In EU (especially countries mentioned in the article) people are not hostile towards socialism. Also, this initiative doesn't necessarily lead to significantly increased taxes, while formally you'll pay taxes, you'll also get the basic income to even most of it out.
Well, Brexit was supposed to be politician vs politician kind of play. The guy who pushed for referendum didn't seriously consider the lave option to succeed, as it makes no sense whatsoever. It is a lose-lose for UK, as:
1) Look at Switzerland, they are not part of EU (no veto or any other rights whatsoever) but they do pay quite a lot for being part of the market 2) Germany and France were pushing for more federalization and UK was the only major player objecting it, now nothing will stop them 3) Leaving EU market would harm EU but will be much more harmful for UK
So, UK will either pay the same (if not more, as they had some "discounts" before) and lose veto rights or shoot itself into foot much harder with "hard brexit", which again would play for EU, demonstrating what happens to a country when it does that.
And to the dude speaking, he clearly said "in EU" and he was correct (in many EU countries people speak more than just English, by the way; Spanish doesn't seem to give a flying fuck about any language and as long as tourists go, German's are the most active ones etc etc) It was also before crucial presidential elections, stroking French nationalism a bit.
Except many "diversity issues" that are raised in numerous articles, are often not issues at all. The whole "diversity" concept (in this context "we need 50/50 split in fields where females are underrepresented" is questionable, to say the least, what makes us think that there are no inherent gender differences, that make people prefer one or another profession?
Why doesn't the force that forces females to be underrepresented in math, not work with biology, where they have become majority? Why does share of girls, given that they do better than boys on average in math, suddenly drop to under a third, if you only check for those with 700 points or higher?
Where are all the female hackers, you know, the self educated locked in the basement nerds who spend days and nights messing with computers?
I think there is a problem going both ways. There is a HUGE bunch of people seeking gender biases, and mind you, only vs certain gender. There is a HUGE number of articles that results from those effort, and I honestly stopped taking any of them seriously a while ago (pardon my bias).
Now, to the question: how on earth does one determine gender of the author of the code? And what should we do, if it was actually unknown and code gets rejected because of, you know, some other (you name them) reasons?
I hate what they did with Android 7. Icons with rounded corners (mkay, I can kinda disable it), but why, dear google, isn't it EASIER to quickly recognize icons when they have different shape? The quick access bar has become barely readable with tiny icons drawn with thin line.
Oh, and I don't like the circle icons of "material" thing at all either.
Oh, and I seem to like the touchwiz by the known company.
The original initiative was about chargers. European commission ("those useless bureaucrats") notices huge margins on (and lots of waste) generated by mobile phone chargers. All were requested to support standard USB charger and Apple DOES comply (I'm charging my S5 and my wife's Iphone 5 using Samsung's USB charger)
This regulation did NOT apply to connectors that were to be used on phones.
I normally use windoze anyhow, but for cases when I needed Linux, it was Ubuntu. Then, suddenly, desktop, start menu and taskbar that I was used to, were there no more.
Rants aside, care to explain why only 8% of nurses being male, 90%+ of at work accident victims being male is not a problem?
Or why there is only a handful of programs tackling prostate cancer (not covered by Obamacare either), which actually takes away more lives, than breast cancer (covered by Obamacare)?
Remember how we got to 64 bit CPUs? AMD did AMD64 thing. Microsoft said "no way I'd support to 64 bit versions" and Intel went with x86-64.
Now, x86-64 and AMD64 were nearly the same, but there still were differences in certain commands, of interest only to operating systems.
Another reason for OS to know exact version of CPU is scheduling tasks effectively. E.g. Ryzen 8 cores are internally 4+4 cores, each 4 with their own L3. Taking that into account can increase performance quite a bit.
At the end of the day, it's no big deal to add support for new CPUs, surely, but Microsoft has decided to use the opportunity and push Win 10 like that. Neither Ryzen nor Kaby Lake CPU get official support from Microsoft.
Slashdot Mirror
/look at Samsung S8 /faint
I think we need to know figures for other countries, to understand how good or bad it is.
In EU (especially countries mentioned in the article) people are not hostile towards socialism.
Also, this initiative doesn't necessarily lead to significantly increased taxes, while formally you'll pay taxes, you'll also get the basic income to even most of it out.
Well, Brexit was supposed to be politician vs politician kind of play.
The guy who pushed for referendum didn't seriously consider the lave option to succeed, as it makes no sense whatsoever.
It is a lose-lose for UK, as:
1) Look at Switzerland, they are not part of EU (no veto or any other rights whatsoever) but they do pay quite a lot for being part of the market
2) Germany and France were pushing for more federalization and UK was the only major player objecting it, now nothing will stop them
3) Leaving EU market would harm EU but will be much more harmful for UK
So, UK will either pay the same (if not more, as they had some "discounts" before) and lose veto rights or shoot itself into foot much harder with "hard brexit", which again would play for EU, demonstrating what happens to a country when it does that.
