None of the extra stuff you mentioned is enough to make me go 'wow I want to pay for that'.
Bingo.
Yeah, some of the stuff is interesting, but not interesting enough to make me buy it.
I've never found fan noise to be a big deal, and as long as a case is durable I don't care if it's metal or plastic. The touch bar thingy is okay but not a killer "must have" feature for me.
I'd agree none of it is enough to make me go "wow, I need to upgrade", although I wouldn't argue against the upgrade for the faster processor and higher disk I/O. For the rest, I do like that it's metal, well built, and doesn't sound like a turbine when I log in.
Even if Amazon vets, what's to stop shady sellers from acting all legit then shipping something inferior to the products they showed to Amazon? Amazon would end up as the bad guy because they were their ones who gave their seal of approval..
Works for me, Amazon is "the bad guy" in most scenarios. They're the 90s walmart, and are working hard to kill other businesses.
You missed the point, I don't need more pixels for a period. A 5K 40" monitor would be roughly 40% higher pixel density and double the standard screen dpi everyone uses. 220 dpi is closer to photo printing resolution, I guess.
Yeah, the LG 5K at 27" was like WTF? At 4K I'm looking for a 35-40" monitor. There is a point where retina becomes silly. How many pixels to form a period that you can see?
Depending upon your CPU(s), you might be able to boost performance significantly for little cost.
Given the hackintosh community's success with nvidia, you might want to see about picking up a couple of nvidia GPUs and dropping them into your system. It's quite possible that with a little effort you can configure your system to run with nvidia GPUs. Not having a real mac pro to play with, I haven't tried this.
It won't be fixed any time soon. The Democrats, including Hillary, absolutely love ObamaCare which does absolutely nothing to fix the problem.
I will note that from what I can glean in a 10s survey of Hillary's statements on single-payer is that she doesn't believe Americans would accept it and that it is a losing political fight. I would agree with that statement based on how unreasonably hysterical people get whenever they even consider "socialized" medicine, not realizing that they're all already a part of it under Medicare. Just remember: "A *person* is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals". I'd restrict it to "A *person* might be smart."
Monopolies are only temporary. They eventually die under their own weight.
You'll need to provide proof that monopolies are temporary. Every monopoly I'm aware of has had significant action of one form or another occurred to remove its dominance.
My best example is the rise of Linux in the era of Microsoft Monopoly. The Microsoft Monopoly created the need for an alternative (Linux) and Linus found a way (GPL) that would protect his new creation against being taken over by the monopoly.
The Microsoft monopoly was curtailed by several regulatory actions. Linux really came about after those rulings were already in place.
We are in the age of "Linux on the desktop" except the "desktop" has moved to the pocket (Android), to embedded devices, to all sorts of places Windows can't, and Microsoft can't compete.
Make no mistake, the end of Windows, and Microsoft, will come about because of key anti-competitive rulings that prevented Microsoft from owning various emerging markets, starting with the API rulings - DR DOS definitely affected MS's API disclosures, the internet - remember IE6 marketshare? and MS-Java - Java, despite what many want to believe, was probably the biggest boost to Linux servers gaining market share, and perhaps the migration of many devs to Apple systems as they were now working on *nix systems so why have a shitty windows workstation that didn't even have the ability of supporting standard case sensitive file systems and used the non-standard backslash in paths?
Once MS was prevented from leveraging its dominance in desktop OSes into other business areas via a host of court actions and regulatory rulings, some of which significantly impacted MS's ability to "innovate", the door was opened to competitors.
Standard Oil was broken up by government regulators. So were the Railroad Robber Barons. AT&T, also. If you want to go earlier, The Dutch East India Company was pretty much physically destroyed by English attacks after its own mismanagement over an 80 year period weakened its books resulting in it being finally dissolved, and the British East India Company suffered massive losses due to several armed conflicts against its interests, resulting in it also finally being dissolved by a government act.
So, in no case did a monopoly die under its own weight. In fact, even despite horrible mismanagement a partial monopoly had no problem staying in business for decades.
Fortunately back then, peasants needed lots of strong sons to work the farm
There was also the matter of the high mortality rate. That was true until even the early 1900s when it was common enough to take a post-mortemfamily picture with a deceased child that no one thought it odd.
"Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
The problem with tax credit for kids is because economists require never ending growth for their models to work. They'll all have to go back to the drawing board for 0 growth economies.
My point was that coming in sick wasn't good practice, because you'd be sent home and docked a sick day. Everyone of my bosses, even the bad ones, wanted to avoid others getting sick, the bad ones probably for some self-serving reason like avoiding having to actually work when the entire team was out. No place I've been wanted anyone to come in sick.
To be fair, however, I do know of places that were militant about attendance over all else, and viewed used sick days as extra costs and reflected those on performance reviews. Those places were generally sweat shops that no one stayed at very long.
And where I live (thankfully), when you get sick during your vacation, you get the vacation days back. As it should be. And there is no limit on "Sick days", of course.
Oh, *and* we have at least 25 days of vacation per year. *And* comprehensive health insurance. For you, your partner and your children. And we are still not a communist country...
Yep, the US is way way way backwards there. Basic health coverage via single payer is something I hope shows up soon, coupled with posted rates. The US approach with 100% private health care has terminally failed and shows that system cannot work.
One could set a legal maximum period to make room for example, and then add a hefty penalty for non-compliance. Then use that money to sent a civil servant to make room.
Plenty of alternatives of this nature.
ATT will be better until they exceed their original planned build out, and then your service will get worse and worse and worse. If you go with them, make sure you get up and down speed guarantees in your service. That at least will give you ammo should your speeds fall below those. I haven't seen ATT go back and add capacity anywhere, even when their fiber internet service dropped down to copper speeds.
Once flu season starts, and employees have already used up their allotted sick days (whether due to actually being sick or not), they have to come in when sick or either be docked pay or risk getting fired.
No where I've worked was that a normal practice. I imagine because you were told to go home if you were sick, regardless of your sick days, and you would have to use vacation days. If it became a recurring problem, well, there's always the falling performance review to encourage you to move on.
So if the majority of the population believed that the Earth is flat, does that make it so?
Strawman #1
A phone will never be the equivalent of a desktop PC.
Strawman #2
And if people cared so little about games, then why is the PC gaming industry so huge as to dwarf the console game industry, the movie industry and the music industry?
You only have maybe the last decade or two of data on which to base an entire 5B year orbital mechanics history. That's like trying to determine how the last wave that hit your beach was started 100 years ago by a butterfly in China, or was it a penguin in Antartica?
So what's "noticeable"? The problem is that the changes occur so slowly we aren't likely to notice.
Yepwewon'tnotice
In case you're too lazy to read those, they go from pending flooding to already uninhabitable and cover descriptions of vanishing land due to rising seas over the last 80 or so years.
I live in a major city - we had our first major snowfall over two weeks ago and temperatures have been at or below 0C for nearly a month. There are still THOUSANDS of kilometers of land (many million square km) between me and the north pole, btw. Also, this snow cover will likely last until next May (8 months out of the year).
So, from this we can surmise that you live at least 3k km south of the north pole. Given that London or Tokyo are also just over 3000 km south of the north pole and aren't covered by snow for 8 months, we can also surmise that you live inland and possibly at altitude. You might just as well complain that you suffer from heat, year round snow, or daily rainfall and high humidity and live 13k km south of the north pole (all are possible, it's merely geography)
A warming trend seems like a good thing, and if you're telling me I'll live to see a point where we don't have winter like conditions for over two thirds of the year, we're all just going to laugh.
You could just move as it appears you severely dislike your climate instead of advocating that the rest of the world become potentially uninhabitable to make your apparently miserable location bearable.
Ditto. Sony needs to die. They're doing quite well in that regard, from where they were before they mortgaged the business for the BD win. You could almost make the argument that they're already dead.
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None of the extra stuff you mentioned is enough to make me go 'wow I want to pay for that'.
Bingo.
Yeah, some of the stuff is interesting, but not interesting enough to make me buy it.
I've never found fan noise to be a big deal, and as long as a case is durable I don't care if it's metal or plastic. The touch bar thingy is okay but not a killer "must have" feature for me.
I'd agree none of it is enough to make me go "wow, I need to upgrade", although I wouldn't argue against the upgrade for the faster processor and higher disk I/O. For the rest, I do like that it's metal, well built, and doesn't sound like a turbine when I log in.
