The story, as I understand it, behind it is interesting; it was an old back up Dell Laptop --like 9 years old--that had this installed on it. Normally, he uses his desktop; that was in use. His admin asst set up the old laptop for the meeting and...this cat filter was active. lol.

I had to study assembler in college before I went to work for Texas Instruments back in the 90's. Used it a bit at Siemens as well.

When I moved on to work at Dell I stepped away from programming into troubleshooting device failures, so I haven't done programming since the late 90s.

ITS YOUR DATA - it is up to the owner to back up their data. Not Apple,, Dell, Microsoft etc.


Jessa Jones is doing great work. However it is not a services that Apple cares to market in. So she and the like flourish. Its not Apples job to help her.

At 4:16-- is a sexist BS statement.

I am in the lounge and I'm having issues submitting text. I put words in the box and hit enter on pc or in lounge hit send and get nothing. How did you do it? I had the same problem on my Mac. I am weaning off of Apple(Just purchased a Dell) and I am trying to understand Windows 10. Later I plan to be using Linux.

Nah, I got out when things were good. I have friends who still work there that complain every time we talk about how the entire culture internally is toxic and backstabby now. Besides, I had the good fortune to work at Dell in the 90's and Apple in the 2000's, when both were at the top of their game. Working for another company would be anti-climatic and probably require me to move to California. Between my partial disability and my stock investments, I have enough money to live comfortably with my wife. She will probably retire early as well, since her UT pension will be fully vested in around 7 years.

1. My family was considered to be a 'organized crime' family by the police in Tucson, AZ.
2. I've committed 2 crimes in my life. My first was when I was 13, I shoplifted a Gen 1 Transformer from Kmart and was banned from the store until 18. The second was helping a friend load an illegally poached deer into his truck.
3. My first car was a 1974 Dodge Challenger
4. When I was 19, I almost ran away from my future wife to go to Dallas and open one of the first ink cartridge refilling companies with a friend.
5. My mother never married and let my Grandparents raise me.
6. I started smoking at 14, rolling my own from my Grandfather's Bugler tobacco.
7. I smoked for many years, quitting twice. Once when my Grandfather died from Emphysema and then for good when my Grandmother died of lung cancer.
8. I worked for Texas Instruments, Dell, and Apple. Their stock allowed me to retire early.
9. I've had a mental breakdown that lead to me retiring early.
10. I still suffer from depression and anxiety.
11. Online I can interact with people much better than I can in real life. I find it very hard to deal with people in person.
12. My wife embarrasses me in public because she is very outgoing.
13. I hate doing dishes. I mean I really loathe doing them.
14. I have two dogs.
15. I don't like cats very much.
16. I sometimes have weird dreams that my best friend is still alive.
17. I prefer being indoors vs being outdoors.
18. Other than my mother, my family is all dead or estranged.
19. I am a video game enthusiast.
20. I don't want children.
21. I once had a 4-wheeler roll over on top of me and pin me under creek water.
22. I used to use twilight as my online handle until Stephenie Meyer ruined that for me forever.
23. My favorite animated cartoon was the 1990's Batman animated series.
24. I used to be a huge Stephen King fan until he was hit by that vehicle and his writing suddenly started sucking.
25. I have very poor eyesight without my glasses.

Looks interesting, and anything with JK Simmons has my attention.

But what's with the "Dell Presents...." business?

Puts an insidious slime on the whole project for me

It is bullshit, but it's not a problem unique to Apple.

I've never owned a mac, but every goddamned Dell laptop I've used has had a subtly different charger, and they're mostly just a round plug!

As for usb-c for video, meh. People kvetched when they dropped the optical drive, the VGA port, etc. (Hell I remember people complaining on the windows side when laptops stopped having serial ports!) Technology moves forward... and Apple is known for pushing new techs at the expense of old ones.

Still can't believe they put a 480p camera on it, though.
Seriously, what is this? 2005?

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Lenovo industrial design is fantastic - but yeah, shame about the operating system. I do use Windows 7 and 8 pretty regularly for my corporate day job, but mainly Dells.

*promote for the eternal flame war.

It's a cool idea, but yeah, just have to wait and see if it really takes hold.

I just find it funny that my PC is modular, and phones may become modular, but my laptop is still locked into a single configuration and not upgradable other than memory/hard drive.

I suspect the hardest part is getting manufacturers to let go of control. One thing that pissed me off about Android is that here we have a phone/mobile computing operating system that is upgradeable, but yet, whether or not you get those upgrades is pretty much determined by the manufacturer, because they lock you into their "flavor" of Android. That's like Dell telling you that you can't install certain patches on your computer, or upgrade to a new OS, What's that? you want to install Linux, nope sorry, we're going to try to prevent you from doing that.

..unless of course you root your phone to upgrade it yourself, but that voids your warranty.

I get this a lot from Dell, huge box, lots of padding etc, one tiny cable or part...

Ah, another RAID (whew, not Raid) victim. My online IRC buddies and I heard this puncture term from a Dell guy earlier today. It was funny.

Those gremlins will always be back.

You can print more money and hand it out to influence purchases also, but it is going to lead to dramatic inflation.

I had my wife watch this video, because she makes around 18 dollars an hour working in a skilled profession for a college. Her first comment was, "If they raise food workers to 15 dollars an hour, I'm going back to work at Dairy Queen because it was much easier than what I do now."

But that is where the slippery slope comes in, because the corporation is going to make that money back somewhere and it isn't going to be just 15 cents more per item. Why, you ask? Because the minimum wage rise means that skilled workers, like my wife, are going to expect a commensurate raise in their salary or they will look for easier jobs. You don't just raise the minimum wage without ALL wages eventually rising. But that's a good thing, you say, just like printing money and handing it out for free would be good.

It might take a year or two, but consumer costs will rise from inflation to make the new minimum wage just as low in buying power as it is now. Then we can repeat the entire process all over again in a couple of years. Corporations are designed to make the absolute maximum profit they can, so forcing them to pay more to employees is going to make them charge more for goods and services. As I said earlier, it will eat up the exact purpose of the raise, customer purchasing power.

Now, let's say that I am wrong completely. The one thing I DO know, having went through this before in 1996 when the minimum wage went up, is that companies will begin outsourcing even more. If you force them to pay wages above what they want to pay or what the market will bear, they will open factories and call centers overseas. I worked for Dell at the time and in 3 years, half of their support was outsourced to India. It wasn't just them, multiple companies did it, and the evidence points to rising costs due to government interference in the free market system.

I feel for the people who make minimum wage; I made it as well from the time I was 16 until I was 22. It sucked and I had a lot of debt, but after that time I no longer worked minimum wage. If you continue to work a minimum wage job into your 30's and up, there is something wrong with you.

I wonder how much of these efforts were fueled by the need to violently murder that Dell laptop.

I've used one at work for three years, I know the feeling.