I didn't say, "no other country" will make it to the moon this century, I would be willing to bet that the Indians probably will, the Russians might, but the Chinese aren't, the space program is a joke and the upcoming economic crash will make it even more difficult for them.
Yeah, I always laugh when China decries protectionism, nothing like the most protectionist country on the planet telling other countries that protectionism is bad. China is by far the most hypocritical country on the planet, and being more hypocritical than the US is saying something.
The technology they used to get to space was 90+% Russian, and you notice they haven't been back after the Russians took away a lot of the technology they were using because the Chinese were unabashedly copying it. The Chinese aren't going to make it to the moon this century, at least not with their "own" technology.
Its the same with the drug companies who prefer treatments (with big ongoing costs) to cures (with a one-off cost and nothing further)
Would this myth fucking die already. Do you have ANY evidence that drug companies are actually hiding cures so they can continue giving "treatments"? Name me one disease that you have credible evidence that a cure can be found but the drug company killed it because it would hurt profits. And before you say "HIV", you might want to do some basic research first. There have been over 70, SEVENTY, trials of HIV vaccines and all have failed. And it's not like drug companies are the only ones looking for cures.
Vector processors in supercomputing are like bellbottoms, they constantly go in and out of style. Like you said the first supercomputers were vector machines, but then with the rise of cots vector processors fell out of style for a while, came back briefly with the earth simulator, and now is back with the gpu. Unlike previous vector processors gpus have a lot more restrictions(ESP when it comes to memory bandwidth and latency), but also unlike previous vector processors gpus are dirt cheap an d developmen can essentially be outsourced to the gpu manufacturers.
Well the problem the university culture in China. It was first created simply to serve as a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party and has had very little success in ridding itself of that culture. The academic culture was killed,quite literally, during the Chinese civil war and the Cultural Revolution. Anyone that was considered an intellectual was given a mock trial and either executed or sent off to hard labor camps. The people that were put in place were simply party loyalists. And since the party didn't want to label itself as "inferior", the publications put out by party loyalists were always accepted regardless of merit. That culture is pretty hard to change and the CCP doesn't really show any interest in changing it. However they want to give the appearance of being "high tech" to the rest of the world so they just sink massive amounts of money into ventures that don't really produce anything useful.
See their biggest mistake was the name, if they had just named it the James Woods telescope instead it would have been under budget and on time. But they didn't listen and now it's too late.
The faces do look real, but I am going to have to agree with the uncanny valley crowd here and say that they look creepy.....maybe it looks better on an hd tv than it does in the trailer, but damn those things were creepy.
Just reminds me of a elementary school concert I saw in Hamburg Germany. Almost all the kids were dressed prim and proper, girls in yellow dresses and boys in suits and ties, then you had the guitarist with long hair and ripped jeans. Hearing trombones and guitars at the same time was kind of cool though.
The phone companies(at least in Germany) have sort of found away around having to deal with people with unlocked phones moving from provider to provider, namely it's impossible to find reasonably priced data plans without signing a 2 year contract. The only data plans you could get were per-day plans at a cost of 5 euros a day. If you just use your phone to check your email you are looking at 150 euros a month, 2.5x the usual Telekom unlimited data plan(without even factoring in the free voice minutes you get). And by the time you have signed a contract, you might as well get the subsidized locked phone because it's going to be obsolete in 2 years anyway.
It can also get annoying when 99% of the Indians don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. There are obviously exceptions but for the most part they really don't know what they are talking about. They got some degree from some fly by night school and then try to pass it off as some sort of meaningful qualification. I'm sorry, I've dealt a lot with Indians and have YET to deal with someone who actually knew anything. We spend most of our day making fun of the ridiculously stupid advice Indians who brag about how tech savvy they are give. So yeah.
Actually the biggest threat would be to VMs running on some big iron machine. If you and I are both running on a VM and I can exploit a CPU bug that allows me to break out of my sandbox then your data is in trouble even if you didn't let anyone else execute code in your VM.
What support level do you have? We have the most basic possible and that is what we get. Though I admit we haven't tried phone support, I never have any luck with that and I always want to be able to refer back to something if we see the same problem again.
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Often times they will not even update featuresets for certain packages at all, they will just backport any security fixes that come out. This is both good and bad, good because you don't have to worry about updates breaking anything, bad because you may not be able to use the latest and greatest software packages out there. Whether you should be using bleeding edge at all for "enterprise" is another debate altogether.
Redhats "support" is pretty bad if you don't get the super-ultra-deluxe package or whatever it is called. It's India based email support and often times they don't really understand the question, they just seize upon a couple of keywords and respond back with various kb articles on those keywords. Worthless IMO.
See, Linux is an OS for grown ups, not a toy like Windows. When grown ups need to do big boy work they use an OS that doesn't get hacked constantly, that is stable, that doesn't have to phone home for permission to operate, that comes out of the box with real tools like NFS and SSH, that doesn't have the worlds worst CLI, that has a secure, stable kernel. But yeah, you just keep on playing with your little toy and pretend it's a big boy OS.
