Okay genius, where do we put our actual cash then? Under the pillow?
I make all deposits to / write checks from my checking account, and never use my debit card. Except for the odd cash purchase, all other purchases - online and in person - I use my credit card. At the end of each month, I pay the credit card from my checking account. The only drawback I've encountered so far is if I have to cancel my credit card because it's been compromised. I'm stuck until the new one arrives. I'm going to get a second one as a backup, but it hasn't been a pressing priority so far.
That's pretty good. My 1985 TRS-80 Model 100 is still going strong, too, though I don't use it nearly as much as I used to. However, if either of our machines failed in some respect, no one would be terribly surprised. They certainly wouldn't say, "Go get yourself a better machine."
Not to be overly callous, but two kids in eight years? That's hardly an epidemic. The local SIDS rate might be higher. I understand your concern, but as long as you're not taking excessively stupid chances, you can't spend your life worrying about what might happen.
Echoing the AC that replied earlier. Can you provide the specs for the machine you have? I'm happy with my MBP, but if yours is faster, it wouldn't hurt to spec one out.
This is your second post along these lines, and it's just as silly. It's a nine year old machine. How long do you expect a mechanical device to last without *any* sort of failure? Heck, even the cochlear implant literally - yes, "literally" - installed in my head had a ten year warranty. Stuff breaks and it doesn't matter who manufactures it.
Well, when he first started at my school back in '81 - the one from which he'll retire in two years - he was my gym teacher. Back then, we were still allowed to play dodgeball. So, quite literally, he did spend at least a part of the year watching kids play dodgeball. Your snark is not only unhinged, but unfounded.
For practical purposes, it's a non-issue in 99.8% of all cases. Unless you drop the iPad in water and ruin the battery, chances are *really* good that you'll never need to replace it. Sure, there are corner cases, but those are what we call "corner cases."
Yep, depends on where and how long. Teachers in NY start at a pretty low salary, given the amount of education needed to achieve the minimum qualifications. However, make it past the probation period - typically three years - and the salaries go up pretty high. A gym teacher friend of mine makes over $90k / yr. Not bad for watching kids play dodgeball. After working more than 25 years, he'll retire in two years at about 80% of his salary, which is a tidy little sum for the backwoods area in which we live. So, yes, some teachers are getting screwed raw, but not all of them.
*looks around* Yeah, pretty much. But I know where everything is. Overall, it's not so bad, but the 'scope cables running here and there get to be annoying when they block me from grabbing something else.
I worked at a place where there were four of us on the admin team, and I was expected to be on-call for one week out of four. As sometimes happened, the Network Operations Center people would muff an "emergency," or just call out of an overabundance of caution, and we'd quickly determine it was no big deal, close the call. Then, there were other times where it would start with me, then snowball to my go-to guy - though I hated bugging him if I could avoid it - if it was over my head or costing us big bucks per minute of downtime. More than once - New Years Eve of 2017, for instance - it escalated to all-hands. Every one of us got roped into it for a good three or four hours that evening. We never did figure that one out, but it eventually went away. The good part of our group was that we all had each others' backs; it was a solid team of good guys, even the manager, who took regular weekly on-call shifts. The bad part was that we didn't get paid extra for it. I missed a number of family events - even had to take a call while in the hospital as my mother was dying, but I didn't mind so much because I needed to take a break from the sadness - and I won't deny I got pissed off more than once about being on-call, but I understood the job requirements going in. The lack of extra pay also kinda motivated us to get shit fixed quick-like.
I liked the Clie. Still have mine in a box behind my chair. That reversible clamshell with the built-in keyboard was righteous. If it had phone capabilities, I'd be carrying that instead of an iOS or Android device.
Of course you use your coffee mug 8 hours a day. You probably walk around Initech with that stupid mug, annoying people by passive-aggressive asking if they'd come in to work on Saturdays. Well, piss off, Lumbergh! And screw those stupid suspenders, too!
