Can you back this up with facts? I would be interested in how many millionaires are savvy businessmen and how many are stupid kids who inherited their wealth without doing squat.
Okay, let's use the phase "first-generation millionaires". The inheritence to children is often wasted (e.g., kid with millions ends up as a cashier at Blockbuster video). However, some families have children arrogant enough to keep the millions rolling in (they, by chance, turn out to be savvy, also).
I'm pretty convinced that most people get lots of money through personal traits (good contract negotiating, spotting worthwhile risks, accounting knowledge, being able to manage people, etc). A person can't make that kind of money--and maintain it--simply through a lucky inheritance.
People whose lives are so devoid of substance that they spend hours each day reading about the life of someone more concerned with documenting their life than living it?
What about people whose life is so devoid of substance that they spend hours each day documenting their life rather than living it?
The bloggers are just as worrysome as the blog-readers...
(And, no, slashdot isn't the type of blog being referred to, here)
I am getting SO TIRED of benchmark results being posted with y-axes that go from 2500 to 2600 showing the relative "improvement" of newer, faster cpu's when they ought to be scaled from 0 to X "mips", "flops" or whatevers so that you can see at a glance that the changes are or are not significant.
Somewhere an Intel marketing-droid dies from a laughter-buffer overflow.;)
Perhaps I am naive, but couldn't developers simply set up a separate genuine bank account and post its number on-line? Isn't it possible to wire money directly to a bank account using only its account number plus some sort of routing number?
With a separate bank account, keeping records for tax purposes would be trivial, too.
No it's not. When was the last time you paid your rent in fame?
Agreed. Additionally, fame+money is very rare in society. Most millionaires are savvy businessmen almost no one has never heard of, and, quite honestly, most millionaires are simply regular people who had unique insight and were willing to take a risk. Fame equals money only in the eyes of the likes of CNN (movie deals for Jessica Lynch...blecch), which applies to only a small number of people each year.
Truth is there can be only so many famous people, before the "audience" becomes saturated and looks elsewhere. If there were 500 "boy bands" instead of several, would the phenomenon of "boy bands" have ever occurred? (whether they should have been successful is for another thread at another time...)
For example, I get angry anytime a salesperson tries to tell me what I need. "Oh, you don't want to buy that level of insurance...what you really need is...." I'm sorry if your other customers have jelly-for-brains, but you have no place telling me what I want.
Car salespeople can be really bad: (effectively) "You would be a stupid idiot for buying that Reasona TakeYouPlaces when you could buy the Expenso Bounce-a-Check. Only retarded losers buy anything from Reasona. Look, the Bounce-a-check comes with foot massage!"
Imagine encoding these sales-losers into your BANK ACCOUNT! It's only a matter of time before these phones become tools for their marketing masters.
Computers should automate boring/repetitive tasks to make our lives easier.
I 110% agree, in the sense that computers should absolutely not become our lives for us.
It seems that there is some cultural evolution occuring where people are literally addicted to computers and looking to put computers into inappropriate portions of their lives. This may be why hard-core artificial intelligence projects are not bearing fruit--deep down, we are telling ourselves not to push this stuff too far.
Perhaps the worst extrapolated possibility: the child-rearing robot (now parents can have more hours of PlayStation fun each day! who really wants to read to their children, anyway? parent-child bonding, who needs that?!?)
Baptists are the only Christian group I can think of which seems to have this fixation, but even they don't have this insanity. I'm certain the people who think this game is a good idea do not read the bible, except for the "safe" sections. I bet they stick little post-it notes everywhere with the "happy" lines, neatly cropped from betwixt two "nasty" lines.
The message in the Bible is written within a world of disease, common prostitution, gorey punishments, and rationalized cruelty. Christ, within this world, sees everything, and learns from it. He makes a choice to counter the cruelty, and teaches others to help. He teaches that the evils pass if you don't reciprocate, or evils will become stronger with vengeful acts. A Christian who understands this message can take enlightened meaning and understanding from any situation, especially when things go wrong. A Christian wants to increase common well-being, decrease common suffering, and teach others to enjoy life and let transient suffering pass on and die.
Instead, if you are worried about such results, share them with your family doctor.
Family doctors are generalists and are not qualified to answer specific psychiatric questions or, really, specific questions of most any kind.
I'd trust a doctor to provide misdiagnoses at least as frequently as correct ones. Doctors also have financial conflicts of interest that lessen their ability to provide honest opinions. Sometimes, especially at nursing homes, doctors will kill off less profitable patients, just because.
Now, I certainly do go for an annual physical, to the dentist, etc., but this article and the one about ADD, recently, just reinforce--irreponsibly--the notion that there are diseases where there usually aren't ones, that people should see doctors unnecessarily, and that people should consider prescription drugs needlessly.
