I'll second this. Burning books to destroy the cultures they preserve is already a big thing - and the ice age is still in intermission. When it gets cold again, nothing burnable will survive.
A lot of these companies take plain old American currency, passed through the mail. "Please credit account Joesmomma$-$@@@32&rfc1394 in the amount of $200, which you will find enclosed. Sincerely, onetimus anonimus, 42 bogus lane, Smallville PA #####."
Intel execs have been saying they would go back to the future for the right partner. Apple is that partner. Somebody is going to fab Apple's chips and use the profits to invest in newer bigger fabs. Taking that food off their competitor's plate would be a win. With the PC downturn Intel has excess capacity and cutting edge silicon fabs depreciate rather quickly. But as I put above, giving your competitors too early a look blunts first mover advantage. That is why Apple is looking at TSMC in the first place. They think Samsung is sneaking a peak. Changing to Intel does not solve that problem.
Remember when Intel took the MacBook air design and turned it into the Ultrabook reference design for its Wintel PC OEMs? Why would Apple not want that to happen again, only faster?
It actually is a model M. Made in the same factory on the same equipment in the same way. Unicomp bought the company back in the day. It was never shut down, and now they make versions with the Windows key and USB also. Also Dvorak. And yes, it is perfectly functional at need as a bludgeon. Petition them for a Bluetooth version, would you?
Actually, looking at that site I see that almost all models are out of stock. Maybe I better order another one just in case.
I don't think we needed to be reminded that NSA spies on Russia. Also, Target spies on Sears, and my daughter who runs a lemonade stand spies on her rival one block over.
Not really. In a sense every North Korean citizen is a spy for their thought police, reporting even their nuclear family for any perceived deviation from the required norms on pain of death. Those reported to be unfaithful suffer three generations of punishment: they, their brothers and cousins go to the camp with whatever progeny they have and suffer three generations of punishment where the third generation is guaranteed not to survive. AFAIK that's as large a spying instance as you can get. That's the spying limit.
And yes, I have a problem with people saying "that's interesting. Call me. Here's my card" and then suing for protection from my calls when they could just say "don't call me." Because I'm a straightforward guy who says what he means, does what he says, expects the same from others and honors people's expressed desire for contact or the lack thereof. So sue me for being straightforward, honest and fair.
"I used to deal with guys like you every day and not only could you not remember that you gave me permission to call you - you asked me to. "
Think about it. You spent your day... you made your living... virtually barging in on people who don't know you, who for the most part don't want to talk to you, and who get "all twitchy" because they can't remember if they ticked off an opt-out box or not.
You were, in other words, a professional asshole.
Salesmen grease the wheels of industry. Yes, it used to be my job (but isn't any more) to find people who might need "the product" and convey to them the benefits of this one over some other. After being successful at that I advanced to recruit, train and motivate people to do the same. Being both of good character and lazy, of course I selected fantastic products to proffer at a fair price and trained my front line to do the right thing.
Being an asshole wasn't in the job description. Nor was selling products that were a poor fit. Great salesmen are lazy enough to put their wood behind products that "sell themselves". Yes, all salesmen need to learn the mind bending skills, but the good ones know to not need them. I never once sold anything to anybody who didn't convince me they wanted and needed it.
In that field now I have Godlike skills: records never to be broken. I have powers now. I could sell Windows Phone, or WinRT, or Bing. I really could: I could put that over. But I won't. I wouldn't. The very notion is abhorrent. If I profit from somebody's loss, I failed as a good salesman. A good salesman's job isn't to push the product he has at people who don't want or need it. It's to dig out the great unknown products and improve peoples lives by helping them discover them, and profit thereby. A great salesman is a teacher on the edge of discovery.
I gave it up because my wife doesn't like me living the salesman lifestyle, so now I do nerdy stuff.
XenServer is virtualization and cloud tech, not thin client tech. You're thinking of XenDesktop and XenApp - both of which are sweet stuff if you need that sort of thing.
