Add some pretty wrappers on top of IRC, make messages JSON if you insist on emjois. We've had bots for decades (for doing all sorts of everything). Live communication.
Can someone please explain why Slack is different?
Oh for fuck sake. Really? That's the vernacular you're getting panties in a twist about? Everyone I know (yourself aside) still calls them cards. An Amazon they're still sold as 'cards'.
The point is that NO ONE needs a laptop with 4 hard drives
I'm curious as to what your solution to my use case problem is? 3 external hard drives? Carrying around a battery powered SAN array?
Just because you don't need or can't fathom how people can need more hard drives doesn't mean some people don't.
Not even you.
Tell me more about my use cases that you seem to know so much about. While you're at it why not build me what you think is the most perfect unicorn laptop.
Thank god I didn't mention using the Nvidia GPU for mobile CUDA development, I'm sure you'd have an opinion on how I didn't need that either.
you don't need any "network cards" to turn a laptop into an access point, let alone 2. This isn't 1996.
When did I say "network cards"? I'm curious as to why you put into quotes something that isn't a quote. ""network cards"" first appears in this thread of comments in your post.
Additionally I would be very, very interested as to how you are turning any machine into an access point without a Wifi card of some sort.
Additionally I pointed out how much it cost. Pointing to the fact that high spec laptops end up actually costing money. Showing off the latest $500 laptop and comparing it to a laptop that a company spent money to engineer (Be it a Dell or an Apple) is a worthless comparison.
Then you come here to bitch and moan about bog-standard consumer laptops being a bad fit for you and how Apple is a crap company
[Citation Needed].
I pointed out it was exactly the type of machine Apple didn't make but that I was one of the people that needed it. Please point out my 'bitching and moaning' or specifically where I said apple was a "crap company".
With ZFS that gives me a mirrored 1TB pool for redundancy working anywhere. 2 SSD drives are 2 OS drives or an OS drive and scratch SSD drive.
2 Wifi cards allows you to connect to separate networks or turn one into an access point. (For those hotels that only allow 1 device on their network at a time.)
When Apple stopped making their 17" laptops I jumped to Dell.
My current machine is a M6700 with a 3940XM, 32GB of RAM, 4 hard drives, 2 wifi cards, IEEE1394, 5x USB, eSata, Display Port, VGA, and HDMI. I've tested it with Windows, Linux and BSD and all work just fine.
Then again it's the antithesis of what most Apple laptops are, the battery life sucks but it's a mobile workstation and I need that.
Set 10 years before the events of the original Star Trek series
God Damn It. Star Trek was about the future. I want a series set after DS9/Voyager. Stop @#(* with the timeline and do the formula that has worked in the past.
Star Trek movies were after TOS. TNG was after TOS movies. DS9/Voyager were after TNG. Enterprise went back in time and it all went to shit.
What happens after the Dominion War? Is there anything else in the other quadrants? Maybe make up some new techno bable and explore the 26th century. Make some new pretty ships.
I was a die hard Trekkie. I had the LCARS Star Trek encyclopedia. Knew all the specs of their ships and they managed to lose me with this constant mucking in the Trek 'past'. Now we have a movie franchise that just blew away all of the original timeline I grew up with.
None of those things are something that you notice in the first 60 seconds of using something. Jobs was always about the first impression and how it 'should work'.
Apple spent money and design time on their packaging. Compared to other MP3 players of the day the iPod was gorgeously packaged and easy to get to.
Having to use a dongle to use your brand new phone with your brand new laptop is one of those things Jobs would have flipped out about. Not an antenna that he likely never used (Always on Wifi), the long term reliability of the Mag Safe, over heating laptops, etc.
And that 'round mouse' brought Apple's stock back from the teens. It seems that plenty of people liked it just fine.
Something like this would have never happened under Jobs. He was meticulous that stuff worked together, easily, out of the box. Apple's lost its way with each product manager driving each product.
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Are doomed to repeat IRC.
Add some pretty wrappers on top of IRC, make messages JSON if you insist on emjois. We've had bots for decades (for doing all sorts of everything). Live communication.
Can someone please explain why Slack is different?
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“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
The problem is the guy that knew what the world wanted died and as a result the rest of the monkeys were left in charge.
And here it is, November 1, and I was watching the Cubs game in the back yard with tiki torches and lemonade.
Well, we're doing that too. It's 56F in Michigan now at 3 in the morning.
And they'll build Version 2. And you'll break it.
And they'll build Version 3. And you'll break it.
And ...
They'll still have their secret police for the ones that get way out of line. But for 99% of the population this works just fine.
s/An Amazon/On Amazon.
"wifi cards"
Oh for fuck sake. Really? That's the vernacular you're getting panties in a twist about? Everyone I know (yourself aside) still calls them cards. An Amazon they're still sold as 'cards'.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n...
