Because every other rich country in the world has government run healthcare, and every other rich country in the world pays A LOT less for it than the United States does. About 7% of GDP less. If the United States spent, in terms of % of GDP, what France does on healthcare we could save roughly a trillion dollars a year, over $3000 for every man, woman, and child PER YEAR in the country. Now I know it comes at great sacrifice, the son of some rich dude who never worked a day in his life will be denied yet another yacht, but we all have to make sacrifices.
Actually Parrot(and Dalvik for that matter) are much better VMs than the JVM in theory because unlike the JVM, which is stack based, they are register-based which means its MUCH easier to implement the VM, or at least parts of it, in hardware. The JVMs stack based VM was a neat idea, but it makes hardware acceleration of the JVM much more difficult, though certainly not impossible(people have implemented Java-on-a-chip for instance). With the popularity of embedded devices recently, a VM appropriate for them as well as the desktop makes a lot of sense, but thus far there hasn't been a lot of interest in running Dalvik on the desktop.
Do the ostensibly "pro-family" conservatives who seem to idolize the time before the industrial revolution realize that for most of human history children were exposed to their parents having sex with eachother(or other people for that matter) from a very young age. What do they think happened in those 1 room houses? The parents would kick all the kids out in the middle of winter so they could have time to bang out a quickie? I don't know where these people are getting information on children and sexuality, but it aint from the right place(hell, some of these people are Catholic so they seem to think it's ok for priests to diddle little kids, just as long as they don't talk about what they are doing.)
Actually the amateur stuff is just plain better. The "moaning" of women in the pro stuff is so obviously fake that it just sort of take me right out of the moment, the amateur stuff is much more realistic and on the whole just more fun to watch. Of course you have a lot of crap too, but thats why we have ratings systems.
Actually I think you hit on the biggest problem with the power glove, very few games were actually designed for the power glove and the creators of the power glove had to assign control schemes to every game. I wonder how long they actually spent testing out each game.
I think the control scheme for punch out was designed solely as a way to advertise the power glove(I remember the power glove commercial prominently featured Punch-Out). What looks really cool in a 30 second ad obviously may wear thin really quickly.
If niggers stuck to their own kind there wouldn't be any problem, but Instead they use all the money they leech off the non subhuman races to get lots of free time to spread their inferior seed as much as possible. So us productive people are left to support half niggers and the morons who breed with dudes with no employment prospects, a criminal record etc. Why we have this culture of nigger worship is beyond me. We should reenact the miscegenation laws to make sure the nigger cannot pollute our seed anymore,
But shelving units don't have cooling like racks have cooling. Also you left out hot swappable drives, a huge deal if you want real reliability. If you have your XServe drives mirrored and a drive starts to go, you can just pop it out, pop a new one in, and the drive will start rebuilding. All without powering off your machine. Trying to do that with mac pros in any real concentration is going to be a pain in the ass.
The move would make sense if Apple were a car company(ha! car metaphor ftw!) Discontinuing one line of a car company's models has almost 0 effect on the other model that company makes. However in computing, esp. with a company like Apple, it's actually a different beast. While the XServe may not have had many sales by itself, it really was an enabler for companies to move more stuff towards the mac(and by extension iOS devices). Apple's biggest strength really has been that they are a one stop shop for your entire computing ecosystem. You can move your company to Apple, and while you will pay a little bit more for the hardware, the fact that Apple has designed the whole ecosystem(hardware, software etc) to work with eachother means that you will save money and time when it comes to support. However recently with the discontinuation of Java and now the XServe Apple is really saying, "We are a gizmo company. We make other stuff, but if it isn't gizmo related we really don't care'
The knock-on effects of this decision are going to be pretty bad for Apple. Apple was finally making inroads in the enterprise, only to do something as stupid as this. Not only that, companies now have 0 faith in the future of Apple. They have shown time and again that they have 0 problems discontinuing product lines/platforms on a whim. How is a developer supposed to plan anything when Apple can just cancel it? Are we really supposed to put our reputation with our customers(which translates into our livelihoods in a lot of circumstances) in Steve's hands when he has shown 0 qualms about discontinuing products at a moments notice? You can bet that any sysadmin/architect who convinced their boss to buy XServes in the past couple months is so is worried sick about how said boss will interpret this news. And you can be sure as shit that said sysadmin won't be nearly as enthusiastic about Apple products in the future. I know I'm not.
