The whole purpose of the scanners to emasculate and demean the people who pass through them. This should be clear to everyone.
That depends on what your packing. To be strip searched for fear of hiding a club in your pants, and then finding out the club shaped item is stock equipment wouldn't be emasculating or demeaning for the person passing through, just the person doing the search.
Considering how prudish Americans are (no prostitution laws, nightclub and beach restrictions), I'm surprised that so many would submit to a virtual strip-search. Not just themselves, but their children. And it's not like going to the doctor where there is 10 years of post-high school education and the maturity that goes with it; it's people who will crack jokes about anatomy and beat up people in parking lots.
The 770M goes along at 25.6 GFLOPS. The Radeon 5850 that I have is rated at 2088 GFLOPS. That's two orders of magnitude! (and I don't even have the top-of-the-line GPU)
I'm not trying to pick on you; you just gave me enough detail to work with (since yes you can spend enough on a laptop and get an almost-as-fast CPU and fast HD and maybe enough RAM and the laptop-sized battery, but GPUs... not quite there yet).
I am a software developer and have not used a desktop since 2005, my current rig is a HP EliteBook Core Duo 2.4, 8gb of RAM and a 500gb 7200rpm drive running at 1680x1050.
Sounds less like a laptop and more like a portable workstation. I guess you aren't having heat problems like an HP I encountered. It required external cooling (placed outside on a cold night with a fan or sitting on ice packs) to survive a reformat.
I think we are looking at netbooks mostly occupying the place of notebooks and notebooks just about completely replacing desktops. I haven't bought a desktop since Feb 2004 but I have bought three notebooks since then (most recently a Dell Studio 17 this past September).
I agree with you mostly for the average consumer. However, users who need more power than a laptop offers (gaming is an obvious one, but software developers too) want the higher power you get with a desktop. In a laptop, you (generally) don't get:
- very high-end video cards (my new one in my desktop is almost the size of an EEE PC and requires a 500 watt PSU)
- high IO speeds (generally slower hard drives, lower clock-rate BUS speeds and higher RAM latency; everything is underclocked to conserve energy)
- mobile CPUs skimp on cache size, which is worse when combined with multi-core.
- better heat dissipation (they've gotten better, but I know of some recent laptops that overheated to the point of failure).
There will always be a need for some portion of the market having as much power at their finger tips (even if this group decreases in size over the years due to other innovations).
It would also work if you replaced "Mac" with "PC with Linux", except that Linux OS and OpenOffice cost $0.
As heretical as it might be to say on here, I'd pick OS X over Ubuntu for a non-technical user. Ubuntu is definitely a friendly Linux (which I use daily at work), but it has enough rough edges and quirks I would rather pay the up-front cost and get (in theory) better efficiency from the employee (and definitely easier support).
Um, no? Your safe deposit box should require TWO keys to open.
While true, there are (expensive) ways for the bank to open the box if you lose both keys. With a warrant, I see no reason why they wouldn't use this method.
What "actions" have these posters done? Expressed an opinion? Given the racial nature of the story, I imagine those comments were quite disgusting and racist. I do not support them. But similarly, the notion that every instance of anonymous speech must be ferreted out, and the 'perpetrators' held to 'account' is just wrong.
"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Voltaire
No, then you have the minor inconvenience to the 1 in 40 of having to show their license and take 2 minutes out of their day, rather than let the 39 of 40 go scott free.
Devil's advocate:
- After jumping through extra hoops, I'm now going to get pulled over every once a while by a cop (maybe while I'm rushing somewhere)?
- When I show this to the cop, is he going to try and pin something else on me (broken tail light, write me a 3 mph speeding ticket or something else)?
- Is the cop going to be having an off day and things get more messy than they should?
- I have to get off the phone to talk to the cop (explaining this to the person I'm talking to).
I just don't see the benefit. Ban it for 40 out of 40 (especially since the DMV will probably give the special license to 35 out of 40 applicants).
