1) The A5 is not meant to take on Atom. The A9 is. 2) The A5 is not architecturally identical to the A9. The A9 is an in-order, multi-issue core. The A5 is an out-of-order, single-issue core. The only thing similar is it has the Cortex A-series ISA.
What the A5 is is a CPU that completely obliterates the ARM11-derived cores, used in everything from NVIDIA Tegra to the Nintendo DS. It's an update of the ISA, and a more capable core, with better thermals. That's it. Whereas every low-end smartphone now has the same damn QualComm ARM11-based core, in a year, they'll all have the A5.
Seriously... I'm known in my company for being an HTML/CSS wizard, but I'm also a full fledged software engineer who can and does work on all the tiers. At least learn some of the services and Javascript/AJAX stuff -- without that, you can't do any real work. Heck, at least learn some common frameworks so you can apply your HTML into a JSP decorator or CodeIgniter template or something...
Unless all you want to do for a living is get paid $20/hour slicing up someone's PSD's. My company does use services like that. They're cheap. Particularly the ones who don't do any DHTML/JS.
I think it depends on where you were taught and who you were teaching. I've known both sane biology professors, and some who practically canonized Darwin as their patron saint. I agree with the Author's premise; there is too much religious zeal among many biologists. Religion is not science, and confusing the two is detrimental to both.
I say this as a deeply religious man, and a scientist.
The problem is, mot employees seem to cringe at the thought of any progress being made with technology.
Yes, it is a problem. It may be a problem born of closed-mindedness, but the problem is real nonetheless. That's why we're doing phased deployments. We're doing the technical people first, so the technical people can answer any questions people have. Then production, then copy and editorial, then marketing, then sales, and finally management. We've only got ~65 employees, and we don't have budget for a helpdesk.
I frankly prefer OOo Writer to MS Word, particularly 2007. It is, however, different.
You're absolutely wrong. This isn't "just a little bit of re-training". This is a big deal. The thing is, everyone uses MS Office. If someone can't do some little task, chances are they can ask one of their co-workers. You can't ever really under-estimate this kind of knowledge, and what it's worth. The cost of an entire corporation which is switching over all at once to a new piece of productivity software is quite high, in terms of productivity.
I say this as a low-level project manager who successfully convinced my company to move to OpenOffice 3. We're doing phased deployments, one team at a time, over the course of the next year, that way the whole thing doesn't grind us to a halt. We're sticking with Outlook, at least for now, but the rest of MS Office is going away, starting with Word. Why are we doing this?
1) cost 2) extensibility (plugin development) 3) stability of the ODF format
We've built some automation tools that leverage ODF to save us hundreds of man-hours per year. ODF is more elegant and stable than any of Microsoft's solutions, and so we built a whole stack of XSLT's and tools around it. We support MS Word formats, but only by running them through OO.o's conversion filters to ODF first.
If we didn't build this, the cost of switching to OO.o would far outweigh the licensing costs.
My guess is that as the economy manages to sort itself out over the next year or so you'll see a comeback in smaller individual stores, local/regional chains, etc. that provide MUCH better service. I think consumers are becoming more and more savvy when it comes to realizing that they need to think about things like after-sale service & support, and the big box stores simply don't provide that with any sense of reliability or consistency.
I wish you were right, but I think the opposite is true. I love local electronics/hi-fi stores. The masses won't go to them, however, because they typically don't stock the low-end, low-priced products, and can't beat Walmart on the prices. In a recession, people won't go for premium.
I'm a conservative Roman Catholic, who views homosexual activity as mortally sinful, and would prefer to live in a traditional Catholic monarchy where the monarch is answerable only to God and the Pope. I don't expect anyone on Slashdot to see eye-to-eye with me here, and this is not the point that I wish to debate.
