Hats off to Snowden, otherwise we'd still be thinking most of this stuff our government wouldn't even consider doing to its citizenry (just from a moral standpoint of honoring and protecting the constitution and those people that are the citizens) with only the tinfoils thinking it was possible.
It's sad that even the most tinfoil hat wearing faraday caged individual can't be considered paranoid anymore, although quite a few of us have said what was possible long ago without resorting to tinfoil hatness.
Their are rare earths all over, China's production capacity is because it's cheapest to mine them there because China doesn't care about the environmental effects despite the pollution problems they have. They likely will soon, but I'm guessing they will need to see significant health issues before they finally see the light. China's hold on rare earths was actually an issue with OLED, IIRC, and I don't remember what occurred there.
Trump was a necessary fresh wind in politics. That doesn't mean he's not the embodiment of a scary scenario, or whatever. But he is truly necessary. The Republican party's hammering of a single path for its members was a short term gain that should never have been continued after their initial win. They have pushed out so many of their potential members that many former Republicans are now solidly independent or even democrats. The other thing that will happen after this is likely that the Republican party as we know it is done. We'll see several parties develop, some will grow in membership, and we'll hopefully have at least 3 parties after this or perhaps more regional parties. Of course, the way the states have their ballots rigged at this point it is highly unlikely that more than 2 parties can successfully exist.
Wow, just wow, the ignorance of your post is astounding.
That bears repeating.
While looking in a mirror.
Intel compatible is much of the PC and Mac market. ARM campatible is phones and tablets. The xservs were RISC computers which were incompitble with most of the software in the world.
Here's a clue, for free. Most server software in world at the time of XServer was not Intel specific. In fact, there were a large number of different CPU types out there, and there still are. I know!!! Shocking!!!! Even more shocking, Intel servers weren't considered very good, not to say not good at all, 10+ years ago. There's a reason MS Servers are less than 25% of the market share. (Yes, there's 1 study in there that has a higher number, the rest are much lower)
How am I wrong? And how is misstating the CPU manufacturer of a computer I haven't touched in 10 years something that means I am not a Geek?
You really are a fanboy, can't have anyone saying anything FROM EXPERIENCE, that looks bad to Apple huh?
You're wrong on several levels, not the least in your assumption that Intel matters on the server side at all. It shows a severe state of myopia.
Honestly, if you bought a 1366, you weren't going for low-end. I'm running a 980x OC'd a tad, and from my tests I'd have to pony up for a pretty expensive replacement to better this performance today. Granted, it can heat a room, but anything in this performance class isn't exactly efficient.
I just did the deep dive on NodeJS, Javascript libraries, and build tools in general.... my thoughts are "run.. run away". It reminds me of the early days of Smalltalk, except less organized and completely without discipline. And that's stating it in nice terms. Unfortunately, for some components I need, I'll be using some of these tools because I'm not rewriting them from scratch, although I am attempting to influence some library maintainers to incorporate some bug fixes that would help me. I'd rather have that than me maintaining those fixes.
Just be aware that the pencil has been PURPOSEFULLY engineered to have a finite lifespan, and the graphite is not user replaceable! The pencil also has no upgrade options, and requires supplementary equipment to work (the sharpener) which the user is never made aware of on the pencil box!
Mechanical Pencil: user replaceable lead, upgrades to eraser and lead, and possible even colors!
I get that this might be a compelling feature, but there comes a point where you need to ask yourself is it so important that I need to deal with Apple? Is nobody doing something similar? If I was really serious about needing something like this I'd probably get a tablet designed specifically for artists.
I don't know why people keep subjecting themselves to the Apple tax.
I already deal with Apple. Well, actually, most of the time I don't, I just use the hardware. In fact, I do so little "dealing" with Apple that most of the time I only think about what I'm doing. Come to think about it, I "deal" with windows far more often and I haven't even owned a windows anything in at least 5 years (also known as family members / friends needing some support) As for the "Apple tax", that's largely a myth these days. Yes, you can buy cheaper crap, but if you're going for the same specs, you're generally in the same ballpark. In that ballpark, most times others cost more. It's like arguing that a mustang is just as good as a Ferrari. Sure, they both have 4 wheels and accelerate quickly, but they most certainly are not equal.
My 6 year old macbook pro is arguably better than anything new. It has a 17" display.
