"You're potentially losing 50% of the problem solving skills, assuming men and women are equally capable."
That more assumes that we'd double the amount of candidates by having more women. I think more skilled women in CS/engineering would result in fewer not-so-skilled people in general. When a profession starts to hit saturation, people who aren't as good or don't enjoy, tend to get weeded out first.
I also watch an interesting video lecture from Google about how women problem solve differently than men and could result in new ideas/etc.
What you said applies to all people. I always enjoyed computer and spent LOTS of time learning how and why. I know lots of men who can work with computers, but don't understand what's going on behind the scenes.
CS/Engineering/etc is already filled with 'posers' anyway. They took it because it was the 'popular' hot track to some decent pay and you sat around all day getting payed to think.
Most of the people in my Computer Information Systems(CIS) Major were men, most of them took it to help them in locking a job with their Business Major. Of the 3 girls, one liked to design things, and the other 2 were in Business also.
Everyone who didn't do CIS because they liked computers, all said they hated programming/etc and they hoped to never get stuck working with computers as their primary job.
Of these business people, they either get suck doing what they hate, computers, or being a manager.
How many women will take a job that they hate? Especially a non-social job that requires lots of effort and good reasoning skills and you get crap pay if you're not that good.
i understand nuclear matericals decaying so we don't have easy access to them as an energy source, but stable atoms are usually good for a long long time.
I like to think that a smaller blackhole of ma'b 500 million suns gets sling-shotted at earth near the speed of light be a large blackhole. Then we never knew we died. should be near instant.
or the "slow roast" death of the sun swelling after a few billion years.
too bad you're not comparing AMD's new chip against Intel's new chip. Intel's IO bandwidth is benchmarked at 15BG/s and AMD claims ~17GB/s. These numbers are pretty close for there to be a 'huge' difference.
On top of that, if you compare core for core, AMDs Shanghai is showing to be about 20-30% faster per clock than it's previous generaton while Intel is about 100% faster. and AMD is bragging about a minor % drop is power, while Intel about cut it in half (cpu power, not total platform power).
overall Intel is packing less heat/electricity, more raw CPU power, and simular IO bandwidth.
Lets see how this pans out
First off I acknowledge "I'm not going to call someone an idiot for their CPU choice" and " I recommend consumers try to stay OFF the "bleeding edge" "
As for AMD vs Intel. I find that after the P4 crap fest, Intel has been leading AMD is less power consumption, less heat, better overclocking. For a non-overclocking grandma who doesn't care if their comp generates a few extra watts of heat, this is all good.
The new Core i7 with 4 cores and 8 virtual threads has been tieing dual quad core Xeons. That puts it exactly 2xs faster than it's previous generation. Not only that, but people have gotten the first batches of chips to overlock to ~4.4ghz air cooled and 5.4ghz fridge cooled and run reliably. It also seems that the Core i7 used 1/2 the power to do the same work and when idle, used about 1/10th the power(15.5 watts total at idle). Now if you have a dual socket core i7 and use it for your home system, those dual CPUs will only use ~30watts idle and sub 60watts when playing video games that don't use all the cpus. That's a lot of raw CPU power on-demand with almost no electricity cost.(power usuage was cpu usuage, not total system. The buss links also close channels/etc to reduce power draw when less system I/O is going on)
"Breathing is bad for you! Hyperventilating can result in a situation where you remove too much CO2 from your bloodstream leading to a failure of the breathing reflex, resulting in hypoxia and in extreme cases brain damage or death)."
I had to add to this one and change it up a bit
CO2 is good for you! Hyperventilating can result in a situation where you remove too much CO2 from your bloodstream leading to a failure of the breathing reflex, resulting in hypoxia and in extreme cases brain damage or death).
CO2 is bad for you! Not breathing enough can result in an increase of CO2 in your blood and cause your blood to become acidic, not to mention that you can die from no O2!
"[...]more power-efficient architectures like ARM or PowerPC[...]"
Actually, the main different in "architecture" power-efficiency is the decoding unit. Decoding units haven't really increased in size over the years and they take up less and less relative power/die as more cache/logic gets added. It's more of an issue of goals. Those Sun cpu's where 8 alu's share a single fpu are great at low power usuage because they don't waste as much die implmenting an fpu for each core. I
f intel/amd released something simular, they could reduce power usuage/leakage, but then they couldn't re-release the same chips for consumer grade hardware. Who would want to buy an 8/12 core system with 1 fpu? Different goals.
