If we had free, unlimited power. I can imagine we might be able to stop building terrible power plants. We might be able to build carbon capturing devices. I'm not sure, I'm not a science man.
With the 'magic' of fusion, we might be able to turn the tide, I think, but we're otherwise entirely doomed.
Also, it's been coming in 50 years, for easily 50 years.
They took away headphone jacks on most high end nerd / beast models. They've added idiotic curved displays, I do NOT want one of these. They took my damn home button away, and presumably the fantastic wonderful context / multi-task and back buttons being in CONSISTENT DEDICATED LOCATIONS (literally one of the primary reasons I switched Apple to Android 8 years ago)
I'm ok with the built in battery, not a fan but ok. I'm fine with the sizes of the displays but those 3 things above (particularly 1 and 2) I will NOT purchase a new phone until I have to. They're saving me money.
(Oh and I'm not 'upgrading' my Note 5, semi-powerful, for a low level model with those features. I'm a nerd, I want my PREMIUM, POWERFUL handset to not be curved / have headphones)
Try and find a phone with a nice, consistently locatable, difficult to accidentally press, home button (bonus if finger sensor in it)
combined with,... a flat display and a headphone jack. That isn't an old model, a modern, powerful one. Try to find one, it no longer exists.
I'll deal without the home button but this no headphone + curved trend, those 2 I will not abide by, it's a ridiculous case of the manufacturers copying everyone else, as usual. No choice, just all same-phones.
Just got back from SF and Silicon Valley. Was astounded at how many empty fields exist in the area with no housing and the huge American aversion to proper large Asia style apartment towers.
(Don't get me wrong, a house is better) but you have virtually none. - and yes, I know many of them are awful, here in Melbourne, build like crap - due to a boom, however, done properly, they can be quite good.
It certainly seems that way. Yet it's one of the few international standards that is everywhere.
I bet I could buy a set of basic headphones in the middle of Africa, South America, middle East, etc.
I don't need a DAC built into my headphones. It's crazy people are considering ditching this and I think it's entirely to copy Apple. If they didn't do it and now set the standard "all 'modern' phones have no headphone jack, ewww" then we wouldn't be taking about it.
Didn't happen to be some of those "Games with Gold" free games as part of that service were they?
They planned to do this for Xbox One but didn't. It seems hard to believe they'd patch it backwards on the older console. So I'm curious for more info.
'The cloud' which many of us don't like here, is/generally/ proving to be good enough for base users. While you and I might bemoan the performance of Google Sheets vs Excel (or alt) when doing a heap of work on a massive spreadsheet. Most 'normies' are finding it good enough.
Same goes for web browsing, document writing and what have you. Especially as you go up the chain to middle and upper management where 2/3 of the job is emails, graphs, documents.
Then there's web based tools to do the work, my last place wen't for a web based call logging option, over the local client. If you used it day in day out? Tough luck, the managers liked not having a local install so they could occassionally look at the web version. Not good for those of us using hotkeys.
End of the day, Windows days really do appear numbered. People have said it for years but it seems to really be taking place. Since all the Windows apps are now either on the web, or cross platform. Heck they might even be on ipad / phone.
I for one, do enough stuff, even just 'regular stuff' but in such amounts, I need a local beefy PC. However that's becoming a rare thing again, so we're going to (and already are!) starting to pay more for our hardware, as the 'normies' are no longer subsidising our purchases.
It's a bad time to be a real hardcore PC enthusiast. Between inflation / monetary policy of the last decade, the slowdown in the shrinking of transistors, the movement to handheld / online stuff, a top of the line PC is quite expensive again.
Luke can die, like OB1 and Yoda, as the wise old sage, who has evolved to pure 'goodness' of the Jedi, just as he had become at the end of ROTJ.
Luke was (about to) become a kind, old, wise Jedi. So re-visiting Luke in his old age, while cheesy and predictable, would've been best him being like those 2.
Instead they messed with the old hero, also he's straight, white, male, so you know, fuck they better not make him wise / kind / thoughtful / good, hell no.
The Last Jedi is dogshit.
I stopped caring about Star Wars after Phantom, but this is just over the top.
Actually the centre left folks ARE criticizing the far left crazy "I hate cis white!!!!!" people, they do it fairly often.
It's just they are then put 'in the pit' of far right trolls, nazi sympathisers, white supremacists. A good portion of the 'alt-right' are infact, simply left leaning people with some common sense.
Doesn't stop people shouting at them though, for being evil!
Reminds me a *lot* of the crazy religious people who infested the Lannisters on game of thrones, you have to be pretty impressively evil to make the Lannisters look sympathetic.
