But if the tech only takes advantage of the high-speed, high-power impact kind of game that the men play, then I'm not sure how much it will help the women. Women don't play golf with brute strength like the men do. While they are amazing golfers, it's more about control and accuracy than it is about power. Same thing with women's tennis. Some say women's tennis is more enjoyable than men's because it's not just about brute strength, and you get a lot of longer rallies. Whereas men's tennis is just a bunch of ace serves. While I don't deny that improved technology can help women get longer drives, it's only a percentage that it adds. If the average woman drives the ball 200 yards (not saying that's accurate), and the club adds 10%, then they can drive the ball 220 yards. If the men can drive it 300 yards, then 10 % makes it 330 yards, meaning the men have an even bigger advantage due to the technology. Or maybe they'll start to add limitations about what exactly is a regulation club, so they won't have to keep on extending the courses.
it's interesting that you would call a country that has had a female prime minister as being repressive to women.
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Sign up for a hosting service that supports Ruby. While I realize the significance of doing stuff like this yourself, if you really want to just try out a language nothing will stop you quicker than not even being able to get it running. That's why when I look for a web host, I pick one that supports a lot of different technologies, even If I never plan on using them.
Oh, sorry I left this out of my post before, but the reason I feel that equestrian events are gender integrated is because the horses are the actual athletes, not the people riding them. I'm not sure why equestrian is an Olympic event. At that point, you might as well add auto racing.
I watch a lot of golf. I have no problem with women in the PGA as long as they are hitting from the same tee position. From reading stuff like this article, it seems like women still don't have the necessary strength to keep up with the men's tour. And with the men's tour constantly getting longer to keep up with the longer shots men are capable of making (witness the 300 yard par 3 on last weekend's US Open, which the men still birdied), I don't think women are going to catch up very soon.
*I* am not as strong or as fast as a professional soccer player, I don't get my own league.
You mean to tell me they don't have amateur leagues and semi-pro where you live? How is that any different from a women's league? It's not like the players in the women's league get as much money or TV coverage as the men.
If anybody has ever worked in place where the staff was mostly/all female, they will tell you that the work place dynamics were not good. Arguing over stupid little things and holding grudges against other coworkers is common. I don't mean to generalize here, but as far as I've heard, workplaces with mostly women end up being very hostile. Contrast that to the male dominated places where I worked. Arguments did happen, as they always will, but most men are able to move on and forget about so that the work gets done.
If you look at the Guinness book of world records, you will see that a lot of the records are differentiated by sex. When you think about it, it's kind of odd. Women have been fighting for equal rights for so long, and yet in situations such as this, women are considered inferior, or at least, different.
I can't remember, but weren't all the copyright extensions retroactive. I thought this was the reason even a lot of the original Disney/Mickey Mouse stuff was still under copyright.
Why do they keep on making movies based off video games. Has there ever been a single one that wasn't completely crap? Sure they generate a few bucks, but it's not like any of the actors/directors/writers actually gain any prestige by working on these movies. Why even bother creating such crappy movies.
I find it odd that with all the talk of patents on Slashdot that I had never heard of this case before. We all complain about the RIAA/MPAA and others, but they are just doing the same thing that has been done by everybody else for ages. It's kind of funny when you look at a "lift-the-flap" book for 1 year olds, and they have some legal jargon on it saying how you can't photocopy or duplicate the product in whole or in part in any way. Even though photocopying books for personal use is legal, and photocopying is a somewhat useless duplication method for a book which is "lift-the-flap".
I've known tons more people who have had problems with the optical drives on PS2s and XBoxes. Just because you don't know anybody doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Granted, not all DVD players are built to high specs, especially the $50 units, but I for one trust the stand alone units much better than the game machines. The fact that standalone units only have to spin at one speed means that they are much less complicated, and much less prone to failure than other drives.
It's becoming apparent that there's a lot of money to be made off selling super hero movies when they are done right. The problem is, is that it's not proven as to whether or not Marvel can do it right. What they did was license the characters to the movie studio and got a $62 Million cheque. That's a pretty good sum of money for signing a piece of paper for the license rights, and not actually having to do any work. Making a good movie is not all that easy. Comics don't always lend themselves to a easy movie script.
