All of this it doesn't make sense as the hand luggage is screened more thoroughly than the checked in luggage. On the x-ray they can see exactly what is inside the laptop.
Also on some airlines you have to have batteries in your hand luggage so this gets very confusing. On my last flight from Bangkok, they went through all my luggage to find some batteries which they "saw" on the x-ray. I only had 2xAA batteries. Chaos of regulations.
Usually it is completely infuriating. Sometimes I get a rotation with one of the ship captains and this guy is impossible to work with. His sentence structure is:
"Do this job X thank you."
Usually X is not even my job, and secondly this "thank you", means exactly as you said: "you are going to do it anyway".
I understand exactly what you are thinking. The problem here is that there are no traditions nor culture anymore. We had many different traditions and cultures all over the country, and was pretty fragmented.
The war came in the 90ies and everything went upside down. Massive post war emigration, then the immigration from B&H, internal migration etc. All those people bringing their own culture/traditions and not even trying to fit in with the locals. Actually it is the reverse. They are trying to push their traditions on the locals.
A lot of those people were living pretty much like in the middle ages until last couple of decades when cars came into their isolated regions. So you have a situation where everyone hates each other's guts; you have a mix of many different traditions in different areas.
At the same time there is some kind of quiet push from some influential people who lived in US or Canada for americanization of some stuff. Namely academia and medical aid. Heck, even some of our weddings are some ugliest frankensteins of local and american traditions in the last years. And some people would say: "well it is a tradition". BS it is!
All that culture and tradition went down the drain. We're living in a time of anti-intelectualism, anti-culture and complete disrespect for other human beings. Sorry for ranting.
I think "race to the bottom" meant something else in the GP's post. The market was stale and pumping out shit hardware. Very low specs, poor quality etc. For example, the display resolutions were getting lower and lower, and battery life shorter and shorter. There was no product in windows hardware that other manufacturers wanted to strive to. Consumers didn't even bother anymore, because buying $300 crap laptop was the norm. I agree that the computers are just tools, but those tools cannot be made from toilet paper, some baseline has to be made.
So with that ultrabook/air and surface line of products the market did get products which were good (at least in theory), and buying $1000 laptops didn't sound that bad anymore because you were getting relatively good stuff.
From what I've seen, they are selling those older cars to the region around. So it is better to have a reliable car you can sell later for ok price then unreliable car which you can sell for next to nothing right?
Aren't you a professional? And professionals need professional tools.
True, everything could be done with a cheaper tools/laptops, but why? I would rather do it more pleasantly with spending more. After all, we are not talking here about ten or hundreds of thousands.
If it is anything like a pepper spray I wouldn't agree with you. I got sprayed once with a very slight amount in a theatre (don't ask) and I thought that I was going to die. It provokes terrible body reactions and you have a feeling that your lungs, throat, eyes and mouth are on fire. Absolutely terrible feeling and you stop what ever you are doing just coughing, crying and gasping for air which burns even more. It is vile through and through.
So if this gas released by the lock is similar, I do see a point about stopping thief with the smell. Of course, a gas mask will defeat this, but well, maybe they will just go and steal some other bike.
My dad has one of those and its great. That ink lasts forever. He has it for couple of years now and he only added ink (which is cheap) recently. And he prints in color fairly often so I was actually very surprised when he told me that he only just now both new ink bottles.
It prints as well as on the first day so I cannot recommend this line of printers enough.
And what I hate the most that you pay the full price of some application and then couple of months later they release new "major" version and they want the same amount of money again. Hey, I already paid you those $10, I'm not paying again. But at the same time, the old version gets abandoned and that's it.
I completely agree with you though, just saying that it all depends on the developers and their integrity.
Quite so. Sometimes my company's cruise ships get chartered by some big companies. So they all come here to drink themselves stiff and have fun. It is usually a "conference", but it just a normal cruise where everyone drinks themselves silly because everything is free. An yeah, they have a lecture or two, without much attendees.
It is not much about the capacity of the batteries which are pretty constant in the last couple of years. The flight time is function of weight and energy efficiency with the battery capacity being constant. In other words, if you add battery capacity, you add weight and then the drone doesn't necessary fly longer.
It is quite cool that DJI's line of Phantom models went from like 6 min flight time (with FPV) to 28 min flight time (with FPV, 3 axis gimbals, camera, collision detection and avoidance, much longer range etc) with basically the same outer dimensions. Quite astonishing really to have this in 2-3 years.
What 3D is great for is giving you a sense of scale. Say character - building scale. There is a scene in Avatar when they are about to land first time on that planet and they are flying over some open space mine. There is a huge machinery doing the work and I was just blown away how you get a sense that the mine is huge and that machinery is enormous. Sometimes you get a feeling that you are kind of being there on that planet yourself.
