No, they mean a specific hardware implementation, where there's a keyboard interface that a range of operating systems can access, peripherals and storage that is similarly reachable by means of 'industry standard' interface conventions. You know, the whole 'clone' thing.
It's not as ridiculously commodified as it was at one point, when you could troubleshoot and repair an XT-Clone motherboard from most vendors as long as you had a schematic diagram from one of them. The same TTL chips were in the same spots on almost all the clones back then. They all used the same 8xxx class LSI chips, etc.
Don't be dumb. Real PCs have robust user interfaces like physical keyboards. And easy peripheral expansion. Also they don't get their 'apps' from curated App Stores.
If you're not going to spend lots of real money, you might as well wear a practical Casio watch like I do. Real money begins with at least four figures. I certainly would never do that, but at least I have a clue what 'luxury watch' means.
And no, Apple: Putting your cheap iWatch into a gold case just increases it's melt value (a little bit, it's still a huge loss) in a year or two when it's completely obsoleted by 'the next shiney.'
Eliminate any exceptions to the CAFE standard for SUVs.
Background: The SUV class of vehicle only exists because it was a loophole in the CAFE standards. Automakers had to meet a 'fleet average' fuel economy for every vehicle they sold.
That meant Chevy needed to produce and sell a significant number of fuel-economical vehicles for each gas guzzler they sold. That requirement alone forced the Station Wagon almost entirely out of the market, because Chevy wants to sell heavily equipped pickup trucks to people who want them (will spend lots of extra $$) and not just to people who need them. Also to sell vettes and other crap.
The SUV loophole was that 'light sport utility vehicles' were exempt from the fleet average calculation, so the manufacturers sold the hell out of them.
Eliminate the SUV loophole and the big bloated turds would be gone quickly. Soccer moms ignoring the road because they're texting need to drive minivans with little engines, not pigiron.
This new thing isn't a phone. It's a cosmetic phone addon. If it lands as a turkey it'll be the last addon of it's type that those 1,000,000 customers buy from Apple. They all get a new phone every year or two. This is new, different, and a whim purchase. When it sucks they're not going to 'upgrade' it.
I would say the choices are to regulate incompetently one way or another. Your pure driven snow bullshit just means you favor one pack of bureaucrats over another.
But it's ok I guess. The 'spoils system' guarantees that when a different partisan bunch comes in after another election, they can do whatever the new administration wants. No need for congressional oversight or review.
Somehow I get the feeling your types will be screeching sometime in the future when your dude isn't holding the pen. Whatever.
That does not fit in with the concepts of 'abstraction' that are fashionable. No 'coder' should really need to understand the actual code the hardware runs. It's all rife with gotos and other icky things. Pointers (physical memory addresses) and stuff get revealed.
Nice job there of covering for the Federal Troops.
Are you out of your fucking mind?
Clinton and his FBI weren't evil. Just really incompetent. There was little evidence for the stuff you're slandering that cult over. But it protects 'your boy' to slander them.
History will sort it all out, and if you want to be one of the dudes who bootlicked the Feds, that's fine. Speak out loudly and often and maybe your descendents can know.
Well, the power dynamics of Monica would easily be classified as sexual harassment. Do corporate CEOs get to diddle the Interns? Where was the Feminist Fury over that whole matter? They really REALLY blew their credibility in that period, which is such a shame, because there are real reasons to support Feminist issues.
Do you know what the end result is of making sure you flush off all the oils and body waxes that our bodies have evolved to emit to protect our skin and organs from invasive organisms?
It's fairly similar to the process where the growth medium is 'sterilized' when you prepare petri dishes to grow cell cultures. A 'squeaky' clean body is a body 'shrieking' in terror, to put it succinctly.
Fuck you, soap and cosmetic companies. There is a balance to be arrived at, and the symbiotic organisms on and in our bodies are not our enemies, no matter how much of a profit you make by scaring people into buying your chemical products.
Who is this 'we' and 'us' you refer to? I've been pumping excess flood water off my land all weekend. I have a 2" pump and it's working hard to keep a corner of my property dry, what with all the rain.
