Of course, you'd have to be a fucking idiot to use one now.:)
Or Peter Quill. Wait, scratch that.
Another major and often-overlooked cultural contribution of cassettes was that people could make their own recordings, from the radio or from other tapes, LPs, etc, and share them.
Any environmental benefit here is utterly negligible.
The bigger point is this:
Playing CD's or other locally-stored content is better than streaming because someone on the other side of the planet can't on a whim suddenly decide to stop you from playing it.
The US is a laughing stock to many other countries, and can be considered rapidly sliding towards third world by several measures, but you are very foolish for comparing human rights infringements of the US to that of China.
As for me and my family, I upcycle those old laptops with Linux/XFCE, throw in a cheap SSD (either SATA or with an mSATA-PATA adapter), and they are now faster and more useful than when new.
No person should have the abomination of vi imposed upon them in 2019. It is just not useful.
The Emacs vs vi debate was decisively settled decades ago.
One can make a valid case for Emacs vs Vim and, while I prefer Vim, I can understand why some people prefer Emacs. But trying to compare vi with either of them is just silly.
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Of course, you'd have to be a fucking idiot to use one now. :)
Or Peter Quill. Wait, scratch that.
Another major and often-overlooked cultural contribution of cassettes was that people could make their own recordings, from the radio or from other tapes, LPs, etc, and share them.
Mix tapes were huge in the 80s and early 90s.
Didn't stop vinyl from coming back, did it?
Soon you'll see people exhorting the warm, cuddly, smooth, chocolatey sound of tape hiss.
Thankfully many of those elderly have no problems navigating an XFCE desktop for all their Facebook, email and printing needs.
Just because we're outsourcing both our pollution and slavery it doesn't make us immune from their effects.
True, but not really relevant when discussing a couple of hundred million years.
This implies that they lacked this ability before. The further suggestion is that other "autonomous" vehicles still lack this ability.
Pardon me while I say "poppycock" to all you loonies here who keep parroting that self-driving cars have been usable over the past two years.
Any environmental benefit here is utterly negligible.
The bigger point is this:
Playing CD's or other locally-stored content is better than streaming because someone on the other side of the planet can't on a whim suddenly decide to stop you from playing it.
Vicious :)
That's just one single IP address, and not a valid one at that.
I just had an image of an entire country accessing the Internet through a single NAT'd interface.
Would you drink a cup of vinegar, ie dilute ethanoic acid?
Couldn't resist.
Now what do they define as high exposure, and is it any worse than standing outside on a sunny carcinogenic day for 30 minutes?
One of the ones I saw looked like Paul McCartney in drag was having a stroke.
That book with four separate sets of pages, so you could choose the hair, eyes, nose and mouth to make hilarious combinations.
Good times.
*looks up*
Put down those gummi worms and get back to work.
And check your hard hat.
Not suspicious timing AT ALL.
The US is a laughing stock to many other countries, and can be considered rapidly sliding towards third world by several measures, but you are very foolish for comparing human rights infringements of the US to that of China.
Wilful ignorance is still ignorance.
To prove Office 2019 isn't worth buying -- you and your company should go with LibreOffice/LaTeX instead
FTFY, and done.
Why's that? Was there really not much gold in them thar hills?
Maybe it's because everyone who wants one now has one?
It's almost like the adoption phase is now over.
Why do you think there is a significant cost associated with this?
Pretty much this.
As for me and my family, I upcycle those old laptops with Linux/XFCE, throw in a cheap SSD (either SATA or with an mSATA-PATA adapter), and they are now faster and more useful than when new.
That was my point further up.
No person should have the abomination of vi imposed upon them in 2019. It is just not useful.
The Emacs vs vi debate was decisively settled decades ago.
One can make a valid case for Emacs vs Vim and, while I prefer Vim, I can understand why some people prefer Emacs. But trying to compare vi with either of them is just silly.
For better or worse, "Science" is often used as a term for the scientific community.
And that community can be very, very, wrong when they build models on bad data, personal bias, or funding pressure.
Southern California Edison learned a few valuable lessons with this failure, two of which were:
1. Don't employ muppets who lie about basic maintenance.
2. Always verify your supply chain.
"Don't build a nuclear power plant" is not one of them, despite it being shouted by a small, but quite vocal, misinformed minority.