My brother is poor. He has a $800,000 house with an underwater mortgage that he bought with a down payment from his wife's 401K plan, leases a new car every other year, and wear $180 designer jeans. He bitches and moans about not being able to retire in ten years. This is the American dream.
All the Republicans and Tea Party folks claim it was a FREE iPhone that the government was handing like candy to keep President Obama in power. Every time I asked for the iPhone link, I either get silence or links to the Obamaphone. Where's the FREE iPhone that these Partriot Americans (tm) are talking about?
I don't watch TV. But I do read the comment boards of political news websites, both liberal and conservative. When two ACs post identical comments about "dropping a small pebble into a pond," and assuming it's not the same twit double posting, it's a copy-and-paste talking point. Such talking points typically come from Fox News.
I'm going to assume you're just being disingenuous or willfully ignorant.
Read the comment boards for Politico and read what Republicans and Tea Party are writing about the poor people who sell their votes to Democrats. Talk about the disingenuous and willfully ignorant.
Now that 25c increase, which was caused by one small town raising its prices, is now going to be how much of an increase? What happens when EVERYTHING is affected?
San Jose is the largest city in Silicon Valley, third largest city in California, and 10th largest city in the United States. San Jose isn't a small town unless you're living in New York City.
I bet you it's more than a 25c/slice, 1d/pie.
You did read the article that I linked to in my comment? Please educate yourself. Being proudful of being ignorant is shameful.
You must have missed the Great Recession. I worked for one company with so many contracts lined up towards the end of 2008 that the CEO spent a $1M on a new building to handle all new work. All those contracts were cancelled after New Year 2009, half the company got laid off and everyone else hunkered down in the mostly empty new building. Alas, I was out of work for the next two years, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011, and had ten jobs since then.
Back in the 50s, 60s, 70s -- before large scale automation and computerization -- businesses had big labor expenses but somehow managed to stay in business.
And bigger tax bills that got lower over time from 90% after War World 2. The only way to avoid paying taxes was to plow that money back into the business or give it back to the shareholders. Since corporations today have low to non-existent tax rates, hoarding cash and buying back stock shares doesn't help the overall economy.
Any small business owner can funnel nearly 100% of his personal expenses through his business and pay lower tax rates as a result.
That's an open invitation for an audit by the IRS. If the small business is a corporation, it's also at risk for losing the limited liability protection in a lawsuit. Smart business owners don't put themselves into a compromising situation.
You want to be either poor (government benefits) or rich (corporate benefits), but never middle class as they pay for all the taxes.
I live in France and these things are in every McDonalds already. I did not realize that they were not common elsewhere.
The U.S. is always 20 to 30 years behind the times for technology that appears first in Europe since it didn't appear here first. We are finally getting credit/debit cards with microchips that is commonplace in Europe. Whee!
Silicon Valley would be a better middle class neighborhood if we didn't have to tolerate all the instant millionaires, politicians begging for cash and San Francisco hipsters.:P
Also... we are talking about the lowest rung of employees. Minimum wage or close. Raise those wages, and what happens to everyone elses wages? They go up. Wages go up, prices go up. Wages won't pay for themselves - those increases WILL be passed on to consumers.
When the minimum wage went up in San Jose, the downtown pizza parlor raised the per-slice price by $0.25 USD and per pie price by $1.00 USD. Business remained steady and the world didn't come to an end. Never mind that states with higher minimum wage have higher job growth.
This will put more people on welfare, food stamps and beholden to the Democratic party.
I'm still waiting for my FREE iPhone from the government that Republicans always talk about but can never provide a link to the sign-up page.
According to OWC, 2009 White MacBooks maxes out at 8GB and 2010 White MacBooks maxes out at 16GB. Plus the offer a trade-in rebate for your old memory.
Macs are a mythical product that most people are unfamiliar with because the whole platform has a high barrier to entry.
I got a brand new Black MacBook (2006) for $1,300 USD that gave me eight years of useful life before the CPU fan died this summer. Since it has a 32-bit CPU and most software coming out in 64-bit only, I didn't bother to get it repaired. After owning Toshiba and Dell laptops, this is the best laptop I ever owned.
For the price of the new Mac mini with AppleCare and sales tax (~$650), I'm going to pimp out a used White MacBook (2010) with a 120GB SSD (from the Black MacBook), 250GB hard drive and 16GB RAM to run Yosemite OS X. Except for the extra memory, this is a similar set up to my Black MacBook with an external Firewire drive. That should keep me going for another four years or longer.
