Given the experience and market share of Ford/Opel in Europe it's pretty clear that business decisions like this lunkhead one will lead inexorably to Ford being bought out by Fiat.
Anyone bought a hardware encryption processor? Anyone bought a Dialogic voice board? No probably not. You see eventually all hardware collapses into the CPU(s).
But the problem is that Games and Graphics are the Lamborghinis of computing. Performance uber alles. So I'm not convinced that anything short of the biggest quad core machines has the general purpose in software performance sufficient to away with these big honking graphics cards. Maybe not and smaller machines can do it but it's just as likely you buy a nanoITX daughterboard for your PS3 (or whatever the analog is to that next year) to handle all the 'other' computing requirements too.
The West seems determined to destroy itself through earnest and dedicated revisionism no matter what. I say let's let the West implode into medieval fundamentalist superstitious ignorance. And while we're at it, let's replace civil law with religious law too. It's unstoppable so we who are objecting to it might as well pull up the lawn chairs and watch it all burn.
Geesh the last three versions were bloated to the heavens. I think it takes about a minute to start now. A least few recent versions flat out crashed or did not update correctly. And is there any piece of application software that takes more time to update than iTunes? I don't think so.
The phone companies GIVE AWAY gobs of their best technical services for free to the NSA. One would think that if they can afford to do that they could give us kulaks better or cheaper or more effective and comprehensive service. I for one am mightily pissed off that I'm paying my horribly inefficient and service-lacking cell phone company to do this. To me this is a hidden tax.
Why is it important if data or even information or learning or research or much of anything is 'in' the US? Life sciences for example are flocking to other countries because of fundamentalist objections to it. Why not tech? America is country that for the most part believes the earth is 6000 years old and Jesus and Adam and Eve rode to church on dinosaurs.
We are becoming an economy of people selling insurance to each other. We don't make build or invent much of anything anymore. And the few things we are good at the Christian fundamentalists make sure never get done.
I can see this for extremely dense packed server blades in a rack. Where today our problems are electrical and heat and not compute power. This would solve one of those problems at any rate.
It's like the good old days of TCM mainframes with massive 400psi chiller pumps.
That's not telecommuting. That's a 4 day work week.
I have all sorts of weird hours working for a global company. So working in the office at 7am and 8pm on the same day is a no-op
Moreover, most of my coworkers are all over the world. Should we all get on a plane every Sunday and 40 of us meet just so we can be miserable hanging out together for the work week?
Because nothing changes until a catastrophe. Or, if it doesn't then the world is just a little more horrid for everyone. It's like when I drive and there's a cop behind me. I go about 17mph and hopefully, someday, someone will get so fed up they'll go home and stab somebody or crash their car or whatnot. No internet radio? Super, just another reason to watch the record companies eventually go broke and all the executives children have to suck dick for rent.
When you go into any electronics store or Wal*Mart there's a LOW probability that they have the TVs set up right or they have an HD signal running at all.
Blockbuster is worse, they run Guitar Hero, Rockband and Super Mario Kart.
TV's have a confusing array of resolution features from 720 to 1080 for the screen and a different resolution for the tuner. So you really have to know what you're doing to figure out what it will really do - AND TRUST ME -
No pop collar slackers in the store have the foggiest idea WTF they are talking about.
BluRay players are still absurdly expensive. If they want us to use them and they finally beat HDDVD then make the players affordable. $300 is way too high.
Likewise the Blueray discs are twice the price of DVD. That just smells of customer abuse.
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Given the experience and market share of Ford/Opel in Europe it's pretty clear that business decisions like this lunkhead one will lead inexorably to Ford being bought out by Fiat.
Anyone bought a hardware encryption processor?
Anyone bought a Dialogic voice board?
No probably not. You see eventually all hardware collapses into the CPU(s).
But the problem is that Games and Graphics are the Lamborghinis of computing. Performance uber alles. So I'm not convinced that anything short of the biggest quad core machines has the general purpose in software performance sufficient to away with these big honking graphics cards. Maybe not and smaller machines can do it but it's just as likely you buy a nanoITX daughterboard for your PS3 (or whatever the analog is to that next year) to handle all the 'other' computing requirements too.
