I don't disagree with you in the least - however linpack numbers mean little - you can string a shitload of iphones together and get good linpack numbers
that said their claim is far short of being impressive anyways - my first thought looking at the pics is those people look like a total pain in the ass
wtf are they all doing anyways?? I work in an HPC environment and we have a third of those people running global clusters - jackasses
I agree although not for the same reasons - when something gets as big as Facebook the backlash will arrive sooner or later and the cool factor will be gone - Foursquare is more fun anyways
Yeah this story was on NPR this morning - Some countries believe Twitter is an ideological weapon am sure that is just what Biz Stone had in mind........
fricken wackjobs
Well that's one of the dumber comments I have heard lately - especially since MS has been platinum sponsors of most OSS conferences I have been to in the last few years -
Check out the "Myth of the Liberal Media" by Herman:
He devotes a chapter to Suharto. He quotes an article by Philip Shennon of The Times with the headline "As Indonesia crushes its critics it helps millions escape poverty." Herman notes that Shennon stated in the same article that most Indonesians were not making more than two to three dollars a day. Such was the portrayal of the regime which butchered hundreds of thousands of people in East Timor and West Papua and killed at least 500,000 landless peasants in coming to power in 1965-66 to the joy of the Western media. Suharto was portrayed as a benign dictator. Oil companies took out ads in the Times for him in 1992. He let Western corporations loot and pillage his country while suppressing independent unions. Hence, he was a "moderate" and his invasion of the former Portugese colony of East Timor in 1975 with U.S. approval and military weapons elicited virtually no U.S. media coverage in the late 70's at the highest peak of atrocities there while the media was moaning in anguish about the Khmer Rouge. East Timor was portrayed as a "complex" place with Indonesia intervening in a "civil war" and the group opposing Indonesian rule portrayed by the Times's Seth Mydans as "separatists." He points out that after Suharto fell in 1998, the media cautiously admitted that Suharto gained his people's acquiescence with the use of fear and not any support for his efforts to maintain "stability." Herman points to a Wall Street Journal article of July 1998 which stated that the World Bank had allowed Indonesia to define its poverty line at one dollar a day, thus creating the fabrication of Suharto's poverty reduction. Most Indonesians, the article stated were making well below a dollar a day.
He notes that the New York Times published an interview Luis Posada Cariles on July 12 and 13 1998, the Cuban exile and CIA asset, were he admitted to being behind terror attacks in Cuba which killed one and injured six, carried out by Salvadoran car thieves financed by Cuban exiles in Miami. Herman notes that Posada was fingered for being behind the blowing up of the Cuban airliner in Venezuela in 1976 which killed 73 and escaped as he was about to go on trial for a fourth time after getting acquitted three times on technicalities. The Times portrayed Posada as a principled man, a family man, who some people were accusing of being a bad guy, who just opposed Fidel Castro,stating wihtout any evidence that he had also opposed the Bautista dictatorship. In contrast Carlos the Jackal, whose murder total is about 83, is portrayed as nothing more than a beastly terrorist.
He points out that the media are firm advocates of policies benefiting the economic elite. Nafta makes countries give up control of their resources to corporate plunder and calls for disbanding any regulation that might protect against the ravanages of corporate profit seeking, making them "investor's rights' agreements rather than Free trade, Herman points out. He quotes Paul Krugman as lauding the agreement for being a device for keeping "free market reformers" in power in Mexico, since future politicians will be bound by the aggreement, whatever the people of Mexico might think. Or what the people of the United States think. He notes that the Washington Post eagerly posted totals of union donations to politicans opposing Nafta, carrying along Clinton's denunciations of the Labor movement for daring to try to influence the political process on something important. In contrast the corporate donations and lobbying which are just fine. The opinions of people like Ralph Nader were given scant coverage instead they focused on Ross Perot whose motivations and manner could easily be attacked.
He points out the media trying to find something good in the collapse of the Mexican economy in 1994 and that of Indonesia in 1998. They tried to argue that the the Mexican economy would have been worse without NAFTA, avoiding that Nafta induced a speculative flow of money to flow in to Mexico, along with reckless lendin
I couldn't agree more the myth of the liberal media is just that - something the GOP has told so many times people think its true - there is nothing liberal about the MSM - cheers
Agreed I have ran into this with older relatives - and a Mac is a great alternative for them. Most non-technical older folks these days do everything in the browser..look at pics, email, browse the web..load Ubuntu on grannys machine put a big ass Firefox icon on the desktop..rename it "internet" and you will likely never hear from them unless there is a hardware failure...cheers
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I don't disagree with you in the least - however linpack numbers mean little - you can string a shitload of iphones together and get good linpack numbers that said their claim is far short of being impressive anyways - my first thought looking at the pics is those people look like a total pain in the ass wtf are they all doing anyways?? I work in an HPC environment and we have a third of those people running global clusters - jackasses
Wait...someone bought a Palm?!?!?!?!?
They DO sell your information to advertisers - that is what the business is based on.
not to have a Facebook acct - what bull$%^#$%#
Whatever your choice is its subjective to the user - but saying hardcore unix cats don't use Emacs is insane - hmmmm RMS anyone??