People genuinely affected by this PDD and ADD stuff, in truth, are very few and far between. Most of you, believe it or not, are normal, plus or minus a little.
It would make an interesting Open Source experiment. Neither Apple nor IBM need endorse it, nor could either company really stop it (e.g., Microsoft hasn't stopped Samba or WINE, yet).
Another thing is that two XServes plus the RAID array would be enough storage and horsepower to run a medium-sized business. Not many businesses need more than a terabyte of storage, anyway (geez, we're up to terabytes, now).
From Sun's point of view, this would be two V210s plus one of those 3310 arrays.
Sun is 2 x $5,900 + $26,000 = $37,800 (Sun Store) Apple is 2 x $4,200 + $7,700 = $16,100 (Apple Store)
The main differences between these configurations is that the Sun stuff is 100% 10,000RPM Ultra160 SCSI and the 3310 array is telco-ruggedized. The Suns are probably more network-managable and have better hardware diagnostics, better MTBF stats, and better overall bandwidth. However, they have very simpilar CPU-power, RAM, RAID cache, disk space, etc., which is compelling.
Does anybody realize what this will do to marketshare when Apple can functionally substitute for RS/6000 workstations as the low cost provider on the low end?
Well, if someone provides a compatibility layer like the *BSDs do (e.g., Solaris binaries on OpenBSD/sparc), there would be many RS/6000 applications that could run on the Power Macs under Mac OS X, especially if OS X has a compatible OpenGL implementation.
The 2GHz UltraSPARC III would run around $20,000 where the 2GHz PPC 970 will go for around $5,000.
I assume you are referring to full workstation prices rather than the price of the CPU itself. It is true that Sun's bread and butter is now servers. Their workstations are very good, but the PPC 970 and the Opteron will be very compelling alternatives (especially price/performance).
If you look at the individual scores, you'll see one that stands out as an outlier.
You are right. It looks like the Alpha, for example, is more well rounded, where higher scores elsewhere balance the US III's really high single-test score.
...they won't let me plug in the Apple G4 laptop I've been using for the last 18 months in case of viruses.
They are quite retarded. In fact, the only use I've seen for virus software on UNIX/Linux/basically-anything-non-Windows is to scan e-mail attachments on their way to Windows clients!
The PPC970 wit its Power4 core, clocked at 1.6GHz completely trashes a 3GHz P4.
I just realized that the new Power Macs would be the RS-6000 wannabe workstation for people who couldn't afford the real deal.
Both the Apple and IBM machines now have 64-bit Power 4-derived CPUs, gigabytes of RAM, decent graphics, etc. The IBM machine will certainly stand out as the workstation that overdosed on steroids, and the new Power Mac will be better suited to those who value moderation in all things.
That makes these machines the equivalent of a 6-10 GHz machine.
Almost. The dual 2GHz G5 would be like a 6-10 GHz Pentium 4.
Quite honestly, this would be true of any dual 2GHz UltraSPARC III, Itanium 2, or recent Alpha (if these CPUs ran that that clock rate). If you extrapolate the numbers at spec.org, the Pentium 4 looks really weak by comparison (e.g., the Alpha fp-rate numbers blew me away--it's really too bad HP is marketing the Itanic). Even the often-slammed UltraSPARC III is a fp-rate monster (it just lags in the integer stuff).
What about moving from programming to system administration?
One problem I percieve is that employers currently have a surplus of canidates and have a luxury of being very choosy. So, for example, I have a stacked resume but not much system-administration-specific work experience, so I am already at a disadvantage relative to someone with even one solid year of sysadmin work under their belt.
It feels as if making any career change, right now, is an uphill battle.
But problem domain experts are not. This is why interviewing for a programming position can be so frustrating. It is also hard to get past the severe biases present among programmers and the companies that hire programmers (e.g., "We use Struts. Struts is like manna from the gods, because we read about it in Java Slut magazine." or "Ant is better than make...because it's Java and XML and is the latest craze among us teenie-boppers"). System administrators are not immune, either (I know sysadmins who avoid even talking to each other, because of Windows vs. UNIX issues).
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Can you back this up with facts? I would be interested in how many millionaires are savvy businessmen and how many are stupid kids who inherited their wealth without doing squat.
Okay, let's use the phase "first-generation millionaires". The inheritence to children is often wasted (e.g., kid with millions ends up as a cashier at Blockbuster video). However, some families have children arrogant enough to keep the millions rolling in (they, by chance, turn out to be savvy, also).
