Never said anything about Apple dying. Apple itself is doing just fine making iphones and over priced accessories. I expect them to continue to be fine for a very long time.
I said dying platform, which the Imac line currently is. There has been no real development in years on the platform. It remains over priced and under power. All this might change but as for now its pretty much a dead platform.
Pretty much the way it is. It used to be that allot of professional software was developed on Apple first then back ported to Windows. Adobe comes to mind. Simply not the case any more. Now virtually all software, except for Mac. only titles, is developed first on Windows the back ported to Mac. Often this is done poorly too and several versions behind. Manufactures just don't want to put money into what they see is a dying platform.
I'm not where I can watch the video today but did they actually use a nuclear bomb to test it? If not then they really didn't test it for being nuke proof. There is no real equivalent to a nuke short of a nuke. Sure you can simulate blast effect with conventional explosives but you can't simulate the nuclear fireball of a few million degrees.
Yup, I called BS on this too when I read it. These people get their science from hollywood. They don't really understand what a laser or a nuclear blast really is. They treat a nuclear explosion as just big ass bomb.
They don't understand that the heat generated by a laser or inside the fireball of a nuclear blast is hot enough that the nuclear forces holding matter together break down. It doesn't matter how "spacy" or advanced the science is when the basic physics holding your shit together cease to work. It all becomes plasma in the end.
Not exactly surprised. I remember when we started down this path when I was first enrolling my kids in school. I looked over the curriculum and recall that I didn't see any of the stuff I had in school. I seem to recall teachers saying that the new stuff would lead to a generation not being prepared.
Of course this didn't stop Bush Beta and his band of merry idiots from rubber stamping it. Then it got worse under Obama. Now we have a willy wonka escapee at the helm and I don't see anything getting better. I do think Trump is doing good job in some areas but the areas he is failing in he seems to be doing in style.
The same is said of every generation. Were hippies and flower power any less ridiculed?
Young people, by virtue of having been alive for less time, are less experienced. Some would say less cynical and worn down. It will always be that way.
Not like this generation. Hippies, despite all the shit I give them, had enough basic life skills when they started out. When I came out of high school, at the age of 18, I knew how to create a budget, balance a checkbook, type, cook a basic meal, buy and maintain a car, look for, apply for, and get a job. Any many other basic skills.
I've met Millennials, in college, that can't even do basic math with out a calculator. I'm not talking algebra here, but addition and subtraction. Some of them are almost hopeless. I can't get my daughters husband to even consider making a budget, much less managing his money correctly. They are amazed that I can look down a receipt and add up all the totals on it in my head.
Most of the hippies that I know at that time where inclined to learn. This generation doesn't seem to be inclined to do even that. They are not stupid, they just seem to be, I don't really know what to call it.
This is something that I have also observed with a lot of millennials. Most of them have the works they way they think it should, and now how it actually works. In the ideal millennial world you should be able to walk down the street naked at 2 am. They just don't take in to account there are fucking evil people out there that will happily take advantage of them.
It is not that millennials are stupid, it just they are not getting the same life experiences any more that most of us non-milennials got.
Well PDF would have been ideal but Word format was required, and the only option. Which is kind of shitty because not everyone can afford a $150 office package. That is why I told her to go with libreoffice to start with. She didn't protest, just saved a copy from word on my desktop and handed it a day later. She took a letter grade hit for it. No changes where made to the original document so I doubt word even saved it.
I felt bad for her since I was the one that recommended libreoffice in the first place. I sprang for her a copy of office.
I can actually understand the IDE example you gave, but this wasn't source code. It was a social studies paper written in courier font in a mla format. She probably could have written it on notepad++.
Renting thing is never cheaper over the long term.
You really should stop using bold in your posts so much. I'm sure I'm not the only one that finds this annoying.
But anyway, this is completely dependent on what you value. i owned a house once. I hated every minute of it. I had to keep my yard cut and the flower beds neat. I was responsible to keep the pool in order. When something broke, I had to fix it or pay to have it fixed.
I rent an apartment now. When I want to go out to the pool, I just go. Grass needs cutting, a hoard of immigrant labor shows up and does the job. Last week the compressor on my A/C went out. I called maintenance and two days later they put in a whole new A/C. It's a nice one too. Looks like at least couple of grand for it. I can hang meat in my apartment now.
