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Nothing you said there has described any Thinkpad I've ever owned. Even after they got worse (post-IBM).

I've never seen the battery compartment be the source of physical issues. Typically it is the hinges on the LCD that give up or the case cracks in one of the four corners.

Mostly the case remains solid and the hardware within blows up.
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We also have to blame the Supremes. The Constitution is reasonably clear about this in Article 1:

Section. 8.

The Congress shall have Power....

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

Perpetual copyright is most certainly not "for limited Times", but per Wikipedia's analysis of Eldred v. Ashcroft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft):

However, the major argument for the act that carried over into the case was that the Constitution specified that Congress only needed to set time limits for copyright, the length of which was left to their discretion. Thus, as long as the limit is not "forever," any limit set by Congress can be deemed constitutional.

Although I suppose we should not be surprised, given how little respect they show for so much else of the Constitution, e.g. my current pet peeve, we have a right to keep arms, but not bear them outside our dwellings, another very crabbed interpretation of clear language.
outsourcing works when you and your devs are aligned, you have a tech owner on the client side and regular checkins from all parties. What doesn't work, and never worked, is throwing loose specs over the wall and expecting the next Instagram.

Moreover, people who manage remote, outsourced, teams for a living (I used to be one of them) have known this for years. The ones who don't know this are the non-technical founders who think the idea is the hardest part. Alas, that has been an issue for years before outsourcing became popular.
That would be because you're using chrome, not Safari. I have the same machine and I get 8-10 hrs, easy (and I bought it the day it was released).

Chrome is terrible for batteries.
> all this for a part which, in the normal lifetime of most well-built laptops (aka Macs), will never ever need to be replaced.

My laptops last 4-5 years. This battery failure was at 1.5 years. I just replaced mine after 2 years.
Video games specifically. They are next-gen propaganda tools because you can subtly or not so subtly railroad a player into your frame by making them roleplay it for reward. It can adapt to less or more pliant players, it can collect analytics which help create faster iterations of improvement.

As an intentional cultural weapon (in the manner OP describes) I don't think it's actually ascendant yet, but it will be.
The "rage" seems misplaced. The OP didn't think about their needs when buying the machine and didn't purchase the appropriate warranty service package. Having a backup laptop would be another option, too. (I can't imagine the OP doesn't have backup camera bodies, likely at a greater expense than having a good-enough-to-get-by backup laptop.)
Stalin set up the North Korean dictatorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_the_Korean_War
I am afraid there isn't. In fact, it's called a "slice trick" and listed in Go wiki: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks
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I always had the opinion that I would never buy a computer that wasn't able to be serviced by me and I would build my own desktops and buy Thinkpads. Then I realized that I never did any upgrades anyway, if the battery died, the laptop was usually ready to be replaced. If the CPU or memory needed to be upgraded, usually it was both, and there was probably a new technology (new socket, new type of DDR, etc). And I realized I hated dealing with my desktop, hated troubleshooting and fixing and buying replacement parts and stuffing it all together and scraping my knuckles on the case...

As soon as I realized this, I said "to hell with it" and bought a Macbook. I don't need the downsides to having a serviceable laptop if I never actually perform any service on it.
I swear I have no idea what IBM does. Anyone know?
i understand, and agree. i would personally, though, avoid adding it, and add attributes for the same purpose instead. just as the article suggests... it achieves the same without introducing a new class, thus also remaining backwards compatible.
> The greatest sin of all, though. The hands-down WORST crime committed, is when the hardware IS PLUGGED INTO A POWER SOURCE, BUT REFUSES TO POWER ON BECAUSE "THE BATTERY NEEDS TO CHARGE FIRST."

I don't know this for sure, but I'm guessing that the device waits until it has enough charge to boot properly. Otherwise, if you disconnect the power source the computer does not have enough power to finish booting and will hard crash somewhere in the boot process. I don't know if it's enough to brick your machine but it's easier to just let the thing charge for a minute before you hit the button.
One of the primary things is they allow them to get fired to avoid lemon teachers.

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21599005-reforme...

In California the teachers union even have a clause that prevents their teachers from getting fired because of technological advance in the class room.
The deed is done, the Communists are beaten... so can we go back to art that looks like things (and requires skill to create) now?
The way some governmental texts are written, I wouldn't be surprised if they run the original text through an obfuscation find/replace algorithm that replaces words <5 letters with a similar word from a thesaurus with the maximum length available.
This concept really resonates with me in many ways. I like to also think of the mind/body problem in the same way. Physical processes in the universe construct the brain, and while in a different form, the same algorithms, patterns, math, emergence form consciousness and the mind. These artificial walls of difference/understanding/categorization only hinder our ability to understand the true nature of things.
summary: CEO managed outsource company when margins were 20x costs. now that it's 0.3x he claims only scammers are still in business.

sounds like a sour loser.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(song)

Give it a listen. It's pretty bad...
Hey those extended batteries make great handles.
It's appalling that the only kind of social consciousness on the market was advocacy for Communist revolution...
Wunderground has lots of data available. They may have actually been part of this deal as they were owned by The Weather Channel.

