Same here... but one of those devices is a USB floppy disk drive. Clearly the MacBook Pro isn't for me, as I am attached to retro computers and devices. Perhaps the MacBook Pro is similarly not for anyone still attached to USB-A peripherals.
Apple is the future, unbound by modern convention. Those unchangeable liberal news sources you get in the default iOS news app? That's the future. Embrace it. Magsafe? That's the past, give it up. USB-C? If you want anything else, pay a dongle tax, because you live in the future now. If you don't like it, you can stay in the past.
Apple will always be blazing a trail. We don't have to agree. Consumer driven desire is not anything they can value when they know they can drive desire by doing their own thing and showing everyone else how it's done.
When you buy this thing, you're supposed to throw away anything that's incompatible with it, and instead use your giant pile of money to encourage the adoption of the future. If you're not ready to blaze that trail with Apple, Cook, and Steve Job's ghost, them you're not worthy.
I'm only half joking. I like Apple, I really do, but I don't buy their hardware because I just want to get work done. I don't want to blaze their trail or usher in their concept of an art-house computing future. Stuff like that is best done by true believers. The rest of us will be satisfied to join in when it's ready and they are off blazing some new trail again.
Tell me, friend: How much does the Chinese government pay you to spread propaganda for them in U.S. media?
Clearly not enough to make it convincing. Posts like this are common enough that I wonder if they are purposefully lacking in subtlety. They could be good enough to please the posters' superiors, while also serving as a defense mechanism to retain some part of their souls.
The endorsements, by contrast, are done by people who have no clue about what you do.
I get these all the time. I never give them out, as it feels like I'm be compelled to. So long as I never do it, the excuse of "I barely use Linkedin." works for any time anyone asks me why I never endorse them.
But no one's ever asked. It's a pointless exercise, meaningless to the nth degree, and no one cares.
Yep. I do 3D modeling/rendering, VR, and that sort. So I built a new one... but my last PC was a AMD X4 thing with 8GB of ram. It would have been fine if not for that. Computers are always useful, so I stuck it under the TV and use it to play emulated games.
The old computer before the old computer (Dual Core Pentium, 2GB of ram) is stuck in the back of the house, dutifully acting as a DVR for a security camera... but it's still snappy and responsive for pretty much any typical consumer task.
Thinking about it, I may have built my last PC for the next 10 years, the motherboard isn't nearly maxed out on ram yet (32 vs 128), better video cards still come out every year, and when the time comes to start fresh, the market may be completely different. The next system could be some floating image beaming out of a tiny slab connected remotely to a unimaginably fast cloud computer somewhere. I may not even care that the traditional PC market had died.
I speak for myself, but there's no one on Facebook that I really care to talk to on a "Hay I see you're online checking your updates, but let's chat chat chat about nothing" basis. Not having it on my mobile browser has improved my mobile Facebook experience.
Your joke is horrible, but I wouldn't put it past the North Korean scientists. I'm sure they've developed their own VR solutions at this point. Hell, they've built viable nukes with scotch tape and rubber bands; it's relatively easy to roll your own VR solution these days.
I agree with you completely, I'm also a former Cave jockey and current Oculus user. Tim Cook was right, AR is where it's at. My current place of work is keenly interested, and there's some others in my industry that are going all in. And that reality is making me very happy.
It's a joke some people don't like, but the guy has so much debt and so many dirty secrets that the Russians would seriously be remiss to not have him on their payroll by this point.
On one hand, I don't think that Microsoft can be trusted with sensitive government data, and that the government will probably have to pick a new operating system or make their own in order to help ensure their security.
On the other hand, I don't believe the government can be trusted with sensitive government data.
One of two commercial sources of VR hardware could die over some political bullshit. That really sucks... we're doing different things in response here, but I don't believe you're a hypocrite.
I hate Trump... but I love my Oculus Rift. Although initially bothered, this is just like the whole situation with Chick-Fil-A, private citizens doing their own thing is fine by me so long as their product are worth consuming.
Palmer, I don't care who you support. Keep doing what you're doing.
Around 2006/7 I had a used Tmobile Dash with a voice/text plan and no data. At the time, my university ran a 28kbps dailup internet service that students could use for free. It was a relic of another time, but it was still there.
On the Dash/Excalibur (and presumably other Windows Mobile devices) you could dial into these services with the built-in modem, and since I rode the bus a lot (at least two/three hours a day), I used that service.
It was hilariously slow, but it worked. I could visit websites, read articles, and chat. By turning off the images, it could be done with reasonable comfort.
Don't underestimate the value of being able to log on at any speed.
Honestly it should just shutoff. The thing is a fire hazard, and if the system knows this and persists in operating without user intervention I can imagine a lawsuit painting Samsung liable for damages. We don't know how long an interval would be between a bad battery icon and an exploding battery. It could be days, hours, minutes...
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Or about 0.02% of the power of an F1A rocket engine, which generates 8 MN of thrust.
Same here... but one of those devices is a USB floppy disk drive. Clearly the MacBook Pro isn't for me, as I am attached to retro computers and devices. Perhaps the MacBook Pro is similarly not for anyone still attached to USB-A peripherals.
Apple is the future, unbound by modern convention. Those unchangeable liberal news sources you get in the default iOS news app? That's the future. Embrace it. Magsafe? That's the past, give it up. USB-C? If you want anything else, pay a dongle tax, because you live in the future now. If you don't like it, you can stay in the past.