I know a guy who worked at RIM, and they said they actually did testing like this with their blackberries. I'm not sure about the current models, but 3 or 4 years ago, they were made to stand up to quite a substantial drop. This kind of stuff is really important. I almost wish there was independant crash tests done on consumer products the same way they are done on cars.
It's not a silly concern, because computer DVD drives and DVD players have no problem when playing back movies. I've only ever seen a few of these things break down. However, I've known a lot of people who have had DVD drives break on PS2/XBox, and most of them used the game system for playing movies. The point is, is that these video game machines aren't built to the same specs as stand alone move player units.
Well, if they don't know the difference between the two formats, and would be grab the wrong format, what's to stop them from grabbing a disc of the wrong format when only one format is there. If you have both formats, and they choose a random one, they will be right 50% of the time. If you only have 1 format, and they choose randomly, then if they have blu-ray, they will be right 100% of the time, but if they have HDDVD they will be right 0% of the time. Which gives an average of %50. For people who do actually understand the difference, this is a stupid argument. If you know the difference, then the odds of picking up the wrong disc are pretty low.
Well, I know a lot of people who had problems with XBoxes and PS2s when they used them as DVD players. Having the drive spin the disc for 2 hours straight while you watch a movie is a lot harder on the drive mechanism than having it spin the disc for 30 seconds while you load game content, and then give it a 5 minute break. It's not really a problem with the processor burning out, or the machine not having enough power, but with the drive mechanism not being built to withstand spinning for long periods of time.
The reason that nobody has broken BD+ DRM is because the studios haven't started using it. As soon as they start using it, people will find a crack. Can you please tell me what makes BD+ DRM so special that hackers won't be able to break it? Given enough demand, any DRM system can be broken.
This is pretty apparent when I look at retail shelves too. For every square inch of space that you devote to one product, it's one square inch of space that you can't devote to another product. I was in HMV the other day, and the signs on their thief/library book detectors were ads for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, yet they didn't have more than 10 movies from either format. It's clear that they are making more money from their 3 for $30, TV Episode DVDs, and even old DVDs that I didn't think anybody bought than they are from their sales of HD Media.
I have no complaints about American health care coverage
Sorry, I wasn't aware that America had health care coverage. What you probably meant to say was that you have no complaints with the coverage your employer is providing you with. Do you see the difference? The American system works really well for those who have lots of money or who are lucky enough to receive health coverage from their employers. But for those who aren't as lucky, the system is terrible.
Also, Canada has realized that it has long waiting times and has set up a plan to do something about it. The people spoke and the politicians listened. There's a lot of people in the United States who can't afford any health care at all, and I don't see the American government doing anything about it.
I'm Canadian, and I've had friends who got an MRI within days. When you really need it, you get it. I hear lots of stories of people waiting months for treatment, but a lot (not most) of the time it's things that are non-critical, like knee replacement surgery, for a guy who's 75. I'm not saying he's any less worthy of receiving the treatment, but when a doctor can only do X surgeries a month, and you have to choose between a guy who's 30, and needs to get back to work, and a guy who's 75, and needs to get back to sitting in his chair, you have to prioritize some how. Also, it's much better having someone wait 6 months, than it is to have someone never get treatment because they couldn't afford it, or have to go in debt or claim bankruptcy because it's just too expensive.
The question is, how many items do you have to sort, and does it even give a noticeable increase in speed once you distribute all the data to the seperate processors and gather it back up again. From my parallel programming course, I remembered you could do a sort in O(1) time, but that you had to have N processors, and that doesn't even count distribution and gathering time. The best parallel algothims get sorting time of O(n log(n)), which is the same a quicksort, but you can parallelize it, so on 4 processors, it would be O(n log(n)/4). But since you're suppose to get rid of the constants in Big-O notation, the complexity is pretty much the same. So for applications like email, wordprocessing, and web browsers, where you're probably only sorting less than 10,000 items (probably less than 1000)., it doesn't yield much of and improvement, especially not that the user would notice. Just for a test, I filled up all 65,000 rows in Excel with Data. Sorting the done in less time than I could even notice. Probably under 1/4 of a second.
