After Effects Rendering. Final Cut Pro HD Rendering. Maya Rendering. Video Compression [Rendering}. If you've ever done what they target this processor for, you'll COMPLETELY appreciate any time NOT spent watching the growbar work. Bring it on, I've been waiting to replace several G5s doing this all day, every day.
Keep in mind that legit bots (like Google) will obey robot exclusion rules and spambots will ignore them.
Well, that's what I thought. I had the Praetorian symbol on the bottom of the front page (yes, it was that long ago) and the robots.txt file said DON'T follow it. It leaked into the atmosphere anyway. It wasn't Google so much as every other two bit web crawler, which were apparently also indexed by Google. I'm considering trying it again but this time I would register a bogus domain and put it there instead. On the other hand, some posters correctly state that most valid email addresses come from ravaged Outlook address books on PCs anyway.
I'm also considering Greylisting but have to weigh the impact of delayed emails. People here expect email to be as immediate as IM.
I used WPOISON on my web site for about a month and had to remove it. Most of the Google entries for my site started going into the vortex. Took about a year for that to wash out. Don't do it.
...that was MS's version of the Java language that could have made Java popular on the Windows desktop if Sun hadn't sued them.
...except that Microsoft's version of Java stripped away all cross platform code by the time Java Studio v6 shipped within two years. They put direct Windoze system calls into their Java to kill the "write once, run anywhere" threat. That's what got them sued and rightly so. Breach of contract, it was... and fscking everything up.
If I see Windoze this and Windoze that all over a resumé, whoever it is turns out to be a moron drone. They don't get hired unless they also have Linux and OS X under their belt.
Either open up the iPod and iTMS this way (Jon) or better yet (Steve) license Fairplay. It's going to happen anyway, so do it on Apple's terms. That's the last you'll hear from Zune, WMA, Microsoft's ability to drag any market through the mud by its nose (repurchase your music library annually anyone?) and the end of the Microsoft Living Room. iPod sales won't be harmed because the rest of the player designers apparently don't "get it" and haven't for years anyway. Require the ability to flash the algorithm in every Fairplay licensed player with a standard command set and Apple could simultaneously defeat bandits and leverage the RIAA greed machine with every incremental update of Fairplay.
Nobody likes DRM from any source. Without it, there would be no music stores with major artists [major labels] who expect to get paid.
It's the RIAA we need to cut out... and ASCAP and BMI. I'd wholly support DRM that pays artists directly. If DRM keeps the RIAA out of the loop, sign me up for that. Making good music takes a ton of work and the artist should get paid for it, not some middle man. Apple gives their thousands of indie labels the same exposure and $ cut as the majors.
Apple has [so far] successfully fought off the RIAA's 'variable pricing' desires. Microsoft, on the other hand, thinks that's a great way to make money - the now obsolete "supply and demand" model. In reality, the more you sell of something, especially a digital file on the Internet, the cheaper it gets to do it. Something in high demand has no real reason to cost more - except for greed.
Everyone in music needs to make money. The problem is too many people involved in the old school music mogul camp stealing money from the artists - the moguls who demanded DRM in the first place. At least Apple has a way around their DRM built right into iTunes - burn a CD, as clumsy as that is.
Oh, I'm chilled. I suggest everyone open their eyes. Microsoft has taken many technologies that were "free" and ubiquitous and demanded money for them later. They've cost me dearly running their servers so I switched most of it to OS X Server and Linux.
Haven't looked at Magnatune yet but eMusic? Are you serious? Half the links to music that appears interesting lead to liner notes and paragraphs from people who have actually heard the music. You can't hear it there but there's a good description of it. The music you can hear is way off Broadway. I tried to download my 20 free songs and couldn't find 20 songs I wanted.
DRM is for the music moguls. That's the only way they'll allow music to touch the Internet. It's not Apple or Microsoft's doing. Or is it? Microsoft has already spoken of plans to use some sort of DRM locking for Office documents, touting it as a security feature. Half the planet knows they'll use it to force software upgrades and lock out OpenOffice users. That's why they're in court all the time in Europe. Nobody trusts them. Apple is locking their hardware and operating system so PC owners don't steal OS X. That I can take. WGA malware I can't take.
If Microsoft gets the upper hand in music distribution, I firmly believe there will be a EULA on some patch which alters their agreement and it will cost everyone their music libary... unless the user pays. They'll call it "PAYS FOR SURE".
The market losers are all concentrating on killing the iPod. Makes sense. But anybody who wishes for that is asking for disaster.