If you're sure you could do it, why not arrange for a test and find out. There's no reason not to do it if would not impair your driving ability. In fact, I'd say that people who think they may be supertaskers should be able to take a test at the DMV to get a special license, given that their ability to react is not at all impaired. I, on the other hand, do not need to take the test to know I wouldn't pass.
Then you have the problem of the cops can't pull anyone over for speaking on the phone because they might have one of these licenses.
But then this is about a super-tasker on a hands-free. A hands-free ban is almost unenforceable (unlike a hands-free requirement, which is already difficult).
I can understand what you're trying to say, but the teachers saw kids hit the girl in the hallways. It doesn't matter if it's constant bullying or a one time incident, how does that go on without any sort of reprimand?
I know a teacher who had the problem students. She wasn't allowed to do hardly anything. If two girls were exchanging blows, all she could do is stand there and talk in a comforting voice.
Teachers need more authority to break up fights like this. I'm not for corporal punishment, but since it has been outlawed the position of the teacher as an authority figure has diminished in more troubled environments. Perhaps we can find something else that works.
While this is encouraging, I wonder if these numbers are in local currency. We might produce more, but in comparison to China the immediate $ value is higher (in China, the output is cheap enough that even after shipping it across the world it's still cheaper).
My other concern is that we're not going to see the advancement due to less manufacturing jobs as we saw with farming. Farmers had to be self-motivated (to at least a certain point), be independent, and show ingenuity. Being a factory worker doesn't require any of that (generalizations for both). More specifically, a auto-union worker who spent most of his working life protecting his union job isn't very likely to go out and do something drastically innovative. The industrial revolution already happened and the tech revolution isn't as accessible.
I wouldn't mind jumping through extra hoops to make sure the other people on the road are better trained.
Until you actually had to.
I actually do a lot to make sure I'm a well trained driver. The number of lives we lose to traffic accidents makes Iraq look like a picnic and makes Vietnam look like a blip (since that war ended and we continue to drive). Last year it was about 34k and the year before that, 38k (source).
Food for thought: would we have saved more American lives by trying to solve this problem than even bothering to fight the war on terror (costing in the trillions)? Would it have been possible to save 10% of those lives or more each year (3-4k), which would require the terrorists to execute a 9/11-sized attack once a year to offset?
I'm not an anti-war hippie, but it should make people stop and think.
How much more do you want? People need to travel, the transit system doesn't go everywhere and doesn't work well in many places it does go. Large amounts of America require a car to live in. Its not realistic to expect everyone to live within walking distance of everywhere they want to go. So they have to let the majority on the roads. And the fact is they'll drive anyway, licensed or not. So why add extra red tape to the process requiring money to set up and maintain? Lets be real here, a license doesn't allow you to drive- if ti did you'd have to swipe it to start a car. Its just a way to positively id someone who gets caught breaking the law while driving. Useful, but no reason to have an extremely high bar to get.
You'll note I said training, not restrictions. I live in CA and know all too well how vital the car is to daily life.
I know the idea of a national ID is scary in some ways, but the idea of federal standards for driving certification kind of appeals to me. I mean, they couldn't be more lax than they are here in CA (pass the written, pass the behind-the-wheel, see you in 50 years). From a driving safety standpoint, I wouldn't mind jumping through extra hoops to make sure the other people on the road are better trained.
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Please proceed to the body-scanner archive room.
The whole purpose of the scanners to emasculate and demean the people who pass through them. This should be clear to everyone.
That depends on what your packing. To be strip searched for fear of hiding a club in your pants, and then finding out the club shaped item is stock equipment wouldn't be emasculating or demeaning for the person passing through, just the person doing the search.
Considering how prudish Americans are (no prostitution laws, nightclub and beach restrictions), I'm surprised that so many would submit to a virtual strip-search. Not just themselves, but their children. And it's not like going to the doctor where there is 10 years of post-high school education and the maturity that goes with it; it's people who will crack jokes about anatomy and beat up people in parking lots.
