The other big logical reason is licensing. No one is ever going to pay for the required Windows or MacOS server licenses for installations of this size when there is free (as in beer) software available. They'd rather put that money into other parts of the project (more cores etc.) to eek out even more performance.
Thing is, it's not an impossibly high standard, 30+ years ago, news organizations mostly stuck with *objectively reporting the news* rather than subtly leaving out certain parts of the story again and again and again to advance a chosen agenda, or constantly running rabid "opinion" pieces bordering on batshit-crazy levels of outrage. It's certainly been amplified by the Internet and the 24 hour news cycle. People are tired of this shit, and when the media fails in a huge way -- the prediction of Hillary's coronation with absolute certainty is a perfect example -- they erode the little trust people have left in them. While you choose to blame the doubters, some might say that the news orgs have brought this all on themselves, for decades.
Look at the process for confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee. It's about the most political thing that the US gov't does anymore. Both sides literally choose radical shills that vehemently espouse their tribe's proper dogma (with decades of decisions and case law to back their worldview) and then swear up and down that they'll be impartial. It's fucking insulting.
Blame the process, and the two parties of tards that got us there over the past 30+ years.
Riiiiight. The same Hillary Clinton -- you know, that champion of womens' rights Hillary Clinton shown grabbing rapist Harvey Weinstein's man-tits at some multi-million dollar DNC shindig -- would *never* do anything "extraordinarily inappropriate." Because she would respect the Constitution,
just like Obama did when he took a big steamer on it with warrantless wiretaps, FISA courts, and every other shitty abuse of power he doubled-down on from GWB and before.
. . . if the same judge would so vociferously enforce the Constitution and "protect netizens" if the political parties were reversed, e.g., hypothetical President Hillary's DoJ demanding the weblogs of hypothetical-conservative-site.org.
If you don't you will fail (like with most things). Besides actually exposing people to coding who don't already know what it is, I don't see any value in code bootcamps.
When they start broadcasting in Japan for the 2020 Olympics, it will be 60Hz native format, and with a colour gamut beyond what current TVs can display.
And then it will be compressed into a crappy, ghosting, 30fps, sRGB colorspace mess -- worse for online streaming and transmission by the cable providers and NBC (assuming you actually get to see any non-US medal round content)..
only thing it's holding its own is single thread performance
Yet, this is an incredibly important metric at least until software development catches up with the hardware. Know thy use case and use the right tool for the job.
You're already at +5 insightful so I'll comment rather than mod you up further. You've already got it . . . it's not who you are or where you come from, it's what you *do* that matters. Stay on it.;-)
Don't kid yourself. The reason that Google et al developers are majority straight white males (and Asians) is because that's by and large what is available in the talent pool of qualified applicants. You can't hire a black developer if you can't find one with the skillsets you require, and Google has just about zero control over that. Meaning that, this is all theater. Don't think for a second that any diversity / quotas will get in the way of billion dollar software companies developing the technology they decide to create. They need people who can code, and they'll continue to hire them, and retain the good ones they already have.
(Especially Sarah Mei, who basically just called him names and insulted his intelligence without any sort of direct rebuttal to his claims.)
That's straight out of the SJW handbook. You see that tactic commonly used at college campuses by infantilized students screaming profanities at their professors. I believe the intent is to make the case that some viewpoints are so unacceptable that they don't warrant / deserve any serious discussion or consideration. Of course, that immediately leads to the tactic being applied to "anything with which I disagree," always. It's weak and cowardly, and that's being kind.
What about Senate seats? Governorships? State legislatures? Even if you leave out the fact that Democrat-controlled states gerrymander Congressional districts just as much as Republican-controlled ones (as you have conveniently done), that doesn't explain why the Ds have been getting their asses kicked over and over in all the races I mention above.
My grandfather worked the famous Jones & Laughlin Steel open hearth furnaces across the river from what is now CMU's technology park. He worked there for over forty years until he was laid off in the 1970s. In those days, the big steel mills employed many thousands of workers and paid them well -- these were dangerous jobs that required hard physical work every day, and indeed J & L and others like it provided blue-collar, middle class Americans with a career and long term job security. He put five kids thru college working there. I grew up hearing stories of the sky being red all night every night because of the mills, and that was a great thing because "men are working." And it was -- at its peak, about 15% of US domestic steel production traveled over the Hot Metal Bridge. Most of us cannot even comprehend the magnitude of a manufacturing facility like that.
