The irony here is that you get a shrill call out if there's any perceived partisanship in the media that favors republican interests in a backdrop where there is an overwhelming bias for democrat interests across a wide swath of mainstream media that SJW's just wink at.
And this has zero to do with technology and is another nail in the relevancy coffin of slashdot. The political crap is boring. If I wanted that, there are plenty of other places to go that offer more insightful analysis.
It's laughable that they are trying to somehow dry up the game aftermarket for their titles and then shucking and jiving around what the meaning of "is" is.
I find it hard to recommend windows for almost any purpose. Microsoft has squandered, time and again!, opportunities to salvage their reputation among the technically advanced users and enterprises with leadership that knows their arse from their elbow. So they are left with non-tech end users and enterprises with poor technical leadership. I suspect that won't end well. Hopefully (for shareholders), they will be able to hide this revenue loss by roping in Office365 and Azure customers.
When Obama won, the messaging parroted by the media was "He won, let him do his thing." And Obama has both the House and the Senate in the Democratic corner as well. And he achieved pretty much nothing other than distorting the US healthcare system. By almost any other measure, he was a weak and ineffective leader and will go down in history as one of the worst US presidents in history.
The jury is still out with Trump, but I feel like he's accomplished a LOT more than Obama ever did and it's only been a little over a year. He won and if the economy keeps going well, he'll probably win again if he chooses to run again. What's good for the goose....
Spare me. If they'd found a shred of evidence it would have been leaked already like they leaked everything else. This whole "investigation" has been a sham trial by media and now they're just trying to goad Trump into doing something they can use to extend the party...
It's all over but the shouting. I see this as an act of desperation by the Democratic party. Mid-term elections are coming soon, the economy is doing well, unemployment is down, and they have been mostly too busy obstructing and absent from helping.
Walmart let go a significant number of IT employees on the west coast in January of 2017. It included a lot of engineers, contractors and some middle management. It's just as likely that this person was part of that force reduction and felt jilted or is looking for more of a payout.
I think it would be pretty difficult to hide the kinds of activities described and if these allegations were true, it would have been in the press long ago.
Lastly, eCommerce makes up only 3-4% of Walmart's revenue. If someone was going to "cook the books" there are a lot greener pastures available to do that. I will be very curious to see what evidence is shown if this actually makes it to court.
I would be curious to know how "extreme" is defined. Granted, I'm in the northeast US so my personal experiences have been limited to that area, but I don't feel like the weather has been extreme at all. Perhaps people may look at the events of the past few weeks and say "OMG, we've gotten several nor'easters in a row...the end of the world is coming." But if you look back over a couple of years, the winters haven't been particularly harsh on average.
I'd be interested in seeing the actual data.
In any event, the article title is very misleading when the source material is actually saying:
"The study, however, only shows there might be a correlation -- not a direct causal link -- between the warming Arctic and severe winters in the U.S. And it doesn't show how exactly the two are connected."
Hard to say if this is the usual tree hugger bias here or just sloppy reporting (or likely both...it is slashdot after all).
If you could strip out all the bureaucracy and fat cats dipping into the rent seeking regulated taxis...then sure. Someone has come along with a more efficient model so let's just impose a predatory tax on that new business to "level the playing field." All just to fatten up the state slush fund.
If you're a startup and you need funding and you've got a demonstrably astute tech investor with a deep rolodex and sacks of money to invest, why do you care who he votes for?
I certainly wouldn't.
This politicization of every aspect of life is way out of hand.
Been a while since your last trip to the middle country? This is what it's like. Fake positive reviews are all the rage. Negative reviews are removed or shouted down by shills. In China, nobody would even bat an eye. In the near future, nobody in the "democratic" west will either.
Yeah, mostly this. I haven't heard any new music that I've liked enough to purchase in a couple of years. I don't see much evidence of that changing. I ripped the few thousand CD's I had and keep:
FLAC versions around for playback on the fancy home audio system USB fobs with high bitrate mp3's in the cars A select subset of the high bitrate mp3's on my mobile phone
The physical media is in a dusty box somewhere in the attic and will likely just get chucked the next time we move.
I'm going to say that there were probably some "just because" terms in the agreement that made it too onerous or unprofitable for ATT to sign off on the deal. Folks accustomed to doing business with some of these Chinese firms that are private (but everyone knows there is a huge government interest) will recognize this for what it is. They wanted very rich terms and aren't accustomed to being told NO.
Perhaps. However if you're buying hardware from a company like HP they might not support a non-intel choice for the particular servers you want/need. Try getting one of their commodity DL360/380 servers with a non-Xeon part.
Personally, I welcome the addition of competition in the server market. Epyc looks like it will be a boon to folks who need more threads and more memory and who don't want to pay the huge Intel premiums for their highest core counts.
Redhat's support is very selective these days. There is a clear imperative to more quickly support products that they can wrap a support contract around like RHEL. I understand that since they've got Wall Street to please, salaries to pay, etc., but it would not be a lot of extra effort to also support the free products in their ecosystem at a similar cadence. As a result, I have been weaning applications off Redhat products. The availability of support is great, but the vast majority of my applications don't require it so I've been leaning more towards the Debian ecosystem where my particular nits have been more quickly addressed and I don't feel like I'm going to be held hostage to ponying up for a support subscription to get a critical bug fix in a timely manner.
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The irony here is that you get a shrill call out if there's any perceived partisanship in the media that favors republican interests in a backdrop where there is an overwhelming bias for democrat interests across a wide swath of mainstream media that SJW's just wink at.
And this has zero to do with technology and is another nail in the relevancy coffin of slashdot. The political crap is boring. If I wanted that, there are plenty of other places to go that offer more insightful analysis.
If only there was a way you could order CD's online and have them delivered to your house.....