(using one metric from here and here)
The 770M goes along at 25.6 GFLOPS. The Radeon 5850 that I have is rated at 2088 GFLOPS. That's two orders of magnitude! (and I don't even have the top-of-the-line GPU)
I'm not trying to pick on you; you just gave me enough detail to work with (since yes you can spend enough on a laptop and get an almost-as-fast CPU and fast HD and maybe enough RAM and the laptop-sized battery, but GPUs... not quite there yet).
I am a software developer and have not used a desktop since 2005, my current rig is a HP EliteBook Core Duo 2.4, 8gb of RAM and a 500gb 7200rpm drive running at 1680x1050.
Sounds less like a laptop and more like a portable workstation. I guess you aren't having heat problems like an HP I encountered. It required external cooling (placed outside on a cold night with a fan or sitting on ice packs) to survive a reformat.
:-)
What graphics card does it have?
Oh, and how long does your battery last?
I think we are looking at netbooks mostly occupying the place of notebooks and notebooks just about completely replacing desktops. I haven't bought a desktop since Feb 2004 but I have bought three notebooks since then (most recently a Dell Studio 17 this past September).
I agree with you mostly for the average consumer. However, users who need more power than a laptop offers (gaming is an obvious one, but software developers too) want the higher power you get with a desktop. In a laptop, you (generally) don't get:
- very high-end video cards (my new one in my desktop is almost the size of an EEE PC and requires a 500 watt PSU)
- high IO speeds (generally slower hard drives, lower clock-rate BUS speeds and higher RAM latency; everything is underclocked to conserve energy)
- mobile CPUs skimp on cache size, which is worse when combined with multi-core.
- better heat dissipation (they've gotten better, but I know of some recent laptops that overheated to the point of failure).
There will always be a need for some portion of the market having as much power at their finger tips (even if this group decreases in size over the years due to other innovations).
If you are scrambling to point one of those things at an armored vehicle that is trying to kill you,
And you don't remember your training, you blow up your dune buggy instead.
It would also work if you replaced "Mac" with "PC with Linux", except that Linux OS and OpenOffice cost $0.
As heretical as it might be to say on here, I'd pick OS X over Ubuntu for a non-technical user. Ubuntu is definitely a friendly Linux (which I use daily at work), but it has enough rough edges and quirks I would rather pay the up-front cost and get (in theory) better efficiency from the employee (and definitely easier support).
Oh you mean the one that is running for Senate?
http://carlyforca.com/
If California elects that crooked bitch, they'll get exactly what they deserve.
She's running for the US Senate (not the state-level), so the rest of the country gets to suffer with us.
each of which has the ability to look inside.
Um, no? Your safe deposit box should require TWO keys to open.
While true, there are (expensive) ways for the bank to open the box if you lose both keys. With a warrant, I see no reason why they wouldn't use this method.
What "actions" have these posters done? Expressed an opinion? Given the racial nature of the story, I imagine those comments were quite disgusting and racist. I do not support them. But similarly, the notion that every instance of anonymous speech must be ferreted out, and the 'perpetrators' held to 'account' is just wrong.
"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Voltaire
(there, summed it up for you)
If only they made some of those robots similar to Serge Graystone; or perhaps, more appropriately, to few targetbots we've seen in the pilot.
Pilot? If I recall, they've shown up in later episodes as well.
The pilot is in constant communication with the tower through a very phone-like apparatus called a radio
Yep, and strangely enough, he's got it via headset. He doesn't have one hand on the radio mike, one on the throttle quadrant, and one on the yoke.
I'll add to this. There are also two people driving.. er flying.
What do I win?
A malloc to the head.
Not head.free()?
This reminds me of the movie Mercury Rising.
:-p
If you were autistic, you'd have figured it out in 5 minutes.
That's where the Chinese cartridge comes in...
Be sure to read the label:
Warning! Do not use for burns around the eyes or you may obtain unexpected results.
While I know you're making a squinty-eye joke, I wonder if skin tone would carry over too.
No, then you have the minor inconvenience to the 1 in 40 of having to show their license and take 2 minutes out of their day, rather than let the 39 of 40 go scott free.
Devil's advocate:
- After jumping through extra hoops, I'm now going to get pulled over every once a while by a cop (maybe while I'm rushing somewhere)?
