For the love of god, don't do this to yourself. Just get a Macbook Air. $800 might be a bit overpriced but Linux = wasted time plus limited programs.
I can't imagine wanting to get an expensive new laptop and putting Linux on it. It's something you do to an old laptop - you can't game on it, you won't use it for media applications. Linux is either going to be used for a server that needs something faster than the fastest laptop, or is just for dicking around on the web, in which case just get the cheapest thing you can.
Nobody in the world needs/wants a high-end Linux laptop.
And the time on your hands. Are you gainfully employed? How much $/hour does your time work out to?
Even if I do want a small plastic widget, I can't really think of anything wanted off the top of my head. Maybe I could use something, I suppose, but it's a small need. I don't enjoy designing small plastic widgets, and the cost of my own labor to design them is hundreds of dollars, and designing plastic widgets is not something I enjoy or care to build a skill at.
So inevitably, I would just buy the designs off the internet...at which point the whole exercise becomes pointless. If I'm just going to buy designs anyway, why not buy the plastic widget off Amazon or EBay? I can do that know, it's cheap, and after shipping will usually work out to $5-$10.
He sold a company that was in the process of going bankrupt to a big technology company that was desperate to enter the cell phone market. It was a smart move for the shareholders.
The company was going to shit before he was ever hired as CEO. Him saying "Symbian sucks" was just acknowledging what was widely acknowledged in the marketplace. It was certainly not immensely popular. It was a complete joke compared to the iPhone or even Android 2. No rational person would look at Symbian, iPhone, or Android, and choose Symbian. At that point, Nokia was basically in the business of selling dumbphones to poor people, because $50 Android phones were still a year away.
Elop was hired as CEO...what do you think happened to the previous CEO? Hint: He didn't get old and retire, he didn't get elected Emperor of Finland. Actually, he was fired for doing a bad job. A quick Google says that under the previous CEO, Nokia went from 38% to 21% in just four years, and he hadn't been able to come up with an adequate response to the Apple iPhone that re-made the industry.
The worst thing you can say about Elop is that he took a company that was clearly already falling apart and in a terrible position, and was unable to turn it around.
Plex is easier and does the same thing, with an attractive interface. Running a samba server and copying files isn't difficult, but it's time wasted when an easier solution exists. Plus, doing this via Plex means you always have access to your full library.
If I'm away from home, I have a phone with 4G (unlimited data for $50/month), or maybe I run wifi at work.
It's so easy and works so well, I see it as a no-brainer. You don't need a subscription pass for many use cases; I don't have one and my wife and I run Plex off computers, phones, TV, Roku, and tablets.
There's other studies that show people are really terrible at estimating how many calories they eat. I think that is far more likely than magical gut bacteria that violate laws of thermodynamics.
it can be so bad that the number of calories they need to take in can be below the level at which normal western food can supply enough nutrition.
Complete nonsense. There is no problem with dieters regularly getting scurvy. Getting enough nutrition is possible through eating a simple salad, which is a part of the normal western diet (theoretically).
From the article: "aspartame does not block the enzyme directly. It does so through one of its intestinal breakdown products called phenylalanine."
So I guess phenylaline is a terrible substance that gives people the fats?
"Good sources of phenylalanine are eggs, chicken, liver, beef, milk, and soybeans. Other sources include spinach and leafy greens, tofu, amaranth leaves, and lupin seeds." It's also an important component of mother's milk.
So, I guess the same logic as this study could tell you to never eat some of the healthiest foods we are aware of, or else you will get fat. This is just yet another article that tries to come up with some reason why it's not as simple as calorie in v. calorie out, when calorie in v. calorie out has been thorougly proven. Aspartame has been so thoroughly tested that a study that injects superdoses into the stomachs of mice doesn't prove anything.
