It isn't a scheduled increase so much as the expiration of the bush tax cuts; that was being held up until recently by the republicans because obama wanted to let them expire for high earners, and later they tried to stonewall on extending unemployment benefits (it's still capped at 99 weeks).
Not to veer too much into the political, but I'm pissed - Obama is a wuss, the GOP is evil or insane, and the dems aren't much different.
Cuda has pretty good IO (although branching sucks) as long as your problem size is small enough - it's good enough to replace some of what supercomputers are good at.
This looks more like the opening volley in a lawsuit than a polite request. It details that the student built a device (or designed it), that the police know he falsified a transaction in a shop, and claims that publication is a hazard to people's money. That the language is polite is irrelevant: it's notification of a cause for action that can be referred to later and it demands ('requests') that the paper be removed from public access.
As for being prostrate before moneyed interests, i don't understand it either, but I'm in the US and I see a whole lot of people doing just that - arguing against progressive taxation, demanding tax breaks in a recession, and so on; personally, I blame our right wing talk show idiots for whipping the mob into a frenzy, and the GP may have confused you with one of them.
No, he's having trouble dealing with Congress. Of course, that recent victory with the tax cuts and unemployment benefits should at least give them pause.
How many companies from the NASDAQ 100 of 50 years ago still exist? Is any company as immortal as you appear to think? Sure, they're loud now, but they can and do get brought down. Really, what we need is laws and regulations that limit their ability to distort the legal system - they'll take care of limited lifetimes on their own.
If the system was designed properly for the userbase, so that users could use the system
You don't get it - these aren't retarded people - if they made an effort, most of them could use the system successfully, but they either view the system as hostile or else are proud of their ignorance, so they don't even try.
I have no problem with credit card companies refusing to do business with pirate sites or any site that sponsors or encourages illegal activities.
Oh sure, shutting down illegal things is one thing, but do you really think they'll exercise due diligence? There's no real downside for them if they get a bit trigger happy, so long as people still use credit cards.
how do you know women were disadvantaged relative to men throughout history? Someone told you so right? Have you ever actually questioned that assertion?
Because I read a damn book. It's hardly controversial, so if you want to argue about how women who couldn't even vote weren't marginalized, you have to present some evidence to support it.
ecause your comment makes it sound like "yeah the sun comes up in the East and women have been disadvantaged relative to men."
The sun comes up in the east BY DEFINITION, and yes they have. Care to dispute it or are you just trolling?
Did you know there were female judges at the beginning of the last century?
And is this at all representative? Doubt it.
This is why I keep asking you to examine your assumptions and your knowledge. Does equality really require things to be exactly identical?
See, this is what I mean by you looking for a fight - you can't discuss the issue at hand, but demand that I reexamine basic assumptions for your benefit. Meanwhile, I don't see you having done any work on the issue. You sound like a pissed off gender studies major.
I suppose you've never seen a guy refuse to sell a car to a woman and tell them to come back with their husband, right? The historical marginalization of women isn't really up for debate - high status jobs were at one time off limits. We don't bitch so much about men trying to be nurses because it's not as high a status job, and engineering tends to have better hours and pay.
Answering your leading question directly, I already told you: I want to go find out if/what obstacles remain. The historical record is there for your perusal, it's gotten better, and I don't know if there's anything that needs to be done, at least in tech.
You "just want a solution"... don't you think you should make sure you know what (all the related) problems are first?
You should try reading before responding; that was a response to your combative attitude, and I've already said that I want to see if there's actually a problem.
I wonder how much effort you have put into looking at just what life was like for the average common man historically?
As compared to what? Historically, the average man has been able to choose his destiny, and the wife is along for the ride, for richer or poorer.
I expect you will not take this seriously and perhaps it makes you uncomfortable
Why would it? I see someone who doesn't listen and isn't willing to change his mind. That's just par for the course.
freedom to die in a ditch perhaps. Face it: you live in a society, and that limits your actions somewhat. Socialism is simply the progression of looking out for one another that you should be involved in as a productive member of society. No man is an island, right?
historically, women trying to be anything more than a secretary, schoolteacher, or nurse have met with laughter. It hasn't been long enough for the people that were doing this to die, therefore, there may yet be roadblocks to women. Worth looking at, anyway. As for men, yet it's possible, though mostly I would expect that to be a result of overzealous catering to girls. If you're looking for a fight, sorry to disappoint: I just want a solution.
Sure, I'm a socialist. I believe that public education, health care, and infrastructure are good things to have. Capitalism is a nice theory, but taken to its extreme, you get crap like the latest wall street meltdown.
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The point here being that a pianist plays every note every time. Computer guys play it until it works well enough, then it just runs.
Aside from signing your name, what use does cursive have? Learn it if you feel like messing with quill pens. Otherwise, just don't bother.
It isn't a scheduled increase so much as the expiration of the bush tax cuts; that was being held up until recently by the republicans because obama wanted to let them expire for high earners, and later they tried to stonewall on extending unemployment benefits (it's still capped at 99 weeks).
Not to veer too much into the political, but I'm pissed - Obama is a wuss, the GOP is evil or insane, and the dems aren't much different.
