Weight and mass are different things. Their usage is correct.
Their usage is dead wrong. Weight is the effect of gravity on mass. The vehicle doesn't "weigh" more at speed - the effect of gravity on it hasn't changed. It just generates a down-force from the wing. To say that it weighs more is about as accurate as saying your weight changes as you jump up and down on a scale, or that an airplane weighs less than nothing when it's flying.
Since energy can be converted to mass, they would have to be going at a large percentage of c to actually "weigh" more.
I love my mac book pro and as a first time OS X user, I am more than pleased with the entire experience. That being said, I would not buy any other apple product no matter what the price. Apple does some crazy shit that would Microsoft envious.
Developing for the iPhone used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.
It's not anymore. It's about money and control and refunds and chargebacks, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can distort reality the longest or get the fanbois to shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a walled-in garden in order to legitimize the "Cult of Stevie.". Individuals notwithstanding, Apple and the iPhone store as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics, money and control.
If the customer goes directly to YOU, it's not a "chargeback". What Apple is talking about is a refund, not a disputed credit charge. Completely different mechanisms, and different costs.
The Balminator wants to know if this policy will also apply to the iPhones themselves, and to iPods... 90 days use, then get your money back... gee, maybe Detroit should follow that model - it'll help them go broke quicker, since unlike Apple's monopoly on the iPhone, Detroit doesn't have a monopoly.
As you pointed out, Citigroup deosn't wnat to buy RedHat. None of the self-styled "Analysts" quoted in the story knows what they're talking about, whcih isn't surprising. Look at the "follow-the-crowd" phenomena - one says they expect shares to go from $16 to 17, so the next one says from $16 to $18. All this based on earnings of $0.22 a share, instead of $0.20. "Wow, a 10% raise!" So, all of a sudden Oracle is going to want to buy them? I don't think so, Jack Shit.
as well as the ability to download and play things directly off of the SD/SDHC card rather than the internal memory
No, you can't play the game directly off the SD/SDHC card. You can save downloads and games to the card, but they still have to be loaded into system memory to run. The earliest articles about the update were clear on that. - that the big thing was the rasing of the storage limit from 2gigs to 32gigs, but that it was for storage only.
Still, upping it from 2 gigs is a good thing. Hopefully they'll upgrade the Opera browser to start using all that space.
The performance of todays' laptops is on a par with desktops. As a matter of fact, it's usually better for machines that look "similar-specs" because the components are better matched.
Also, there's no such thing as a "redundant scren and keyboard" when migrating to a half-decent laptop. Plug the screen and keyboard from the previous machine into the laptop and get the "dual-monitor goodness" for free. No need to buy an extra video card, so there's an additional saving there. So, spend $300 more, save that $300 over the next 3 years in energy costs, and get a productivity boost of between 5% and 50% per user. Sounds like a win-win to me. (Before you say it's not practical, my 17" laptop which I'm posting this from is plugged into a 26" 1920x1200 Samsung... and my linux desktop, with all the special effects enabled, works across both screens. I bought a 2nd identical lcd for the office, and I notice a serious performance hit when I plug it into the office dual-core which is supposedly 50% faster. Specs don't come anywhere near telling the whole story).
As for the "leaving them on makes them run longer" - the two sets of machines you're dealing with are probably dealing with different workloads, different locations, and differing care and maintenance. I don't expect end-user Windows boxes to last more than a couple - three years before they're ready to be junked. It's just the way it is. A good example is a hard drive I salvaged from a dying windows box - wouldn't even boot, couldn't re-install windows, etc. I stuck it in a linux box, and it ran for years after, and handled up to a terabyte of data transfer each month. So, different work loads will result in differing failure modes - especially when an inept, angered, or frustrated user punches or kicks their box when they think nobody's looking, or drops a paperclip into the power supply, or repositions the box so there's no airflow, or any one of a number of other problems.
As other posters pointed out, there are LOTS of thermal and power variations over the course of the day.
I suspect that the reason we don't put enough importance on soft skills is because we *can't* easily measure them. Imagine the lawsuits if you could produce evidence that a co-worker who's been bugging you no end scored an 89% on the "asshole scale",
What do you do? You measure what you can, and it becomes the same as "to a kid with a hammer, everything needs to be nailed down."
