Maybe get a 970? $300 and falling, 4gb, 1664 cuda cores, 1050-1178 MHz, with just a small problem in that the highest bits of memory is slower than the rest - I forget how much of it but I haven't noticed any slowdown in my gaming (SLI configuration).
It's the new sub-prime gold rush. High interest loans for 6 or more years is the norm rather than the exception. Depending on circumstances, the car itself might not last that long, encouraging "owners" to trade in and prolong the debt burden.
Originally, you were good at a few things, but you had a sizable interest in other topics as well. Perhaps you have a film industry, a steel industry, a car industry, and a farm industry that produces the world's best avocados. You're proud of all of these, and so are your people, even when you're not the best.
But now you're global, with little to no trade barriers, and the only thing the world wants from you are avocados. As a global country, the flourishes of your nation that made you interesting, unique, and gave you a culture instead cede the floor to meet the increased demand for your avocado.
At first things seem okay. Your workers retrained and are in the fields now. The ones that wanted to stay in the other industries are subsidized (either on the corporate level or the personal level), by the hugely successful avocado industry. There's so much money flowing in from the world that no one is poor.
Then the world decides it doesn't want your avocados anymore. Consequently, it all falls apart. What would have otherwise been a single industry faltering among a healthy selection of many others, becomes an economic collapse.
Bankrupt, you seek help from the countries that were happy to be your friend in better times. They liked your avocados, but they're not interested in helping you now. Depending on your prior arrangement with them, you can neither declare bankruptcy, nor receive money without strings or interest attached to it. You become indebted to your former friends, and your people decide that this arrangement isn't working out.
They assert themselves again, and through a referendum, convince you to leave your friend's club in favor of defining your own destiny and reasserting your own unique culture of cars, steel, film, and... undeniably the world's best avocados. If anyone else wants them, they can work for it... but it's not for them anymore. It's for you.
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I don't know if this is a good characterization of events. If I'm mistaken about something, feel free to criticize it.
If you invest in someone, you see what they can become, and you take the risk to train them. Five years ago I was one of these people, and though I had the foundation that my employer could build on, I didn't even know there was a job like mine in the workforce. I even told them as much, and they hired me anyway, because they believed I could learn and become an asset. So far, it seems that I have. Actually, the situation was even more beautiful than that, because no one really knew what to do at first, just that we had to do it. We all learned and grew together, and it's really helped the company. (Specifically, I'm talking about the BIM paradigm in the construction industry).
Meanwhile, I'm aware that the situation is vastly different for most other people. They go to good schools and get impressive degrees, and it's barely enough to get an unpaid internship. The hope there being that the internship would be enough experience for the reality that companies are looking for "ready-made" commodities. If I ever wanted to change careers, I'd have a hard time due in part to this. I already know a lot about one thing, and consequently would be a poor fit for anything else unless I'm trained (via internship or otherwise). I've got bills, and a standard of living I'd have to abandon for a while to do that. Meanwhile I'm getting older. I'm not old, but I might be growing too old for some of the hip new companies I've expressed an interest in.
It seems people can be treated as potential assets that become more useful with time, or fresh tomatoes that must be eaten before going bad. After a certain point, it seems like you just start looking like a bad tomato or a fully realized asset capable of only a single task. Perhaps future innovation will be with business leaders who see themselves surrounded not by rotten fruit, but by untapped potential (at all ages). If I ever start a business and need to hire, this is how I'll see things. I won't be afraid to train.
As for train-ability... I think it's really about temperament. Some people really are rotten and will never change. Some people are set in their ways and incapable of learning anything new. But employers just have to take that risk to sort out the good from the bad, especially if they're having difficulty finding glistening, ready-to-eat produce, fresh off the boat from whatever country producing them.
Who ever does this successfully can eventually be in a better position than the companies that rely on government legal wranglings (and let's face it, corporate welfare).
I have one. The last one met its maker in a thunderstorm. I have had bad experiences with any other wireless router, and I saw the current one at a thrift store... so I bought it and replaced the overloaded garbage I was using.
