Number of electronics I've owned with power cords: too many to count.
Number of Laptops without Magsafe: Dozens between work and home, including ones that spend most of their time being used in hallways, supply closets, or the cleared off corner of a desk at a customer site, anywhere you can find and outlet
Number of either that have ever been damaged as a result of not having Magsafe: 0
It may have value, but I'd put it right up there with "Car Ejector Seat". I'm sure the people who have some story where MagSafe saved the day are proud to pay for it, for everyone else it's just a feel-good marketing ploy.
I try not to use value unless there's actual worth invovled.
For the first 6 months the Intel Macs were being released people were willing to pay MORE for baseline G5s, no accessories or added software, mice, keyboards, NOTHING, than they were for a brand new out of the box Core Duo system.
That's not "retaining value" it's "people are dumb beyond belief". Unless these were being purchased as parts machines to keep a fleet working instead of upgrading I don't know how anyone can justify purchasing outdated, used, hardware for more than the brand new stuff.
If anyone cared enough to write Bansai Buddy for Macs do you think your average college freshman with a Mac is any better than your average college freshman with a PC about not doing whatever it takes to install it?
User stupidity trumps almost all security, and there's no shortage of it on either side.
Not to step in as the Windows defender or anything, but if you clicked on the warning that you're not protected there's a button right there that says "Change How Windows Notifies Me"
I'm not saying it's your fault, but no one can say it's Windows' fault.
That's why this is purely for the "I have too much money and I want you to know it" crowd, it's a small market but they've got deep pockets.
The problem is it only work if people continue to buy them, which means they have to keep updating their hardware. Hopefully outfitting the blocks for cards isn't too different from revision to revision or they'll destroy their margins just designing and fabricating a new set of parts every few months.
You are the last person they're trying to sell to. No one who needs 3x top of the line videocards running in parallel is asking about price. This is $4000 for the base line hardware!
You might be able to figure out the backspace but good luck if your target is a little scatter brained and likes to hop around sometimes. You may be able to pick up a mouse click too but you'd have no idea from sound alone where characters had just been removed or added.
Unless I'm bringing something that I can't legally carry on board (usually tools) I don't remember the last time I had checked baggage. You can buy toothpaste when you get there, hotels have shampoo, etc.
You can have two carry-ons at this point, unless you're traveling for more than a week I don't understand how most people can't get away with what they can keep with them.
Those usually have to be securely locked shut during flight too(at least for firearms I think), and not the little luggage locks people put between two zippers.
To elaborate, why do I have to access the command to install certain things?
"Oh please! Executing Tar.ball.gzs is easy!"
Well it's not double clicking. If the software I want isn't in the repo it might as well be on mars. I can either go through config files to enable other repositories and hope they have what I want, or drudge through a readme about how to install simple software.
That, is where Linux is failing. Not power users, not novices, the middle ground of people who know exactly what they want but don't want to have to compile from source to get it. People who know that something or other can be edited or that X hardware should work and don't want to spend their day on wikis and help forums to figure out how.
The difference is, this isn't some instruction manual that was incorrectly translated into something offensive, this is not in any sense of the word a localization issue.
Unless of course you consider "earth" a local and "any mention whatsoever" a snafu.
Sony, as mentioned has no trouble offending Christians among others, do you think this is about anything but the massive irrational hissy fit that certain religious activists could, would, and have a history of, throwing?
The difference is that would never happen. China doesn't hold worldwide protests when you make fun of them. I can say anything I want about Germans, Hindus, Americans, Communists, Albinos, the disabled, etc etc and NEVER have a problem.
I print one cartoon that offends Muslims and I'll be living in safe houses for the rest of my life like Salmon Rushdie.
The difference is, Priests on trial don't claim that it was their religious responsibility to behave that way. If you hide behind your religion to justify behavior of any kind the religion is going to take a little fire.
The behavior does not reflect in and of itself on the religion, the idiotic justification for that behavior does.
Hey now, the Indian Wars were a shameful land grab at the behest of the wealthy and powerful, keep religion out of this. It may have worked to sell it to the masses but given a choice between friendly tribes and dead tribes I can tell you which one Andrew Jackson would have chosen.
The difference, as I understood it, is that Muslim's view representation of the prophet as idolatry because you begin to worship at the feet of statue or painting, a false deity, rather than the true God.
You say "Toyota makes MR-2 Chassis and sells them to Lotus"
He says "No they don't" and posts a link to the company that does.
You post a link saying that Toyota sells engines to Elise, which in no way refutes the post you replied to. And then when I call you on it you pretend that you've already made your point, completely ignoring all information to the contrary. br>
For such a condescending asshole you might want to try a little harder to make sense.
They'd probably use lithium I'd think because of the higher energy density. Too bad though for this argument, Lithium batteries are dangerous to store and expensive to dispose of. Lead acid batteries are beyond harmless (if they're intact) and can be recycled at something close to 95% of their original materials. Sometimes it's literally just changing out electrolytes.
Either way, unless people are dumping these cars in the ground water, or running them off AAA disposables the damage isn't all that bad, espeically compared to tradition cars.
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Number of electronics I've owned with power cords: too many to count.
Number of Laptops without Magsafe: Dozens between work and home, including ones that spend most of their time being used in hallways, supply closets, or the cleared off corner of a desk at a customer site, anywhere you can find and outlet
Number of either that have ever been damaged as a result of not having Magsafe: 0
It may have value, but I'd put it right up there with "Car Ejector Seat". I'm sure the people who have some story where MagSafe saved the day are proud to pay for it, for everyone else it's just a feel-good marketing ploy.
I try not to use value unless there's actual worth invovled.
