Uh, no. Fiorina ran for US Senate. You're thinking of Meg Whitman, who tried to click "Buy It Now" on the California Governorship ($150 million campaign). But your confusion is understandable, since they're both from the tech sector, and they both spout buzzword-bingo gibberish.

Whitman lost to Jerry Brown, BTW, thus earning Brown the singular distinction of having to clean up the mess left by a B-grade movie actor twice.

So how much could a clock cost?

It is a difference, but shouldn't be an expensive difference at non-ripoff rates.

The hardware knowledge argument has become virtually irrelevant in the EC2-world where you can spawn VM pretty much transparently

Right, we forgot, Amazon VMs are magical devices powered by hopes and dreams, rather than CPU cycles like old fashioned "computers" are.

Back here in reality cloud virtual machines are just a shitty containment mechanism that's sort of like an operating system process, only dramatically less efficient. Did you know that Google, not a company exactly famous for lacking clue, doesn't use VMs internally at all? Every internal program runs as a regular operating system process on top of a patched Linux kernel. The system is called Borg and they published a paper on it recently.

Why don't they use VMs, Amazon style? Because VMs suck. Running an entire OS inside another OS just to provide isolation is a great way to waste vast amounts of money and resources. It means sysadmins get to reuse their existing skillset instead of learning some new way of managing software, but that's about it as far as advantages are concerned.

Certainly your Amazon VM will suffer from cache line interference, limited resources, and other things that plague physical devices.

Bingo! I'd forgotten that! That definitely qualifies as a scandal, since her communications are supposed to be public.

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I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean. I rather despise Obama as a president, but I can't think of any particular scandal...and I mean something *I* consider a scandal, not something that titillates the shocked sensibilities of those who are appalled by a "wardrobe malfunction". The closest I can come is his acceptance of RomenyCare as his health plan (i.e. "ObamaCare"), but while appalling, I can hardly consider that a scandal.

Oh, they're all for it, just as Tepples said. As long as they don't have to think too hard about it or spend money on it. That's why they do nothing about the scenario you mention.

Not really, the salary offered is the salary offered, that's covered. What they don't like about the more experienced person is that they can't as easily con him/her into doing more for less.

The older landscaper who willingly accepts $20 to mow your lawn will just mow your lawn and expect $20. He won't also walk your dog and bag the poop and bring you your mail "just this once" every week..

Well, while I do agree, the Secretary of State is not supposed to set policy. So she doesn't deserve much blame for that.

Well, to be fair as secretary of state she appears to have followed the direction of the president. There have been worse examples (including one who barricaded himself in his office and refused to resign under Lincoln).

I don't want to pay my electric bill. I prefer to climb the pole and discover electricity for myself. I don't want the man keeping me down making me pay my bills!

Surely, I must qualify as digital native in spite of being born in '66. I learned Fortran V ('77 wasn't out yet) on the school system's mainframe over a 300 baud modem. When I finally got a computer and modem of my own, I had to write a simple terminal program with Xmodem so I could download a real terminal program from a BBS.

My wife informs me that she is 1/Commodore 64th digital on her father's side.

Huh. I always parsed Lemongrab as male...

So? I might be a shitty photographer, but I'm going to be less terrible with a better camera and smarter auto modes. I'm sure there's many ways I haven't taken full advantage of my computer, I've still upgraded it every so often. Phones advance at a fairly rapid pace even if users don't.

Perhaps you believe the myth that the climb to wealth wasn't upon the backs of others./