If you're trying to karma whore, shouldn't you have posted one of those comments as an anonymous coward or are counting on moderators inablity to notice the same user name or sig?
If the Muslim people in question were passionate about thier peaceful nature, the moderates would demand that the local governmets stop the riots, or get off thier asses and counter demonstrate.
Wow, what a brilliant idea. A wall of sand moving at destrucive speed in low earth orbit. Nothing out there to be concerned about, like communications sats, spy sats, or a space station or anything.
That's a hard call for me to make. Polluting our orbits for a near eternity, stranding us on the ground forever, or losing a city or strategic target.
The problem for Intel and Itainum is that there is too large of an X86 installed base of applications that makes migrating to Itanium cost prohibitive. Even on the server side, so much of the software out there that has already been developed, mostly in-house, and the CTO's and what not who would have to migrate their applications to the new architecture look at the additional development costs and say, "No thanks."
Certianly there is still a role for Itanium for specialized newly developed projects, but a whole scale migration will not happen in my opinion for the next ten years.
I agree with the parent in that making time to find a better job is time well spent. Nationaly, with unemployment at ~5% jobs are relatively easy to come by. There is no reason that you should be working overtime unless you want to. If you have a degree in anyting, including underwater basketweavin or philosopy you are golden, particularly with the experience. If you are like me and undegreed and are making way more than you should, you may want to stick it out. Other facors like a wife, family, mortage, kids and need for insurance may make a job change more risky.
Good, well paying jobs are redily avalible to those who are qualified and willing to relocate. Take the time to look.
No, you're definantly not the only one. What is the value of a 64 bit single core, non 32bit backwards compatible procesor that generatates more heat per mip than a jet engine? I know Intel bet the bank on this architecture but good god, it's dead Jim.
Of course, Science Fiction. However, the same socialogical factors that case anarchy to fail in the story would happen in any real world attempt to achieve a state of anarchy.
Your evidece is weak. Other factors play a greater role in the statisics than gun ownership. Property values and employment rates far outshine firearm ownership in crime rates.
How about an "Open/Slashdot Party" or something like it, where polical platforms would be decided via polls and the issues debated in these very articles. The opportunities for the internet to form a real democracies are out there, and one day I think it will eventually happen. All it would take it to get just two or three congressmen or a senator, and that party would have incredible polical power as the deciding vote on many of the closely divided issues. If something similar to a Flashcrowd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Crowd happend in a election, the world would wake up and take notice.
The hard part would be coming up with a platform and a candidate that would be neutral enough to be accepable by a large enough group of voters who just might be doing it for a "Fuck it, why not." motivation. Or if enough disaffected voters were willing to relocate to a congressional district before it was gerrymandered into irrelevance. With the polarization of the Dems and Repubs, it should be possible for a moderate to slip in and pull a Jessie Ventura http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Ventura.
We have seen relativly suddien changes with E-Bey, Google, Craig's List, and My Space affecting the way the world communictes with each other why not politics.
No Northwood or Prescott chip performed as well as an equivialntly clocked Athalon or Pentium III (or the derivitave M). Prescott and Northwood genterate outragous amounts of heat relative to the other arcitectures. Pentium 4 was a kludge that Intel had to throw together when the Itanic and Rambus sank. This was in responce to Microsoft refusing to support any other arcitecture other than Itanium and AMD64 with 64bit Windows. Intel created the Pentium IV solely as a marketing ploy to compete in the only area they could, clock speed.
Intel has made some colossal misteps over the past five to eight years in a misguided attempt to lock out all possible competition. Once an installed base is established with 64bit and dual core processors, developer will begin to optimise their applications to maximise performance. Once that happens you will begin to really see how far behind Intel realy is.
Dell is moving to AMD for a reason. Thier customers demand it.
That is because the no OS systems do not come with Earthlink and AOL preinstalled for which they pay Dell and ultimately reduce the purchace price for the computer.
Well, with Dell you do get a discount for no OS systems but since there is no software installed, you don't get the discounts for all of the "sampleware" like AOL, Earthlink, among others. These companies pay Dell to bundle thier software with the standard config. So, you would end up about even on most configurations.
This will most likely be achived by a rapid fall in the value of the Dollar. Plus the U.S. housing market crashing as interst rates and inflation start to climb.
"Engineering majors are seeing the most cash -- though with narrow percentage changes from last year -- led by gains from chemical engineering graduates, who now earn $52,539 a year on average, up 0.3 percent from a year earlier. Computer engineering graduates follow closely behind with $51,297, a 0.1 percent decrease from last year.
Those graduating with a degree in computer science are seeing heartier increases. According to NACE, information sciences and systems grads earn $42,375 a year on average. That's up 10.7 percent from a year earlier. Meanwhile, computer science graduates make $49,036 a year, a gain of 4.1 percent."
