That's called the "bodybuilder problem". The vast, vast majority of people with BMIs over 30 are obese.
It's also called "bullshit", because everyone and their dog on the internet claims to run afoul of the BMI due to their extremely athletic builds. Pics or it didn't happen. Internet Claims 101.
Don't blame people for their own shortsightedness and stupidity? I think I'll do just that. They should be doing their own research to begin with.
You should be doing your on research as well. Looking things up online doesn't count. You're just reading someone else's research, or a reductive article based on yet another person's research. Until you're going out there and counting the pennies yourself, you're not really baking your own apple pie from scratch.
99.9999% of people have no choice but to be shortsighted and stupid when all the information presented to them is shortsighted, and stupid (spun, manipulated, or outright wrong). Saying they should have done their own research is about as salient a point as my telling you you should have grown your own trees for lumber after you bought a cord of wood that turned out to be rotted out.
The way I looked at it when I thought about it was that the more different people you'd face in Jeopardy the more likely you'd come across someone that could absolutely clean your clock. Given that I had thought it was in your best interest to face a few different people as possible, and you could do that by getting tie and facing the same guy a second time. (Versus facing a new person that might be much better.)
You have an equal chance of getting a new guy who's much worse. And the new guy won't have the experience of playing against you that the old guy will. You'd have to balance the perceived ability of the current player against the perceived ability of the average Jeopardy! player against the extra money you could have if you increase your wager. And of course that's all further weighed against your confidence in solving a clue in the given category (you don't see the clue until after you wager, only the category). Intentionally tying is absolutely stupid unless your opponent happens to be an utter retard who you know you can beat again.
It's all moot though, because then the show's producers decide that it's time for your antics to stop, it'll stop. Right now, it's got people talking about Jeopardy! so they want it to continue.
Well... we live in a world where there are some schools which does not grade their students - for fearing of "discouraging those students who are under performing".
And then there are schools which bans "zero marks" - even for the students who failed at every single questions in the exam.
So I guess the answer to your question is a definite "YES".
Don't forget - they ban the color red for marking texts and assignments.
On Comedy Central. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.... One of the most effective designs, the wedge was also the most painfully uninteresting to watch.
The most effective design was the robot with a rifle strapped to it. They didn't allow it in. Alternatively, there's ExplodeBot. He's just a few pounds of C4. Sure he's never won a match, but since he always draws he's still technically undefeated.
Hold it, there are people who are too stupid to appear on Jeopardy? And we still let them vote?
Now the whole shit in D.C. starts to make sense...
And just to further drive this home (for the people who are too stupid to get on Jeopardy!): This means there are people who are dumber than Wolf Blitzer, and who are allowed to vote, after an entire year of watching Blitzer's election coverage.
He's also quickly buzzing for questions that he knows he can't answer, just to deprive someone else from being able to answer them, lol. He's what the RPG community calls a "power gamer." It's actually kind of awesome to watch.
Wrong. If you buzz in and get it wrong or don't provide an answer, the other contestants have the opportunity to answer, get the points, and gain control of the board.
Since it's wireless, it can display even more whateverthefuck on whateverthefuck, as it can receive from all sorts of phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops that don't have HDMI ports. Just need WiFi and an app or program that use this API.
Since it's wireless, it can display from multiple devices without having to physically connect and disconnect each device
Since it's wireless, multiple devices can control the display at the same time (YouTube allows multiple devices to queue up videos, for instance).
In fact, it's not even required that the device that started the video stay in contact. For some streaming, if you start the video with your phone and then need to leave, the video will keep streaming for others even if you take your phone with you.
Basically it's perfect for cord-cutters looking to stream content to their TV, as almost anything you can stream over the web can be redirected to the Chromecast as long as the developers implement the API. And it's pretty cheap too.
Literally the only benefit I see to these things is that they're wireless. I get that some people like that, but I myself prefer to use a cable between my source and display so I don't have to deal with video quality / latency issues or limited compatibility. As far as I know, these dongles don't actually do anything beyond acting as a virtual cable. With all the buzz about Chromecast, I thought there was something key feature I was just missing.
