Ouch! Thank, I guess:-) I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been the usual pile-on of protestations of how much better Linux is. When even stubborn die-hards like me throw in the towel, there's a serious problem - one that cannot be addressed because of the GPL licensing model. There's simply not enough financial incentive for anyone to fix the problems of the Linux desktop, because it won't make enough money to pay back their costs (everyone else can just "take it").
It's a real mess, and you can't believe how disappointed I am. A few years ago, it looked like linux could be a real contender. Then everyone went nuts. The KDE4.0 release (4 years ago next month) showed how NOT to manage user expectations, and that's when "K" started standing for "Krap" for many users.
Gnome is doing the same - and let's not go into the whole Unity mess.
You don't lose loyal users, even if you stay a bit behind the times. You *do* lose loyal users when you continually - as in every single release - waste their time by breaking stuff that used to work, and making the stuff that still works run slower... and slower... and slower... and changing stuff just for the sake of being trendy. Trends change. Quality never goes out of style.
Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. With the shutdown of the analog broadcasts, the digital broadcasts have a MUCH greater range (plus transmitters have been tweaking their coverage). You might find that you can get many more channels now than you could a few years ago - especially if you orient the antenna properly.
That's once you get beyond the whole "reception" problem and manage to p*ss off your neighborhood with your ugly antenna.
First, my antenna is sitting in the window, so it's not going to "p*ss off my neighborhood" unless they've got x-ray vision and can see through the blinds.
Second, my picture is clearer than my neighbor, who is using cable. OTA (over-the-air) picture quality is regulated. So, I get a better picture, I don't pay for cable or satellite, and while I only get 18 or s HD channels, those 18 are different, as opposed to 500 channels broadcasting the same 20 feeds.
That's one thing I don't get - why people pay $50 - $100 a month to watch re-compressed video - complete with commercials - that isn't as good a quality picture as what you can get free over the air with a cheap antenna.
The same cheap antenna that couldn't even get a snowy picture of channels 100 miles away back when they were non-digital brings them in crystal-clear now, except for the occasional rainstorm (and if the power goes out because of that storm, it's not like you can watch it anyway).
The purpose of the package is not volume of content, its to have quality content rolling at all times so that there is something to find when we want to sit down and watch rather than you having to schedule around some show.
So you're actually scheduling your life around TV, rather than saying "if there's nothing on right now, I'll find something else to do." It's not like you *need* to watch any of those shows... and if you can't get it ***right now***, you may end up being more discriminating in what you do watch.
Turn it off for a week - it's not like you're going to miss anything.
How is it "expensive as hell?" It's $20 for an indoor antenna, and the cost of electricity to run it.
If you only want to watch a few hours a week (as opposed to 5-8 or more hours a day, which is insane if you're not an invalid), there's more than enough on.
Your point was flat-out WRONG. And no, not everyone has upgraded from Vista to Windows7. Heck, I'm in the process of removing linux from my OEM-Vista laptop as my default desktop because the last update:
1. failed to migrate my email accounts for the last 8 years (good thing I have backups)t
2. killed wifi... again...
3. brought in an incompatible video scheme (replaced/etc/xorg.conf with/etc/xorg.conf.d/+a wad of files)
4. the "firefox kills the system for 10 seconds at random intervals" bug is still not fixed 6 months later
5. not one of the desktops survived the latest "cruftification + shiny"
6. My "linux-supported multi-function color laser" still isn't supported.
There are more... but after 15 years, I'm fed up with software that works like it was put together by a bunch of amateurs working part-time. Even Vista is now more stable. So, off goes linux, on goes FreeBSD. While the linux kernel is fine for infrastructure (though it's starting to develop its own brand of cruftiness), I'm done distro-hopping.
People have said "switch to $ANOTHER_DISTRO". Not again... I'd still need Windows as my printer driver. I'd still need Windows to grab anything from my camcorder. I'd still need Windows to use my laptop anywhere but at my desk. The fact is, Vista, with all the updates, has been MUCH more stable than opensuse for over a year. That's just messed up, but it's the way it is. And yes, it runs IE9, which, despite its flawed history, now runs better than Firefox or Chrome.
