I'm guessing the NSA had some juicy details about this judges private life....which is exactly what Snowden warned us about.
The NSA will not be stopped by the courts. They routinely violate the constitution, they obey no legal limits to their activities. The only thing that will stop them is pulling the plug altogether. Contact your congressmen and senators, and tell them to abolish this criminal organization.
For all you know it was the most successful product ever.
I wish it were more successful, I'd still love to buy them, but wishing doesn't make it so. And as it happens, I do know. I was working in a department that was probably Apple's biggest internal customer for Xserve when they stopped production.
SJ discontinued it to focus on consumer.
Ok, sparky, here's what you don't understand about Apple leaving particular markets: there are many things they've done over the years which were profitable, but not nearly profitable enough for Apple. When they pulled the plug on Xserve and Xserve RAID, they were already the #3 storage vendor, and on track to be #1 in another year or so, but if you go and look up the value of EMC, you'll find that their market cap is about 1/10 of Apple's valuation.
Apple sold thousands of Xserves. They sell millions of iMacs, and tens of millions of phones and iPads. They have a limited number of hardware engineers; where would you spend their time?
All Haswell-based platforms are going to have incredible power consumption
Not quite. The Haswell processors make it possible to save a lot of power if the OS is smart about it, but you don't get it just by choosing the CPU. Watch the "Energy Best Practices" session from the last WWDC for the details.
You can bet that Apple knows just how many people ever used the PCIe slots in the previous Mac Pros, and that the new design takes that information into consideration.
When a government decides to commit violent crimes against an individual, that aggression does not make their victim guilty. The criminals in the case of Alan Turing were the various government minions who kidnapped, imprisoned, and poisoned him.
Turing was innocent. The appropriate action would be to exonerate him, not pardon him. The British government should admit that Turning was persecuted unjustly.
If I were sitting on a jury, and an FBI agent were testifying against the defendant, my first assumption would be that the FBI had concocted the caper in which the defendant was accused of participating. They've done it many times.
If you can print a gun, you can print many other kinds of machinery. The day may not be very far off when you can start with half a ton of aluminum and stainless steel powder, and print yourself a Ferrari with a V-12 engine.
This organization has proven that they have no regard at all for the law. One of the fuckers actually told a reporter a few days ago that he thinks the first amendment should be "revised" to make the NSA's job easier.
NSA apparatchiki have committed billions of felonies, and continue to do so as we speak. The only remedy that will make them stop is to disband them altogether.
Bullshit. Our air and water are cleaner because the public started to care about it. Giving Nixon's second biggest mistake credit for that is like giving a flea credit for the dog.
If you imagine that I'm a supporter of the cronyism that banks and other corporations consider business as usual, then you know absolutely nothing about me. Academia is the subject at hand, not banking.
Guess again. I want nothing more than to see academia liberated from government control. Today, US higher-ed institutions are fully in government thrall, just like all the universities in the Soviet Union.
If you limited yourself to Ruling Party candidates, the choice was between a wall street kleptocrat, and a wall street minion. Don't forget that Obama appointed Geithner as the treasury secretary, and the fact that he went along with Paulson's great money-grab.
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I'm guessing the NSA had some juicy details about this judges private life. ...which is exactly what Snowden warned us about.
The NSA will not be stopped by the courts. They routinely violate the constitution, they obey no legal limits to their activities. The only thing that will stop them is pulling the plug altogether. Contact your congressmen and senators, and tell them to abolish this criminal organization.
-jcr
Do you work at apple?
Not lately, why?
For all you know it was the most successful product ever.
I wish it were more successful, I'd still love to buy them, but wishing doesn't make it so. And as it happens, I do know. I was working in a department that was probably Apple's biggest internal customer for Xserve when they stopped production.
SJ discontinued it to focus on consumer.
