That's pretty disingenuous given that he ultimately won the case and was acquitted by the senate. Be careful about revisionist history indeed. When you say someone needs to be brought up on charges and they are found not-guilty you don't typically view your actions as correct, in this way Gingrinch was wrong in saying that Clinton should be impeached for doing the same exact things as Gingrich himself at the time was doing.
I have a unique perspective on this problem as I do shows as well. The idea is, you have one set of access points that provide service, one set that monitor, and one set for active interference with rogue APs. When a rogue AP starts broadcasting you blanket the exact frequency and change neighboring service access points to channels that are on the other side of the spectrum. This works great in practice against regular people popping a linksys when they only pay for one Internet connection.
It won't work for a malicious attacker of course as you'll need to eventually locate the rogue AP and shut it off otherwise the offender will just keep changing channels forcing neighbors to change channels and thus causing disruption.
No, actually, you are the moron that clearly hasn't received care through the ER without insurance. Hospitals have funding issues for a variety of reasons including extremely high costs associated with collecting from insurance companies. In addition to this extremely and painfully short-sighted view you also completely ignore costs of preventative care. Only emergency medicine has these treatment requirements after-all. Some communities fund vaccines and other preventative measures but for the most part people are on the hook for their own medical expenses. Why get regular cleanings, you can live with that cavity because without insurance you're going to pay out the ass for care assuming you can afford it. Same goes for vision care and a myriad of other situations.
A friend of mine was hit by a truck and he lacked insurance, he was on the hook for a million dollars because the truck dragged him taking pieces of his leg every inch of the way. He either declares bankruptcy and the hospital doesn't get the money or he sues the truck driver to recover the costs. Those were his options. As a result, insurance for the truck driver is now higher, lawyers made a ton of money, and the hospital eventually got what was owed to them. How on earth can you defend this?
I was lucky enough to grow up in a family with health insurance, now that my sisters are old enough to have families I see the situation has changed rather dramatically for the negative as they look for ways to insure their kids without the thyroid condition making insurance prohibitively expensive. This is stupid, if we pooled our resources and turned human life from a for-profit industry to one that serves to better the community we can all live better lives and pay less for insurance for those of us that do have it.
Perhaps, more to the point, we can then achieve what most other nations accomplished 30 years ago. I have no idea how socialized medicine became so demonized.
I would like to know how this point of view became so prevalent. The libertarian rhetoric is fascinatingly blind to how people actually behave. Web development work is a hot field even today and skilled people make bank, just like I do as an IT manager. There are a lot of people out there working very hard and not making progress due to external factors. If you only knew Frontpage then yeah, you saw your contracts coming up empty, but if you progressed and kept up with modern developments you continued to do very well.
Sub-prime mortgages were stupid for regular folks, for investors it was great though as it drove up the housing costs forcing more people into sub-prime deals because it's the only way to get into a property. It's easy to say such people should rent their home and a great many people do. The problem is that not all houses are up for rent so people have to buy in order to find an affordable place.
Predatory financial industry practices have forced up the cost of almost every product we consume, notice how banks got into oil futures and surprise, now the price of gas is triple what it used to be. There is plenty of blame to go around, some people were plain dumb, regulations of the past were put in place to save people from themselves, then the laws were repealed and we found ourselves in a post-2000 economy.
When you have millionaires and billionaires throwing their money around, expect competing with their spending power to be very difficult. Especially when they are well organized.
SEPM has a web-based console already as you mentioned, it is pretty darned functional these days too. Most of VMWare's tools also don't need to be run directly on the server for management. Even installation can be done unattended and thus without a GUI.
This won't be a huge change for me as I already administer almost everything from administrative workstations and not directly on the servers. SSH access is common for me with the Linux side, and the traditional tool-stack from MS works pretty well and doesn't appear to be going anywhere, although I'd rather do it from an SSH tunnel instead of direct rpc. We're getting there!
Talk about bad legal counsel. Our's says set a reasonable policy necessary to get work done and then be consistent about it. If you're deleting all emails after 30 days then that is sufficiently different from the norm to make it look like your business is trying to hide or destroy evidence. This has caused problems in lawsuits as well. Appearances are everything when it comes to a lawsuit.
As for disabling internal email and only using IM services then presumably we're not talking about Windows Live or GTalk. We're talking about Windows Messaging or OpenFire or any type of centralized IM services which all support logging. This is less efficient than email though in my opinion.
