I think what the GP is saying is very fair description of "the average person". The most popular camera on flickr is the iphone, and this has been true almost going back to the iphone 1. I don't know anybody who torrents movies the way people torrent audio, and I bet it's much less common. Especially since it's so easy to stream anything on mainstream sources or other options (just search bing video - they connect people with all the pirate stuff).
video editing is a prosumer activity. flickr, picasa, and the new apple photos move desktop photos to the cloud, as do music services like iTunes match. aside from niche activities, local hard drive needs have peaked. I've been running all my shizz on 500mb MacBook harddrive that is 6 years old. And this includes a windows 7 VM as well as a windows XP VM.
i say, better a mormon than a catholic! also, scientology for me is a little iffy, but if there was a serious scientologist candidate I would give him a listen. what's up with lyndon larouche these days? now there's a great candidate.
>>The thing is, in the good ol' US of A, where less than 10 years ago you could be a felon for owning 6 dildos
Wow, glad I wore a mask in that movie! Srsly tho, there are plenty of dumb laws. See the book Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance. Better to look at dumb arrests, prosecutions and convictions.
it's the folly of an open-source audiophile that stores 74 minutes of high-quality uncompressed music (the length of Beethoven's 9th symphony) in unencrypted format. I remember when Best Buy was a huge disruptive force in the market... tower records would sell a CD for $18 but best buy would sell it for $12. Does that make me seem old?
you're stretching hard to make itunes look burdensome. one, you open itunes, insert disc, and rip. that's pretty simple. Two, if you have itunes match then the itunes will automatically load your ripped album to the cloud, and then it will be automatically loaded onto your iphone. pretty simple, no?
all of the macbooks have 1 year warranty, and if you buy the apple care it extends out to three years. I suspect you have been looking for problems cuz you went into it with a bad perspective, and found what you were looking for.
actually, GTA V was just re-released for xbone and ps4, so it's front and center the marquee product at electronics stores and video game aisles. its a big deal for these two stores to take down the product, especially if the boycott spreads.
I have the same problem as the submitter. I have been trying a two-pronged approach: * I've taken up slow reading, where one day a week I take a book to a local coffee shop to sit and read with no electronics. This is really hard but good to do. * Second, I got a keyboard case for my ipad (clamcase brand). The case is substantial enough that it feels (and looks) like a full laptop. It gives me the "limited" experience that you mention, where things like web browser and email are accessible but a little more PITA to fluidly switch between everything.
we've seen plenty of viruses that infect a USB drive and transmit the moment a drive is plugged in. We've even seen keyloggers embedded in keyboards. so don't tell me it's not possible. and if you make an ipod virus that's one heck of an attack surface.
i agree with you sir! it's much better for ipods to turn into the equivalent of truck stop whores by letting everybody put files in them, inclubating viruses, then traveling from computer to computer and infecting everybody who plugs into it. It Just Works! you sir should be a security engineer.
nobody said anything about board members. at many nonprofits, board members donate to the cause. the reason management make as much as technical people is because managers were promoted from technical positions, and obviously they're not going to take a pay cut as part of a promotion. I go back to my earlier comment, maybe you should mind your own business and not try to armchair quarterback their decisions. if you feel strongly about it, don't donate.
mod GP +1 factual. I live about a half hour south of SF, in a non-fancy 1-br apartment. $1800/mo. That's normal for the area, I couldn't do any better elsewhere. To get anything lower I'd have to accept a 90 min commute each way. So yeah, the high salaries are needed here.
problem is that every firm, for-profit or non-profit, competes in the marketplace for talent. And if Wikipedia wants to hire qualified people, they need to compete on compensation with other for-profit firms. Maybe you should stick to running your own affairs and let Wikipedia to run theirs. Presumably you could always fork the content to JMJimmyPedia, and pay indian IT folks to code it for you. See how well that works... oh wait a minute, JMJimmy, as in Jimmy Wales? Are you astroturfing?
yeah but if you dispute a charge you don't have to pay it. don't you see? if the cc company pushes back, then grow some nuts and refuse to pay and throw shit fits. if its a debit card, good luck getting your money back after it's left your hands.
a benefit of apple pay is that things are charged to your credit card, not your debit card. when it goes to your debit card the money exits your account immediately, whereas on a credit card you haven't paid yet. This puts you in a much stronger position to dispute any charges.
in my wallet: * DL * personal credit card * work credit card (so track work purchases) * debit card (to get cash when needed, eg for places where the primary form of payment is $1 bills) * health insurance card (for when the ambulance scrapes me up off the road) * AAA card (better to have this in my wallet than in my car, because I can use it for any car that I am in). * transit RFID card * a couple business cards for random people that I meet * a place to put receipts so I can expense them later * a bit of cash
Formula: (Mg,Fe)SiO3 System: Orthorhombic Name: Named in 2014 by Chi Ma and Oliver Tschauner in honor of Percy Williams Bridgman [April 21, 1882 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - August 20, 1961 Randolph, New Hampshire, USA], winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1946 for his work in high-pressure physics.
They just kill them for conflicting with their ideals, rather than for being political nuisances.
