I actually was referring to DDR3 but after checking, I was completely wrong about price. Late last year Kingston was pretty much the only manufacturer that (sporadically) had 2x8GB ECC on the market. So I snagged it around $170. Thought that it would have dropped significantly in price by now; it hasn't budged. But now there are more suppliers.
I had a few crashes even with 8GB until bumping to 16GB. Since then my zfs server runs flawlessly (and fast). So imho 10GB or higher should be considered minimum. And 2x8GB ECC modules aren't that expensive any more so ECC always.
Your original premise is that things should be almost free. When you reach the ripe old age of 18 and enter the real world, you'll slowly realize it's actually good that things aren't free.
And perhaps realize that society is composed of individuals, most of which are not all that bad. Then proceed on to actually enjoying life, and take the tribulations in stride.
There's even a contact address at the bottom of the page you can use to report the signs of collusion you've witnessed: antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov.
You realize the companies you're talking about are almost all public? Of which the balance sheets and P&Ls are available in the 10Q/Ks filed with the SEC every quarter, fully viewable just a few clicks away?
If you want to make a direct difference, you can. Fire up Etrade and buy a few shares of Micron or any other tech company you feel is gouging or not fairly considering "human effort". Then you'll (literally) be one of the "rich owners" and can voice your concerns at their annual meeting.
Having said that, collusion is the complaint you're really referring to, but just didn't know it. And that's already deemed illegal so you can rest easy now.
The thing that really makes it worse is that modern science has been folded into the delusion mix. Like the whole Jenny McCarthy anti-vaccine travesty, it's almost impossible to innoculate a broad audience against the scientific misinformation that appears on Oprah, The View, the Copeland megachurch shows, etc.
In the pre-media conglomerate days, a delusion that was demonstrably false would dead-end relatively quickly. Only a small set of people would remain believers and be (appropriately) labeled as "crazies".
Now within days any pseudoscience crap can go straight into the cultural "fact" database. There's too much info being dumped into the social toilet and few plumbers to actually debunk most of it. So the toilet simply clogs.
Easily explained. "Thank you for being a comrade", and therefore the cosmonaut reference, was in the Russian version of the Golden Girls. If memory serves, it starred Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya.
Hard to believe but the domains were definitely registered at Melbourne IT. So this wasn't a typical hijack and transfer attack. Melbourne IT has always been absolute bottom-rung as far as service goes, why such large orgs use them remains a mystery. Their reputation for security is the only thing they had. Now that's been vaporized.
Which boils down to...they need a product focused person. Someone like Marissa Mayer. A seriously good read no matter how you feel about her turnaround methodology at Yahoo:
It's hard to imagine they'll find a single person to undo the last 13 years of stagnation at MSFT but it could happen. I suspect Yahoo will be the turnaround case study in B-school five years from now. Not Microsoft.
Thinking out loud, I'd consider the potatoes thing to be more of a feature than a bug, assuming they were indeed out of stock of 5-lb bags and didn't screw you on the price difference, etc.
If your dinner's recipe was totally messed up by not having any potatoes, you'd be pretty pissed. But getting a few to hold you over seems like a reasonable gesture.
I guess the point is that it speaks to the issue of customer service for deliveries in general. It's more than just getting the groceries to your doorstep, they need to build in other above-and-beyond services as well.
This is what I did with my recently purchased Samsung Chromebook:
1) Put in dev mode, very simple 2) Plug in a high quality 8 or 16GB SDHC card 3) Open crosh in a Chrome tab, and open a bash shell within that 4) Install crouton (XFCE) onto the memory card. Boot (it's simply chrooted). 5) Use Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Backspace to switch between the two OS's
I may have left out a minor step or two but it's a fully functional portable dev environment for under $200. Runs smoothly and has great battery life. The only caveat is getting certain packages compiled under the arm architecture, I had some hiccups along the way. But building major packages like postgres were fine.