Let's also keep in mind, we don't have a collection of the contemporary saying of Vikings or Genghis Khan-era Mongols. What we know about them is inferred through the historical records, or through the words of their enemies writing many years after the actual events - enemies who themselves could not communicate with Vikings or Mongols, had little understanding of their ways, and had an interest in depicting them as barely human.
Who are you talking to? Do you really think Apple designers are reading Slashdot to see what old angry nerds are thinking?
Professional photographers who already have computer setups and a lot of money sunk into software are not going to switch systems because they have to buy a mildly inconvenient dongle that you can get at the local drugstore for $5. They likely are already dealing with such a dongle for their CF cards. Getting rid of the SD card is mildly annoying, I guess. Don't overstate your case.
UK manufacturing has often packed up the factories (pretty much wholesale) and sent the factories off to Poland or somewhere cheaper. Then UK managers work in Poland for 6 months (or whatever) helping the local crews understand how to operate the machinery properly.
Not many Westerns or Fantasy Novels or Mysteries have won the Nobel Prize for literature. Such novels are specifically designed to appeal to a subculture, and are not generally interesting for people who aren't already fans of the genre.
Likewise, I think most fans of Science-Fiction don't read much in the realm of mainstream fiction. For such readers, there are Hugos and Asimovs and plenty of awards/top 10 lists for Science Fiction, and any other genre fiction you can think of. It's not even like the Oscars, which receive a good amount of attention even from people who don't watch many movies, where it would make sense that sci-fi fans want their genre to receive the attention as well. Only people who read fiction regularly care about the NY Times "10 notable books of 2016" list.
So what's really being argued? That people who read general fiction should enjoy science fiction more? Of course there is good science fiction, and I would say this is generally acknowledged, but generally speaking it is less intelligent, ridden with cliche, and is designed to appeal to young men. There is nothing wrong with a fun read, just as there is nothing wrong with a fun special-effect heavy super-hero movie, but pretending genre fiction is on the same intellectual level as fiction is simply untrue.
I also think that the ability of the literature press to praise certain works of sci-fi shows that it's not a wholesale rejection of the genre.
And sorry for a lack of political correctness, but seriously is Kim Stanley Robinson really commenting? He is just a wonderful example of how even a relatively successful sci-fi author can write on about the level of a 12 year old. Everything about the book is embarrassing. If he wasn't writing about spaceships on Mars nobody would buy a single copy of his crap. That includes the science - even if you like all the rockets and so forth, all the info on geo-engineering is complete nonsense. Of course serious authors who use sci-fi tropes would want to distane themselves from an author like him.
People know; people don't care. Everybody knows Facebook and Google tracks them for advertising and so forth, just they don't think the information will be used for anything for malevolent than targeted advertisements.
If you explain how nobody should use Facebook because of privacy issues, you will come off as a weird/paranoid Luddite. If you explain that credit cards can be used to track you and your spending behavior and should be absolutely avoided, you will come off as crazy. Family might humor your anti-Google rants because they're used to having to deal with you, and you're family, but no the large majority of people do not care and are not going to care and are just going to think you're weird.
He doesn't *want* a fair trial, he wants to be declared innocent and able to continue doing what he's doing. Whether it's "fair" or "unfair" isn't really relevant to him.
He is a fugitive from raping two women in Sweden, volunteering to go to jail in the US as long as the US lets go of someone who was in the military and admits releasing lots of military secrets?
Is this offer serious? To me it comes off as laughably weird. Why not volunteer to go to French jail if they pardon Carlos the Jackal?
I have an e-golf, and while it's not for everybody and my next car might not be an EV, it's a way better driving experience than an Internal Combustion engine. Accelerates better, drives quieter, and it's smoother.
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For the love of god, don't do this to yourself. Just get a Macbook Air. $800 might be a bit overpriced but Linux = wasted time plus limited programs.
I can't imagine wanting to get an expensive new laptop and putting Linux on it. It's something you do to an old laptop - you can't game on it, you won't use it for media applications. Linux is either going to be used for a server that needs something faster than the fastest laptop, or is just for dicking around on the web, in which case just get the cheapest thing you can.