I'd argue the same, but my 17" SATA controller flaked out. Traded it in for $300 and grabbed a new MBP. It's faster than my desktop for many day to day tasks and has a beautiful albeit smaller screen. Hook it up to an external monitor though, and it no longer matters.
Try LGA-1366. Funny thing is for my work loads, it works just fine. Now, I will state that it has had several upgrades via SSDs and more RAM, but at 24GB I decided to forego the bump to 48GB. I can't believe I don't need it.
Nothing says you have to update. Depends upon your usage scenarios. The reason for getting a new ipad would be to use something that is not supported on the old one. Right now I'm having trouble coming up with a use case for myself. Note: I have a laptop for anything "serious" and would likely never use an ipad for any of those purposes. Now, the pencil is about the only intriguing new thing for me.
I work with lots of code. I include 3rd party components. However, I am not dependent upon any external sources for that third party code. IOW, you can have dependencies, just make sure you own the servicing of said dependencies internally, and not some unknown 3rd party. It's even better if you have the source for all third party dependencies and build the artifacts yourself. Yes, this takes a little more time, but it significantly lowers the potential problems you may encounter later, plus your codebase will be guaranteed repeatable builds, which cannot be stated for the lazy approach.
Me, I buy CDs, rip 'em to MP3, and use them on all of my devices how I see fit, where I see fit, and when I see fit.
Except for MP3, I agree with everything you said. I rip mine to lossless (started with MonkeyAudio -> FLAC -> AAC) and the beauty of lossless is you can convert to anything else however many times you want or need to as times change. Also, with today's storage devices, I can carry days worth of music anywhere I go. I have about 1000 CDs worth of music ripped, archived, and stored, and no, Mustang Sally in any form is not in the list. I should also note that at least 2 of my early CDs have succumbed to bitrot, one badly enough it no longer plays at all. Good thing I have a lossless digital copy.
I still have my iPad 2. It's rock solid. The new iPad Pro model will likely be purchased, but not because the iPad 2 is obsolete, but because a family member is threatening to appropriate it.
The news media reported a possible connection between the schedules for the launch and the State of the Union address. If it was proven that NASA gambled with the lives of astronauts for a White House PR stunt, it would have been a major scandal.
News media reports SENSATIONALIST possible story. Fails to support said story and nothing happens. News at 11?
They tried this already. It was called "Fast and Furious" and the only reason why no one was indicted when it was discovered was that everyone involved were Democrats.
So Bush was a democrat? It seems the entire project was started under the DOJ in 2006 as project Gunrunner, of which "Fast and Furious" was a new phase taken by Burke, a new Obama appointee. And apparently there were indictments, just not who you wanted. Burke was forced to resign.
I wasn't sure how they got a 10:1 ratio out of that. Solar panels have an install cost and a run rate. The run rate is relatively low and constant, for the remainder of their life-cycle. The install cost is less than 1K per kWh per month of capacity at scale with a simple install. The run rate is really really low, even if you clean the panels weekly. The likely highest cost associated with solar is flattening out the power generation effectively over the entire 24 hour day, i.e. storage.
And all of that takes me back to Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and other works. Messing around with genetic material and releasing it into the environment should be expected to have unanticipated effects, generally negative. If you don't subscribe to this viewpoint, you're a blind optimist as just about every biological manipulation we've executed in the past whether planned or accidental has been largely negative. (e.g., Kudzu, rats, tiger mosquito, snakehead fish, Asian longhorn beetle, burmese pythons, cane toads, rabbits, and Nile perch)
Role-playing about disliking your daughter's boyfriend? I suppose it's possible but then that means that you're the kind of person who thinks that "private" role-playing involving racial slurs is acceptable. Not sure how that's better.
Not sure what you're projecting there, but there's lots of things that could be embarrassing without delving into racism.
It took me way too long to learn this: When you're outside the mainstream, don't expect acceptance and understanding to be reciprocal.
Don't worry, everyone posting here is outside the mainstream and coincidentally also proves that just because you're introverted doesn't mean you're smart.
It's not a specific case, it's an example of how and where GMO can become a major problem. GMO is not restricted to "this batch" of product like most things. It is self-replicating and can be very difficult or impossible to remove from the environment once released.
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Hats off to Snowden, otherwise we'd still be thinking most of this stuff our government wouldn't even consider doing to its citizenry (just from a moral standpoint of honoring and protecting the constitution and those people that are the citizens) with only the tinfoils thinking it was possible.
