You are one sick fucking sub-human being.

Spoken like someone who doesn't have much of a fucking clue... Seriously, son, you don't think ageism is a big problem? Let me assure you that it is - and it applies to far more occupations than programmers.

Also, your thoughts on immigration and "underskilled Westerner" are not very developed... I have North Americans and foreigners working for me, both in North America and outside of it. Sometimes, it's about western workers being incompetent - but just as often, it's about companies simply cheaping out.

Yup.

Much of China's economy has been built on that concept, and also the idea of working with foreign corporations only long enough to learn their trade secrets and manufacturing techniques - once there is nothing more to learn, it is common for the Chinese companies to stop doing any business with their foreign partner.

Of course, combine this with short-sighted American CEO's concerned only with quarterly profit, and China wins every time.

No.

In China, just being a foreign corporation (especially US) is enough to have the law be used against you at times it would not be used against domestic companies.

Haha, ok, but what about China? The really funny part here is China fining a US corporation for copyright violation.

Do you seriously think a phone requires as much maintenance as a PC? Is this an Android thing?

Are you so proud of your ignorance that you must advertise it?

As is easily found via Google, the 15" rMBP 2.7GHz come with a Nvidia 650M with 1GB RAM. Of course, it dynamically switch between the onboard (Intel) and dedicated GPU's as necessary.

I hear you. I've migrated many of my personal services to remote VM's.

Where are you hosting your virtual machines, and what OS primarily do you use? Most recently I am using proxmox on a dedicated server @ OVH at their Montreal datacenter. I'm quote happy with it & them so far, for the price. My ping RTT is about 50ms from home, which is nice enough for UI's & replacing local accessed stuff.

BUT, I still like a really fast local machine. A tablet + smartphone would never cut it for me, for what I do. Though the main reason for my last upgrade was the retina display. I'd been waiting literally *years* excitedly for high res displays (other than the IBM T221 and like). The processor, RAM, and SSD are icing on the cake - my previous 17" MBP had a 512GB SSD (OWC) and 8GB RAM already, with a quad core process (can't recall which model - 2011 17" MBP.).

How do you use the remote VM's as a desktop replacement, are you using VNC or remote desktop? Or just as remote storage / processing?

Hell, the maintenance aspect alone makes PC's not worth it for those uses.

LOL.

Posted from my 15" retina MBP with 16GB RAM, 768GB SSD I7 3820QM.

Oh... And apparently everyone is buying Macbooks.

Up 14% YoY.

Innovation in the PC market is awful.

If it were up to companies like Samsung we'd all be running massive chunks of plastic garbage at a resolution of 800x600...

Apple iCloud, FireFox Sync, Chrome Sync to mention the main ones.

Great, the ole "if you don't use it, you can't complain" argument. And modded +5 interesting. Yay Slashdot. Again.

I don't use Google anymore, but that doesn't mean I can't criticize their policies. Lots of organizations offering "free" services are capable of plenty of evil. You don't have to pay for it.

If I don't use Google's services, why am I still forced to be their product? (i.e. recipient of advertising and forced tracking.) You *are* aware of how prevalent Google's tracking is, right? It's not like I can just stop using Google services and no longer be tracked by them.

If fact, they were recently caught PURPOSEFULLY bypassing Apple's "do not track" preference.

There is no excuse for ignorance like yours, especially on Slashdot - although your type is certainly prevalent.

C and C++ applications are typically not embedded in web pages, and no web browser would execute them if they were.

Flash and Java are both commonly embedded in web pages, and execute automatically if the user has the plugin installed.