Comment Re:The average joe vs an enlightened user (Score 1) 134
"not wanting your personal data transmitted to Lenovo" apparently means "living paranoid under every rock you can find"?
"not wanting your personal data transmitted to Lenovo" apparently means "living paranoid under every rock you can find"?
An amoral entity can't take a moral stand.
So if a corporation doesn't want its internal data transmitted to Lenovo, that's a moral choice? Sounds like a business choice to me.
Software programmers usually don't require very much beyond decent computers and sufficient time.
Knowledge and experience with hardware stuff like NUMA, RDMA, etc. are necessary for server software developers today.
There is no real competition anywhere anymore, at least among large corporations.
I'm looking at the newegg.com website right now
in mini-pc systems there are 9 different vendors
in laptops systems there are 36 different vendors
for chromebooks there are 8 different vendors
for desktops there are 40 different vendors
this is just the newegg web site
The distributor who actually sold the printers, won HP's "distributor of the year" award. HP had a 41% market share in a country where they were forbidden to do business. It's beyond incredible that nobody at HP wondered about where all those printers went to.
HP made boatloads of money selling overpriced systems: HPUX, Tru64 and VMS. Porting away from these systems is a nightmare, and so they had a lot of "captive" customers. They made grand announcements that they were going to unify all three operating systems and they would all be supported essentially forever. It was all horse-shit. They basically stopped development on all three systems. For a number of years there was no word. I think this is when the customers figured out that they were being taken for a ride. They ported to Solaris and AIX and Linux. Now HP has no customers and no business and no future in the unix market.
I think republican candidates are going to have to learn a skill that their corporate peers have figured out: how to push back against Donald Trump.
putin's methods don't work well in the corporate world, just ask Robert Kraft
nobody wins wars, it's a simple fact. nobody emerges from a war unscathed. infrastructure is destroyed and resources are depleted for everyone. everyone gets hospitals full of injured veterans. the question is who loses worse
Your opinion is not relevant, The corporations that make weapons are very happy with this state of affairs.
Are you really asserting that the US can be a positive influence in the middle east? All evidence is that we just make everything worse.
saddam hussein was our friend when it was convenient
ghadaffi was our friend when it was convenient
noreiga was our friend when it was convenient
we turned on all of them
This is pretty much what Eisenhower was talking about. It doesn't really matter what side we're on as long as we're selling them the weapons, bonus points for selling to both sides.
What happens when, say, Cambodia sends one of these machines after Henry Kissinger? Or will this war-ending technology only be available to 'the good guys'?
that would be a neat trick if the UN was running the machines
not that ISIS has neighbor states, any more than US rednecks have neighbor states.
what does that even mean? ISIS is in other peoples countries. Let them clean up the mess, they have motivation and they are right there. We are on the other side of the world and even our presidential candidates have no clue as to what is going on.
humans have really poor social skills
a true leader of its people will do everything to keep them out of war, because nobody wins wars, everybody loses, it's just a question of who loses worse
Get hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
