Having kids or a nagging wife means you'd want to waste that 1h30m commuting, sit in a cubicle then waste another 1h30m coming back. For the rest of us, though, extra three hours of productivity or leisure makes such a massive difference that it's hard to find enough downsides.
Some of us go way over the edge -- especially if you can train your boss that's it ok to call you at 4am rather than at the crack of noon; those of us do work hard to maintain the public opinion on programmers:).
But if you require being on the clock, the employeer can get the best of both worlds for any child-less employee.
Working from home is only great when it's running your own business or... Your wife goes to work and you look after the kids while on the keyboard or phone.
Lots of typical knee-jerk reactions to this story. Most automakers do not have EV and car battery manufacturing facilities in China and China has reduced or removed subsidies making imports much less attractive. It seems, after a bit of quick basic research, that the slowdown request is to allow non-chinese car companies time to be able to ramp up the ability to product EVs on a large scale in China. It's not a plot to stay on old tech or to derail EV cars.
Likely Tesla hasn't complained because they are wrapping up their first manufacturing partnership in China and probably expect to be able to meet sales requirements.
I don't think there is an all-year-around electric car that can be used in Canada, unless it is to be driven from garage to garage. With 20 below zero weather, batteries drop to 10% of what they can deliver in summer. Just get caught in a traffic jam with -20 and hope for the best. In my view, the best would be the tow-truck.
Making sure we get a cut of everything you spend, and know what you spent it on.
Lovely
Greed hath no limits. The merchant pays Visa up to 5%, you get a cash back, and if you fail to clear your total payment, you pay the current Visa rate, which is typically around usurious 10% but can go as high as 20%. Banks don't make money from banking, they make profits from credit cards.
Although computer use during class may create the illusion of enhanced engagement with course content, it more often reflects engagement with social media
Other than businesses wanting to sell more laptop computers or students wanting to surf the web during class, who ever claimed computer use during a lecture or seminar would enhance engagement with course content?
Laptops, like cellphones are a distraction. No classroom full of students who prefer instagram to the lesson should be allowed cellphone or laptop, except after supper or before school begins.
There is a picture of Donald Trump in the dictionary, right next to the word "Treason"
Donald Trump and many members of his administration and campaign are known traitors. They colluded with Russia's attack on our country.
You keep tip-toeing around the definition of treason while not actually providing it. This is because you know you are supporting a treasonous Russian puppet.
You support known traitors like Donald Trump and his crime family, because you are a traitor yourself.
Treason occurs only when you give away secrets or favours. I don't think that happened. Un-ethical practices yes.
Or we could just get rid of medical insurance and pay the doctors, nurses, and hospitals directly via the government... but like whatever, helping people is fucked and I don't need anything from society. I made the device I'm typing this with metal I mined, refined, followed by teaching myself with no books or teachers how to transform and program to connect to slashdot... let alone the lack of help I got getting myself outta that fucking womb and then walked out of the hospital got a job and earned the tools to start this process.
Thats what we do in Canada. And I am happier than a pig in xxxxxx
Yeah, that was my first thought, when did $250K a year define you as rich?
In *every* part of the US, that will define you as rich. If you can afford a $50,000 car, you are rich. If you can afford a 2000+ sqft home, you are rich. If you can afford to buy a decaf latte grande every day, you are rich. *Most* americans live paycheck to paycheck and are vastly in debt. Slashdotters are not typical people. Moreover, most slashdotters don't even know anyone who isn't rich. They will live in a rich neighborhood, and work with rich people, and buy everything online, or from stores staffed by the children of rich people. On the rare occasion when they do go into a walmart, they look at the cashier with pitty thinking that these are the only poor people. They never see the 5,000 people who would kill just to get that walmart job. They never see the people working the warehouse jobs, or the folks living in the places where you joke about being unsafe to drive at night. They simply don't understand that their world is the exception not the rule.
The other side of that are the working class and poor. They know the rich exist, but they never see them, they never get to go into those neighborhoods. Their kids don't go to the same schools with the rich kids so they never have a reason to meet with the rich parents at PTA meetings (assuming they could even get enough time off work to go).
The simple truth is there are two Americas. There is the one you live in, and the one they live in. I sincerely hope you never have to live in their world because it is a pale shadow of the America you live in. In spite of that fact, their lifes work means you can get your stuff cheap online and in store. They buy the products that directly or indirectly fund your huge paychecks. In a very real sense, they are very nearly modern day slaves who's entire existences fuels your lifestyle.