Know what happens if the Microsoft camp gets hold of the music player market? Service will stagnate, prices go up and everything will be DRM up the wazoo. Not just for the sake of the RIAA, but DRM so they've got you by the balls. One bright day all "your" music and video will disappear until you repurchase it, locked in to their own proprietary format. That's what Microsoft has done to every other market they dominate. They just sit up, point a gun at you and demand more money. Is that what you want?
While they're jumping around in your music library, they'll even hose your MP3s which don't bear the Mark of the Beast. Hell, the RIAA would PAY for that to happen.
Forget all the other stuff you wish players did. In time, Microsoft will even get rid of MP3 playback. Microsoft only wants to ship what they can get paid for - WMA. In contrast, Apple has been going to bat for all the end users, keeping prices down against RIAA pressure and expanding capabilities, all in the face of almost no competition. Apple competes with themselves. Nobody would have guessed that in 5 years the iPod would be playing cheap downloadable movies at you. I wish Apple would support more codecs myself and I'd like to see more [attempted] competition for the iPod, but be careful what you wish for.
Conservatives love to talk about work ethic like it's some kind of "free will" magic
First, I don't consider myself conservative nor liberal but I certainly think there's a HUGE component of free will which determines our fate. Second, the Asians have more than just work ethic. The roots are based on personal pride, respect for elders, achievement and the like. Many Vietnamese arrived here with absolutely nothing and over the course of ten years owned stores, drove Volvos and sent their kids to Princeton. Third, your various points are quite conflicted. You want to help everyone escape their downtrodden surroundings, but do it gently and with love. Try to understand where their ancestors came from and how hard it was which continues to this day... Ahhhh bullshit.
how representative is that? Anecdotes don't carry much weight at the scale I was discussing.
That wasn't an isolated anecdote and it wasn't an extrusion of stereotyping. You might have noticed that every stereotype is based on fact and experience. Exaggerated in many instances but why not take a stroll through Compton in Los Angeles or East St. Louis to see for yourself. Take some self help brochures with you and maybe some job applications. You won't come out the other end alive. Our urban streets (and jails) are full of people who believe it's more glamorous to earn a living through blatant crime and leeching than to join the lawful workforce of the Nation. The ones who really could pull themselves up are held down by peer pressure and plain old survival. Considering that 100 years ago the IRS didn't exist and now they're taking 30% of my paycheck pisses me off. Most of it goes to military toys but some of it goes here. It's way time for our fossilized government to reform this treadmill we're perpetuating.
These folks think it's personal. You know what? It's not personal, it's math. If you don't produce then you're a liability. I've worked with dozens of people who have that "hip-hop" attitude. Just try to get through one day without feeling like they're dragging feet and complaining about fairness at the same time. Then see if they show up for work half the time and take you to court when you fire them for job abandonment. Sheesh.
To those abusing programs designed for survival of the truly deprived, our Government is a giant gold faucet dispensing untold sums of cash if you can figure out how to turn the handle. In the same culture, any citizen is a potential target for a crime of opportunity, sometimes violent and usually profitable for the criminal. Drugs, guns, murder, rape, abuse, auto theft, looting - this behavior is GLORIFIED in music, actions, attitude, dress and general behavior. "It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that bling" to paraphrase. This crap didn't come over on a boat and was never forced upon them. It grew out of defiance and rebellion against the very system they prey upon. Certain elements of this culture don't want to actually work lest they be targeted for selling out. The liberal approach only prolongs their justification to continue this behavior. It takes powerful intervention and incentive to escape this culture and that's the middle road where I am.
I'm sure you've seen Bill Cosby's remarks - "our biggest problem gets out of school every day at 2:30". His parents came over on a boat in chains. Where did he go right? Same with millions of others who escaped the vortex of violent urban subculture. Have you seen Bill's remarks? I'll stick them right here:
"We Can't Blame White People"
Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:23:29 EDT
by BILL COSBY
"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. Yo
You get your rewards in America by working, saving, planning, acquiring, growing... and working some more. That fact that some elements choose to steal my labor pisses me off.
I call it a choice because it is. Because your ancestors 10 generations ago were oppressed slaves or something doesn't give you license to extend the pity to yourself. The Asian immigrants didn't seem to have that issue, nor did the Amish nor droves of other people who hit these shores - including a large majority of slaves. Being forced to come here on a slave ship or forced to come here because you were going to be exterminated or were starving in the homeland should wash through over time. You're here now. You're not there. Never were. Everyone started with the same handicap - they started with nothing. Now, what are you going to do about it? That's the choice.
It's a land of opportunity - your choice is to either grow and prosper or be opportunistic enough to exploit programs designed to help people startup their economic viability. Welfare is supposed to get you over a hump, not be a perpetual gratuity.
