Was tooling along, happy as a clam on cable at the time.
And we get a notice that the landlords are kicking Comcast out of the building and turning control over to some no-name (Suite Solutions) DSL and Satellite reseller.
What's more, they hadn't even notified Comcast about it yet!
It got fought in the courts for about a year and a half and then boom. No more Comcast.
So I had a couple years' slog with DSL (bought straight from AT&T so as not to pay the Suite Solutions markup) until I finally got fed up with that, and other situations, and moved the fuck out.
Basically, if you require fast, dependable Internet access, DO NOT rent at The Towers In Four Lakes in Lisle, IL.
I'm currently on another property by the same management company, and yeah, they're pushing AT&T U-Verse REAL hard. But at least they're not interfering with me and my 150Mbit cable connection...They do, I'm gone.
Every politician on the hunt for a job has a slick, sexy "action plan" designed to grab a given constituency by the short and curlies and make them want to vote for that person.
The problem is, after the election is over and the candidate is firmly ensconced within their comfy office, said action plan and the promises contained within are forgotten faster than the name of a partner at a drunken one night stand...
Allow the guards at these places to be armed. And keep some of these guys out of immediate line of site so an initial surprise burst of fire won't automatically take them out.
Pretty much anything else is just mental masturbation and an extension of the fantasy that the world isn't a shitty place where bad things happen and people need to stop being so occupied with bullshit that they stop ignoring their personal safety.
Because, here in the US, we have a long, nasty history of implementing really shitty, terribly worded laws that cause endless suffering and hardship for people. And trying to get these shitty laws modified or (heavens forefend) revoked, is orders of magnitude less pleasant than having perfectly healthy teeth removed, sans anesthesia, via your urethra.
Do it RIGHT the first time or don't fucking do it! Because these asshats KNOW it's not going to be modified later. It's too much trouble to do so!
That's basically all Apple is actually any good for nowadays. Affluence signaling...
The thing is, compared to other devices, tablets are actually MORE expensive due to the need to reduce weight and size. This magnifies the cost impact when moving up to a superior spec for hardware. And, as has been noted, most people don't WANT to pay beaucoup buckage for a superior tablet. This means creation of a separate SKU that they KNOW isn't going to sell well. As such, the price becomes even HIGHER as they tack in enough surcharge to make it financially worth carrying the extra, low-volume SKU.
Additionally, most tablets are media CONSUMPTION devices. As such, so long as they can roughly handle the software load for all the formats they're expected to use, they're "good enough". In a lot of cases, a workstation-spec tablet is pointless, as it isn't delivering a superior media consumption experience and nobody in their right mind performs more than VERY cursory media creation tasks on one.
As such, guided by the market, manufacturers have somewhat rigidly defined the loadout and form factor for a tablet. And that's cheap, low power, low space and totally un-upgradeable.
That's actually an EXTREMELY novel approach to sequestration. And likely one of the best I've seen thus far as it becomes about as near to "permanent" sequestration as we're likely to see.
And there's a HELL of a lot of volcanic sites that can be utilized for this sort of thing. So humanity could, conceivably, sequester VAST quantities of surplus carbon this way.
I hope further testing accelerates this project's scheduling and allows it to jump start a full-blown industry...
This way, skeptic or believer, we leave the planet a bit "cleaner" than we found it.
If I wanted a fucking XBox, I'd buy a fucking XBox.
I use my PC for actual WORK, and I wish those asshats at Microsoft would realize this and stop trying to turn my workstation into a goddamned game console!
Wasn't Windows 8 enough of a fucking clue that people LOATHED a non-desktop UI on a desktop computer? How many more interface abortions do they need to foist off on us until they get it through their fucking heads?
Do people want to pay $100-200 for an OS? No? Give THEM a fucking XBox.
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At least tell us which candidate is which.
Trust me, both.
Que surprise.
And they wonder why people are so hell-bent on voting for a jackass like Trump...
No. He's an asshole, but he's definitely not an idiot.
And he's right about the solar roadways being dumber than post-lobotomy Beavis and Butthead.
Waiting for them to change the company name to "Renraku".
Was tooling along, happy as a clam on cable at the time.
And we get a notice that the landlords are kicking Comcast out of the building and turning control over to some no-name (Suite Solutions) DSL and Satellite reseller.
What's more, they hadn't even notified Comcast about it yet!
It got fought in the courts for about a year and a half and then boom. No more Comcast.
So I had a couple years' slog with DSL (bought straight from AT&T so as not to pay the Suite Solutions markup) until I finally got fed up with that, and other situations, and moved the fuck out.
Basically, if you require fast, dependable Internet access, DO NOT rent at The Towers In Four Lakes in Lisle, IL.
I'm currently on another property by the same management company, and yeah, they're pushing AT&T U-Verse REAL hard.
