Convergence was a problem but also the circuits went digital and that contributed massively to the decline build your own breadboard electronics. With chips acting as controllers there was a sea change in electronics and the hobbiest movement became the computer revolution. Now, there's no place for Radio Shack to sell parts on tiny margins.
They used to have electricians working in their stores. That went away.
Can I design hardware for their top of the line pro towers? No. Why? They don't exist.
Can I design anything that plugs into their hardware? Not unless it uses USB C. Their new machines even require RAM to be installed by special magical technicians who wear the special Apple T-Shirts that make installing memory possible.
Apple has spent the last few years telling everyone around them to go jump in a lake because they need no-one other than consumers who buy machines that are disposable. That's their choice but what business do you expect anyone to even try to do with them unless it plugs in a USB C port and is constrained by the power supplies of laptops?
The same thing happened because of decades of shark films after Jaws.
It's -- so I have heard -- open season on sharks and has been for decades. This has resulted in out of control populations of octopi and so on down the food chain. You're more likely to be killed by drowning than sharks. Everyone calm down.
>This is nonsense. Try living elsewhere for a while and see how rosy you think it is.
Sure. Let's create a list of example countries. My list will contain every other industrialized democracy in the western world. You don't even have to go that far -- you can go to Canada.
Thank you for the black and white thinking; no-one is asking for perfection but professionalism.
Have you seen the video? The victim walked onto the porch and probably had no idea what was happening. He was shot without the police ascertaining who he was -- perhaps a hostage? Perhaps a hostage taker? They shouted for him to raise his hands but for all we know, he may have been thinking 'I wonder who they're talking to -- gosh that light is bright.'
Remember, the victim had no idea any of this was going on. The police had training, equipment and a mandate. From them I expect professionalism.
Pandering to a non existent market by destroying your core characters by replacing them with well intentioned morally improving replacements is not the solution.
Let us take it as axiomatic that there are aliens of intelligence at least as good as our who also have the ability to have practical interplanetary travel. These are massive and mighty assumptions.
The idea that such a species would spend all their time obsessing about us is arrogant. At best they might leave some technology to disable fleets of ICBMs so we don't kill ourselves but beyond that, why would they come here to get abused and to try to intercede in our domestic (planetary) squabbles.
Eventually most adults figure this out when they get that one add that's waaaaay too close to creepy after searching for something like Preparation H or morning after pill. As for the rest, guess what, that third of the adult population actually wants those ads. They find those ads economically important and, more power to them. You will not change their minds.
This makes as much sense as a 14.4 USR Collectable Modem or floppy drive, or CRT. Computer subsystems might gather dust in a museum but aren't going to be tooled around with like old cars.
This is just Disney doing a Scott Adams and sticking a logo on anything that has a shape. I never thought I'd say it, but this makes me think of Lucas as comparatively tasteful.
Now we have just in time sequence, just in time inventory. Before computers stores and chains built up inventory chains that were comparatively inflexible and communications were slow. Moreover feedback on pricing was slow. Now stores have their warehouses floating in containers at sea and overland via rail and trucks. Theres simply no big build up of stock.
BitCoin are unregulated investment instruments. They can't keep climbing indefinitely and some people will lose their shirts.
Not you of course. No, you're special.
The most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different' and no, no it's not different. Investments are regulated so that people are protected from the Bernie Madoffs of the world and it's necessary to do so.
I with a few others were contributing to an article when suddenly some undergraduate deleted all of the content and replaced it with his crappy, meandering school essay. We got into an edit war with him and his friends who now suddenly appeared from no-where to side with him and support this editorial lunacy.
Because the adults had jobs and he and his buddies had all day to dick around on Wikipedia, guess who won?
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Just wondering.
Convergence was a problem but also the circuits went digital and that contributed massively to the decline build your own breadboard electronics. With chips acting as controllers there was a sea change in electronics and the hobbiest movement became the computer revolution. Now, there's no place for Radio Shack to sell parts on tiny margins.
They used to have electricians working in their stores. That went away.
Gang:
Please do not discuss, or comment in any way, about ongoing issues we have in the courts.