Steve is destroying the very thing that made him big in the first place, and I wonder how much longer Apple will even be around. They seem to be putting all their eggs in the consumer products basket, and there is a long line of companies that don't exist or are a shell of their former selves who went down that exact same road. AAPL will be at 0 before decades end unless someone stops Steve, and probably even if they do. I'm waiting until WWDC when Apple reveals Lion to short AAPL big time.
When Apple first moved to Intel the XServes were actually VERY price competitive with Dell and HP and whatnot. The problem is that eventually interest waned an Apple let the refresh cycles get longer and longer and less spectacular when they were refreshed.
Rack mounting, redundant power supplies, hot swappable drives(mac pros may have hot swappable drives, but good luck swapping them out when they are racked), better cooling, (probably less power too due to a weaker video card, but I don't know that for sure). The list goes on. The mac pro is not a drop in replacement for the XServe.
Not to mention the build quality on those things was just unbelievable, where I work we have somewhere in the range of 30 or so XServes currently and have had a total of over 50, and I think we have had 1 die. One even went airborne and fell about 3 meters and other than some of the metal getting bent its perfectly fine. Meanwhile on the flip side we have had about that many Dell servers and the fuckers break at least 5x as much as the XServes.
Tip for anyone who will be a parent(cue slashdot sex jokes:P): Pick the absolute most common name for your child. If there is a famous person with your last name, give your child the same first name as the celebrity. If you have a super uncommon last name, use your spouses last name. It's really one of the few ways you can protect your privacy online anymore, ie by making you a needle in a haystack of people with the same name. I know if I have a son I am certainly naming him after an actor that shares the same last name as I do.
Only the greatest space captain to ever walk this planet, Captain Zapp Brannigan. I mean with enemies you know where they stand, but with neutrals who knows. Best nuke them before they turn the world neutral!
Perhaps "love" was a poor choice of words, but basically they claim that government spends too much money but are unwilling to actually cut anything that benefits them, namely social security and to a lesser extent the defense budget. Though I do have to give my hat off to Robert Gates who has actually done something that no defense secretary has done since the end of the cold war 20 years ago, actually attempt to keep the military budget in check, even if it's just baby steps like canceling orders for fighter jets we don't need.
Um, you do realize that this fiasco was YEARS in the making and the recession started in 2007, only months after the democrats actually took office. It's not like the democrats could just pass bills at will(as Bush had essentially done from 2002-2007). This whole "giving people houses they cannot afford" was actually the cornerstone of Bush's claims of economic progress in the 2004 election. He droned on and on about the "ownership society" and boasted about how under his presidency more people owned their own homes than ever before*. The republicans were also the ones that were really big on deregulation and repealing depression-era laws that were designed specificially to stop this kind of crash from happening. The democrats aren't angels, but they have a much better record than the Republicans do.
*for certain values of "own", namely you put your name down on a piece of paper and a loan, didn't matter if you could actually pay back that loan.
Well the problem is complexity and people's refusal to take the time to try to understand it. The modern economy is a complex beast due to both natural forces and manipulation. Trying to understand and grapple with our problems are going to require nuance and understanding, but the American electorate seems to reject this outright. They want the person with vague overly-simplistic answers(and it's not just republican voters and candidates who offer this, Obama did it in 2008 with the whole hope thing).
While Obama was a wide eye idealist on the campaign trail he actually tried to grapple with complex issues in a very sophisticated and relatively practical way. He didn't always do the right thing IMO, but he at least was on the right path and realized that empiricism ultimately trumps ideology and he paid dearly for it. The Tea Party found that selling platitudes about government without actually offering any sort of specifics was the best way to win. Why not offer specifics? Because the Republic leaders realize that the US is a country of McWatts.
