The company I work for sells educational software. The past owner spent a bunch of his own money into research to find what variables play the biggest role in a child's educational success.
He said in the end, how much quality time a parent spends with their child is so important, that almost all other variables become irrelevant. Money, school, smart parents, time spent studying. All have an almost useless effect relative to parents actually caring about their children.
A child who comes from a rich family and goes to a prestigious school may have more "knowledge", but a kid who gets more attention from their parents will be all around "smarter" as they could learn faster and better apply what they learned .
Play with your kids, read to them, help them with their homework; Your best bet to have a successful and smart child.
A barn (symbol b) is a unit of area. Originally used in nuclear physics for expressing the cross sectional area of nuclei and nuclear reactions, today it is used in all fields of high energy physics to express the cross sections of any scattering process. A barn is defined as 1028 m2 (100 fm2) and is approximately the cross sectional area of a uranium nucleus.
Two related units are the outhouse (1034 m2, or 1 b) and the shed (1052 m2, or 1 yb),[3] although these are rarely used in practice.
You'd never make it in physics either. Think you could hit the broad side of a barn? It's not as big as you'd think. "Embarrassingly parallel" is a technical term, the same way a "barn", "outhouse" or "shed" is perfectly technical. Your humor breaker needs to get reset.
Transistor density is doubling every 18 months, power consumed per transistor is is decreasing about 10% every 18 months. See a problem?
While computer are getting more efficient at doing the same amount of work, their ability to do more work out paces their ability to use less peak power.
nVidia said their next gen GPUs that will be out in ~2013, will be 16 times more gflops and 8 times less power per gflop. All I see is 2xs as much power. Except GPUs capable of ~500watts.
Intel's trigate tech will temporarily reduce power consumed, but the over all pace is more peak power.
I've driven 85mph on the interstate after freezing rain but no wind . The back end was fish-tailing and the car sliding left and right, but the general rule of physics is, you keep moving int he same direction. I actually was able to turn the wheel 1/4 turn at 85, and the car kept going strait. That slippery.
Front wheel drive and constantly keeping the wheels strait keeps your car moving in the correct direction. Any time I had to change direction, like a turn, I slowed down well before hand, as even a mild bend on the interstate, even at 45, caused my car to slide a bit. It was crazy slippery
Similar thing in the city. Was going 50 in a 45 after freezing rain. I passed up someone who was going 20. The lights were green, but I knew they have been green for a while, so I started to slow down early. Lights changed and I was able to come to a full stop several feet before the cross walk. The other guy who was going 20... well, they slid right through the intersection and went into the ditch.. it was REALLY slippery.
I live in a heavy winter area. I can't count how many times I was speeding in icy conditions, was able to stop for stop signs and light, while other people who were going well under the limit, slid right through because they didn't slow down ahead of time.
The general public are idiots.
Ice is easy.. pretend you're in space. Changing your velocity is hard, so make sure you add time, and account for unknowns, like an intersection with a 2 way stop sign. Just because you have the right away, if you're driving fast and the person at the stop doesn't know that, they'll probably pull out in front of you, so slow down. Assume the other drivers are dangerous.
If I can't tell if a car is coming up to a stop sign because of Line-of-Site issues, I assume someone is, so I slow down.
P.S. I hate anti-lock breaks in the winter. Their pulses are so hard, they just cause your wheels to lock. I actually find letting off the gas pedal and letting the car coast is faster at slowing down the car on glare ice, than hitting the breaks. The engine drag is more analog and finds a better sweet spot than your ABS pulse-locking your wheels. Similar with manual car, put in high gear and let the engine drag slow you down. Well, for me this works on really really slippery ice.
Car safety features are to lessen the damage one takes from an accident, not really much to prevent them. Also, the fact that your car is now gone is a huge monetary penalty for not being safe, rather than being damaged for life.
I tend to be more concerned about other people's kids as I don't know them as well and assume the worst. You know your own kids better, so you know what they can take.
Hopefully the contract has some sort of exit clause. I know my car insurance does. You do stupid shit and they don't have to cover.
Black-box shows you speeding, no coverage, no seat-belt on, no coverage. And many more examples.
Once could even argue definitions of words. If your car insurance covers "accidents" and you're speeding, it may no longer be considered an "accident" as your speeding was deliberate.
You do realize that we have trail by jury because the government use to make laws specifically against the lower class. Doing a trial by jury allowed the laws to be made useless, otherwise the judge would have to up-hold those laws.