They simply claimed that the gutted computers had all been upgraded to Vista. To the casual observer there is very little difference between an empty case and a computer running Vista.
Not if Malachi Constant has anything to do with it. In order to prove Winston Niles Rumfoord wrong he will cancel all the space projects so there will be no way he can go into space and fulfill the prophecy Rumfoord laid out....unless something goes terribly wrong.
Wow, that gave me a great business idea, selling fake "electrocuted" birds. You put a couple of those in front of your house along with a speaker playing a buzzing/cackling sound and you can probably scare off all but the very smart or very stupid thieves:P
PNHP has published a series of peer-reviewed studies over the past 20 years showing a steady increase in health administrative costs. While some aspects of administrative cost estimation (e.g. physicians' billing costs) require special studies, others, such as insurance overhead, can be easily tracked from publicly available data. These figures show no evidence of a fall in administrative costs since our most recent (2003) comprehensive estimate that administration consumes at least 31% of U.S. health care spending.
So if it isn't greed, why do private insurance companies spend so much in administrative overhead? Why is it that private health insurance costs so much more than public health insurance? Answer me, or are you just going to go off without any facts again while claiming the facts are on your side. The private health insurance execs love idiots like you that blindly believe whatever they are fed so the execs can continue fucking you over for fun and profit.
And what do the army of other executives make? Why was it necessary to make a law forcing insurance cos to spend at least 80% of their revenue on actually providing health care?(for comparison consider that the public health care systems in the rich world spend over 95% of the money they take in on health care). Somebodys getting rich off of price fixing, and it isn't the stockholders. Face it private health care is the biggest price fixing scam in history. If it truly were "competitive" like the republicans claim why is it so expensive? Why is it that every company charges pretty much the same? Why is it the insurance companiesgo out of their way to deny consumers the product they paid for? If the game wasn't fixed why aren't insurance companies open to competition? Because they know that if someone doesn't participate in their little price fixing game then the executives will lose the resources they have done nothing to earn.
Thats because executives take the lions share of what an insurance company earns. Many states in a bid to reduce health care costs put caps on how much an insurance company can earn. The executives there basically took that as an invitation to help themselves to as much money as they want. Ever been to Hartford Connecticut? There are airports solely devoted to serving the private planes of insurance executives, hundreds of airplanes. These people add nothing useful to society but consume massive amounts of resources and their gravy train needs to come to a screeching halt NOW.
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I didn't say, "no other country" will make it to the moon this century, I would be willing to bet that the Indians probably will, the Russians might, but the Chinese aren't, the space program is a joke and the upcoming economic crash will make it even more difficult for them.
Yeah, I always laugh when China decries protectionism, nothing like the most protectionist country on the planet telling other countries that protectionism is bad. China is by far the most hypocritical country on the planet, and being more hypocritical than the US is saying something.
The technology they used to get to space was 90+% Russian, and you notice they haven't been back after the Russians took away a lot of the technology they were using because the Chinese were unabashedly copying it. The Chinese aren't going to make it to the moon this century, at least not with their "own" technology.
Its the same with the drug companies who prefer treatments (with big ongoing costs) to cures (with a one-off cost and nothing further)
Would this myth fucking die already. Do you have ANY evidence that drug companies are actually hiding cures so they can continue giving "treatments"? Name me one disease that you have credible evidence that a cure can be found but the drug company killed it because it would hurt profits. And before you say "HIV", you might want to do some basic research first. There have been over 70, SEVENTY, trials of HIV vaccines and all have failed. And it's not like drug companies are the only ones looking for cures.
Um, yeah, they did actually produce planes, they just never were all that competitive with Airbus and Boeing.
Vector processors in supercomputing are like bellbottoms, they constantly go in and out of style. Like you said the first supercomputers were vector machines, but then with the rise of cots vector processors fell out of style for a while, came back briefly with the earth simulator, and now is back with the gpu. Unlike previous vector processors gpus have a lot more restrictions(ESP when it comes to memory bandwidth and latency), but also unlike previous vector processors gpus are dirt cheap an d developmen can essentially be outsourced to the gpu manufacturers.
Well the problem the university culture in China. It was first created simply to serve as a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party and has had very little success in ridding itself of that culture. The academic culture was killed,quite literally, during the Chinese civil war and the Cultural Revolution. Anyone that was considered an intellectual was given a mock trial and either executed or sent off to hard labor camps. The people that were put in place were simply party loyalists. And since the party didn't want to label itself as "inferior", the publications put out by party loyalists were always accepted regardless of merit. That culture is pretty hard to change and the CCP doesn't really show any interest in changing it. However they want to give the appearance of being "high tech" to the rest of the world so they just sink massive amounts of money into ventures that don't really produce anything useful.
See their biggest mistake was the name, if they had just named it the James Woods telescope instead it would have been under budget and on time. But they didn't listen and now it's too late.
Turns out they implemented an entire flight simulator in hardware :P
The faces do look real, but I am going to have to agree with the uncanny valley crowd here and say that they look creepy.....maybe it looks better on an hd tv than it does in the trailer, but damn those things were creepy.
They must have gotten better from when I looked, I no longer live in the country, so oh well.