I also have the non-wireless version of this router, just in case. My main computer is wired anyway, so the only things affected by the speed limitations are my phone, tablet, and a old computer I don't use much. Even then, 54 Mbps? That's not too bad. It's only annoying for big transfers between systems. Rare.
TV, YouTube, whatever. I watch plenty and I'm no better.
I do pay taxes though, I'm just not an executive at work nor a patriarch of a large family, so I can just do whatever after work. Tonight I'm writing the second half of a presentation for a local game dev enthusiast group that meets up once a month. Other times I spend it drawing, writing, 3d modeling, or programming. In any case, it's important to me that I have this time, because I can use it to grow and maintain my skills no matter what I do at work, or just relax if I need to. You know, normal well-adjusted human stuff.
Coming up in news of the future: people getting their brains fried by faulty adapters that let you charge and listen to music from the same port at the same time.
Maybe that story is still being written, and we don't yet know where all the workers displaced by robots went. I imagine many will go into management, because they know their industry and were on their way up anyway. Some will keep their jobs because robots are stupid and will need help solving their stupid mistakes. Some will go back to school and retrain for something else, perhaps something about robots. Some will retire because they were going to soon anyway. And the next generation will mostly avoid this line of work and any other job being replaced by robots, making this a non-issue to all but the old folks going nostalgic over better days - when you could make a decent living and not have to use your brain.
Holy cow. But I shouldn't be surprised. 2010 was when I noticed it was getting kind of bloated. This was especially apparent when one of the computers in the school lab I worked in was found running a 1.5 release, which of course was blisteringly fast and lightweight. That was around the time I started using Chrome too.
Agreed. We all love America (or at least would prefer liking it rather than not), and we all have our ideals of what America should be, but we're poorly represented in either direction. Division on the civilian level keeps us from working together outside of narrow extremes, and the illusion of a choice gives the ruling class the safe space to pretend they have a mandate. But I see this election (or maybe one 4 years down the line) as potentially breaking that system, as the rivals will cry foul and refuse to accept the legitimacy of their opponent's victory outright.
No matter who wins, we lose, and for a lot of us this is a new realization.
In any case, domination is what you do when you win now. From the municipal level to the national level, you do everything you want regardless what your own people think or what the other half the country thinks, and you punish your rivals by taking away things they want. If you play along you're rewarded. Your opponents expect it and would behave no differently if given the chance.
Net result is chaos and unmitigated cultural, economic, and infrastructure decay, which has a predictable result. Study up now, get your degree(s), and prepare to leave for greener pastures. The problem is bigger than any one person, and unless you're willing to fight for some fool to save something already lost (by that point), don't feel bad about abandoning a sinking ship.
You should consider taking a critical look at your own thought process, specifically, analyze why you would come to this conclusion despite the plethora of context (and even my own post history) that would suggest the opposite of your conclusion.
At best, you can say that I'm wrong for assuming that's what the landlord meant, but accusing me of being a white supremacist is ludicrous, for many reasons, including a big one which I won't spell out for you lest I be accused of pulling some sort of card.
Sometimes I avoid doing things without a clear logical reason... like photo synching with cloud stuff. Every cloud company is trying to get at my photos, but not everything is something I want on a server somewhere... so I never did it and found the push to do it by various apps to be annoying.
I pay for Dropbox, so I'm not being a Luddite. I was just unwilling to upload my pictures automatically to everything everywhere.
Good to see that my not-completely-rational avoidance of these things can have a rational basis. Between this and Apple's cloud music problem, I'm in no rush to give up control of my content to a third party.
On that note, imagine for a moment if Facebook were to replace all of your photos with generic whitewashed sitcom versions of the same thing, starring actors with perfect teeth and hair. Wouldn't that be creepy? That's basically what Apple did to people's cloud synched music. Unique, hard to find versions of specific songs... potentially lost forever, replaced with whatever official version Apple has.
Honestly the whole thing is creepy when you get down to it. Even Microsoft's effort to force installs of Windows 10. What's going on in Silicon Valley (or Redmond/or this generation of the tech sector in general)?!
