See Amazon and your lack of a local bookstore or lack of as many local or used bookstores. Similar to that, methinks. When digital stuff takes over or otherwise changes something that was entrenched - for better or worse. See also, race to the bottom. I've lost two bookstores locally. I miss them both and hadn't stopped shopping at either of them. In fact, I used to give a gift card to all the students at the local elementary school every Valentine's Day (they make me cards).
I gave them all $10 Mr. Paperback cards - they sold them to me for $5 each and claimed the average redeemer of the cards spent closer to $20 as well as the cards being redeemed at a near 100% rate. They still were unable to remain open. The kids lose out and I've yet found an efficient way to give them all Amazon cards as Amazon collects more information than is needed to buy a book. I can't even get them cards to Barnes and Nobles. That was about 100 miles away but that's not really that far when you're in Maine. They closed too.
I don't want to give them gift cards to Twice Sold Tales (down in Farmington) because they don't really have the infrastructure to deal with a horde of kids coming in over the period of a few days. I've taken to giving them cards to the local bowling alley which has an arcade and whatnot but that's even more costly and they don't give me a discount. It's also not really encouraging the little critters to spend time reading.
I think that's an example of 'digital disruption' but I could be mistaken and it could mean something else entirely.:/
Good. If it gets you fucking morons off it then, by all means, kill it faster. I've got enough saved to manage the down time. (And by you fucking morons, I may not mean you specifically.) Quite frankly, the 'net is full - go home. Reading some of the comments on various sites makes me almost pine for the days of hearing the busy signal and then picking yet another BBS to dial into in hopes of finding one available.
Anyhow, no... Probably not you. You can probably stay. You know the type, though. At least, I'm guessing that you do. The tubes are full of cats and the dump trucks have nothing but ads in them. The prediction was right, it is eternal and it has gotten worse.
As an aside, when a new version of Windows drops, you can tell on the various forums. You get a whole bunch of stupid questions about Linux and why isn't it like Windows and how the man pages are hard to read - if they tried, and they don't appear to be willing to write in English or actually use a search engine. The rest of the 'net is like a Windows 10 release, almost daily.
Hmm... I am a grumpy old man, today. Ah well... Get off my lawn or some such.
If the internet dies then, well, hopefully we can rebuild it. Maybe we'll be able to build two. One for passive consumption and a parallel 'net which is non-commercial in nature. I dunno. I have no idea how to fix it, honestly. Any idea I can come up with has flaws. I still think we might need a tiered internet with tests to access certain content types and sandboxing those who are infected with malware. Sure, I won't be able to easily pass a test to post content as a Chinese speaking forum but I'm okay with that. I don't know a damned thing about felines so maybe my cat viewing will be restricted until I learn the basics of cat care. I dunno... That too has flaws.
It's an interesting read. Industrial farming does take place but it's not as much as people seem to think nor is it on the rise. I don't usually watch TV but I do go down south a lot. Sometimes, when there, I turn on the TV in the hotel room and find the RFD channel and watch the Farm Report. I watch 'em sell cows and stuff too. No, I have no idea why I find it interesting. I can sit there and watch that shit for hours - oddly, I can't stand normal television for that long.
Bah, I'm mixed racially and have stomped all over that state - including the back parts. (I love the Natchez area, as mentioned above - the Delta Blues Museum is small, but nice.) I've even stayed at hotels, with an unmarried woman, and she was white... We were treated fine. The upward mobility thing may be true but the white folk, specifically the poor, didn't seem to have much hope of upward mobility either. However, I'm not a local so may have been missing something.
What Mississippi does have... Let's say you're coming from Florida on I-10... You stop at that very first rest area. They proudly tell you all about this water fowl - I forget the name (some crane - maybe?). They tell you how it's near extinct and they're working to preserve it. Then, as you walk through, you see they've managed to kill one and stuff it. Given that it is, after all, Mississippi, I can only presume that they killed it just to put it on display so that they could show you which ones not to kill - in case you were confused.
Also, in their rest areas, they have bathrooms. Above the doors (which are 6' 2" by standard) they say male and female. On those signs they then have Braille. Yup... No Braille anywhere else but on those signs, at more than 6' in the air...