The average American watching TV is looking at a lifestyle that is beyond their own. They can only aspire to have the kind of wealth they see on their nightly sitcoms and dramas, but they watch anyways always dreaming that they live those lives instead of their own.
I could give you a million places to look where you could peel back the veil of abject poverty and see the new slave class this country has embraced, but it is probably better that you continue to live the fantasy so that you can pursue the things that just might actually make a better tomorrow for everyone. If you had to face the demons that comes with your own wealth, it might destroy the fragile innocence that allows you to sleep at night.
Last year my last car cost me $750 (Honda Civic 2005). My cellphone was recycled, $30.00 for a Motorolla. It too is good for about 6 hours of youtube gazing. My flat screen TV was end-of-clearance sale 1080p 55 inche for $450.00
I rarely want to be first with new technology. I did live on the "I must have that toy" world until I got smart. All my kids went to university and graduate school, and with no debts. -- Wonder why? No expensive toys.
if 1200 bucks is gonna break you thats your own fault.
Sure it is. Only the lazy and feckless don't have $1200 sitting around waiting for the right phone to come along. I bet if you check their physiognomy you'll find they have the low brow and cranial bumps of the genetically poor.
I'm retired. I have an android, a North-America-wide calling plan, data and a few applications. As a retired person, I want any phone I have to be robust, moisture resistant (rain), and have a replacable battery. My phone has what I need. Front/back cameras, voice activation, and low cost insurance coverage. Its an American Motorola phone, and I quite like it.
So, what's $1200 phone worth? I would say $200 in material, $100 in R&D and handling costs, and $900/phone in profits. What a great business -- selling to gullables.
Engineers have been capable of building devices that are easier to repair all the time - but only when that's one of the goals. Built-in obsolescence has been a thing for decades. Desktop computers are a lot easier to diagnose and repair than the original PC. Laptops? Ha!
The above practice was followed until GE (General Electric) established a "Value Engineering" policy. The policy was to cheapen an item to where it would last the warantee period plus a little. GE made the motors in washers, dryers, and some refrigerators/airconditioners. Even the shells of washing machines were made of microscopically thick paint jobs. Rust came just after 4 years of use.
Now these small appliances are made outside of the USA (Thank you GE, for having me buy non-domestic stuff, because your stuff did not last). I love my LDG' SAMSUNG washer/driver/stove/dishwasher. I expect 20 years of service from them. And thank you Panasonic for my microwave oven that just goes and goes and goes.
Guessing they're sacking the rest of their QA staff, since Windows 10 is clearly coming along so nicely./snark
I would say that the Samsung, and other tablet makers that use Android, etc, have eaten into MS sales and MS client use. Today, how may people actually write letters or do long documents?
I use wps.com with Linux (MS Clone that is just great). I also use LibreOffice, which generally comes with some Linux distributions. So, when desktop sales are down, when 80+% of servers are Linux based, a company can't keep staff that only works 4 hours per day.
Burning out is certainly a way to not get ahead. And eventually lose your job, and your career, and then everything else.
You need to do long hours when you are building your own business. And guess what, those long hours are not normally health stressful. It may be marriage stressful.
And when your business product is final, those long hours become normal, for most entrepreneurs. It is a wind down, where they go from 16 hr days to 14, to a day off, to 12 hours for a few weeks to finally normal 7.5 hr days. Still, many wake up early in the morning to do some work, then take the time for breakfast and commute, and follow up with a regular day ending at 6pm.
Whether you agree that the law should have a post-modern influence or not is very much different than raiding your home because you said wrong-speak. I would rather a Trump than a benevolent dictator.
I believe that a transgender person would be dressing in clothes that match his gender. If he is as a woman, he should be permitted to use the woman's washroom. Cruz is mixing up normal males, dressed as males, going to a woman's washroom. Is that really going to happen? So who is going to wear woman's clothes and visit a man's bathroom or vice versa? Its just a great example of applied stupidity 101.
Part of the consent decree is that AMD is intitled to use any/all related Intel patents. AMD is allowed to put AES into microcode. I would have preferred that they put twofish or threefish instructions. The latter two are stonger than AES for hacking and are fast in execution. But being much harder to hack than AES, you can guess why blowfish/twofish was not chosen.
Intel already showed its hand with the i9 series they shoved out the door as a knee-jerk reaction to AMD. It's a mess.