I propose this: if you're on Welfare, the Government will pay you in exchange for your labor. The Government has lots of jobs - more work needs to get done than we've got labor to do it unless you tap all the people who sit on their porch all day waiting for the next Government check. Put them to work, train them at the same time, make a real reward system and get them productive. Buildings need painting, lawns need mowing, statues need the bird shit washed off. License plates need pressing, canvas mail hampers need assembly and someone has to suck the farts out of the seat cushions on Air Force One. Half of them could probably be engineers given the right exposure. Hell, we could get some manufacturing back from China with low end labor now that we're hitting 300 million Americans. Lets make our own damned iPods.
But no, someone is going to flame me for trying to put their pet oppressed people to work. I've already been scorched for noticing they're different from the rest of us. Noticing they're different is reserved for times when you need to take pity on them, not when it's time to actually do something about it.
WHAAAAAATTT???? So, here are people born and raised in the US who "never had a chance". Compare that to several waves of immigrants in the last few decades here, most notably the Vietnamese.
These people came here with only their lives if they made it at all. They were sneered at and rejected for all but the most menial jobs.
One thing they had was WORK ETHIC. Within three to five years, these people owned stores. Within a few more years, they were driving Volvos and owned houses. When their kids grew up, they were likely enrolled in an Ivey League school.
So tell me why I still need to support born and raised Americans who can hardly speak properly, have no idea who their father is and are more likely to be standing there in an orange suit thinking the world owes them a living?
Trust me, I don't hate these people but I hate what their doing to our Nation.
OH... here's another story:
I get a call from a friend across the country to help evict people squatting in their condo. They haven't paid rent in months but the lady drives a Mercedes and has her two grown sons (not working) living there, plus a daughter (not working) with a child (from an unknown father).
I knock on the door and the younger son answers. I tell him that in a week, I'll be living here and I don't mean sleeping on their couch. He complains that we should let them stay because they really can't find a job. Right
Down the street is a Pizza Hut advertising for "HELP WANTED". I suggest to the kid that he apply for work there. He answers "I don't want that job, I want to be a manager". What sort of obtuse entitlement does this kid assume?
I answer, "ok, lets say you're an apartment manager and your guests aren't paying the rent. What would you do?" The answer is pretty much "DUH". They thought we should let them live there while my friend paid the $1,000 a month mortgage and they contributed NOTHING. Does that seem fair to you? It seemed fair to them.
In a week I moved their shit out to the curb and rehabilitated the place, renting it out to paying customers.
Before you flame me for being a racist, I didn't mention race. Anybody feel like a racist? I won't tell you what their complexion is and it really doesn't matter. The problem is that we're loaded to the gills with these types putting lots of hard earned money down the drain.
The US was among the first nations to research and develop nukes at a time of war....and the counterbalance to that was Nazi Germany doing the same thing. We managed to sink a freighter carrying heavy water for their program but if the Germans got it first, I could be Burgermeister of Cleveland right now. The first U.S. nuke was supposed to be dropped on Berlin but Germany folded before it was ready. Japan - and the Russians - would have surrendered the next afternoon.
You have no imagination. These people who hate the U.S. are smart and resourceful - and have lots of followers with the will to deliver State weapons on their behalf. If you were responsible for the safety of your citizens, wouldn't you look at all the enemy's options to deliver a weapon? Since N. Korea and Iran has a track record of supplying client groups with weapons of all kinds, why shouldn't a nuke be on the grocery list? At least consider the obvious possibility in order to seal off that avenue of getting yourself nuked by someone in a donkey cart.
Ahhhh.... but Iran and North Korea would NEVER use their nukes. Nosireeebob... either nation would be turned into glass bottom ash trays before the next morning's headlines and they know that. HOWEVER, they'll GIVE their nukes (or radioactive material) to some lunatic-fringe warrior group bent on destruction of anything they don't agree with and THEY will set it off. Whoever supplied the weapons would have plausable deniability (that "who me?" shit) which will only delay their being turned into ashtrays for a few days.
Keep in mind that the United States is the only nation in the world to have used nuclear weapons already. Twice. The rest of the world worries about the crazy Americans - and they should.
Oh, yeah, that'll stop the march of technology, eh? What a stupid move. So if General Electric sells lightbulbs online or Sherwin Williams sells paint online, are they going to send all that merchandise back as well? Close it up now in that case. Hey, if Wal-Mart wants to put themselves out of business faster, that's their prerogative. Luddites.
Dude, check the facts on the $150,000 investment Microsoft made in Apple. When that happened, Apple had something like $4.5 billion in cash in the bank. CASH. Check it. They could have kept running the company for two or three years and not sold anything. They didn't NEED $150,000 to survive. It was a settlement to keep Apple from suing Microsoft over stolen QuickTime code and other things. Apple also wrested the continued development of Office for the Mac for 5 years in exchange for planting Internet Explorer on shipping machines. If that software swap didn't happen, Apple may well have tanked because there were few viable alternatives. That $150,000 didn't save anything except a lose-lose court battle.
