Actually your email explains it all. The lack of sex education in India and the fact that Indians have a very "holier than thou" attitude towards the Westerners is the major cause of the anger expressed in your email. Sex is a good thing, it is a natural thing. Why you have to explicitly associate it with Westerners I am never able to comprehend, considering the fact that India has an over-burgeoning population of 1 billion and still growing. You talk about literacy rate but how many of Indians actually go to school ? Do you have statistics ? No! You can only rant against a truthful observation that I made because it is the truth. There is no difference between you and the politicians of India because all you are doing is running away from the truth and preventing people from fixing the problem. Get off your ass reading slashdot and do something about it. It is not that Western countries don't have their flaws. You come and live in a western country, the flaws will be visible to you. But if you cannot see the flaws in your own country, that is a shame. No one is perfect, but perfection can be strived for.
Not only that. Since porn and strip bars are illegal in India (moral police!) even nude Britney Spears emails will be opened, because a lot of Indians are sexually desperate (too many engineers in the country eh?). I have been in India for 5 years and that is the hard truth.
On Intel & AMD (32 bit (x86) and 64 bit (x86_64)) chips, there is an assembly instruction called CPUID which places the string that contains the name and type of the chip in the EAX, EBX, ECX and EDX registers (for 64-bit replace EAX with RAX etc.). So it is not an environment variable. It is a hardwired assembly instruction which cannot be modified at will at the software level by using environment variables and the likes. Yes, using a hex-editor one can NOP (replace the bytes with 0x90) the CPUID instruction itself. But one has to NOP the instruction after CPUID is called as well because those registers might be being read. A slight amount of reverse engineering might be involved because CPUID is a very versatile instruction and has many outputs based on the inputs given to it.
You might be able to write an auto-parallel compiler, but how will you get performance out of it ? How do you know whether the parallelization that the compiler is doing is efficient or not ? There are so many algorithms that need to be considered. What about the mesh algorithms which need migration of points and data ? The methodology and efficiency of parallellizing each algorithm will vary with algorithm and might even vary with each data set given to the algorithm. I work in parallel processing Monte Carlo algorithms and sometimes the parallelization is not worth the effort because the input data is so skewed that it actually slows down the work. An auto-parallel compiler can exist for specific cases only and not be an all-case-applicable universal parallelizer.
One could imagine that if they had enough profiles of Americans doing their "normal" activities it would be easier to find the profiles of those within America who don't fit.
But then most of Slashdot crowd would then fall into the "I don't fit in the *normal* profile" profile man... all of us dont spend time licking the balls of all the big corporations...
no but if the computer from which you upload songs to your beloved iPod crashed, you would lose all the songs on your iPod as well because once you update from a fresh system, you have lost the songs already on your iPod.
The best thing would be to give them a 486 with DOS or Slackware on it and learn to program anything. That way later in life they will be able to take their mind off the point-and-drool interfaces and really know the worth of a computer. Yes and that is watching porn!!
I mean, seriously, its like none of their freakin business. Doesnt this help kill 'free enterprise' or deminish capitalism? This is like communist USSR here.
Looking at the way USA is moving now (with Iraq and other slimy/greasy/"oil"-y politics), I wonder if they ever had anything against USSR being communist. Maybe "communism" was just a distraction thrown towards the Americans so that USA could beat USSR in doing stuff. All USA wanted to be was the biggest superpower and ruler nation of the world, and it is right now. Who knows what these politicians are thinking!! Of course this is all science fiction in my mind.
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Actually your email explains it all. The lack of sex education in India and the fact that Indians have a very "holier than thou" attitude towards the Westerners is the major cause of the anger expressed in your email. Sex is a good thing, it is a natural thing. Why you have to explicitly associate it with Westerners I am never able to comprehend, considering the fact that India has an over-burgeoning population of 1 billion and still growing. You talk about literacy rate but how many of Indians actually go to school ? Do you have statistics ? No! You can only rant against a truthful observation that I made because it is the truth. There is no difference between you and the politicians of India because all you are doing is running away from the truth and preventing people from fixing the problem. Get off your ass reading slashdot and do something about it. It is not that Western countries don't have their flaws. You come and live in a western country, the flaws will be visible to you. But if you cannot see the flaws in your own country, that is a shame. No one is perfect, but perfection can be strived for.
