If the measure of "intelligence" used is an IQ test,I don't find it surprising that white men are found to be, on average, more intelligent than either women or blacks...
I cannot disagree with any facts you stated. All you have done is repeat the same facts in more emotionally acceptable terms. (politically correct?)
To say "IQ tests are biased towards xxx", is really just another way of saying that xxx have a higher IQ.
it doesn't say 'Men are smarter than women". It says that "Men get better IQ test scores than women"
Whats the difference? "smart" may have broader meaning, but not really in this context. Yes women have other mental advantages, and we are only talking small statistical differences.
If you were to do this same study with POOR white people and POOR black people,...I would guess you would find that the IQ scores were pretty much the same.
You probably are talking about the United States? That may make a big difference. So you suggest IQ is correlated to wealth and education? Then of course non-negro Americans have higher average IQs. Why the controversy? Why the emotional reaction? You cannot deny the differences in education, wealth, nutrition, health, life expectancy, etc. Nobody here is claiming that racial intelligence differences are genetic. Yet. But how would you react if strong evidence came in for that? Deny the possibility on moral grounds?
So in conclusion -- according to him -- blacks and women are dumb. Caucasian males is the way to go.
No, he says no such thing. TFA refers to statistics. Differences in probablility and average. And the real significance is not in averages, but in the extremes.
Why do people get so upset at hearing claims that most geniuses are men, but will happily accept that most criminals are men? Did you know that the large majority of intellectually diabled people are male? Does that claim shock you too?
And the enviromentalists won't let us build nuclear power plants to replace coal-fired ones, which is sheer idiocy. President Bush is working on fixing that.
President Bush?! You mean the government. That man cannot even pronounce "nuclear".
Not quite. It can zoom and focus, by using two lenses, the same way as current optical-zoom cameras.
it flattens, and that changes the focal plane so that it focuses on near objects. The focal length is fixed
Actually, glass lenses have fixed focal length, and focus by moving, whereas these oil lenses, like the eye, focus by changing focal length. (And they flatten to focus further away.)
BTW, the article doesnt say that oil lenses are new. The patents are for mechanical control, rather that the earlier electro-static control.
> > stay tuned for when they are going to install windows on a 1 gb usb keydrive!!
> Won't you have product activation problems (I'm assuming WinXP here) if you try to take that keydrive and plug it into a different machine?
Not if you RTFA. The whole point of Soulpad is to keep a virtual PC on the portable hard-drive. So you could install XP on it, which will run in VMware under Knoppix, and move the virtual PC around to different real PCs. No re-activation needed!
> To cut it short: You need one full featured card with MPEG-2 decoder
What is the point of a hardware mpeg2 decoder on a PC these days? Those cards are too weak to decode HDTV, but the cheapest currently sold PC can do it fine. An old p-II machine will decode standard-definition, with basic video-acceleration from a similarly ancient video card.
Here in Australia, I don't think anyone even sells the old "full featured" cards, only the so-called budget cards without the decoder.
> No because the heat generated by the Prescott's core far outweighs the benefits to the research;)
How does an *explanation* of the grandparent's obvious joke rate a 5-funny moderation? It aint funny if you have to explain it. Maybe this illustrates why funny mods don't affect karma.
Or was it funny that the parent was clueless enough to take the previous as a serious question, and unknowingly repeated it without the subtlety?
Should it be +1 informative, or +1 funny-laughing-at-not-with ?
> if they actually have nothing against gays, then I would say the number is zero.
You would be wrong. Sodomy, gay or straight, is extremely unhealthy. Its as disgusting as coprophilia. Anal sex has been considered immoral long before the modern idea of homosexuality existed. This is how Donovan died. I understand why he did it, and I know its common amongst male gays, but that doesn't make it OK.
By your logic, people who find widow-burning disgusting are (were) racist againt Indians.
Also, tolerance of behaviour doesn't mean you want to watch it. I eat meat, but I don't want to see in the abattoir.
Anyway, the web-site in question has a warning page, and then a rather tame front page. Nothing to complain about really.
> [1] Get out of car, get toddler out of car seat, take irritated toddler, who I just woke up, into petrol
Um, WHY do you take the toddler inside? Doesn't your car have child-locks to stop him wandering off? Or door-locks to keep the kidnapping bogey-men out? What do you fear?
And I seem to remember plenty of full-service stations in the US. Or was that just Canada?
Halloween is the eve of the Catholic "all saints day". Saints are dead people... I get the connection to skeletons and ghosts.
But WTF is it with the pumpkins, _random_ costumes, and children begging for high-sugar foods?
I need to know this, because kids here are getting brainwashed by american TV, and picking up some n-th generation version of the custom. Is it OK to play tricks on them?
