Enormity is a word used by teh english language lamezors to impress people with their vocabulary. Since they use the word wrong they produce the exact opposite of the desired effect. As leet english haxors we are duty bound to mock them.
See also "literally", "fulsome praise" and "begs the question".
OberGrammarFuhrer von Staufenberg FremdenAbteilung SprachWermacht
"....we prefer to be called National Socialists of Usage Correctness"
Fewer is used for things you can count one by one (things that are numbered). Less is used for amounts that can be measured but not counted. There are fewer cars on the street. There is less gin in my glass.
Except on slashhdot, where the two words are interchangeable.
The innocent and guilty alike shall lie squooshed beneath the ruins of the theater. Those without cell phones, and verily even those with their phones set on vibrate will immediately ascend to God's tender mercy. Those unsanctified heathens with their ringers still on will be cast down, down I say, into the flames of perdition, there to sizzle for all eternity in the skillet of Hades.
In Vancouver we are blessed with "The Night Market", a Hong Kong style outdoor market, where apparently, (and don't quote me on this) the vendors sometimes neglect to collect the CD levy. At least I assume it to be so since I bought a 50 disc spindle of CD-R for $12 Cdn last summer.
Extra bonus - The fried octopus balls are to die for.
Although the figure is somewhat disputed by the US Customs, who claim they inspect a larger percentage of what they deem "high risk" containers, apparently about 2% of all containers entering the US are actually inspected (i.e. opened and the contents examined).
Can't RTFA due to slashdotting, but lets assume (generously). A 75 Watt panel is about 2' x 4'. Say we paste 2 on our car. Energy output over 8 hrs is 75W x 60 sec x 60 min x 8 hr x 2 panels = 4.3 MJ (mega Joule). Gasoline energy content = 45 MJ per gallon. OK we have saved 1/10 gallon of gas.
Wait...car engine only delivers about 25% of fuel energy as useful work. On the other hand we loose a bit of energy storing and then retrieving from battery but probably not more than 10%. So net net we gain about 1/3 gallon of gasoline equivalent in 8 hrs.
Not much gain really. Better to roof parking area with solar panels and everybody plugs in. Panels aren't lost if you wreck your car, plus you get to park in the shade.
* numbers pulled from wikipedia or butt as required
Not to be a (total) dick, but I'm 6' 3" and 200 lbs and in college I was 185 lbs at the same height. According to the CDC BMI calculator, 5'8" and 197 lbs BMI = 30. This is the borderline between overweight and obese. If you are 5'8" and 198 lbs or more you are obese. This is not an insult, it is a diagnosis based on observed data.
Of course BMI doesn't apply as well to certain body types. If you are muscular and have low bodyfat (e.g. Arnold when he won Mr Olympia) you can forget about BMI.
How about another test. Grab the skin that sits on your abdomen, about an inch left of your navel, and fold the skin and the layer of fat underneath together so you have a double layer in your grip. If it is thicker than 1" you are overweight.
Just curious, what is it that you feel keeps you from reaching your ideal weight?
Re:Undervolting is NOT the solution
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Say What?? Either you are trolling or you fundamentally misunderstand Ohm's law.
Resistive loads (which, to a first approximation, a CPU is), don't "demand...Watts", they "draw current". The load resistance doesn't change, so Ohm's Law I=V/R says that if you drop the voltage, the current decreases. Drop the voltage 5%, you DECREASE current 5%. Your total power (V * I) is now decreased by 10%.
As for "screw up the reference voltage", this is and remains system ground, or 0 V. Yes, at some lowered voltage, the CPU will cease to operate. Assuming the CPU still runs, a logic level of 2.85 V is just as good as 3.0 V.
On the news about 6 months ago I saw an American woman addressing a UN meeting in Sudan. She was trying to say the phrase "Black Africans" (as opposed to Arab Africans) without saying the politically incorrect word "Black". Her brain locked up for about 5 seconds after which she uttered the nonsense phrase "African American Africans"
In order to validate your own choice of platform, you need to induce others to switch to the same computer you use. You could have fixed their PC for free, but instead you toss out their PC and all their software, and "induce" them to replace it at mac premium prices.
