Tablets with Keyboards were called "laptops" because you need to put them down to type.

*Disclaimer: I use an Asus Transformer and like it.

It's that cities are hard, Sprint literally has no LTE coverage in DC...at all. They're busy rolling it out to great bustling places like Chattanooga, but not the fscking nations capitol. If you look at their coverage maps for the DC region, Baltimore is mostly covered, the I-81 corridor to the west is covered, south is covered, but DC and suburbs? Not a drip of anything decent.

Our contract is up in a couple months and Verizon is looking pretty good depending on the deal I can get. I'm happy to pay for service, Sprint needs to up its game in a big big way or it's going bye bye

How do they estimate that? Seriously curious how they would have any idea what your expenditures were.

Fair point, it seems. I can't imagine a wage-slave hourly cog actually investing any emotion in the fact they can't recruit GPP into the "tagged and traced free-range consumer" herd.

Maybe they're missing out on some kind of incentive bonus because GPP keeps refusing.

How does the performance measure up to GPUs for TFLOPS/$$$?

If you need double precision FP, you don't have a lot of alternatives.

If you only need single or half precision, the Radeon 7990 rates at 7x the TFlops for about 15% of the price.

In addition, we'll see new Xeons based on this technology later this year, in the 22nm E5-2600 V2 family, with up to 12 cores.

...And yet, because of corporate policies on running the shittiest AV on the planet (Symantec) cranked to the max, my desktop PC will still have the responsiveness of a sloth on 'luudes.

Seriously, I already have 8 cores worth of Xeon (2x4) and the load meter never even twitches, enough RAM to load my entire system drive into, and an SSD system drive. More cores won't help at this point.

The 4th amendment doesn't apply (as the 5th in this case doesn't)... because said right was waved through the actions of the person involved

Inalienable (Adj): - Unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor: "inalienable human rights".

If you convince someone to sell themselves into slavery to you, you can't enforce the contract because they can't "waive" their 13th amendment rights.

You don't have a dev environment... Go grab 2 workstations and a switch and MAKE ONE NOW!

It also sounds like your testing regime needs working on. Devs do not say the code is ready. Users do. They get to break it 15 minutes into the test. They don't have to follow the Official Tests. This is called User Acceptance Testing. Devs will whinge about this because their mistakes are hi-lighted and "It worked for them" I speak from experience. I hate when users fail my code. But it's my fault, and I need to make my code better.

The horns grow back in 12-18 months. So trying to find and capture and tranq every rhino every 1-2 years isn't going to be viable anyway.

What Viagra can't do is increase bloodflow in the brain enough to disbelieve "traditional medicine". More's the shame... I know a lot of people who could use more cerebral circulation.

Actually it doesn't. By reducing supply, you make the remaining horn (that rangers can't cut off humanely) that much more valuable. It drives more people to try and poach because now it's worth even more. Oh and the horns grow back in 18-24 months, so you have to de-horn the animals repeatedly.

The horns are used for carvings too, but interesting assuming it works as described.

Go check rhino populations...it isn't helping.

I was there talking to the actual safari guides. It's what happens.

And the 'future revenue stream'? Seriously? They kill the rhino to get the horn in the first place...you can't exactly take it off them without doing so, or are you so dense to think the poachers would have tranquilizers and be 'nice' about it?

Yep, for a while over in Africa they cut the horns off rhino's to stop poachers. The result? The poachers still spent days tracking an animal only to find out it didn't have a horn - so they killed it anyway out of spite.