a new "public intellectual" business model seem to be emerging which sustains a number of people who simply talk for a living
You mean he's going to become a Trump spokesperson? I hope he doesn't replace Kellyanne Conway, because she's hot (although women as Trump spokespersons don't do as well as the men because they haven't been exposed to sufficient testosterone in utero and thus have index-to-ring-finger ratios).
I don't mean to make light of your argument, because you seem like a decent sort. I've just noticed that the alt-right and MRAs are rushing to Mr Damore's defense but seem to have less interest in employments rights laws when it comes to anyone who is not a white male. And that reminds me:
And it's been widely reported that California law considers political affiliation to be a protected class.
What "political affiliation" do you believe James Damore to hold? To whom is he affiliated? What about his 10-page manifesto is indicative of political affiliation?
Is your workflow dependent on an audio card or is it all CPU?
The VST and VSTi plugins I use eat up a lot of processor. The Xeon in my current music system can handle it no problem. The main bottleneck is disk throughput. I stream the recorded tracks from a Linux machine with a RAID array, and I've been throwing SSDs into the system as I go along. Now that I think about it, everything's running just fine and the only reason I would think to build a new DAW system is because I'm used to doing it every 3-4 years.
I'll just wait a bit and watch the DAW forums to see what people say about the Ryzen. I've learned my lesson about being the early adopter.
Every fidget spinner that explodes is a benefit to mankind. If we can get Apple Watches and BMWs to start exploding, we might actually survive as a species.
Share price has gone down every day this week, down about 2% since Monday. That's a lot of money for a company with a market cap in the billions like Google.
The share volatility has been +-1% for a long time. We're talking about a range that is over $900/share.
Also, the stock market as a whole has shown almost exactly the same volatility.
Since you're 50+, this must have happened 15+ years ago, at which time the AAPL stock had been on a long stagnant line in the $2 range for decades; this stock has been hot only over the last 5-6 years.
Of course it was over 15 years ago. I bought the AAPL shares in the 90s when I got tenure. Sold them in the late 2000s.
If you can't do the math, let me know and I'll get my daughter to help you.
I learned that the hard way at university. They say they want new ideas, independent thinking, etc. but I found that if I didn't regurgitate wholesale the opinions and views of the lecturer then my marks would be substantially downgraded
Of course I do. My AAPL shares put my kid through university. I retired on my 50th birthday to open up a martial arts school and we just bought a house in San Luis Obispo, California.
Well, the author of the memo got that idea from the meetings he was dragged into to discuss the need for diversity.
Do you write a 10-page memo to your company for every meeting they had that you think was a waste of time?
He was presented with statements and then he researched and produced a document showing that those statements didn't hold up.
Did the company ask him to do that? Do you know what they call spending time researching a producing a document that the company didn't ask for? Not doing your job.
For doing such research and sharing it privately with people who call themselves "skeptics"
By "sharing it privately", I think you mean, "sharing it on company resources".
he was publicly exposed and summarily fired without cause
California is an "at will" employment state. The cause he was given is all the cause Google needs. If you want to discuss the need for unions at tech companies, then we have something to talk about. Otherwise, James Damore (pictured below) is going to need to find a job (and good luck finding one that doesn't mind him writing 10-page manifestos instead of doing his job).
Photo of James Damore, standing between two males:
the fact you think Canada has fought air wars this century proves how deep your delusion is
Why you stupid sonofabitch. Canada's RCAF has been fighting in the same wars as the United States since 2000. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Bosnia, Iraq again.
Canadian special forces have been fighting in and around Mosul for years, side by side with US special forces. If you should ever meet a member of the Canadian military, especially one of their pilots, you should try asking them how deep their delusion is. Let me know how it works out for you.
The purpose of a "townhall meeting" is dialog. Google had already made it clear that they want a monologue. Cancelling it was very sensible.
I don't know where you've worked, but every company only wants a monologue. They will tell you they want a dialogue, and talk about "team-building" and "horizontal management structures" and other happy-crappy bullshit.
But the system is designed for monologue. Management says "jump" and you jump. Welcome to the world of work in late-stage capitalism.
Welcome to the working week Oh, I know it don't thrill you, I hope it don't kill you Welcome to the working week You gotta do it till you're through it, so you better get to it
Here's something a little more relevant to the discussion, as it shows that Google does indeed have a contract with the state of California
That's interesting. Thanks for the correction.
I doubt the State is going to sue Google for firing James Damore (pictured below) and I don't see how anyone else would have standing. Since California is an "at will" employment state, especially.
I have a question since you seem to have more of a clue about these things than me: Do the number of threads automatically scale? So, if a game (or program) is designed to take advantage of two threads, or three, or four, will it automatically take advantage of a dozen threads?
I do digital music production on a Xeon, and my DAW (Cockos Reaper) is designed to use multiple threads, as well as remote processors via ethernet. I'm about ready for a new music system, so maybe these new Ryzens would be just the ticket.
Liberals also have fewer children (at least the ones who actually have children), and that's a far bigger deal than life expectancy.
As I've already pointed out, the higher birth rates are neutralized by the fact that the children of conservatives are far more likely to hate their parents and reject their political views.
This is why Red states work so hard to prevent students from voting. Here in Texas, you wouldn't believe the lengths that the corrupt state government has gone to in order to make voting difficult for students.