But at least they're not interfering with me and my 150Mbit cable connection...They do, I'm gone.
Seriously.
Every politician on the hunt for a job has a slick, sexy "action plan" designed to grab a given constituency by the short and curlies and make them want to vote for that person.
The problem is, after the election is over and the candidate is firmly ensconced within their comfy office, said action plan and the promises contained within are forgotten faster than the name of a partner at a drunken one night stand...
These days, pretty much any ATM I use, I attempt to pull the receptacle off, just on the off chance that there's a skimmer attached.
I've never been skimmed myself, but my parents have.
So, instead of having a legal process, institute a system of endless haggling and 're-haggling so nothing ever gets done.
Fuck that. Learn to fucking cope with reality you special snowflakes.
It'll be a STYLISH dongle!
For which frothing fanbois feign to forego fornication and fork over funds in fullsome and fearsome figures! Feel me?
And we won't even need a guy in a stupid Guy Fawkes mask for it!
There is only "other peoples' servers".
This is true of both physical and virtual machines.
Whoops! There's traces of codeine and marijuana in your system (contact highs, they are a bitch). That means we have to tax you MORE!
Yeah...fuck that noise.
For jumping up and paying to beta-test zeroeth-gen equipment...
Allow the guards at these places to be armed. And keep some of these guys out of immediate line of site so an initial surprise burst of fire won't automatically take them out.
Pretty much anything else is just mental masturbation and an extension of the fantasy that the world isn't a shitty place where bad things happen and people need to stop being so occupied with bullshit that they stop ignoring their personal safety.
Nope. The Asus Transformer is a Tablet/Laptop hybrid that skews heavily toward laptop...
Ah, the old "I hates me some capitalismz!" argument...
try rereading what was said.
Because, here in the US, we have a long, nasty history of implementing really shitty, terribly worded laws that cause endless suffering and hardship for people. And trying to get these shitty laws modified or (heavens forefend) revoked, is orders of magnitude less pleasant than having perfectly healthy teeth removed, sans anesthesia, via your urethra.
Do it RIGHT the first time or don't fucking do it! Because these asshats KNOW it's not going to be modified later. It's too much trouble to do so!
Two words on this:
LIFESTYLE ACCESSORY.
That's basically all Apple is actually any good for nowadays. Affluence signaling...
The thing is, compared to other devices, tablets are actually MORE expensive due to the need to reduce weight and size. This magnifies the cost impact when moving up to a superior spec for hardware. And, as has been noted, most people don't WANT to pay beaucoup buckage for a superior tablet. This means creation of a separate SKU that they KNOW isn't going to sell well. As such, the price becomes even HIGHER as they tack in enough surcharge to make it financially worth carrying the extra, low-volume SKU.
Additionally, most tablets are media CONSUMPTION devices. As such, so long as they can roughly handle the software load for all the formats they're expected to use, they're "good enough". In a lot of cases, a workstation-spec tablet is pointless, as it isn't delivering a superior media consumption experience and nobody in their right mind performs more than VERY cursory media creation tasks on one.
As such, guided by the market, manufacturers have somewhat rigidly defined the loadout and form factor for a tablet. And that's cheap, low power, low space and totally un-upgradeable.
If you can prove, you get the opportunity of fighting the police AGAIN in court. Amd hoping you eventually recover SOME of it.
This shit is little more than thievery.
That's actually an EXTREMELY novel approach to sequestration. And likely one of the best I've seen thus far as it becomes about as near to "permanent" sequestration as we're likely to see.
And there's a HELL of a lot of volcanic sites that can be utilized for this sort of thing. So humanity could, conceivably, sequester VAST quantities of surplus carbon this way.
I hope further testing accelerates this project's scheduling and allows it to jump start a full-blown industry...
This way, skeptic or believer, we leave the planet a bit "cleaner" than we found it.
Man. Can Microsoft actually deliver on anything anyone REALLY wants or needs from their OS?
The term you're looking for is "cross-contamination".
And neither platform really benefits from it.
What made you believe that you can't still keep using your PC for "actual WORK", whatever that is?
Never said it couldn't. But wading through a stupid "Hey! Duuuude! I'm like an XBoooooooooooox!" interface cuts into my productivity.
If I wanted a fucking XBox, I'd buy a fucking XBox.
I use my PC for actual WORK, and I wish those asshats at Microsoft would realize this and stop trying to turn my workstation into a goddamned game console!
Wasn't Windows 8 enough of a fucking clue that people LOATHED a non-desktop UI on a desktop computer? How many more interface abortions do they need to foist off on us until they get it through their fucking heads?
Do people want to pay $100-200 for an OS? No? Give THEM a fucking XBox.
Let me pay for my OS AND LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!
Yep. Figured some snowflake would rate this a troll.
That's for proving the rule.