If you build a road between a valley and there are 100 deer accidents a year, don't you think it would have been better to have built a raised road so the deer can go under the road and through the only choke point in the entire valley rather then get themselves killed and a few humans while they're at it?
It's a lot cheaper and easier to just shoot all the deer and build a normal road.
. . . why would any self-respecting hacker announce it? If there was anything of any real value on there, why not continue to quietly gather as much info as you could? This stinks worse than Pelosi's jock strap.
Not so. Making fun of ignorant WHITES is always accepted. But attempt to make the same type of humorous blanket commentary about the ignorance of any other ethnic group, and you'll immediately be branded a brown people-hating racist.
And so on. It seems like it has just been an endless stream of the same old thing: give up your liberties in order to make you "safer", but in reality it inconveniences you greatly, costs you a lot of money, and doesn't work. But you have still lost those liberties.
It's never been about "safety." That's just the excuse gov't uses to get suckers to support the new laws they pass to control its subjects and increase revenue. Nothing like invoking the fear of little Timmy being run down to get Mom and Pop to vote for speed cameras! Oh, just think of the children!
The only ultimate reasons government does anything AT ALL are money (redistributed to reward subjects loyal to whoever's in command at the time), control (of the citizens), and above all, maintaining power. You see different flavors of it depending on what side of the pond you're on, but the end goals are the same. Just look at the TSA in the United States as a related example -- is it REALLY about making travelers as safe as possible, or creating jobs for those often otherwise unemployable (a favorite government pasttime these days)? Let's compare TSA's post-9/11 track record versus El Al's -- seen any shoe or underwear bombers (sorry, "alleged" underwear bombers) flying into Tel Aviv lately? TSA is a bad joke, and our enemies know it.
. . . found ONLY along the crease, then they can't interpolate what was there. Period. This is just an improved version of the various touch-up tools in Photoshop etc.
. . . like the one which made Siebel his fortune. I'm an ex-enterprise software sales guy myself, and have many friends still in the business, some of whom worked for Siebel "back in the day" and have been on sales calls with Siebel (the man, not the company) himself. Most are of the consensus that the "glory days" are indeed long behind us (as in ten years behind us). In fact, one of my mentors recently told me, "enterprise software is dead." I certainly wouldn't tell a young college grad to go get rich selling software to big companies these days (though maybe to the federal government). It's easy to understand his myopic statement when you consider his background (former Larry Ellision disciple and ex-Oracle guy who pioneered selling "value selling" CRM apps into big business for mega dollars).
Here, however, Siebel is ignoring continuing advances in computing hardware, raw processing power and storage (multi-core architectures, SSDs, 64-bit OSes and gobs of fast memory, and other things which software has yet to really take advantage of), as well as other related things like nanoelectronics and continued innovation in materials sciences. The software just hasn't caught up yet to allow developers to take full advantage of these things and build out the next generation of applications.
In short, the more connected our world becomes, and the more people inhabit it, the more data we will create. There will always be a needs to collect, organize, and process this data, and attempt to draw meaningful conclusions from it, because that is what people do when they try to understand the nature of things. Perhaps IT from Siebel's world view (first generation enterprise software applications) is on the downslope, but I guarantee you that within the next decade you will see new ways of working with information that Siebel and co. could never have imagined.
This is not a partisan issue -- it's a lobbyist / special interest issue, but apparently you've been successfully conditioned and duped to wrongly believe that one side is more willing and able to "fix" things than the other. News flash: neither side wants a fix because they're both in the pocket of those who benefit from the current fucked-up system. So things will remain as they are, and our healthcare system will continue to get worse.
. . . on our main OCR / image processing server. It's a Server 2008 box with the SSDs being used for the OS and a "scratchpad" partition for writing temporary batches etc. We have an additional 5 TB of "tranditional" hard disk storage for staged and completed files. We're a high-end digitization shop that processes millions of images per month where time is literally money.
The Intel Extreme SSDs have made the single biggest difference of ANY component swap I've ever seen in all of my years around computers and software. The bottom line is that processing a typical 2 GB OCR batch now takes 30-40% of the time that it used to, which allows us to process dramatically more data in the same amount of time -- and that means, of course, we make more money in the same amount of time too. If your work is currently limited by disk throughput, and time is money, don't wait -- the Intel Extreme SSDs are the real deal and the technology will only get better.
the most "transformational" figure you could have possibly elected got in
That's the root of the problem -- people think that BHO is "transformational" because he's a great used car salesman and he happens to be black, but in reality, that's all he is -- a slick used car salesmen who's big on charismatic speeches but woefully short on concrete details, who's selling universal healthcare, an end to the war in Iraq, and all of the other things the Democrats have over-promised during the election and under-delivered -- while every day sinking our country deeper in tremendous debt of levels never before conceived. The Republicans have already proven that they're no better, BTW.