Mississippi has some problems and they may be racists but that was not the immediate problem that I observed. Also, as mentioned above, they sure put on a good feed. Nobody goes hungry in Mississippi. I had a big, I mean very big, black lady tell me that I was going to eat dessert and that I had a few choices. "What are you going to have for dessert? You'll be having ____, ____, or ____." I ate so much that it hurt. I waddled back to the car. I ended up staying for like a week and a half, that time around.
I'm told that I kept trying to find somebody to feed me fish from the Mississippi, even after sticking a finger in it and smelling it, but nobody would help me out. Some parts of my Mississippi Adventure may be a bit fuzzy and my recollections are, in part, based on the retelling from others. I have been there more than once but that was the most eventful time. I keep getting drawn back to the Natchez region. It's nice there. They've got some character.
You've never been to Mississippi, have you? Oh, man... I stopped in the Natchez delta region once, about four years ago, and sat down at a restaurant. Three days later, I finally waddled down to the riverboat casino and took a nap. See, Jackson was a dry county so I more than made up for it by staying right across the street and buying booze and walking back across the street. Which is how I ended up going the wrong way and getting to Natchez. I think I spent like another week in that casino and it was one of the few times in my life that I've managed to put on weight. I didn't keep it...
Anyhow, man... They feed you something special. I also learned when a pee-can becomes a peh-khan. When it finds its way into a pie. The music was awesome, the people were awesome, the food was awesome, and they tell me I had a good time. No, I don't think we should unleash the internet on these folks. They deserve better. Also, I lost my hat.:/
I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure the user is a she. We finally get a girl on the internet and you gotta go scare 'em away! Oh sure, "but they're not a real girl!" That's what you'll probably say. Well, if they identify as a girl you can sex 'em and it's not even gay! Hah! That's what I say!
Err, actually I say it doesn't much matter but that's a topic for another day. I guess.
Other than attacks from foreign powers or things that otherwise come to light, the government's job is not to stop crimes before they happen. Doing so means, arbitrarily, lost freedoms. The government's job is the prosecution of criminal acts - not prevention of them. This doesn't mean that they can't prevent crimes before they happen. It means that they can't restrict our liberties in order to do so.
I'd actually hire them a good lawyer and get them mental health help - failing to work towards their mental health would mean my retraction of their lawyer. That and, well, my kids don't have to commit crimes for money but, if they did, that's how I think I'd go about it.
Alerting the guillotine operator that there's a knot in the rope might be a prudent thing to do, if the knot is located where your head will only be partially lopped off and mean you get a more painful death.
I dunno... I'd still have considered them poor and little - just not poor, little, AND defenseless or unwilling to defend themselves. They started off as a pretty poor and small group of people (in recent history) and got attacked - they're just weren't defenseless or, as said, unwilling to fight. The Arab goal was "to drive them into the sea." Backed in a corner, well, people learn to fight pretty damned quickly. Then Israel kind of grew and said, well, we're just going to keep this land we've conquered, that'll teach you to attack us. Now they're no longer poor and they're not all that large but they're not really little any more, either. They're sure as hell not defenseless, however.
My first was the K6-2 350 MHz that I OCed to just under 500 MHz. It would go a step higher but was not stable. It was awesome. I still, happily, buy AMD. I find that the CPU is fast enough for everything I do. They became fast enough about five years ago. I don't really need any more speed. Buying new PCs is just a luxury that I enjoy - I don't actually need any of them.
I actually prefer to buy AMD. I've got plenty of money but I might as well save it. I tend to buy a lot, an absurd amount actually, of hardware over a single year - often just to use it for a short time and play with it. I may keep that hardware or I may just donate it to the local elementary school's computer lab at the end of the school year (so it's in place for the next year). Why AMD? I get more than enough bang for the buck. I'm not a gamer so I don't even buy high end graphics cards. I'm content with an older GPU, even one a couple of generations (or more) back.
I no longer do any compute intensive work. The little that I do really doesn't need to be quick, I'm not in a rush. I don't really notice much of a speed difference any more. The vast majority of time everything runs just fine. Hell, I don't even bother installing an OS oftentimes. I'll just use a USB drive and boot from that. It's not like I'm lacking in RAM or compute power. If I've got an installed OS then chances are pretty good that it's just a host and that I'm running a VM. With an SSD, a quad core, and just 16 GB of RAM then I'm pretty much good to go - regardless of who made the CPU. I just don't need anything faster and I don't really do anything where the difference shows.