The underlying cause of this tolerance of mass-murder — which leads to occasional outbreaks of actual mass-murder — is the collectivist notion, that the glorious Collective ought to trump the cantankerous Individual — for The Greater Good. Once you accept it, there is no stopping...
everybody on Slashdot knows that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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I think what the GP is saying is very fair description of "the average person". The most popular camera on flickr is the iphone, and this has been true almost going back to the iphone 1. I don't know anybody who torrents movies the way people torrent audio, and I bet it's much less common. Especially since it's so easy to stream anything on mainstream sources or other options (just search bing video - they connect people with all the pirate stuff).
video editing is a prosumer activity. flickr, picasa, and the new apple photos move desktop photos to the cloud, as do music services like iTunes match. aside from niche activities, local hard drive needs have peaked. I've been running all my shizz on 500mb MacBook harddrive that is 6 years old. And this includes a windows 7 VM as well as a windows XP VM.
i say, better a mormon than a catholic! also, scientology for me is a little iffy, but if there was a serious scientologist candidate I would give him a listen. what's up with lyndon larouche these days? now there's a great candidate.
>>The thing is, in the good ol' US of A, where less than 10 years ago you could be a felon for owning 6 dildos
Wow, glad I wore a mask in that movie! Srsly tho, there are plenty of dumb laws. See the book Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance. Better to look at dumb arrests, prosecutions and convictions.
it's the folly of an open-source audiophile that stores 74 minutes of high-quality uncompressed music (the length of Beethoven's 9th symphony) in unencrypted format. I remember when Best Buy was a huge disruptive force in the market... tower records would sell a CD for $18 but best buy would sell it for $12. Does that make me seem old?
you're stretching hard to make itunes look burdensome. one, you open itunes, insert disc, and rip. that's pretty simple. Two, if you have itunes match then the itunes will automatically load your ripped album to the cloud, and then it will be automatically loaded onto your iphone. pretty simple, no?
what I hate most about those new lightning ports on the iphone is that my CDs don't fit in them.
all of the macbooks have 1 year warranty, and if you buy the apple care it extends out to three years. I suspect you have been looking for problems cuz you went into it with a bad perspective, and found what you were looking for.
what is a PMP. there are no pmps, just ipods.
how many of the petitioners shop at those stores? how many live in australia? how many are real people?
actually, GTA V was just re-released for xbone and ps4, so it's front and center the marquee product at electronics stores and video game aisles. its a big deal for these two stores to take down the product, especially if the boycott spreads.
I have the same problem as the submitter. I have been trying a two-pronged approach:
* I've taken up slow reading, where one day a week I take a book to a local coffee shop to sit and read with no electronics. This is really hard but good to do. * Second, I got a keyboard case for my ipad (clamcase brand). The case is substantial enough that it feels (and looks) like a full laptop. It gives me the "limited" experience that you mention, where things like web browser and email are accessible but a little more PITA to fluidly switch between everything.
That is all.
oops too late
i think you're missing a step...
we've seen plenty of viruses that infect a USB drive and transmit the moment a drive is plugged in. We've even seen keyloggers embedded in keyboards. so don't tell me it's not possible. and if you make an ipod virus that's one heck of an attack surface.
i agree with you sir! it's much better for ipods to turn into the equivalent of truck stop whores by letting everybody put files in them, inclubating viruses, then traveling from computer to computer and infecting everybody who plugs into it. It Just Works! you sir should be a security engineer.
nobody said anything about board members. at many nonprofits, board members donate to the cause. the reason management make as much as technical people is because managers were promoted from technical positions, and obviously they're not going to take a pay cut as part of a promotion. I go back to my earlier comment, maybe you should mind your own business and not try to armchair quarterback their decisions. if you feel strongly about it, don't donate.
lol like the primary source of Wikipedia expenses was banking fees at a shitty bank that charges fees based on the size of your banking account.
mod GP +1 factual. I live about a half hour south of SF, in a non-fancy 1-br apartment. $1800/mo. That's normal for the area, I couldn't do any better elsewhere. To get anything lower I'd have to accept a 90 min commute each way. So yeah, the high salaries are needed here.
problem is that every firm, for-profit or non-profit, competes in the marketplace for talent. And if Wikipedia wants to hire qualified people, they need to compete on compensation with other for-profit firms. Maybe you should stick to running your own affairs and let Wikipedia to run theirs. Presumably you could always fork the content to JMJimmyPedia, and pay indian IT folks to code it for you. See how well that works... oh wait a minute, JMJimmy, as in Jimmy Wales? Are you astroturfing?
yeah but if you dispute a charge you don't have to pay it. don't you see? if the cc company pushes back, then grow some nuts and refuse to pay and throw shit fits. if its a debit card, good luck getting your money back after it's left your hands.
id is also good to have for airport TSA, getting carded for alcohol (some places have a policy to card everybody regardless) and other misc things.
a benefit of apple pay is that things are charged to your credit card, not your debit card. when it goes to your debit card the money exits your account immediately, whereas on a credit card you haven't paid yet. This puts you in a much stronger position to dispute any charges.
in my wallet:
* DL
* personal credit card
* work credit card (so track work purchases)
* debit card (to get cash when needed, eg for places where the primary form of payment is $1 bills)
* health insurance card (for when the ambulance scrapes me up off the road)
* AAA card (better to have this in my wallet than in my car, because I can use it for any car that I am in).
* transit RFID card
* a couple business cards for random people that I meet
* a place to put receipts so I can expense them later
* a bit of cash
some info not in the summary or article:
Formula: (Mg,Fe)SiO3
System: Orthorhombic
Name:
Named in 2014 by Chi Ma and Oliver Tschauner in honor of Percy Williams Bridgman [April 21, 1882 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - August 20, 1961 Randolph, New Hampshire, USA], winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1946 for his work in high-pressure physics.
The underlying cause of this tolerance of mass-murder — which leads to occasional outbreaks of actual mass-murder — is the collectivist notion, that the glorious Collective ought to trump the cantankerous Individual — for The Greater Good. Once you accept it, there is no stopping...
everybody on Slashdot knows that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.