They employ people and diversify the choices available.
Even if Amazon vets, what's to stop shady sellers from acting all legit then shipping something inferior to the products they showed to Amazon? Amazon would end up as the bad guy because they were their ones who gave their seal of approval. .
Works for me, Amazon is "the bad guy" in most scenarios. They're the 90s walmart, and are working hard to kill other businesses.
Seems a lot of app code gets tested on another planet, because it certainly doesn't work on this one.
You missed the point, I don't need more pixels for a period. A 5K 40" monitor would be roughly 40% higher pixel density and double the standard screen dpi everyone uses. 220 dpi is closer to photo printing resolution, I guess.
Yeah, the LG 5K at 27" was like WTF? At 4K I'm looking for a 35-40" monitor. There is a point where retina becomes silly. How many pixels to form a period that you can see?
Depending upon your CPU(s), you might be able to boost performance significantly for little cost.
Given the hackintosh community's success with nvidia, you might want to see about picking up a couple of nvidia GPUs and dropping them into your system. It's quite possible that with a little effort you can configure your system to run with nvidia GPUs. Not having a real mac pro to play with, I haven't tried this.
It won't be fixed any time soon. The Democrats, including Hillary, absolutely love ObamaCare which does absolutely nothing to fix the problem.
I will note that from what I can glean in a 10s survey of Hillary's statements on single-payer is that she doesn't believe Americans would accept it and that it is a losing political fight. I would agree with that statement based on how unreasonably hysterical people get whenever they even consider "socialized" medicine, not realizing that they're all already a part of it under Medicare. Just remember: "A *person* is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals". I'd restrict it to "A *person* might be smart."
Monopolies are only temporary. They eventually die under their own weight.
You'll need to provide proof that monopolies are temporary. Every monopoly I'm aware of has had significant action of one form or another occurred to remove its dominance.
My best example is the rise of Linux in the era of Microsoft Monopoly. The Microsoft Monopoly created the need for an alternative (Linux) and Linus found a way (GPL) that would protect his new creation against being taken over by the monopoly.
The Microsoft monopoly was curtailed by several regulatory actions. Linux really came about after those rulings were already in place.
We are in the age of "Linux on the desktop" except the "desktop" has moved to the pocket (Android), to embedded devices, to all sorts of places Windows can't, and Microsoft can't compete.
Make no mistake, the end of Windows, and Microsoft, will come about because of key anti-competitive rulings that prevented Microsoft from owning various emerging markets, starting with the API rulings - DR DOS definitely affected MS's API disclosures, the internet - remember IE6 marketshare? and MS-Java - Java, despite what many want to believe, was probably the biggest boost to Linux servers gaining market share, and perhaps the migration of many devs to Apple systems as they were now working on *nix systems so why have a shitty windows workstation that didn't even have the ability of supporting standard case sensitive file systems and used the non-standard backslash in paths?
Once MS was prevented from leveraging its dominance in desktop OSes into other business areas via a host of court actions and regulatory rulings, some of which significantly impacted MS's ability to "innovate", the door was opened to competitors.
Standard Oil was broken up by government regulators. So were the Railroad Robber Barons. AT&T, also. If you want to go earlier, The Dutch East India Company was pretty much physically destroyed by English attacks after its own mismanagement over an 80 year period weakened its books resulting in it being finally dissolved, and the British East India Company suffered massive losses due to several armed conflicts against its interests, resulting in it also finally being dissolved by a government act.
So, in no case did a monopoly die under its own weight. In fact, even despite horrible mismanagement a partial monopoly had no problem staying in business for decades.
Soylent is already working on that problem. The "Green" product line isn't out, yet.
Fortunately back then, peasants needed lots of strong sons to work the farm
There was also the matter of the high mortality rate. That was true until even the early 1900s when it was common enough to take a post-mortem family picture with a deceased child that no one thought it odd.
Chastity is not the opposite of reproduction.
That's only been true since 1960 or so.
It's been true for 100s of years, likely 1000s. Just because our sense of history generally is so short doesn't mean we're living in a unique era in everything we can do.
"Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
The problem with tax credit for kids is because economists require never ending growth for their models to work. They'll all have to go back to the drawing board for 0 growth economies.