Uh, no. I wrote about hard disks in general. Other people started talking about RAID and I went with the flow. Slashdot exists to keep me amuse while I console into hurt computers and fix broken users at work. Ten years and counting.:P
I'd expect someone running FreeNAS to know more than a journalist rewarming an old article that was a poor prediction in the first place, but I suppose seeing it in magazine format does make it look more credible.
RAID6 was something I heard about five or six years ago, but never seen in action or in the field. Supposedly it was the next great thing. I'm still figuring out ZFS on my FreeNAS box. Damn 8GB flash drives keep zapping out every six months, forcing me to install the current version of FreeNAS.
And, from the very little I know about RAID 5... if you only have 3 drives in it, you're not really getting a whole lot of added security, are you?
RAID5 requires a minimum of three drives. If one drive fails, the other two drives can continue function in degraded mode. The entire RAID would be lost if you have more than one hard drive failure. You could designate one or more extra hard drive as spares to automatically replace a failed hard drive. For extra security, each hard drive need to be on a separate controlller (which is what I have in my FreeNAS box). I typically have a hard drive crash every five years, which is why I replace my hard drives every five years. They keep getting bigger and cheaper all the time.
Sorry, but who has the luxury of buying twice as much disk so we can keep them all under 50%??
I'm planning to replace the 3x80GB hard drives in my FreeNAS file server at home with 3x1TB hard drives, as Newegg has 1TB drives on sale for $50. That will give me 80% free space in a RAID5 configuration for $150.
When my vintage MacBook (2006) started slowing down last year, I read that keeping the hard drive to less than 50% full would improve performance. As it was, my hard drive was 60% full and I was able to reduce it down to 40%. Performance improved noticeably. Replacing the hard drive with an SSD improved the overall performance some more.
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Never mind that you can get a frozen pizza for $3 at Safeway when on sale. Another reason why I don't eat out anymore. Too expensive!
My brother is poor. He has a $800,000 house with an underwater mortgage that he bought with a down payment from his wife's 401K plan, leases a new car every other year, and wear $180 designer jeans. He bitches and moans about not being able to retire in ten years. This is the American dream.
All the Republicans and Tea Party folks claim it was a FREE iPhone that the government was handing like candy to keep President Obama in power. Every time I asked for the iPhone link, I either get silence or links to the Obamaphone. Where's the FREE iPhone that these Partriot Americans (tm) are talking about?
Republicans want this community activist killed for delivering absentee ballots to the county office.
I don't watch TV. But I do read the comment boards of political news websites, both liberal and conservative. When two ACs post identical comments about "dropping a small pebble into a pond," and assuming it's not the same twit double posting, it's a copy-and-paste talking point. Such talking points typically come from Fox News.
A little inflation wouldn't hurt the economy. As it is, low inflation could be the norm for the next five years.
Repeating FoxNews talking points don't make them true.
I'm going to assume you're just being disingenuous or willfully ignorant.
Read the comment boards for Politico and read what Republicans and Tea Party are writing about the poor people who sell their votes to Democrats. Talk about the disingenuous and willfully ignorant.
Now that 25c increase, which was caused by one small town raising its prices, is now going to be how much of an increase? What happens when EVERYTHING is affected?
San Jose is the largest city in Silicon Valley, third largest city in California, and 10th largest city in the United States. San Jose isn't a small town unless you're living in New York City.
I bet you it's more than a 25c/slice, 1d/pie.
You did read the article that I linked to in my comment? Please educate yourself. Being proudful of being ignorant is shameful.
You must have missed the Great Recession. I worked for one company with so many contracts lined up towards the end of 2008 that the CEO spent a $1M on a new building to handle all new work. All those contracts were cancelled after New Year 2009, half the company got laid off and everyone else hunkered down in the mostly empty new building. Alas, I was out of work for the next two years, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011, and had ten jobs since then.
Back in the 50s, 60s, 70s -- before large scale automation and computerization -- businesses had big labor expenses but somehow managed to stay in business.
And bigger tax bills that got lower over time from 90% after War World 2. The only way to avoid paying taxes was to plow that money back into the business or give it back to the shareholders. Since corporations today have low to non-existent tax rates, hoarding cash and buying back stock shares doesn't help the overall economy.
Any small business owner can funnel nearly 100% of his personal expenses through his business and pay lower tax rates as a result.