Ok, sparky, here's what you don't understand about Apple leaving particular markets: there are many things they've done over the years which were profitable, but not nearly profitable enough for Apple. When they pulled the plug on Xserve and Xserve RAID, they were already the #3 storage vendor, and on track to be #1 in another year or so, but if you go and look up the value of EMC, you'll find that their market cap is about 1/10 of Apple's valuation.
-jcr
Not actually losing money, but not making enough to justify the engineering time.
-jcr
how do you know that?
How do you not know that?
Apple sold thousands of Xserves. They sell millions of iMacs, and tens of millions of phones and iPads. They have a limited number of hardware engineers; where would you spend their time?
-jcr
All Haswell-based platforms are going to have incredible power consumption
Not quite. The Haswell processors make it possible to save a lot of power if the OS is smart about it, but you don't get it just by choosing the CPU. Watch the "Energy Best Practices" session from the last WWDC for the details.
-jcr
You can bet that Apple knows just how many people ever used the PCIe slots in the previous Mac Pros, and that the new design takes that information into consideration.
-jcr
I miss the Xserves too, but Apple just wasn't selling enough of them to justify the engineering time required to stay in that line of business.
-jcr
When a government decides to commit violent crimes against an individual, that aggression does not make their victim guilty. The criminals in the case of Alan Turing were the various government minions who kidnapped, imprisoned, and poisoned him.
-jcr
Turing was innocent. The appropriate action would be to exonerate him, not pardon him. The British government should admit that Turning was persecuted unjustly.
-jcr
The other reason is that I'm aware of the jury's prerogative to acquit a defendant, no matter how much the government wants him fucked over.
-jcr
If I were sitting on a jury, and an FBI agent were testifying against the defendant, my first assumption would be that the FBI had concocted the caper in which the defendant was accused of participating. They've done it many times.
-jcr
Wouldn't secession be illegal?
Nope, not at all. The right of a state to secede was never tested in court, only suppressed on the battlefield.
-jcr
Smaller governments are easier to maintain.
More importantly, smaller governments are easier to resist.
-jcr
Well, there are medical researchers printing skin, so leather should be possible.
-jcr
If you can print a gun, you can print many other kinds of machinery. The day may not be very far off when you can start with half a ton of aluminum and stainless steel powder, and print yourself a Ferrari with a V-12 engine.
-jcr
This organization has proven that they have no regard at all for the law. One of the fuckers actually told a reporter a few days ago that he thinks the first amendment should be "revised" to make the NSA's job easier.
NSA apparatchiki have committed billions of felonies, and continue to do so as we speak. The only remedy that will make them stop is to disband them altogether.
-jcr
Has that agency you work for quit pulling this kind of shit?
-jcr
because of epa your air and water is cleaner,
Bullshit. Our air and water are cleaner because the public started to care about it. Giving Nixon's second biggest mistake credit for that is like giving a flea credit for the dog.
-jcr
Only in the US would someone compare government funding of higher education to the Soviet Union.
Both empires made academia serve their rulers. Are you seriously claiming otherwise?
-jcr
It's alright for you to dismiss a whole group with some stupid 'lefties' tag
Reading comprehension isn't your long suit. What I said is that American academia is lousy with lefties, not that it is composed entirely of lefties.
whatever the fuck that means today
It means people who advocate expanding governmental power over the economy.
-jcr
No, this is way too big for a dead cat bounce. Over 600 now.
-jcr
Looks like BITC is recovering fast. 585 USD as I write this.
-jcr
If you imagine that I'm a supporter of the cronyism that banks and other corporations consider business as usual, then you know absolutely nothing about me. Academia is the subject at hand, not banking.
-jcr
your hatred of academia
Guess again. I want nothing more than to see academia liberated from government control. Today, US higher-ed institutions are fully in government thrall, just like all the universities in the Soviet Union.
-jcr
If you limited yourself to Ruling Party candidates, the choice was between a wall street kleptocrat, and a wall street minion. Don't forget that Obama appointed Geithner as the treasury secretary, and the fact that he went along with Paulson's great money-grab.
-jcr