She resigned her position, and I disagree with your argument that time in politics necessarily == qualification or ability.
Obama aint perfect, not by a long shot. On the other hand Palin as Pres, a woman who seems to have (and revels in having) no respect for facts when it comes to dealing with *anything*, who would base her positions purely on ideology, and who would additionally be horribly ineffective in getting *anything* actually done (though that might be a good thing, considering her lack of appreciation for science, facts, history, or education) would be an absolute disaster! This misquote by itself wouldn't be all that problematic, but it's symptomatic of how she deals with *important* issues, ignoring real world data for folksy "common sense" and hearsay.
Even scarier, the wikipedia revisions are symptomatic of a larger movement of revisionism on the part of the right wing in this country (and yes, people on the left engages in that too sometimes, but not to the extent, length, or breadth that the tea party in particular has been) where facts are twisted and distorted beyond anything resembling their former selves to suit ideology (the debt ceiling debate is a good example of this, whether you believe the debt ceiling should be raised or not, the rhetoric coming out of the right is pure misinformation and falsehoods)
Depends on the purpose of the reliable machine, when I interned at a Nat'l lab last summer, one way of checking things on internal sites or checking a problem with wifi routing or etc was to ssh in to a compile node on the cluster with x forwarded and run firefox.
My first thought too. Seriously though, my bet is either a video game dev, tech company, or a movie studio - leaning towards the former. 2 letter domains are expensive, particularly ones with lots of history - this has to be someone with deep pockets and some reason to want the domain. I wouldn't be surprised to see something like "Illuminati Online, the MMORPG of conspiracy and intrigue... coming soon, from Activision"
let's just hope they don't use it for ill, intentionally or otherwise. Think about it, among other things whoever owns that domain now will be able to intercept all mail to io.com accounts, and with the quickness and suddenness of the transfer not everyone's who uses those addresses is going to be able to completely transition off them before the transfer happens
I agree with you about core counts, but about turbo boost... If you're putting this chip, let alone 2 or 4 of them, in a system where turbo boost would be helpful you're using the wrong chips
You felt the need to post that twice in the same thread? plus another comment to similar effect? It rather undermines the message when it looks like you've got some sort of personal axe to grind.... (and irritates me when your annoying comments that add nothing to the thread keep showing up as I scroll)
Unless you are in the greater New York area you don't need the NYT. They consider themselves the "journal of record", but in the real world they are just another mainstream media news outlet, and there is nothing special about their coverage.
The NYTimes is generally considered one the major US newspapers of record, not just by themselves, but by anyone who ever has had to do research that used newspapers as sources.... You may not like the NYT, and that's fine, but dismissing them as a major source just makes you seem petty and ignorant.
I can find everything I need to know without them. For international news I can go to English language sites of the regions that are closest to the story. The same goes for events in the US. Why read the NYT about the situation in Japan when you can go to Japanese sources and the Wikipedia?
I have found that both British news and Al Jazeera are as good, or even better then any US based new organization when it comes to international reporting.
Because they generally have pretty good coverage? I don't just use one source for my news, and yes, reading local news is useful, but just because the NYT is based in NYC and, when bought in the NYC area has a section dedicated to said area, doesn't mean that they aren't an international news agency with a large reporting and editorial staff. Hell, it's quite possible that some of the local news, or British news you've read recently may have been sourced from a NY Times Co. employed journalist or stringer.
The one you download from the dev site is either:
A) A full copy of 4 because you have a currently paid dev account (in which case it's not free)
-or-
B) Xcode 3
I wouldn't buy a monitor bigger than 24" that only supported 1080p.
I can only guess at what something like that would cost and where you'd buy it.
I've never seen such a beast. That's not to say they don't exist, but it seems a fairly exotic thing.
Exotic? Really?
On the consumer/normal workstation end of things off the top of my head you've got the Dell U2711, IPS, res. 2560x1440 (list 1k, but frequently on sale for ~$700) plus Apple's *only* display, in the same price range with essentially the same panel (glossy though, and LED backlight).
On the true high end Eizo, NEC, and others make even better displays. Not to mention that with slightly lower DPI you cna get the same 2560x1440 resolution on nearly every 30" computer monitor made in the last few years (including Apple, Dell, HP, Samsung, etc)
So what's you're saying is that a Mac makes a shiny Unix terminal, being a commoditised NeXT box.
