A hold over from the days when Microsoft would blame the hardware manufacturers for all their software bugs.
I must have missed the memo saying that those days actually ended. Every post I see these days detailing crashes peope have on Windows seems to have the fanbois bitching about "bad drivers" written by the hardware manufacturers.
Don't forget - from two separate vendors. Also, if somehow (via mergers, acquisitions, etc.) one controlling organization becomes the owner of both implementations, the standard is in abeyance until yet another one is developed. This would also have the salutary effect of keeping such hideous languages as perl and ruby from being standardized. Remember - if it's not good enough to have more than one implementation, it's not good enough for a standard.
... there hasn't been a new one built since the 1970's...
However, expansion of current plants has pretty much kept pace with demand. Note that the reason that there are few new plants is because there has been a lack of people unwilling to invest in the construction of new plants. There are two reasons for this. First, it's easier to expand then to build new. Second, neither the short-term nor the long-term ROI is there for these kind of major investments. Easily recoverable oil reserves are shrinking, leading to an increase in oil costs, leading to a decrease in the margins on petroleum products. There goes your incentives to build refineries. Note that there is also a decrease in the amount of new oil extraction infrastructure being built, too (rigs, etc.), due to the same reasons.
So, yes, refineries have a small shortfall at the moment - it's not because of the big, bad people not wanting smelly refineries in their back yards - it's because the ROI isn't there.
The ASIO implementation on most on-board chipsets (that I have used) is atrocious to the point of being unusable.
Well, to be fair, the ASIO implementation on most audio devices sucks pretty bad, in general. You have to go with relatively high-end stuff before you start getting reasonable latencies and response.
Marketing is no longer the necessary evil in the organization, it metastasizes becomes the prime evil that infects every part of the organization, corrupting and destroying until there is nothing left but rot and ruin.
This is not always true. The fact is that a good marketing organization will balance short- and long-term gains and can focus the company's product and investment directions for long term growth. Examples: Johnson and Johnson, Procter and Gamble, 3M, Honda, Caterpillar, Burlington Northern, etc. - all grand old brands with marketing that is effective and balanced.
Unfortunately, the tech industry has been built on the back of venture capital and stock speculators with their need for explosive short-term growth, regardless of the long-term havoc (including failure of the organization) that this wreaks. It is no wonder that in this environment the "anything for a quick buck" mentality thrives and the marketing culture does, as you say, metastasize.
Windows itself gained a lot of market share fast back in the day, because the 386 version was pretty much the only thing that [had] preemptive multitasking, at least for legacy apps...
Uh, no. In fact, it wasn't until the Win32 families of APIs came about that the OS became preemptive. Especially for legacy applications, which were heavily dependent on cooperative multitasking, just like in Windows 3.1. In fact, the Windows platform was rather late to the multitasking party, given that machines like the Amiga had it years before Windows did. Those of us who remember such technological wonders as near/far pointers, code thunking, etc. which Windows, as an OS did not have to expose (even the 286 had a 32-bit mode), know that Windows was crappy. The bottom line is that, just like in other things, Microsoft was behind the technological curve on the multiprocessing aspect of the software experience, as well.
I hope this is not the case and will vote for him in the primary regardless. However, what you say is the conventional wisdom. And that's a shame. Not only was he first in the fight, while Merkley was sitting back scared that someone with higher visibility than him would get into the race, but Novick is a real Democrat, while Merkley has been the local equivalent of a DLC (read spineless corporatist) Democrat. Of course, this also means that Merkley is much better funded. Y'all could help, though. I'm sure that Steve would appreciate a donation or five. And, if he can beat Merkley, there's a good chance he could wipe the floor with Gordo. After all, Novick can actually contrast himself with Smith, while Merkley will just be another lukewarm, MotR Democratic candidate. Novick is the best Democrat in this race. Remember - he's the guy with the strong left hook!
Most phone SDKs are so bad no one wants to develop software for them anyway. Add in the fact that the platforms are so heterogeneous you have to develop a piece of software five or six times, each with a different crappy SDK and emulation environment (most of which have their own set of bugs) to get coverage means that there isn't going to be that big a pool of non-corporate developed software, anyway. Maybe (and it's a very small maybe) Android will fix this, but I doubt it.
If you spend the money, you can get 100% uptime guarantees.