He said pimps and rappers, that's a sufficient dog whistle for someone like that without the balls to just come out and admit that they are bigots.
What he doesn't realize is that there aren't many people who'd want someone like that as their landlord. People that nasty tend to be horrible in other ways.
These are probably their best and brightest and maybe even their most rebellious individuals. I can see them doing this intentionaly as their own way to fight the system. If they employ slave labor the way the Nazis did in the V2 program, the same situation may apply and the engineers themselves could be off the hook for the quality of the components. The workers and scientists could even be working together to undermine the government.
I expect a lot of really interesting stories to come out of North Korea after they collapse.
When you're under a blackhole's event horizon, all directions lead to the singularity. If big enough, you can survive in one for a time.
But eventually you're spaghetti. What if we're just in a really big black hole, and everything distant from us is just closer on that path to destruction? This could simply be what that looks like in a normal black hole of sufficient size.
Spoken like someone who can't handle the truth. Death is inevitable. The best we can do is try to avoid it and have fun in the mean time. Everything else can play into that (politics, economics, social issues), but when you're dead it stops mattering to you.
Thus the solution (to all your Earthly worries) really is death. Have fun for now though.
I could use it for 3D rendering. Lots of threads mean way faster results, means I can push up the quality that much more. It helps to have a beefy video card (or two), but depending on your software and the content itself, vast improvements in rendering time/quality can still be had with more CPU cores. I definitely want this.
I liked them for their hardware. Even as late as just before the sell of their hardware department to Microsoft, they were making tough, well designed phones. I had their short-lived Nokia 810, which I used for five years until I realized it wasn't getting any updates ever again (W10 beta program not withstanding). They also have a decent mapping application with Nokia HERE, which stayed with Nokia proper after the sell. If they can show us their hardware products are still good, they can protect their perception even as an embattled chimera.
It's a real shame too. Windows 10 is a good operating system. If they just let people make their own decisions, (and perhaps gave us total privacy control) we wouldn't be so paranoid about their intentions. I've had it installed on my work laptop, and I've put it on my gen-1 Surface Pro. It works great. But I'm holding off on installing it on my main (home and work) PCs because I use them so much and don't want a surprise interrupting my projects.
The bulk of the reason I feel that way is because I can't completely trust Microsoft. It's as if their leadership needs a fundamental lesson in social interaction. You can't just go around and force people to do what you want them to do. Even if they technically can, even if other companies are doing it (ex: Apple iTunes deleting stuff), they're taking a big risk doing so that will hurt them later.
The brain doesn't discriminate good habits from bad habits. Certain connections will physically move closer together if it'll speed up a common computational task and you have no control over this. If you fall into a rut, addiction, or an abusive relationship, and you get used to it, then your brain will change to better do that particular thing. If you drive a lot, you'll get better at driving. If making a loud clap gets your cat to move from your chair, you're going to do that automatically before long. We don't have a choice in the things we learn, just on how we respond to a given situation.
If you're presented with a situation that allows you to compromise against your better judgement (in order to avoid pain), and you compromise, that's still a decision - even if it isn't a good one. If that decision ruins your life over time, you may decide to change or seek help. That's also a decision. The rut is always easy, and it may not be completely our fault, but I do think we have a capacity to drive out of a rut or a program. Books are written about this.
But that's just my opinion. I don't really know and I can live with the knowledge of either situation. I just prefer that people think that we're people rather than robots. We're absolutely aware that there is a faction of humanity that would stand to benefit if it were made absolutely clear that our "humanity" as responsible individuals is a lie or some political agenda. Things become very simple after that. We wouldn't like it, but of course the simple response to that becomes, "It doesn't matter."
Life, liberty, happiness, culpability, virtue, love, trust, etc... everything that makes us human risks getting thrown out of the window and could become just another series of variables to directly modify for the sake of profit.
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Maybe get a 970? $300 and falling, 4gb, 1664 cuda cores, 1050-1178 MHz, with just a small problem in that the highest bits of memory is slower than the rest - I forget how much of it but I haven't noticed any slowdown in my gaming (SLI configuration).
