... where the 1% live like Startfleet and the rest of us live like Bajoran refugees.

There's far too much software out there that depends on having clocks close to in sync.

They had new security features in their CPU's already. They needed partners in the security industry to integrate same.

McAfee was an early partner. Intel thought they did a reasonably good job at integrating the new features (prototypes of DeepCommand, etc.). At the time, Intel's hardware lines were saturating (except in mobile where they were still scrambling to catch up), they thought they'd done OK with the Wind River acquisition, so why not buy an evergreen cash generator of a software company? So they did.

Of course, it sort of borked their relationship with the rest of the security industry. And neither McAfee nor Intel really zoomed from the "synergy", but it's generated revenue for Intel so it wasn't an awful acquisition - just one Intel thought would do a lot more than it actually did.

Intel (Renee James included), never really got software. At their heart, they're a hardware manufacturing company. And that leaks all over the rest of the organization - hardware and software. The impedance mismatch between the manufacturing-oriented management and the software organizations are really too great to be overcome - software is a stretch too far (let alone their abortive attempts at consumer products, about which I shall make no further comment).

Intel should continue to acquire strategic software organizations, but leave them as independent operating entities. Because, as it is right now, Intel is simply the Roach Motel of software acquisitions.

Because they just don't seem to have any good long term plans.

And we do?

The debt to GDP ratio is 105% and climbing, a healthy GDP to debt ratio in a developed economy is between 50 and 60%.

[Citation needed]

What the world needs is another Facebook clone. With hookers and... Oh wait.

Never mind.

All I hear from the Euro side is nationalism. Blah, blah, blah, the Greeks... Blah, blah, blah, the Germans.

The bottom line is that national political issues cannot be overridden no matter what the economic issues are. Y'all just might as well invade if you want your money back - your idea of economic union without political union was stupid. Germany was stupid, France was stupid and the other countries of Europe were stupid, as well. The best thing economically that could happen is that the Eurozone can collapse and economies and political power can be aligned again. Better the sound of gunfire than your continual whining "We want our moneeeeeyyyy!!!!"

if they upset their creditors too much, they can expect truly unpleasant consequences.

Like, uh, the folks in Iceland, who abrogated their debts to their banks after the 2008 crash? They seen to be suffering truly horrific consequences.

You like that, try bipolar Type II. No highs - just irritation and agitation - but the lows are just the same. That one really sucks.

I think it is dangerous to allow for that broad of discretion for the judicial branch.

So maybe conservatives should have stopped their legal challenge to prevent this danger, knowing that they were likely to lose?

For the tl;dr crowd, the South wanted to count them as 5/5ths of a person and the North wanted to count them as 0/5ths of a person.

The problem is that the North came around to the right side of things with respect to rights, while the South only wanted slaves counted - not to give them actual rights.

But the fact is, things change. Things changed between the establishment of the constitution and the Civil War, just as things have changed between the Civil War and now. The time for this symbol is gone. If Southerners are the true patriots they claim to be, they'd throw away this symbol to tyranny and rebellion against their country and pledge allegiance to their real flag instead of worshiping the Confederation's rebellious symbol.

As I said, things change. But the South seems to be too stubborn to change fast enough. We in the North are tired of your social heel-dragging trying to keep us in 1950's America. The bottom line is that the world has changed. Fucking adapt, already. Or secede. Don't care which. Just get out of the way.

Racism goes away one thought, one step, one action, one symbol at a time. It does not go away quickly, nor without struggle. The de-consecration and minimization of this symbol of tyranny and rebellion is a long overdue step in this progress towards the end of racism. Accept that many find this symbol distasteful or offensive and that its time has come and gone long ago. And just as the fact that we have freedom to go about yelling the n-word doesn't mean that corporations have to give everyone a megaphone for their offensive speech, no corporation are required to give racist symbols a platform.

Feel free to sell confederate flags to the rest of the world, if you wish. Americans here at home don't want your Johnny Reb bullshit.

A good abstraction leads a user towards understanding, no matter what his level; a good UI reflects the abstraction, leading the user to use it properly, again, no matter what his or her level.

Git may have good abstractions (I'll take your word for it), but it has no UI to reflect it and so is opaque to many. In my attempts to use git, I've grown tired of wading through shitty web pages all of which give examples of use, but no abstraction description and no description of how these abstractions are to be properly used.

If you could point me to one of these documents that clearly explain git's abstractions and their proper use (actually, I'll take the abstractions only - I can probably work out proper use from that), one hopefully having both Windows and Linux information - professionals sometimes have to use both - I'd appreciate it. Until then, I'll have to be fine with using SVN locally and attempting to avoid git as much as possible.

No, they're having the box checked by default - you have to absolutely ask them to not shit on your floor.