The real question is WHY would you want to run 86 apps on a pad? I've never seen a convincing argument for that. MS is merely using the only trick they know, i.e., tie everything they do into winders. They are essentially a one trick pony attempting to put different colored lipstick on everything they do.
Yeah, most people do hate PCs. In MS's case, I think they thought IOS and OSX were going to converge when Apple figures out the proper way to do it. I don't think that is where Apple is headed, but MS thought they would just get there first and people would come down from the hills to buy up. And I think MS is much more vindictive that Apple even under Jobs. They've seen Apple steal a bit of their lunch and they are pissed. So they are determined to steal some of Apple's.
To make things worse for MS, Google showed that one could also change the marketplace in a different direction. So now we have the bizarre entity MS has become. It is inefficient, it is sluggish, and its markets are getting redefined for it.
"It's little surprise that they went a little nuts and elected hardliners in the next election", you mean after all the reformist candidates were "disqualified" by the mullahs and their sycophantic followers?
We have several MacPros from 2009, they don't seem to have any troubles running Mountain Lion...anecdotal I know, but I figure our MacPros are not special.
Maybe it would help if you looked at the budget. Of about $3.5 trillion for 2012, approximately 2/3 is for social programs and entitlements. The other 1/3 is discretionary. The military is in the discretionary side. So "maintaining the empire" isn't the problem, it never was (and given how the rest of the world effects the U.S., having a strong military is likely worth the expense). Oh, and only about $700 billion is military, and much of that is spent in the U.S., so cutting it means less industry, less employed people, etc.
Maybe it might be wise to do some more research on fracking...just to be sure we aren't fracking ourselves in the process. Anytime anything looks to become economic force, it makes sense to investigate its ramifications before everyone jumps on the bandwagon. Look what the housing bubble did.
More accurately, during WWII, Germany and Japan also had nuclear programs. The U.S. just managed to get there first. After the war, Russia go into the game, quickly followed by France and Britain.
And the two nukes dropped on Japan were not dropped in a vacuum. After a grueling war in the Pacific, Japan was fully prepared for an invasion. Given the way Japanese soldiers fought to the death in Saipan, Guam, etc., the U.S. faced the prospect of creating another million deaths on the home islands as well as losing another 300,000-500,000 G.I.s invading Japan. And leaving an unbowed Japan after what they did in China and SE Asia and given their then culture, it would have guaranteed a new war when they re-armed. Presented with that, Truman decided to use the nukes in the hopes of getting a quick end. And it almost didn't happen. There was a palace coup that nearly succeeded, it seemed some in the Japanese military thought the Emperor would capitulate rather than continue to fight on.
You mean MS wouldn't possibly lean on box makers so that MS Malware is included in every box they shift. There simply isn't any precedence for this, is there?
So which box maker do you think is going to stand up to MS? The ones that were producing Linux netbooks or whatever those things were called a few years ago?
MS is a sort of like a heat seeking missile. Wherever the fires of computing hell burn, you can bet they will head directly for them.
Were? They just finished a tour in 2011. My guess is they'll have another coming up shortly. Heavy metal, hard rock, etc. are very popular...probably not as popular as hip-hop or whatever monotoned crack many listen to, but they have their niche and their own concert venues which tend to sell out. Hell, even Deep Purple is still touring. Jon Lord retired in 2002 and then died just earlier this year. Ritchie Blackmore was replaced with Steve Morse sometime in the 1990's. The keyboardist is Don Airey who's played with just about every hard rock band. Ian Gillan's voice has seen better days but at 70+, we should cut him some slack. And the original muppet Animal, Ian Paice might be a tad slower, but he's still one killer drummer.
Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, and a host of others are still kicking.
Take a look at the state funding for many of what you think of as state universities. Years of budget cuts have made them state supported in name only. The professors are pretty much left to run the asylum as they see fit. And that usually means hiring other professors that share the same group think.
