So it's 0.2% of the deficit, or.04% of the budget.
I don't really care WHAT percentage of the budget waste spending is. cut it.
I get really sick of politicians telling me that stuff is only going to cost each household a tiny amount. It's a tiny amount on top of all the other tiny amounts. numbers add up, I don't think politicians get that.
Right...because pot sellers are such rigid adherents to the law, and are dying to share their profits with the government that has treated them so well up until now.
I get a little sick of hearing how pot taxes are going to raise so much money, when that reasoning is based on nothing at all. Legalize and tax pot, and 90% of pot smokers are still going to buy it from the same guy they buy it from today. A fact I also base on nothing at all.
It wouldn't take too many components (or "kit" if you prefer for some reason) priced at EMC's ridiculously over inflated "before discount" pricing to hit $1 million worth of "loss".
This isn't even really news, just fairly typical inventory shrinkage.
If I had to pick, I'd take "too fast to hit" over "hard to see" any day. Even if it did leave a hundred mile long exhaust plume leading directly to the tailpipe. It's like a giant "F-U" to the Ruskies..."I'm in ur airspace, outrunning ur mizzles"
Historically the datacenter industry has maintained baseline ideas like 70 percent humidity, 75 degrees temperature...ideas that haven't changed with server technology and durability improving.
Respectfully, I must disagree. Typical Data Centers usually shoot for closer to 45% or 50% RH, not 70% as you suggest.
hah, that's funny. I started thinking about humidity and rattled off my cigar humidor setpoint, rather than the DC one. I think "respectfully" is the wrong answer to the suggestion of running a DC at 70% humidity, it should be more like "WTF?".
When you get right down to it, all they're doing is getting free cooling from low ambient temperatures. It's hovering just above freezing there. The only thing they're keeping off is rain. I'm not sure what they're doing about the humidity -- maybe "not caring".
Not caring is exactly what the point of the tent exercise was. Historically the datacenter industry has maintained baseline ideas like 70 percent humidity, 75 degrees temperature...ideas that haven't changed with server technology and durability improving.
The point is if we spend "X" dollars maintaining a datacenter environment for a baseline of reliability. If we spend 75% of X and reliability isn't significantly impacted, then that's a win. But if we spend 10% of X, and the failure rate costs less than our original X cost, then that's a HUGE win.
Nobody expects that you can run an open air datacenter without increasing system failure rates, but the current datacenter paradigm just isn't scalable with modern high density systems, so something has to give. If "tradition" is the only thing it costs us, then tents it is!
As for Washington state being cheating...nothing is going to work everywhere. Hell, desert country is far better for datacenters than cooler climates. It's much cheaper to cool hot dry air, than it is to dehumidify wet air.
Well, pictures were leaked of the blackhawk and the stealth bomber from the US too, though it occurred later in its life.
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Since the blackhawk is not remotely stealthy (it's a helicopter), I'm assuming you meant something different. Like maybe the SR-71 "Blackbird"...which certainly looked stealthy, although in reality wasn't.
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Say what you will about the security or reliability of our current power grid, but it's got uptime measured in a whole shitload of 9's.
No way, Facebook is on top forever because they've changed the way people...uh...hell, I don't know why it is that people think facebook is different from every other come-and-gone website of the moment.
The dotcom market has seen this same behavior again and again, and everyone seems to get surprised by it every time. People time and again seem to think whatever is popular at the moment is going to be popular forever, even though history and common sense both tell us otherwise.
In the sage words of Disco Stu: "Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continues... AAY!"
If that price was cut in half, it would be worth what it costs. But people are willing to spend double because it's Apple, not because its useful or novel or anything.
That's where you are 100% wrong. the iPad is both useful and novel and commands a price premium because there is no competition as of yet. I'm sure a SIGNIFICANT percentage of people who own an iPad would gladly pay half as much for a more useful device if such a thing existed.