A shiny unix terminal on top of a nicer mobile OS than windows or linux often are, certainly easier to take it out of the box and get straight to getting work done. A shiny unix terminal on a nice laptop that lasts longer than any in its weight class on battery. A shiny unix terminal that gives people both unix underpinnings and better commercial support for day-to-day applications.
And that you're likely to find them on the laps of attendees at wankfests, but not doing the interesting work.
Supercomputing is an industry trade conference, not merely an expo. It's not much of a wankfest. We're not talking about CES here, a very large percentage of the people there are attending the technical program, not just window shopping on the floor (and even if you were just shopping, you're shopping for clusters, storage, and visualization equipment - not a show for the general public). There is a *very* high number of scientists and engineers present, and their laptops have a distinct bias towards Apple. The usage of Apple laptops is actually higher at booths than it is among attendees as well, I've found. For that matter apparently you also missed my comment about vis boxes.
I agree.
You could credit NeXT for building a userfriendly Unix desktop with a poor man's Smalltalk, and say that this makes for a reasonable workstation.
But Apple isn't producing anything new and interesting for producers, is it? Really, I've tried to take an interest in Grand Central, in OpenCL, but it's just... nothing which hasn't been done better elsewhere.
In scientific computing, which os what I was referencing above, these days chances are you're not using your local system for much of that anyway, it's why we have clusters. A reasonable workstation is what scientists and engineers need: for local testing though the machines are plenty powerful, and on Apple hardware with nvidia cards you have CUDA support. OpenCL will surpass CUDA I expect at some point though, since it's similar calls and more cross-platform.
Apple just don't do research and they don't implement for researchers or other producers. Hell, it's a common complaint. When you contrast with MS or IBM's research output, it's fairly easy to see the difference in culture. Apple's had this perpetual thing of wanting to be cool, but it's never matured to saying, "I want to create something substantially new."
Have you ever used Microsoft Bob? The experience just reminds me of an Apple iDevice.
That doesn't make their hardware and software crap, it means they're a consumer focused company. I wish they did more basic research because I wish I wish every company did, but they don't *have* to. They do contribute a great deal to open source, FWIW.
You do realize that pre-car era we still had federally subsidized roads, rail, bridges, tunnels, and dams right? And that people made the same arguments about *them* that you're making now about car-based systems? I was making a point about the need for transportation infrastructure, not necessarily the car-based system we have now (which is basically what you're complaining about).
As for the Fed and SS... from your argument I feel like you completely miss the reasons for SS (for that matter you certainly are mistaken about how SS operates and what a Ponzi scheme is - and yes, I have built large scale mathematical models of both, why do you ask?), but I'm not going type out a whole econ lesson here (though I started to before I realized it'd be futile). I will say that your ideas on how money operates "counterfeit" money as you talk about it. A commodity backed currency has a lot of it's own problems, a gold-backed system these days would suck in a great deal of ways, starting with relative scarcity and going from there. For that matter, the idea that in the 19th c "Any paper was only an exact gold substitute" is silly because it was still, in the end, based on trust in the govt and the banking system to back the currency. Trust that they would pay it if you wanted to redeem it, and trust that you didn't have to because the govt never had enough gold to cover all the currency in circulation.
I like the idea of *smaller* federal govt, but there is no way we are ever going back to articles of confederation style govt that would seem to suit what you want, or even a pre-civil war govt. There are too many things that really do need to be centralized, too many things that, in a modern world, with modern communications and transportation, need to be handled above the level you'd like to see it handled.
To bring this back to the main topic of this article, science is *absolutely* one of things. The huge investments made in basic research by the federal govt have contributed to far more revenue for the public than the cost, but the cost is so high that no-one else could possibly finance it. That said, while it's astronomically high by private industry or local govt standards, it's trivial on a federal level (the DOE, NASA, and the NSF *combined* equal a bit under 2% of the federal budget). To complain about funding NASA is one of the most completely idiotic things I have ever seen on/.
Agreed. I always wonder about comments to the opposite effect on/.
