Despite a State Law that claims motorists have to stop for Pedestrians in a crosswalk I have close calls once a week outside my office. If I could park closer I would. Drivers need to stop playing with the blasted phones, GPS, tablets, in dash entertainment systems, and just drive.
I was very much into Apple mid 2000's, but post 2012 might as well just buy a tablet. I had a 2009 Macbook Pro that is still in use by my Mother-In-law. Core2Duo, 8GB of RAM, 1TB Harddrive when I gave it to her. I put an SSD in it, and loaded Win 7 when Apple dropped support. Had a co-worker ask me to take a look at a Macbook air the other week, liquid damage. It's a tablet with some proprietary m2 like SSD tacked on. three circuit boards, a battery, and a trackpad. Replacing the keyboard on one of these is a nightmare.
Same thing with the new Pro model laptops.
Then they took everything pro out of the MacBook Pro. In the quest for thin and light the ports, graphics, and everything else have been stripped from the 13.3.
I moved to Linux for just about everything. KDE gives OS X a run for the money on the desktop and Ubuntu/SuSE/Mint, etc... provide an excellent Stable platform with a little research.
Personally, I prefer Citizen Eco Drive and Skaggen. It's a style thing.
Love MacOS, can not deal with the current prices and inability to upgrade. Bought a Lenovo Y410p back in 13, i7-4700MQ and it still is blazing fast. Not as pretty. Screen is not as good, but I dropped 16GB of Ram in it, a 256GB Crucial M2 SSD, and these days Kubuntu 16.04. I realized what I liked about MacOS was functionality, and that can all be reproduced in KDE.
First they went there own way with out of date software. They didn't contract this to some outfit like SuSE or Canonical. That would have been the smart thing.
Second, Microsoft opened a massive office in Munich. That means jobs, money, taxes. Not too hard to figure out why they went the way they did. Microsoft has spent years throwing money at them to move.
Amazing. People forget Steam is a defacto monopoly now. They have no real competition. The last disk I bought just had a steam code on the disk, and the steam installer. When they mislabeled the minimum requirements for a game and left out that it did not run on 64bit Win 7 it took three weeks for them to tell me to sit and spin. They are not consumer friendly. You click no to the newly updated subscriber agreement and your library is locked. They could put in their that they have the right to use rabid sheep to bite off your ear and you agree or lose $1000 worth of software. Enjoy:)
No, that is not true. As a Liberal and American I volunteered and served 8 years in the Army as an Infantry soldier. You might want to rethink what you know about us. Benning tends to weed out the cowards.
We also have to figure it is almost impossible to get ahead now. Work hard for 10 years at a company and one day they simply decide you are to expensive, never mind the fact that the reason you are expensive was that you worked hard and had earned a number of pay increases. Find a new job, rinse, repeat.
But yes, 100 years ago it was worse, the problem is we are headed back in that direction now.
"and you have to remember that a lot of the people who come here don't have a lot else going on in their lives."
Spoken like the low-ID luser you are, waxing eloquent about the days when you didn't suck as much cock as you do these days.
Fun fact; there's a reason why Malda left his own blog for greener pastures, and it wasn't because Slashdot regulars like you made him want to stick around. Quite the opposite, in fact. Even the CREATOR OF SLASHDOT has better things to do with his time than waste it here.
Honda's main problem, as the owner of one, and prior owner of another, is that their Hybrids do not compete. I get at best 43mpg in my Civic and my old 2010 Insight topped out around 44mpg. They don't drag anything around as they use an IMA (Integrated motor assist) that just "assists" the gas motor when accelerating.
My former employer sent the HR rep over at 3pm on a Tuesday with my supervisor and terminated my employment without cause, or notice. I found that it was in lieu of layoff. As the company had been paying severance in prior layoffs I could have made a case in court, so about 26 of us ended up Right to Worked one afternoon.
The rise in numbers has a lot of associated factors, one is people simply having children later in life. Also, it is frequently not diagnosed until the age of 2.
Some markers can be identified earlier, even in pregnancy, but most of the time it is later. This is part of what drove the anti-vax movement. Couples over 40 need to rethink that "Let's go have Kids" moment. The risk is through the roof.
