Actually the reason I really liked this episode is that I had a very smart friend, with a pretty impressive active vocabulary, who cannot seem to speak without at least one or two levels of reference. Even to this day, talking to him is a study in popular culture. He will really say "Staples" and it will mean "that was easy".
Honestly after 20 years, I really don't think he's aware he's doing it.
If you gather the data, from say the National Highway Safety Administration (http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/), you will see that in spite of there being more cars on the road, there are HALF as many deaths from car accidents in 2012 as there were in 1970 (when almost no one had a car phone). This is an amazing number, because the other half of the coin is there are nearly 10x as many people driving. The figures for injuries follow. Yes, there are dozens of reasons for this, including better car safety, slower speeds (i.e. traffic jams), seat belt use, etc. But that does not matter: our safety increases anyway!
Therefore, because it has the effect of invalidating the entire discussion, the inconvenient data was neglected. I have the same issue as "alcohol related accidents", they set blood-alcohol thresholds pretty arbitrarily and are constantly lowering them based on reactions, not based on scientific study.
I would argue it the other way, that achieving high single thread performance is very complicated and requires both more design work as well as better understanding of the given process than is usually available for the initial launch where they're using projected and calculated si characteristics. A year later they have some experience with massive volume production, know to many decimal places what their yield will be, as well as have more time to do custom circuits that high freq CPUs will require.
Adding more cores and newer "technology" is an architectural challenge, but generally a known quantity in terms of implementation (most of the time).
No OneNote has been around a while and is one of the few good things MS has going. Bizarre that they make it free, since that usually comes with a death spiral of investment.
It's surprisingly easy to use, allows for free form note taking, and generally is a great way to organize random information you want to keep track of. It's one of a few things I miss after having ditched Windows at home and at work.
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I blame the group of scientists who go around declaring successful nerds as "being autistic" and who are taking action to stop the trend by treating every smart child as autistic as the root cause of it becoming a pejorative term.
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This headline is so dangerously bad that it makes me want to tag slashdot as a troll.
Seriously, this is so bad lawyers can get involved. Some editor needs to go fix it.
CoL is quantitative. "I don't want to live in X" is qualitative, highly subject to individual ignorance. NYC is what I have experience with, having lived there off and on for 20 years. Most people I talk to there have absolutely no clue about anything south of Maryland or north of Connecticut. Jokes have been published to this effect. I'm honestly not sure they ARE aware how much they're paying, and have considered what they're getting in return.
If you're married and have a family, CoL is probably the single most important metric. It determines how much free cash you'll have for luxuries, how you'll be able to put your kids through college and generally your overall quality of life. Every few years we fly back to NYC to visit the inlaws, we see a play, the kids get to see the sights. We're as happy to leave as we were to arrive after about 2 weeks. It's a nice place to visit, but I don't want to live there anymore. And this is why we don't measure non quantitative things. I have friends who could not stand to live in a suburb, who don't have or want families and who will not be happy staying at home and entertaining themselves within.
My hunch is that the places you'd want to live in Austin will not be covered by its public transit. Few of the tech companies that are here are near bus stops.
Of all the things that actually bother me about Austin, I have not had any real problems with the government. They're useless and ignorable, provided you don't intend to CHANGE anything, it's all good.
, you can get a decent place for 1 person for $3000/month
You can own a 4ksqft+ house for $2000/month in any close burb of Austin. If you want more land, Georgetown is in commute range and has some more ranch-style houses. All for cheaper than that rent.
Austin does have a lot of college girls, and the weather ensures minimal clothing. I would list this as a huge benefit of living here, if you're not married and you're a straight man.
Having moved to Austin from NYC, I'm struggling to figure out exactly what part of NYC is a luxury. Even when I was there I did my best to either live in NJ, or some burb with train access. NYC has a lot of great food of all types and mass transit, but I'm not sure I'm missing any of the rest of it.
Austin isn't any better. Yes, google fiber, but we still don't know where it will be, and likely if you want to take advantage of cost of living you will LIVE in Round Rock, Cedar Park or Pflugerville and Google is not coming to those places. Much to my chagrin.
Seattle is pretty expensive, and while Portland is much cheaper, it is still more expensive than Austin. I would love to be in either of these places, the Austin heat is not for me, but I've never been able to get parity on CoL from job offers there and honestly that's all that matters to me right now.
