Actually, Rush is pretty accurate. He's just (admittedly) biased. It's the bias that gets you - what he's typically saying is not factually inaccurate.
If he were publishing statistics, on the other hand, the bias would be a problem. Thus the Daily Kos credibility comes into question...
Anyone who had to work on these should have been able to notice that the replacement boards (and other components) often had the same parts (capacitors) as the failed parts, never mind the model and revision numbers being identical.
If a part would last 1-2 years on average before definitively failing, why not just give them another part to tide them over? I had an employer during that time that had replaced the boards in all their 270s; during the time I was there, I had those systems start to fail again (roughly 1 year after the replacement). My stupid boss thought it was my fault, claiming my perfect predecessor had fixed the problem - so why are they breaking again? (I must've been doing something wrong. It was ultimately one of the main factors in why the fool fired me.
From what I saw, they did fail all at once: it was usually due to the accumulative effects of cap leakage being exacerbated by the marginal increases of summer temperatures. It didn't take much, but it was enough to push the systems from "crap but usable" to completely unreliable, slow, garbage.
Those stupid fucking machines were a real bitch to swap boards out on, too. By the time the user started to complain (yay for expected instability!) the filesystem was likely corrupt and it needed a reimage. What a huge time sink. It'd take the better part of a day to get the machines back up to the user's previous setup (small shop, stupid practices which were impossible to reverse).
That said, I've got one of the 270s at home right now, running just fine (if a little warm by modern standards).
Most people only pay for cable these days to get cable Internet. They get it bundled, and it's something like $5 (more or less) to un-bundle it. WTF? So they get cable.
The people who are paying $100/month are likely the ones who spend all weekend watching sports broadcasts on their wall plasma displays. There's no other way to get those sports broadcasts (yet) that is user accessible.
Not only that, but at $10/month, why wouldn't I just get Netflix? That's $9/month - and you can get DVDs in the mail of said shows, as well as many, many more.
For free with minimal ads, I'm willing to put up with a small degree of inconvenience and lack of QoS. If I'm going to pay, I want a guarantee of QoS. I don't mind so much if it takes a couple days to get it, but if I'm going to have to deal with their connectivity issues (or my ISPs), no thanks. Watching a show half way through, losing connectivity, and then having to wait to finish it is not fun when you've only got a couple hours a week for such luxury.
That situation might change if I had the option to completely buffer the show before playing it, or download it independently of their shit flash player - but not until.
And no, we don't hook a TV up in our house. 10 minutes of ads for every 30 minutes of "airtime"? Are you kidding me? I don't think so.
I once found a picture online of my then-youth pastor drinking bong water. He, of course, denied it was him, and got others to believe it, but I lost confidence in him at that point.
How that picture got online was a mystery, though. This was in 1999 or so, so Internet privacy was not all that common a thought at the time - but then neither were decent digital photos/cameras and web storage. The fact was that the particulars of the photograph were indicatively him. Someone took it.
I'm sure such things happened al lthe time pre-internet, too. It's not just Facebook. It's just that now, such pictures aren't just shared with good friends and kept under the bed (how many of you have been going through Dad's pictures and found ones of ex girlfriends, or the like?) but they're posted on the Internet under the auspices (security theater) of privacy.
Precisely. That kind of woman is for shallow conquests using a pseudonym, not dating. Heaven forbid you actually talk with them. That's an exercise in futility.
That would be the ideal, for both Windows and Ubuntu (or anything else).
With the supposed "yum/apt for Windows using native MSIs" project coming about with official Microsoft sanction, this is obviously a good thing if implemented right.
For Ubuntu, this has been a long time coming. Since we got synaptic it really should've been obvious that adding a store tie-in was the next step.
The "store UI" really isn't a big deal. "I want this app" is pretty clear, and provided some basic app information is available it shouldn't realistically matter one way or another to the user. But, leave it to MS to fuck up a user interface.
The people in France, Belgium, Poland, England, Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Georgia, the Czech Republic, Albania, and many other countries likely disagree quite strongly with your sentiments.