I also find that AMD seems to play nicer with the varied distros. I'm not talking about policy or code being open or whatnot. I'm talking about it just working without my needing to fuck with anything. It's not that I don't mind poking and learning but I've done enough of that with CPU architectures in the past. I'm learning new and different things and AMD helps me do that. I've experienced more issues with Intel CPUs than I have with AMD CPUs when using Linux as my OS. These days, that doesn't seem to matter nearly as much but I suppose it might be salient.
*shrugs* I get more than enough horsepower from AMD. I tend to buy whiteboxes with AMD CPUs and even usually get laptops with AMDs in them because they're "good enough" for my needs. I do have a nice new laptop with a shiny new Intel in it, it wasn't an accident but wasn't really a primary concern. I do admit that it's pretty snappy but, again, I don't really note much of a difference between it and a five year old laptop or at least I don't recollect much of a difference. Hardware's fast enough. The only reason I buy new hardware is to play with new configurations, break things in new and interesting ways, and to just waste time and money doing something different for a little while.
I have a couple of towers, back home, that are still sitting in their boxes. Those do have a dedicated purpose, I tell myself, but there are already PCs in their way. One is going to get an extra pair of NICs and connect to a hub and become a new firewall with pfsense and the other is going to make a new storage array - I'm going to remove the optical drive and fill it up with spinning platter drives and one SSD. The eventual goal is to keep it isolated from external access while allowing neighbors to access it for file sharing and off-site backup. I'll probably find some attached storage to add to it if it turns out that it gets any use.
I've also been thinking of offering them some sort of cloud hosting - where they can spin up a VM and connect to do any one of a few things - I'll probably see if there's any interest with the aforementioned elementary school. I'm thinking that I can do a small server and they can spin up Edubuntu and Scratch and have a pre-set image and then just store their data locally at their site as well as retain backups here in my basement/server closet. Mostly, I just want to play with the tech because being retired means that I get to do that.
Because a cable that can't do it should not have the architecture to do it. In other words, if it has the wires to do it then do it. If not then don't do it. Send voltage down a different pair for varied volts. That's what I was thinking, at any rate. It seems like the best solution, to me. If it doesn't have the architecture then it can't very well do it. These lines connect to this, that means the device can handle this, device says it can handle this, send the device this. I'm still not seeing a reason to make the cable smart - that's just increasing the price of a disposable. It's just adding another point of failure.
You're normally a pretty smart poster so I'm starting to think that I must be missing something. What am I missing? Making a cable smart seems dumb. Instead, make the device smart and the connector smart. Handle only what it says it can handle and only have infrastructure of what it can handle. If the device says it can only handle 3v and the cable has lines for 3 and 5v then, by all means, don't send 5v down the line and, if need be, pipe the voltage out on a different pair if need be.
USB Type-C has 24 pins. It's not like they're unable to figure this out without needing to make the cable smart. I must be missing something... 'Cause, you're normally pretty bright (I've seen your posts before). I'm assuming it is me that's missing something. Gimme three twisted pairs, save one for ground, let the one be constant, and with the rest we can make all sorts of voltages pop out the other end. What am I missing? That leaves plenty for data, for varied data - multiple connections even. I think they use only a handful of them at any rate though I think the rest have potential uses or are for reserve uses. They could just as easily have included the capacity for varied voltages based on cable capacity and the settings the device asks for?
Yeah, I have to be missing something. It's probably something simple.:/ I don't get it. What am I missing?
If by stereotyping you mean thinking they may have politics similar to my own country, then yes. If by stereotyping you mean my assumption that politicians may be scum, then yes. If by stereotyping you mean something to do specifically with Israel or Jewish people then I'd suggest you look to your own prejudices for having leaped to such conclusions. Why would you even think such a thing? Are Jewish people stereotypical conniving politicians? I don't know, you'll have to tell me.
Seriously, what is it with you freaks and your desire to manufacture outrage where there is none? "Oh no, my poor sensitivities! You said something that I can relate to my own prejudices and I'm going to be presumptive and accusatory!!!" I don't know what you think about when you think of Jews but, personally, I don't align them with conniving politicians - I think that's a trait regardless of race, religion, gender, or sexuality.
Normally you're pretty smart but when you go full retard, you don't hold back anything, do you? This is me we're talking about. Not only do I have a pretty extensive history of posting in support of Israel and Jewish people in general, I've also been to their country a half dozen times and almost married a lady of the faith. All topics covered here, on this site, specifically. Dumb ass.