They've basically taken existing Xeon cores and prepped them for consumer use -- but with crazy options for the sockets for the new pin counts needed -- making motherboard manufacturers have to deal with different CPUs all for the same slot type, but some have different feature sets meaning it's hard to make a mobo that works with all of the chips that fit that slot type.
Most of the i9 series is vaporware -- sure, they have the specs laid out, but they only have a butchered Xeon to fit the new slot type to test with so far.
AMD is ready to roll out and has chips available today for Ryzen and soon Epyc. Meanwhile, Intel likely will take a year or more to offer i9s. Sure, Intel will eventually switch production lines and tailor the chips better and come out on top eventually... but, they were caught with their pants down on this.
Intel's solution is basically to offer the Xeons as consumer-level products with more cores and a different pin count (but without ECC ram compatibility) to match the higher level Ryzen offerings... and now they'll have to do even better to match the Epyc offerings at the server-level. Most likely, it'll take them 2 years to repackage the Xeons to take advantage of as many PCIe lanes as they'll likely have to change the slot type again and work with mobo makers to get the right thermal envelope down for the new slot type on their boards. The PCIe lanes are the key difference as AMD is betting a lot of AI and graphics rendering is done on GPUs... and their Epyc chips will let companies connect a lot more GPUs and other peripherals at high speed by PCIe to the multi-core CPU. Intel..... doesn't currently have anything like that -- and it will take them time just to re-purpose a current chip to support that, much less roll it out in large production.
AMD runs at 70% of the power requirements of Intel's compatible device and at 30 percent price reduction. Benchmarks show AMD's offering is within 5% of Intel's non-pushed (standard chip) performance. For 30% reduction in electricity costs, coupled with less than 5% difference in performance, the decision process is easy to make.
Even an English accent which spends most of his show talking about the lack of sophistication and cachet of the English?
Or maybe he's just funny.
I watched his show, and he presented facts. Is presenting facts a defamation? Robert E. Murray may win, but I hope it's only one dollar. He is not worth more.
Doubts that it's going to save $1 trillion. Trump lies constantly and he won't stick to anything he says, so this could even be true in that he'll actually try but as soon as the plan hits any minor bumps he'll give up on it, move on to something else, and blame the Democrats for it. Right now the only "promise" he seems inclined to keep is to try to deport just about every illegal immigrant DHS can get its hands on.
In foreign affairs, Trump has a word. He is known as a good listener and someone who is able to change his ideas based on reason. Domestically, it's possible that Trump is over-his-head and has too much information thrown at him. He needs to delegate responsibilities and just do a summary follow up. And stop Tweeting
Is it time to consider immigrating to India? Thats where the jobs are going to be for the next 50+years. The USA jobs are going to remain in coal, or some gasoline powered cars manufacturers.
Would you say that they are planning to do "Invasion of privacy"? What you do with your phone and your data connection is not Amazon's business. If Amazon can't compete, then the question to ask is "why"? They are supposed to be better than Walmart.
Here are some answers. They may not be stellar ones, but they are factors.
1. Employee Hiring: Everyone knows windows, most don't know Linux. Sure using Linux for work isn't that big of a deal, but it is just one more thing to train on. 2. Third party software: Most organizations thinking buy not build is the solution. Most of the software that you can buy is for windows. 3. Compatibility: 99% compatible means 3 days a year there is a problem. 4. Merging with other locations: Sure you may be on Linux but chances are the organization that you are merging with isn't 5. Big Vendor relationship: If you are a big enough organization. Your relationship with Microsoft is far more dynamic than here is the CD and install it. Microsoft will often work with you to make sure their product will work with your environment. 6. Hardware: Oh that new set of laptops has an incompatible network chip. And there is no Linux driver. You could make sure you get the linux approved system, but either it is out of date, or more expensive, just because that one necessary compatibility component. 7. Too many exceptions: If you are a Linux shop, you normally need a few windows boxes for those exceptions where you need it. There just may be too many people who need Windows as an exception. 8. Too configurable: Linux is often too configurable for its own good, deploying it in an organization will often get the organizations group think settings. Often being bad for everyone. Windows is you get what you get, and followed "Best Practices" which bosses think they like. 9. Silly names: Much of linux software has silly fun and unprofessional names. It just may not fit in the organizations culture. 10. That one problem that could had been easy in windows: When you use the exception vs what is common. You are under the gun to make sure everything is perfect. That one problem could get you. "No one got fired for choosing IBM" problem. You can buy a POS, but just as long as you are suffering with everyone else you are fine.