Perhaps you're also forgetting Hitler's desire to invade the US mainland, upon successful conquest of Europe? How about Iraq's support for hostile action against us, or the militant Islamics who have been plotting (and perpetrating) attacks against US citizens here and abroad?
Perhaps unfortunately, "defense of country" can be taken quite broadly. I would not disagree with such an argument. However, it can not be honestly argued that stopping the encroachment of communism (and wearing their war machine down), stopping national socialism (for a short time:() in Europe, and preventing the rise of totalitarian dictators has been a vain effort contrary to this goal.
When the markets in Asia impact us as much as how well Joe Schmoe at the bakery down the street is doing - and more quickly - the denial of world conflicts impacting our lives is a fairly shallow-minded, self-serving stance.
E-2 is pretty low down the pay grade. I believe a Marine who's been in long enough to see combat is likely to be an E3 at this point, due to the extensive training they go through. I could be mistaken on that.
Yeah, the article even says he's an E-3. But never mind that... Compared to "joe shmoe" jobs, they're still not making jack.
As far as Verizon is concerned... I'd say this is more a result of a large organization with no process for this sort of thing dropping the ball (due to a peon not pushing it up the chain hard enough) than it is one of Verizon being malevolent.
This woman is poison. Every. Single. View. That she has demonstrated has been contrary to the primary tenants of our country: free speech, peaceful assembly and security of our persons, the right to keep & bear arms, and so on. The only demographic she's appealing to is the "let's trample the rights and liberties of the populace" demographic.
She's got no history to speak of - 2 years of actual practice - and everything she has done has been "activist". She's a SC variant of Obama.
But what about an Atom SoC with integrated controllers (ie no support chips - at least none you'd not find on an ARM device) like the newest Atom offerings? You know, the Mooreland that doesn't have a PCI bus and competes favorably (middle of the field) against all the current smartphones with comparable specs (Apple's iPad and iPhone; Snapdragon, etc.)
HFT is, essentially, the exact same thing that the guys in Office Space instigate:
Peter Gibbons: [Explaining the plan] Alright so when the sub routine compounds the interest is uses all these extra decimal places that just get rounded off. So we simplified the whole thing, we rounded them all down, drop the remainder into an account we opened. Joanna: [Confused] So you're stealing? Peter Gibbons: Ah no, you don't understand. It's very complicated. It's uh it's aggregate, so I'm talking about fractions of a penny here. And over time they add up to a lot. Joanna: Oh okay. So you're gonna be making a lot of money, right? Peter Gibbons: Yeah. Joanna: Right. It's not yours? Peter Gibbons: Well it becomes ours. Joanna: How is that not stealing? Peter Gibbons: [pauses] I don't think I'm explaining this very well. Joanna: Okay. Peter Gibbons: Um... the 7-11. You take a penny from the tray, right? Joanna: From the cripple children? Peter Gibbons: No that's the jar. I'm talking about the tray. You know the pennies that are for everybody? Joanna: Oh for everybody. Okay. Peter Gibbons: Well those are whole pennies, right? I'm just talking about fractions of a penny here. But we do it from a much bigger tray and we do it a couple a million times.
The only difference here is that the above scenario is illegal, and HFT is not.
Anyone who saw Office Space knew what they were doing was illegal, and probably morally objectable. That was 10 years ago; in the multiple market drops and economic collapses we've seen in the last decade, have we lost our moral, ethical backbone to the point where we should justify these practices?
What Microsoft completely failed to appreciate is the need to make good mobile OSes. If Windows CE hadn't been such a pathetic afterthought, and if it had been given away for free to suffocate the rest of the market, MS would have been in a pretty good place right now.
I'm going to have to call 'nonsense' on this.
Not only are you factually incorrect about the quality of Windows CE, but you put entirely too much weight on mobile computing in general.
Windows CE was, when it was first introduced, leaps and bounds beyond anything else. It was competing against the Palm Pilot Pro (and similar hardware/software) and Symbian/Prism devices and was far beyond those devices in capabilities: it had "native" TCP/IP, graphical display by default, and a web browser - at version 1.0. They were largely limited by not focusing much effort on pushing CE devices and cost/limited utility of the day.