I'm not suggesting that it be a popularity contest, but at the same time, you need to interact with a cross-section of temperaments or you tend to get either tunnel vision or an echo chamber effect. This applies to software projects as well. Stuff that wouldn't bother me, so I'd tend to overlook it, would probably drive one of the testers nuts,or another coder with a different approach - so these things have more of a chance to be worked out with a cross-section of ages, backgrounds, and skills. All super-stars would probably, contrary to our intuition, be sub-optimal.
Sounds like a plan. I kind of suspect that Java is about to start displacing some web apps over the next few years, as security and functionality get more important.
Errrr, what about me? I was a disagreeable cuss when I was twenty. By the time I was 40, I was unbearable. Today? I can't even stand to be in the same room with me!! All the same, age and treachery will always triumph over youth and naivete.
No need for treachery. The yung'uns don't stay young forever. Just wait 10 years:-)
... or just wait until you're in your 50s - by then, you have enough experience that you don't have to participate in the "pissing contests" that younger applicants do, you have a lot more soft skills (you HAVE been working on them, right?) so that you know that most problems are people problems, not technical problems, and you know how to work towards resolving these issues, and you have "been there, done that" so much that something like learning yet another language is no big deal - you learn it, plus you bring all the idioms for solving problems from other languages to bear. You also no longer fear "death march" projects, since you've survived enough of them.
Unless they're just looking for a warm body to do some stuff pretty much by rote, in which case, the question isn't "are you sharp enough", but "are you stupid and boring enough not to leave for something more interesting in a few months?"
Recent research actually shows that mental faculties begin to decline as early in life as the 20's. Kids don't seem sharper, they ARE sharper. That isn't to say that there isn't more to being a good employee or that older individuals don't have their own advantages but there is a basis for IT discrimination based on age.
ecent research actually shows that some people's mental faculties begin to decline as early in life as the 20's.
There - fixed that for you.
The truth is a lot simpler - most people put their brains in neutral after they get out of school.
The brain is like any other tissue - use it or it atrophies. Even BONE will leach its' calcium if it's not subjected to regular stress from such ordinary things as walking around.
The average person doesn't read books any more. They get their information from the echo chamber of the internet - in short, ephemeral snippets that register on the eyeballs but not the brain, because 2 seconds later, they're onto the next "oh shiny!"
Then thare are those people for which life is a continuous learning experience - not just because we have to keep learning to stay current, but because our curiosity leads us to continue learning, continue integrating new facts and attitudes into our knowledge of ourselves and the world around us. BTW - there are also studies that show that most "genius" is probably the result of a combination of that curiosity, plus persistence.
Staying up to date will never restore your cognitive abilities to the level they were at when you were 22 and they peaked or 27 when they begin to show a measurable decline.
You can have my cognitive abilities when you pry them from my cold, dead brain!
Starting up is another story. It takes me about 15-20 minutes before I am completely started.
So go into your bios and set it to boot at a specific time.
Or spend $10 on a timer, and set the pc to boot at power-on. Unplug it from the timer when you leave for the weekend. You'll only have one long boot time per week, instead of daily.
As for the "programs I have to start manually" - no script-fu?
The story says $36 per desktop computer per year could be saved. Now that sound like a lot of money at a company with 500 desktops ($18,000). But that company will have at least 500 employees and probably more. At 10% more or 550 employees to work those 500 desktop computers, that brings the potential salary increases to about $32 a year. If the average person works 38 hours a week and 48 weeks a year (1842 hours), that's about a penny or less per hour raise.
If they switch to laptops, they'll save more than double that, plus not have to buy and maintain a UPS for each box (UPS batteries generally last 2 years, then they're pretty much due for a replacement if you want to have more than a few minutes w/o power). The savings come out to close to $100/person/year. The average home has 3 computers. Wouldn't you want to cut your electrical bill by a buck a day?
