I stared out with an Atari 800 and then bought a cheap clone PC-XT. Then a PC-AT 286. Then a 386.
I remember paying ~$200 for a single fucking megabyte of RAM in (8 16-pin DIP chips) and at the time you couldn't do a single goddamn thing with that much RAM except make a big-ass ramdisk. And that was fucking useless too.
I think I paid about $400 for my first 20 megabyte hard drive. Megabyte, not gigabyte. At the time, the idea of owning a actual gigabyte of hard drive space was about the same as owning your own Space Shuttle. It was a ludicrous notion at best.
What's the fuss. They have been selling 1TB cards on ebay and amazon for years now,.
Some of them were probably real, too.
Lol, seriously though, bogus SD cards on Amazon and eBay are endemic; I only buy from a brand name manufacturer (e.g. Sandisk, Samsung, Kingston, etc) and I do a full R/W test on the card as soon as I get it.
If you buy a 256GB SD card for $4.99 on Amazon or eBay, you won't get a 256GB card. You'll get something that identifies itself as 256GB card but is really a 8 or 16GB card that's had the firmware fiddled with.
I stopped updating my old Win7 box when an update blasted me off the net and I had to recover with a System Restore point.
I recently went full time to Linux Mint and I plan on running Win7 in a VM for a few older Windows programs I still have to use.
Microsoft is, in my opinion, deliberately crashing older versions in order to force people onto Windows 10. That's just never going to happen on any of my computers, never never never.
I recommend that instead of Ring, people should get the DEBARK Smart Video Doorbell.
It's less expensive (~$78 on Amazon) and it can record to SD card, SDVR, or a cloud service of your choosing (optional). Comes with a free remote indoor chime, and from what I understand, it's easy for it to connect to your old doorbell chime. Can be used wired or wireless. Two-way audio, and very good night vision capability.
Ring is waaaaaay overpriced and they force you to use their paid cloud service. Yes, it's only $3 a month, but why be forced to pay anything? The cheaper models won't let you do anything besides receive alerts and watch live video.
And, for the record, I have no connection to DEBARK, I just think their wireless doorbell is FAR better than the crap that Ring puts out.
Then the real solution is to stop watching so much television.
^^^^^THIS. Television truly is the opiate of the masses.
I don't understand people that spend every evening and every spare minute watching TV.
I mean, don't you people have friends, hobbies, lives, outside interests, anything? Do you go on vacation and watch TV in your hotel rooms?
And now, more and more, I see those mini-TVs hanging off the back of the headrests in cars, playing some animated shit or whatever to keep the kids quiet. Seriously, how fucking dependent are you people on television?
Here is a full count of all the cord cutters that have ever changed their mind and gone back to paying for cable-TV: 0.
No, wait, back in 2012 there was that guy in North Dakota who couldn't figure how to plug his Amazon Firestick into the toaster, and he did in fact go back to cable. But aside from that guy, your list is complete.
Personally, I dumped cable about 20 years ago and never missed it.
There. That should be sufficient to have them stay busy for years.
Agreed. Over the years I've tried to use GIMP with limited success, mostly because the UI is retarded, as is the workflow.
Simple things like cut and paste do not work like they do in 99% of all other image editing software programs. You should be able to select an area and then work with it- fill it, move it, cut it, etc etc. But you can't- everything is a 20-step process and it's infuriating as hell.
So yeah, using GIMP is painful and frustrating. If it's any consolation, it's even worse on the Mac that I'm forced to use at work.
I'm sure at the time this seemed like something that would be damn near impossible to spoof, and I can see where the idea was so compelling that it made it all the way into implementation and deployment.
When deployed it was essentially un-spoofable because it was a new kind of "lock"; no one had made a "key" for it because this kind of lock never existed before.
But as soon as the lock (in the form of a vein scanner) appeared, the "getting defeated" part was sure to follow.
I think the surprising part was that it was defeated fairly quickly...I'm sure the people using this thing expected it to be the end-all-be-all of security for the next decade or so.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm
That signature really clicked with me. I mean, it just pops. It even made my stomach rumble and flutter... oh, wow!
You're more than welcome to use my sig whenever and wherever you like, and I would be simultaneously horrified and flattered if you decided to get it immortalized as a tattoo.
Sadly, I suspect my sig has no meaning to a lot of people, especially anyone under ~30. If you asked most people what "33 1/3rd" meant or what it had to do with, they'd draw a blank.
Nonetheless, I'm tempted to have it carved on my tombstone.
Yes, and it's a simple principle: "don't make me think". The person should not be having to sit and ponder what things are
Exactly. If I have to sit and puzzle out what the interface is or what it does, it's not an interface- it's an anti-interface.
