I was not bullied at school, even as a clearly identified geek. I am astounded to hear all those US stories about jocks bullying geeks with apparently a nation-wide trauma within a whole generation of scientists. I agree that some social interactions can be learnt at school. However, I stand by my point that we are learnt to react to authority in the worst possible way : institutionalized submission. None of the things you mentioned work when you are challenging a professor.
Walking away doesn't really work when you are basically imprisoned with your bully. You have to find an authority that you will submit to in order to protect you. I think that the first step in adulthood and citizenship is to unlearn the social norms taught in school. They do not reflect the real world at all.
My wife got addicted to this game and I mostly reboot under linux to play it. It could probably work under wine/ubuntu but I confess that I didn't have the courage to redo the whole day of configuration to activate the accelerated graphics of my ATI card.
Love it. When I tell people that my kids will be home-schooled they usually say "but school is where you learn to socialize." No. School is where you learn submission to authority, to muscle and to bullies. Also, teachers try very hard to prevent socialization in the classroom. Socialization can happen in sport activities or extra-scholar activity, but learning does not require bullies and crowded classes.
Rocket attacks on Israel have increased as the chief of Hamas got killed. Don't read too much over it. There has been 18 months of civil war in Syria, this is well over the half-life of peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict. "Something" would have happened anyway.
I've had enough about talks. Most of the people who studied these fields witness there is a problem yet nothing changes. Republicans have a majority in Congress. They can make that happen if they really will. If this is just a personal opinion of a GOP minority, it is business as usual : a localized and minor outburst of common sense.
OpenGL official standards has always competed against non-standard extensions or vendor-specific functions. To be fair, DirectX is not really competing against OpenGL on any other platform than the Windows PC. On Linux, on the XBox, on android, on iOS, all have their favorite standard, there is no competition in most places.
Well, Valve considers Windows 8 as a threat, ports Steam under linux, put pressure on video card constructors to create better linux port of their drivers. This could very well make OpenGL the future standard.
History suggests that it doesn't matter much. Shed some blood and sadly you will get far more than through decades of civil discussion. This explains a lot, actually...
Well, there are risks in doing business in China. Really, if you think you should not interest in politics, then politics will have interest in you. But in that case, it is to depend on Google for things like email that seems like the bad decision, in my opinion. When you are in China, you knowwithout being a conspiracy theorist, that the government does eavesdrop on you, or at least can.
What will you do the day where the SSL certificate from Google says it is invalid? Will you really resist getting to your email account once it is solved? Will all of your employees? How will you tell them not to, without email? Do not use gmail, have your emails in a local client, have backup smtps and VPNs. And fund Tor if you do business in China : this is an infrastructure you may need in such a time. Seriously, think about it : all your competitors are down for a day. How much is it worth to still be running?
If your memo has 100 spaces in it, and that you choose to double 3 of them, you have 100x99x98 different combinations. Far enough. I'll automate that for you in 1 hour for 2 BTC.
I concur. Our privacy relies on just 33 bits of entropy.
Gender and age are already several bits. These listing can be used to pinpoint the location of habitation, work and shopping. Give a few more bits like a regular place to spend week ends, a regular activity, or a specialized shop, the date of a big spending (house, car) and you are not anonymous anymore.
More than a small difference, it is an irrelevant difference. They do not fight on this score, but on the 0.1% that will make a few states swing. 1% in Washington are not worth 1% in Ohio.
And this is why I would love that we have a set of psychotropes available, with known and documented effect, that we can use to control or psyche, instead of relying on the few chemicals that historically came to be accepted despite being a lot more harmful than other compounds synthesizable nowadays but impossible to buy.
Have they changed their stance on their Optimus feature that they infamously said "would never be supported under linux"? For those unaware of it, laptops now ship with 2 GPUs : a small one, low performance and low conso, usually an Intel one, and a high-end one, that is started when GPU intensive tasks are started. Optimus is the undocumented feature that allows to switch between these two.
It is not supported in the linux nVidia driver, it was said by nvidia official they would never support it and they didn't even give the OSS developers the little hints they need to make a workaround.
Unless this silliness (that made Linus call them many names) is solved, I am unlikely to buy any laptop with a nVidia board.