The type of job greatly determines how successful this tactic can be. In most positions email is preferred specifically because there is a documented trail of communication so when one company agrees to do something it's not just a verbal agreement. Internal communications you can probably get away with this but in this litigious world the more evidence you have the better assuming you are on the right side of an argument that is.
I haven't encountered anyone in years that don't reply to emails throughout the day, it's better customer service as you can research your answer and not promise something you can't deliver like what often happens on the phone when someone is just trying to get off the phone.
Of course my problems are often centered around over reliance on email. When an email doesn't get delivered for any number of a million reasons they come complaining to me that they absolutely need the message, 99/100 times I can just pull it out of quarantine on a reception issue or it's the sender doing something wrong such as using the wrong email address, mistyping the domain name, or their mail server is temporarily down. In those cases I sure wish a voice call could accomplish the same thing, that's why HIPAA style secure message brokers are becoming more popular. Then you can arrange conference calls, pass files, basically do everything you normally do with email except without any spam.
Actually, they usually perform the same, an "Enterprise" SATA drive is still probably 7200rpm but has a 5 year warranty and is rated for 24/7 operation. Consumer drivers in the past typically had 3 year warranties and were not rated for 24/7 operation.
We've seen companies reduce their warranty lengths before and it's a good bet that they don't know what issues they will face with manufacturing in the near future either due to flooding or due to technological changes. It is also a means for them to create a market where they support a smaller set of "Enterprise" customers while consumers only purchasing individual drives will see their support shrink as they mostly just cost the manufacturer money after the initial purchase.
Actually, your point of view is disingenuous at best. If they weren't in school they get a full time job and not have to go into debt to pay rent and bills. So, they most certainly do contribute to the cost of getting an education. If they didn't have a job then they would live at home and again not have to go into debt for rent.
hmmm.... I watch Netflix on XBMC running on top of Ubuntu. Of course I have a Playon server in the closet running Windows. This allows me access to a lot of other sites as well, the XBMC plugins for free cable are almost always way out of date. So instead I have Pandora, Netflix, Amazon, CBS, ESPN and several others all available inside XBMC.
Of course if you run XBMC on Windows then you don't have any problems using the Netflix plugin for XBMC.
You're absolutely right people have standards, and the scrolling issue is ridiculous at best. My personal phone is a Samsung Moment and my work phone is a Motorola Atrix, both run Android, and neither have scrolling issues. I'll admit the Moment can get sluggish at times, this is not unique to Android as I've seen the same thing on iPhones.
Parent was speaking how GPs claims were so ridiculous that they'd fit right in with the ID crowd. Given how trollish the comment was, I think this is fair.
Also note, OS X lion on a sufficiently old machine will perform like a dog, same with IOS 5 on iPhone 3GS. So again, statement is just inflammatory, if the hardware is insufficient for the software then it's understandable that there is lag.
Actually parent stated that they would have to get food stamps (Government assistance) if they were being paid minimum wage in a major metropolitan area. Parent in no way stated whether they were willing to do that or not, only that it would be required.
Way to not read what I actually wrote on all of your points.
First, Adobe is dropping flash entirely due to pressure on developers leading web creation to html 5, this made sites like Youtube have to develop massive new infrastructure to support iDevices, infrastructure that was never necessary given the presence of Flash on Android.
Second, You are not forced to have separate iPhone/iPad apps but in most practical scenarios this is exactly what happens and you can see it plain as day in the App store. This is also the reason I've been forced to develop three versions of my mobile app. One version for Android, one for Iphone, and one for iPad. On the Android side it has always been easy to adapt screen sizes and has only gotten easier as it was built to do just that.
Third, I stated SSL VPN which you might notice is conspicuously missing from the Apple support link because most SSL VPN solutions are Java based. This would include Cisco's SSL VPN offerings.
Lastly, I have no trouble hooking my Android phone to my car or gym equipment, if you want to count control abilities then I'll concede integration is behind the curve except for the fact that everyone I see with an iPod/iPhone adapter in their cars still controls everything from the iDevice itself and not from the stereo since there is usually incredibly limited visual integration. Naturally an iPod will charge in my car as well while an iPhone will not.
Of course my car also has a USB port which I can plug my phone in and charge without issue, no special adapters or cables required. Bluetooth or audio cable to my stereo and away I go.