For those of you who have never read the book "Catch-22":
a) why the hell not?
b) McWatt was a character whose philosophy on government spending came down to this, "All government spending that does not benefit me is bad"
c) why the hell haven't you read it yet?
If the Republicans/Tea partiers actually outlined a plan to actually reduce government spending in any meaningful way there would have been revolt because the two biggest pigs are entitlement programs which the largely elderly base just absolutely loves, and the military which Republicans just cannot get enough of. Instead if they offer any specifics at all they go after safe, but relatively low value targets like the dept. of Education or the National Endowment for the arts, who, combined, make up only about 1% or so of the current deficit.
d) why not?
This was the most expensive midterm election cycle ever, even adjusting for inflation. And you can bet grandma wasn't the one forking over the dough. The corporate paymasters are going to be expecting(and almost certainly will get) a huge ROI for their investments.
What are you talking about, I just bought stock in Micropsoft yesterday. Their CEO Steve Booper throws choirs while screaming "De-volvers, De-evolvers, De-volvers"(which apparently OS X doesn't think is a word)
LMAO MOD UP FUNNAY what routers have Bluetooth??! In what universe is a router sensitive? The good ones are boat anchors... you have to tie your boat to it and drop it in the ocean to get it to stop working... and never really stops working, it's just doing something else
Did you um, read the parent? He was talking about using a serial to bluetooth adaptor instead of a serial cable, thats why I mentioned bluetooth. I'm sure there aren't any heavy duty routers that use bluetooth.
Spoken like someone who has never actually worked a tech job in someplace other than an office. Ever been in a data center? A factory? Or worked on a scientific outpost in the middle of nowhere? Worked with gear on the front lines? A laptop is not always very easy to use when you have to squeeze into tight spots. the ipad is much smaller and lighter than most notebooks and can be used while standing up, a huge bonus.
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Because every other rich country in the world has government run healthcare, and every other rich country in the world pays A LOT less for it than the United States does. About 7% of GDP less. If the United States spent, in terms of % of GDP, what France does on healthcare we could save roughly a trillion dollars a year, over $3000 for every man, woman, and child PER YEAR in the country. Now I know it comes at great sacrifice, the son of some rich dude who never worked a day in his life will be denied yet another yacht, but we all have to make sacrifices.
Actually Parrot(and Dalvik for that matter) are much better VMs than the JVM in theory because unlike the JVM, which is stack based, they are register-based which means its MUCH easier to implement the VM, or at least parts of it, in hardware. The JVMs stack based VM was a neat idea, but it makes hardware acceleration of the JVM much more difficult, though certainly not impossible(people have implemented Java-on-a-chip for instance). With the popularity of embedded devices recently, a VM appropriate for them as well as the desktop makes a lot of sense, but thus far there hasn't been a lot of interest in running Dalvik on the desktop.
Do the ostensibly "pro-family" conservatives who seem to idolize the time before the industrial revolution realize that for most of human history children were exposed to their parents having sex with eachother(or other people for that matter) from a very young age. What do they think happened in those 1 room houses? The parents would kick all the kids out in the middle of winter so they could have time to bang out a quickie? I don't know where these people are getting information on children and sexuality, but it aint from the right place(hell, some of these people are Catholic so they seem to think it's ok for priests to diddle little kids, just as long as they don't talk about what they are doing.)
Actually the amateur stuff is just plain better. The "moaning" of women in the pro stuff is so obviously fake that it just sort of take me right out of the moment, the amateur stuff is much more realistic and on the whole just more fun to watch. Of course you have a lot of crap too, but thats why we have ratings systems.
Actually I think you hit on the biggest problem with the power glove, very few games were actually designed for the power glove and the creators of the power glove had to assign control schemes to every game. I wonder how long they actually spent testing out each game.
I think the control scheme for punch out was designed solely as a way to advertise the power glove(I remember the power glove commercial prominently featured Punch-Out). What looks really cool in a 30 second ad obviously may wear thin really quickly.
