Women tend to gather around the average. Men tend to polarize between the genius and the retard.
It's the only always-verifiable universal truth when you compare the genders.
Maybe that's why she can hire better female programmers easier - because if you pick someone at random, you'll get more retarded males - and at the same time, the more brilliant males are ignored, since anyone about average can write easy-to-follow code pretty well.
2 possibilities:
1. Ingres has incompetent interviewers - the quality of their pick is low, and the result can be easier seen from their female hires vs their male hires (remember, if you pick randomly and only require average skills, the female candidates will be better in general)
2. Ingres does not provide challenging enough jobs for their developers. As a result, the males polarized at the brilliant side don't manifest.
I believe what McCain says himself better serve to clarify what he embodies than what I say.
And the fact that enemies tortured McCain during a war has everything to do with the enemy's action but NOTHING to do with McCain's own "Character, Integrity, Do".
If someone's supporters are mostly the young, college-educated folks, don't you expect the political sections of digg, etc. to contain a lot of these supporters?
Propagandas come from a centrally-controlled machine, and in this case I don't think I'm seeing one, and hopefully I'm correct.
They're acting in malice, hoping that the non-tech-savvy public will get used to and thus accept their behavior before anyone brings up Net Neutrality legislations.
In other words, they're striking early.
The sheeples of the world needs to be educated about the perils of non-net neutrality (the annoying consequences, as well as the dangerous consequences) so when we demand action, they'll support us instead of being indifferent.
You can turn a glossy screen into matte by applying a $0.5 protective film.
You cannot turn a matte screen into a glossy screen without replacing the entire screen.
If laptop manufacturers start to ship matte protective films with their machines it'd be perfect. But it's not like I cannot go get one for less than $2.
"drug abuse" is a common expression for all English-speaking people.
For the meaning of the expression to be universally accepted, you cannot just use "illegal" - simply because, as shocking to you as it may be, injecting/eating/inhaling these drugs is actually *legal* among many countries more socially liberal than the US. (Most of these places have laws that prohibits possessing beyond a certain amount of these drugs or selling any amount, though).
"malice" means "ill/wicked". I'm sure we can do many things that are completely opposite to being ill/wicked that still break many stupid laws. Thus, illegal != malice.
Take a look at Hong Kong - which still runs a largely Laissez Faire economy. It's a prime example of how fierce the competition is there among wireless providers, credit cards, etc., once the market penetration is high enough to be considered "saturated".
Competition doesn't need tight laws to maintain. Just a handful of well crafted rules and a high market penetration is enough to keep competition alive.
That's a classic oligopoly, especially when the market is not totally saturated - in Canada - if all you need to do is to lure new customers, competing for the business of existing customers is not the #1 priority any more.
However, in Europe where there's almost no fresh customer left, they have to compete for existing customers - who need more incentive to change from an existing service (if it ain't broke...) Thus competition is healthier over there.
Just wait till the market is saturated. Even if there are only a few players, they'll be forced to compete, no matter how unwilling.
I haven't come across anyone who would "happily toss" a Blackberry in the garbage - I have run into a few, tho, who really had to get rid of their WM smartphones to get either an iPhone or a Blackberry.
You'll see in the long run...I predict that the iPhone will be losing its lustre when newer WM and Blackberry phones come out.
Having a rule does not mean the rule will be "zero tolerance". I sympathize with your wife - in this situation, arrangements should be made so the "final exam" can be retaken. In any case, methods prone to cheating, like assignments, should not numerically determine whether you pass a course.
It's sickening how many of us categorize copying as a mean of academic collaboration.
It's not. Copying the answer is cheating, period.
However, I believe the course administrators did something wrong too to give too much weight to something that is so prone to copying.
IMHO homework should count for no more than 15% of the total course performance, and there should be rules that if you fail the final, you'll fail the course no matter how well you did the assignments.
And, they had the chance to improve this kind of stability in Windows 2000, where it was a major redesign and it was obvious that putting drivers in user space is a safer practice. Well guess what, they didn't do that.
So why all of a sudden in Vista? A video driver is a video driver - I HAVE written a video driver for Windows, fact is, even if the driver is in user space, it's still possible for you to write a driver to totally F* up the machine to a point that a reboot is _almost_ inevitable - without the driver/kernel even crashing - thus undetected by Vista.
By saying _almost_ I mean you could connect and may be able to restart the video driver remotely (yes even under Windows it's a possible setup) but how many consumer machines are set up this way, you have an idea. Screwed-up video driver usually == reboot, regardless whether the driver is in Ring 1/2 or Ring 3.
So given that putting video drivers (the usual cause of BSOD in XP) in Ring 3 usually does not decrease the need to reboot, you have to question the ultimate motive in spending the amount of resource to make the change.
