Easy, the "couteracting force of competition" is far outweighed by the "easy money" factor. And I don't know why you'd act as if market forces being the "be-all and end-all" is controversial or in question. Of course market forces are exactly the end-all be-all for the market in anything. It's a fucking tautology.
That's like prefacing some discussion about gravity with "Well, if your "physical" are the end-all be-all of your fancy "science", then why....". It's nonsense.
Also, why do you think "thousands" is a lot for a country of 300 million people? You're predicating an argument on the thought that this is massive competition.
Finally, collusion. There's part of your answer.
And I meant that student loans are currently protecting (for the lender) from being dismissed in bankruptcy proceedings. So I'm saying your should be able to declare bankruptcy on your student loans.
They should end this bankruptcy protection nonsense. He should be able to declare bankruptcy. Of course, this means he never would have gotten the loan in the first place which is better all around.
When you inject easy money into a market for anything, the price of that thing will go up. If any bonehead mongoloid can get $150k to get a degree in basket weaving, the schools will (shockingly!) trend towards a degree costing $150k or more. Why wouldn't they?
I get that you want to overcomplicate it because people like to think everything is subtle and everything has 50 angles. And I'm sure once you get past the GIANT money supply issue, it does get more complicated. But all that shit is noise right now until you stop making college money so ridiculously available.
We should end bankruptcy protection for student loans. This will dry up much of the supply. Then provide scholarships for the best and brightest people at lower income levels. The rest can go to trade schools.
We also need to end the myth of the all importance of college. I don't know how many sad sack "we are the 99%" stories I have to read where some nitwit proclaims we "promised" him or her the "American Dream" if they went to college. It's important for some people and some fields, but for many people it isn't.
Well, do most professionals really take Slashdot seriously though? Agreed it is a phenomenal language, it's very well designed and powerful and you can use it with basic usage or work on more advanced stuff like Linq and the new Async support. It's web service support (WCF) is leaps and bounds ahead of anything, so in the enterprise space it's pretty sweet.
Lolwut? Uhh, don't buy it if you think it offers fewer features. What insane rationale could you provide for them releasing a new product and you suing because it didn't offer all the features of the old one and/or cost more?
Lolyes. It's been 4 years since they turned their first annual profit, and they are raking money in hand over fist on Xbox Live. That's why they're adding a $99 Xbox+Kinect subscription model.
The straw company down the block probably sold 300 million plastic straws last year. This just in, plastic straws more successful than Wii!
The Wii was a moderate profit driver for Nintendo but is now dead. The Xbox is a massive success and continues to earn Microsoft tons of money. It's quaint you think number of consoles sold is what matters. Just because a shitload of people have dusty old Wiis rotting by their TV's doesn't mean much of anything.
Sandy bridge is not Ivy Bridge. Ivy bridge does well compared to most AMD APUs and is suitable for casual gaming on a laptop or reasonably sized monitor.
The more transistors a processor ends up having, the bigger Intel's advantage will be. This is because they have the manufacturing capacity and the design resources to scale at that level - they have already with their current high end CPU lines.
So tell me, are mobile and tablet CPUs coming out with _more and more_ transistors, or _less and less_? What does that tell you?
It tells me that ARM shouldn't count their eggs before they've hatched.
You're flat out lying. GPU performance is _considerably_ increased. CPU performance is somewhat increased and it uses less power.
You just don't know anything about processors and seem to think a die shrink release is going to be some magical, super-advanced leap from the processor which was the un-shrunk predecessor.
It by more or less you mean not at all. Graphics are upwards of 50% faster, CPU performance is a fair amount better, and it uses a fair amount less power.
This release is half about cheaper/faster/lower power CPUs and half about getting on their feet with an entirely new process. They will better utilize the new 22nm trigate process in the CPUs upcoming next year.
Meh. If you're a software developer who has used and understands MS's development tools, you still think MS is "cool". The rest of you just don't know what you're talking about.
I hate apple very very much, but this doesn't bother me. I guess the headline should be "Apple uses legal means to save money" instead of the claptrap it is now.
I have to pay taxes anyway. Arizona makes you state explicitly that you didn't buy any shit on the Internet without paying taxes, so I'd be lying on my taxes which is pretty serious shit. They are more likely to audit you based on your income and some heuristics if you say no, so I had to go to Amazon and do a report to find out how much I owed and declare it on my taxes.
So if the fuckers are going to make me pay taxes, at least make it easier than that bullshit.