If niggers stuck to their own kind there wouldn't be any problem, but Instead they use all the money they leech off the non subhuman races to get lots of free time to spread their inferior seed as much as possible. So us productive people are left to support half niggers and the morons who breed with dudes with no employment prospects, a criminal record etc. Why we have this culture of nigger worship is beyond me. We should reenact the miscegenation laws to make sure the nigger cannot pollute our seed anymore,
But shelving units don't have cooling like racks have cooling. Also you left out hot swappable drives, a huge deal if you want real reliability. If you have your XServe drives mirrored and a drive starts to go, you can just pop it out, pop a new one in, and the drive will start rebuilding. All without powering off your machine. Trying to do that with mac pros in any real concentration is going to be a pain in the ass.
The move would make sense if Apple were a car company(ha! car metaphor ftw!) Discontinuing one line of a car company's models has almost 0 effect on the other model that company makes. However in computing, esp. with a company like Apple, it's actually a different beast. While the XServe may not have had many sales by itself, it really was an enabler for companies to move more stuff towards the mac(and by extension iOS devices). Apple's biggest strength really has been that they are a one stop shop for your entire computing ecosystem. You can move your company to Apple, and while you will pay a little bit more for the hardware, the fact that Apple has designed the whole ecosystem(hardware, software etc) to work with eachother means that you will save money and time when it comes to support. However recently with the discontinuation of Java and now the XServe Apple is really saying, "We are a gizmo company. We make other stuff, but if it isn't gizmo related we really don't care'
The knock-on effects of this decision are going to be pretty bad for Apple. Apple was finally making inroads in the enterprise, only to do something as stupid as this. Not only that, companies now have 0 faith in the future of Apple. They have shown time and again that they have 0 problems discontinuing product lines/platforms on a whim. How is a developer supposed to plan anything when Apple can just cancel it? Are we really supposed to put our reputation with our customers(which translates into our livelihoods in a lot of circumstances) in Steve's hands when he has shown 0 qualms about discontinuing products at a moments notice? You can bet that any sysadmin/architect who convinced their boss to buy XServes in the past couple months is so is worried sick about how said boss will interpret this news. And you can be sure as shit that said sysadmin won't be nearly as enthusiastic about Apple products in the future. I know I'm not.
Steve is destroying the very thing that made him big in the first place, and I wonder how much longer Apple will even be around. They seem to be putting all their eggs in the consumer products basket, and there is a long line of companies that don't exist or are a shell of their former selves who went down that exact same road. AAPL will be at 0 before decades end unless someone stops Steve, and probably even if they do. I'm waiting until WWDC when Apple reveals Lion to short AAPL big time.
When Apple first moved to Intel the XServes were actually VERY price competitive with Dell and HP and whatnot. The problem is that eventually interest waned an Apple let the refresh cycles get longer and longer and less spectacular when they were refreshed.
Rack mounting, redundant power supplies, hot swappable drives(mac pros may have hot swappable drives, but good luck swapping them out when they are racked), better cooling, (probably less power too due to a weaker video card, but I don't know that for sure). The list goes on. The mac pro is not a drop in replacement for the XServe.
Not to mention the build quality on those things was just unbelievable, where I work we have somewhere in the range of 30 or so XServes currently and have had a total of over 50, and I think we have had 1 die. One even went airborne and fell about 3 meters and other than some of the metal getting bent its perfectly fine. Meanwhile on the flip side we have had about that many Dell servers and the fuckers break at least 5x as much as the XServes.
Tip for anyone who will be a parent(cue slashdot sex jokes:P): Pick the absolute most common name for your child. If there is a famous person with your last name, give your child the same first name as the celebrity. If you have a super uncommon last name, use your spouses last name. It's really one of the few ways you can protect your privacy online anymore, ie by making you a needle in a haystack of people with the same name. I know if I have a son I am certainly naming him after an actor that shares the same last name as I do.
Only the greatest space captain to ever walk this planet, Captain Zapp Brannigan. I mean with enemies you know where they stand, but with neutrals who knows. Best nuke them before they turn the world neutral!
