Everyone makes this claim that Macbook's are ridiculously overpriced, but no one can find me a laptop with comparable specs and premium build quality (ie not made of plastic) that isn't essentially the same price as a Macbook. And even if you can find something that's maybe $100 cheaper, it will have a dramatically lower battery life and a horrible trackpad.
What are you talking about? You can back them all up to local physical copies (which I encourage you to do) using their sync client. How are they going to "revoke my ability" to use my photos? What does that even mean?
I'm not promoting Office 365 or Google Docs but the advantages to a web based office suite seem pretty obvious to me. No software to install or update, accessible from anywhere with real time collaboration. But for the average user, I think the biggest thing is no more lost files to usual hard drive failure or virus. Buy a new computer? No problem, login to the website and there are all your files.
I really wish there was a REAL, native, web-based alternative to Google and Microsoft.
Why would anyone use Google Docs for anything more advanced than a shopping list? It seems a glitchy, simplistic, insecure alternative to MS Office.
Because it's none of those things and you're just making shit up with no factual basis.
It does probably 90% of what Microsoft Office does, and 100% of what the vast majority of people need. Formulas, formatting, import/export, graphs, you can plug apps into it, versioning, collaboration, etc etc etc. 99% of people don't need all the power of Excel.
If that were true no one on wellfare/disability/social security would live in any expensive city. They'd just move somewhere inexpensive and get wellfare there.
Or let's say people don't move because they get so much more wellfare/etc that they don't leave New York. Let's say with a basic income we'd just disperse everyone from major cities into the midwest and evenly distribute the population over the us.
What are the long term social, political and economic ramifications of that? Large cities are enormous engines of growth.
Nye is an engineer. He has a BS in mechanical engineering from Cornell. He worked at Boeing as an engineer (including and developing a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor for the 747). Just because he's on TV he doesn't stop being an engineer. He still has an engineering degree and has spent decades studying and practicing in the field of engineering.
When a new provider comes into your area, remember this. Don't hem and haw over paying a few more bucks per month if you need to. You need to PUNISH the existing providers. They've taken advantage of you for years.
Systemd benefits 99% of people, the 1% being old fogeys who refuse to adapt with times. Well, let them perish, and let a new generation of programmers who don't have to worry about cobbling together hacked up scripts and instead can focus on actually improving the user experience take their places. Long live the king.
Ah yes, solving the problem no one actually had and complaining about some red herring ("hacked together scripts"). I've spent more time fighting with systemd in the last year than I did in 15 years of init scripts.
As someone who has mechanically spliced fiber, that's actually really nice, but I don't think that's single-handledly holding back mass fiber deployment like OP implied.
Why wouldn't you have docking stations at every desk? Or only hot desk between notebook users? This sounds like a organizational problem not a technical one.
Well, I got it at the end of 2013, so many people have moved on to iPhone 6 or 6s by now. But you're right, it's not terribly old. And it still works wonderfully. I don't spend anything on a new phone it's provided by work. I could have gotten a 6s but I wanted to wait for a new 4" phone so I'll be upgrading to a 5se shortly.
5s battery for me is insanely good, of course it just comes down to usage. I take it off the charger at ~7AM and put it back on the charger ~11pm and it's between 50-60% battery remaining. Also the 5se appears to have ~25% battery battery life than that.
Still using a 5s waiting for something similar size. I'd love to use Android but too many security issues, delayed software updates and shitty manufacturer UIs. I don't need my phone to be any more "open" than my bluray player. I really don't give a shit if I can't root it and install some app I don't need. I've got a laptop for anything else I need. My phone is for email, light web browsing and a couple of apps (ie slack). And it's secure, fast and reliable.
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Everyone makes this claim that Macbook's are ridiculously overpriced, but no one can find me a laptop with comparable specs and premium build quality (ie not made of plastic) that isn't essentially the same price as a Macbook. And even if you can find something that's maybe $100 cheaper, it will have a dramatically lower battery life and a horrible trackpad.
Where do you keep your offsite backups in case of filesystem corruption, accidental rm -rf or your house burning down?
What are you talking about? You can back them all up to local physical copies (which I encourage you to do) using their sync client. How are they going to "revoke my ability" to use my photos? What does that even mean?