The county I live in used to be a huge supplier of tomatoes to the whole eastern half of the country, but now all I have around me is cornfields, presumably because of the artificial increase in corn prices that 'environmentalists' spurred with alcohol-as-a-fuel initiatives.
Whatever the political incentives there are that caused so much arid land in California to be converted to farmland (there are certainly said political factors at play- there always are) should be reviewed and removed. It doesn't make sense to grow crops in a desert if the real market forces at play would make it impossible if the water costs for farmers weren't distorted by politics.
But tossing out the x86 instruction set is totally different from not using the advanced processes that Intel maintains as trade secrets.
The Xeon contains strategic IP, and not just in the form of the silicon, also in the production methodology. It isn't just a matter of switching to another vendor.
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Those Macs you talk about run Windows out of the box. Not without a software upgrade, but easily an hour after the unboxing.
No, they mean a specific hardware implementation, where there's a keyboard interface that a range of operating systems can access, peripherals and storage that is similarly reachable by means of 'industry standard' interface conventions. You know, the whole 'clone' thing.
It's not as ridiculously commodified as it was at one point, when you could troubleshoot and repair an XT-Clone motherboard from most vendors as long as you had a schematic diagram from one of them. The same TTL chips were in the same spots on almost all the clones back then. They all used the same 8xxx class LSI chips, etc.
Don't be dumb. Real PCs have robust user interfaces like physical keyboards. And easy peripheral expansion. Also they don't get their 'apps' from curated App Stores.
They still exist. Really, they do.
PC stands for "personal computer" numbnutz.
You're still angry because IBM stole the name by making the IBM-PC?
I bet you get really angry at Apple when you visit the fruit area of the produce aisle.
If you're not going to spend lots of real money, you might as well wear a practical Casio watch like I do. Real money begins with at least four figures. I certainly would never do that, but at least I have a clue what 'luxury watch' means.
And no, Apple: Putting your cheap iWatch into a gold case just increases it's melt value (a little bit, it's still a huge loss) in a year or two when it's completely obsoleted by 'the next shiney.'
Dell has changed. They went private awhile ago and no longer have to pander to shareholders. It has meant a big difference.
Apple doesn't know how to penetrate.
But also, they don't care. They are satisfied with their only corporate customers wearing tasseled wingtips.
Eliminate any exceptions to the CAFE standard for SUVs.
Background: The SUV class of vehicle only exists because it was a loophole in the CAFE standards. Automakers had to meet a 'fleet average' fuel economy for every vehicle they sold.
That meant Chevy needed to produce and sell a significant number of fuel-economical vehicles for each gas guzzler they sold. That requirement alone forced the Station Wagon almost entirely out of the market, because Chevy wants to sell heavily equipped pickup trucks to people who want them (will spend lots of extra $$) and not just to people who need them. Also to sell vettes and other crap.
The SUV loophole was that 'light sport utility vehicles' were exempt from the fleet average calculation, so the manufacturers sold the hell out of them.
Eliminate the SUV loophole and the big bloated turds would be gone quickly. Soccer moms ignoring the road because they're texting need to drive minivans with little engines, not pigiron.
This new thing isn't a phone. It's a cosmetic phone addon. If it lands as a turkey it'll be the last addon of it's type that those 1,000,000 customers buy from Apple. They all get a new phone every year or two. This is new, different, and a whim purchase. When it sucks they're not going to 'upgrade' it.
What's worse than the apps on an Apple watch?
A 2 hour podcast about the Apple watch.
That's wrong. The iWatch is a platform to talk about the various products in the Apple product line.
The problem is the naked emperor part.
The fart app is a big button on the display of your iWatch. If you conceal your iPhone in your back pocket it's very realistic.
Give it a few versions?
Tell that to the 1,000,000 people who bought this version. They lined up to buy more than vapor.
No, it's likely this will be really bad for Apple.
Also, this isn't Usenet, where Godwin's law applies.
This is a blog, where every thread is 'declared ended' in a day or so. Godwin's law applies to Usenet threads, which often flamed on for months.