An excellent staring salay, far above the national average for college graduates, but a far cry from 70K.
What a facinating story! You endured great suffering and learned to aquire knowlege on your own. How much did it cost you to learn that lesson? Were you sponsored by a scolarship? Did your parents pay for your education? How much debt did you accrue?
As a drop-out of what could be classified, by your scale, as a tier six or seven school, who went on to do a stint in the military (where education is a much more practical and measured edeavor) I wonder how the other half lives? I managed to end up in an engineering field, in a job I love making more than I ever thought I would, but always wonder, what if?
Are you a millionare many times over? Do you have a hot, babe wife? Do you work on new and interesting things? What do you have, having put in the hours and resources that I did not? What did I miss out on? What is the net result? What is the reward? What is the value of such a elite education?
So, why exactly would one pay a college 10k a year for, to document that you can learn on one's own? I would hope that a college or university would be providing the best tools and instruction avalible to learn the skills needed to be successful in the 21st century. This customer, the author, appears to have been dissatisfied with the product.
My own personal experince is that college is a complete fucking waste of time, if you do not have a passion for the material. Even then, I doubt if it is worth it, unless it somehow provdes some kind of visa options to get into the U.S., the largest labor market in the world.
A motivated individual in the U.S. can take the same amount of effort and money needed to graduate from a major university and apply that instead to a creative business venture and end up much farther ahead than any university graduate. Some notable and famous examples are Bill Gates or Michael Dell.
Unless one has a dedicated passion to teach at a university level, do some state funded and high level research, or for some insane reason want to be a doctor or lawyer, I see little value in a university education.
Granted, there are a lot of institutional roadblocks to those without degrees in many major corporations and governments, but if you have the talent, intllegence and resources to be accepted and graduate from a major university you alredy have what it takes to work for a start-up or small business, and make as much, or more money than any university educated cubicle drone. At least in the United States where college costs are insanely inflated. If one lives in, or is sponsored by, a country that wisely sees the value in funding college level tuiton, the equation is vastly different.
Pay Pal is also owned by E-Bay. Two words, Google Auctions. E-Bay's greatest nightmare. Pay Pal is probably not to thrilled about rumors of Gooole launching their own online pay service.
I think that if anyone is looking for an anti-Google quote, either of these companies would be willing to provide one.
Oh, it will burst soon enough. Low interest rates are what are causing this housing bubble. Speculators are driving the market by taking interest only, variable rate loans, buying property and renting it out to make the payments, and then moving on to the next property. Rinse and repeat.
It's what all those "become a millionaire in your spare time" commercials are all about. That is why it is so cheap to rent a house now nationally.
The key is that Oil (and gasoline) prices have been rising. It has gotten to the point where those prices are impacting China's growing economy. It is also a direct result of China's growing economy. As a result, China has now de-linked their currency from the dollar so that they can buy more oil (dollar denominated) for less of their currency.
As a result of a floating currency China will no longer need to buy U.S. T-Bills with the dollars they get from the trade imbalance with the US. They have done this to keep their currency pegged to the dollar. Without China putting that money into bonds, The fed will have to raise interest rates on bonds to attract other investors (largely due to the US budget explosion). Interest rates will skyrocket to 1970's levels. The dollar will fall precipitously as all foreign banks rush to cash in dollars and bonds for more stable currencies. Gasoline in the us will rise to a minimum of 4$ a gallon. No one will be able to afford to commute the long distances from their overpriced homes in the burbs to work, in their gas guzzling SUV's
Housing prices (the land primarily) are largely based on what homeowners are able to pay monthly. Interest rates will become a huge portion of that monthly payment. Housing prices will fall dramatically
Those speculative investors who have those funky mortgages are fucked. The banks and lending institutions who will get stuck holding the bag on now realistically valued properties are fucked. Housing prices will fall some more as the banks flood the markets with sweetheart deals to existing tenants of the reposes ed properties. More fools fucked. Many current homeowners will be underwater on their mortgages. They will be unable to move and gasoline will become a huge portion of monthly commuting bills. The housing market will dry up. Prices fall some more, and of course, more people fucked.
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If you're trying to karma whore, shouldn't you have posted one of those comments as an anonymous coward or are counting on moderators inablity to notice the same user name or sig?
Ah, but it could be a brain science.
If the Muslim people in question were passionate about thier peaceful nature, the moderates would demand that the local governmets stop the riots, or get off thier asses and counter demonstrate.
Wow, what a brilliant idea. A wall of sand moving at destrucive speed in low earth orbit. Nothing out there to be concerned about, like communications sats, spy sats, or a space station or anything.