Stealing bread from a rich man? Life in the stocks. "We find him not guilt" "ohhh damn"
When I was IT in college, I got to talking to a professor while working on his computer and he said the worst kids of all are the ones with over-protective parents. He said a kid is better off living with parents who doesn't care and/or pay no attention, than overly-protective ones.
Which is why MS is adding official CentOS support to HyperV, which is why an MS employee is president of the C++ standards committee, which is why MS is helping AMD with their opensource framework to make threading easier and cross-platform, which is why MS is offering help for any platform to implement C++AMP, which is what AMD's FUSION framework is based on and AMD is pouring resources into making this fully opensource and MS is helping them do it.
MS seems to be in a transition right now, only time will tell if they "stay evil"
Because implementing failover and live-migration into every piece of software is a great idea? Just do it at the OS level. Applications shouldn't have to worry about hardware, SANs, etc.
Test environments are greatly simplified.
Soon you'll be telling us how protected memory is bad, we need to do away with operating systems, and the internet is a failed concept.
They're adding in real-time socket communication to Javascript. If I was chatting with a friend and had to keep the window in focus, that would irk me. Good idea, but would definitely have to be optional. May be trusted sites?
Bcrypt hash. Good luck brute-forcing that. Slow in software as well as hardware. Customizable computational time. Make even a dictionary attack take forever.
That and many websites have limits on password lengths and which chars you can use. I think they do this because they don't use hashing and/or they don't use parameterized inputs.
We need a law that you can never have "for any reason". A company should have to have rules stated and must abide by those rules. If it's not in the rules, they shouldn't be able to mess with your shit. A second part to that should be cherry picking is not allowed. If a company leaves up a listing/etc with a similar rule violation, but takes yours down, they should be fined for not following their own rules.
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Apple charges so little for their OS because they price gouge on their hardware.
Buying their hardware and not using their OS is like throwing money in the wind.
"There is NO hard and fast rule which can be used to answer the question of "Is this an embarrassingly parallel problem?""
If a problem is "embarrassingly" parallel and you don't notice it, you should feel embarrassed.
The company I work for sells educational software. The past owner spent a bunch of his own money into research to find what variables play the biggest role in a child's educational success.
He said in the end, how much quality time a parent spends with their child is so important, that almost all other variables become irrelevant. Money, school, smart parents, time spent studying. All have an almost useless effect relative to parents actually caring about their children.
A child who comes from a rich family and goes to a prestigious school may have more "knowledge", but a kid who gets more attention from their parents will be all around "smarter" as they could learn faster and better apply what they learned .
Play with your kids, read to them, help them with their homework; Your best bet to have a successful and smart child.
"Funny of how that almost matches the definition of a pyramid scheme."
The funny part is that's how gold, stocks, bonds, and many other things work.
A barn (symbol b) is a unit of area. Originally used in nuclear physics for expressing the cross sectional area of nuclei and nuclear reactions, today it is used in all fields of high energy physics to express the cross sections of any scattering process. A barn is defined as 1028 m2 (100 fm2) and is approximately the cross sectional area of a uranium nucleus.
Two related units are the outhouse (1034 m2, or 1 b) and the shed (1052 m2, or 1 yb),[3] although these are rarely used in practice.
You'd never make it in physics either. Think you could hit the broad side of a barn? It's not as big as you'd think. "Embarrassingly parallel" is a technical term, the same way a "barn", "outhouse" or "shed" is perfectly technical. Your humor breaker needs to get reset.
If he had 675k of MP3s on Bittorrent, I'm sure he'd have life in prison for costing the music industry 90 trillion in damages.
Transistor density is doubling every 18 months, power consumed per transistor is is decreasing about 10% every 18 months. See a problem?
While computer are getting more efficient at doing the same amount of work, their ability to do more work out paces their ability to use less peak power.
nVidia said their next gen GPUs that will be out in ~2013, will be 16 times more gflops and 8 times less power per gflop. All I see is 2xs as much power. Except GPUs capable of ~500watts.
Intel's trigate tech will temporarily reduce power consumed, but the over all pace is more peak power.
The tank nor the shell are destroyed, they're transformed.
I've driven 85mph on the interstate after freezing rain but no wind . The back end was fish-tailing and the car sliding left and right, but the general rule of physics is, you keep moving int he same direction. I actually was able to turn the wheel 1/4 turn at 85, and the car kept going strait. That slippery.
