(or woman) who's never been too broke to move. You don't get to choose the city your born in, and all it takes is once illness or a couple of layoffs in America to blow you out of the water. You'll also ignoring all the people those tech workers depend on (Police, Fire, Teachers, Construction Workers, Electricians, Shopkeeps, etc, etc) as well as the squalid living conditions most people had until we stopped allowing income inequality of the sort San Francisco has.
Moving isn't that easy, and the rich of San Fransisco want services people offer. So far what I see is them finding ways to get those services without really paying for them. A hundred years ago we called that slavery and were honest about it. These days we just blather something about personal responsibility while somebody loads 16 tons and sells their soul to the company store...
you've already been flamed left and right (and somehow manged a 5 insightful) so I'll skip all that and be a more constructive.
You're forgetting (ignoring?) the people infrastructure that all those tech workers depend on for their high quality of life. Police, Fire Department, Cooks, Shopkeepers, teachers (TF summary mentioned these ones), construction workers, etc, etc. These are the people that can't afford to live in San Fransisco.
What we're all forgetting (intentionally?) is what we did to these people in the past. Slavery for the lowest of them ( Cooks & Construction ) abject poverty for the rest. This is what they'd be doing in San Fransisco if they could, but digital communications make it much, much harder. We're talking about it right now, and some of us are afraid of it happening to us. We see the race to the bottom and we recognize we can't all be winners in winner take all. Yes, mathematically the economy isn't a zero sum game, but that doesn't really matter when you're making 25 cents/hr.
Processing speed is _massively_ increasing. _Transistors_per_square_inch have slowed down. Try comparing a P4 to an I5 at the same clock speed sometime. And I haven't even mentioned quantum computers yet or the crazy shit you can do with stream processors in modern graphics cards. 1 Dan+ Go players are losing to computers as we speak.
AI doesn't mean the 3 laws of robotics. It means incredibly complex if statements that are programmatically built (so called "machine learning"). It's not going to replace _every_ job. But it _is_ replacing manufacturing (even with slave labor), customer service, complex decision making like risk analysis, etc, etc. If you even displace 10% of white collar workers you have a huge impact when you drive all those desperate unemployed people to take lower paying jobs than they had (and drive down wages _everywhere_, including yours).
Not everyone is a creative genius. Most of us aren't. Should we round those folks up and off 'em? Or do we just let them starve to death? Not sure where you live, but in the United State your entire quality of life depends on a) who you're parents are and then b) your job. You got the balls for the kind of death squads needed to keep them in check when you take any hope of a livelihood away from them?
Christ, the stuff that gets modded up on/. these days...
I'm wondering if Scalia's death caused them to lose. Apple was probably counting on his vote when they first agreed to pursue the litigation instead of settling for $70 mil. It's amazing how much of affect SCOTUS has. Probably too much...
because he rolled back decades of banking, Wall Street and Commodities trading reform, not because of what he said. He also supported horrifying acts of violence in South America, helped destroy Unions and oversaw the end of American Manufacturing. His Rhetoric also paved the way for the dismantling of what little safety net we had (which to be fair Clinton actually did, but actual liberals don't like him either).
As a rule, the American left hate people for what they did, not what they said. But then again the American left has gotten so small over the years that I don't blame you for not noticing us.
but when are we going to start enforcing minimum wage law? Yeah, I know a lot of these are illegals and they're screwed either way, but I know some guys that are ex-cons treated the same way. These guys hurt us all. Shit runs down hill and their low wages serve to depress wages everywhere...
and here's why. He's moving the country to the Left. Our country has gotten to the point where there's Far Right Wing, Really Far Right Wing and Ted Cruz. Assuming (as Bernie said) you realize words like "Socialism" and "Welfare" have meaning and aren't just things to be afraid of then this is a good thing.
Yes, Trump's a jerk. But he's also the only Candidate besides Bernie Sanders who thinks healthcare (not just "affordable" healthcare) is a right. Yes, he's said some racist things, but he's also said them out loud instead of dog whistling.
