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I imagine the nets are to keep the employees from landing, not from jumping.
I imagine the nets are to keep the employees from landing, not from jumping.
The exemptions were temporary ones based on a radical change in the medical care landscape. They're not meant to be permanent.
Eventually the ACA,
will have to stand on it's own.
Comcast will want permanent exemptions.
Somewhat True... but there are problems in the system we love called democracy.
1) People get elected on the basis of how good they campaign. This is not necessarily the same skill set that will serve you well in actually governing.
2) The current election cycle makes you spend a huge amount of time working on your next election cycle. A shockingly low amount of time actually governing.
I didn't get a new car when my daughter was born. I feel gypped.
I grew up in chicago, and even though I live in the suburbs now, I do realize a healthy chicago is very important to a healthy suburban ecosphere. Therefore i don't like Rahm's policies. Other than being sociopathic at times (picks a fight with the teachers union, gets so pissed they actually fight back that he turns on heat lamps in the Chicago summer when they march) he really does things that screw the city.
The problem is, no one seems to care. Millions to TIF while the schools get closed? Nobody seems to care. That TIF money going to an unneeded hotel and arena? no one seems to care. The parking fiasco that he could have pushed back on and helped chicagoans? well, we care, but most blame on Daley and Rahm gets off scott free. Close schools so his cronies in charter schools get more cash, threatening kids safety as they now have to cross new gang borders? You get the point.
So here is an issue that i hope energizes a subset of the people to vote against him. I actually am a friend of Chuy Garcia (well, friend of a friend really - he's my best friend's godfather) and I hope he wins of course, but there are quite a few people that would be better than Rahm
It is just a bunch of whiny asshats who care about specs on paper rather than real world performance. The 970 is damn amazing. It makes the 980 nothing more than a overpriced luxury toy, and I say that as a 980 owner. Its performance is within 10-15% of a 980s and it is like half the price, what's not to like?
Also as for the memory thing this is actually a BONUS from nVidia, not a cripple. What I mean is in the past, they'd have just stuck 3.5GB on it and called it good. Then, if something needed more than 3.5GB, you go to system memory which is very slow 16GB/sec if you are running 16x PCIe 3 and much slower if you run less (like if you are doing SLI on a consumer board with PCIe 2 it would be 4GB/sec). However with this, you get another 512MB of RAM that is faster. Not as fast as the primary RAM, but much faster than hitting the system RAM over the PCIe bus. It won't perform as well as a 980 in those high memory situations, but it would perform better than if it just didn't have it at all.
I agree they should have noted it better, but really who gives a shit in reality? The 970 is the best "step down" card they've ever made compared to the highest end. Amazing value for the money and real world benchmarks from somewhere like HardOCP show it kills at modern games.
It's also funny how they act like nVidia did this to "harm" people for some business reason. If anything, they'd want to make the 970 look worse so people would be more likely to spend the near double to get a 980. However instead they made the 970 as close to the 980 as they could and I'm sure that ate in to the 980 market.
I get tired of seeing audio 'tards try to claim an expensive solution is needed to badly designed gear. I've seen this bullshtit with regards to S/PDIF cables and poorly designed DACs. It is true that you can get clock skew, reflections, etc with some cables. However any DAC worth its shit today should reclock and buffer the incoming signal, thus rendering transmission issues moot (so long as the signal is coherent enough to transfer the data). However, there are shitty "audiophile" DACs that don't and they try to use it as some kind of "proof" about cable quality.
What it comes down to is there are issues and they can be engineered around. When it comes to digital and noise ya, digital devices are noisy. Guess what? You properly ground and shield your analogue section and it is not an issue. It isn't like this is something super expensive and thus only available on the high end, just requires proper engineering. The answer isn't reducing digital noise since there is little that can be done on that front overall, it is making the analogue section immune to it.
If physics doesn't allow for it, it doesn't allow for it anywhere. It doesn't matter how large the Universe happens to be.
The Internet of rushed to market, horribly secured, never updated, easily pwn3d things.
The second you say "firmware" or even worse "tftp" you've lost +99.9% of people out there.
You are a moron. A truly fucked-up, head-up-the-ass-into-his-colon idiot. And you're stupid.
1) It may not be my blog "engine".
2) Fixing messed up formatting of any C-based language is a keystroke away, so we don't have to waste time making sure some random blog or forum software won't mess it up when it's copy and pasted on any of several OS's or desktop environments.
Using your brain instead of the computer is stupid. That's why we invented computers: to automate and remove the drudgery of manual/mental labor.
The purpose of braces are two-fold: let the compiler know what's going on and let the reader know what's going on. It takes no thought at all from the programmer and only needs to be done once. The intent can't be messed up by any of the zillion transmission methods, including, but not limited to, email, web forums, or differences in editors or editor settings. Pretty formatting is a key-stroke away on any code editor worthy of the name, and many will auto-indent code as it's pasted in.
On the flip-side, you have Python, where any of the above transmission methods, plus a whole lot more, can cause the original indentation to be lost. On top of that, the editor cannot infer semantics when code is pasted in, so the programmer needs to analyze the surrounding code and make sure the indentation of the pasted code is correct. In other words, there's no way to automate. Any time you have the developer doing work the computer could have done, you're doing it wrong. The entire purpose of a computer is to automate tasks. (And provide video game entertainment, of course.)
Communism is shared ownership of resources. It has nothing to do with who is making the decisions, though there is an assumption that each owner has a say.
Free/Open Source software is fairly close. Each contributor owns his piece. Some projects require copyright assignment, and those have no Communistic features.
If all, or even most, tech companies trained employees instead of requiring college degrees, they could pay those people less. If those people leave, who cares? Just pick up someone trained by some other company instead. The point is that it doesn't take long to train an employee at most tech jobs, it's significantly cheaper than college and the costs to the company are recouped by lower salaries. It should be a big win for everyone except the poor universities.
Samsung is not an American company. Even assuming your rant made the slightest bit of sense, why the fuck would Samsung care about American jobs?
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