Granted, relative CE capabilities quickly changed with the introduction of OPIE/Qtopia and the like, but even then marketing and mobile hardware cost kept MS/CE devices at a bare "business only" minimum.
Had you been able to get a smartphone for $300 in 1998, things would certainly have been different. But you couldn't - I don't think you could get a bag phone for that much, and even entry-level/last-gen PDAs cost several hundred dollars.
It's only now that the hardware has become capable of running mobile software that people consider MS's mobile offerings to suck. Sure they do: they haven't changed them (significantly) since their inception or put any significant marketing behind them. For something they've barely even tried to sell (compared to their flagship products), CE and kin are still doing miraculously well.
It's quite the irony that, now that Microsoft is finally making products that actually perform as advertised, they are doing poorly financially and in stock price.
Goes to show you how little bearing stock price has to do with anything.
Hopefully, this does not mean that MS will try to revert to their previous 'crippleware' model. A subscription based model for updates would be preferable to that.
Sure. And who, exactly, is going to contribute to an open source project written intentionally obfuscated? Nobody. Then the project gets the reputation of being shoddy, and nobody uses it.
Or, there's also the "we'll just rewrite this little obfuscation and fork it" scenario.
Open Source thrives on its quality and dies from crap like this. People don't contribute to dead projects: they fork them or reimplement them.
In what world does an oil spill in the Gulf cause starvation and deprivation in Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, etc.? Last I checked, regional warlords, backwards traditions and culture, totalitarian states, and the like tend to cause such symptoms.
Maybe they could spend a couple minutes once a year on the news displaying footage of why we're at war, then. You know, something like those "feed a kid in Africa for $1/day" videos, except with the cause of the hunger and depravity.
It makes absolutely no sense to air the consequences of war without understanding the causes. It's like lauding students for getting straight As but never once mentioning that hard study is typically/should be required for such a feat to be accomplished.
Were you fired for being gay, or hitting on all the other guys? I say this because most of the people I've known who are openly sexual (ie in preference of one gender or another) have been obnoxious poon/dick hounds, commonly treading on "sexual harassment" terms several times a day.
I've known a couple people who were gay who weren't like this: I, and most others, did not know they were gay until some time later.
Have you worked in healthcare? How about in a female-dominated work environment?
It takes a very special kind of male to work with a bunch of women. Everything you do will likely be taken as offensive; everything you don't do will likewise have fault found with it. If you enjoy catty office politics and grudges for trivial non-intended offenses, go right ahead...
Of course, the same could probably be said for the kind of person who thinks of themselves as a Night Elf.
Sure, the source code is open and free. But the game itself? Not so much. You won't be playing Doom to completion in 10 years without an illicit copy of the WADs.
Of course, TFA completely overlooks the newer line of Mooreland Atom processors from Intel.
It also ignores the fact that cell phones are a throw-away market. There isn't nearly the 'data lock-in' that the x86 architecture has. Where smartphones can have their software sized to the hardware, Intel (and AMD) are forced to size to the software. Not only does this limit what Intel can do, it limits how fast they can do it.
15 minutes? You must be using the wrong batteries, or something. That's horrible runtime.
You can easily find single-cell Lithium rechargeables (18650 cells) with 3200Mah ratings which deliver 3V. They're not cheap, but they're not that hard to find, either.
I'm not saying li-ions are awesome, but you're kind of understating things a bit, eh?
IIRC, thermal runaway, as you call it, is a problem specific to Lithium based batteries due to the chemical properties of lithium. It's somewhat volatile, you could say: impact and temperature extremes tend to do bad things to it (whether we're talking explody-boom or cell lifetime). Carbon, on the other hand, is innately stable.
Lithium powered hybrids are just a Bad Idea. I have no idea how they got that shit off the ground.
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Actually, Rush is pretty accurate. He's just (admittedly) biased. It's the bias that gets you - what he's typically saying is not factually inaccurate.