Washington has no income tax, which like Texas is a big help, but you still can't beat Texas. Oregon has no sales tax, which is less valuable and likely offset by depending more heavily on income tax. I can see why these places may not have made the list.
However if you lose your job in Texas, you are basically shit out of luck. So it's NOT a great place to come to try out a start-up where cobra may not exist, and where the ACA is laughed at. It's only good for big, established companies.
Unlike Fox news, most of this is actually true. Also, you must be new here, slashdot has been digging on MS since the day it was created. It's why many of us keep coming back.
It's just the bizarre world of numbers. Tablets are in theory cheap enough that every member of the family can have one, compared to one PC (which I can't believe anyone is seriously giving up). Then you have the work PC for every working adult in the family, which is not 1:1 for all teh world: lots of people don't use computers at work ever.
Young college fresh-outs who are also making noise and want to be near bars and action. Then you get old, and noise makes your head hurt, and you realize your neighbors are huge dicks. Then you want to move to the 'burbs.
But even the suburbs are a compromise, the US is, comparatively, mostly empty space. Yet these companies all congregate in very small, very overpriced regions. There's plenty of cheap land almost anywhere else in the country, but they cluster up. I'd rather move somewhere that I can get a few acres and build my minimansion with big walls and, for the few hours a day I'm not at work, forget the rest of the world exists.
I got past my Apple hater issue because Apple turned itself around and started making a good product. It's not wart free, the app store is bullshit, their relationship with other evil corporations (AT&T to name one) makes me not trust them. But the product is very good.
At no point in the history of Microsoft has the quality of their product exceeded the horrifying things they CONTINUE to do. I cannot think of a single thing they make that I would buy because I actually want it, rather than because (for one reason or another) I have to have it.
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Actually the reason I really liked this episode is that I had a very smart friend, with a pretty impressive active vocabulary, who cannot seem to speak without at least one or two levels of reference. Even to this day, talking to him is a study in popular culture. He will really say "Staples" and it will mean "that was easy".
Honestly after 20 years, I really don't think he's aware he's doing it.
If you gather the data, from say the National Highway Safety Administration (http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/), you will see that in spite of there being more cars on the road, there are HALF as many deaths from car accidents in 2012 as there were in 1970 (when almost no one had a car phone). This is an amazing number, because the other half of the coin is there are nearly 10x as many people driving. The figures for injuries follow. Yes, there are dozens of reasons for this, including better car safety, slower speeds (i.e. traffic jams), seat belt use, etc. But that does not matter: our safety increases anyway!
Therefore, because it has the effect of invalidating the entire discussion, the inconvenient data was neglected. I have the same issue as "alcohol related accidents", they set blood-alcohol thresholds pretty arbitrarily and are constantly lowering them based on reactions, not based on scientific study.
That's not capitalism.
We don't actually do capitalism here in America, it's just not profitable.
America is to capitalism what China is to communism.
Kill, compost, fertilize farm land, feed a pregnant woman, train the child in tech until he's 22, work him until he's 28. Repeat.
It's a circle of life, sing it Elton.
I would argue it the other way, that achieving high single thread performance is very complicated and requires both more design work as well as better understanding of the given process than is usually available for the initial launch where they're using projected and calculated si characteristics. A year later they have some experience with massive volume production, know to many decimal places what their yield will be, as well as have more time to do custom circuits that high freq CPUs will require.
Adding more cores and newer "technology" is an architectural challenge, but generally a known quantity in terms of implementation (most of the time).
No OneNote has been around a while and is one of the few good things MS has going. Bizarre that they make it free, since that usually comes with a death spiral of investment.
It's surprisingly easy to use, allows for free form note taking, and generally is a great way to organize random information you want to keep track of. It's one of a few things I miss after having ditched Windows at home and at work.
I blame the group of scientists who go around declaring successful nerds as "being autistic" and who are taking action to stop the trend by treating every smart child as autistic as the root cause of it becoming a pejorative term.
This headline is so dangerously bad that it makes me want to tag slashdot as a troll.
Seriously, this is so bad lawyers can get involved. Some editor needs to go fix it.
