X works on my operating system.

One problem is OS and toolchain support. You might get something together for Windows, OS X and Linux, but that's where the buck stops.

The next problem is that standalone compute cards are rather expensive and putting in a high power GPU has considerable power requirements. Then most server racks are full of 1u wonders not designed to get rid of heat or even hold a huge AMD or NVIDIA GPU.

Open source databases are great, but they're often pushed as a cost savings to companies. To turn around and buy extra hardware to make them faster isn't going to cut it.

Finally, there's the oddity of programming languages that some databases are written in. The popular SQL databases are in C so that's not a problem. Some of the others are in Java, erlang, or some other crazy language that may or may not have OpenCL or CUDA support.

You're making the same mistake. Some young people know what they're doing.

Some old people don't know shit. They still use sccs and rcs, pre ansi c and perl to write software because they won't learn new stuff. They still use the same database from the 1980s because they won't learn a modern one. (yeah, i left that job... )

I'm in my 30s so I'm not in the young group or the old group yet and I see crap on both ends.

At any age, you can have talented people. Don't judge by age, only demonstrated skills.

I work at the University of Michigan and we use Gmail and Google apps. I'm not a big Gmail fan, but it's actually not bad for business use.

There are still people trying to use outlook as their client, but most people prefer Gmail now. It can work for large organizations.

To be fair, healthcare.gov was clearly behind schedule and they released what they had. I don't think the government shutdown caused the problem. It may have made it worse because they had a few less people working on it.

Server capacity issues mean they didn't perform load testing or underestimated demand. Of course, the code wasn't done so it's hard to test.

A small team could have written that website in the time allotted without issues provided the specs didn't change. The cost of the site and the number of people involved is insane and demonstrates the consultants took them for a ride.

I bet it was cheap, inexperienced developers who had no clue how to build a scalable site.

SteelSeries mouse drivers will cause the Windows 8.1 upgrade to fail.

Microsoft really screwed something up with the Windows 8.1 mouse drivers. They really need to get this fixed.

I use mail on iOS and google gmail client for work mail. Both are decent but I think gmail is slightly better. You should try it. I don't actually like Gmail all that much but the iOS app is good.

As for desktop, mail.app is buggy but not as bad as trying to use thunderbird. All mail clients suck

I actually wonder if Intel could catch up a bit on GPU performance with the integrated graphics on the newer chips. They're not process blocked. Same thing with AMD on the A series chips.

If this is the case, why can ford do it? I can download sync updates and install them with flash myself. I don't need to go to the dealership and my iPhone does work over bluetooth with sync. (iOS 7 iPhone 5)

Granted, I have a 2014 model year car too.

What's the difference if you're at work or home? The NSA can get into your network either way.

HP is also a consulting company. Perhaps they should work on new killer apps to use all those new CPU cycles and actually give people a reason to buy new computers. HP could get into 3D printing and mass market it.

HP needs R&D right now. Most companies cut it in 2008 and they need it badly at this point.

Recently purchased a new Mustang. I wasn't sure this time what I wanted and had a list of possible choices including the Camero, FR-S and Challenger. Many of the local dealers don't want to order a vehicle. Few had base models on the lot. Anything under 30k wasn't on the lot. Some dealers didn't even have a car I could test drive.

Step 1 is actually forcing dealers to keep updated inventory. I don't know how many times I went to a dealership or called and a vehicle had been gone for weeks.

If GM improves this process and it works for them, perhaps we'll see better service from all the automakers. I'm all in favor of that both as a consumer and computer programmer in Detroit.

OS X, iOS and Android. Google used some freebsd stuff in their userland too from my understanding. Even though android runs a linux kernel, everything in userland is not GPL.

Then there's the fact that 33% of all internet traffic goes through FreeBSD. (netflix)

I can't agree with this last part about sockets. There are two consumer sockets for Intel and AMD. That means you really do have to pay attention to the socket.

AMD is pushing A-series chips for consumer which one 2 different sockets (depending on age) plus the AM3+ for FX series.

Intel has socket 2011, 1150, 1155 in the consumer space right now.

PHP is actually a lot like Perl. It also makes sense because PHP was originally a template language for Perl prior to getting rewritten in C.

The problem with PHP is the inconsistency. Parameter order is not consistent. Point releases change behavior and break code.

I also find PHP to be more irritating to debug than other web languages.