Just reminds me of a elementary school concert I saw in Hamburg Germany. Almost all the kids were dressed prim and proper, girls in yellow dresses and boys in suits and ties, then you had the guitarist with long hair and ripped jeans. Hearing trombones and guitars at the same time was kind of cool though.
The phone companies(at least in Germany) have sort of found away around having to deal with people with unlocked phones moving from provider to provider, namely it's impossible to find reasonably priced data plans without signing a 2 year contract. The only data plans you could get were per-day plans at a cost of 5 euros a day. If you just use your phone to check your email you are looking at 150 euros a month, 2.5x the usual Telekom unlimited data plan(without even factoring in the free voice minutes you get). And by the time you have signed a contract, you might as well get the subsidized locked phone because it's going to be obsolete in 2 years anyway.
It can also get annoying when 99% of the Indians don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. There are obviously exceptions but for the most part they really don't know what they are talking about. They got some degree from some fly by night school and then try to pass it off as some sort of meaningful qualification. I'm sorry, I've dealt a lot with Indians and have YET to deal with someone who actually knew anything. We spend most of our day making fun of the ridiculously stupid advice Indians who brag about how tech savvy they are give. So yeah.
Actually the biggest threat would be to VMs running on some big iron machine. If you and I are both running on a VM and I can exploit a CPU bug that allows me to break out of my sandbox then your data is in trouble even if you didn't let anyone else execute code in your VM.
What support level do you have? We have the most basic possible and that is what we get. Though I admit we haven't tried phone support, I never have any luck with that and I always want to be able to refer back to something if we see the same problem again.
Often times they will not even update featuresets for certain packages at all, they will just backport any security fixes that come out. This is both good and bad, good because you don't have to worry about updates breaking anything, bad because you may not be able to use the latest and greatest software packages out there. Whether you should be using bleeding edge at all for "enterprise" is another debate altogether.
Redhats "support" is pretty bad if you don't get the super-ultra-deluxe package or whatever it is called. It's India based email support and often times they don't really understand the question, they just seize upon a couple of keywords and respond back with various kb articles on those keywords. Worthless IMO.
See, Linux is an OS for grown ups, not a toy like Windows. When grown ups need to do big boy work they use an OS that doesn't get hacked constantly, that is stable, that doesn't have to phone home for permission to operate, that comes out of the box with real tools like NFS and SSH, that doesn't have the worlds worst CLI, that has a secure, stable kernel. But yeah, you just keep on playing with your little toy and pretend it's a big boy OS.
They simply claimed that the gutted computers had all been upgraded to Vista. To the casual observer there is very little difference between an empty case and a computer running Vista.
Not if Malachi Constant has anything to do with it. In order to prove Winston Niles Rumfoord wrong he will cancel all the space projects so there will be no way he can go into space and fulfill the prophecy Rumfoord laid out....unless something goes terribly wrong.
Slightly early, but happy birthday Kurt, RIP.
Wow, that gave me a great business idea, selling fake "electrocuted" birds. You put a couple of those in front of your house along with a speaker playing a buzzing/cackling sound and you can probably scare off all but the very smart or very stupid thieves :P
Wow, you refuted exactly nothing in your post, provided 0 evidence, and then went off on me for not providing facts, pure idiocy.
here, that took like 3 seconds.
PNHP has published a series of peer-reviewed studies over the past 20 years showing a steady increase in health administrative costs. While some aspects of administrative cost estimation (e.g. physicians' billing costs) require special studies, others, such as insurance overhead, can be easily tracked from publicly available data. These figures show no evidence of a fall in administrative costs since our most recent (2003) comprehensive estimate that administration consumes at least 31% of U.S. health care spending.
So if it isn't greed, why do private insurance companies spend so much in administrative overhead? Why is it that private health insurance costs so much more than public health insurance? Answer me, or are you just going to go off without any facts again while claiming the facts are on your side. The private health insurance execs love idiots like you that blindly believe whatever they are fed so the execs can continue fucking you over for fun and profit.
And what do the army of other executives make? Why was it necessary to make a law forcing insurance cos to spend at least 80% of their revenue on actually providing health care?(for comparison consider that the public health care systems in the rich world spend over 95% of the money they take in on health care). Somebodys getting rich off of price fixing, and it isn't the stockholders. Face it private health care is the biggest price fixing scam in history. If it truly were "competitive" like the republicans claim why is it so expensive? Why is it that every company charges pretty much the same? Why is it the insurance companiesgo out of their way to deny consumers the product they paid for? If the game wasn't fixed why aren't insurance companies open to competition? Because they know that if someone doesn't participate in their little price fixing game then the executives will lose the resources they have done nothing to earn.
Thats because executives take the lions share of what an insurance company earns. Many states in a bid to reduce health care costs put caps on how much an insurance company can earn. The executives there basically took that as an invitation to help themselves to as much money as they want. Ever been to Hartford Connecticut? There are airports solely devoted to serving the private planes of insurance executives, hundreds of airplanes. These people add nothing useful to society but consume massive amounts of resources and their gravy train needs to come to a screeching halt NOW.