Mobile will never fully replace the PC market, yes your phone might have plenty of CPU power, but when you get to your office you're not going to work on massive spread sheets or do hours of data entry on it.
Careful there bucko. Nokia almost started eating into that market but Microsoft utterly destroyed them. I had a Nokia N900. It essentially ran Debian. At the time, I was praying for the next phone to have USB and Display port connectors so I could use my phone as my primary computer.
Yeah, duh. Of course I would not be doing hours of spreadsheet work on a resistive (eh? Firefox assumes this is not a word either. That is the NAME of the type of screen. Deal it with Firefox assholes who try to limit our vocabulary.), not capacitive, touch screen. At least the keyboard was already physical. You would plug a keyboard and a monitor into it.
Microsoft saved you from that terrible terrible situation. Your poor thumbs.;)
And if it on a PC it is way to easy to pirate the movie.
On the bright side for content consumers, it does not matter if it is easy or hard to pirate the movie since someone WILL pirate it regardless of difficulty and then share the results with everyone who is not so technically savvy.
I remember the smog of the 70's in Los Angeles and it was fucking horrible.
Even in the 90s, the sky could be a steel grey without any clouds. Go out east to Hemet and watch the smog rolling out of the Los Angeles basin and into the San Bernadino mountains. Yes, this is orders of magnitude better than the 70s but Los Angeles air is still atrocious.
I recall sitting atop Mount Soledad (San Diego area) for hours one day reading A Thousand and One Nights. I could see baby clouds being formed as the warm sea air was lifted up and cooled. The fresh air was awesome... and then I headed back into San Diego. As soon as I hit the 5 (I5), I could "smell" (feel?) the diesel and other emissions which my senses had hidden from me because it was always there. I was grossed out knowing that I was breathing that shit.
For it to get any worse than it is (was, circa 2004) would be a tragedy.:(
But this is great, my Saturn built in the late 90's still gets around 42-50mpg best I ever got was 62.7mpg, and that was when the car was only a few years old. Real world mileage with the SL and SW series was generally nothing short of amazing.
Very odd. The sticker performance was rated at 36 mpg highway for the 99 Saturn SL1 and yet you managed to get over 60mpg? I have experimented deeply with various driving styles and I have seen some, to me, very amazing numbers. These numbers range up to 20% better than the EPA rating. How did you get over a 50% increase? And, how does your car regularly get over my best successes?
I used to be one of the people that thought the increased alcohol content would ruin gaskets, hoses, and cylinder walls, but the auto industry has already addressed it years ago.
Perhaps you only keep cars for a decade, which is when auto manufacturers started THINKING about making their fuels lines and gaskets capable of handling ethanol fuels.
For myself, I converted a 1992 Eagle Talon TSI to ethanol (E85) and the E85 eventually ate through the fuel lines and gaskets. It took a few years for them to even sell E85 resistant fuel lines and gaskets.
This law effectively bans any car that is older than a few years old. For example, my 2004 Mercedes Benz E55 AMG will require the entire fuel delivery system to be changed out. This will NOT be cheap. I can afford it, but what I suspect will happen is that hundreds of thousands of vehicles will just stop working reliably once the new fuels start being pumped through them. Very few people will pay to change their fueling systems to be compatible.
Be VERY careful about buying used cars in the semi-near future. That $150 number is for only the most common and basic cars and does not include labor.
I am kind of with you on this one, but to be honest, the first word is dronegun, so the use of the word aircraft did not bring to my mind passenger style aircraft.
Also, a drone can't carry all that much metal aloft, so the shrapnel possibilities are low. More worried about shrapnel than the actual explosive.
A very rational position to take. When I was under indirect fire, it was not the explosives traveling through the air that scared me. It was the fact that they were explosives with a metal skin designed to shred my definitely unprotected body that scared me.
Bullets whizzing by overhead? No problem. Duck. Mortar rounds flying overhead? Yeah... not so fun.
All great arguments; however, your arguments fail to take into account the US Navy Nuclear Program. They run nuclear reactors aboard ships and even submarines. I urge you to investigate their safety record. Perhaps the motivations they have put in place are sufficient to run a safe nuclear program?
That is actually pretty deep. Not breathing to satiety is HARD. If I trained myself like a ninja assassin for 40 years, I might be able to do it for 24 hours almost subconsciously... but what a fucked up way to live life.
Or gather all the ip interactions for the 99.99999% of non terrorist related activity and get swamped with noise.