The glaringly obvious answer is to vote for third-party candidates. I don't even care who at this point -- practically any new blood would be welcome. Throw these sons-of-bitches the fuck out of DC and our state and local governments -- both Democrats and Republicans -- and lets see some candidates from other parties in power. Quite frankly, short of a brutal dictatorship, it's pretty hard to imagine fucking things up worse than DC is now doing, on both sides of the aisle.
Once unaccounted money gets decent buying power, then corruption sets in
Yeah, because there's no corruption in Obama's government now (cough Geithner) (cough Daschle) (cough brewing AmeriCorps scandal). Thanks for figuring it all out for the rest of us dummies, liberal elite!
. . . it is sure to be replaced by a new tax which generates more revenue than the never-used cell phone tax. In fact, that's how they'll justify the new tax ("well, we did get rid of this obsolete tax no one ever paid, so this is more than fair"). At the current rate of spend of this administration, we'll soon be taxed by the breath.
We run a lot of commerical OCR (as in millions of images), which is extremely processor-intensive, disk-intensive, memory-intensive, you name it. Our current main OCR server is a dual quad-core Xeon X5355 box with 16 GB of RAM. Our OCR software multithreads and the processor is no longer the bottleneck -- it's now disk I/O. While current drives continue to increase in size, their read / write speed is what keeps us from getting work done faster. It now takes several orders of magnitude longer to build, and then export, for example, a 2 GB batch than it does to recognize it, and the holdup is entirely due to disk I/O.
SSDs help. We recently upgraded our server's OS drive to two Intel Extreme 64GB SSDs in RAID 0 (also using part of the array as a "scratchpad" for the OCR batches), and that cut the disk I/O time approximately in half -- but we're still talking almost an hour for your typical 2 GB batch. Time is money, and we'd gladly throw more money at faster infrastructure were it available. SSDs are still way too expensive to replace our existing main storage arrays, though.
So, while I appreciate continuing work in processor speed and density, I'd say I'd rather see a commensurate increase (and reduction in cost!) in disk speed at this point. Just my.02.
That may be so, but most mentally ill homeless people also refuse the very treatments that would make them "productive members of society again." Also, McDonalds' other paying customers deserve to eat in a place which doesn't smell of unwashed people and urine, or features mentally folks having a deep discussion with the soda fountain. That's just good business sense -- if it happens enough, they'll take their money elsewhere. Yes, the homeless are people, but that doesn't give them the right to inflict their condition on others. If I stunk because I shit myself, or I chose not to use deoderant, are you seriously telling me it wouldn't bother you in the least if I sat immediately behind you on a hot day while you were eating your Big Mac and struck up a loud, spirited conversation with the napkin dispenser? Come on.
Stop bitching people. It's patriotic to pay your taxes, unless they are unjust... and they aren't.
I'm a moderately successful small business owner in the state of MD (for now). Here's a break down of my tax burden:
Federal income tax: 23%
FICA / Social Security (my half): 7.65%
FICA / Social Security (employers' half, which I also pay): 7.65%
MD state income tax: 8%
County income tax: 3%
That's 49.3% without counting all the other taxes MD slaps on business, such as unemployment, real property, etc. Essentially, I send the local, state or Federal government one dollar for every dollar I earn. If you think that's patriotic, you can go fuck yourself. And stop parroting the mindless Biden groupthink -- the election was in November.
To those of you who say, "if you don't like it, move" . . . you got that right. The blue states are losing hundreds of thousands of people like me every year as we relocate to more tax-friendly states, which is ironic. The more the Democrats try to raise taxes, the more they shrink the tax bases of their own states.
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Yeah . . . you'd think a guy with the handle "Frosty Piss" would pick better names for stuff . . . oh wait.
And yeah, as PeeAitchPee, I feel qualified to comment. :-)
If you build a road between a valley and there are 100 deer accidents a year, don't you think it would have been better to have built a raised road so the deer can go under the road and through the only choke point in the entire valley rather then get themselves killed and a few humans while they're at it?
It's a lot cheaper and easier to just shoot all the deer and build a normal road.
. . . why would any self-respecting hacker announce it? If there was anything of any real value on there, why not continue to quietly gather as much info as you could? This stinks worse than Pelosi's jock strap.