I'm pretty convinced that most people get lots of money through personal traits (good contract negotiating, spotting worthwhile risks, accounting knowledge, being able to manage people, etc). A person can't make that kind of money--and maintain it--simply through a lucky inheritance.
Is making money the only important thing? ...yes.
You'd be suprised how many people don't care what they do, as long as they get money out of the deal. I believe they are called "business majors".
People whose lives are so devoid of substance that they spend hours each day reading about the life of someone more concerned with documenting their life than living it?
What about people whose life is so devoid of substance that they spend hours each day documenting their life rather than living it?
The bloggers are just as worrysome as the blog-readers...
(And, no, slashdot isn't the type of blog being referred to, here)
Geez, so it comes with wheels, now? It that what they mean by "mobile"?
I am getting SO TIRED of benchmark results being posted with y-axes that go from 2500 to 2600 showing the relative "improvement" of newer, faster cpu's when they ought to be scaled from 0 to X "mips", "flops" or whatevers so that you can see at a glance that the changes are or are not significant.
;)
Somewhere an Intel marketing-droid dies from a laughter-buffer overflow.
Cons: It costs more than a used car!
If that doesn't put the true cost of computers into perspective, I don't know what would.
Now, why should businesses be so damn arrogant to expect resumes in Word format, again???
So you're saying that they're famous? ;^)
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Paypal has some problems.
Perhaps I am naive, but couldn't developers simply set up a separate genuine bank account and post its number on-line? Isn't it possible to wire money directly to a bank account using only its account number plus some sort of routing number?
With a separate bank account, keeping records for tax purposes would be trivial, too.
No it's not. When was the last time you paid your rent in fame?
Agreed. Additionally, fame+money is very rare in society. Most millionaires are savvy businessmen almost no one has never heard of, and, quite honestly, most millionaires are simply regular people who had unique insight and were willing to take a risk. Fame equals money only in the eyes of the likes of CNN (movie deals for Jessica Lynch...blecch), which applies to only a small number of people each year.
Truth is there can be only so many famous people, before the "audience" becomes saturated and looks elsewhere. If there were 500 "boy bands" instead of several, would the phenomenon of "boy bands" have ever occurred? (whether they should have been successful is for another thread at another time...)
For example, I get angry anytime a salesperson tries to tell me what I need. "Oh, you don't want to buy that level of insurance...what you really need is...." I'm sorry if your other customers have jelly-for-brains, but you have no place telling me what I want.
Car salespeople can be really bad: (effectively) "You would be a stupid idiot for buying that Reasona TakeYouPlaces when you could buy the Expenso Bounce-a-Check. Only retarded losers buy anything from Reasona. Look, the Bounce-a-check comes with foot massage!"
Imagine encoding these sales-losers into your BANK ACCOUNT! It's only a matter of time before these phones become tools for their marketing masters.
Computers should automate boring/repetitive tasks to make our lives easier.
I 110% agree, in the sense that computers should absolutely not become our lives for us.
It seems that there is some cultural evolution occuring where people are literally addicted to computers and looking to put computers into inappropriate portions of their lives. This may be why hard-core artificial intelligence projects are not bearing fruit--deep down, we are telling ourselves not to push this stuff too far.
Perhaps the worst extrapolated possibility: the child-rearing robot (now parents can have more hours of PlayStation fun each day! who really wants to read to their children, anyway? parent-child bonding, who needs that?!?)
Baptists are the only Christian group I can think of which seems to have this fixation, but even they don't have this insanity. I'm certain the people who think this game is a good idea do not read the bible, except for the "safe" sections. I bet they stick little post-it notes everywhere with the "happy" lines, neatly cropped from betwixt two "nasty" lines.
The message in the Bible is written within a world of disease, common prostitution, gorey punishments, and rationalized cruelty. Christ, within this world, sees everything, and learns from it. He makes a choice to counter the cruelty, and teaches others to help. He teaches that the evils pass if you don't reciprocate, or evils will become stronger with vengeful acts. A Christian who understands this message can take enlightened meaning and understanding from any situation, especially when things go wrong. A Christian wants to increase common well-being, decrease common suffering, and teach others to enjoy life and let transient suffering pass on and die.
Very well said. Thanks.
Instead, if you are worried about such results, share them with your family doctor.
Family doctors are generalists and are not qualified to answer specific psychiatric questions or, really, specific questions of most any kind.
I'd trust a doctor to provide misdiagnoses at least as frequently as correct ones. Doctors also have financial conflicts of interest that lessen their ability to provide honest opinions. Sometimes, especially at nursing homes, doctors will kill off less profitable patients, just because.