I'd say you can get close, but as far as I know, not even the zSeries has a purchasable 100% guarantee - 99.999%, probably; active failover to a separate site, yes; but everyone has "act of God" clauses.
Well, I would assume it means a close to linear speedup for some reasonable N, where N represents the number of computational units thrown at the problem (be it functional units in a CPU, cores on a chip, or chips in machines) - at least that's what it usually means in the computational literature. Now, of course, your definitions of "close" and "reasonable" or your pick of which processor level you're looking at may vary, but didn't Barbie say that "CS is hard," or something like that?
... they wore miniskirts and you could give them a nice slap on the ass to say "job well done!"
Yeah. And you buttheads with all your computers and technology came along and made them not cost efficient. Now you know why you can't get a date. Idiots.
To me, at least, it seems incredibly obvious that the punishments are beyond the limits of sanity. Yes, my station plays underground rock and hip-hop at night...
Yup. You should be fined for poor taste, instead;-).
Your vandalism of the language is less important than the sensibilities of others that would prefer to hear tracts of communications that aren't littered by detritus, poop-language, banal references to sex, and other excreta.
Unfortunately, we get pharmaceutical and personal product advertisements that regularly touch on these topics, and they are not deemed obscene due to the absence of particular words. But if the words are obscene and should be banned, shouldn't the subject matter be banned as well? After all, words are just representations of concepts and it seems that the concepts involved are just as obscene (or not, as the case may be). So, yeah, I'd be willing to lose f*ck if I didn't have to see another Cialis or Viagra ad, or a sh*t or two, if I didn't have to see another ad for a diarrhea remedy, but unless you're willing to make that trade, I don't see why you should be willing to ban the word, but not the subject.
I think the distinction here needed is not average income, but average income per household (today that is more like $48k.)
Because, of course, it's fine that two people have to work rather than one to have the same relative wage as at that time. It's simply the joy of the free market in action!
By walking out at that point they achieve 3 political goals: 1) They prevent the contempt issue from being settled.
No. While the Senate needs a quorum, the House needs only a majority. The Democrats had a majority, they voted, and the motion to hold in contempt passed. Ms. Meiers and the others are now in contempt of Congress.
2) They spare themselves the popular heat of voting for immunity.
No. They just delay it. The immunity bill will again be taken up as soon as Congress re-adjourns week after next.
3) They continue the perception that the democratically lead congress is unable to take action.
No. They continue the perception that the Republicans are obstructionist to a degree unheard of in any Congress up to this time.
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I must have missed the memo saying that those days actually ended. Every post I see these days detailing crashes peope have on Windows seems to have the fanbois bitching about "bad drivers" written by the hardware manufacturers.
Don't forget - from two separate vendors. Also, if somehow (via mergers, acquisitions, etc.) one controlling organization becomes the owner of both implementations, the standard is in abeyance until yet another one is developed. This would also have the salutary effect of keeping such hideous languages as perl and ruby from being standardized. Remember - if it's not good enough to have more than one implementation, it's not good enough for a standard.
Mmmm. Pig wings...
However, expansion of current plants has pretty much kept pace with demand. Note that the reason that there are few new plants is because there has been a lack of people unwilling to invest in the construction of new plants. There are two reasons for this. First, it's easier to expand then to build new. Second, neither the short-term nor the long-term ROI is there for these kind of major investments. Easily recoverable oil reserves are shrinking, leading to an increase in oil costs, leading to a decrease in the margins on petroleum products. There goes your incentives to build refineries. Note that there is also a decrease in the amount of new oil extraction infrastructure being built, too (rigs, etc.), due to the same reasons.
So, yes, refineries have a small shortfall at the moment - it's not because of the big, bad people not wanting smelly refineries in their back yards - it's because the ROI isn't there.
That's OK. Neither does his GF.
Well, to be fair, the ASIO implementation on most audio devices sucks pretty bad, in general. You have to go with relatively high-end stuff before you start getting reasonable latencies and response.
... was bought from Ray Ozzie.
This is not always true. The fact is that a good marketing organization will balance short- and long-term gains and can focus the company's product and investment directions for long term growth. Examples: Johnson and Johnson, Procter and Gamble, 3M, Honda, Caterpillar, Burlington Northern, etc. - all grand old brands with marketing that is effective and balanced.