"No! I need to be offended! I'll just make shit up in my head, assume my own prejudices apply to everyone, and make stupid fucking allegations in the name of raising awareness and social justice!!!" If you don't feel stupid at this point then check your privilege because you probably should feel that way.
I hope, for your sake, you're drunk. I do, however, have my prejudices against politicians. Tribe... *sighs* You know, I'm a mixed race mutt, right? My strongest/highest percentage of ethnicity is, indeed, tribal - I'm mostly Native American. Yup. That's me. The mixed race guy hating on and making strange ass presumptions about Jews throwing one another under the bus for political reasons. Where the hell did that even come from? Seriously, I hope you're drunk. Otherwise, you're a fucking moron. I don't typically keep up on your racism so I've no idea what traits you arbitrarily assign groups of people based on their ethnicity.
Seriously? Man, you're so off my Christmas card list. I don't even... *sighs* Yeah, yeah... You need something to be outraged about. I can do that, if you want, but it probably won't be about the Jewish people. I'm kind of fond of them. I'm fond of them to the point where I even understand why they do what they do to the Palestinians. I don't necessarily agree, but I understand.
Yeah, no Christmas card for you, buddy! I do hope that you're drunk and haven't suddenly gone stupid. You've otherwise been mostly rational and, at least, marginally intelligent. Why the change?
Pussy! I've an F-350 with a 6.7L engine. (It's my plow truck and sometimes hauls stuff. I don't drive it on a regular basis.) The efficiency isn't bad considering the work that it does.
Well, maybe he's hoping for a comeback when things die down? It's a rather conspiratorial line of thinking, anyhow. I should also add that I've absolutely no clue how Israeli politics works.
Ah - alright. I was thinking you were implying a greater effect. I'd humbly submit that talking has already been done with regards to Israel and, well, pretty much everyone in the area - or have at least be attempted. This should not be construed to be an advocacy of violence, however. 'Tis an observation, not a suggestion or condemnation.
You mean the place where they held the violent revolution (Egypt) and the place with ongoing, near-daily, violence (Jordan)? I'm not sure those are good examples of your point. It's not that I agree with the parent poster but, well, if those are the best examples you have of talking being effective then I'm not sure you've got much of a point. Hell, Egypt's first round of Parliamentary Elections started today - they're just now getting to that point and still having violent outbursts from time to time.
Saying those "worked" makes me wonder what your definition is for success.
I'll give you the benefit of doubt, I've seen you post before and you seem otherwise sane and intelligent. In what way, and no - talking before fighting is not an adequate measure, is Obama a liberal? Against what backdrop are you calling him a liberal?
He's liberal as compared to, what? 'Cause he's pretty right, center-right, by much of the Western world. Even with using the US as the guide (which we really shouldn't) he's still pretty center though he'd be center-left by my reckoning. If Obama seems liberal to you then you must be in the 'extreme right' category - even if you don't self-identify as such.
Hmm... You're assuming it wasn't intentional and that this ensuing response isn't, in fact, part of some further goal. The guy was recently appointed. Do something, get in the news, get thrown under a bus, and then... ? (I assume it's profit, it almost always is.)
They didn't get much help from the US in '47, '67, or '73. Not directly, at any rate. Err... As mentioned above, my history recollection is a bit fuzzy. Those might not be the correct years. They're still, numerically, the underdog. Hell, they've not even always had a technological advantage. During the first war, for example, they were even lacking in basics like firearms.
They were so lacking that they were building Sten-gun knockoffs (that's like making a cheap copy of a zip gun made by China) in underground weapons factories while the world pretty much decided to just watch. The next two, Yom Kipper (spelling?) and the 6 Day War didn't really last long enough for anyone else to get involved. I think that covers the big ones? I consume a lot of history but it's not done with the goal to retain it - it's just entertainment for me. I might be missing some, have names wrong, or have the dates completely wrong. That'd not be unusual and, like always, I'm way too lazy to care and it's not really all that important so Google is too much effort.
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See Amazon and your lack of a local bookstore or lack of as many local or used bookstores. Similar to that, methinks. When digital stuff takes over or otherwise changes something that was entrenched - for better or worse. See also, race to the bottom. I've lost two bookstores locally. I miss them both and hadn't stopped shopping at either of them. In fact, I used to give a gift card to all the students at the local elementary school every Valentine's Day (they make me cards).
