Sometimes IT people just need to fuck off. A piece of lab equipment that has a computer embedded in it is not their domain. Not any more than a server that has an electronic power supply in it thus becomes the Electrical Engineering Department's domain. IT has a say in how said computer is connected to their network. Beyond that, they need to kindly get the fuck off the production floor and.out of the lab. Go change toner cartridges somewhere, BOFH.
There was a point in time (Active Desktop on Windows 98) when IE was an inseperable part (for the most part; the old explorer.exe from Win 95 could be grafted in) of the OS. This was now long in the past. IE is still bundled with Windows but can be easily replaced. Update your Microsoft-hate.
Consumer replaceable batteries are very expensive. It's much, much cheaper to sell 'sealed unit' products than do the Customer Support for devices people can open. Also, many companies are not really up to the task of designing in a removable battery compartment. Apple's last attempt in a mobile device, which was pretty shitty, was the Newton.
I prefer to play Hearthstone on my Windows Tablet. But I wish they'd port it to Android, so there was something fun to do again with my Galaxy Tab.
Someone at Blizzard had a hardon for Steve Jobs, though. The Android version of the WoW Armory app has always been inferior, with long-ignored bugs, compared to the iOS version.
Although I haven't heard of many people needing a replacement.
Wow. Apple has invented a perpetual battery? Do they have it patented? Or is it that the people you associate with just regularly stand in line outside Apple Stores?
Wow. Is that like picking up a six-pack on your way home from work? Which brand do you prefer, or is the word science now so 'commodified' that you can just buy whichever generic brand is on sale?
science is not a cult.
It very easily can become a cult-like practice. First you need to label someone as 'the scientist' then everybody else listens to them raptly. Above all, anybody who demands to see the raw data is a filthy ignorant denier heathen.
The vast majority of scientists just shake their heads and get back to work
Yes, they get back to work on whatever branch of science they are engaged in, which is seldom climate science. There aren't that many climate scientists, and almost anybody can get a hard science college degree if they put themselves to the task.
Also, any scientist who doesn't practice skepticism is not really a scientist, just someone who apparently took the right courses to get that degree.
But it doesn't matter. Your mind was made up a long, long time ago, and now you're just working to make sure other people change their minds. You can call that 'debate' if you like.
You get to look at pictures of the Tesla electric cars on web pages. Isn't that enough for you? It works for many, many other slashbots in these parts.
"Not building one aircraft carrier" also consists of reduced government spending. In other words, many thousands of people lose their jobs building parts for aircraft carriers.
Now, I know those are the people you personally don't like, but how is your idea any different at all than the 'stop paying all welfare and foodstamps to anybody' argument that I am fairly certain you consider anathema?
Pontiac is out of business. So low-priced overpowered ego-peen vehicles are slowly dwindling away. There are still Mustangs and Camaros to produce hazardous conditions when combined with such a low powered vehicle, but they'll likely fade away as well.
Are you kidding? People were buying PS3s and converting them over so they couldn't play the commercial games, but so that they could run Tux Racer on them?? A sizable percentage of the customer base was doing this? Well, it's a good thing Sony nipped that in the bud!
I bought a Dell Windows 8.1 tablet instead. Mine has the smaller screen, but it's got a real Intel processor, so it runs Real Windows 8.1, and came bundled with Microsoft Office 2013 for a total cost of $250. And it's a small tablet that can run any current Windows binaries. I was never a fan of Internet Explorer in the past, but it just fucking works on any website anywhere currently, with real regular don't-need-to-fuck-around-to-make-it-work Flash.
Firefox or Chrome on Android sucked by comparison. They're second-tier products on Android.
Considering since my laptop is a mid 2009 macbook this setup has worked out well. This has been the longest I have kept a single computer ever. I was always upgrading something but Now I go 5-7 years between hardware upgrades.
So you've gone five years without upgrading, and it means you 'now go 5-7 years'? One five year span doesn't represent a trend. Oh, and Apple is working hard to make sure you replace that macbook soon. Probably much sooner than seven years.
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Sometimes IT people just need to fuck off. A piece of lab equipment that has a computer embedded in it is not their domain. Not any more than a server that has an electronic power supply in it thus becomes the Electrical Engineering Department's domain. IT has a say in how said computer is connected to their network. Beyond that, they need to kindly get the fuck off the production floor and.out of the lab. Go change toner cartridges somewhere, BOFH.
There was a point in time (Active Desktop on Windows 98) when IE was an inseperable part (for the most part; the old explorer.exe from Win 95 could be grafted in) of the OS. This was now long in the past. IE is still bundled with Windows but can be easily replaced. Update your Microsoft-hate.
Right. The leak came from General Motors Corporation. Now Microsoft can either punish General Motors Corporation or shut up.
Most of the guys, and it is mostly guys who own trucks, use them as penis compensators driving to their cubicle jobs.
