A better comparison would be Apples to Hand-Tools.
Limbaugh is a lapdog of the conservative movement, furthering their agenda through talking point propaganda. Stewart/Colbert aren't briefed ahead of time on what NOT to ask, and what points should be hand-fed to candidates.
Many Democrats refuse to go on Colbert/Stewart, for fear of their own hypocracy being played out. Stewart/Colbert don't let ideology get in the way: they focus on the craziness. Rush embraces and proliferates it, which is why he significantly lowers the discourse in this country.
Furthermore, polls show (and anecdotal experience shows) liberal don't listen to Rush, but conservatives watch Stewart/Colbert. I think that alone speaks volumes.
Perhaps if you actually watched the show your statement would appear more informed. Colbert is just as hard on democrats as republicans, which is why Pelosi banned democrats in congress from going on his show.
What was their basis for defining "neuroticism"? This is a very difficult condition to diagnose. The rest are also quite subjective, I would have liked to have known how they arose at just these criteria, and not something like "leadership" or "experienced". The criteria are so not-broad that I'm not surprised those narrow designations reinforced their conclusions.
Judging by your username's flaming cliche dorkiness, I'm guessing you are an average white male younger teen-aged nerd who plays a lot of video games and has little experience with women.
(Hah hah, the deck was loaded, that is 90% of the/. population!)
Thanks for clarifying. That's a very interesting strategy, although I still don't see what it has to do about "negotiating." I agree, it sounds prudent to compare one's current coverage and do a model to see if the premium savings from the HDHP comapred to regular costs plus HSA tax savings are a net gain. This should definitely be investigated by anyone of sound mind and body considering "going solo".
So don't have insurance and pay out of pocket instead if that works out to be cheaper. [etc.]
I see your point, but unfortuntely it is based on gambling that nothing bad will happen to you. Not having insurance is like competing in street luge without a helmet. Ah, to be 20 again and feel invincible! For reference: stitches cost a few hundred bucks, an X-ray and bone-setting costs under $10 grand. A real hospital visit costs about three month's salary, and a simple surgery is one year's salary. An anesthesiologist alone costs about $20k just to show up.
This one of many reasons why it is imperative to build up a strong financial position before reaching middle and old age, so that one is not limited in negotiations and options by bargaining from a position of weakness rather than a position of strength.
The first half of that is absolutely correct, but still it is a best-case scenario. Only the super-rich (or super lukcy) can afford the medical treatments associated with later life. I also sincerely doubt you will find a financial planner that says a good retirement plan shouldn't include insurance. As for the second half of that statement -- in the context of the first half -- it sounds like the babbling of a college freshman who just discovered Ayn Rand (hey, we've all been there). Maybe if you were talking about selling cars or negotiating a pay raise, yes, but expecting to negotiate with a surgeon while you're bleeding out is a tad naive, unless you go to Dr. Nick.
Basically, until a balance is found between Big Pharm's reckless profiteering and R&D costs needed to make useful products, health insurance will become a bigger and bigger problem. Perhaps the decision to allow drug ads on TV and in magazines in 1992 is partially responsible, but I digress.
That speaks for itself. You really have had very little experience, and people should take your anecdotal analysis with a grain of salt. I have had many W2 and 1099 jobs, and in the long run I greatly prefer the stability of W2 jobs, even though I really enjoyed the weird hours, huge paychecks, and random nature of my early contracting jobs.
I'd say try it before you get too old, or at least give moonlighting a shot.
Go solo, everyone.
1099 jobs are great when you are young, healthy, and full of piss and vinegar and can afford to start life over again if you screw up. If you want to go solo over age 30, make damn well sure you have a contingency plan, or are networked and diversified out the yin-yang.
Also, don't get sick! Unless you live in a state that has passed laws allowing groups of people to pool money and buy discount healthcare, you are F-U-C-*-E-D. Once you go on record with a HINT of chronic illness, you will very likely not be able to get insurance. The government mandates that insurance companies sell you insurance if you have a pre-existing condition, but they don't mandate the price. You could very easily could end up requiring to pay $3~5k per month for health insurance.
I'm eternally grateful that W2 companies get such great deals on group health coverage.
No one has commented that the posters were made by other Yale students, and, well, shouldn't we expect members of the highest institutions to be a bit more mature and a lot less mysogynistic? They posted some pretty rough stuff, doesn't that kind of speech belong to the lowest strata of society and not in Yale?
Oh wait, Bush went to Yale, along with the most powerful men in American history.
So much for my assumptions of Yale accepting the cream of the crop in both their academic performance and adherence to fundamental human decency.
The target Atom products will be UMPC or lower. Typically these platforms use less power than the core. Large cell phones requrie milliwats of power, UMPCs might approach a watt.