It's sad that even the most tinfoil hat wearing faraday caged individual can't be considered paranoid anymore, although quite a few of us have said what was possible long ago without resorting to tinfoil hatness.
Their are rare earths all over, China's production capacity is because it's cheapest to mine them there because China doesn't care about the environmental effects despite the pollution problems they have. They likely will soon, but I'm guessing they will need to see significant health issues before they finally see the light. China's hold on rare earths was actually an issue with OLED, IIRC, and I don't remember what occurred there.
Trump was a necessary fresh wind in politics. That doesn't mean he's not the embodiment of a scary scenario, or whatever. But he is truly necessary. The Republican party's hammering of a single path for its members was a short term gain that should never have been continued after their initial win. They have pushed out so many of their potential members that many former Republicans are now solidly independent or even democrats. The other thing that will happen after this is likely that the Republican party as we know it is done. We'll see several parties develop, some will grow in membership, and we'll hopefully have at least 3 parties after this or perhaps more regional parties. Of course, the way the states have their ballots rigged at this point it is highly unlikely that more than 2 parties can successfully exist.
Wow, just wow, the ignorance of your post is astounding.
That bears repeating.
While looking in a mirror.
Intel compatible is much of the PC and Mac market. ARM campatible is phones and tablets. The xservs were RISC computers which were incompitble with most of the software in the world.
Here's a clue, for free. Most server software in world at the time of XServer was not Intel specific. In fact, there were a large number of different CPU types out there, and there still are. I know!!! Shocking!!!! Even more shocking, Intel servers weren't considered very good, not to say not good at all, 10+ years ago. There's a reason MS Servers are less than 25% of the market share. (Yes, there's 1 study in there that has a higher number, the rest are much lower)
How am I wrong? And how is misstating the CPU manufacturer of a computer I haven't touched in 10 years something that means I am not a Geek?
You really are a fanboy, can't have anyone saying anything FROM EXPERIENCE, that looks bad to Apple huh?
You're wrong on several levels, not the least in your assumption that Intel matters on the server side at all. It shows a severe state of myopia.
That's why racks come with doors. You should be leaning against your servers anyways.
Honestly, if you bought a 1366, you weren't going for low-end. I'm running a 980x OC'd a tad, and from my tests I'd have to pony up for a pretty expensive replacement to better this performance today. Granted, it can heat a room, but anything in this performance class isn't exactly efficient.
You shouldn't blindly trust anything you buy to connect to your network. Always verify, and lock it down regardless.
I just did the deep dive on NodeJS, Javascript libraries, and build tools in general.... my thoughts are "run.. run away". It reminds me of the early days of Smalltalk, except less organized and completely without discipline. And that's stating it in nice terms. Unfortunately, for some components I need, I'll be using some of these tools because I'm not rewriting them from scratch, although I am attempting to influence some library maintainers to incorporate some bug fixes that would help me. I'd rather have that than me maintaining those fixes.
Just be aware that the pencil has been PURPOSEFULLY engineered to have a finite lifespan, and the graphite is not user replaceable! The pencil also has no upgrade options, and requires supplementary equipment to work (the sharpener) which the user is never made aware of on the pencil box!
Mechanical Pencil: user replaceable lead, upgrades to eraser and lead, and possible even colors!
I get that this might be a compelling feature, but there comes a point where you need to ask yourself is it so important that I need to deal with Apple? Is nobody doing something similar? If I was really serious about needing something like this I'd probably get a tablet designed specifically for artists.
I don't know why people keep subjecting themselves to the Apple tax.
I already deal with Apple. Well, actually, most of the time I don't, I just use the hardware. In fact, I do so little "dealing" with Apple that most of the time I only think about what I'm doing. Come to think about it, I "deal" with windows far more often and I haven't even owned a windows anything in at least 5 years (also known as family members / friends needing some support) As for the "Apple tax", that's largely a myth these days. Yes, you can buy cheaper crap, but if you're going for the same specs, you're generally in the same ballpark. In that ballpark, most times others cost more. It's like arguing that a mustang is just as good as a Ferrari. Sure, they both have 4 wheels and accelerate quickly, but they most certainly are not equal.
My 6 year old macbook pro is arguably better than anything new. It has a 17" display.
I'd argue the same, but my 17" SATA controller flaked out. Traded it in for $300 and grabbed a new MBP. It's faster than my desktop for many day to day tasks and has a beautiful albeit smaller screen. Hook it up to an external monitor though, and it no longer matters.