Front wheel drive and constantly keeping the wheels strait keeps your car moving in the correct direction. Any time I had to change direction, like a turn, I slowed down well before hand, as even a mild bend on the interstate, even at 45, caused my car to slide a bit. It was crazy slippery
Similar thing in the city. Was going 50 in a 45 after freezing rain. I passed up someone who was going 20. The lights were green, but I knew they have been green for a while, so I started to slow down early. Lights changed and I was able to come to a full stop several feet before the cross walk. The other guy who was going 20... well, they slid right through the intersection and went into the ditch.. it was REALLY slippery.
I live in a heavy winter area. I can't count how many times I was speeding in icy conditions, was able to stop for stop signs and light, while other people who were going well under the limit, slid right through because they didn't slow down ahead of time.
The general public are idiots.
Ice is easy.. pretend you're in space. Changing your velocity is hard, so make sure you add time, and account for unknowns, like an intersection with a 2 way stop sign. Just because you have the right away, if you're driving fast and the person at the stop doesn't know that, they'll probably pull out in front of you, so slow down. Assume the other drivers are dangerous.
If I can't tell if a car is coming up to a stop sign because of Line-of-Site issues, I assume someone is, so I slow down.
P.S. I hate anti-lock breaks in the winter. Their pulses are so hard, they just cause your wheels to lock. I actually find letting off the gas pedal and letting the car coast is faster at slowing down the car on glare ice, than hitting the breaks. The engine drag is more analog and finds a better sweet spot than your ABS pulse-locking your wheels. Similar with manual car, put in high gear and let the engine drag slow you down. Well, for me this works on really really slippery ice.
Car safety features are to lessen the damage one takes from an accident, not really much to prevent them. Also, the fact that your car is now gone is a huge monetary penalty for not being safe, rather than being damaged for life.
I tend to be more concerned about other people's kids as I don't know them as well and assume the worst. You know your own kids better, so you know what they can take.
Hopefully the contract has some sort of exit clause. I know my car insurance does. You do stupid shit and they don't have to cover.
Black-box shows you speeding, no coverage, no seat-belt on, no coverage. And many more examples.
Once could even argue definitions of words. If your car insurance covers "accidents" and you're speeding, it may no longer be considered an "accident" as your speeding was deliberate.
Accident != Negligence
Just tossing around some ideas.
You made the horrible assumption that the law is just.
You do realize that we have trail by jury because the government use to make laws specifically against the lower class. Doing a trial by jury allowed the laws to be made useless, otherwise the judge would have to up-hold those laws.
Stealing bread from a rich man? Life in the stocks. "We find him not guilt" "ohhh damn"
" and there's been no promises of increased selection either"
They did say they wanted to widen their streaming movie selection, but I guess that's not the same as increasing it.
When I was IT in college, I got to talking to a professor while working on his computer and he said the worst kids of all are the ones with over-protective parents. He said a kid is better off living with parents who doesn't care and/or pay no attention, than overly-protective ones.
A recent trial in Florida actually pulled in juriours from a neighboring city/county because they could not find unbiased people from the local one.
I like your "democratically elected laws of the country". I chuckled.
Which is why MS is adding official CentOS support to HyperV, which is why an MS employee is president of the C++ standards committee, which is why MS is helping AMD with their opensource framework to make threading easier and cross-platform, which is why MS is offering help for any platform to implement C++AMP, which is what AMD's FUSION framework is based on and AMD is pouring resources into making this fully opensource and MS is helping them do it.
MS seems to be in a transition right now, only time will tell if they "stay evil"
Because implementing failover and live-migration into every piece of software is a great idea? Just do it at the OS level. Applications shouldn't have to worry about hardware, SANs, etc.
Test environments are greatly simplified.
Soon you'll be telling us how protected memory is bad, we need to do away with operating systems, and the internet is a failed concept.
They're adding in real-time socket communication to Javascript. If I was chatting with a friend and had to keep the window in focus, that would irk me. Good idea, but would definitely have to be optional. May be trusted sites?
AJAX reduces server load by removing excess postbacks. Pretty much any interactive website.
The problem are websites that don't require postbacks but use Javascript for random crap.
This guy is the John Carmack of security.
Bcrypt hash. Good luck brute-forcing that. Slow in software as well as hardware. Customizable computational time. Make even a dictionary attack take forever.
That and many websites have limits on password lengths and which chars you can use. I think they do this because they don't use hashing and/or they don't use parameterized inputs.
We need a law that you can never have "for any reason". A company should have to have rules stated and must abide by those rules. If it's not in the rules, they shouldn't be able to mess with your shit. A second part to that should be cherry picking is not allowed. If a company leaves up a listing/etc with a similar rule violation, but takes yours down, they should be fined for not following their own rules.