Apple users tolerate anything. Even things that protest/boycott over, they're willing to actually move up their purchase schedule when Apple responds to their demands by asking for more money.
OK fanboys, I've got the popcorn out, what is your new excuse why they should still be trusted? The nonsense people said last week was so rich, I'm waiting for it to grow even more absurd today as the cognitive dissonance builds and blinds them to the quality of their arguments.
The keyboard stuff is hilarious. I thought the chiclet keys would be awful, but they're great.
I bought one of the lowest rated models; I wanted a full keyboard with keypad, and it loses about 1.5 stars on Lenovo's own site because it is stuffed full of idiot reviews about hating having a full keyboard because when they put it on their lap(!) their hands are in a slightly non-optimal position.
The good thing is that keeps the model priced lower than the others, (it is actually cheaper than the exact same thing with regular keyboard) and yet they'll always have a few of those models because they sell it to big accounting firms and places like that where they absolutely won't buy it without a keypad.
I bought my first thinkpad in the late 90s. I bought my most recent one this year.
I got it with a touch screen so that my wife can use it when we travel. lol (so that I can leave the touchpad turned off; it annoys me)
I'm not really a fanboy though; I did shop around and look at the other laptops with a trackpoint equivalent. The thing is, nobody else wants to make one that is standards based so I can choose my own OS, looks like a boring business laptop, has a durable case, and is user serviceable. The touchscreen I wouldn't have minded going without.
The fingerprint scanner is a disappointment, but that's the only one.
The reason it is still awesome is because Lenovo understands the value. It isn't often a company buys a brand from another company, and also sees its value. Usually when that happens they have some sort of scheme to increase the value that destroys it completely. So props to Lenovo for acting like they're just Jr engineers updating the models and not changing the past decisions about it. It isn't IBM anymore, but it retains many of the product design qualities even today.
You don't even comprehend the role that traceroute plays in investigating their reports, so why pretend you have something relevant to say? You don't understand the things you already said, so there is no rebuttal.
If you really cared to correct your blatant ignorance, you'd look it up on that cat/tube thing.
You don't actually need a new drivetrain, you can connect a modern three phase electric car motor directly to where the transmission used to be.
It is a really weak excuse. Electrics do not need an altered drivetrain, and the reason it is altered is to save money.
You should be able to predict that that would be true just from knowing that hobbyists turn old used internal combustion cars into high performance electric vehicles in their garages.
A small electric car company in my town is expanding again, you've probably never heard of them unless your neighbor owns one because they've pre-sold everything they ever made and factory expansion is the growth limiter. Why advertise?
There are electric cars all around you. Those little Ev markings on the back of cars are not a new rock band or fraternal organization; those are electric cars!
Tesla stock may or may not be correctly priced, but they sell everything they can make, too. In the past GM had a hard time selling electric cars mostly because they refused to sell any.
If it wasn't already verified numerous times over that the speed tests are being gamed, you'd have a point. Your comment made sense 15 years ago. Now it is just a lie.
There are lots of examples online using traceroute. It isn't a hypothesis. It is a well established fact that cheating is the whole speed test market. The reason people still use them is that it does tell you the relative speed of your connection from one day to the next, as long as you ignore the actual numbers given which are horseshit.
You can't give me credit for that when you got it wrong. Excel didn't come out until later. Also, WTF does "first to take full advantage of the interface" mean? Each word has meaning, but combined they seem to not actually say anything at all. And yet they purport to make some sort of claim.
And it was Lotus 1-2-3 that first took full advantage of the PC screen, if that is what you meant; Excel would come out years later. Multiplan already took full advantage of the screen.
Anyways, you both missed the joke; people running multiplan on CP/M didn't consider the Apple ][ to even be a Real Business Computer, so Visicalc didn't count until they ported it. Who cares if it was released first? It gets complicated by the fact some considered the IBM PC to be a business computer because it was from IBM, and others didn't consider the PC to be a business computer until Microsoft finally got around to porting Multiplan to DOS.
It isn't that we're out of touch, it is just that we really aren't bothered by the fact that it isn't the best choice for everybody. It is OK. You don't have to use it.
And clue up, it is already on lots of desktops. You not caring if we use it doesn't cause it to vanish, or cause us to no longer have a desktop.
The problem with linux isn't the enthusiasts, it is just a thing about linux that it is for enthusiasts.
Yes, if you have to "deal with people" in order to make a software choice you probably don't want linux. You probably want to buy something expensive enough to come with a telephone support line.
Why would you being put off make even the tiniest difference to me?
If you don't like a learning curve, don't use advanced tools. Use beginner tools, and use them forever, and you'll never have to learn anything.
Microsoft was instrumental in making the modern spreadsheet the powerful business tool that it is. A lot of people were still questioning if a microcomputer even had a valid business role, if it was even possible to program it to do anything useful. The spreadsheet was the first application that gave typical businesses an advantage from using computers, and MS was who made that happen.
They also proved you can make a good ergonomic keyboard for under $100.
Naw, in the old days before the mainstream media content was online, everything was already vertically integrated. They create their giant silos of crap, but you can't even smell it from someplace decent.