If he were publishing statistics, on the other hand, the bias would be a problem. Thus the Daily Kos credibility comes into question...
Anyone who had to work on these should have been able to notice that the replacement boards (and other components) often had the same parts (capacitors) as the failed parts, never mind the model and revision numbers being identical.
If a part would last 1-2 years on average before definitively failing, why not just give them another part to tide them over? I had an employer during that time that had replaced the boards in all their 270s; during the time I was there, I had those systems start to fail again (roughly 1 year after the replacement). My stupid boss thought it was my fault, claiming my perfect predecessor had fixed the problem - so why are they breaking again? (I must've been doing something wrong. It was ultimately one of the main factors in why the fool fired me.
From what I saw, they did fail all at once: it was usually due to the accumulative effects of cap leakage being exacerbated by the marginal increases of summer temperatures. It didn't take much, but it was enough to push the systems from "crap but usable" to completely unreliable, slow, garbage.
Those stupid fucking machines were a real bitch to swap boards out on, too. By the time the user started to complain (yay for expected instability!) the filesystem was likely corrupt and it needed a reimage. What a huge time sink. It'd take the better part of a day to get the machines back up to the user's previous setup (small shop, stupid practices which were impossible to reverse).
That said, I've got one of the 270s at home right now, running just fine (if a little warm by modern standards).
Most people only pay for cable these days to get cable Internet. They get it bundled, and it's something like $5 (more or less) to un-bundle it. WTF? So they get cable.
The people who are paying $100/month are likely the ones who spend all weekend watching sports broadcasts on their wall plasma displays. There's no other way to get those sports broadcasts (yet) that is user accessible.
Not only that, but at $10/month, why wouldn't I just get Netflix? That's $9/month - and you can get DVDs in the mail of said shows, as well as many, many more.
For free with minimal ads, I'm willing to put up with a small degree of inconvenience and lack of QoS. If I'm going to pay, I want a guarantee of QoS. I don't mind so much if it takes a couple days to get it, but if I'm going to have to deal with their connectivity issues (or my ISPs), no thanks. Watching a show half way through, losing connectivity, and then having to wait to finish it is not fun when you've only got a couple hours a week for such luxury.
That situation might change if I had the option to completely buffer the show before playing it, or download it independently of their shit flash player - but not until.
And no, we don't hook a TV up in our house. 10 minutes of ads for every 30 minutes of "airtime"? Are you kidding me? I don't think so.
Yep.
I once found a picture online of my then-youth pastor drinking bong water. He, of course, denied it was him, and got others to believe it, but I lost confidence in him at that point.
How that picture got online was a mystery, though. This was in 1999 or so, so Internet privacy was not all that common a thought at the time - but then neither were decent digital photos/cameras and web storage. The fact was that the particulars of the photograph were indicatively him. Someone took it.
I'm sure such things happened al lthe time pre-internet, too. It's not just Facebook. It's just that now, such pictures aren't just shared with good friends and kept under the bed (how many of you have been going through Dad's pictures and found ones of ex girlfriends, or the like?) but they're posted on the Internet under the auspices (security theater) of privacy.
Precisely. That kind of woman is for shallow conquests using a pseudonym, not dating. Heaven forbid you actually talk with them. That's an exercise in futility.
That would be the ideal, for both Windows and Ubuntu (or anything else).
With the supposed "yum/apt for Windows using native MSIs" project coming about with official Microsoft sanction, this is obviously a good thing if implemented right.
For Ubuntu, this has been a long time coming. Since we got synaptic it really should've been obvious that adding a store tie-in was the next step.
The "store UI" really isn't a big deal. "I want this app" is pretty clear, and provided some basic app information is available it shouldn't realistically matter one way or another to the user. But, leave it to MS to fuck up a user interface.
It doesn't matter what the content providers package their video in.
If it's not the default format for youporn.com, then nobody cares.
The people in France, Belgium, Poland, England, Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Georgia, the Czech Republic, Albania, and many other countries likely disagree quite strongly with your sentiments.