Right now I am using pidgin to have my MSN contacts and my Jabber/gTalk contacts in a single list and a single application. Skype has always been reluctant (slight euphemism there) to let third party software connect to its network. I have no solution then, but I think that I will then help half of my list migrate into gTalk then.
Your mileage may vary. If you are running a game that uses DirectX (or whatever it is called nowadays) wine will do its best to transform these calls into OpenGL calls. It will emulate the ones that cannot be easily transformed. If you are lucky, performances will be roughly the same but you never know when you will be confronted with the glass reflection effect that suddenly divides your framerate by 4.
I don't even see how your answer addresses anything I said. It looks like a random ranting against bureaucracy.
If it is nazism to have controls at the borders, well, the free world is indeed small. I am proposing that international financial transactions be taxed just as international trade of goods are taxed. Yeah, what I am proposing is that controlling one's border should be a part of national sovereignty, this is a concept that I think 100% of the countries currently accept.
The Swiss system relies on a trusted third party, something that secure network applications try to avoid.
It works in Switzerland because they have put a trutable government in place and learned to trust it instead of wondering if it should not just be gone at each election.
In France we call it "fiscal optimization", which I find kind of cute : it makes it clear that corporations have an interest in being bad citizens.
The problem is that the solution is seen by many as the enemy of free-trade : it requires to put commercial barriers on tax-havens. As long as international transactions between countries are not taxed to take into account the different weight of different tax rates, you will have tax avoidance.
I don't understand why there is so much resistance to this idea : we are seeing huge border tax when we import anything physical, why couldn't money transfers be taxed similarily? Why is it an idea that only far-left or anti-globalization hippies are heralding?
Knowing that the base assumptions can make this kind of silly estimate vary widely, I demand the methodology for this number! Once you take into account the frequency and even if you consider that a neuron is ~ 1000 transistors, such a machine easily outperforms the weak human with his 10 kHz (while being *very* nice toward humans) parallel machine.
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I was not bullied at school, even as a clearly identified geek. I am astounded to hear all those US stories about jocks bullying geeks with apparently a nation-wide trauma within a whole generation of scientists. I agree that some social interactions can be learnt at school. However, I stand by my point that we are learnt to react to authority in the worst possible way : institutionalized submission. None of the things you mentioned work when you are challenging a professor.
Walking away doesn't really work when you are basically imprisoned with your bully. You have to find an authority that you will submit to in order to protect you. I think that the first step in adulthood and citizenship is to unlearn the social norms taught in school. They do not reflect the real world at all.
My wife got addicted to this game and I mostly reboot under linux to play it. It could probably work under wine/ubuntu but I confess that I didn't have the courage to redo the whole day of configuration to activate the accelerated graphics of my ATI card.
Love it. When I tell people that my kids will be home-schooled they usually say "but school is where you learn to socialize." No. School is where you learn submission to authority, to muscle and to bullies. Also, teachers try very hard to prevent socialization in the classroom. Socialization can happen in sport activities or extra-scholar activity, but learning does not require bullies and crowded classes.
Rocket attacks on Israel have increased as the chief of Hamas got killed. Don't read too much over it. There has been 18 months of civil war in Syria, this is well over the half-life of peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict. "Something" would have happened anyway.
I've had enough about talks. Most of the people who studied these fields witness there is a problem yet nothing changes. Republicans have a majority in Congress. They can make that happen if they really will. If this is just a personal opinion of a GOP minority, it is business as usual : a localized and minor outburst of common sense.
OpenGL official standards has always competed against non-standard extensions or vendor-specific functions. To be fair, DirectX is not really competing against OpenGL on any other platform than the Windows PC. On Linux, on the XBox, on android, on iOS, all have their favorite standard, there is no competition in most places.
Well, Valve considers Windows 8 as a threat, ports Steam under linux, put pressure on video card constructors to create better linux port of their drivers. This could very well make OpenGL the future standard.
Only people living in a country where software patents are legal. This is why I'll be skipping Silicon Valley on my next round of investment hunting.
History suggests that it doesn't matter much. Shed some blood and sadly you will get far more than through decades of civil discussion. This explains a lot, actually...
