about 7.....
it drops to 3 when I go on a bender.

You forgot it requires Scientology application 3 times a day.

and far better articles than the New Yorker....

Really I DO read the articles...

Like multiple DIES... the way we used to do it with P3 and P4... sadly Intel and AMD hate their users and only allow that on their server line where the processors are 4X the price and 1/2 the performance.
  I will gladly pay for the motherboard to support 4 processors at 8 cores each, but I am stuck buying craptastic server class processors at extortion pricing.

FM radio stations all get to play music for free and in some cases they get paid to play it. Yet on the internet BMI and ASCAP turn into vampires sucking dry anything that is different.

The blame is The labels, BMI, and ASCAP. Those are the ones that deserve all your anger, ire, and hatered.

I need to upgrade every 2. But I am one of those guys that actually uses the computer. Programming, advanced mathematics, and HD video editing all demand the fastest processors or more and more cores. I have 12 cores right now and wish I had 18 or 20 as I could use the speed to get more work done.

"For decades, low skilled software developers have been able to play fast and loose,"

FTFY

Embedded system programmers are the only real programmers anymore.

If they pull a gun on an innocent person with the intent of depriving that innocent person of property, yes.

They teach too, but research has always been a part of it. Now if you don't want them getting patents and such on research that's fine, but then you need to increase funding. Part of the issue is that states have continually cut funding to universities. If that money isn't being paid in by the state, it needs to come from other sources, either higher tuition, or more research dollars.

The only societal differences are artificial. There's no difference between Limbaugh and a junkie with a needle in an alley.

Thanks, I needed that.

Actually, the link in the sig actually is from 1998, a blast from the past that hasn't been on the internet in ten years. The other is simple html; a single graphic, text, and links. Ever heard of the KISS principle?

BTW, su Englis es no mal por un Hispanico.

I'm fairly certain legalizing things like meth and cocaine wouldn't do much to aid the addicted.

It's better than sending them to prison, AKA Criminal University. If their drugs were cheaper they wouldn't be stealing from me. I never knew a cigarette smoker or alcoholic stealing to support their addictions.

Legalization would end the drug violence, just as Prohibition's end ended the violence of the illegal liquor trade. All the arguments for Prohibition as well as against it still apply in today's prohibitions, and history shouldn't be ignored.

Shouldn't these bought dogs be looking to balance the budget?

The deficit has been falling for years.

Actually, that's incorrect. Tinkers and smiths became engineers with the advent of the steam engine, which was used for industry and rail transportation. Both tinkers and smiths needed knowledge of metallurgy and physics, and some chemistry (at least for smiths). Tinkers and smiths evolved into engineers, so to speak.