Men don't generally want to work as nurses, thus men don't generally end up working as nurses. I fail to see how that's a "problem that needs to be solved." There is no anti-male discrimination, they just don't want to do that job; likewise with women and "male-dominated fields:" if they don't do it because they don't want to do it, that's not a problem and needs no solution.
And that mantra is absolute bullshit, a monument constructed of logical fallacies and goalpost shuffling. To prove the mantra wrong is extremely simple; for example: "all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent" but you're not having sex with "women as a group" when you ask for the consent in the first place, and to deny that an individual woman can choose to grant sexual consent is taking away that woman's agency, an action which is the polar opposite of female empowerment.
(note: I know that quote is used wrongly sometimes, so don't bother "fact-checking" it; it's here for illustrative purposes only, because it's what plenty of rabid Tumblr feminazis actually think.)
This type of anti-social and hateful behavior is true sexism in action. People don't appreciate this behavior, and you make yourself and your agenda look incredibly idiotic when you trot out your sexism in this way. Do you not realize that you are actively working against your own causes by doing this?
Equality of opportunity does not in any way guarantee equality in final results. What is so often ignored in these discussions (and ironically yet conveniently discarded by those with a supposedly "pro-equality" agenda) is the free agency of men and women to choose what they want to do and pursue it. All male management doesn't prove discrimination whatsoever; for example, it's possible that women simply don't want to be in that company's management, and if they don't want to be in that job, that's not gender-based discrimination.
The notion that men and women are in their jobs because they want to be (or don't want to be in a different one) is ignored far too often. Demanding that more female managers be hired at a company due to existing staff being all male would be a blatantly sexist expectation and is equally as sexist than denying management positions solely on the basis of being female.
I'm willing to bet that the extremely high cost is due to extremely low volume. The motherboard-only deal being $500 makes me wonder how the cost difference for a "complete" unit is justifiable.
That's the other thing: the design makes very little sense. It's not a laptop so much as an "ultraportable desktop." I can understand having a rapid prototyping system for hacking on, but it just seems like this is hard to justify excluding very niche markets.
At the prices they're asking for one of these things, I really don't understand why anyone would buy one. You might as well buy a Raspberry Pi and PAY SOMEONE to make a fancy case and interface an LCD panel and battery to it. Geez. What were they thinking? I'm sure the ARM chip in this is better than a RasPi, but $1000 better? No freaking way.
I think it's highly dependent on where you are and how the coverage is there. The only places I have problems with Virgin, I have had problems with almost everything else except maybe Verizon. I don't know that paying double the cost per month is worth having coverage in fringe areas, especially since I'm in an office 90% of the day, but for highly mobile people it may be worth it. Also, I never use voice service, but frequently use data service; no serious problems to report. Then again, these anecdotes only help if you live where the person is that's talking about it, so...
When I had T-Mobile, that was really freaking bad everywhere and my only saving grace was eventually getting a phone of theirs with the "Wi-Fi Calling" feature. GSM is really just pure shit.
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LSR $FF
WTF $HAXXOR
CMP $OUTDOORS
I sort of forget what we're talking about. Oh yeah, Mysq, the latest sequel to Myst, now for your Commodore VIC-20...
The last time I had phone replacement insurance, I was paying almost $8 a month for it (I think that was with Verizon). I think I've used phone insurance one time in the 12+ years I've spent owning a cell phone. It seems absolutely useless for someone like me who puts the phone in a front pocket and actually takes care not to drop it or put it where it will end up in a toilet or sink or coffee cup or pool.
Combine dropping the handset insurance with the 50%+ savings that are had by dumping the contract carrier and moving to a "prepaid" carrier and you've got enough saved cash after four months (at ~$48/mo saved) to PURCHASE A TOTALLY NEW PHONE. Not a cheap crappy one either: I remember Virgin Mobile had Samsung Galaxy S2 phones for $200 and Galaxy S3 phones for $300 at one point, both of which are really nice phones.
As for kill switches...meh, just use the Android 4.x full device encryption.
Your statement makes no sense. "A desktop OS computer" describes pretty much every single computer used to control machinery, excluding embedded systems/PLCs (which are still programmed with "desktop OS computers") and machines can kill users if they behave outside of specified parameters for whatever reason.