It sounds like you're missing the part where you have to plug your vaunted HDMI cable into something. Perhaps you have a HTPC or a Plex Server. Who knows? But the Chromecast costs $35 (and was on sale for $25) so you can stream without having to set up a HTPC.
You have to connect the WiDi/Miracast/Chromecast dongles to something too. Whether it's a PC or a phone, it's no different than using a cable. There has to be a source.
Don't hire a coder to do a software developer's job. Developers Developers Developers.
Quite backwards, in my experience. The more shit you feel the need to add to your title, the less capable you probably are.
If you're a programmer you can probably program.
If you're a software engineer, you probably think you can program, but really rely almost entirely on other programmers, an IDE, someone else's libraries, tools, APIs, etc. to do the real work while you focus on promising users and PHBs functionality and changes without understanding how shit actual works or what the impact of those changes you promised will be.
If you're a project manager, you probably programmed something a decade ago and have unrealistic expectations of how shit and people will and should work.
If your title includes references to "as a service", "cloud hosting", "rich media", etc., then you're really nothing more than a middle man selling someone else's shit to idiots who don't realize they're buying marketing fluff they don't want or need.
This applies to all sectors. You can be the regional head of marketing and development for social media by being a 38 year old overweight lumpus if you've been at the company a while and have a nephew who has a Twitter account.
How is any of this shit any better than simply using an HDMI cable?
The tiny benefit of it being wireless pales in comparison to the compatibility issues and added cost. With an HDMI cable I can display whateverthefuck on whateverthefuck, With an HDMI cable I can get proper surround sound, a full quality stream, having my remote work through CEC, having ethernet piped down the HDMI, etc. etc. etc.
West coast best coast as usual. We have infinite sunshine AND In N Out.
Not in Washington we don't... "West coast" != "Southern California".
What I said is still true. There's over 600 miles of West coast that has infinite sunshine and an In N Out close by. "West coast has" != "Every point along the West coast has".
Mod parent up. This use of "schizophrenic" is both inconsiderate of the mentally ill and ineffectual for the speaker. It's based on the confusion of schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder, which is an unrelated illness. "Schizophrenia" doesn't mean "split brain", as you might naively guess. It's more like the brain bring broken. The author wasn't trying to say that software is psychotic. He should have chosen his words better.
there is no really good reason that a tiny, tiny bit of peanut butter in a large meal won't work.
Yes there is. Peanut butter, no matter how well you stir it, will have random clumps of the allergen and people will die. More stirring does not solve the problem. Random does not mean equal distribution. It means random distribution, some of which will be in larger clumps.
Stirring does not mean random distribution. Stirring homogenizes a batch, evening out distribution of mixtures and concentrations of solutions. You ever stir lemon juice and sugar into a pitcher of water? I defy you to do it until the sugar is dissolved, pour two cups, and end up with 1 cup that's too weak and 1 cup that's too strong. It's not going to fucking happen. All commercial peanut butter brands are also homogenized, in massive batches. You're not going to get a weak jar of Skippy one day and a strong jar the next.
Test case 3: High-end single-player with multiple GPUs CPU: Intel Core i7-3970x Extreme, 12 logical cores @ 3.5 GHz GPU: 2x AMD Radeon R9 290x 4 GB Settings: 1080p ULTRA 4x MSAA OS: Windows 8 64-bit Level: South China Sea “Broken Flight Deck” This single-player scene is heavy on both the CPU and GPU with lots of action going on. Test was done on the highest end Intel CPU on Windows 8, which is the fastest option before Mantle thanks to DirectX 11.1. Still this CPU is not fast enough to keep the 2 290x GPUs fed at 1080p on Ultra settings so we get a significant CPU performance bottleneck which results in major performance improvement when enabling Mantle. Result: 13.24 ms/f -> = 8.38 ms/f = 58% faster
A console for Android games?? What a clever and original idea!
I said, before the Ouya was released that it would not be a smashing success, but it will be a success and well it was. A minor success.
