I used to be extremely anti- but recently have got a Pixelbook (it was so shiny!) and am happy with it. The addition of Android apps is very useful (particularly since they are usually written to be offline capable).
It can't be my only computer, but in the category of non-work non-gaming non-video/image editing, ie reading / writing / browsing / video watching, they are excellent.
I imagine this thing will make sure to slurp up every last piece of data that the good little Google drones aren't already giving the Mothership.
Do we actually have any evidence of them doing something clearly bad? Because it would have leaked by now. This trope is getting really tired, back up your claims with some fucking actual data. I would be the first to want to read about it.
Google push boundaries in some uncomfortable ways, but they have yet to do anything even remotely like you are suggesting they would with this. Grow up.
that a company so legendary for its recruitment practices, would let people who would fall for phishing scams join in the first place. Time to reapply!
Hehe. I imagine though that a Google employee makes for quite a high-value target, corporate espionage for example. You would think that a bad actor would put a bit more effort into them than your usual mass-emailed phish.
We stop going out with people that do. Life's too short, fucking get on with it.
You know what I think life's too short for? Cutting people out of parts of your life because you can't flex for their financial needs. A couple of minutes faffing with the bill in a way you don't like, is more important to you to avoid than their entire presence. I for one don't shun people due to fucking trivialities. God knows what you do to people when you have a disagreement that actually matters.
Sure they do. They provide a bill for X, you know Y people ate/stayed, you divide X by Y and just fucking get on with life.
In my experience the person eating the expensive steak voluntarily chucks a little extra in anyway, usually before the rest even find out the bill's total.
Sure - when you have cash to spare the rough split is fine. When you're on a tight budget and are picking from the menu partly based on price, but would still like to go out with friends, not so much. Surely you've had a time in your life when you didn't have much cash to spend, and this sort of thing was a stress? Or have you always been wealthy?
Full disclosure: I rather enjoyed the first season, certainly not perfect but the strongest season one of any Star Trek series.
I can't understand the wish for the writers to keep linking back so heavily to the existing characters though... Star Wars is having this problem too. The universe just seems smaller when they keep bumping into the same people. Haven't we seen enough of Spock through the decades, the character has been very well explored? The best parts of Discovery have been the new characters, when we spend time with them its interesting and fun. We don't need to keep linking back.
I'm intrigued as to your logic. (and by intrigued i mean dumbfounded)
How is it fine to post AC but not moderate AC? You know that moderation has been on/. since, well, the year dot? Saying something that is intrinsic to the site is ruining it, you might as well just say you don't like the site at all.
I was so excited for another star trek. Then I realized the fundamental mistake, the core problem of this (and it was shared by scott bacula's enterprise) THEY DO NOT DO ONE OFF STORIES!
What are you talking about? Enterprise Season 1 & 2 was almost all one-offs. It only started getting reasonable feedback when they started going to longer-form story arcs. It wasn't a perfect season by any means, but it was the strongest season 1 of any Star Trek. We forget how shakily they all started out.
There you go, an encyclopedia entry. That wasn't hard, was it?
If that's too long for you, then here's a Quora summary:
"Social democracy had made its peace with capitalism. It seeks to reform capitalism from within, and not dismantle the major structures that are associated with capitalism."
I'm gonna guess you're American - there is a general inability to see a difference between "not-capitalism" and communism there. Not everything is binary, you know, there are mid points along the line between unfettered capitalism and "the state owns everything".
You nailed it. People are up in arms about everythingTrump's administration is doing. They will look for every opportunity to demonize a good decision. Trump mandates are minimizing government. That's a wonderful thing. Government is in every nook and cranny. It doesn't need to be there.
Let the private sector handle what it can. Not everything needs to be a function of government (handout) from taxpayer money.
Don't fucking generalise and ignore the issue. Come on, defend this particular decision if you want to defend it. Specifically. Don't just wave your hard and blame partisan politics.
Given that 'seeing family' is one of the central part of 'being fucking human' I struggle to understand how you think that sort of comment will win you any followers.
The rest of us have to get on with our lives, and attempt to actually change the problems rather than just passively accepting them / avoiding them like you have done. Let me help you: boycotting will do nothing to change things unless you can persuade a big group of people to join the boycott. And if your opening argument is "you don't need human interaction further from your immediate neighbourhood" then you will be pretty lonely in that boycott.
If you have MB-range datasets taking up gigs of RAM, your database and dataset are utter garbage.
a) you know nothing about his particular dataset b) so what if it is? We've had acres of memory available in computers for years now, it's absurd that it's taken Apple this long to get around to offering it.