So far as market share, I've seen nothing but people drop kicking their home PCs left and right and buying Intel Macs. I know this because several times a week, I'm helping someone move their Outlook Address Book to their new Mac and training them how to get around it. Apple is also meeting the software community half way and creating machines that will support virtualization more easily. When Crossover Mac comes out in a month, that's when I'm completely switching and dumping Windows all the way.
"I don't know how much that matters in the real world since creating and starting a process is not something that is done hundreds of times a second."
Apache. Every connection spawns a unique process which terminates upon completion. That's one of the things that makes it a little more secure - you can perhaps exploit the process, but before you kno
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Who says Mac hardware isn't any better than PC hardware? Sometimes I do, but mostly they're very solid compared to PC hardware. Apple has the same vendor issues as everyone else, like the leaking capacitors in the iMac G5s are the same capacitors leaking all over Dell computers right now.
And try this; go to your local CompUSA and ask for a PC mobo with dual independent 1.2ghz frontside busses and dual processors fast enough to use them. You'll need to go to the Apple part of the store for that.
I work on Macs and PCs and the Macs feel and act like a giant Swiss watch while the PCs feel like crap.
We buy/build plenty of computers in our company, hundreds in the last 10 years, Macs and PCs. With rare exceptions, PC laptops are broken between 8 and 18 months and Mac laptops generally outlast their usefulness (5 years) and we sell them to the staff. The PC laptops are in the dumpster way sooner just by trying to use them. The Mac laptops that broke got knocked off a table, so they're little headless servers now.
Every Mac desktop in our company has outlasted 2.7 PC desktops. The PCs are dumpstered or turned into metal cases ready for new hardware typically within 2-3 years. Some PC cases are on their 3rd life.Practically everything blew up in them from the power supply to the crappy bypass caps on the mobo. The Macs outlast their useful life and they're sold to the staff for $100. We've had exactly four Macs just totally up and die in the last 10 years compared to dozens of PCs. Macs and PCs died in lightning storms but most of the PCs just started flaking out, crashing and eating their faces.
I just removed an old Mac 6100/60 that's been running as a heavily used server since 1994... along with four others as workstations for that server, all still running, and replaced them with Mac Minis. I have a glut of ancient but still operational Macs and just don't have that problem with PCs.
We were getting sick and tired of PC problems and out of 100 or so current computer users, I've seeded 35 new Macs, most of them to the PC users. They bitched and moaned for about two weeks and I haven't heard from them since. Many have discarded their home PC and bought a Mac... and an iPod... and THANKED ME for their new freedom. Really. I'm a freakin' hero.
What happens when you stack a few thousand processors of all different kinds into a room, compare the performance and compare the price tags. I did that comparing the clustered "Supercomputers" measured in November of '03 (http://www.top500.org/lists/2003/11/top5.php) which has the VA Tech room full of 2.0ghz DP G5's at #3 in the supercomputer lineup. Not much has changed since then but if anyone wants to redo this with the current lineup, have at it, but this is basically what people argue about and this many processors kind of averages out what's real:
#1 Earth Simulator, Japan, 35.86 TFlops
5,120 (680 8-way nodes) 500 MHz NEC CPUs
Cost: $350 million
#2 Los Alamos National Laboratory ASCI Q, 13.88 TFlops
12,288 EV-68 1.25-GHz CPUs (3,072 HP AlphaServer SC machines)
Cost: $150 million
#3 Virginia Tech's X, Terascale Computing Facility, 10.28 TFlops
2,200 IBM PowerPC 970 2.0 GHz CPUs (1,100 Apple G5 machines on OS 10.2.7)
Cost: $5.2 million
#4 NCSA Tungsten, 9.819 TFlops
2,900 Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz processors (1,450 Dell PowerEdge 1750 servers on Red Hat Linux)
Cost: one of four NSF TeraGrid clusters totaling $53 million.
#5 MPP2 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 8.633 TFlops
1,960 Itanium 1.5 GHz processors (980 HP Longs Peak nodes, also known as the HP Integrity Server rx2600, on Red Hat Linux)
Cost: $24.5 million
Hmmm...
If they built up the original VA Tech Apple system to cost 10% as much as the Earth Simulator, it would theoretically run twice as fast as the Earth Simulator.
The 2.0ghz DP Apple used at VA Tech has about 75% the speed of the ASCI Q using only 18% as m
That makes all the sense in the world... until you really examine the notion of "purchasing" Microsoft software. YOU'RE JUST RENTING IT ANYWAY!!! They make you purchase and repurchase the same software over and over. Hell, it's turning into a subscription service. So, where's the investment? There ain't none.