It's the new sub-prime gold rush. High interest loans for 6 or more years is the norm rather than the exception. Depending on circumstances, the car itself might not last that long, encouraging "owners" to trade in and prolong the debt burden.
Originally, you were good at a few things, but you had a sizable interest in other topics as well. Perhaps you have a film industry, a steel industry, a car industry, and a farm industry that produces the world's best avocados. You're proud of all of these, and so are your people, even when you're not the best.
But now you're global, with little to no trade barriers, and the only thing the world wants from you are avocados. As a global country, the flourishes of your nation that made you interesting, unique, and gave you a culture instead cede the floor to meet the increased demand for your avocado.
At first things seem okay. Your workers retrained and are in the fields now. The ones that wanted to stay in the other industries are subsidized (either on the corporate level or the personal level), by the hugely successful avocado industry. There's so much money flowing in from the world that no one is poor.
Then the world decides it doesn't want your avocados anymore. Consequently, it all falls apart. What would have otherwise been a single industry faltering among a healthy selection of many others, becomes an economic collapse.
Bankrupt, you seek help from the countries that were happy to be your friend in better times. They liked your avocados, but they're not interested in helping you now. Depending on your prior arrangement with them, you can neither declare bankruptcy, nor receive money without strings or interest attached to it. You become indebted to your former friends, and your people decide that this arrangement isn't working out.
They assert themselves again, and through a referendum, convince you to leave your friend's club in favor of defining your own destiny and reasserting your own unique culture of cars, steel, film, and... undeniably the world's best avocados. If anyone else wants them, they can work for it... but it's not for them anymore. It's for you.
----
I don't know if this is a good characterization of events. If I'm mistaken about something, feel free to criticize it.
If you invest in someone, you see what they can become, and you take the risk to train them. Five years ago I was one of these people, and though I had the foundation that my employer could build on, I didn't even know there was a job like mine in the workforce. I even told them as much, and they hired me anyway, because they believed I could learn and become an asset. So far, it seems that I have. Actually, the situation was even more beautiful than that, because no one really knew what to do at first, just that we had to do it. We all learned and grew together, and it's really helped the company. (Specifically, I'm talking about the BIM paradigm in the construction industry).
Meanwhile, I'm aware that the situation is vastly different for most other people. They go to good schools and get impressive degrees, and it's barely enough to get an unpaid internship. The hope there being that the internship would be enough experience for the reality that companies are looking for "ready-made" commodities. If I ever wanted to change careers, I'd have a hard time due in part to this. I already know a lot about one thing, and consequently would be a poor fit for anything else unless I'm trained (via internship or otherwise). I've got bills, and a standard of living I'd have to abandon for a while to do that. Meanwhile I'm getting older. I'm not old, but I might be growing too old for some of the hip new companies I've expressed an interest in.
It seems people can be treated as potential assets that become more useful with time, or fresh tomatoes that must be eaten before going bad. After a certain point, it seems like you just start looking like a bad tomato or a fully realized asset capable of only a single task. Perhaps future innovation will be with business leaders who see themselves surrounded not by rotten fruit, but by untapped potential (at all ages). If I ever start a business and need to hire, this is how I'll see things. I won't be afraid to train.
As for train-ability... I think it's really about temperament. Some people really are rotten and will never change. Some people are set in their ways and incapable of learning anything new. But employers just have to take that risk to sort out the good from the bad, especially if they're having difficulty finding glistening, ready-to-eat produce, fresh off the boat from whatever country producing them.
Who ever does this successfully can eventually be in a better position than the companies that rely on government legal wranglings (and let's face it, corporate welfare).
I have one. The last one met its maker in a thunderstorm. I have had bad experiences with any other wireless router, and I saw the current one at a thrift store... so I bought it and replaced the overloaded garbage I was using.
I also have the non-wireless version of this router, just in case. My main computer is wired anyway, so the only things affected by the speed limitations are my phone, tablet, and a old computer I don't use much. Even then, 54 Mbps? That's not too bad. It's only annoying for big transfers between systems. Rare.
What matters is that it works.