I long for the days of plain old simple menus, where things could be grouped logically. Even if they weren't, it was still easy to remember where a particular item or choice was.
Now it's ribbons (ech) and hidden hot corners and swipe to see if something's there. It's as if they got tired of practical design and decided that "artsy-fartsy and mysterious" was the new design paradigm. "Let's make this shit hard AND stupid to use!"
Not just flat fucking rectangles, but so many times a button is made with a rectangle around plain text, such that the button is about 3x as high as the text, but you have to click on the actual text for it to do anything.
Yes yes yes yes. That drives me bonkers- you click around on the button and...NOTHING. Even mousing over the text inside the 'button' doesn't make it highlight or do anything to indicate it's clickable. But if you click on the text itself, well looky thar,it was a link after all.
I do not want to browse the web on my TV anymore than I want to watch TV on my phone.
Watching a movie on my phone feels like I'm viewing it through the gun slit of a tank. I have a 55" TV, why the hell would I want to watch a movie on something small enough to fall between the couch cushions?
But hey, if you want to watch 2001 A Space Odyssey on a 4" screen, be my guest.
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Or how about a raspberry zero W woth a camera and a button.
I think it would be a fair bit of work to achieve the same functionality with a Pi, but I'm no expert on the Raspberry Pi stuff.
Maybe someone else here can tell us if that would be a practical solution or not.
I've not heard of SDVR, and was wondering if it can dump stuff to a NAS on the same network?
SDVR just means "security DVR", it's just the box that connects all the cameras and stuff together in a security system.
I don't know about dumping stuff to a NAS, but I would think that it could be done one way or another.
I stared out with an Atari 800 and then bought a cheap clone PC-XT. Then a PC-AT 286. Then a 386.
I remember paying ~$200 for a single fucking megabyte of RAM in (8 16-pin DIP chips) and at the time you couldn't do a single goddamn thing with that much RAM except make a big-ass ramdisk. And that was fucking useless too.
I think I paid about $400 for my first 20 megabyte hard drive. Megabyte, not gigabyte. At the time, the idea of owning a actual gigabyte of hard drive space was about the same as owning your own Space Shuttle. It was a ludicrous notion at best.
What's the fuss. They have been selling 1TB cards on ebay and amazon for years now,.
Some of them were probably real, too.
Lol, seriously though, bogus SD cards on Amazon and eBay are endemic; I only buy from a brand name manufacturer (e.g. Sandisk, Samsung, Kingston, etc) and I do a full R/W test on the card as soon as I get it.
If you buy a 256GB SD card for $4.99 on Amazon or eBay, you won't get a 256GB card. You'll get something that identifies itself as 256GB card but is really a 8 or 16GB card that's had the firmware fiddled with.
Same here, I recently switched to Mint 19.1 with Cinnamon and I'm never going back.
I stopped updating my old Win7 box when an update blasted me off the net and I had to recover with a System Restore point.
I recently went full time to Linux Mint and I plan on running Win7 in a VM for a few older Windows programs I still have to use.
Microsoft is, in my opinion, deliberately crashing older versions in order to force people onto Windows 10. That's just never going to happen on any of my computers, never never never.
I wish AT&T would do this, as I get shitloads of calls on my AT&T service.
I've resorted to wildcard blocking certain partial numbers to help stifle it, but this is really something they could do on their end.
I recommend that instead of Ring, people should get the DEBARK Smart Video Doorbell.
It's less expensive (~$78 on Amazon) and it can record to SD card, SDVR, or a cloud service of your choosing (optional). Comes with a free remote indoor chime, and from what I understand, it's easy for it to connect to your old doorbell chime. Can be used wired or wireless. Two-way audio, and very good night vision capability.
Ring is waaaaaay overpriced and they force you to use their paid cloud service. Yes, it's only $3 a month, but why be forced to pay anything? The cheaper models won't let you do anything besides receive alerts and watch live video.
And, for the record, I have no connection to DEBARK, I just think their wireless doorbell is FAR better than the crap that Ring puts out.
"Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive"
Right, because including fewer parts and capabilities always costs more, right?
Seriously, GTFO here with that bullshit.
Then the real solution is to stop watching so much television.
^^^^^THIS. Television truly is the opiate of the masses.
I don't understand people that spend every evening and every spare minute watching TV.
I mean, don't you people have friends, hobbies, lives, outside interests, anything? Do you go on vacation and watch TV in your hotel rooms?
And now, more and more, I see those mini-TVs hanging off the back of the headrests in cars, playing some animated shit or whatever to keep the kids quiet. Seriously, how fucking dependent are you people on television?
