He's just way ahead of you and understands your argument even better than you do, and has thought it out far futher. Don't worry, you'll catch up, and when you do you'll be happy to know that full proper refutation has already been provided in advance -- so no waiting for you!
How much usage is needed before your extra electricity bill costs eat up that $50 savings? 60W extra at 8 hours a day 365 days per year and $0.10 per kWh is $17.50 for just one year.
Interestingly, Stephenson is also the one who coined the modern use of 'Avatar' in virtual worlds.
Not true. In recent editions of Snow Crash (a fine book) Neal admits he did not coin "avatar":
After the first publication of Snow Crash, I learned that the term "avatar" has actually been in use for a number of years as part of a virtual reality system called Habitat, developed by F. Rnadall Farmer and Chip Morningstar. This system runs on Commodore 64 computers, and though it has all but died out in the U.S., is still popular in Japan. In addition to avatars, Habitat includes many of the basic features of the Metaverse as described in this book.
It is not clear to me how this post is a "troll" as it is currently moderated. Perhaps a moderator has confused "that with which I disagree" with "trolling?"
What I find interesting is that Obama is being criticized worse than Bush ever was, for doing less than Bush did.
You are either seriously confused or suffering from near-fatal confirmation bias. Obama? Being criticized worse Than GW Bush? No one has ever been criticized as much as Bush!
As someone who is making ASICs for 4G (including LTE and WiMAX) $7.2 billion for 4G wireless is stimulus I can really believe in!
(I hope no one tells him that many rich people are going to get a lot richer thanks to this. Or that it would have been done anyway without the "stimulus" because it's a huge fat cash cow!)
Hahah, nice. Unfortunately, they're both quite clearly mere claims. Your posts all completely lack evidence. Maybe you should look up a few definitions before trying again.
But I didn't state a claim about language!? I simply asked for the basis for his. My only "claim" was thAT "An unfounded, unbased assertion is not an argument" -- are you disputing that? I can back it up if needed....since it's a tautology and all.
Besides the proper trouncing that Jonner already gave you (see! I knew you weren't a programmer.) Why don't you tell me what some of those common abbreviations/acronyms/alphabetisms in most assembly languages mean. BEQ? BNE? JMP? MOV? MULT? ADD?
Second you are listing a sales price with both a $499 sales discount and a 3% special club discount while comparing the MacPro at full retail without any discount. Apples to Oranges
That's because Apple's are never discounted. What choice is there to compare? Pure retail undiscounted Dell that no one in their right mind ever buys?
Apple already offers significantly more models than some computer makers with a larger market share than they have (like Asus).
I have an iphone and a mac mini and I love Apple, but why do you feel the need to make shit up like this? ASUS has over 150 laptop models currently available and Apple has less than a dozen. You're off by an order of fucking magnitude!
sigh so add "among programmers." No offense to starving peasants but I don't think they need to be included in the set of current or soon-to-be programmers.
You're obviously not a programmer. If you are, you work with some obscure programming language that has non-English keywords/reserved words. I'd love to hear about it as a curiosity. Please do tell!
Because some people "hate" English speakers more than most people in history "hated" Latin speakers. So there's a resentment factor. I'm not saying it's good or bad, right or wrong, but it certainly exists, and it makes this situation somewhat unique.
I will argue that someone who has Russian as a first language and Chinese as a second will most likely be better off to code than someone with merely English as a first language
Cool, that sounds interesting. Upon what will you base your argument? Or have you confused "argue" and "assert?" An unfounded, unbased assertion is not an argument. HTH!
Of course programmers should speak English. I'm not saying only English speakers can be good programmers, but let's be honest -- English is the most common spoken language on the planet (I didn't say first language.) So, it's almost like a "standard" for communication, which is pretty key for geographically-distributed collaborate development (i.e., programming, especially in FOSS land.)
This isn't so much a case of someone being so "bold" as to "ask the unthinkable" as it is someone asking a question with an obvious answer by which some (silly and offen-sensitive) people will be offended. Maybe a troll for blog hits/ad impressions?
Heck, even many of the most popular programming languages use English keywords! Not much to see here, move along at whatever pace you find most comfortable...
No it can't. The government doesn't own shit of AIG, thanks to Chris Dodd and Obama. It just gave our tax dollars to bail them out without even the simplest of oversight or regulatory strings.
You're confusing what any sane person would do with what actually happened.
They'll have to dump a cool billion in order to upgrade.