Tablets have been around for quite a while but
This is the part that tells me you have no idea what you're talking about. Who is it who has been making an iPad type device prior to now? Tablet? You mean the laptops with screens you can turn around backwards? That goddamn joke of usability, that's your viable alternative?
what I especially hate about Apple's mindset is that they're lowering the average-user-bar to about nothing, and that is frustrating to watch (especially when Apple users think they know about their backend when they're just regurgitating what the Apple store bros tell them; e.g. no viruses, doesn't slow down, unhackable, etc. Apple literally is AOL 2.0. It made users ignore all the backend and look where that fad went.
All good reasons to hate Apple. But pretty shitty reasons to hate a product that works, works well for what it's intended for, and has no alternatives in the market at the moment. If it's too expensive for you, then I'm sorry, I get that. But don't look down your nose at people who can afford it and are finding it a useful niche product just because you don't have one.
I wholeheartedly agree. The iPad is one of the most ridiculously overpriced pieces of garbage out there. You're paying 450 dollars for what? An app store and a browser on a touchscreen. Sweet mother of baby jesus. Buy a laptop or a netbook. You get so much more for what you pay for.
Is it Apple you hate (can't argue with that), or is it the slate device form factor? The form factor clearly has a LOT of advantages for mobile computing over a device you have to set on a desk to use. If there were other viable alternatives in the device market, I'm sure people would love an alternative to Apple's closed platform ipad...but so far there isn't. This continued drum beating about "just buy a netbook" is head in the sand nonsense. First of all, a well appointed netbook costs about the same as an ipad, and is far less practical for everything I use the ipad for. Mostly because I also have a netbook, so I use each for what it's best for...that wasnt' rocket science to figure out.
I have a netbook, it's fantastically useful for traveling. Trying to use a "laptop" format device sitting on a couch, walking around, or lying in bed is a joke...which anyone who has tried it already knows. As to the iphone, if you can't see the advantage of a 10" screen over a 3.5" one, then you're not really interested in a conversation about "legitimate uses".
Also, if you're going to watch movies, you have to convert them for the iPad right?
You're not paying attention, I said "streaming" netflix movies. But yes, if I wanted to put media onto it to watch, I'd have to convert it...just like I would with a netbook. They don't have DVD drives you know.
But anyway, here we are. You asked for "legitimate reasons", declined to respond to why you get to decide if peoples reasons are legitimate or not, then suggested using a netbook for all the things I use the iPad for, even though a netbook is less practical in every use I listed. That's not even getting into limitations like battery life, not being instant on, smaller screen, weighs more, etc.
So look, if you're as broke as you sound, and have to shoehorn every possible use case into a single device, then go ahead and use a netbook. But for the rest of us who can afford to buy devices that are more specific use, the ipad fits a rather large niche and does so nicely until something better comes along.
Anti-fanboy-ism is a game I can definitely get in on. But frankly you sound like an idiot.
I can think of very few people who'd actually have a legitimate use for it.
Since when do you get to decide what's "legitimate" and what isn't? If some people have a use for it that you don't, is that less legitimate than if you have a use for it that they don't?
The only Apple product I own is an iPad and I use it every day. So often that I need a second one because my girlfriend is constantly bogarting it. It's hands down the most useful format for couch computing of anything out there. and if you suggest using a laptop while sitting on a couch or walking around, then I suggest you beat yourself with your own wiffle bat.
So I use it for Web browsing mostly, some games, and I have a pretty good RDP client on it for remote controlling my media PC when the remote interface goes wonky, or if I don't want to stop what it's doing on the main screen. It's also a damned useful Sonos remote, and the movie collection app that I have my DVD's cataloged in is MUCH more useful in a portable iPad than on a PC. Then there's things like watching Netflix streaming movies in bed while girlfriend sleeps, and yes...even the iPad kindle app is good. Not as good as the hardware kindle for use in bright sunlight...but it excels in the DARK, where the kindle is useless.
Any of those strike you as "legitimate"? Because I'll let you define that word for yourself, for me however, I find those things "useful".
I wouldn't accept an iPad if they offered it to me for free.
and that's the part that makes you sound like an idiot.
How long are we going to beat that horse? Does that many people really care? Granted, an iPhone on a non-ATT network is automatically a better iphone, but the bloom is kind of off the iphone rose these days anyway.