> "I absolutely do not want to be seen as being in the same camp as the low-life scum on the internet that think it's OK to be a white nationalist Nazi, and have some truly nasty misogynistic, homophobic or transphobic behaviour. And those people were complaining about too much political correctness too, and in the process just making my public stance look bad"
The question is Linus, which you've missed, sadly. Is what percentage of these people are ACTUALLY white nationalists, Nazi, sexist etc?
You need only question these people, try and discuss something with them. Any dissent = YOU being labelled Nazi. It's been demonstrated over and over and over now. (and over)
Take an issue with a workplace opening a role ONLY for women? Sexist. Got a problem with "no whites" for a job? Or famous blue tick people on Twitter saying "euthanize white people!" You must be a white nationalist! Nazi!, Nazi!
Linus, you will come to regret this, you will see.
We have them here in Melbourne and I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been a much faster focus on trains, buses and trams for automation. Especially trams (I know some trains have no drivers, Singapore was very surprising / exciting / weird)
Trams though, share the road with stupid drivers, pedestrians, cyclists etc - none the less, they do have a standard track, obviously a fixed a to b running. Sometimes, rarely, the driver needs to exit the vehicle to manually move the track with a metal bar, unfortunately -but for the most part, this seems something which could've been done either long ago, or at least faster than cars.
It's the last version with only a little bit of annoying "hey, ever considered going online!" "hey, hey you! listen, how's about that subscription" "hey, we can offer *THIS* feature too, just SIGN IN HERE,...!" and so on and so forth. 2013 is a pretty competent office suite.
I strongly suspect, very strongly suspect that Office 2019 is/probably/ more like "Office 365, offline demo edition, with splash screen reminders, endlessly"
I know the diesel trains can be very good for hauling massive loads of stuff.
Hydrogen is fantastic as it has no byproduct (if I recall, just water vapor?) but it's dangerous to contain and pretty sure it's very hard to make efficiently.
I saw someone splitting water into hydrogen using a solar panel setup long ago, although it's not cost effective at all vs most power sources, ignoring the efficiency standpoint, it's clean and unlimited. (to my knowledge, again)
Honestly not a bad idea, assuming it fully replaces diesel trains long term.
They seem very content with having not just slightly but significantly slower video cards on the desktop. I know nvidia has a bit more firepower but man is AMD behind and they seem stuck there (and I don't even play PC games anymore! I just enjoy reading about the tech)
While they're damn well at it, AMD those Snowy Owl (Epyc 3000) chips? Shovel them out somewhere, drop the price, DO something. Announced 21'st of Feb and our first review was from leaked non standard hardware via ServeTheHome just last week.
Those chips sound fantastic for a NAS, / SOHO servers, HP MicroServers etc. However we're 7 months since announce and there's literally 1 board in existence.
It's an incredibly complex and powerful amount of code, it's extremely reliable and stood the test of time, it's used world wide in a variety of massive enterprise services and tiny little simple boxes under peoples desks, on their wrists or whatever.
It got there due to quality code, not colour, not race, not gender, not sex, not any of that, simply due to nerds being nerds and ignoring politics.
Now, the tribalism (and make no mistake it's tribalism) of identity politics has finally managed to burrow into it.
They're utterly terrible. What keeps them going is really well polished and fun games that appeal to kids and family.
The switch is apparently a pretty great indie console and transcends the home / portable functionality really well but by god their online services have always been incredibly mind blowingly backwards. The voice chat I believe requires the use of a cell phone or some incredibly complicated cabling mess for example.
Never every buy a Nintendo console, with the expectation of even 1/3 of the features of the other 2.
Worst part (like many modern, locked down devices [Apple!]) is that the potential of the device is wasted, due to poor restrictions. It has a display, speakers, wifi, inputs, storage etc - but how many of the great things possible are allowed? Frustrating to enounter arbitrary limitations, something Nintendo excel at.
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If we had free, unlimited power. I can imagine we might be able to stop building terrible power plants.
We might be able to build carbon capturing devices. I'm not sure, I'm not a science man.
With the 'magic' of fusion, we might be able to turn the tide, I think, but we're otherwise entirely doomed.
Also, it's been coming in 50 years, for easily 50 years.
I think you need to reread my post.
I have a friend in Google who is Constantly telling me what the op said. It's full sjw infestation "with us or against us"
Having now actually visited a campus, it was EXACTLY how the movies, tv and gtav depict.
I saw /mostly/ women, mostly young and mostly hip looking types. I'm 40 and out of the 300 ppl I saw, I'd say teen were my age or older.
I saw less then 5 "typical nerds" that we generally look like, balding, overweight dudes who look a bit shy / insure of themselves.