The firefox debacle just highlights that open source, in many ways, is suffering because it lacks a proper way of raising money strictly for software development and sale, being too dependent on advertising. Thank the GPL for that failure.
The "hate", as you refer to it, is because people are p***ed off that things that used to work stop working, that firefox is apparently more devoted to copying Chromes' appearance than to actually fixing bugs, and the whole fast release version schedule thing is just stupid because more bugs get into releases instead of being weeded out.
Speaking of cursive... Have you older people noticed that modern teens no longer write in cursive at all? I heard that some schools were no longer teaching cursive writing. There's something sad about this in a Sherlock Holmes kind of way.
Studies showed that a bit of practice is all it takes to write non-cursive just as fast, and FAR more legibly. Look at doctors' prescriptions for an example of how the use of cursive can harm or even kill.
Defense 1 - Use glitter. Sprinkle it inside any envelope you want to protect. Anyone opening the envelope is going to positively HATE you for the next week - that stuff gets everywhere!
Defense 2 - Encode a message as tiny colored dots on the paper - anyone seeing the dots will assume it's just more glitter that didn't get cleaned off;
Defense 3 - Make it easy to detect the envelope has been switched or opened by... you guessed it... MORE glitter, on the envelope sealing strip (use envelopes with a self-adhesive strip). Sprinkle at random, shake off what you can, photograph the resulting pattern. Send the photograph via email. (Note: This method is used to detect tampering with nuclear warheads under international agreements - if it's good enough to be verifiable by both Uncle Sam and Uncle Joe, it's good enough for you);
Defense 4 - SWAK at the bottom of the letter, or the reverse side - and photograph that as well. It's very hard to match - they have to get the lip pattern, position, and the lipstick color just right. If they try to just "print it", that's easily detected, since it won't smudge when rubbed;
Defense 5 - "This doesn't smell like it's from her" - use a (very VERY) small amount of your usual perfume (guys, substitute your after-shave or cologne - remember - very VERY small amount);
Defense 6 - Coffee ring. A light, broken ring of coffee or tea, off in a corner - with a different mug each time. Don't slop the mug - just dab a bit of coffee in several areas on the bottom rim, and "stamp" your letter. Again. hard to duplicate, send photo of same. Bonus points if you use lemon juice instead (only shows up when heated).
Defense 7 - Put the REAL message buried in the photos, not the letter.
1. The total amount of heat generated does not directly correlate with the amount of cooling needed. It's the concentration in hot spots that matters.
2. Why would I, or anyone else "cower in your shadow"? This is the Internet - you don't HAVE a shadow. And again, why? Do you "get off" on cyber-stalking or something? Does it "embiggen" you to think you're scaring women with something other than your face? Did some woman dump you and now you're getting back at her vicariously? Stay tuned for the answers to these and other questions as we continue the Internet version of "As The Stomach Turns".
3. Anyone who reads my profile can easily find out what "tom" is shorthand for. It doesn't mean what you think it means - come to think of it, you do seem to have that problem with much of the English language. The alternative is that you read it and are being your usual annoying self. Either way, nobody cares. Except you. Oh wait - you're nobody, nobody cares, so YOU care. Got it!
The only cost factor mentioned was acquisition. And look at how many different accounts you have to post under as each one gets mod-bombed to h*** because everyone knows you've been a jerk for years.
Of course women swear too... I have a couple of sisters who certainly are the equal of any sailor... but that doesn't mean that *I* have to restrict myself to such a limited vocabulary, or embarrass anyone I'm with by being gratuitously foul-mouthed.
Be honest - all other things being equal, who would you respect more - the woman who swears every sentence, or the one who doesn't? Which one would you rather not be seen with in a restaurant because her foul mouth would embarrass you? Which one would you rather take to a party because you won't have to go back and apologize?