I've watched the movie in 2D again, but that didn't give me the same sense of scale. It was like, well watching a movie with cool CGI.
But seriously... What's the real functional difference between the Lenovo X series and the Macbook Air? Besides the logo?
Not OP but, I had some time to play with a x1 carbon (first version) two years ago and it was definitely much worse than my then 3 year old macbook air.
For start the trackpad was unusable. Yes it was that bad. Keyboard was definitely better than Air's but not *that* much of a difference. I never saw a laptop with a keyboard which was unusable though.
Display was not so much better, cannot remember anymore. And I hate 16:9 screens.
Battery life was poor. Windows performance was also not as expected because it was full of Lenovo programs.
So yeah, I definitely can say that the experience was not so great. I hope the last gen is better though. The second gen had strange keyboard layout and non-physical F buttons (which is a bad joke). And also terrible trackpad IIRC.
And looking at my 13in MBP (mid-2014) from below and it has a nice "seam" going all around the back plate. And yes, you can easily remove it and gain access to the battery.
So yeah it does have a "seam" and your argument is quite weak in the case of apple laptops.
For thousands of years humanity has had a pretty comfortable relationship with death (even two hundred years ago there were 'wakes' held in the family home for several days in many developed nations). Historically, attempting immortality has tended to go hand in hand with delusion, disconnection from reality, and/or mental illness.
I think its the other way around. People throught the history were usually very religious. Religion was/is a way to cope with loss of loved ones, death and offers a consolidation in a concept of afterlife. So the guy who was going in a dangerous war campaign, fishing in the open sea etc at least had a "guaranteed place in heaven/valhalla/zeus's dinner table". I think the natural state is to be afraid of death, or have a great aversion to it.
Nowadays people are not so religious anymore (at least in the developed world), or are pro-forma religious and highly doubt all the stories about afterlife. No wonder that as you get older (from adulthood) you are absolutely averse to death.
Well, you know when the person is in some country or not. That's one of the reasons we have borders and databases. And if the guy is illegaly in some country, that is completely different kind of problem.
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All of this it doesn't make sense as the hand luggage is screened more thoroughly than the checked in luggage. On the x-ray they can see exactly what is inside the laptop.
Also on some airlines you have to have batteries in your hand luggage so this gets very confusing. On my last flight from Bangkok, they went through all my luggage to find some batteries which they "saw" on the x-ray. I only had 2xAA batteries. Chaos of regulations.
Usually it is completely infuriating. Sometimes I get a rotation with one of the ship captains and this guy is impossible to work with. His sentence structure is:
"Do this job X thank you."
Usually X is not even my job, and secondly this "thank you", means exactly as you said: "you are going to do it anyway".
Fcuk these bastards.
I understand exactly what you are thinking. The problem here is that there are no traditions nor culture anymore. We had many different traditions and cultures all over the country, and was pretty fragmented.
The war came in the 90ies and everything went upside down. Massive post war emigration, then the immigration from B&H, internal migration etc. All those people bringing their own culture/traditions and not even trying to fit in with the locals. Actually it is the reverse. They are trying to push their traditions on the locals.
A lot of those people were living pretty much like in the middle ages until last couple of decades when cars came into their isolated regions. So you have a situation where everyone hates each other's guts; you have a mix of many different traditions in different areas.
At the same time there is some kind of quiet push from some influential people who lived in US or Canada for americanization of some stuff. Namely academia and medical aid. Heck, even some of our weddings are some ugliest frankensteins of local and american traditions in the last years. And some people would say: "well it is a tradition". BS it is!
All that culture and tradition went down the drain. We're living in a time of anti-intelectualism, anti-culture and complete disrespect for other human beings.
Sorry for ranting.
I think "race to the bottom" meant something else in the GP's post. The market was stale and pumping out shit hardware. Very low specs, poor quality etc. For example, the display resolutions were getting lower and lower, and battery life shorter and shorter. There was no product in windows hardware that other manufacturers wanted to strive to. Consumers didn't even bother anymore, because buying $300 crap laptop was the norm. I agree that the computers are just tools, but those tools cannot be made from toilet paper, some baseline has to be made.
So with that ultrabook/air and surface line of products the market did get products which were good (at least in theory), and buying $1000 laptops didn't sound that bad anymore because you were getting relatively good stuff.
From what I've seen, they are selling those older cars to the region around. So it is better to have a reliable car you can sell later for ok price then unreliable car which you can sell for next to nothing right?
I don't see logic behind this.
Aren't you a professional? And professionals need professional tools.