Bottom line is that I wasn't expecting much and really only bought it as a lark, and only for its intended use as a browser-based OS. But because it's so lightweight and functional, I'm using it more and more each day for actual work. YMMV.
I think there are subtle differences in interpretation when discussing wealth inequity.
Wealth inequity won't ever go away and in itself isn't bad. If you work harder than your neighbor then your net worth should eventually be greater. That's the American Way (tm).
The problem is when you reach a tipping point where 1% of the population owns 30%+ of the gross net worth of a country. Because of that overwhelming wealth, it results in the owners having a huge amount of influence in the political and legal processes. Meaning they can fund lobbyists to bend lawmaking to their wishes, and they can afford the absolutely best legal representation after breaking laws (i.e. powerful enough to be above the law).
That's seems to be crux of the wealth inequity argument imho. Viewing it as some type of "jealousy" by your viewpoint, and its systemic effect on the other (the OP).
I withdrew $500 in cash from my bank, went to Walmart and had a Moneygram sent to Bitinstant. Within an hour it was in my Mt Gox account, minus all the fixed and transaction fees (a somewhat hefty $25). Certainly inconvenient but the process is pretty straightforward once you understand how it works. YMMV.
Of course this doesn't consider what's involved in getting USD out of Mt. Gox which is ideally just the inverse. But I planned on spending the bitcoins so it wasn't a consideration.
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Tonight I'm going to tell my wife she has "a lovable hind". If I'm still alive tomorrow, will let you guys know how it went.
I actually was referring to DDR3 but after checking, I was completely wrong about price. Late last year Kingston was pretty much the only manufacturer that (sporadically) had 2x8GB ECC on the market. So I snagged it around $170. Thought that it would have dropped significantly in price by now; it hasn't budged. But now there are more suppliers.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239117
I had a few crashes even with 8GB until bumping to 16GB. Since then my zfs server runs flawlessly (and fast). So imho 10GB or higher should be considered minimum. And 2x8GB ECC modules aren't that expensive any more so ECC always.
Your original premise is that things should be almost free. When you reach the ripe old age of 18 and enter the real world, you'll slowly realize it's actually good that things aren't free.
And perhaps realize that society is composed of individuals, most of which are not all that bad. Then proceed on to actually enjoying life, and take the tribulations in stride.
Good night.
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/guidelines/211578.htm
There's even a contact address at the bottom of the page you can use to report the signs of collusion you've witnessed: antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov.
Anyway, that's how it works in the grownup world.
You realize the companies you're talking about are almost all public? Of which the balance sheets and P&Ls are available in the 10Q/Ks filed with the SEC every quarter, fully viewable just a few clicks away?
If you want to make a direct difference, you can. Fire up Etrade and buy a few shares of Micron or any other tech company you feel is gouging or not fairly considering "human effort". Then you'll (literally) be one of the "rich owners" and can voice your concerns at their annual meeting.
Having said that, collusion is the complaint you're really referring to, but just didn't know it. And that's already deemed illegal so you can rest easy now.
The thing that really makes it worse is that modern science has been folded into the delusion mix. Like the whole Jenny McCarthy anti-vaccine travesty, it's almost impossible to innoculate a broad audience against the scientific misinformation that appears on Oprah, The View, the Copeland megachurch shows, etc.
In the pre-media conglomerate days, a delusion that was demonstrably false would dead-end relatively quickly. Only a small set of people would remain believers and be (appropriately) labeled as "crazies".
Now within days any pseudoscience crap can go straight into the cultural "fact" database. There's too much info being dumped into the social toilet and few plumbers to actually debunk most of it. So the toilet simply clogs.
Ditto for politics.
I feel the same way about ACs.
Easily explained. "Thank you for being a comrade", and therefore the cosmonaut reference, was in the Russian version of the Golden Girls. If memory serves, it starred Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya.
An interesting rebuttal to the microwave oven anecdote, specifically during the Serbian war:
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=48;t=000208;p=0
So you're favoring "Microsoft Gets Elopped" over "Nokia Gets Ballmered"?
