I think it's cool that we (USA) can have a Comp Sci Phd at one of the most prestigious Comp Sci schools named "Latanya" (whose picture in the article confirms she is black and female). On the other hand, part of her interview was about racism/sexism she encountered at MIT in the 70s.
An open phone doesn't have to cater its interface solely to the lowest common denominator like apples does, though. The best interface for a computer geek is not the best interface for a business executive. No matter how smart or well paid your interface designers are, they will have to make trade-offs.
Wow, I thought that might be a misquote, but the article is full of nonsense like that. Men also have a universal preference for women with a low waist-to-hip ratio. preference for blue eyes seems both universal and undeniable wow, we have a qualifier - "seems" - but "universal and undeniable"? give me a break.
It's obviously a silly article, we can speculate just as well as they can.:)
How about because it is rare, and being rare makes something more exotic and valuable?
How about because blond body (and face) hair looks hairless? And lack of body hair (and mustaches) is something we've been sexually selecting for in females for a long time now because it indicates youthfulness. (I guess this fits a bit with the speculation in the article about blondes turning less blond as they age, hence it is a youth characteristic.)
How about because some hair turns more blond in the sun, so it indicates an active, healthy lifestyle?
and what about the even more politically incorrect question? Why are so many black and white mixed race couples a black guy and a blonde girl?;)
And I got the impression that most people doing overclocking aren't clocking lowend parts to typical speeds for cash savings, they're the ones going for bragging rights and 3dmark points, which means clocks to the max. Reminds me a lot of the people who spend 80% of their time pimping out their ride and 20% driving it.
I think your impression is quite the opposite of reality. Sure, there are some folks as you describe, but they are the vocal minority. Even when you look at the results of those enthusiasts you still see quite a lot of them using air cooling on the lower end chips. There are plenty of people performing modest overclocks on air cooling to get better bang for their buck. (And the biggest surge in overclcocking I recall were all the people running their 350Mhz celerons at 500Mhz... because the celerons were cheap.) Nowadays people are even using the very modest (+5%) dynamic overclocking which is built-in to some motherboards.
Most people are indoctrinated into those types of irrational beliefs by their family - and the family typically controls interaction with non-family by enrolling them in religious private schools which reinforce the same indoctrination. So asking someone their beliefs before they've had a chance to experience the world and form their own opinions means you just get the answer based on that indoctrination. Obviously some people never overcome that original brainwashing, because humans - and many other animals - have learned to survive by learning from their family. But at least give them a chance to grow up before discounting them for the rest of their life.:)
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http://openmoko.org/ is the site for the software running on that FIC phone. It's quite a nifty project. The wiki also has pictures of the insides of the phone if you are into that sort of thing.:)
But... those girls don't wear cases. You can see their bare circuits! -- Bender
I was laughing at that, too. It amuses me when people use the wrong word but it almost makes sense. I suppose it happened because the "presidential names" and associated parts of his brain were still active due to recalling "Bush", so when he thought of the sound of the word "precedent" his fingers still typed "president". Funny how our minds work. The other day on freenode I saw a guy complain about another using an "ad homonym" attack.:)
My Index finger and Ring finger are the same size. My verbal score on my SAT was a 650 and my math score was a 620. According to this article, shouldn't my math have been the higher score?
You misunderstood the direction of the correlation. The first sentence of the article should clarify it for you because the summary we have here confusingly combines the words "longer" and "ratio"(In the study, longer ring finger equals lower ratio since the ratio is index length divided by ring length):
Boys with the longest ring fingers relative to their index fingers tend to excel in math
Your ring finger is not longer than your index finger and you did not excel in math, consequently, your data matches the study. (Although comparing SAT sections directly would be error prone regardless, because the average verbal score is different from the average math score)
Egocentric much?;) I wasn't asking you. I was asking the anon I replied to that said he had to pay for extra features - which in my experience I've never needed - and yet called himself a "casual investor."
I forgot to mention my problems with e-trade, too.:) I was one of the "open source" people to get the special offer to be able to purchase redhat shares at its IPO. But to do so I had to create an e-trade account, send in the money, fail their net-worth requirement, then there was that the whole uproar about hardly any of us actually passing the questionnaire and getting the shares set aside for us, so they told us to redo it, and the guy was telling me to add more to the totals so I could pass, but I would not lie as he was suggesting so I failed again, but then e-trade refused to give my money back for a couple weeks due to "policy".
Yeah, a separate company called "banc of america" so that people confusingly think it is "bank of america" is such an aboveboard and honest thing. BoA has also been becoming increasingly sleazy and money hungry. For example, to activate a new card they force you to listen to advertisements before confirming the activation. Also forced interstitial ads when logging in to website and "accidentally" modifying your account settings to opt you in for stuff. They also bought the quite shady credit card company MBNA a couple years ago. (which was frustrating for me because I had fled MBNA to BoA due to their sleazy practices), ah, here they are delineated (the changing due dates were most frustrating for me)
MBNA was one of the companies mentioned on a 2004 Frontline PBS special about unfair business practices by credit card companies [4]. Reported practices included changing aspects of the contract without the consent of the customer, doubling or tripling fees and interest rates, changing billing due dates monthly, and invoking universal default on first offenders whose payments were a single day late.
