well, at least part of it anyway. With the departure of the XServe from Apple's lineup and their promotion of the mac mini server, it's obvious Apple is really trying to go for the small-medium business market with their server offerings. As part of that, Apple has been trying to convince owners/IT people who work at said businesses that you can essentially create the same "infrastructure"(hardware/software/workflows etc) as the big enterprises do without having to spring for enterprise level hardware. Even with the cable, this RAID is still cheaper than a fiber channel card, and of course actually allows people to connect real storage to the mini-server(provided they throw a thunderbolt port in the next mini, which they would have be insane not too).
While I certainly don't see anything that requires a $50 cable to totally usurp USB anytime soon, that doesn't mean it won't be successful or fit in well with the type of product lineup Apple is trying to build.
It's not, but it's certainly the most recognizable. If you asked people "Which do you hate more, Imageshack or ATT&T?" 90% of the people would ask you "what the fuck is image shack?"
See, there is a huge difference between AT&T et al. and Facebook, namely that with AT&T, you have to enter into a deal with them, they cannot just put you on their network without your consent. Now you may have gripes with the service you get after you get on their networks, but at the end of the day it is something you consented to. Facebook on the other hand has the potential to draw you into things you never consented to. For instance get tagged in a picture that you would rather not be tagged in? Tough shit, deal with it. The list goes on. So yeah, you can hate something you got for free, esp. when you didn't want it in the first place.
The very last one, but even then it's not obvious as the headline is about airplanes fighting the fires, the computer stuff is mentioned in the 3rd paragraph or so.
It's actually incredibly hard to narrow down how much of a deterrent harsh sentences really are. Look at the G7 countries, you have the US with very harsh sentences and a high crime rate, Western Europe with very lenient sentences and a relatively low crime rate, and Japan with harsh sentences(in Japan, if you receive the death sentence neither you or your family is told when they will execute you, you only get informed the morning of the execution and your family doesn't find out till afterwards. Essentially you wake up every day wondering if it will be the last day you are alive) and a relatively low crime rate........
Overall it seems that the more an individual feels they have a stake in society the less likely they are to commit a crime. American society can be incredibly ostracizing, especially to those who lack money and/or stable employment....
It could very well be that creators of the items amazon sells hire people to say that negative reviews are "not helpful" and if a review receives too many not helpful it gets yanked..... not amazon directly manipulating the reviews, but it would show that their review system can be manipulated.
Often times these sites are in fact "negligent" in how they operate. Many were using outdated software with known vulnerabilities or were very poorly configured etc. Your little site in your example almost certainly will not get hacked if you follow some very basic security guidelines. For example, a quick google search turns up this page on apache security. It took 5 seconds of searching, and would probably only take an hour or two to implement and test, and yet how many sites out there aren't following a lot of these guidelines? Apache is free and these guidelines cost very little to implement and test, so I doubt that someone can claim that they were too "expensive".
Your analogy isn't apt, for most of these sites it was like they installed a security system in their house then neglected to arm it or lock the door. Pretty much anyone that is looking for something to hack can come right in.
The war in Afghanistan costs a hell of a lot more than $107 billion, maybe $107 billion this year, but it almost a 10 year old war. Secondly, the number given in the summary is aggregate over both Iraq and Afghanistan, not just for one year.
He had 2 laptops and this was in the middle of "oh noes laptops can be used as bombs!" scare, so he figured that rather than get stopped by security because he was trying to bring 2 laptops on board, he would just carry one on and put the other in his luggage..... now he's sold on virtualization:P
You also have to keep in mind there are 2 perspectives here, the perspective of the email user and the perspective of the advertiser. If someone pays to put an ad on Google, they expect Google to place that ad in accordance with whatever contract they signed. If Google is taking their money and then still advertising it's own products over theirs, then that is definitely a conflict of interest.