I like to take walks and I do go to the gym occasionally. My post didn't exclude that, so I don't know how you came to this conclusion.
TV, YouTube, whatever. I watch plenty and I'm no better.
I do pay taxes though, I'm just not an executive at work nor a patriarch of a large family, so I can just do whatever after work. Tonight I'm writing the second half of a presentation for a local game dev enthusiast group that meets up once a month. Other times I spend it drawing, writing, 3d modeling, or programming. In any case, it's important to me that I have this time, because I can use it to grow and maintain my skills no matter what I do at work, or just relax if I need to. You know, normal well-adjusted human stuff.
Coming up in news of the future: people getting their brains fried by faulty adapters that let you charge and listen to music from the same port at the same time.
Maybe that story is still being written, and we don't yet know where all the workers displaced by robots went. I imagine many will go into management, because they know their industry and were on their way up anyway. Some will keep their jobs because robots are stupid and will need help solving their stupid mistakes. Some will go back to school and retrain for something else, perhaps something about robots. Some will retire because they were going to soon anyway. And the next generation will mostly avoid this line of work and any other job being replaced by robots, making this a non-issue to all but the old folks going nostalgic over better days - when you could make a decent living and not have to use your brain.
Holy cow. But I shouldn't be surprised. 2010 was when I noticed it was getting kind of bloated. This was especially apparent when one of the computers in the school lab I worked in was found running a 1.5 release, which of course was blisteringly fast and lightweight. That was around the time I started using Chrome too.
Agreed. We all love America (or at least would prefer liking it rather than not), and we all have our ideals of what America should be, but we're poorly represented in either direction. Division on the civilian level keeps us from working together outside of narrow extremes, and the illusion of a choice gives the ruling class the safe space to pretend they have a mandate. But I see this election (or maybe one 4 years down the line) as potentially breaking that system, as the rivals will cry foul and refuse to accept the legitimacy of their opponent's victory outright.
No matter who wins, we lose, and for a lot of us this is a new realization.
In any case, domination is what you do when you win now. From the municipal level to the national level, you do everything you want regardless what your own people think or what the other half the country thinks, and you punish your rivals by taking away things they want. If you play along you're rewarded. Your opponents expect it and would behave no differently if given the chance.
Net result is chaos and unmitigated cultural, economic, and infrastructure decay, which has a predictable result. Study up now, get your degree(s), and prepare to leave for greener pastures. The problem is bigger than any one person, and unless you're willing to fight for some fool to save something already lost (by that point), don't feel bad about abandoning a sinking ship.
The anonymous coward who said it?
You should consider taking a critical look at your own thought process, specifically, analyze why you would come to this conclusion despite the plethora of context (and even my own post history) that would suggest the opposite of your conclusion.
At best, you can say that I'm wrong for assuming that's what the landlord meant, but accusing me of being a white supremacist is ludicrous, for many reasons, including a big one which I won't spell out for you lest I be accused of pulling some sort of card.
Sometimes I avoid doing things without a clear logical reason... like photo synching with cloud stuff. Every cloud company is trying to get at my photos, but not everything is something I want on a server somewhere... so I never did it and found the push to do it by various apps to be annoying. I pay for Dropbox, so I'm not being a Luddite. I was just unwilling to upload my pictures automatically to everything everywhere.
Good to see that my not-completely-rational avoidance of these things can have a rational basis. Between this and Apple's cloud music problem, I'm in no rush to give up control of my content to a third party.
On that note, imagine for a moment if Facebook were to replace all of your photos with generic whitewashed sitcom versions of the same thing, starring actors with perfect teeth and hair. Wouldn't that be creepy? That's basically what Apple did to people's cloud synched music. Unique, hard to find versions of specific songs... potentially lost forever, replaced with whatever official version Apple has.
Honestly the whole thing is creepy when you get down to it. Even Microsoft's effort to force installs of Windows 10. What's going on in Silicon Valley (or Redmond/or this generation of the tech sector in general)?!
He said pimps and rappers, that's a sufficient dog whistle for someone like that without the balls to just come out and admit that they are bigots.