A good example is the Supercomputing conference. I go every year, and while obviously the clusters on the floor have 0 Apple representation there are tons of Mac Pros and Minis driving visualization displays (or even iMacs acting as vis boxes) and, most importantly, the laptops people are using are roughly 30% Thinkpads, 30% Dell, 35% Apple, and 5% everything else (and I'm probably overstating Dell at the cost of Thinkpads and Apple machines).
Yes, because the govt shouldn't build roads and bridges, dams and dikes, maintain at least defensive forces, regulate and maintain communications facilities and equipment, provide disaster relief, have a structure in place that makes sure laws are fair and constitutional between individual states, negotiate foreign policy, finance basic research using it's research institutions (like the DOE labs for ex) on a scale that dwarfs anything the States or private sector could do, make at least somewhat sane environmental policy, etc.... (hint: every one of those items dwarfs NASA's budget).
For that matter, when we disband all those government offices, programs, and institutions, how exactly will employ the suddenly out of work *10s of millions*?
Yes the federal govt. needs to streamline a bit, but comments like yours are foolish, short sighted, and atomic-grade stupid.
Govt. exists to do the things that are too big, with too low or too long term ROI for local govt or the private sector to handle. Basic research, which includes the DOE facilities, NASA, etc pay *huge* dividends in the long term (to say nothing of the knowledge itself being valuable), but are on scale that the private sector, "people spending their own money" cannot and will not manage. We all pay taxes for the common good, and we all have a vote, though many don't use it, and we all have a voice, though many don't try to be heard.
SGU had so much potential to be a great show. . . even if it was slightly derivative of shows like Voyager and Farscape. It just amazes me that the team behind SG-1 and SG:A where able to do so many things wrong in that show to alienate their audience.
Did you see the last ep of SGA? My hope for SGU died with that episode
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She resigned her position, and I disagree with your argument that time in politics necessarily == qualification or ability.
Obama aint perfect, not by a long shot. On the other hand Palin as Pres, a woman who seems to have (and revels in having) no respect for facts when it comes to dealing with *anything*, who would base her positions purely on ideology, and who would additionally be horribly ineffective in getting *anything* actually done (though that might be a good thing, considering her lack of appreciation for science, facts, history, or education) would be an absolute disaster! This misquote by itself wouldn't be all that problematic, but it's symptomatic of how she deals with *important* issues, ignoring real world data for folksy "common sense" and hearsay.
Even scarier, the wikipedia revisions are symptomatic of a larger movement of revisionism on the part of the right wing in this country (and yes, people on the left engages in that too sometimes, but not to the extent, length, or breadth that the tea party in particular has been) where facts are twisted and distorted beyond anything resembling their former selves to suit ideology (the debt ceiling debate is a good example of this, whether you believe the debt ceiling should be raised or not, the rhetoric coming out of the right is pure misinformation and falsehoods)
Depends on the purpose of the reliable machine, when I interned at a Nat'l lab last summer, one way of checking things on internal sites or checking a problem with wifi routing or etc was to ssh in to a compile node on the cluster with x forwarded and run firefox.
My first thought too. Seriously though, my bet is either a video game dev, tech company, or a movie studio - leaning towards the former. 2 letter domains are expensive, particularly ones with lots of history - this has to be someone with deep pockets and some reason to want the domain. I wouldn't be surprised to see something like "Illuminati Online, the MMORPG of conspiracy and intrigue... coming soon, from Activision"
clearly he was on AOL before IO
let's just hope they don't use it for ill, intentionally or otherwise. Think about it, among other things whoever owns that domain now will be able to intercept all mail to io.com accounts, and with the quickness and suddenness of the transfer not everyone's who uses those addresses is going to be able to completely transition off them before the transfer happens
I knew the damn roofies came from slashdot!
Go back to the OP, based on phrasing I'm going to bet "my Race & Ethnicity Requirement" was probably satisfiable by more than one course
Point taken, I guess using the apps I do all the time I forget about other types of workloads :)
I agree with you about core counts, but about turbo boost... If you're putting this chip, let alone 2 or 4 of them, in a system where turbo boost would be helpful you're using the wrong chips
You felt the need to post that twice in the same thread? plus another comment to similar effect? It rather undermines the message when it looks like you've got some sort of personal axe to grind.... (and irritates me when your annoying comments that add nothing to the thread keep showing up as I scroll)
Unless you are in the greater New York area you don't need the NYT. They consider themselves the "journal of record", but in the real world they are just another mainstream media news outlet, and there is nothing special about their coverage.