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KSFO/2015/10/28/...
Have you tried using http://forecast.io/? You can get historical forecasts via the JSON API[0], which is, from what I can tell, free for low-volume use.

[0]: https://developer.forecast.io/docs/v2#time_call
It is not difficult to service .. by a service person. It is simply not user serviceable.
It's black and the bezel is maybe 0.8cm or something... retina display (which had its own problems, but with some DPI configuration works well, especially after a recent Chromium update).

For full disclosure I'm not using the stock Ubuntu -- which I as a Linux nerd found to be really pumped full of bullshit that I don't want ever.

It's possible that their special distro has magic patches that they haven't managed to get into the mainline Linux kernel, but that doesn't impress me much since they advertise it as a "Linux developer machine," not as a "Dell Custom Ubuntu machine."

It also requires a proprietary WiFi driver, although I'm told some configurations have an Intel chip that works out of the box with Linux.

I strongly believe that a developer machine advertised to work with Linux should not require any proprietary extensions. Probably Dell doesn't care about this very much though.

But they should, since I'm now tarnishing the reputation of their flagship dev product in a forum full of semi-influential hackers...

That all said, I use the thing everyday and, whatever, I'm used to stuff being broken, and I can get used to most things. That trackpad though... so infuriating. On the plus side I'm using more keyboard navigation than ever. (And noticing how terribly the web works if your mouse sucks.)
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Consulting mostly I think
Wonderful comment, however I disagree with the "hard to see" aspect... I'm so excited about this tech that when reading the article I was daydreaming of dropping everything and just showing up on the doorstep of a company like spiber and saying "I am not leaving until you give me a job"

This is awesome tech and the obvious future. So I don't think it is hard to see at all...
How does it cost society money? When people waste money on gambling, it just recirculates to others.
That battery is $75 on Newegg and Amazon.
good for you, HP and DELL are ready to take orders.
The hardware/software is generally more unified than a traditional laptop with Linux on it, and, it is somewhat in in vogue to own one.
Pivoting with same indications can be done, but I agree, if you have a Class II or god forbid Class III device, and you change your indications, you've got to redo much of your 21CFR11 documentation. I built a Class I device that eventually became a Class II device, and it was a tough slog to get the QSR and CFR docs in order, however, we were a team of 15, with not nearly $400m in funding.

There is an air on incompetence about this whole thing, and Holmes isn't doing herself any favors battling with poor evidence against WSJ in public.
Apple moved the MacBookPro line to this hardware design in July 2012 -- I know because it was the first MBP I've ever bought. It was well-publicized at the time that things like battery and memory had become basically unserviceable. There were teardowns all over the internet less than a week from unveiling.

This guy comes up almost two years later (the post is from May 2014) and starts ranting...? It's like buying a huge SUV then rant that you cannot find on-street parking spaces in central Paris. Honestly, the only thing this post reveals is how clueless some "experts" are about the expensive tools they buy.
Replacing an integral part of an expensive computer was expensive?

I would hate to be this guy's mechanic
Gee, maybe it's because you have a million tabs open, and all of them are websites with shitty, wasteful javascript begging the CPU for useless operations to update every single tracking pixel and cookie, with up-to-the-minute anaylitics, attached to sessions that are years old, on how your eyes move over their ad banners, so that a genetic machine learning algorithm can determine which ads are most likely to convert to clicks and then sales.

Hint: It's the ad for the top 7 ways you didn't know you could get bunions, and there's a 50% chance it will convince you to buy new shoes.
> More and more PC laptops are moving to the same model. There are a lot of benefits for the manufacturer. Fewer parts (less $ to make), less to break (less support $), can make the laptop thinner and lighter (so you can charge more $), the battery no longer has to be a easy to use shape (have you seen Apple's tapered layers of thin batteries?), extra engineering costs, etc.

Conveniently, built-in batteries also harm the resale value of a used device.
I feel the same way, provides a useful tool to those of us who previously did not have access to solar, im also an apartment dweller)Have a friend who was one of their early adapters and loves it.
Incentives on new vehicle sales can change the fleet mix. I don't see how incentives on used sales can do that (there would be some more focus on resale value, but people already consider that).