Dump Microsoft at the first opportunity and you'll be free.
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After Effects Rendering. Final Cut Pro HD Rendering. Maya Rendering. Video Compression [Rendering}. If you've ever done what they target this processor for, you'll COMPLETELY appreciate any time NOT spent watching the growbar work. Bring it on, I've been waiting to replace several G5s doing this all day, every day.
Keep in mind that legit bots (like Google) will obey robot exclusion rules and spambots will ignore them.
Well, that's what I thought. I had the Praetorian symbol on the bottom of the front page (yes, it was that long ago) and the robots.txt file said DON'T follow it. It leaked into the atmosphere anyway. It wasn't Google so much as every other two bit web crawler, which were apparently also indexed by Google. I'm considering trying it again but this time I would register a bogus domain and put it there instead. On the other hand, some posters correctly state that most valid email addresses come from ravaged Outlook address books on PCs anyway.
I'm also considering Greylisting but have to weigh the impact of delayed emails. People here expect email to be as immediate as IM.
I used WPOISON on my web site for about a month and had to remove it. Most of the Google entries for my site started going into the vortex. Took about a year for that to wash out. Don't do it.
...except that Microsoft's version of Java stripped away all cross platform code by the time Java Studio v6 shipped within two years. They put direct Windoze system calls into their Java to kill the "write once, run anywhere" threat. That's what got them sued and rightly so. Breach of contract, it was... and fscking everything up.
If I see Windoze this and Windoze that all over a resumé, whoever it is turns out to be a moron drone. They don't get hired unless they also have Linux and OS X under their belt.
Another thing Microsoft can't own.
Either open up the iPod and iTMS this way (Jon) or better yet (Steve) license Fairplay. It's going to happen anyway, so do it on Apple's terms. That's the last you'll hear from Zune, WMA, Microsoft's ability to drag any market through the mud by its nose (repurchase your music library annually anyone?) and the end of the Microsoft Living Room. iPod sales won't be harmed because the rest of the player designers apparently don't "get it" and haven't for years anyway. Require the ability to flash the algorithm in every Fairplay licensed player with a standard command set and Apple could simultaneously defeat bandits and leverage the RIAA greed machine with every incremental update of Fairplay.
Trust the hippies to do the right thing.
Apple already has the Zune Killer on the market. Game Over.
Nobody likes DRM from any source. Without it, there would be no music stores with major artists [major labels] who expect to get paid.
It's the RIAA we need to cut out... and ASCAP and BMI. I'd wholly support DRM that pays artists directly. If DRM keeps the RIAA out of the loop, sign me up for that. Making good music takes a ton of work and the artist should get paid for it, not some middle man. Apple gives their thousands of indie labels the same exposure and $ cut as the majors.
Apple has [so far] successfully fought off the RIAA's 'variable pricing' desires. Microsoft, on the other hand, thinks that's a great way to make money - the now obsolete "supply and demand" model. In reality, the more you sell of something, especially a digital file on the Internet, the cheaper it gets to do it. Something in high demand has no real reason to cost more - except for greed.
Everyone in music needs to make money. The problem is too many people involved in the old school music mogul camp stealing money from the artists - the moguls who demanded DRM in the first place. At least Apple has a way around their DRM built right into iTunes - burn a CD, as clumsy as that is.
Trust the hippies to do the right thing.
Oh, I'm chilled. I suggest everyone open their eyes. Microsoft has taken many technologies that were "free" and ubiquitous and demanded money for them later. They've cost me dearly running their servers so I switched most of it to OS X Server and Linux.
Haven't looked at Magnatune yet but eMusic? Are you serious? Half the links to music that appears interesting lead to liner notes and paragraphs from people who have actually heard the music. You can't hear it there but there's a good description of it. The music you can hear is way off Broadway. I tried to download my 20 free songs and couldn't find 20 songs I wanted.
DRM is for the music moguls. That's the only way they'll allow music to touch the Internet. It's not Apple or Microsoft's doing. Or is it? Microsoft has already spoken of plans to use some sort of DRM locking for Office documents, touting it as a security feature. Half the planet knows they'll use it to force software upgrades and lock out OpenOffice users. That's why they're in court all the time in Europe. Nobody trusts them. Apple is locking their hardware and operating system so PC owners don't steal OS X. That I can take. WGA malware I can't take.
If Microsoft gets the upper hand in music distribution, I firmly believe there will be a EULA on some patch which alters their agreement and it will cost everyone their music libary... unless the user pays. They'll call it "PAYS FOR SURE".
The market losers are all concentrating on killing the iPod. Makes sense. But anybody who wishes for that is asking for disaster.