Will it take weeks or days or hours to learn linux. All the user needs is a small crib sheet at his side. Or with a 4 minute youtube tutorial.
And in the colleges and Universities and highschools, they already have used Linux
If you want to compare European politics to the US... you can't. Even our far-right parties would be on friendly speaking terms with the US far-left.
Can you imagine a serious politician in the US suggesting the government establish a national system of hospitals and healthcare providers, almost free of private sector involvement, operated by government employees and funded with tax money? They would be laughed out of office. But that's the normal thing in most of Europe. In the same way you rarely find European politicians who proudly lead religious ceremonies to win support and try to argue that gay marriage is an existential threat to civilisation, because that's just not going to go down here. Well, maybe in Poland.
Its the same in Canada, Mexico, and in all the rest of the world. Healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
At first I thought this was a gracious gesture by a corporation, until I realized that AirBnB isn't really offering anything at all. How many properties will they be offering on their own? How many people have an extra property to volunteer to someone who may not even feel the need to use a bathroom?
Air B&B do not own properties. They are a listing agency that accepts reservations, vets the tenant(s), and rates the property lessor. Individuals who have spare apartments or rooms or suites that are available during parts of the year or months deal with AB&B to rent out furnished premises. Thnk about Olympics, and other tourist cities.
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Having kids or a nagging wife means you'd want to waste that 1h30m commuting, sit in a cubicle then waste another 1h30m coming back. For the rest of us, though, extra three hours of productivity or leisure makes such a massive difference that it's hard to find enough downsides.
Some of us go way over the edge -- especially if you can train your boss that's it ok to call you at 4am rather than at the crack of noon; those of us do work hard to maintain the public opinion on programmers :).
But if you require being on the clock, the employeer can get the best of both worlds for any child-less employee.
Working from home is only great when it's running your own business or...
Your wife goes to work and you look after the kids while on the keyboard or phone.
n/t
Lots of typical knee-jerk reactions to this story. Most automakers do not have EV and car battery manufacturing facilities in China and China has reduced or removed subsidies making imports much less attractive. It seems, after a bit of quick basic research, that the slowdown request is to allow non-chinese car companies time to be able to ramp up the ability to product EVs on a large scale in China. It's not a plot to stay on old tech or to derail EV cars.
https://electrek.co/2017/05/08...
http://insights.globalspec.com...
https://electrek.co/2017/04/27...
https://cleantechnica.com/2017...
Likely Tesla hasn't complained because they are wrapping up their first manufacturing partnership in China and probably expect to be able to meet sales requirements.
http://fortune.com/2017/06/19/...
I don't think there is an all-year-around electric car that can be used in Canada, unless it is to be driven from garage to garage. With 20 below zero weather, batteries drop to 10% of what they can deliver in summer. Just get caught in a traffic jam with -20 and hope for the best. In my view, the best would be the tow-truck.
Making sure we get a cut of everything you spend, and know what you spent it on.
Lovely
Greed hath no limits. The merchant pays Visa up to 5%, you get a cash back, and if you fail to clear your total payment, you pay the current Visa rate, which is typically around usurious 10% but can go as high as 20%. Banks don't make money from banking, they make profits from credit cards.
Although computer use during class may create the illusion of enhanced engagement with course content, it more often reflects engagement with social media
Other than businesses wanting to sell more laptop computers or students wanting to surf the web during class, who ever claimed computer use during a lecture or seminar would enhance engagement with course content?
Laptops, like cellphones are a distraction. No classroom full of students who prefer instagram to the lesson should be allowed cellphone or laptop, except after supper or before school begins.
So you live in a Republican dictatorship.
Where is democracy? Not in the USA, that's for sure.
There is a picture of Donald Trump in the dictionary, right next to the word "Treason"
Donald Trump and many members of his administration and campaign are known traitors. They colluded with Russia's attack on our country.
You keep tip-toeing around the definition of treason while not actually providing it. This is because you know you are supporting a treasonous Russian puppet.
You support known traitors like Donald Trump and his crime family, because you are a traitor yourself.
Treason occurs only when you give away secrets or favours. I don't think that happened. Un-ethical practices yes.
