The usual nonsense. Anyone who says something pro-GMO is a shill, of course. What easier way to argue can there be?
Name some of this "science" showing how bad GMOs are. Maybe you'll reference the French study, which pro and anti-GMO alike soundly criticized. They used small numbers of rats that are already prone to tumors, then paraded around rat tumors to the media as if it's all scary. There were a multitude of issues with that study and many wonder why it was even published it's so bad.
The labeling nonsense was just a away around the lack of any good science against GMO. If you can't prove they're harmful, you'll just use scare labels to confuse people.
Then we get the ill-cited references to people being sued "left and right" for supposedly doing nothing wrong.
Literally your entire view on this subject is broken and discredited.
So you can spend billions developing a product and because it's easy to steal anyone should be able to just use it for free? You should absolutely be able to patent a life form _you create_.
Which ones? And please don't embarrass yourself by pointing to the soundly ridiculed French study where they paraded around tumor-prone rats to the media.
Innocent farmers? According to _whom_, a bunch of anti-GMO kooks? I think most of those stories are apocryphal.
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Exactly. To here these Occupy types blather you'd think the middle class is sleeping under a bridge.
The standard of living for an American poor person is very high for most of the world, and mostly not so far behind socialist paradises in the EU. I'll give you that we need some sort of means-tested max-out-of-pocket universal single payer health care, but other than that it's a bunch of crybabying and class envy.
I think the "former wrong-doer (or in this case, wrong-thinker) does right" think is cool and all, but I don't think anybody sane needed to hear this from him to form an opinion, and the anti-GMO nuts won't be swayed by it.
Prepare for him to be vilified as a 'shill' and accused of all sorts of nonsense by anti-GMO whackos.
OK, so why are they going after "assault rifles" which kill very, very few people (think in the order of the number of people killed by lightening)? Not that we'll cave in to the gun grabbers on handguns either, but why the focus on such a tiny problem?
I'll tell you why - emotion and fear. The gun-grabber's greatest weapon.
Jesus, are you fucking kooks still carrying on about Reiser? Listen, he did it. It was obvious he did it and it was obvious beyond any reasonable doubt, there was a mountain of evidence.
He wasn't "persecuted" because he was a weirdo, he was _prosecuted_ because the amount of evidence stacked against him was ridiculously high.
You've watched too much TV. Enough circumstantial evidence, in aggregate, means _he did it_. It's all about odds. What are the odds of X, let's say only 1/500. Then the odds of Y, 1/1000. You add enough of those things together and you come to the conclusion that there is say a 1/10 billion chance that he _didn't_ do it, and only a fucking lunatic doesn't find him guilty.
They are moving to a non-subsidized model, which is hot. As it stands you get your iPhone for $200 then end up paying $1400 extra in some cases for an overpriced 2 year contract. I bought my own phone and did this already on T-Mobile, I only pay $30 a month for "unlimited" data (up top 5 gigs at "4g") and 100 minutes of talk time, which is all I need.
Sprint especially made the mistake of just committing to a huge number of iPhones at a staggering price they must now subsidize. Will be interesting to see if people are still willing to pay the True Price for an iPhone (e.g. $600) versus maybe $450 for a high end Android phone.
Only, well, that's not age discrimination. The people they fired made, say, $100k a year. The people they will hire will probably start at half that.
Probably a stupid business decision, but that's their problem. It's not de facto discrimination unless you think something as ridiculous as "pay discrimination" exists.
Of course there's implicit bias - it's called "circumstance". Most people working on that stuff are currently white males, so some bias has crept in to the system to make that true. But there's not much you can do about that, what with reality being the set of rules we all simply must live by.
It's not a coincidence. That word doesn't mean what you think it means. I don't know if you've worked much in tech, but most tech workers are, you guessed it, white men.
Where's Apple going to go? Nowhere. It's going to take them at least a year to move to another supplier.
