If you're religious, then faith communities tend to produce lots of couples.
Excluding that, many people meet their spouses through a mutual friend. Friend has party, you go to party, meet Friend's friend Jane.
Another idea is to join clubs. My uncle met his wife in a cycling club.
Yet another idea is to use a service like match.com. A buddy of mine met his wife through match. Though, not before going on lots of dates with women he obviously didn't marry.
Finally, tone down the geek talk unless you're positive you don't ever want to be in a relationship with someone who's not as geeky as you are. For instance, don't use phrases like "meatspace" to describe "life outside the internet". That says to me, "This guy's a freak and I don't want to touch him with a ten foot pole".
Chrome is providing a new feature (process per tab) that doesn't exist on Safari and Firefox. If you want to compare the three on equal footing, then disable the feature that doesn't even exist in the other two browsers.
Many free games allow people to sign up with just an email address. Or not even that, in some cases. For them, the only way to ban someone is via IP range. And, since they're free, it's not as big of a deal that they might accidentally ban other non-guilty parties.
I should have been more specific. It's comparable to you sending me a letter or email requesting information from me. That is to say, you actually want a response.
IIRC its possible to instruct Chrome to not use its process-per-tab model via a command line option. Can't remember what it is, but I remember reading it existed. It seems likely that Chrome would have used less memory when running in that mode.
So if I'm running an online forum or game of some sort, I can't drop IP-bans on offensive parties since that would constitute tracking an IP address?
I'm pretty much of the opinion that if you visit my website then you're volunteering your IP address. It's just like if you mailed me a letter or sent me an email. In either case you're supplying a return address.
I'd imagine C would be more useful. I went through a graduate program in CS and took several classes cross-listed in the Computation and Applied Mathematics program, as well as some numerical methods classes in the CS dept. We had to link with Fortran occasionally (BLAS), but we always did it from within C code. Just have to make sure your two-dimensional arrays are laid out correctly (i.e. column major).
My home system, which is six years old, has 1 gig and I don't feel like I need more. Then again, I don't game. That's 1/2 the max supported RAM on my motherboard. If we use that as a guide, then theoretically 8 gig should last you ~6 years since most motherboards support a max of 16. It also lets you buy cheaper 2G DIMMs.
Performance is approximately equivalent with the AMD chip winning some and the Intel chip winning others. Only, the Intel chip has a TDP of 95W while the AMD has a TDP of 125W. Also, and maybe this is irrational, but I expect the P45/ICH10 to be better supported by "alternative" OSs than the AMD 770/SB710. About the only advantage I see to the 955, unless I really care about a particular application and it happens to perform better, is that the 955 is more overclockable. But since I don't care about overclocking that's not an issue.
How about, instead, you 1) make kids pay when they damage books and 2) don't buy new editions every freaking year. Do algebra or "reading" really change that much from year to year that you need to buy a new edition each time it comes out?
Online textbooks will save you money in not having to buy paper textbooks. Instead you most likely have to buy a crapload of computers. And, oh, by the way, that's not a one-time cost, since computers break down, become obsolete, etc. Plus you have to deal with the issue of kids who don't have access to a computer/internet at home.
I reran the various benchmarks (Sunspider, Dromaeo, V8, Peacekeeper) using the currently available "stable" releases of Chrome and Safari. Results here.
Futuremark's "Peacekeeper" benchmark does indeed show Safari 4.0 out front, narrowly edging Chrome. My own tests from January, i.e. prior to the most recent Chrome release, showed Chrome and Webkit in a dead heat on SunSpider and Chrome way out in front on Mozilla's "Dromaeo" suite.
If I get time I'll run the tests again on the same machine, using the "official" Safari 4.0 build (i.e. not a Webkit nightly) vs. the currently released version of Chrome.
...is the 40% increase. That's a huge number. It means the kids are capable of performing 40% higher than they currently are; they just fail to do so because they don't give a rat's ass about the tests. What I wonder is whether kids in other countries aren't already performing closer to their "theoretical max"? That is to say, U.S. kids don't under-perform their international peers solely due to a difference in ability, but also because of a difference in "giving a rat's ass about the tests".