Most of the thieves who work for the TSA are actually a lot more sophisticated than this idiot. My co-worker had a macbook pro stolen from him at the airport. He put one into his checked baggage and when he got it back inside he found the love letter from the TSA saying they had inspected the bag and no laptop. What we did find upon closer inspection was a small, but certainly noticeable incision on the top left corner of the bag. We hypothesize, though obviously cannot prove, that this was essentially a signal to the person who took the bag from the inspection point(where there are tons of cameras) to the loading dock for the plane. The area in between is bound to have significantly fewer cameras and is most likely where the theft took place. He complained to the TSA but got the standard note that they take things like this very seriously and how theft is very rare etc. Basically they said "sucks to be you" and he never heard from them again.
Well first and foremost it's a question of enforcement. There are probably an order of magnitude more "slaves" than "slave owners", and the owners tend to be easier to find and have more to lose.
Republicans love trying to catch the slaves though, because it allows them to give cushy state/federal vigilante jobs to their voting base, largely uneducated, relatively unskilled whites whilst still ostensibly being "fiscally conservative" and it helps out the rich people who finance the Republican campaigns because scared illegal immigrants are much less likely to report abuse/non-payment etc.
Your confusing implementation with interface. read and write's implementation has kept up with the times while maintaining the same interface. So to the programmer it doesn't matter if you are doing a read on a floppy or a wide scale distributed file system via the FUSE interface*, logically it's all the same. Furthermore, although the read and write interfaces haven't changed, there is absolutely nothing stopping you from developing new interfaces that run on top of these functions.
Now compare that to Microsoft who constantly deprecates interfaces which means no new features are ever back ported, doesn't release new dev tools that are compatible with the old interfaces etc. There's a huge difference.
* logically it doesn't matter, though obviously the more the programmer knows about whats going on in the black box the better.
How does this even remotely "make sense" for Apple? By bundling Apple TV with a TV you are essentially targeting the market who wants, but doesn't currently have an Apple TV and is in the market for a new television.....thats what, maybe hundreds of people tops? The TV market is a commodity market where the interface is usually last on people's list of priorities. Unlike a PC, cell phone, or music player, you almost never interact with the TVs interface, consumers buy based on size, price, connectivity and picture quality. A TV really only needs to be able to turn on and off, switch channels and video inputs.
This ranks up there with some of the stupidest Apple articles I have seen.
Shows how little you know, under the Bush administration the SEC ruled that essentially the shareholders have 0 say on who the CEO is or how much the CEO gets paid, esseentially saying that the company belongs to the CEO, not the shareholders. When Obama proposed giving share holders the ability to hold non-binding election on CEO benefits the Republicans screamed bloody murder. As a result CEO pay has been growing much faster than the S&P 500. If CEOs were really accountable for their actions then this wouldn't happen. Face reality, management is very rarely held accountable for their performance, and this gets truer the higher you go up the management chain. Seriously find me one CEO of a fortune 500 company that was fired for bad performance in the past 5 years that WASN'T given an obscene bonus upon exit. Go ahead, I can wait.
It's also a direct result of how PHBs get paid, in a lot of companies a PHBs salary is primarily determined by two seemingly conflicting criteria, the # of people he has reporting to him and how much he comes under budget. You do a little linear programming and you find that it's often times optimal(for the PHB, not the shareholders) to hire a large # of cheap employees rather than a few highly paid, and more efficient, employees..... Sad but true.
Actually if the settlement is all in the form of cash, they may end up making more money than pretty much anyone else in the organization, they really should consider themselves lucky.
Ok, with that out of the way, unlike Fujitsu, who added on extra SIMD co-processors to their CPUs SPECIFICALLY for the K-computer, Intel does not currently do is offer CPUs designed specifically for HPC. Now of course a lot of advancements in general purpose CPUs can be applied to HPC. Overall the Earth simulator cycle seems to be repeating itself->a Japanese company creates an incredibly fast computer that makes heavy use of vector processors, then cannot sell enough of these to make keeping them up to date financially feasible, and eventually the commodity market outperforms them.......wait a few years and repeat.