Or we could just get rid of medical insurance and pay the doctors, nurses, and hospitals directly via the government... but like whatever, helping people is fucked and I don't need anything from society. I made the device I'm typing this with metal I mined, refined, followed by teaching myself with no books or teachers how to transform and program to connect to slashdot... let alone the lack of help I got getting myself outta that fucking womb and then walked out of the hospital got a job and earned the tools to start this process.
Thats what we do in Canada. And I am happier than a pig in xxxxxx
Yeah, that was my first thought, when did $250K a year define you as rich?
In *every* part of the US, that will define you as rich. If you can afford a $50,000 car, you are rich. If you can afford a 2000+ sqft home, you are rich. If you can afford to buy a decaf latte grande every day, you are rich. *Most* americans live paycheck to paycheck and are vastly in debt. Slashdotters are not typical people. Moreover, most slashdotters don't even know anyone who isn't rich. They will live in a rich neighborhood, and work with rich people, and buy everything online, or from stores staffed by the children of rich people. On the rare occasion when they do go into a walmart, they look at the cashier with pitty thinking that these are the only poor people. They never see the 5,000 people who would kill just to get that walmart job. They never see the people working the warehouse jobs, or the folks living in the places where you joke about being unsafe to drive at night. They simply don't understand that their world is the exception not the rule.
The other side of that are the working class and poor. They know the rich exist, but they never see them, they never get to go into those neighborhoods. Their kids don't go to the same schools with the rich kids so they never have a reason to meet with the rich parents at PTA meetings (assuming they could even get enough time off work to go).
The simple truth is there are two Americas. There is the one you live in, and the one they live in. I sincerely hope you never have to live in their world because it is a pale shadow of the America you live in. In spite of that fact, their lifes work means you can get your stuff cheap online and in store. They buy the products that directly or indirectly fund your huge paychecks. In a very real sense, they are very nearly modern day slaves who's entire existences fuels your lifestyle.
The average American watching TV is looking at a lifestyle that is beyond their own. They can only aspire to have the kind of wealth they see on their nightly sitcoms and dramas, but they watch anyways always dreaming that they live those lives instead of their own.
I could give you a million places to look where you could peel back the veil of abject poverty and see the new slave class this country has embraced, but it is probably better that you continue to live the fantasy so that you can pursue the things that just might actually make a better tomorrow for everyone. If you had to face the demons that comes with your own wealth, it might destroy the fragile innocence that allows you to sleep at night.
Last year my last car cost me $750 (Honda Civic 2005). My cellphone was recycled, $30.00 for a Motorolla. It too is good for about 6 hours of youtube gazing.
My flat screen TV was end-of-clearance sale 1080p 55 inche for $450.00
I rarely want to be first with new technology. I did live on the "I must have that toy" world until I got smart. All my kids went to university and graduate school, and with no debts. -- Wonder why? No expensive toys.
if 1200 bucks is gonna break you thats your own fault.
Sure it is. Only the lazy and feckless don't have $1200 sitting around waiting for the right phone to come along. I bet if you check their physiognomy you'll find they have the low brow and cranial bumps of the genetically poor.
I'm retired. I have an android, a North-America-wide calling plan, data and a few applications. As a retired person, I want any phone I have to be robust, moisture resistant (rain), and have a replacable battery.
My phone has what I need. Front/back cameras, voice activation, and low cost insurance coverage. Its an American Motorola phone, and I quite like it.
So, what's $1200 phone worth? I would say $200 in material, $100 in R&D and handling costs, and $900/phone in profits. What a great business -- selling to gullables.
Engineers have been capable of building devices that are easier to repair all the time - but only when that's one of the goals. Built-in obsolescence has been a thing for decades. Desktop computers are a lot easier to diagnose and repair than the original PC. Laptops? Ha!
The above practice was followed until GE (General Electric) established a "Value Engineering" policy. The policy was to cheapen an item to where it would last the warantee period plus a little. GE made the motors in washers, dryers, and some refrigerators/airconditioners. Even the shells of washing machines were made of microscopically thick paint jobs. Rust came just after 4 years of use.
Now these small appliances are made outside of the USA (Thank you GE, for having me buy non-domestic stuff, because your stuff did not last). I love my LDG' SAMSUNG washer/driver/stove/dishwasher. I expect 20 years of service from them. And thank you Panasonic for my microwave oven that just goes and goes and goes.
Guessing they're sacking the rest of their QA staff, since Windows 10 is clearly coming along so nicely. /snark
I would say that the Samsung, and other tablet makers that use Android, etc, have eaten into MS sales and MS client use. Today, how may people actually write letters or do long documents?