It's laughable that they are trying to somehow dry up the game aftermarket for their titles and then shucking and jiving around what the meaning of "is" is.
Wake me up when they go tits up.
That doing evil is part of doing business. F Google.
I find it hard to recommend windows for almost any purpose. Microsoft has squandered, time and again!, opportunities to salvage their reputation among the technically advanced users and enterprises with leadership that knows their arse from their elbow. So they are left with non-tech end users and enterprises with poor technical leadership. I suspect that won't end well. Hopefully (for shareholders), they will be able to hide this revenue loss by roping in Office365 and Azure customers.
Run away.
When Obama won, the messaging parroted by the media was "He won, let him do his thing." And Obama has both the House and the Senate in the Democratic corner as well. And he achieved pretty much nothing other than distorting the US healthcare system. By almost any other measure, he was a weak and ineffective leader and will go down in history as one of the worst US presidents in history.
The jury is still out with Trump, but I feel like he's accomplished a LOT more than Obama ever did and it's only been a little over a year. He won and if the economy keeps going well, he'll probably win again if he chooses to run again. What's good for the goose....
Spare me. If they'd found a shred of evidence it would have been leaked already like they leaked everything else. This whole "investigation" has been a sham trial by media and now they're just trying to goad Trump into doing something they can use to extend the party...
It's all over but the shouting. I see this as an act of desperation by the Democratic party. Mid-term elections are coming soon, the economy is doing well, unemployment is down, and they have been mostly too busy obstructing and absent from helping.
The guy won. Move on.
As opposed to Chinese government backdoors? No thanks.
When are they putting a label on the Welcome to Los Angeles sign on the freeway. Plenty of nasties in that air.
I'm conflicted about who to root for in this thug on thug match up.
It was fine when Obama was mining facebook, but now worthy of being drawn and quartered.
If it wasn't for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.
Walmart let go a significant number of IT employees on the west coast in January of 2017. It included a lot of engineers, contractors and some middle management. It's just as likely that this person was part of that force reduction and felt jilted or is looking for more of a payout.
I think it would be pretty difficult to hide the kinds of activities described and if these allegations were true, it would have been in the press long ago.
Lastly, eCommerce makes up only 3-4% of Walmart's revenue. If someone was going to "cook the books" there are a lot greener pastures available to do that. I will be very curious to see what evidence is shown if this actually makes it to court.
I would be curious to know how "extreme" is defined. Granted, I'm in the northeast US so my personal experiences have been limited to that area, but I don't feel like the weather has been extreme at all. Perhaps people may look at the events of the past few weeks and say "OMG, we've gotten several nor'easters in a row...the end of the world is coming." But if you look back over a couple of years, the winters haven't been particularly harsh on average.
I'd be interested in seeing the actual data.
In any event, the article title is very misleading when the source material is actually saying:
"The study, however, only shows there might be a correlation -- not a direct causal link -- between the warming Arctic and severe winters in the U.S. And it doesn't show how exactly the two are connected."
Hard to say if this is the usual tree hugger bias here or just sloppy reporting (or likely both...it is slashdot after all).
A functional fusion reactor that's commercially viable seems to be perpetually 15-20 years in the future.
Next......
If you could strip out all the bureaucracy and fat cats dipping into the rent seeking regulated taxis...then sure. Someone has come along with a more efficient model so let's just impose a predatory tax on that new business to "level the playing field." All just to fatten up the state slush fund.
No.
At least as likely would be an almost instantaneous leak of the information to the press...
If you're a startup and you need funding and you've got a demonstrably astute tech investor with a deep rolodex and sacks of money to invest, why do you care who he votes for?
I certainly wouldn't.
This politicization of every aspect of life is way out of hand.
Been a while since your last trip to the middle country? This is what it's like. Fake positive reviews are all the rage. Negative reviews are removed or shouted down by shills. In China, nobody would even bat an eye. In the near future, nobody in the "democratic" west will either.
The new normal is upon you.
Yeah, mostly this. I haven't heard any new music that I've liked enough to purchase in a couple of years. I don't see much evidence of that changing. I ripped the few thousand CD's I had and keep:
FLAC versions around for playback on the fancy home audio system
USB fobs with high bitrate mp3's in the cars
A select subset of the high bitrate mp3's on my mobile phone
The physical media is in a dusty box somewhere in the attic and will likely just get chucked the next time we move.
I'm going to say that there were probably some "just because" terms in the agreement that made it too onerous or unprofitable for ATT to sign off on the deal. Folks accustomed to doing business with some of these Chinese firms that are private (but everyone knows there is a huge government interest) will recognize this for what it is. They wanted very rich terms and aren't accustomed to being told NO.
This douchebag just needs to go to prison for a long time....or perhaps just forever. It's clear the first experience did not have the desired effect.
Perhaps. However if you're buying hardware from a company like HP they might not support a non-intel choice for the particular servers you want/need. Try getting one of their commodity DL360/380 servers with a non-Xeon part.
Personally, I welcome the addition of competition in the server market. Epyc looks like it will be a boon to folks who need more threads and more memory and who don't want to pay the huge Intel premiums for their highest core counts.
Redhat's support is very selective these days. There is a clear imperative to more quickly support products that they can wrap a support contract around like RHEL. I understand that since they've got Wall Street to please, salaries to pay, etc., but it would not be a lot of extra effort to also support the free products in their ecosystem at a similar cadence. As a result, I have been weaning applications off Redhat products. The availability of support is great, but the vast majority of my applications don't require it so I've been leaning more towards the Debian ecosystem where my particular nits have been more quickly addressed and I don't feel like I'm going to be held hostage to ponying up for a support subscription to get a critical bug fix in a timely manner.
This is the essence of a shame based society rather than a guilt based society. If you can't see it or talk about it, it never happened.