Kthnxbye.
Can I design hardware for their top of the line pro towers? No. Why? They don't exist.
Can I design anything that plugs into their hardware? Not unless it uses USB C. Their new machines even require RAM to be installed by special magical technicians who wear the special Apple T-Shirts that make installing memory possible.
Apple has spent the last few years telling everyone around them to go jump in a lake because they need no-one other than consumers who buy machines that are disposable. That's their choice but what business do you expect anyone to even try to do with them unless it plugs in a USB C port and is constrained by the power supplies of laptops?
The same thing happened because of decades of shark films after Jaws.
It's -- so I have heard -- open season on sharks and has been for decades. This has resulted in out of control populations of octopi and so on down the food chain. You're more likely to be killed by drowning than sharks. Everyone calm down.
>This is nonsense. Try living elsewhere for a while and see how rosy you think it is.
Sure. Let's create a list of example countries. My list will contain every other industrialized democracy in the western world. You don't even have to go that far -- you can go to Canada.
Thank you for the black and white thinking; no-one is asking for perfection but professionalism.
Have you seen the video? The victim walked onto the porch and probably had no idea what was happening. He was shot without the police ascertaining who he was -- perhaps a hostage? Perhaps a hostage taker? They shouted for him to raise his hands but for all we know, he may have been thinking 'I wonder who they're talking to -- gosh that light is bright.'
Remember, the victim had no idea any of this was going on. The police had training, equipment and a mandate. From them I expect professionalism.
It's odd that the only time I ever seem to read the word waistband is when a policeman has shot someone he oughtn't have.
Pandering to a non existent market by destroying your core characters by replacing them with well intentioned morally improving replacements is not the solution.
The Last Jedi apparently died in Return of the Jedi.
So the FSB is up to date unlike the NT Servers they are targeting.
Let us take it as axiomatic that there are aliens of intelligence at least as good as our who also have the ability to have practical interplanetary travel. These are massive and mighty assumptions.
The idea that such a species would spend all their time obsessing about us is arrogant. At best they might leave some technology to disable fleets of ICBMs so we don't kill ourselves but beyond that, why would they come here to get abused and to try to intercede in our domestic (planetary) squabbles.
There was a pause and everyone laughed except for the scrum politkommisars.
Let's help the guy out.
I wonder what Bing will say?
'Nuff said
Eventually most adults figure this out when they get that one add that's waaaaay too close to creepy after searching for something like Preparation H or morning after pill. As for the rest, guess what, that third of the adult population actually wants those ads. They find those ads economically important and, more power to them. You will not change their minds.
Can we redefine the solar system so it can leave it one last time?
They just want to keep their monopoly on chemical reactions and Newtonian mechanics.
This makes as much sense as a 14.4 USR Collectable Modem or floppy drive, or CRT. Computer subsystems might gather dust in a museum but aren't going to be tooled around with like old cars.
This is just Disney doing a Scott Adams and sticking a logo on anything that has a shape. I never thought I'd say it, but this makes me think of Lucas as comparatively tasteful.
Now we have just in time sequence, just in time inventory. Before computers stores and chains built up inventory chains that were comparatively inflexible and communications were slow. Moreover feedback on pricing was slow. Now stores have their warehouses floating in containers at sea and overland via rail and trucks. Theres simply no big build up of stock.
Or will they just build it?
BitCoin are unregulated investment instruments. They can't keep climbing indefinitely and some people will lose their shirts.
Not you of course. No, you're special.
The most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different' and no, no it's not different. Investments are regulated so that people are protected from the Bernie Madoffs of the world and it's necessary to do so.
Ditto.
I with a few others were contributing to an article when suddenly some undergraduate deleted all of the content and replaced it with his crappy, meandering school essay. We got into an edit war with him and his friends who now suddenly appeared from no-where to side with him and support this editorial lunacy.
Because the adults had jobs and he and his buddies had all day to dick around on Wikipedia, guess who won?
After that I gave up on Wiki.
Orwell never thought that the noose that would go around peoples' necks would come from the private sector.