Know what happens if the Microsoft camp gets hold of the music player market? Service will stagnate, prices go up and everything will be DRM up the wazoo. Not just for the sake of the RIAA, but DRM so they've got you by the balls. One bright day all "your" music and video will disappear until you repurchase it, locked in to their own proprietary format. That's what Microsoft has done to every other market they dominate. They just sit up, point a gun at you and demand more money. Is that what you want?
While they're jumping around in your music library, they'll even hose your MP3s which don't bear the Mark of the Beast. Hell, the RIAA would PAY for that to happen.
Forget all the other stuff you wish players did. In time, Microsoft will even get rid of MP3 playback. Microsoft only wants to ship what they can get paid for - WMA. In contrast, Apple has been going to bat for all the end users, keeping prices down against RIAA pressure and expanding capabilities, all in the face of almost no competition. Apple competes with themselves. Nobody would have guessed that in 5 years the iPod would be playing cheap downloadable movies at you. I wish Apple would support more codecs myself and I'd like to see more [attempted] competition for the iPod, but be careful what you wish for.
First, I don't consider myself conservative nor liberal but I certainly think there's a HUGE component of free will which determines our fate. Second, the Asians have more than just work ethic. The roots are based on personal pride, respect for elders, achievement and the like. Many Vietnamese arrived here with absolutely nothing and over the course of ten years owned stores, drove Volvos and sent their kids to Princeton. Third, your various points are quite conflicted. You want to help everyone escape their downtrodden surroundings, but do it gently and with love. Try to understand where their ancestors came from and how hard it was which continues to this day... Ahhhh bullshit.
how representative is that? Anecdotes don't carry much weight at the scale I was discussing.
That wasn't an isolated anecdote and it wasn't an extrusion of stereotyping. You might have noticed that every stereotype is based on fact and experience. Exaggerated in many instances but why not take a stroll through Compton in Los Angeles or East St. Louis to see for yourself. Take some self help brochures with you and maybe some job applications. You won't come out the other end alive. Our urban streets (and jails) are full of people who believe it's more glamorous to earn a living through blatant crime and leeching than to join the lawful workforce of the Nation. The ones who really could pull themselves up are held down by peer pressure and plain old survival. Considering that 100 years ago the IRS didn't exist and now they're taking 30% of my paycheck pisses me off. Most of it goes to military toys but some of it goes here. It's way time for our fossilized government to reform this treadmill we're perpetuating.
These folks think it's personal. You know what? It's not personal, it's math. If you don't produce then you're a liability. I've worked with dozens of people who have that "hip-hop" attitude. Just try to get through one day without feeling like they're dragging feet and complaining about fairness at the same time. Then see if they show up for work half the time and take you to court when you fire them for job abandonment. Sheesh.
To those abusing programs designed for survival of the truly deprived, our Government is a giant gold faucet dispensing untold sums of cash if you can figure out how to turn the handle. In the same culture, any citizen is a potential target for a crime of opportunity, sometimes violent and usually profitable for the criminal. Drugs, guns, murder, rape, abuse, auto theft, looting - this behavior is GLORIFIED in music, actions, attitude, dress and general behavior. "It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that bling" to paraphrase. This crap didn't come over on a boat and was never forced upon them. It grew out of defiance and rebellion against the very system they prey upon. Certain elements of this culture don't want to actually work lest they be targeted for selling out. The liberal approach only prolongs their justification to continue this behavior. It takes powerful intervention and incentive to escape this culture and that's the middle road where I am.
I'm sure you've seen Bill Cosby's remarks - "our biggest problem gets out of school every day at 2:30". His parents came over on a boat in chains. Where did he go right? Same with millions of others who escaped the vortex of violent urban subculture. Have you seen Bill's remarks? I'll stick them right here:
"We Can't Blame White People"
Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:23:29 EDT
by BILL COSBY
"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. Yo
You get your rewards in America by working, saving, planning, acquiring, growing... and working some more. That fact that some elements choose to steal my labor pisses me off.
I call it a choice because it is. Because your ancestors 10 generations ago were oppressed slaves or something doesn't give you license to extend the pity to yourself. The Asian immigrants didn't seem to have that issue, nor did the Amish nor droves of other people who hit these shores - including a large majority of slaves. Being forced to come here on a slave ship or forced to come here because you were going to be exterminated or were starving in the homeland should wash through over time. You're here now. You're not there. Never were. Everyone started with the same handicap - they started with nothing. Now, what are you going to do about it? That's the choice.
It's a land of opportunity - your choice is to either grow and prosper or be opportunistic enough to exploit programs designed to help people startup their economic viability. Welfare is supposed to get you over a hump, not be a perpetual gratuity.
