Nice sig, bro. Yet, there is a Latin grammar error in it. It should be "cogito igitur comedam pizzam", "pizza" being of feminine word gender and being used in the accusative.
Prolly because Dell - estimate is all mine, YMMV - gets > 98% of its revenue stream from selling grey / black boxes to enterprises with deep pockets, NOT from peddling Alienware stuff.
True, I had an Alienware laptop once, and it was awesome. But still. I never met someone else with an Alienware box. And these are simply *too e x p e n s i v e * for being considered for anything resembling daily prodution use. So this is, quite probably, just muscle-flexing. The future will quite quickly tell us what this is really worth.
Exactly. The quote foregoes all "extra bullshit" like same-day support from Dell. It includes a day of rigorous testing. Support was imputed upon the project, by ( tentatively ) adding a couple of hours / year for a junior technician, so did not appear in the quote. I must stress, however, that financial reasons were not the reason the plan got axed. It was processes, heavy and slow processes, as well as a certain habit to squander taxpayer money, that made the plan die.
My main PC is a 2.5-year-old Fujitsu Siemens workstation with an 8-core Xeon and 4 hdds in it. It will prolly run fine for another 3 years.
As for building your own: at work, I recently proposed we build our own server, for a certain project - at a cost of about € 4000 - rather than buying a COTS Dell box for about € 10,000. The proposal was met with enthusiasm by colleagues, only died because of archaic in-house regulations. The PC is not dead, in spite of what is being heard each year again. It is changing. That's all.
Exactly. I experience the same thing: the more I get into ( the math and distribution system of ) BitCoin, the more my non-understanding and potential problems melt away. The problem does seem, indeed, to be the inertia of my own mind.
This having been said, I *do* think that BitCoin may rather sooner than later be almost as important as fiduciary currency. A highly successful speculator and trader told me this week over lunch: "You know why central banks are warning against BitCoin ? On the one hand, because they have to. On the other hand - out of fear." He then told me that, as long as central banks keep warning against and ranting about BitCoin, he considers BitCoin safe. "I`ll only start being suspicious when the same central banks become hush-hush about it".
I was made, for 100%, of recycled atoms and electrons. These, in turn, are built up, to a very high percentage, of refurbished star plasma. The energy with which these are being held together in molecules is re-used energy from the big bang.
If you launch them with just the right amount of energy, you don't NEED to "stop them". They'll end up in an orbit around earth. Not as if we had not been already doing that for decades.... Back to school, dude !
You seem to almost and actually have a point here.... But but but how will this developer I know convince his startup founder ( incidentally also his boss ) to send him to CES so he can get laid ? Simply by quoting JoeyRox' quip on/. ?
They should put their money into their product, which by definition is heavily under development and **needs** money. They should put it into hiring just the right rock star developer.
There, nuff said.
Do agree. I am originally from the Netherlands, and my father once told me a story about police being respected, in the 1930s. In a pub, there was a brawl, and some knives were being drawn. Someone still sober called the police from the nearby police station. A constable arrived, opened the door, stepped inside, looked around and said: "Well, it's about time to stop this nonsense, I guess." The rest of the evening was quiet.
They are a dinosaurian government agency, that has a habit of gobbling up money by the truckload. They have no reputation for technical or scientific excellence whatsoever. Neither do they have a track record in building first-rate equipment or software. Moreover, they have been proved, over and over again, to be pathological liars. In other words: who gives a shit ??
1) Homer, the Odyssey - arguably the greatest work of fiction ever made by man, and one of the cornerstones of western literature.
2) The Peloponnesean War, Thucydides - the first time in history a human thinks loud about politics and human motivations to act; also, deep insight into political stupidity leading to catastrophic state failure.
3) The collected poems of John Keats - to get an idea of what one can really do with the english language.
4) The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons - all of the former provide deep and not-so-deep background for these 4 magnificent sci-fi novels.
Religion is, and has always been, the main way humans self-organise and coordinate on a large scale. Modern civilisation has its advantages, but one drawback is that the rules are too numerous, can only really be understood by experts and is open to abuse by vested interests. Religion also has these shortcomings, but is generally much simpler in nature. We have a few thousand years of religious history to study how that part of human psychology works, and it is not surprising to see religious behaviour emerging naturally in secular aspects of life. (Fans following a football team are probably an excellent source of examples here.)
The state is, and has always been, the main way humans self-organise and coordinate on a large scale. Modern civilisation has its advantages, but one drawback is that the rules are too numerous, can only really be understood by experts and is open to abuse by vested interests. The state also has these shortcomings, but is generally much simpler in nature. We have a few thousand years of political history to study how that part of human psychology works, and it is not surprising to see political behaviour emerging naturally in many aspects of life. (Fans following a football team are probably an excellent source of examples here.)
You forgot to mention Judaism 1.1, rebranded as Islam. Although mutually compatible with Judaism 1.0 and Christianity, its users vehemently deny this compatibility. It runs on almost any platform, but disables any other of Judaism found there ( it is pertinently *not* usable in a multi-boot environment ). All attempts to run Judaism 1.1 as a virtualized OS have also failed, until now.
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Nice sig, bro. Yet, there is a Latin grammar error in it. It should be "cogito igitur comedam pizzam", "pizza" being of feminine word gender and being used in the accusative.
TFTFY.
Prolly because Dell - estimate is all mine, YMMV - gets > 98% of its revenue stream from selling grey / black boxes to enterprises with deep pockets, NOT from peddling Alienware stuff.
