You may have hit the nail on the head here. I really don't understand why people refuse to accept that men and women are different.
Thousands of years of evolution have adapted men and women to perform their distinct roles. Men evolved to be effective hunter-gatherers, whilst women evolved to best care for the offspring. There are many studies explaining why men and women behave as they do based on sound evolutionary principles. It is only really in the last 200 years or so that the modern era has allowed these roles to change.
All this has the effect that the sexes have different skills and are good at different things. Different areas will appeal to men and women, and in general, they are likely to be better at different things.
In this case I hope an institution like MIT would simply chose the best person for the job. This should be the only consideration, whatever the person's sex. Positive discrimination to encourage "equality" smacks of sexism to me. It is effectively saying that one sex is not as good as the other and needs to be given a leg up.
Yeah, I came across this too. I bought two D-Link switches a few months apart - same model number, same box, same manual, but DIFFERENT PSU VOLTAGE!!! It never did work right after I got the wrong PSU one day.
Even if it was practical, cheap and profitable, they would never make such a quantum leap in one go. Most people would be able to buy one of these drives and probably not upgrade again for 10 years. No respectable company would sell a product once, when they could instead realease incremental improvements every year for 10 years.
Well, I don't want to speak too soon, but I think they may have got the one with my address!!
I normally receive 20+ porn and viagra spams a day, but they are all the same style so I have always thought it was only one spammer with my address. [I never posted the address anywhere, I think they just guessed it - it is in the format commonfirstnamelastname@majorisp.com]
Anyway, since Friday I haven't had a single message. Or maybe it is just because the spammer is away on vacation....
And why wouldn't cinemas pay to retrofit it? Let's face it, the only real advantage cinemas currently offer over a decent home A/V set is that they show films that you can't (legally) get at home for another 2 months. Furthermore, if you live in the UK and have at least two mates, you can often buy the region 1 DVD of a film only recently released at the cinema for less than actually going to the cinema as a group. You also don't get ripped off on paying for your coke and popcorn and you don't have to put up with the screaming child/rustling sweet packets/guy with bad b.o.
Once technology becomes cheap enough that the majority of film goers can afford a decent A/V setup, cinemas will be almost redundant. Cinemas need to do something to add to the film experience, and preferably do something that the consumer will not be able to afford for a considerable amount of time.
What about replacing the gyroscopes? The fabled gyroscopes on Hubble seem to need replacing every few years. Are they using a different method or more reliable ones on Webb?
How could you forget the most ridiculous, pointless and, frankly, just plain laughable scene in Die Another Day.
NEWSFLASH: surfing was "cool" in the 80's. Now it is just another sport.
It is quite possible to produce a pound of beef without any gasoline. How the hell do you think people did it in the middle ages?
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How is this insightful? I presume he already has a bike, so the only oil needed is for lubrication. I'm sure just one barrel of oil could lubricate a bike for 100's of years. Besides, there are plenty of lubricants that can be made without oil.
Where did you get your quote? The article states that it
failed to match people with their details in just four per cent of cases
That is totally different from saying 4% of the subjects are identified as someone else which your quote does not imply either.
Anyway, surely the system is only for authentification and not identification? I.e. they have your iris on record, you input your name and give them the iris scan. If the two match, you are who you say you are. I seriously doubt they will just scan your iris and search a database for a match. The only reason they would do this is for identifying criminals, but they would only need to scan the database if they did not have your name on the system already.
This is speculation, but I expect in those 4% of cases, if the people blink a few times and wipe their eyes, it would work a second time.
Has anyone used this text book before? It is all very well giving away books for free, but if they aren't that good anyway, you still have to buy another one. When I have a spare moment I will try to look through the book more carefully, but from a cursory glance, it looks good so far.
Seems like a bit of a waste of license payers money when there already a several open source video codecs (eg. Ogg Theora, 3ivx). What does this offer that those don't?
But what use is a user id and password if you don't know where the computer is that it accesses?
They should have tried doing the survey by knocking on people's front doors and asking them. I bet significantly less people would tell them then, because they would realise there was a much greater chance that the divulged information could actually be used.
I am sure that somewhere in my town, there is a computer with the Windows login "Administrator", with password set to "password". Now in order for that information to be useful I still need to find that computer. (The only likely way is brute force scanning, which, by extension could be applied to the password cracking anyway.)
Clearly, if the attacker was more malicious and started following you, etc they could get this information. However, most people will assume that noone else actually has a major reason to be interested in their PC or indeed downloading their pr0n collection. This is part of the reason why Joe Public does have such strong feelings about spyware as the average slashdotter.
But you have to admit mechanically speaking new cars are much more reliable than old ones. The components are more precisely designed, they are constructed of better (i.e. more suitable) materials and parts are machined + assembled to lower tolerances. Even tyres seem to last longer these days. I will concede that the reliability of the electronics and software does still leave a lot to be desired.
New cars are also much safer and easier to drive, both of which are important factors for most.
