Think about it, why is lithium used for mobile applications now instead of nickel or lead? Weight! Aluminum batteries would be substantially heavier, and take more energy to move around. Hardly a miracle to revolutionize EV's.
I bought one for home based on glowing recommendations from someone at my previous employer. Managing the WAP was a pain, a proprietary app launching a web interface or something, unique to each firmware version. The release firmware seemed to never be updated, there were occasional betas if you knew where to look.
My unit became very flaky, I sent it in under warranty and it took several months for them to send a replacement, they claimed they didn't have any stock!
The last straw was realizing that the thing didn't even do 5GHz. The recommender was like oh you didn't buy the $300+ Pro model? Yeah no, trucks don't drive up and spill cash at my doorstep.
Gave it away and bought an ASUS.
In my experience that's usually futile. There's a good chance the previous owner, if still alive, didn't have service or even know what it is.
Having been in a similar position, rural telecommuting, I assert that the guy's both being jerked around with and being a twat. Both cablecos and telcos don't give a shit about sparse customer density areas. Where I lived a few years ago, VZN refused to drop a DSLAMM in the local box. Comcast was a mile away and wouldn't even return calls re extending.
What one can do:
o Buy another place instead that has demonstrated connectivity available. Trusting the providers or the ludicrous gov site was just plain stupid.
o Get ISDN and live with the speed.
o XO is hardly the only leased line provider, is Broadwing still around, or Speakeasy? $500/mo would hardly be onerous. Either he could write some of it off, or makes enough $ for that to not be a burden.
Equal treatment is exactly what this suit and others like it did not want. They want preferential treatment for possession of ovaries, which is bullshit.
Agree with much of this. She is already a millionaire and part of the 1% and has trampled countless others to get there. Insisting on even more is only greed.
One reason we aren't using NeXT-branded systems today is that Jobs wouldn't sell them. Remember "Enroll."? The only reason the DW didn't die completely is Jobs' return to Apple.
Google wouldn't sell Glass. Pretention rarely makes for a successfully product.
Some of the lane stripes around western WA perplex me after 20 years of driving on them, can't imagine software could reliably figure them out.
Re danger, isn't that why New Jersey and Oregon defend their anachronistic prohibition of self-serve fuel pumping?
FWIW, a luggable still needs a power adapter, the larger laptops will tend to eat more power, and it's way too easy to forget to top off the battery, deal with unexpected travel delays, etc -- too risky to not carry it. The cables arguably are trivial in size/weight, and a laptop with an RJ45 still would need the RJ45 cable to be carried, never assume there's one at the other end.
For this new MB, what I really don't get is the positioning -- I'd expected it to replace the 11/13" Airs, but instead we get refreshes of those *and* the 13" MBPR I think, for *4* laptops in the 11-13" range. I can't make any sense of that at all.
Not with the latest version, Ethernet was gone several revisions ago. Most people really don't need it. I generally only use it at work, and leave the dongle connected to the Ethernet cable, so it's no harder to plug in than connecting the cable itself.
Agreed, I personally find the lack annoying, but it's easy to expense the dongles and leave one on the RJ45. Or to keep the one I expensed at my previous job:-x
you must re-dongle the USB port (and you'd better hope you have some kind of mega-wire-spider so you can feed it power at the same time... and connect your USB stuff... and connect an external HDMI monitor...)
No different than Thunderbolt.
The idea is that you'll just have one cable coming from your monitor, providing power and a USB hub. Currently you can only get that with Thunderbolt from an Apple display, but a number of display manufacturers have signed up to do the same with USB-C. I'd love to be able to have a single cable to connect power, ethernet, display, keyboard and mouse to my laptop.
Agreed, the ability to act as a docking station is really the only remaining appeal of the increasingly-aged Apple TD, which at $900+ still only supplies USB 2.0. Mind you since most of us can't toss existing monitors and repurchase at will, I wouldn't be able to take advantage of USB-C docking in the foreseeable future anyway. It does get annoying at the office to have to plug in 1) power 2) ethernet, since the wireless is flaky 3) DP for monitor and 4) USB for phone charging. But if that were even close to the most annoying part of my work day, compared to eg. dealing with a dumbass who ridicules me for suggesting that wheat contains gluten, I could live with that.
It's like Sun's Live Upgrade -- apply patches / updates to a copy of the running environment, then reboot into it. Nice enough idea. Ironically there was always a long list of patches that needed to be applied traditionally, often entailing a reboot, before LU could be run.
NeXT actually poached the lead Objective-C developer in the 1988-1989 timeframe.
Is C++ these days legitimately OO? Back then it wasn't.
Objective-C on the other hand has the Brad Cox stigma.
Wish I had points to mod this up. That said, I've long suspected that T-Mobile's plans are generous because their coverage is so weak. It sucked when I used VoiceStream and I haven't seen anything since to make me believe it's changed.
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Think about it, why is lithium used for mobile applications now instead of nickel or lead? Weight! Aluminum batteries would be substantially heavier, and take more energy to move around. Hardly a miracle to revolutionize EV's.