Does it take into account how many users are going to write down their passwords on a post it note and stick it to their monitor (or something equally risky) if the password policy is any more cumbersome than "8 character minimum with complexity enabled with a 90-day forced change"?
Maybe there used to have one but they took it down? I distinctly recall trying to look up the laptop I purchased from eBay in Dell's database.
Mine is almost surely stolen, since the BIOS has been re-flashed with a bogus service tag number. That is to say, Dell's support site couldn't determine the model of my laptop based on its service tag, which it should theoretically be able to do. Also there is no "official" bar-code label on the bottom, so I had to get it from the BIOS.
There is a 800 number at the bottom to call for questions regarding ownership transfer. Presumably if a service tag had been reported stolen, or was bogus, calling that # would bring this to light.
You'll get different benefits from each. Right or wrong, having a Master's degree, especially from a top school, will get some people to consider you for positions that might not otherwise have done so. It's like a little asterisk on your resume that says, "This guy is really smart" in a way a B.S. just can't. That benefit will stick with you the rest of your career.
That said, if you're only considering the situation three years from now, i.e. right after you would earn the M.S., then you're probably better off with the two years experience. All else being equal, "two years experience + B.S." probably beats "0 years experience + M.S.". But if you consider the situation 10 years out, the difference between 10 and 12 years experience is much smaller, so the M.S. would probably count for more.
The other thing to consider is whether there are aspects of the M.S. that aren't related to "career" that might motivate you to go that route. Maybe you just enjoy being on campus and being a student? Maybe you just enjoy the material, and would find it intellectually stimulating to explore some advanced topics? Maybe you really like to surf, and two years at UCLA would let you get in a lot of surfing? Etc.
Lots of laptops sold on eBay are stolen property. If the one you bought was stolen, then the original owner may have reported it stolen, which means the serial # is in a database that Dell maintains of "hot" laptops. No Dell-authorized repair company will work on them.
To their credit, though, they put the database online so you can see if a serial # is in there. Anyone considering buying a Dell laptop on eBay should look up that laptop's serial number first to see if it's stolen. Caveat Emptor.
This almost makes me want to switch back to TWC, except that the quality of the line to my house is so crappy. TWC should, however, be explicit about disconnection rules in their ToS, and they should definitely inform customers when they're cut off.
If I was this guy's neighbor I'd be especially happy he got the axe.
I didn't say it was a contest, I was just curious as to why the U.K. and Canada don't have similar ppm numbers considering they both have the same native language, are both first-world countries, and neither is the location of Google's corporate headquarters. What are they putting in the water in Canada?
PPM = projects per million. Figure the U.S. benefits from Google being a U.S. company, and by the fact that English is the native language. Canada would also benefit in that respect. But if that's the case then where's the U.K.? Germany suffers from not having English as the native language, but then again, open source in general is probably more popular in Europe than in the U.S.
The crux of the article seems to be that injuries have been going up since the 1970s. Alright. So has steroid use, most likely. So has overall performance. Is it possible that as runners continue to push the absolute limits of human capacity (to a greater degree than they did in the 1970s) that they've rendered themselves more susceptible to injury? Or maybe its the drugs? Or maybe it's changes in the way people train? Why must it be the shoes?
I'm in Austin as well. And I'd run screaming from any company that was turning away 4x people because they were worried bout them actually needing to work reasonable hours. Let the 22 year-old idiots work 60 hour weeks. I have better things to do with my time.
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There are integer SIMD ops as well, which can be useful for 128bit integer arithmetic and/or more efficient copying/swapping of memory.
If you're religious, then faith communities tend to produce lots of couples.
Excluding that, many people meet their spouses through a mutual friend. Friend has party, you go to party, meet Friend's friend Jane.
Another idea is to join clubs. My uncle met his wife in a cycling club.