My contact tells me the vast majority of real work is done by about 15% of the staff. It was seriously like a high school cafeteria.
They took away headphone jacks on most high end nerd / beast models.
They've added idiotic curved displays, I do NOT want one of these.
They took my damn home button away, and presumably the fantastic wonderful context / multi-task and back buttons being in CONSISTENT DEDICATED LOCATIONS (literally one of the primary reasons I switched Apple to Android 8 years ago)
I'm ok with the built in battery, not a fan but ok.
I'm fine with the sizes of the displays but those 3 things above (particularly 1 and 2) I will NOT purchase a new phone until I have to. They're saving me money.
(Oh and I'm not 'upgrading' my Note 5, semi-powerful, for a low level model with those features. I'm a nerd, I want my PREMIUM, POWERFUL handset to not be curved / have headphones)
Looks ok, but it's 18 months old now....
If I'm going to be a nerd, I may as well go modern can be.
Try and find a phone with a nice, consistently locatable, difficult to accidentally press, home button (bonus if finger sensor in it)
combined with,...
a flat display
and a headphone jack.
That isn't an old model, a modern, powerful one. Try to find one, it no longer exists.
I'll deal without the home button but this no headphone + curved trend, those 2 I will not abide by, it's a ridiculous case of the manufacturers copying everyone else, as usual. No choice, just all same-phones.
Just got back from SF and Silicon Valley. Was astounded at how many empty fields exist in the area with no housing and the huge American aversion to proper large Asia style apartment towers.
(Don't get me wrong, a house is better) but you have virtually none. - and yes, I know many of them are awful, here in Melbourne, build like crap - due to a boom, however, done properly, they can be quite good.
It certainly seems that way. Yet it's one of the few international standards that is everywhere.
I bet I could buy a set of basic headphones in the middle of Africa, South America, middle East, etc.
I don't need a DAC built into my headphones. It's crazy people are considering ditching this and I think it's entirely to copy Apple. If they didn't do it and now set the standard "all 'modern' phones have no headphone jack, ewww" then we wouldn't be taking about it.
Ridiculous.
Sorry, don't subscribe to the arguments supporting the ability to work around this design flaw.
It's not hard to keep, it's really not ruining phones keeping it. I will not purchase a phone without it.
Period
Which specific games? Xbox One or Xbox 360?
Didn't happen to be some of those "Games with Gold" free games as part of that service were they?
They planned to do this for Xbox One but didn't. It seems hard to believe they'd patch it backwards on the older console. So I'm curious for more info.
Eventually.
'The cloud' which many of us don't like here, is /generally/ proving to be good enough for base users. While you and I might bemoan the performance of Google Sheets vs Excel (or alt) when doing a heap of work on a massive spreadsheet. Most 'normies' are finding it good enough.
Same goes for web browsing, document writing and what have you. Especially as you go up the chain to middle and upper management where 2/3 of the job is emails, graphs, documents.
Then there's web based tools to do the work, my last place wen't for a web based call logging option, over the local client. If you used it day in day out? Tough luck, the managers liked not having a local install so they could occassionally look at the web version. Not good for those of us using hotkeys.
End of the day, Windows days really do appear numbered. People have said it for years but it seems to really be taking place. Since all the Windows apps are now either on the web, or cross platform. Heck they might even be on ipad / phone.
I for one, do enough stuff, even just 'regular stuff' but in such amounts, I need a local beefy PC. However that's becoming a rare thing again, so we're going to (and already are!) starting to pay more for our hardware, as the 'normies' are no longer subsidising our purchases.
It's a bad time to be a real hardcore PC enthusiast. Between inflation / monetary policy of the last decade, the slowdown in the shrinking of transistors, the movement to handheld / online stuff, a top of the line PC is quite expensive again.
Luke can die, like OB1 and Yoda, as the wise old sage, who has evolved to pure 'goodness' of the Jedi, just as he had become at the end of ROTJ.
Luke was (about to) become a kind, old, wise Jedi. So re-visiting Luke in his old age, while cheesy and predictable, would've been best him being like those 2.
Instead they messed with the old hero, also he's straight, white, male, so you know, fuck they better not make him wise / kind / thoughtful / good, hell no.
The Last Jedi is dogshit.
I stopped caring about Star Wars after Phantom, but this is just over the top.
While not a board...
https://twitter.com/lheron/sta...
> " The only thing holding it all together seems to be solidarity in their mutual hatred of white men."
That seems to be becoming consistent across the entire planet at the moment.
Gay or straight to boot, the 'gay card' apparently has lost its value.
Actually the centre left folks ARE criticizing the far left crazy "I hate cis white!!!!!" people, they do it fairly often.