And the FTC suit will go nowhere, the FTC doesn't have a leg to stand on. If there are contractual obligations regarding FRAND patents then the courts can deal with that quite well.
Delusional much? They should have charged far more than a 20% hike, Apple is going to other vendors anyway and they have literally tried to abuse the patent system to make Samsung stop selling phones. Kowtowing to Apple is very short term thinking. If Samsung wants to be a big part of the future of mobile devices they need to go nuclear on Apple.
Uhh, what rules? Samsung's duty is to get Apple to pay as much as they can for the chips, this is called "business". If anything, they should have asked for more if they have Apple over a barrel. Maybe there are limits in the contract for how much they can hike prices.
Otherwise, they should have gone for 50%, what's Apple going to do about it?
Well, were there really or was it just blathering from right wing conspiracy kooks? I noticed the latest is they're ranting that the election was fraudulent somehow.
I didn't and wouldn't vote for Obama, but the far right wing is kooky as shit.
Any neuro scientists here? How can this possibly work - I thought the brain worked via complex chemical signals involving a shitload of neurotransmitters.
What good is a "wire" going to do? Seems like plugging a telephone wire into a computer on one end and a rat's ass on the other and expecting the computer to say "POOP".
First, outlaw large sodas. Then, outlaw the immutable laws of supply and demand. For the final trick, I expect them to take on the laws of Thermodynamics!
"Price gouging" (lol, must be defined like obscenity, I guess you know it when you see it?) is a means of controlling demand and allows supply to be more stable and normalize.
Furthermore, especially with private individuals, let's say the options are that A) they offer 10 gallons for $500 on Craigslist or B) they don't offer any gas. Please explain how having option A and option B is worse than only having option B? You can't. There is no possible logical defense for them going after these people.
Concur. ARM is fucked, it's funny people don't see that. They will move back to basically providing only ultra low cost and ultra low power chips. They will see their high end aspirations kicked to the ground, and will be pushed lower and lower in the tablet and mobile phone market over the next 2 years.
What amuses me is the push to e.g. servers. Gee, can I get a server with 1000 cores that's slower in almost every operation than a 16 core Xeon server? Oh, and can you make it useless for virtualizing servers or doing anything but light load trivially parallelizable tasks?
Yeah, it's amusing reading some of these posts. History is littered with cocky assholes who were going to obsolete Intel and x86.
I will take the opposing view, which I call "reality". Intel is a full process level ahead and 14nm is coming in a little over a year. They are dominant in manufacturing, that helps a _lot_. Remind me what the A6X was manufactured at? Oh, yeah - 32nm. Maybe late next year we'll see 20nm ARM chips...maybe.
They have Haswell coming out with a full blown Core architecture scaling down to 10W. It's foolish to think Broadwell at 14nm won't have at least a 5W part. These new ARM chips are running at up to 5 watts. Here's a free clue: ARM will not compete with core chips on performance, so when they are in the same ballpark of power use ARM is in deep shit.
So here's what the future looks like for ARM: It's much easier for Intel to push high performance core chips down the power scale to the 5 and sub 5 watts market (basically everything but phones) than it is for ARM to scale performance up while maintaining any kind of power use advantage.
Oh, and for the mobile phone market, there's Atom. Probably ARM is hoping Intel will keep it a process behind, e.g. it will move to 22nm next year, then only to 14nm a year later, and that's probably right. Even that will be hard for ARM to compete with, but if Intel were to move Atom to a 14nm process, ARM would be in deep shit even in the very low power market. ARM will have enough problems competing with ValleyView.
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The usual nonsense. Anyone who says something pro-GMO is a shill, of course. What easier way to argue can there be?
Name some of this "science" showing how bad GMOs are. Maybe you'll reference the French study, which pro and anti-GMO alike soundly criticized. They used small numbers of rats that are already prone to tumors, then paraded around rat tumors to the media as if it's all scary. There were a multitude of issues with that study and many wonder why it was even published it's so bad.