I gave them all $10 Mr. Paperback cards - they sold them to me for $5 each and claimed the average redeemer of the cards spent closer to $20 as well as the cards being redeemed at a near 100% rate. They still were unable to remain open. The kids lose out and I've yet found an efficient way to give them all Amazon cards as Amazon collects more information than is needed to buy a book. I can't even get them cards to Barnes and Nobles. That was about 100 miles away but that's not really that far when you're in Maine. They closed too.
I don't want to give them gift cards to Twice Sold Tales (down in Farmington) because they don't really have the infrastructure to deal with a horde of kids coming in over the period of a few days. I've taken to giving them cards to the local bowling alley which has an arcade and whatnot but that's even more costly and they don't give me a discount. It's also not really encouraging the little critters to spend time reading.
I think that's an example of 'digital disruption' but I could be mistaken and it could mean something else entirely. :/
Good. If it gets you fucking morons off it then, by all means, kill it faster. I've got enough saved to manage the down time. (And by you fucking morons, I may not mean you specifically.) Quite frankly, the 'net is full - go home. Reading some of the comments on various sites makes me almost pine for the days of hearing the busy signal and then picking yet another BBS to dial into in hopes of finding one available.
Anyhow, no... Probably not you. You can probably stay. You know the type, though. At least, I'm guessing that you do. The tubes are full of cats and the dump trucks have nothing but ads in them. The prediction was right, it is eternal and it has gotten worse.
As an aside, when a new version of Windows drops, you can tell on the various forums. You get a whole bunch of stupid questions about Linux and why isn't it like Windows and how the man pages are hard to read - if they tried, and they don't appear to be willing to write in English or actually use a search engine. The rest of the 'net is like a Windows 10 release, almost daily.
Hmm... I am a grumpy old man, today. Ah well... Get off my lawn or some such.
If the internet dies then, well, hopefully we can rebuild it. Maybe we'll be able to build two. One for passive consumption and a parallel 'net which is non-commercial in nature. I dunno. I have no idea how to fix it, honestly. Any idea I can come up with has flaws. I still think we might need a tiered internet with tests to access certain content types and sandboxing those who are infected with malware. Sure, I won't be able to easily pass a test to post content as a Chinese speaking forum but I'm okay with that. I don't know a damned thing about felines so maybe my cat viewing will be restricted until I learn the basics of cat care. I dunno... That too has flaws.
Non-operators (landowners who do not themselves farm) owned 29 percent of land in farms in 2007, though that proportion has declined since 1992.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/...
It's an interesting read. Industrial farming does take place but it's not as much as people seem to think nor is it on the rise. I don't usually watch TV but I do go down south a lot. Sometimes, when there, I turn on the TV in the hotel room and find the RFD channel and watch the Farm Report. I watch 'em sell cows and stuff too. No, I have no idea why I find it interesting. I can sit there and watch that shit for hours - oddly, I can't stand normal television for that long.
Hmm... You don't get out much, do you?
Bah, I'm mixed racially and have stomped all over that state - including the back parts. (I love the Natchez area, as mentioned above - the Delta Blues Museum is small, but nice.) I've even stayed at hotels, with an unmarried woman, and she was white... We were treated fine. The upward mobility thing may be true but the white folk, specifically the poor, didn't seem to have much hope of upward mobility either. However, I'm not a local so may have been missing something.
What Mississippi does have... Let's say you're coming from Florida on I-10... You stop at that very first rest area. They proudly tell you all about this water fowl - I forget the name (some crane - maybe?). They tell you how it's near extinct and they're working to preserve it. Then, as you walk through, you see they've managed to kill one and stuff it. Given that it is, after all, Mississippi, I can only presume that they killed it just to put it on display so that they could show you which ones not to kill - in case you were confused.
Also, in their rest areas, they have bathrooms. Above the doors (which are 6' 2" by standard) they say male and female. On those signs they then have Braille. Yup... No Braille anywhere else but on those signs, at more than 6' in the air...
Mississippi has some problems and they may be racists but that was not the immediate problem that I observed. Also, as mentioned above, they sure put on a good feed. Nobody goes hungry in Mississippi. I had a big, I mean very big, black lady tell me that I was going to eat dessert and that I had a few choices. "What are you going to have for dessert? You'll be having ____, ____, or ____." I ate so much that it hurt. I waddled back to the car. I ended up staying for like a week and a half, that time around.