Sure, LGA-1155 is 'ancient'
Try LGA-1366. Funny thing is for my work loads, it works just fine. Now, I will state that it has had several upgrades via SSDs and more RAM, but at 24GB I decided to forego the bump to 48GB. I can't believe I don't need it.
Nothing says you have to update. Depends upon your usage scenarios. The reason for getting a new ipad would be to use something that is not supported on the old one. Right now I'm having trouble coming up with a use case for myself. Note: I have a laptop for anything "serious" and would likely never use an ipad for any of those purposes. Now, the pencil is about the only intriguing new thing for me.
I work with lots of code. I include 3rd party components. However, I am not dependent upon any external sources for that third party code. IOW, you can have dependencies, just make sure you own the servicing of said dependencies internally, and not some unknown 3rd party. It's even better if you have the source for all third party dependencies and build the artifacts yourself. Yes, this takes a little more time, but it significantly lowers the potential problems you may encounter later, plus your codebase will be guaranteed repeatable builds, which cannot be stated for the lazy approach.
Me, I buy CDs, rip 'em to MP3, and use them on all of my devices how I see fit, where I see fit, and when I see fit.
Except for MP3, I agree with everything you said. I rip mine to lossless (started with MonkeyAudio -> FLAC -> AAC) and the beauty of lossless is you can convert to anything else however many times you want or need to as times change. Also, with today's storage devices, I can carry days worth of music anywhere I go. I have about 1000 CDs worth of music ripped, archived, and stored, and no, Mustang Sally in any form is not in the list. I should also note that at least 2 of my early CDs have succumbed to bitrot, one badly enough it no longer plays at all. Good thing I have a lossless digital copy.
I still have my iPad 2. It's rock solid. The new iPad Pro model will likely be purchased, but not because the iPad 2 is obsolete, but because a family member is threatening to appropriate it.
I have multiple devices without iTunes running, a couple not even installed including this machine I'm posting from. What's your point again?
The news media reported a possible connection between the schedules for the launch and the State of the Union address. If it was proven that NASA gambled with the lives of astronauts for a White House PR stunt, it would have been a major scandal.
News media reports SENSATIONALIST possible story. Fails to support said story and nothing happens. News at 11?
They tried this already. It was called "Fast and Furious" and the only reason why no one was indicted when it was discovered was that everyone involved were Democrats.
So Bush was a democrat? It seems the entire project was started under the DOJ in 2006 as project Gunrunner, of which "Fast and Furious" was a new phase taken by Burke, a new Obama appointee. And apparently there were indictments, just not who you wanted. Burke was forced to resign.
I'm in my basement, do I need to head to my safe room?
I wasn't sure how they got a 10:1 ratio out of that. Solar panels have an install cost and a run rate. The run rate is relatively low and constant, for the remainder of their life-cycle. The install cost is less than 1K per kWh per month of capacity at scale with a simple install. The run rate is really really low, even if you clean the panels weekly. The likely highest cost associated with solar is flattening out the power generation effectively over the entire 24 hour day, i.e. storage.
And all of that takes me back to Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and other works. Messing around with genetic material and releasing it into the environment should be expected to have unanticipated effects, generally negative. If you don't subscribe to this viewpoint, you're a blind optimist as just about every biological manipulation we've executed in the past whether planned or accidental has been largely negative. (e.g., Kudzu, rats, tiger mosquito, snakehead fish, Asian longhorn beetle, burmese pythons, cane toads, rabbits, and Nile perch)
An example is a specific case.
Yes, and when you use "very" to qualify it, you're implying it is of minimal importance. With GMO, nothing is minimal, because it is not limited.
Role-playing about disliking your daughter's boyfriend? I suppose it's possible but then that means that you're the kind of person who thinks that "private" role-playing involving racial slurs is acceptable. Not sure how that's better.
Not sure what you're projecting there, but there's lots of things that could be embarrassing without delving into racism.
It took me way too long to learn this: When you're outside the mainstream, don't expect acceptance and understanding to be reciprocal.
Don't worry, everyone posting here is outside the mainstream and coincidentally also proves that just because you're introverted doesn't mean you're smart.
It's not a specific case, it's an example of how and where GMO can become a major problem. GMO is not restricted to "this batch" of product like most things. It is self-replicating and can be very difficult or impossible to remove from the environment once released.