I realize, however, I live in a modern, liberal, pluralistic republic, and will likely never get to live in a society that I want, therefore I am more than willing to compromise to be at peace with the rest of society. I feel in a secular republic, such as the US, the best solution is for the government to stay out of it -- best would be no legal recognition of marriage at all. Nor should it recognize anything resembling a civil union. Marriage, from a legal standpoint, should be built out of pre-existing contract law. Simple and elegant -- Catholics could have a standard marriage contract drawn up that would fit their framework, Jews could do the same, as could atheists, Freemasons, Jedi, etc. Employers would be free to do what they wish in terms of insurance -- if you don't like it, work somewhere else.
Unfortunately, this would require serious amount of changes at the federal, state, and municpal laws, including modifications to the US constitution. I would certainly support this sort of effort, though it is unlikely to ever happen.
Japan is a much smaller country with much higher population density. The US is a good bit more spread-out. Rail-based infrastructures work better with higher population densities; otherwise, you're laying an awful lot of track to get from point A to point B.
If Joe sixpack would go and ask three questions. 1. can I make a backup copy 2. Can I shift formats so I can play it on a different device and 3. Can I sell it to some one else who can use it just the same as I did when I own it?
Yeah... Joe Sixpack is interested in getting exactly the same experience he gets out of, well, a six-pack: something enjoyable to consume.
You may just as well ask that Joe Sixpack asks Anheuser Bush if he can backup his Bud, have the recipe so he can use better hops, and then sell the resulting product. He won't because he doesn't care.
I'm sorry, but other than geeks, who switched from IE because it wasn't standards compliant? I convinced many people to switch to Firefox for three reasons:
1) better security 2) better UI 3) plugins
That's it. Anyone who tells you people don't use IE because it's not standards compliant are idiots. Every web developer makes sure their pages work with IE, no matter how much extra work it takes.
So anyone that's educated or intelligent is a nerd?
I defined geekiness in part based on involvement with underground geek culture, and also an attitude. She reads lots of great works of literature, sings in two choirs, and is very cultured. I go to conventions, read Slashdot and pour over hardware news obsessively.
Being a nerd guy is a turn-off to most women, as well. So we're even:)
I don't know your age, but until I got a bit older and more established, women wanted nothing to do with me. Around 29, I started having tons of opportunities. YMMV.
It would also be great if there was a higher demand for girl nerds
Might I suggest trying to date non-nerds? I've dated women who were nerds of various kinds -- math nerds, IT nerds, otaku, etc., and though many of them were really cool, it never worked out. It's not a pissing-contest thing -- I genuinely love and respect intelligent women. However, in 2 months I'm marrying a beautiful intelligent woman who is decidedly not a nerd, and has a lot of background in literature, classical music, and philosophy -- far different from my own schooling. It's a relationship of complementary strengths, rather than supplementary. I also think that this way, we'll have more to offer our children in terms of intellectual formation. Not exactly opposites attract -- there's certainly more than enough common ground between us in less superficial personality traits. Call it min/maxing if you will, but it works for me.
Paul mentioned, many times, that one should not change to reconcile with the world -- we are to live contra mundum -- against the world. At times, that's unpopular. So what. I'm more concerned with the state of my soul than I am with my popularity.
The church lost more people after the change of the mass than it had in total 200 years ago. Why do you think people are flocking in droves to parishes that celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass, according to the 1962 Missale Romanum? Because they want the church to be the church -- to take her place as she has for the past 2000 years, as a sanctuary from an ungodly world.
Really? JPII allowed altar girls, allowed the laity to distribute the Eucharist, allowed an indult for the laity to purify the sacred vessels at mass, loosened the requirements for canonization of saints, added 5 new mysteries to the rosary, kissed the Koran in public, held 2 worldwide ecumenical prayer services at assissi where he let pagans sacrifice a chicken on one of the altars at St. Claire's basilica, held huge outdoor stadium masses with rock bands playing for over 100,000 people.
Fornication is killing them, not the lack of contraception.