And... what is the advantage of all that over LibreOffice again? For 99.9999% of people?
Well you have the idiot factor. I installed libreoffice on my nieces laptop for college. She turned in a paper to her professor and got it rejected. He said 'the paper must be turned in written in M$ word." He didn't even look at her paper because she "didn't follow directions."
I loaded the paper in office 2010, 2013, 2016, and office 365. It was just fine. Her mistake was telling him she used libreoffice and his is he is just a god damn moron.
That's the new Miscreant-o-sodomite business model: Make everyone pay for everything, forever.
Fuck this whole 'software-as-a-service' bullshit, fuck it sideways with a rusty chainsaw, I say.
Lets look at this 'software-as-a-service' for a moment. I'm looking at a quote from amazon for office 2016 pro, which is the version I have in my office 365 subscription. The version of 2016 listed on amazon is $359. I pay $69 a year for my office 365 subscription.
Taking into account a 3 year upgrade cycle, 2016-2019, my cost over those 3 years is $207. So if you are someone that likes to keep their software up to date, and some of us we have to do so because of business reasons, its cheaper to go with office 365. The other perks that M$ tosses in, like the 1 TB of cloud storage and being able to put it on my tablet, and phone are just gravy.
So it clear that if you are in a business that needs to keep your software updated it is better to go with a office 365 subscription.
Now then if you are a home user, a student, or a business that can skip a few upgrade cycles, then the stand along version is a better choice. I mean, really, office 2010 is still perfect software for 95% of everyone out there.
Unfortunately they have failed miserably and the entire suite is still a shiny polished turd of limited functionality
An yet it is the most widely used office software that ever has been. Probably makes more money for Microsoft what all their other products combined. If you call this a shiny polished turd of limited functionality, I wonder what your ideal of premium software is.
I don't believe AMD really ever had an edge. From someone that has used AMD chips for years I've noticed one thing. They always lay just behind Intel in performance about 5% while maintaining a price difference just enough to offset that performance. An when AMD every really seemed to have an edge, they quickly licenced it to Intel.
Even the FX chips, which most people agree was a dog when released, still was good enough to classify as high end performance. I still use one in my home server. Even the Ryzn chips, as good as they are, are not quite as good as the Intel counterparts. The performance gap of chips of the same class has fallen to about 3% but its still there. An the cost offset is still there.
Plus when it seems AMD is about to cash in its chips, someone shows up with a boat load of money. I'm not ready to say intel is pulling the stings behind AMD keeping them afloat but it sure seems that way at times. Keeping the competition a float just enough so they can't be declared a monopoly but not enough that AMD is a serous threat.
Honestly, not a thing. Everything you have pointed out is truth. Over the past decades they have had plenty of opportunity put a stop to the baby bell merging and facebook/google getting so big. The real truth is they just have no interested in doing so. To much money flowing in one direction and they don't want to kill that tit.
This is the first thing I thought about when I read the title. If you just broke them up they would eventually reform under a new name a decade later when nobody cared. Instead of breaking them up it would be better to just regulate them as a public utility.
Granted, having a bunch of senile old farts attempt to regulate something like google or facebook appeals to me about as much as having a blind man shave my ass with a bolo knife.
So much truth in one statement. More people voted against Hilary than voted for Trump. I believe if they had run anyone other than Hilary it would have been a slam dunk for them.
Possibly. I've never been sure why I show up at +3. At first I thought it was an account issue too. I sent email to get it fix and it never was. I figured I would just keep posting at +3, as much as I post, I figured someone would notice and it would be fixed. That was 2 years ago.
Other people have reported it but I'm still posting at +3. So ether its on purpose or they can't figure out how to fix it. But once a few weeks ago I was posting at +2 like normal people. That went on for a couple hours then I was back at +3.
Actually the public doesn't want bitcoin at all. The only people who want bitcoin is mostly people looking to get rich quick, those looking to nefarious things on the internet, and a few individuals that value their privacy. What the public wants is a regulated stable currency that they can depend on.
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Word gets all the glory in MS office but it's in Excel where most of the work gets done.
Never said anything about Apple dying. Apple itself is doing just fine making iphones and over priced accessories. I expect them to continue to be fine for a very long time.
