You really don't want an "HDR TV" as a monitor and vice versa, hence the ratings are pointless.
Uh, yeah, I do. I've been using 4K TVs for a couple of years now as my main desktop monitor and I couldn't be happier.
Right now I have a 48" Vizio and a 49" LG. Neither cost more than $500, both do 4:4:4 just fine, and use a standard HD connection to my laptop. The laptop's a few years old so I only get 30Hz, but I can handle that.
I have 10 terminals and a couple of web browsers up. So I can program, multiple files at a time, plus consoles, database command line, dev web server log, documentation, and web output up all without anything being occluded.
I started programming on a 256x192 screen with 28x24 characters. It's awesome to have this much real estate and has raised my productivity noticeably.
I'll tell you what's creepy. There's a certain restaurant that I frequent in LA. I'm typically out there a couple of weeks every year doing some work. I've never given that restaurant any personal information. Ever.
A couple of days ago I got an email from them, and they've added me to their email list. I'm still not sure how.
Yeah, basically the regressive left hates nukes (because they want people to use less power, from what I can tell, and nukes tend to hurt their arguments) so they legally fight every new nuke plant incessantly. Then, the come on/. and other such forums and say "see, nukes are too expensive, can't have them". They don't have to be that expensive, and probably at some point governments need to make it illegal to file baseless lawsuits against power companies for stuff like this.
I wonder what Trump had to promise GM for them to delay the announcement until after the election?
What's hilarious about this is the fact that Obama actually bailed them out and threw a huge bone to the union in the process. But I guess since a Democrat did it it's cool.
Just to make your head explode if it hasn't already, Donald Trump was on the record as being pro-gay-marriage. Obama ran on a platform against gay marriage.
Most Americans don't earn enough to pay for food, housing, medical care, and save for retirement. Maybe we should pay our workforce better, then we could talk about personal responsibility.
No, most Americans earn more than enough for those things. They don't earn enough to eat out multiple times each week, live in a larger house than they can really afford, have the latest big screen TV, nice cars where they can barely afford the payment, the latest iPhone, and save for retirement.
In other words, they need to learn how to delay gratification and live a lower lifestyle.
I used to listen to Dave Ramsey for 20 minutes every day when I went to get my kids from school. The folks who called him with the worst problems always made around $125,000/year, over twice the average in the US. Why? They had enough money to buy anything they wanted. And they did.
Anyone making that much should retire a millionaire.
What, exactly, has Trump done "against" the LGBT community?
Such nonsense. He's the first pro-gay-marriage President, but I guess that only counts if you're a Democrat given that Dick Cheney was the first pro-gay-marriage VP.
That leaves the even older audiences still using Facebook, but those are old enough to still watch cable/satellite and don't care about online videos.
Even my stepfather left FB, and my mother never signed up. It's 50 year olds at this point, and I know that because my classmates tend to still be there.
Facebook has a youtube competitor? First time I've heard of it. Then again, that might be part of the problem. That, and its facebook.
Came here to say the same thing. I have a FB account that I actually check once or twice a week. The fact that I've never heard of "Watch" is simply amazing.
And its the best of ALL your friends lives. If you have ~100 friends on facebook then chances are one of them is always on a vacation. Something super exciting (once every 2 year event) will be happening every weekend. This will make you feel like you should always be on vacation and doing something super exciting like eating a $100 a plate meal and going to a show/concert.
This is hardly earth shattering at this point. I remember when the initial studies of the toxicity of social media first came out several years ago. Facebook just about encourages us to compare and judge our lives to that of our friends.
Worse yet, it's not actually your friends' lives, but the idealized, sanitized version that they post on social media. They're always on vacation or doing something cool and nothing bad ever happens.
That would never be the case, if that was so then I would have to believe that all those times the national park service closed parks whenever there was a threat of 2-4% drop in funding was false.
Heh. Actual example here in TN: about 20 years ago we had a looney-lefty Republican governor (yeah, weird) named Don Sunquist. Very standard leftist. He tried like anything to get a state income tax in place, claiming that we just couldn't function without it. So, when he didn't get his way he closed all the state parks for a year. Now, I know you're thinking "well, he saved money by not staffing the parks". No, everybody kept their jobs and kept going to work in the parks. Their job duties were simply expanded to include "keeping everybody out of the park". You can't make this shit up.
He finally had a friend of his install pay stations in all the parks and force visitors to pay a few bucks per day. All that was promptly removed when he was removed at the next election.