Is this Bizarro world? The Ouya was a massive failure in terms of both hardware and software figures. They released it in a broken state (the controls are trash) and there were no damned games worth playing on it. On the off chance someone wanted to play your crappy mobile game on their TV, they'd just pirate it anyway because lol Android.
They're chasing a market that doesn't exist, and they're going to double down with the 2.0 model which will allegedly have working controls and even more of a lack of worthwhile games.
Thee Wii actually had a software attach ratio of between 9 and 12 depending on how you count certain games (some people don't count Wii Sports because it was bundled with the hardware, but it was only bundled in certain territories, similarly for Wii Play which was bundled with a controller, or Wii Fit which was bundled with the balance board).
No, people are making up a technical definition. There is no requirement that an emulator be software emulating hardware. All computer systems are a combination of hardware in software. An emulator is computer system - be it hardware or software or both - that mimics another computer system - be it hardware or software or both.
Wine: an emulator of the win32 API+ABI on POSIX+X. WinXP/Vista/7/8: an emulator of the win32 API+ABI on NT.
Neither is native in this sense.
WINE is an emulator of specific implementations of the Win32 API (those found in various Windows binaries). Various versions of Windows implement the Win32 API. There is no "native" implementation of the API. There may be a single original implementation, a single complete/up-to-date implementation, a single official implementation, etc., but the word "native" means absolutely nothing here since the Win32 API is an API. Nativity has to do with birth. If you want to consider the origin of / first implementation of the Win32 API as its "nativity", then the first Windows binaries that implemented it would be considered "native".
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That's called the "bodybuilder problem". The vast, vast majority of people with BMIs over 30 are obese.
It's also called "bullshit", because everyone and their dog on the internet claims to run afoul of the BMI due to their extremely athletic builds.
Pics or it didn't happen. Internet Claims 101.
dont blame the voters
Don't blame people for their own shortsightedness and stupidity? I think I'll do just that. They should be doing their own research to begin with.
You should be doing your on research as well. Looking things up online doesn't count. You're just reading someone else's research, or a reductive article based on yet another person's research. Until you're going out there and counting the pennies yourself, you're not really baking your own apple pie from scratch.
99.9999% of people have no choice but to be shortsighted and stupid when all the information presented to them is shortsighted, and stupid (spun, manipulated, or outright wrong). Saying they should have done their own research is about as salient a point as my telling you you should have grown your own trees for lumber after you bought a cord of wood that turned out to be rotted out.
that butt's uncalled for!
The way I looked at it when I thought about it was that the more different people you'd face in Jeopardy the more likely you'd come across someone that could absolutely clean your clock. Given that I had thought it was in your best interest to face a few different people as possible, and you could do that by getting tie and facing the same guy a second time. (Versus facing a new person that might be much better.)
You have an equal chance of getting a new guy who's much worse. And the new guy won't have the experience of playing against you that the old guy will. You'd have to balance the perceived ability of the current player against the perceived ability of the average Jeopardy! player against the extra money you could have if you increase your wager. And of course that's all further weighed against your confidence in solving a clue in the given category (you don't see the clue until after you wager, only the category). Intentionally tying is absolutely stupid unless your opponent happens to be an utter retard who you know you can beat again.
It's all moot though, because then the show's producers decide that it's time for your antics to stop, it'll stop. Right now, it's got people talking about Jeopardy! so they want it to continue.
This isn't a Larson scenario. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
He said viewers complained he's too robotic, but the again his wife is named ELIZA.
Is it politically incorrect now to play to win?
Well ... we live in a world where there are some schools which does not grade their students - for fearing of "discouraging those students who are under performing".
And then there are schools which bans "zero marks" - even for the students who failed at every single questions in the exam.
So I guess the answer to your question is a definite "YES".
Don't forget - they ban the color red for marking texts and assignments.
On Comedy Central. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.... One of the most effective designs, the wedge was also the most painfully uninteresting to watch.
The most effective design was the robot with a rifle strapped to it. They didn't allow it in.
Alternatively, there's ExplodeBot. He's just a few pounds of C4. Sure he's never won a match, but since he always draws he's still technically undefeated.
Hold it, there are people who are too stupid to appear on Jeopardy? And we still let them vote?