I love Pittsburgh, but as cool as it is, the tech rebirth on the river won't create the same number of jobs as back in the day, and certainly not for ordinary Americans like my ancestors. The steel jobs are all gone -- outsourced and out-regulated (for better or for worse). In J & L's case, as with many others, when the US rebuilt Europe and Japan after WWII, our former enemies ended up with better technology than we had domestically -- and that was the beginning of the end. That work is not coming back to the US, regardless of what anyone -- politicians, unions, or anyone else -- says, does, or hopes. Mainstream, normal people aren't going to put five kids thru college because of CMU's new ventures -- only those select few who actually get to work there (and good for them -- talent and hard work should be rewarded). Don't get me wrong -- I think it is fantastic that the Burgh is reinventing itself as a technology center -- but it's not the same, and never will be the same, as it was at its peak of industry.
I know this is hard for some people to grasp, but there are other reasons to work hard besides "getting rich." The happiest people I've met are those who get to do what they love every day. When you find yourself in that position, working crazy hours and getting immersed in trying to figure something out for days on end, and then actually accomplishing something real *is* a very big part of it. Rich people can't buy that feeling -- it has to be earned.
Perhaps Chicago would be better to put these resources towards making sure all of its children survive to graduation before spending more money the city doesn't have forcing them to make plans for what comes next.
Why do people do it then? Pretty much every Uber driver I've ridden with has told me they do it part time for some extra bucks, and they like that they can do it on their own schedule. If it were as terrible as you represent, I doubt that hundreds of thousands of people would voluntarily drive for them.
For my 26 mile trip to the airport at a major Northeast city, it's about $43. Super Shuttle costs about the same but takes as long as three hours. A taxi costs about $75 to get down to the airport (if it shows up at all -- they can be as much as an hour late and I have no idea if / when they'll arrive) and about $85 to get home from the airport after factoring in their "concessions fee." In terms of comfort and reliability, Uber is easily the tops of all of these options. Hate them all you want, but people wouldn't use it or drive for them if they weren't getting value from it.
Don't have three or more kids, especially if you don't have the means to support them. It's hard enough to make concepts like minimum wage and UBI work for individuals alone. It seems that a lot of these efforts are being viewed through the lens of normalizing and accepting situations caused by, in part, irresponsible breeding, rather than affecting the root causes.
People who want cheap hardware are not going to spend any money, and not going to support the advanced technology that Apple represents.
Not true at all . . . many of us spend tons of money on hardware per year but refuse to pay a ridiculous price for commodity Intel-based hardware in a pretty aluminum case. My company's workstations are tools, not toys or fashion statements -- I don't care what they look like as long as they do what we need them to do. We build monster-class workstations sourcing our own parts that burn circles around the highest-spec Mac you can order and that include all port types, not just the ones Apple sanctions or approves, at a fraction of the cost (usually around 40% per workstation of what the highest-end Mac would cost ). There are available Windows and Linux versions of all of the software tools we use (and a few that are Windows *only*). Sure Apple hardware is nice, but it's super expensive, so if you don't care about the OS, commodity Intel-based hardware offers the *same exact thing* at much better overall value.
Every day they deliver billions of pieces of junk mail at a loss.
Citation? I can find no evidence backing this claim. Every article I find about USPS financial losses points back to the Congressional pension funding mandate previously mentioned by others -- nothing that is intrinsically related to junk mail. Seriously, if you have a link, please post it because I'd be interested to see it.
Bear in mind that modern junk mail like Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) is not individually addressed to the recipients, versus 1st Class Mail which is. There's a huge amount of overhead related to reading those individual addresses, forwarding / routing them, handling exceptions like people that moved / Return To Sender or Wrong Address, etc. None of that overhead is there with EDDM (which literally is bulk mail which gets delivered to every residence on the route -- hence the name), which is a very large percentage of modern junk mail and part of the reason why it's so much cheaper than 1st Class. EDDM junk mail also must be delivered by the sender to the local post offices prior to final delivery on the local routes (though most folks use a 3rd party to do this part for them). But all of these things knock the cost per piece way down versus a 1st Class letter.
When can we expect Harvard to pull offers from those supportive of BLM "activists" literally calling for the deaths of policemen? Of those supportive of the anarchists at Berkeley and elsewhere destroying property and looting and burning small businesses?
I assume you're talking about TV news reporting on national and world events, and I'd agree with that opinion. However, local TV news is still a pretty good way to keep up to date on local current events and matters of local relevancy across the spectrum (be they political, crime-related, traffic, weather, sports, etc.) all in one place. The Internet has yet to supplant this and I expect it won't any time soon as the relative market shares are too small to incentivize a lot of competition and the local TV stations have a pretty big head start with their own web presences anyway.
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The other big logical reason is licensing. No one is ever going to pay for the required Windows or MacOS server licenses for installations of this size when there is free (as in beer) software available. They'd rather put that money into other parts of the project (more cores etc.) to eek out even more performance.