Have you even met real autistic children? I am talking about the ones who break furniture due to rocking back and forth, that have word perfect recall of every conversation you ever had with them but can not tolerate the slightest change in routine. They do tend to lash out and it is not easily controlled. I can see removing adverts for them.
Some can function and hold down simple jobs, others will eventually need to be institutionalized. I have one of each in my family.
The major difference between the 3 and 4 is RAM, I can't remember how many articles came out about games suffering because the PS3 lacked enough RAM. I can't say the CPU is better, it may be, it may not be. We are looking at X86 vs Cell (Power PC), but I never saw it run in a non-memory constrained situation.
But you can see from how much detail has to be reduced that the new machine is a major leap. Also I am fairly certain the GPU is a lot more powerful.
Some of us still prefer the mail order blu-ray/dvd service. Be it annoying caps some internet providers impose, the lack of decent broadband in many rural, urban, and American communities.
I found this when I went back to school a few years ago. I also ran into a similar situation staffing a help desk. I had two major issues. First, I started out too lenient. My immediate superior was lax on the discipline, and that worked, we all showed up, did our jobs, went home. I hired these kids in their early 20's and it was a mess. Start times, showing up, doing what they are told to do the way they are told to do it, and simply calling in to let me know if they would be late or out.
Ended up having to crack down, start writing people up, and in a couple instances termination.
The other major issue was grammar. A lot of the support was delivered via "Chat" Window. The directive was proper grammer, user of clients name, and professional language.
Example:
"How are you today Mr. Smith?" "How may I be of service?"
What we got:
"How R U?" "Whats wrong?"
These were college grads.
Let us also not forget that China can basically kill Apple tomorrow if they wished. From the rare earths needed for all your iDevices to the factories, and market access. If China said to Hon Hai, "As of now, Apple is shut off" then Hon Hai (Foxxcon) will close the assembly lines.
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Despite a State Law that claims motorists have to stop for Pedestrians in a crosswalk I have close calls once a week outside my office. If I could park closer I would. Drivers need to stop playing with the blasted phones, GPS, tablets, in dash entertainment systems, and just drive.
Aren't most Fords made in Mexico now?
I was very much into Apple mid 2000's, but post 2012 might as well just buy a tablet. I had a 2009 Macbook Pro that is still in use by my Mother-In-law. Core2Duo, 8GB of RAM, 1TB Harddrive when I gave it to her. I put an SSD in it, and loaded Win 7 when Apple dropped support. Had a co-worker ask me to take a look at a Macbook air the other week, liquid damage. It's a tablet with some proprietary m2 like SSD tacked on. three circuit boards, a battery, and a trackpad. Replacing the keyboard on one of these is a nightmare. Same thing with the new Pro model laptops. Then they took everything pro out of the MacBook Pro. In the quest for thin and light the ports, graphics, and everything else have been stripped from the 13.3. I moved to Linux for just about everything. KDE gives OS X a run for the money on the desktop and Ubuntu/SuSE/Mint, etc... provide an excellent Stable platform with a little research.
Personally, I prefer Citizen Eco Drive and Skaggen. It's a style thing. Love MacOS, can not deal with the current prices and inability to upgrade. Bought a Lenovo Y410p back in 13, i7-4700MQ and it still is blazing fast. Not as pretty. Screen is not as good, but I dropped 16GB of Ram in it, a 256GB Crucial M2 SSD, and these days Kubuntu 16.04. I realized what I liked about MacOS was functionality, and that can all be reproduced in KDE.
Ahh, yes, like the ones in NC. http://www.wral.com/hog-farmer... I felt bad for these people.
First they went there own way with out of date software. They didn't contract this to some outfit like SuSE or Canonical. That would have been the smart thing. Second, Microsoft opened a massive office in Munich. That means jobs, money, taxes. Not too hard to figure out why they went the way they did. Microsoft has spent years throwing money at them to move.
Keep in mind, 7 was not very hard to pirate.
I have no idea why they haven't rolled out molten salt on a larger scale. I know it is a thermal system, but it works.