Wow, my stripped Ford Ranger, with the smallest 4-cylinder engine, must mean I really suffer from a lack of virility.
You just blew my whole self image.
Are you keeping up on the payments on your Prius? Will it be paid off before the battery dies?
Consumer replaceable batteries are very expensive. It's much, much cheaper to sell 'sealed unit' products than do the Customer Support for devices people can open. Also, many companies are not really up to the task of designing in a removable battery compartment. Apple's last attempt in a mobile device, which was pretty shitty, was the Newton.
Apple also shipped an Apple II on a nubus card for awhile. (might not have been Nubus but it's a card that plugs into some of the Scully era Macs.)
I have one somewhere around here in the old Apple junkbox.
I prefer to play Hearthstone on my Windows Tablet. But I wish they'd port it to Android, so there was something fun to do again with my Galaxy Tab.
Someone at Blizzard had a hardon for Steve Jobs, though. The Android version of the WoW Armory app has always been inferior, with long-ignored bugs, compared to the iOS version.
Although I haven't heard of many people needing a replacement.
Wow. Apple has invented a perpetual battery? Do they have it patented? Or is it that the people you associate with just regularly stand in line outside Apple Stores?
You need to get some science
Wow. Is that like picking up a six-pack on your way home from work? Which brand do you prefer, or is the word science now so 'commodified' that you can just buy whichever generic brand is on sale?
science is not a cult.
It very easily can become a cult-like practice. First you need to label someone as 'the scientist' then everybody else listens to them raptly. Above all, anybody who demands to see the raw data is a filthy ignorant denier heathen.
the future of technological civilization may be at risk from aggravated ignorance.
Wow. Something that EVERYBODY can agree on. Is this a first, in these Slashdot Global Warming bull sessions?
The vast majority of scientists just shake their heads and get back to work
Yes, they get back to work on whatever branch of science they are engaged in, which is seldom climate science. There aren't that many climate scientists, and almost anybody can get a hard science college degree if they put themselves to the task.
Also, any scientist who doesn't practice skepticism is not really a scientist, just someone who apparently took the right courses to get that degree.
But it doesn't matter. Your mind was made up a long, long time ago, and now you're just working to make sure other people change their minds. You can call that 'debate' if you like.
You get to look at pictures of the Tesla electric cars on web pages. Isn't that enough for you? It works for many, many other slashbots in these parts.
I assume you understand why someone might want to mandate (1), (2), and (3)
Well, Abnormal Psychology explains the motivation quite well.
but are sure you know who the bad guys are.
They are hiding under my bed at night.
"Not building one aircraft carrier" also consists of reduced government spending. In other words, many thousands of people lose their jobs building parts for aircraft carriers.
Now, I know those are the people you personally don't like, but how is your idea any different at all than the 'stop paying all welfare and foodstamps to anybody' argument that I am fairly certain you consider anathema?
Be honest with us. Increasing or introducing taxes means prices go up.
Or do we only tax the magic fairies that live up in the clouds?
Go ahead and peddle political theories, but not with blanket assertions in single lines of text.
Guy on the Internet says "Shut Down XP."
Where are the crickets when we need them the most?
Any piece of wire will do. Sure, use an ethernet cable.
Pontiac is out of business. So low-priced overpowered ego-peen vehicles are slowly dwindling away. There are still Mustangs and Camaros to produce hazardous conditions when combined with such a low powered vehicle, but they'll likely fade away as well.
Copper loss. Eddy currents.
Really, just a whole new set of conditions.
That's all. Different, not necessarily simpler.
Are you kidding? People were buying PS3s and converting them over so they couldn't play the commercial games, but so that they could run Tux Racer on them?? A sizable percentage of the customer base was doing this? Well, it's a good thing Sony nipped that in the bud!
I bought a Dell Windows 8.1 tablet instead. Mine has the smaller screen, but it's got a real Intel processor, so it runs Real Windows 8.1, and came bundled with Microsoft Office 2013 for a total cost of $250. And it's a small tablet that can run any current Windows binaries. I was never a fan of Internet Explorer in the past, but it just fucking works on any website anywhere currently, with real regular don't-need-to-fuck-around-to-make-it-work Flash.
Firefox or Chrome on Android sucked by comparison. They're second-tier products on Android.
Considering since my laptop is a mid 2009 macbook this setup has worked out well. This has been the longest I have kept a single computer ever. I was always upgrading something but Now I go 5-7 years between hardware upgrades.
So you've gone five years without upgrading, and it means you 'now go 5-7 years'? One five year span doesn't represent a trend. Oh, and Apple is working hard to make sure you replace that macbook soon. Probably much sooner than seven years.
Apple zealots insist on using 'insanely' as an adjective that has good meaning.
Did Guy Kawasaki babysit you as a child?
30 days is excessive. 3 minutes would be fine, though.
All of my paper mail, thankyou. I will decide what is private and what is not.
Google wannabes can fuck off.