One of my neighbors remarked on it - she had never, ever heard me swear - and I told her that I had simply decided one day that it wasn't "me", that it was a bad habit I had fallen into by association ("everyone is doing it"), and that I was going to stop then and there... and I did, that same day. No big deal - not like dieting:-(
I found assembler to be easier than c (then again, I learned assembler first, and once I got the hang of it, really enjoyed it, but YMMV). As for the math/phys/algo knowledge, if you can outline the math/phys, you should leave the design and implementation of the algorithm to the coder - after all, it's their job, so why should you be stuck doing it, right?
It's a LONG story:-) Short version - the guy is a liar spreading FUD, demeaning towards women, children, and families, a hypocrite for publicly encouraging people to pirate closed-source software to "stick it to the creators" while whining about potential violations of his precious GPL, makes us all look bad with his stupidities like his anti-steve-jobs rant the day after he died, and as such, is fair game (as well as being fairly gamey:-)
To argue (as some have tried) that we should stick to the meaning of the greek root term is facile. To do so would render most English terms useless. Example: blasphemy - it comes from two words that mean "stupid words". Combining them gives a different meaning, even in the original language. (Of course, it's not nearly as complicated as flammable and inflammable:-p
So my stance is that this sort of mistreatment is mostly a gender-specific problem, that it's much worse in IT than most other fields, and that it reflects ingrained cultural misogynistic/patriarchal attitudes on the people involved.
This isn't to say that men are "Teh EBIL!" or anything - most guys, the first time they unthinkingly drop an f-bomb or two around me, know what "that look" means and apologize, and make an effort to keep it clean (a futile effort, of course, because programming does tend to "encourage" people to swear, but at least they try, and that's good enough because it's the thought that counts).
And I certainly am not going to complain about men holding the door open for me, or any of the other common courtesies. It helps compensate for the animals, like the total stranger earlier this summer who tried to propose to me in the subway and then groped me and try to shove his tongue down my throat when I told him to get lost... which made me wonder if I had picked up YALS (Yet Another L4m3r Stalker)...
We have to recognize that equal doesn't mean identical. If you and your boss get into a shouting match, it's one thing... but if a boss or co-worker loses it on me, I'm not going to be listening to what he's saying - I'm looking for the exit. It takes 2, and I'm not going to be an enabler of childish behaviour - plus it makes me *very* uncomfortable.
They did experiments where a dog just sat in the corner during meetings. Didn't interact with the people, just sat there. And the meetings were more productive, more cooperative, more got done, people just behaved better. It might help explain why so much more seemed to get done during the dot-com boom, where everyone brought their pets to work... pets supply the "social lubricant" to get people to talk to each other about something other than business or code. It's a more "family-feeling" environment, and more productive. And yet ultimately it was replaced with what we have today - an environment that's less conducive to productivity, less open to cooperation, a structure that practically forces managers to be total jerks, so they don't feel to happy about themselves even as they're "passing it on" to those under them, and are powerless to change it. "It's the way things are."
A few years back, between jobs, I was doing the "visit companies, introduce myself, see if there's a need for my services" thing, and I was offered a job - not as a programmer, but as a temp receptionist/secretary/office manager. I took it, and I have to say, it's MUCH more enjoyable. I got to deal with the public, with vendors, with the workers, customers,... compared to the comparative isolation in which we work as programmers, it was FUN! We really don't see how dysfunctional the IT environment is until we get out of it and see how the rest of the world lives.
This leads me to wonder if most of the people in IT gravitate to it because they're lacking some of the social skills to interact with "nermals". It would explain the toxic work environment, the insane hours that are seen as a badge of honour rather than what they really are - a total, TOTAL failure of
Probability of catastrophic failures is lower with enough discrete boxes (which, as other posters pointed out, works out to be cheaper as well as more flexible - they even give the price breakdown). Try to keep up. You're looking even stupider than you usually do.
Obviously you missed another point in TFA - that the original poster was concerned about the higher rates of failure because of... wait for it... overheating due to running multiple GPUs. As other posters have pointed out, they can get a much lower thermal concentration using other solutions that permit better cooling.
