I believe it goes beyond appearances. During the sexual revolution the en masse influx of women to the workforce put a depression upon wages (primarily entry level positions) as employers now had significantly more applicants. Women born after 1978 now are the majority of students of college campuses, attain higher levels of education than their male counterparts, and are likely to earn more over the course of their lifetime than men born during the same time. Unfortunately for companies like Google, they're not flocking to computer science degrees. Google and others don't have a candidate pool as large as they want to drive down the large costs of paying employees, so they're working on increasing H1-B visas and bringing in additional applicants that wouldn't otherwise choose the field (e.g. women).
I agree that women should feel that computer science and related fields are potential careers, but Google's approach only serves to help underprivileged girls at the expense of underprivileged boys. Children of privileged families already have the capability of sending their children to these programming classes, but children of underprivileged families may not be able to afford these classes. The opportunities that Google are being offered on a sexual discriminative basis, with the qualifications being completely out of control of the child.
Typically when we describe people who aren't granted equal opportunities in life we use terms like "disadvantaged" and "underprivileged". For those who were granted these opportunities we call them "privileged". What Google is doing is creating an environment where interested boys from a less wealthy background are deprived the same opportunities that a girl in their situation would be. I wouldn't call this "equality" and Google certainly shouldn't be praised for this sex-based discrimination.
Sounds like they discovered how cultures are developed, maintained, and grow. Next up they may study how social bonds are formed and maintained, perhaps they'll call it "friendship", but more likely they'll refer to it as some sort of "preferential social virus reinforcement."
Actually, those numbers have no additional utility to me. I cannot comprehend the distance to the Earth and Sun or Moon as I have no experience with either of those metrics. I do, however, understand the length of a mile and 1,000 miles, for I have traveled these distances before. 776,000 miles is simply 776 times as long as that 1,000 mile trip.
The distinction is more clear that you're putting: Eich did not let his opinions affect his work or how he treated his coworkers, but Rice's work is what is problematic.
There's a massive distinction that should be noted between Eich and Rice: Eich's personal opinions did not affect his work or how he treated his coworkers, whereas Rice's work is precisely what is in question.
but he might be great at putting engines into the new model Tesla
Interesting choice of occupations you used, considering Tesla is the most automated car manufacturing facility in the world. He may be great at putting engines into cars, but he's not better than the robots they already have.
Jetpacks have been around since the 1960s. The most successful models involve carrying large quantities of H2O2 on your back, pushing it through a catalyst, and having the exhaust come out at destructively hot temperatures. They're heavy, hard to control, and only provide a few seconds of controlled flight. In other words, they're a huge liability for limited utility.
Much like other forms of transport, flight is most effective when it is scaled up to many persons per trip.
From what is known, Eich kept his opinions personal and did not use them to influence his behavior at work. He contributed to a political campaign as a private citizen and someone leaked the contributors list and made this information public.
Your case with the VP making his position known to his employees is drastically different from Eich's private contributions to a political campaign.
This time around people aren't chasing lucrative compensation, they're simply chasing compensation. What other major would you suggest to a high school senior that could employ them for the foreseeable future?
Men aren't offered exciting projects, overtime, etc.; they actively pursue it. In the book "Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want" on Page 2, Linda Babcock describes exactly this scenario. All the male colleagues get the good jobs and the women get the less exciting roles. Upon inquiring why this was so, she was informed that the women simply never asked!
This argument does not apply to those who are in positions of great executive power. At these levels, it is evident that the person is considered to be cognizant of their duties and responsibilities.
This is not about saving RAM, but improving cache utilization. It's not that hard to simply roughly double the existing cache by reducing the size of pointers. As caching is THE most performance improving optimization available on CPUs, this has profound improvements on run times. x32 can still support systems with many, many GBs, but each individual process space is limited to 4 GB.
then you need two copies of every shared library that they use to be mapped at the same time.
No, you don't. The libraries will be paged in on-demand. If you never use more than 4 GB address space within a single program, the amd64 libraries will never be paged in. Typically, I-cache lines will be driven by LRU, so you'll have them filled also on a on-demand basis.
That's a pretty ignorant stance. Your PPro didn't have the expressive abilities of the newer registers, instructions, and enhanced SIMD systems, let alone the performance improvements.
As you suggest, pretty much everyone has enough RAM to run just about any normal application with 64-bit pointers.
Most users will never need 64-bit pointers. Only applications which require more than 4 GB of addressable memory within that single program will ever use this. Examples of such applications include in-core scientific computing and very large media file editing.
I wouldn't be so sure that programming wasn't the source of the problem. There's been a lot of work to understand the ECU on the Camry and it is beginning to look like some severe bugs lurk within: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0083/
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I believe it goes beyond appearances. During the sexual revolution the en masse influx of women to the workforce put a depression upon wages (primarily entry level positions) as employers now had significantly more applicants. Women born after 1978 now are the majority of students of college campuses, attain higher levels of education than their male counterparts, and are likely to earn more over the course of their lifetime than men born during the same time. Unfortunately for companies like Google, they're not flocking to computer science degrees. Google and others don't have a candidate pool as large as they want to drive down the large costs of paying employees, so they're working on increasing H1-B visas and bringing in additional applicants that wouldn't otherwise choose the field (e.g. women).
