last time I heard, they had super-efficient cars that gets a few hundred miles to the gallon, but blocked by the oil companies And governments. If we introduced a major alternative to petrolium all of a sudden, or decrease the need for petrolium by 5 or 10 fold, it'll hit the already well developed gasoline companies hard, and have a big effect on world economy.
On the other hand, Microsoft vs. OPEC in their struggle to control the world's energy supply...anyone with me on that?;-P
Oh, forgot to mention...the 1 girl who applied to Caltech didn't get in, so she's now a CS major at Stanford...Also, in general, the top 3 spots of the graduating class of my HS (50/50 ratio) are generally held by 1 girl and 2 guys, while the next 5 are up for grabs...
Before I forget...I was an officer of Math team while in HS, and as sexist as the remark might sound, guys score slightly higher (or at least there are more guys who has high scores in general). On the other hand, the science team of my school has more girls than guys and do slightly better...This bit goes back to my point being girls, even when they are as talented in math/science fields as guys, are less likely to go to a school like Caltech/MIT but rather prefer to study Bio or whatever at Harvard or Yale wherever, for reasons of diversity or whatever.
AGREED! I attend Caltech, and I doubt you can find a more technical university in the nation. You'll also have a hard time finding a school with a worse gender balance...However, there are good reasons for the gender imbalance and what-not.
As far as college acceptance is concerned, unlike MIT, we don't "favor" girls, and as a result, we have the imbalance of 75/25, compared to MIT's 60/40. I do admit that starting a few years ago, Caltech decided to fly in all the accepted females for free during pre-frosh visitation, which can be almost considered as a discrimination against the guys. As a result, my class have a slightly better ratio of 67/33 (I ain't complaining ^_^)...My point is, there's simply not enough girls interested. In the HS graduating class above me, my class, and below me, of the top three girls of each class, only 1 (in 3 years combined) applied to Caltech, whereas at least 1 of the top three guys from EACH class applied to Caltech...and you say its the fault of the admission's office?
Also, looking at Caltech, and specifically, their CS (CnAS) department, the gender imbalance is worse than the rest of the school, where as Chem and especially Bio have a better ratio than the rest of the majors. We are talking about the people who's already made it this far, and proved themselves to be a hardcore math/science person. So now you are going to tell me that "society made them pre-med instead of CS 'cuz it's more socially acceptable"? Somehow, I don't think girls come to Caltech to be "socially accepted."
If you are saying toys are a discrimination, that's total bs. Try selling only dolls and tea sets to boys and G.I. Joe action figures and Transformers to girls and you'll see how successful that theory is! Catalogues and toy stores only catagorize in such manner because the market warrents it!
*sigh* who doesn't admit that Asian males have the toughest competition when it comes to college acceptance, while no such thing exist for Asian females? (and females in general...)
Last time I heard, Sony plans to have a console development cycle of just over 2 years, and assuming XBox hit the market late 2001, the PSX3 would've been long in the making and probably the prototypes are already in the testing phase in Japan.
It seems M$ is constantly changing the specs on those XBoxes. Last time I heard, it uses a 400Mhz PIII and NV15, (and released mid 2001) now it's been changed to 733Mhz PIII and a NV chip that's still under development. (NV20?)
I guess the only thing them XBox good for is a cheap PC running Linux ^_^
I take it everyone's seen one of those BaGua things, you know those octagon looking things with Yin-Yang at the middle. Well, there's long been a theory in the Chinese culture that the BaGua was THE KEY to infinite knowledge, the key to unlock all wonders of the universe, the only piece of information left to us by an advanced civilization prior to uh, I guess Genesis in this case. I think that makes more sense than this stupid micro-disk thing. Otherwise, put it ancient chinese/egyptian hieroglyphics makes more sense ^_^
G4e will add 2 Alti-vec and 1 more FPU unit, and an extended pipeline. The single Alti-vec already whoop the vector processing capability of the Athlon, not to mention Pentiums...at 700Mhz, those things should easily beat out the 1Ghz K7/PIII in overall performance. I haven't read up all that much 'bout the P4s, but it is still IA-32! 'course the next question is when will the G4e hit the market...all the mac loyalists are hoping that it won't be too little too late...
Reeves against Jet Lee (who's in talks of making Matrix 2) that'll be interesting indeed. ^_^ On the other hand, it'll be dissappointing to see Lee getting beat up by Reeves in the end...'cuz that's just wrong...oh well. (Been a Jet Lee/Jackie Chan fan since um, late '80s:)
According to the Webster's Online College dictionary, "scruntous" is defined as...waitaminute, it ain't there. Now, let's see how's "cromulent" defined...nope, not there either. Scared me a bit, 'cuz I was pretty sure that I learned my Enlgish in England...um, wait, scratch that, I mean America...yeah...randomly putting letters together to add words to the largest vocab language in the world and trying to confuse people isn't all that fun! or is it?