The labeling nonsense was just a away around the lack of any good science against GMO. If you can't prove they're harmful, you'll just use scare labels to confuse people.
Then we get the ill-cited references to people being sued "left and right" for supposedly doing nothing wrong.
Literally your entire view on this subject is broken and discredited.
So you can spend billions developing a product and because it's easy to steal anyone should be able to just use it for free? You should absolutely be able to patent a life form _you create_.
Which ones? And please don't embarrass yourself by pointing to the soundly ridiculed French study where they paraded around tumor-prone rats to the media.
Innocent farmers? According to _whom_, a bunch of anti-GMO kooks? I think most of those stories are apocryphal.
Exactly. To here these Occupy types blather you'd think the middle class is sleeping under a bridge.
The standard of living for an American poor person is very high for most of the world, and mostly not so far behind socialist paradises in the EU. I'll give you that we need some sort of means-tested max-out-of-pocket universal single payer health care, but other than that it's a bunch of crybabying and class envy.
I think the "former wrong-doer (or in this case, wrong-thinker) does right" think is cool and all, but I don't think anybody sane needed to hear this from him to form an opinion, and the anti-GMO nuts won't be swayed by it.
Prepare for him to be vilified as a 'shill' and accused of all sorts of nonsense by anti-GMO whackos.
OK, so why are they going after "assault rifles" which kill very, very few people (think in the order of the number of people killed by lightening)? Not that we'll cave in to the gun grabbers on handguns either, but why the focus on such a tiny problem?
I'll tell you why - emotion and fear. The gun-grabber's greatest weapon.
Oh noes, in a minute? That totally makes an objective difference!
I'm kidding. It makes no difference. Rifles kill well under 400 people a year in the US, and assault rifles way under that. It's noise.
But carry on with your emotional arguments at will...
Uhh, lolwut? Poorly defined inscrutably formulated article tile is difficultly read.
Grammar Nazi fail. Go look up "unique". Hint: "existing as the only one or as the sole example" is not the only one.
Jesus, are you fucking kooks still carrying on about Reiser? Listen, he did it. It was obvious he did it and it was obvious beyond any reasonable doubt, there was a mountain of evidence.
He wasn't "persecuted" because he was a weirdo, he was _prosecuted_ because the amount of evidence stacked against him was ridiculously high.
You've watched too much TV. Enough circumstantial evidence, in aggregate, means _he did it_. It's all about odds. What are the odds of X, let's say only 1/500. Then the odds of Y, 1/1000. You add enough of those things together and you come to the conclusion that there is say a 1/10 billion chance that he _didn't_ do it, and only a fucking lunatic doesn't find him guilty.
Please never be on a jury.
They are moving to a non-subsidized model, which is hot. As it stands you get your iPhone for $200 then end up paying $1400 extra in some cases for an overpriced 2 year contract. I bought my own phone and did this already on T-Mobile, I only pay $30 a month for "unlimited" data (up top 5 gigs at "4g") and 100 minutes of talk time, which is all I need.
Sprint especially made the mistake of just committing to a huge number of iPhones at a staggering price they must now subsidize. Will be interesting to see if people are still willing to pay the True Price for an iPhone (e.g. $600) versus maybe $450 for a high end Android phone.
Only, well, that's not age discrimination. The people they fired made, say, $100k a year. The people they will hire will probably start at half that.
Probably a stupid business decision, but that's their problem. It's not de facto discrimination unless you think something as ridiculous as "pay discrimination" exists.
Of course there's implicit bias - it's called "circumstance". Most people working on that stuff are currently white males, so some bias has crept in to the system to make that true. But there's not much you can do about that, what with reality being the set of rules we all simply must live by.
It's not a coincidence. That word doesn't mean what you think it means. I don't know if you've worked much in tech, but most tech workers are, you guessed it, white men.
