Getting paid the going rate *is* the sign of a free society.
Yeah, but leftists don't want a 'free society'. They want a society where they get to tell everyone else what to do.
Oh, because they're such lovely people and working for the 'common good', they'll do it for only a fraction more money than the average worker, but they'll expect free access to private jets and Zil limos and a dacha in Montana.
The workers are just as free to buy shares in the company as anyone else is. If they don't like it, they're free to start their own company where their co-workers can vote on how much they will be paid.
People have been driving combustion automobiles since the industrial age. It takes time for new technologies to move through adoption stages, not to mention time for manufacturing costs and yields to improve.
Sigh. Not this 'electric cars is new technology!' nonsense again.
Our ancestors had been driving electric cars for years before the internal combustion engine came along. They are an ancient technology, not a new one.
They dumped electric cars almost immediately when internal combustion engines became viable, because electric cars sucked so bad. They still suck, for all the same reasons they did then.
Duh. People don't love electric cars because they're better than ICE cars, only people who love the idea of an expensive car with limited range buy electric cars in the first place.
You do realize that AMD's ability to mix CPU and GPU is what led to them getting the contracts for the PS4 and XB1...
But, as mentioned above, the margins on those chips are probably miniscule, so it's nice money to have, but probably not adding a huge amount to their profits.
Quite the opposite, in fact. Libertarians tend to be socially liberal and financially conservative. They'd neither subsidize solar, or put road-blocks in its way.
The worldwide fossil fuel industry received $1.3 TRILLION of subsidies in 2011 alone. Can you do the math on how much they received in total in the last 70 years, i.e. "before the race even started"?
My favorite part about patent reform is that eventually it's going to pass, and all the small developers will run out and invent shit... and then promptly have it all ripped off by megacorps who make billions on their ideas, and the myopic developers go bankrupt.
If your 'idea' can be 'ripped off' that easily, it sure as heck doesn't deserve a government-granted monopoly.
What I don't get, is why someone who otherwise doesn't hate Ubuntu, but does hate Unity, would let it alter their decision to use Ubuntu. There's nothing about Ubuntu that means you have to use Unity, or that it's even "hard" to not use Unity.
Yeah, you can run the bloated pig that is KDE, the bastardised tablet interface of Gnome 3, or the minimalist and buggy XFCE.
Or you can dump Ubuntu, install Mint and continue running Gnome 2 (aka MATE). That's what most of us did.
I expect far-reaching ramifications, the extent of which wont be fully known for a couple years.
More like a decade, I'd say. A lot of companies will be moving off US 'cloud' servers, but they won't be able to dump Windows and US computer hardware that fast.
Oh come on, you expect them to drastically increase costs to encrypt everything everywhere and thus make every machine that works with the data have decryption keys?
Setting up IPSEC tunnels between the machines is easy[*], and pretty close to free. Encrypting the drives should also be pretty much trivial, though not necessarily much help if the attacker already has access to the machine.
[*] - as in, once you've spent days working out how to configure that monstrosity the first time, you can set it up easily on any other machines.
The PS4 is just a low-end gaming PC with a Sony sticker on the front. Of course the games are going to look like something a PC could play a few years ago.
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It's the slippery slope. Once you start slipping, you've lost static friction, and start slipping faster.
Watch out, or the nutters will be along to tell you that the slippery slope is a logical fallacy, so it couldn't possibly ever happen.
Getting paid the going rate *is* the sign of a free society.
Yeah, but leftists don't want a 'free society'. They want a society where they get to tell everyone else what to do.
Oh, because they're such lovely people and working for the 'common good', they'll do it for only a fraction more money than the average worker, but they'll expect free access to private jets and Zil limos and a dacha in Montana.
How about making them answerable to the workers?
The workers are just as free to buy shares in the company as anyone else is. If they don't like it, they're free to start their own company where their co-workers can vote on how much they will be paid.
So you're saying that paying someone a higher minimum wage makes them poorer... hmmm....
No. Increasing the minimum wage means they don't have a job any more, because the company replaced them with a machine, or moved the job abroad.
The free market is supposed to be a tool, not a ruler - if it won't do its job, we rework it.
The free market is what people do when no-one is holding a gun to their head to force them to do something else.
The sad part is that, after socialists destroy one city or nation, they just move on to the next and destroy that too.
DDR3 is significantly faster than that.
I can't find any actual measurements with a quick web search, but I seem to remember that core to DDR3 latency is in the order of 80-100ns.
How about measuring how fast the NSA get a copy of all my stuff?