Well, since AT&T grosses $2.1 billion/month off the iphone (30M iphones * $70/month minimum), that's about two week's worth of revenue. Oh woe is them!
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He's just way ahead of you and understands your argument even better than you do, and has thought it out far futher. Don't worry, you'll catch up, and when you do you'll be happy to know that full proper refutation has already been provided in advance -- so no waiting for you!
How much usage is needed before your extra electricity bill costs eat up that $50 savings? 60W extra at 8 hours a day 365 days per year and $0.10 per kWh is $17.50 for just one year.
Name 3.
Not true. In recent editions of Snow Crash (a fine book) Neal admits he did not coin "avatar":
...failing to convince the federal government to give them billions of dollars. It's all the rage among business plans these days.
It is not clear to me how this post is a "troll" as it is currently moderated. Perhaps a moderator has confused "that with which I disagree" with "trolling?"
What I find interesting is that Obama is being criticized worse than Bush ever was, for doing less than Bush did.
You are either seriously confused or suffering from near-fatal confirmation bias. Obama? Being criticized worse Than GW Bush? No one has ever been criticized as much as Bush!
Hahah, sure they are, as long as it's not in their backyard or "sullying their view of the ocean." Ask Teddy Kennedy why he opposed Cape Wind.
As someone who is making ASICs for 4G (including LTE and WiMAX) $7.2 billion for 4G wireless is stimulus I can really believe in!
(I hope no one tells him that many rich people are going to get a lot richer thanks to this. Or that it would have been done anyway without the "stimulus" because it's a huge fat cash cow!)
You'd be surprised how often I'm told that I'd be surprised when, in fact, I would not be.
Hahah, nice. Unfortunately, they're both quite clearly mere claims. Your posts all completely lack evidence. Maybe you should look up a few definitions before trying again.
So, how about all that non-English documentation for APL. Oh, wait...
But I didn't state a claim about language!? I simply asked for the basis for his. My only "claim" was thAT "An unfounded, unbased assertion is not an argument" -- are you disputing that? I can back it up if needed....since it's a tautology and all.
Besides the proper trouncing that Jonner already gave you (see! I knew you weren't a programmer.) Why don't you tell me what some of those common abbreviations/acronyms/alphabetisms in most assembly languages mean. BEQ? BNE? JMP? MOV? MULT? ADD?
I suspect you won't bother to try again.
That's because Apple's are never discounted. What choice is there to compare? Pure retail undiscounted Dell that no one in their right mind ever buys?
I have an iphone and a mac mini and I love Apple, but why do you feel the need to make shit up like this? ASUS has over 150 laptop models currently available and Apple has less than a dozen. You're off by an order of fucking magnitude!
That's quite funny. Heh. Hehe. HAHAHAHAHAHAA!
Ahem. Now then.
sigh so add "among programmers." No offense to starving peasants but I don't think they need to be included in the set of current or soon-to-be programmers.
I think you mean "New and Improved English (TM) -- now with 20% fewer extraneous 'u's!"
You're obviously not a programmer. If you are, you work with some obscure programming language that has non-English keywords/reserved words. I'd love to hear about it as a curiosity. Please do tell!
Because some people "hate" English speakers more than most people in history "hated" Latin speakers. So there's a resentment factor. I'm not saying it's good or bad, right or wrong, but it certainly exists, and it makes this situation somewhat unique.
Cool, that sounds interesting. Upon what will you base your argument? Or have you confused "argue" and "assert?" An unfounded, unbased assertion is not an argument. HTH!
Of course programmers should speak English. I'm not saying only English speakers can be good programmers, but let's be honest -- English is the most common spoken language on the planet (I didn't say first language.) So, it's almost like a "standard" for communication, which is pretty key for geographically-distributed collaborate development (i.e., programming, especially in FOSS land.)
This isn't so much a case of someone being so "bold" as to "ask the unthinkable" as it is someone asking a question with an obvious answer by which some (silly and offen-sensitive) people will be offended. Maybe a troll for blog hits/ad impressions?
Heck, even many of the most popular programming languages use English keywords! Not much to see here, move along at whatever pace you find most comfortable...
No it can't. The government doesn't own shit of AIG, thanks to Chris Dodd and Obama. It just gave our tax dollars to bail them out without even the simplest of oversight or regulatory strings.
You're confusing what any sane person would do with what actually happened.
Well, since AT&T grosses $2.1 billion/month off the iphone (30M iphones * $70/month minimum), that's about two week's worth of revenue. Oh woe is them!