Here is a full count of all the cord cutters that have ever changed their mind and gone back to paying for cable-TV: 0.
No, wait, back in 2012 there was that guy in North Dakota who couldn't figure how to plug his Amazon Firestick into the toaster, and he did in fact go back to cable. But aside from that guy, your list is complete.
Personally, I dumped cable about 20 years ago and never missed it.
Bluetooth-enabled Wi-Fi buggy whips for the discerning customer.
Other people don't want our service, so we'll charge you more. That will definitely make you want to stay with us...
Is this from Retard Marketing 101, or the new book How To Drive Away Customers?
Paint.NET is way better to use and it's had less people working on it than Duh GIMP.
I wish wish wish he'd release a version for Linux, but I know that ain't gonna happen in my lifetime (for understandable reasons).
1) Make it suck less.
There. That should be sufficient to have them stay busy for years.
Agreed. Over the years I've tried to use GIMP with limited success, mostly because the UI is retarded, as is the workflow.
Simple things like cut and paste do not work like they do in 99% of all other image editing software programs. You should be able to select an area and then work with it- fill it, move it, cut it, etc etc. But you can't- everything is a 20-step process and it's infuriating as hell.
So yeah, using GIMP is painful and frustrating. If it's any consolation, it's even worse on the Mac that I'm forced to use at work.
Facebook developing a brain implant?
Is it April 1st already??
PLEASE tell me this is a joke.
I'm sure at the time this seemed like something that would be damn near impossible to spoof, and I can see where the idea was so compelling that it made it all the way into implementation and deployment.
When deployed it was essentially un-spoofable because it was a new kind of "lock"; no one had made a "key" for it because this kind of lock never existed before.
But as soon as the lock (in the form of a vein scanner) appeared, the "getting defeated" part was sure to follow.
I think the surprising part was that it was defeated fairly quickly...I'm sure the people using this thing expected it to be the end-all-be-all of security for the next decade or so.
Dev Ops is an example of the willing, led by the unknowing, doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
Our Dev Ops team has adopted the slogan, "Delivering Yesterday's Technology Tomorrow!"
If you won't take my money, you won't get my money.
I mean, aren't you in the business of getting money? Isn't that what the actual end-goal is?
It's Business 101: get the money.
But it's not a problem, I'll just shop elsewhere.
I'll also vigorously shit-talk your hipster establishment non-stop, probably on Yelp as well as everywhere else I can think of.
Not to worry- the virus only attacks prestigious, well-regarded publishers, so Slashdot is safe. :)
(I'm kidding, kidding I tell you!)
That signature really clicked with me. I mean, it just pops. It even made my stomach rumble and flutter... oh, wow!
You're more than welcome to use my sig whenever and wherever you like, and I would be simultaneously horrified and flattered if you decided to get it immortalized as a tattoo.
Sadly, I suspect my sig has no meaning to a lot of people, especially anyone under ~30. If you asked most people what "33 1/3rd" meant or what it had to do with, they'd draw a blank.
Nonetheless, I'm tempted to have it carved on my tombstone.
Yes, and it's a simple principle: "don't make me think". The person should not be having to sit and ponder what things are
Exactly. If I have to sit and puzzle out what the interface is or what it does, it's not an interface- it's an anti-interface.
I long for the days of plain old simple menus, where things could be grouped logically. Even if they weren't, it was still easy to remember where a particular item or choice was.
Now it's ribbons (ech) and hidden hot corners and swipe to see if something's there. It's as if they got tired of practical design and decided that "artsy-fartsy and mysterious" was the new design paradigm. "Let's make this shit hard AND stupid to use!"
Not just flat fucking rectangles, but so many times a button is made with a rectangle around plain text, such that the button is about 3x as high as the text, but you have to click on the actual text for it to do anything.
Yes yes yes yes. That drives me bonkers- you click around on the button and...NOTHING. Even mousing over the text inside the 'button' doesn't make it highlight or do anything to indicate it's clickable. But if you click on the text itself, well looky thar,it was a link after all.
No, no no no no no no no no.
I do not want to browse the web on my TV anymore than I want to watch TV on my phone.
Watching a movie on my phone feels like I'm viewing it through the gun slit of a tank. I have a 55" TV, why the hell would I want to watch a movie on something small enough to fall between the couch cushions?
But hey, if you want to watch 2001 A Space Odyssey on a 4" screen, be my guest.
And if the customer demands trendiness, I can make the design flat and lifeless as they wish.
The correct response is to tell the customer "No", and then hit them in the head with a brick over and over again until they come to their senses.