They're way less integrated than AOL or Delphi were.
The reason it can't "end the internet as we know it" is because the internet is not only proprietary video services. Those are what will be harmed, but that was always a shit show. In the old days you had to pay bribes to RealMedia if you wanted your content to be full speed.
The problem is competition in the last mile, not the rules. Net neutrality is a great concept, but the only reason to make it a rule instead of a selling point is the lack of competition. That won't last forever; places that are freed and get competition don't tend to go back. It will slowly go away.
You better tell it to the Solicitor General because he'll be arguing this week at the Court that the Executive was granted expansive powers over general subjects.
You also might want to check with some legal websites instead of just political ones, so you can find out what the propaganda means, because here you're way off.
The Constitution grants lots of powers, not all of them even clearly worded enough for it to be possible that they're "specific." I recommend actually reading it instead of just reading propaganda telling you what it means.
Your propaganda is all lit up with flashing lights because it exactly matches a certain tired brand of political propaganda that is known to be total hogwash and to misunderstand all areas of existing precedent.
Sorry little boy, you were born yesterday and you didn't play nice so you were stupid and ignored too. When you've been here as long as I have, you don't care what idiot new users blather about.
No, that is just niche propaganda you misunderstood. The Constitution grants Executive, Legislative, and Legal powers. That already covers the full range of powers. Clue up.
What I do have a problem with is this weird alt-right slashdot summary. "Leftists" aren't even a thing in the US, and even using that term shows the post to be both political and outside the mainstream.
There is a lot of crappy stories we've put up with if we're still here, but I'd never hang out at a political site.
The care used in the curation is given to the entire record-keeping system used. Federal records are carefully curated.
If you're curating one column differently from the rest of the database, or one page in a folder differently from the rest, the whole collection of data is only as carefully kept as the least carefully kept page. That is just a reality of data storage.
What happened was, we'd already been using it for years so it sounded really stupid and it was only ever a joke where people laughed at anybody who had repeated the phrase.
It was already a great desktop, and it still is.
New users are not really useful to us, either. Please don't switch.
Of course it is stale, in the same way your birth certificate is stale. It is a historical record that would only be used in case it is relevant to some controversy.
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Apple users tolerate anything. Even things that protest/boycott over, they're willing to actually move up their purchase schedule when Apple responds to their demands by asking for more money.
This is a well-trodden path.
OK fanboys, I've got the popcorn out, what is your new excuse why they should still be trusted? The nonsense people said last week was so rich, I'm waiting for it to grow even more absurd today as the cognitive dissonance builds and blinds them to the quality of their arguments.
The keyboard stuff is hilarious. I thought the chiclet keys would be awful, but they're great.
I bought one of the lowest rated models; I wanted a full keyboard with keypad, and it loses about 1.5 stars on Lenovo's own site because it is stuffed full of idiot reviews about hating having a full keyboard because when they put it on their lap(!) their hands are in a slightly non-optimal position.
The good thing is that keeps the model priced lower than the others, (it is actually cheaper than the exact same thing with regular keyboard) and yet they'll always have a few of those models because they sell it to big accounting firms and places like that where they absolutely won't buy it without a keypad.
I bought my first thinkpad in the late 90s. I bought my most recent one this year.
I got it with a touch screen so that my wife can use it when we travel. lol (so that I can leave the touchpad turned off; it annoys me)
I'm not really a fanboy though; I did shop around and look at the other laptops with a trackpoint equivalent. The thing is, nobody else wants to make one that is standards based so I can choose my own OS, looks like a boring business laptop, has a durable case, and is user serviceable. The touchscreen I wouldn't have minded going without.
The fingerprint scanner is a disappointment, but that's the only one.
The reason it is still awesome is because Lenovo understands the value. It isn't often a company buys a brand from another company, and also sees its value. Usually when that happens they have some sort of scheme to increase the value that destroys it completely. So props to Lenovo for acting like they're just Jr engineers updating the models and not changing the past decisions about it. It isn't IBM anymore, but it retains many of the product design qualities even today.
You don't buy G Suite for that, all the free gmail accounts come with working spam filtering. That's been true since they launched it.
You don't even comprehend the role that traceroute plays in investigating their reports, so why pretend you have something relevant to say? You don't understand the things you already said, so there is no rebuttal.
If you really cared to correct your blatant ignorance, you'd look it up on that cat/tube thing.
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Maybe you can save up for a copy of PINE and finally have some modern features?
You don't actually need a new drivetrain, you can connect a modern three phase electric car motor directly to where the transmission used to be.
It is a really weak excuse. Electrics do not need an altered drivetrain, and the reason it is altered is to save money.
You should be able to predict that that would be true just from knowing that hobbyists turn old used internal combustion cars into high performance electric vehicles in their garages.
A small electric car company in my town is expanding again, you've probably never heard of them unless your neighbor owns one because they've pre-sold everything they ever made and factory expansion is the growth limiter. Why advertise?
There are electric cars all around you. Those little Ev markings on the back of cars are not a new rock band or fraternal organization; those are electric cars!