First, fuck yeah. I love seeing the MPAA in this position because of how they've bought laws that excessively favor them and then use their warchest to exact retribution that _far_ exceeds the crime in going after people who steal (shhh... freetards...shhhh) their content.
But what I don't like is this whole thing where because this guy did it for a "good cause" we _have_ to let him off. Oooh, we can't challenge the whole "anything for the troops" thing, or "ooh, WW2 vet" sacred cow. Bullshit, the law is the law. What if he walked down to the local Target and started stealing shit, and then paid out of his own pocket to send it to the troops? Again... shhh...freetards. We all know, he isn't "stealing", right? Let's pretend we're all adults and know that deprivation of income is tantamount to stealing and that while information "wants to be free", we don't have to let it.
Of the two, fuck the MPAA far outweighs the other so I love to see this.
Lol, more people aren't writing Lego robotics programs than Bash scripts. The idea is ridiculous.
More people may _report_ to this data source such a thing, but who knows about it when some sysadmin writes a 5 line bash script to automate something? Nobody but that guy.
Totally agree. I've done a lot of C++ in the past, a lot of Perl, some Python, lots of Java, etc... and I am in _love_ with C#. The language itself and the.NET runtime is just so productive for distributed 3 tier apps and Visual Studio stands head and shoulders above any other IDE. I wish MS would port it to other platforms, if they had first-class.NET support for Linux it would take over much of the Linux enterprise development world like wildfire.
So I'm a total C# fanboy, but Java is "good enough" I guess when I have to slum so I'd add it to that list..
C is ignored by almost every developer because the problems for which it is an optimal solution is shrinking. It's great for performance sensitive applications, cross platform applications, low level applications, etc... Many (most) business applications do not fall under those categories.
In other words, bloat and inefficiency are meaningless a lot of the time, and supportability, feature set, and time to delivery are more important.
C#, Java, C++ are real languages. You don't suddenly decide "hey, let's go 10 steps backwards and port this massive enterprise application to Python from Java or C#". You won't see much cross pollination between scripting languages and real software development languages.
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Easy, the "couteracting force of competition" is far outweighed by the "easy money" factor. And I don't know why you'd act as if market forces being the "be-all and end-all" is controversial or in question. Of course market forces are exactly the end-all be-all for the market in anything. It's a fucking tautology.
That's like prefacing some discussion about gravity with "Well, if your "physical" are the end-all be-all of your fancy "science", then why....". It's nonsense.
Also, why do you think "thousands" is a lot for a country of 300 million people? You're predicating an argument on the thought that this is massive competition.
Finally, collusion. There's part of your answer.
And I meant that student loans are currently protecting (for the lender) from being dismissed in bankruptcy proceedings. So I'm saying your should be able to declare bankruptcy on your student loans.
They should end this bankruptcy protection nonsense. He should be able to declare bankruptcy. Of course, this means he never would have gotten the loan in the first place which is better all around.
All distractions.
When you inject easy money into a market for anything, the price of that thing will go up. If any bonehead mongoloid can get $150k to get a degree in basket weaving, the schools will (shockingly!) trend towards a degree costing $150k or more. Why wouldn't they?
I get that you want to overcomplicate it because people like to think everything is subtle and everything has 50 angles. And I'm sure once you get past the GIANT money supply issue, it does get more complicated. But all that shit is noise right now until you stop making college money so ridiculously available.
We should end bankruptcy protection for student loans. This will dry up much of the supply. Then provide scholarships for the best and brightest people at lower income levels. The rest can go to trade schools.
We also need to end the myth of the all importance of college. I don't know how many sad sack "we are the 99%" stories I have to read where some nitwit proclaims we "promised" him or her the "American Dream" if they went to college. It's important for some people and some fields, but for many people it isn't.
You give scholarships to the best and brightest, the rest can go to trade schools.
Well, do most professionals really take Slashdot seriously though? Agreed it is a phenomenal language, it's very well designed and powerful and you can use it with basic usage or work on more advanced stuff like Linq and the new Async support. It's web service support (WCF) is leaps and bounds ahead of anything, so in the enterprise space it's pretty sweet.
Useless for me and many. Doesn't support cablecard tuners and encrypted cable channels.
Lolwut? Uhh, don't buy it if you think it offers fewer features. What insane rationale could you provide for them releasing a new product and you suing because it didn't offer all the features of the old one and/or cost more?
Lolyes. It's been 4 years since they turned their first annual profit, and they are raking money in hand over fist on Xbox Live. That's why they're adding a $99 Xbox+Kinect subscription model.
Lol at your logic fail.