I said dying platform, which the Imac line currently is. There has been no real development in years on the platform. It remains over priced and under power. All this might change but as for now its pretty much a dead platform.
No one has had a decent email client app since pine :-)
You misspelled mutt. :)
Pretty much the way it is. It used to be that allot of professional software was developed on Apple first then back ported to Windows. Adobe comes to mind. Simply not the case any more. Now virtually all software, except for Mac. only titles, is developed first on Windows the back ported to Mac. Often this is done poorly too and several versions behind. Manufactures just don't want to put money into what they see is a dying platform.
Probably be a great investment to have large parcels of land right across the boarder with California zoned for manufacturing.
I'm not where I can watch the video today but did they actually use a nuclear bomb to test it? If not then they really didn't test it for being nuke proof. There is no real equivalent to a nuke short of a nuke. Sure you can simulate blast effect with conventional explosives but you can't simulate the nuclear fireball of a few million degrees.
Yup, I called BS on this too when I read it. These people get their science from hollywood. They don't really understand what a laser or a nuclear blast really is. They treat a nuclear explosion as just big ass bomb.
They don't understand that the heat generated by a laser or inside the fireball of a nuclear blast is hot enough that the nuclear forces holding matter together break down. It doesn't matter how "spacy" or advanced the science is when the basic physics holding your shit together cease to work. It all becomes plasma in the end.
I can't read.
I've been hearing nothing but shit about Monsanto for decades. Has this company done anything good?
Not exactly surprised. I remember when we started down this path when I was first enrolling my kids in school. I looked over the curriculum and recall that I didn't see any of the stuff I had in school. I seem to recall teachers saying that the new stuff would lead to a generation not being prepared.
Of course this didn't stop Bush Beta and his band of merry idiots from rubber stamping it. Then it got worse under Obama. Now we have a willy wonka escapee at the helm and I don't see anything getting better. I do think Trump is doing good job in some areas but the areas he is failing in he seems to be doing in style.
The same is said of every generation. Were hippies and flower power any less ridiculed? Young people, by virtue of having been alive for less time, are less experienced. Some would say less cynical and worn down. It will always be that way.
Not like this generation. Hippies, despite all the shit I give them, had enough basic life skills when they started out. When I came out of high school, at the age of 18, I knew how to create a budget, balance a checkbook, type, cook a basic meal, buy and maintain a car, look for, apply for, and get a job. Any many other basic skills.
I've met Millennials, in college, that can't even do basic math with out a calculator. I'm not talking algebra here, but addition and subtraction. Some of them are almost hopeless. I can't get my daughters husband to even consider making a budget, much less managing his money correctly. They are amazed that I can look down a receipt and add up all the totals on it in my head.
Most of the hippies that I know at that time where inclined to learn. This generation doesn't seem to be inclined to do even that. They are not stupid, they just seem to be, I don't really know what to call it.
This is something that I have also observed with a lot of millennials. Most of them have the works they way they think it should, and now how it actually works. In the ideal millennial world you should be able to walk down the street naked at 2 am. They just don't take in to account there are fucking evil people out there that will happily take advantage of them.
It is not that millennials are stupid, it just they are not getting the same life experiences any more that most of us non-milennials got.
Well PDF would have been ideal but Word format was required, and the only option. Which is kind of shitty because not everyone can afford a $150 office package. That is why I told her to go with libreoffice to start with. She didn't protest, just saved a copy from word on my desktop and handed it a day later. She took a letter grade hit for it. No changes where made to the original document so I doubt word even saved it.
I felt bad for her since I was the one that recommended libreoffice in the first place. I sprang for her a copy of office.
I can actually understand the IDE example you gave, but this wasn't source code. It was a social studies paper written in courier font in a mla format. She probably could have written it on notepad++.
Renting thing is never cheaper over the long term.
You really should stop using bold in your posts so much. I'm sure I'm not the only one that finds this annoying.
But anyway, this is completely dependent on what you value. i owned a house once. I hated every minute of it. I had to keep my yard cut and the flower beds neat. I was responsible to keep the pool in order. When something broke, I had to fix it or pay to have it fixed.
I rent an apartment now. When I want to go out to the pool, I just go. Grass needs cutting, a hoard of immigrant labor shows up and does the job. Last week the compressor on my A/C went out. I called maintenance and two days later they put in a whole new A/C. It's a nice one too. Looks like at least couple of grand for it. I can hang meat in my apartment now.