Tesla stock may or may not be correctly priced, but they sell everything they can make, too. In the past GM had a hard time selling electric cars mostly because they refused to sell any.
If it wasn't already verified numerous times over that the speed tests are being gamed, you'd have a point. Your comment made sense 15 years ago. Now it is just a lie.
There are lots of examples online using traceroute. It isn't a hypothesis. It is a well established fact that cheating is the whole speed test market. The reason people still use them is that it does tell you the relative speed of your connection from one day to the next, as long as you ignore the actual numbers given which are horseshit.
No, no, no, no, and no.
You can't give me credit for that when you got it wrong. Excel didn't come out until later. Also, WTF does "first to take full advantage of the interface" mean? Each word has meaning, but combined they seem to not actually say anything at all. And yet they purport to make some sort of claim.
And it was Lotus 1-2-3 that first took full advantage of the PC screen, if that is what you meant; Excel would come out years later. Multiplan already took full advantage of the screen.
Anyways, you both missed the joke; people running multiplan on CP/M didn't consider the Apple ][ to even be a Real Business Computer, so Visicalc didn't count until they ported it. Who cares if it was released first? It gets complicated by the fact some considered the IBM PC to be a business computer because it was from IBM, and others didn't consider the PC to be a business computer until Microsoft finally got around to porting Multiplan to DOS.
It isn't that we're out of touch, it is just that we really aren't bothered by the fact that it isn't the best choice for everybody. It is OK. You don't have to use it.
And clue up, it is already on lots of desktops. You not caring if we use it doesn't cause it to vanish, or cause us to no longer have a desktop.
The problem with linux isn't the enthusiasts, it is just a thing about linux that it is for enthusiasts.
Yes, if you have to "deal with people" in order to make a software choice you probably don't want linux. You probably want to buy something expensive enough to come with a telephone support line.
Why would you being put off make even the tiniest difference to me?
If you don't like a learning curve, don't use advanced tools. Use beginner tools, and use them forever, and you'll never have to learn anything.
Microsoft was instrumental in making the modern spreadsheet the powerful business tool that it is. A lot of people were still questioning if a microcomputer even had a valid business role, if it was even possible to program it to do anything useful. The spreadsheet was the first application that gave typical businesses an advantage from using computers, and MS was who made that happen.
They also proved you can make a good ergonomic keyboard for under $100.
Naw, in the old days before the mainstream media content was online, everything was already vertically integrated. They create their giant silos of crap, but you can't even smell it from someplace decent.
They're way less integrated than AOL or Delphi were.
The reason it can't "end the internet as we know it" is because the internet is not only proprietary video services. Those are what will be harmed, but that was always a shit show. In the old days you had to pay bribes to RealMedia if you wanted your content to be full speed.
The problem is competition in the last mile, not the rules. Net neutrality is a great concept, but the only reason to make it a rule instead of a selling point is the lack of competition. That won't last forever; places that are freed and get competition don't tend to go back. It will slowly go away.
You better tell it to the Solicitor General because he'll be arguing this week at the Court that the Executive was granted expansive powers over general subjects.
You also might want to check with some legal websites instead of just political ones, so you can find out what the propaganda means, because here you're way off.
The Constitution grants lots of powers, not all of them even clearly worded enough for it to be possible that they're "specific." I recommend actually reading it instead of just reading propaganda telling you what it means.
Your propaganda is all lit up with flashing lights because it exactly matches a certain tired brand of political propaganda that is known to be total hogwash and to misunderstand all areas of existing precedent.
Sorry little boy, you were born yesterday and you didn't play nice so you were stupid and ignored too. When you've been here as long as I have, you don't care what idiot new users blather about.
No, that is just niche propaganda you misunderstood. The Constitution grants Executive, Legislative, and Legal powers. That already covers the full range of powers. Clue up.
My first linux was slackware 3.0, I bought a magazine to get the bundled CD.
Before that I had to log into my ISP's SunOS 4 shell server to get my *nix fix.
But I didn't run a desktop until I downloaded 3.5. It only took 3 days to download, and a couple to install.
The desktop wasn't as nice as OS/2 or AmigaOS, but it was better than Mac and way more reliable than Windoze.
What I do have a problem with is this weird alt-right slashdot summary. "Leftists" aren't even a thing in the US, and even using that term shows the post to be both political and outside the mainstream.
There is a lot of crappy stories we've put up with if we're still here, but I'd never hang out at a political site.
That's not on topic, you're just burbling words and hoping somehow it might add up to a point.
Do try to comprehend words before replying to them.
You assume wrong.
The care used in the curation is given to the entire record-keeping system used. Federal records are carefully curated.
If you're curating one column differently from the rest of the database, or one page in a folder differently from the rest, the whole collection of data is only as carefully kept as the least carefully kept page. That is just a reality of data storage.
What happened was, we'd already been using it for years so it sounded really stupid and it was only ever a joke where people laughed at anybody who had repeated the phrase.
It was already a great desktop, and it still is.
New users are not really useful to us, either. Please don't switch.
Of course it is stale, in the same way your birth certificate is stale. It is a historical record that would only be used in case it is relevant to some controversy.