The point is that NO ONE needs a laptop with 4 hard drives
I'm curious as to what your solution to my use case problem is? 3 external hard drives? Carrying around a battery powered SAN array?
Just because you don't need or can't fathom how people can need more hard drives doesn't mean some people don't.
Not even you.
Tell me more about my use cases that you seem to know so much about. While you're at it why not build me what you think is the most perfect unicorn laptop.
Thank god I didn't mention using the Nvidia GPU for mobile CUDA development, I'm sure you'd have an opinion on how I didn't need that either.
you don't need any "network cards" to turn a laptop into an access point, let alone 2. This isn't 1996.
When did I say "network cards"? I'm curious as to why you put into quotes something that isn't a quote. ""network cards"" first appears in this thread of comments in your post.
Additionally I would be very, very interested as to how you are turning any machine into an access point without a Wifi card of some sort.
Additionally I pointed out how much it cost. Pointing to the fact that high spec laptops end up actually costing money. Showing off the latest $500 laptop and comparing it to a laptop that a company spent money to engineer (Be it a Dell or an Apple) is a worthless comparison.
Then you come here to bitch and moan about bog-standard consumer laptops being a bad fit for you and how Apple is a crap company
[Citation Needed].
I pointed out it was exactly the type of machine Apple didn't make but that I was one of the people that needed it. Please point out my 'bitching and moaning' or specifically where I said apple was a "crap company".
Assume that he pays himself $10/hr. OS X only needs to save him 50 hours over the course of owning it for him to break even.
Assume that he pays himself $50/hr. OS X only needs to same him 10 hours over the course of owning it for him to break even.
Why do people always assume their time is free?
(There's a Don't Ask Again checkbox on the same dialog)
Because you know my usage cycle best?
With ZFS that gives me a mirrored 1TB pool for redundancy working anywhere. 2 SSD drives are 2 OS drives or an OS drive and scratch SSD drive.
2 Wifi cards allows you to connect to separate networks or turn one into an access point. (For those hotels that only allow 1 device on their network at a time.)
When Apple stopped making their 17" laptops I jumped to Dell.
My current machine is a M6700 with a 3940XM, 32GB of RAM, 4 hard drives, 2 wifi cards, IEEE1394, 5x USB, eSata, Display Port, VGA, and HDMI. I've tested it with Windows, Linux and BSD and all work just fine.
Then again it's the antithesis of what most Apple laptops are, the battery life sucks but it's a mobile workstation and I need that.
With all those specs, new, it cost ~$5k.
Count 2-3 copies of a VxWorks (or other) RTOS for every vehicle you see on the road.
Large vehicles like a Caterpillar Bulldozer may have up to 5 ECMs all not running Linux.
Program LudditeApp wants access to the microphone?
Approve / Deny.
Set 10 years before the events of the original Star Trek series
God Damn It. Star Trek was about the future. I want a series set after DS9/Voyager. Stop @#(* with the timeline and do the formula that has worked in the past.
Star Trek movies were after TOS. TNG was after TOS movies. DS9/Voyager were after TNG. Enterprise went back in time and it all went to shit.
What happens after the Dominion War? Is there anything else in the other quadrants? Maybe make up some new techno bable and explore the 26th century. Make some new pretty ships.
I was a die hard Trekkie. I had the LCARS Star Trek encyclopedia. Knew all the specs of their ships and they managed to lose me with this constant mucking in the Trek 'past'. Now we have a movie franchise that just blew away all of the original timeline I grew up with.
None of those things are something that you notice in the first 60 seconds of using something. Jobs was always about the first impression and how it 'should work'.
Apple spent money and design time on their packaging. Compared to other MP3 players of the day the iPod was gorgeously packaged and easy to get to.
Having to use a dongle to use your brand new phone with your brand new laptop is one of those things Jobs would have flipped out about. Not an antenna that he likely never used (Always on Wifi), the long term reliability of the Mag Safe, over heating laptops, etc.
And that 'round mouse' brought Apple's stock back from the teens. It seems that plenty of people liked it just fine.
I love my Dell M6700. It's a mobile workstation. 4 hard drives, 32 GB of ram, 17" screen and full keyboard.
But I realize I'm not someone Apple makes laptops for.
Just as easy to get OS X in a VM of some sort.
Something like this would have never happened under Jobs. He was meticulous that stuff worked together, easily, out of the box. Apple's lost its way with each product manager driving each product.
Maybe they can work on the OS next.
Apple Menu -> System Preferences... -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Tab -> Modifier Keys and select Esc for Caps Lock.
I mean, you had that mapped already, right?
I look forward to slashdot comments that will provide years of entertainment.
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Every single one back through 3.1. Make them pay to play. I would pay good money for a Windows 10 machine that looked like Windows NT.
I don't want a poorly designed tiling window manager. I don't want a new start button.