Actually, their ignorance is real, the motivations behind said ignorance are of course malicious. Senators purposely don't read the legislation, they rely on their aides to do it for them(and of course their aides run it by their big donors to get 'input' on the law). Then if their aides say yes they vote for the thing. If they get called out on a certain provision later, they will claim, honestly, that they hadn't read that particular provision. And since the American electorate doesn't punish politicians for ignorance(see Sarah Palin and to a lesser extent George Bush), all is forgiven.
Thats one thing I never understood about humans, esp. Americans, the result of the action doesn't seem to be nearly as important as the motive. See the outrage and panic over "terrorists", when more Americans die in car crashes EVERY MONTH as died on September 11th. Americans don't seem to care about that because very few people who cause car crashes actually intended to crash......
Those RFID cards are awesome. In Japan I use Suica, I love it. Not only is it more convenient than dealing with cash, it also can be completely anonymous like cash. Registering your name is optional when you buy the card, the only advantage to registering is that if you lose your card you can get a new one with same amount of money on it.
Keep in mind that one of the defining features of this CPU is 2 vector coprocessors per core, Intels offerings only have 1. For number crunching applications like matrix multiplication(which is what these benchmarks are based off of), the extra vector coprocessor makes a HUGE difference.
We could have "one-click recipes" where, instead of spending time locating ingredients, people can share their purchase orders with the associated recipes so anyone can get everything they need to duplicate it with a single mouse click.
They already have something like this, it's called delivery. Seriously, by the time you actually metered out the stuff(and you would still have to package it btw) combined it into one order and delivered it, you would wind up spending at least as much, if not more, than if you just paid a restaurant to cook it for you. Plus how are you going to deal with varying #s of people with your idea? Not everyone cooks for one person, or even a family of 4.
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well, at least part of it anyway. With the departure of the XServe from Apple's lineup and their promotion of the mac mini server, it's obvious Apple is really trying to go for the small-medium business market with their server offerings. As part of that, Apple has been trying to convince owners/IT people who work at said businesses that you can essentially create the same "infrastructure"(hardware/software/workflows etc) as the big enterprises do without having to spring for enterprise level hardware. Even with the cable, this RAID is still cheaper than a fiber channel card, and of course actually allows people to connect real storage to the mini-server(provided they throw a thunderbolt port in the next mini, which they would have be insane not too).
While I certainly don't see anything that requires a $50 cable to totally usurp USB anytime soon, that doesn't mean it won't be successful or fit in well with the type of product lineup Apple is trying to build.
It's not, but it's certainly the most recognizable. If you asked people "Which do you hate more, Imageshack or ATT&T?" 90% of the people would ask you "what the fuck is image shack?"
See, there is a huge difference between AT&T et al. and Facebook, namely that with AT&T, you have to enter into a deal with them, they cannot just put you on their network without your consent. Now you may have gripes with the service you get after you get on their networks, but at the end of the day it is something you consented to. Facebook on the other hand has the potential to draw you into things you never consented to. For instance get tagged in a picture that you would rather not be tagged in? Tough shit, deal with it. The list goes on. So yeah, you can hate something you got for free, esp. when you didn't want it in the first place.
The very last one, but even then it's not obvious as the headline is about airplanes fighting the fires, the computer stuff is mentioned in the 3rd paragraph or so.
It's actually incredibly hard to narrow down how much of a deterrent harsh sentences really are. Look at the G7 countries, you have the US with very harsh sentences and a high crime rate, Western Europe with very lenient sentences and a relatively low crime rate, and Japan with harsh sentences(in Japan, if you receive the death sentence neither you or your family is told when they will execute you, you only get informed the morning of the execution and your family doesn't find out till afterwards. Essentially you wake up every day wondering if it will be the last day you are alive) and a relatively low crime rate........
Overall it seems that the more an individual feels they have a stake in society the less likely they are to commit a crime. American society can be incredibly ostracizing, especially to those who lack money and/or stable employment....