On a *computer*. Laptops are everything now, desktops are extremely rare so the question is "who needs 32GB on any computer". There's no reason not to have 32GB options, and need to, especially when you've got developers and video producers kicking around your platform.
This is the 100th time Apple has released a patch that screwed up certain models. They're incompetent. I see a pattern here. They're going to keep doing it! BUY A DIFFERENT BRAND, YOU IDIOTS!
While Android wisely avoids the problem by almost never having Updates at all...
:D
I do get the joke... but at the same time not putting bigger and heavier software on unchanging hardware is the right decision.
Go search "Lockpicking lawyer" on Youtube. That guy shows how useless locks are, mechanical or digital.
Well, yes, but there are degrees of lawyer. Someone with the right resources can break probably most locks, but your usual criminal will go for the easiest option, which you just don't make be you. You don't have to run faster than the bear, you have to run faster than the man next to you also running away from the bear.
A bit hypocritical to want to charge Bitcoin miners for how they use electricity while at the same time arguing that its none of ISP's business how their data pipes are used, no?
It's an interesting point, but it can't work in practise. With both data connections and electricity, if you're doing industrial scale work then you have to be properly connected. If you're serving a lot of data you need to be on the trunk connection, if you're arc welding then you need to be plugged directly into the grid, and the electric providers and you need to communicate and coordinate. There is a fundamental difference between residential use and business use and is why this stuff is zoned and controlled, otherwise chaos.
If you're struggling to pay your bills and your electric is getting more expensive because someone else is using the cheap residential rates to run their money-generation machine, that can't be OK... One person is paying for electricity to live, the other is using it to run machines that make them money. These actions aren't equivalent.
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I used to be extremely anti- but recently have got a Pixelbook (it was so shiny!) and am happy with it. The addition of Android apps is very useful (particularly since they are usually written to be offline capable).
It can't be my only computer, but in the category of non-work non-gaming non-video/image editing, ie reading / writing / browsing / video watching, they are excellent.
Last I read, only a Chromebook in developer mode can sideload APKs, and in developer mode,
You should read more often:
https://www.androidcentral.com...
Nothing is stopping that from happening now... except for the long line of other semi-skilled workers waiting to take their places.
Ah well, that's OK then. People don't matter if there are spare people.
Society got along just fine for thousands of years prior to the invention of said patented medical device.
Yeah, but you personally wouldn't
I imagine this thing will make sure to slurp up every last piece of data that the good little Google drones aren't already giving the Mothership.
Do we actually have any evidence of them doing something clearly bad? Because it would have leaked by now. This trope is getting really tired, back up your claims with some fucking actual data. I would be the first to want to read about it.
Google push boundaries in some uncomfortable ways, but they have yet to do anything even remotely like you are suggesting they would with this. Grow up.
locked/reinforced cockpit doors.
Everything is a trade-off
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/...
that a company so legendary for its recruitment practices, would let people who would fall for phishing scams join in the first place. Time to reapply!
Hehe. I imagine though that a Google employee makes for quite a high-value target, corporate espionage for example. You would think that a bad actor would put a bit more effort into them than your usual mass-emailed phish.
I've never fallen for a phishing email with or without 2fa.
If Google's getting kudos after a year, I want a goddamned payout.
You think maybe a Google employee is a slightly higher value target than you? And 85000 is a greater number than 1?
We stop going out with people that do. Life's too short, fucking get on with it.
You know what I think life's too short for? Cutting people out of parts of your life because you can't flex for their financial needs. A couple of minutes faffing with the bill in a way you don't like, is more important to you to avoid than their entire presence. I for one don't shun people due to fucking trivialities. God knows what you do to people when you have a disagreement that actually matters.
not all restaurants or hotels etc make that easy
Sure they do. They provide a bill for X, you know Y people ate/stayed, you divide X by Y and just fucking get on with life.
In my experience the person eating the expensive steak voluntarily chucks a little extra in anyway, usually before the rest even find out the bill's total.
Sure - when you have cash to spare the rough split is fine. When you're on a tight budget and are picking from the menu partly based on price, but would still like to go out with friends, not so much. Surely you've had a time in your life when you didn't have much cash to spend, and this sort of thing was a stress? Or have you always been wealthy?
Full disclosure: I rather enjoyed the first season, certainly not perfect but the strongest season one of any Star Trek series.
I can't understand the wish for the writers to keep linking back so heavily to the existing characters though... Star Wars is having this problem too. The universe just seems smaller when they keep bumping into the same people. Haven't we seen enough of Spock through the decades, the character has been very well explored? The best parts of Discovery have been the new characters, when we spend time with them its interesting and fun. We don't need to keep linking back.
