Gender actually can be a quality that matters to a job. Probably not this one, but sometimes.
For example, women often relate better to women when in psychiatric treatment, or when it's a police officer aiding a victim.
Personally, I prefer female chiropractors - mostly because they're smaller and less likely to be able to accidentally break my back;-)
In other jobs, gender may not be the quality that matters to the job, but may influence qualities that matter to the job. Again, probably not this one.
For example, men are generally larger and thus stronger ("generally"!) and thus would probably be what most people - men and women - would prefer when being saved, half unconscious, from a burning building. On the other hand, women are generally better in interpersonal communication, and would often excel in HR, mediation (that's a big $$$ field nowadays!), and the like.
I'm not really fond of even the idea of "[h]ir[ing] the best man or woman for the job." How about just "hiring the best person for the job." If they have skills that are useful for the job being applied to, they're eligible.
While I don't support the idea of having a different bar to measure against for women and men trying to become police officers, I see no reason why we can't have different bars for different positions in the police force. Those becoming beat officers would have a different bar than those becoming hostage negotiators. And that may find that genders are not equally represented in all sections, but you'll probably get more qualified applicants than what they do now.
Let's say you have three processes running. For simplicity, of course. By "running", I mean that are actually active, not dormant waiting on something. With two CPUs (on a single die or separate), you can only have two processes actually running - even though the third wants to run, it can't yet. The OS steps in, smacks #1, and puts the third process into one of the CPUs, knocking #1 out. Now, if #2 decides it needs to wait (I/O, for example), process #1 can continue one CPU #2. But its data/execution is cached on CPU #1's cache, and so it must reload.
With a single cache shared, then there's no reload.
While I don't quite agree with the GP's implication that there is a single slant, I won't disagree with the assertion that nearly all media has an obvious slant. Not always the same way, but it's there.
When I watch/read the news, I want the news, not an editorial (except in the editorial section where I am free to ignore it without being less informed). Unfortunately, whether we're talking about Fox/Rush, or large portions of the rest of the news teams, we get editorials in our news. Although I must say that the last time I watched Rush, he gave no pretense that any part of his diatribe was anything but editorial (again, I feel free to ignore it).
I'm not going to pretend to have insight into the original hypothesis - however, I can tell you I had a heck of a time understanding two "genders" when learning French. Is a table male or female? It's an IT to me, and that's the way it will stay. 5 genders? Yes, that would be extremely painful for me to grasp if I were to learn it well enough to use it.
Granted, some people in any lingual system will be able to grasp concepts beyond their ability to explain them. I guess my question is, is this group of people an insignificant number, a significant number, or the majority?
(Oops - there's another research grant to throw taxpayer dollars at...)
Finally, even if the GPL is found to be valid, this does not mean that EULAs are valid. In fact, it might well substantially weaken EULAs; a "typical" EULA is almost certain to be read out in court as part of the proceedings, and it's very likely that someone will pick up on it.
How likely do you really think that this is? IBM is going to purposefully weaken its EULAs which are monstrosities just like all other commercial vendors? Yeah, I didn't think so, either.
Note that I'm all in favour of OSS, but I don't like some of the analogies used...
Just like a hammer doesn't do shit.
I would like to think that the companies that manufacture hammers, and spend time and money researching better hammers (longer lasting, less vibration, less likely to chip, lighter/heavier, whatever) are making money, profit, and thus a positive boon to the overall economy. Doesn't do shit? No, far from it. Just not the type of shit you were expecting.
I'm not going to get into how I believe (my right to my opinion, correct?) that these affects people other than themselves. Besides that, we have laws regarding other ethical issues such as human cloning, so there's precedence (no, I don't think that these fall into that category, but, as I said, I won't get into that).
However, if I am allowed to protest without being allowed to pursue laws that follow my protest, isn't that completely removing the whole reason for protest? You're saying that I'm allowed to protest as long as I don't get my way? That seems pretty discriminatory to me!
I think that my main point is that the left wing discriminates against the right wing just as the right discriminates the left. The difference? The left wing believes it's being non-discriminatory, whereas the right is under no such self-delusion.