True, I had an Alienware laptop once, and it was awesome. But still. I never met someone else with an Alienware box. And these are simply *too e x p e n s i v e * for being considered for anything resembling daily prodution use. So this is, quite probably, just muscle-flexing. The future will quite quickly tell us what this is really worth.
Exactly. The quote foregoes all "extra bullshit" like same-day support from Dell. It includes a day of rigorous testing. Support was imputed upon the project, by ( tentatively ) adding a couple of hours / year for a junior technician, so did not appear in the quote. I must stress, however, that financial reasons were not the reason the plan got axed. It was processes, heavy and slow processes, as well as a certain habit to squander taxpayer money, that made the plan die.
My main PC is a 2.5-year-old Fujitsu Siemens workstation with an 8-core Xeon and 4 hdds in it. It will prolly run fine for another 3 years.
As for building your own: at work, I recently proposed we build our own server, for a certain project - at a cost of about € 4000 - rather than buying a COTS Dell box for about € 10,000. The proposal was met with enthusiasm by colleagues, only died because of archaic in-house regulations. The PC is not dead, in spite of what is being heard each year again. It is changing. That's all.
I mean, the place being named organizedcrime.nl .....
Exactly. I experience the same thing: the more I get into ( the math and distribution system of ) BitCoin, the more my non-understanding and potential problems melt away. The problem does seem, indeed, to be the inertia of my own mind.
This having been said, I *do* think that BitCoin may rather sooner than later be almost as important as fiduciary currency. A highly successful speculator and trader told me this week over lunch: "You know why central banks are warning against BitCoin ? On the one hand, because they have to. On the other hand - out of fear." He then told me that, as long as central banks keep warning against and ranting about BitCoin, he considers BitCoin safe. "I`ll only start being suspicious when the same central banks become hush-hush about it".
I was made, for 100%, of recycled atoms and electrons. These, in turn, are built up, to a very high percentage, of refurbished star plasma. The energy with which these are being held together in molecules is re-used energy from the big bang.
Which is: masturbation.
In this dark European morning, your comment cracked a large smile on my sleepy face.
Amen. Someone please mod parent up. There is more insight in that comment than on the rest of this entire page.
If you launch them with just the right amount of energy, you don't NEED to "stop them". They'll end up in an orbit around earth. Not as if we had not been already doing that for decades.... Back to school, dude !
The US being virtually bankrupt, I wonder where the money will come from.... but then again:
*slap on forehead* of course. The Fed will just print some *slap on forehead*
...and a house close to Apple HQ.
You seem to almost and actually have a point here.... But but but how will this developer I know convince his startup founder ( incidentally also his boss ) to send him to CES so he can get laid ? Simply by quoting JoeyRox' quip on /. ?
take place under Apple HQ ?? It would do only good civilization.
They should put their money into their product, which by definition is heavily under development and **needs** money. They should put it into hiring just the right rock star developer. There, nuff said.
Soon to be featured by a /. outlet in your galaxy , yay !!
Have to remember that one for the next time I present a design or an engineering proposition to some pointy-haired bosses. Ha !
Most divergent of all, he believed that increasing automatization of labor would spawn not inequality or joblessness, but spiritual malaise.
How is this different from what we have now, I insist and ask ?
Do agree. I am originally from the Netherlands, and my father once told me a story about police being respected, in the 1930s. In a pub, there was a brawl, and some knives were being drawn. Someone still sober called the police from the nearby police station. A constable arrived, opened the door, stepped inside, looked around and said: "Well, it's about time to stop this nonsense, I guess." The rest of the evening was quiet.
is now being turned, all nice and easy, into Nanny State 2.0: a Surveillance State. Police State will be Nanny State 3.0. Rejoice, o Britons !
They are a dinosaurian government agency, that has a habit of gobbling up money by the truckload. They have no reputation for technical or scientific excellence whatsoever. Neither do they have a track record in building first-rate equipment or software. Moreover, they have been proved, over and over again, to be pathological liars. In other words: who gives a shit ??
1) Homer, the Odyssey - arguably the greatest work of fiction ever made by man, and one of the cornerstones of western literature.
2) The Peloponnesean War, Thucydides - the first time in history a human thinks loud about politics and human motivations to act; also, deep insight into political stupidity leading to catastrophic state failure.
3) The collected poems of John Keats - to get an idea of what one can really do with the english language.
4) The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons - all of the former provide deep and not-so-deep background for these 4 magnificent sci-fi novels.
Religion is, and has always been, the main way humans self-organise and coordinate on a large scale. Modern civilisation has its advantages, but one drawback is that the rules are too numerous, can only really be understood by experts and is open to abuse by vested interests. Religion also has these shortcomings, but is generally much simpler in nature. We have a few thousand years of religious history to study how that part of human psychology works, and it is not surprising to see religious behaviour emerging naturally in secular aspects of life. (Fans following a football team are probably an excellent source of examples here.)
The state is, and has always been, the main way humans self-organise and coordinate on a large scale. Modern civilisation has its advantages, but one drawback is that the rules are too numerous, can only really be understood by experts and is open to abuse by vested interests. The state also has these shortcomings, but is generally much simpler in nature. We have a few thousand years of political history to study how that part of human psychology works, and it is not surprising to see political behaviour emerging naturally in many aspects of life. (Fans following a football team are probably an excellent source of examples here.)
You forgot to mention Judaism 1.1, rebranded as Islam. Although mutually compatible with Judaism 1.0 and Christianity, its users vehemently deny this compatibility. It runs on almost any platform, but disables any other of Judaism found there ( it is pertinently *not* usable in a multi-boot environment ). All attempts to run Judaism 1.1 as a virtualized OS have also failed, until now.