Readit NewsYou'd rather have illegal off course betting ala Peaky Blinders or like IRL my Great Great Great Uncle ran in Birmingham (does make watching peaky Blinders interesting)
> Based on conversations with multiple former employees, a review of SEC & international filings, and inspection of back-end infrastructure at illicit international gaming websites, we show that SBTech has a long and ongoing record of operating in black markets.
> Contrary to representations made to Oregon’s state lottery, a former employee told us SBTech had extensive operations in Iran, violating local laws in a market subject to heavy U.S. sanctions. We were told SBTech knowingly operated there for 4-5 years with the founder directly overseeing the operation.
The US does seem to have a lot of puritan hang-ups not helped by local gambling monopolys.
Surprised that draft kings don't go with one of the UK online gaming firms.
Are we expected to only use MacBooks if we want a *nix laptop?
One of our team members was an alpha tester, and one delivery he got was a pallet of salad cream instead of just one bottle.
(on mobile and list formatting seems to have single lined, sorry if hard to read)
- Coil whine when connected to AC and IO happens
- Shipped with only S2 (connected standby) support. Battery in sleep would not last more than a day.
- Battery discharge even when fully powered off, do not expect to leave it unplugged for a weekend and it be usable
- Ill thought out microSD card slot, I ended up getting a card wedged between the chassis and bottom of the card reader, scratched the card pins and made the card inoperable
- Buggy Killer WiFi drivers, requiring toggling the adapter off and on
- Poor thermal performance, after seconds of my i7 running turbo(ing), base clocks reduce to 1.3GHz resulting in compilation or any heavy workload taking 3x as long to complete as my 2014 MBP with and i5
- Fan noise, it is almost always on and very audible, even in office conditions
- Lack of care from Dell around their Windows precision pad, e.g. small scroll movements do not scroll in non-"modern" apps such as task manager, or just about anything that is not Edge
Those are just a few points I've picked. I previously had an XPS 13 (standard) in 2015 and issues such as coil whine still existed then.
Additionally, the configuration options are unnecessarily restrictive, at least in the UK. I wanted 32GB memory so had to get the i7 model which is only available with the 4K panel option. Battery life is less than 4 hours.
My specification cost £2200 which is MBP territory but it doesn't feel on the same premium level as a MBP (or now, the incredibly attractively priced M1 MacBook Air).
On the positive side, I mainly run Ubuntu and aside from non functional camera and fingerprint reader that works pretty well, including thunderbolt docking. Although it took about a year for the Ice Lake GPU drivers to become stable and S3 eventually found support, although closing the lid does not always put the system to sleep.
We've had similar discussions with customers in the past - we've found the vast majority (90%) are happy to pay monthly, and the remainder are very vocally against.
We are looking to accomodate both sides, and the current plan is to offer a subscription 'pause', where all of your existing data is stored for free, and you can unpause to edit/create new projects.
It's still being worked out, but hopefully this will be a happy medium ground in the future.
I am thinking ecomerce and classified ads sites
So, it's in employers' interest to make the salaries transparent, isn't it? I bet the model is incomplete.