Now, I certainly do go for an annual physical, to the dentist, etc., but this article and the one about ADD, recently, just reinforce--irreponsibly--the notion that there are diseases where there usually aren't ones, that people should see doctors unnecessarily, and that people should consider prescription drugs needlessly.
People genuinely affected by this PDD and ADD stuff, in truth, are very few and far between. Most of you, believe it or not, are normal, plus or minus a little.
Subject: [ADV] Print yourself a bigger Penis!!!!
Well, this could mean a whole new class of vending machines at certain "brown bag" stores.
...to "It's funny,laugh"?
Or, "It's exciting in the way a soap opera is exciting, so laugh but not really mean it?"
What 3rd party would want to take it on?
It would make an interesting Open Source experiment. Neither Apple nor IBM need endorse it, nor could either company really stop it (e.g., Microsoft hasn't stopped Samba or WINE, yet).
I just would rather get an XServe...
Another thing is that two XServes plus the RAID array would be enough storage and horsepower to run a medium-sized business. Not many businesses need more than a terabyte of storage, anyway (geez, we're up to terabytes, now).
From Sun's point of view, this would be two V210s plus one of those 3310 arrays.
Sun is 2 x $5,900 + $26,000 = $37,800 (Sun Store)
Apple is 2 x $4,200 + $7,700 = $16,100 (Apple Store)
The main differences between these configurations is that the Sun stuff is 100% 10,000RPM Ultra160 SCSI and the 3310 array is telco-ruggedized. The Suns are probably more network-managable and have better hardware diagnostics, better MTBF stats, and better overall bandwidth. However, they have very simpilar CPU-power, RAM, RAID cache, disk space, etc., which is compelling.
Does anybody realize what this will do to marketshare when Apple can functionally substitute for RS/6000 workstations as the low cost provider on the low end?
Well, if someone provides a compatibility layer like the *BSDs do (e.g., Solaris binaries on OpenBSD/sparc), there would be many RS/6000 applications that could run on the Power Macs under Mac OS X, especially if OS X has a compatible OpenGL implementation.
The 2GHz UltraSPARC III would run around $20,000 where the 2GHz PPC 970 will go for around $5,000.
I assume you are referring to full workstation prices rather than the price of the CPU itself. It is true that Sun's bread and butter is now servers. Their workstations are very good, but the PPC 970 and the Opteron will be very compelling alternatives (especially price/performance).
If you look at the individual scores, you'll see one that stands out as an outlier.
You are right. It looks like the Alpha, for example, is more well rounded, where higher scores elsewhere balance the US III's really high single-test score.
...they won't let me plug in the Apple G4 laptop I've been using for the last 18 months in case of viruses.
They are quite retarded. In fact, the only use I've seen for virus software on UNIX/Linux/basically-anything-non-Windows is to scan e-mail attachments on their way to Windows clients!
The PPC970 wit its Power4 core, clocked at 1.6GHz completely trashes a 3GHz P4.
I just realized that the new Power Macs would be the RS-6000 wannabe workstation for people who couldn't afford the real deal.
Both the Apple and IBM machines now have 64-bit Power 4-derived CPUs, gigabytes of RAM, decent graphics, etc. The IBM machine will certainly stand out as the workstation that overdosed on steroids, and the new Power Mac will be better suited to those who value moderation in all things.
That makes these machines the equivalent of a 6-10 GHz machine.
Almost. The dual 2GHz G5 would be like a 6-10 GHz Pentium 4.
Quite honestly, this would be true of any dual 2GHz UltraSPARC III, Itanium 2, or recent Alpha (if these CPUs ran that that clock rate). If you extrapolate the numbers at spec.org, the Pentium 4 looks really weak by comparison (e.g., the Alpha fp-rate numbers blew me away--it's really too bad HP is marketing the Itanic). Even the often-slammed UltraSPARC III is a fp-rate monster (it just lags in the integer stuff).
What about moving from programming to system administration?
One problem I percieve is that employers currently have a surplus of canidates and have a luxury of being very choosy. So, for example, I have a stacked resume but not much system-administration-specific work experience, so I am already at a disadvantage relative to someone with even one solid year of sysadmin work under their belt.
It feels as if making any career change, right now, is an uphill battle.
Programmers are a dime a dozen ;)
But problem domain experts are not. This is why interviewing for a programming position can be so frustrating. It is also hard to get past the severe biases present among programmers and the companies that hire programmers (e.g., "We use Struts. Struts is like manna from the gods, because we read about it in Java Slut magazine." or "Ant is better than make...because it's Java and XML and is the latest craze among us teenie-boppers"). System administrators are not immune, either (I know sysadmins who avoid even talking to each other, because of Windows vs. UNIX issues).
Clearly, I'm not unbiased either (sigh).