Make the buddy system only affect people with lower karma. And the buddy has to be someone with higher karma. If the higher karma person approves a post and the post gets smacked down as a flamer, then the higher karma person gets a sligh drop in karma and can't approve buddy posts for a bit.
just another idea. the main thing is it only affects people with low karma or tend to flame a lot.
"[...]Assuming that they're then using a standard symmetric key to encrypt the link it's still theoretically breakable[...]"
depends on what you mean by "theoretically". According to my cousins professor in his Computer Science Encrption course, if you had a *perfect* 256bit symmetric key encryption, if you counted just bit flips and no other inefficiency of the system, on average it would take more energy to break the key than there is usable energy in the known universe.
and from what I've read about quantum computing, a quantum computer is only about 2xs faster than a regularcomputer at breaking symmetric key encrtion, so no hope there; but they really shine on asymetric sinceyou already have part of the key.
All we need is a 512bit symetic key and you're screwed for theory unless there's a HUGE mathematical flaw in it. And most of the known flaws in the current AES are theorectical and haven't been proven, that I know of.
Bah. I say in order to run for President that you have atleast a PHD in Politics, Economics, or Religion. And also all pertinent questions relating to current issues and you being eligable to being elected must have your answers peer-reviewed with a large(whatever is concidered large for peer-reviews) acceptance by other people with PHDs in the area the question pertains.
We need a way for high-level educators, who educate because they're good what they do, help filter out bad candidates.
actually, Blizz reduced the exp requirements per level, upped the exp per kill and exp per quest, made quests soloable, made gear better, lower the gold costs of mounts, lowered the required lvl for mounts.
They made it a ton easier. I know people who could level 1-60 in under a week with any class before these changes.
My state capital college is ~$6k/sem for a masters and we rank top 10 world wide in several areas. Heck, a good portion of our state college funds are paid by royalties for owning patents ranging from Putting viatamin D in milk to a widely used procedure work working with stem cells. I know computer engineers that were freshmen, 2 weeks in, and already got called by Intel and AMD asking what they plan to do once they graduate. Education is cheap.. it's living in the city that costs $$$. Even then, it made top 5 places to live in the USA a few times.
I thought the Army/Navy/etc is suppose to protect the Constituion, even from the President. If this is the case, then we shouldn't have to pay taxes for military spending until they correct the situation.
you can make back-ups of your DVDs, but you're not allowed to circumvent CSS, otherwise you run afoul of the DMCA.
In other words, 'We don't care if you copy our disks, but we encrypted them with pig-latin and breaking that encryption is illigal'
As far as 'I' care, all programs are just really large numbers in binary form. Not sure how you copyright a number.
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And I thought going 26mph could cause me to explode from the speed! The only thing that exploded was me poop'n me pants because I thought I was gonna die. Now I know not to believe the crazy people.
Btrfs is a new FS in development but sounds very promising. It's aimed towards large storage systems and has checksums/transactional writes/all that jazz. It's meant to be resilient against corruption and incorrect shutdowns. Also, it's targetted at large storage.
according to medicare, you're 'only' suppose to carry your SS card if you plan on getting hurt.
eg. If you aren't going to get hurt, don't carry your card; but if you do get hurt, you'd better have it on you
As soon as you follow a set of rules or are in any way affected by anything, then you no longer have free will. Since having a free will would mean that outside influences can't affect you. Yet even in this means that if you have a change in your life, eg. you get fired or mood swings or emotions for that matter, you no longer have free will.
On the flip side, if you where random and unaffected by outside influences, you would have no control and would no longer have a will of any sort.
I think the idea of free will is a paradox in itself.
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"You're potentially losing 50% of the problem solving skills, assuming men and women are equally capable."
That more assumes that we'd double the amount of candidates by having more women. I think more skilled women in CS/engineering would result in fewer not-so-skilled people in general. When a profession starts to hit saturation, people who aren't as good or don't enjoy, tend to get weeded out first.
I also watch an interesting video lecture from Google about how women problem solve differently than men and could result in new ideas/etc.
What you said applies to all people. I always enjoyed computer and spent LOTS of time learning how and why. I know lots of men who can work with computers, but don't understand what's going on behind the scenes.