I agree they are pure evil
It's nice to know their are nutjobs in other places besides just the southern US
They are already raking in the bucks - you aren't the customer you are the product
"Oh my it disgusts me" - you sound like a total pansy - try being on punk rock tour for 18 months it will toughen you up
Wait people WASH jeans?
That is some funny s__t what a moron - He probably also is a republican that thinks frivolous lawsuits shouldn't be allowed -
since no one said it - this process has got to be buggy as hell
also I don't think it will take 10 years more like 2
I agree although not for the same reasons - when something gets as big as Facebook the backlash will arrive sooner or later and the cool factor will be gone - Foursquare is more fun anyways
I mean it works - but actually doing sysadmin with it would be pretty painful - its more of a novelty than anything
Yeah this story was on NPR this morning - Some countries believe Twitter is an ideological weapon am sure that is just what Biz Stone had in mind........ fricken wackjobs
Well that's one of the dumber comments I have heard lately - especially since MS has been platinum sponsors of most OSS conferences I have been to in the last few years -
Yes its called COLLEGE
Is that all the information you can process at a time?
Check out the "Myth of the Liberal Media" by Herman: He devotes a chapter to Suharto. He quotes an article by Philip Shennon of The Times with the headline "As Indonesia crushes its critics it helps millions escape poverty." Herman notes that Shennon stated in the same article that most Indonesians were not making more than two to three dollars a day. Such was the portrayal of the regime which butchered hundreds of thousands of people in East Timor and West Papua and killed at least 500,000 landless peasants in coming to power in 1965-66 to the joy of the Western media. Suharto was portrayed as a benign dictator. Oil companies took out ads in the Times for him in 1992. He let Western corporations loot and pillage his country while suppressing independent unions. Hence, he was a "moderate" and his invasion of the former Portugese colony of East Timor in 1975 with U.S. approval and military weapons elicited virtually no U.S. media coverage in the late 70's at the highest peak of atrocities there while the media was moaning in anguish about the Khmer Rouge. East Timor was portrayed as a "complex" place with Indonesia intervening in a "civil war" and the group opposing Indonesian rule portrayed by the Times's Seth Mydans as "separatists." He points out that after Suharto fell in 1998, the media cautiously admitted that Suharto gained his people's acquiescence with the use of fear and not any support for his efforts to maintain "stability." Herman points to a Wall Street Journal article of July 1998 which stated that the World Bank had allowed Indonesia to define its poverty line at one dollar a day, thus creating the fabrication of Suharto's poverty reduction. Most Indonesians, the article stated were making well below a dollar a day.
He notes that the New York Times published an interview Luis Posada Cariles on July 12 and 13 1998, the Cuban exile and CIA asset, were he admitted to being behind terror attacks in Cuba which killed one and injured six, carried out by Salvadoran car thieves financed by Cuban exiles in Miami. Herman notes that Posada was fingered for being behind the blowing up of the Cuban airliner in Venezuela in 1976 which killed 73 and escaped as he was about to go on trial for a fourth time after getting acquitted three times on technicalities. The Times portrayed Posada as a principled man, a family man, who some people were accusing of being a bad guy, who just opposed Fidel Castro,stating wihtout any evidence that he had also opposed the Bautista dictatorship. In contrast Carlos the Jackal, whose murder total is about 83, is portrayed as nothing more than a beastly terrorist.
He points out that the media are firm advocates of policies benefiting the economic elite. Nafta makes countries give up control of their resources to corporate plunder and calls for disbanding any regulation that might protect against the ravanages of corporate profit seeking, making them "investor's rights' agreements rather than Free trade, Herman points out. He quotes Paul Krugman as lauding the agreement for being a device for keeping "free market reformers" in power in Mexico, since future politicians will be bound by the aggreement, whatever the people of Mexico might think. Or what the people of the United States think. He notes that the Washington Post eagerly posted totals of union donations to politicans opposing Nafta, carrying along Clinton's denunciations of the Labor movement for daring to try to influence the political process on something important. In contrast the corporate donations and lobbying which are just fine. The opinions of people like Ralph Nader were given scant coverage instead they focused on Ross Perot whose motivations and manner could easily be attacked.
He points out the media trying to find something good in the collapse of the Mexican economy in 1994 and that of Indonesia in 1998. They tried to argue that the the Mexican economy would have been worse without NAFTA, avoiding that Nafta induced a speculative flow of money to flow in to Mexico, along with reckless lendin
I couldn't agree more the myth of the liberal media is just that - something the GOP has told so many times people think its true - there is nothing liberal about the MSM - cheers
I don't know which "squad" is more f____g annoying.............
What I meant to say was you can also load linux for them makes little difference
Agreed I have ran into this with older relatives - and a Mac is a great alternative for them. Most non-technical older folks these days do everything in the browser..look at pics, email, browse the web..load Ubuntu on grannys machine put a big ass Firefox icon on the desktop..rename it "internet" and you will likely never hear from them unless there is a hardware failure ...cheers
I like this post however now I think only hipsters drink PBR..but that's for another thread = )