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last time I heard, they had super-efficient cars that gets a few hundred miles to the gallon, but blocked by the oil companies And governments. If we introduced a major alternative to petrolium all of a sudden, or decrease the need for petrolium by 5 or 10 fold, it'll hit the already well developed gasoline companies hard, and have a big effect on world economy.
;-P
On the other hand, Microsoft vs. OPEC in their struggle to control the world's energy supply...anyone with me on that?
Oh, forgot to mention...the 1 girl who applied to Caltech didn't get in, so she's now a CS major at Stanford...Also, in general, the top 3 spots of the graduating class of my HS (50/50 ratio) are generally held by 1 girl and 2 guys, while the next 5 are up for grabs...
Before I forget...I was an officer of Math team while in HS, and as sexist as the remark might sound, guys score slightly higher (or at least there are more guys who has high scores in general). On the other hand, the science team of my school has more girls than guys and do slightly better...This bit goes back to my point being girls, even when they are as talented in math/science fields as guys, are less likely to go to a school like Caltech/MIT but rather prefer to study Bio or whatever at Harvard or Yale wherever, for reasons of diversity or whatever.
AGREED!
I attend Caltech, and I doubt you can find a more technical university in the nation. You'll also have a hard time finding a school with a worse gender balance...However, there are good reasons for the gender imbalance and what-not.
As far as college acceptance is concerned, unlike MIT, we don't "favor" girls, and as a result, we have the imbalance of 75/25, compared to MIT's 60/40. I do admit that starting a few years ago, Caltech decided to fly in all the accepted females for free during pre-frosh visitation, which can be almost considered as a discrimination against the guys. As a result, my class have a slightly better ratio of 67/33 (I ain't complaining ^_^)...My point is, there's simply not enough girls interested. In the HS graduating class above me, my class, and below me, of the top three girls of each class, only 1 (in 3 years combined) applied to Caltech, whereas at least 1 of the top three guys from EACH class applied to Caltech...and you say its the fault of the admission's office?
Also, looking at Caltech, and specifically, their CS (CnAS) department, the gender imbalance is worse than the rest of the school, where as Chem and especially Bio have a better ratio than the rest of the majors. We are talking about the people who's already made it this far, and proved themselves to be a hardcore math/science person. So now you are going to tell me that "society made them pre-med instead of CS 'cuz it's more socially acceptable"? Somehow, I don't think girls come to Caltech to be "socially accepted."
If you are saying toys are a discrimination, that's total bs. Try selling only dolls and tea sets to boys and G.I. Joe action figures and Transformers to girls and you'll see how successful that theory is! Catalogues and toy stores only catagorize in such manner because the market warrents it!
*sigh* who doesn't admit that Asian males have the toughest competition when it comes to college acceptance, while no such thing exist for Asian females? (and females in general...)
'nough said.
Last time I heard, Sony plans to have a console development cycle of just over 2 years, and assuming XBox hit the market late 2001, the PSX3 would've been long in the making and probably the prototypes are already in the testing phase in Japan.
It seems M$ is constantly changing the specs on those XBoxes. Last time I heard, it uses a 400Mhz PIII and NV15, (and released mid 2001) now it's been changed to 733Mhz PIII and a NV chip that's still under development. (NV20?)
I guess the only thing them XBox good for is a cheap PC running Linux ^_^
I take it everyone's seen one of those BaGua things, you know those octagon looking things with Yin-Yang at the middle. Well, there's long been a theory in the Chinese culture that the BaGua was THE KEY to infinite knowledge, the key to unlock all wonders of the universe, the only piece of information left to us by an advanced civilization prior to uh, I guess Genesis in this case. I think that makes more sense than this stupid micro-disk thing.
Otherwise, put it ancient chinese/egyptian hieroglyphics makes more sense ^_^
G4e will add 2 Alti-vec and 1 more FPU unit, and an extended pipeline. The single Alti-vec already whoop the vector processing capability of the Athlon, not to mention Pentiums...at 700Mhz, those things should easily beat out the 1Ghz K7/PIII in overall performance. I haven't read up all that much 'bout the P4s, but it is still IA-32! 'course the next question is when will the G4e hit the market...all the mac loyalists are hoping that it won't be too little too late...
Reeves against Jet Lee (who's in talks of making Matrix 2) that'll be interesting indeed. ^_^ On the other hand, it'll be dissappointing to see Lee getting beat up by Reeves in the end...'cuz that's just wrong...oh well. (Been a Jet Lee/Jackie Chan fan since um, late '80s :)
According to the Webster's Online College dictionary, "scruntous" is defined as...waitaminute, it ain't there. Now, let's see how's "cromulent" defined...nope, not there either. Scared me a bit, 'cuz I was pretty sure that I learned my Enlgish in England...um, wait, scratch that, I mean America...yeah...randomly putting letters together to add words to the largest vocab language in the world and trying to confuse people isn't all that fun! or is it?