Your argument assumes that the old laptops go to the landfill. And they do, eventually. However I doubt many people buy a new macbook, replacing a two or three year old one, and toss the old one in the garbage. Considering the pretty healthy market for used Macbooks I'd say that's not a realistic assertion at all. You could even go further and say that allowing ram and SSD upgrades would increased electronic waste since many of those items replaced would be toss in the bin vs resold.
Miners are now migrating to ASIC based rigs because GPU arrays aren't cutting it anymore, how efficient do you think a Javascript based software that "doesn't peg your CPU" is going to be? It's a gigantic waste of electricity, nothing else.
It depends on the coin you are mining. Some are designed to resist ASIC mining, others are small enough that the difficulty levels are still low enough to make it worthwhile.
That's the same thing as paying for the extension, except instead of paying for it directly, you're paying for it indirectly via a higher electric bill.
I'm running it on my machine at the office.
What? If the company made bigger profits it would pay me more?
Of course they would!
And you got your company's permission first right? I mean people have been arrested in the US for doing this.
I imagine they will phase out the CDMA network. Most other CDMA carriers are dropping it. Verizon is slated to turn off theirs in 2019 and several Canadian carriers are moving away from it as well.
You would think they would be more concerned with why so many people are buying these items together that the algorithm is showing them as frequently bought together.
That still implies the existence of a license and agreement. He is arguing that left-wingers can use his copyright while right-wingers can't, in both cases without any sort of agreement or explicit license. If he had an explicit license (eg. CC-NOT-THE-RIGHT), then you could potentially go ahead and invalidate the contract (depending on locality) for discriminatory business practices.
Nope. It's his IP, he can do with it as he pleases, including letting some use it and other not. There is no legal requirement for a license and he is free to selectively enforce his IP rights as he sees fit.
I hate these books, they waste paper, and I throw them immediately in the recycle bin when I get them. Pointless in this digital day and age.
They have stopped for the most part, at least where I live. 10 years ago I'd get 4 or 5 different ones per year (since anyone and their brother's mother's cousin's daughter's illegitimate laberdoodle can print them) but now it's down to maybe 1 small one in the mail per year. So happy as I did the exact same thing: straight from the porch/mailbox and into the recycle bin (maybe minus any magnets stuck on the front cover). Just wish that last one would give up already but I guess there are still enough people using them to make them profitable.
Is it even possible to get a decent (zoomed)picture without using a solar filter? Even if the shutter/sensor didn't get damaged?
Only at totality. Even at 99.99% it would show up as a bright blob without a filter. I took a ton of shots that day with solar filter on my DSLR and a few without it on my phone just to see how they would turn out (phone cameras were not at risk due to the relatively wide lenses they use vs a DSLR with a 500mm zoom). The phone pics, even right before totality, just look like I took a picture of the sun on a random day.
If you planned ahead a good solar filter could be had for about $50. I just attached $10 worth of thousand oaks solar film to a cheap Cokin P-series compatible ND filter. Worked perfectly and was easy to remove at totality.
I don't know how movies are being "made for the Chinese".
Many movies are. Transformers 4, for instance, had a number of concessions to Chinese culture and political norms. Its reward? It became the #1 highest grossing film in Chinese history (at the time).
Also, I'll be damned, as a PC player, that I want to hear chatter from 12 year old kids rattling on about my mother's vagina. Because of the price point of PC systems, there seems to just be far fewer twits like that.
You must not be playing many games with randoms and voice chat on PC if you think that. Hop into any PUBG match if you want to be relieved of that myth.
I understand that Amazon hasn't been profitable for a while. Why would a company with such an ugly statistic slash prices this much? I do not get it!
They were not profitable for a long time due to re-investing their profits into growing their business. It's not like they are Sears with rapidly declining sales vs fixed costs.
I'm curious about the part "hard to balance aesthetics and function". How will it look like? Space Marine Power Armor? Exo-skeleton? Really curious to see.
So maybe click the link in the summary to go see pictures of it??
How has grocery shopping for you changed over the last several decades?
Well today I put my order in on a website, schedule a time, go to the store, and a helpful person brings my order out and puts it in my car. Or if I'm feeling really lazy, I open up an app, put in my order, schedule a time, and a helpful person brings my groceries right to my front door. I'd say that's a pretty big change, no Amazon required.
They can actually be more precise if you are indoors and can't get a great GPS fix. Turn off wifi, open google maps, look at the size of the location circle, then turn Wifi on and watch it collapse.
Funny story but this is how I found out Amazon sold me a used router as new. For a while after I first got it, google maps in Android insisted that I was in a house in NW Washington outside Seattle, and not where I actually live in the mid-west. At some point that router (or one with an identical MAC, but that's not really supposed to happen) was on and was picked up by either a streetview car or an android phone and added to their database. And it was just google, Apple devices didn't have this issue.
They did exactly that actually. They even blamed Reveal's SDK and claimed to not even know it was happening. Then they went and got all defensive about the whole situation.
I never said it didn't have a place in high-end PC builds, it certainly does. But the GP's assertion that "Intel has lost the crown for performance" is absurd. That (and his attempted defense of it) is what I replied to.
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Yes. Throwing two small thing out is worse than reselling and reusing one big thing. What part of this are you not grasping?
Your argument assumes that the old laptops go to the landfill. And they do, eventually. However I doubt many people buy a new macbook, replacing a two or three year old one, and toss the old one in the garbage. Considering the pretty healthy market for used Macbooks I'd say that's not a realistic assertion at all. You could even go further and say that allowing ram and SSD upgrades would increased electronic waste since many of those items replaced would be toss in the bin vs resold.