I use wps.com with Linux (MS Clone that is just great). I also use LibreOffice, which generally comes with some Linux distributions.
So, when desktop sales are down, when 80+% of servers are Linux based, a company can't keep staff that only works 4 hours per day.
Burning out is certainly a way to not get ahead. And eventually lose your job, and your career, and then everything else.
You need to do long hours when you are building your own business. And guess what, those long hours are not normally health stressful. It may be marriage stressful.
And when your business product is final, those long hours become normal, for most entrepreneurs.
It is a wind down, where they go from 16 hr days to 14, to a day off, to 12 hours for a few weeks to finally normal 7.5 hr days. Still, many wake up early in the morning to do some work, then take the time for breakfast and commute, and follow up with a regular day ending at 6pm.
Is the US raiding homes because of speech? News to me, got a source?
The bathroom debate is more about a poorly written version of post-modern law, i.e. should the state recognize the gender you choose at any given time or should it use objective standards that represent 99% of the population. To quote Ted Cruz: "it isn't about the Caitlyn Jenners of the world. But if the law is such that any man if he feels like it can go into a womens restroom and you can't ask him to leave that opens the doors for predators.". Poorly written laws with good intentions are still bad laws. I don't like the idea that if you feel a certain way you can do anything you want. A pedophile feels attracted to children, does that mean I should be tolerant of that because of their feelings? No. I will not capitulate to feelings that disregard objectivity and the vulnerable.
Whether you agree that the law should have a post-modern influence or not is very much different than raiding your home because you said wrong-speak. I would rather a Trump than a benevolent dictator.
I believe that a transgender person would be dressing in clothes that match his gender. If he is as a woman, he should be permitted to use the woman's washroom.
Cruz is mixing up normal males, dressed as males, going to a woman's washroom. Is that really going to happen? So who is going to wear woman's clothes and visit a man's bathroom or vice versa? Its just a great example of applied stupidity 101.
Part of the consent decree is that AMD is intitled to use any/all related Intel patents. AMD is allowed to put AES into microcode. I would have preferred that they put twofish or threefish instructions.
The latter two are stonger than AES for hacking and are fast in execution. But being much harder to hack than AES, you can guess why blowfish/twofish was not chosen.
Don't know where you got that impression.
Intel already showed its hand with the i9 series they shoved out the door as a knee-jerk reaction to AMD. It's a mess.
They've basically taken existing Xeon cores and prepped them for consumer use -- but with crazy options for the sockets for the new pin counts needed -- making motherboard manufacturers have to deal with different CPUs all for the same slot type, but some have different feature sets meaning it's hard to make a mobo that works with all of the chips that fit that slot type.
Most of the i9 series is vaporware -- sure, they have the specs laid out, but they only have a butchered Xeon to fit the new slot type to test with so far.
AMD is ready to roll out and has chips available today for Ryzen and soon Epyc. Meanwhile, Intel likely will take a year or more to offer i9s. Sure, Intel will eventually switch production lines and tailor the chips better and come out on top eventually... but, they were caught with their pants down on this.
Intel's solution is basically to offer the Xeons as consumer-level products with more cores and a different pin count (but without ECC ram compatibility) to match the higher level Ryzen offerings... and now they'll have to do even better to match the Epyc offerings at the server-level. Most likely, it'll take them 2 years to repackage the Xeons to take advantage of as many PCIe lanes as they'll likely have to change the slot type again and work with mobo makers to get the right thermal envelope down for the new slot type on their boards. The PCIe lanes are the key difference as AMD is betting a lot of AI and graphics rendering is done on GPUs... and their Epyc chips will let companies connect a lot more GPUs and other peripherals at high speed by PCIe to the multi-core CPU. Intel..... doesn't currently have anything like that -- and it will take them time just to re-purpose a current chip to support that, much less roll it out in large production.
AMD runs at 70% of the power requirements of Intel's compatible device and at 30 percent price reduction. Benchmarks show AMD's offering is within 5% of Intel's non-pushed (standard chip) performance.
For 30% reduction in electricity costs, coupled with less than 5% difference in performance, the decision process is easy to make.
Even an English accent which spends most of his show talking about the lack of sophistication and cachet of the English?
Or maybe he's just funny.
I watched his show, and he presented facts. Is presenting facts a defamation? Robert E. Murray may win, but I hope it's only one dollar. He is not worth more.