As a developer you might want to keep up. Most apps that work on my Android Honeycomb tablet also work on my Samsung Moment which is two years ago running Android 1.6. This fracturing exists but is not nearly as prevalent as portrayed. I wonder why when I install Market apps on my tablet it looks the same as on my phone? hmmm.... compare that to the iPad experience and you end up making a separate iPad version of your app. I've dealt with this for some time since my mobile app is basically a product catalog with ways to find said product at our event which is pretty sizable.
I have also not encountered an Android phone that did not support flash or h.264 acceleration. People putting up with the lack of flash on iOS continue to amaze me. The same goes for Java. As a result I had full SSL VPN capability on my Android phone pretty much from the beginning while the feature is still lacking on iOS, at least from a Sonicwall perspective because NetXtender is a Java based product.
All of that on top of the fact that most new Android devices support uPNP for streaming to tvs and receivers negating the need for proprietary iDevice docks. You see all the accessories as a good thing which I find strange.
So you think there was a time in history where banks had the power to topple governments? Iceland, Greece, Italy, and strife all over the US and the UK. I'm sorry, but it is no exaggeration. I do appreciate history, every time in history where merchant entities achieve too much power has always led to great problems, see the great depression. See the East India Company going further back with private armies, compare that with the abilities and abundant use of Blackwater in Iraq and Afghanistan today and I challenge you to say they aren't far worse.
Believe it or not, my statements don't come lightly. I'm not comparing anybody to Nazis but if you want to we can look at German economics and how it was usurped by private parties causing great harm. That's probably something even to support your side, except that the problems today reach much further than Europe and North Africa.
Your statements are asinine and you should probably reconsider before making yourself look more like a fool.
Given that we're on Slashdot and have had many stories about engineers jumping over to IT because all the work is being outsourced your view of reality is stunning. Given that I went 100k in debt getting a software engineering degree, and that I actually landed a job that paid well enough to justify it. I can't comprehend how you could imagine a world in which that makes sense? People don't have a choice of schools, they all cost a lot if you want a quality education. This is why you're seeing the rise of community colleges which are more cost effective. Certifications cost a lot so schools get more and more expensive as they have to hire PHDs to achieve certain levels of certifications. Community colleges are already getting a lot more expensive so all the options are disappearing fast. Then of course their is ever more dwindling support for federal funding of public universities causing them to raise tuition further.
I have several friends that graduated med school over the last few years and they are similar freaking out with 180k in debt on the light side.
Education and healthcare never make sense as for profit ventures, this is always the end result. Only the rich can then afford an education and then we're back to where we started.
Fortunately we're talking about fundamental issues which have been grossly neglected. Perhaps with enough light getting shined on the situation people will start to realize that it doesn't have to be that way and we don't even have to be communists to change it!
Opposing bail outs while supporting deregulation of the industry are mutually exclusive and why the tea party isn't taken seriously besides the fact that there is no such thing as the tea party. They just supported Republicans that met their viewpoint which is certainly fine but precludes the possibility that they are their own party. You also don't see anywhere near the money in OWS as you did with tea party protests. That in and of itself speaks volumes.
As for the past 4 years, they've been out looking for jobs or racking up debt that can no longer be forgiven past bankruptcy.
Except for Bush Jr of course who did way more to trample free speech and other constitutional rights. Obama continuing Bush policies is definitely wrong, but don't forget who set the precedent.
What do you think they've been doing for the last 20 years? Washington hasn't been listening and has only gotten worse with Obama as President facing a congress unwilling to act on anything, even things that they've had no trouble acting on in the past such as raising the debt ceiling. For more visibility has been gained by the Wallstreet protests as evidenced by the fact that we're discussing it now.
They are protesting that, where are you getting your news from? You might want to make adjustments. Of course you probably don't understand how they both got royally screwed by what were essentially junk bonds with AAA ratings. This was allowed because of the repeal of key banking laws during Bush Jr's tenor which was the last straw to send all the cards tumbling down. Deregulation of banking is so beyond retarded I have no idea how any can argue for it given that banks have led to almost every period of financial hardship in this country's history.
Do us a favor, watch any news source that is not Fox News and come back to the table.
