then you'll need instructions for how to tie decent knots in said database...that is, tie knots with rope, not tie knots in the database (i need to stop thinking like a geek... oh wait i am one)
Oups! it would not satisfy the 21st century God called Economy.
it's funny how so many americans think so highly of their "economy"
won't be long and the american economy will be back to the barter system, and there won't be any need to secure the electricity grid because it won't be running because nobody will be able to afford to pay for it
maybe i'm a kook, but everyone who calls out economic bubble bursts in advance are kooks before it happens
if defense contractors are the "elements of the US government" that you speak of, then i agree the public servents signing the checks on behalf of the government probably have no idea
you're a shortsighted and ignorant socialist fool and there is nothing Amish about what i said... unless you think every business owner in the world is Amish
of course without the manhattan project, the moon race etc the tech spinoffs would have eventually been developed with private money if there was projected demand for it... they would have taken longer (we may be still in the age of 80386 processors, or something like it) but the development would have also come at much lower cost.
the manhattan project did speed up the pace of research (throwing more resources at it) but in fact the uranium and plutonium nuclear industry has all but lobbied much cleaner molten salt and thorium reactors out of existence
its not that government funded research doesn't result in anything; the problem is the cost of such spinoffs far outweigh the benefits to the taxpayer (usually the taxpayer pays for spinoff products twice; first as a taxpayer and then as a consumer). if you throw enough money at something of course you can achieve great things, but everything the government spends must be invested on behalf of the tax payer (the government's shareholder). if the US government has over $16 trillion in debt over its head, do you really think rediculous ventures like mapping the human brain are sensible?
when you're holding on by your fingernails you don't go waving your arms around
i'm sure you think your snide comment was intelligent, but you are a dope
Sometimes things are not entirely about money
that's rather obvious by the state of the us government budget... and its the problem i was trying to highlight, because it currently isn't about money but it should be. everything has a cost, and that cost must be justified. there is no such thing as a free lunch, and even seemingly inexpensive endevors have intangible costs.
you're also trying to compare art with scientific/technological R&D, which is just stupid to some people the mona lisa etc are worthless because it depends on taste in art
don't let the ideology door hit you in the ass on your way out
Regarding project to map human brain, I predict that a number of university papers and a heap of data will be generated, and that some spinoff technologies, and then eventually the government will realize they can't afford it and reduce and eventually stop funding altogether.
Why does the government have to waste millions of dollars to create some spinoff tech? Fucked if I know; because it is packed with bureaucratic public service morons trying desperately to justify their pay.
Private companies spend their R&D money much more efficiently than the government could ever possibly hope to achieve. Companies put R&D money into emerging markets with projected consumer demand. While there may conceivably be demand for mapping the human brain, it is speculative at best. What do they hope to achieve? These kinds of airy-fairy projects always have abstract and intangible objectives like "to better understand how the brain works", with no clear practical or market objective from the outset. It's just one of those financial black holes designed to suck in money and without any means to measure success (because of a lack of a clear goal that can even be measured). Medical R&D is normally incremental. Even if the brain mapping project were "successful" (whatever that means) the medical tech industry would have to spend time (probably years) disseminating whatever information comes out of it to make something marketable from it. Government money would be better spent on fiscally responsible programs like debt reduction, and private investment would be better spent on the normal incremental R&D process with clear market objectives from the outset.
Even the moon race was a waste of money measured in terms of return on investment.
i read that retina isn't about resolution but pixel size (making the pixels small enough that the human eye can't differentiate them from a certain distance)
the only problem is that for a laptop, most people work a little bit further away from the screen than they do phones so the effect is partially wasted from the outset, and its subjective but i would argue that pixel deresolution is less important on a laptop/desktop
what i was trying to say is that if you could take advantage of retina by increasing the screen resolution so that a retina pixel matched a display pixel (so a retina display would have much higher resolution capability compared to a another similar size screen but with larger individual pixels) then it might be better but i've heard that pixel density of a retina isn't the same as resolution... it's also ironic that apparently the retina displays in iphones are manufactured by samsung.
in any case, i have no doubt that retina is better than regular lcd, just not THAT much better.
with regard to toshiba support, i've never had to for a toshiba except for a memory upgrade but there are a lot of regular computer shops that are licensed repair agents for various oems including toshiba, and there are likely more of these than there are apple stores (i've never heard of an 'apple authorised repair agent' in any of the same regaulr computer shops).
aluminium chassis is definitely a good point... my first toshiba (tecra a2) had an aluminium top (underside was plastic though). aluminium looks nice but stains a bit where your hands rest (at least after 6 years of use lol). the only thing i would be a bit cautious about with all-aluminium is the use of the body as a heatsink to excuse the use of a smaller fan. i've heard that some macbooks in particular have a tendency to get uncomfortably hot on contact faces, whereas in ergonomic design you really want the majority of the heat being channelled to non-contact areas like the side or back of the unit. plastic besides being perceived as cheap does insulate the user from the heat, but requires chunkier fans to pump the heat out elsewhere.