Both may turn out to be valid.
Hard to believe but the domains were definitely registered at Melbourne IT. So this wasn't a typical hijack and transfer attack. Melbourne IT has always been absolute bottom-rung as far as service goes, why such large orgs use them remains a mystery. Their reputation for security is the only thing they had. Now that's been vaporized.
Don't copy that jalopy!
Which boils down to...they need a product focused person. Someone like Marissa Mayer. A seriously good read no matter how you feel about her turnaround methodology at Yahoo:
http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-biography-2013-8
It's hard to imagine they'll find a single person to undo the last 13 years of stagnation at MSFT but it could happen. I suspect Yahoo will be the turnaround case study in B-school five years from now. Not Microsoft.
Fellow Seton Hitler here, majored in grammar. So, do you heil from there?
Thinking out loud, I'd consider the potatoes thing to be more of a feature than a bug, assuming they were indeed out of stock of 5-lb bags and didn't screw you on the price difference, etc.
If your dinner's recipe was totally messed up by not having any potatoes, you'd be pretty pissed. But getting a few to hold you over seems like a reasonable gesture.
I guess the point is that it speaks to the issue of customer service for deliveries in general. It's more than just getting the groceries to your doorstep, they need to build in other above-and-beyond services as well.
NS was buggy and targeted by MS, both were true back then. Put another way, it was one of Microsoft's easier kills.
iOS developer for over two decades? Is that like being a quantum physicist for over 150 years?
(Apologies, embarrassing myself by using that line has been on my todo list forever. Check.)
Aliens? That's stupid. It's the high density of vinegar in the atmosphere that causes the meteors to superheat and explode.
Same here, it's an unholy mess. But this direct link should work fine: http://vimeo.com/72228503
This is what I did with my recently purchased Samsung Chromebook:
1) Put in dev mode, very simple
2) Plug in a high quality 8 or 16GB SDHC card
3) Open crosh in a Chrome tab, and open a bash shell within that
4) Install crouton (XFCE) onto the memory card. Boot (it's simply chrooted).
5) Use Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Backspace to switch between the two OS's
I may have left out a minor step or two but it's a fully functional portable dev environment for under $200. Runs smoothly and has great battery life. The only caveat is getting certain packages compiled under the arm architecture, I had some hiccups along the way. But building major packages like postgres were fine.
Bottom line is that I wasn't expecting much and really only bought it as a lark, and only for its intended use as a browser-based OS. But because it's so lightweight and functional, I'm using it more and more each day for actual work. YMMV.
Yes, definitely a typo on their part. Decimal point should be shifted one place to the left.
Just a nitpick, you're a wee bit off there with $500B. Actual cash on balance sheet is $76B. Market cap is approximately $273B.
I think there are subtle differences in interpretation when discussing wealth inequity.
Wealth inequity won't ever go away and in itself isn't bad. If you work harder than your neighbor then your net worth should eventually be greater. That's the American Way (tm).
The problem is when you reach a tipping point where 1% of the population owns 30%+ of the gross net worth of a country. Because of that overwhelming wealth, it results in the owners having a huge amount of influence in the political and legal processes. Meaning they can fund lobbyists to bend lawmaking to their wishes, and they can afford the absolutely best legal representation after breaking laws (i.e. powerful enough to be above the law).
That's seems to be crux of the wealth inequity argument imho. Viewing it as some type of "jealousy" by your viewpoint, and its systemic effect on the other (the OP).
I withdrew $500 in cash from my bank, went to Walmart and had a Moneygram sent to Bitinstant. Within an hour it was in my Mt Gox account, minus all the fixed and transaction fees (a somewhat hefty $25). Certainly inconvenient but the process is pretty straightforward once you understand how it works. YMMV.
Of course this doesn't consider what's involved in getting USD out of Mt. Gox which is ideally just the inverse. But I planned on spending the bitcoins so it wasn't a consideration.