And ... what is the advantage of all that over LibreOffice again? For 99.9999% of people?
Well you have the idiot factor. I installed libreoffice on my nieces laptop for college. She turned in a paper to her professor and got it rejected. He said 'the paper must be turned in written in M$ word." He didn't even look at her paper because she "didn't follow directions."
I loaded the paper in office 2010, 2013, 2016, and office 365. It was just fine. Her mistake was telling him she used libreoffice and his is he is just a god damn moron.
That's the new Miscreant-o-sodomite business model: Make everyone pay for everything, forever. Fuck this whole 'software-as-a-service' bullshit, fuck it sideways with a rusty chainsaw, I say.
Lets look at this 'software-as-a-service' for a moment. I'm looking at a quote from amazon for office 2016 pro, which is the version I have in my office 365 subscription. The version of 2016 listed on amazon is $359. I pay $69 a year for my office 365 subscription.
Taking into account a 3 year upgrade cycle, 2016-2019, my cost over those 3 years is $207. So if you are someone that likes to keep their software up to date, and some of us we have to do so because of business reasons, its cheaper to go with office 365. The other perks that M$ tosses in, like the 1 TB of cloud storage and being able to put it on my tablet, and phone are just gravy.
So it clear that if you are in a business that needs to keep your software updated it is better to go with a office 365 subscription.
Now then if you are a home user, a student, or a business that can skip a few upgrade cycles, then the stand along version is a better choice. I mean, really, office 2010 is still perfect software for 95% of everyone out there.
Unfortunately they have failed miserably and the entire suite is still a shiny polished turd of limited functionality
An yet it is the most widely used office software that ever has been. Probably makes more money for Microsoft what all their other products combined. If you call this a shiny polished turd of limited functionality, I wonder what your ideal of premium software is.
Intel got... um... itanic
Ever noticed how that kind of rhymes with titanic? With similar fates I might add.
I don't believe AMD really ever had an edge. From someone that has used AMD chips for years I've noticed one thing. They always lay just behind Intel in performance about 5% while maintaining a price difference just enough to offset that performance. An when AMD every really seemed to have an edge, they quickly licenced it to Intel.
Even the FX chips, which most people agree was a dog when released, still was good enough to classify as high end performance. I still use one in my home server. Even the Ryzn chips, as good as they are, are not quite as good as the Intel counterparts. The performance gap of chips of the same class has fallen to about 3% but its still there. An the cost offset is still there.
Plus when it seems AMD is about to cash in its chips, someone shows up with a boat load of money. I'm not ready to say intel is pulling the stings behind AMD keeping them afloat but it sure seems that way at times. Keeping the competition a float just enough so they can't be declared a monopoly but not enough that AMD is a serous threat.
What makes anyone think they will be broken up?
Honestly, not a thing. Everything you have pointed out is truth. Over the past decades they have had plenty of opportunity put a stop to the baby bell merging and facebook/google getting so big. The real truth is they just have no interested in doing so. To much money flowing in one direction and they don't want to kill that tit.
This is the first thing I thought about when I read the title. If you just broke them up they would eventually reform under a new name a decade later when nobody cared. Instead of breaking them up it would be better to just regulate them as a public utility.
Granted, having a bunch of senile old farts attempt to regulate something like google or facebook appeals to me about as much as having a blind man shave my ass with a bolo knife.
So much truth in one statement. More people voted against Hilary than voted for Trump. I believe if they had run anyone other than Hilary it would have been a slam dunk for them.
Possibly. I've never been sure why I show up at +3. At first I thought it was an account issue too. I sent email to get it fix and it never was. I figured I would just keep posting at +3, as much as I post, I figured someone would notice and it would be fixed. That was 2 years ago.
Other people have reported it but I'm still posting at +3. So ether its on purpose or they can't figure out how to fix it. But once a few weeks ago I was posting at +2 like normal people. That went on for a couple hours then I was back at +3.
So just wondering. Why is this modded as 'Troll?'
Actually the public doesn't want bitcoin at all. The only people who want bitcoin is mostly people looking to get rich quick, those looking to nefarious things on the internet, and a few individuals that value their privacy. What the public wants is a regulated stable currency that they can depend on.