I'm pretty sure that trying to sell a video card on Amazon for over $2500 - that I can still find in stores for $100 - is *not* due to them being an approved supplier.
I assume you're not referring to the bidding thing, because obviously that's an eBay thing and doesn't apply to non-auctions.
Must be country-specific, or they've changed it in the last week. Here (Canada) it's lress. I was going to say $25, but it looks like the bastards just cranked it up to $35 since I last ordered anything a few weeks ago.
Of course the item prices in Canada all seem to be near-double that of the US in many cases too (even accounting for exchange).
My understanding is that in the early stages, the bear was inserted into pictures to show people that "anyone can see this picture and might be 'enjoying' it for other reasons"/ It was anti-perverts using it as a warning against posting your kids private pics online
Later PB pretty much got adopted as a mascot for perverts.
I usually hit Amazon early for two reasons a) They often have product spec sheets that I can look up. b) It gives me a basis for comparison.
However I've noticed that for a lot of stuff their pricing algo's lately are way out of whack, especially for older stuff. For example, a slightly older video card which is going for $100 on eBay or stores (where available) is listed on Amazon at $2500, presumably because they're harder to come by but there's still some demand. For $2500 I could build a whole rig including the latest gen card.
Not that others aren't a mess as well. I regularly see people caught up in eBay bids for used stuff that exceeds the price I could buy it new.
Prime or minimum $25 spend. In most cases that's not too hard.
I don't bother with prime because it only applies to Amazon-provided stuff, and often they either don't have what I want or their prices suck compared to their third-parties.
On the other hand, sometimes this works in reverse. I've had people who don't think much of workers from their own race, as they come with a lot of baggage and bad history. It's kind of odd to think that you'd have a Chinese manager who doesn't hire Chinese, or an Indian manager who doesn't like Indian workers, but it definitely can happen.
In most places where I've seen people of a given origin clustered, it's often a communication thing where side-conversations are often in a non-english language that they all share. This effectively excludes people from other languages/cultures, which I suppose some could find frustrating. Never bothered me though as generally such conversations are not work-related.
I was a pretty strong NNTP user until some of my more regular groups became unavailable (dropped by ISP, probably due to piracy concerns) and the rest started getting spam-flooded.
The big difference in this, other than distribution, is that NNTP was generally synchronised by topic, whereas I'm speaking more on something like a distributed "site" seemed and keyed by a single author/organisation. I.E. for Krebs, only he or somebody affiliated with him should be able to post.
Another user mentioned "ipfs". It seems a bit complicated to setup but is a similar premise.
newsgroups are different than a P2P seeding system. There wasn't really a peer so much that your ISP and some other major odies would keep local cache's of the top groups. The obvious disadvantage of this being that those same bodies get to choose which newsgroups they clone/share, whereas in P2P anyone who has picked up the document/article/whatever is potentially also a peer.
Autocorrect is more of a pain than it's worth sometimes. I had similar issues with a spreadsheet where I was listing ports. It kept thinking I was making a number and removing my commas
This sounds like a good use for some torrent-type technology to supply "distributed websites" Rather than having a server or "servers", articles go out from a seed source and are quickly seeded throughout the world. Maybe add some sort of checksumming/encryption to help validate that an article did in-fact come from the real source and not an impostor... it would stop sh*t like this from happening.
I don't know about a jury, but I know a cop who dealt with "cybercrime" which included this. From what I gather, it's pretty much (a hated part of) his job to comb through a seized machine looking for the evidence, whatever form that may take.
Because some of us have morals, and frankly most of the people I know who've had this issue - often older folks etc - could ill-afford a professional to fix it. I've had similar issues with a certain local ISP who just *loves* to blame issues with their mailserver etc on the customers' PC. At $100/h after tax (not my rate, but the company I subcontracted through at the time) it's pretty crappy to come in and check out somebody's PC only to have to tell them that it's their ISP's problem and they're a bunch of lying dirtbags (oh, and you can't cancel on them for another year because: contract).