Now I use ingdirect for checking(4% to 5.3%apr checking! with caveat of no physical bank to withdraw from), but apparently the entire credit card industry is a bit sleazy so I've yet to move my cc account from BoA yet.(I prefer to save *then* spend, but a cc is required to generate a good credit rating)
I'll contribute my anecdotal evidence. I had a datek account which ameritrade bought many years ago. Started getting spam some time after that to datek@mydomain, so I switched it to ameritrade@mydomain. About 2 years ago I starting noticing spam to ameritrade@mydomain so I switched to dkr+ameritrade@mydomain and logged into the site and changed the options which had been mysteriously reset for opting in for spam after the interface redesign. I don't think I've seen spam to the new address since then although it could just be that my spam filters are effective enough that I haven't noticed any slip through.:) I simply attribute it to bureaucratic mistakes rather than purposefully selling off our contact info. "Do not attribute to malice..." and all.:)
What are all these extra features you need if you are a casual investor? I've been using ameritrade on linux for years with no problems. (I had a datek account, and datek were bought by ameritrade.) I've never noticed any ads either, but I guess that could have been because of my ad filters. I never noticed any blank ad spaces, though.
You mean you got spammed at a common name @yourdomain some time(1 month plus however long you hadd the account) after you started accepting mail at that address? Try setting up a wildcard alias to catch *@yourdomain and watch how many company names @yourdomain.com you start getting spam at.:) (or more simply look at invalid user smtp errors in your logs)
Your explanation is likely correct, just pointing out a possible alternate explanation.
p.s. I don't think small investors are people making 10+ trades a day. heh:)
We aren't the selfish ones, it's our genes!;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene I'm surprised no one has mentioned this book yet. Explaining altruistic behavior is one if its most interesting features.
To be pedantic, no one believes it was created 4,000 years ago. The 4,000 number comes from 4,000 years B.C. (Before Christ, which was 2,000 years ago.) So they believe the earth (and universe) was created 6,000 years ago. I think the 4,004 B.C estimate came from some arch-bishop in england a couple centuries ago. ah, here it is:
The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated from an interpretative reading of the Bible by James Ussher, the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh... Ussher deduced that the first day of Creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday October 23, 4004 BC
Keeping anything at all secret just gives we coders with no experience in running big companies a bad feeling. Listing all the parts that are not secret is disingenuous and does not do much at all to alleviate that bad taste in our mouths about the part that is. (Especially since you were a bit obnoxious about it.):)
I bet a lot of us still have a bad taste in our mouth when our employers tell us to keep our salaries a secret.:) Yes, it's part of the business world, and just "how things work." But I, and I suspect many other like-minded introverted geeks, want everything to be accurate and true.
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I think it's cool that we (USA) can have a Comp Sci Phd at one of the most prestigious Comp Sci schools named "Latanya" (whose picture in the article confirms she is black and female).
On the other hand, part of her interview was about racism/sexism she encountered at MIT in the 70s.
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An open phone doesn't have to cater its interface solely to the lowest common denominator like apples does, though. The best interface for a computer geek is not the best interface for a business executive. No matter how smart or well paid your interface designers are, they will have to make trade-offs.
Wow, I thought that might be a misquote, but the article is full of nonsense like that. :)
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Men also have a universal preference for women with a low waist-to-hip ratio.
preference for blue eyes seems both universal and undeniable wow, we have a qualifier - "seems" - but "universal and undeniable"? give me a break.
It's obviously a silly article, we can speculate just as well as they can.
How about because it is rare, and being rare makes something more exotic and valuable?
How about because blond body (and face) hair looks hairless? And lack of body hair (and mustaches) is something we've been sexually selecting for in females for a long time now because it indicates youthfulness. (I guess this fits a bit with the speculation in the article about blondes turning less blond as they age, hence it is a youth characteristic.)
How about because some hair turns more blond in the sun, so it indicates an active, healthy lifestyle?
and what about the even more politically incorrect question? Why are so many black and white mixed race couples a black guy and a blonde girl?
(Incidentally, "spelled blond when used of a boy or man and often blonde when used of a girl or woman" -- http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/blonde)
"Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
Third in size, yes, but first in population; which is what he meant obviously. Empty land is not very relevant to economic power.
And I got the impression that most people doing overclocking aren't clocking lowend parts to typical speeds for cash savings, they're the ones going for bragging rights and 3dmark points, which means clocks to the max. Reminds me a lot of the people who spend 80% of their time pimping out their ride and 20% driving it.
