So you messed up. Not every non-apple laptop is a piece of throwaway plastic junk. Thinkpads (for example) are mil-spec ruggedness and better compute specifications than Apple - you can get i7s, etc.
I agree with your first sentence but respectfully disagree with the rest; these things are exactly what makes a laptop a premium one and I think it's fair enough. If I had lots of disposable income I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
You haven't ever looked at (eg.) Thinkpads then? Much better built and specced than anything Apple makes.
Not every non-Apple laptop is a $300 throwaway piece of plastic junk...
I guess anybody who: a) Installs an app called "Shopkick". and, b) Doesn't uninstall it instantly after the very first shopping-aisle-related advert beeps at them.
"High-frequency audio 'beacons' are embedded into TV commercials or browser ads," reports New Scientist. "These sounds, which are inaudible to the human ear, can be picked up by any nearby device that has a microphone and can then activate certain functions on that device..
Only in the dreams of the most tinfoil hatted idiots on the planet.
Yep. Just like all the roads those goods were driven along during delivery. The road builders should be held responsible too. And the truck manufacturers/drivers.
It's not as if the news wasn't full of stories about exploding hoverboards so the parents should be held responsible for not junking it or anything like that.
Amazon should not allow 3rd party sellers, plain and simple
Not without some vetting, or for limited products (like self-published books).
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. Never going to happen.
When something is fashionable and expensive at Xmas an evil seller can make money and vanish before anybody figures out what's going on. There's no way for Amazon to stop that.
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These screens will make it impossible to put one in a case. I don't care how pretty the screen is if it's cracked.
My eee-PC 900 had 3 USB connectors.
Or just buy the two types of adapters, SD to USB-A and SD to USB-C. They're not very expensive.
They're infinitely more expensive than they were for the previous generation of Mac.
The iPhone is probably the last I'll use, unless it breaks down: it has a whopping 128GB of storage, which should last me I think 10 years.
The storage? Maybe.
The battery? You really think it will hold more than ten seconds of charge six years from now? Good luck getting it changed.
Then there are very fine and fast USB card readers,
Um, wouldn't you need a USB connector for that?
"Solar FREAKIN' Roof Tiles!"
It's what another solar panel company (Solar Roadways) actually uses on their company logo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Try to keep up to date.
On planes I bring a mouse with me rather than use the Lenovo track pad. It's that bad.
Why don't you just take your MacBook Pro?
Some of us like to run an OS that doesn't suck ass and doesn't require constant care and feeding like Linux or Windows.
I own a MacBook. I pretty much hate the OS. It makes me want to scream every time I have to use it. I have no idea what Mac users are on about.
It's called 'engineering'.
Lenovo do it better than Apple. Look at how many Apple hinges break, etc.
Haven't looked very hard, have we?
eg. http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/l...
So you messed up. Not every non-apple laptop is a piece of throwaway plastic junk. Thinkpads (for example) are mil-spec ruggedness and better compute specifications than Apple - you can get i7s, etc.
I agree with your first sentence but respectfully disagree with the rest; these things are exactly what makes a laptop a premium one and I think it's fair enough. If I had lots of disposable income I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
You haven't ever looked at (eg.) Thinkpads then? Much better built and specced than anything Apple makes.
Not every non-Apple laptop is a $300 throwaway piece of plastic junk...
Trust our data models.
I buy that. Sure.
All models have a built in error. Nobody's predicting exact values for anything.
What a correction does (this is a correction) does is narrow the best/worse case scenarios a bit, that's simple to understand even for nincompoops.
Problem is: The corrections aren't ever going to make it point downwards, which is where it needs to go.
If you're at war with Russia or China then you've got much bigger problems than that to worry about.
Yeah, your phone's microphone and TV's speakers are totally designed for ultrasound broadcast/reception.
Sometimes I wonder why my remote control refuse to obey my commands when the commercials on TV are running and I try to quicky zap away.
Have you tried wrapping it in tinfoil?
I guess anybody who:
a) Installs an app called "Shopkick".
and,
b) Doesn't uninstall it instantly after the very first shopping-aisle-related advert beeps at them.
deserves all they get.
"High-frequency audio 'beacons' are embedded into TV commercials or browser ads," reports New Scientist. "These sounds, which are inaudible to the human ear, can be picked up by any nearby device that has a microphone and can then activate certain functions on that device..
Only in the dreams of the most tinfoil hatted idiots on the planet.
And slashdot editors, apparently.
Yep. Just like all the roads those goods were driven along during delivery. The road builders should be held responsible too. And the truck manufacturers/drivers.
It's not as if the news wasn't full of stories about exploding hoverboards so the parents should be held responsible for not junking it or anything like that.
How will they prevent people from:
a) Lying to them?
b) Shipping something inferior to the stuff they showed Amazon during the vetting process?
An official Amazon "seal of approval" would just make things much worse for everybody.
My lunch.
Amazon should not allow 3rd party sellers, plain and simple
Not without some vetting, or for limited products (like self-published books).
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. Never going to happen.
When something is fashionable and expensive at Xmas an evil seller can make money and vanish before anybody figures out what's going on. There's no way for Amazon to stop that.
Amazon wasn't the seller. Their opening of their platform to 3rd parties is what almost made me stop using them.
Huh? Was somebody holding a gun to your head and forcing you to buy from Amazon third party sellers?
...and even if they do, what's to stop a shady seller from shipping something different that they sent to Amazon for testing/validation?
Amazon probably should lose this one.
Why? Is amazon supposed to test and validate every product offered through their store by a third party?