Nobody in the world needs/wants a high-end Linux laptop.
And the time on your hands. Are you gainfully employed? How much $/hour does your time work out to?
Even if I do want a small plastic widget, I can't really think of anything wanted off the top of my head. Maybe I could use something, I suppose, but it's a small need. I don't enjoy designing small plastic widgets, and the cost of my own labor to design them is hundreds of dollars, and designing plastic widgets is not something I enjoy or care to build a skill at.
So inevitably, I would just buy the designs off the internet...at which point the whole exercise becomes pointless. If I'm just going to buy designs anyway, why not buy the plastic widget off Amazon or EBay? I can do that know, it's cheap, and after shipping will usually work out to $5-$10.
He sold a company that was in the process of going bankrupt to a big technology company that was desperate to enter the cell phone market. It was a smart move for the shareholders.
The company was going to shit before he was ever hired as CEO. Him saying "Symbian sucks" was just acknowledging what was widely acknowledged in the marketplace. It was certainly not immensely popular. It was a complete joke compared to the iPhone or even Android 2. No rational person would look at Symbian, iPhone, or Android, and choose Symbian. At that point, Nokia was basically in the business of selling dumbphones to poor people, because $50 Android phones were still a year away.
Cranky old men who used to work menial IT jobs, have been downsized, and now post on Slashdot with 4 or 5 digit userids.
Elop was hired as CEO...what do you think happened to the previous CEO? Hint: He didn't get old and retire, he didn't get elected Emperor of Finland. Actually, he was fired for doing a bad job. A quick Google says that under the previous CEO, Nokia went from 38% to 21% in just four years, and he hadn't been able to come up with an adequate response to the Apple iPhone that re-made the industry.
The worst thing you can say about Elop is that he took a company that was clearly already falling apart and in a terrible position, and was unable to turn it around.
Plex is easier and does the same thing, with an attractive interface. Running a samba server and copying files isn't difficult, but it's time wasted when an easier solution exists. Plus, doing this via Plex means you always have access to your full library.
If I'm away from home, I have a phone with 4G (unlimited data for $50/month), or maybe I run wifi at work.
It's so easy and works so well, I see it as a no-brainer. You don't need a subscription pass for many use cases; I don't have one and my wife and I run Plex off computers, phones, TV, Roku, and tablets.
There's other studies that show people are really terrible at estimating how many calories they eat. I think that is far more likely than magical gut bacteria that violate laws of thermodynamics.
it can be so bad that the number of calories they need to take in can be below the level at which normal western food can supply enough nutrition.
Complete nonsense. There is no problem with dieters regularly getting scurvy. Getting enough nutrition is possible through eating a simple salad, which is a part of the normal western diet (theoretically).
Holy shit your modern computer is faster than your six year old computer?
From the article: "aspartame does not block the enzyme directly. It does so through one of its intestinal breakdown products called phenylalanine."
So I guess phenylaline is a terrible substance that gives people the fats?
"Good sources of phenylalanine are eggs, chicken, liver, beef, milk, and soybeans. Other sources include spinach and leafy greens, tofu, amaranth leaves, and lupin seeds." It's also an important component of mother's milk.
So, I guess the same logic as this study could tell you to never eat some of the healthiest foods we are aware of, or else you will get fat. This is just yet another article that tries to come up with some reason why it's not as simple as calorie in v. calorie out, when calorie in v. calorie out has been thorougly proven. Aspartame has been so thoroughly tested that a study that injects superdoses into the stomachs of mice doesn't prove anything.
It makes just as much sense as protesting other people going to a store on a day that should be spent giving Thanks.
No Matthew Leblanc? What's the point?
Story is too vague. What kind of crackers do they burn? Oyster crackers? Saltines?
Surely somebody else would be happy to buy it.