I'm intrigued as to your logic. (and by intrigued i mean dumbfounded)
How is it fine to post AC but not moderate AC? You know that moderation has been on /. since, well, the year dot? Saying something that is intrinsic to the site is ruining it, you might as well just say you don't like the site at all.
I was so excited for another star trek. Then I realized the fundamental mistake, the core problem of this (and it was shared by scott bacula's enterprise) THEY DO NOT DO ONE OFF STORIES!
What are you talking about? Enterprise Season 1 & 2 was almost all one-offs. It only started getting reasonable feedback when they started going to longer-form story arcs. It wasn't a perfect season by any means, but it was the strongest season 1 of any Star Trek. We forget how shakily they all started out.
Just because some people mis-use a term does not mean it isn't a term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There you go, an encyclopedia entry. That wasn't hard, was it?
If that's too long for you, then here's a Quora summary:
"Social democracy had made its peace with capitalism. It seeks to reform capitalism from within, and not dismantle the major structures that are associated with capitalism."
I'm gonna guess you're American - there is a general inability to see a difference between "not-capitalism" and communism there. Not everything is binary, you know, there are mid points along the line between unfettered capitalism and "the state owns everything".
Social democracy! = communism
Everything will make sense if you stop trying to make them mean the same way thing.
You nailed it. People are up in arms about everythingTrump's administration is doing. They will look for every opportunity to demonize a good decision. Trump mandates are minimizing government. That's a wonderful thing. Government is in every nook and cranny. It doesn't need to be there.
Let the private sector handle what it can. Not everything needs to be a function of government (handout) from taxpayer money.
Don't fucking generalise and ignore the issue. Come on, defend this particular decision if you want to defend it. Specifically. Don't just wave your hard and blame partisan politics.
Chicken and egg. People didn't often move thousands of miles away from their families until we had airlines to bring them closer.
Not really, the chicken exists, it's here. People have mixed and travelled and flight is a normal (required) part of existence now.
But you need to see your family. So it's okay.
Given that 'seeing family' is one of the central part of 'being fucking human' I struggle to understand how you think that sort of comment will win you any followers.
The rest of us have to get on with our lives, and attempt to actually change the problems rather than just passively accepting them / avoiding them like you have done. Let me help you: boycotting will do nothing to change things unless you can persuade a big group of people to join the boycott. And if your opening argument is "you don't need human interaction further from your immediate neighbourhood" then you will be pretty lonely in that boycott.
Chrome takes what it can to make the browsing experience faster and more optimized. Give it only 4GB and it works sensibly the same.
I see... so you the person who is doing backflips to tell everyone they don't need 32GB of RAM, also will admit that more memory improves performance.
If you have MB-range datasets taking up gigs of RAM, your database and dataset are utter garbage.
a) you know nothing about his particular dataset
b) so what if it is? We've had acres of memory available in computers for years now, it's absurd that it's taken Apple this long to get around to offering it.
And you need 32GB on a laptop?
On a *computer*. Laptops are everything now, desktops are extremely rare so the question is "who needs 32GB on any computer". There's no reason not to have 32GB options, and need to, especially when you've got developers and video producers kicking around your platform.
This is the 100th time Apple has released a patch that screwed up certain models. They're incompetent. I see a pattern here. They're going to keep doing it! BUY A DIFFERENT BRAND, YOU IDIOTS!
While Android wisely avoids the problem by almost never having Updates at all...
:D
I do get the joke... but at the same time not putting bigger and heavier software on unchanging hardware is the right decision.
"degrees of lawyer"? What the hell am I on today..?
Go search "Lockpicking lawyer" on Youtube. That guy shows how useless locks are, mechanical or digital.
Well, yes, but there are degrees of lawyer. Someone with the right resources can break probably most locks, but your usual criminal will go for the easiest option, which you just don't make be you. You don't have to run faster than the bear, you have to run faster than the man next to you also running away from the bear.
A bit hypocritical to want to charge Bitcoin miners for how they use electricity while at the same time arguing that its none of ISP's business how their data pipes are used, no?
It's an interesting point, but it can't work in practise. With both data connections and electricity, if you're doing industrial scale work then you have to be properly connected. If you're serving a lot of data you need to be on the trunk connection, if you're arc welding then you need to be plugged directly into the grid, and the electric providers and you need to communicate and coordinate. There is a fundamental difference between residential use and business use and is why this stuff is zoned and controlled, otherwise chaos.
If you're struggling to pay your bills and your electric is getting more expensive because someone else is using the cheap residential rates to run their money-generation machine, that can't be OK... One person is paying for electricity to live, the other is using it to run machines that make them money. These actions aren't equivalent.