Perhaps we should take the view that the fact that it is no longer viable to repair cars means we have developed amazing manufacturing techniques to make the cars so cheap in the first place. We are packing a hell of a lot of engineering into one machine!
Having said all this, it is essential these new cars that are written off after a fender bender can be recycled effectively.
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Thousands of years of evolution have adapted men and women to perform their distinct roles. Men evolved to be effective hunter-gatherers, whilst women evolved to best care for the offspring. There are many studies explaining why men and women behave as they do based on sound evolutionary principles. It is only really in the last 200 years or so that the modern era has allowed these roles to change.
All this has the effect that the sexes have different skills and are good at different things. Different areas will appeal to men and women, and in general, they are likely to be better at different things.
In this case I hope an institution like MIT would simply chose the best person for the job. This should be the only consideration, whatever the person's sex. Positive discrimination to encourage "equality" smacks of sexism to me. It is effectively saying that one sex is not as good as the other and needs to be given a leg up.
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Yeah, I came across this too. I bought two D-Link switches a few months apart - same model number, same box, same manual, but DIFFERENT PSU VOLTAGE!!! It never did work right after I got the wrong PSU one day.
Even if it was practical, cheap and profitable, they would never make such a quantum leap in one go. Most people would be able to buy one of these drives and probably not upgrade again for 10 years. No respectable company would sell a product once, when they could instead realease incremental improvements every year for 10 years.
I normally receive 20+ porn and viagra spams a day, but they are all the same style so I have always thought it was only one spammer with my address. [I never posted the address anywhere, I think they just guessed it - it is in the format commonfirstnamelastname@majorisp.com]
Anyway, since Friday I haven't had a single message. Or maybe it is just because the spammer is away on vacation....
Once technology becomes cheap enough that the majority of film goers can afford a decent A/V setup, cinemas will be almost redundant. Cinemas need to do something to add to the film experience, and preferably do something that the consumer will not be able to afford for a considerable amount of time.
We produce fine, upstanding journalists like Paxman.
The latest version of Adobe Premiere (video editing software) is XP only.
Sounds like a bad call to me!
What about replacing the gyroscopes? The fabled gyroscopes on Hubble seem to need replacing every few years. Are they using a different method or more reliable ones on Webb?
How could you forget the most ridiculous, pointless and, frankly, just plain laughable scene in Die Another Day. NEWSFLASH: surfing was "cool" in the 80's. Now it is just another sport.
It is quite possible to produce a pound of beef without any gasoline. How the hell do you think people did it in the middle ages?
How is this insightful? I presume he already has a bike, so the only oil needed is for lubrication. I'm sure just one barrel of oil could lubricate a bike for 100's of years. Besides, there are plenty of lubricants that can be made without oil.
Anyway, surely the system is only for authentification and not identification? I.e. they have your iris on record, you input your name and give them the iris scan. If the two match, you are who you say you are. I seriously doubt they will just scan your iris and search a database for a match. The only reason they would do this is for identifying criminals, but they would only need to scan the database if they did not have your name on the system already.
This is speculation, but I expect in those 4% of cases, if the people blink a few times and wipe their eyes, it would work a second time.
If I only I had applied...
Has anyone used this text book before? It is all very well giving away books for free, but if they aren't that good anyway, you still have to buy another one. When I have a spare moment I will try to look through the book more carefully, but from a cursory glance, it looks good so far.
Theora and Xvid are MPEG4 based codecs and offer significantly better compression than MPEG2 anyway.
I of course meant xvid, not 3ivx (3ivx isn't open source).
Seems like a bit of a waste of license payers money when there already a several open source video codecs (eg. Ogg Theora, 3ivx). What does this offer that those don't?
Of course the last sentence should have read "does not have such strong feelings..."
They should have tried doing the survey by knocking on people's front doors and asking them. I bet significantly less people would tell them then, because they would realise there was a much greater chance that the divulged information could actually be used.
I am sure that somewhere in my town, there is a computer with the Windows login "Administrator", with password set to "password". Now in order for that information to be useful I still need to find that computer. (The only likely way is brute force scanning, which, by extension could be applied to the password cracking anyway.)
Clearly, if the attacker was more malicious and started following you, etc they could get this information. However, most people will assume that noone else actually has a major reason to be interested in their PC or indeed downloading their pr0n collection. This is part of the reason why Joe Public does have such strong feelings about spyware as the average slashdotter.
Dude, it's called inflation. With a rate of inflation of say 2.5% over 6 years, $17,000 becomes $19,700.
New cars are also much safer and easier to drive, both of which are important factors for most.
Perhaps we should take the view that the fact that it is no longer viable to repair cars means we have developed amazing manufacturing techniques to make the cars so cheap in the first place. We are packing a hell of a lot of engineering into one machine!
Having said all this, it is essential these new cars that are written off after a fender bender can be recycled effectively.
Can you provide a similar explanation for how the energy is coming from the magnets?
And what is a kinetic battery?
Actually, somehow I see more potential in "Yukio Funai".