I'll take Trump over Rubio any day of the week. Rubio's the kind of guy who'd stab me in the gut, twist the knife and then smile; saying it's nothing personal, just business. If Trump's gonna stab me in the gut it's because he hates them. I can deal with Trumps Hate. Rubio's cold hearted unlimited greed? Not so much.
because I associate it with pointless wars, fearmongering, tax cuts for the 1% while my taxes go up and a nonstop assault on the working class. But I guess the article's explanation works too.
"Easy Access" means you want 5-7 years of documents. You probably also want to be able to Generate them on the fly. Now, multiply that by millions and millions of customers and add the fact that just about everybody wants them on the same day (with a huge spike in April for the US) and you've got a huge headache on your hands. Then add the complexity of generated corrected statements and multiple accounts and the real fun begins.
China is not, has not been and probably never will be anything even remotely resembling communism. Yeah, yeah, I can already see you reaching for your true Scottsman. Jeez.
Communism is the economic system where the Means of Production are owned by society at large. That's it. Really. Nothing more to it.
China is a Kleptocracy. A large scale operation that funnels wealth and power to a lucky few through organized theft (with a healthy dose of violence). They stopped pretending the people owned the means of production years ago. It was never real. Just Mao's excuse for killing folks he didn't like.
Communism has a lot of problems. Chief of which is that nobody every actually tried it. I'd argue that it's practically impossible since it involves a large transfer of wealth from the 1% of society at large, and good luck getting that to go off without a hitch.
I propose a different system for solving the same problem. Let the bastages own whatever they want and focus on regulating wealth inequality. Insure a minimum standard of living with the understanding that the 'minimum' improves over time. Oh wait, the Fins, Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Socialists already did that.
High end Macs come with Work Station graphics cards. They're not meant for rendering games in realtime, they're meant for running Maya/Photoshop (think editing a 12k image), Autocad etc, etc. They can run games, just not very well.
The rest of Apple's range ships with Intel Graphics, which they swapped back to as soon as they were good enough to do 4k+ light 3D (think Bioshock Infinite levels).
Apple can sell you a $2000 laptop with $400 worth of hardware. There's no way they're going to bite into that profit margin for the sake of a few early adopters and drop $300 worth of graphics in there. They only do that on the workstation because the computers would be basically worthless otherwise, and there they crank the price up to 6k to compensate...
Linux is too small a share for devs to support it and make a profit. Unless Linux can find a way in the door and not have it slammed shut by Microsoft throwing their weight around (netbooks anyone) then it's not going anywhere. If all else fails Microsoft just refuses to support dual boot computers like they did when Hitachi shipped a dual boot BeOS computer. OEMs have a long history of depending on Microsoft to dump their tough support calls on, so that's a death knell right there.
Oh, and Linux is still a nightmare to install anything on that's not open source. Yeah, you can apt-get anything in the repository, but life gets tough when you have to redistribute closed source software; and games are closed source.
Maybe SteamOS will fix all that. We'll find out in about 3 years when the hardware gets cheap enough.
Yeah, but the 30% Microsoft Tax is no different than the Valve tax. You get a lot for that 30%. Hosting, a patching service, full installer, DRM, etc, etc. Being locked to Win10 isn't such a problem for AA and AAA titles. Microsoft is giving it away, so you're Win7/8 users can just upgrade. The bigger titles weren't going to be Android/iOS ports and the PS4 is a DirectX Box too (albeit a DX11 one) and you were stuck doing a port over to it anyway.
Microsoft has the right idea. 30% of virtually all software sales is too sweet a deal to pass up for them. The only question is will Vulcan be a real alternative? I'll be shocked if it is. nVidia isn't scared of Microsoft. They guy that runs it is used to playing hardball. Unless AMD pulls off something big in the next 18 months they won't have the capital to support two competing graphics APIs in their driver. Even if they try one of them (read:Vulcan) is going to go to shit. It'll either be slow, crashy or both. That'll leave developers (and gamers) going back to DX12 whether they like it or not.