I propose this: if you're on Welfare, the Government will pay you in exchange for your labor. The Government has lots of jobs - more work needs to get done than we've got labor to do it unless you tap all the people who sit on their porch all day waiting for the next Government check. Put them to work, train them at the same time, make a real reward system and get them productive. Buildings need painting, lawns need mowing, statues need the bird shit washed off. License plates need pressing, canvas mail hampers need assembly and someone has to suck the farts out of the seat cushions on Air Force One. Half of them could probably be engineers given the right exposure. Hell, we could get some manufacturing back from China with low end labor now that we're hitting 300 million Americans. Lets make our own damned iPods.
But no, someone is going to flame me for trying to put their pet oppressed people to work. I've already been scorched for noticing they're different from the rest of us. Noticing they're different is reserved for times when you need to take pity on them, not when it's time to actually do something about it.
WHAAAAAATTT???? So, here are people born and raised in the US who "never had a chance". Compare that to several waves of immigrants in the last few decades here, most notably the Vietnamese.
These people came here with only their lives if they made it at all. They were sneered at and rejected for all but the most menial jobs.
One thing they had was WORK ETHIC. Within three to five years, these people owned stores. Within a few more years, they were driving Volvos and owned houses. When their kids grew up, they were likely enrolled in an Ivey League school.
So tell me why I still need to support born and raised Americans who can hardly speak properly, have no idea who their father is and are more likely to be standing there in an orange suit thinking the world owes them a living?
Trust me, I don't hate these people but I hate what their doing to our Nation.
OH... here's another story:
I get a call from a friend across the country to help evict people squatting in their condo. They haven't paid rent in months but the lady drives a Mercedes and has her two grown sons (not working) living there, plus a daughter (not working) with a child (from an unknown father).
I knock on the door and the younger son answers. I tell him that in a week, I'll be living here and I don't mean sleeping on their couch. He complains that we should let them stay because they really can't find a job. Right
Down the street is a Pizza Hut advertising for "HELP WANTED". I suggest to the kid that he apply for work there. He answers "I don't want that job, I want to be a manager". What sort of obtuse entitlement does this kid assume?
I answer, "ok, lets say you're an apartment manager and your guests aren't paying the rent. What would you do?" The answer is pretty much "DUH". They thought we should let them live there while my friend paid the $1,000 a month mortgage and they contributed NOTHING. Does that seem fair to you? It seemed fair to them.
In a week I moved their shit out to the curb and rehabilitated the place, renting it out to paying customers.
Before you flame me for being a racist, I didn't mention race. Anybody feel like a racist? I won't tell you what their complexion is and it really doesn't matter. The problem is that we're loaded to the gills with these types putting lots of hard earned money down the drain.
Earn a living, goddamit
The US was among the first nations to research and develop nukes at a time of war. ...and the counterbalance to that was Nazi Germany doing the same thing. We managed to sink a freighter carrying heavy water for their program but if the Germans got it first, I could be Burgermeister of Cleveland right now. The first U.S. nuke was supposed to be dropped on Berlin but Germany folded before it was ready. Japan - and the Russians - would have surrendered the next afternoon.
You have no imagination. These people who hate the U.S. are smart and resourceful - and have lots of followers with the will to deliver State weapons on their behalf. If you were responsible for the safety of your citizens, wouldn't you look at all the enemy's options to deliver a weapon? Since N. Korea and Iran has a track record of supplying client groups with weapons of all kinds, why shouldn't a nuke be on the grocery list? At least consider the obvious possibility in order to seal off that avenue of getting yourself nuked by someone in a donkey cart.
Ahhhh.... but Iran and North Korea would NEVER use their nukes. Nosireeebob... either nation would be turned into glass bottom ash trays before the next morning's headlines and they know that. HOWEVER, they'll GIVE their nukes (or radioactive material) to some lunatic-fringe warrior group bent on destruction of anything they don't agree with and THEY will set it off. Whoever supplied the weapons would have plausable deniability (that "who me?" shit) which will only delay their being turned into ashtrays for a few days.
Keep in mind that the United States is the only nation in the world to have used nuclear weapons already. Twice. The rest of the world worries about the crazy Americans - and they should.
Oh, yeah, that'll stop the march of technology, eh? What a stupid move. So if General Electric sells lightbulbs online or Sherwin Williams sells paint online, are they going to send all that merchandise back as well? Close it up now in that case. Hey, if Wal-Mart wants to put themselves out of business faster, that's their prerogative. Luddites.