I get your point; however, this is not about finding terrorists. It is about being able to know about YOU as much as possible when, not if, you end up on THEIR radar. I suppose it is possible that the politicians were sold this package in the way you describe, but is is clear that whomever designed this legislation did not do it for catching terrorists. It would be like shooting at a fly with a shotgun. It could work, but really, there are much more effective ways of killing flies.
Also caring teachers in the inner cities should get medals.
These are the true heroes of our society. They take the unwanted spawn of the dregs of society and help them become caring and educated individuals that contribute positively to society. Without these people, our entire country would look like Los Angeles in the 1980s. Constant internecine warfare.
I know many of those teachers will never receive anything more than a word of thanks from some of the children that they helped, but be assured that *I* personally deeply respect what you are doing.
Same way I write my code (and spreadsheets) to calculate important numbers two, three, or sometimes even four different ways to make sure they all agree before proceeding to act on it.
You sir, are not a typical coder. I would go so far as to say your error checking and thought processes are superior to (random very high number) 90% of the programmers I have seen. Mind you, I still think that is a bare minimum for calling yourself a programmer but each instance of proper coherency checking requires notice so that others can learn from it.
Most people I know are college educated republicans and they claim they voted for Hillary and they hate Trump.
Hating Trump is (was) not a reason to vote for Hillary.
I am uncertain how a college educated person could vote for Hillary. I do not think Trump is suitable for POTUS but I certainly did not vote for Hillary because of it.
I am flabbergasted at how an educated person could, in good conscience, have voted for Trump or Clinton. Am I missing something here?
I don't think BLM is about every individual case...
To me, BLM means Bureau of Land Management. That is the federal agency that handles Native American matters. To me, anything BLM has to do with "indians", not "blacks."
It is weird how three letter acronyms change... and we are supposed to keep track of all that? Meh.
These are the same policies we had to follow then. We really had to follow them, or be fired. It's real.
While I have no reason to believe the veracity of your story, I will take it at its face value and give you some advice: The reason you were made to go to the class about privacy and such is because you are an engineer. This data is not for you. If you had been in marketing, the same data would have been available to you but without all of those pesky controls.
"Kissing is more intimate than sex" - You are doing it wrong
Or, you are kissing wrong. The deepest intimacy I have ever felt was through a kiss. Sex... well, it can be exceedingly intimate too, even more intimate than a kiss, but the psychology of the situation usually prevents that.
I went to the site and looked around hoping to find rabid offensive racism, how disappointing. What I found instead at least with recent articles was mostly constitutional conservatism, anti-globalism, anti-loose borders, anti-mainstream media.
But maybe there's juicier older articles?
I researched recently and noticed the same thing. Not my kind of site, but I got a troll mod for pointing out the same thing you did. I am guessing you will receive or have already received at least one troll mod too. It is like being punished for researching and not seeing the same thing that others apparently see. I apologize for not being indoctrinated.
I am guessing that this is another case of, "if you are not with us, you are against us" type crap. I am not "with" anyone. I am just a person who prefers to determine reality (facts) as accurately as possible and then leave the judgement for later.
And in case anyone cares, I don't care about Breitbart. They can disappear tomorrow and I would not care. I only investigated because of all the hate that is spewed about them.
But if you only see the falsehoods perpetrated against *your* side, then it's a fair bet that the falsehoods perpetrated *by your side are doing their job.
I think I found the +6 insightful comment for this year.
Why don't people reverse their conclusions and see if they still make sense the other way? *sigh*
...and trashing the us government so hard financially it will take 2 generations to repair it.
Really? George W. Bush took the national debt from a mere 2 trillion to over 17 trillion... and you think Donald's forays into corruption will come anywhere close to that? He is a small time outsider. He can't possibly do anywhere near as much damage as the neocons did.
It will take a lot more than 2 generations to make up for that 17 trillion dollars. And that does not even include the 3 trillion taken directly from the taxpayers through the Savings and Loans thefts that his brother, Neil stole.
I agree with your message but this line caught my eye
Add to this that they do not consider the cost of the repair - a Chevy might have an alternator that is less reliable than a Honda, but also costs half as much to replace.
I don't care how cheap it is to fix something if I am left stranded on a dark highway on a stormy night in the middle of nowhere. THAT is the point of reliability. Not that something is cheap to fix. The cost of failure is greater than merely the cost of repairs.