Cuda has pretty good IO (although branching sucks) as long as your problem size is small enough - it's good enough to replace some of what supercomputers are good at.
This looks more like the opening volley in a lawsuit than a polite request. It details that the student built a device (or designed it), that the police know he falsified a transaction in a shop, and claims that publication is a hazard to people's money. That the language is polite is irrelevant: it's notification of a cause for action that can be referred to later and it demands ('requests') that the paper be removed from public access.
As for being prostrate before moneyed interests, i don't understand it either, but I'm in the US and I see a whole lot of people doing just that - arguing against progressive taxation, demanding tax breaks in a recession, and so on; personally, I blame our right wing talk show idiots for whipping the mob into a frenzy, and the GP may have confused you with one of them.
making them look bad.
Nah, just get a fast GPU and use this.
Don't be silly, Supercomputers can't run.
Anyway, we're moving to CUDA based hardware for a lot of things, so what's the big deal?
No, he's having trouble dealing with Congress. Of course, that recent victory with the tax cuts and unemployment benefits should at least give them pause.
How many companies from the NASDAQ 100 of 50 years ago still exist? Is any company as immortal as you appear to think? Sure, they're loud now, but they can and do get brought down. Really, what we need is laws and regulations that limit their ability to distort the legal system - they'll take care of limited lifetimes on their own.
google solves this handily.
If the system was designed properly for the userbase, so that users could use the system
You don't get it - these aren't retarded people - if they made an effort, most of them could use the system successfully, but they either view the system as hostile or else are proud of their ignorance, so they don't even try.
Then you ask them what they'd actually do and most of them grind to a halt.
I'd hardly class the teabaggers as grassroots. They look more like a proxy movement for rich people.
heh, you're a space farmer.
I have no problem with credit card companies refusing to do business with pirate sites or any site that sponsors or encourages illegal activities.
Oh sure, shutting down illegal things is one thing, but do you really think they'll exercise due diligence? There's no real downside for them if they get a bit trigger happy, so long as people still use credit cards.
Why would you sell on CDR? You can get low volume runs for about $1/disc pretty easily.
how do you know women were disadvantaged relative to men throughout history? Someone told you so right? Have you ever actually questioned that assertion?
Because I read a damn book. It's hardly controversial, so if you want to argue about how women who couldn't even vote weren't marginalized, you have to present some evidence to support it.
ecause your comment makes it sound like "yeah the sun comes up in the East and women have been disadvantaged relative to men."
The sun comes up in the east BY DEFINITION, and yes they have. Care to dispute it or are you just trolling?
Did you know there were female judges at the beginning of the last century?
And is this at all representative? Doubt it.
This is why I keep asking you to examine your assumptions and your knowledge. Does equality really require things to be exactly identical?
See, this is what I mean by you looking for a fight - you can't discuss the issue at hand, but demand that I reexamine basic assumptions for your benefit. Meanwhile, I don't see you having done any work on the issue. You sound like a pissed off gender studies major.
Yes, I want to dictate that others pay for things. But forget broad statements about rugged individuals, let's be specific:
You object to these things? You'd rather have the freedom of rotting infrastructure and poverty than build public works?
I suppose you've never seen a guy refuse to sell a car to a woman and tell them to come back with their husband, right? The historical marginalization of women isn't really up for debate - high status jobs were at one time off limits. We don't bitch so much about men trying to be nurses because it's not as high a status job, and engineering tends to have better hours and pay.
Answering your leading question directly, I already told you: I want to go find out if/what obstacles remain. The historical record is there for your perusal, it's gotten better, and I don't know if there's anything that needs to be done, at least in tech.
You "just want a solution"... don't you think you should make sure you know what (all the related) problems are first?
You should try reading before responding; that was a response to your combative attitude, and I've already said that I want to see if there's actually a problem.
I wonder how much effort you have put into looking at just what life was like for the average common man historically?
As compared to what? Historically, the average man has been able to choose his destiny, and the wife is along for the ride, for richer or poorer.
I expect you will not take this seriously and perhaps it makes you uncomfortable
Why would it? I see someone who doesn't listen and isn't willing to change his mind. That's just par for the course.
freedom to die in a ditch perhaps. Face it: you live in a society, and that limits your actions somewhat. Socialism is simply the progression of looking out for one another that you should be involved in as a productive member of society. No man is an island, right?
historically, women trying to be anything more than a secretary, schoolteacher, or nurse have met with laughter. It hasn't been long enough for the people that were doing this to die, therefore, there may yet be roadblocks to women. Worth looking at, anyway. As for men, yet it's possible, though mostly I would expect that to be a result of overzealous catering to girls. If you're looking for a fight, sorry to disappoint: I just want a solution.
It's about transistor density, and that hasn't kept pace. The law is done, and really, it had to happen eventually.
Sure, I'm a socialist. I believe that public education, health care, and infrastructure are good things to have. Capitalism is a nice theory, but taken to its extreme, you get crap like the latest wall street meltdown.
Not when it's so obviously orchestrated - it's fairly clear that people are pushing their own agenda and using media outlets to do it.