I think your impression is quite the opposite of reality. Sure, there are some folks as you describe, but they are the vocal minority. Even when you look at the results of those enthusiasts you still see quite a lot of them using air cooling on the lower end chips. There are plenty of people performing modest overclocks on air cooling to get better bang for their buck. (And the biggest surge in overclcocking I recall were all the people running their 350Mhz celerons at 500Mhz... because the celerons were cheap.) Nowadays people are even using the very modest (+5%) dynamic overclocking which is built-in to some motherboards.
That's why they say insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. :)
Most people are indoctrinated into those types of irrational beliefs by their family - and the family typically controls interaction with non-family by enrolling them in religious private schools which reinforce the same indoctrination. So asking someone their beliefs before they've had a chance to experience the world and form their own opinions means you just get the answer based on that indoctrination. Obviously some people never overcome that original brainwashing, because humans - and many other animals - have learned to survive by learning from their family. But at least give them a chance to grow up before discounting them for the rest of their life. :)
Counterexample: http://tools.google.com/gapminder/ built by http://gapminder.org/ folks :)4 338529080
I was shocked myself that flash was used for something actually useful.
Here is a really interesting presentation using it, too: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=423735324
http://openmoko.org/ is the site for the software running on that FIC phone. It's quite a nifty project. The wiki also has pictures of the insides of the phone if you are into that sort of thing. :)
... those girls don't wear cases. You can see their bare circuits! -- Bender
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I was laughing at that, too. It amuses me when people use the wrong word but it almost makes sense. I suppose it happened because the "presidential names" and associated parts of his brain were still active due to recalling "Bush", so when he thought of the sound of the word "precedent" his fingers still typed "president". Funny how our minds work. :)
The other day on freenode I saw a guy complain about another using an "ad homonym" attack.
"The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -- George Carlin
You misunderstood the direction of the correlation. The first sentence of the article should clarify it for you because the summary we have here confusingly combines the words "longer" and "ratio"(In the study, longer ring finger equals lower ratio since the ratio is index length divided by ring length):Your ring finger is not longer than your index finger and you did not excel in math, consequently, your data matches the study. (Although comparing SAT sections directly would be error prone regardless, because the average verbal score is different from the average math score)
Egocentric much? ;) I wasn't asking you. I was asking the anon I replied to that said he had to pay for extra features - which in my experience I've never needed - and yet called himself a "casual investor."
I forgot to mention my problems with e-trade, too. :) I was one of the "open source" people to get the special offer to be able to purchase redhat shares at its IPO. But to do so I had to create an e-trade account, send in the money, fail their net-worth requirement, then there was that the whole uproar about hardly any of us actually passing the questionnaire and getting the shares set aside for us, so they told us to redo it, and the guy was telling me to add more to the totals so I could pass, but I would not lie as he was suggesting so I failed again, but then e-trade refused to give my money back for a couple weeks due to "policy".
I'll contribute my anecdotal evidence. I had a datek account which ameritrade bought many years ago. Started getting spam some time after that to datek@mydomain, so I switched it to ameritrade@mydomain. About 2 years ago I starting noticing spam to ameritrade@mydomain so I switched to dkr+ameritrade@mydomain and logged into the site and changed the options which had been mysteriously reset for opting in for spam after the interface redesign. I don't think I've seen spam to the new address since then although it could just be that my spam filters are effective enough that I haven't noticed any slip through. :) ..." and all. :)
I simply attribute it to bureaucratic mistakes rather than purposefully selling off our contact info. "Do not attribute to malice
What are all these extra features you need if you are a casual investor? I've been using ameritrade on linux for years with no problems. (I had a datek account, and datek were bought by ameritrade.) I've never noticed any ads either, but I guess that could have been because of my ad filters. I never noticed any blank ad spaces, though.
You mean you got spammed at a common name @yourdomain some time(1 month plus however long you hadd the account) after you started accepting mail at that address? Try setting up a wildcard alias to catch *@yourdomain and watch how many company names @yourdomain.com you start getting spam at. :) (or more simply look at invalid user smtp errors in your logs)
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Your explanation is likely correct, just pointing out a possible alternate explanation.
p.s. I don't think small investors are people making 10+ trades a day. heh
We aren't the selfish ones, it's our genes! ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this book yet. Explaining altruistic behavior is one if its most interesting features.
Keeping anything at all secret just gives we coders with no experience in running big companies a bad feeling. Listing all the parts that are not secret is disingenuous and does not do much at all to alleviate that bad taste in our mouths about the part that is. (Especially since you were a bit obnoxious about it.) :) :) Yes, it's part of the business world, and just "how things work." But I, and I suspect many other like-minded introverted geeks, want everything to be accurate and true.
I bet a lot of us still have a bad taste in our mouth when our employers tell us to keep our salaries a secret.
It's not free money. Amazon paying money to the people surreptitiously using referral codes means that Amazon charges more to the consumer overall.