Measuring total system power on an ATX form factor is like trying to record a whisper on a roller coaster.
That is why I chose to ignore the system power: the board is mostly for eval and developers. I sincerely doubt anyone would want to build an ATX system with an Atom.
The article writers don't seem to be very technical guys.
If we look at the energy efficiency, Atom hands Via it's bilblical arse.
Let's talk about Joules, the things a battery stores. Batteries are important. Especially for the target marget of these two CPUs. In fact, battery life is most likely THE most important factor in anything below a notebook.
Keep in mind a battery only has so many joules between charges, that's obvious, I know.
Now, an efficient architecture would only use as many joules as needed to get the job done in a timely manner. Joules per seconds are Watts, btw.
So lets look at how these two stack up in terms of Joule consumption and Performance based on this data...
The VIA requires about 17W of power to chug through MP3 encode, for about 460 seconds. That means the power supply had to deliver 17 * 460 = 7,820 joules.
Now the Atom crawled along 30% slower, about 600 seconds to complete. But it only needed a delivery rate of 4 J/s, so it ate 2,400 joules.
So for a 30% improvement in performance, VIA had to gobble down MORE THAN THREE TIMES the energy!
That means you could encode 3x as many MP3s on an atom, but it will take 30% longer. Imagine if this was an iPod. Who would trade 3x less battery life for such a tiny bump? That isn't something to brag about when you are targeting a market starving for battery life.
I'll be really surprised if Via goes anywhere other than a few cheap Asian design wins.
I noticed a lot of the replies focused on digital kits. But are there any good analog kits? Seems to me that's where the lost art is: downloading code to flash to fix a big is a world away from computing quiescent points by hand.
1) go to school nurse 2) get excuse pass from phys-ed due to my weight^D^D^D^D^D glandular problem 3) stop by the cafeteria for some twinkies 4) waddle down to the school computer room 5) log in
(again, the only game with odds not in favor of the casino, but you have to know how to play to get your money).
No offense, but this statement kinda contradicts your post. The statement sounds a bit like it came from a gambling addict: yeah, I can win, if I just know HOW.
BTW, one weird idea would be to send a bunch of women and have them serve as incubators. In particular, if we send several missions of women AND zygotes, then we can grow a colony there. It may be a lot cheap approach to guarantee bio-diversity. In fact, I would think that once we have several small groups there, that we should send not just human zygotes, but also seeds and a number of animal zygotes. it would be useful for just in case.
Wow, that is just amazing. Try replacing "weird idea" with "abusive misogynist idea". I'm sure you'll get flamed later in life for thinking woman are just objects, but head's up, simply put: women aren't objects for men's/science's pleasure. Sorry dude, can't put this politely, but this kind of "benign" ignorance in your statement is as nefarious as it is pervasive in culture. If this quote wasn't a sick joke, spend some time thinking about it, maybe ask a woman to explain to you why your suggestion is ghastly.
See, this is why religion should be kept out of the classroom. Even this advanced scientist thinks one man and one woman can populate a planet. Apparently he doesn't know much about viability in genetic diversity.
D&D has mostly defined my life from the first time I was given a First Edition boxed set in 1979 by a highschool teacher (I was in 5th grade at the time) to now as an adult (a grumpy old man still kvetching about d20 rules, to be more precise).
It hasn't been the same since. Speaking about it "touching" or "influencing" one's life seem trite compared the actual impact it has reached every of my existence, from my college choice (engineering school with D&D like tunnels) to what I like to wear (handmade leather rogue boots) to what I do for fun (uh, RPG?) to who I am attracted to (nerdy SCA babes FTW!!!).
Gygax completely restructured my life with his precise rules for defining unlimited universes. I don't think his subtle impact on our culture will be fully understood for decades.
The fewer blades on the rack, the greater the TPS on that rack
That made no sense. I meant you could put more blades on the rack, or more rack units on the rack to increase TPS. Duh.
Originally I was headed down the power path: fewer rackmounts means fewer power supply conversions from the rack 240V/480V bus, but then my brain jumped ahead and realize the TPS density increases.
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A better comparison would be Apples to Hand-Tools.
Limbaugh is a lapdog of the conservative movement, furthering their agenda through talking point propaganda. Stewart/Colbert aren't briefed ahead of time on what NOT to ask, and what points should be hand-fed to candidates.
Many Democrats refuse to go on Colbert/Stewart, for fear of their own hypocracy being played out. Stewart/Colbert don't let ideology get in the way: they focus on the craziness. Rush embraces and proliferates it, which is why he significantly lowers the discourse in this country.