Oh. I was gonna say, "a couple of weeks??" Shoot, I lasted all of one fully day. I've had some shitty jobs - literally, when I cleaned toilets - but picking strawberries was one of the worst.
I've had a long day, but I had time during the day - drove from the tail end of Long Island to home in western NY - to think about this. It struck me as odd, like, "Why the f would anyone with a brain vote for Trump?" And then I realized: They empathized with Trump to the extent that they wanted to be him. Like when we were kids - depending on how old you are - and Van Halen was all the rage, lots of people wanted to be EVH, but easily just as many people wanted to be "Diamond" David Lee Roth. Why? Well, the swagger, the charisma, the 'tude, the chicks. Either one had it all, but Roth, in particular, struck me as someone I'd rather emulate. In addition to all the above, he seemed funny, too. That was before I read more about both of them and realized they're people with their own issues and demons. Learning more about them took off a bit of the shine. Now, I know they're not perfect - in fact, they sound like assholes - but that doesn't mean I've completely abandoned them as a fan. I still like them both, but do I want to be them? No. I got my own life to worry about.
But that's the thing: I think a lot of people don't just like Trump; they want to be him. They want what they see in Trump: the TV job; the cars; the helicopters; the glamorous parties; the flash and bling; the commanded "respect," etc. At some point, though, many of us realized that we weren't going to be the next DLR or EVH. We might have even changed our minds completely, and rejected that person after learning of this or that scandal. Evidently, with Trump, the scandals and his obvious inadequacies for the job of president do not register with these folks. Instead of bringing them down to earth, they just dig in deeper. Maybe someone with a better grasp of psychology could tell you why. I'm guessing dissatisfaction with their personal lives, with likely a large touch of insecurity.
Bottom line: Is it really "idiocy," or is it escapism? Are Trump's supporters, in fact, a legion of fantasizing Walter Mittys?
Seriously. I'm gonna have to say, "Not much." You can get most parts, tools and instructions on iFixit. I've repaired dozens of Apple Devices. Some are easier than others, but I haven't come across one that was "impossible."
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro as my primary workstation. With an upgraded SSD, this laptop is plenty fast enough for everything I do. Internet speed depends more on my home's connection, which isn't great but that's a product of where I live (Podunk). 3-D modeling with Blender is fast. Video editing isn't horrible. Xcode and compiling for Arduino / mcus is entirely reasonable. Until it completely gives up the ghost, I have no reason to upgrade this model. And from what I've read about soldered in memory and what not in newer models, I've no interest.
Too little, too late. I cut the cord almost 10 years ago. When we signed up for cable, the "basic" package started at a reasonable $35 per month. Then, before you know it, it's $60 a month, and I really couldn't tell you what that extra $25 was giving me, and damned if I needed to spend $720 a year on the dreck the TV people presented as "entertainment." Now, when I stay in hotels, I'll flip through the channels and quickly realize I'm still not missing anything. About the only channel I actually like is Cartoon Network. Sure, when the guys at work start talking about Silicon Valley, or GoT, I'm outside the loop. But I can live with that.
I lost my hearing back in '84 to spinal meningitis. I now have a cochlear implant to hear things. I'm curious if these waveforms would bother me because my hearing isn't "natural." Push comes to shove, I can either connect a music source in-line, which blocks all external sound, or just turn my CI off. Would that be a useful defensive mechanism?
I've repaired dozens of iPhones and iPod Touches and have yet to replace a BGA chip. Most times, it's a battery or a screen. Maybe a home button. In the one case where I had to replace a motherboard for an iPhone 5, I replaced the entire mobo unit, which was actually not that difficult. It was more trouble finding a suitable replacement unit.
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Okay genius, where do we put our actual cash then? Under the pillow?