I agree that women should feel that computer science and related fields are potential careers, but Google's approach only serves to help underprivileged girls at the expense of underprivileged boys. Children of privileged families already have the capability of sending their children to these programming classes, but children of underprivileged families may not be able to afford these classes. The opportunities that Google are being offered on a sexual discriminative basis, with the qualifications being completely out of control of the child.
Typically when we describe people who aren't granted equal opportunities in life we use terms like "disadvantaged" and "underprivileged". For those who were granted these opportunities we call them "privileged". What Google is doing is creating an environment where interested boys from a less wealthy background are deprived the same opportunities that a girl in their situation would be. I wouldn't call this "equality" and Google certainly shouldn't be praised for this sex-based discrimination.
They will if they want to keep their jobs, be noticed by management, and get promotions and raises.
Sounds like they discovered how cultures are developed, maintained, and grow. Next up they may study how social bonds are formed and maintained, perhaps they'll call it "friendship", but more likely they'll refer to it as some sort of "preferential social virus reinforcement."
Actually, those numbers have no additional utility to me. I cannot comprehend the distance to the Earth and Sun or Moon as I have no experience with either of those metrics. I do, however, understand the length of a mile and 1,000 miles, for I have traveled these distances before. 776,000 miles is simply 776 times as long as that 1,000 mile trip.
For this to be a rape culture, this behavior would have to be accepted by others and the society at large. It isn't.
The distinction is more clear that you're putting: Eich did not let his opinions affect his work or how he treated his coworkers, but Rice's work is what is problematic.
There's a massive distinction that should be noted between Eich and Rice: Eich's personal opinions did not affect his work or how he treated his coworkers, whereas Rice's work is precisely what is in question.
but he might be great at putting engines into the new model Tesla
Interesting choice of occupations you used, considering Tesla is the most automated car manufacturing facility in the world. He may be great at putting engines into cars, but he's not better than the robots they already have.
Jetpacks have been around since the 1960s. The most successful models involve carrying large quantities of H2O2 on your back, pushing it through a catalyst, and having the exhaust come out at destructively hot temperatures. They're heavy, hard to control, and only provide a few seconds of controlled flight. In other words, they're a huge liability for limited utility.
Much like other forms of transport, flight is most effective when it is scaled up to many persons per trip.
It's only dying because people are lazy.
Deaf culture isn't sign language, but a culture of deaf supremacy. Sign language is a language, independent to the culture of deaf people.
This isn't the 1960s, the world is quickly becoming entirely digital, and infinite reproduction of digital data can be bit-perfect.
From what is known, Eich kept his opinions personal and did not use them to influence his behavior at work. He contributed to a political campaign as a private citizen and someone leaked the contributors list and made this information public.
Your case with the VP making his position known to his employees is drastically different from Eich's private contributions to a political campaign.
Good for you. Do you want a cookie?
The people screwing around with Raspberry Pis in High School are exactly the people who should be choosing a CS major!
This time around people aren't chasing lucrative compensation, they're simply chasing compensation. What other major would you suggest to a high school senior that could employ them for the foreseeable future?
Men aren't offered exciting projects, overtime, etc.; they actively pursue it. In the book "Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want" on Page 2, Linda Babcock describes exactly this scenario. All the male colleagues get the good jobs and the women get the less exciting roles. Upon inquiring why this was so, she was informed that the women simply never asked!
Link to the book: http://www.amazon.com/Ask-For-...
This argument does not apply to those who are in positions of great executive power. At these levels, it is evident that the person is considered to be cognizant of their duties and responsibilities.
This is not about saving RAM, but improving cache utilization. It's not that hard to simply roughly double the existing cache by reducing the size of pointers. As caching is THE most performance improving optimization available on CPUs, this has profound improvements on run times. x32 can still support systems with many, many GBs, but each individual process space is limited to 4 GB.
then you need two copies of every shared library that they use to be mapped at the same time.
No, you don't. The libraries will be paged in on-demand. If you never use more than 4 GB address space within a single program, the amd64 libraries will never be paged in. Typically, I-cache lines will be driven by LRU, so you'll have them filled also on a on-demand basis.
That's a pretty ignorant stance. Your PPro didn't have the expressive abilities of the newer registers, instructions, and enhanced SIMD systems, let alone the performance improvements.
Except you've trashed your cache by needing two copies of every standard library
You should learn how virtual memory and cache works before spouting this bullshit.
As you suggest, pretty much everyone has enough RAM to run just about any normal application with 64-bit pointers.
Most users will never need 64-bit pointers. Only applications which require more than 4 GB of addressable memory within that single program will ever use this. Examples of such applications include in-core scientific computing and very large media file editing.
Nope. I'm only tangentially aware of this issue because this second analysis came out this last week and has been making the rounds.
I wouldn't be so sure that programming wasn't the source of the problem. There's been a lot of work to understand the ECU on the Camry and it is beginning to look like some severe bugs lurk within: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0083/