I think in the US we would get the most mileage out of reforming CAFE to make it less friendly to daily driver trucks.
Space exploration of this sort has a long lead time. We're reaping the fruits of year and years of labor with most of those.

Cassini started in the Eighties and launched in 1997. New Horizons was greenlit in 2001 after a decade of work and launched in 2006. Dawn was intitially greenlit 2001 and finally launched in 2007. Curiosity started in 2004 and launched in 2011. Juno was greenlit in 2005 and launched in 2011.

The Europa Mission will, presuming no delays, launch in 7-10 years. In between there is very, very little. (One asteroid sample return mission, and one Mars lander. Nothing beyond the asteroids until the Europa mission, and nothing greenlit for afterwards.)
I think safety.
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Exactly! Try Lenovo EU service, its Medion and they routinely F with you for _couple of months_.
It's a good idea. Keep in mind that an optimiser takes a bit of code and replaces it with a different bit of code. So a "cloud" solution would certainly require some thought towards security.
I don't buy the argument that it offsets costs, or even that there are serious costs, where it concerns gambling. I wouldn't be surprised if the law enforcement mechanisms are more costly, by comparison. Rather, it is an attempt to engineer behaviour. In that regard, it becomes a judgment call by a government that a given behaviour is not quite bad enough to ban, but bad enough to discourage. Cigarette taxes where I live (Canada) are high enough that a black market in untaxed cigarettes (largely sold via aboriginal reserves) thrives. But others will point to decreasing rates of smoking as a victory, thus justifying the policy.
Not the best place to mention this, but I never understood why, at least when talking with the functional oriented people, the union types are not explained as providing first level support for the Option, Either and the Try monads.
I don't think the syntax is that much nicer than dplyr in R (thank you Based Hadley). But the approach (focusing on less-technical users and reducing headaches) is certainly good.

I do really like the graphs being printed in console. Is this common elsewhere?
I'm not arguing you should switch to Safari (which I like) or arguing feature merits (I don't care much myself). But if you have a Mac you have Safari, so it's an easy test to run. And you will be AMAZED at the difference in battery life. It's pathetic.
Title is "A Look Under the Hood of Foundation 6" not "Cool shit in Foundation 6".
Where did you get the data from? Or is it just recent submissions/updates?
If I buy an Apple laptop, use it for a month, and return it, it'll be sold as a factory refurb, because it would no longer be "new." The discount on that will be 10-20% of the retail price. That's the depreciation just due to being "refurbished" versus "new." People would flip their shit if Apple resold 1-month used laptops as "new" at full retail price.

Applying a similar discount to cars, a 1-month "try before you buy" rental would cost the dealer $1,500 to $3,000 on a $15,000 car for each one that was returned. Apple because their products have large markups. A dealer can't, because they probably make less on each car (in absolute dollars) than Apple makes on a laptop or iPhone.
The implication is that he did not deliver agreed-upon services.
It's pretty clear when you buy this laptop that the battery isn't user serviceable. You might be happier buying a Dell or Lenovo.
> In fact, that enabled automatic tool to convert Go compiler written in Google's C++ to Go.

Hmm, I thought go was written in C at first place and not C++. It seems to me that Go creators were never big fan of C++ so I don't think it takes any inspiration from C++ .

All I see in some kind of C + garbage collection + interfaces and some concurrency percs. I fail to see how it was influenced by C++ in any ways.
> Firebug 3 is not another developer tool, it is rather a thin layer built on top of DevTools.

Why I feel it's terrible news?

I feel like this is a promise of less features for more bugs without any clear vision about why Firebug should be ditched in favor of DevTools.
Spider silk is extremely vulnerable to flame though... I'm not sure if that is mostly related to just how thin it is... But I would like to see a comparison between this fabric and nylon when near open flame. Nylon will melt, what will this do?
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My bad, sorry, my post should read 140 mg/dL. I was thinking of some (minority) of the more aggressive patients sharing their experiences on diabetesdaily.com forums, and they are holding down to below 100 mg/dL post-prandial, to aim for as close to below 140 mg/dL OGTT as possible; I'm interested in reading their stories because that cohort is self-reporting far more success at stopping medication, and still respond "normally" to OGTT and A1c tests, so that they fall into the "insulin resistant but not cured" category.
how would you get recent submissions/updates data ?
Judging by the increase in sales year over year for the Macbooks, it doesn't seem like it's bad for Apple. How many sales has Apple gained by making the laptop thinner and lighter and giving it a longer battery life compared to sales lost from not making a few parts user-replaceable?
Win at Jeopardy, star in some commercials, contribute little revenue to IBM's business.
Can you not get a car rental, provided by your insurance company, until you've purchased a new vehicle?
I have never experienced that with a T450s. Granted, I use a different Thinkpad day-to-day, but I get my hands on T450s as they're the standard issue where I work.
Here's the big question, though: I have to put in a lot of work to manage an overseas team. In many cases, more than I would have to put in to manage a local team. And the costs aren't really that much cheaper. So if I have to put up with all that, why would I want to outsource?