While I can believe that some people have indeed suffered from device fires or possibly even explosions, we've already seen plenty of cases in the past where people blame their own misconduct/error on a popular defect, such as * Telsa "autopilot" * Toyota unintended acceleration * etc
While those both had legitimate cases, there were also a number that were simply people trying to get out of blame (i.e. for causing an accident with their own behaviour) or make a buck (lawsuits).
First of all... this is a notebook, with a SINGLE drive. Why in the hell would it even need to operate in RAID mode?
Secondly, some people are saying that leaving out the option is simply to reduce support costs by something flipping the wrong settings. Seriously, it's a very rare case indeed where I see a non-power user in the BIOS at all, let alone changing settings on the RAID config, never mind that there are plenty of simpler ways to pooch the machine like locking it out with a boot password or just f***ing up something in the OS.
So people are discussing this thing not being able to disable the RAID setting. I'm wondering why it even has one on a single-drive notebook in the first place?!
This is a pretty poor summary, as others have mentioned. It appears the initial promise was that all messages would be unlogged, but that now only applies to incognito mode.
Realistically, as long as this works in "incognito", it's not really a bad thing to log messages in the regular mode. Sometimes there are good reasons to want your chat logs (e.g. if somebody told you how to do something and you need to reference an old chat, etc).
Does it really matter if it is or not? A barter item can still be used in lieu of currency. IE if I asked for a crate a fine wine or whisky to stop hacking/DDOS'ing somebody, I'm still getting paid. Similarly if somebody was going to pay a hitman in rare art to kill their spouse...
Yeah. I just helped somebody doing a kitchen reno and trust me, an old rodent nest full of insulation, fur, and shit is *not* something you want run into in your home. Aside from being fucking gross, there's also the issue of the multitude of illnesses you can get from inhaling the dust etc.
For the record, I've had rats as pets (they make good pets, too), and they're cute+smart. Verminous rats are a big nope though.
I'd imagine mostly because it's easier to pad the length of the laptop horizontally (Caps to Numkeys) by giving it a full-size keyboard , but a "taller" screen also means having a laptop with a lot of vertical space (touchpad to function keys) and there's not so much to fit in there. I've have a few 4:3 laptops and while the dimensions are nice to work with, the things are pretty brick'ish.
something everyone has to buy and give, but that no one really likes
I don't know many people who like fruitcakes, but amongst my Chinese friends there is certainly a lot of disappointment if they can't get "moon cakes" around the appropriate time of year.
If people really cared, there would be more HCP+A2DP devices
Most people probably aren't even aware of the difference between HCP and A2DP. Hell, many people I know have issues getting their bluetooth devices to sync the first time around. Guess what those people end up doing? They end up using a *gasp* WIRED device.
Thankfully, for PC's at least, there are still a variety of standard USB-based sound devices available
Yup. But it's not so much an issue in a voice-only conversation. HCP was mainly designed for two-way voice conversations so it's OK on those, it's just really sh*tty for higher-quality audio.
The problem I have with bluetooth and gaming is that I have to choose either from an HCP profile so that I can talk to my teammates through the mic, which gives me really crappy game audio and background music (sounds like it's coming through an old phone), or I can go with A2DP and get good audio but need to use a separate microphone.
As mentioned, I believe some devices cheat this by connecting multiple channels to bluetooth, and showing up as separate devices for bi-directional audio VS music (so the HCP device becomes your "microphone", and the A2DP device your "speakers").
Another thing people use wired PC headsets for is two-way conversations, which may including doing so while gaming. The problem I've found with Bluetooth is that - while sound is pretty good with A2DP or another streaming mode - two-way audio uses HCP which is greatly inferior audio quality. I believe some devices can get around this by opening two channels, but in most cases this doesn't seem to work and you just end up with either no ability to speak/record, or shite audio.
Then again, these are MBP's, so perhaps gaming isn't such a concern anyhow.
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I'm pretty sure that trying to sell a video card on Amazon for over $2500 - that I can still find in stores for $100 - is *not* due to them being an approved supplier.