If you had downloaded AVG, Zone Alarm and Ad-aware, "TEH VIRUS NIGHTMARE" would have gone away, but since you are a mac user you think the best solution to their problem is to make them mac users too. I guess it's true - if the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails. Well, I'm sure you can justify your actions to yourself.
Lets see, people drive big SUVs to compensate for their "shortcomings" in other areas. Clearly the reverse must be true and since I drive a 1.5l Mazda Protege, I must be packin a hose like Ron Jeremy.
Odd that the same people who wouldn't be caught dead with a picture of Hitler on their chest think it's cool to wear a Chairman Mao T-shirt. Mao arguably killed 5 times as many people as Adolf. It is indeed all about perception.
"First of all, I really don't think that the government should tell us what science is."
Actually, in this case the government was telling you what religion is. ID invokes a supernatural creator, and is therefore religion.
"You can not seriously and truthfully say that evolution is provable and ID is not"
Nobody says we have "proved" evolution. It just happens to be the best theory we've got. You could maybe eventually prove evolution, if you accumulate a sufficient mass of evidence. You can _disprove_ evolution by finding one single example where it fails. This is how science works.
You can't disprove ID. This is why it is not science. OK?
If something is religion, and is not science, we don't teach it in science class.
"Both express the end result -- fewer women in CS -- as being the result of the nature of women, rather than the opinions of men"
If I may parse "the opinions of men" as meaning a male-dominated field consciously or unconsciously erecting barriers to keep women out, well that might be true. It does cause one to ask why other formerly male dominated fields such as medicine, business or law, are at or more than 50% women entering, while IT steadfastly hovers at the 10% mark. You would have trouble convincing me that male IT people are vastly more sexist than say male lawyers.
As for "the nature of women", if we can't even discuss the _possibility_ that fewer women than men are interested or have the aptitude for IT without being labeled sexist or being accused of contributing to the very problem we are seeking to solve then we lack the intellectual integrity to ever find the answer.
If we try to "fix the problem" without an objective analysis of its causes, we run the risk of on the one hand wasting time and energy trying to dismantle non-existent barriers to entry or on the other hand of wasting time and energy encouraging women to enter a field that they may not like or be good at.
Let me also state clearly that I am talking about women as individuals here, blessed with reason and the ability to make rational choices.
I think you are deliberately misrepresenting what has been posted here.
As far as I can tell what some people have posted is "maybe some women don't go into engineering and IT because they aren't interested or lack the aptitude".
Nobody here has ever said that women SHOULDN'T go into engineering or IT.
Anybody care to speculate why this only happens in IT (and maybe engineering in general).
In the 20 years after the end of World War 2 there was this huge social shift and women started to enter traditionally "male dominated" fields in ever growing numbers. In 1950 my local Uni had less than 10% women in the schools of Science, Law, Commerce (Business), Medicine and Engineering. Comp Sci would have just been starting then but no doubt would have had less than 10% Women. Now Science, Law, Commerce and Medicine are 50% women or more, but Comp Sci and Engineering are still around the 10% women mark.
Now if systemic discrimination, sexism and male attitudes are to blame, why wouldn't these negative factors also be present in all the other schools at the university. I'm not saying there is no sexism in IT and engineering, but are the lawyers that much less sexist than the engineers? I kind of don't think so.
So what is the cause? I don't think we will ever know, until we are willing to look at non-politically-correct reasons such as;
Women aren't interested in computers as much as men are?
Women aren't smart enough (OMG did he really say that!), or more precisely, enough women aren't smart enough?
I have never met a woman smarter than me. (I know, I know, it sounds very egotistical, but still true). I have met some very smart women, but smarter than me? Sorry no. Do they exist? Undoubtedly; but they are very very rare. On the other hand, I have met a number of men smarter than me. In fact, I have encountered men so smart that I felt like a Cro Magnon standing next to them. My theory is that men have a flatter IQ distribution than women (ie squashed bell curve) The average man is about as smart as the average woman, but at the very extreme end of the curve there are many more super-genius men than women. (Probably true at the other end of the curve also ie more sub-moron men than women)
I thought "War on......" was a American euphemism for "an unsolvable problem we will futilely waste vast resources on in an ongoing and unsuccesful attempt to solve using means and methods long ago shown not to work." (Sounds like a corporate mission statement, doesn't it)
"War on Poverty," "War on Drugs," and "War on Terrorism" are perfect examples.