It could very well be that creators of the items amazon sells hire people to say that negative reviews are "not helpful" and if a review receives too many not helpful it gets yanked..... not amazon directly manipulating the reviews, but it would show that their review system can be manipulated.
Often times these sites are in fact "negligent" in how they operate. Many were using outdated software with known vulnerabilities or were very poorly configured etc. Your little site in your example almost certainly will not get hacked if you follow some very basic security guidelines. For example, a quick google search turns up this page on apache security. It took 5 seconds of searching, and would probably only take an hour or two to implement and test, and yet how many sites out there aren't following a lot of these guidelines? Apache is free and these guidelines cost very little to implement and test, so I doubt that someone can claim that they were too "expensive".
Your analogy isn't apt, for most of these sites it was like they installed a security system in their house then neglected to arm it or lock the door. Pretty much anyone that is looking for something to hack can come right in.
The war in Afghanistan costs a hell of a lot more than $107 billion, maybe $107 billion this year, but it almost a 10 year old war. Secondly, the number given in the summary is aggregate over both Iraq and Afghanistan, not just for one year.
He had 2 laptops and this was in the middle of "oh noes laptops can be used as bombs!" scare, so he figured that rather than get stopped by security because he was trying to bring 2 laptops on board, he would just carry one on and put the other in his luggage..... now he's sold on virtualization :P
You also have to keep in mind there are 2 perspectives here, the perspective of the email user and the perspective of the advertiser. If someone pays to put an ad on Google, they expect Google to place that ad in accordance with whatever contract they signed. If Google is taking their money and then still advertising it's own products over theirs, then that is definitely a conflict of interest.
Most of the thieves who work for the TSA are actually a lot more sophisticated than this idiot. My co-worker had a macbook pro stolen from him at the airport. He put one into his checked baggage and when he got it back inside he found the love letter from the TSA saying they had inspected the bag and no laptop. What we did find upon closer inspection was a small, but certainly noticeable incision on the top left corner of the bag. We hypothesize, though obviously cannot prove, that this was essentially a signal to the person who took the bag from the inspection point(where there are tons of cameras) to the loading dock for the plane. The area in between is bound to have significantly fewer cameras and is most likely where the theft took place. He complained to the TSA but got the standard note that they take things like this very seriously and how theft is very rare etc. Basically they said "sucks to be you" and he never heard from them again.
Well first and foremost it's a question of enforcement. There are probably an order of magnitude more "slaves" than "slave owners", and the owners tend to be easier to find and have more to lose.
Republicans love trying to catch the slaves though, because it allows them to give cushy state/federal vigilante jobs to their voting base, largely uneducated, relatively unskilled whites whilst still ostensibly being "fiscally conservative" and it helps out the rich people who finance the Republican campaigns because scared illegal immigrants are much less likely to report abuse/non-payment etc.
Your confusing implementation with interface. read and write's implementation has kept up with the times while maintaining the same interface. So to the programmer it doesn't matter if you are doing a read on a floppy or a wide scale distributed file system via the FUSE interface*, logically it's all the same. Furthermore, although the read and write interfaces haven't changed, there is absolutely nothing stopping you from developing new interfaces that run on top of these functions.
Now compare that to Microsoft who constantly deprecates interfaces which means no new features are ever back ported, doesn't release new dev tools that are compatible with the old interfaces etc. There's a huge difference.
* logically it doesn't matter, though obviously the more the programmer knows about whats going on in the black box the better.
How does this even remotely "make sense" for Apple? By bundling Apple TV with a TV you are essentially targeting the market who wants, but doesn't currently have an Apple TV and is in the market for a new television.....thats what, maybe hundreds of people tops? The TV market is a commodity market where the interface is usually last on people's list of priorities. Unlike a PC, cell phone, or music player, you almost never interact with the TVs interface, consumers buy based on size, price, connectivity and picture quality. A TV really only needs to be able to turn on and off, switch channels and video inputs.