I assume you're not referring to the bidding thing, because obviously that's an eBay thing and doesn't apply to non-auctions.
Must be country-specific, or they've changed it in the last week. Here (Canada) it's lress. I was going to say $25, but it looks like the bastards just cranked it up to $35 since I last ordered anything a few weeks ago.
Of course the item prices in Canada all seem to be near-double that of the US in many cases too (even accounting for exchange).
My understanding is that in the early stages, the bear was inserted into pictures to show people that "anyone can see this picture and might be 'enjoying' it for other reasons"/ It was anti-perverts using it as a warning against posting your kids private pics online
Later PB pretty much got adopted as a mascot for perverts.
I usually hit Amazon early for two reasons
a) They often have product spec sheets that I can look up.
b) It gives me a basis for comparison.
However I've noticed that for a lot of stuff their pricing algo's lately are way out of whack, especially for older stuff. For example, a slightly older video card which is going for $100 on eBay or stores (where available) is listed on Amazon at $2500, presumably because they're harder to come by but there's still some demand. For $2500 I could build a whole rig including the latest gen card.
Not that others aren't a mess as well. I regularly see people caught up in eBay bids for used stuff that exceeds the price I could buy it new.
Prime or minimum $25 spend. In most cases that's not too hard.
I don't bother with prime because it only applies to Amazon-provided stuff, and often they either don't have what I want or their prices suck compared to their third-parties.
On the other hand, sometimes this works in reverse. I've had people who don't think much of workers from their own race, as they come with a lot of baggage and bad history. It's kind of odd to think that you'd have a Chinese manager who doesn't hire Chinese, or an Indian manager who doesn't like Indian workers, but it definitely can happen.
In most places where I've seen people of a given origin clustered, it's often a communication thing where side-conversations are often in a non-english language that they all share. This effectively excludes people from other languages/cultures, which I suppose some could find frustrating. Never bothered me though as generally such conversations are not work-related.
Or politicians
I'd assume that a text formatted cell shouldn't be doing that, yet it was.
I was a pretty strong NNTP user until some of my more regular groups became unavailable (dropped by ISP, probably due to piracy concerns) and the rest started getting spam-flooded.
The big difference in this, other than distribution, is that NNTP was generally synchronised by topic, whereas I'm speaking more on something like a distributed "site" seemed and keyed by a single author/organisation. I.E. for Krebs, only he or somebody affiliated with him should be able to post.
Another user mentioned "ipfs". It seems a bit complicated to setup but is a similar premise.
Gee, sarcasm.
newsgroups are different than a P2P seeding system. There wasn't really a peer so much that your ISP and some other major odies would keep local cache's of the top groups. The obvious disadvantage of this being that those same bodies get to choose which newsgroups they clone/share, whereas in P2P anyone who has picked up the document/article/whatever is potentially also a peer.
Autocorrect is more of a pain than it's worth sometimes. I had similar issues with a spreadsheet where I was listing ports. It kept thinking I was making a number and removing my commas
e.g 80,443 would just become 80443
This sounds like a good use for some torrent-type technology to supply "distributed websites"
Rather than having a server or "servers", articles go out from a seed source and are quickly seeded throughout the world. Maybe add some sort of checksumming/encryption to help validate that an article did in-fact come from the real source and not an impostor... it would stop sh*t like this from happening.
I don't know about a jury, but I know a cop who dealt with "cybercrime" which included this. From what I gather, it's pretty much (a hated part of) his job to comb through a seized machine looking for the evidence, whatever form that may take.
"Your business got extra work and revenue t"
Because some of us have morals, and frankly most of the people I know who've had this issue - often older folks etc - could ill-afford a professional to fix it. I've had similar issues with a certain local ISP who just *loves* to blame issues with their mailserver etc on the customers' PC. At $100/h after tax (not my rate, but the company I subcontracted through at the time) it's pretty crappy to come in and check out somebody's PC only to have to tell them that it's their ISP's problem and they're a bunch of lying dirtbags (oh, and you can't cancel on them for another year because: contract).