I don't see how this won't fly. They're locking dx12 to it, and it sounds like dx12 is a huge performance boost. I know Vulcan is supposed to compete but I'll believe it when I've got games built of it in my Steam library...
kind of thing. Patent trolling used to be beneath IBM. Maybe it's 'cause of oil prices in the tank & big investors pressuring for the kind of returns they saw when gas was $4+/gallon. Then again this stuff goes back to 2011. At any rate something's got IBM desperate for new lines of business and fresh cash.
Stop asking yourself how you can stop them from getting it and how we can get it for everybody else. All crap like this story does is get people yelling about govt waste. And all that happens when you try to cut it is your education budget for your kid's school gets cut.
for one thing, he didn't let a city drown. He also didn't get us involved in Iran and calmed that shit the heck down. You want to put a stop the the drone strikes and murders? Stop sending right wing wack jobs to your State Legislatures and the National House and Senate. Give the man something to bloody work with. Given the fucked up state of our country right now he's doing what he can. He's made some terrible mistakes, but Jesus, what the hell do you do with the loon balls he's working with every day?
they worked for hundreds of years, and they're still working in China. But hey, he put the dog whistle down and said what the Republican base _really_ means when they're talking about minorities, so let's just discount everything the guy ever said. I'm sure Mark Rubio'll take good care of you when he's in office.
they're stock price is over $130. They're doing just fine. Turning themselves into an H1-B and Indian offshore farm has been wildly profitable.
They're not there to provide you with a good, meaningful living. They're there for the shareholders. If you want jobs either start a company yourself or ask Washington to protect you from the global race to the bottom. Don't have the capital to spin up a new business? Tough. There's plenty of gutters to die in.
now remove the visionary and replace it with a tonne of gov't funded research. Mix in the occasional accident like the internet and you're back on track.
Oh, and it's not about screwing the customer. It's about buying _everything_. We let a small group of folks (dubbed the 1%) pretty much own everything. Like parasites they suck 30-40% off the world GDP. God only knows why, with a world full of so many democracies, we allow this...
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(or woman) who's never been too broke to move. You don't get to choose the city your born in, and all it takes is once illness or a couple of layoffs in America to blow you out of the water. You'll also ignoring all the people those tech workers depend on (Police, Fire, Teachers, Construction Workers, Electricians, Shopkeeps, etc, etc) as well as the squalid living conditions most people had until we stopped allowing income inequality of the sort San Francisco has.
Moving isn't that easy, and the rich of San Fransisco want services people offer. So far what I see is them finding ways to get those services without really paying for them. A hundred years ago we called that slavery and were honest about it. These days we just blather something about personal responsibility while somebody loads 16 tons and sells their soul to the company store...
you've already been flamed left and right (and somehow manged a 5 insightful) so I'll skip all that and be a more constructive.
You're forgetting (ignoring?) the people infrastructure that all those tech workers depend on for their high quality of life. Police, Fire Department, Cooks, Shopkeepers, teachers (TF summary mentioned these ones), construction workers, etc, etc. These are the people that can't afford to live in San Fransisco.
What we're all forgetting (intentionally?) is what we did to these people in the past. Slavery for the lowest of them ( Cooks & Construction ) abject poverty for the rest. This is what they'd be doing in San Fransisco if they could, but digital communications make it much, much harder. We're talking about it right now, and some of us are afraid of it happening to us. We see the race to the bottom and we recognize we can't all be winners in winner take all. Yes, mathematically the economy isn't a zero sum game, but that doesn't really matter when you're making 25 cents/hr.
I can't make heads or tails of these posts.
Processing speed is _massively_ increasing. _Transistors_per_square_inch have slowed down. Try comparing a P4 to an I5 at the same clock speed sometime. And I haven't even mentioned quantum computers yet or the crazy shit you can do with stream processors in modern graphics cards. 1 Dan+ Go players are losing to computers as we speak.
AI doesn't mean the 3 laws of robotics. It means incredibly complex if statements that are programmatically built (so called "machine learning"). It's not going to replace _every_ job. But it _is_ replacing manufacturing (even with slave labor), customer service, complex decision making like risk analysis, etc, etc. If you even displace 10% of white collar workers you have a huge impact when you drive all those desperate unemployed people to take lower paying jobs than they had (and drive down wages _everywhere_, including yours).
beyond the Apple II (I'm actually typing this on an Apple I, since I couldn't obtain the advanced tech in the II).