- When I show this to the cop, is he going to try and pin something else on me (broken tail light, write me a 3 mph speeding ticket or something else)?
- Is the cop going to be having an off day and things get more messy than they should?
- I have to get off the phone to talk to the cop (explaining this to the person I'm talking to).
I just don't see the benefit. Ban it for 40 out of 40 (especially since the DMV will probably give the special license to 35 out of 40 applicants).
If you're sure you could do it, why not arrange for a test and find out. There's no reason not to do it if would not impair your driving ability. In fact, I'd say that people who think they may be supertaskers should be able to take a test at the DMV to get a special license, given that their ability to react is not at all impaired. I, on the other hand, do not need to take the test to know I wouldn't pass.
Then you have the problem of the cops can't pull anyone over for speaking on the phone because they might have one of these licenses.
But then this is about a super-tasker on a hands-free. A hands-free ban is almost unenforceable (unlike a hands-free requirement, which is already difficult).
Would you mind showing the source for that data? Just curious
I second that. I remember a statistic that CA's students were ranked 3rd from last (we also almost last in education spending), but IQ is different.
I can understand what you're trying to say, but the teachers saw kids hit the girl in the hallways. It doesn't matter if it's constant bullying or a one time incident, how does that go on without any sort of reprimand?
I know a teacher who had the problem students. She wasn't allowed to do hardly anything. If two girls were exchanging blows, all she could do is stand there and talk in a comforting voice.
Teachers need more authority to break up fights like this. I'm not for corporal punishment, but since it has been outlawed the position of the teacher as an authority figure has diminished in more troubled environments. Perhaps we can find something else that works.
While this is encouraging, I wonder if these numbers are in local currency. We might produce more, but in comparison to China the immediate $ value is higher (in China, the output is cheap enough that even after shipping it across the world it's still cheaper).
My other concern is that we're not going to see the advancement due to less manufacturing jobs as we saw with farming. Farmers had to be self-motivated (to at least a certain point), be independent, and show ingenuity. Being a factory worker doesn't require any of that (generalizations for both). More specifically, a auto-union worker who spent most of his working life protecting his union job isn't very likely to go out and do something drastically innovative. The industrial revolution already happened and the tech revolution isn't as accessible.
Your story intrigues me. Thanks for sharing.
Of all the states, you picked California?!
I pick California because I live in California and know how easy it is to get and maintain a drivers license.
I wouldn't mind jumping through extra hoops to make sure the other people on the road are better trained.
Until you actually had to.
I actually do a lot to make sure I'm a well trained driver. The number of lives we lose to traffic accidents makes Iraq look like a picnic and makes Vietnam look like a blip (since that war ended and we continue to drive). Last year it was about 34k and the year before that, 38k (source).
Food for thought: would we have saved more American lives by trying to solve this problem than even bothering to fight the war on terror (costing in the trillions)? Would it have been possible to save 10% of those lives or more each year (3-4k), which would require the terrorists to execute a 9/11-sized attack once a year to offset?
I'm not an anti-war hippie, but it should make people stop and think.
How much more do you want? People need to travel, the transit system doesn't go everywhere and doesn't work well in many places it does go. Large amounts of America require a car to live in. Its not realistic to expect everyone to live within walking distance of everywhere they want to go. So they have to let the majority on the roads. And the fact is they'll drive anyway, licensed or not. So why add extra red tape to the process requiring money to set up and maintain? Lets be real here, a license doesn't allow you to drive- if ti did you'd have to swipe it to start a car. Its just a way to positively id someone who gets caught breaking the law while driving. Useful, but no reason to have an extremely high bar to get.
You'll note I said training, not restrictions. I live in CA and know all too well how vital the car is to daily life.
I know the idea of a national ID is scary in some ways, but the idea of federal standards for driving certification kind of appeals to me. I mean, they couldn't be more lax than they are here in CA (pass the written, pass the behind-the-wheel, see you in 50 years). From a driving safety standpoint, I wouldn't mind jumping through extra hoops to make sure the other people on the road are better trained.