CS/Engineering/etc is already filled with 'posers' anyway. They took it because it was the 'popular' hot track to some decent pay and you sat around all day getting payed to think.
Most of the people in my Computer Information Systems(CIS) Major were men, most of them took it to help them in locking a job with their Business Major. Of the 3 girls, one liked to design things, and the other 2 were in Business also.
Everyone who didn't do CIS because they liked computers, all said they hated programming/etc and they hoped to never get stuck working with computers as their primary job.
Of these business people, they either get suck doing what they hate, computers, or being a manager.
How many women will take a job that they hate? Especially a non-social job that requires lots of effort and good reasoning skills and you get crap pay if you're not that good.
i understand nuclear matericals decaying so we don't have easy access to them as an energy source, but stable atoms are usually good for a long long time.
I like to think that a smaller blackhole of ma'b 500 million suns gets sling-shotted at earth near the speed of light be a large blackhole. Then we never knew we died. should be near instant. or the "slow roast" death of the sun swelling after a few billion years.
too bad you're not comparing AMD's new chip against Intel's new chip. Intel's IO bandwidth is benchmarked at 15BG/s and AMD claims ~17GB/s. These numbers are pretty close for there to be a 'huge' difference. On top of that, if you compare core for core, AMDs Shanghai is showing to be about 20-30% faster per clock than it's previous generaton while Intel is about 100% faster. and AMD is bragging about a minor % drop is power, while Intel about cut it in half (cpu power, not total platform power). overall Intel is packing less heat/electricity, more raw CPU power, and simular IO bandwidth. Lets see how this pans out
other than my cousin's p100 managed almost 2xs the fps as my cyrix 233+.. cyrix had no fpu.. :*(
other than that, your argument holds mostly true to now-a-days and simular performing chips.
First off I acknowledge
"I'm not going to call someone an idiot for their CPU choice" and " I recommend consumers try to stay OFF the "bleeding edge" "
As for AMD vs Intel. I find that after the P4 crap fest, Intel has been leading AMD is less power consumption, less heat, better overclocking. For a non-overclocking grandma who doesn't care if their comp generates a few extra watts of heat, this is all good.
The new Core i7 with 4 cores and 8 virtual threads has been tieing dual quad core Xeons. That puts it exactly 2xs faster than it's previous generation. Not only that, but people have gotten the first batches of chips to overlock to ~4.4ghz air cooled and 5.4ghz fridge cooled and run reliably. It also seems that the Core i7 used 1/2 the power to do the same work and when idle, used about 1/10th the power(15.5 watts total at idle). Now if you have a dual socket core i7 and use it for your home system, those dual CPUs will only use ~30watts idle and sub 60watts when playing video games that don't use all the cpus. That's a lot of raw CPU power on-demand with almost no electricity cost.(power usuage was cpu usuage, not total system. The buss links also close channels/etc to reduce power draw when less system I/O is going on)
Better hope AMD made this chip good.
"Breathing is bad for you!
Hyperventilating can result in a situation where you remove too much CO2 from your bloodstream leading to a failure of the breathing reflex, resulting in hypoxia and in extreme cases brain damage or death)."
I had to add to this one and change it up a bit
CO2 is good for you!
Hyperventilating can result in a situation where you remove too much CO2 from your bloodstream leading to a failure of the breathing reflex, resulting in hypoxia and in extreme cases brain damage or death).
CO2 is bad for you!
Not breathing enough can result in an increase of CO2 in your blood and cause your blood to become acidic, not to mention that you can die from no O2!
"[...]No changeable MAC addresses[...]"
You can output any combination of 1s and 0s through your network card, I'd like to see this one.
"[...]more power-efficient architectures like ARM or PowerPC[...]"
Actually, the main different in "architecture" power-efficiency is the decoding unit. Decoding units haven't really increased in size over the years and they take up less and less relative power/die as more cache/logic gets added. It's more of an issue of goals. Those Sun cpu's where 8 alu's share a single fpu are great at low power usuage because they don't waste as much die implmenting an fpu for each core. I
f intel/amd released something simular, they could reduce power usuage/leakage, but then they couldn't re-release the same chips for consumer grade hardware. Who would want to buy an 8/12 core system with 1 fpu? Different goals.
freenet isn't suseful just because of lack of popularity. It's also not very efficient with data, but it is VERY resilient
there are only 3 known attacks.