The NYTimes is generally considered one the major US newspapers of record, not just by themselves, but by anyone who ever has had to do research that used newspapers as sources.... You may not like the NYT, and that's fine, but dismissing them as a major source just makes you seem petty and ignorant.
I can find everything I need to know without them. For international news I can go to English language sites of the regions that are closest to the story. The same goes for events in the US. Why read the NYT about the situation in Japan when you can go to Japanese sources and the Wikipedia? I have found that both British news and Al Jazeera are as good, or even better then any US based new organization when it comes to international reporting.
Because they generally have pretty good coverage? I don't just use one source for my news, and yes, reading local news is useful, but just because the NYT is based in NYC and, when bought in the NYC area has a section dedicated to said area, doesn't mean that they aren't an international news agency with a large reporting and editorial staff. Hell, it's quite possible that some of the local news, or British news you've read recently may have been sourced from a NY Times Co. employed journalist or stringer.
The one you download from the dev site is either: A) A full copy of 4 because you have a currently paid dev account (in which case it's not free) -or- B) Xcode 3
I can only guess at what something like that would cost and where you'd buy it.
I've never seen such a beast. That's not to say they don't exist, but it seems a fairly exotic thing.
Exotic? Really?
On the consumer/normal workstation end of things off the top of my head you've got the Dell U2711, IPS, res. 2560x1440 (list 1k, but frequently on sale for ~$700) plus Apple's *only* display, in the same price range with essentially the same panel (glossy though, and LED backlight).
On the true high end Eizo, NEC, and others make even better displays. Not to mention that with slightly lower DPI you cna get the same 2560x1440 resolution on nearly every 30" computer monitor made in the last few years (including Apple, Dell, HP, Samsung, etc)
before we can print a new Milla Jovovich?
Agreed with Lorien_the_first_one, I had assumed this was TRIM, thanks for the clarification - best part about /. :-D
Nothing new is produced by Tolkien for some time, probably because he is death.
So, when the 4 riders appear, will Death be riding a Pale Oliphaunt?
First I read that as wenches. Twice. Then I wondered what a Mole Wench would look like. Then I reread your post again :-p
So what's you're saying is that a Mac makes a shiny Unix terminal, being a commoditised NeXT box.
A shiny unix terminal on top of a nicer mobile OS than windows or linux often are, certainly easier to take it out of the box and get straight to getting work done. A shiny unix terminal on a nice laptop that lasts longer than any in its weight class on battery. A shiny unix terminal that gives people both unix underpinnings and better commercial support for day-to-day applications.
And that you're likely to find them on the laps of attendees at wankfests, but not doing the interesting work.
Supercomputing is an industry trade conference, not merely an expo. It's not much of a wankfest. We're not talking about CES here, a very large percentage of the people there are attending the technical program, not just window shopping on the floor (and even if you were just shopping, you're shopping for clusters, storage, and visualization equipment - not a show for the general public). There is a *very* high number of scientists and engineers present, and their laptops have a distinct bias towards Apple. The usage of Apple laptops is actually higher at booths than it is among attendees as well, I've found. For that matter apparently you also missed my comment about vis boxes.
I agree.
You could credit NeXT for building a userfriendly Unix desktop with a poor man's Smalltalk, and say that this makes for a reasonable workstation.
But Apple isn't producing anything new and interesting for producers, is it? Really, I've tried to take an interest in Grand Central, in OpenCL, but it's just... nothing which hasn't been done better elsewhere.
In scientific computing, which os what I was referencing above, these days chances are you're not using your local system for much of that anyway, it's why we have clusters. A reasonable workstation is what scientists and engineers need: for local testing though the machines are plenty powerful, and on Apple hardware with nvidia cards you have CUDA support. OpenCL will surpass CUDA I expect at some point though, since it's similar calls and more cross-platform.
Apple just don't do research and they don't implement for researchers or other producers. Hell, it's a common complaint. When you contrast with MS or IBM's research output, it's fairly easy to see the difference in culture. Apple's had this perpetual thing of wanting to be cool, but it's never matured to saying, "I want to create something substantially new."