CoL is quantitative. "I don't want to live in X" is qualitative, highly subject to individual ignorance. NYC is what I have experience with, having lived there off and on for 20 years. Most people I talk to there have absolutely no clue about anything south of Maryland or north of Connecticut. Jokes have been published to this effect. I'm honestly not sure they ARE aware how much they're paying, and have considered what they're getting in return.
If you're married and have a family, CoL is probably the single most important metric. It determines how much free cash you'll have for luxuries, how you'll be able to put your kids through college and generally your overall quality of life. Every few years we fly back to NYC to visit the inlaws, we see a play, the kids get to see the sights. We're as happy to leave as we were to arrive after about 2 weeks. It's a nice place to visit, but I don't want to live there anymore. And this is why we don't measure non quantitative things. I have friends who could not stand to live in a suburb, who don't have or want families and who will not be happy staying at home and entertaining themselves within.
My hunch is that the places you'd want to live in Austin will not be covered by its public transit. Few of the tech companies that are here are near bus stops.
Of all the things that actually bother me about Austin, I have not had any real problems with the government. They're useless and ignorable, provided you don't intend to CHANGE anything, it's all good.
, you can get a decent place for 1 person for $3000/month
You can own a 4ksqft+ house for $2000/month in any close burb of Austin. If you want more land, Georgetown is in commute range and has some more ranch-style houses. All for cheaper than that rent.
Austin does have a lot of college girls, and the weather ensures minimal clothing. I would list this as a huge benefit of living here, if you're not married and you're a straight man.
Having moved to Austin from NYC, I'm struggling to figure out exactly what part of NYC is a luxury. Even when I was there I did my best to either live in NJ, or some burb with train access. NYC has a lot of great food of all types and mass transit, but I'm not sure I'm missing any of the rest of it.
Austin isn't any better. Yes, google fiber, but we still don't know where it will be, and likely if you want to take advantage of cost of living you will LIVE in Round Rock, Cedar Park or Pflugerville and Google is not coming to those places. Much to my chagrin.
Seattle is pretty expensive, and while Portland is much cheaper, it is still more expensive than Austin. I would love to be in either of these places, the Austin heat is not for me, but I've never been able to get parity on CoL from job offers there and honestly that's all that matters to me right now.
Washington has no income tax, which like Texas is a big help, but you still can't beat Texas. Oregon has no sales tax, which is less valuable and likely offset by depending more heavily on income tax. I can see why these places may not have made the list.
However if you lose your job in Texas, you are basically shit out of luck. So it's NOT a great place to come to try out a start-up where cobra may not exist, and where the ACA is laughed at. It's only good for big, established companies.
The editorializing is kind of silly, that's what comments are for.
No mere employees can afford SXSW.
Unlike Fox news, most of this is actually true. Also, you must be new here, slashdot has been digging on MS since the day it was created. It's why many of us keep coming back.
But you can only get it from carrier pigeons.
It's just the bizarre world of numbers. Tablets are in theory cheap enough that every member of the family can have one, compared to one PC (which I can't believe anyone is seriously giving up). Then you have the work PC for every working adult in the family, which is not 1:1 for all teh world: lots of people don't use computers at work ever.
Better: what trend have they ever been ahead of?
- Computers? Nope.
- Phones? Nope.
- Tablets? Nope.
- Media convergence? Nope.
- Navigation? Nope.
Yet their revenue is insane. So it must be something other than timeliness.
The only auto maker you can fuck back.
Young college fresh-outs who are also making noise and want to be near bars and action. Then you get old, and noise makes your head hurt, and you realize your neighbors are huge dicks. Then you want to move to the 'burbs.
But even the suburbs are a compromise, the US is, comparatively, mostly empty space. Yet these companies all congregate in very small, very overpriced regions. There's plenty of cheap land almost anywhere else in the country, but they cluster up. I'd rather move somewhere that I can get a few acres and build my minimansion with big walls and, for the few hours a day I'm not at work, forget the rest of the world exists.
I got past my Apple hater issue because Apple turned itself around and started making a good product. It's not wart free, the app store is bullshit, their relationship with other evil corporations (AT&T to name one) makes me not trust them. But the product is very good.
At no point in the history of Microsoft has the quality of their product exceeded the horrifying things they CONTINUE to do. I cannot think of a single thing they make that I would buy because I actually want it, rather than because (for one reason or another) I have to have it.