Why ARE you spending more money than you need to when you could have just bought a decent pair the first time?
Because headphones, keyboards and mice are items that self-destruct after a year or two of daily use. It's easier to keep spares in the closet and replace as needed.
This may surprise you, but people don't like being publicly insulted in front of their family and friends, especially when drinking.
For all the ACs out there, I apologized for publicly insulting you while you were drinking $3K in wine and commenting on Slashdot in front of your neglected family.
When someone bragged in a comment about dropping $3K per night on wine, my reply was that they had drinking problem and a financial problem. I got six paragraphs of barely strung together sentences, no capitalization and obscenities about my dick size. The follow-up post was more of the same. Now imagine that person's brain typing into a comment. Not pretty.
A $350 pair of headphones, no. A $1,100 pair of headphones (Beyerdynamic T1), yes. Sounds nice but overpriced for my modest lifestyle. I have a friend who makes less money than me who is saving up for a pair.
You own a phone without an audio port don't you? Admit it.
I have a iPhone 6S with audio jack. But I only use headphones with my PC.
That is incredibly sad and disturbing. "Liberal Hollywood" my ass!
Just the typical Hollywood whitewashing. See the recent Ghost In The Shell movie, where Scarlett Johansson got cast for a Japanese woman and then Asianized with CGI. On the flipside, the one Japanese actor they had spoke only Japanese while everyone else spoke English. Go figure...
There are about as many Republicans in CA as there are pink unicorns with gold plated horns.
While the CA Republicans have more in common with the endangered spotted owl than 1/10th of the US population. Republican fundraisers still swing by to pick up checks from Silicon Valley companies..
Stock for stock and dollar for dollar, Silicon Valley companies give more political donations to Republicans than Democrats, and are more likely to have right-leaning stockholders to boot, according to a new report by news site The Daily Dot. This runs contrary to Silicon Valley's reputation as waving the banner of American liberalism but the numbers don't lie.
Creimer you need to write a book. I might comb your slashdot post history for gems and compile me a book based on your dealings with Silicon Valley, game testing, and being a govt contractor. Would you like to be a VC for it? I know 50k a year isn't a lot in SV but every little bit helps.
Don't bother. I got working Python script to pull my 8,000+ comment history from Slashdot. I should have the script up on GitHub sometime next month. Meanwhile, you can check out my author website or personal blog.
Bennet is her father's first name. Wang is the family name. When she worked under Wang, she got cast for Chinese roles. When she worked under Bennet, she got better roles.
My dog chewed up a pair I first had, and I found that the company was great and for $100 would replace them with a new pair which worked out great for me.
Sometimes good warranty service can offset a higher price. I buy computer parts from Other World Computing. A bit more expensive than what I can get from Hong Kong but OWC-branded parts have a three-year warranty. I recently sent back a 2.5"-to-3.5" bracket because the SATA cable snapped off the connector. I got a brand new part and the broken connector removed from the SATA cable.
[...] unless you tend to beat the shit out of them during day-to-day usage.
My headphone sit on my desktop. If they end up on the floor, I'm more likely to step on them or roll over them with the chair. One time I found the cable sliced into two. Not sure how that happened. Self-destruct items — keyboards, mice and headphones — are disposable and cheap to replace.
Strange things happen when you take naive, out-of-touch leftists and then give them huge amounts of money that they didn't really earn in any meaningful way.
And then they become Republicans.
When visitors come to Silicon Valley, one of the first things they notice is that they're saying "What the fuck?!" to themselves constantly.
I would be ticked beyond any puppy cuteness level at replacing a $500 pair, or even $100.
Or be the unfortunate father at the Apple Genius Bar after your toddler dumps juice into your high-end MacBook Pro, find out that Apple Care doesn't cover that kind of damage, and a replacement logic board costs almost as much as a brand new laptop. I overheard that sob tale while getting my vintage 2006 Black MacBook repaired in 2012.
Back in the old days. a pair of HP engineers put in purchase order for a Saturn V rocket launcher and it got all the way to VP before it got cancel. These days you can combine a toaster with an iPhone, call it iToast, and no one will think twice about throwing money at it.
Replacing cheaper hardware every year or two tends to add up, which confirms your initial statement; you get what you pay for.
I'm not going to cry over a pair of $10 to $20 headphones when they self-destruct from day-to-day use. I'll toss them out, pull another one out from the storage closet, and order some more if I need to. Why spend more money on something you're going have to replace anyway?
There's a part where he tries to make some speed dating event for aging childless work-a-holic silicon valley women sound like some kind of kinky milf orgy, when really it's just kinda sad.
That part is quite authentic.
"So, I was talking to my cofounders, while we were out at this super hip bar getting wasting and being super hip", give me a fucking break.
The funny thing is that I may have crossed paths with this guy when I had assignments at Facebook in 2011. I did so with Mark Zucker. I didn't think he was that short at 5'-7" (I'm 5'-10")
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Sounds like qualifications to run for president. But do they use twitter?
Good point. All the sentences are 140 characters or less. Must be a copy and paste hatchet job.
Why ARE you spending more money than you need to when you could have just bought a decent pair the first time?
Because headphones, keyboards and mice are items that self-destruct after a year or two of daily use. It's easier to keep spares in the closet and replace as needed.
This may surprise you, but people don't like being publicly insulted in front of their family and friends, especially when drinking.
For all the ACs out there, I apologized for publicly insulting you while you were drinking $3K in wine and commenting on Slashdot in front of your neglected family.
Which is why I don't have a Facebook account.
When someone bragged in a comment about dropping $3K per night on wine, my reply was that they had drinking problem and a financial problem. I got six paragraphs of barely strung together sentences, no capitalization and obscenities about my dick size. The follow-up post was more of the same. Now imagine that person's brain typing into a comment. Not pretty.