Now the whole shit in D.C. starts to make sense...
And just to further drive this home (for the people who are too stupid to get on Jeopardy!):
This means there are people who are dumber than Wolf Blitzer, and who are allowed to vote, after an entire year of watching Blitzer's election coverage.
He's also quickly buzzing for questions that he knows he can't answer, just to deprive someone else from being able to answer them, lol. He's what the RPG community calls a "power gamer." It's actually kind of awesome to watch.
Wrong. If you buzz in and get it wrong or don't provide an answer, the other contestants have the opportunity to answer, get the points, and gain control of the board.
So he has to questions the answers! Not the other way around :D
In Jeopardy! it's referred to as "solving the clue".
Off the top of my head:
Basically it's perfect for cord-cutters looking to stream content to their TV, as almost anything you can stream over the web can be redirected to the Chromecast as long as the developers implement the API. And it's pretty cheap too.
Literally the only benefit I see to these things is that they're wireless. I get that some people like that, but I myself prefer to use a cable between my source and display so I don't have to deal with video quality / latency issues or limited compatibility. As far as I know, these dongles don't actually do anything beyond acting as a virtual cable. With all the buzz about Chromecast, I thought there was something key feature I was just missing.
It sounds like you're missing the part where you have to plug your vaunted HDMI cable into something. Perhaps you have a HTPC or a Plex Server. Who knows? But the Chromecast costs $35 (and was on sale for $25) so you can stream without having to set up a HTPC.
You have to connect the WiDi/Miracast/Chromecast dongles to something too. Whether it's a PC or a phone, it's no different than using a cable. There has to be a source.
Don't hire a coder to do a software developer's job. Developers Developers Developers.
Quite backwards, in my experience. The more shit you feel the need to add to your title, the less capable you probably are.
If you're a programmer you can probably program.
If you're a software engineer, you probably think you can program, but really rely almost entirely on other programmers, an IDE, someone else's libraries, tools, APIs, etc. to do the real work while you focus on promising users and PHBs functionality and changes without understanding how shit actual works or what the impact of those changes you promised will be.
If you're a project manager, you probably programmed something a decade ago and have unrealistic expectations of how shit and people will and should work.
If your title includes references to "as a service", "cloud hosting", "rich media", etc., then you're really nothing more than a middle man selling someone else's shit to idiots who don't realize they're buying marketing fluff they don't want or need.
This applies to all sectors. You can be the regional head of marketing and development for social media by being a 38 year old overweight lumpus if you've been at the company a while and have a nephew who has a Twitter account.
BTW, I thought I was making "lumpus" up. http://dictionary.reference.co... That shit just sounded right.
How is any of this shit any better than simply using an HDMI cable?
The tiny benefit of it being wireless pales in comparison to the compatibility issues and added cost. With an HDMI cable I can display whateverthefuck on whateverthefuck, With an HDMI cable I can get proper surround sound, a full quality stream, having my remote work through CEC, having ethernet piped down the HDMI, etc. etc. etc.
Probably because libertarians understand freedom better than you seem to.
You are free to not have these things forced on to you.
You are also free to sign a contract with your employer and surrender those rights.
Likewise, the government saying a company cannot implement these policies takes away the companys freedom to run their business as they see fit.
If you think you can "force" (by law or by gun) freedom then you don't understand what freedom is.
Hey look, a completely sensible and factual post that understands the simple concept of freedom, surely it will get modded up.
Oops, forgot I was on Slashdot.
Yeah, but that's only one tiny part of the space race --- America's the clear leader if you look at the big milestones, instead of just cherry-picking one isolated mission. Like, first satellite in orbit --- oops, ignore that. How about first human in space --- aww, shit; well they aren't really in space unless they can do the first spacewalk --- dang. Well, the free and equal US at least got the first woman in space... fooey. Well, near-earth is easy stuff anyway; how about first to reach another planet? Darn, but first to touch another planet... well, first to soft-land on another planet... shit. OK, first sample-return from outside earth... err, let's focus on what's really important in the space race...