People have been driving combustion automobiles since the industrial age. It takes time for new technologies to move through adoption stages, not to mention time for manufacturing costs and yields to improve.
Sigh. Not this 'electric cars is new technology!' nonsense again.
Our ancestors had been driving electric cars for years before the internal combustion engine came along. They are an ancient technology, not a new one.
They dumped electric cars almost immediately when internal combustion engines became viable, because electric cars sucked so bad. They still suck, for all the same reasons they did then.
Duh. People don't love electric cars because they're better than ICE cars, only people who love the idea of an expensive car with limited range buy electric cars in the first place.
You do realize that AMD's ability to mix CPU and GPU is what led to them getting the contracts for the PS4 and XB1...
But, as mentioned above, the margins on those chips are probably miniscule, so it's nice money to have, but probably not adding a huge amount to their profits.
Quite the opposite, in fact. Libertarians tend to be socially liberal and financially conservative. They'd neither subsidize solar, or put road-blocks in its way.
The worldwide fossil fuel industry received $1.3 TRILLION of subsidies in 2011 alone. Can you do the math on how much they received in total in the last 70 years, i.e. "before the race even started"?
http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Fossil-Fuel-Industry-Receives-1.3-Trillion-in-Subsidies-Each-Year.html
From your article:
"The largest contributor to the subsidies is the failure to properly price carbon pollution, costing a little over $1 trillion."
So they just pulled a number out of their backside and claimed it was a $1,000,000,000,000 subsidy.
See, this is why none of us take Greenists seriously.
ATI could be a great company if it wasn't lumbered with a poorly-performing CPU division. They should really sell it off and go GPU-only.
The PS4 and XBone shouls really provide a nice steady revenue stream.
Revenue, yes. But the margins are probably dismal compared to their existing CPUs and GPUs.
Simple, the U.S. at any point in time can lock out ALL use of GPS satellites for any reason they deem necessary.
Anyone who suggests that has no idea how much critical infrastructure is heavily reliant on GPS for timing.
Then again, Obama probably isn't either.
Without your input they might make a car whose engines switch off two microseconds after losing the GPS signal.
So, brain box, exactly how long is a car to be allowed to run with no GPS signal?
Or you could just put tax on fuel, and have a pretty good equivalent without all the complex surveillance.
Oh, hey, Europe already has high fuel taxes. They've solved it already.
Hmm, I wonder whether there could be another reason why they want to track all vehicles all the time?
Why would I listen to a bunch of ne'er-do-wells in the face of people who actually know how to generate money (ie, know how to generate tax dollars)?
Don't know about Microsoft and IBM, but don't most big companies these days do everything they can to avoid 'generating tax dollars'?
Is it simply human nature to attempt to dick over everyone else if you become unfathomably rich?
No. Becoming unfathomably rich usually requires being willing to dick over everyone else.
My favorite part about patent reform is that eventually it's going to pass, and all the small developers will run out and invent shit... and then promptly have it all ripped off by megacorps who make billions on their ideas, and the myopic developers go bankrupt.
If your 'idea' can be 'ripped off' that easily, it sure as heck doesn't deserve a government-granted monopoly.
What I don't get, is why someone who otherwise doesn't hate Ubuntu, but does hate Unity, would let it alter their decision to use Ubuntu. There's nothing about Ubuntu that means you have to use Unity, or that it's even "hard" to not use Unity.
Yeah, you can run the bloated pig that is KDE, the bastardised tablet interface of Gnome 3, or the minimalist and buggy XFCE.
Or you can dump Ubuntu, install Mint and continue running Gnome 2 (aka MATE). That's what most of us did.
It gets more fun. Some early SSDs *claim* to support TRIM but choke on it.
Fortunately, those early SSDs have mostly expired from other firmware bugs or write lifetime by now.
I expect far-reaching ramifications, the extent of which wont be fully known for a couple years.
More like a decade, I'd say. A lot of companies will be moving off US 'cloud' servers, but they won't be able to dump Windows and US computer hardware that fast.
Oh come on, you expect them to drastically increase costs to encrypt everything everywhere and thus make every machine that works with the data have decryption keys?
Setting up IPSEC tunnels between the machines is easy[*], and pretty close to free. Encrypting the drives should also be pretty much trivial, though not necessarily much help if the attacker already has access to the machine.
[*] - as in, once you've spent days working out how to configure that monstrosity the first time, you can set it up easily on any other machines.
The PS4 is just a low-end gaming PC with a Sony sticker on the front. Of course the games are going to look like something a PC could play a few years ago.