Through advanced simulations we have found what this baby will look like in 5 years
So you mean in the future really hot female asian robots will be feasible? Well I now have reason to live as long as possible.
this one cost 25% more than 2006
Perhaps "love" was a poor choice of words, but basically they claim that government spends too much money but are unwilling to actually cut anything that benefits them, namely social security and to a lesser extent the defense budget. Though I do have to give my hat off to Robert Gates who has actually done something that no defense secretary has done since the end of the cold war 20 years ago, actually attempt to keep the military budget in check, even if it's just baby steps like canceling orders for fighter jets we don't need.
And of course being an idiot I get the characters name wrong, it's Milo Minderbinder, not McWatt.
Um, you do realize that this fiasco was YEARS in the making and the recession started in 2007, only months after the democrats actually took office. It's not like the democrats could just pass bills at will(as Bush had essentially done from 2002-2007). This whole "giving people houses they cannot afford" was actually the cornerstone of Bush's claims of economic progress in the 2004 election. He droned on and on about the "ownership society" and boasted about how under his presidency more people owned their own homes than ever before*. The republicans were also the ones that were really big on deregulation and repealing depression-era laws that were designed specificially to stop this kind of crash from happening. The democrats aren't angels, but they have a much better record than the Republicans do.
*for certain values of "own", namely you put your name down on a piece of paper and a loan, didn't matter if you could actually pay back that loan.
Well the problem is complexity and people's refusal to take the time to try to understand it. The modern economy is a complex beast due to both natural forces and manipulation. Trying to understand and grapple with our problems are going to require nuance and understanding, but the American electorate seems to reject this outright. They want the person with vague overly-simplistic answers(and it's not just republican voters and candidates who offer this, Obama did it in 2008 with the whole hope thing).
While Obama was a wide eye idealist on the campaign trail he actually tried to grapple with complex issues in a very sophisticated and relatively practical way. He didn't always do the right thing IMO, but he at least was on the right path and realized that empiricism ultimately trumps ideology and he paid dearly for it. The Tea Party found that selling platitudes about government without actually offering any sort of specifics was the best way to win. Why not offer specifics? Because the Republic leaders realize that the US is a country of McWatts.
For those of you who have never read the book "Catch-22":
a) why the hell not?
b) McWatt was a character whose philosophy on government spending came down to this, "All government spending that does not benefit me is bad"
c) why the hell haven't you read it yet?
If the Republicans/Tea partiers actually outlined a plan to actually reduce government spending in any meaningful way there would have been revolt because the two biggest pigs are entitlement programs which the largely elderly base just absolutely loves, and the military which Republicans just cannot get enough of. Instead if they offer any specifics at all they go after safe, but relatively low value targets like the dept. of Education or the National Endowment for the arts, who, combined, make up only about 1% or so of the current deficit.
d) why not?
This was the most expensive midterm election cycle ever, even adjusting for inflation. And you can bet grandma wasn't the one forking over the dough. The corporate paymasters are going to be expecting(and almost certainly will get) a huge ROI for their investments.
Maybe RISC architectures are like the Highlander, there can be only one. Watch out MIPS, they are after your head!
What are you talking about, I just bought stock in Micropsoft yesterday. Their CEO Steve Booper throws choirs while screaming "De-volvers, De-evolvers, De-volvers"(which apparently OS X doesn't think is a word)
LMAO MOD UP FUNNAY what routers have Bluetooth??! In what universe is a router sensitive? The good ones are boat anchors... you have to tie your boat to it and drop it in the ocean to get it to stop working... and never really stops working, it's just doing something else
Did you um, read the parent? He was talking about using a serial to bluetooth adaptor instead of a serial cable, thats why I mentioned bluetooth. I'm sure there aren't any heavy duty routers that use bluetooth.
Spoken like someone who has never actually worked a tech job in someplace other than an office. Ever been in a data center? A factory? Or worked on a scientific outpost in the middle of nowhere? Worked with gear on the front lines? A laptop is not always very easy to use when you have to squeeze into tight spots. the ipad is much smaller and lighter than most notebooks and can be used while standing up, a huge bonus.