This ranks up there with some of the stupidest Apple articles I have seen.
Shows how little you know, under the Bush administration the SEC ruled that essentially the shareholders have 0 say on who the CEO is or how much the CEO gets paid, esseentially saying that the company belongs to the CEO, not the shareholders. When Obama proposed giving share holders the ability to hold non-binding election on CEO benefits the Republicans screamed bloody murder. As a result CEO pay has been growing much faster than the S&P 500. If CEOs were really accountable for their actions then this wouldn't happen. Face reality, management is very rarely held accountable for their performance, and this gets truer the higher you go up the management chain. Seriously find me one CEO of a fortune 500 company that was fired for bad performance in the past 5 years that WASN'T given an obscene bonus upon exit. Go ahead, I can wait.
It's also a direct result of how PHBs get paid, in a lot of companies a PHBs salary is primarily determined by two seemingly conflicting criteria, the # of people he has reporting to him and how much he comes under budget. You do a little linear programming and you find that it's often times optimal(for the PHB, not the shareholders) to hire a large # of cheap employees rather than a few highly paid, and more efficient, employees..... Sad but true.
Actually if the settlement is all in the form of cash, they may end up making more money than pretty much anyone else in the organization, they really should consider themselves lucky.
Why, did they take too much stool softener?
Ok, with that out of the way, unlike Fujitsu, who added on extra SIMD co-processors to their CPUs SPECIFICALLY for the K-computer, Intel does not currently do is offer CPUs designed specifically for HPC. Now of course a lot of advancements in general purpose CPUs can be applied to HPC. Overall the Earth simulator cycle seems to be repeating itself->a Japanese company creates an incredibly fast computer that makes heavy use of vector processors, then cannot sell enough of these to make keeping them up to date financially feasible, and eventually the commodity market outperforms them.......wait a few years and repeat.
I doubt that would help much, it may for a while until the writers of said legislation wise up and get more creative with the language of the bills.
Actually, their ignorance is real, the motivations behind said ignorance are of course malicious. Senators purposely don't read the legislation, they rely on their aides to do it for them(and of course their aides run it by their big donors to get 'input' on the law). Then if their aides say yes they vote for the thing. If they get called out on a certain provision later, they will claim, honestly, that they hadn't read that particular provision. And since the American electorate doesn't punish politicians for ignorance(see Sarah Palin and to a lesser extent George Bush), all is forgiven.
Thats one thing I never understood about humans, esp. Americans, the result of the action doesn't seem to be nearly as important as the motive. See the outrage and panic over "terrorists", when more Americans die in car crashes EVERY MONTH as died on September 11th. Americans don't seem to care about that because very few people who cause car crashes actually intended to crash......
Those RFID cards are awesome. In Japan I use Suica, I love it. Not only is it more convenient than dealing with cash, it also can be completely anonymous like cash. Registering your name is optional when you buy the card, the only advantage to registering is that if you lose your card you can get a new one with same amount of money on it.
Keep in mind that one of the defining features of this CPU is 2 vector coprocessors per core, Intels offerings only have 1. For number crunching applications like matrix multiplication(which is what these benchmarks are based off of), the extra vector coprocessor makes a HUGE difference.
We could have "one-click recipes" where, instead of spending time locating ingredients, people can share their purchase orders with the associated recipes so anyone can get everything they need to duplicate it with a single mouse click.
They already have something like this, it's called delivery. Seriously, by the time you actually metered out the stuff(and you would still have to package it btw) combined it into one order and delivered it, you would wind up spending at least as much, if not more, than if you just paid a restaurant to cook it for you. Plus how are you going to deal with varying #s of people with your idea? Not everyone cooks for one person, or even a family of 4.
Yeah, because the rich aren't riding the backs of the poor at all.... You are a fucktard
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I dunno, I'd imagine it'd be a bit spicy....
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week! Try the Betelgeuse, it's to die for!