Markets are great problem solvers, but they're based on the idea of people acting in self-interest
Markets may appear to solve problems, until the end results occur: a monopoly
ideally within a framework that discourages abuse.
Ah, yes, regulation.
It is merely the matter of whom you would imitate, coupled with the ability to do so convincingly.
My point was that coming in sick wasn't good practice, because you'd be sent home and docked a sick day. Everyone of my bosses, even the bad ones, wanted to avoid others getting sick, the bad ones probably for some self-serving reason like avoiding having to actually work when the entire team was out. No place I've been wanted anyone to come in sick.
To be fair, however, I do know of places that were militant about attendance over all else, and viewed used sick days as extra costs and reflected those on performance reviews. Those places were generally sweat shops that no one stayed at very long.
"and you would have to use vacation days"
And where I live (thankfully), when you get sick during your vacation, you get the vacation days back. As it should be. And there is no limit on "Sick days", of course.
Oh, *and* we have at least 25 days of vacation per year. *And* comprehensive health insurance. For you, your partner and your children. And we are still not a communist country...
Yep, the US is way way way backwards there. Basic health coverage via single payer is something I hope shows up soon, coupled with posted rates. The US approach with 100% private health care has terminally failed and shows that system cannot work.
One could set a legal maximum period to make room for example, and then add a hefty penalty for non-compliance. Then use that money to sent a civil servant to make room. Plenty of alternatives of this nature.
I'm sure you'll see this in the next bill.
ATT will be better until they exceed their original planned build out, and then your service will get worse and worse and worse. If you go with them, make sure you get up and down speed guarantees in your service. That at least will give you ammo should your speeds fall below those. I haven't seen ATT go back and add capacity anywhere, even when their fiber internet service dropped down to copper speeds.
Once flu season starts, and employees have already used up their allotted sick days (whether due to actually being sick or not), they have to come in when sick or either be docked pay or risk getting fired.
No where I've worked was that a normal practice. I imagine because you were told to go home if you were sick, regardless of your sick days, and you would have to use vacation days. If it became a recurring problem, well, there's always the falling performance review to encourage you to move on.
So if the majority of the population believed that the Earth is flat, does that make it so?
Strawman #1
A phone will never be the equivalent of a desktop PC.
Strawman #2
And if people cared so little about games, then why is the PC gaming industry so huge as to dwarf the console game industry, the movie industry and the music industry?
You should stop reading Gartner. US PC video game revenue is roughly 650M Movie revenue topped 11B Not sure what your definition of "dwarf" is.
You only have maybe the last decade or two of data on which to base an entire 5B year orbital mechanics history. That's like trying to determine how the last wave that hit your beach was started 100 years ago by a butterfly in China, or was it a penguin in Antartica?
but what is wrong w/ using Windows to make something that someone else would have made using Linux?
You don't make a bucket starting with a sieve.
So what's "noticeable"? The problem is that the changes occur so slowly we aren't likely to notice.
Yep we won't notice In case you're too lazy to read those, they go from pending flooding to already uninhabitable and cover descriptions of vanishing land due to rising seas over the last 80 or so years.
I live in a major city - we had our first major snowfall over two weeks ago and temperatures have been at or below 0C for nearly a month. There are still THOUSANDS of kilometers of land (many million square km) between me and the north pole, btw. Also, this snow cover will likely last until next May (8 months out of the year).
So, from this we can surmise that you live at least 3k km south of the north pole. Given that London or Tokyo are also just over 3000 km south of the north pole and aren't covered by snow for 8 months, we can also surmise that you live inland and possibly at altitude. You might just as well complain that you suffer from heat, year round snow, or daily rainfall and high humidity and live 13k km south of the north pole (all are possible, it's merely geography)
A warming trend seems like a good thing, and if you're telling me I'll live to see a point where we don't have winter like conditions for over two thirds of the year, we're all just going to laugh.
You could just move as it appears you severely dislike your climate instead of advocating that the rest of the world become potentially uninhabitable to make your apparently miserable location bearable.
I will never give a single penny to Sony.
Ditto. Sony needs to die. They're doing quite well in that regard, from where they were before they mortgaged the business for the BD win. You could almost make the argument that they're already dead.