Amazing. People forget Steam is a defacto monopoly now. They have no real competition. The last disk I bought just had a steam code on the disk, and the steam installer. When they mislabeled the minimum requirements for a game and left out that it did not run on 64bit Win 7 it took three weeks for them to tell me to sit and spin. They are not consumer friendly. You click no to the newly updated subscriber agreement and your library is locked. They could put in their that they have the right to use rabid sheep to bite off your ear and you agree or lose $1000 worth of software. Enjoy:)
Took me 7 months, a 300mi move, and a $20,000 reduction in pay. 18mo later most of that is resolved, or will be before the end of this year.
No, that is not true. As a Liberal and American I volunteered and served 8 years in the Army as an Infantry soldier. You might want to rethink what you know about us. Benning tends to weed out the cowards.
Thinkpad 11e
We also have to figure it is almost impossible to get ahead now. Work hard for 10 years at a company and one day they simply decide you are to expensive, never mind the fact that the reason you are expensive was that you worked hard and had earned a number of pay increases. Find a new job, rinse, repeat. But yes, 100 years ago it was worse, the problem is we are headed back in that direction now.
One in a million chances come up nine times out of ten.
"and you have to remember that a lot of the people who come here don't have a lot else going on in their lives."
Spoken like the low-ID luser you are, waxing eloquent about the days when you didn't suck as much cock as you do these days.
Fun fact; there's a reason why Malda left his own blog for greener pastures, and it wasn't because Slashdot regulars like you made him want to stick around. Quite the opposite, in fact. Even the CREATOR OF SLASHDOT has better things to do with his time than waste it here.
So, outside of trolling why are you here?
I have a home plex server and they used to throttle video from that. Had to turn off Binge On.
When did LGPL become an issue? https://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/0...
Honda's main problem, as the owner of one, and prior owner of another, is that their Hybrids do not compete. I get at best 43mpg in my Civic and my old 2010 Insight topped out around 44mpg. They don't drag anything around as they use an IMA (Integrated motor assist) that just "assists" the gas motor when accelerating.
My former employer sent the HR rep over at 3pm on a Tuesday with my supervisor and terminated my employment without cause, or notice. I found that it was in lieu of layoff. As the company had been paying severance in prior layoffs I could have made a case in court, so about 26 of us ended up Right to Worked one afternoon.
The rise in numbers has a lot of associated factors, one is people simply having children later in life. Also, it is frequently not diagnosed until the age of 2. Some markers can be identified earlier, even in pregnancy, but most of the time it is later. This is part of what drove the anti-vax movement. Couples over 40 need to rethink that "Let's go have Kids" moment. The risk is through the roof.
Have you even met real autistic children? I am talking about the ones who break furniture due to rocking back and forth, that have word perfect recall of every conversation you ever had with them but can not tolerate the slightest change in routine. They do tend to lash out and it is not easily controlled. I can see removing adverts for them. Some can function and hold down simple jobs, others will eventually need to be institutionalized. I have one of each in my family.
The major difference between the 3 and 4 is RAM, I can't remember how many articles came out about games suffering because the PS3 lacked enough RAM. I can't say the CPU is better, it may be, it may not be. We are looking at X86 vs Cell (Power PC), but I never saw it run in a non-memory constrained situation. But you can see from how much detail has to be reduced that the new machine is a major leap. Also I am fairly certain the GPU is a lot more powerful.
Some of us still prefer the mail order blu-ray/dvd service. Be it annoying caps some internet providers impose, the lack of decent broadband in many rural, urban, and American communities.
I found this when I went back to school a few years ago. I also ran into a similar situation staffing a help desk. I had two major issues. First, I started out too lenient. My immediate superior was lax on the discipline, and that worked, we all showed up, did our jobs, went home. I hired these kids in their early 20's and it was a mess. Start times, showing up, doing what they are told to do the way they are told to do it, and simply calling in to let me know if they would be late or out. Ended up having to crack down, start writing people up, and in a couple instances termination. The other major issue was grammar. A lot of the support was delivered via "Chat" Window. The directive was proper grammer, user of clients name, and professional language. Example: "How are you today Mr. Smith?" "How may I be of service?" What we got: "How R U?" "Whats wrong?" These were college grads.
Let us also not forget that China can basically kill Apple tomorrow if they wished. From the rare earths needed for all your iDevices to the factories, and market access. If China said to Hon Hai, "As of now, Apple is shut off" then Hon Hai (Foxxcon) will close the assembly lines.