HS is more a prison/daycare system then an educational experience.
"What? You are reading for fun? Don't you have a life? What's wrong with you? Why aren't you engaging in drinking, drugs, sex, and other behaviors that will lead to teen pregnancy?"
I watched a lot of The Three Stooges when I was a kid. I never once... threw a pie in anyone's face,
I really wanted to do this one, though.
You never had any brothers or cousins doing double suplexes to each other after watching WWF? Your anecdotal evidence is discounted by mine. And since mine is real I think I have a case.
1. Wresting was on TV long before video games. 2. Brothers and cousins were hitting each other slingshots and rocks long before TV was invented. 3. Your anecdotal evidence does not "discount" everyone else. It only reflects your ego that you think that it does.
What is this obsession with pedophilia? I'm really getting rather suspicious of MAGA. I suspect your average Catholic priest or Southern Baptist youth pastor thinks about nude children less than most MAGA individuals.
but they said they are "saving" this much money, so doesn't enter the cost.
Like many things in the cloud, the flexibility was probably they could add/remove more machines easily with no long term commitment. The problem with cloud has always been at some point, the cost of leasing is greater than building on premises as the number of machines/data/bandwidth reached a certain threshold.
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If cost savings is the goal, they could save a lot more by switching to Windows, or better yet, Linux.
Only if saving money was the only goal and nothing else. In this case, not being able to develop iOS apps using Windows or Linux is a significant obstacle over any cost savings.
This seems weird, I've never heard of a company using Macs as servers. Desktops, yes, but servers?
Then you haven't been paying attention. Since the Mac Mini launched many, many companies have used them as servers. The main reason is they offer high performance per watt in a small package. The demand is high enough that companies offer custom racks for Mac Minis for higher density in cabinets.
Repatriation makes sense for expensive edge cases, like running Apple hardware (which is a questionable architectural decision).
And why is it a questionable decision? Currently, the M series chips are the best in performance per watt and can beat Ryzen chips in some benchmarks. For Grab, since they need Macs for iOS development, what alternative do you propose?
Seriously, the reason why there are so-called "hosted Macs" in the cloud is so you can develop and test shit on a Mac without buying one. Use actual server technologies for your servers.
If you read the story, the main reason they are going away from a cloud based solution was cost. As the number of Macs increased over 200, they found that buying their own hardware was cheaper. The major change for Grab is they own the Mac hardware now instead of renting it.
Those ridiculous Mac Mini servers were the worst idea ever.
In this story, Grab is replacing 200 Mac Mini servers they are renting on the cloud with 200+ Mac Mini servers they have on premsises:
“We have got four 42RU (600x1200x42RU) racks housing 200+ Mac minis, plus some spare racks to house upcoming scheduled capacity upgrades,” Grab’s post states
Obviously Grab does not think Mac Mini servers as "the worst idea ever".
What pushes some demographics to participate in street take overs . . .
Maybe you should read the histories of 19th century real life Gangs of New York
It's got to come from somewhere, rap music is a big suspect, but video games like GTA make it much more 'real'. I don't think it's coming from rampant reading of books...
The Bible has depicted violence for millenia. The Iliad by Homer. Books by depict violence since the 1700s. It appears that basis of your arguments is recency bias.
Out of the box, the Xbox Series X is slightly better hardware than the regular PS5. it's not really enough to matter, especially on a mutliplatform game, but since you asked...
The problem for Microsoft this generation is their own policies have hampered games on the X. Microsoft requires any games developed for the X must have feature parity with games on the S. However, the S has weaker hardware than the PS5. In some cases like Baldur's Gate 3, the Xbox launch was delayed as they had development issues on the S that was only alleviated when Microsoft waived that specific requirement. Many other game developers simply optimized their games for the S instead of optimizing for both. As a result many games that have come out on the X do not run as well as the same game on the PS5. Developers on the PS5 only need to optimize games once as the main difference between the two PS5 consoles was the optical drive.
That glamorizing this sort of game is directly responsible for the recent phenomenon of crime in US cities? Street take overs, rampant looting during peaceful protests and even sports team wins(or losses), shoplifting, carjacking, etc?
No. As someone who has killed many a demon with a chainsaw starting 30 years ago as a youth, I have yet to buy a chainsaw in my adult age for any reason or even to hunt down demons. Also I have not captured any magical creatures with an orb and made them fight other magical creatures. As an adult that has had to fix my own plumbing, I find that skill does not require hitting boxes marked with "?" and strangely my pipes are not inhabited by turtles. Games glamorizing violence ignores the fact that before that "movies glamorize violence" and before that "radio glamorize violence" and before that "books glamorize violence."
We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