But it gets even worse. The heat cycles of computers heating up when in use and cooling down when powered off will take a small toll on the life of the computer. So I guess the real question might be is if the computer lasts 2 years instead of 3 or 4 or even 5 years, how many of those would need to be replaced because the Co2 emitted from making the things from scratch outweighed the entire carbon savings from the $36 worth of electricity not in use assuming that the power for those computers don't already come from a Co2-less generating facility. My guess is that an early replacement on any of them will offset any environmental savings which sort of makes this idea more hand waving then anything.
That is so full of shit it's not funny. We're not talking an XBox360 with thermal issues here. You can safely spin up your computer thousands of times with no extra "thermal stress." Why do you continue to push a myth that has been totally debunked?
The problem with suspend is that you don't get a clean boot next time around - any memory you've leaked, and any processes that are a bit fscked up, will continue to be that way.
That being said, I was surprised with how opensuse handled going into suspend when I forgot to plug it in when doing a 5 gig update (I've got a lot of crap installed:-)... after a couple of hours, the laptop started beeping... I ignored it. Next morning... "oh, crap!" Plugged it in, it resumed downloading packages where it had left off.
But it DOES do flash 7, so youtube is fine, and for a quick peak into your email, it's really all you need.
Mind you, the *smart* thing is to just turn on the computer, then go do something for a minute or two while it boots. If you set it to auto-login, she'll come back in a few minutes to her desktop - and if she didn't bother closing her browser when she shut down, it'll be right there, same as the other apps.
What's annoying in that scenario is shutting down, then a few seconds later - "oh, darn - I forgot to do ____!"
You can set it to download updated weather, news and WiiMail while it's in standby mode, and you can check your webmail, [facebook|myspace|slashdot|whatever] if you spend $5 to download Opera for Devices. Get a usb keyboard and you're all set for posting as well.
There is an overwhelming body of evidence to support that the test's results are relatively accurate when and only when (this is important) IT IS CROSS REFERENCED WITH OTHER MEASURES.
The sound of the voice of reason... the problem is that the original article was discussing abuses of the test for employment screening, something that is clearly inappropriate, since many of the questions are, among other things, illegal to ask potential job candidates in many areas.
And let's face it, a psychologist or psychiatrist has a professional duty to confidentiality that is recognized in law. If you've sought them out, you're working with them on your own problems, not trying to please a potential employer.
Why do all of the Ask Slashdot questions boil down to: "I want free legal advice. Give me an opinion on x."
Because advice is information, and information wants to be free
Because you're more likely to get a real answer if you sift through all the chaff, than if you talk to a run-of-the-mill lawyer who knows less about the DMCA than someone who has already been through the process
Because slashdot went through much the same thing with the scientologists, and finally told them to go fuck themselves.
Because most lawyers, in too many cases, have rendered us totally cynical with their crank-the-meter-up screw-the-client tactics. They really need to clean up their profession.
He may have published 13% of the questions, but that's well under 10% of the total material related to the MMPI test - you need the scoring criteria as well. The questions, by themselves, are pretty much worthless, and you can be sure that the scoring criteria are longer than the test itself - otherwise, the test is even more bs than it seems.
These are the tests they hand out en masse and if you don't score the "right thing" in the right areas they just don't call you back.
So, since they already hand them out in such quantities (and they really do), there's no "trade secret". Anyone who has taken the test now has the "trade secret knowledge", and without a signed non-disclosure agreement to boot.
Tempest, meet teapot.
The questions themselves are a valid topic of discussion, especially when used in an employment context, where they are, in many areas, just plain illegal to ask.
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Their usage is dead wrong. Weight is the effect of gravity on mass. The vehicle doesn't "weigh" more at speed - the effect of gravity on it hasn't changed. It just generates a down-force from the wing. To say that it weighs more is about as accurate as saying your weight changes as you jump up and down on a scale, or that an airplane weighs less than nothing when it's flying.
Since energy can be converted to mass, they would have to be going at a large percentage of c to actually "weigh" more.
I doubt they're going fast enough for relativistic effects to increase their effective mass by 400 kg.
Obviously, they've never seen Aunt Flo's old Desoto with the busted crankshaft flying down the street during hurricane season ...
Developing for the iPhone used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.
It's not anymore. It's about money and control and refunds and chargebacks, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can distort reality the longest or get the fanbois to shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a walled-in garden in order to legitimize the "Cult of Stevie.". Individuals notwithstanding, Apple and the iPhone store as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics, money and control.