Furthermore, polls show (and anecdotal experience shows) liberal don't listen to Rush, but conservatives watch Stewart/Colbert. I think that alone speaks volumes.
Perhaps if you actually watched the show your statement would appear more informed. Colbert is just as hard on democrats as republicans, which is why Pelosi banned democrats in congress from going on his show.
Comparing Colbert to Limbaugh is pretty ignorant.
What was their basis for defining "neuroticism"? This is a very difficult condition to diagnose. The rest are also quite subjective, I would have liked to have known how they arose at just these criteria, and not something like "leadership" or "experienced". The criteria are so not-broad that I'm not surprised those narrow designations reinforced their conclusions.
Judging by your username's flaming cliche dorkiness, I'm guessing you are an average white male younger teen-aged nerd who plays a lot of video games and has little experience with women.
(Hah hah, the deck was loaded, that is 90% of the /. population!)
Thanks for clarifying. That's a very interesting strategy, although I still don't see what it has to do about "negotiating." I agree, it sounds prudent to compare one's current coverage and do a model to see if the premium savings from the HDHP comapred to regular costs plus HSA tax savings are a net gain. This should definitely be investigated by anyone of sound mind and body considering "going solo".
yeah, i think so.
you're not alone.
So don't have insurance and pay out of pocket instead if that works out to be cheaper. [etc.]
I see your point, but unfortuntely it is based on gambling that nothing bad will happen to you. Not having insurance is like competing in street luge without a helmet. Ah, to be 20 again and feel invincible! For reference: stitches cost a few hundred bucks, an X-ray and bone-setting costs under $10 grand. A real hospital visit costs about three month's salary, and a simple surgery is one year's salary. An anesthesiologist alone costs about $20k just to show up.
This one of many reasons why it is imperative to build up a strong financial position before reaching middle and old age, so that one is not limited in negotiations and options by bargaining from a position of weakness rather than a position of strength.
The first half of that is absolutely correct, but still it is a best-case scenario. Only the super-rich (or super lukcy) can afford the medical treatments associated with later life. I also sincerely doubt you will find a financial planner that says a good retirement plan shouldn't include insurance. As for the second half of that statement -- in the context of the first half -- it sounds like the babbling of a college freshman who just discovered Ayn Rand (hey, we've all been there). Maybe if you were talking about selling cars or negotiating a pay raise, yes, but expecting to negotiate with a surgeon while you're bleeding out is a tad naive, unless you go to Dr. Nick.
Basically, until a balance is found between Big Pharm's reckless profiteering and R&D costs needed to make useful products, health insurance will become a bigger and bigger problem. Perhaps the decision to allow drug ads on TV and in magazines in 1992 is partially responsible, but I digress.
nice try.
i didn't assert i was correct. i asserted anecdotal evidence should be taken with a grain of salt, mine included.
that is the key difference.
I have had one W2 job in my life
That speaks for itself. You really have had very little experience, and people should take your anecdotal analysis with a grain of salt. I have had many W2 and 1099 jobs, and in the long run I greatly prefer the stability of W2 jobs, even though I really enjoyed the weird hours, huge paychecks, and random nature of my early contracting jobs.
I'd say try it before you get too old, or at least give moonlighting a shot.
Go solo, everyone.
1099 jobs are great when you are young, healthy, and full of piss and vinegar and can afford to start life over again if you screw up. If you want to go solo over age 30, make damn well sure you have a contingency plan, or are networked and diversified out the yin-yang.
Also, don't get sick! Unless you live in a state that has passed laws allowing groups of people to pool money and buy discount healthcare, you are F-U-C-*-E-D. Once you go on record with a HINT of chronic illness, you will very likely not be able to get insurance. The government mandates that insurance companies sell you insurance if you have a pre-existing condition, but they don't mandate the price. You could very easily could end up requiring to pay $3~5k per month for health insurance.
I'm eternally grateful that W2 companies get such great deals on group health coverage.
No one has commented that the posters were made by other Yale students, and, well, shouldn't we expect members of the highest institutions to be a bit more mature and a lot less mysogynistic? They posted some pretty rough stuff, doesn't that kind of speech belong to the lowest strata of society and not in Yale?
Oh wait, Bush went to Yale, along with the most powerful men in American history.
So much for my assumptions of Yale accepting the cream of the crop in both their academic performance and adherence to fundamental human decency.
I'm so naive.
The target Atom products will be UMPC or lower. Typically these platforms use less power than the core. Large cell phones requrie milliwats of power, UMPCs might approach a watt.
Measuring total system power on an ATX form factor is like trying to record a whisper on a roller coaster.
That is why I chose to ignore the system power: the board is mostly for eval and developers. I sincerely doubt anyone would want to build an ATX system with an Atom.
