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Comment Re:Microsoft already sells ARM-based Windows lapto (Score 1) 19

There are a few other reasons why ARM is popular in data center tasks, including those that are targeted at performance. The easiest to explain is vcpus.

On AMD/Intel, 1 vcpu = 1 hyperthread (to oversimplify, 1/2 core)
On ARM, 1 vcpu = 1 core

Even if the ARM system is only 80% as fast on a per-core basis, having twice the core count on a similar class instance makes the overall cost much lower.

Comment Re:The Kiwi Solution is Pure Cowardice (Score 1) 503

Here's a fact that you might draw an assertion from, rather than just making them up from thin air: In 2016, there were approximately 21.7 homicides committed in the US per million people. The same statistic for Canada is 3.5.

I'd love to see your source on the homicide rate. In 2016 (a higher than average year), the rate was 5.35/100k.

Comment Re:PHP 5.6 (Score 1) 112

5.6 is a minor release. PHP 5.0 (first major series release) came out July 2004... and 7.0 came out almost 3 years ago. I've used PHP off and on since 2.0.... If memory serves me, there were major breaking changes between 2 and 3, a few breaking changes between 3 and 4, rare few breaking changes between 4 and 5 and rare few between 5 and 7. The main exceptions I can think of are around misguided features such as magic quotes which were rightly deprecated.

We have quite a lot of old code in production that hasn't changed much over the years... it may not be pretty, but as long as caution was taken, just works. The same is true of most any language.

Comment Re:Practicing for Nation-wide Implementation (Score 1) 259

Brazilian money is pretty strong. You need just 3.5 Reals to buy one dollar. Comparing the eighth economy [fifth in 2008] in the world with Zimbabwe shows your stupidity pretty well.

It's currently about 4 real to the dollar. Just 4 years ago, it was around 2. That may not be up to Zimbabwe's level, but that's crazy high inflation.

Comment Most current presidential candidates are anti-TPP (Score 1) 247

2016 presidential candidates on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal

Based on my understanding of their positions:
Clinton (D) - Mixed, mostly against as a presidential candidate
O'Malley (D) - Against
Sanders (D) - Against
Bush (R) - For
Cruz (R) - Mixed, initially for. 1 of 5 Rs in the Senate that voted against the TPA bill
Fiorina (R) - Unclear due to lack of details... possibly for
Huckabee (R) - Against
Jindal - (R) Mostly against
Kasich (R) Unclear
Paul (R) Against, 1 of 5 Rs in the Senate that voted against the TPA bill
Rubio (R) For
Santorum (R) For
Trump (R) Against

Comment Re:It's a niche product. (Score 1) 200

I recently upgraded from the old kindle keyboard model to a voyage and love it. The page change buttons on the side are great and provide a little tactile feedback. The adaptive light is also very nice, especially if you like to read at night. I expected the battery life to be terrible in comparison to the old keyboard model because of the light... but it rarely needs charging, even under heavy use.

Comment Re:And the money flows as fast as the data. (Score 1) 164

Assuming your numbers are correct... the population of Salisbury is 33604 as of 2013 (10,276 households as of 2010), making a loss of $372/person or $1,216/household last year alone. The median household income was $32,923. Assuming every household subscribed to the $45/mo package, that brings the cost to $146/mo for a 50mbit internet connection or more than 5% of each household's gross income. This is of course, assuming that the 12.5m loss is an operating loss and the 7.6m wouldn't be added to it.

5% of the median family's gross income for a home internet connection is crazy.

Submission + - US Department of Defense shuns open source medical records in $4.3B contract 1

dmr001 writes: The US Department of Defense opted not to use the Department of Veterans Affairs' open source popular VistA electronic health record in its project to overhaul its legacy systems, instead opting for a consortium of Cerner, Leidos and Accenture. The initial $4.3 billion implementation is expected to be the first part of a $9 billion dollar project. The Under Secretary for Acquisition stated they wanted a system with minimum modifications and interoperability with private sector systems, though much of what passes for inter-vendor operability in the marketplace is more aspirational than operable. The DoD aims to start implementation at 8 sites in the Pacific Northwest by the end of 2016, noting that "legacy systems are eating us alive in terms of support and maintenance," consuming 95% of the Military Health Systems IT budget.

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