And white? jesus christ...if it's black, we want a white one...if it's white, we want a black one.
Easier to just block the signals in class rooms, or provide special testing rooms with said technology. Probably a lot cheaper than an analytical service.
only problem is that for very good reasons blocking cell phone signals is illegal. Not to mention a fantastic monetary liability.
As long as there is an OBJECTIVE metric, then I have no problem with this idea at all...I might even support it. The problem though is when you say "ban SUV's because they produce more CO2", instead of saying "ban VEHICLES that produce x amount of C02". This kind of feel good nonsense gives us laws like allowing Hybrids to use the HOV lanes, without regard to anything beyond the word "hybrid" on the bumper. So Hybrid SUV's that get 15 MPG get to cruise in the HOV lane, while traditional gas vehicles that get 40+ mpg get to idle in the slow lanes.
Or for that matter, doing better on the 'harder' questions. Perhaps I decided to concentrate on doing those questions because they offered higher marks than the easier questions, or because I had a natural aptitude for some elements. I may have elected to study those materials harder.
Example: When I did my MCSE ceritification everyone said the TCP/IP exam was the worst and to expect to take it multiple times. As a result I studied the material MUCH more than any other tests, and combined with my academic background in computer science which had a LOT of binary arithmatic, I scored 100% on the "toughest" exam.
Statistical analysis of my other cert test scores would have flagged an anomaly. Analysis of typical expected test scores for this exam would also have been an anomaly. By the logic of this company, I should have been subjected to "further analysis", interrogation, assumption of cheating, etc. All because I actually did WELL on a hard test?
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So it's 0.2% of the deficit, or .04% of the budget.
I don't really care WHAT percentage of the budget waste spending is. cut it.
I get really sick of politicians telling me that stuff is only going to cost each household a tiny amount. It's a tiny amount on top of all the other tiny amounts. numbers add up, I don't think politicians get that.
Right...because pot sellers are such rigid adherents to the law, and are dying to share their profits with the government that has treated them so well up until now.
I get a little sick of hearing how pot taxes are going to raise so much money, when that reasoning is based on nothing at all. Legalize and tax pot, and 90% of pot smokers are still going to buy it from the same guy they buy it from today. A fact I also base on nothing at all.
You sound like a commie.
It wouldn't take too many components (or "kit" if you prefer for some reason) priced at EMC's ridiculously over inflated "before discount" pricing to hit $1 million worth of "loss". This isn't even really news, just fairly typical inventory shrinkage.
you want citations for math?
hah! awesome.
If I had to pick, I'd take "too fast to hit" over "hard to see" any day. Even if it did leave a hundred mile long exhaust plume leading directly to the tailpipe. It's like a giant "F-U" to the Ruskies..."I'm in ur airspace, outrunning ur mizzles"
Historically the datacenter industry has maintained baseline ideas like 70 percent humidity, 75 degrees temperature...ideas that haven't changed with server technology and durability improving.
Respectfully, I must disagree. Typical Data Centers usually shoot for closer to 45% or 50% RH, not 70% as you suggest.
hah, that's funny. I started thinking about humidity and rattled off my cigar humidor setpoint, rather than the DC one. I think "respectfully" is the wrong answer to the suggestion of running a DC at 70% humidity, it should be more like "WTF?".
That seems to be a success rate rivaling lives saved by not giving food to the homeless and thereby preventing choking.
I happened to catch an interview with Ted Williams this morning, and to say "golden voice" is stretching credulity.
I think that's the idea, isn't it?
When you get right down to it, all they're doing is getting free cooling from low ambient temperatures. It's hovering just above freezing there. The only thing they're keeping off is rain. I'm not sure what they're doing about the humidity -- maybe "not caring".
Not caring is exactly what the point of the tent exercise was. Historically the datacenter industry has maintained baseline ideas like 70 percent humidity, 75 degrees temperature...ideas that haven't changed with server technology and durability improving.