So, not only did you miss the part where they said that electricity use wasn't an issue - you also missed the posters concerns about thermal load. Did you read ANYTHING except the headline?
Because if you did, you need to work on your reading skills.
Seriously though, how can you negotiate effectively when there's a pervasive belief that women aren't equals when it comes to IT? Just look through some of the comments here about how women "have an easier time of it because of quotas." Is anyone who made such a comment going to seriously consider it fair paying someone they consider the "token woman" the same salary - even if she really is just as good, or, $DIETY_FORBID, better?
Of course everyone has their own way of doing it, but when I get in that situation, I try to sit quietly, listening, as though I am wise. Then when everyone has finished their blah blah blah, I say my wise thing. And people listen. Of course, if I don't have anything wise to say, I keep quiet. Everyone has their own way though, no way is wrong.
Why not watch what happens when a woman does the same thing... too often, the men take silence as "she has nothing significant to add anyways" and quickly move on to the next topic; so the woman has to interrupt, at which point she's "pushy" for interrupting. Two men talking, another man interrupts to throw his two cents in, it's all "part of the game".
~15 years ago, I was an outsider brought in to observe a startup. In one all-programmers meeting, the only female employee sat there silently while the guys engaged in what can only be called "p*ssing contests." Afterwards, I asked her why she didn't say anything even though she was by far the smartest of the bunch and I *knew* she had the answers; she felt that she couldn't. It was obvious that speaking up would have been taken as challenging their "combination dominance game and mutual admiration society". It was just as obvious that they were totally oblivious to the effect they were having.
This is not "team-work." But office politics being what it is, it doesn't take much for a woman to get labeled as an "uncooperative b*tch" (or worse) if she defends her ideas anywhere nearly as aggressively as a man, or tries to go head-to-head in a "p*ssing contest".
Studies show that the solution is for management to break the cycle by themselves not engaging in such games, and making it clear that it's not the way to "do business". Of course, in a culture where shouting "I'm going to f*cking bury them" and throwing chairs is par for the course, that's just not going to happen.
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Ouch! Thank, I guess :-) I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been the usual pile-on of protestations of how much better Linux is. When even stubborn die-hards like me throw in the towel, there's a serious problem - one that cannot be addressed because of the GPL licensing model. There's simply not enough financial incentive for anyone to fix the problems of the Linux desktop, because it won't make enough money to pay back their costs (everyone else can just "take it").
It's a real mess, and you can't believe how disappointed I am. A few years ago, it looked like linux could be a real contender. Then everyone went nuts. The KDE4.0 release (4 years ago next month) showed how NOT to manage user expectations, and that's when "K" started standing for "Krap" for many users.
Gnome is doing the same - and let's not go into the whole Unity mess.
You don't lose loyal users, even if you stay a bit behind the times. You *do* lose loyal users when you continually - as in every single release - waste their time by breaking stuff that used to work, and making the stuff that still works run slower ... and slower ... and slower ... and changing stuff just for the sake of being trendy. Trends change. Quality never goes out of style.
Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. With the shutdown of the analog broadcasts, the digital broadcasts have a MUCH greater range (plus transmitters have been tweaking their coverage). You might find that you can get many more channels now than you could a few years ago - especially if you orient the antenna properly.
Your TV doesn't work any more, at least for watching TV shows, All US full-power analog TV broadcasts came to an end on 12 June 2009.
Perchance, your parents got a digital TV and gave you their soon-to-be-defunct analog unit?
First, my antenna is sitting in the window, so it's not going to "p*ss off my neighborhood" unless they've got x-ray vision and can see through the blinds.
Second, my picture is clearer than my neighbor, who is using cable. OTA (over-the-air) picture quality is regulated. So, I get a better picture, I don't pay for cable or satellite, and while I only get 18 or s HD channels, those 18 are different, as opposed to 500 channels broadcasting the same 20 feeds.