I emailed them to let them know that the forced signup was annoying to me, and this is the response I received:
Thank you very much for reaching out. User-experience on the MarkITx exchange is our number one priority. I am sorry that you were annoyed.
My name is (redacted) and I would love to assist you anyway I can. Was there anything in particular you were looking for, to buy or sell? If so, I can definitely help you with that. The reason we encourage sign up to view items on the MarkITx exchange is to protect the integrity of our platform.
I hope that this e-mail serves as an indication that we value you and your opinion and appreciate that you went to the MarkITx exchange to check us out. We look forward to working with you in the future.
Personally, I only use "buy it now" sales on eBay. I skip over auctions entirely. I don't have time to wait on auctions to finish, don't have time to snipe them, and can't afford to not have a guaranteed sale on a thing I buy. Auctions and overseas sales are the two things I immediately turn off after running a search (and I wish I could permanently disable them.)
Auctions might be fine for very casual purchasers, but people who actually need to get something to get the job done are shut out by an auction-only format because they don't have time to game these things.
Sites that require signing up just to see what they have to offer are annoying as hell, and this one doesn't look useful based on any of its front-page accessible marketing literature. It looks like it wants to be "used IT eBay" but it doesn't let you see anything. I'll just stick to eBay.
There's a customer of mine who still uses a Windows 2000 machine. It's not connected to the Internet and runs a rare piece of machinery, and the software can't exactly be moved to another platform. Another customer is in a similar spot except their machinery operates on a P3 with Windows 2000 for a different reason: the software works fine on 2000, but for some reason the manufacturing line occasionally moves further than it's supposed to when the software runs on XP, and that could result in dead employees. There are legitimate reasons to not move to newer platforms. The machines not being on a network and not having any storage media plugged into them largely mitigates any security concerns, though.
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Men don't generally want to work as nurses, thus men don't generally end up working as nurses. I fail to see how that's a "problem that needs to be solved." There is no anti-male discrimination, they just don't want to do that job; likewise with women and "male-dominated fields:" if they don't do it because they don't want to do it, that's not a problem and needs no solution.
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And that mantra is absolute bullshit, a monument constructed of logical fallacies and goalpost shuffling. To prove the mantra wrong is extremely simple; for example: "all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent" but you're not having sex with "women as a group" when you ask for the consent in the first place, and to deny that an individual woman can choose to grant sexual consent is taking away that woman's agency, an action which is the polar opposite of female empowerment.
(note: I know that quote is used wrongly sometimes, so don't bother "fact-checking" it; it's here for illustrative purposes only, because it's what plenty of rabid Tumblr feminazis actually think.)
This type of anti-social and hateful behavior is true sexism in action. People don't appreciate this behavior, and you make yourself and your agenda look incredibly idiotic when you trot out your sexism in this way. Do you not realize that you are actively working against your own causes by doing this?
s/sexist than/sexist as/
Equality of opportunity does not in any way guarantee equality in final results. What is so often ignored in these discussions (and ironically yet conveniently discarded by those with a supposedly "pro-equality" agenda) is the free agency of men and women to choose what they want to do and pursue it. All male management doesn't prove discrimination whatsoever; for example, it's possible that women simply don't want to be in that company's management, and if they don't want to be in that job, that's not gender-based discrimination.
The notion that men and women are in their jobs because they want to be (or don't want to be in a different one) is ignored far too often. Demanding that more female managers be hired at a company due to existing staff being all male would be a blatantly sexist expectation and is equally as sexist than denying management positions solely on the basis of being female.
Create a table, get a POST, Insert contents of POST into table...I don't really see how this isn't the best way to do it.
I'm willing to bet that the extremely high cost is due to extremely low volume. The motherboard-only deal being $500 makes me wonder how the cost difference for a "complete" unit is justifiable.
The question is this: is "open hardware" of this sort worth $1500? If so, to whom, and why?
That's the other thing: the design makes very little sense. It's not a laptop so much as an "ultraportable desktop." I can understand having a rapid prototyping system for hacking on, but it just seems like this is hard to justify excluding very niche markets.
At the prices they're asking for one of these things, I really don't understand why anyone would buy one. You might as well buy a Raspberry Pi and PAY SOMEONE to make a fancy case and interface an LCD panel and battery to it. Geez. What were they thinking? I'm sure the ARM chip in this is better than a RasPi, but $1000 better? No freaking way.
Rule #2 of Slashdot: You do not talk about Slashdot.