These people aren't listening to the Church when She preaches that contraception is a sin. If they did, why would they not listen when she says fornication is a sin?
You failed to refute them. The burden is not on me to defend what has not been refuted.
The five ways also depend, largely, on causality. Aquinas' "unmoved mover" argument is built on Aristotle's first cause. I'm unconvinced of any arguments that causality may not exist. I reiterate that if causality does not exist, we cannot even trust our senses, and there is no basis for reason at all.
Priests being unmarried is NOT dogma -- it is a discipline exercised by the Latin Rite sepecifically, and could, in theory, change at any time. Contraception is dogmatically defined by the church as contrary to the natural law, and thus a grave sin.
The Church tells people they can't have sex outside of marriage. People who fail to use condoms obviously don't listen to the church about sex, so how likely are they to obey the church about condoms.
Vatican II did not change any church dogma -- just some of her practices. Do yourself a favor and read the documents yourself, starting with Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes.
Incorrect -- he had no empirical proof. He merely had a model that didn't fail any of the tests.
The Catholic church hardly endorses "Intelligent Design" curriculum as is posited by evangelicals. It accepts that evolution happens and exists, but merely isn't necessarily the origin of all species, as Darwin postulated. The Church even holds that one can believe that all of creation hapenned through a guided evolution.
Actually, if he so ordered the murder of someone, a Catholic would be obliged to ignore such an order. Even when one has a vow of obedience, that vow does not force one to obey a command to sin. A command to sin is an invalid command.
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And it's full of misinformation:
1) The A5 is not meant to take on Atom. The A9 is.
2) The A5 is not architecturally identical to the A9. The A9 is an in-order, multi-issue core. The A5 is an out-of-order, single-issue core. The only thing similar is it has the Cortex A-series ISA.
What the A5 is is a CPU that completely obliterates the ARM11-derived cores, used in everything from NVIDIA Tegra to the Nintendo DS. It's an update of the ISA, and a more capable core, with better thermals. That's it. Whereas every low-end smartphone now has the same damn QualComm ARM11-based core, in a year, they'll all have the A5.
Seriously... I'm known in my company for being an HTML/CSS wizard, but I'm also a full fledged software engineer who can and does work on all the tiers. At least learn some of the services and Javascript/AJAX stuff -- without that, you can't do any real work. Heck, at least learn some common frameworks so you can apply your HTML into a JSP decorator or CodeIgniter template or something...
Unless all you want to do for a living is get paid $20/hour slicing up someone's PSD's. My company does use services like that. They're cheap. Particularly the ones who don't do any DHTML/JS.
I think it depends on where you were taught and who you were teaching. I've known both sane biology professors, and some who practically canonized Darwin as their patron saint. I agree with the Author's premise; there is too much religious zeal among many biologists. Religion is not science, and confusing the two is detrimental to both.
I say this as a deeply religious man, and a scientist.
The problem is, mot employees seem to cringe at the thought of any progress being made with technology.
Yes, it is a problem. It may be a problem born of closed-mindedness, but the problem is real nonetheless. That's why we're doing phased deployments. We're doing the technical people first, so the technical people can answer any questions people have. Then production, then copy and editorial, then marketing, then sales, and finally management. We've only got ~65 employees, and we don't have budget for a helpdesk.
I frankly prefer OOo Writer to MS Word, particularly 2007. It is, however, different.
You're absolutely wrong. This isn't "just a little bit of re-training". This is a big deal. The thing is, everyone uses MS Office. If someone can't do some little task, chances are they can ask one of their co-workers. You can't ever really under-estimate this kind of knowledge, and what it's worth. The cost of an entire corporation which is switching over all at once to a new piece of productivity software is quite high, in terms of productivity.
I say this as a low-level project manager who successfully convinced my company to move to OpenOffice 3. We're doing phased deployments, one team at a time, over the course of the next year, that way the whole thing doesn't grind us to a halt. We're sticking with Outlook, at least for now, but the rest of MS Office is going away, starting with Word. Why are we doing this?