I'm told that I kept trying to find somebody to feed me fish from the Mississippi, even after sticking a finger in it and smelling it, but nobody would help me out. Some parts of my Mississippi Adventure may be a bit fuzzy and my recollections are, in part, based on the retelling from others. I have been there more than once but that was the most eventful time. I keep getting drawn back to the Natchez region. It's nice there. They've got some character.
You've never been to Mississippi, have you? Oh, man... I stopped in the Natchez delta region once, about four years ago, and sat down at a restaurant. Three days later, I finally waddled down to the riverboat casino and took a nap. See, Jackson was a dry county so I more than made up for it by staying right across the street and buying booze and walking back across the street. Which is how I ended up going the wrong way and getting to Natchez. I think I spent like another week in that casino and it was one of the few times in my life that I've managed to put on weight. I didn't keep it...
Anyhow, man... They feed you something special. I also learned when a pee-can becomes a peh-khan. When it finds its way into a pie. The music was awesome, the people were awesome, the food was awesome, and they tell me I had a good time. No, I don't think we should unleash the internet on these folks. They deserve better. Also, I lost my hat. :/
I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure the user is a she. We finally get a girl on the internet and you gotta go scare 'em away! Oh sure, "but they're not a real girl!" That's what you'll probably say. Well, if they identify as a girl you can sex 'em and it's not even gay! Hah! That's what I say!
Err, actually I say it doesn't much matter but that's a topic for another day. I guess.
Other than attacks from foreign powers or things that otherwise come to light, the government's job is not to stop crimes before they happen. Doing so means, arbitrarily, lost freedoms. The government's job is the prosecution of criminal acts - not prevention of them. This doesn't mean that they can't prevent crimes before they happen. It means that they can't restrict our liberties in order to do so.
You are the problem.
If I had a kid like that, I'd kill them myself!
(No, not really. Just following the theme.)
I'd actually hire them a good lawyer and get them mental health help - failing to work towards their mental health would mean my retraction of their lawyer. That and, well, my kids don't have to commit crimes for money but, if they did, that's how I think I'd go about it.
Alerting the guillotine operator that there's a knot in the rope might be a prudent thing to do, if the knot is located where your head will only be partially lopped off and mean you get a more painful death.
I don't think you ever checked 'cause that's not what the FCC's charter says. It has never said such.
I dunno... I'd still have considered them poor and little - just not poor, little, AND defenseless or unwilling to defend themselves. They started off as a pretty poor and small group of people (in recent history) and got attacked - they're just weren't defenseless or, as said, unwilling to fight. The Arab goal was "to drive them into the sea." Backed in a corner, well, people learn to fight pretty damned quickly. Then Israel kind of grew and said, well, we're just going to keep this land we've conquered, that'll teach you to attack us. Now they're no longer poor and they're not all that large but they're not really little any more, either. They're sure as hell not defenseless, however.
My first was the K6-2 350 MHz that I OCed to just under 500 MHz. It would go a step higher but was not stable. It was awesome. I still, happily, buy AMD. I find that the CPU is fast enough for everything I do. They became fast enough about five years ago. I don't really need any more speed. Buying new PCs is just a luxury that I enjoy - I don't actually need any of them.
I actually prefer to buy AMD. I've got plenty of money but I might as well save it. I tend to buy a lot, an absurd amount actually, of hardware over a single year - often just to use it for a short time and play with it. I may keep that hardware or I may just donate it to the local elementary school's computer lab at the end of the school year (so it's in place for the next year). Why AMD? I get more than enough bang for the buck. I'm not a gamer so I don't even buy high end graphics cards. I'm content with an older GPU, even one a couple of generations (or more) back.
I no longer do any compute intensive work. The little that I do really doesn't need to be quick, I'm not in a rush. I don't really notice much of a speed difference any more. The vast majority of time everything runs just fine. Hell, I don't even bother installing an OS oftentimes. I'll just use a USB drive and boot from that. It's not like I'm lacking in RAM or compute power. If I've got an installed OS then chances are pretty good that it's just a host and that I'm running a VM. With an SSD, a quad core, and just 16 GB of RAM then I'm pretty much good to go - regardless of who made the CPU. I just don't need anything faster and I don't really do anything where the difference shows.