Either your satire is lost on me or more likely given what I've heard from a lots of folks, people actually believe what you're saying and think that is what they are protesting. They are protesting corruption on a never before seen scale, companies that have grown too large for even the federal government to control. Bringing attention to the laws that have been bought and paid for is a noble goal and I'm not sure why you feel the need to belittle people that have the audacity to stand up and speak about the core issues of what is wrong with America these days. Wallstreet has unprecedented control over the country but of course they are not alone which is why you are seeing protests happen all over the place. There are many guilty people.
You don't have to be jobless to see how banking laws have stacked the deck against American citizens. You don't have to be jobless to understand the ridiculous debt required to go into almost any professional field these days. Hell, I went almost 100k in debt to get my degree. I had no trouble paying it off because of a number of factors that simply don't apply to most people. When you are relying on the right people discovering you, landing a good job that actually let's you pay off a targeted college degree becomes like getting picked for the latest NBA draft when they aren't striking that is.
This I got mine so fuck off attitude is extremely prevalent these days and it makes me sad to see what was one of the most generous nations on earth turning on itself because times are tough due to retarded policy decisions targeted toward Reaganomics which was a concept proven false even before it was ever deployed. You have 30 years of bad laws that have been building to this point and a congress unwilling to do anything for the President even when the President is proposing Republican ideals. We're one country, we're supposed to be on the same team, not fighting each other. I hear class warfare again and again from the likes of Fox News and Rush, forgetting that the war has been going on for decades and only now are people disenfranchised enough to speak up about it.
Instead of drowning out their words try listening to them. It's a rally with lots of people so yeah, there are nut jobs, but that doesn't change the heart of the issue which is very real regardless of your membership status in the middle class or above.
Which would be what? I sounds to me like databases and webservers benefit greatly from the AMD approach. Alternatives such as render farms use GPUs, so what strength is Intel actually offering?
What are you basing this on? As someone that runs both database and web servers using both AMD and Intel I find your conclusions to be completely counter to my experience and to the experience of almost everyone I know that does virtualized infrastructure.
I ran into a number of problems when I first tried to deploy them because SQL 2005 wouldn't install on it. SQL 2008 runs just great with 24 cores as they were dual processor 12 core servers. I have no reason to think the 16 cores variants would be much different.
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Are you refuting anything? No one said he wasn't impeached unless I missed something...
Most of us do know what impeach means, we're also aware of the fact that Clinton was acquitted of the charges.
That's pretty disingenuous given that he ultimately won the case and was acquitted by the senate. Be careful about revisionist history indeed. When you say someone needs to be brought up on charges and they are found not-guilty you don't typically view your actions as correct, in this way Gingrinch was wrong in saying that Clinton should be impeached for doing the same exact things as Gingrich himself at the time was doing.
I have a unique perspective on this problem as I do shows as well. The idea is, you have one set of access points that provide service, one set that monitor, and one set for active interference with rogue APs. When a rogue AP starts broadcasting you blanket the exact frequency and change neighboring service access points to channels that are on the other side of the spectrum. This works great in practice against regular people popping a linksys when they only pay for one Internet connection.
It won't work for a malicious attacker of course as you'll need to eventually locate the rogue AP and shut it off otherwise the offender will just keep changing channels forcing neighbors to change channels and thus causing disruption.
No, actually, you are the moron that clearly hasn't received care through the ER without insurance. Hospitals have funding issues for a variety of reasons including extremely high costs associated with collecting from insurance companies. In addition to this extremely and painfully short-sighted view you also completely ignore costs of preventative care. Only emergency medicine has these treatment requirements after-all. Some communities fund vaccines and other preventative measures but for the most part people are on the hook for their own medical expenses. Why get regular cleanings, you can live with that cavity because without insurance you're going to pay out the ass for care assuming you can afford it. Same goes for vision care and a myriad of other situations.
A friend of mine was hit by a truck and he lacked insurance, he was on the hook for a million dollars because the truck dragged him taking pieces of his leg every inch of the way. He either declares bankruptcy and the hospital doesn't get the money or he sues the truck driver to recover the costs. Those were his options. As a result, insurance for the truck driver is now higher, lawyers made a ton of money, and the hospital eventually got what was owed to them. How on earth can you defend this?
I was lucky enough to grow up in a family with health insurance, now that my sisters are old enough to have families I see the situation has changed rather dramatically for the negative as they look for ways to insure their kids without the thyroid condition making insurance prohibitively expensive. This is stupid, if we pooled our resources and turned human life from a for-profit industry to one that serves to better the community we can all live better lives and pay less for insurance for those of us that do have it.