While I can believe that some people have indeed suffered from device fires or possibly even explosions, we've already seen plenty of cases in the past where people blame their own misconduct/error on a popular defect, such as
* Telsa "autopilot"
* Toyota unintended acceleration
* etc
While those both had legitimate cases, there were also a number that were simply people trying to get out of blame (i.e. for causing an accident with their own behaviour) or make a buck (lawsuits).
First of all... this is a notebook, with a SINGLE drive. Why in the hell would it even need to operate in RAID mode?
Secondly, some people are saying that leaving out the option is simply to reduce support costs by something flipping the wrong settings. Seriously, it's a very rare case indeed where I see a non-power user in the BIOS at all, let alone changing settings on the RAID config, never mind that there are plenty of simpler ways to pooch the machine like locking it out with a boot password or just f***ing up something in the OS.
So people are discussing this thing not being able to disable the RAID setting. I'm wondering why it even has one on a single-drive notebook in the first place?!
This is a pretty poor summary, as others have mentioned. It appears the initial promise was that all messages would be unlogged, but that now only applies to incognito mode.
Realistically, as long as this works in "incognito", it's not really a bad thing to log messages in the regular mode. Sometimes there are good reasons to want your chat logs (e.g. if somebody told you how to do something and you need to reference an old chat, etc).
Want private? Just go Incognito.
Does it really matter if it is or not? A barter item can still be used in lieu of currency.
IE if I asked for a crate a fine wine or whisky to stop hacking/DDOS'ing somebody, I'm still getting paid. Similarly if somebody was going to pay a hitman in rare art to kill their spouse...
That's an incredibly reasonable, well-explained, and detailed response. Thank you!
Yeah. I just helped somebody doing a kitchen reno and trust me, an old rodent nest full of insulation, fur, and shit is *not* something you want run into in your home. Aside from being fucking gross, there's also the issue of the multitude of illnesses you can get from inhaling the dust etc.
For the record, I've had rats as pets (they make good pets, too), and they're cute+smart. Verminous rats are a big nope though.
I'd imagine mostly because it's easier to pad the length of the laptop horizontally (Caps to Numkeys) by giving it a full-size keyboard , but a "taller" screen also means having a laptop with a lot of vertical space (touchpad to function keys) and there's not so much to fit in there. I've have a few 4:3 laptops and while the dimensions are nice to work with, the things are pretty brick'ish.
something everyone has to buy and give, but that no one really likes
I don't know many people who like fruitcakes, but amongst my Chinese friends there is certainly a lot of disappointment if they can't get "moon cakes" around the appropriate time of year.
If people really cared, there would be more HCP+A2DP devices
Most people probably aren't even aware of the difference between HCP and A2DP. Hell, many people I know have issues getting their bluetooth devices to sync the first time around.
Guess what those people end up doing? They end up using a *gasp* WIRED device.
Thankfully, for PC's at least, there are still a variety of standard USB-based sound devices available
Yup. But it's not so much an issue in a voice-only conversation. HCP was mainly designed for two-way voice conversations so it's OK on those, it's just really sh*tty for higher-quality audio.
The problem I have with bluetooth and gaming is that I have to choose either from an HCP profile so that I can talk to my teammates through the mic, which gives me really crappy game audio and background music (sounds like it's coming through an old phone), or I can go with A2DP and get good audio but need to use a separate microphone.
As mentioned, I believe some devices cheat this by connecting multiple channels to bluetooth, and showing up as separate devices for bi-directional audio VS music (so the HCP device becomes your "microphone", and the A2DP device your "speakers").
Another thing people use wired PC headsets for is two-way conversations, which may including doing so while gaming.
The problem I've found with Bluetooth is that - while sound is pretty good with A2DP or another streaming mode - two-way audio uses HCP which is greatly inferior audio quality. I believe some devices can get around this by opening two channels, but in most cases this doesn't seem to work and you just end up with either no ability to speak/record, or shite audio.
Then again, these are MBP's, so perhaps gaming isn't such a concern anyhow.