The same cheap antenna that couldn't even get a snowy picture of channels 100 miles away back when they were non-digital brings them in crystal-clear now, except for the occasional rainstorm (and if the power goes out because of that storm, it's not like you can watch it anyway).
So you're actually scheduling your life around TV, rather than saying "if there's nothing on right now, I'll find something else to do." It's not like you *need* to watch any of those shows ... and if you can't get it ***right now***, you may end up being more discriminating in what you do watch.
Turn it off for a week - it's not like you're going to miss anything.
There's a "Nintendo Channel" on TV?
Isn't that both redundant and just plain wrong?
How is it "expensive as hell?" It's $20 for an indoor antenna, and the cost of electricity to run it.
If you only want to watch a few hours a week (as opposed to 5-8 or more hours a day, which is insane if you're not an invalid), there's more than enough on.
1. failed to migrate my email accounts for the last 8 years (good thing I have backups)t ... again ...
/etc/xorg.conf with /etc/xorg.conf.d/+a wad of files)
2. killed wifi
3. brought in an incompatible video scheme (replaced
4. the "firefox kills the system for 10 seconds at random intervals" bug is still not fixed 6 months later
5. not one of the desktops survived the latest "cruftification + shiny"
6. My "linux-supported multi-function color laser" still isn't supported.
There are more ... but after 15 years, I'm fed up with software that works like it was put together by a bunch of amateurs working part-time. Even Vista is now more stable. So, off goes linux, on goes FreeBSD. While the linux kernel is fine for infrastructure (though it's starting to develop its own brand of cruftiness), I'm done distro-hopping.
People have said "switch to $ANOTHER_DISTRO". Not again ... I'd still need Windows as my printer driver. I'd still need Windows to grab anything from my camcorder. I'd still need Windows to use my laptop anywhere but at my desk. The fact is, Vista, with all the updates, has been MUCH more stable than opensuse for over a year. That's just messed up, but it's the way it is. And yes, it runs IE9, which, despite its flawed history, now runs better than Firefox or Chrome.
The firefox debacle just highlights that open source, in many ways, is suffering because it lacks a proper way of raising money strictly for software development and sale, being too dependent on advertising. Thank the GPL for that failure.
The "hate", as you refer to it, is because people are p***ed off that things that used to work stop working, that firefox is apparently more devoted to copying Chromes' appearance than to actually fixing bugs, and the whole fast release version schedule thing is just stupid because more bugs get into releases instead of being weeded out.
Microsoft says you're wrong - Vista (32 and 64 bit) are supported, as is Server 2008 (32bit, 64bit, and R2).
Studies showed that a bit of practice is all it takes to write non-cursive just as fast, and FAR more legibly. Look at doctors' prescriptions for an example of how the use of cursive can harm or even kill.
That's what you get for splitting green wood. An axe will split seasoned wood (2 years) with no problems (except for really big knots).
Maybe he's used several colors of wax in layers, and when you "melt the wax off", the resulting lump won't be the same color. It's how I would do it.
Defense 1 - Use glitter. Sprinkle it inside any envelope you want to protect. Anyone opening the envelope is going to positively HATE you for the next week - that stuff gets everywhere!
Defense 2 - Encode a message as tiny colored dots on the paper - anyone seeing the dots will assume it's just more glitter that didn't get cleaned off;
Defense 3 - Make it easy to detect the envelope has been switched or opened by ... you guessed it ... MORE glitter, on the envelope sealing strip (use envelopes with a self-adhesive strip). Sprinkle at random, shake off what you can, photograph the resulting pattern. Send the photograph via email. (Note: This method is used to detect tampering with nuclear warheads under international agreements - if it's good enough to be verifiable by both Uncle Sam and Uncle Joe, it's good enough for you);
Defense 4 - SWAK at the bottom of the letter, or the reverse side - and photograph that as well. It's very hard to match - they have to get the lip pattern, position, and the lipstick color just right. If they try to just "print it", that's easily detected, since it won't smudge when rubbed;
Defense 5 - "This doesn't smell like it's from her" - use a (very VERY) small amount of your usual perfume (guys, substitute your after-shave or cologne - remember - very VERY small amount);
Defense 6 - Coffee ring. A light, broken ring of coffee or tea, off in a corner - with a different mug each time. Don't slop the mug - just dab a bit of coffee in several areas on the bottom rim, and "stamp" your letter. Again. hard to duplicate, send photo of same. Bonus points if you use lemon juice instead (only shows up when heated).