regarding operating system - i would prefer mac os to windows, but i would really prefer linux over all of them. since that is rarely an option (particularly for new toshiba laptops) i would prefer windows because oem price of windows is pretty cheap and i can easily shitcan windows and put linux on. mac os is a more valuable os, which means shitcanning it would be a bigger loss.
i couldn't be bothered checking the graphics comparison, but while the macbook graphics may be better for CAD, what CAD software is available for the mac? i use autodesk products in my job (engineer) but i'm not aware of mac versions of these. i know of draftsight which is dwg-compatible and has a linux version (maybe there is also a mac version). CAD/workstation graphics is only really a plus if you have software that can take advantage of it. i know macs are a favourite in graphics/advertising/desktop publishing/photography industries so not doubting that there are, just not sure about CAD in particular.
regarding quality, i've heard a lot of people claim that macs are better than everything else, but i've also heard the horror stories. toshiba no doubt suffers from the occasional bad batches, but i've never known anyone that has got a bad one (and i always recommend toshiba over all else). toshiba hardware seems to long outlast the software (windows, office, etc) that they are shipped with, and being japanese (home of lean manufacturing and other quality-related practices) i would think they are generally pretty decent build. use of plastic isn't a sign of poor build quality (particuarly in heat insulation as noted above) and use of aluminium isn't a sign of good build quality. i'm sure macs are decent quality (many mac parts are probably also manufactured in japan).
you make a fair attempt, and while the things you note would justify some extra expense, i still can't imagine any justification for
well the poor kids probably think all the shit they see on tv re government and wars, iran, north korea etc is all part of a big tv show like ben 10 or spiderman
just don't let the queen criminal on your space ship
better make sure you have robot lifting machines available just in case, along with a handy repertoire of comebacks should the queen criminal stow aboard...erm...hang on a minute
Slashdot Mirror
Where's your God now?
he died in october 2011... duh!
what rock have you been living under?
hang on a minute... we're talking about apple right?
run on machines with a new processor architecture
perls be dammed... i only throw phps
specifically, more open source pr0n
db2 shits all over all other databases... there is no comparison
who needs marketing when you have corporate juggernauts like IBM with armies of legal brain eating zombiesthat can't be killed working for you?
unless you're talking about women with beards
who the fuck talks like that?
they're not basements you imbecile... they're "command centers"
then you'll need instructions for how to tie decent knots in said database ...that is, tie knots with rope, not tie knots in the database (i need to stop thinking like a geek... oh wait i am one)
you need to say something to get sex in a brothel?!
you must be fugly
gosh and i was under the impression that "where's the database?" was a pick up line
Oups! it would not satisfy the 21st century God called Economy.
it's funny how so many americans think so highly of their "economy"
won't be long and the american economy will be back to the barter system, and there won't be any need to secure the electricity grid because it won't be running because nobody will be able to afford to pay for it
maybe i'm a kook, but everyone who calls out economic bubble bursts in advance are kooks before it happens
if defense contractors are the "elements of the US government" that you speak of, then i agree
the public servents signing the checks on behalf of the government probably have no idea
you're a shortsighted and ignorant socialist fool and there is nothing Amish about what i said... unless you think every business owner in the world is Amish
of course without the manhattan project, the moon race etc the tech spinoffs would have eventually been developed with private money if there was projected demand for it... they would have taken longer (we may be still in the age of 80386 processors, or something like it) but the development would have also come at much lower cost.
the manhattan project did speed up the pace of research (throwing more resources at it) but in fact the uranium and plutonium nuclear industry has all but lobbied much cleaner molten salt and thorium reactors out of existence
its not that government funded research doesn't result in anything; the problem is the cost of such spinoffs far outweigh the benefits to the taxpayer (usually the taxpayer pays for spinoff products twice; first as a taxpayer and then as a consumer). if you throw enough money at something of course you can achieve great things, but everything the government spends must be invested on behalf of the tax payer (the government's shareholder). if the US government has over $16 trillion in debt over its head, do you really think rediculous ventures like mapping the human brain are sensible?
when you're holding on by your fingernails you don't go waving your arms around
all the companies you quote invest in things with carefully projected payoffs
companies don't invest in things without expected payoffs because shareholders don't like it and if they piss the shareholders off they go broke
just because you don't know what the projected payoff at the time was doesn't mean the companies you list didn't
don't be so ignorant
i'm sure you think your snide comment was intelligent, but you are a dope
Sometimes things are not entirely about money
that's rather obvious by the state of the us government budget... and its the problem i was trying to highlight, because it currently isn't about money but it should be. everything has a cost, and that cost must be justified. there is no such thing as a free lunch, and even seemingly inexpensive endevors have intangible costs.
you're also trying to compare art with scientific/technological R&D, which is just stupid
to some people the mona lisa etc are worthless because it depends on taste in art
don't let the ideology door hit you in the ass on your way out
i'm sure if we spend a few trillion more dollars we can go to mars and get all sorts of spinoffs from that too
money + R&D will always = spinoffs
the question is, how much money are you willing to spend for said spinoffs?