You clearly don't know what "copyright" is. There is a difference between patents and copyrights.
April 1 is tomorrow, unless you're a Kiwi. Did they put you up to this?
I think it's highly dependent on where you are and how the coverage is there. The only places I have problems with Virgin, I have had problems with almost everything else except maybe Verizon. I don't know that paying double the cost per month is worth having coverage in fringe areas, especially since I'm in an office 90% of the day, but for highly mobile people it may be worth it. Also, I never use voice service, but frequently use data service; no serious problems to report. Then again, these anecdotes only help if you live where the person is that's talking about it, so...
When I had T-Mobile, that was really freaking bad everywhere and my only saving grace was eventually getting a phone of theirs with the "Wi-Fi Calling" feature. GSM is really just pure shit.
CLC
LSR $FF
WTF $HAXXOR
CMP $OUTDOORS
I sort of forget what we're talking about. Oh yeah, Mysq, the latest sequel to Myst, now for your Commodore VIC-20...
The last time I had phone replacement insurance, I was paying almost $8 a month for it (I think that was with Verizon). I think I've used phone insurance one time in the 12+ years I've spent owning a cell phone. It seems absolutely useless for someone like me who puts the phone in a front pocket and actually takes care not to drop it or put it where it will end up in a toilet or sink or coffee cup or pool.
Combine dropping the handset insurance with the 50%+ savings that are had by dumping the contract carrier and moving to a "prepaid" carrier and you've got enough saved cash after four months (at ~$48/mo saved) to PURCHASE A TOTALLY NEW PHONE. Not a cheap crappy one either: I remember Virgin Mobile had Samsung Galaxy S2 phones for $200 and Galaxy S3 phones for $300 at one point, both of which are really nice phones.
As for kill switches...meh, just use the Android 4.x full device encryption.
Your statement makes no sense. "A desktop OS computer" describes pretty much every single computer used to control machinery, excluding embedded systems/PLCs (which are still programmed with "desktop OS computers") and machines can kill users if they behave outside of specified parameters for whatever reason.
I emailed them to let them know that the forced signup was annoying to me, and this is the response I received:
Thank you very much for reaching out. User-experience on the MarkITx exchange is our number one priority. I am sorry that you were annoyed.
My name is (redacted) and I would love to assist you anyway I can. Was there anything in particular you were looking for, to buy or sell? If so, I can definitely help you with that. The reason we encourage sign up to view items on the MarkITx exchange is to protect the integrity of our platform.
I hope that this e-mail serves as an indication that we value you and your opinion and appreciate that you went to the MarkITx exchange to check us out. We look forward to working with you in the future.
Thanks again (me), have a great weekend!
This discussion is so...meta.
Personally, I only use "buy it now" sales on eBay. I skip over auctions entirely. I don't have time to wait on auctions to finish, don't have time to snipe them, and can't afford to not have a guaranteed sale on a thing I buy. Auctions and overseas sales are the two things I immediately turn off after running a search (and I wish I could permanently disable them.)
Auctions might be fine for very casual purchasers, but people who actually need to get something to get the job done are shut out by an auction-only format because they don't have time to game these things.
I just saw this gem too: "Sellers pay a 20% commission or a flat, monthly rate."
That's insane. 20% commission is absolutely ridiculous for an online middleman used gear matchmaking service.
Sites that require signing up just to see what they have to offer are annoying as hell, and this one doesn't look useful based on any of its front-page accessible marketing literature. It looks like it wants to be "used IT eBay" but it doesn't let you see anything. I'll just stick to eBay.
cd \windows /f "tokens=*" %d in ('dir /a:dh /b $Nt*$') do rd /s /q "%d"
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All update uninstallers deleted. Once XP EOL happens, you can also permanently delete \Windows\$hf_mig$ and then turn off automatic updates entirely.
There's a customer of mine who still uses a Windows 2000 machine. It's not connected to the Internet and runs a rare piece of machinery, and the software can't exactly be moved to another platform. Another customer is in a similar spot except their machinery operates on a P3 with Windows 2000 for a different reason: the software works fine on 2000, but for some reason the manufacturing line occasionally moves further than it's supposed to when the software runs on XP, and that could result in dead employees. There are legitimate reasons to not move to newer platforms. The machines not being on a network and not having any storage media plugged into them largely mitigates any security concerns, though.