Yes it would, but it's not the question - even in this situation, there's still no assurance that the average fan speed will be high enough to lower the CPU temperature enough - so on average during idle, the fan is spun up and down, lowering the CPU temperature by X % on average.
The question remains tho, if cooling down by X % on idle is enough cooling.
Especially if it only uses waste heat to drive itself.
How much waste heat can they get from a modern power-efficient CPU? Let's see the thermal dissipation:
AMD Athlon x2 BE2300 or Inten Penryn. Both at about a few Watts at idle, and 60 (AMD)-90 (Penryn) Watts under load - so average let's say is 30W, assuming a box idles more.
30Wx70% = 21W for a fan. That's PLENTY for moving a fan - if the CPU is doing work.
However, at idle, you may only get 4 Watts if you're at 70%. However the fan speeds don't necessarily drop by that much in a normal computer that you see. Probably due to an engineered safety margin, but the fan is not getting a lot.
So unless the heat charges a battery and the fan is drawing from that battery, they may not be able to produce enough fan speed at idle.
And of course, using a battery lowers your total efficiency to around 40%. Again, even if you cut the 21W to 13W, it's still plenty to drive a fan. So the question is, how they're going to use the excess energy to charge a battery to use when the CPU is idle.
I'm sure if the Compiz-Fusion developers wanted to use shaders they'd have done it as well - after all, for the same visual effect, implementing it using shaders is a LOT easier than without.
Granted the glass effect might not be possibly done without shaders. But in terms of actually looking good, I'd bet there is a combination of Compiz effects that gives you a visually result just as pleasing.
In other words, the choice of using shaders only gives Aero little (if any!) advantage of aesthetic substance. However it shuts out entire classes of GPU, I reckon, probably just for the sake of being easier to program. I guess Vista's tight deadline played a role there.
If you choose a technology that makes your programming a bit easier but the end result excludes a lot of customers, that's one definition of incompetence in my book.
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Women tend to gather around the average. Men tend to polarize between the genius and the retard.
It's the only always-verifiable universal truth when you compare the genders.
Maybe that's why she can hire better female programmers easier - because if you pick someone at random, you'll get more retarded males - and at the same time, the more brilliant males are ignored, since anyone about average can write easy-to-follow code pretty well.
2 possibilities:
1. Ingres has incompetent interviewers - the quality of their pick is low, and the result can be easier seen from their female hires vs their male hires (remember, if you pick randomly and only require average skills, the female candidates will be better in general)
2. Ingres does not provide challenging enough jobs for their developers. As a result, the males polarized at the brilliant side don't manifest.
I have this great speech to talk about...
Unfortunately, the margin of this paper only allows 2 minutes of talk time...
I believe what McCain says himself better serve to clarify what he embodies than what I say.
And the fact that enemies tortured McCain during a war has everything to do with the enemy's action but NOTHING to do with McCain's own "Character, Integrity, Do".
For your own good, use your brain for a bit.
Character, Integrity, and Everything McCain embodies summarized in one short 3 minute video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJl8ypyVAvY
To the likes of you, Lawrence Lessig has this to say:
http://www.lessig.org/blog/2008/02/20_minutes_or_so_on_why_i_am_4.html
Define "propaganda".
If someone's supporters are mostly the young, college-educated folks, don't you expect the political sections of digg, etc. to contain a lot of these supporters?
Propagandas come from a centrally-controlled machine, and in this case I don't think I'm seeing one, and hopefully I'm correct.
Therefore...political plug here...you know who to vote for in November.
They're acting in malice, hoping that the non-tech-savvy public will get used to and thus accept their behavior before anyone brings up Net Neutrality legislations.
In other words, they're striking early.
The sheeples of the world needs to be educated about the perils of non-net neutrality (the annoying consequences, as well as the dangerous consequences) so when we demand action, they'll support us instead of being indifferent.
You can turn a glossy screen into matte by applying a $0.5 protective film.
You cannot turn a matte screen into a glossy screen without replacing the entire screen.
If laptop manufacturers start to ship matte protective films with their machines it'd be perfect. But it's not like I cannot go get one for less than $2.
Well said. If I had my mod points...
"drug abuse" is a common expression for all English-speaking people.
For the meaning of the expression to be universally accepted, you cannot just use "illegal" - simply because, as shocking to you as it may be, injecting/eating/inhaling these drugs is actually *legal* among many countries more socially liberal than the US. (Most of these places have laws that prohibits possessing beyond a certain amount of these drugs or selling any amount, though).
"malice" means "ill/wicked". I'm sure we can do many things that are completely opposite to being ill/wicked that still break many stupid laws. Thus, illegal != malice.
Take a look at Hong Kong - which still runs a largely Laissez Faire economy. It's a prime example of how fierce the competition is there among wireless providers, credit cards, etc., once the market penetration is high enough to be considered "saturated".
