"It is used to describe a class of goods for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market.[3] A commodity has full or partial fungibility; that is, the market treats it as equivalent or nearly so no matter who produces it. "
i.e., the IBM PC 'platform' whipped everyones ass, and so did x86... funny thing... what CPU does Apple run on btw?
we do not have that in the united states. the regulators like the FTC who would ordinarily care about this sort of thing are completely captured (owned, bought, bribed) by corporations and hedge funds and investment banks.
they do some 'anti trust theatre' like the recent AT&T thing... but honestly its ridiculous.
the real reason Apple beat MS to all of the 'integrated platform' thing is because MS was afraid of another anti-trust action by the government. Now that it has realized the government no longer exists, in any meaningful regulatory fashion, as proved by the Apple business model, MS is trying to catch up with Windows 8.
i can think for example of the revelation that Microsoft made a deal with the dictator of Tunisia to allow the regime to stick it's own certificate authorities into IE's auto-approve list.
MS's argument was that Tunisia was buying a lot of linux computers, and then wiping them and installing MS. the whole purpose of the document (leaked on the net, signed by Bill Gates) was to destroy linux and get the business of a corrupt, violent dictator.
Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst du vielleicht g'rad an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und dass so was von so was kommt
99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man für Ufos aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn es so wär
Dabei war'n da am Horizont
Nur 99 Luftballons
99 Düsenjäger
Jeder war ein großer Krieger
Hielten sich für Captain Kirk
Das gab ein großes Feuerwerk
Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft
Und fühlten sich gleich angemacht
Dabei schoss man am Horizont
Auf 99 Luftballons
99 Kriegsminister -
Streichholz und Benzinkanister -
Hielten sich für schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer hätte das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons
99 Jahre Krieg
Ließen keinen Platz für Sieger
Kriegsminister gibt's nicht mehr
Und auch keine Düsenflieger
Heute zieh' ich meine Runden
Seh' die Welt in Trümmern liegen
Hab' 'nen Luftballon gefunden
Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen
and the London subway (tube) bombings probably convinced some other people.
on the other hand, VIPR has expanded to just about everywhere, including sporting events, ports, etc, and has been criticized by congress and by professional police for being a gigantic clusterf***.
my main interest in VIPR is to record the system of human organization, especially those justified by security. i wrote the wikipedia article on it for the same reason i helped organize the articles on the various obscure bureaucratic structures within the Schutzstaffel.
yes, makes perfect sense. take one guy make him do 3 guys job. you could hire 2 guys, but that would be 'inefficient' and the shareholders hedge-funds would be unhappy.
of course the traditional solution is to form a labor union. or at the very least, go on strike.
project. its really , really, cool... you see we take the general account ledger, and we balance it based on the length of time the charge has been on the current report, whereas before we were simply going line by line ,
im sorry,.. are you ok? it almost looked like you fell asleep there. my brother in law has narcolepsy -- horrible disease. did you know that the first person to discover narcolepsy was sinus grimbald in 1823, when he happened upon a lemur collector in guernsey.. .
teh37737one's point, if i may, was that this 'leak' was actually a 'plant', a PR move by Intel to get people posting ridiculous speculative nonsense, like, exactly the stuff you posted in your comment.
"if this is realistic, intel has an awesome CPU" etc etc etc.
Does anyone care if its realistic? Intel sure doesn't, it just wants people to speculate that it might be realistic, and then talk about Intel, and how awesome Intel is.
But of course, it might be a load of crap... when the actual numbers come out, who knows what they will say? And when real programs hit the thing, who knows what it will do?
That's why Intel is 'leaking' it. On purpose. So they can have 'plausible deniability'. They can churn the rumor mill, get their product mentioned in the 24 hour ADHD cycle of tech news, get people posting on slashdot, etc, but Intel itself never has to sully it's good name by engaging in outright pushing of vapor-ware.
If only the guys at Duke Nukem had been smart enough to 'leak' stuff 'anonymously' to the press, instead of giving out press releases...
Of course, another way to look at it is this: It's yet another example of the corporate philosophical suite that is drowning our civilization in garbage and awful values. Never say anything directly, never take responsibility for your words or actions, never be straight with people, and hide everything you are doing in layers and layers of techno jargon, babble, and nonsense.
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"It is used to describe a class of goods for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market.[3] A commodity has full or partial fungibility; that is, the market treats it as equivalent or nearly so no matter who produces it. "
i.e., the IBM PC 'platform' whipped everyones ass, and so did x86... funny thing... what CPU does Apple run on btw?
with a working regulation system.
we do not have that in the united states. the regulators like the FTC who would ordinarily care about this sort of thing are completely captured (owned, bought, bribed) by corporations and hedge funds and investment banks.
they do some 'anti trust theatre' like the recent AT&T thing... but honestly its ridiculous.
the real reason Apple beat MS to all of the 'integrated platform' thing is because MS was afraid of another anti-trust action by the government. Now that it has realized the government no longer exists, in any meaningful regulatory fashion, as proved by the Apple business model, MS is trying to catch up with Windows 8.
because after all most people preferred the simplicity of macintosh.
that is why after about 1986, the x86 and IBM PC died... as did linux.
novaya gazeta recently had a story where they interviewed some actual technicians who work at actual rocket factories.
basically the problem is that the managers are too focused on money, and the quality is slipping as a result.
the quality assurance measures that used to be in place have been stopped and deemed too costly.
hmm.. it would appear that the vast majority of the people are living on peanuts.
always funny to see a bunch of self righteous indignant assholes get violently, abusively angry at people who can survive on 1/2 the money...
but in school i learned that if you work hard and study alot, you get rich!