Not everyone is a creative genius. Most of us aren't. Should we round those folks up and off 'em? Or do we just let them starve to death? Not sure where you live, but in the United State your entire quality of life depends on a) who you're parents are and then b) your job. You got the balls for the kind of death squads needed to keep them in check when you take any hope of a livelihood away from them?
/. these days...
Christ, the stuff that gets modded up on
I'm wondering if Scalia's death caused them to lose. Apple was probably counting on his vote when they first agreed to pursue the litigation instead of settling for $70 mil. It's amazing how much of affect SCOTUS has. Probably too much...
because he rolled back decades of banking, Wall Street and Commodities trading reform, not because of what he said. He also supported horrifying acts of violence in South America, helped destroy Unions and oversaw the end of American Manufacturing. His Rhetoric also paved the way for the dismantling of what little safety net we had (which to be fair Clinton actually did, but actual liberals don't like him either).
As a rule, the American left hate people for what they did, not what they said. But then again the American left has gotten so small over the years that I don't blame you for not noticing us.
but when are we going to start enforcing minimum wage law? Yeah, I know a lot of these are illegals and they're screwed either way, but I know some guys that are ex-cons treated the same way. These guys hurt us all. Shit runs down hill and their low wages serve to depress wages everywhere...
and here's why. He's moving the country to the Left. Our country has gotten to the point where there's Far Right Wing, Really Far Right Wing and Ted Cruz. Assuming (as Bernie said) you realize words like "Socialism" and "Welfare" have meaning and aren't just things to be afraid of then this is a good thing.
Yes, Trump's a jerk. But he's also the only Candidate besides Bernie Sanders who thinks healthcare (not just "affordable" healthcare) is a right. Yes, he's said some racist things, but he's also said them out loud instead of dog whistling.
I'll take Trump over Rubio any day of the week. Rubio's the kind of guy who'd stab me in the gut, twist the knife and then smile; saying it's nothing personal, just business. If Trump's gonna stab me in the gut it's because he hates them. I can deal with Trumps Hate. Rubio's cold hearted unlimited greed? Not so much.
because I associate it with pointless wars, fearmongering, tax cuts for the 1% while my taxes go up and a nonstop assault on the working class. But I guess the article's explanation works too.
"Easy Access" means you want 5-7 years of documents. You probably also want to be able to Generate them on the fly. Now, multiply that by millions and millions of customers and add the fact that just about everybody wants them on the same day (with a huge spike in April for the US) and you've got a huge headache on your hands. Then add the complexity of generated corrected statements and multiple accounts and the real fun begins.
why doesn't China have these things? They're objectively desirable. Their elite certainly have them. If the West has these things why can't China?
China is not, has not been and probably never will be anything even remotely resembling communism. Yeah, yeah, I can already see you reaching for your true Scottsman. Jeez.
Communism is the economic system where the Means of Production are owned by society at large. That's it. Really. Nothing more to it.
China is a Kleptocracy. A large scale operation that funnels wealth and power to a lucky few through organized theft (with a healthy dose of violence). They stopped pretending the people owned the means of production years ago. It was never real. Just Mao's excuse for killing folks he didn't like.
Communism has a lot of problems. Chief of which is that nobody every actually tried it. I'd argue that it's practically impossible since it involves a large transfer of wealth from the 1% of society at large, and good luck getting that to go off without a hitch.
I propose a different system for solving the same problem. Let the bastages own whatever they want and focus on regulating wealth inequality. Insure a minimum standard of living with the understanding that the 'minimum' improves over time. Oh wait, the Fins, Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Socialists already did that.
High end Macs come with Work Station graphics cards. They're not meant for rendering games in realtime, they're meant for running Maya/Photoshop (think editing a 12k image), Autocad etc, etc. They can run games, just not very well.
The rest of Apple's range ships with Intel Graphics, which they swapped back to as soon as they were good enough to do 4k+ light 3D (think Bioshock Infinite levels).