I would say the choices are to regulate incompetently one way or another. Your pure driven snow bullshit just means you favor one pack of bureaucrats over another.
But it's ok I guess. The 'spoils system' guarantees that when a different partisan bunch comes in after another election, they can do whatever the new administration wants. No need for congressional oversight or review.
Somehow I get the feeling your types will be screeching sometime in the future when your dude isn't holding the pen. Whatever.
That does not fit in with the concepts of 'abstraction' that are fashionable. No 'coder' should really need to understand the actual code the hardware runs. It's all rife with gotos and other icky things. Pointers (physical memory addresses) and stuff get revealed.
No! Mommy! Make the bad hardware go away!
Nice job there of covering for the Federal Troops.
Are you out of your fucking mind?
Clinton and his FBI weren't evil. Just really incompetent. There was little evidence for the stuff you're slandering that cult over. But it protects 'your boy' to slander them.
History will sort it all out, and if you want to be one of the dudes who bootlicked the Feds, that's fine. Speak out loudly and often and maybe your descendents can know.
Well, the power dynamics of Monica would easily be classified as sexual harassment. Do corporate CEOs get to diddle the Interns? Where was the Feminist Fury over that whole matter? They really REALLY blew their credibility in that period, which is such a shame, because there are real reasons to support Feminist issues.
Republicans take the same flack when they are in power. Don't you remember 'Bush Derangement Syndrome'? Or were you one of the clowns sputtering?
How about we quit pretending either side is better in that regard.
Or are you going to just play along with the game and say 'Oh, but THESE are the good ones!'
Good. So we've maintained Hillary is on the same level as Kissinger. That's gonna get lots of Democrats to vote for her!
Why don't you just take down the patriotic bunting you drape over your monitor and stop politicking us.
How about the fact that she was in charge when a U.S. Ambassador was killed for the fist time in 30 years?
And the Ambassador that got killed was an openly gay man, and he was killed by Muslims, who didn't just kill him, they sodomized him first!
But it was nary a few days before it was time for Obama to be re-elected, so they finessed the issue away.
It's shocking what people will do to maintain political power over the rest of us.
Okay.
Bush Stupid
Clintons Corrupt
Are we supposed to choose sides here?
Hillary got thrown off the legal team in the Watergate Investigation, where she was an Intern, for her corruption. By a Democrat.
Yeah, yeah. I know. Finesse the issues away. She's gonna be a wunnerful prez. Right.
You say that like it's a good thing.
Do you know what the end result is of making sure you flush off all the oils and body waxes that our bodies have evolved to emit to protect our skin and organs from invasive organisms?
It's fairly similar to the process where the growth medium is 'sterilized' when you prepare petri dishes to grow cell cultures. A 'squeaky' clean body is a body 'shrieking' in terror, to put it succinctly.
Fuck you, soap and cosmetic companies. There is a balance to be arrived at, and the symbiotic organisms on and in our bodies are not our enemies, no matter how much of a profit you make by scaring people into buying your chemical products.
Who is this 'we' and 'us' you refer to? I've been pumping excess flood water off my land all weekend. I have a 2" pump and it's working hard to keep a corner of my property dry, what with all the rain.
The county I live in used to be a huge supplier of tomatoes to the whole eastern half of the country, but now all I have around me is cornfields, presumably because of the artificial increase in corn prices that 'environmentalists' spurred with alcohol-as-a-fuel initiatives.
Whatever the political incentives there are that caused so much arid land in California to be converted to farmland (there are certainly said political factors at play- there always are) should be reviewed and removed. It doesn't make sense to grow crops in a desert if the real market forces at play would make it impossible if the water costs for farmers weren't distorted by politics.
Right. We can all stay in our assigned cells. "There is no reason to travel, citizen! why did you think you need you cell door unlocked?"
But tossing out the x86 instruction set is totally different from not using the advanced processes that Intel maintains as trade secrets.
The Xeon contains strategic IP, and not just in the form of the silicon, also in the production methodology. It isn't just a matter of switching to another vendor.