't feel bad about paying $389 less for the slower CPU though. Storage: The S200E came with a 7mm 500GB hard drive. I upgraded it to a 120GB SATA-III SSD. My final price includes the part cost for that SSD. Its 8GB less than the Air's 128GB PCIe SSD and the performance between the two in real-world usage is probably identical (though the PCIe SSD shows better raw read speeds in simple benchmarks). Ultimately, the SSD differences are insignificant. The S200E comes with a portable slim USB 2.0 DVD-RW drive; the Air doesn't have an optical drive at all. Ports: Both have SD card slots. Air has 2x USB 3.0 ports and I wouldn't mind having that on my S200E, but the S200E has 3 total USB ports, so I can plug in my mouse and USB 2.0 microphone and still have my USB 3.0 port free for my USB 3.0 external hard drive or flash drive when needed. Other than having more USB 3.0 ports, the Air clearly loses on ports vs. the S200E: no HDMI, no ethernet, no VGA, one less USB port. Sure, it has Thunderbolt, but Thunderbolt is useless without expensive stuff to plug into it (remember that $389 I saved? Tack on a $29 Thunderbolt network adapter add-on to that if you like.) My HDTV and 28" monitor have HDMI; does your HDTV have Thunderbolt? Nope. Does your sub-$300 28" monitor have Thunderbolt? Nope. Input: ah, yes, Mac users love their trackpads...I hate to tell you this, but it's just a Synaptics ClickPad. The S200E has an ElanTech version of the exact same thing, and guess what? It works just as well. It detects when you're pushing to click and doesn't go haywire and move your pointer while clicking (as early PC ClickPads tended to do), it has a heap of multi-touch gestures from the factory and those gestures are all configurable, and it tracks wonderfully. The keyboard has great tactile response and even looks like it was taken directly from a Macbook Air, save the lack of cloverleaf and apple keys. The two computers are on equal footing regarding input devices. The S200E has a touchscreen as well, but fuck touchscreens. Display: The panels in use are apparently identical; I doubt there are many choices for a thin glossy 11.6" LED LCD at 1366x768. Conclusion: I paid $389 less. I sacrificed 1/3 of the CPU power but got 1/3 the CPU wattage back in exchange. I only got one USB 3.0 port but
I'm not sure about the Macbook Air (the 11" model at least) having better color. The LCD panel in this Asus is much better than I'd have expected in a ~$450 ultraportable laptop. I wouldn't be surprised if the Air uses the exact same panel and the exact same quality. Another thing to consider about the S200E (and its near-twin, the X202E) is that it's an older release than the most 2014 Haswell Macbook Air, so comparing those isn't exactly apples-to-apples (no pun intended) in the first place. I found it interesting that the latest Air incarnation offers a sub-$999 model though; that's a step in the right direction, but they're still too thin and they still lack a network socket or HDMI, two things that are very important to me in a laptop. No, Thunderbolt isn't an acceptable substitute for HDMI, but thanks.
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You're welcome. Don't forget to watch criticism videos of her stuff as well, though. Most of those are NOT trolls, but people who have legitimate criticism and can't comment on the video since she turns off all comments on all of her videos (except the Kickstarter one that made her $150K, that is.)
You don't seem to see the big picture here. That's how Anita does it! It's all about the money and attention, and Anita plays Internet trolls and the hearts of feminists like fiddles. The only YouTube video she has ever posted and allowed comments on was the one she did for Kickstarter. Everything she's made before or since is intentionally locked down so no one can discuss it, but for some "strange" reason she happened to allow comments on that one single video. By doing so, she was able to vent all the frustration out of people who were critical of her videos and allowed the usual Internet trolls in.
Trolls be trollin' and the nasty shit some of them say (most of them 13-year-olds or actual manifestations of a basement-dweller stereotype, mind you: obnoxious behind a keyboard but totally and pitifully harmless in real life) gives Anita massive evidence to show to sympathetic parties to encourage many and/or large donations to combat the abuse. She isn't stupid. She fooled both sides and played them against each other masterfully.