1) cost
2) extensibility (plugin development)
3) stability of the ODF format
We've built some automation tools that leverage ODF to save us hundreds of man-hours per year. ODF is more elegant and stable than any of Microsoft's solutions, and so we built a whole stack of XSLT's and tools around it. We support MS Word formats, but only by running them through OO.o's conversion filters to ODF first.
If we didn't build this, the cost of switching to OO.o would far outweigh the licensing costs.
My guess is that as the economy manages to sort itself out over the next year or so you'll see a comeback in smaller individual stores, local/regional chains, etc. that provide MUCH better service. I think consumers are becoming more and more savvy when it comes to realizing that they need to think about things like after-sale service & support, and the big box stores simply don't provide that with any sense of reliability or consistency.
I wish you were right, but I think the opposite is true. I love local electronics/hi-fi stores. The masses won't go to them, however, because they typically don't stock the low-end, low-priced products, and can't beat Walmart on the prices. In a recession, people won't go for premium.
I'm a conservative Roman Catholic, who views homosexual activity as mortally sinful, and would prefer to live in a traditional Catholic monarchy where the monarch is answerable only to God and the Pope. I don't expect anyone on Slashdot to see eye-to-eye with me here, and this is not the point that I wish to debate.
I realize, however, I live in a modern, liberal, pluralistic republic, and will likely never get to live in a society that I want, therefore I am more than willing to compromise to be at peace with the rest of society. I feel in a secular republic, such as the US, the best solution is for the government to stay out of it -- best would be no legal recognition of marriage at all. Nor should it recognize anything resembling a civil union. Marriage, from a legal standpoint, should be built out of pre-existing contract law. Simple and elegant -- Catholics could have a standard marriage contract drawn up that would fit their framework, Jews could do the same, as could atheists, Freemasons, Jedi, etc. Employers would be free to do what they wish in terms of insurance -- if you don't like it, work somewhere else.
Unfortunately, this would require serious amount of changes at the federal, state, and municpal laws, including modifications to the US constitution. I would certainly support this sort of effort, though it is unlikely to ever happen.
Japan is a much smaller country with much higher population density. The US is a good bit more spread-out. Rail-based infrastructures work better with higher population densities; otherwise, you're laying an awful lot of track to get from point A to point B.
What can they do to stop it? If they do anything, someone will fork Chromium, which is the open-source base of Chrome.
I have 12 years of experience and a degree in CS.
I can't find decent coders. In the last round of interviews, no one fit the bill.
Can you code well? Live in Jersey? Want to try me as a boss? Email me.
If your working conditions suck, find another job! If you're not paid what your worth, find an employer that will!
I've done this 4 times, and I'm likely going to do it again in another 12-18 months.
Really? If it were the "most technologically-savvy event" wouldn't it at least make an effort to support ALL operating systems
Damn right! If it doesn't work on either my Amiga 5000, NeXT cube, or BeBox, Obama's DEFINATELY losing my vote!
If Joe sixpack would go and ask three questions. 1. can I make a backup copy 2. Can I shift formats so I can play it on a different device and 3. Can I sell it to some one else who can use it just the same as I did when I own it?
Yeah... Joe Sixpack is interested in getting exactly the same experience he gets out of, well, a six-pack: something enjoyable to consume.
You may just as well ask that Joe Sixpack asks Anheuser Bush if he can backup his Bud, have the recipe so he can use better hops, and then sell the resulting product. He won't because he doesn't care.
I'm sorry, but other than geeks, who switched from IE because it wasn't standards compliant? I convinced many people to switch to Firefox for three reasons:
1) better security
2) better UI
3) plugins
That's it. Anyone who tells you people don't use IE because it's not standards compliant are idiots. Every web developer makes sure their pages work with IE, no matter how much extra work it takes.