Defense 7 - Put the REAL message buried in the photos, not the letter.
BTW - the 1st one doesn't count, since it was about TFA, and this stopped being about TFA long ago.
Two points:
1. The total amount of heat generated does not directly correlate with the amount of cooling needed. It's the concentration in hot spots that matters.
2. Why would I, or anyone else "cower in your shadow"? This is the Internet - you don't HAVE a shadow. And again, why? Do you "get off" on cyber-stalking or something? Does it "embiggen" you to think you're scaring women with something other than your face? Did some woman dump you and now you're getting back at her vicariously? Stay tuned for the answers to these and other questions as we continue the Internet version of "As The Stomach Turns".
3. Anyone who reads my profile can easily find out what "tom" is shorthand for. It doesn't mean what you think it means - come to think of it, you do seem to have that problem with much of the English language. The alternative is that you read it and are being your usual annoying self. Either way, nobody cares. Except you. Oh wait - you're nobody, nobody cares, so YOU care. Got it!
The only cost factor mentioned was acquisition. And look at how many different accounts you have to post under as each one gets mod-bombed to h*** because everyone knows you've been a jerk for years.
Of course women swear too ... I have a couple of sisters who certainly are the equal of any sailor ... but that doesn't mean that *I* have to restrict myself to such a limited vocabulary, or embarrass anyone I'm with by being gratuitously foul-mouthed.
Be honest - all other things being equal, who would you respect more - the woman who swears every sentence, or the one who doesn't? Which one would you rather not be seen with in a restaurant because her foul mouth would embarrass you? Which one would you rather take to a party because you won't have to go back and apologize?
One of my neighbors remarked on it - she had never, ever heard me swear - and I told her that I had simply decided one day that it wasn't "me", that it was a bad habit I had fallen into by association ("everyone is doing it"), and that I was going to stop then and there ... and I did, that same day. No big deal - not like dieting :-(
I found assembler to be easier than c (then again, I learned assembler first, and once I got the hang of it, really enjoyed it, but YMMV). As for the math/phys/algo knowledge, if you can outline the math/phys, you should leave the design and implementation of the algorithm to the coder - after all, it's their job, so why should you be stuck doing it, right?
It's a LONG story :-) Short version - the guy is a liar spreading FUD, demeaning towards women, children, and families, a hypocrite for publicly encouraging people to pirate closed-source software to "stick it to the creators" while whining about potential violations of his precious GPL, makes us all look bad with his stupidities like his anti-steve-jobs rant the day after he died, and as such, is fair game (as well as being fairly gamey :-)
Misogyny isn't limited to outright hatred - see miÂsogÂyÂnisÂtic - adjective - reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women. The wikipedia article goes on to further extend the definition as it's used today.
To argue (as some have tried) that we should stick to the meaning of the greek root term is facile. To do so would render most English terms useless. Example: blasphemy - it comes from two words that mean "stupid words". Combining them gives a different meaning, even in the original language. (Of course, it's not nearly as complicated as flammable and inflammable :-p
So my stance is that this sort of mistreatment is mostly a gender-specific problem, that it's much worse in IT than most other fields, and that it reflects ingrained cultural misogynistic/patriarchal attitudes on the people involved.
This isn't to say that men are "Teh EBIL!" or anything - most guys, the first time they unthinkingly drop an f-bomb or two around me, know what "that look" means and apologize, and make an effort to keep it clean (a futile effort, of course, because programming does tend to "encourage" people to swear, but at least they try, and that's good enough because it's the thought that counts).