Man-in-the-middle to trick freenet into thinking they're someone else. and requires deep network access like at the ISP to reroute your traffic
an ISP grade check to make sure that all of the nodes you're connected to are being controlled as to find out if you're inserting illigal data
both can be thwarted by it's new dark-net feature; which also assumes you go by a physical mean to by-pass man in the middle.
and the infamous, make Freenet illigal because they can't pin a person who uses it because of lack of evidence.
Make the buddy system only affect people with lower karma. And the buddy has to be someone with higher karma. If the higher karma person approves a post and the post gets smacked down as a flamer, then the higher karma person gets a sligh drop in karma and can't approve buddy posts for a bit. just another idea. the main thing is it only affects people with low karma or tend to flame a lot.
"[...]Assuming that they're then using a standard symmetric key to encrypt the link it's still theoretically breakable[...]" depends on what you mean by "theoretically". According to my cousins professor in his Computer Science Encrption course, if you had a *perfect* 256bit symmetric key encryption, if you counted just bit flips and no other inefficiency of the system, on average it would take more energy to break the key than there is usable energy in the known universe. and from what I've read about quantum computing, a quantum computer is only about 2xs faster than a regularcomputer at breaking symmetric key encrtion, so no hope there; but they really shine on asymetric sinceyou already have part of the key. All we need is a 512bit symetic key and you're screwed for theory unless there's a HUGE mathematical flaw in it. And most of the known flaws in the current AES are theorectical and haven't been proven, that I know of.
Bah. I say in order to run for President that you have atleast a PHD in Politics, Economics, or Religion. And also all pertinent questions relating to current issues and you being eligable to being elected must have your answers peer-reviewed with a large(whatever is concidered large for peer-reviews) acceptance by other people with PHDs in the area the question pertains.
We need a way for high-level educators, who educate because they're good what they do, help filter out bad candidates.
actually, Blizz reduced the exp requirements per level, upped the exp per kill and exp per quest, made quests soloable, made gear better, lower the gold costs of mounts, lowered the required lvl for mounts. They made it a ton easier. I know people who could level 1-60 in under a week with any class before these changes.
I say we plant maple trees and extract the sweet-sweet C02 during the fall/winter.
My state capital college is ~$6k/sem for a masters and we rank top 10 world wide in several areas. Heck, a good portion of our state college funds are paid by royalties for owning patents ranging from Putting viatamin D in milk to a widely used procedure work working with stem cells. I know computer engineers that were freshmen, 2 weeks in, and already got called by Intel and AMD asking what they plan to do once they graduate. Education is cheap.. it's living in the city that costs $$$. Even then, it made top 5 places to live in the USA a few times.
I thought the Army/Navy/etc is suppose to protect the Constituion, even from the President. If this is the case, then we shouldn't have to pay taxes for military spending until they correct the situation.
you can make back-ups of your DVDs, but you're not allowed to circumvent CSS, otherwise you run afoul of the DMCA.
In other words, 'We don't care if you copy our disks, but we encrypted them with pig-latin and breaking that encryption is illigal'
As far as 'I' care, all programs are just really large numbers in binary form. Not sure how you copyright a number.
And I thought going 26mph could cause me to explode from the speed! The only thing that exploded was me poop'n me pants because I thought I was gonna die. Now I know not to believe the crazy people.
Btrfs is a new FS in development but sounds very promising. It's aimed towards large storage systems and has checksums/transactional writes/all that jazz. It's meant to be resilient against corruption and incorrect shutdowns. Also, it's targetted at large storage.
according to medicare, you're 'only' suppose to carry your SS card if you plan on getting hurt. eg. If you aren't going to get hurt, don't carry your card; but if you do get hurt, you'd better have it on you
How many orders of magnitude would one have to increase breaking 256bit Serpent to make it relative to one life time?... :P
As soon as you follow a set of rules or are in any way affected by anything, then you no longer have free will. Since having a free will would mean that outside influences can't affect you. Yet even in this means that if you have a change in your life, eg. you get fired or mood swings or emotions for that matter, you no longer have free will.
On the flip side, if you where random and unaffected by outside influences, you would have no control and would no longer have a will of any sort.
I think the idea of free will is a paradox in itself.
#1 and #2 kind of go together since radioactivity contributes to the heat of the earth and has been doing this well before man was around.