Re:Back in the Day....not so far Back Anymore
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Holiday Gaming Potpourri
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You can always go further back.
I started gaming with Lunar Lander, Hunt the Wumpus and SPACWR on a PDP-8E (12 bit CPU, 4k of magnetic core memory, KSR-33 teletype console - pure gaming goodness)
I'm sure somebody can go further back than that....
As somebody who saw the sun come up more than a few times playing the original Civ, I have to laugh at Zonk reminiscing about playing Civ 3 like it was a way long time ago. I guess "Back in the Day" isn't so far back anymore.
There's more. In Canada the title "Engineer" is legally restricted to registered members of a Provincial Association of Professional Engineers. Just like graduating from law school doesn't make you a lawyer (you have to pass bar exams and be "called to the bar"). The normal route to getting there is to graduate from a recognized engineering school, have about 2 years equivalent of engineering experience, pass the professional practice exams, and if your application for registration is accepted then and only then are you an engineer.
I understand that in the US of A things aren't quite so rigorous, but in Canada the P. Eng. Associations have swarms of lawyers waiting to pounce on any non-member who calls himself an engineer.
There was a big fight with Microsoft over MCSEs calling themselves engineers in Canada, and a university almost lost accreditation for their engineering school when their computer science school wanted to grant degrees in "Software Engineering" without the approval of the local P.Eng Association.
Reaching way way back here. Had to fix an old PC clone from Olivetti. Symptoms pointed to heat problem - ran fine for a while, then random glitches and lock up. Took off cover, vacuumed some dust off the motherboard. Didn't look like enough to cause a heat problem. Sure enough, keeps on locking up as before.
Then I notice that the case (desktop, not tower) has vents all along the very bottom edge. Pull off cover and then pull off motherboard. Well great thunderin lard jaysus, there was a layer of dust _under_ the motherboard a half inch thick and dense as felt. It peeled off in a single solid rectangle you could have cut boot insoles out of. Once the dust mat had been removed and airflow thru the case restored it ran fine.
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Enormity is a word used by teh english language lamezors to impress people with their vocabulary. Since they use the word wrong they produce the exact opposite of the desired effect. As leet english haxors we are duty bound to mock them.
See also "literally", "fulsome praise" and "begs the question".
OberGrammarFuhrer von Staufenberg
FremdenAbteilung SprachWermacht
"....we prefer to be called National Socialists of Usage Correctness"
Fewer is used for things you can count one by one (things that are numbered). Less is used for amounts that can be measured but not counted. There are fewer cars on the street. There is less gin in my glass.
Except on slashhdot, where the two words are interchangeable.
"Slay them all! God will know his own"
The innocent and guilty alike shall lie squooshed beneath the ruins of the theater. Those without cell phones, and verily even those with their phones set on vibrate will immediately ascend to God's tender mercy. Those unsanctified heathens with their ringers still on will be cast down, down I say, into the flames of perdition, there to sizzle for all eternity in the skillet of Hades.
Amen
In Vancouver we are blessed with "The Night Market", a Hong Kong style outdoor market, where apparently, (and don't quote me on this) the vendors sometimes neglect to collect the CD levy. At least I assume it to be so since I bought a 50 disc spindle of CD-R for $12 Cdn last summer.
Extra bonus - The fried octopus balls are to die for.
Say What?
Most of "the history's greatest people" didn't have flush toilets or antibiotics either. Think about that?
Right you are.....
Although the figure is somewhat disputed by the US Customs, who claim they inspect a larger percentage of what they deem "high risk" containers, apparently about 2% of all containers entering the US are actually inspected (i.e. opened and the contents examined).
I always thought the easiest way to smuggle in a nuke would be to bring it in through Miami hidden in a bale of cocaine.
OK - lets do the math.
Can't RTFA due to slashdotting, but lets assume (generously). A 75 Watt panel is about 2' x 4'. Say we paste 2 on our car. Energy output over 8 hrs is 75W x 60 sec x 60 min x 8 hr x 2 panels = 4.3 MJ (mega Joule). Gasoline energy content = 45 MJ per gallon. OK we have saved 1/10 gallon of gas.
Wait...car engine only delivers about 25% of fuel energy as useful work. On the other hand we loose a bit of energy storing and then retrieving from battery but probably not more than 10%. So net net we gain about 1/3 gallon of gasoline equivalent in 8 hrs.