Yep, but it is worse than that. Universities these days want to hire young stars that will essentially bring in enough money to pay their own salary and keep a phalanx of students. This makes the department look like they are on the cusp of whatever passes for research in their area.
The emphasis is on "young" too. Age discrimination starts early in academia. If you aren't a star by 35, good luck. And if you get rejected for tenure at one place, expect the same at the next. Many professors only get to their really good research until their 50s when they've acquired a lot of experience and depth of thought.
I wish I had a fix for this system, but I don't. Every time I think of something, I can argue why it wouldn't work or even make things worse. There does need to be some sort of oversight. But professors won't agree to any oversight unless it is by their peers...who probably find nothing wrong with any professors behavior.
What you learned in school might be irrelevant. The mental training you received at school and how it influences you to approach problems very much is relevant.
Yes and no. Many mathematical disciplines were invented because some physicists or engineers were trying to solve a real world problem. At some indistinct point, the mathematics involved becomes a discipline unto itself. The deep problems are mathematical but they got driven by real world considerations. It also can flow in the opposite direction, number theory starts out from mere counting for taxes and commerce. It progresses until it is involve with problems that have nothing to do with its origins. But then computers and security become important, and suddenly, abstract number theory which had no claim to the real world except in an abstract sense, become vitally important for real systems.
The universe is wild place, there are rarely sharp-edged corners dividing academic disciplines.
I see you don't get the point of college education. It is supposed to stretch your mental capabilities so that when confronted with a new situation, you aren't without the mental faculties to understand and master it. Why should CS majors learn calculus? Because mathematical reasoning is important, and many CS people rub shoulders with engineers. You want to talk to them and be useful, learn your calculus...well.
Higher Education is just that Higher Education. It is not Trade School Skill Boot Camp so you can regurgitate the latest buzzwords MS and the rest of their ilk cram down managers throats.
The British and the Americans did not forcibly set up a new Israel, the Israelis did that all by themselves. What really cemented their country was beating 5 Arab armies. After that, there was no stopping them. And Truman had to be dragged into supporting an Israel in the U.N. Also, Russia continued their anti-Jewish policies and many Jews left Russia for Israel. And they were well-educated Jews, that made for a much stronger Israel.
After the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was made a Gruppen-Fuhrer in Hilter's Reich, the Arabs and Palestinians could kiss any support for their side goodbye.
Except that Hamas has sided with the rebels in Syria, they be closer in what passes for Islamic philosophy than Assad's eclectic mix of Alawites, Christians, Druze, etc. On the other hand, Iran, which does back Syria, also backs Hamas. Also, Hamas has been taking flack from more radical groups on the Gaza strip for not doing more to provoke Israel.
I think that latter was probably the biggest influence except for....the Muslim Brotherhood took over in Egypt. They aren't going anywhere even if the people vote them out in the next election (they'll simply deny the election was fair and as proof they'll say "because we lost"). So Hamas figures that now is the time to kill off the Israeli-Egypt peace accord. By creating a war that the MB must back, they'll tear that accord to shreds even if it still exists in name only. It was merely a bold, calculated move by Hamas to take another swipe at Israel. And the MB will be dumb enough to not understand they've been trolled.
Agile? Are you fucking out of your mind? Do you have any idea how large the Air Force is? I'm involved in an alleged agile software development now. It doesn't scale past 10 people, and it doesn't even do that well. If you attempt software design using it, you will get a dirty snowball of an app and it will end in tears.
Yes, I do mean medicare and social security, but also the rest of the entitlements, but medicare and social security are the biggest. And they are scheduled to go through the roof as the Me Generation retires. The Me Generation thought they did not need to save for retirement. They were wrong and the Federal Government made promise they cannot keep.
No one wants to eliminate those entitlement. However, when the age at which Americans tend to pop their clogs has been increasing, those entitlements cannot keep up. There's a demographic problem that has not been built into those programs.
AARP is more in bed with the Democrats than the Republicans. Just observe their reaction to any sort of re-adjustment to those entitlements made by Republicans and the Democrats propaganda about how any change will destroy America.