> It's so nice to see that not everyone has succumbed to broadband arrogance:)
Or even using PPP !? How many slashdotters are old enough to understang this gag? Thats what you see when using a terminal (emulator) direct to an ancient modem with no error-correction, to a BBS or server. Good for e-mail and usenet. Maybe telnet, if your server has an internet connection. Whats the "web"?
Very nice looking, but it seems to be analogue.
Who in Australia would want a non-digital PVR? Only those in country towns with no digital TV, I guess.
Digital (DVB-T) cards are around A$200, and stream mpeg-2 broadcast, including HD, to disk or network with little CPU.
This isn't a problem elsewhere. We all know that cars in the US explode in a huge fireball even after a small crash. (I havn't been there, but have seen lots of US movies and TV.)
So why doesnt the US switch from gasoline to petrol? It could save many lives, and allow cell-phone use at the pump.
I recently replaced my BT878 card with a DVB-T card, and its great. You get widescreen and HD channels. No interference. Just save the mpeg2 stream straight to disk, stream it across the network, or pipe to a player. Its not the easiest way to watch live TV, but perfect for a PVR.
This is in Australia, where analog and digital are broadcast in parallel. Cable is still analog, but not very popular. UK is better, with extra channels on digital. Berlin just turned off analog.
Whats the problem in North America?
For DVB drivers (now in 2.6 kernel), see http://www.linuxtv.org/
As said before, if the OP doesn't watch TV, he can see the game-console via DV and firewire.
Depleted Uranium is barely radioactive - totally different from nuclear waste. It does NOT comes from reactors. I think you need to do a little reading. "The longer the half-life, the lower the radiation" may seem obvious, but escapes many.
Is it? Last time I checked, they still used the cyrillic alphabet in Ukraine. Yes, "Ch" is the dominant convention in the English speaking world, but that doesnt mean its the only one.
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I cannot disagree with any facts you stated. All you have done is repeat the same facts in more emotionally acceptable terms. (politically correct?)
To say "IQ tests are biased towards xxx", is really just another way of saying that xxx have a higher IQ.
it doesn't say 'Men are smarter than women". It says that "Men get better IQ test scores than women"
Whats the difference? "smart" may have broader meaning, but not really in this context. Yes women have other mental advantages, and we are only talking small statistical differences.
If you were to do this same study with POOR white people and POOR black people,...I would guess you would find that the IQ scores were pretty much the same.
You probably are talking about the United States? That may make a big difference. So you suggest IQ is correlated to wealth and education? Then of course non-negro Americans have higher average IQs. Why the controversy? Why the emotional reaction? You cannot deny the differences in education, wealth, nutrition, health, life expectancy, etc. Nobody here is claiming that racial intelligence differences are genetic. Yet. But how would you react if strong evidence came in for that? Deny the possibility on moral grounds?
No, he says no such thing. TFA refers to statistics. Differences in probablility and average. And the real significance is not in averages, but in the extremes.
Why do people get so upset at hearing claims that most geniuses are men, but will happily accept that most criminals are men? Did you know that the large majority of intellectually diabled people are male? Does that claim shock you too?
Secondly, "Caucasian males", as you put it, do not quite come out on top.
President Bush?! You mean the government. That man cannot even pronounce "nuclear".
it can both zoom and focus by changing shape
Not quite. It can zoom and focus, by using two lenses, the same way as current optical-zoom cameras.
it flattens, and that changes the focal plane so that it focuses on near objects. The focal length is fixed
Actually, glass lenses have fixed focal length, and focus by moving, whereas these oil lenses, like the eye, focus by changing focal length. (And they flatten to focus further away.)
BTW, the article doesnt say that oil lenses are new. The patents are for mechanical control, rather that the earlier electro-static control.
> > stay tuned for when they are going to install windows on a 1 gb usb keydrive!!
> Won't you have product activation problems (I'm assuming WinXP here) if you try to take that keydrive and plug it into a different machine?
Not if you RTFA. The whole point of Soulpad is to keep a virtual PC on the portable hard-drive. So you could install XP on it, which will run in VMware under Knoppix, and move the virtual PC around to different real PCs. No re-activation needed!
This only applies if your "friend" sold you a pirated copy as a real one. What friend is that?
> To cut it short: You need one full featured card with MPEG-2 decoder
What is the point of a hardware mpeg2 decoder on a PC these days? Those cards are too weak to decode HDTV, but the cheapest currently sold PC can do it fine. An old p-II machine will decode standard-definition, with basic video-acceleration from a similarly ancient video card.
Here in Australia, I don't think anyone even sells the old "full featured" cards, only the so-called budget cards without the decoder.
> No because the heat generated by the Prescott's core far outweighs the benefits to the research ;)
How does an *explanation* of the grandparent's obvious joke rate a 5-funny moderation? It aint funny if you have to explain it. Maybe this illustrates why funny mods don't affect karma.