Miners are now migrating to ASIC based rigs because GPU arrays aren't cutting it anymore, how efficient do you think a Javascript based software that "doesn't peg your CPU" is going to be? It's a gigantic waste of electricity, nothing else.
It depends on the coin you are mining. Some are designed to resist ASIC mining, others are small enough that the difficulty levels are still low enough to make it worthwhile.
I'm running it on my machine at the office.
What? If the company made bigger profits it would pay me more?
Of course they would!
And you got your company's permission first right? I mean people have been arrested in the US for doing this.
I imagine they will phase out the CDMA network. Most other CDMA carriers are dropping it. Verizon is slated to turn off theirs in 2019 and several Canadian carriers are moving away from it as well.
You would think they would be more concerned with why so many people are buying these items together that the algorithm is showing them as frequently bought together.
That still implies the existence of a license and agreement. He is arguing that left-wingers can use his copyright while right-wingers can't, in both cases without any sort of agreement or explicit license. If he had an explicit license (eg. CC-NOT-THE-RIGHT), then you could potentially go ahead and invalidate the contract (depending on locality) for discriminatory business practices.
Nope. It's his IP, he can do with it as he pleases, including letting some use it and other not. There is no legal requirement for a license and he is free to selectively enforce his IP rights as he sees fit.
So can we finally go back to the amazing shiny bubbles of the 90's? Please!
Since anyone can use the original three-finger logo and name Yellow Pages, anyone can make a "Yellow Pages" app. Or print one if they are so inclined.
I hate these books, they waste paper, and I throw them immediately in the recycle bin when I get them. Pointless in this digital day and age.
They have stopped for the most part, at least where I live. 10 years ago I'd get 4 or 5 different ones per year (since anyone and their brother's mother's cousin's daughter's illegitimate laberdoodle can print them) but now it's down to maybe 1 small one in the mail per year. So happy as I did the exact same thing: straight from the porch/mailbox and into the recycle bin (maybe minus any magnets stuck on the front cover). Just wish that last one would give up already but I guess there are still enough people using them to make them profitable.
Repeal the DMCA by any means necessary. Whole cloth.
Make Gigabit internet and mac & cheese a right and provide both to every citizen free of charge!!
I mean, while we are demanding things that will never happen in the US thought I would throw those on the list as well.
Is it even possible to get a decent (zoomed)picture without using a solar filter? Even if the shutter/sensor didn't get damaged?
Only at totality. Even at 99.99% it would show up as a bright blob without a filter. I took a ton of shots that day with solar filter on my DSLR and a few without it on my phone just to see how they would turn out (phone cameras were not at risk due to the relatively wide lenses they use vs a DSLR with a 500mm zoom). The phone pics, even right before totality, just look like I took a picture of the sun on a random day.
If you planned ahead a good solar filter could be had for about $50. I just attached $10 worth of thousand oaks solar film to a cheap Cokin P-series compatible ND filter. Worked perfectly and was easy to remove at totality.
I don't know how movies are being "made for the Chinese".
Many movies are. Transformers 4, for instance, had a number of concessions to Chinese culture and political norms. Its reward? It became the #1 highest grossing film in Chinese history (at the time).
http://time.com/2965333/how-transformers-4-became-the-number-one-film-in-chinese-history/
That franchise would be dead if it wasn't for China. I think they are doing it on purpose to fuck with us.
Also, I'll be damned, as a PC player, that I want to hear chatter from 12 year old kids rattling on about my mother's vagina. Because of the price point of PC systems, there seems to just be far fewer twits like that.
You must not be playing many games with randoms and voice chat on PC if you think that. Hop into any PUBG match if you want to be relieved of that myth.
I understand that Amazon hasn't been profitable for a while. Why would a company with such an ugly statistic slash prices this much? I do not get it!
They were not profitable for a long time due to re-investing their profits into growing their business. It's not like they are Sears with rapidly declining sales vs fixed costs.
I'm curious about the part "hard to balance aesthetics and function". How will it look like? Space Marine Power Armor? Exo-skeleton? Really curious to see.
So maybe click the link in the summary to go see pictures of it??
Or the Dragon cargo capsule that the crew capsule is based on, making deliveries to the ISS?
Sure, just as long as we also get rid of Anonymous Cowards as well.
Certainly not all people trading in bitcoin are based in the USA and owe taxes to the IRS!
Well maybe the IRS will be nice and share their data with tax authorities from other countries. Everyone wins!
How has grocery shopping for you changed over the last several decades?
Well today I put my order in on a website, schedule a time, go to the store, and a helpful person brings my order out and puts it in my car. Or if I'm feeling really lazy, I open up an app, put in my order, schedule a time, and a helpful person brings my groceries right to my front door. I'd say that's a pretty big change, no Amazon required.
Where I live it can be a city 4 hours drive from where I live. IP Geolocation is sketchy on the best of days.
They can actually be more precise if you are indoors and can't get a great GPS fix. Turn off wifi, open google maps, look at the size of the location circle, then turn Wifi on and watch it collapse.
Funny story but this is how I found out Amazon sold me a used router as new. For a while after I first got it, google maps in Android insisted that I was in a house in NW Washington outside Seattle, and not where I actually live in the mid-west. At some point that router (or one with an identical MAC, but that's not really supposed to happen) was on and was picked up by either a streetview car or an android phone and added to their database. And it was just google, Apple devices didn't have this issue.
They did exactly that actually. They even blamed Reveal's SDK and claimed to not even know it was happening. Then they went and got all defensive about the whole situation.
Or legalize current Rx opiates so people don't move to it in the first place.
I never said it didn't have a place in high-end PC builds, it certainly does. But the GP's assertion that "Intel has lost the crown for performance" is absurd. That (and his attempted defense of it) is what I replied to.