Yet another idea is to use a service like match.com. A buddy of mine met his wife through match. Though, not before going on lots of dates with women he obviously didn't marry.
Finally, tone down the geek talk unless you're positive you don't ever want to be in a relationship with someone who's not as geeky as you are. For instance, don't use phrases like "meatspace" to describe "life outside the internet". That says to me, "This guy's a freak and I don't want to touch him with a ten foot pole".
Chrome is providing a new feature (process per tab) that doesn't exist on Safari and Firefox. If you want to compare the three on equal footing, then disable the feature that doesn't even exist in the other two browsers.
Many free games allow people to sign up with just an email address. Or not even that, in some cases. For them, the only way to ban someone is via IP range. And, since they're free, it's not as big of a deal that they might accidentally ban other non-guilty parties.
I should have been more specific. It's comparable to you sending me a letter or email requesting information from me. That is to say, you actually want a response.
IIRC its possible to instruct Chrome to not use its process-per-tab model via a command line option. Can't remember what it is, but I remember reading it existed. It seems likely that Chrome would have used less memory when running in that mode.
So if I'm running an online forum or game of some sort, I can't drop IP-bans on offensive parties since that would constitute tracking an IP address?
I'm pretty much of the opinion that if you visit my website then you're volunteering your IP address. It's just like if you mailed me a letter or sent me an email. In either case you're supplying a return address.
I'd imagine C would be more useful. I went through a graduate program in CS and took several classes cross-listed in the Computation and Applied Mathematics program, as well as some numerical methods classes in the CS dept. We had to link with Fortran occasionally (BLAS), but we always did it from within C code. Just have to make sure your two-dimensional arrays are laid out correctly (i.e. column major).
My home system, which is six years old, has 1 gig and I don't feel like I need more. Then again, I don't game. That's 1/2 the max supported RAM on my motherboard. If we use that as a guide, then theoretically 8 gig should last you ~6 years since most motherboards support a max of 16. It also lets you buy cheaper 2G DIMMs.
Okay. Forget the 920 then. My reason not to get excited about the 955: Q9550:
Performance is approximately equivalent with the AMD chip winning some and the Intel chip winning others. Only, the Intel chip has a TDP of 95W while the AMD has a TDP of 125W. Also, and maybe this is irrational, but I expect the P45/ICH10 to be better supported by "alternative" OSs than the AMD 770/SB710. About the only advantage I see to the 955, unless I really care about a particular application and it happens to perform better, is that the 955 is more overclockable. But since I don't care about overclocking that's not an issue.
How about, instead, you 1) make kids pay when they damage books and 2) don't buy new editions every freaking year. Do algebra or "reading" really change that much from year to year that you need to buy a new edition each time it comes out?
Online textbooks will save you money in not having to buy paper textbooks. Instead you most likely have to buy a crapload of computers. And, oh, by the way, that's not a one-time cost, since computers break down, become obsolete, etc. Plus you have to deal with the issue of kids who don't have access to a computer/internet at home.
I reran the various benchmarks (Sunspider, Dromaeo, V8, Peacekeeper) using the currently available "stable" releases of Chrome and Safari. Results here.
Futuremark's "Peacekeeper" benchmark does indeed show Safari 4.0 out front, narrowly edging Chrome. My own tests from January, i.e. prior to the most recent Chrome release, showed Chrome and Webkit in a dead heat on SunSpider and Chrome way out in front on Mozilla's "Dromaeo" suite.
If I get time I'll run the tests again on the same machine, using the "official" Safari 4.0 build (i.e. not a Webkit nightly) vs. the currently released version of Chrome.
How about "no"? That'd be Chrome.
...is the 40% increase. That's a huge number. It means the kids are capable of performing 40% higher than they currently are; they just fail to do so because they don't give a rat's ass about the tests. What I wonder is whether kids in other countries aren't already performing closer to their "theoretical max"? That is to say, U.S. kids don't under-perform their international peers solely due to a difference in ability, but also because of a difference in "giving a rat's ass about the tests".