The same can be said about your "test drives" point: millionaires are served if their toy cars can manage the equivalent to a test drive once a month (go see how many miles have a second hand luxury car on its odometer) but consumer cars start to make sense only once you can reliably put 100K miles on them.
I have a Mercedes Benz E55 AMG. Cost out the door before taxes, 102 thousand dollars. Definitely qualifies as a luxury car... but it also qualifies as a performance car. 500hp/500tq is not a normal performance from a typical car.
That being said, my "luxury" and performance car has over 130k miles on it and is like brand new. Hell, I put 30k miles on it in the first three months of ownership. I don't do Bentleys but I imagine they are the same: rock solid and hard performing.
I suspect the types of cars you are thinking of are performance vehicles well over the $100k mark. Probably starting somewhere north of $300k at this point.
Maybe you can pine on Obama a bit more and his peace prize, and all the wars he's started.
Eh? Obama has not started any wars... I get your point though, he has not exactly earned the peace prize. He changed nothing concerning America's war stance.
We'll have the rich, the poor, and little in between.
Perhaps. But thanks to technology, today even the poor live better than kings did a few centuries ago.
People keep trotting this out...
Sure, I am not likely to die of polio, tuberculosis, flu, or black plague. Sure, my bed is more comfortable than any bed any king ever had. Yes, I can communicate with people anywhere on the planet in a moments notice. That shit is UTTERLY great. I love it; however....
A king never has to worry about where his next meal is coming from. A king never has to worry about whether or not his children will have a home tomorrow (well, he may worry that they will get executed in the next palace coup... but you surely understand my point). A king never has a problem getting pussy. A king has people waiting on his every need. A king has people who will listen to him. A king has great control over his environment. (substitute king for queen and he for she if you think this a masculine rant.)
Long story short, living like a king a thousand years ago was far more enjoyable than living like a pauper now... that is assuming the pauper can afford a roof, clothes, and food. Without even those items, life is just absolutely miserable and guaranteed to end rather quickly.
Those people should beat it. Seriously, their wits must be scrambled!
If they'd come out of their shells, and let us see the whites of their eyes, we could really give them a carton of grief. But, as they say, these types are cheaper by the dozen!
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Mobile will never fully replace the PC market, yes your phone might have plenty of CPU power, but when you get to your office you're not going to work on massive spread sheets or do hours of data entry on it.
Careful there bucko. Nokia almost started eating into that market but Microsoft utterly destroyed them. I had a Nokia N900. It essentially ran Debian. At the time, I was praying for the next phone to have USB and Display port connectors so I could use my phone as my primary computer.
Yeah, duh. Of course I would not be doing hours of spreadsheet work on a resistive (eh? Firefox assumes this is not a word either. That is the NAME of the type of screen. Deal it with Firefox assholes who try to limit our vocabulary.), not capacitive, touch screen. At least the keyboard was already physical. You would plug a keyboard and a monitor into it.
Microsoft saved you from that terrible terrible situation. Your poor thumbs. ;)
And if it on a PC it is way to easy to pirate the movie.
On the bright side for content consumers, it does not matter if it is easy or hard to pirate the movie since someone WILL pirate it regardless of difficulty and then share the results with everyone who is not so technically savvy.
Definitely a solid use DRM there. ;)
I remember the smog of the 70's in Los Angeles and it was fucking horrible.
Even in the 90s, the sky could be a steel grey without any clouds. Go out east to Hemet and watch the smog rolling out of the Los Angeles basin and into the San Bernadino mountains. Yes, this is orders of magnitude better than the 70s but Los Angeles air is still atrocious.
I recall sitting atop Mount Soledad (San Diego area) for hours one day reading A Thousand and One Nights. I could see baby clouds being formed as the warm sea air was lifted up and cooled. The fresh air was awesome... and then I headed back into San Diego. As soon as I hit the 5 (I5), I could "smell" (feel?) the diesel and other emissions which my senses had hidden from me because it was always there. I was grossed out knowing that I was breathing that shit.
For it to get any worse than it is (was, circa 2004) would be a tragedy. :(
But this is great, my Saturn built in the late 90's still gets around 42-50mpg best I ever got was 62.7mpg, and that was when the car was only a few years old. Real world mileage with the SL and SW series was generally nothing short of amazing.
Very odd. The sticker performance was rated at 36 mpg highway for the 99 Saturn SL1 and yet you managed to get over 60mpg? I have experimented deeply with various driving styles and I have seen some, to me, very amazing numbers. These numbers range up to 20% better than the EPA rating. How did you get over a 50% increase? And, how does your car regularly get over my best successes?