Not much gain really. Better to roof parking area with solar panels and everybody plugs in. Panels aren't lost if you wreck your car, plus you get to park in the shade.
* numbers pulled from wikipedia or butt as required
Not to be a (total) dick, but I'm 6' 3" and 200 lbs and in college I was 185 lbs at the same height. According to the CDC BMI calculator, 5'8" and 197 lbs BMI = 30. This is the borderline between overweight and obese. If you are 5'8" and 198 lbs or more you are obese. This is not an insult, it is a diagnosis based on observed data.
Of course BMI doesn't apply as well to certain body types. If you are muscular and have low bodyfat (e.g. Arnold when he won Mr Olympia) you can forget about BMI.
How about another test. Grab the skin that sits on your abdomen, about an inch left of your navel, and fold the skin and the layer of fat underneath together so you have a double layer in your grip. If it is thicker than 1" you are overweight.
Just curious, what is it that you feel keeps you from reaching your ideal weight?
Say What?? Either you are trolling or you fundamentally misunderstand Ohm's law.
Resistive loads (which, to a first approximation, a CPU is), don't "demand...Watts", they "draw current". The load resistance doesn't change, so Ohm's Law I=V/R says that if you drop the voltage, the current decreases. Drop the voltage 5%, you DECREASE current 5%. Your total power (V * I) is now decreased by 10%.
As for "screw up the reference voltage", this is and remains system ground, or 0 V. Yes, at some lowered voltage, the CPU will cease to operate. Assuming the CPU still runs, a logic level of 2.85 V is just as good as 3.0 V.
On the news about 6 months ago I saw an American woman addressing a UN meeting in Sudan. She was trying to say the phrase "Black Africans" (as opposed to Arab Africans) without saying the politically incorrect word "Black". Her brain locked up for about 5 seconds after which she uttered the nonsense phrase "African American Africans"
How do you sleep at night?
In order to validate your own choice of platform, you need to induce others to switch to the same computer you use. You could have fixed their PC for free, but instead you toss out their PC and all their software, and "induce" them to replace it at mac premium prices.
If you had downloaded AVG, Zone Alarm and Ad-aware, "TEH VIRUS NIGHTMARE" would have gone away, but since you are a mac user you think the best solution to their problem is to make them mac users too. I guess it's true - if the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails. Well, I'm sure you can justify your actions to yourself.
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Lets see, people drive big SUVs to compensate for their "shortcomings" in other areas. Clearly the reverse must be true and since I drive a 1.5l Mazda Protege, I must be packin a hose like Ron Jeremy.
If only.....
Odd that the same people who wouldn't be caught dead with a picture of Hitler on their chest think it's cool to wear a Chairman Mao T-shirt. Mao arguably killed 5 times as many people as Adolf. It is indeed all about perception.
You must be trolling, but what the hell......
"First of all, I really don't think that the government should tell us what science is."
Actually, in this case the government was telling you what religion is. ID invokes a supernatural creator, and is therefore religion.
"You can not seriously and truthfully say that evolution is provable and ID is not"
Nobody says we have "proved" evolution. It just happens to be the best theory we've got. You could maybe eventually prove evolution, if you accumulate a sufficient mass of evidence. You can _disprove_ evolution by finding one single example where it fails. This is how science works.
You can't disprove ID. This is why it is not science. OK?
If something is religion, and is not science, we don't teach it in science class.
Well said!
"Both express the end result -- fewer women in CS -- as being the result of the nature of women, rather than the opinions of men"
If I may parse "the opinions of men" as meaning a male-dominated field consciously or unconsciously erecting barriers to keep women out, well that might be true. It does cause one to ask why other formerly male dominated fields such as medicine, business or law, are at or more than 50% women entering, while IT steadfastly hovers at the 10% mark. You would have trouble convincing me that male IT people are vastly more sexist than say male lawyers.
As for "the nature of women", if we can't even discuss the _possibility_ that fewer women than men are interested or have the aptitude for IT without being labeled sexist or being accused of contributing to the very problem we are seeking to solve then we lack the intellectual integrity to ever find the answer.