I think if you're going to limit the technology, you should limit it at the point before the "white man" came and introduced technologies to these cultures. That means no gunpowder, no snow machines and motor boats, and no heated homes with computers and TV. It seems to me that if you're looking to maintain you're culture, you shouldn't be able to decide what stays and what goes. The people who should be allowed to hunt animals they did to preserve their culture should have to live the way their ancestors did. There's no reason for you to be hunting whales if you're using modern technology.
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But if the tech only takes advantage of the high-speed, high-power impact kind of game that the men play, then I'm not sure how much it will help the women. Women don't play golf with brute strength like the men do. While they are amazing golfers, it's more about control and accuracy than it is about power. Same thing with women's tennis. Some say women's tennis is more enjoyable than men's because it's not just about brute strength, and you get a lot of longer rallies. Whereas men's tennis is just a bunch of ace serves. While I don't deny that improved technology can help women get longer drives, it's only a percentage that it adds. If the average woman drives the ball 200 yards (not saying that's accurate), and the club adds 10%, then they can drive the ball 220 yards. If the men can drive it 300 yards, then 10 % makes it 330 yards, meaning the men have an even bigger advantage due to the technology. Or maybe they'll start to add limitations about what exactly is a regulation club, so they won't have to keep on extending the courses.
it's interesting that you would call a country that has had a female prime minister as being repressive to women.
Sign up for a hosting service that supports Ruby. While I realize the significance of doing stuff like this yourself, if you really want to just try out a language nothing will stop you quicker than not even being able to get it running. That's why when I look for a web host, I pick one that supports a lot of different technologies, even If I never plan on using them.
Oh, sorry I left this out of my post before, but the reason I feel that equestrian events are gender integrated is because the horses are the actual athletes, not the people riding them. I'm not sure why equestrian is an Olympic event. At that point, you might as well add auto racing.
I watch a lot of golf. I have no problem with women in the PGA as long as they are hitting from the same tee position. From reading stuff like this article, it seems like women still don't have the necessary strength to keep up with the men's tour. And with the men's tour constantly getting longer to keep up with the longer shots men are capable of making (witness the 300 yard par 3 on last weekend's US Open, which the men still birdied), I don't think women are going to catch up very soon.
If anybody has ever worked in place where the staff was mostly/all female, they will tell you that the work place dynamics were not good. Arguing over stupid little things and holding grudges against other coworkers is common. I don't mean to generalize here, but as far as I've heard, workplaces with mostly women end up being very hostile. Contrast that to the male dominated places where I worked. Arguments did happen, as they always will, but most men are able to move on and forget about so that the work gets done.
If you look at the Guinness book of world records, you will see that a lot of the records are differentiated by sex. When you think about it, it's kind of odd. Women have been fighting for equal rights for so long, and yet in situations such as this, women are considered inferior, or at least, different.
I can't remember, but weren't all the copyright extensions retroactive. I thought this was the reason even a lot of the original Disney/Mickey Mouse stuff was still under copyright.
Why do they keep on making movies based off video games. Has there ever been a single one that wasn't completely crap? Sure they generate a few bucks, but it's not like any of the actors/directors/writers actually gain any prestige by working on these movies. Why even bother creating such crappy movies.
I find it odd that with all the talk of patents on Slashdot that I had never heard of this case before. We all complain about the RIAA/MPAA and others, but they are just doing the same thing that has been done by everybody else for ages. It's kind of funny when you look at a "lift-the-flap" book for 1 year olds, and they have some legal jargon on it saying how you can't photocopy or duplicate the product in whole or in part in any way. Even though photocopying books for personal use is legal, and photocopying is a somewhat useless duplication method for a book which is "lift-the-flap".
Leave it to the Canadians to make a unit that will stand up to landing in a patch of snow.
I've known tons more people who have had problems with the optical drives on PS2s and XBoxes. Just because you don't know anybody doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Granted, not all DVD players are built to high specs, especially the $50 units, but I for one trust the stand alone units much better than the game machines. The fact that standalone units only have to spin at one speed means that they are much less complicated, and much less prone to failure than other drives.
It's becoming apparent that there's a lot of money to be made off selling super hero movies when they are done right. The problem is, is that it's not proven as to whether or not Marvel can do it right. What they did was license the characters to the movie studio and got a $62 Million cheque. That's a pretty good sum of money for signing a piece of paper for the license rights, and not actually having to do any work. Making a good movie is not all that easy. Comics don't always lend themselves to a easy movie script.