I can imagine every city, country and state taxing the shit out of Google for them to haul their powerlines into any country.
Of course. Was that your point?
The death of deconstruction and semiotics. Which is either terribly arch or exactly what it itself would have predicted.
So yes, I can see them doing this too.
The West seems determined to destroy itself through earnest and dedicated revisionism no matter what. I say let's let the West implode into medieval fundamentalist superstitious ignorance. And while we're at it, let's replace civil law with religious law too. It's unstoppable so we who are objecting to it might as well pull up the lawn chairs and watch it all burn.
That doesn't mean they're happy with it. Evident THIS article. iTunes 8 is broken. And it's the not the first version that is.
A lot of people with iPod's DO NOT USE iTunes. Fact. Now calm down.
Seriously who uses their real name?
Oh wait I know this....yeah 20-something slacktards, stoners, jocks and sundry assholes.
Geesh the last three versions were bloated to the heavens. I think it takes about a minute to start now. A least few recent versions flat out crashed or did not update correctly. And is there any piece of application software that takes more time to update than iTunes? I don't think so.
A continent away, logged into every other computer, instantly, invisibly, wirelessly. Don't you watch movies?
Put all your datacenters in India, China, Malaysia and Africa where no one cares how much they pollute.
The phone companies GIVE AWAY gobs of their best technical services for free to the NSA. One would think that if they can afford to do that they could give us kulaks better or cheaper or more effective and comprehensive service. I for one am mightily pissed off that I'm paying my horribly inefficient and service-lacking cell phone company to do this. To me this is a hidden tax.
Can WALK to church in Godless China.
that the world isn't completely a police state, yet. Let them figure out how to fix their 'problem'.
Why is it important if data or even information or learning or research or much of anything is 'in' the US? Life sciences for example are flocking to other countries because of fundamentalist objections to it. Why not tech? America is country that for the most part believes the earth is 6000 years old and Jesus and Adam and Eve rode to church on dinosaurs.
We are becoming an economy of people selling insurance to each other. We don't make build or invent much of anything anymore. And the few things we are good at the Christian fundamentalists make sure never get done.
I can see this for extremely dense packed server blades in a rack. Where today our problems are electrical and heat and not compute power. This would solve one of those problems at any rate.
It's like the good old days of TCM mainframes with massive 400psi chiller pumps.
I'll work for them. Tomorrow. Contact me Google.
That's not telecommuting. That's a 4 day work week.
I have all sorts of weird hours working for a global company. So working in the office at 7am and 8pm on the same day is a no-op
Moreover, most of my coworkers are all over the world. Should we all get on a plane every Sunday and 40 of us meet just so we can be miserable hanging out together for the work week?
Because nothing changes until a catastrophe. Or, if it doesn't then the world is just a little more horrid for everyone. It's like when I drive and there's a cop behind me. I go about 17mph and hopefully, someday, someone will get so fed up they'll go home and stab somebody or crash their car or whatnot. No internet radio? Super, just another reason to watch the record companies eventually go broke and all the executives children have to suck dick for rent.
Now if they could kick people off planes who purchased water or coffee from some other vendor, that would be great.
When you go into any electronics store or Wal*Mart there's a LOW probability that they have the TVs set up right or they have an HD signal running at all.
Blockbuster is worse, they run Guitar Hero, Rockband and Super Mario Kart.
TV's have a confusing array of resolution features from 720 to 1080 for the screen and a different resolution for the tuner. So you really have to know what you're doing to figure out what it will really do - AND TRUST ME -
No pop collar slackers in the store have the foggiest idea WTF they are talking about.
BluRay players are still absurdly expensive. If they want us to use them and they finally beat HDDVD then make the players affordable. $300 is way too high.
Likewise the Blueray discs are twice the price of DVD. That just smells of customer abuse.
I've seen Symphony. It's a backlevel version of Oo that's been integrated with Notes, and, one would assume, Sametime IM which is also part of Notes.