I make all deposits to / write checks from my checking account, and never use my debit card. Except for the odd cash purchase, all other purchases - online and in person - I use my credit card. At the end of each month, I pay the credit card from my checking account. The only drawback I've encountered so far is if I have to cancel my credit card because it's been compromised. I'm stuck until the new one arrives. I'm going to get a second one as a backup, but it hasn't been a pressing priority so far.
That's pretty good. My 1985 TRS-80 Model 100 is still going strong, too, though I don't use it nearly as much as I used to. However, if either of our machines failed in some respect, no one would be terribly surprised. They certainly wouldn't say, "Go get yourself a better machine."
Not to be overly callous, but two kids in eight years? That's hardly an epidemic. The local SIDS rate might be higher. I understand your concern, but as long as you're not taking excessively stupid chances, you can't spend your life worrying about what might happen.
Echoing the AC that replied earlier. Can you provide the specs for the machine you have? I'm happy with my MBP, but if yours is faster, it wouldn't hurt to spec one out.
This is your second post along these lines, and it's just as silly. It's a nine year old machine. How long do you expect a mechanical device to last without *any* sort of failure? Heck, even the cochlear implant literally - yes, "literally" - installed in my head had a ten year warranty. Stuff breaks and it doesn't matter who manufactures it.
Well, when he first started at my school back in '81 - the one from which he'll retire in two years - he was my gym teacher. Back then, we were still allowed to play dodgeball. So, quite literally, he did spend at least a part of the year watching kids play dodgeball. Your snark is not only unhinged, but unfounded.
For practical purposes, it's a non-issue in 99.8% of all cases. Unless you drop the iPad in water and ruin the battery, chances are *really* good that you'll never need to replace it. Sure, there are corner cases, but those are what we call "corner cases."
Yep, depends on where and how long. Teachers in NY start at a pretty low salary, given the amount of education needed to achieve the minimum qualifications. However, make it past the probation period - typically three years - and the salaries go up pretty high. A gym teacher friend of mine makes over $90k / yr. Not bad for watching kids play dodgeball. After working more than 25 years, he'll retire in two years at about 80% of his salary, which is a tidy little sum for the backwoods area in which we live. So, yes, some teachers are getting screwed raw, but not all of them.
Yep, saw that at a Siemens plant I worked at. Wondered the same thing when I read Jha was replacing him.
*looks around* Yeah, pretty much. But I know where everything is. Overall, it's not so bad, but the 'scope cables running here and there get to be annoying when they block me from grabbing something else.
I worked at a place where there were four of us on the admin team, and I was expected to be on-call for one week out of four. As sometimes happened, the Network Operations Center people would muff an "emergency," or just call out of an overabundance of caution, and we'd quickly determine it was no big deal, close the call. Then, there were other times where it would start with me, then snowball to my go-to guy - though I hated bugging him if I could avoid it - if it was over my head or costing us big bucks per minute of downtime. More than once - New Years Eve of 2017, for instance - it escalated to all-hands. Every one of us got roped into it for a good three or four hours that evening. We never did figure that one out, but it eventually went away. The good part of our group was that we all had each others' backs; it was a solid team of good guys, even the manager, who took regular weekly on-call shifts. The bad part was that we didn't get paid extra for it. I missed a number of family events - even had to take a call while in the hospital as my mother was dying, but I didn't mind so much because I needed to take a break from the sadness - and I won't deny I got pissed off more than once about being on-call, but I understood the job requirements going in. The lack of extra pay also kinda motivated us to get shit fixed quick-like.
I liked the Clie. Still have mine in a box behind my chair. That reversible clamshell with the built-in keyboard was righteous. If it had phone capabilities, I'd be carrying that instead of an iOS or Android device.
Of course you use your coffee mug 8 hours a day. You probably walk around Initech with that stupid mug, annoying people by passive-aggressive asking if they'd come in to work on Saturdays. Well, piss off, Lumbergh! And screw those stupid suspenders, too!
Considering that America is a 242-and-counting year long experiment in liberal government, I have to ask: Why do you hate America?
