While I think this case is completely blown out of proportion, the sexism was in acting like they were in a locker room instead of comporting themselves in an appropriate manner for mixed company. The sexism was in ignoring the fact that there were other people, including women, present, but not caring about it. And sexual harassment doesn't have to be direct or quid-pro-quo. It is absolutely sexual harassment to have "bros only" talk in the workplace, or having sexually oriented material in the workplace.
It's not just about the width of the dynamic range, but the granularity. Fewer bits means a more stair-step like waveform. In the visual domain, it's like a picture of a blue sky. You are using almost none of the dynamic range available, but because you only have a few bits of resolution available in what you are trying to capture, you are going to get a banding effect.
Just because YOU can't hear it doesn't mean it isn't there. Low end is not the first to go when digitally sampling (if done right) because it is the easiest to "hear". A nice fat 30 hz tone will have 88,200 samples per wavelength. A 22 khz tone will have 1.
Can you hear a CRT when it is on simply by the high pitched noise it makes? I can. And I can tell the difference between 44 and 192. I can't describe it, but I can hear it.
They aren't banning people from assembling. They are banning the operation of a particular type of business. Gambling isn't the problem they are trying to solve, this particular form of it is. If the government is going to be in the business of banning things, they should do it as narrowly as possible.
Moore's law specifies transistor density, and clock speed is just a side effect. Also, a Core i7 probably outperforms whatever a Pentium 6.6gHz would be.
Exactly. IBM's goal was to make a "cheap" "personal" computer. Nobody needed crazy shit like 16 bits and 1mb of ram to simply be a word processor and Visicalc box sitting on a secretary's desk being used by only one person.
Jesus. I remember when I started high school, they had just replaced some old big iron Unix machine (complete with glassed in room and separate HVAC and all that 1980s bling) with a 486 and a serial port multiplexer. And blew it away in performance. The thing easily supported a room full of 30 terminals all compiling our simple C (or Pascal or BASIC) programs. It really is sort of amazing how much computing power we "waste" with our stupid GUIs.
The Pentium 4 "netburst" bullshit was the marketing chip. Maybe the Pentium 2 as well, they didn't seem all that much faster. The current Core idea is the successor to the 386/Pentium Pro/Pentium III line of chips.
One of the fastest (relative to the time) computers I ever saw was a 386 DX (with 387 math coprocessor) with 20mb of ram. It ran Windows for Workgroups 3.11 like a champ. We used it at the house as a fileserver for an embarrassingly long time. On Token Ring.
The next relative fastest computer I ever saw was a Compaq Workstation with a 400 mhz Pentium II, all SCSI drives and Rambus memory. I swear it installed Windows NT4 in 45 seconds. Blazing!
My current "holy shit, look at that" computer is a Proliant dl380 g6 (or g7, I forget) running Netware. Boots up in no time, and when the screen saver kicks in, there are something like 24 little processor worms crawling around the screen.
It depended on what you used it for. I forget the specifics, but I think if you were into gaming, they worked just fine. Only cache-heavy workloads suffered.
It was the Celeron 266 that had no L2 cache that you could easily kick up to 400 mhz and blow away Pentiums. The newer ones with some L2 cache were harder to overclock.
And yes, slot 1 was nominally designed to allow for the cache to be closer to the processor, but it had the convenient side effect of locking out competitors.
If memory serves, they were really expensive so you'd only see them as brand name servers and workstations. Compaqs and IBMs mainly. Same with the Pentium Pro. Slick as snot, but rare and expensive.
The grid is the energy storage. Every watt they pump out into the grid is a watt that doesn't need to get generated by a generator somewhere. The energy is "stored" in the fuel that isn't burnt.
Yes. My company will send key players to training if it is required to win/maintain a contract. Beyond that, all training is done on an "entrepreneurial" basis. They want people to be self-starting enough that they will figure out what they need to learn to move up the ladder. Reimbursements are usually up to the individual managers, however. They will almost always pay for exams, but books and classes are approved on a case by case basis.
The only time I would find it acceptable for a company to require a certification but not pay for it is in the situation where achieving the certification would result in a statutory pay increase. Back in the day, our company's policy was that getting a Novell CNE got you a 10% bump. So a $50 book kit and a $125 test fee was no big deal given that it would be recouped in the first paycheck.
(And man, looking back, how easy were those certs? CNA was nothing compared to even the CCENT nowadays. My brain hurts.)
Yes, that's the impression I get from these types of organizations. They have the freedom to choose and eliminate the members of their "tribe", so it can only work in artificial environments. I suspect this model can't work in other more competitive industries. Imagine trying to order a meal in a restaurant being run this way. It would go out of business before you finish the cheese course.
Swing states are a historical thing, not a per-election thing. Some years they go one way, some years they go the other. This election, despite the media's attempts at creating a nose-to-nose horse race, was predicted very early and very accurately.
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While I think this case is completely blown out of proportion, the sexism was in acting like they were in a locker room instead of comporting themselves in an appropriate manner for mixed company. The sexism was in ignoring the fact that there were other people, including women, present, but not caring about it. And sexual harassment doesn't have to be direct or quid-pro-quo. It is absolutely sexual harassment to have "bros only" talk in the workplace, or having sexually oriented material in the workplace.