I know a guy who worked at RIM, and they said they actually did testing like this with their blackberries. I'm not sure about the current models, but 3 or 4 years ago, they were made to stand up to quite a substantial drop. This kind of stuff is really important. I almost wish there was independant crash tests done on consumer products the same way they are done on cars.
It's not a silly concern, because computer DVD drives and DVD players have no problem when playing back movies. I've only ever seen a few of these things break down. However, I've known a lot of people who have had DVD drives break on PS2/XBox, and most of them used the game system for playing movies. The point is, is that these video game machines aren't built to the same specs as stand alone move player units.
Well, if they don't know the difference between the two formats, and would be grab the wrong format, what's to stop them from grabbing a disc of the wrong format when only one format is there. If you have both formats, and they choose a random one, they will be right 50% of the time. If you only have 1 format, and they choose randomly, then if they have blu-ray, they will be right 100% of the time, but if they have HDDVD they will be right 0% of the time. Which gives an average of %50. For people who do actually understand the difference, this is a stupid argument. If you know the difference, then the odds of picking up the wrong disc are pretty low.
Well, I know a lot of people who had problems with XBoxes and PS2s when they used them as DVD players. Having the drive spin the disc for 2 hours straight while you watch a movie is a lot harder on the drive mechanism than having it spin the disc for 30 seconds while you load game content, and then give it a 5 minute break. It's not really a problem with the processor burning out, or the machine not having enough power, but with the drive mechanism not being built to withstand spinning for long periods of time.
The reason that nobody has broken BD+ DRM is because the studios haven't started using it. As soon as they start using it, people will find a crack. Can you please tell me what makes BD+ DRM so special that hackers won't be able to break it? Given enough demand, any DRM system can be broken.
This is pretty apparent when I look at retail shelves too. For every square inch of space that you devote to one product, it's one square inch of space that you can't devote to another product. I was in HMV the other day, and the signs on their thief/library book detectors were ads for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, yet they didn't have more than 10 movies from either format. It's clear that they are making more money from their 3 for $30, TV Episode DVDs, and even old DVDs that I didn't think anybody bought than they are from their sales of HD Media.
Also, Canada has realized that it has long waiting times and has set up a plan to do something about it. The people spoke and the politicians listened. There's a lot of people in the United States who can't afford any health care at all, and I don't see the American government doing anything about it.
I'm Canadian, and I've had friends who got an MRI within days. When you really need it, you get it. I hear lots of stories of people waiting months for treatment, but a lot (not most) of the time it's things that are non-critical, like knee replacement surgery, for a guy who's 75. I'm not saying he's any less worthy of receiving the treatment, but when a doctor can only do X surgeries a month, and you have to choose between a guy who's 30, and needs to get back to work, and a guy who's 75, and needs to get back to sitting in his chair, you have to prioritize some how. Also, it's much better having someone wait 6 months, than it is to have someone never get treatment because they couldn't afford it, or have to go in debt or claim bankruptcy because it's just too expensive.
The question is, how many items do you have to sort, and does it even give a noticeable increase in speed once you distribute all the data to the seperate processors and gather it back up again. From my parallel programming course, I remembered you could do a sort in O(1) time, but that you had to have N processors, and that doesn't even count distribution and gathering time. The best parallel algothims get sorting time of O(n log(n)), which is the same a quicksort, but you can parallelize it, so on 4 processors, it would be O(n log(n)/4). But since you're suppose to get rid of the constants in Big-O notation, the complexity is pretty much the same. So for applications like email, wordprocessing, and web browsers, where you're probably only sorting less than 10,000 items (probably less than 1000)., it doesn't yield much of and improvement, especially not that the user would notice. Just for a test, I filled up all 65,000 rows in Excel with Data. Sorting the done in less time than I could even notice. Probably under 1/4 of a second.
I think if you're going to limit the technology, you should limit it at the point before the "white man" came and introduced technologies to these cultures. That means no gunpowder, no snow machines and motor boats, and no heated homes with computers and TV. It seems to me that if you're looking to maintain you're culture, you shouldn't be able to decide what stays and what goes. The people who should be allowed to hunt animals they did to preserve their culture should have to live the way their ancestors did. There's no reason for you to be hunting whales if you're using modern technology.