Perhaps, more to the point, we can then achieve what most other nations accomplished 30 years ago. I have no idea how socialized medicine became so demonized.
I would like to know how this point of view became so prevalent. The libertarian rhetoric is fascinatingly blind to how people actually behave. Web development work is a hot field even today and skilled people make bank, just like I do as an IT manager. There are a lot of people out there working very hard and not making progress due to external factors. If you only knew Frontpage then yeah, you saw your contracts coming up empty, but if you progressed and kept up with modern developments you continued to do very well.
Sub-prime mortgages were stupid for regular folks, for investors it was great though as it drove up the housing costs forcing more people into sub-prime deals because it's the only way to get into a property. It's easy to say such people should rent their home and a great many people do. The problem is that not all houses are up for rent so people have to buy in order to find an affordable place.
Predatory financial industry practices have forced up the cost of almost every product we consume, notice how banks got into oil futures and surprise, now the price of gas is triple what it used to be. There is plenty of blame to go around, some people were plain dumb, regulations of the past were put in place to save people from themselves, then the laws were repealed and we found ourselves in a post-2000 economy.
When you have millionaires and billionaires throwing their money around, expect competing with their spending power to be very difficult. Especially when they are well organized.
SEPM has a web-based console already as you mentioned, it is pretty darned functional these days too. Most of VMWare's tools also don't need to be run directly on the server for management. Even installation can be done unattended and thus without a GUI.
This won't be a huge change for me as I already administer almost everything from administrative workstations and not directly on the servers. SSH access is common for me with the Linux side, and the traditional tool-stack from MS works pretty well and doesn't appear to be going anywhere, although I'd rather do it from an SSH tunnel instead of direct rpc. We're getting there!
Talk about bad legal counsel. Our's says set a reasonable policy necessary to get work done and then be consistent about it. If you're deleting all emails after 30 days then that is sufficiently different from the norm to make it look like your business is trying to hide or destroy evidence. This has caused problems in lawsuits as well. Appearances are everything when it comes to a lawsuit.
As for disabling internal email and only using IM services then presumably we're not talking about Windows Live or GTalk. We're talking about Windows Messaging or OpenFire or any type of centralized IM services which all support logging. This is less efficient than email though in my opinion.
The type of job greatly determines how successful this tactic can be. In most positions email is preferred specifically because there is a documented trail of communication so when one company agrees to do something it's not just a verbal agreement. Internal communications you can probably get away with this but in this litigious world the more evidence you have the better assuming you are on the right side of an argument that is.
I haven't encountered anyone in years that don't reply to emails throughout the day, it's better customer service as you can research your answer and not promise something you can't deliver like what often happens on the phone when someone is just trying to get off the phone.
Of course my problems are often centered around over reliance on email. When an email doesn't get delivered for any number of a million reasons they come complaining to me that they absolutely need the message, 99/100 times I can just pull it out of quarantine on a reception issue or it's the sender doing something wrong such as using the wrong email address, mistyping the domain name, or their mail server is temporarily down. In those cases I sure wish a voice call could accomplish the same thing, that's why HIPAA style secure message brokers are becoming more popular. Then you can arrange conference calls, pass files, basically do everything you normally do with email except without any spam.
Actually, they usually perform the same, an "Enterprise" SATA drive is still probably 7200rpm but has a 5 year warranty and is rated for 24/7 operation. Consumer drivers in the past typically had 3 year warranties and were not rated for 24/7 operation.
We've seen companies reduce their warranty lengths before and it's a good bet that they don't know what issues they will face with manufacturing in the near future either due to flooding or due to technological changes. It is also a means for them to create a market where they support a smaller set of "Enterprise" customers while consumers only purchasing individual drives will see their support shrink as they mostly just cost the manufacturer money after the initial purchase.
Actually, your point of view is disingenuous at best. If they weren't in school they get a full time job and not have to go into debt to pay rent and bills. So, they most certainly do contribute to the cost of getting an education. If they didn't have a job then they would live at home and again not have to go into debt for rent.
hmmm.... I watch Netflix on XBMC running on top of Ubuntu. Of course I have a Playon server in the closet running Windows. This allows me access to a lot of other sites as well, the XBMC plugins for free cable are almost always way out of date. So instead I have Pandora, Netflix, Amazon, CBS, ESPN and several others all available inside XBMC.