Or was it funny that the parent was clueless enough to take the previous as a serious question, and unknowingly repeated it without the subtlety?
Should it be +1 informative, or +1 funny-laughing-at-not-with ?
> Uh, EST and CST aren't most time zones. You've still got MST and PST, plus Alaska and Hawaii.
Note to Americans: there are just a few more zones than that.
> if they actually have nothing against gays, then I would say the number is zero.
You would be wrong. Sodomy, gay or straight, is extremely unhealthy. Its as disgusting as coprophilia. Anal sex has been considered immoral long before the modern idea of homosexuality existed. This is how Donovan died. I understand why he did it, and I know its common amongst male gays, but that doesn't make it OK.
By your logic, people who find widow-burning disgusting are (were) racist againt Indians.
Also, tolerance of behaviour doesn't mean you want to watch it. I eat meat, but I don't want to see in the abattoir.
Anyway, the web-site in question has a warning page, and then a rather tame front page. Nothing to complain about really.
No, not a trump, just an ace.
So if SCO can pull a trump, they win the trick.
I hope its not the ace of hearts, as we know SCO is heartless.
> [1] Get out of car, get toddler out of car seat, take irritated toddler, who I just woke up, into petrol
Um, WHY do you take the toddler inside? Doesn't your car have child-locks to stop him wandering off?
Or door-locks to keep the kidnapping bogey-men out? What do you fear?
And I seem to remember plenty of full-service stations in the US. Or was that just Canada?
Halloween is the eve of the Catholic "all saints day". Saints are dead people. .. I get the connection to skeletons and ghosts.
But WTF is it with the pumpkins, _random_ costumes, and children begging for high-sugar foods?
I need to know this, because kids here are getting brainwashed by american TV, and picking up some n-th generation version of the custom. Is it OK to play tricks on them?
A magnetron focussed by satellite dish ...?
Would one of these take out a Multanova speed-radar tax-machine? Safe to mount on my roof-rack?
You don't need Real software to play rtsp:// streams.
(Why doesTry:
Q) How do I tell mplayer to save the stream to disk? mencoder complains that a video stream is compulsory.
> Patents and copyrights both arise from this same underlying theory, and the same bit of the US Constitution.
So you think Patents and copyrights are USA inventions then? Bloody arrogant yanks. From the constitution !!??? arrrgh!
> Because binary-only software became pretty prevalent in the mid-1970s, which is some 30 years ago.
About the time of the "rise of microcomputers", as he said.
> Nobody has suggested the extremely obvious possibility: both DVD drives failed.
... Its far more likely
Maybe thats because its obvious? And uninteresting.
In maths, this is called the "trivial solution".
> Its highly unlikely
Do you have any justification for that assertion?
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> It's so nice to see that not everyone has succumbed to broadband arrogance
Or even using PPP !? How many slashdotters are old enough to understang this gag?
Thats what you see when using a terminal (emulator) direct to an ancient modem with no error-correction, to a BBS or server. Good for e-mail and usenet. Maybe telnet, if your server has an internet connection. Whats the "web"?
Very nice looking, but it seems to be analogue. Who in Australia would want a non-digital PVR? Only those in country towns with no digital TV, I guess.
Digital (DVB-T) cards are around A$200, and stream mpeg-2 broadcast, including HD, to disk or network with little CPU.
> The PHP Anthology - Volume 3 'Return of the Ping'
Thats Volume 3 "Second Foundations", you illiterate clod.
(Asimov's great vision, until some spoilsport mathematician invented Chaos Theory, which rather killed the idea of Psychohistory. )
This isn't a problem elsewhere. We all know that cars in the US explode in a huge fireball even after a small crash. (I havn't been there, but have seen lots of US movies and TV.)
So why doesnt the US switch from gasoline to petrol? It could save many lives, and allow cell-phone use at the pump.
I recently replaced my BT878 card with a DVB-T card, and its great. You get widescreen and HD channels. No interference. Just save the mpeg2 stream straight to disk, stream it across the network, or pipe to a player. Its not the easiest way to watch live TV, but perfect for a PVR.
This is in Australia, where analog and digital are broadcast in parallel. Cable is still analog, but not very popular. UK is better, with extra channels on digital. Berlin just turned off analog.
Whats the problem in North America?
For DVB drivers (now in 2.6 kernel), see http://www.linuxtv.org/
As said before, if the OP doesn't watch TV, he can see the game-console via DV and firewire.
> what happens to the depleted uranium?
Depleted Uranium is barely radioactive - totally different from nuclear waste. It does NOT comes from reactors. I think you need to do a little reading.
"The longer the half-life, the lower the radiation" may seem obvious, but escapes many.
> It's spelled "Chernobyl".
Is it? Last time I checked, they still used the cyrillic alphabet in Ukraine. Yes, "Ch" is the dominant convention in the English speaking world, but that doesnt mean its the only one.