Bullshit about DoD being hidden, unless you wish to accuse the Congressional Budget Office of lying. Under Bush, the costs of the wars were off DoD books, under Obama, he insisted they be properly accounted for.
Your point about the interest is bang on. What's your point? Discretionary is not pork. It funds NIH, you remember, the people that do cancer research and research on a host of other diseases the afflict Americans. NTSB investigates and researches airline, train, and auto accidents...so you won't die in a crash. NSF funds science, the sort of stuff that keeps the U.S. competitive. The FDA makes sure you aren't buying drugs from Joe's Car Repair and Immunization Vaccines. The list goes on. The point is the the discretionary (including DoD) is the part of the government that works. Discretionary is not all pork, a very small percentage of it is pork, and that the part our dear Congress Critters siphon off.
" Tweaks to SS, medicare and Obamacare would result in cuts to costs and improvements to benefits.", Just what the hell is your fucking point? No shit, but it will take more than tweaks. SS needs to be funded on all income, not just up to approx. $105,000. No one has a solution to Medicare and the Affordable Healthcare Act, mainly because Obama capitulated to the insurance companies.
The government is always asserted there was an SS Trust Fund. Look at the laws, its is right there where you would expect to find it. It is how the government does their accounting. Don't believe me, ask AARP and Democrats, they have a shrine to it somewhere.
Cheaper government is not the problem. The problem is entitlements and rules and regulation. The budget problem iis threefold, what it costs to run (minimal) the government, what costs it imposes on the economy (rules and regs), and what it pays out in transfer payments. The transfer payments dwarf everything else.
I really cannot figure out what point, if any, you were trying to make.
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The real question is WHY would you want to run 86 apps on a pad? I've never seen a convincing argument for that. MS is merely using the only trick they know, i.e., tie everything they do into winders. They are essentially a one trick pony attempting to put different colored lipstick on everything they do.
Yeah, most people do hate PCs. In MS's case, I think they thought IOS and OSX were going to converge when Apple figures out the proper way to do it. I don't think that is where Apple is headed, but MS thought they would just get there first and people would come down from the hills to buy up. And I think MS is much more vindictive that Apple even under Jobs. They've seen Apple steal a bit of their lunch and they are pissed. So they are determined to steal some of Apple's.
To make things worse for MS, Google showed that one could also change the marketplace in a different direction. So now we have the bizarre entity MS has become. It is inefficient, it is sluggish, and its markets are getting redefined for it.
"It's little surprise that they went a little nuts and elected hardliners in the next election", you mean after all the reformist candidates were "disqualified" by the mullahs and their sycophantic followers?
That isn't true. Many are very accomplished in other fields and hence believe themselves capable to tell the rest of us what to do.
We have several MacPros from 2009, they don't seem to have any troubles running Mountain Lion...anecdotal I know, but I figure our MacPros are not special.
" You're seeing this sort of rushed production all over the place now that jobs is dead." Really? Can we have some more examples?
Games and Gamers...somewhat of a lost cause.
How about picking up a philosophy or math book and doing some real thinking instead of following some software in mindless drivel?
Maybe it would help if you looked at the budget. Of about $3.5 trillion for 2012, approximately 2/3 is for social programs and entitlements. The other 1/3 is discretionary. The military is in the discretionary side. So "maintaining the empire" isn't the problem, it never was (and given how the rest of the world effects the U.S., having a strong military is likely worth the expense). Oh, and only about $700 billion is military, and much of that is spent in the U.S., so cutting it means less industry, less employed people, etc.
Maybe it might be wise to do some more research on fracking...just to be sure we aren't fracking ourselves in the process. Anytime anything looks to become economic force, it makes sense to investigate its ramifications before everyone jumps on the bandwagon. Look what the housing bubble did.
More accurately, during WWII, Germany and Japan also had nuclear programs. The U.S. just managed to get there first. After the war, Russia go into the game, quickly followed by France and Britain.