I also find that AMD seems to play nicer with the varied distros. I'm not talking about policy or code being open or whatnot. I'm talking about it just working without my needing to fuck with anything. It's not that I don't mind poking and learning but I've done enough of that with CPU architectures in the past. I'm learning new and different things and AMD helps me do that. I've experienced more issues with Intel CPUs than I have with AMD CPUs when using Linux as my OS. These days, that doesn't seem to matter nearly as much but I suppose it might be salient.
*shrugs* I get more than enough horsepower from AMD. I tend to buy whiteboxes with AMD CPUs and even usually get laptops with AMDs in them because they're "good enough" for my needs. I do have a nice new laptop with a shiny new Intel in it, it wasn't an accident but wasn't really a primary concern. I do admit that it's pretty snappy but, again, I don't really note much of a difference between it and a five year old laptop or at least I don't recollect much of a difference. Hardware's fast enough. The only reason I buy new hardware is to play with new configurations, break things in new and interesting ways, and to just waste time and money doing something different for a little while.
I have a couple of towers, back home, that are still sitting in their boxes. Those do have a dedicated purpose, I tell myself, but there are already PCs in their way. One is going to get an extra pair of NICs and connect to a hub and become a new firewall with pfsense and the other is going to make a new storage array - I'm going to remove the optical drive and fill it up with spinning platter drives and one SSD. The eventual goal is to keep it isolated from external access while allowing neighbors to access it for file sharing and off-site backup. I'll probably find some attached storage to add to it if it turns out that it gets any use.
I've also been thinking of offering them some sort of cloud hosting - where they can spin up a VM and connect to do any one of a few things - I'll probably see if there's any interest with the aforementioned elementary school. I'm thinking that I can do a small server and they can spin up Edubuntu and Scratch and have a pre-set image and then just store their data locally at their site as well as retain backups here in my basement/server closet. Mostly, I just want to play with the tech because being retired means that I get to do that.
Because a cable that can't do it should not have the architecture to do it. In other words, if it has the wires to do it then do it. If not then don't do it. Send voltage down a different pair for varied volts. That's what I was thinking, at any rate. It seems like the best solution, to me. If it doesn't have the architecture then it can't very well do it. These lines connect to this, that means the device can handle this, device says it can handle this, send the device this. I'm still not seeing a reason to make the cable smart - that's just increasing the price of a disposable. It's just adding another point of failure.
You're normally a pretty smart poster so I'm starting to think that I must be missing something. What am I missing? Making a cable smart seems dumb. Instead, make the device smart and the connector smart. Handle only what it says it can handle and only have infrastructure of what it can handle. If the device says it can only handle 3v and the cable has lines for 3 and 5v then, by all means, don't send 5v down the line and, if need be, pipe the voltage out on a different pair if need be.
USB Type-C has 24 pins. It's not like they're unable to figure this out without needing to make the cable smart. I must be missing something... 'Cause, you're normally pretty bright (I've seen your posts before). I'm assuming it is me that's missing something. Gimme three twisted pairs, save one for ground, let the one be constant, and with the rest we can make all sorts of voltages pop out the other end. What am I missing? That leaves plenty for data, for varied data - multiple connections even. I think they use only a handful of them at any rate though I think the rest have potential uses or are for reserve uses. They could just as easily have included the capacity for varied voltages based on cable capacity and the settings the device asks for?
Yeah, I have to be missing something. It's probably something simple. :/ I don't get it. What am I missing?
If by stereotyping you mean thinking they may have politics similar to my own country, then yes. If by stereotyping you mean my assumption that politicians may be scum, then yes. If by stereotyping you mean something to do specifically with Israel or Jewish people then I'd suggest you look to your own prejudices for having leaped to such conclusions. Why would you even think such a thing? Are Jewish people stereotypical conniving politicians? I don't know, you'll have to tell me.
Seriously, what is it with you freaks and your desire to manufacture outrage where there is none? "Oh no, my poor sensitivities! You said something that I can relate to my own prejudices and I'm going to be presumptive and accusatory!!!" I don't know what you think about when you think of Jews but, personally, I don't align them with conniving politicians - I think that's a trait regardless of race, religion, gender, or sexuality.
Normally you're pretty smart but when you go full retard, you don't hold back anything, do you? This is me we're talking about. Not only do I have a pretty extensive history of posting in support of Israel and Jewish people in general, I've also been to their country a half dozen times and almost married a lady of the faith. All topics covered here, on this site, specifically. Dumb ass.