The straw company down the block probably sold 300 million plastic straws last year. This just in, plastic straws more successful than Wii!
The Wii was a moderate profit driver for Nintendo but is now dead. The Xbox is a massive success and continues to earn Microsoft tons of money. It's quaint you think number of consoles sold is what matters. Just because a shitload of people have dusty old Wiis rotting by their TV's doesn't mean much of anything.
Don't live in a third world shithole. That's the best advice anyone can give you.
Sandy bridge is not Ivy Bridge. Ivy bridge does well compared to most AMD APUs and is suitable for casual gaming on a laptop or reasonably sized monitor.
The more transistors a processor ends up having, the bigger Intel's advantage will be. This is because they have the manufacturing capacity and the design resources to scale at that level - they have already with their current high end CPU lines.
So tell me, are mobile and tablet CPUs coming out with _more and more_ transistors, or _less and less_? What does that tell you?
It tells me that ARM shouldn't count their eggs before they've hatched.
Lol. Divorced from reality much? PC and server shipments are up, and continue to go up.
You mean the low end AMD APU platform that Ivy Bridge outperforms graphically? That one? No thanks, I won't try it.
You're flat out lying. GPU performance is _considerably_ increased. CPU performance is somewhat increased and it uses less power.
You just don't know anything about processors and seem to think a die shrink release is going to be some magical, super-advanced leap from the processor which was the un-shrunk predecessor.
It by more or less you mean not at all. Graphics are upwards of 50% faster, CPU performance is a fair amount better, and it uses a fair amount less power.
This release is half about cheaper/faster/lower power CPUs and half about getting on their feet with an entirely new process. They will better utilize the new 22nm trigate process in the CPUs upcoming next year.
Meh. If you're a software developer who has used and understands MS's development tools, you still think MS is "cool". The rest of you just don't know what you're talking about.
Lol at the neckbeard brigade analysis. Thanks for that...
I hate apple very very much, but this doesn't bother me. I guess the headline should be "Apple uses legal means to save money" instead of the claptrap it is now.
I have to pay taxes anyway. Arizona makes you state explicitly that you didn't buy any shit on the Internet without paying taxes, so I'd be lying on my taxes which is pretty serious shit. They are more likely to audit you based on your income and some heuristics if you say no, so I had to go to Amazon and do a report to find out how much I owed and declare it on my taxes.
So if the fuckers are going to make me pay taxes, at least make it easier than that bullshit.
First, fuck yeah. I love seeing the MPAA in this position because of how they've bought laws that excessively favor them and then use their warchest to exact retribution that _far_ exceeds the crime in going after people who steal (shhh... freetards...shhhh) their content.
But what I don't like is this whole thing where because this guy did it for a "good cause" we _have_ to let him off. Oooh, we can't challenge the whole "anything for the troops" thing, or "ooh, WW2 vet" sacred cow. Bullshit, the law is the law. What if he walked down to the local Target and started stealing shit, and then paid out of his own pocket to send it to the troops? Again... shhh...freetards. We all know, he isn't "stealing", right? Let's pretend we're all adults and know that deprivation of income is tantamount to stealing and that while information "wants to be free", we don't have to let it.
Of the two, fuck the MPAA far outweighs the other so I love to see this.
Lol, more people aren't writing Lego robotics programs than Bash scripts. The idea is ridiculous.
More people may _report_ to this data source such a thing, but who knows about it when some sysadmin writes a 5 line bash script to automate something? Nobody but that guy.
That data is mostly meaningless.
Totally agree. I've done a lot of C++ in the past, a lot of Perl, some Python, lots of Java, etc... and I am in _love_ with C#. The language itself and the .NET runtime is just so productive for distributed 3 tier apps and Visual Studio stands head and shoulders above any other IDE. I wish MS would port it to other platforms, if they had first-class .NET support for Linux it would take over much of the Linux enterprise development world like wildfire.
So I'm a total C# fanboy, but Java is "good enough" I guess when I have to slum so I'd add it to that list..
C is ignored by almost every developer because the problems for which it is an optimal solution is shrinking. It's great for performance sensitive applications, cross platform applications, low level applications, etc... Many (most) business applications do not fall under those categories.
In other words, bloat and inefficiency are meaningless a lot of the time, and supportability, feature set, and time to delivery are more important.
C#, Java, C++ are real languages. You don't suddenly decide "hey, let's go 10 steps backwards and port this massive enterprise application to Python from Java or C#". You won't see much cross pollination between scripting languages and real software development languages.