Of course if you run XBMC on Windows then you don't have any problems using the Netflix plugin for XBMC.
You're absolutely right people have standards, and the scrolling issue is ridiculous at best. My personal phone is a Samsung Moment and my work phone is a Motorola Atrix, both run Android, and neither have scrolling issues. I'll admit the Moment can get sluggish at times, this is not unique to Android as I've seen the same thing on iPhones.
Parent was speaking how GPs claims were so ridiculous that they'd fit right in with the ID crowd. Given how trollish the comment was, I think this is fair.
Also note, OS X lion on a sufficiently old machine will perform like a dog, same with IOS 5 on iPhone 3GS. So again, statement is just inflammatory, if the hardware is insufficient for the software then it's understandable that there is lag.
Actually parent stated that they would have to get food stamps (Government assistance) if they were being paid minimum wage in a major metropolitan area. Parent in no way stated whether they were willing to do that or not, only that it would be required.
Way to not read what I actually wrote on all of your points.
First, Adobe is dropping flash entirely due to pressure on developers leading web creation to html 5, this made sites like Youtube have to develop massive new infrastructure to support iDevices, infrastructure that was never necessary given the presence of Flash on Android.
Second, You are not forced to have separate iPhone/iPad apps but in most practical scenarios this is exactly what happens and you can see it plain as day in the App store. This is also the reason I've been forced to develop three versions of my mobile app. One version for Android, one for Iphone, and one for iPad. On the Android side it has always been easy to adapt screen sizes and has only gotten easier as it was built to do just that.
Third, I stated SSL VPN which you might notice is conspicuously missing from the Apple support link because most SSL VPN solutions are Java based. This would include Cisco's SSL VPN offerings.
Lastly, I have no trouble hooking my Android phone to my car or gym equipment, if you want to count control abilities then I'll concede integration is behind the curve except for the fact that everyone I see with an iPod/iPhone adapter in their cars still controls everything from the iDevice itself and not from the stereo since there is usually incredibly limited visual integration. Naturally an iPod will charge in my car as well while an iPhone will not.
Of course my car also has a USB port which I can plug my phone in and charge without issue, no special adapters or cables required. Bluetooth or audio cable to my stereo and away I go.
As a developer you might want to keep up. Most apps that work on my Android Honeycomb tablet also work on my Samsung Moment which is two years ago running Android 1.6. This fracturing exists but is not nearly as prevalent as portrayed. I wonder why when I install Market apps on my tablet it looks the same as on my phone? hmmm.... compare that to the iPad experience and you end up making a separate iPad version of your app. I've dealt with this for some time since my mobile app is basically a product catalog with ways to find said product at our event which is pretty sizable.
I have also not encountered an Android phone that did not support flash or h.264 acceleration. People putting up with the lack of flash on iOS continue to amaze me. The same goes for Java. As a result I had full SSL VPN capability on my Android phone pretty much from the beginning while the feature is still lacking on iOS, at least from a Sonicwall perspective because NetXtender is a Java based product.
All of that on top of the fact that most new Android devices support uPNP for streaming to tvs and receivers negating the need for proprietary iDevice docks. You see all the accessories as a good thing which I find strange.
So you think there was a time in history where banks had the power to topple governments? Iceland, Greece, Italy, and strife all over the US and the UK. I'm sorry, but it is no exaggeration. I do appreciate history, every time in history where merchant entities achieve too much power has always led to great problems, see the great depression. See the East India Company going further back with private armies, compare that with the abilities and abundant use of Blackwater in Iraq and Afghanistan today and I challenge you to say they aren't far worse.
Believe it or not, my statements don't come lightly. I'm not comparing anybody to Nazis but if you want to we can look at German economics and how it was usurped by private parties causing great harm. That's probably something even to support your side, except that the problems today reach much further than Europe and North Africa.
Your statements are asinine and you should probably reconsider before making yourself look more like a fool.
Given that we're on Slashdot and have had many stories about engineers jumping over to IT because all the work is being outsourced your view of reality is stunning. Given that I went 100k in debt getting a software engineering degree, and that I actually landed a job that paid well enough to justify it. I can't comprehend how you could imagine a world in which that makes sense? People don't have a choice of schools, they all cost a lot if you want a quality education. This is why you're seeing the rise of community colleges which are more cost effective. Certifications cost a lot so schools get more and more expensive as they have to hire PHDs to achieve certain levels of certifications. Community colleges are already getting a lot more expensive so all the options are disappearing fast. Then of course their is ever more dwindling support for federal funding of public universities causing them to raise tuition further.