Where's Apple going to go? Nowhere. It's going to take them at least a year to move to another supplier.
And the FTC suit will go nowhere, the FTC doesn't have a leg to stand on. If there are contractual obligations regarding FRAND patents then the courts can deal with that quite well.
Delusional much? They should have charged far more than a 20% hike, Apple is going to other vendors anyway and they have literally tried to abuse the patent system to make Samsung stop selling phones. Kowtowing to Apple is very short term thinking. If Samsung wants to be a big part of the future of mobile devices they need to go nuclear on Apple.
Uhh, what rules? Samsung's duty is to get Apple to pay as much as they can for the chips, this is called "business". If anything, they should have asked for more if they have Apple over a barrel. Maybe there are limits in the contract for how much they can hike prices.
Otherwise, they should have gone for 50%, what's Apple going to do about it?
Well, were there really or was it just blathering from right wing conspiracy kooks? I noticed the latest is they're ranting that the election was fraudulent somehow.
I didn't and wouldn't vote for Obama, but the far right wing is kooky as shit.
Any neuro scientists here? How can this possibly work - I thought the brain worked via complex chemical signals involving a shitload of neurotransmitters.
What good is a "wire" going to do? Seems like plugging a telephone wire into a computer on one end and a rat's ass on the other and expecting the computer to say "POOP".
They don't cost less than the plastic bottle. Only an imbecile would take such a facile view of the costs of bringing pharmaceuticals to market.
First, outlaw large sodas. Then, outlaw the immutable laws of supply and demand. For the final trick, I expect them to take on the laws of Thermodynamics!
"Price gouging" (lol, must be defined like obscenity, I guess you know it when you see it?) is a means of controlling demand and allows supply to be more stable and normalize.
Furthermore, especially with private individuals, let's say the options are that A) they offer 10 gallons for $500 on Craigslist or B) they don't offer any gas. Please explain how having option A and option B is worse than only having option B? You can't. There is no possible logical defense for them going after these people.
Concur. ARM is fucked, it's funny people don't see that. They will move back to basically providing only ultra low cost and ultra low power chips. They will see their high end aspirations kicked to the ground, and will be pushed lower and lower in the tablet and mobile phone market over the next 2 years.
What amuses me is the push to e.g. servers. Gee, can I get a server with 1000 cores that's slower in almost every operation than a 16 core Xeon server? Oh, and can you make it useless for virtualizing servers or doing anything but light load trivially parallelizable tasks?
Yeah, it's amusing reading some of these posts. History is littered with cocky assholes who were going to obsolete Intel and x86.
I will take the opposing view, which I call "reality". Intel is a full process level ahead and 14nm is coming in a little over a year. They are dominant in manufacturing, that helps a _lot_. Remind me what the A6X was manufactured at? Oh, yeah - 32nm. Maybe late next year we'll see 20nm ARM chips...maybe.
They have Haswell coming out with a full blown Core architecture scaling down to 10W. It's foolish to think Broadwell at 14nm won't have at least a 5W part. These new ARM chips are running at up to 5 watts. Here's a free clue: ARM will not compete with core chips on performance, so when they are in the same ballpark of power use ARM is in deep shit.
So here's what the future looks like for ARM: It's much easier for Intel to push high performance core chips down the power scale to the 5 and sub 5 watts market (basically everything but phones) than it is for ARM to scale performance up while maintaining any kind of power use advantage.
Oh, and for the mobile phone market, there's Atom. Probably ARM is hoping Intel will keep it a process behind, e.g. it will move to 22nm next year, then only to 14nm a year later, and that's probably right. Even that will be hard for ARM to compete with, but if Intel were to move Atom to a 14nm process, ARM would be in deep shit even in the very low power market. ARM will have enough problems competing with ValleyView.
How cute, you think people give a shit about the little commodity chips running NAS servers.
Someone should have made it clear to you this refers to compute servers.