The people who gave her money are the stupid ones here, though. They gleefully tossed out thousands of dollars without even noticing that Anita played the comment game like she did to maximize their sympathy feels (and convert some of them into cash.) Legitimate criticism of her series and her behavior to get that money in the first place can be found far and wide, and the people who make videos about it often do so respectfully. Of course, no one in media pays attention to legitimate criticism, but when a Twitter account of questionable credibility "runs her out of her home" that's sensational, exceptional, click-grabbing, and therefore "newsworthy." We'll never see an article about how Anita is a professional salesperson or how the content of her "Tropes" series is often quite contradictory against itself. That's not sensational, it's just rational, and rational things have no place in the "news."
At trial your right to face your accuser would be handled by bringing in a large mirror.
Anita got the screenshot from somewhere; either she took it or someone else did and sent it to her. Why doesn't someone just ask her?
End of thread.
Because that's what Anita does. Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn share something other than the same PR firm: they have mastered the art of troll-baiting and false flagging for profit. They use trolls as a pity pivot to gain funding. Zoe's monthly income from Patreon has gone up drastically since her scandal began, and she's now being given over $2500 a month there with no accountability attached. That's a lot of free monthly income and it's all thanks to the power of media and 4chan and Reddit mixed with a little scandal and a professional damseller in distress. Anita got a $150K lump sum for largely the same reason: poking the trolls to get them to say really mean things, then pointing at them and shouting "this is why we need this video campaign! I also somehow came to believe that people disagreeing with me confirms my beliefs are valid!"
What 4chan and Reddit need to realize is that the frenzy they whip up directly financially benefits the people who they are trying to fight against, and strongly so. There seems to be no end to the bottom of feminists' wallets as long as you're willing to briefly drag your likeness through the mud for a few weeks to garner their sympathy.
Anita's early "Tropes" videos suggested what she'd like to see in a video game. What people didn't seem to broadcast was how Anita's master plan for a game that she'd be happy with falls directly into the exact same tropes that she is critical of. This is the problem with painting anything with a broad brush: at some point NO ONE who goes by such rules can possibly do anything right unless they simply do nothing at all. The underlying game seems to be to make everything vaguely unacceptable, then selectively clarify as time moves forward such that what you like sounds morally OK while what you dislike is evil and is all that is wrong with the world.
Anita has a reputation for exploiting "trolls" for personal profit, so I don't buy any of it. The only video she enabled YouTube comments on was the Kickstarter one. Why? So that she could show people how abused she was and get pity money for it. The rabbit hole for Sarkeesian goes pretty deep. It's hard to trust her on her word when it comes to trolling because she used trolling to get $150K in sympathy cash.
I saw the images of the tweets she received. "Credible" is not even in the room while they're being read: no picture, no name, not an aged account, and obvious troll is obvious.
More relevant links to asynchronous/clockless computing:
http://www.embedded.com/design...
http://www.technologyreview.co...
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03...
Clockless logic circuits might be an interesting workaround for the communication problem. The other side of the chip starts working when the data CAN make it over there, for example. I don't claim to know much about CPU design beyond how the work on a basic logical level, but I'd love to hear the opinions of someone here who does regarding CPUs and asynchronous logic.
http://www.islandpacket.com/20...
Microsoft can stop people from getting Windows 7? Crack tool authors would disagree.
My Netflix app started to throw a strange error. Removing and reinstalling did nothing to help. I know many other people with the same problem. Netflix on Silverlight in a browser worked fine and continues to do so. Eventually I just moved back to Windows 7 and left those bad memories behind.
Mod parent up...heavily.
I vote Libertarian when candidates are available for a position. The problem is that everyone else doesn't. Those people are what's wrong with the political process.
Because the Democrats had already managed to royally fuck things up before the Republicans showed up. Hell, the NC Democrats started the process of ruining NC broadband in the first place. Granted, there's an equal number of "R" sponsors listed...but look at who wrote it up in the first place.