Doubts that it's going to save $1 trillion. Trump lies constantly and he won't stick to anything he says, so this could even be true in that he'll actually try but as soon as the plan hits any minor bumps he'll give up on it, move on to something else, and blame the Democrats for it. Right now the only "promise" he seems inclined to keep is to try to deport just about every illegal immigrant DHS can get its hands on.
In foreign affairs, Trump has a word. He is known as a good listener and someone who is able to change his ideas based on reason.
Domestically, it's possible that Trump is over-his-head and has too much information thrown at him. He needs to delegate responsibilities and just do a summary follow up. And stop Tweeting
There is nothing to move all priduct develolpment to Canada,India/China/Asia, Australia,
Is it time to consider immigrating to India? Thats where the jobs are going to be for the next 50+years. The USA jobs are going to remain in coal, or some gasoline powered cars manufacturers.
Would you say that they are planning to do "Invasion of privacy"? What you do with your phone and your data connection is not Amazon's business.
If Amazon can't compete, then the question to ask is "why"? They are supposed to be better than Walmart.
Here are some answers. They may not be stellar ones, but they are factors.
1. Employee Hiring: Everyone knows windows, most don't know Linux. Sure using Linux for work isn't that big of a deal, but it is just one more thing to train on.
2. Third party software: Most organizations thinking buy not build is the solution. Most of the software that you can buy is for windows.
3. Compatibility: 99% compatible means 3 days a year there is a problem.
4. Merging with other locations: Sure you may be on Linux but chances are the organization that you are merging with isn't
5. Big Vendor relationship: If you are a big enough organization. Your relationship with Microsoft is far more dynamic than here is the CD and install it. Microsoft will often work with you to make sure their product will work with your environment.
6. Hardware: Oh that new set of laptops has an incompatible network chip. And there is no Linux driver. You could make sure you get the linux approved system, but either it is out of date, or more expensive, just because that one necessary compatibility component.
7. Too many exceptions: If you are a Linux shop, you normally need a few windows boxes for those exceptions where you need it. There just may be too many people who need Windows as an exception.
8. Too configurable: Linux is often too configurable for its own good, deploying it in an organization will often get the organizations group think settings. Often being bad for everyone. Windows is you get what you get, and followed "Best Practices" which bosses think they like.
9. Silly names: Much of linux software has silly fun and unprofessional names. It just may not fit in the organizations culture.
10. That one problem that could had been easy in windows: When you use the exception vs what is common. You are under the gun to make sure everything is perfect. That one problem could get you. "No one got fired for choosing IBM" problem. You can buy a POS, but just as long as you are suffering with everyone else you are fine.
Will it take weeks or days or hours to learn linux. All the user needs is a small crib sheet at his side. Or with a 4 minute youtube tutorial.
And in the colleges and Universities and highschools, they already have used Linux
I just use a formatter that converts tabs to spaces. Make python programmers happy
And it can also go the other way too.
gun violence is down and has been going down for decades now.....
How do you define violence. Before noon every day, more than 36 people in the USA are KILLED by a gun, accidental or otherwise.
So what's a member of congress or senate going to do? Nothing, until someone slaughters a bunch of these well intended citizens.
Time for Congress to reconsider Obama's attempt to limit gun access to mentally ill citizens.
If you want to compare European politics to the US... you can't. Even our far-right parties would be on friendly speaking terms with the US far-left.
Can you imagine a serious politician in the US suggesting the government establish a national system of hospitals and healthcare providers, almost free of private sector involvement, operated by government employees and funded with tax money? They would be laughed out of office. But that's the normal thing in most of Europe. In the same way you rarely find European politicians who proudly lead religious ceremonies to win support and try to argue that gay marriage is an existential threat to civilisation, because that's just not going to go down here. Well, maybe in Poland.
Its the same in Canada, Mexico, and in all the rest of the world. Healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
At first I thought this was a gracious gesture by a corporation, until I realized that AirBnB isn't really offering anything at all. How many properties will they be offering on their own? How many people have an extra property to volunteer to someone who may not even feel the need to use a bathroom?
Air B&B do not own properties. They are a listing agency that accepts reservations, vets the tenant(s), and rates the property lessor. Individuals who have spare apartments or rooms or suites that are available during parts of the year or months deal with AB&B to rent out furnished premises. Thnk about Olympics, and other tourist cities.