Except it IS sexual. It's a non sexual thing said in a sexual tone where it doesn't belong.
It's all third wave feminism. A nugget of a good idea taken to an illogical extreme.
It's not just about the width of the dynamic range, but the granularity. Fewer bits means a more stair-step like waveform. In the visual domain, it's like a picture of a blue sky. You are using almost none of the dynamic range available, but because you only have a few bits of resolution available in what you are trying to capture, you are going to get a banding effect.
Just because YOU can't hear it doesn't mean it isn't there. Low end is not the first to go when digitally sampling (if done right) because it is the easiest to "hear". A nice fat 30 hz tone will have 88,200 samples per wavelength. A 22 khz tone will have 1.
Can you hear a CRT when it is on simply by the high pitched noise it makes? I can. And I can tell the difference between 44 and 192. I can't describe it, but I can hear it.
They aren't banning people from assembling. They are banning the operation of a particular type of business. Gambling isn't the problem they are trying to solve, this particular form of it is. If the government is going to be in the business of banning things, they should do it as narrowly as possible.
Moore's law specifies transistor density, and clock speed is just a side effect. Also, a Core i7 probably outperforms whatever a Pentium 6.6gHz would be.
Exactly. IBM's goal was to make a "cheap" "personal" computer. Nobody needed crazy shit like 16 bits and 1mb of ram to simply be a word processor and Visicalc box sitting on a secretary's desk being used by only one person.
Jesus. I remember when I started high school, they had just replaced some old big iron Unix machine (complete with glassed in room and separate HVAC and all that 1980s bling) with a 486 and a serial port multiplexer. And blew it away in performance. The thing easily supported a room full of 30 terminals all compiling our simple C (or Pascal or BASIC) programs. It really is sort of amazing how much computing power we "waste" with our stupid GUIs.
The Pentium 4 "netburst" bullshit was the marketing chip. Maybe the Pentium 2 as well, they didn't seem all that much faster. The current Core idea is the successor to the 386/Pentium Pro/Pentium III line of chips.
One of the fastest (relative to the time) computers I ever saw was a 386 DX (with 387 math coprocessor) with 20mb of ram. It ran Windows for Workgroups 3.11 like a champ. We used it at the house as a fileserver for an embarrassingly long time. On Token Ring.
The next relative fastest computer I ever saw was a Compaq Workstation with a 400 mhz Pentium II, all SCSI drives and Rambus memory. I swear it installed Windows NT4 in 45 seconds. Blazing!
My current "holy shit, look at that" computer is a Proliant dl380 g6 (or g7, I forget) running Netware. Boots up in no time, and when the screen saver kicks in, there are something like 24 little processor worms crawling around the screen.
It depended on what you used it for. I forget the specifics, but I think if you were into gaming, they worked just fine. Only cache-heavy workloads suffered.
It was the Celeron 266 that had no L2 cache that you could easily kick up to 400 mhz and blow away Pentiums. The newer ones with some L2 cache were harder to overclock.
And yes, slot 1 was nominally designed to allow for the cache to be closer to the processor, but it had the convenient side effect of locking out competitors.
If memory serves, they were really expensive so you'd only see them as brand name servers and workstations. Compaqs and IBMs mainly. Same with the Pentium Pro. Slick as snot, but rare and expensive.
I remember those Cyrix chips. Fast as hell, cheap as hell, buggy as hell. Good times.
Sealed bearing units usually use ball bearings. Most FWD cars use those.
The grid is the energy storage. Every watt they pump out into the grid is a watt that doesn't need to get generated by a generator somewhere. The energy is "stored" in the fuel that isn't burnt.
Kilowatt hours are a rate, kilowatts are an amount. A 1 kw/h device uses 24 kilowatts per day.
Yes. My company will send key players to training if it is required to win/maintain a contract. Beyond that, all training is done on an "entrepreneurial" basis. They want people to be self-starting enough that they will figure out what they need to learn to move up the ladder. Reimbursements are usually up to the individual managers, however. They will almost always pay for exams, but books and classes are approved on a case by case basis.
The only time I would find it acceptable for a company to require a certification but not pay for it is in the situation where achieving the certification would result in a statutory pay increase. Back in the day, our company's policy was that getting a Novell CNE got you a 10% bump. So a $50 book kit and a $125 test fee was no big deal given that it would be recouped in the first paycheck.
(And man, looking back, how easy were those certs? CNA was nothing compared to even the CCENT nowadays. My brain hurts.)
Yes, that's the impression I get from these types of organizations. They have the freedom to choose and eliminate the members of their "tribe", so it can only work in artificial environments. I suspect this model can't work in other more competitive industries. Imagine trying to order a meal in a restaurant being run this way. It would go out of business before you finish the cheese course.
The pope doesn't oppress anyone. He has no control over anyone excepts maybe the inhabitants of Vatican City.
Swing states are a historical thing, not a per-election thing. Some years they go one way, some years they go the other. This election, despite the media's attempts at creating a nose-to-nose horse race, was predicted very early and very accurately.
That $3 trillion fund, when looked at from another angle, is $3 trillion of national debt.
Because FAT is quick and easy, and that's what you want in an intermediate storage device.
Employees are free to quit = they have autonomy over their time. Slaves are not free to quit.