And I certainly am not going to complain about men holding the door open for me, or any of the other common courtesies. It helps compensate for the animals, like the total stranger earlier this summer who tried to propose to me in the subway and then groped me and try to shove his tongue down my throat when I told him to get lost ... which made me wonder if I had picked up YALS (Yet Another L4m3r Stalker) ...
We have to recognize that equal doesn't mean identical. If you and your boss get into a shouting match, it's one thing ... but if a boss or co-worker loses it on me, I'm not going to be listening to what he's saying - I'm looking for the exit. It takes 2, and I'm not going to be an enabler of childish behaviour - plus it makes me *very* uncomfortable.
They did experiments where a dog just sat in the corner during meetings. Didn't interact with the people, just sat there. And the meetings were more productive, more cooperative, more got done, people just behaved better. It might help explain why so much more seemed to get done during the dot-com boom, where everyone brought their pets to work ... pets supply the "social lubricant" to get people to talk to each other about something other than business or code. It's a more "family-feeling" environment, and more productive. And yet ultimately it was replaced with what we have today - an environment that's less conducive to productivity, less open to cooperation, a structure that practically forces managers to be total jerks, so they don't feel to happy about themselves even as they're "passing it on" to those under them, and are powerless to change it. "It's the way things are."
A few years back, between jobs, I was doing the "visit companies, introduce myself, see if there's a need for my services" thing, and I was offered a job - not as a programmer, but as a temp receptionist/secretary/office manager. I took it, and I have to say, it's MUCH more enjoyable. I got to deal with the public, with vendors, with the workers, customers, ... compared to the comparative isolation in which we work as programmers, it was FUN! We really don't see how dysfunctional the IT environment is until we get out of it and see how the rest of the world lives.
This leads me to wonder if most of the people in IT gravitate to it because they're lacking some of the social skills to interact with "nermals". It would explain the toxic work environment, the insane hours that are seen as a badge of honour rather than what they really are - a total, TOTAL failure of
Probability of catastrophic failures is lower with enough discrete boxes (which, as other posters pointed out, works out to be cheaper as well as more flexible - they even give the price breakdown). Try to keep up. You're looking even stupider than you usually do.
So, not only did you miss the part where they said that electricity use wasn't an issue - you also missed the posters concerns about thermal load. Did you read ANYTHING except the headline?
Because if you did, you need to work on your reading skills.
Okay, you made me laugh :-)
Seriously though, how can you negotiate effectively when there's a pervasive belief that women aren't equals when it comes to IT? Just look through some of the comments here about how women "have an easier time of it because of quotas." Is anyone who made such a comment going to seriously consider it fair paying someone they consider the "token woman" the same salary - even if she really is just as good, or, $DIETY_FORBID, better?
Why not watch what happens when a woman does the same thing ... too often, the men take silence as "she has nothing significant to add anyways" and quickly move on to the next topic; so the woman has to interrupt, at which point she's "pushy" for interrupting. Two men talking, another man interrupts to throw his two cents in, it's all "part of the game".
~15 years ago, I was an outsider brought in to observe a startup. In one all-programmers meeting, the only female employee sat there silently while the guys engaged in what can only be called "p*ssing contests." Afterwards, I asked her why she didn't say anything even though she was by far the smartest of the bunch and I *knew* she had the answers; she felt that she couldn't. It was obvious that speaking up would have been taken as challenging their "combination dominance game and mutual admiration society". It was just as obvious that they were totally oblivious to the effect they were having.
This is not "team-work." But office politics being what it is, it doesn't take much for a woman to get labeled as an "uncooperative b*tch" (or worse) if she defends her ideas anywhere nearly as aggressively as a man, or tries to go head-to-head in a "p*ssing contest".
Studies show that the solution is for management to break the cycle by themselves not engaging in such games, and making it clear that it's not the way to "do business". Of course, in a culture where shouting "I'm going to f*cking bury them" and throwing chairs is par for the course, that's just not going to happen.