If the customer goes directly to YOU, it's not a "chargeback". What Apple is talking about is a refund, not a disputed credit charge. Completely different mechanisms, and different costs.
As you pointed out, Citigroup deosn't wnat to buy RedHat. None of the self-styled "Analysts" quoted in the story knows what they're talking about, whcih isn't surprising. Look at the "follow-the-crowd" phenomena - one says they expect shares to go from $16 to 17, so the next one says from $16 to $18. All this based on earnings of $0.22 a share, instead of $0.20. "Wow, a 10% raise!" So, all of a sudden Oracle is going to want to buy them? I don't think so, Jack Shit.
Call me when P/E gets below 10.
No, you can't play the game directly off the SD/SDHC card. You can save downloads and games to the card, but they still have to be loaded into system memory to run. The earliest articles about the update were clear on that. - that the big thing was the rasing of the storage limit from 2gigs to 32gigs, but that it was for storage only.
Still, upping it from 2 gigs is a good thing. Hopefully they'll upgrade the Opera browser to start using all that space.
The performance of todays' laptops is on a par with desktops. As a matter of fact, it's usually better for machines that look "similar-specs" because the components are better matched.
Also, there's no such thing as a "redundant scren and keyboard" when migrating to a half-decent laptop. Plug the screen and keyboard from the previous machine into the laptop and get the "dual-monitor goodness" for free. No need to buy an extra video card, so there's an additional saving there. So, spend $300 more, save that $300 over the next 3 years in energy costs, and get a productivity boost of between 5% and 50% per user. Sounds like a win-win to me. (Before you say it's not practical, my 17" laptop which I'm posting this from is plugged into a 26" 1920x1200 Samsung ... and my linux desktop, with all the special effects enabled, works across both screens. I bought a 2nd identical lcd for the office, and I notice a serious performance hit when I plug it into the office dual-core which is supposedly 50% faster. Specs don't come anywhere near telling the whole story).
As for the "leaving them on makes them run longer" - the two sets of machines you're dealing with are probably dealing with different workloads, different locations, and differing care and maintenance. I don't expect end-user Windows boxes to last more than a couple - three years before they're ready to be junked. It's just the way it is. A good example is a hard drive I salvaged from a dying windows box - wouldn't even boot, couldn't re-install windows, etc. I stuck it in a linux box, and it ran for years after, and handled up to a terabyte of data transfer each month. So, different work loads will result in differing failure modes - especially when an inept, angered, or frustrated user punches or kicks their box when they think nobody's looking, or drops a paperclip into the power supply, or repositions the box so there's no airflow, or any one of a number of other problems.
As other posters pointed out, there are LOTS of thermal and power variations over the course of the day.
I suspect that the reason we don't put enough importance on soft skills is because we *can't* easily measure them. Imagine the lawsuits if you could produce evidence that a co-worker who's been bugging you no end scored an 89% on the "asshole scale",
What do you do? You measure what you can, and it becomes the same as "to a kid with a hammer, everything needs to be nailed down."
I'm not suggesting that it be a popularity contest, but at the same time, you need to interact with a cross-section of temperaments or you tend to get either tunnel vision or an echo chamber effect. This applies to software projects as well. Stuff that wouldn't bother me, so I'd tend to overlook it, would probably drive one of the testers nuts,or another coder with a different approach - so these things have more of a chance to be worked out with a cross-section of ages, backgrounds, and skills. All super-stars would probably, contrary to our intuition, be sub-optimal.
Sounds like a plan. I kind of suspect that Java is about to start displacing some web apps over the next few years, as security and functionality get more important.
No need for treachery. The yung'uns don't stay young forever. Just wait 10 years :-)
Unless they're just looking for a warm body to do some stuff pretty much by rote, in which case, the question isn't "are you sharp enough", but "are you stupid and boring enough not to leave for something more interesting in a few months?"
ecent research actually shows that some people's mental faculties begin to decline as early in life as the 20's.
There - fixed that for you.
The truth is a lot simpler - most people put their brains in neutral after they get out of school.