Does it take into account how many users are going to write down their passwords on a post it note and stick it to their monitor (or something equally risky) if the password policy is any more cumbersome than "8 character minimum with complexity enabled with a 90-day forced change"?
Maybe there used to have one but they took it down? I distinctly recall trying to look up the laptop I purchased from eBay in Dell's database.
Mine is almost surely stolen, since the BIOS has been re-flashed with a bogus service tag number. That is to say, Dell's support site couldn't determine the model of my laptop based on its service tag, which it should theoretically be able to do. Also there is no "official" bar-code label on the bottom, so I had to get it from the BIOS.
Some further digging turned up this:
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/change_order/tag_transfer?c=us&l=en&s=gen&redirect=1
There is a 800 number at the bottom to call for questions regarding ownership transfer. Presumably if a service tag had been reported stolen, or was bogus, calling that # would bring this to light.
You'll get different benefits from each. Right or wrong, having a Master's degree, especially from a top school, will get some people to consider you for positions that might not otherwise have done so. It's like a little asterisk on your resume that says, "This guy is really smart" in a way a B.S. just can't. That benefit will stick with you the rest of your career.
That said, if you're only considering the situation three years from now, i.e. right after you would earn the M.S., then you're probably better off with the two years experience. All else being equal, "two years experience + B.S." probably beats "0 years experience + M.S.". But if you consider the situation 10 years out, the difference between 10 and 12 years experience is much smaller, so the M.S. would probably count for more.
The other thing to consider is whether there are aspects of the M.S. that aren't related to "career" that might motivate you to go that route. Maybe you just enjoy being on campus and being a student? Maybe you just enjoy the material, and would find it intellectually stimulating to explore some advanced topics? Maybe you really like to surf, and two years at UCLA would let you get in a lot of surfing? Etc.
Lots of laptops sold on eBay are stolen property. If the one you bought was stolen, then the original owner may have reported it stolen, which means the serial # is in a database that Dell maintains of "hot" laptops. No Dell-authorized repair company will work on them.
To their credit, though, they put the database online so you can see if a serial # is in there. Anyone considering buying a Dell laptop on eBay should look up that laptop's serial number first to see if it's stolen. Caveat Emptor.
This almost makes me want to switch back to TWC, except that the quality of the line to my house is so crappy. TWC should, however, be explicit about disconnection rules in their ToS, and they should definitely inform customers when they're cut off.
If I was this guy's neighbor I'd be especially happy he got the axe.
I didn't say it was a contest, I was just curious as to why the U.K. and Canada don't have similar ppm numbers considering they both have the same native language, are both first-world countries, and neither is the location of Google's corporate headquarters. What are they putting in the water in Canada?
Google SoC Projects per Capita:
United States: 0.69 ppm
India: 0.09 ppm
Germany: 0.67 ppm
Canada: 1.31 ppm
Brazil: 0.22 ppm
PPM = projects per million. Figure the U.S. benefits from Google being a U.S. company, and by the fact that English is the native language. Canada would also benefit in that respect. But if that's the case then where's the U.K.? Germany suffers from not having English as the native language, but then again, open source in general is probably more popular in Europe than in the U.S.
The crux of the article seems to be that injuries have been going up since the 1970s. Alright. So has steroid use, most likely. So has overall performance. Is it possible that as runners continue to push the absolute limits of human capacity (to a greater degree than they did in the 1970s) that they've rendered themselves more susceptible to injury? Or maybe its the drugs? Or maybe it's changes in the way people train? Why must it be the shoes?
I'm in Austin as well. And I'd run screaming from any company that was turning away 4x people because they were worried bout them actually needing to work reasonable hours. Let the 22 year-old idiots work 60 hour weeks. I have better things to do with my time.
There's some convergence. MySQL is trying to get more "serious" and DB2 is trying to be "DB2 Lite" in order to access SMB customers.