They are ALL immoral of the worst kind. Always passing judgement on how other people live, always trying to mess up with other people's lives. But they are the biggest sinners. They are always drug addicts, or child molesters (see recent news), or are caught soliciting prostitution in airport bathrooms. In essence it boils down to how this starts: if your ideals are to just screw everybody and care for nobody you are a scum bag and that is that.
I mean, who wouldn't want to have a system that makes it easier for anyone to spy on you. Count me in! Perhaps I will even buy a few to help my beloved police state.
When a company/politician claims they will not do something... it means they will. If not, consider all the times that apple has said they had no plans for a phone/tablet/pen computing/etc, only to do it a few months/years later.
It just means they are not capable of doing it now, but they will eventually. So obvious....
I could not find comparisons between FLUF images and other formats. Ideally, take a sample of several images, compress them so they are the same size and compare their quality (e.g., on the website use uncompressed images, and show some zoom-ins from screenshots). Without this, this is quite useless.
E=mc^2, sure, but unless you have a pathway by which you can go from A-->B lowering the mass (yes, you could fuse the H's, then the O to make Ne (and boy, talk about a high energy barrier to achieve that) you cannot release this energy. BTW: you'd only get [m(H2) - m(Ne)]c^2, which is a lot less than you assumed.
No one in tech does that. But the insinuation that Apple is a worst offender here is demonstrably false. Backward compatibility for both iOS and Mac OS X go back as far as the hardware itself will allow, and Apple is, for all its other faults (and they are many), a role model in this particular instance.
Please explain why my Mac Pro 2,1 which has 8 cores of Xeon 3 GHz and 21 GB of RAM is not able to run anything above Lion? Even though it is 7 years old, It is still faster than almost anything apple has to offer (esp. after I upgraded to SSD). Yet, I am stuck on Lion unless I am willing to make a hackintosh out of it and then it can actually run any OSX... so... no real reason why it can't run newer OSX, just that apple did not want to do it.
Bricking = taking something that does not belong to you. It is immoral and if it weren't for the fact it is not worth it they should be sued out of existence.
Acceptable = make your drivers not respond to the fake chip anymore.
In the meantime, just stop using this company's chips altogether. That's my opinion. There are other alternatives (e.g., use atmega chips with USB in them).
Just make sure you don't use FTDI chips... as you never know whether they are legit and the current FTDI Windows drivers will brick them. Sure, it is reversible but if anybody connects your FTDI chip to a Windows machine then it is bricked... Not nice. Not nice at all. Just avoid FTDI.
Or god forbid you can buy your parts from places other than ebay. You're pretty much guaranteed legit parts if you buy from reputable sources.
While this may sound like their reliability is in question, I would say worse from other vendors as the only alternatives to FTDI have had just utter garbage drivers to begin with.
As if you have full control over what you get. Are you buying the FTDI chips yourself? You may be buying from a reputable vendor only to know in the end that their supply lines were not as clean as you thought. What FTDI did (brick chips that used their driver, vs. the correct thing: simply ignore the chips) is extremely unethical, I will NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM FTDI or that has FTDI on them (whether it is fake or not fake, since I can't be sure until it is too late). Next time they'd better think twice.
Just make sure you don't use FTDI chips... as you never know whether they are legit and the current FTDI Windows drivers will brick them. Sure, it is reversible but if anybody connects your FTDI chip to a Windows machine then it is bricked... Not nice. Not nice at all. Just avoid FTDI.
Indeed, Yosemite is a lot worse. A colorful background and then buttons that can't be distinguished from other UI elements, grey letters over grey background? Sure... give me X11 any time.
Ugly as it can be? All decoration gone? Why does everybody have to copy Apple? I understand copying when it is beautiful, but apple is now engaged in making computer graphics look like an X11 system from the 1980s and everybody else is following suit. Awful... truly awful.
My experience with all tablets and phones by Samsung (and other devices too) has been most underwhelming, especially with regards to support. Yep! You can count with your device being supported for about 3 months. You will NEVER get any software updates besides that. Still on android 4.2 for a ~1 year old Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0. No intentions of going above that. Sure... let me think about my next Samsung purchase will be... NEVER!
Almost every device from Samsung I've owned lost support as soon as a newer device/os came along. I would not touch this company for anything I expect to use for longer than 2 years.
Good explanation. I think italian food is incredibly better, but the way they treat you in Italy leaves a lot to be desired. I remember in the old days pre-Euro, that we exchanged USD to all sorts of currencies and only in Italy we felt they were trying to always get the best of us... We had similar negative experiences in the Czech republic some 3 years ago.
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They are ALL immoral of the worst kind. Always passing judgement on how other people live, always trying to mess up with other people's lives. But they are the biggest sinners. They are always drug addicts, or child molesters (see recent news), or are caught soliciting prostitution in airport bathrooms. In essence it boils down to how this starts: if your ideals are to just screw everybody and care for nobody you are a scum bag and that is that.
