He made a claim about 'most denominations'. You declared him wrong, and as proof, offered one source about one denomination. I can also tell you, with certainty, that many catholics believe the bible is without error, regardless of what the official policy of the higher ups in their organization may say.
"I keep hearing this argument about someone being a coder , but not a designer/architect/whatever. As if being a coder is the easy bit but the real hard stuff is coming up with a flowchart, a few verbose word documents and spending half of every working day in meetings talking to similar talent vacuums. Because that my friend is all your lauded "architects" ever seem to do in my experience. Coding is hard but any moron can come up with a high level design , usually one which is impractical and doesn;t work and the coders have to quietly rewrite as they go along."
You seem to be disagreeing with yourself. Is it easy to be a designer, or does any moron come up with a design which is impractical and doesn't work?
Large universities commonly have their own police force. Try to find a city in this country with a population over 25,000 without one. We have a number of universities with populations higher than that, even twice that.
Reposting to cancel a bad moderation: "That strategy implicitly assumes that what they need are trainable skills, and not natural talent based skills. If it's a natural talent, then presumably the potential labor pool is evenly distributed over the world, but there are legal complications to recruiting from the portion of that pool born unluckily outside the US."
Sorry since this will bump you in your message notification, but I won't put up with inappropriate mods.
You have me completely baffled here. About the only natural born talents would be with regard to what a person can physically do...athletes and the like. I doubt MS is trying to hire a lot of H1-B's for the company softball team...especially not at $100K.
I 'almost' sounds like you're somehow trying to imply that intellect is a natural talent and that it is more abundant in a race being imported into the US? I know that can't be what you were alluding to...after all, racism is looked down upon on this forum.
Bah...that couldn't be what you were going for, that Indians were just naturally superior mentally.
Forget I suggested you implied that.....
You misread me completely. I'm suggesting that to the same extent that random people have the fluke of genes that results in physical talent, that random people have the fluke of genes that results in mental talent. Would you suggest that Einstein's brilliance was a result of his fortunate education and training (please read history of his life if so)?
I suggest that the random distribution of talent means that a small number of americans and a larger number of indians (because they have a larger population pool) will have the desired talents, and that therefore there may be no way to train Americans for these jobs.
That strategy implicitly assumes that what they need are trainable skills, and not natural talent based skills. If it's a natural talent, then presumably the potential labor pool is evenly distributed over the world, but there are legal complications to recruiting from the portion of that pool born unluckily outside the US.
You miss part of the point of laws like this. This adds to the number of crimes they've committed when they're caught after the fact. So on a second rape, for example, they'll add all of the unregistered screen names to the list of crimes, to make sure they go away for that much longer.
I was on a pretty good track toward solving P=NP, but had to give it up to go earn a living for my family. Multiply me by a million people, and one of us would have gotten there by now.
Have you actually looked at or spent time in a room illuminated by these things? They hurt. The color distribution is wrong, and they all seem to have some sort of sparkle or something that just makes them awful for anything except decoration or short term use.
OpenOffice and MS Office, while superficially similar do significantly different work. OpenOffice is multiplatform, which means its presentation layer and file system layers at least have to be very generalized, and that will account for most of what you experience as slow. MS Office gets to use native APIs, and unpublished APIs that allow it to be faster than any competitive application on the windows platform. Compare that to MS Office for Mac, which everyone experienced as horrible compared to the windows version. Finally, OpenOffice doesn't have quite the funding for optimization behind it that MS office does. So I could well believe that with work, open office might get twice as fast.
Most significant software projects already have a performance optimization phase. You run a profiler, find out where your application spends 90% of its time, and you fix that. The fact that software today in some cases seems slow mostly has to do with it doing more, not a lack of optimization. There are exceptions, but by and large most software cannot be made even twice as fast without loss of functionality.
Geometry shaders (easier live deformation of polygon arrangement on the graphics card). Force graphics cards to support 32bit throughout (better color precision for longer programs). Stringent Shader Model 4.0 & reduced use of cap bits (reduce need to specialize your shaders and other software per hardware platform). Better replication with deformation (when you need to draw a thousand of the same tank in an rts, with minor variations).
I'm not sure how this nut got to his 'first' claim... I know multiple people who have actually severed their connection to the grid for more than a year now. Maybe his extra is the car, or maybe it's doing it in the northeast. In the southwest, lots of people who don't need a car at all or who can get by with an electric cart have done this (but they have the advantage of better year-round sunshine).
I was thinking of ion drive. The main limiting factor in final velocity is propellant weight, which presumably we can lift to orbit sufficient quantities given the budget.
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Not to mention the fact that someone is going to realize there is going to be a _HUGE_ market for NON TPM boxes...
Slight typo there, you forgot the word 'black' in 'black market'.
Non-TPM boxes will be illegal.
I can't make this stuff up!
And that's why you'll never grow up to have a cult with millions of members following worshipping you. No imagination.
He made a claim about 'most denominations'. You declared him wrong, and as proof, offered one source about one denomination.
I can also tell you, with certainty, that many catholics believe the bible is without error, regardless of what the official policy of the higher ups in their organization may say.
What if you decline to press charges against someone who attempts to murder you? The DA just drops the case?
It's really because those drafting the law have a hard time NOT thinking about children all day that we have these laws.