I talk about this issue in other writings about my time at a public university. When the budget was "cut" (this is a Democrat "cut", which means "it didn't grow as much as I wanted it to") university administration would never sit down and figure out what was essential and non-essential, and then cut the non-essential items. Instead, they would lazily leave the budget where it was for most things, and raise a few here and there (again, "cut" means "not as big of a raise") and tell us that we couldn't have raises because of the budget "cut". It was hogwash.
As someone who once had a government job, I assure you that they waste far more than you can even imagine. The problem is that if you cut their funding they remove the wrong items from the budget.
You apparently don't understand what money laundering is. In the simplest sense, let's say you're a drug dealer and you have $20,000 in cash. You want to store it in the bank, but when you do that the IRS finds out about it. So you create a sham business and cook the books, making it look as if the money is really proceeds from your business.
We sometimes see things listed for exorbitant prices on Amazon. Probably money laundering. A friend of mine talks about car auctions now, where people will buy cars at auction and then sell them for really high prices to certain buyers. They're laundering money.
Underpaying taxes isn't laundering. Structuring deposits or withdrawals isn't laundering (it's "structuring" - a separate and unrelated offense).
In law there is something called the Clean Hands Doctrine that can be fit here. It a nutshell it says that if your hands are dirty, you are not entitled to a fair outcome.
You really don't understand the clean hands doctrine. It has nothing to do with what he's talking about.
Interestingly, few people thought they were evil. The left-leaning folks here who are getting the vapors didn't seem to show up for that one, presumably because it was also made by left-leaning folks.
That's my thoughts. Great idea - turn on your porch light to let people know you exist. The problem is that we might be living in a bad neighborhood, cosmically speaking.
There might be things on the lookout for a nice habitable planet. Not what we want to attract.
$90K is likely similar to what the Oracle license costs them per day. If you think I'm joking, that's $30M/year - which wouldn't surprise me for a company the size of Amazon.
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It's, frankly, bizarre reading this stuff.
Check out the "setup" menu on your TV - you can adjust the brightness, contrast, etc.
I know - space age shit going down right there. But it's really true.
I thought I always used cash.
You really don't want an "HDR TV" as a monitor and vice versa, hence the ratings are pointless.
Uh, yeah, I do. I've been using 4K TVs for a couple of years now as my main desktop monitor and I couldn't be happier.
Right now I have a 48" Vizio and a 49" LG. Neither cost more than $500, both do 4:4:4 just fine, and use a standard HD connection to my laptop. The laptop's a few years old so I only get 30Hz, but I can handle that.
I have 10 terminals and a couple of web browsers up. So I can program, multiple files at a time, plus consoles, database command line, dev web server log, documentation, and web output up all without anything being occluded.
I started programming on a 256x192 screen with 28x24 characters. It's awesome to have this much real estate and has raised my productivity noticeably.
I'll tell you what's creepy. There's a certain restaurant that I frequent in LA. I'm typically out there a couple of weeks every year doing some work. I've never given that restaurant any personal information. Ever.
A couple of days ago I got an email from them, and they've added me to their email list. I'm still not sure how.
I always assumed that the CSRs could see every keystroke I type in the chatbox.
If I have a long question (often the first question is long for example), I usually type the text into emacs...
Hmm. I do the same thing with vi - tends to be a little faster and easier.
And wind and solar are heavily subsidized everywhere, also. Your argument falls apart rather easily.
Emissions are rising in EU. In 2017: https://planetsave.com/2018/05... and will again in 2018: https://www.thedailystar.net/w...
Europe talks a good game, but has very little action. They do like to sign fancy "accords" and have meetings about it though.
Yeah, reality doesn't matter since they're all still signed on to the Paris Accord.
Yeah, basically the regressive left hates nukes (because they want people to use less power, from what I can tell, and nukes tend to hurt their arguments) so they legally fight every new nuke plant incessantly. Then, the come on /. and other such forums and say "see, nukes are too expensive, can't have them". They don't have to be that expensive, and probably at some point governments need to make it illegal to file baseless lawsuits against power companies for stuff like this.
I wonder what Trump had to promise GM for them to delay the announcement until after the election?
What's hilarious about this is the fact that Obama actually bailed them out and threw a huge bone to the union in the process. But I guess since a Democrat did it it's cool.
Just to make your head explode if it hasn't already, Donald Trump was on the record as being pro-gay-marriage. Obama ran on a platform against gay marriage.
Most Americans don't earn enough to pay for food, housing, medical care, and save for retirement. Maybe we should pay our workforce better, then we could talk about personal responsibility.
No, most Americans earn more than enough for those things. They don't earn enough to eat out multiple times each week, live in a larger house than they can really afford, have the latest big screen TV, nice cars where they can barely afford the payment, the latest iPhone, and save for retirement.
In other words, they need to learn how to delay gratification and live a lower lifestyle.
