The summary suggests that the "performance should closely match the recently released Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell processor", but nothing in the article, or anything released about this chip so far, supports that. It's all just guesswork until we see some actual benchmarks from the chip.

I don't honestly expect we're going to be seeing performance parity from this chip (although I'd love it to be true). But that hasn't been AMD's selling point for me for a long time. Chances are, we're going to see a chip that breaks the 5.0 GHz barrier, under-performs relative to Intel's top end chip, but costs about half as much. That's been their game for a long time now, and I haven't seen anything that leads me to believe that this chip is changing that.

Not the Protestant theologian, the other one.

The link that suggests that Los Angeles was unhappy with their switch to Google does not, in fact, say that. The link is to a letter of a consumer group bitching to LA about their switch to Google. Given, by all accounts, things did not go smoothly, but maybe a better link would be this?

Really, it's the exact opposite. Trickle up (tax breaks for the lower income brackets) doesn't work unless people spend their money.

The point of trickle down is to encourage people to produce. The point of trickle up is to encourage people to consume.

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I see what you did there. But sadly, you're a day late to get one of my mod points :(

With that in mind... Rasmussen still gets enough people to respond to actually publish polls, and they strictly make automated calls to gather this information. That means that their intended purpose (spamming a large enough population with a low percentage chance play) is still a successful business model. All it is is spam for phones, and it wouldn't happen if it didn't work. No matter what peoples' attitudes are towards it.

Given the brand name, I was expecting a cheap piece of plastic with some sort of glowy light, labelled 'gaming' to sell some units. Couldn't they instead have focused their energy on making a single product that a legitimate gamer would want to use, and then maybe branch out into trying to create a market for an overpriced, underpowered wannabe laptop with a low res screen?

I heard you liked DOS.

Like many conservative arguments, it's the kind of thing that seems like it's an absolutely perfect argument. Right up until you take a look at the world around you, and how things really are.

Because taking everything you've ever earned and giving it to someone that hasn't earned it is bad, therefore, therefore, any sort of taxation, and any sort of social welfare is bad. You always think in absolutes, and the world isn't like this.

Yes, there are some people who would never work if they didn't have to. But the bulk of the country is made up of people who feel that the incremental gain they get from the destitution of welfare is something that's worth working for. And that benefits everyone.

Summation: the world is not entirely full of people who are trying to take all of your hard-earned money. Also, taxes pay for the police forces that arrest that crackhead when he tries to steal your TV. Try to base your arguments on the actual circumstances in the world around you, rather than trying to base the circumstances of the world around you on your arguments.

Also, why is Microsoft explicitly being mentioned? There's a lot of established players in Healthcare software that are getting much more out of this windfall. Microsoft barely scratches the surface, and they're, quite frankly, not significant in this particular market, unless you're counting the machines running their OS. Look for EHR (Electronic Health Record) vendor market share on Google, and you're not even going to see them mentioned. You're going to see Epic, Meditech, Allscripts, McKesson, Cerner, Siemens. MS, at best, is an "also ran".

Hospitals aren't buying into software because of "Obamacare" (or the Affordable Care Act, if brevity isn't your thing). Hospitals are buying into software because of the HITECH act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). They're getting more Medicare reimbursement for showing meaningful use of their software, so that's the trigger, not the ACA.

Well, the fact that the payroll tax rate went back to exactly the same as it was when he took office probably helped to prevent getting slaughtered in the media. It wasn't a tax increase, so much as the expiration of a tax holiday. Yes, the effect is the same, but at the end of the day, the poor and middle class aren't paying any more in payroll taxes, or federal income taxes, than they were in 2008.

I have mod points when it's already at 5 :(. This is unjust that we can't mod it up to 11.

It's also worth noting - most professions that rely on tips for income get paid less than minimum wage. Servers can work for as low as $2.13 an hour.

Department of Labor - Tipped employees