It's just they are then put 'in the pit' of far right trolls, nazi sympathisers, white supremacists. A good portion of the 'alt-right' are infact, simply left leaning people with some common sense.
Doesn't stop people shouting at them though, for being evil!
Reminds me a *lot* of the crazy religious people who infested the Lannisters on game of thrones, you have to be pretty impressively evil to make the Lannisters look sympathetic.
Wrong think is punishable.
> "I absolutely do not want to be seen as being in the same camp as the low-life scum on the internet that think it's OK to be a white nationalist Nazi, and have some truly nasty misogynistic, homophobic or transphobic behaviour. And those people were complaining about too much political correctness too, and in the process just making my public stance look bad"
The question is Linus, which you've missed, sadly. Is what percentage of these people are ACTUALLY white nationalists, Nazi, sexist etc?
You need only question these people, try and discuss something with them. Any dissent = YOU being labelled Nazi. It's been demonstrated over and over and over now. (and over)
Take an issue with a workplace opening a role ONLY for women? Sexist.
Got a problem with "no whites" for a job? Or famous blue tick people on Twitter saying "euthanize white people!" You must be a white nationalist! Nazi!, Nazi!
Linus, you will come to regret this, you will see.
We have them here in Melbourne and I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been a much faster focus on trains, buses and trams for automation. Especially trams (I know some trains have no drivers, Singapore was very surprising / exciting / weird)
Trams though, share the road with stupid drivers, pedestrians, cyclists etc - none the less, they do have a standard track, obviously a fixed a to b running. Sometimes, rarely, the driver needs to exit the vehicle to manually move the track with a metal bar, unfortunately -but for the most part, this seems something which could've been done either long ago, or at least faster than cars.
It's the last version with only a little bit of annoying "hey, ever considered going online!" "hey, hey you! listen, how's about that subscription"
"hey, we can offer *THIS* feature too, just SIGN IN HERE,...!"
and so on and so forth.
2013 is a pretty competent office suite.
I strongly suspect, very strongly suspect that Office 2019 is /probably/ more like "Office 365, offline demo edition, with splash screen reminders, endlessly"
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This stuff never results in anything deep or crazy going on.
I know the diesel trains can be very good for hauling massive loads of stuff.
Hydrogen is fantastic as it has no byproduct (if I recall, just water vapor?) but it's dangerous to contain and pretty sure it's very hard to make efficiently.
I saw someone splitting water into hydrogen using a solar panel setup long ago, although it's not cost effective at all vs most power sources, ignoring the efficiency standpoint, it's clean and unlimited. (to my knowledge, again)
Honestly not a bad idea, assuming it fully replaces diesel trains long term.
I'm talking about their GPU's you irrelevant piece of garbage, not the CPUs.
Also, they use a shitload more power. They are simply not competitive in this arena, either drop GPU prices 25%, or release something faster.
They seem very content with having not just slightly but significantly slower video cards on the desktop. I know nvidia has a bit more firepower but man is AMD behind and they seem stuck there (and I don't even play PC games anymore! I just enjoy reading about the tech)
While they're damn well at it, AMD those Snowy Owl (Epyc 3000) chips? Shovel them out somewhere, drop the price, DO something. Announced 21'st of Feb and our first review was from leaked non standard hardware via ServeTheHome just last week.
Those chips sound fantastic for a NAS, / SOHO servers, HP MicroServers etc. However we're 7 months since announce and there's literally 1 board in existence.
Sigh.
It's an incredibly complex and powerful amount of code, it's extremely reliable and stood the test of time, it's used world wide in a variety of massive enterprise services and tiny little simple boxes under peoples desks, on their wrists or whatever.
It got there due to quality code, not colour, not race, not gender, not sex, not any of that, simply due to nerds being nerds and ignoring politics.
Now, the tribalism (and make no mistake it's tribalism) of identity politics has finally managed to burrow into it.
Nah this is actually a pretty bad thing.
They're utterly terrible. What keeps them going is really well polished and fun games that appeal to kids and family.
The switch is apparently a pretty great indie console and transcends the home / portable functionality really well but by god their online services have always been incredibly mind blowingly backwards. The voice chat I believe requires the use of a cell phone or some incredibly complicated cabling mess for example.
Never every buy a Nintendo console, with the expectation of even 1/3 of the features of the other 2.
Worst part (like many modern, locked down devices [Apple!]) is that the potential of the device is wasted, due to poor restrictions. It has a display, speakers, wifi, inputs, storage etc - but how many of the great things possible are allowed?
Frustrating to enounter arbitrary limitations, something Nintendo excel at.