It's interesting that you bring up modest lifestyle.
I have a high-frequency hearing loss in one ear. The difference between a $20 headphones and $1100 headphones is $1080.
[...] maybe you could use the iPhone's microphone to listen for the toast popping up and tell you it's done in case you walked out of the room.
That's what the smoke detector is for. I'm not joking. The moment the toaster pops up, the smoke detector goes off.
Have you even HEARD a $350 pair of headphones?
A $350 pair of headphones, no. A $1,100 pair of headphones (Beyerdynamic T1), yes. Sounds nice but overpriced for my modest lifestyle. I have a friend who makes less money than me who is saving up for a pair.
You own a phone without an audio port don't you? Admit it.
I have a iPhone 6S with audio jack. But I only use headphones with my PC.
No, they remain out-of-touch leftists that blame Republicans for their failures.
That could explain why McCain and Romney stomped through Silicon Valley for campaign contributions 2008 and 2012.
That is incredibly sad and disturbing. "Liberal Hollywood" my ass!
Just the typical Hollywood whitewashing. See the recent Ghost In The Shell movie, where Scarlett Johansson got cast for a Japanese woman and then Asianized with CGI. On the flipside, the one Japanese actor they had spoke only Japanese while everyone else spoke English. Go figure...
There are about as many Republicans in CA as there are pink unicorns with gold plated horns.
While the CA Republicans have more in common with the endangered spotted owl than 1/10th of the US population. Republican fundraisers still swing by to pick up checks from Silicon Valley companies..
Stock for stock and dollar for dollar, Silicon Valley companies give more political donations to Republicans than Democrats, and are more likely to have right-leaning stockholders to boot, according to a new report by news site The Daily Dot. This runs contrary to Silicon Valley's reputation as waving the banner of American liberalism but the numbers don't lie.
http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-gives-more-to-republicans-than-democrats-2015-3
Creimer you need to write a book. I might comb your slashdot post history for gems and compile me a book based on your dealings with Silicon Valley, game testing, and being a govt contractor. Would you like to be a VC for it? I know 50k a year isn't a lot in SV but every little bit helps.
Don't bother. I got working Python script to pull my 8,000+ comment history from Slashdot. I should have the script up on GitHub sometime next month. Meanwhile, you can check out my author website or personal blog.
How difficult is to answer a call by pressing a button on your wireless headset?
Not sure you know what that means.
Massive was the word that the article used and should have put into quotes.
You govt contractors aren't too bright are ya?
That's relevant to this discussion how?
is it her madein name or something
Bennet is her father's first name. Wang is the family name. When she worked under Wang, she got cast for Chinese roles. When she worked under Bennet, she got better roles.
My dog chewed up a pair I first had, and I found that the company was great and for $100 would replace them with a new pair which worked out great for me.
Sometimes good warranty service can offset a higher price. I buy computer parts from Other World Computing. A bit more expensive than what I can get from Hong Kong but OWC-branded parts have a three-year warranty. I recently sent back a 2.5"-to-3.5" bracket because the SATA cable snapped off the connector. I got a brand new part and the broken connector removed from the SATA cable.
During the first dotcom, I thought the toaster that printed a weather map on the toast was actually one of the better ideas.
Toasty with a chance of butter?
[...] unless you tend to beat the shit out of them during day-to-day usage.
My headphone sit on my desktop. If they end up on the floor, I'm more likely to step on them or roll over them with the chair. One time I found the cable sliced into two. Not sure how that happened. Self-destruct items — keyboards, mice and headphones — are disposable and cheap to replace.
Strange things happen when you take naive, out-of-touch leftists and then give them huge amounts of money that they didn't really earn in any meaningful way.
And then they become Republicans.
When visitors come to Silicon Valley, one of the first things they notice is that they're saying "What the fuck?!" to themselves constantly.
Silicon Valley != San Francisco
I would be ticked beyond any puppy cuteness level at replacing a $500 pair, or even $100.
Or be the unfortunate father at the Apple Genius Bar after your toddler dumps juice into your high-end MacBook Pro, find out that Apple Care doesn't cover that kind of damage, and a replacement logic board costs almost as much as a brand new laptop. I overheard that sob tale while getting my vintage 2006 Black MacBook repaired in 2012.
My grandmother kept her juice cups next to her moonshine. Respectable people don't swig from the bottle.
Back in the old days. a pair of HP engineers put in purchase order for a Saturn V rocket launcher and it got all the way to VP before it got cancel. These days you can combine a toaster with an iPhone, call it iToast, and no one will think twice about throwing money at it.
Replacing cheaper hardware every year or two tends to add up, which confirms your initial statement; you get what you pay for.
I'm not going to cry over a pair of $10 to $20 headphones when they self-destruct from day-to-day use. I'll toss them out, pull another one out from the storage closet, and order some more if I need to. Why spend more money on something you're going have to replace anyway?
I typically spend $1 to $2 for headphones.
Those usually fall apart pretty quickly. The $10 to $20 headphones give me the durability I need for the year or two that they are usable.
Did you read any of his shitty book?
I'm halfway through the book.
There's a part where he tries to make some speed dating event for aging childless work-a-holic silicon valley women sound like some kind of kinky milf orgy, when really it's just kinda sad.
That part is quite authentic.
"So, I was talking to my cofounders, while we were out at this super hip bar getting wasting and being super hip", give me a fucking break.
The funny thing is that I may have crossed paths with this guy when I had assignments at Facebook in 2011. I did so with Mark Zucker. I didn't think he was that short at 5'-7" (I'm 5'-10")