USA Number One! USA! USA! USA!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
GGWP rest of the world.
Not in Washington we don't... "West coast" != "Southern California".
What I said is still true.
There's over 600 miles of West coast that has infinite sunshine and an In N Out close by.
"West coast has" != "Every point along the West coast has".
Living on the west coast, I just assumed we had gotten rid of that stuff.
West coast best coast as usual. We have infinite sunshine AND In N Out.
Mod parent up. This use of "schizophrenic" is both inconsiderate of the mentally ill and ineffectual for the speaker. It's based on the confusion of schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder, which is an unrelated illness. "Schizophrenia" doesn't mean "split brain", as you might naively guess. It's more like the brain bring broken. The author wasn't trying to say that software is psychotic. He should have chosen his words better.
STFU schizo.
Yes there is. Peanut butter, no matter how well you stir it, will have random clumps of the allergen and people will die. More stirring does not solve the problem. Random does not mean equal distribution. It means random distribution, some of which will be in larger clumps.
Stirring does not mean random distribution. Stirring homogenizes a batch, evening out distribution of mixtures and concentrations of solutions.
You ever stir lemon juice and sugar into a pitcher of water? I defy you to do it until the sugar is dissolved, pour two cups, and end up with 1 cup that's too weak and 1 cup that's too strong. It's not going to fucking happen.
All commercial peanut butter brands are also homogenized, in massive batches. You're not going to get a weak jar of Skippy one day and a strong jar the next.
I think you are missing a decimal point in that. I see single digit percentage increases.
http://battlelog.battlefield.c...
Test case 3: High-end single-player with multiple GPUs
CPU: Intel Core i7-3970x Extreme, 12 logical cores @ 3.5 GHz
GPU: 2x AMD Radeon R9 290x 4 GB
Settings: 1080p ULTRA 4x MSAA
OS: Windows 8 64-bit
Level: South China Sea “Broken Flight Deck”
This single-player scene is heavy on both the CPU and GPU with lots of action going on. Test was done on the highest end Intel CPU on Windows 8, which is the fastest option before Mantle thanks to DirectX 11.1. Still this CPU is not fast enough to keep the 2 290x GPUs fed at 1080p on Ultra settings so we get a significant CPU performance bottleneck which results in major performance improvement when enabling Mantle.
Result: 13.24 ms/f -> = 8.38 ms/f = 58% faster
A console for Android games?? What a clever and original idea!
I said, before the Ouya was released that it would not be a smashing success, but it will be a success and well it was. A minor success.
Is this Bizarro world? The Ouya was a massive failure in terms of both hardware and software figures. They released it in a broken state (the controls are trash) and there were no damned games worth playing on it. On the off chance someone wanted to play your crappy mobile game on their TV, they'd just pirate it anyway because lol Android.
They're chasing a market that doesn't exist, and they're going to double down with the 2.0 model which will allegedly have working controls and even more of a lack of worthwhile games.
Thee Wii actually had a software attach ratio of between 9 and 12 depending on how you count certain games (some people don't count Wii Sports because it was bundled with the hardware, but it was only bundled in certain territories, similarly for Wii Play which was bundled with a controller, or Wii Fit which was bundled with the balance board).
The PS3 and 360 had ratios between 9 and 11.
No, people are making up a technical definition.
There is no requirement that an emulator be software emulating hardware. All computer systems are a combination of hardware in software. An emulator is computer system - be it hardware or software or both - that mimics another computer system - be it hardware or software or both.
Wine: an emulator of the win32 API+ABI on POSIX+X.
WinXP/Vista/7/8: an emulator of the win32 API+ABI on NT.
Neither is native in this sense.
WINE is an emulator of specific implementations of the Win32 API (those found in various Windows binaries).
Various versions of Windows implement the Win32 API.
There is no "native" implementation of the API. There may be a single original implementation, a single complete/up-to-date implementation, a single official implementation, etc., but the word "native" means absolutely nothing here since the Win32 API is an API. Nativity has to do with birth.
If you want to consider the origin of / first implementation of the Win32 API as its "nativity", then the first Windows binaries that implemented it would be considered "native".