You have months to get all your data off if you decide to stop paying for it.
I like how you assume everyone is just like you and only orders 3-4 times a year from Amazon.
I order 3-4 times a month from Amazon. I haven't been into a Wal-Mart in years. Couldn't be happier.
I'm not promoting Office 365 or Google Docs but the advantages to a web based office suite seem pretty obvious to me. No software to install or update, accessible from anywhere with real time collaboration. But for the average user, I think the biggest thing is no more lost files to usual hard drive failure or virus. Buy a new computer? No problem, login to the website and there are all your files.
I really wish there was a REAL, native, web-based alternative to Google and Microsoft.
Why would anyone use Google Docs for anything more advanced than a shopping list? It seems a glitchy, simplistic, insecure alternative to MS Office.
Because it's none of those things and you're just making shit up with no factual basis.
It does probably 90% of what Microsoft Office does, and 100% of what the vast majority of people need. Formulas, formatting, import/export, graphs, you can plug apps into it, versioning, collaboration, etc etc etc. 99% of people don't need all the power of Excel.
Found these Chinese shill. You need to work on your English a little more before astroturfing.
He said "got laid" - not "get laid off". Big difference.
I have support staff who are salaried and make under $50k. This is awesome news.
Soooo...remove execute permission for the binary from everyone but administrators? Problem solved?
If that were true no one on wellfare/disability/social security would live in any expensive city. They'd just move somewhere inexpensive and get wellfare there.
Or let's say people don't move because they get so much more wellfare/etc that they don't leave New York. Let's say with a basic income we'd just disperse everyone from major cities into the midwest and evenly distribute the population over the us.
What are the long term social, political and economic ramifications of that? Large cities are enormous engines of growth.
Nye is an engineer. He has a BS in mechanical engineering from Cornell. He worked at Boeing as an engineer (including and developing a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor for the 747). Just because he's on TV he doesn't stop being an engineer. He still has an engineering degree and has spent decades studying and practicing in the field of engineering.
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When a new provider comes into your area, remember this. Don't hem and haw over paying a few more bucks per month if you need to. You need to PUNISH the existing providers. They've taken advantage of you for years.
Systemd benefits 99% of people, the 1% being old fogeys who refuse to adapt with times. Well, let them perish, and let a new generation of programmers who don't have to worry about cobbling together hacked up scripts and instead can focus on actually improving the user experience take their places. Long live the king.
Ah yes, solving the problem no one actually had and complaining about some red herring ("hacked together scripts"). I've spent more time fighting with systemd in the last year than I did in 15 years of init scripts.
Or compare it to the cost of other mechanical splice kits. There are several who sell "polish free" splice kits.
As someone who has mechanically spliced fiber, that's actually really nice, but I don't think that's single-handledly holding back mass fiber deployment like OP implied.
Well if you want some more anecdotal stories, I bought mine with my 2010 c2d MBA in 2010. Still works great.
Why wouldn't you have docking stations at every desk? Or only hot desk between notebook users? This sounds like a organizational problem not a technical one.
Well, I got it at the end of 2013, so many people have moved on to iPhone 6 or 6s by now. But you're right, it's not terribly old. And it still works wonderfully. I don't spend anything on a new phone it's provided by work. I could have gotten a 6s but I wanted to wait for a new 4" phone so I'll be upgrading to a 5se shortly.
5s battery for me is insanely good, of course it just comes down to usage. I take it off the charger at ~7AM and put it back on the charger ~11pm and it's between 50-60% battery remaining. Also the 5se appears to have ~25% battery battery life than that.
I guess you've never spliced cable before.
I love that people are already not impressed by a device they haven't even seen yet. It's basically religious fanaticism at this point.
Still using a 5s waiting for something similar size. I'd love to use Android but too many security issues, delayed software updates and shitty manufacturer UIs. I don't need my phone to be any more "open" than my bluray player. I really don't give a shit if I can't root it and install some app I don't need. I've got a laptop for anything else I need. My phone is for email, light web browsing and a couple of apps (ie slack). And it's secure, fast and reliable.
I watched a video on this "Lightcrimp Plus" and I guess I'm missing something but what makes this so amazing compared to any other mechanical splice kit?