"No! I need to be offended! I'll just make shit up in my head, assume my own prejudices apply to everyone, and make stupid fucking allegations in the name of raising awareness and social justice!!!" If you don't feel stupid at this point then check your privilege because you probably should feel that way.
I hope, for your sake, you're drunk. I do, however, have my prejudices against politicians. Tribe... *sighs* You know, I'm a mixed race mutt, right? My strongest/highest percentage of ethnicity is, indeed, tribal - I'm mostly Native American. Yup. That's me. The mixed race guy hating on and making strange ass presumptions about Jews throwing one another under the bus for political reasons. Where the hell did that even come from? Seriously, I hope you're drunk. Otherwise, you're a fucking moron. I don't typically keep up on your racism so I've no idea what traits you arbitrarily assign groups of people based on their ethnicity.
Seriously? Man, you're so off my Christmas card list. I don't even... *sighs* Yeah, yeah... You need something to be outraged about. I can do that, if you want, but it probably won't be about the Jewish people. I'm kind of fond of them. I'm fond of them to the point where I even understand why they do what they do to the Palestinians. I don't necessarily agree, but I understand.
Yeah, no Christmas card for you, buddy! I do hope that you're drunk and haven't suddenly gone stupid. You've otherwise been mostly rational and, at least, marginally intelligent. Why the change?
Pussy! I've an F-350 with a 6.7L engine. (It's my plow truck and sometimes hauls stuff. I don't drive it on a regular basis.) The efficiency isn't bad considering the work that it does.
Well, maybe he's hoping for a comeback when things die down? It's a rather conspiratorial line of thinking, anyhow. I should also add that I've absolutely no clue how Israeli politics works.
Ah - alright. I was thinking you were implying a greater effect. I'd humbly submit that talking has already been done with regards to Israel and, well, pretty much everyone in the area - or have at least be attempted. This should not be construed to be an advocacy of violence, however. 'Tis an observation, not a suggestion or condemnation.
Maybe one should be a Barbaraism. ;-) I'll leave it up to you to decide which. But they certainly can be both and, often, are.
You mean the place where they held the violent revolution (Egypt) and the place with ongoing, near-daily, violence (Jordan)? I'm not sure those are good examples of your point. It's not that I agree with the parent poster but, well, if those are the best examples you have of talking being effective then I'm not sure you've got much of a point. Hell, Egypt's first round of Parliamentary Elections started today - they're just now getting to that point and still having violent outbursts from time to time.
Saying those "worked" makes me wonder what your definition is for success.
Wait... What? You think Obama is a liberal?
I'll give you the benefit of doubt, I've seen you post before and you seem otherwise sane and intelligent. In what way, and no - talking before fighting is not an adequate measure, is Obama a liberal? Against what backdrop are you calling him a liberal?
He's liberal as compared to, what? 'Cause he's pretty right, center-right, by much of the Western world. Even with using the US as the guide (which we really shouldn't) he's still pretty center though he'd be center-left by my reckoning. If Obama seems liberal to you then you must be in the 'extreme right' category - even if you don't self-identify as such.
We live in an outrage culture. Those words have lots of effect. What they don't have is meaning.
Hmm... You're assuming it wasn't intentional and that this ensuing response isn't, in fact, part of some further goal. The guy was recently appointed. Do something, get in the news, get thrown under a bus, and then ... ? (I assume it's profit, it almost always is.)
They didn't get much help from the US in '47, '67, or '73. Not directly, at any rate. Err... As mentioned above, my history recollection is a bit fuzzy. Those might not be the correct years. They're still, numerically, the underdog. Hell, they've not even always had a technological advantage. During the first war, for example, they were even lacking in basics like firearms.
They were so lacking that they were building Sten-gun knockoffs (that's like making a cheap copy of a zip gun made by China) in underground weapons factories while the world pretty much decided to just watch. The next two, Yom Kipper (spelling?) and the 6 Day War didn't really last long enough for anyone else to get involved. I think that covers the big ones? I consume a lot of history but it's not done with the goal to retain it - it's just entertainment for me. I might be missing some, have names wrong, or have the dates completely wrong. That'd not be unusual and, like always, I'm way too lazy to care and it's not really all that important so Google is too much effort.