Dude, check the facts on the $150,000 investment Microsoft made in Apple. When that happened, Apple had something like $4.5 billion in cash in the bank. CASH. Check it. They could have kept running the company for two or three years and not sold anything. They didn't NEED $150,000 to survive. It was a settlement to keep Apple from suing Microsoft over stolen QuickTime code and other things. Apple also wrested the continued development of Office for the Mac for 5 years in exchange for planting Internet Explorer on shipping machines. If that software swap didn't happen, Apple may well have tanked because there were few viable alternatives. That $150,000 didn't save anything except a lose-lose court battle. So far as market share, I've seen nothing but people drop kicking their home PCs left and right and buying Intel Macs. I know this because several times a week, I'm helping someone move their Outlook Address Book to their new Mac and training them how to get around it. Apple is also meeting the software community half way and creating machines that will support virtualization more easily. When Crossover Mac comes out in a month, that's when I'm completely switching and dumping Windows all the way.
Apache. Every connection spawns a unique process which terminates upon completion. That's one of the things that makes it a little more secure - you can perhaps exploit the process, but before you kno
And try this; go to your local CompUSA and ask for a PC mobo with dual independent 1.2ghz frontside busses and dual processors fast enough to use them. You'll need to go to the Apple part of the store for that.
I work on Macs and PCs and the Macs feel and act like a giant Swiss watch while the PCs feel like crap.
We buy/build plenty of computers in our company, hundreds in the last 10 years, Macs and PCs. With rare exceptions, PC laptops are broken between 8 and 18 months and Mac laptops generally outlast their usefulness (5 years) and we sell them to the staff. The PC laptops are in the dumpster way sooner just by trying to use them. The Mac laptops that broke got knocked off a table, so they're little headless servers now.
Every Mac desktop in our company has outlasted 2.7 PC desktops. The PCs are dumpstered or turned into metal cases ready for new hardware typically within 2-3 years. Some PC cases are on their 3rd life.Practically everything blew up in them from the power supply to the crappy bypass caps on the mobo. The Macs outlast their useful life and they're sold to the staff for $100. We've had exactly four Macs just totally up and die in the last 10 years compared to dozens of PCs. Macs and PCs died in lightning storms but most of the PCs just started flaking out, crashing and eating their faces.
I just removed an old Mac 6100/60 that's been running as a heavily used server since 1994... along with four others as workstations for that server, all still running, and replaced them with Mac Minis. I have a glut of ancient but still operational Macs and just don't have that problem with PCs.
We were getting sick and tired of PC problems and out of 100 or so current computer users, I've seeded 35 new Macs, most of them to the PC users. They bitched and moaned for about two weeks and I haven't heard from them since. Many have discarded their home PC and bought a Mac... and an iPod... and THANKED ME for their new freedom. Really. I'm a freakin' hero.
What happens when you stack a few thousand processors of all different kinds into a room, compare the performance and compare the price tags. I did that comparing the clustered "Supercomputers" measured in November of '03 (http://www.top500.org/lists/2003/11/top5.php) which has the VA Tech room full of 2.0ghz DP G5's at #3 in the supercomputer lineup. Not much has changed since then but if anyone wants to redo this with the current lineup, have at it, but this is basically what people argue about and this many processors kind of averages out what's real:
#1 Earth Simulator, Japan, 35.86 TFlops
5,120 (680 8-way nodes) 500 MHz NEC CPUs
Cost: $350 million
#2 Los Alamos National Laboratory ASCI Q, 13.88 TFlops
12,288 EV-68 1.25-GHz CPUs (3,072 HP AlphaServer SC machines)
Cost: $150 million
#3 Virginia Tech's X, Terascale Computing Facility, 10.28 TFlops
2,200 IBM PowerPC 970 2.0 GHz CPUs (1,100 Apple G5 machines on OS 10.2.7)
Cost: $5.2 million
#4 NCSA Tungsten, 9.819 TFlops
2,900 Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz processors (1,450 Dell PowerEdge 1750 servers on Red Hat Linux)
Cost: one of four NSF TeraGrid clusters totaling $53 million.
#5 MPP2 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 8.633 TFlops
1,960 Itanium 1.5 GHz processors (980 HP Longs Peak nodes, also known as the HP Integrity Server rx2600, on Red Hat Linux)
Cost: $24.5 million
Hmmm...
If they built up the original VA Tech Apple system to cost 10% as much as the Earth Simulator, it would theoretically run twice as fast as the Earth Simulator.
The 2.0ghz DP Apple used at VA Tech has about 75% the speed of the ASCI Q using only 18% as m
That makes all the sense in the world... until you really examine the notion of "purchasing" Microsoft software. YOU'RE JUST RENTING IT ANYWAY!!! They make you purchase and repurchase the same software over and over. Hell, it's turning into a subscription service. So, where's the investment? There ain't none.
Dump Microsoft at the first opportunity and you'll be free.