Also of interest to readers of this post: a blog the City of Wilson started when they got fed up and took things into their own hands.
North Carolina has been passing some batshit crazy laws ever since the Republicans managed to get a large enough number of seats to run the show as they please. I had hoped that they would fix some of the problems with the batshit things that had been piling on before them, but instead they made things ten times worse. I hate both parties. They're equally scummy. It makes one feel powerless to know that voting the bums out always means voting more bums in that are not any better in the end.
Back on topic, something I witness with regularity is that anyone who lives in a rural area can't even get DSL. CenturyLink doesn't put in the equipment needed to reach a surprisingly large number of people. Probably 1/3 of the county is on dial-up, satellite, or 3G-if-you're-lucky cell provider based Internet access. I know one guy who has a Verizon MiFi that he has to place in a box in his front yard and then use a wireless repeater to make it reach his home. The cities can't "compete" with CenturyLink due to the bullshit NC law that de facto outlaws municipal broadband, but CenturyLink doesn't give half a crap about servicing the entirety of the county. The cable providers (Charter, Time Warner) aren't any better, but their existing delivery infrastructure is far more limited and would take longer to build up.
The bottom line is that the monopoly ISPs won't spend any money to service more people while taking money from rural broadband initiatives to do just that, and towns that want to fix that problem for citizens are legally barred from doing so. In terms of Internet access, this state of affairs is borderline totalitarianism and should not exist in America.
Hey, that's an interesting unit. Thanks for bringing it up. It's not quite as thin as an Air but damn if it doesn't tear the Air apart in almost every respect.
Because of your statements, I must ask you: what is a MacBook Air?
You can't call on the "different use cases matter" argument and then claim that the opinion derived from a specific use case is "so obviously wrong." Pick one.
Unemployed college age kids appreciate your benevolence and your prevention of them becoming "gas station slaves." They are happy that you have made the choice for them to remain unemployed and "free," and they certainly will not read your comment and think "being paid something is better than being paid nothing and going nowhere in life." /heapsofsarcasm
For small businesses, employee wages can be the majority of the expenses paid by the business. Take a very small business (let's say it's lawn care or a computer repair place) that makes a gross $100,000 a year and pays two helpers plus the company's owner $10 an hour 40 hours a week (ignoring taxes and other overhead for simplicity). Assuming two weeks worth of unpaid days off per year, each of those people consumes 20% ($20,000) of the gross income for a total of 60% of all gross income going to paying everyone that works there. If the minimum wage is driven to $11/hr, the business will forcibly lose an additional 6% of its gross income to wages. The owner will have to decide between passing the overhead to the customer by raising rates (potentially losing customers due to the rate hike) or terminating a helper plus working longer hours to compensate. This type of hard choice happens all the time for small businesses anytime a major unexpected change occurs in the mechanics of the world that power that business. Computer repair shops weren't doing so hot a few years ago when Thailand flooded and new hard drive prices literally doubled overnight, for example; I wonder how many of them went out of business because of the spike.
Everyone seems to point at Wal-Mart and McDonald's when these discussions come up, but small and family-operated businesses are still the majority of the economy and the situation for them is very different from that of a large publicly traded corporation.\
One more thing to remember is that a small business with less than five employees doesn't have to report hiring and firing to the government. If 100,000 very small businesses fired one employee each, you'd never see it in the national [un]employment figures. Some places also pay people "under the table," further hiding the employment losses when they fire their secret workers.
The S200E power adapter is easily found. Replacement adapters are $10 or less on eBay. The rest of your statements are subjective and/or workload-dependent and therefore irrelevant.
You're looking at the Early 2014 Haswell 11" Macbook Air. The S200E has been out for over a year now; you're not even comparing apples to apples. I'm going to roll with the mid-2013 Air even though that's still newer than the S200E and thus is still not quite fair.
How is my S200E better than a mid-2013 Macbook Air?