Have you ever used Microsoft Bob? The experience just reminds me of an Apple iDevice.
That doesn't make their hardware and software crap, it means they're a consumer focused company. I wish they did more basic research because I wish I wish every company did, but they don't *have* to. They do contribute a great deal to open source, FWIW.
You do realize that pre-car era we still had federally subsidized roads, rail, bridges, tunnels, and dams right? And that people made the same arguments about *them* that you're making now about car-based systems? I was making a point about the need for transportation infrastructure, not necessarily the car-based system we have now (which is basically what you're complaining about).
/.
As for the Fed and SS... from your argument I feel like you completely miss the reasons for SS (for that matter you certainly are mistaken about how SS operates and what a Ponzi scheme is - and yes, I have built large scale mathematical models of both, why do you ask?), but I'm not going type out a whole econ lesson here (though I started to before I realized it'd be futile). I will say that your ideas on how money operates "counterfeit" money as you talk about it. A commodity backed currency has a lot of it's own problems, a gold-backed system these days would suck in a great deal of ways, starting with relative scarcity and going from there. For that matter, the idea that in the 19th c "Any paper was only an exact gold substitute" is silly because it was still, in the end, based on trust in the govt and the banking system to back the currency. Trust that they would pay it if you wanted to redeem it, and trust that you didn't have to because the govt never had enough gold to cover all the currency in circulation.
I like the idea of *smaller* federal govt, but there is no way we are ever going back to articles of confederation style govt that would seem to suit what you want, or even a pre-civil war govt. There are too many things that really do need to be centralized, too many things that, in a modern world, with modern communications and transportation, need to be handled above the level you'd like to see it handled.
To bring this back to the main topic of this article, science is *absolutely* one of things. The huge investments made in basic research by the federal govt have contributed to far more revenue for the public than the cost, but the cost is so high that no-one else could possibly finance it. That said, while it's astronomically high by private industry or local govt standards, it's trivial on a federal level (the DOE, NASA, and the NSF *combined* equal a bit under 2% of the federal budget). To complain about funding NASA is one of the most completely idiotic things I have ever seen on
Oh, and the number of iPhones is staggering
Agreed. I always wonder about comments to the opposite effect on /.
A good example is the Supercomputing conference. I go every year, and while obviously the clusters on the floor have 0 Apple representation there are tons of Mac Pros and Minis driving visualization displays (or even iMacs acting as vis boxes) and, most importantly, the laptops people are using are roughly 30% Thinkpads, 30% Dell, 35% Apple, and 5% everything else (and I'm probably overstating Dell at the cost of Thinkpads and Apple machines).
Yes, because the govt shouldn't build roads and bridges, dams and dikes, maintain at least defensive forces, regulate and maintain communications facilities and equipment, provide disaster relief, have a structure in place that makes sure laws are fair and constitutional between individual states, negotiate foreign policy, finance basic research using it's research institutions (like the DOE labs for ex) on a scale that dwarfs anything the States or private sector could do, make at least somewhat sane environmental policy, etc.... (hint: every one of those items dwarfs NASA's budget).
For that matter, when we disband all those government offices, programs, and institutions, how exactly will employ the suddenly out of work *10s of millions*?
Yes the federal govt. needs to streamline a bit, but comments like yours are foolish, short sighted, and atomic-grade stupid.
Govt. exists to do the things that are too big, with too low or too long term ROI for local govt or the private sector to handle. Basic research, which includes the DOE facilities, NASA, etc pay *huge* dividends in the long term (to say nothing of the knowledge itself being valuable), but are on scale that the private sector, "people spending their own money" cannot and will not manage. We all pay taxes for the common good, and we all have a vote, though many don't use it, and we all have a voice, though many don't try to be heard.
Or the Futurama movies
SGU had so much potential to be a great show. . . even if it was slightly derivative of shows like Voyager and Farscape. It just amazes me that the team behind SG-1 and SG:A where able to do so many things wrong in that show to alienate their audience.
Did you see the last ep of SGA? My hope for SGU died with that episode
I use a model M on my Mac Pro. I have this nice, handy, $5 USB-PS/2 adapter that works flawlessly