I took the info from the graphs right out of the article.
I ignored the system power because a real Atom target system is a UMPC (or smaller) which will use less power than the core itself.
The article writers don't seem to be very technical guys.
If we look at the energy efficiency, Atom hands Via it's bilblical arse.
Let's talk about Joules, the things a battery stores. Batteries are important. Especially for the target marget of these two CPUs. In fact, battery life is most likely THE most important factor in anything below a notebook.
Keep in mind a battery only has so many joules between charges, that's obvious, I know.
Now, an efficient architecture would only use as many joules as needed to get the job done in a timely manner. Joules per seconds are Watts, btw.
So lets look at how these two stack up in terms of Joule consumption and Performance based on this data...
The VIA requires about 17W of power to chug through MP3 encode, for about 460 seconds. That means the power supply had to deliver 17 * 460 = 7,820 joules.
Now the Atom crawled along 30% slower, about 600 seconds to complete. But it only needed a delivery rate of 4 J/s, so it ate 2,400 joules.
So for a 30% improvement in performance, VIA had to gobble down MORE THAN THREE TIMES the energy!
That means you could encode 3x as many MP3s on an atom, but it will take 30% longer. Imagine if this was an iPod. Who would trade 3x less battery life for such a tiny bump? That isn't something to brag about when you are targeting a market starving for battery life.
I'll be really surprised if Via goes anywhere other than a few cheap Asian design wins.
I noticed a lot of the replies focused on digital kits. But are there any good analog kits? Seems to me that's where the lost art is: downloading code to flash to fix a big is a world away from computing quiescent points by hand.
"How do people like you even get online?"
The same way you do:
1) go to school nurse
2) get excuse pass from phys-ed due to my weight^D^D^D^D^D glandular problem
3) stop by the cafeteria for some twinkies
4) waddle down to the school computer room
5) log in
...you still have your Infotator.
... or a yipple?
Now, what color is a Dornbeast?
(again, the only game with odds not in favor of the casino, but you have to know how to play to get your money).
No offense, but this statement kinda contradicts your post. The statement sounds a bit like it came from a gambling addict: yeah, I can win, if I just know HOW.
post date on youtube doesn't mean it is recent: there was no date in the vid.
just sayin' i've seen this before. thanks for modding me down so that no one else would reply if they had seen it.
BTW, one weird idea would be to send a bunch of women and have them serve as incubators. In particular, if we send several missions of women AND zygotes, then we can grow a colony there. It may be a lot cheap approach to guarantee bio-diversity. In fact, I would think that once we have several small groups there, that we should send not just human zygotes, but also seeds and a number of animal zygotes. it would be useful for just in case.
Wow, that is just amazing. Try replacing "weird idea" with "abusive misogynist idea". I'm sure you'll get flamed later in life for thinking woman are just objects, but head's up, simply put: women aren't objects for men's/science's pleasure. Sorry dude, can't put this politely, but this kind of "benign" ignorance in your statement is as nefarious as it is pervasive in culture. If this quote wasn't a sick joke, spend some time thinking about it, maybe ask a woman to explain to you why your suggestion is ghastly.
"We seem to be becoming a world of spineless weepy nannies."
Sound logic there, youngster.
oops! i added an "/endsarcasm" at the end of that, but the filter removed it b/c i used wakkas. Doh!
See, this is why religion should be kept out of the classroom. Even this advanced scientist thinks one man and one woman can populate a planet. Apparently he doesn't know much about viability in genetic diversity.
I know I saw this exact video years ago, can't remember where.
/. with very similar robots from 1999 and 2000.
But I did see some stories on
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/12/02/1234201.shtml?tid=126
http://slashdot.org/science/00/05/06/200224.shtml
D&D has mostly defined my life from the first time I was given a First Edition boxed set in 1979 by a highschool teacher (I was in 5th grade at the time) to now as an adult (a grumpy old man still kvetching about d20 rules, to be more precise).
It hasn't been the same since. Speaking about it "touching" or "influencing" one's life seem trite compared the actual impact it has reached every of my existence, from my college choice (engineering school with D&D like tunnels) to what I like to wear (handmade leather rogue boots) to what I do for fun (uh, RPG?) to who I am attracted to (nerdy SCA babes FTW!!!).
Gygax completely restructured my life with his precise rules for defining unlimited universes. I don't think his subtle impact on our culture will be fully understood for decades.
The fewer blades on the rack, the greater the TPS on that rack
That made no sense. I meant you could put more blades on the rack, or more rack units on the rack to increase TPS. Duh.
Originally I was headed down the power path: fewer rackmounts means fewer power supply conversions from the rack 240V/480V bus, but then my brain jumped ahead and realize the TPS density increases.