Moderately useful for basic tasks you’re going to review. Extremely useful for puff stuff like marketing where you don’t care about little mistakes. Those generic corporate emails? Done. Random picture of dude with your product? Easy.
Where it’s never going to be worth it is places you have to be 100% right. Finance is a big one. So of course they’re trying to shove it in that stuff too.
They’re using the average across all taxpayers, not accounting for income or joint filing. So yeah most will be higher or lower.
Midsize next to a container ship maybe.
And no amount of performance improvements is going to change the minds of those people. Either they’ll finally try electric and realize how great they are or eventually die out. Either way ICE is going to be the oddity one day.
Yeah but I’m not even talking budget gear from this generation. Heck used 3080s go for as low as 350 on eBay and those are still great and those will let you play 1440p on high, far from the minimum you need to play these days.
Admittedly I have no idea of the price for used laptops or full systems.
Tell me you didn’t read my post without replying without…you know. Where did I mention new anywhere? Yes, bubbles ruin the price on the latest and greatest. We’ve been dealing with it since crypto. However, we don’t NEED the latest and greatest anymore and haven’t for years.
Despite the bubble, this is still a better time when it comes to ability to play awesome games for cheap than ever before.
Bah these articles are trash. I’ve got a 5 year old PC ands still playing games on high. For console, Switch games and even DS are still great portable and multiplayer options.
Gaming is cheaper than ever because we’ve got a massive backlog of great games that you’d never catch up on even if you did nothing but game all day. Plus stuff more than a few years old gets CHEAP!
I wouldn’t mind upgrading, but even if something dies I can buy a used replacement and keep going until this bubble pops.
Because the US had a clear lead in the ability to deliver nuclear weapons at the time and Russia knew it. Easy to act tough when you have the advantage, but idiotic when it’s only going to hurt you.
It depends on the region. For almost the entire country, no unless you’re in sales or an executive. However, the Northeast is still pretty suit heavy for office jobs and I was asked to at least wear a suit jacket when visiting the office as a software guy.
Can they even code them to do that? They’ve struggled so much with the em-dash and never managed to block Disneys characters so I figure they can’t do it 100% of the time even if they want to.
Baldurs Gate 2. Never played the first and didn’t know D&D so it was a LOT to get used when Final Fantasy was the most complicated RPG I’d played before trying it.
Fumbled the intro dungeon and just couldn’t get into it so it sat in a drawer for awhile. Then Throne of Baal was announced and for some reason I gave it another try and got SUPER into it. No idea how many times I’ve played through it now. The engine really doesn’t hold up well but I love the characters so much.
If you pay for them via Openrouter or something then you’ve got an enormous window to work with. Gets more and more expensive as the history increases though.
Needs to skip the maps and go right to the charts at the bottom. I was thinking this was a junk study since the map was pretty close to just being a population density map until I got down to the charts. Not a surprise since they’re measuring volume of searches and that’ll always correlate to population.
I thought the joke was they were both both before the start of the new millennium. Awful lot of people started counting with 0 instead of 1 in 2000.
It’s a shame but designs like that will keep me from ever trying a game. I only play a few hours a week. There’s no way I’m spending it redoing shit I’ve any done.
DD may pay more, but they aren’t covering your costs. Most people who do the numbers find it only works if you have a cheap car that gets great mileage and do maintenance yourself.
Depends on where you live. Mountain biking and skiing are very middle class in Colorado and Utah.
Nah that house was a mansion in the 90s too. It showed up in the news a while ago for $5.5 million because it’s a giant house in a nice part of Chicago. That guy was definitely in the 1%.
Makes sense in that environment. If someone doesn’t have at least one grandparent that endured some shit then their family lived a very fortunate life. Or more likely didn’t pass down stories of just how bad things got.
Isn’t that supposed to be a budget truck? Having to spend $3k to wrap it every 4 years is pricey.