Check it out, a politician is demanding that a citizen give a straight answer!
Thing is, it's not an impossibly high standard, 30+ years ago, news organizations mostly stuck with *objectively reporting the news* rather than subtly leaving out certain parts of the story again and again and again to advance a chosen agenda, or constantly running rabid "opinion" pieces bordering on batshit-crazy levels of outrage. It's certainly been amplified by the Internet and the 24 hour news cycle. People are tired of this shit, and when the media fails in a huge way -- the prediction of Hillary's coronation with absolute certainty is a perfect example -- they erode the little trust people have left in them. While you choose to blame the doubters, some might say that the news orgs have brought this all on themselves, for decades.
Look at the process for confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee. It's about the most political thing that the US gov't does anymore. Both sides literally choose radical shills that vehemently espouse their tribe's proper dogma (with decades of decisions and case law to back their worldview) and then swear up and down that they'll be impartial. It's fucking insulting.
Blame the process, and the two parties of tards that got us there over the past 30+ years.
Riiiiight. The same Hillary Clinton -- you know, that champion of womens' rights Hillary Clinton shown grabbing rapist Harvey Weinstein's man-tits at some multi-million dollar DNC shindig -- would *never* do anything "extraordinarily inappropriate." Because she would respect the Constitution, just like Obama did when he took a big steamer on it with warrantless wiretaps, FISA courts, and every other shitty abuse of power he doubled-down on from GWB and before.
What a freakin' homer.
. . . if the same judge would so vociferously enforce the Constitution and "protect netizens" if the political parties were reversed, e.g., hypothetical President Hillary's DoJ demanding the weblogs of hypothetical-conservative-site.org.
It isn't compatible with unionization in any way, shape, or form. If for no other reason, the powers that be would never allow it.
If you don't you will fail (like with most things). Besides actually exposing people to coding who don't already know what it is, I don't see any value in code bootcamps.
When they start broadcasting in Japan for the 2020 Olympics, it will be 60Hz native format, and with a colour gamut beyond what current TVs can display.
And then it will be compressed into a crappy, ghosting, 30fps, sRGB colorspace mess -- worse for online streaming and transmission by the cable providers and NBC (assuming you actually get to see any non-US medal round content)..
only thing it's holding its own is single thread performance
Yet, this is an incredibly important metric at least until software development catches up with the hardware. Know thy use case and use the right tool for the job.
You're already at +5 insightful so I'll comment rather than mod you up further. You've already got it . . . it's not who you are or where you come from, it's what you *do* that matters. Stay on it. ;-)
Don't kid yourself. The reason that Google et al developers are majority straight white males (and Asians) is because that's by and large what is available in the talent pool of qualified applicants. You can't hire a black developer if you can't find one with the skillsets you require, and Google has just about zero control over that. Meaning that, this is all theater. Don't think for a second that any diversity / quotas will get in the way of billion dollar software companies developing the technology they decide to create. They need people who can code, and they'll continue to hire them, and retain the good ones they already have.
(Especially Sarah Mei, who basically just called him names and insulted his intelligence without any sort of direct rebuttal to his claims.)
That's straight out of the SJW handbook. You see that tactic commonly used at college campuses by infantilized students screaming profanities at their professors. I believe the intent is to make the case that some viewpoints are so unacceptable that they don't warrant / deserve any serious discussion or consideration. Of course, that immediately leads to the tactic being applied to "anything with which I disagree," always. It's weak and cowardly, and that's being kind.
What about Senate seats? Governorships? State legislatures? Even if you leave out the fact that Democrat-controlled states gerrymander Congressional districts just as much as Republican-controlled ones (as you have conveniently done), that doesn't explain why the Ds have been getting their asses kicked over and over in all the races I mention above.
Can't we just get rid of Massachusetts instead?
My grandfather worked the famous Jones & Laughlin Steel open hearth furnaces across the river from what is now CMU's technology park. He worked there for over forty years until he was laid off in the 1970s. In those days, the big steel mills employed many thousands of workers and paid them well -- these were dangerous jobs that required hard physical work every day, and indeed J & L and others like it provided blue-collar, middle class Americans with a career and long term job security. He put five kids thru college working there. I grew up hearing stories of the sky being red all night every night because of the mills, and that was a great thing because "men are working." And it was -- at its peak, about 15% of US domestic steel production traveled over the Hot Metal Bridge. Most of us cannot even comprehend the magnitude of a manufacturing facility like that.