And to the dude speaking, he clearly said "in EU" and he was correct (in many EU countries people speak more than just English, by the way; Spanish doesn't seem to give a flying fuck about any language and as long as tourists go, German's are the most active ones etc etc)
It was also before crucial presidential elections, stroking French nationalism a bit.
All in all, smart move.
Except many "diversity issues" that are raised in numerous articles, are often not issues at all.
The whole "diversity" concept (in this context "we need 50/50 split in fields where females are underrepresented" is questionable, to say the least, what makes us think that there are no inherent gender differences, that make people prefer one or another profession?
Why doesn't the force that forces females to be underrepresented in math, not work with biology, where they have become majority?
Why does share of girls, given that they do better than boys on average in math, suddenly drop to under a third, if you only check for those with 700 points or higher?
Where are all the female hackers, you know, the self educated locked in the basement nerds who spend days and nights messing with computers?
I've seen articles on slashdot
Is it that different from being afraid to look like a nerd for boys?
I think there is a problem going both ways.
There is a HUGE bunch of people seeking gender biases, and mind you, only vs certain gender.
There is a HUGE number of articles that results from those effort, and I honestly stopped taking any of them seriously a while ago (pardon my bias).
Now, to the question: how on earth does one determine gender of the author of the code?
And what should we do, if it was actually unknown and code gets rejected because of, you know, some other (you name them) reasons?
I hate what they did with Android 7.
Icons with rounded corners (mkay, I can kinda disable it), but why, dear google, isn't it EASIER to quickly recognize icons when they have different shape?
The quick access bar has become barely readable with tiny icons drawn with thin line.
Oh, and I don't like the circle icons of "material" thing at all either.
Oh, and I seem to like the touchwiz by the known company.
Samsung should be paying me, I guess.
The original initiative was about chargers.
European commission ("those useless bureaucrats") notices huge margins on (and lots of waste) generated by mobile phone chargers.
All were requested to support standard USB charger and Apple DOES comply (I'm charging my S5 and my wife's Iphone 5 using Samsung's USB charger)
This regulation did NOT apply to connectors that were to be used on phones.
Safety measures required in case of hydrogen are much more complex. (and consequences of big bada buhm with hydrogen is no joke either)
Mirai uses 70 MPa high-pressure hydrogen tanks.
That's 700 times atmosphere pressure. (dear god...)
I'm pretty sure you never heard of this thing:
"Women are wonderful" effect
"Gender bias" sounds a bit ironic, with that in mind.
I stopped using ubuntu.
I normally use windoze anyhow, but for cases when I needed Linux, it was Ubuntu.
Then, suddenly, desktop, start menu and taskbar that I was used to, were there no more.
Tried mint/arch, liked both, still using.
We only know Woz's name, because of Jobs.
It take an ass**le with huge ego to create "reality distortion field".
I'd say it is rather because "numerous studies" don't show anything like that, or please, be so kind to link them.
Apple with humble dude as Wozniak instead of ass**le like Steve Jobbs wouldn't achieve shit, get real.
But I wouldn't call them "electric".
480 has 36 units (AMD's "Polaris" chip, competitor of 6Gb version of 1060)
PS4 Pro has kinda weaker 470 (no serious competition on nVidia side, price wise it is close to 1050Ti, but it is 30% faster)
CPU is still Jaguar, although on a new process node and much higher clocks.
All in all, it is a faster than PS4 Pro "Xbox One Pro" from Microsoft.
Much more serious jumps will become possible in 2019, when Zen and Vega mature.
That doesn't answer the "why buy expensive, if there are cheaper alternatives" question though, does it?
Rants aside, care to explain why only 8% of nurses being male, 90%+ of at work accident victims being male is not a problem?
Or why there is only a handful of programs tackling prostate cancer (not covered by Obamacare either), which actually takes away more lives, than breast cancer (covered by Obamacare)?
Is it women are wonderful effect or something else?
Married man (regardless if with kids or not) also earn significantly more, on average, than singles.
And, last time I checked, in big US cities single women earn much more (about 20%) than single men.
In my humble opinion married women simply do not consider their salary to be that important.
Like ASUS router using OpenWRT. Think again.
Adobe's decision to stop support on mobile devices was the deadly blow.
Just remember that what you said is merely an idea, not even theory, let alone, fact.
Wow, downvoted the parent, seriously?
Remember how we got to 64 bit CPUs?
AMD did AMD64 thing.
Microsoft said "no way I'd support to 64 bit versions" and Intel went with x86-64.
Now, x86-64 and AMD64 were nearly the same, but there still were differences in certain commands, of interest only to operating systems.
Another reason for OS to know exact version of CPU is scheduling tasks effectively. E.g. Ryzen 8 cores are internally 4+4 cores, each 4 with their own L3. Taking that into account can increase performance quite a bit.
At the end of the day, it's no big deal to add support for new CPUs, surely, but Microsoft has decided to use the opportunity and push Win 10 like that.
Neither Ryzen nor Kaby Lake CPU get official support from Microsoft.
But Windows 7 still boots, to my knowledge:
http://www.pcgamer.com/amd-con...
The fact that she actually receives bonuses for running a company from fail to epic fail deserves some credit too..