XenServer being fully open source is cool because it creates a competitive environment for KVM, the native Linux virtualization solution. This competition will drive rapid adoption of technologies like PCI passthrough and partitioning of GPUs and coprocessors like Xeon Phi as well as other devices that seem to converge on what you seem to have meant to say. It will also promote technologies that pass user input back to the VM like voice, video and touch inputs, and support software defined networks. Everybody who possibly can will now integrate their devices with this. This will of course spur Microsoft's Hyper-V team to redouble their efforts. VMWare will laugh and laugh until the joke's on them, but in the mean time they'll earn great profits.
/disclaimer: I work for a joint that plays with all these, but my opinion is my own. No stock in anybody but mutual funds. No benefit for me on any of these.
We can do the energy input with free-electron laser to 500kW or so, and multiple lasers and targets can of course multiply that. That's not a problem. VASIMIR uses Argon rather than Xenon. Argon is more common and Xenon is quite rare. The difference in efficiency is appropriate for the difference in availability of reaction mass. Ideally Hydrogen would be best as that's the commonest material in space, and VASIMIR works on hydrogen but less efficiently.
VASIMIR is scheduled for test on the ISS in 2015. Obviously that means it's tested on Earth and works. The issues they're concerned about is that the test will wrench the ISS from orbit or give it uncontrollable spin.
The other issue is that it's a 200kW system. They can only operate it a few minutes at a time on batteries that have to be recharged from surplus solar cell energy. So it's going to burn at 200kW in short bursts. Maybe they should have got up the FEL receivers at the same time.
I'm not some list monger. If I called you then we met in person, were properly introduced, discussed some matter you expressed interest in having more info about and you shared your number for that purpose. If after that you want legal protection from me calling you once only at your request I don't know what to say other than "you have issues."
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Because oligopoly.
Atom is almost ready. I think I could get into that, except the history is that Atom has been almost ready since 2005.
I'll second this. Burning books to destroy the cultures they preserve is already a big thing - and the ice age is still in intermission. When it gets cold again, nothing burnable will survive.
A lot of these companies take plain old American currency, passed through the mail. "Please credit account Joesmomma$-$@@@32&rfc1394 in the amount of $200, which you will find enclosed. Sincerely, onetimus anonimus, 42 bogus lane, Smallville PA #####."
Intel execs have been saying they would go back to the future for the right partner. Apple is that partner. Somebody is going to fab Apple's chips and use the profits to invest in newer bigger fabs. Taking that food off their competitor's plate would be a win. With the PC downturn Intel has excess capacity and cutting edge silicon fabs depreciate rather quickly. But as I put above, giving your competitors too early a look blunts first mover advantage. That is why Apple is looking at TSMC in the first place. They think Samsung is sneaking a peak. Changing to Intel does not solve that problem.
Remember when Intel took the MacBook air design and turned it into the Ultrabook reference design for its Wintel PC OEMs? Why would Apple not want that to happen again, only faster?
So you haven't heard of Microsoft Excel for supercomputers then? What about the Excel RPG?
It actually is a model M. Made in the same factory on the same equipment in the same way. Unicomp bought the company back in the day. It was never shut down, and now they make versions with the Windows key and USB also. Also Dvorak. And yes, it is perfectly functional at need as a bludgeon. Petition them for a Bluetooth version, would you?
Actually, looking at that site I see that almost all models are out of stock. Maybe I better order another one just in case.
I don't think we needed to be reminded that NSA spies on Russia. Also, Target spies on Sears, and my daughter who runs a lemonade stand spies on her rival one block over.
Not really. In a sense every North Korean citizen is a spy for their thought police, reporting even their nuclear family for any perceived deviation from the required norms on pain of death. Those reported to be unfaithful suffer three generations of punishment: they, their brothers and cousins go to the camp with whatever progeny they have and suffer three generations of punishment where the third generation is guaranteed not to survive. AFAIK that's as large a spying instance as you can get. That's the spying limit.
And yes, I have a problem with people saying "that's interesting. Call me. Here's my card" and then suing for protection from my calls when they could just say "don't call me." Because I'm a straightforward guy who says what he means, does what he says, expects the same from others and honors people's expressed desire for contact or the lack thereof. So sue me for being straightforward, honest and fair.
To complete the circle: Scientology!
"I used to deal with guys like you every day and not only could you not remember that you gave me permission to call you - you asked me to. "
Think about it. You spent your day... you made your living... virtually barging in on people who don't know you, who for the most part don't want to talk to you, and who get "all twitchy" because they can't remember if they ticked off an opt-out box or not.