The brain is like any other tissue - use it or it atrophies. Even BONE will leach its' calcium if it's not subjected to regular stress from such ordinary things as walking around.
The average person doesn't read books any more. They get their information from the echo chamber of the internet - in short, ephemeral snippets that register on the eyeballs but not the brain, because 2 seconds later, they're onto the next "oh shiny!"
Then thare are those people for which life is a continuous learning experience - not just because we have to keep learning to stay current, but because our curiosity leads us to continue learning, continue integrating new facts and attitudes into our knowledge of ourselves and the world around us. BTW - there are also studies that show that most "genius" is probably the result of a combination of that curiosity, plus persistence.
You can have my cognitive abilities when you pry them from my cold, dead brain!
So go into your bios and set it to boot at a specific time.
Or spend $10 on a timer, and set the pc to boot at power-on. Unplug it from the timer when you leave for the weekend. You'll only have one long boot time per week, instead of daily.
As for the "programs I have to start manually" - no script-fu?
If they switch to laptops, they'll save more than double that, plus not have to buy and maintain a UPS for each box (UPS batteries generally last 2 years, then they're pretty much due for a replacement if you want to have more than a few minutes w/o power). The savings come out to close to $100/person/year. The average home has 3 computers. Wouldn't you want to cut your electrical bill by a buck a day?
That is so full of shit it's not funny. We're not talking an XBox360 with thermal issues here. You can safely spin up your computer thousands of times with no extra "thermal stress." Why do you continue to push a myth that has been totally debunked?
Turn in your geek card - if there's no CO2 for hours, you're not drinking enough soft drinks (geek) or beer (BOfH) to qualify.
The problem with suspend is that you don't get a clean boot next time around - any memory you've leaked, and any processes that are a bit fscked up, will continue to be that way.
That being said, I was surprised with how opensuse handled going into suspend when I forgot to plug it in when doing a 5 gig update (I've got a lot of crap installed :-) ... after a couple of hours, the laptop started beeping ... I ignored it. Next morning ... "oh, crap!" Plugged it in, it resumed downloading packages where it had left off.
But it DOES do flash 7, so youtube is fine, and for a quick peak into your email, it's really all you need.
Mind you, the *smart* thing is to just turn on the computer, then go do something for a minute or two while it boots. If you set it to auto-login, she'll come back in a few minutes to her desktop - and if she didn't bother closing her browser when she shut down, it'll be right there, same as the other apps.
What's annoying in that scenario is shutting down, then a few seconds later - "oh, darn - I forgot to do ____!"
That's probably the "real issue".
Huh?
Do they even MAKE 30 gig HDDs any more?
An 80 gig is $35.00, 250 gig is $45, 320 gig is $50, 500 gig is $60, 640 gig is $70, 750 gig is $85, 1 TB is $90, and 1.5 TB is $130.
Heck, for $100 you can buy a 32 gig SSD.
You can set it to download updated weather, news and WiiMail while it's in standby mode, and you can check your webmail, [facebook|myspace|slashdot|whatever] if you spend $5 to download Opera for Devices. Get a usb keyboard and you're all set for posting as well.
If the TV is already on, it's probably quicker.
The sound of the voice of reason ... the problem is that the original article was discussing abuses of the test for employment screening, something that is clearly inappropriate, since many of the questions are, among other things, illegal to ask potential job candidates in many areas.
And let's face it, a psychologist or psychiatrist has a professional duty to confidentiality that is recognized in law. If you've sought them out, you're working with them on your own problems, not trying to please a potential employer.
Just as a note, if you are ever incarcerated do not take the test.
There, fixed it for you.
He may have published 13% of the questions, but that's well under 10% of the total material related to the MMPI test - you need the scoring criteria as well. The questions, by themselves, are pretty much worthless, and you can be sure that the scoring criteria are longer than the test itself - otherwise, the test is even more bs than it seems.
So, since they already hand them out in such quantities (and they really do), there's no "trade secret". Anyone who has taken the test now has the "trade secret knowledge", and without a signed non-disclosure agreement to boot.
Tempest, meet teapot.
The questions themselves are a valid topic of discussion, especially when used in an employment context, where they are, in many areas, just plain illegal to ask.