Perhaps you're also forgetting Hitler's desire to invade the US mainland, upon successful conquest of Europe? How about Iraq's support for hostile action against us, or the militant Islamics who have been plotting (and perpetrating) attacks against US citizens here and abroad?
Perhaps unfortunately, "defense of country" can be taken quite broadly. I would not disagree with such an argument. However, it can not be honestly argued that stopping the encroachment of communism (and wearing their war machine down), stopping national socialism (for a short time :() in Europe, and preventing the rise of totalitarian dictators has been a vain effort contrary to this goal.
When the markets in Asia impact us as much as how well Joe Schmoe at the bakery down the street is doing - and more quickly - the denial of world conflicts impacting our lives is a fairly shallow-minded, self-serving stance.
E-2 is pretty low down the pay grade. I believe a Marine who's been in long enough to see combat is likely to be an E3 at this point, due to the extensive training they go through. I could be mistaken on that.
Yeah, the article even says he's an E-3. But never mind that... Compared to "joe shmoe" jobs, they're still not making jack.
As far as Verizon is concerned... I'd say this is more a result of a large organization with no process for this sort of thing dropping the ball (due to a peon not pushing it up the chain hard enough) than it is one of Verizon being malevolent.
This woman is poison. Every. Single. View. That she has demonstrated has been contrary to the primary tenants of our country: free speech, peaceful assembly and security of our persons, the right to keep & bear arms, and so on. The only demographic she's appealing to is the "let's trample the rights and liberties of the populace" demographic.
She's got no history to speak of - 2 years of actual practice - and everything she has done has been "activist". She's a SC variant of Obama.
But what about an Atom SoC with integrated controllers (ie no support chips - at least none you'd not find on an ARM device) like the newest Atom offerings? You know, the Mooreland that doesn't have a PCI bus and competes favorably (middle of the field) against all the current smartphones with comparable specs (Apple's iPad and iPhone; Snapdragon, etc.)
HFT is, essentially, the exact same thing that the guys in Office Space instigate:
Peter Gibbons: [Explaining the plan] Alright so when the sub routine compounds the interest is uses all these extra decimal places that just get rounded off. So we simplified the whole thing, we rounded them all down, drop the remainder into an account we opened.
Joanna: [Confused] So you're stealing?
Peter Gibbons: Ah no, you don't understand. It's very complicated. It's uh it's aggregate, so I'm talking about fractions of a penny here. And over time they add up to a lot.
Joanna: Oh okay. So you're gonna be making a lot of money, right?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Joanna: Right. It's not yours?
Peter Gibbons: Well it becomes ours.
Joanna: How is that not stealing?
Peter Gibbons: [pauses] I don't think I'm explaining this very well.
Joanna: Okay.
Peter Gibbons: Um... the 7-11. You take a penny from the tray, right?
Joanna: From the cripple children?
Peter Gibbons: No that's the jar. I'm talking about the tray. You know the pennies that are for everybody?
Joanna: Oh for everybody. Okay.
Peter Gibbons: Well those are whole pennies, right? I'm just talking about fractions of a penny here. But we do it from a much bigger tray and we do it a couple a million times.
The only difference here is that the above scenario is illegal, and HFT is not.
Anyone who saw Office Space knew what they were doing was illegal, and probably morally objectable. That was 10 years ago; in the multiple market drops and economic collapses we've seen in the last decade, have we lost our moral, ethical backbone to the point where we should justify these practices?
What Microsoft completely failed to appreciate is the need to make good mobile OSes. If Windows CE hadn't been such a pathetic afterthought, and if it had been given away for free to suffocate the rest of the market, MS would have been in a pretty good place right now.
I'm going to have to call 'nonsense' on this.
Not only are you factually incorrect about the quality of Windows CE, but you put entirely too much weight on mobile computing in general.
Windows CE was, when it was first introduced, leaps and bounds beyond anything else. It was competing against the Palm Pilot Pro (and similar hardware/software) and Symbian/Prism devices and was far beyond those devices in capabilities: it had "native" TCP/IP, graphical display by default, and a web browser - at version 1.0. They were largely limited by not focusing much effort on pushing CE devices and cost/limited utility of the day.