What he doesn't realize is that there aren't many people who'd want someone like that as their landlord. People that nasty tend to be horrible in other ways.
These are probably their best and brightest and maybe even their most rebellious individuals. I can see them doing this intentionaly as their own way to fight the system. If they employ slave labor the way the Nazis did in the V2 program, the same situation may apply and the engineers themselves could be off the hook for the quality of the components. The workers and scientists could even be working together to undermine the government.
I expect a lot of really interesting stories to come out of North Korea after they collapse.
That sounds like it will eventually hurt.
When you're under a blackhole's event horizon, all directions lead to the singularity. If big enough, you can survive in one for a time.
But eventually you're spaghetti. What if we're just in a really big black hole, and everything distant from us is just closer on that path to destruction? This could simply be what that looks like in a normal black hole of sufficient size.
With "in-app purchases". Pay us 99 cents to add an extra line in your grocery list... to add an entry for that 99 cent can of Rotel.
Spoken like someone who can't handle the truth. Death is inevitable. The best we can do is try to avoid it and have fun in the mean time. Everything else can play into that (politics, economics, social issues), but when you're dead it stops mattering to you.
Thus the solution (to all your Earthly worries) really is death. Have fun for now though.
I could use it for 3D rendering. Lots of threads mean way faster results, means I can push up the quality that much more. It helps to have a beefy video card (or two), but depending on your software and the content itself, vast improvements in rendering time/quality can still be had with more CPU cores. I definitely want this.
Also, if you sign up now, there's a chance you could win a golden ticket to tour the Hermit Kingdom with the young Kim himself.
I liked them for their hardware. Even as late as just before the sell of their hardware department to Microsoft, they were making tough, well designed phones. I had their short-lived Nokia 810, which I used for five years until I realized it wasn't getting any updates ever again (W10 beta program not withstanding). They also have a decent mapping application with Nokia HERE, which stayed with Nokia proper after the sell. If they can show us their hardware products are still good, they can protect their perception even as an embattled chimera.
It's a real shame too. Windows 10 is a good operating system. If they just let people make their own decisions, (and perhaps gave us total privacy control) we wouldn't be so paranoid about their intentions. I've had it installed on my work laptop, and I've put it on my gen-1 Surface Pro. It works great. But I'm holding off on installing it on my main (home and work) PCs because I use them so much and don't want a surprise interrupting my projects.
The bulk of the reason I feel that way is because I can't completely trust Microsoft. It's as if their leadership needs a fundamental lesson in social interaction. You can't just go around and force people to do what you want them to do. Even if they technically can, even if other companies are doing it (ex: Apple iTunes deleting stuff), they're taking a big risk doing so that will hurt them later.
If anything, money will decide. If this hurts our economy enough, our leaders might half-ass a response that will please nobody and make things worse.
The brain doesn't discriminate good habits from bad habits. Certain connections will physically move closer together if it'll speed up a common computational task and you have no control over this. If you fall into a rut, addiction, or an abusive relationship, and you get used to it, then your brain will change to better do that particular thing. If you drive a lot, you'll get better at driving. If making a loud clap gets your cat to move from your chair, you're going to do that automatically before long. We don't have a choice in the things we learn, just on how we respond to a given situation.
If you're presented with a situation that allows you to compromise against your better judgement (in order to avoid pain), and you compromise, that's still a decision - even if it isn't a good one. If that decision ruins your life over time, you may decide to change or seek help. That's also a decision. The rut is always easy, and it may not be completely our fault, but I do think we have a capacity to drive out of a rut or a program. Books are written about this.
But that's just my opinion. I don't really know and I can live with the knowledge of either situation. I just prefer that people think that we're people rather than robots. We're absolutely aware that there is a faction of humanity that would stand to benefit if it were made absolutely clear that our "humanity" as responsible individuals is a lie or some political agenda. Things become very simple after that. We wouldn't like it, but of course the simple response to that becomes, "It doesn't matter."
Life, liberty, happiness, culpability, virtue, love, trust, etc... everything that makes us human risks getting thrown out of the window and could become just another series of variables to directly modify for the sake of profit.