The point is if we spend "X" dollars maintaining a datacenter environment for a baseline of reliability. If we spend 75% of X and reliability isn't significantly impacted, then that's a win. But if we spend 10% of X, and the failure rate costs less than our original X cost, then that's a HUGE win.
Nobody expects that you can run an open air datacenter without increasing system failure rates, but the current datacenter paradigm just isn't scalable with modern high density systems, so something has to give. If "tradition" is the only thing it costs us, then tents it is!
As for Washington state being cheating...nothing is going to work everywhere. Hell, desert country is far better for datacenters than cooler climates. It's much cheaper to cool hot dry air, than it is to dehumidify wet air.
Pictures of a stealth fighter.
If I can get pictures of it, is it really all that stealthy?
The real question is, if you think getting photos of it is relevant, then maybe you don't know what "stealth" means?
Tadah! Captain Literal shits on another joke!
Well, pictures were leaked of the blackhawk and the stealth bomber from the US too, though it occurred later in its life.
.
Since the blackhawk is not remotely stealthy (it's a helicopter), I'm assuming you meant something different. Like maybe the SR-71 "Blackbird"...which certainly looked stealthy, although in reality wasn't.
Say what you will about the security or reliability of our current power grid, but it's got uptime measured in a whole shitload of 9's.
Maybe someone needs to check CmdrTaco's apartment.
No way, Facebook is on top forever because they've changed the way people...uh...hell, I don't know why it is that people think facebook is different from every other come-and-gone website of the moment.
The dotcom market has seen this same behavior again and again, and everyone seems to get surprised by it every time. People time and again seem to think whatever is popular at the moment is going to be popular forever, even though history and common sense both tell us otherwise.
In the sage words of Disco Stu: "Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continues... AAY!"
If that price was cut in half, it would be worth what it costs. But people are willing to spend double because it's Apple, not because its useful or novel or anything.
That's where you are 100% wrong. the iPad is both useful and novel and commands a price premium because there is no competition as of yet. I'm sure a SIGNIFICANT percentage of people who own an iPad would gladly pay half as much for a more useful device if such a thing existed.
Tablets have been around for quite a while but
This is the part that tells me you have no idea what you're talking about. Who is it who has been making an iPad type device prior to now? Tablet? You mean the laptops with screens you can turn around backwards? That goddamn joke of usability, that's your viable alternative?
what I especially hate about Apple's mindset is that they're lowering the average-user-bar to about nothing, and that is frustrating to watch (especially when Apple users think they know about their backend when they're just regurgitating what the Apple store bros tell them; e.g. no viruses, doesn't slow down, unhackable, etc. Apple literally is AOL 2.0. It made users ignore all the backend and look where that fad went.
All good reasons to hate Apple. But pretty shitty reasons to hate a product that works, works well for what it's intended for, and has no alternatives in the market at the moment. If it's too expensive for you, then I'm sorry, I get that. But don't look down your nose at people who can afford it and are finding it a useful niche product just because you don't have one.
THANK YOU GOOD SIR.
I wholeheartedly agree. The iPad is one of the most ridiculously overpriced pieces of garbage out there. You're paying 450 dollars for what? An app store and a browser on a touchscreen. Sweet mother of baby jesus. Buy a laptop or a netbook. You get so much more for what you pay for.
Is it Apple you hate (can't argue with that), or is it the slate device form factor? The form factor clearly has a LOT of advantages for mobile computing over a device you have to set on a desk to use. If there were other viable alternatives in the device market, I'm sure people would love an alternative to Apple's closed platform ipad...but so far there isn't. This continued drum beating about "just buy a netbook" is head in the sand nonsense. First of all, a well appointed netbook costs about the same as an ipad, and is far less practical for everything I use the ipad for. Mostly because I also have a netbook, so I use each for what it's best for...that wasnt' rocket science to figure out.
So why not a netbook?
I have a netbook, it's fantastically useful for traveling. Trying to use a "laptop" format device sitting on a couch, walking around, or lying in bed is a joke...which anyone who has tried it already knows. As to the iphone, if you can't see the advantage of a 10" screen over a 3.5" one, then you're not really interested in a conversation about "legitimate uses".