I love Pittsburgh, but as cool as it is, the tech rebirth on the river won't create the same number of jobs as back in the day, and certainly not for ordinary Americans like my ancestors. The steel jobs are all gone -- outsourced and out-regulated (for better or for worse). In J & L's case, as with many others, when the US rebuilt Europe and Japan after WWII, our former enemies ended up with better technology than we had domestically -- and that was the beginning of the end. That work is not coming back to the US, regardless of what anyone -- politicians, unions, or anyone else -- says, does, or hopes. Mainstream, normal people aren't going to put five kids thru college because of CMU's new ventures -- only those select few who actually get to work there (and good for them -- talent and hard work should be rewarded). Don't get me wrong -- I think it is fantastic that the Burgh is reinventing itself as a technology center -- but it's not the same, and never will be the same, as it was at its peak of industry.
I know this is hard for some people to grasp, but there are other reasons to work hard besides "getting rich." The happiest people I've met are those who get to do what they love every day. When you find yourself in that position, working crazy hours and getting immersed in trying to figure something out for days on end, and then actually accomplishing something real *is* a very big part of it. Rich people can't buy that feeling -- it has to be earned.
Perhaps Chicago would be better to put these resources towards making sure all of its children survive to graduation before spending more money the city doesn't have forcing them to make plans for what comes next.
Why do people do it then? Pretty much every Uber driver I've ridden with has told me they do it part time for some extra bucks, and they like that they can do it on their own schedule. If it were as terrible as you represent, I doubt that hundreds of thousands of people would voluntarily drive for them.
For my 26 mile trip to the airport at a major Northeast city, it's about $43. Super Shuttle costs about the same but takes as long as three hours. A taxi costs about $75 to get down to the airport (if it shows up at all -- they can be as much as an hour late and I have no idea if / when they'll arrive) and about $85 to get home from the airport after factoring in their "concessions fee." In terms of comfort and reliability, Uber is easily the tops of all of these options. Hate them all you want, but people wouldn't use it or drive for them if they weren't getting value from it.
Don't have three or more kids, especially if you don't have the means to support them. It's hard enough to make concepts like minimum wage and UBI work for individuals alone. It seems that a lot of these efforts are being viewed through the lens of normalizing and accepting situations caused by, in part, irresponsible breeding, rather than affecting the root causes.
People who want cheap hardware are not going to spend any money, and not going to support the advanced technology that Apple represents.
Not true at all . . . many of us spend tons of money on hardware per year but refuse to pay a ridiculous price for commodity Intel-based hardware in a pretty aluminum case. My company's workstations are tools, not toys or fashion statements -- I don't care what they look like as long as they do what we need them to do. We build monster-class workstations sourcing our own parts that burn circles around the highest-spec Mac you can order and that include all port types, not just the ones Apple sanctions or approves, at a fraction of the cost (usually around 40% per workstation of what the highest-end Mac would cost ). There are available Windows and Linux versions of all of the software tools we use (and a few that are Windows *only*). Sure Apple hardware is nice, but it's super expensive, so if you don't care about the OS, commodity Intel-based hardware offers the *same exact thing* at much better overall value.
Every day they deliver billions of pieces of junk mail at a loss.
Citation? I can find no evidence backing this claim. Every article I find about USPS financial losses points back to the Congressional pension funding mandate previously mentioned by others -- nothing that is intrinsically related to junk mail. Seriously, if you have a link, please post it because I'd be interested to see it.
Bear in mind that modern junk mail like Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) is not individually addressed to the recipients, versus 1st Class Mail which is. There's a huge amount of overhead related to reading those individual addresses, forwarding / routing them, handling exceptions like people that moved / Return To Sender or Wrong Address, etc. None of that overhead is there with EDDM (which literally is bulk mail which gets delivered to every residence on the route -- hence the name), which is a very large percentage of modern junk mail and part of the reason why it's so much cheaper than 1st Class. EDDM junk mail also must be delivered by the sender to the local post offices prior to final delivery on the local routes (though most folks use a 3rd party to do this part for them). But all of these things knock the cost per piece way down versus a 1st Class letter.
When can we expect Harvard to pull offers from those supportive of BLM "activists" literally calling for the deaths of policemen? Of those supportive of the anarchists at Berkeley and elsewhere destroying property and looting and burning small businesses?
I assume you're talking about TV news reporting on national and world events, and I'd agree with that opinion. However, local TV news is still a pretty good way to keep up to date on local current events and matters of local relevancy across the spectrum (be they political, crime-related, traffic, weather, sports, etc.) all in one place. The Internet has yet to supplant this and I expect it won't any time soon as the relative market shares are too small to incentivize a lot of competition and the local TV stations have a pretty big head start with their own web presences anyway.