I used to be one of the people that thought the increased alcohol content would ruin gaskets, hoses, and cylinder walls, but the auto industry has already addressed it years ago.
Perhaps you only keep cars for a decade, which is when auto manufacturers started THINKING about making their fuels lines and gaskets capable of handling ethanol fuels.
For myself, I converted a 1992 Eagle Talon TSI to ethanol (E85) and the E85 eventually ate through the fuel lines and gaskets. It took a few years for them to even sell E85 resistant fuel lines and gaskets.
This law effectively bans any car that is older than a few years old. For example, my 2004 Mercedes Benz E55 AMG will require the entire fuel delivery system to be changed out. This will NOT be cheap. I can afford it, but what I suspect will happen is that hundreds of thousands of vehicles will just stop working reliably once the new fuels start being pumped through them. Very few people will pay to change their fueling systems to be compatible.
Be VERY careful about buying used cars in the semi-near future. That $150 number is for only the most common and basic cars and does not include labor.
I am kind of with you on this one, but to be honest, the first word is dronegun, so the use of the word aircraft did not bring to my mind passenger style aircraft.
Also, a drone can't carry all that much metal aloft, so the shrapnel possibilities are low. More worried about shrapnel than the actual explosive.
A very rational position to take. When I was under indirect fire, it was not the explosives traveling through the air that scared me. It was the fact that they were explosives with a metal skin designed to shred my definitely unprotected body that scared me.
Bullets whizzing by overhead? No problem. Duck. Mortar rounds flying overhead? Yeah... not so fun.
All great arguments; however, your arguments fail to take into account the US Navy Nuclear Program. They run nuclear reactors aboard ships and even submarines. I urge you to investigate their safety record. Perhaps the motivations they have put in place are sufficient to run a safe nuclear program?
That is actually pretty deep. Not breathing to satiety is HARD. If I trained myself like a ninja assassin for 40 years, I might be able to do it for 24 hours almost subconsciously... but what a fucked up way to live life.
Or gather all the ip interactions for the 99.99999% of non terrorist related activity and get swamped with noise.
I get your point; however, this is not about finding terrorists. It is about being able to know about YOU as much as possible when, not if, you end up on THEIR radar. I suppose it is possible that the politicians were sold this package in the way you describe, but is is clear that whomever designed this legislation did not do it for catching terrorists. It would be like shooting at a fly with a shotgun. It could work, but really, there are much more effective ways of killing flies.
Also caring teachers in the inner cities should get medals.
These are the true heroes of our society. They take the unwanted spawn of the dregs of society and help them become caring and educated individuals that contribute positively to society. Without these people, our entire country would look like Los Angeles in the 1980s. Constant internecine warfare.
I know many of those teachers will never receive anything more than a word of thanks from some of the children that they helped, but be assured that *I* personally deeply respect what you are doing.
Same way I write my code (and spreadsheets) to calculate important numbers two, three, or sometimes even four different ways to make sure they all agree before proceeding to act on it.
You sir, are not a typical coder. I would go so far as to say your error checking and thought processes are superior to (random very high number) 90% of the programmers I have seen. Mind you, I still think that is a bare minimum for calling yourself a programmer but each instance of proper coherency checking requires notice so that others can learn from it.
Most people I know are college educated republicans and they claim they voted for Hillary and they hate Trump.
Hating Trump is (was) not a reason to vote for Hillary.
I am uncertain how a college educated person could vote for Hillary. I do not think Trump is suitable for POTUS but I certainly did not vote for Hillary because of it.
I am flabbergasted at how an educated person could, in good conscience, have voted for Trump or Clinton. Am I missing something here?
So that's how I know that the glaciers I know of are receding: By actually going there and looking at them.
Original research? First hand knowledge? Blasphemy. ;)
I don't think BLM is about every individual case...
To me, BLM means Bureau of Land Management. That is the federal agency that handles Native American matters. To me, anything BLM has to do with "indians", not "blacks."
It is weird how three letter acronyms change... and we are supposed to keep track of all that? Meh.
These are the same policies we had to follow then. We really had to follow them, or be fired. It's real.
While I have no reason to believe the veracity of your story, I will take it at its face value and give you some advice: The reason you were made to go to the class about privacy and such is because you are an engineer. This data is not for you. If you had been in marketing, the same data would have been available to you but without all of those pesky controls.