That's a hard call for me to make. Polluting our orbits for a near eternity, stranding us on the ground forever, or losing a city or strategic target.
The problem for Intel and Itainum is that there is too large of an X86 installed base of applications that makes migrating to Itanium cost prohibitive. Even on the server side, so much of the software out there that has already been developed, mostly in-house, and the CTO's and what not who would have to migrate their applications to the new architecture look at the additional development costs and say, "No thanks."
Certianly there is still a role for Itanium for specialized newly developed projects, but a whole scale migration will not happen in my opinion for the next ten years.
I agree with the parent in that making time to find a better job is time well spent. Nationaly, with unemployment at ~5% jobs are relatively easy to come by. There is no reason that you should be working overtime unless you want to. If you have a degree in anyting, including underwater basketweavin or philosopy you are golden, particularly with the experience. If you are like me and undegreed and are making way more than you should, you may want to stick it out. Other facors like a wife, family, mortage, kids and need for insurance may make a job change more risky.
Good, well paying jobs are redily avalible to those who are qualified and willing to relocate. Take the time to look.
No, you're definantly not the only one. What is the value of a 64 bit single core, non 32bit backwards compatible procesor that generatates more heat per mip than a jet engine? I know Intel bet the bank on this architecture but good god, it's dead Jim.
Of course, Science Fiction. However, the same socialogical factors that case anarchy to fail in the story would happen in any real world attempt to achieve a state of anarchy.
Anarchy is an unsustainable state. Nature abhors a vacume. This is nicely detailed in Larry Niven's Cloak of Anarchy http://www.larryniven.org/stories/cloak_of_anarchy .htm
Your evidece is weak. Other factors play a greater role in the statisics than gun ownership. Property values and employment rates far outshine firearm ownership in crime rates.
Bad form, but I meant to reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob
How about an "Open/Slashdot Party" or something like it, where polical platforms would be decided via polls and the issues debated in these very articles. The opportunities for the internet to form a real democracies are out there, and one day I think it will eventually happen. All it would take it to get just two or three congressmen or a senator, and that party would have incredible polical power as the deciding vote on many of the closely divided issues. If something similar to a Flashcrowd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Crowd happend in a election, the world would wake up and take notice.
The hard part would be coming up with a platform and a candidate that would be neutral enough to be accepable by a large enough group of voters who just might be doing it for a "Fuck it, why not." motivation. Or if enough disaffected voters were willing to relocate to a congressional district before it was gerrymandered into irrelevance. With the polarization of the Dems and Repubs, it should be possible for a moderate to slip in and pull a Jessie Ventura http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Ventura.
We have seen relativly suddien changes with E-Bey, Google, Craig's List, and My Space affecting the way the world communictes with each other why not politics.
"you're comparing a 3Ghz P4 from 2002 with a 3Ghz A64 from 2006"
Intel had a 3Ghz P4 in 2002? And thier P-4 is still looking to break 4Ghz in 2006? I guess moore's law is dead.
Man, I want some of what you are smoking.
No Northwood or Prescott chip performed as well as an equivialntly clocked Athalon or Pentium III (or the derivitave M). Prescott and Northwood genterate outragous amounts of heat relative to the other arcitectures. Pentium 4 was a kludge that Intel had to throw together when the Itanic and Rambus sank. This was in responce to Microsoft refusing to support any other arcitecture other than Itanium and AMD64 with 64bit Windows. Intel created the Pentium IV solely as a marketing ploy to compete in the only area they could, clock speed.
Intel has made some colossal misteps over the past five to eight years in a misguided attempt to lock out all possible competition. Once an installed base is established with 64bit and dual core processors, developer will begin to optimise their applications to maximise performance. Once that happens you will begin to really see how far behind Intel realy is.
Dell is moving to AMD for a reason. Thier customers demand it.
That is because the no OS systems do not come with Earthlink and AOL preinstalled for which they pay Dell and ultimately reduce the purchace price for the computer.
Well, with Dell you do get a discount for no OS systems but since there is no software installed, you don't get the discounts for all of the "sampleware" like AOL, Earthlink, among others. These companies pay Dell to bundle thier software with the standard config. So, you would end up about even on most configurations.
This will most likely be achived by a rapid fall in the value of the Dollar. Plus the U.S. housing market crashing as interst rates and inflation start to climb.
Wrong.
The "limited liability" of a coproration applies only to the sharehoders.
70k, mmm, not exactly.
n g_salaries/
http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/21/pf/college/starti
"Engineering majors are seeing the most cash -- though with narrow percentage changes from last year -- led by gains from chemical engineering graduates, who now earn $52,539 a year on average, up 0.3 percent from a year earlier. Computer engineering graduates follow closely behind with $51,297, a 0.1 percent decrease from last year.