You were, in other words, a professional asshole.
Salesmen grease the wheels of industry. Yes, it used to be my job (but isn't any more) to find people who might need "the product" and convey to them the benefits of this one over some other. After being successful at that I advanced to recruit, train and motivate people to do the same. Being both of good character and lazy, of course I selected fantastic products to proffer at a fair price and trained my front line to do the right thing.
Being an asshole wasn't in the job description. Nor was selling products that were a poor fit. Great salesmen are lazy enough to put their wood behind products that "sell themselves". Yes, all salesmen need to learn the mind bending skills, but the good ones know to not need them. I never once sold anything to anybody who didn't convince me they wanted and needed it.
In that field now I have Godlike skills: records never to be broken. I have powers now. I could sell Windows Phone, or WinRT, or Bing. I really could: I could put that over. But I won't. I wouldn't. The very notion is abhorrent. If I profit from somebody's loss, I failed as a good salesman. A good salesman's job isn't to push the product he has at people who don't want or need it. It's to dig out the great unknown products and improve peoples lives by helping them discover them, and profit thereby. A great salesman is a teacher on the edge of discovery.
I gave it up because my wife doesn't like me living the salesman lifestyle, so now I do nerdy stuff.
That type of call is very much material to this discussion. Someone mod this guy "overrated" please.
The first iteration of UCS gear neglected the bandwidth. The error has been corrected, but early adopters still feel the pain.
XenServer is virtualization and cloud tech, not thin client tech. You're thinking of XenDesktop and XenApp - both of which are sweet stuff if you need that sort of thing.
XenServer being fully open source is cool because it creates a competitive environment for KVM, the native Linux virtualization solution. This competition will drive rapid adoption of technologies like PCI passthrough and partitioning of GPUs and coprocessors like Xeon Phi as well as other devices that seem to converge on what you seem to have meant to say. It will also promote technologies that pass user input back to the VM like voice, video and touch inputs, and support software defined networks. Everybody who possibly can will now integrate their devices with this. This will of course spur Microsoft's Hyper-V team to redouble their efforts. VMWare will laugh and laugh until the joke's on them, but in the mean time they'll earn great profits.
/disclaimer: I work for a joint that plays with all these, but my opinion is my own. No stock in anybody but mutual funds. No benefit for me on any of these.
Because Microsoft needs you to pay for it again. Keeping Bing going isn't cheap.
If you target DX11.3 you have a smaller fragment of the market. Makes sense.
You will die, I will die. Who cares if the human race is still there in a million years?
I care. I would like my children not only to survive me, but to travel. I would like Mankind to persist until we unfurl our fuller potential.
NZ has held that whatever the US FBI wants, they get, regardless of NZ law. I'm not OK with that and I don't even live there.
BTW: I get the ill will toward salesmen. I've worked with more than a few who deserved it. Not here, not now, but I get it.
Have you ever seen a corporation sentenced to prison time? How would that even be done?
We can do the energy input with free-electron laser to 500kW or so, and multiple lasers and targets can of course multiply that. That's not a problem. VASIMIR uses Argon rather than Xenon. Argon is more common and Xenon is quite rare. The difference in efficiency is appropriate for the difference in availability of reaction mass. Ideally Hydrogen would be best as that's the commonest material in space, and VASIMIR works on hydrogen but less efficiently.
VASIMIR is scheduled for test on the ISS in 2015. Obviously that means it's tested on Earth and works. The issues they're concerned about is that the test will wrench the ISS from orbit or give it uncontrollable spin.
The other issue is that it's a 200kW system. They can only operate it a few minutes at a time on batteries that have to be recharged from surplus solar cell energy. So it's going to burn at 200kW in short bursts. Maybe they should have got up the FEL receivers at the same time.
I'm not some list monger. If I called you then we met in person, were properly introduced, discussed some matter you expressed interest in having more info about and you shared your number for that purpose. If after that you want legal protection from me calling you once only at your request I don't know what to say other than "you have issues."
Until they straighten out their misfeasance in the Kim Dotcom saga I have no business in NZ. AFAIK they are still an arm of the US DOJ.