"And those projects ran close to 5 years - 10 years. How did the CXO reap the benefits for 10 years if he doesn't see value in it?"

Did anyone ever actually do the analysis? I doubt it. They saw a cost reduction in one quarter and called it good. They haven't taken into account the extra work needed, the costs of reimplementing stuff after they get it because it's so bad, or anything like that. And because the CXO spearheaded the initiative, anyone who questions it is going to be questioning the CXO's competence.
Matters for machines that have them (like mine) but even in integrated only machines it makes a huge dent in battery life.
I'm the same way. I own a MacBook Pro from 2008, it is still my main laptop. The main reason I bought it was because the HD, ram and battery are very easy to replace.

At the moment I don't know what to do. I can't buy a new MacBook Pro because they are all broken in my mind, so am looking to see what Lenovo do with their 'retro' ThinkPad.
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>> Apple tends to use the space savings to stuff in class-leading batteries.

But can you imagine how big the batteries could be in a 15" MBP that was roughly the same size as those from 2012 and earlier? Those things would last even longer than a current 15" rMBP would, especially under load.
>It's nearly the same in Europe / Germany. However, sports betting isn't really under control here.

I've worked for gambling companies in the UK and we are heavily regulated, although not as much in the areas that you would want e.g. addiction.
There's a number of sources that need to be stitched together. The official Apple sources are

- iTunes search API: https://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentat...

- Apple's Enterprise Partner feed: https://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentat...
> not b/c the car itself has changed

It has nothing to do with that particular car, but rather the "unknowns" about that car. It could be a very nice car in about the same condition as when it was brand new.

When it is new, the car is a fixed entity. There is nothing unknown about it. Once you drive it off the lot, there is something unknown about the car - Where did you drive it? Was it in an accident? Did you drive it too hard? Did you change the oil when you were supposed to? Too much wear and tear? Did you spill something on the seats?

Because of that, once it is no longer new, the car has more risk associated with it, and thus loses value (in addition to value lost due to normal wear and tear). You could have driven only one mile, but that one mile could have been off a cliff for anyone knows.
Buy other companies.
Agreed :-)
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Thanks, glad you like it. Tabli wasn't searchable in the Chrome store for the rather silly reason that I hadn't gotten around to making promotional tiles. I just made some mediocre ones for now and made it public / searchable; I can improve the tiles later :-)
It's interesting that a low occurrence of unique words in a story can be an indication of a lie. Does that position people speaking a secondary language in an unavoidable place of distrust? Beyond body language, it's just more difficult to tell if someone's story lacks richness because they're not telling the truth, or they're simply not comfortable with the language and have a small vocabulary to draw upon.
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When my Lenovo Thinkpad has a hardware problem, a technician comes to my home or office to repair it.
In 2014 BootCamp was shipping on new Macbook Pros which broke Windows 8.1's installer. The version of Bootcamp was actually newer than the newest version available to download, but supposedly the older version worked, but you couldn't downgrade.

Anyway I gave AppleCare a call. Told them that bootcamp version XYZ was messing up Windows 8.1's installer and that the older version worked fine, and asked if I could downgrade. Essentially they told me to "call Microsoft for support with Windows." And that's all I could get out of them. Zero bootcamp supported offered, even if it is Apple's own software.

The answer in an Apple store was (paraphrasing) "we don't recommend Bootcamp, if you want to run Windows then buy Parallels Desktop."

PS - Took them over seven months to fix Bootcamp.
On the hardware side the race-to-the-bottom with prices really made it much harder to find good computers that weren't built like toys.

That's a consumer-oriented view. Dell, HP and Lenovo continued to supply solid business laptops and portable workstations. Some were even ultraportable, including the ThinkPad X series and Toshiba Porteges.

Not sure why you think "the PC guys didn't target that market very hard" since they had more than 90% of the market. But if you were just watching the consumer market, perhaps you didn't notice?
I'm genuinely interested - can you point me to those procurement rules?
Having had the fun that is working for a company that gets bought by IBM I wish their workers the best of luck.

Hope they enjoy the Blue Washing(TM)