For the first 6 months the Intel Macs were being released people were willing to pay MORE for baseline G5s, no accessories or added software, mice, keyboards, NOTHING, than they were for a brand new out of the box Core Duo system.
That's not "retaining value" it's "people are dumb beyond belief". Unless these were being purchased as parts machines to keep a fleet working instead of upgrading I don't know how anyone can justify purchasing outdated, used, hardware for more than the brand new stuff.
If anyone cared enough to write Bansai Buddy for Macs do you think your average college freshman with a Mac is any better than your average college freshman with a PC about not doing whatever it takes to install it?
User stupidity trumps almost all security, and there's no shortage of it on either side.
Not to step in as the Windows defender or anything, but if you clicked on the warning that you're not protected there's a button right there that says "Change How Windows Notifies Me"
I'm not saying it's your fault, but no one can say it's Windows' fault.
That's why this is purely for the "I have too much money and I want you to know it" crowd, it's a small market but they've got deep pockets.
The problem is it only work if people continue to buy them, which means they have to keep updating their hardware. Hopefully outfitting the blocks for cards isn't too different from revision to revision or they'll destroy their margins just designing and fabricating a new set of parts every few months.
Price? Upgradability? Cost/Benifit?
You are the last person they're trying to sell to. No one who needs 3x top of the line videocards running in parallel is asking about price. This is $4000 for the base line hardware!
You might be able to figure out the backspace but good luck if your target is a little scatter brained and likes to hop around sometimes. You may be able to pick up a mouse click too but you'd have no idea from sound alone where characters had just been removed or added.
Great, because they haven't lost\stolen hundreds of dollars worth of my stuff.
There's a reason I don't let anyone send me anything I actually want to receive unless it has a tracking number attached to it.
Unless I'm bringing something that I can't legally carry on board (usually tools) I don't remember the last time I had checked baggage. You can buy toothpaste when you get there, hotels have shampoo, etc.
You can have two carry-ons at this point, unless you're traveling for more than a week I don't understand how most people can't get away with what they can keep with them.
Those usually have to be securely locked shut during flight too(at least for firearms I think), and not the little luggage locks people put between two zippers.
Right, because nothing was ever stolen from baggage until a few years ago...
He's arguing the people in it are the problem, not the system itself. This is all in regard to the story, which is about creating a new system.
I caught that much just from reading the summary.
To elaborate, why do I have to access the command to install certain things?
"Oh please! Executing Tar.ball.gzs is easy!"
Well it's not double clicking. If the software I want isn't in the repo it might as well be on mars. I can either go through config files to enable other repositories and hope they have what I want, or drudge through a readme about how to install simple software.
That, is where Linux is failing. Not power users, not novices, the middle ground of people who know exactly what they want but don't want to have to compile from source to get it. People who know that something or other can be edited or that X hardware should work and don't want to spend their day on wikis and help forums to figure out how.
The difference is, this isn't some instruction manual that was incorrectly translated into something offensive, this is not in any sense of the word a localization issue.
Unless of course you consider "earth" a local and "any mention whatsoever" a snafu.
Sony, as mentioned has no trouble offending Christians among others, do you think this is about anything but the massive irrational hissy fit that certain religious activists could, would, and have a history of, throwing?
Exactly.
I never considered buying PA gear until they made this a hoodie. If you don't know a thing about Warhammer, don't talk about it.
The difference is that would never happen. China doesn't hold worldwide protests when you make fun of them. I can say anything I want about Germans, Hindus, Americans, Communists, Albinos, the disabled, etc etc and NEVER have a problem.
I print one cartoon that offends Muslims and I'll be living in safe houses for the rest of my life like Salmon Rushdie.
That's the difference.
The difference is, Priests on trial don't claim that it was their religious responsibility to behave that way. If you hide behind your religion to justify behavior of any kind the religion is going to take a little fire. The behavior does not reflect in and of itself on the religion, the idiotic justification for that behavior does.
Hey now, the Indian Wars were a shameful land grab at the behest of the wealthy and powerful, keep religion out of this. It may have worked to sell it to the masses but given a choice between friendly tribes and dead tribes I can tell you which one Andrew Jackson would have chosen.
You mean like Xenogears, where you KILL GOD?
It has lesbians too, and it's still incredibly popular, the only thing that held it back was that part of it's budget was redirected towards FF7.
The difference, as I understood it, is that Muslim's view representation of the prophet as idolatry because you begin to worship at the feet of statue or painting, a false deity, rather than the true God.
What are you babbling about?
You say "Toyota makes MR-2 Chassis and sells them to Lotus"
He says "No they don't" and posts a link to the company that does.
You post a link saying that Toyota sells engines to Elise, which in no way refutes the post you replied to. And then when I call you on it you pretend that you've already made your point, completely ignoring all information to the contrary.
br> For such a condescending asshole you might want to try a little harder to make sense.
They'd probably use lithium I'd think because of the higher energy density. Too bad though for this argument, Lithium batteries are dangerous to store and expensive to dispose of. Lead acid batteries are beyond harmless (if they're intact) and can be recycled at something close to 95% of their original materials. Sometimes it's literally just changing out electrolytes.
Either way, unless people are dumping these cars in the ground water, or running them off AAA disposables the damage isn't all that bad, espeically compared to tradition cars.
BMW also has factories in the U.S and VW has plenty in Mexico. I doubt these workers are covered by the same blanket as the German homegrowns.
Are those domestic names?
Not everyone in America may remember the exact Honda/Acura, Toyota/Lexus, etc match ups, but everyone knows they're all imports.
Ummm. You do realize your link says that Toyota makes the engines in Elises? (Actually it says they sell a Yahama built, Toyota licensed engine)
You know, the engine that Tesla wouldn't be using, because they make electric cars?
You should probably kill yourself in shame...