(I'm not getting into the extremists on either side who like to use tactics ranging from terrorism to plain stupidity - that just detracts from the valid points on each side. Any sizable group, and some smaller groups, will have wackos. Can't blame the group for the wackos it attracts, unless the group is really almost solely made up of wackos.)
I'd not be discriminated against simply because I'm successful. Money I've rightfully, honestly, and ethically earned would be mine to keep, or to disperse as I please.
I'd have the same goals to meet as everyone else when applying for a fitness-based job - as a man, I would have the same bar as far as fitness, intelligence, skill, training, as a woman when trying to become a cop or firefighter.
Or any other job for that matter - the same "best person for the job" bar would apply to me, as a white male, as would apply to anyone else - white female, black male or female, aboriginal male or female, etc.
Or even education - same thing, as a white male, do I have to meet a higher standard to get in to schools than someone who is not white male?
How about my moral belief against same-sex marriages, or against abortion? Do I get the same right to publically protest these as those who protest in favour of them do?
The patch was originally something I could only get via email (and I got the impression that they did it after I asked them to), but it was eventually rolled into a released version of their firmware as I'm no longer running their "beta" fix, but the official firmware. Sorry.
I'm using the SMC7004AWBR (the wireless version) for cable connectivity. I had dropping connections quite often - eventually got SMC to issue a patch which worked. Then the router died under warrantee - got a free replacement. Dropping connections again, applied the patch, everything hunky-dory now for over a year.
If you haven't applied the latest firmware, I would highly suggest it. Helped a similar (possibly related) problem here.
If the clueless didn't have routers, who'd use up all the excess bandwidth?
Ah, right - the clueful downloading XPSP2 or updates to gcc, gnome-vfs, ipsec, mozilla, php, samba, sox,... (guess what I just did today...)
Yes - a friend of my wife's is having me (the local computer geek) come over tonight to "repair" her computer. It's "too slow". Takes 9 hours to book a flight online - 30 minutes+ per page on DSL. I'm thinking that reformat/reinstall will be the easiest way to get that sucker cleaned up. However, had her stop at Staples last week and buy a router ($60CDN). That way I won't have to come back in 3 months because it's "too slow" again.
While my comment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, I was somewhat serious in the same way that the US seems to require illicit income to be reported on tax forms - if you're a criminal (with some wacked-out definition of criminal), please send the government an extra 7% tax. If you're a terrorist, that is a member of any organisation that the US has defined as such, please make that 10%. This is to help pay for the gov'ts wire tapping.
That they are or are not tapping you at the moment does not change your civic obligation as a criminal/terrorist!
I wouldn't use "per weight". Per weight, a Ferrarri could be more fuel efficient than, say, a Cooper Mini. More reasonable, IMO, is a per person-mile comparison. No doubt that a train or passenger plane will be more efficient than most, if not all, passenger vehicles, though.
I'd only compare per weight if we're talking about transporting goods, and even then, I'd want to make it explicit that we're talking about cargo weight, not vehicle+cargo weight. Which is why trains will be more efficient - they can carry so much more despite the great weight of their own vehicles.
It's interesting that you start with "never underestimate" and conclude that "without a doubt" it's not practical.
I seem to recall the same was said of airplanes back in WWI - they were of no practical military use. And many wars since have been won solely based on air power.
While I can't imagine what practical purpose human-powered helicopters have, I would caution against such a strong statement. Even if all we get from it is the research into lighter materials and more power-efficient designs so we can make better fuel-powered helicopters, isn't that a practical purpose itself?
You obviously haven't heard about the Canadian Army's Sea King helicopters which cost $000's per day to maintain. With a human-powered helicopter, Canada could cheaply replace all of its dozen or so copters with these, and gain more maneuverability, speed, and reliability! Even if the thing never leaves the ground...
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Gender actually can be a quality that matters to a job. Probably not this one, but sometimes.
;-)
For example, women often relate better to women when in psychiatric treatment, or when it's a police officer aiding a victim.