That's an open invitation for an audit by the IRS. If the small business is a corporation, it's also at risk for losing the limited liability protection in a lawsuit. Smart business owners don't put themselves into a compromising situation.
You want to be either poor (government benefits) or rich (corporate benefits), but never middle class as they pay for all the taxes.
I live in France and these things are in every McDonalds already. I did not realize that they were not common elsewhere.
The U.S. is always 20 to 30 years behind the times for technology that appears first in Europe since it didn't appear here first. We are finally getting credit/debit cards with microchips that is commonplace in Europe. Whee!
Silicon Valley would be a better middle class neighborhood if we didn't have to tolerate all the instant millionaires, politicians begging for cash and San Francisco hipsters. :P
Also... we are talking about the lowest rung of employees. Minimum wage or close. Raise those wages, and what happens to everyone elses wages? They go up. Wages go up, prices go up. Wages won't pay for themselves - those increases WILL be passed on to consumers.
When the minimum wage went up in San Jose, the downtown pizza parlor raised the per-slice price by $0.25 USD and per pie price by $1.00 USD. Business remained steady and the world didn't come to an end. Never mind that states with higher minimum wage have higher job growth.
This will put more people on welfare, food stamps and beholden to the Democratic party.
I'm still waiting for my FREE iPhone from the government that Republicans always talk about but can never provide a link to the sign-up page.
According to OWC, 2009 White MacBooks maxes out at 8GB and 2010 White MacBooks maxes out at 16GB. Plus the offer a trade-in rebate for your old memory.
Macs are a mythical product that most people are unfamiliar with because the whole platform has a high barrier to entry.
I got a brand new Black MacBook (2006) for $1,300 USD that gave me eight years of useful life before the CPU fan died this summer. Since it has a 32-bit CPU and most software coming out in 64-bit only, I didn't bother to get it repaired. After owning Toshiba and Dell laptops, this is the best laptop I ever owned.
For the price of the new Mac mini with AppleCare and sales tax (~$650), I'm going to pimp out a used White MacBook (2010) with a 120GB SSD (from the Black MacBook), 250GB hard drive and 16GB RAM to run Yosemite OS X. Except for the extra memory, this is a similar set up to my Black MacBook with an external Firewire drive. That should keep me going for another four years or longer.
Uh, no. I wrote about hard disks in general. Other people started talking about RAID and I went with the flow. Slashdot exists to keep me amuse while I console into hurt computers and fix broken users at work. Ten years and counting. :P
I'd expect someone running FreeNAS to know more than a journalist rewarming an old article that was a poor prediction in the first place, but I suppose seeing it in magazine format does make it look more credible.
RAID6 was something I heard about five or six years ago, but never seen in action or in the field. Supposedly it was the next great thing. I'm still figuring out ZFS on my FreeNAS box. Damn 8GB flash drives keep zapping out every six months, forcing me to install the current version of FreeNAS.
Snow Leopard OS X on a 120GB hard drive in a vintage Black MacBook (2006). RIP 2014.
satisfy some IT god's paranoia
I work for the federal government. Paranoia is the rule and not the exception.
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If "Utopic Unicorn" is an ambitious name, I'm afraid to see what comes next.
And, from the very little I know about RAID 5 ... if you only have 3 drives in it, you're not really getting a whole lot of added security, are you?
RAID5 requires a minimum of three drives. If one drive fails, the other two drives can continue function in degraded mode. The entire RAID would be lost if you have more than one hard drive failure. You could designate one or more extra hard drive as spares to automatically replace a failed hard drive. For extra security, each hard drive need to be on a separate controlller (which is what I have in my FreeNAS box). I typically have a hard drive crash every five years, which is why I replace my hard drives every five years. They keep getting bigger and cheaper all the time.
RAID6 may not be the answer for the enterprise.
Sorry, but who has the luxury of buying twice as much disk so we can keep them all under 50%??
I'm planning to replace the 3x80GB hard drives in my FreeNAS file server at home with 3x1TB hard drives, as Newegg has 1TB drives on sale for $50. That will give me 80% free space in a RAID5 configuration for $150.
When my vintage MacBook (2006) started slowing down last year, I read that keeping the hard drive to less than 50% full would improve performance. As it was, my hard drive was 60% full and I was able to reduce it down to 40%. Performance improved noticeably. Replacing the hard drive with an SSD improved the overall performance some more.