Oh. I was gonna say, "a couple of weeks??" Shoot, I lasted all of one fully day. I've had some shitty jobs - literally, when I cleaned toilets - but picking strawberries was one of the worst.
That makes sense. They almost sound like "forbidden" and "foreboding."
I've had a long day, but I had time during the day - drove from the tail end of Long Island to home in western NY - to think about this. It struck me as odd, like, "Why the f would anyone with a brain vote for Trump?" And then I realized: They empathized with Trump to the extent that they wanted to be him. Like when we were kids - depending on how old you are - and Van Halen was all the rage, lots of people wanted to be EVH, but easily just as many people wanted to be "Diamond" David Lee Roth. Why? Well, the swagger, the charisma, the 'tude, the chicks. Either one had it all, but Roth, in particular, struck me as someone I'd rather emulate. In addition to all the above, he seemed funny, too. That was before I read more about both of them and realized they're people with their own issues and demons. Learning more about them took off a bit of the shine. Now, I know they're not perfect - in fact, they sound like assholes - but that doesn't mean I've completely abandoned them as a fan. I still like them both, but do I want to be them? No. I got my own life to worry about.
But that's the thing: I think a lot of people don't just like Trump; they want to be him. They want what they see in Trump: the TV job; the cars; the helicopters; the glamorous parties; the flash and bling; the commanded "respect," etc. At some point, though, many of us realized that we weren't going to be the next DLR or EVH. We might have even changed our minds completely, and rejected that person after learning of this or that scandal. Evidently, with Trump, the scandals and his obvious inadequacies for the job of president do not register with these folks. Instead of bringing them down to earth, they just dig in deeper. Maybe someone with a better grasp of psychology could tell you why. I'm guessing dissatisfaction with their personal lives, with likely a large touch of insecurity.
Bottom line: Is it really "idiocy," or is it escapism? Are Trump's supporters, in fact, a legion of fantasizing Walter Mittys?
An imperfect person, he still made humanity that much better off.
Seriously. I'm gonna have to say, "Not much." You can get most parts, tools and instructions on iFixit. I've repaired dozens of Apple Devices. Some are easier than others, but I haven't come across one that was "impossible."
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro as my primary workstation. With an upgraded SSD, this laptop is plenty fast enough for everything I do. Internet speed depends more on my home's connection, which isn't great but that's a product of where I live (Podunk). 3-D modeling with Blender is fast. Video editing isn't horrible. Xcode and compiling for Arduino / mcus is entirely reasonable. Until it completely gives up the ghost, I have no reason to upgrade this model. And from what I've read about soldered in memory and what not in newer models, I've no interest.
Too little, too late. I cut the cord almost 10 years ago. When we signed up for cable, the "basic" package started at a reasonable $35 per month. Then, before you know it, it's $60 a month, and I really couldn't tell you what that extra $25 was giving me, and damned if I needed to spend $720 a year on the dreck the TV people presented as "entertainment." Now, when I stay in hotels, I'll flip through the channels and quickly realize I'm still not missing anything. About the only channel I actually like is Cartoon Network. Sure, when the guys at work start talking about Silicon Valley, or GoT, I'm outside the loop. But I can live with that.
I lost my hearing back in '84 to spinal meningitis. I now have a cochlear implant to hear things. I'm curious if these waveforms would bother me because my hearing isn't "natural." Push comes to shove, I can either connect a music source in-line, which blocks all external sound, or just turn my CI off. Would that be a useful defensive mechanism?
Define "making things generally better."
I've repaired dozens of iPhones and iPod Touches and have yet to replace a BGA chip. Most times, it's a battery or a screen. Maybe a home button. In the one case where I had to replace a motherboard for an iPhone 5, I replaced the entire mobo unit, which was actually not that difficult. It was more trouble finding a suitable replacement unit.
Meanwhile, Chappie was left to fend for himself. Poor Chappie was traumatized.