Also, if you're going to watch movies, you have to convert them for the iPad right?
You're not paying attention, I said "streaming" netflix movies. But yes, if I wanted to put media onto it to watch, I'd have to convert it...just like I would with a netbook. They don't have DVD drives you know.
But anyway, here we are. You asked for "legitimate reasons", declined to respond to why you get to decide if peoples reasons are legitimate or not, then suggested using a netbook for all the things I use the iPad for, even though a netbook is less practical in every use I listed. That's not even getting into limitations like battery life, not being instant on, smaller screen, weighs more, etc.
So look, if you're as broke as you sound, and have to shoehorn every possible use case into a single device, then go ahead and use a netbook. But for the rest of us who can afford to buy devices that are more specific use, the ipad fits a rather large niche and does so nicely until something better comes along.
I can think of very few people who'd actually have a legitimate use for it.
Since when do you get to decide what's "legitimate" and what isn't? If some people have a use for it that you don't, is that less legitimate than if you have a use for it that they don't?
The only Apple product I own is an iPad and I use it every day. So often that I need a second one because my girlfriend is constantly bogarting it. It's hands down the most useful format for couch computing of anything out there. and if you suggest using a laptop while sitting on a couch or walking around, then I suggest you beat yourself with your own wiffle bat.
So I use it for Web browsing mostly, some games, and I have a pretty good RDP client on it for remote controlling my media PC when the remote interface goes wonky, or if I don't want to stop what it's doing on the main screen. It's also a damned useful Sonos remote, and the movie collection app that I have my DVD's cataloged in is MUCH more useful in a portable iPad than on a PC. Then there's things like watching Netflix streaming movies in bed while girlfriend sleeps, and yes...even the iPad kindle app is good. Not as good as the hardware kindle for use in bright sunlight...but it excels in the DARK, where the kindle is useless.
Any of those strike you as "legitimate"? Because I'll let you define that word for yourself, for me however, I find those things "useful".
I wouldn't accept an iPad if they offered it to me for free.
and that's the part that makes you sound like an idiot.
How long are we going to beat that horse? Does that many people really care? Granted, an iPhone on a non-ATT network is automatically a better iphone, but the bloom is kind of off the iphone rose these days anyway.
And white? jesus christ...if it's black, we want a white one...if it's white, we want a black one.
Yes. Otherwise the list of things to anticipate in 2011 would be much shorter.
Easier to just block the signals in class rooms, or provide special testing rooms with said technology. Probably a lot cheaper than an analytical service.
only problem is that for very good reasons blocking cell phone signals is illegal. Not to mention a fantastic monetary liability.
Zero is a percent.
You did cheat. you had a professional editor review it.
So it's only ok to ask someone to proofread your work if they're incompetent?
As long as there is an OBJECTIVE metric, then I have no problem with this idea at all...I might even support it. The problem though is when you say "ban SUV's because they produce more CO2", instead of saying "ban VEHICLES that produce x amount of C02". This kind of feel good nonsense gives us laws like allowing Hybrids to use the HOV lanes, without regard to anything beyond the word "hybrid" on the bumper. So Hybrid SUV's that get 15 MPG get to cruise in the HOV lane, while traditional gas vehicles that get 40+ mpg get to idle in the slow lanes.
Or for that matter, doing better on the 'harder' questions. Perhaps I decided to concentrate on doing those questions because they offered higher marks than the easier questions, or because I had a natural aptitude for some elements. I may have elected to study those materials harder.
Example: When I did my MCSE ceritification everyone said the TCP/IP exam was the worst and to expect to take it multiple times. As a result I studied the material MUCH more than any other tests, and combined with my academic background in computer science which had a LOT of binary arithmatic, I scored 100% on the "toughest" exam.
Statistical analysis of my other cert test scores would have flagged an anomaly. Analysis of typical expected test scores for this exam would also have been an anomaly. By the logic of this company, I should have been subjected to "further analysis", interrogation, assumption of cheating, etc. All because I actually did WELL on a hard test?