Let's also keep in mind, we don't have a collection of the contemporary saying of Vikings or Genghis Khan-era Mongols. What we know about them is inferred through the historical records, or through the words of their enemies writing many years after the actual events - enemies who themselves could not communicate with Vikings or Mongols, had little understanding of their ways, and had an interest in depicting them as barely human.
Who are you talking to? Do you really think Apple designers are reading Slashdot to see what old angry nerds are thinking?
Professional photographers who already have computer setups and a lot of money sunk into software are not going to switch systems because they have to buy a mildly inconvenient dongle that you can get at the local drugstore for $5. They likely are already dealing with such a dongle for their CF cards. Getting rid of the SD card is mildly annoying, I guess. Don't overstate your case.
They can still get away with it, because Windows sucks and Linux is a pain in the ass.
I agree the new macbooks seem overpriced, but what's the alternative?
UK manufacturing has often packed up the factories (pretty much wholesale) and sent the factories off to Poland or somewhere cheaper. Then UK managers work in Poland for 6 months (or whatever) helping the local crews understand how to operate the machinery properly.
Awesome story grandpa!
Not many Westerns or Fantasy Novels or Mysteries have won the Nobel Prize for literature. Such novels are specifically designed to appeal to a subculture, and are not generally interesting for people who aren't already fans of the genre.
Likewise, I think most fans of Science-Fiction don't read much in the realm of mainstream fiction. For such readers, there are Hugos and Asimovs and plenty of awards/top 10 lists for Science Fiction, and any other genre fiction you can think of. It's not even like the Oscars, which receive a good amount of attention even from people who don't watch many movies, where it would make sense that sci-fi fans want their genre to receive the attention as well. Only people who read fiction regularly care about the NY Times "10 notable books of 2016" list.
So what's really being argued? That people who read general fiction should enjoy science fiction more? Of course there is good science fiction, and I would say this is generally acknowledged, but generally speaking it is less intelligent, ridden with cliche, and is designed to appeal to young men. There is nothing wrong with a fun read, just as there is nothing wrong with a fun special-effect heavy super-hero movie, but pretending genre fiction is on the same intellectual level as fiction is simply untrue.
I also think that the ability of the literature press to praise certain works of sci-fi shows that it's not a wholesale rejection of the genre.
And sorry for a lack of political correctness, but seriously is Kim Stanley Robinson really commenting? He is just a wonderful example of how even a relatively successful sci-fi author can write on about the level of a 12 year old. Everything about the book is embarrassing. If he wasn't writing about spaceships on Mars nobody would buy a single copy of his crap. That includes the science - even if you like all the rockets and so forth, all the info on geo-engineering is complete nonsense. Of course serious authors who use sci-fi tropes would want to distane themselves from an author like him.
San Francisco Rush 2049 was hella fun, so I anticipate this will be a really top-notch entertainment.
People know; people don't care. Everybody knows Facebook and Google tracks them for advertising and so forth, just they don't think the information will be used for anything for malevolent than targeted advertisements.
If you explain how nobody should use Facebook because of privacy issues, you will come off as a weird/paranoid Luddite. If you explain that credit cards can be used to track you and your spending behavior and should be absolutely avoided, you will come off as crazy. Family might humor your anti-Google rants because they're used to having to deal with you, and you're family, but no the large majority of people do not care and are not going to care and are just going to think you're weird.
He doesn't *want* a fair trial, he wants to be declared innocent and able to continue doing what he's doing. Whether it's "fair" or "unfair" isn't really relevant to him.
He is a fugitive from raping two women in Sweden, volunteering to go to jail in the US as long as the US lets go of someone who was in the military and admits releasing lots of military secrets?
Is this offer serious? To me it comes off as laughably weird. Why not volunteer to go to French jail if they pardon Carlos the Jackal?
I have an e-golf, and while it's not for everybody and my next car might not be an EV, it's a way better driving experience than an Internal Combustion engine. Accelerates better, drives quieter, and it's smoother.