So anyone that's educated or intelligent is a nerd?
I defined geekiness in part based on involvement with underground geek culture, and also an attitude. She reads lots of great works of literature, sings in two choirs, and is very cultured. I go to conventions, read Slashdot and pour over hardware news obsessively.
Being a nerd guy is a turn-off to most women, as well. So we're even :)
I don't know your age, but until I got a bit older and more established, women wanted nothing to do with me. Around 29, I started having tons of opportunities. YMMV.
It would also be great if there was a higher demand for girl nerds
Might I suggest trying to date non-nerds? I've dated women who were nerds of various kinds -- math nerds, IT nerds, otaku, etc., and though many of them were really cool, it never worked out. It's not a pissing-contest thing -- I genuinely love and respect intelligent women. However, in 2 months I'm marrying a beautiful intelligent woman who is decidedly not a nerd, and has a lot of background in literature, classical music, and philosophy -- far different from my own schooling. It's a relationship of complementary strengths, rather than supplementary. I also think that this way, we'll have more to offer our children in terms of intellectual formation. Not exactly opposites attract -- there's certainly more than enough common ground between us in less superficial personality traits. Call it min/maxing if you will, but it works for me.
Paul mentioned, many times, that one should not change to reconcile with the world -- we are to live contra mundum -- against the world. At times, that's unpopular. So what. I'm more concerned with the state of my soul than I am with my popularity.
The church lost more people after the change of the mass than it had in total 200 years ago. Why do you think people are flocking in droves to parishes that celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass, according to the 1962 Missale Romanum? Because they want the church to be the church -- to take her place as she has for the past 2000 years, as a sanctuary from an ungodly world.
Really? JPII allowed altar girls, allowed the laity to distribute the Eucharist, allowed an indult for the laity to purify the sacred vessels at mass, loosened the requirements for canonization of saints, added 5 new mysteries to the rosary, kissed the Koran in public, held 2 worldwide ecumenical prayer services at assissi where he let pagans sacrifice a chicken on one of the altars at St. Claire's basilica, held huge outdoor stadium masses with rock bands playing for over 100,000 people.
Real conservative.
Fornication is killing them, not the lack of contraception.
These people aren't listening to the Church when She preaches that contraception is a sin. If they did, why would they not listen when she says fornication is a sin?
You failed to refute them. The burden is not on me to defend what has not been refuted.
The five ways also depend, largely, on causality. Aquinas' "unmoved mover" argument is built on Aristotle's first cause. I'm unconvinced of any arguments that causality may not exist. I reiterate that if causality does not exist, we cannot even trust our senses, and there is no basis for reason at all.
Priests being unmarried is NOT dogma -- it is a discipline exercised by the Latin Rite sepecifically, and could, in theory, change at any time. Contraception is dogmatically defined by the church as contrary to the natural law, and thus a grave sin.
The Church tells people they can't have sex outside of marriage. People who fail to use condoms obviously don't listen to the church about sex, so how likely are they to obey the church about condoms.
Vatican II did not change any church dogma -- just some of her practices. Do yourself a favor and read the documents yourself, starting with Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes.
So, your argument is basically "it's old, so I don't have to believe it."
I'm not arguing for the four elements, or humors, or the ancient Greek understanding of matter.
If causality doesn't exist, then there's really no basis for reason anyway.
Incorrect -- he had no empirical proof. He merely had a model that didn't fail any of the tests.
The Catholic church hardly endorses "Intelligent Design" curriculum as is posited by evangelicals. It accepts that evolution happens and exists, but merely isn't necessarily the origin of all species, as Darwin postulated. The Church even holds that one can believe that all of creation hapenned through a guided evolution.
Actually, if he so ordered the murder of someone, a Catholic would be obliged to ignore such an order. Even when one has a vow of obedience, that vow does not force one to obey a command to sin. A command to sin is an invalid command.