Personally, I prefer female chiropractors - mostly because they're smaller and less likely to be able to accidentally break my back
In other jobs, gender may not be the quality that matters to the job, but may influence qualities that matter to the job. Again, probably not this one.
For example, men are generally larger and thus stronger ("generally"!) and thus would probably be what most people - men and women - would prefer when being saved, half unconscious, from a burning building. On the other hand, women are generally better in interpersonal communication, and would often excel in HR, mediation (that's a big $$$ field nowadays!), and the like.
I'm not really fond of even the idea of "[h]ir[ing] the best man or woman for the job." How about just "hiring the best person for the job." If they have skills that are useful for the job being applied to, they're eligible.
While I don't support the idea of having a different bar to measure against for women and men trying to become police officers, I see no reason why we can't have different bars for different positions in the police force. Those becoming beat officers would have a different bar than those becoming hostage negotiators. And that may find that genders are not equally represented in all sections, but you'll probably get more qualified applicants than what they do now.
Just my 2 cents.
I dunno about you, but if I got kicked in the nuts, I doubt I'd be thinking how good of an idea it was to do so...
It's a little more than that.
Let's say you have three processes running. For simplicity, of course. By "running", I mean that are actually active, not dormant waiting on something. With two CPUs (on a single die or separate), you can only have two processes actually running - even though the third wants to run, it can't yet. The OS steps in, smacks #1, and puts the third process into one of the CPUs, knocking #1 out. Now, if #2 decides it needs to wait (I/O, for example), process #1 can continue one CPU #2. But its data/execution is cached on CPU #1's cache, and so it must reload.
With a single cache shared, then there's no reload.
All this talk about a 64-bit Apple core is making me hungry.
How many bits does it take to get to the core of an Apple?
While I don't quite agree with the GP's implication that there is a single slant, I won't disagree with the assertion that nearly all media has an obvious slant. Not always the same way, but it's there.
When I watch/read the news, I want the news, not an editorial (except in the editorial section where I am free to ignore it without being less informed). Unfortunately, whether we're talking about Fox/Rush, or large portions of the rest of the news teams, we get editorials in our news. Although I must say that the last time I watched Rush, he gave no pretense that any part of his diatribe was anything but editorial (again, I feel free to ignore it).
Gotta be true. Just ask the French. :-)
I'm not going to pretend to have insight into the original hypothesis - however, I can tell you I had a heck of a time understanding two "genders" when learning French. Is a table male or female? It's an IT to me, and that's the way it will stay. 5 genders? Yes, that would be extremely painful for me to grasp if I were to learn it well enough to use it.
Granted, some people in any lingual system will be able to grasp concepts beyond their ability to explain them. I guess my question is, is this group of people an insignificant number, a significant number, or the majority?
(Oops - there's another research grant to throw taxpayer dollars at...)
How likely do you really think that this is? IBM is going to purposefully weaken its EULAs which are monstrosities just like all other commercial vendors? Yeah, I didn't think so, either.
Gesundheit! Need a tissue?
Note that I'm all in favour of OSS, but I don't like some of the analogies used ...
I would like to think that the companies that manufacture hammers, and spend time and money researching better hammers (longer lasting, less vibration, less likely to chip, lighter/heavier, whatever) are making money, profit, and thus a positive boon to the overall economy. Doesn't do shit? No, far from it. Just not the type of shit you were expecting.
I'm not going to get into how I believe (my right to my opinion, correct?) that these affects people other than themselves. Besides that, we have laws regarding other ethical issues such as human cloning, so there's precedence (no, I don't think that these fall into that category, but, as I said, I won't get into that).
However, if I am allowed to protest without being allowed to pursue laws that follow my protest, isn't that completely removing the whole reason for protest? You're saying that I'm allowed to protest as long as I don't get my way? That seems pretty discriminatory to me!
I think that my main point is that the left wing discriminates against the right wing just as the right discriminates the left. The difference? The left wing believes it's being non-discriminatory, whereas the right is under no such self-delusion.