Y u no appreciate beauty of captalism?
one time , i even had one ask me 'how my day was going'.
can you imagine the nerve of these servants?
to talk to me, a LINUX user, like that? and they dont even know how to disassemble their makefiles? balderdash!
i havent had to manually type in a nameserver in about 10 years.
im guessing its another case of nerd penis rage. "the stupid service person is so stupid! and i am so smart! bewilderment!"
no, you are just a rude, arrogant asshole, who probably got some poor schlub fired for fucking up their call response time.
my heart bleeds. absolutely bleeds. how do they eat?
i can think for example of the revelation that Microsoft made a deal with the dictator of Tunisia to allow the regime to stick it's own certificate authorities into IE's auto-approve list.
MS's argument was that Tunisia was buying a lot of linux computers, and then wiping them and installing MS. the whole purpose of the document (leaked on the net, signed by Bill Gates) was to destroy linux and get the business of a corrupt, violent dictator.
thats just the tip of the iceberg.
was coming out... then we go to the theatre and its muppets in space crossed with some kind of saturday morning cartoon reject.
"Bush is taking us to war with Iraq". those libs and protestors were always going on and on about this.
Well, we never did. We had a short, brief kinetic contingency operation.
Cheney said we would be greeted as liberators - we were.
Rumsfeld said it wouldn't be a big deal - it wasn't.
John McCain said it wouldn't take very long or cost very much - it didn't.
forced labor from Indian immigrants are good at earth moving.
the only thing the Emiraties are good at is whoring out eastern european prostitutes to hedge fund managers in exchange for massive bribes.
"I know there's a lot of saber rattling, but both sides seem to be smart enough to have avoided any conflict so far."
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst du vielleicht g'rad an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und dass so was von so was kommt
99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man für Ufos aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn es so wär
Dabei war'n da am Horizont
Nur 99 Luftballons
99 Düsenjäger
Jeder war ein großer Krieger
Hielten sich für Captain Kirk
Das gab ein großes Feuerwerk
Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft
Und fühlten sich gleich angemacht
Dabei schoss man am Horizont
Auf 99 Luftballons
99 Kriegsminister -
Streichholz und Benzinkanister -
Hielten sich für schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer hätte das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons
99 Jahre Krieg
Ließen keinen Platz für Sieger
Kriegsminister gibt's nicht mehr
Und auch keine Düsenflieger
Heute zieh' ich meine Runden
Seh' die Welt in Trümmern liegen
Hab' 'nen Luftballon gefunden
Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen
wow. modern society is truly spiritually dead. if that is what passes for a 'plot'.
i guess you could also say ms pacman had a plot.
back in the old days, they produced plotless, boring crap like 'war and peace'. snore.
hey. at least we have Galaga. now there is a plot.
but Toys has been incredibly, tragically, prescient.
they are essentially training the young people to kill through robots.
what's next? obvious.
they start doing this for mercenary forces and 'security contractors'.
next after that?
local police forces, etc.
and the London subway (tube) bombings probably convinced some other people.
on the other hand, VIPR has expanded to just about everywhere, including sporting events, ports, etc, and has been criticized by congress and by professional police for being a gigantic clusterf***.
my main interest in VIPR is to record the system of human organization, especially those justified by security. i wrote the wikipedia article on it for the same reason i helped organize the articles on the various obscure bureaucratic structures within the Schutzstaffel.
yes, makes perfect sense. take one guy make him do 3 guys job. you could hire 2 guys, but that would be 'inefficient' and the shareholders hedge-funds would be unhappy.
of course the traditional solution is to form a labor union. or at the very least, go on strike.
"commodity trading arm of an energy co."
they probably purposely do not want to comply with SARBOX, so they don't have to get dragged in front of congress and read back their own emails.
you are the boy scout screwing it all up. they cant have plausible deniability when someone is shoving their own crimes in their faces.
project. its really , really, cool... you see we take the general account ledger, and we balance it based on the length of time the charge has been on the current report, whereas before we were simply going line by line ,
im sorry, .. are you ok? it almost looked like you fell asleep there. my brother in law has narcolepsy -- horrible disease. did you know that the first person to discover narcolepsy was sinus grimbald in 1823, when he happened upon a lemur collector in guernsey.. .
seriously. the fact that so few people understand how the CC system works (including you, no offense) is kind of funny.
all of those transactions go through Visa and Mastercard, depending on which type of card you have.
teh37737one's point, if i may, was that this 'leak' was actually a 'plant', a PR move by Intel to get people posting ridiculous speculative nonsense, like, exactly the stuff you posted in your comment.
"if this is realistic, intel has an awesome CPU" etc etc etc.
Does anyone care if its realistic? Intel sure doesn't, it just wants people to speculate that it might be realistic, and then talk about Intel, and how awesome Intel is.
But of course, it might be a load of crap... when the actual numbers come out, who knows what they will say? And when real programs hit the thing, who knows what it will do?
That's why Intel is 'leaking' it. On purpose. So they can have 'plausible deniability'. They can churn the rumor mill, get their product mentioned in the 24 hour ADHD cycle of tech news, get people posting on slashdot, etc, but Intel itself never has to sully it's good name by engaging in outright pushing of vapor-ware.
If only the guys at Duke Nukem had been smart enough to 'leak' stuff 'anonymously' to the press, instead of giving out press releases...
Of course, another way to look at it is this: It's yet another example of the corporate philosophical suite that is drowning our civilization in garbage and awful values. Never say anything directly, never take responsibility for your words or actions, never be straight with people, and hide everything you are doing in layers and layers of techno jargon, babble, and nonsense.
think of all those amplitudes not being modulated.
this is a terrible, terrible loss for America.