Not so. Making fun of ignorant WHITES is always accepted. But attempt to make the same type of humorous blanket commentary about the ignorance of any other ethnic group, and you'll immediately be branded a brown people-hating racist.
And so on. It seems like it has just been an endless stream of the same old thing: give up your liberties in order to make you "safer", but in reality it inconveniences you greatly, costs you a lot of money, and doesn't work. But you have still lost those liberties.
It's never been about "safety." That's just the excuse gov't uses to get suckers to support the new laws they pass to control its subjects and increase revenue. Nothing like invoking the fear of little Timmy being run down to get Mom and Pop to vote for speed cameras! Oh, just think of the children!
The only ultimate reasons government does anything AT ALL are money (redistributed to reward subjects loyal to whoever's in command at the time), control (of the citizens), and above all, maintaining power. You see different flavors of it depending on what side of the pond you're on, but the end goals are the same. Just look at the TSA in the United States as a related example -- is it REALLY about making travelers as safe as possible, or creating jobs for those often otherwise unemployable (a favorite government pasttime these days)? Let's compare TSA's post-9/11 track record versus El Al's -- seen any shoe or underwear bombers (sorry, "alleged" underwear bombers) flying into Tel Aviv lately? TSA is a bad joke, and our enemies know it.
It must be Bush and the Republicans' fault . . . oh wait.
I hope all those Kool Aid drinkers from last year learned a valuable lesson: Obama's the better liar.
. . . so I took her to New Jersey. :-)
. . . found ONLY along the crease, then they can't interpolate what was there. Period. This is just an improved version of the various touch-up tools in Photoshop etc.
. . . like the one which made Siebel his fortune. I'm an ex-enterprise software sales guy myself, and have many friends still in the business, some of whom worked for Siebel "back in the day" and have been on sales calls with Siebel (the man, not the company) himself. Most are of the consensus that the "glory days" are indeed long behind us (as in ten years behind us). In fact, one of my mentors recently told me, "enterprise software is dead." I certainly wouldn't tell a young college grad to go get rich selling software to big companies these days (though maybe to the federal government). It's easy to understand his myopic statement when you consider his background (former Larry Ellision disciple and ex-Oracle guy who pioneered selling "value selling" CRM apps into big business for mega dollars).
Here, however, Siebel is ignoring continuing advances in computing hardware, raw processing power and storage (multi-core architectures, SSDs, 64-bit OSes and gobs of fast memory, and other things which software has yet to really take advantage of), as well as other related things like nanoelectronics and continued innovation in materials sciences. The software just hasn't caught up yet to allow developers to take full advantage of these things and build out the next generation of applications.
In short, the more connected our world becomes, and the more people inhabit it, the more data we will create. There will always be a needs to collect, organize, and process this data, and attempt to draw meaningful conclusions from it, because that is what people do when they try to understand the nature of things. Perhaps IT from Siebel's world view (first generation enterprise software applications) is on the downslope, but I guarantee you that within the next decade you will see new ways of working with information that Siebel and co. could never have imagined.
Looks like David Carradine to me. :-)
Dude, you're confusing nerds with stoners and homeless guys.
He's Jesus Christ himself. ;-)
Quit being so blind. There are plenty of Democrats who toss healthcare CEOs' salads, too -- most notably Tom Daschle, who is married to one of Washington's most powerful lobbyists and who was Obama's pick to run healthcare until his tax problems came out.
This is not a partisan issue -- it's a lobbyist / special interest issue, but apparently you've been successfully conditioned and duped to wrongly believe that one side is more willing and able to "fix" things than the other. News flash: neither side wants a fix because they're both in the pocket of those who benefit from the current fucked-up system. So things will remain as they are, and our healthcare system will continue to get worse.
. . . on our main OCR / image processing server. It's a Server 2008 box with the SSDs being used for the OS and a "scratchpad" partition for writing temporary batches etc. We have an additional 5 TB of "tranditional" hard disk storage for staged and completed files. We're a high-end digitization shop that processes millions of images per month where time is literally money.