Granted, relative CE capabilities quickly changed with the introduction of OPIE/Qtopia and the like, but even then marketing and mobile hardware cost kept MS/CE devices at a bare "business only" minimum.
Had you been able to get a smartphone for $300 in 1998, things would certainly have been different. But you couldn't - I don't think you could get a bag phone for that much, and even entry-level/last-gen PDAs cost several hundred dollars.
It's only now that the hardware has become capable of running mobile software that people consider MS's mobile offerings to suck. Sure they do: they haven't changed them (significantly) since their inception or put any significant marketing behind them. For something they've barely even tried to sell (compared to their flagship products), CE and kin are still doing miraculously well.
It's quite the irony that, now that Microsoft is finally making products that actually perform as advertised, they are doing poorly financially and in stock price.
Goes to show you how little bearing stock price has to do with anything.
Hopefully, this does not mean that MS will try to revert to their previous 'crippleware' model. A subscription based model for updates would be preferable to that.
Sure. And who, exactly, is going to contribute to an open source project written intentionally obfuscated? Nobody. Then the project gets the reputation of being shoddy, and nobody uses it.
Or, there's also the "we'll just rewrite this little obfuscation and fork it" scenario.
Open Source thrives on its quality and dies from crap like this. People don't contribute to dead projects: they fork them or reimplement them.
Evidently, my point is somewhere you are not.
In what world does an oil spill in the Gulf cause starvation and deprivation in Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, etc.? Last I checked, regional warlords, backwards traditions and culture, totalitarian states, and the like tend to cause such symptoms.
Maybe they could spend a couple minutes once a year on the news displaying footage of why we're at war, then. You know, something like those "feed a kid in Africa for $1/day" videos, except with the cause of the hunger and depravity.
It makes absolutely no sense to air the consequences of war without understanding the causes. It's like lauding students for getting straight As but never once mentioning that hard study is typically/should be required for such a feat to be accomplished.
Were you fired for being gay, or hitting on all the other guys? I say this because most of the people I've known who are openly sexual (ie in preference of one gender or another) have been obnoxious poon/dick hounds, commonly treading on "sexual harassment" terms several times a day.
I've known a couple people who were gay who weren't like this: I, and most others, did not know they were gay until some time later.
Have you worked in healthcare? How about in a female-dominated work environment?
It takes a very special kind of male to work with a bunch of women. Everything you do will likely be taken as offensive; everything you don't do will likewise have fault found with it. If you enjoy catty office politics and grudges for trivial non-intended offenses, go right ahead...
Of course, the same could probably be said for the kind of person who thinks of themselves as a Night Elf.
But they haven't, quite.
Sure, the source code is open and free. But the game itself? Not so much. You won't be playing Doom to completion in 10 years without an illicit copy of the WADs.
CTS, best post in the thread. Thanks!
How's the horror film thing in NYC going? Where do you haunt now that K5 killed itself?
Of course, TFA completely overlooks the newer line of Mooreland Atom processors from Intel.
It also ignores the fact that cell phones are a throw-away market. There isn't nearly the 'data lock-in' that the x86 architecture has. Where smartphones can have their software sized to the hardware, Intel (and AMD) are forced to size to the software. Not only does this limit what Intel can do, it limits how fast they can do it.
15 minutes? You must be using the wrong batteries, or something. That's horrible runtime.
You can easily find single-cell Lithium rechargeables (18650 cells) with 3200Mah ratings which deliver 3V. They're not cheap, but they're not that hard to find, either.
I'm not saying li-ions are awesome, but you're kind of understating things a bit, eh?
IIRC, thermal runaway, as you call it, is a problem specific to Lithium based batteries due to the chemical properties of lithium. It's somewhat volatile, you could say: impact and temperature extremes tend to do bad things to it (whether we're talking explody-boom or cell lifetime). Carbon, on the other hand, is innately stable.
Lithium powered hybrids are just a Bad Idea. I have no idea how they got that shit off the ground.