I bought one for home based on glowing recommendations from someone at my previous employer. Managing the WAP was a pain, a proprietary app launching a web interface or something, unique to each firmware version. The release firmware seemed to never be updated, there were occasional betas if you knew where to look. My unit became very flaky, I sent it in under warranty and it took several months for them to send a replacement, they claimed they didn't have any stock! The last straw was realizing that the thing didn't even do 5GHz. The recommender was like oh you didn't buy the $300+ Pro model? Yeah no, trucks don't drive up and spill cash at my doorstep. Gave it away and bought an ASUS.
In my experience that's usually futile. There's a good chance the previous owner, if still alive, didn't have service or even know what it is. Having been in a similar position, rural telecommuting, I assert that the guy's both being jerked around with and being a twat. Both cablecos and telcos don't give a shit about sparse customer density areas. Where I lived a few years ago, VZN refused to drop a DSLAMM in the local box. Comcast was a mile away and wouldn't even return calls re extending. What one can do: o Buy another place instead that has demonstrated connectivity available. Trusting the providers or the ludicrous gov site was just plain stupid. o Get ISDN and live with the speed. o XO is hardly the only leased line provider, is Broadwing still around, or Speakeasy? $500/mo would hardly be onerous. Either he could write some of it off, or makes enough $ for that to not be a burden.
Equal treatment is exactly what this suit and others like it did not want. They want preferential treatment for possession of ovaries, which is bullshit.
Agree with much of this. She is already a millionaire and part of the 1% and has trampled countless others to get there. Insisting on even more is only greed.
What if we stopped pretending that suicide isn't a personal choice, and regulated do that people could escape without having to go to extremes?
Right, because we here we don't say "arse".
100dma?
The dreaded Wyse 50. I actually had one catch Fire.
thank you, beat me to this.
VMware Fusion. Or Parallels.
One reason we aren't using NeXT-branded systems today is that Jobs wouldn't sell them. Remember "Enroll."? The only reason the DW didn't die completely is Jobs' return to Apple. Google wouldn't sell Glass. Pretention rarely makes for a successfully product.
Some of the lane stripes around western WA perplex me after 20 years of driving on them, can't imagine software could reliably figure them out. Re danger, isn't that why New Jersey and Oregon defend their anachronistic prohibition of self-serve fuel pumping?
This would precipitate zoning and HOA / CC&R outrage.
Show of hands -- how many even knew that Kyocera a) was still in business and b) makes phones?
FWIW, a luggable still needs a power adapter, the larger laptops will tend to eat more power, and it's way too easy to forget to top off the battery, deal with unexpected travel delays, etc -- too risky to not carry it. The cables arguably are trivial in size/weight, and a laptop with an RJ45 still would need the RJ45 cable to be carried, never assume there's one at the other end. For this new MB, what I really don't get is the positioning -- I'd expected it to replace the 11/13" Airs, but instead we get refreshes of those *and* the 13" MBPR I think, for *4* laptops in the 11-13" range. I can't make any sense of that at all.
Not with the latest version, Ethernet was gone several revisions ago. Most people really don't need it. I generally only use it at work, and leave the dongle connected to the Ethernet cable, so it's no harder to plug in than connecting the cable itself.
Agreed, I personally find the lack annoying, but it's easy to expense the dongles and leave one on the RJ45. Or to keep the one I expensed at my previous job :-x
you must re-dongle the USB port (and you'd better hope you have some kind of mega-wire-spider so you can feed it power at the same time... and connect your USB stuff... and connect an external HDMI monitor...)
No different than Thunderbolt.
The idea is that you'll just have one cable coming from your monitor, providing power and a USB hub. Currently you can only get that with Thunderbolt from an Apple display, but a number of display manufacturers have signed up to do the same with USB-C. I'd love to be able to have a single cable to connect power, ethernet, display, keyboard and mouse to my laptop.
Agreed, the ability to act as a docking station is really the only remaining appeal of the increasingly-aged Apple TD, which at $900+ still only supplies USB 2.0. Mind you since most of us can't toss existing monitors and repurchase at will, I wouldn't be able to take advantage of USB-C docking in the foreseeable future anyway. It does get annoying at the office to have to plug in 1) power 2) ethernet, since the wireless is flaky 3) DP for monitor and 4) USB for phone charging. But if that were even close to the most annoying part of my work day, compared to eg. dealing with a dumbass who ridicules me for suggesting that wheat contains gluten, I could live with that.
Regular watches have already been obsolete for 10-15 years.
It's like Sun's Live Upgrade -- apply patches / updates to a copy of the running environment, then reboot into it. Nice enough idea. Ironically there was always a long list of patches that needed to be applied traditionally, often entailing a reboot, before LU could be run.
NeXT actually poached the lead Objective-C developer in the 1988-1989 timeframe. Is C++ these days legitimately OO? Back then it wasn't. Objective-C on the other hand has the Brad Cox stigma.
Wish I had points to mod this up. That said, I've long suspected that T-Mobile's plans are generous because their coverage is so weak. It sucked when I used VoiceStream and I haven't seen anything since to make me believe it's changed.
When Worlds Collide. Never quite figured out why Zyra was unaffected.
This.
Are we discussing GoT, or Lost?
Or Google, or named after a river.