If we try to "fix the problem" without an objective analysis of its causes, we run the risk of on the one hand wasting time and energy trying to dismantle non-existent barriers to entry or on the other hand of wasting time and energy encouraging women to enter a field that they may not like or be good at.
Let me also state clearly that I am talking about women as individuals here, blessed with reason and the ability to make rational choices.
I think you are deliberately misrepresenting what has been posted here.
As far as I can tell what some people have posted is "maybe some women don't go into engineering and IT because they aren't interested or lack the aptitude".
Nobody here has ever said that women SHOULDN'T go into engineering or IT.
Anybody care to speculate why this only happens in IT (and maybe engineering in general).
In the 20 years after the end of World War 2 there was this huge social shift and women started to enter traditionally "male dominated" fields in ever growing numbers. In 1950 my local Uni had less than 10% women in the schools of Science, Law, Commerce (Business), Medicine and Engineering. Comp Sci would have just been starting then but no doubt would have had less than 10% Women. Now Science, Law, Commerce and Medicine are 50% women or more, but Comp Sci and Engineering are still around the 10% women mark.
Now if systemic discrimination, sexism and male attitudes are to blame, why wouldn't these negative factors also be present in all the other schools at the university. I'm not saying there is no sexism in IT and engineering, but are the lawyers that much less sexist than the engineers? I kind of don't think so.
So what is the cause? I don't think we will ever know, until we are willing to look at non-politically-correct reasons such as;
Women aren't interested in computers as much as men are?
Women aren't smart enough (OMG did he really say that!), or more precisely, enough women aren't smart enough?
I have never met a woman smarter than me. (I know, I know, it sounds very egotistical, but still true). I have met some very smart women, but smarter than me? Sorry no. Do they exist? Undoubtedly; but they are very very rare. On the other hand, I have met a number of men smarter than me. In fact, I have encountered men so smart that I felt like a Cro Magnon standing next to them. My theory is that men have a flatter IQ distribution than women (ie squashed bell curve) The average man is about as smart as the average woman, but at the very extreme end of the curve there are many more super-genius men than women. (Probably true at the other end of the curve also ie more sub-moron men than women)
I thought "War on ......" was a American euphemism for "an unsolvable problem we will futilely waste vast resources on in an ongoing and unsuccesful attempt to solve using means and methods long ago shown not to work." (Sounds like a corporate mission statement, doesn't it)
"War on Poverty," "War on Drugs," and "War on Terrorism" are perfect examples.
You can always go further back.
I started gaming with Lunar Lander, Hunt the Wumpus and SPACWR on a PDP-8E (12 bit CPU, 4k of magnetic core memory, KSR-33 teletype console - pure gaming goodness)
I'm sure somebody can go further back than that....
As somebody who saw the sun come up more than a few times playing the original Civ, I have to laugh at Zonk reminiscing about playing Civ 3 like it was a way long time ago. I guess "Back in the Day" isn't so far back anymore.
There's more. In Canada the title "Engineer" is legally restricted to registered members of a Provincial Association of Professional Engineers. Just like graduating from law school doesn't make you a lawyer (you have to pass bar exams and be "called to the bar"). The normal route to getting there is to graduate from a recognized engineering school, have about 2 years equivalent of engineering experience, pass the professional practice exams, and if your application for registration is accepted then and only then are you an engineer.
I understand that in the US of A things aren't quite so rigorous, but in Canada the P. Eng. Associations have swarms of lawyers waiting to pounce on any non-member who calls himself an engineer.
There was a big fight with Microsoft over MCSEs calling themselves engineers in Canada, and a university almost lost accreditation for their engineering school when their computer science school wanted to grant degrees in "Software Engineering" without the approval of the local P.Eng Association.
Reaching way way back here. Had to fix an old PC clone from Olivetti. Symptoms pointed to heat problem - ran fine for a while, then random glitches and lock up. Took off cover, vacuumed some dust off the motherboard. Didn't look like enough to cause a heat problem. Sure enough, keeps on locking up as before.
Then I notice that the case (desktop, not tower) has vents all along the very bottom edge. Pull off cover and then pull off motherboard. Well great thunderin lard jaysus, there was a layer of dust _under_ the motherboard a half inch thick and dense as felt. It peeled off in a single solid rectangle you could have cut boot insoles out of. Once the dust mat had been removed and airflow thru the case restored it ran fine.