Regarding project to map human brain, I predict that a number of university papers and a heap of data will be generated, and that some spinoff technologies, and then eventually the government will realize they can't afford it and reduce and eventually stop funding altogether.
Why does the government have to waste millions of dollars to create some spinoff tech? Fucked if I know; because it is packed with bureaucratic public service morons trying desperately to justify their pay.
Private companies spend their R&D money much more efficiently than the government could ever possibly hope to achieve.
Companies put R&D money into emerging markets with projected consumer demand. While there may conceivably be demand for mapping the human brain, it is speculative at best. What do they hope to achieve? These kinds of airy-fairy projects always have abstract and intangible objectives like "to better understand how the brain works", with no clear practical or market objective from the outset. It's just one of those financial black holes designed to suck in money and without any means to measure success (because of a lack of a clear goal that can even be measured). Medical R&D is normally incremental. Even if the brain mapping project were "successful" (whatever that means) the medical tech industry would have to spend time (probably years) disseminating whatever information comes out of it to make something marketable from it. Government money would be better spent on fiscally responsible programs like debt reduction, and private investment would be better spent on the normal incremental R&D process with clear market objectives from the outset.
Even the moon race was a waste of money measured in terms of return on investment.
more Flash
*slaps you in the face*
i read that retina isn't about resolution but pixel size (making the pixels small enough that the human eye can't differentiate them from a certain distance)
the only problem is that for a laptop, most people work a little bit further away from the screen than they do phones so the effect is partially wasted from the outset, and its subjective but i would argue that pixel deresolution is less important on a laptop/desktop
what i was trying to say is that if you could take advantage of retina by increasing the screen resolution so that a retina pixel matched a display pixel (so a retina display would have much higher resolution capability compared to a another similar size screen but with larger individual pixels) then it might be better but i've heard that pixel density of a retina isn't the same as resolution... it's also ironic that apparently the retina displays in iphones are manufactured by samsung.
in any case, i have no doubt that retina is better than regular lcd, just not THAT much better.
with regard to toshiba support, i've never had to for a toshiba except for a memory upgrade but there are a lot of regular computer shops that are licensed repair agents for various oems including toshiba, and there are likely more of these than there are apple stores (i've never heard of an 'apple authorised repair agent' in any of the same regaulr computer shops).
aluminium chassis is definitely a good point... my first toshiba (tecra a2) had an aluminium top (underside was plastic though). aluminium looks nice but stains a bit where your hands rest (at least after 6 years of use lol). the only thing i would be a bit cautious about with all-aluminium is the use of the body as a heatsink to excuse the use of a smaller fan. i've heard that some macbooks in particular have a tendency to get uncomfortably hot on contact faces, whereas in ergonomic design you really want the majority of the heat being channelled to non-contact areas like the side or back of the unit. plastic besides being perceived as cheap does insulate the user from the heat, but requires chunkier fans to pump the heat out elsewhere.
regarding operating system - i would prefer mac os to windows, but i would really prefer linux over all of them. since that is rarely an option (particularly for new toshiba laptops) i would prefer windows because oem price of windows is pretty cheap and i can easily shitcan windows and put linux on. mac os is a more valuable os, which means shitcanning it would be a bigger loss.
i couldn't be bothered checking the graphics comparison, but while the macbook graphics may be better for CAD, what CAD software is available for the mac? i use autodesk products in my job (engineer) but i'm not aware of mac versions of these. i know of draftsight which is dwg-compatible and has a linux version (maybe there is also a mac version). CAD/workstation graphics is only really a plus if you have software that can take advantage of it. i know macs are a favourite in graphics/advertising/desktop publishing/photography industries so not doubting that there are, just not sure about CAD in particular.
regarding quality, i've heard a lot of people claim that macs are better than everything else, but i've also heard the horror stories. toshiba no doubt suffers from the occasional bad batches, but i've never known anyone that has got a bad one (and i always recommend toshiba over all else). toshiba hardware seems to long outlast the software (windows, office, etc) that they are shipped with, and being japanese (home of lean manufacturing and other quality-related practices) i would think they are generally pretty decent build. use of plastic isn't a sign of poor build quality (particuarly in heat insulation as noted above) and use of aluminium isn't a sign of good build quality. i'm sure macs are decent quality (many mac parts are probably also manufactured in japan).
you make a fair attempt, and while the things you note would justify some extra expense, i still can't imagine any justification for
well the poor kids probably think all the shit they see on tv re government and wars, iran, north korea etc is all part of a big tv show like ben 10 or spiderman
how are the barack obama dolls doing in slaes?
only if the rear belongs to steve jobs... no wonder the whole world mourned his death... whose ass to chew out now?
just don't let the queen criminal on your space ship
better make sure you have robot lifting machines available just in case, along with a handy repertoire of comebacks should the queen criminal stow aboard ...erm...hang on a minute