(I'm not getting into the extremists on either side who like to use tactics ranging from terrorism to plain stupidity - that just detracts from the valid points on each side. Any sizable group, and some smaller groups, will have wackos. Can't blame the group for the wackos it attracts, unless the group is really almost solely made up of wackos.)
So, if the left were in power ...
The left is open to everything except the right. If the left were really open minded to all, then they'd accept the right's positions as valid, too.
If the left wing were supporting everyone, then they'd support my desire to keep the goverment small and out of my way.
Point is that the left only calls itself open-minded. The right doesn't. Only the right isn't delusional about it.
The patch was originally something I could only get via email (and I got the impression that they did it after I asked them to), but it was eventually rolled into a released version of their firmware as I'm no longer running their "beta" fix, but the official firmware. Sorry.
I'm using the SMC7004AWBR (the wireless version) for cable connectivity. I had dropping connections quite often - eventually got SMC to issue a patch which worked. Then the router died under warrantee - got a free replacement. Dropping connections again, applied the patch, everything hunky-dory now for over a year.
If you haven't applied the latest firmware, I would highly suggest it. Helped a similar (possibly related) problem here.
If the clueless didn't have routers, who'd use up all the excess bandwidth?
... (guess what I just did today...)
Ah, right - the clueful downloading XPSP2 or updates to gcc, gnome-vfs, ipsec, mozilla, php, samba, sox,
Yes - a friend of my wife's is having me (the local computer geek) come over tonight to "repair" her computer. It's "too slow". Takes 9 hours to book a flight online - 30 minutes+ per page on DSL. I'm thinking that reformat/reinstall will be the easiest way to get that sucker cleaned up. However, had her stop at Staples last week and buy a router ($60CDN). That way I won't have to come back in 3 months because it's "too slow" again.
Hmmm - sounds like OS/2 would be the answer.
You did well. I paid $1800CDN for my first 1.2GB drive... $1000US for 1GB doesn't seem so bad to me... ;-)
While my comment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, I was somewhat serious in the same way that the US seems to require illicit income to be reported on tax forms - if you're a criminal (with some wacked-out definition of criminal), please send the government an extra 7% tax. If you're a terrorist, that is a member of any organisation that the US has defined as such, please make that 10%. This is to help pay for the gov'ts wire tapping.
That they are or are not tapping you at the moment does not change your civic obligation as a criminal/terrorist!
No, ideally it'd be the "terrorists and criminals" who pay for it.
...
Introducing a 7% "criminal" tax and a 10% "terrorist" tax
Yeah, that'd be cool. Getting SCO to sue al-Qaeda for copyright infringement.
:-)
The enemy of my enemy turns out to be another of my enemies.
I wouldn't use "per weight". Per weight, a Ferrarri could be more fuel efficient than, say, a Cooper Mini. More reasonable, IMO, is a per person-mile comparison. No doubt that a train or passenger plane will be more efficient than most, if not all, passenger vehicles, though.
I'd only compare per weight if we're talking about transporting goods, and even then, I'd want to make it explicit that we're talking about cargo weight, not vehicle+cargo weight. Which is why trains will be more efficient - they can carry so much more despite the great weight of their own vehicles.
It's interesting that you start with "never underestimate" and conclude that "without a doubt" it's not practical.
I seem to recall the same was said of airplanes back in WWI - they were of no practical military use. And many wars since have been won solely based on air power.
While I can't imagine what practical purpose human-powered helicopters have, I would caution against such a strong statement. Even if all we get from it is the research into lighter materials and more power-efficient designs so we can make better fuel-powered helicopters, isn't that a practical purpose itself?
You obviously haven't heard about the Canadian Army's Sea King helicopters which cost $000's per day to maintain. With a human-powered helicopter, Canada could cheaply replace all of its dozen or so copters with these, and gain more maneuverability, speed, and reliability! Even if the thing never leaves the ground...
IBM has a policy that says "no" to frivolous lawsuits. Generally speaking, just having the policy discourages most people.
Others, who are not quite as quick on the uptake, must be fought simply to prove that the policy is valid.
SCO just happens to be one of the latter group.