Competition doesn't need tight laws to maintain. Just a handful of well crafted rules and a high market penetration is enough to keep competition alive.
Neat! I look forward to the day when the electrolyte capacitors go the way of the Dodo.
That's a classic oligopoly, especially when the market is not totally saturated - in Canada - if all you need to do is to lure new customers, competing for the business of existing customers is not the #1 priority any more.
However, in Europe where there's almost no fresh customer left, they have to compete for existing customers - who need more incentive to change from an existing service (if it ain't broke...) Thus competition is healthier over there.
Just wait till the market is saturated. Even if there are only a few players, they'll be forced to compete, no matter how unwilling.
Until you hear about her stance about the "relationship" between violence and video games.
Just another example of the kind of "judgment" that her "experience" has endowed her with.
I haven't come across anyone who would "happily toss" a Blackberry in the garbage - I have run into a few, tho, who really had to get rid of their WM smartphones to get either an iPhone or a Blackberry.
You'll see in the long run...I predict that the iPhone will be losing its lustre when newer WM and Blackberry phones come out.
Having a rule does not mean the rule will be "zero tolerance". I sympathize with your wife - in this situation, arrangements should be made so the "final exam" can be retaken. In any case, methods prone to cheating, like assignments, should not numerically determine whether you pass a course.
It's sickening how many of us categorize copying as a mean of academic collaboration.
It's not. Copying the answer is cheating, period.
However, I believe the course administrators did something wrong too to give too much weight to something that is so prone to copying.
IMHO homework should count for no more than 15% of the total course performance, and there should be rules that if you fail the final, you'll fail the course no matter how well you did the assignments.
And, they had the chance to improve this kind of stability in Windows 2000, where it was a major redesign and it was obvious that putting drivers in user space is a safer practice. Well guess what, they didn't do that.
So why all of a sudden in Vista? A video driver is a video driver - I HAVE written a video driver for Windows, fact is, even if the driver is in user space, it's still possible for you to write a driver to totally F* up the machine to a point that a reboot is _almost_ inevitable - without the driver/kernel even crashing - thus undetected by Vista.
By saying _almost_ I mean you could connect and may be able to restart the video driver remotely (yes even under Windows it's a possible setup) but how many consumer machines are set up this way, you have an idea. Screwed-up video driver usually == reboot, regardless whether the driver is in Ring 1/2 or Ring 3.
So given that putting video drivers (the usual cause of BSOD in XP) in Ring 3 usually does not decrease the need to reboot, you have to question the ultimate motive in spending the amount of resource to make the change.
Has it occured to you that probably the ultimate motive of moving drivers from kernel space to user space is STILL DRM?
Namely, to prevents developers from creating unauthorized audio/video drivers that can create analog outputs to all media.
Yes it would, but it's not the question - even in this situation, there's still no assurance that the average fan speed will be high enough to lower the CPU temperature enough - so on average during idle, the fan is spun up and down, lowering the CPU temperature by X % on average.
The question remains tho, if cooling down by X % on idle is enough cooling.
The problem is, if it's idle, it's NOT too cool to drive a fan. Most computer's CPU fan still runs at a high enough RPM even when the CPU is idle.
I don't think this setup can provide it if energy is not stored.
Especially if it only uses waste heat to drive itself.
How much waste heat can they get from a modern power-efficient CPU? Let's see the thermal dissipation:
AMD Athlon x2 BE2300 or Inten Penryn. Both at about a few Watts at idle, and 60 (AMD)-90 (Penryn) Watts under load - so average let's say is 30W, assuming a box idles more.
30Wx70% = 21W for a fan. That's PLENTY for moving a fan - if the CPU is doing work.
However, at idle, you may only get 4 Watts if you're at 70%. However the fan speeds don't necessarily drop by that much in a normal computer that you see. Probably due to an engineered safety margin, but the fan is not getting a lot.
So unless the heat charges a battery and the fan is drawing from that battery, they may not be able to produce enough fan speed at idle.
And of course, using a battery lowers your total efficiency to around 40%. Again, even if you cut the 21W to 13W, it's still plenty to drive a fan. So the question is, how they're going to use the excess energy to charge a battery to use when the CPU is idle.
I'm sure if the Compiz-Fusion developers wanted to use shaders they'd have done it as well - after all, for the same visual effect, implementing it using shaders is a LOT easier than without.
Granted the glass effect might not be possibly done without shaders. But in terms of actually looking good, I'd bet there is a combination of Compiz effects that gives you a visually result just as pleasing.
In other words, the choice of using shaders only gives Aero little (if any!) advantage of aesthetic substance. However it shuts out entire classes of GPU, I reckon, probably just for the sake of being easier to program. I guess Vista's tight deadline played a role there.
If you choose a technology that makes your programming a bit easier but the end result excludes a lot of customers, that's one definition of incompetence in my book.