I used to listen to Dave Ramsey for 20 minutes every day when I went to get my kids from school. The folks who called him with the worst problems always made around $125,000/year, over twice the average in the US. Why? They had enough money to buy anything they wanted. And they did.
Anyone making that much should retire a millionaire.
Did you know that it's still "okay to be white" even if those four words are a "white nationalist meme"?
Did you know that most of us ignore white nationalists and don't care what they think any more than we care what Louis Farrakhan thinks?
What, exactly, has Trump done "against" the LGBT community?
Such nonsense. He's the first pro-gay-marriage President, but I guess that only counts if you're a Democrat given that Dick Cheney was the first pro-gay-marriage VP.
That leaves the even older audiences still using Facebook, but those are old enough to still watch cable/satellite and don't care about online videos.
Even my stepfather left FB, and my mother never signed up. It's 50 year olds at this point, and I know that because my classmates tend to still be there.
Facebook has a youtube competitor? First time I've heard of it. Then again, that might be part of the problem. That, and its facebook.
Came here to say the same thing. I have a FB account that I actually check once or twice a week. The fact that I've never heard of "Watch" is simply amazing.
And its the best of ALL your friends lives. If you have ~100 friends on facebook then chances are one of them is always on a vacation. Something super exciting (once every 2 year event) will be happening every weekend. This will make you feel like you should always be on vacation and doing something super exciting like eating a $100 a plate meal and going to a show/concert.
Exactly.
This is hardly earth shattering at this point. I remember when the initial studies of the toxicity of social media first came out several years ago. Facebook just about encourages us to compare and judge our lives to that of our friends.
Worse yet, it's not actually your friends' lives, but the idealized, sanitized version that they post on social media. They're always on vacation or doing something cool and nothing bad ever happens.
That would never be the case, if that was so then I would have to believe that all those times the national park service closed parks whenever there was a threat of 2-4% drop in funding was false.
Heh. Actual example here in TN: about 20 years ago we had a looney-lefty Republican governor (yeah, weird) named Don Sunquist. Very standard leftist. He tried like anything to get a state income tax in place, claiming that we just couldn't function without it. So, when he didn't get his way he closed all the state parks for a year. Now, I know you're thinking "well, he saved money by not staffing the parks". No, everybody kept their jobs and kept going to work in the parks. Their job duties were simply expanded to include "keeping everybody out of the park". You can't make this shit up.
He finally had a friend of his install pay stations in all the parks and force visitors to pay a few bucks per day. All that was promptly removed when he was removed at the next election.
I talk about this issue in other writings about my time at a public university. When the budget was "cut" (this is a Democrat "cut", which means "it didn't grow as much as I wanted it to") university administration would never sit down and figure out what was essential and non-essential, and then cut the non-essential items. Instead, they would lazily leave the budget where it was for most things, and raise a few here and there (again, "cut" means "not as big of a raise") and tell us that we couldn't have raises because of the budget "cut". It was hogwash.
As someone who once had a government job, I assure you that they waste far more than you can even imagine. The problem is that if you cut their funding they remove the wrong items from the budget.
You apparently don't understand what money laundering is. In the simplest sense, let's say you're a drug dealer and you have $20,000 in cash. You want to store it in the bank, but when you do that the IRS finds out about it. So you create a sham business and cook the books, making it look as if the money is really proceeds from your business.
We sometimes see things listed for exorbitant prices on Amazon. Probably money laundering. A friend of mine talks about car auctions now, where people will buy cars at auction and then sell them for really high prices to certain buyers. They're laundering money.
Underpaying taxes isn't laundering. Structuring deposits or withdrawals isn't laundering (it's "structuring" - a separate and unrelated offense).
In law there is something called the Clean Hands Doctrine that can be fit here. It a nutshell it says that if your hands are dirty, you are not entitled to a fair outcome.
You really don't understand the clean hands doctrine. It has nothing to do with what he's talking about.
I mean, this came out a couple of days ago:
https://politics.slashdot.org/...
Interestingly, few people thought they were evil. The left-leaning folks here who are getting the vapors didn't seem to show up for that one, presumably because it was also made by left-leaning folks.
That's my thoughts. Great idea - turn on your porch light to let people know you exist. The problem is that we might be living in a bad neighborhood, cosmically speaking.
There might be things on the lookout for a nice habitable planet. Not what we want to attract.
Not joking, this popped up on /. two minutes after the guy beside me on the plane ordered a straight black coffee.
Posting to undo accidental mod.
$90K is likely similar to what the Oracle license costs them per day. If you think I'm joking, that's $30M/year - which wouldn't surprise me for a company the size of Amazon.