Price: $510 ($430 for the S200E + $80 for a 120GB SSD) vs. $899 = I paid $389 less. I can buy another S200E base unit for that price today.
Physical attributes: S200E is thicker and heavier than the Air but is still a solid aluminum chassis (other than the rubberized bottom) that doesn't tweak, crack, and break as easily as the Air; the rubberized bottom also makes the unit much less slippery overall. Servicing the S200E is also very easy. The Air might be a little lighter, but in a backpack full of other stuff, why complain about an extra half a pound, especially when it means a much sturdier unit?
CPU: The Air is a Haswell i5-4250U; the S200E is an Ivy Bridge i3-3217U; this obviously makes the Air's CPU more powerful (PassMark: 3419) than the S200E's CPU (Passmark: 2292). However, my purchase was partly based on picking a low power consumption laptop to attach to a set of solar panels, not on maximum CPU performance; that i5 is 15W TDP while the i3 is 10W TDP (1/3 lower). I don't feel bad about paying $389 less for the slower CPU though.
Storage: The S200E came with a 7mm 500GB hard drive. I upgraded it to a 120GB SATA-III SSD. My final price includes the part cost for that SSD. Its 8GB less than the Air's 128GB PCIe SSD and the performance between the two in real-world usage is probably identical (though the PCIe SSD shows better raw read speeds in simple benchmarks). Ultimately, the SSD differences are insignificant. The S200E comes with a portable slim USB 2.0 DVD-RW drive; the Air doesn't have an optical drive at all.
Ports: Both have SD card slots. Air has 2x USB 3.0 ports and I wouldn't mind having that on my S200E, but the S200E has 3 total USB ports, so I can plug in my mouse and USB 2.0 microphone and still have my USB 3.0 port free for my USB 3.0 external hard drive or flash drive when needed. Other than having more USB 3.0 ports, the Air clearly loses on ports vs. the S200E: no HDMI, no ethernet, no VGA, one less USB port. Sure, it has Thunderbolt, but Thunderbolt is useless without expensive stuff to plug into it (remember that $389 I saved? Tack on a $29 Thunderbolt network adapter add-on to that if you like.) My HDTV and 28" monitor have HDMI; does your HDTV have Thunderbolt? Nope. Does your sub-$300 28" monitor have Thunderbolt? Nope.
Input: ah, yes, Mac users love their trackpads...I hate to tell you this, but it's just a Synaptics ClickPad. The S200E has an ElanTech version of the exact same thing, and guess what? It works just as well. It detects when you're pushing to click and doesn't go haywire and move your pointer while clicking (as early PC ClickPads tended to do), it has a heap of multi-touch gestures from the factory and those gestures are all configurable, and it tracks wonderfully. The keyboard has great tactile response and even looks like it was taken directly from a Macbook Air, save the lack of cloverleaf and apple keys. The two computers are on equal footing regarding input devices. The S200E has a touchscreen as well, but fuck touchscreens.
Display: The panels in use are apparently identical; I doubt there are many choices for a thin glossy 11.6" LED LCD at 1366x768.
Conclusion: I paid $389 less. I sacrificed 1/3 of the CPU power but got 1/3 the CPU wattage back in exchange. I only got one USB 3.0 port but
I'm not sure about the Macbook Air (the 11" model at least) having better color. The LCD panel in this Asus is much better than I'd have expected in a ~$450 ultraportable laptop. I wouldn't be surprised if the Air uses the exact same panel and the exact same quality. Another thing to consider about the S200E (and its near-twin, the X202E) is that it's an older release than the most 2014 Haswell Macbook Air, so comparing those isn't exactly apples-to-apples (no pun intended) in the first place. I found it interesting that the latest Air incarnation offers a sub-$999 model though; that's a step in the right direction, but they're still too thin and they still lack a network socket or HDMI, two things that are very important to me in a laptop. No, Thunderbolt isn't an acceptable substitute for HDMI, but thanks.
Not anymore.