And the two nukes dropped on Japan were not dropped in a vacuum. After a grueling war in the Pacific, Japan was fully prepared for an invasion. Given the way Japanese soldiers fought to the death in Saipan, Guam, etc., the U.S. faced the prospect of creating another million deaths on the home islands as well as losing another 300,000-500,000 G.I.s invading Japan. And leaving an unbowed Japan after what they did in China and SE Asia and given their then culture, it would have guaranteed a new war when they re-armed. Presented with that, Truman decided to use the nukes in the hopes of getting a quick end. And it almost didn't happen. There was a palace coup that nearly succeeded, it seemed some in the Japanese military thought the Emperor would capitulate rather than continue to fight on.
Microsoft + Comcast...now there's a marriage made in Heaven. I wonder which one will get to eat the knife?
You mean MS wouldn't possibly lean on box makers so that MS Malware is included in every box they shift. There simply isn't any precedence for this, is there?
So which box maker do you think is going to stand up to MS? The ones that were producing Linux netbooks or whatever those things were called a few years ago?
MS is a sort of like a heat seeking missile. Wherever the fires of computing hell burn, you can bet they will head directly for them.
Were? They just finished a tour in 2011. My guess is they'll have another coming up shortly. Heavy metal, hard rock, etc. are very popular...probably not as popular as hip-hop or whatever monotoned crack many listen to, but they have their niche and their own concert venues which tend to sell out. Hell, even Deep Purple is still touring. Jon Lord retired in 2002 and then died just earlier this year. Ritchie Blackmore was replaced with Steve Morse sometime in the 1990's. The keyboardist is Don Airey who's played with just about every hard rock band. Ian Gillan's voice has seen better days but at 70+, we should cut him some slack. And the original muppet Animal, Ian Paice might be a tad slower, but he's still one killer drummer.
Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, and a host of others are still kicking.
Take a look at the state funding for many of what you think of as state universities. Years of budget cuts have made them state supported in name only. The professors are pretty much left to run the asylum as they see fit. And that usually means hiring other professors that share the same group think.
Yep, but it is worse than that. Universities these days want to hire young stars that will essentially bring in enough money to pay their own salary and keep a phalanx of students. This makes the department look like they are on the cusp of whatever passes for research in their area.
The emphasis is on "young" too. Age discrimination starts early in academia. If you aren't a star by 35, good luck. And if you get rejected for tenure at one place, expect the same at the next. Many professors only get to their really good research until their 50s when they've acquired a lot of experience and depth of thought.
I wish I had a fix for this system, but I don't. Every time I think of something, I can argue why it wouldn't work or even make things worse. There does need to be some sort of oversight. But professors won't agree to any oversight unless it is by their peers...who probably find nothing wrong with any professors behavior.
What you learned in school might be irrelevant. The mental training you received at school and how it influences you to approach problems very much is relevant.
Yes and no. Many mathematical disciplines were invented because some physicists or engineers were trying to solve a real world problem. At some indistinct point, the mathematics involved becomes a discipline unto itself. The deep problems are mathematical but they got driven by real world considerations. It also can flow in the opposite direction, number theory starts out from mere counting for taxes and commerce. It progresses until it is involve with problems that have nothing to do with its origins. But then computers and security become important, and suddenly, abstract number theory which had no claim to the real world except in an abstract sense, become vitally important for real systems.
The universe is wild place, there are rarely sharp-edged corners dividing academic disciplines.
I see you don't get the point of college education. It is supposed to stretch your mental capabilities so that when confronted with a new situation, you aren't without the mental faculties to understand and master it. Why should CS majors learn calculus? Because mathematical reasoning is important, and many CS people rub shoulders with engineers. You want to talk to them and be useful, learn your calculus...well.
Higher Education is just that Higher Education. It is not Trade School Skill Boot Camp so you can regurgitate the latest buzzwords MS and the rest of their ilk cram down managers throats.