True, everything could be done with a cheaper tools/laptops, but why? I would rather do it more pleasantly with spending more. After all, we are not talking here about ten or hundreds of thousands.
Absolutely terrible. NSFL.
I have no idea who can defend something like this.
If it is anything like a pepper spray I wouldn't agree with you. I got sprayed once with a very slight amount in a theatre (don't ask) and I thought that I was going to die. It provokes terrible body reactions and you have a feeling that your lungs, throat, eyes and mouth are on fire. Absolutely terrible feeling and you stop what ever you are doing just coughing, crying and gasping for air which burns even more. It is vile through and through.
So if this gas released by the lock is similar, I do see a point about stopping thief with the smell. Of course, a gas mask will defeat this, but well, maybe they will just go and steal some other bike.
My dad has one of those and its great. That ink lasts forever. He has it for couple of years now and he only added ink (which is cheap) recently. And he prints in color fairly often so I was actually very surprised when he told me that he only just now both new ink bottles.
It prints as well as on the first day so I cannot recommend this line of printers enough.
They would easily make it more attractive just by slowing the 4G network down...
You're wrong:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/safely-remove-devices-from-your-computer
Windows (7 at least) allows it and won't complain that you've unplugged your device before you've ejected it. I hate this so much on my Mac though.
And what I hate the most that you pay the full price of some application and then couple of months later they release new "major" version and they want the same amount of money again. Hey, I already paid you those $10, I'm not paying again. But at the same time, the old version gets abandoned and that's it.
I completely agree with you though, just saying that it all depends on the developers and their integrity.
If you have too much of lawyers they will find someone to sue dont' worry.
Quite so. Sometimes my company's cruise ships get chartered by some big companies. So they all come here to drink themselves stiff and have fun. It is usually a "conference", but it just a normal cruise where everyone drinks themselves silly because everything is free. An yeah, they have a lecture or two, without much attendees.
It is not much about the capacity of the batteries which are pretty constant in the last couple of years. The flight time is function of weight and energy efficiency with the battery capacity being constant. In other words, if you add battery capacity, you add weight and then the drone doesn't necessary fly longer.
It is quite cool that DJI's line of Phantom models went from like 6 min flight time (with FPV) to 28 min flight time (with FPV, 3 axis gimbals, camera, collision detection and avoidance, much longer range etc) with basically the same outer dimensions. Quite astonishing really to have this in 2-3 years.
What 3D is great for is giving you a sense of scale. Say character - building scale. There is a scene in Avatar when they are about to land first time on that planet and they are flying over some open space mine. There is a huge machinery doing the work and I was just blown away how you get a sense that the mine is huge and that machinery is enormous. Sometimes you get a feeling that you are kind of being there on that planet yourself.
I've watched the movie in 2D again, but that didn't give me the same sense of scale. It was like, well watching a movie with cool CGI.
Wirelessly connected to a TV.
You don't need anything more.
Not OP but, I had some time to play with a x1 carbon (first version) two years ago and it was definitely much worse than my then 3 year old macbook air.
For start the trackpad was unusable. Yes it was that bad. Keyboard was definitely better than Air's but not *that* much of a difference. I never saw a laptop with a keyboard which was unusable though.
Display was not so much better, cannot remember anymore. And I hate 16:9 screens.
Battery life was poor. Windows performance was also not as expected because it was full of Lenovo programs.
So yeah, I definitely can say that the experience was not so great. I hope the last gen is better though. The second gen had strange keyboard layout and non-physical F buttons (which is a bad joke). And also terrible trackpad IIRC.
Yeah, if your wardrobe only consists of crocs and flip flops you are in trouble...
That was my point exactly. In fact, it could have been made easily replaceable.
And looking at my 13in MBP (mid-2014) from below and it has a nice "seam" going all around the back plate. And yes, you can easily remove it and gain access to the battery.
So yeah it does have a "seam" and your argument is quite weak in the case of apple laptops.
Should't that be 20G^2 ?;)
I think its the other way around. People throught the history were usually very religious. Religion was/is a way to cope with loss of loved ones, death and offers a consolidation in a concept of afterlife. So the guy who was going in a dangerous war campaign, fishing in the open sea etc at least had a "guaranteed place in heaven/valhalla/zeus's dinner table". I think the natural state is to be afraid of death, or have a great aversion to it.
Nowadays people are not so religious anymore (at least in the developed world), or are pro-forma religious and highly doubt all the stories about afterlife. No wonder that as you get older (from adulthood) you are absolutely averse to death.
Exactly, and wolves lost their 'wolveness' and become what we call today dogs.
Well, you know when the person is in some country or not. That's one of the reasons we have borders and databases. And if the guy is illegaly in some country, that is completely different kind of problem.