Attention legislative perverts: please stop thinking about the children!
"I keep hearing this argument about someone being a coder , but not a designer/architect/whatever. As if being a coder is the easy bit but the real hard stuff is coming up with a flowchart, a few verbose word documents and spending half of every working day in meetings talking to similar talent vacuums. Because that my friend is all your lauded "architects" ever seem to do in my experience. Coding is hard but any moron can come up with a high level design , usually one which is impractical and doesn;t work and the coders have to quietly rewrite as they go along."
You seem to be disagreeing with yourself. Is it easy to be a designer, or does any moron come up with a design which is impractical and doesn't work?
Frankly, I think:
Excellent coders: 10%
Competent coders: 40%
Poor coders: 50%
Excellent designers: 5%
Competent designers: 20%
Poor designers: 75%
Bad moderator alert, responses to moderation are relevant to the discussion.
Large universities commonly have their own police force. Try to find a city in this country with a population over 25,000 without one. We have a number of universities with populations higher than that, even twice that.
Reposting to cancel a bad moderation:
"That strategy implicitly assumes that what they need are trainable skills, and not natural talent based skills. If it's a natural talent, then presumably the potential labor pool is evenly distributed over the world, but there are legal complications to recruiting from the portion of that pool born unluckily outside the US."
Sorry since this will bump you in your message notification, but I won't put up with inappropriate mods.
Bad moderator alert. Bust him for inappropriate flamebait. More like 'doesn't agree with moderators high opinion of himself.'
You have me completely baffled here. About the only natural born talents would be with regard to what a person can physically do...athletes and the like. I doubt MS is trying to hire a lot of H1-B's for the company softball team...especially not at $100K.
I 'almost' sounds like you're somehow trying to imply that intellect is a natural talent and that it is more abundant in a race being imported into the US? I know that can't be what you were alluding to...after all, racism is looked down upon on this forum.
Bah...that couldn't be what you were going for, that Indians were just naturally superior mentally.
Forget I suggested you implied that.....
You misread me completely. I'm suggesting that to the same extent that random people have the fluke of genes that results in physical talent, that random people have the fluke of genes that results in mental talent. Would you suggest that Einstein's brilliance was a result of his fortunate education and training (please read history of his life if so)?
I suggest that the random distribution of talent means that a small number of americans and a larger number of indians (because they have a larger population pool) will have the desired talents, and that therefore there may be no way to train Americans for these jobs.
That strategy implicitly assumes that what they need are trainable skills, and not natural talent based skills. If it's a natural talent, then presumably the potential labor pool is evenly distributed over the world, but there are legal complications to recruiting from the portion of that pool born unluckily outside the US.
You miss part of the point of laws like this. This adds to the number of crimes they've committed when they're caught after the fact. So on a second rape, for example, they'll add all of the unregistered screen names to the list of crimes, to make sure they go away for that much longer.
You are assuming I am assuming.
I was on a pretty good track toward solving P=NP, but had to give it up to go earn a living for my family. Multiply me by a million people, and one of us would have gotten there by now.
The ones at my store go to 75w equivalent (17 watt? I think, actual).
The home depot near me is now selling CFs that are compact enough that they would (hypothetically) fit inside a standard edison bulb.
Ouch, my eyes!
Have you actually looked at or spent time in a room illuminated by these things? They hurt. The color distribution is wrong, and they all seem to have some sort of sparkle or something that just makes them awful for anything except decoration or short term use.
You can meet both by meeting one:
Only allow adults to create accounts (at least in GA).
If a kid wants to create an account, tough luck, ask mom, dad, guardian.
OpenOffice and MS Office, while superficially similar do significantly different work. OpenOffice is multiplatform, which means its presentation layer and file system layers at least have to be very generalized, and that will account for most of what you experience as slow. MS Office gets to use native APIs, and unpublished APIs that allow it to be faster than any competitive application on the windows platform. Compare that to MS Office for Mac, which everyone experienced as horrible compared to the windows version. Finally, OpenOffice doesn't have quite the funding for optimization behind it that MS office does. So I could well believe that with work, open office might get twice as fast.
Most significant software projects already have a performance optimization phase. You run a profiler, find out where your application spends 90% of its time, and you fix that. The fact that software today in some cases seems slow mostly has to do with it doing more, not a lack of optimization. There are exceptions, but by and large most software cannot be made even twice as fast without loss of functionality.
DX 10 benefits:
Geometry shaders (easier live deformation of polygon arrangement on the graphics card).
Force graphics cards to support 32bit throughout (better color precision for longer programs).
Stringent Shader Model 4.0 & reduced use of cap bits (reduce need to specialize your shaders and other software per hardware platform).
Better replication with deformation (when you need to draw a thousand of the same tank in an rts, with minor variations).
The dead soldier for oil count is likely to be more than a million in that timespan.
I'm not sure how this nut got to his 'first' claim ... I know multiple people who have actually severed their connection to the grid for more than a year now. Maybe his extra is the car, or maybe it's doing it in the northeast. In the southwest, lots of people who don't need a car at all or who can get by with an electric cart have done this (but they have the advantage of better year-round sunshine).
I was thinking of ion drive. The main limiting factor in final velocity is propellant weight, which presumably we can lift to orbit sufficient quantities given the budget.