The Intel Extreme SSDs have made the single biggest difference of ANY component swap I've ever seen in all of my years around computers and software. The bottom line is that processing a typical 2 GB OCR batch now takes 30-40% of the time that it used to, which allows us to process dramatically more data in the same amount of time -- and that means, of course, we make more money in the same amount of time too. If your work is currently limited by disk throughput, and time is money, don't wait -- the Intel Extreme SSDs are the real deal and the technology will only get better.
the most "transformational" figure you could have possibly elected got in
That's the root of the problem -- people think that BHO is "transformational" because he's a great used car salesman and he happens to be black, but in reality, that's all he is -- a slick used car salesmen who's big on charismatic speeches but woefully short on concrete details, who's selling universal healthcare, an end to the war in Iraq, and all of the other things the Democrats have over-promised during the election and under-delivered -- while every day sinking our country deeper in tremendous debt of levels never before conceived. The Republicans have already proven that they're no better, BTW.
The glaringly obvious answer is to vote for third-party candidates. I don't even care who at this point -- practically any new blood would be welcome. Throw these sons-of-bitches the fuck out of DC and our state and local governments -- both Democrats and Republicans -- and lets see some candidates from other parties in power. Quite frankly, short of a brutal dictatorship, it's pretty hard to imagine fucking things up worse than DC is now doing, on both sides of the aisle.
Once unaccounted money gets decent buying power, then corruption sets in
Yeah, because there's no corruption in Obama's government now (cough Geithner) (cough Daschle) (cough brewing AmeriCorps scandal). Thanks for figuring it all out for the rest of us dummies, liberal elite!
. . . it is sure to be replaced by a new tax which generates more revenue than the never-used cell phone tax. In fact, that's how they'll justify the new tax ("well, we did get rid of this obsolete tax no one ever paid, so this is more than fair"). At the current rate of spend of this administration, we'll soon be taxed by the breath.
It's time to be patriotic, after all.
People have already uncovered icons for MSN and AOL
Where's the DMCA crew when you need them?
We run a lot of commerical OCR (as in millions of images), which is extremely processor-intensive, disk-intensive, memory-intensive, you name it. Our current main OCR server is a dual quad-core Xeon X5355 box with 16 GB of RAM. Our OCR software multithreads and the processor is no longer the bottleneck -- it's now disk I/O. While current drives continue to increase in size, their read / write speed is what keeps us from getting work done faster. It now takes several orders of magnitude longer to build, and then export, for example, a 2 GB batch than it does to recognize it, and the holdup is entirely due to disk I/O.
SSDs help. We recently upgraded our server's OS drive to two Intel Extreme 64GB SSDs in RAID 0 (also using part of the array as a "scratchpad" for the OCR batches), and that cut the disk I/O time approximately in half -- but we're still talking almost an hour for your typical 2 GB batch. Time is money, and we'd gladly throw more money at faster infrastructure were it available. SSDs are still way too expensive to replace our existing main storage arrays, though.
So, while I appreciate continuing work in processor speed and density, I'd say I'd rather see a commensurate increase (and reduction in cost!) in disk speed at this point. Just my .02.
That may be so, but most mentally ill homeless people also refuse the very treatments that would make them "productive members of society again." Also, McDonalds' other paying customers deserve to eat in a place which doesn't smell of unwashed people and urine, or features mentally folks having a deep discussion with the soda fountain. That's just good business sense -- if it happens enough, they'll take their money elsewhere. Yes, the homeless are people, but that doesn't give them the right to inflict their condition on others. If I stunk because I shit myself, or I chose not to use deoderant, are you seriously telling me it wouldn't bother you in the least if I sat immediately behind you on a hot day while you were eating your Big Mac and struck up a loud, spirited conversation with the napkin dispenser? Come on.
I suggest the United States McDonalds keep doing what they already do: make the store environment resemble that of a public LIBRARY
There, fixed that for you.
No . . . just one time should be enough.
Stop bitching people. It's patriotic to pay your taxes, unless they are unjust ... and they aren't.
I'm a moderately successful small business owner in the state of MD (for now). Here's a break down of my tax burden:
That's 49.3% without counting all the other taxes MD slaps on business, such as unemployment, real property, etc. Essentially, I send the local, state or Federal government one dollar for every dollar I earn. If you think that's patriotic, you can go fuck yourself. And stop parroting the mindless Biden groupthink -- the election was in November.
To those of you who say, "if you don't like it, move" . . . you got that right. The blue states are losing hundreds of thousands of people like me every year as we relocate to more tax-friendly states, which is ironic. The more the Democrats try to raise taxes, the more they shrink the tax bases of their own states.
. . . a good recruiting tool to me.
Ahhhh yes, the version where a bloodied Linus Torvalds walks calmly into Redmond HQ and screams "BALLLLLLLLLMMMMER! You're looking for me."
Later, he express delivers Bill Gates' head to Ballmer in a cardboard box.