Apple can sell you a $2000 laptop with $400 worth of hardware. There's no way they're going to bite into that profit margin for the sake of a few early adopters and drop $300 worth of graphics in there. They only do that on the workstation because the computers would be basically worthless otherwise, and there they crank the price up to 6k to compensate...
Linux is too small a share for devs to support it and make a profit. Unless Linux can find a way in the door and not have it slammed shut by Microsoft throwing their weight around (netbooks anyone) then it's not going anywhere. If all else fails Microsoft just refuses to support dual boot computers like they did when Hitachi shipped a dual boot BeOS computer. OEMs have a long history of depending on Microsoft to dump their tough support calls on, so that's a death knell right there. Oh, and Linux is still a nightmare to install anything on that's not open source. Yeah, you can apt-get anything in the repository, but life gets tough when you have to redistribute closed source software; and games are closed source. Maybe SteamOS will fix all that. We'll find out in about 3 years when the hardware gets cheap enough.
Yeah, but the 30% Microsoft Tax is no different than the Valve tax. You get a lot for that 30%. Hosting, a patching service, full installer, DRM, etc, etc. Being locked to Win10 isn't such a problem for AA and AAA titles. Microsoft is giving it away, so you're Win7/8 users can just upgrade. The bigger titles weren't going to be Android/iOS ports and the PS4 is a DirectX Box too (albeit a DX11 one) and you were stuck doing a port over to it anyway.
Microsoft has the right idea. 30% of virtually all software sales is too sweet a deal to pass up for them. The only question is will Vulcan be a real alternative? I'll be shocked if it is. nVidia isn't scared of Microsoft. They guy that runs it is used to playing hardball. Unless AMD pulls off something big in the next 18 months they won't have the capital to support two competing graphics APIs in their driver. Even if they try one of them (read:Vulcan) is going to go to shit. It'll either be slow, crashy or both. That'll leave developers (and gamers) going back to DX12 whether they like it or not.
I don't see how this won't fly. They're locking dx12 to it, and it sounds like dx12 is a huge performance boost. I know Vulcan is supposed to compete but I'll believe it when I've got games built of it in my Steam library...
kind of thing. Patent trolling used to be beneath IBM. Maybe it's 'cause of oil prices in the tank & big investors pressuring for the kind of returns they saw when gas was $4+/gallon. Then again this stuff goes back to 2011. At any rate something's got IBM desperate for new lines of business and fresh cash.
Stop asking yourself how you can stop them from getting it and how we can get it for everybody else. All crap like this story does is get people yelling about govt waste. And all that happens when you try to cut it is your education budget for your kid's school gets cut.
Hereditary lords with inherited fortunes and power? If so good luck with that.
for one thing, he didn't let a city drown. He also didn't get us involved in Iran and calmed that shit the heck down. You want to put a stop the the drone strikes and murders? Stop sending right wing wack jobs to your State Legislatures and the National House and Senate. Give the man something to bloody work with. Given the fucked up state of our country right now he's doing what he can. He's made some terrible mistakes, but Jesus, what the hell do you do with the loon balls he's working with every day?
they worked for hundreds of years, and they're still working in China. But hey, he put the dog whistle down and said what the Republican base _really_ means when they're talking about minorities, so let's just discount everything the guy ever said. I'm sure Mark Rubio'll take good care of you when he's in office.
they're stock price is over $130. They're doing just fine. Turning themselves into an H1-B and Indian offshore farm has been wildly profitable.
They're not there to provide you with a good, meaningful living. They're there for the shareholders. If you want jobs either start a company yourself or ask Washington to protect you from the global race to the bottom. Don't have the capital to spin up a new business? Tough. There's plenty of gutters to die in.
now remove the visionary and replace it with a tonne of gov't funded research. Mix in the occasional accident like the internet and you're back on track.
Oh, and it's not about screwing the customer. It's about buying _everything_. We let a small group of folks (dubbed the 1%) pretty much own everything. Like parasites they suck 30-40% off the world GDP. God only knows why, with a world full of so many democracies, we allow this...