Unfortunately, the tech industry has been built on the back of venture capital and stock speculators with their need for explosive short-term growth, regardless of the long-term havoc (including failure of the organization) that this wreaks. It is no wonder that in this environment the "anything for a quick buck" mentality thrives and the marketing culture does, as you say, metastasize.
Uh, no. In fact, it wasn't until the Win32 families of APIs came about that the OS became preemptive. Especially for legacy applications, which were heavily dependent on cooperative multitasking, just like in Windows 3.1. In fact, the Windows platform was rather late to the multitasking party, given that machines like the Amiga had it years before Windows did. Those of us who remember such technological wonders as near/far pointers, code thunking, etc. which Windows, as an OS did not have to expose (even the 286 had a 32-bit mode), know that Windows was crappy. The bottom line is that, just like in other things, Microsoft was behind the technological curve on the multiprocessing aspect of the software experience, as well.
I hope this is not the case and will vote for him in the primary regardless. However, what you say is the conventional wisdom. And that's a shame. Not only was he first in the fight, while Merkley was sitting back scared that someone with higher visibility than him would get into the race, but Novick is a real Democrat, while Merkley has been the local equivalent of a DLC (read spineless corporatist) Democrat. Of course, this also means that Merkley is much better funded. Y'all could help, though. I'm sure that Steve would appreciate a donation or five. And, if he can beat Merkley, there's a good chance he could wipe the floor with Gordo. After all, Novick can actually contrast himself with Smith, while Merkley will just be another lukewarm, MotR Democratic candidate. Novick is the best Democrat in this race. Remember - he's the guy with the strong left hook!
Most phone SDKs are so bad no one wants to develop software for them anyway. Add in the fact that the platforms are so heterogeneous you have to develop a piece of software five or six times, each with a different crappy SDK and emulation environment (most of which have their own set of bugs) to get coverage means that there isn't going to be that big a pool of non-corporate developed software, anyway. Maybe (and it's a very small maybe) Android will fix this, but I doubt it.
Hey! Speaking of which - guess what she's doing now! Yet another reason to avoid McCain like the plague!
I'd say you can get close, but as far as I know, not even the zSeries has a purchasable 100% guarantee - 99.999%, probably; active failover to a separate site, yes; but everyone has "act of God" clauses.
Well, I would assume it means a close to linear speedup for some reasonable N, where N represents the number of computational units thrown at the problem (be it functional units in a CPU, cores on a chip, or chips in machines) - at least that's what it usually means in the computational literature. Now, of course, your definitions of "close" and "reasonable" or your pick of which processor level you're looking at may vary, but didn't Barbie say that "CS is hard," or something like that?
Yeah. And you buttheads with all your computers and technology came along and made them not cost efficient. Now you know why you can't get a date. Idiots.
OK! You should be using a database for that much data! HTH...
Yup. You should be fined for poor taste, instead ;-).
Unfortunately, we get pharmaceutical and personal product advertisements that regularly touch on these topics, and they are not deemed obscene due to the absence of particular words. But if the words are obscene and should be banned, shouldn't the subject matter be banned as well? After all, words are just representations of concepts and it seems that the concepts involved are just as obscene (or not, as the case may be). So, yeah, I'd be willing to lose f*ck if I didn't have to see another Cialis or Viagra ad, or a sh*t or two, if I didn't have to see another ad for a diarrhea remedy, but unless you're willing to make that trade, I don't see why you should be willing to ban the word, but not the subject.
Because, of course, it's fine that two people have to work rather than one to have the same relative wage as at that time. It's simply the joy of the free market in action!
Yes! That's so true! That's why he will see them only during Carlysle Group board meetings.
There. Fixed that for you.
Yeah, but only by a Jar-Jar or two.
No! But a Beowulf cluster will give you:
1) They prevent the contempt issue from being settled.
No. While the Senate needs a quorum, the House needs only a majority. The Democrats had a majority, they voted, and the motion to hold in contempt passed. Ms. Meiers and the others are now in contempt of Congress.
2) They spare themselves the popular heat of voting for immunity.
No. They just delay it. The immunity bill will again be taken up as soon as Congress re-adjourns week after next.
3) They continue the perception that the democratically lead congress is unable to take action.
No. They continue the perception that the Republicans are obstructionist to a degree unheard of in any Congress up to this time.
Hey! This is America, mate!
It was a coyote!