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You mean he's going to become a Trump spokesperson? I hope he doesn't replace Kellyanne Conway, because she's hot (although women as Trump spokespersons don't do as well as the men because they haven't been exposed to sufficient testosterone in utero and thus have index-to-ring-finger ratios).
I don't mean to make light of your argument, because you seem like a decent sort. I've just noticed that the alt-right and MRAs are rushing to Mr Damore's defense but seem to have less interest in employments rights laws when it comes to anyone who is not a white male. And that reminds me:
What "political affiliation" do you believe James Damore to hold? To whom is he affiliated? What about his 10-page manifesto is indicative of political affiliation?
The VST and VSTi plugins I use eat up a lot of processor. The Xeon in my current music system can handle it no problem. The main bottleneck is disk throughput. I stream the recorded tracks from a Linux machine with a RAID array, and I've been throwing SSDs into the system as I go along. Now that I think about it, everything's running just fine and the only reason I would think to build a new DAW system is because I'm used to doing it every 3-4 years.
I'll just wait a bit and watch the DAW forums to see what people say about the Ryzen. I've learned my lesson about being the early adopter.
Every fidget spinner that explodes is a benefit to mankind. If we can get Apple Watches and BMWs to start exploding, we might actually survive as a species.
The share volatility has been +-1% for a long time. We're talking about a range that is over $900/share.
Also, the stock market as a whole has shown almost exactly the same volatility.
Tax breaks mean that the public costs involved in starting up that new plant have to be borne by other taxpayers, other companies.
You may not care about the free market, but this is a case of the government picking winners and losers.
Of course it was over 15 years ago. I bought the AAPL shares in the 90s when I got tenure. Sold them in the late 2000s.
If you can't do the math, let me know and I'll get my daughter to help you.
It was Linear Algebra, you doofus.
https://www.thestar.com/news/c...
Of course I do. My AAPL shares put my kid through university. I retired on my 50th birthday to open up a martial arts school and we just bought a house in San Luis Obispo, California.
Are you trying to suggest that the government has bailed Google out? You know where "too big to fail" comes from, right?
Do you write a 10-page memo to your company for every meeting they had that you think was a waste of time?
Did the company ask him to do that? Do you know what they call spending time researching a producing a document that the company didn't ask for? Not doing your job.
By "sharing it privately", I think you mean, "sharing it on company resources".
California is an "at will" employment state. The cause he was given is all the cause Google needs. If you want to discuss the need for unions at tech companies, then we have something to talk about. Otherwise, James Damore (pictured below) is going to need to find a job (and good luck finding one that doesn't mind him writing 10-page manifestos instead of doing his job).
Photo of James Damore, standing between two males:
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It actually does. The share price reflects the market's perception of the financial health of a company.
Good. A company's not supposed to buy shares back. It's just a 21st century strategy for inflating a bubble.
Why you stupid sonofabitch. Canada's RCAF has been fighting in the same wars as the United States since 2000. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Bosnia, Iraq again.
Canadian special forces have been fighting in and around Mosul for years, side by side with US special forces. If you should ever meet a member of the Canadian military, especially one of their pilots, you should try asking them how deep their delusion is. Let me know how it works out for you.
Wait, you think a corporate workplace is for you to "discuss the issues we want to discuss"? Where exactly did you get this idea, snowflake?
Google stock has been bouncing on the $900/share price point since May. I wish someone would bring down my company like that.
I don't know where you've worked, but every company only wants a monologue. They will tell you they want a dialogue, and talk about "team-building" and "horizontal management structures" and other happy-crappy bullshit.
But the system is designed for monologue. Management says "jump" and you jump. Welcome to the world of work in late-stage capitalism.
That's interesting. Thanks for the correction.
I doubt the State is going to sue Google for firing James Damore (pictured below) and I don't see how anyone else would have standing. Since California is an "at will" employment state, especially.
I have a question since you seem to have more of a clue about these things than me: Do the number of threads automatically scale? So, if a game (or program) is designed to take advantage of two threads, or three, or four, will it automatically take advantage of a dozen threads?
I do digital music production on a Xeon, and my DAW (Cockos Reaper) is designed to use multiple threads, as well as remote processors via ethernet. I'm about ready for a new music system, so maybe these new Ryzens would be just the ticket.
Are you sure they didn't?
Neither Google nor Alphabet are listed as having contracts with the State of California.
https://www2.cslb.ca.gov/onlin...
Goddamn right. Now run to the store and buy me some coconut water and blunt wraps.
Is that the only alternative you can think of? Really?
I've been burned too many times by AMD's claims of performance with CPUs and GPUs only to find that my games actually run better on Intel.
The money saved is never worth it, to me. I always end up wishing I had Intel.
Thank you, friend. You've made me feel better. I do prefer pinecones to pineapples when it comes to things in my butt.
Anyway, I've already scheduled the Charter-Spectrum service for when I arrive in Morro Bay.
As I've already pointed out, the higher birth rates are neutralized by the fact that the children of conservatives are far more likely to hate their parents and reject their political views.
This is why Red states work so hard to prevent students from voting. Here in Texas, you wouldn't believe the lengths that the corrupt state government has gone to in order to make voting difficult for students.