I have several friends that graduated med school over the last few years and they are similar freaking out with 180k in debt on the light side.
Education and healthcare never make sense as for profit ventures, this is always the end result. Only the rich can then afford an education and then we're back to where we started.
Fortunately we're talking about fundamental issues which have been grossly neglected. Perhaps with enough light getting shined on the situation people will start to realize that it doesn't have to be that way and we don't even have to be communists to change it!
Opposing bail outs while supporting deregulation of the industry are mutually exclusive and why the tea party isn't taken seriously besides the fact that there is no such thing as the tea party. They just supported Republicans that met their viewpoint which is certainly fine but precludes the possibility that they are their own party. You also don't see anywhere near the money in OWS as you did with tea party protests. That in and of itself speaks volumes.
As for the past 4 years, they've been out looking for jobs or racking up debt that can no longer be forgiven past bankruptcy.
I agree with your assessment, compromise in the name of bipartisanship was stupid when the other side doesn't reciprocate to a compromise.
Except for Bush Jr of course who did way more to trample free speech and other constitutional rights. Obama continuing Bush policies is definitely wrong, but don't forget who set the precedent.
What do you think they've been doing for the last 20 years? Washington hasn't been listening and has only gotten worse with Obama as President facing a congress unwilling to act on anything, even things that they've had no trouble acting on in the past such as raising the debt ceiling. For more visibility has been gained by the Wallstreet protests as evidenced by the fact that we're discussing it now.
They are protesting that, where are you getting your news from? You might want to make adjustments. Of course you probably don't understand how they both got royally screwed by what were essentially junk bonds with AAA ratings. This was allowed because of the repeal of key banking laws during Bush Jr's tenor which was the last straw to send all the cards tumbling down. Deregulation of banking is so beyond retarded I have no idea how any can argue for it given that banks have led to almost every period of financial hardship in this country's history.
Do us a favor, watch any news source that is not Fox News and come back to the table.
Either your satire is lost on me or more likely given what I've heard from a lots of folks, people actually believe what you're saying and think that is what they are protesting. They are protesting corruption on a never before seen scale, companies that have grown too large for even the federal government to control. Bringing attention to the laws that have been bought and paid for is a noble goal and I'm not sure why you feel the need to belittle people that have the audacity to stand up and speak about the core issues of what is wrong with America these days. Wallstreet has unprecedented control over the country but of course they are not alone which is why you are seeing protests happen all over the place. There are many guilty people.
You don't have to be jobless to see how banking laws have stacked the deck against American citizens. You don't have to be jobless to understand the ridiculous debt required to go into almost any professional field these days. Hell, I went almost 100k in debt to get my degree. I had no trouble paying it off because of a number of factors that simply don't apply to most people. When you are relying on the right people discovering you, landing a good job that actually let's you pay off a targeted college degree becomes like getting picked for the latest NBA draft when they aren't striking that is.
This I got mine so fuck off attitude is extremely prevalent these days and it makes me sad to see what was one of the most generous nations on earth turning on itself because times are tough due to retarded policy decisions targeted toward Reaganomics which was a concept proven false even before it was ever deployed. You have 30 years of bad laws that have been building to this point and a congress unwilling to do anything for the President even when the President is proposing Republican ideals. We're one country, we're supposed to be on the same team, not fighting each other. I hear class warfare again and again from the likes of Fox News and Rush, forgetting that the war has been going on for decades and only now are people disenfranchised enough to speak up about it.
Instead of drowning out their words try listening to them. It's a rally with lots of people so yeah, there are nut jobs, but that doesn't change the heart of the issue which is very real regardless of your membership status in the middle class or above.
Which would be what? I sounds to me like databases and webservers benefit greatly from the AMD approach. Alternatives such as render farms use GPUs, so what strength is Intel actually offering?
What are you basing this on? As someone that runs both database and web servers using both AMD and Intel I find your conclusions to be completely counter to my experience and to the experience of almost everyone I know that does virtualized infrastructure.
I ran into a number of problems when I first tried to deploy them because SQL 2005 wouldn't install on it. SQL 2008 runs just great with 24 cores as they were dual processor 12 core servers. I have no reason to think the 16 cores variants would be much different.