Well, there are risks in doing business in China. Really, if you think you should not interest in politics, then politics will have interest in you. But in that case, it is to depend on Google for things like email that seems like the bad decision, in my opinion. When you are in China, you knowwithout being a conspiracy theorist, that the government does eavesdrop on you, or at least can.
What will you do the day where the SSL certificate from Google says it is invalid? Will you really resist getting to your email account once it is solved? Will all of your employees? How will you tell them not to, without email? Do not use gmail, have your emails in a local client, have backup smtps and VPNs. And fund Tor if you do business in China : this is an infrastructure you may need in such a time. Seriously, think about it : all your competitors are down for a day. How much is it worth to still be running?
Which becomes a problem when you are right while most of the people are wrong...
If your memo has 100 spaces in it, and that you choose to double 3 of them, you have 100x99x98 different combinations. Far enough. I'll automate that for you in 1 hour for 2 BTC.
Taiwan has the GDP per capita of Germany, is a democracy, is not communist.
Just saying.
I concur. Our privacy relies on just 33 bits of entropy.
Gender and age are already several bits. These listing can be used to pinpoint the location of habitation, work and shopping. Give a few more bits like a regular place to spend week ends, a regular activity, or a specialized shop, the date of a big spending (house, car) and you are not anonymous anymore.
More than a small difference, it is an irrelevant difference. They do not fight on this score, but on the 0.1% that will make a few states swing. 1% in Washington are not worth 1% in Ohio.
And this is why I would love that we have a set of psychotropes available, with known and documented effect, that we can use to control or psyche, instead of relying on the few chemicals that historically came to be accepted despite being a lot more harmful than other compounds synthesizable nowadays but impossible to buy.
Have they changed their stance on their Optimus feature that they infamously said "would never be supported under linux"? For those unaware of it, laptops now ship with 2 GPUs : a small one, low performance and low conso, usually an Intel one, and a high-end one, that is started when GPU intensive tasks are started. Optimus is the undocumented feature that allows to switch between these two.
It is not supported in the linux nVidia driver, it was said by nvidia official they would never support it and they didn't even give the OSS developers the little hints they need to make a workaround.
Unless this silliness (that made Linus call them many names) is solved, I am unlikely to buy any laptop with a nVidia board.
Right now I am using pidgin to have my MSN contacts and my Jabber/gTalk contacts in a single list and a single application. Skype has always been reluctant (slight euphemism there) to let third party software connect to its network. I have no solution then, but I think that I will then help half of my list migrate into gTalk then.
Your mileage may vary. If you are running a game that uses DirectX (or whatever it is called nowadays) wine will do its best to transform these calls into OpenGL calls. It will emulate the ones that cannot be easily transformed. If you are lucky, performances will be roughly the same but you never know when you will be confronted with the glass reflection effect that suddenly divides your framerate by 4.
I don't even see how your answer addresses anything I said. It looks like a random ranting against bureaucracy.
If it is nazism to have controls at the borders, well, the free world is indeed small. I am proposing that international financial transactions be taxed just as international trade of goods are taxed. Yeah, what I am proposing is that controlling one's border should be a part of national sovereignty, this is a concept that I think 100% of the countries currently accept.
The Swiss system relies on a trusted third party, something that secure network applications try to avoid.
It works in Switzerland because they have put a trutable government in place and learned to trust it instead of wondering if it should not just be gone at each election.
In France we call it "fiscal optimization", which I find kind of cute : it makes it clear that corporations have an interest in being bad citizens.
The problem is that the solution is seen by many as the enemy of free-trade : it requires to put commercial barriers on tax-havens. As long as international transactions between countries are not taxed to take into account the different weight of different tax rates, you will have tax avoidance.
I don't understand why there is so much resistance to this idea : we are seeing huge border tax when we import anything physical, why couldn't money transfers be taxed similarily? Why is it an idea that only far-left or anti-globalization hippies are heralding?
Knowing that the base assumptions can make this kind of silly estimate vary widely, I demand the methodology for this number! Once you take into account the frequency and even if you consider that a neuron is ~ 1000 transistors, such a machine easily outperforms the weak human with his 10 kHz (while being *very* nice toward humans) parallel machine.
Still, I think that having a meter accuracy after a Pacific traversal could have uses...