Those graduating with a degree in computer science are seeing heartier increases. According to NACE, information sciences and systems grads earn $42,375 a year on average. That's up 10.7 percent from a year earlier. Meanwhile, computer science graduates make $49,036 a year, a gain of 4.1 percent."
An excellent staring salay, far above the national average for college graduates, but a far cry from 70K.
What a facinating story! You endured great suffering and learned to aquire knowlege on your own. How much did it cost you to learn that lesson? Were you sponsored by a scolarship? Did your parents pay for your education? How much debt did you accrue?
As a drop-out of what could be classified, by your scale, as a tier six or seven school, who went on to do a stint in the military (where education is a much more practical and measured edeavor) I wonder how the other half lives? I managed to end up in an engineering field, in a job I love making more than I ever thought I would, but always wonder, what if?
Are you a millionare many times over? Do you have a hot, babe wife? Do you work on new and interesting things? What do you have, having put in the hours and resources that I did not? What did I miss out on? What is the net result? What is the reward? What is the value of such a elite education?
So, why exactly would one pay a college 10k a year for, to document that you can learn on one's own? I would hope that a college or university would be providing the best tools and instruction avalible to learn the skills needed to be successful in the 21st century. This customer, the author, appears to have been dissatisfied with the product.
My own personal experince is that college is a complete fucking waste of time, if you do not have a passion for the material. Even then, I doubt if it is worth it, unless it somehow provdes some kind of visa options to get into the U.S., the largest labor market in the world.
A motivated individual in the U.S. can take the same amount of effort and money needed to graduate from a major university and apply that instead to a creative business venture and end up much farther ahead than any university graduate. Some notable and famous examples are Bill Gates or Michael Dell.
Unless one has a dedicated passion to teach at a university level, do some state funded and high level research, or for some insane reason want to be a doctor or lawyer, I see little value in a university education.
Granted, there are a lot of institutional roadblocks to those without degrees in many major corporations and governments, but if you have the talent, intllegence and resources to be accepted and graduate from a major university you alredy have what it takes to work for a start-up or small business, and make as much, or more money than any university educated cubicle drone. At least in the United States where college costs are insanely inflated. If one lives in, or is sponsored by, a country that wisely sees the value in funding college level tuiton, the equation is vastly different.
Pay Pal is also owned by E-Bay. Two words, Google Auctions. E-Bay's greatest nightmare. Pay Pal is probably not to thrilled about rumors of Gooole launching their own online pay service.
I think that if anyone is looking for an anti-Google quote, either of these companies would be willing to provide one.
Fake boobs are gross.
Oh, it will burst soon enough. Low interest rates are what are causing this housing bubble. Speculators are driving the market by taking interest only, variable rate loans, buying property and renting it out to make the payments, and then moving on to the next property. Rinse and repeat.
It's what all those "become a millionaire in your spare time" commercials are all about. That is why it is so cheap to rent a house now nationally.
The key is that Oil (and gasoline) prices have been rising. It has gotten to the point where those prices are impacting China's growing economy. It is also a direct result of China's growing economy. As a result, China has now de-linked their currency from the dollar so that they can buy more oil (dollar denominated) for less of their currency.
As a result of a floating currency China will no longer need to buy U.S. T-Bills with the dollars they get from the trade imbalance with the US. They have done this to keep their currency pegged to the dollar. Without China putting that money into bonds, The fed will have to raise interest rates on bonds to attract other investors (largely due to the US budget explosion). Interest rates will skyrocket to 1970's levels. The dollar will fall precipitously as all foreign banks rush to cash in dollars and bonds for more stable currencies. Gasoline in the us will rise to a minimum of 4$ a gallon. No one will be able to afford to commute the long distances from their overpriced homes in the burbs to work, in their gas guzzling SUV's
Housing prices (the land primarily) are largely based on what homeowners are able to pay monthly. Interest rates will become a huge portion of that monthly payment. Housing prices will fall dramatically
Those speculative investors who have those funky mortgages are fucked. The banks and lending institutions who will get stuck holding the bag on now realistically valued properties are fucked. Housing prices will fall some more as the banks flood the markets with sweetheart deals to existing tenants of the reposes ed properties. More fools fucked. Many current homeowners will be underwater on their mortgages. They will be unable to move and gasoline will become a huge portion of monthly commuting bills. The housing market will dry up. Prices fall some more, and of course, more people fucked.
Suse or Red Hat you say? What about no OS?
x ?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=sc430sapp&s=bsd
x ?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=sc420-min&s=bsd
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.asp
Of course the PCI Express video slot is only 8x but there are a slew of web pages on how to modify that to take a 16x card (running at 8x speed).
THe 300$ "server" is an even better deal. (still only has the 8x though).
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.asp