HP = crap. Avoid. And by the way, just stop this slashvertising. It is getting boring.
I mean, who wouldn't want to have a system that makes it easier for anyone to spy on you. Count me in! Perhaps I will even buy a few to help my beloved police state.
When a company/politician claims they will not do something... it means they will. If not, consider all the times that apple has said they had no plans for a phone/tablet/pen computing/etc, only to do it a few months/years later. It just means they are not capable of doing it now, but they will eventually. So obvious....
Trumpet WinSock... AH! Those were the times!
I could not find comparisons between FLUF images and other formats. Ideally, take a sample of several images, compress them so they are the same size and compare their quality (e.g., on the website use uncompressed images, and show some zoom-ins from screenshots). Without this, this is quite useless.
E=mc^2, sure, but unless you have a pathway by which you can go from A-->B lowering the mass (yes, you could fuse the H's, then the O to make Ne (and boy, talk about a high energy barrier to achieve that) you cannot release this energy. BTW: you'd only get [m(H2) - m(Ne)]c^2, which is a lot less than you assumed.
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Mod it up! Indeed: if you are driving way off the way others are in the same road you are the hazard. Get it in your head.
Thanks for the reply. Do you know whether one has to buy the actual ATI Radeon HD 4870 for Mac or would a PC version work too? Thanks.
2.2 lbs... or you mean 1 kg
No one in tech does that. But the insinuation that Apple is a worst offender here is demonstrably false. Backward compatibility for both iOS and Mac OS X go back as far as the hardware itself will allow, and Apple is, for all its other faults (and they are many), a role model in this particular instance.
Please explain why my Mac Pro 2,1 which has 8 cores of Xeon 3 GHz and 21 GB of RAM is not able to run anything above Lion? Even though it is 7 years old, It is still faster than almost anything apple has to offer (esp. after I upgraded to SSD). Yet, I am stuck on Lion unless I am willing to make a hackintosh out of it and then it can actually run any OSX... so... no real reason why it can't run newer OSX, just that apple did not want to do it.
Bricking = taking something that does not belong to you. It is immoral and if it weren't for the fact it is not worth it they should be sued out of existence. Acceptable = make your drivers not respond to the fake chip anymore. In the meantime, just stop using this company's chips altogether. That's my opinion. There are other alternatives (e.g., use atmega chips with USB in them).
Just make sure you don't use FTDI chips... as you never know whether they are legit and the current FTDI Windows drivers will brick them. Sure, it is reversible but if anybody connects your FTDI chip to a Windows machine then it is bricked... Not nice. Not nice at all. Just avoid FTDI.
Or god forbid you can buy your parts from places other than ebay. You're pretty much guaranteed legit parts if you buy from reputable sources.
While this may sound like their reliability is in question, I would say worse from other vendors as the only alternatives to FTDI have had just utter garbage drivers to begin with.
As if you have full control over what you get. Are you buying the FTDI chips yourself? You may be buying from a reputable vendor only to know in the end that their supply lines were not as clean as you thought. What FTDI did (brick chips that used their driver, vs. the correct thing: simply ignore the chips) is extremely unethical, I will NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM FTDI or that has FTDI on them (whether it is fake or not fake, since I can't be sure until it is too late). Next time they'd better think twice.
Just make sure you don't use FTDI chips... as you never know whether they are legit and the current FTDI Windows drivers will brick them. Sure, it is reversible but if anybody connects your FTDI chip to a Windows machine then it is bricked... Not nice. Not nice at all. Just avoid FTDI.
Wonderfully said!
Battery is dead...
Retro-mirrors anyone? Then it bounces off me and sticks to you!
Except for the fact that 1 affluent human uses more resources than 10 not so affluent.
Indeed, Yosemite is a lot worse. A colorful background and then buttons that can't be distinguished from other UI elements, grey letters over grey background? Sure... give me X11 any time.
Ugly as it can be? All decoration gone? Why does everybody have to copy Apple? I understand copying when it is beautiful, but apple is now engaged in making computer graphics look like an X11 system from the 1980s and everybody else is following suit. Awful... truly awful.
My experience with all tablets and phones by Samsung (and other devices too) has been most underwhelming, especially with regards to support. Yep! You can count with your device being supported for about 3 months. You will NEVER get any software updates besides that. Still on android 4.2 for a ~1 year old Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0. No intentions of going above that. Sure... let me think about my next Samsung purchase will be... NEVER!
Almost every device from Samsung I've owned lost support as soon as a newer device/os came along. I would not touch this company for anything I expect to use for longer than 2 years.
If you believe that anything in politics can be "objective", I have a bridge to sell you.
Good explanation. I think italian food is incredibly better, but the way they treat you in Italy leaves a lot to be desired. I remember in the old days pre-Euro, that we exchanged USD to all sorts of currencies and only in Italy we felt they were trying to always get the best of us... We had similar negative experiences in the Czech republic some 3 years ago.