Apple will always be blazing a trail. We don't have to agree. Consumer driven desire is not anything they can value when they know they can drive desire by doing their own thing and showing everyone else how it's done.
When you buy this thing, you're supposed to throw away anything that's incompatible with it, and instead use your giant pile of money to encourage the adoption of the future. If you're not ready to blaze that trail with Apple, Cook, and Steve Job's ghost, them you're not worthy.
I'm only half joking. I like Apple, I really do, but I don't buy their hardware because I just want to get work done. I don't want to blaze their trail or usher in their concept of an art-house computing future. Stuff like that is best done by true believers. The rest of us will be satisfied to join in when it's ready and they are off blazing some new trail again.
Tell me, friend: How much does the Chinese government pay you to spread propaganda for them in U.S. media?
Clearly not enough to make it convincing. Posts like this are common enough that I wonder if they are purposefully lacking in subtlety. They could be good enough to please the posters' superiors, while also serving as a defense mechanism to retain some part of their souls.
Clearly you're not trying hard enough. I think you'll have to advocate the use of nuclear weapons for the rest of us to be sure of your sexual purity.
Yes - though there are risks.
Choosing not to punish someone on the payroll who supports a controversial candidate == befriending a blood thirsty dictator. Alrighty then.
The endorsements, by contrast, are done by people who have no clue about what you do.
I get these all the time. I never give them out, as it feels like I'm be compelled to. So long as I never do it, the excuse of "I barely use Linkedin." works for any time anyone asks me why I never endorse them.
But no one's ever asked. It's a pointless exercise, meaningless to the nth degree, and no one cares.
If they do it they lose that moral high-horse called "Only liberals protest violently."
Yep. I do 3D modeling/rendering, VR, and that sort. So I built a new one... but my last PC was a AMD X4 thing with 8GB of ram. It would have been fine if not for that. Computers are always useful, so I stuck it under the TV and use it to play emulated games.
The old computer before the old computer (Dual Core Pentium, 2GB of ram) is stuck in the back of the house, dutifully acting as a DVR for a security camera... but it's still snappy and responsive for pretty much any typical consumer task.
Thinking about it, I may have built my last PC for the next 10 years, the motherboard isn't nearly maxed out on ram yet (32 vs 128), better video cards still come out every year, and when the time comes to start fresh, the market may be completely different. The next system could be some floating image beaming out of a tiny slab connected remotely to a unimaginably fast cloud computer somewhere. I may not even care that the traditional PC market had died.
What does that make you?
I speak for myself, but there's no one on Facebook that I really care to talk to on a "Hay I see you're online checking your updates, but let's chat chat chat about nothing" basis. Not having it on my mobile browser has improved my mobile Facebook experience.
Your joke is horrible, but I wouldn't put it past the North Korean scientists. I'm sure they've developed their own VR solutions at this point. Hell, they've built viable nukes with scotch tape and rubber bands; it's relatively easy to roll your own VR solution these days.
I agree with you completely, I'm also a former Cave jockey and current Oculus user. Tim Cook was right, AR is where it's at. My current place of work is keenly interested, and there's some others in my industry that are going all in. And that reality is making me very happy.
Sure, why not.
Lots of people break laws they disagree with, whatever.
What we take issue with are hypocrites who secretly break laws they actively promote and expect others to follow.
Political crooks like that will promise, pass, and campaign for the thing, while doing it on an industrial level in the down-low.
Less competition means more for them, and they're okay with using big government to put you little guys away for the same shit they do.
And you compared this to anti-war activism... man get a clue.
It's a joke some people don't like, but the guy has so much debt and so many dirty secrets that the Russians would seriously be remiss to not have him on their payroll by this point.
He said civilised, not civilized. English and American notions of the concept do not align.
Although I'm being facetious, it really is a loaded term. You two could argue about it until the sun explodes and get nowhere.
On one hand, I don't think that Microsoft can be trusted with sensitive government data, and that the government will probably have to pick a new operating system or make their own in order to help ensure their security.
On the other hand, I don't believe the government can be trusted with sensitive government data.
One of two commercial sources of VR hardware could die over some political bullshit. That really sucks... we're doing different things in response here, but I don't believe you're a hypocrite.
That's the head tracking. Stereo helps, but the tracking makes it more than just a popcorn gimmick.
I hate Trump... but I love my Oculus Rift. Although initially bothered, this is just like the whole situation with Chick-Fil-A, private citizens doing their own thing is fine by me so long as their product are worth consuming.
Palmer, I don't care who you support. Keep doing what you're doing.
Oh God.
Around 2006/7 I had a used Tmobile Dash with a voice/text plan and no data. At the time, my university ran a 28kbps dailup internet service that students could use for free. It was a relic of another time, but it was still there.
On the Dash/Excalibur (and presumably other Windows Mobile devices) you could dial into these services with the built-in modem, and since I rode the bus a lot (at least two/three hours a day), I used that service.
It was hilariously slow, but it worked. I could visit websites, read articles, and chat. By turning off the images, it could be done with reasonable comfort.
Don't underestimate the value of being able to log on at any speed.
Honestly it should just shutoff. The thing is a fire hazard, and if the system knows this and persists in operating without user intervention I can imagine a lawsuit painting Samsung liable for damages. We don't know how long an interval would be between a bad battery icon and an exploding battery. It could be days, hours, minutes...
Go on...