Not only that. Since porn and strip bars are illegal in India (moral police!) even nude Britney Spears emails will be opened, because a lot of Indians are sexually desperate (too many engineers in the country eh?). I have been in India for 5 years and that is the hard truth.
Hehe. Come on, let's get started! How do you say "penis pills" in Hindi?
We say "HangingChad"...
On Intel & AMD (32 bit (x86) and 64 bit (x86_64)) chips, there is an assembly instruction called CPUID which places the string that contains the name and type of the chip in the EAX, EBX, ECX and EDX registers (for 64-bit replace EAX with RAX etc.). So it is not an environment variable. It is a hardwired assembly instruction which cannot be modified at will at the software level by using environment variables and the likes. Yes, using a hex-editor one can NOP (replace the bytes with 0x90) the CPUID instruction itself. But one has to NOP the instruction after CPUID is called as well because those registers might be being read. A slight amount of reverse engineering might be involved because CPUID is a very versatile instruction and has many outputs based on the inputs given to it.
Seriously, what does SCO sell ?
Yes, He is just waiting to insert His Noodly Appendage into their intelligently designed ass.
By experience of knowing some, there exist engineers who are better at coding than at engineering and vice versa.
What do I need to bring to the table to be considered for even a menial position, these days?
A sandwich ?
You might be able to write an auto-parallel compiler, but how will you get performance out of it ? How do you know whether the parallelization that the compiler is doing is efficient or not ? There are so many algorithms that need to be considered. What about the mesh algorithms which need migration of points and data ? The methodology and efficiency of parallellizing each algorithm will vary with algorithm and might even vary with each data set given to the algorithm. I work in parallel processing Monte Carlo algorithms and sometimes the parallelization is not worth the effort because the input data is so skewed that it actually slows down the work. An auto-parallel compiler can exist for specific cases only and not be an all-case-applicable universal parallelizer.
One could imagine that if they had enough profiles of Americans doing their "normal" activities it would be easier to find the profiles of those within America who don't fit.
But then most of Slashdot crowd would then fall into the "I don't fit in the *normal* profile" profile man... all of us dont spend time licking the balls of all the big corporations...
no but if the computer from which you upload songs to your beloved iPod crashed, you would lose all the songs on your iPod as well because once you update from a fresh system, you have lost the songs already on your iPod.
Maybe the word should be podiophile !?
Maybe it is because of the word America in AOL that people find it difficult to let go of AOL, and also because of AIM.
The best thing would be to give them a 486 with DOS or Slackware on it and learn to program anything. That way later in life they will be able to take their mind off the point-and-drool interfaces and really know the worth of a computer. Yes and that is watching porn!!
Actually I always thought that elephants had small dicks and hence could not blow themselves using their trunks.
with the publication of not just his office number, but his personal mobile (cell) number as well!
Maybe he wants a job with the next venture of Google called Google Dark Matter.
Deutsch is that you?
AAAAAAAAAAAMEN.
Did you mean "Ah! Men!"
I mean, seriously, its like none of their freakin business. Doesnt this help kill 'free enterprise' or deminish capitalism? This is like communist USSR here.
Looking at the way USA is moving now (with Iraq and other slimy/greasy/"oil"-y politics), I wonder if they ever had anything against USSR being communist. Maybe "communism" was just a distraction thrown towards the Americans so that USA could beat USSR in doing stuff. All USA wanted to be was the biggest superpower and ruler nation of the world, and it is right now. Who knows what these politicians are thinking!! Of course this is all science fiction in my mind.
"Maggie: Girl Next Door. Jock boyfriend. Will kick your ass. Go watch p0rn instead."
We computer people already spend hours sitting relatively motionless at our desks
Motionless!! really!?... even when you are watching p0rn ?
Unless you're trying to stay up to entertain a woman
Yea, water is not ideal for that situation. She will be wanting you to "do it" and the only thing you'll wanna do is "goto the bathroom".
If healthcare was "reliable", no one would need it.
Don't say laptop and make it generic. It has to be a pink PowerBook or whatever Mac laptops are called these days.
Oh good... now I finally know how snail mail works!