"Kissing is more intimate than sex" - You are doing it wrong
Or, you are kissing wrong. The deepest intimacy I have ever felt was through a kiss. Sex... well, it can be exceedingly intimate too, even more intimate than a kiss, but the psychology of the situation usually prevents that.
I went to the site and looked around hoping to find rabid offensive racism, how disappointing. What I found instead at least with recent articles was mostly constitutional conservatism, anti-globalism, anti-loose borders, anti-mainstream media.
But maybe there's juicier older articles?
I researched recently and noticed the same thing. Not my kind of site, but I got a troll mod for pointing out the same thing you did. I am guessing you will receive or have already received at least one troll mod too. It is like being punished for researching and not seeing the same thing that others apparently see. I apologize for not being indoctrinated.
I am guessing that this is another case of, "if you are not with us, you are against us" type crap. I am not "with" anyone. I am just a person who prefers to determine reality (facts) as accurately as possible and then leave the judgement for later.
And in case anyone cares, I don't care about Breitbart. They can disappear tomorrow and I would not care. I only investigated because of all the hate that is spewed about them.
But if you only see the falsehoods perpetrated against *your* side, then it's a fair bet that the falsehoods perpetrated *by your side are doing their job.
I think I found the +6 insightful comment for this year.
Why don't people reverse their conclusions and see if they still make sense the other way? *sigh*
Each person is the center of the universe.
...and trashing the us government so hard financially it will take 2 generations to repair it.
Really? George W. Bush took the national debt from a mere 2 trillion to over 17 trillion... and you think Donald's forays into corruption will come anywhere close to that? He is a small time outsider. He can't possibly do anywhere near as much damage as the neocons did.
It will take a lot more than 2 generations to make up for that 17 trillion dollars. And that does not even include the 3 trillion taken directly from the taxpayers through the Savings and Loans thefts that his brother, Neil stole.
I agree with your message but this line caught my eye
Add to this that they do not consider the cost of the repair - a Chevy might have an alternator that is less reliable than a Honda, but also costs half as much to replace.
I don't care how cheap it is to fix something if I am left stranded on a dark highway on a stormy night in the middle of nowhere. THAT is the point of reliability. Not that something is cheap to fix. The cost of failure is greater than merely the cost of repairs.
The same can be said about your "test drives" point: millionaires are served if their toy cars can manage the equivalent to a test drive once a month (go see how many miles have a second hand luxury car on its odometer) but consumer cars start to make sense only once you can reliably put 100K miles on them.
I have a Mercedes Benz E55 AMG. Cost out the door before taxes, 102 thousand dollars. Definitely qualifies as a luxury car... but it also qualifies as a performance car. 500hp/500tq is not a normal performance from a typical car.
That being said, my "luxury" and performance car has over 130k miles on it and is like brand new. Hell, I put 30k miles on it in the first three months of ownership. I don't do Bentleys but I imagine they are the same: rock solid and hard performing.
I suspect the types of cars you are thinking of are performance vehicles well over the $100k mark. Probably starting somewhere north of $300k at this point.
Maybe you can pine on Obama a bit more and his peace prize, and all the wars he's started.
Eh? Obama has not started any wars... I get your point though, he has not exactly earned the peace prize. He changed nothing concerning America's war stance.
We'll have the rich, the poor, and little in between.
Perhaps. But thanks to technology, today even the poor live better than kings did a few centuries ago.
People keep trotting this out...
Sure, I am not likely to die of polio, tuberculosis, flu, or black plague. Sure, my bed is more comfortable than any bed any king ever had. Yes, I can communicate with people anywhere on the planet in a moments notice. That shit is UTTERLY great. I love it; however....
A king never has to worry about where his next meal is coming from. A king never has to worry about whether or not his children will have a home tomorrow (well, he may worry that they will get executed in the next palace coup... but you surely understand my point). A king never has a problem getting pussy. A king has people waiting on his every need. A king has people who will listen to him. A king has great control over his environment. (substitute king for queen and he for she if you think this a masculine rant.)
Long story short, living like a king a thousand years ago was far more enjoyable than living like a pauper now... that is assuming the pauper can afford a roof, clothes, and food. Without even those items, life is just absolutely miserable and guaranteed to end rather quickly.
from the heavy yolk of government regulation
Those people should beat it. Seriously, their wits must be scrambled!
If they'd come out of their shells, and let us see the whites of their eyes, we could really give them a carton of grief. But, as they say, these types are cheaper by the dozen!
Ummm, that yoke is not funny. ;)