The British and the Americans did not forcibly set up a new Israel, the Israelis did that all by themselves. What really cemented their country was beating 5 Arab armies. After that, there was no stopping them. And Truman had to be dragged into supporting an Israel in the U.N. Also, Russia continued their anti-Jewish policies and many Jews left Russia for Israel. And they were well-educated Jews, that made for a much stronger Israel.
After the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was made a Gruppen-Fuhrer in Hilter's Reich, the Arabs and Palestinians could kiss any support for their side goodbye.
Except that Hamas has sided with the rebels in Syria, they be closer in what passes for Islamic philosophy than Assad's eclectic mix of Alawites, Christians, Druze, etc. On the other hand, Iran, which does back Syria, also backs Hamas. Also, Hamas has been taking flack from more radical groups on the Gaza strip for not doing more to provoke Israel.
I think that latter was probably the biggest influence except for....the Muslim Brotherhood took over in Egypt. They aren't going anywhere even if the people vote them out in the next election (they'll simply deny the election was fair and as proof they'll say "because we lost"). So Hamas figures that now is the time to kill off the Israeli-Egypt peace accord. By creating a war that the MB must back, they'll tear that accord to shreds even if it still exists in name only. It was merely a bold, calculated move by Hamas to take another swipe at Israel. And the MB will be dumb enough to not understand they've been trolled.
Agile? Are you fucking out of your mind? Do you have any idea how large the Air Force is? I'm involved in an alleged agile software development now. It doesn't scale past 10 people, and it doesn't even do that well. If you attempt software design using it, you will get a dirty snowball of an app and it will end in tears.
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Yeah, and fairies do the design, right?
Yes, I do mean medicare and social security, but also the rest of the entitlements, but medicare and social security are the biggest. And they are scheduled to go through the roof as the Me Generation retires. The Me Generation thought they did not need to save for retirement. They were wrong and the Federal Government made promise they cannot keep.
No one wants to eliminate those entitlement. However, when the age at which Americans tend to pop their clogs has been increasing, those entitlements cannot keep up. There's a demographic problem that has not been built into those programs.
AARP is more in bed with the Democrats than the Republicans. Just observe their reaction to any sort of re-adjustment to those entitlements made by Republicans and the Democrats propaganda about how any change will destroy America.
Bullshit about DoD being hidden, unless you wish to accuse the Congressional Budget Office of lying. Under Bush, the costs of the wars were off DoD books, under Obama, he insisted they be properly accounted for.
Your point about the interest is bang on. What's your point? Discretionary is not pork. It funds NIH, you remember, the people that do cancer research and research on a host of other diseases the afflict Americans. NTSB investigates and researches airline, train, and auto accidents...so you won't die in a crash. NSF funds science, the sort of stuff that keeps the U.S. competitive. The FDA makes sure you aren't buying drugs from Joe's Car Repair and Immunization Vaccines. The list goes on. The point is the the discretionary (including DoD) is the part of the government that works. Discretionary is not all pork, a very small percentage of it is pork, and that the part our dear Congress Critters siphon off.
" Tweaks to SS, medicare and Obamacare would result in cuts to costs and improvements to benefits.", Just what the hell is your fucking point? No shit, but it will take more than tweaks. SS needs to be funded on all income, not just up to approx. $105,000. No one has a solution to Medicare and the Affordable Healthcare Act, mainly because Obama capitulated to the insurance companies.
The government is always asserted there was an SS Trust Fund. Look at the laws, its is right there where you would expect to find it. It is how the government does their accounting. Don't believe me, ask AARP and Democrats, they have a shrine to it somewhere.
Cheaper government is not the problem. The problem is entitlements and rules and regulation. The budget problem iis threefold, what it costs to run (minimal) the government, what costs it imposes on the economy (rules and regs), and what it pays out in transfer payments. The transfer payments dwarf everything else.
I really cannot figure out what point, if any, you were trying to make.
Hardware costs donated money, software costs donated time. It isn't suspicious.