Or do you gleefully unleash the carnage, and keep replaying the level until you get the grenade to send the full family of four flying down the stairs without hitting a single step on the way down.
My battery life is "unknown" as I've never run it off the mains. Based on the laptop it replaced (same chassis builder, same 'desktop replacement' approach to spec) battery life will be somewhere around 40 minutes.
The actual box is a Rock Xtreme 790 (http://rockdirect.com/viewNotebook.php?pName=XTREME%20790), with a couple of upgrades, so maybe post a query in the Rock forum (or the forum of your local Clevo chassis supplier - I think that's Sager in the US)
Differentiate between a "smart saver" and someone ensuring they have a few months salary available in liquid form.
Frankly the first 3 months gross salary I have in savings can earn as little as it likes as long as I can access it relatively risk free as cash within a month.
It gives me financial security, peace of mind and the ability to tell my employer to go fuck himself if he ever steps out of line. That's worth far more to me than an extra 4-5% return on investment.
Without disagreeing with you, I'd suggest that small scale problems have different answers to large scale ones.
The obvious approach is thus to teach both.
Although there are a lot of petabyte scale problems out there, as a proportion of the total problem space they are still minute. Most students wont need to work on them.
Further to that, there's no point being able to address a large scale problem if the building blocks you're using (which individually need to deal with individual data points) aren't sufficiently optimal.
Taking Google as an example, they deal with frankly astonishing volumes of data (both stored and in transit) and have designed their systems to handle that volume. They disregard some low scale issues because redundancy and volume smooth the bumps. Knowing which small scale issues to ignore requires a fairly fundamental understanding at that micro scale and how it translates to the macro level at which they operate.
Hmm. Does this need to be cake from a girl, or would cake from any reasonably competent baker suffice?
How much Angel Cake for a horizontally scalable multi-threaded multi-client games server with incorporated physics engine? Or do I need to bid in slices of Battenburg for one of those?
And the rules, in our society, aren't fair to women.
So that's why women score higher in exams than boys these days? Why women get better degrees? Why women earn more per hour for part-time work? Why women get a year off for a new child and men get two weeks? (In the UK; Denmark has a fairer system) Why men are more likely to be assaulted than women? Why men under 25 are more likely to be victims of domestic violence than women? Why women claiming rape get anonymity while the men they accuse get named in the press, even if the woman made the accusation up? Why men are more likely to commit suicide than women?
That isn't sexism, that's acerbic critique of the advertising industry.
In fact, it's supporting the feminist cause, by highlighting an area of genuine sexism, preyed upon by that advertising industry. If society at large (male and female) didn't respond positively to beautiful women in association with products (of whatever type) then the advertising industry would not continue to use them, and the comparison to kung-fu kittens would no longer be required.
Since feminism is in fact sexist (by promoting women ahead of men, irrespective of capability) then I guess the presentation was indeed sexist - against men. Seems I agree with you after all.
There are a great deal of many people posting here would be positively furious if their code was fixed/rewritten by a female who was a better programmer than them.
That's supposition; if you replaced 'female' with 'person' in your sentence it wouldn't necessarily be any less true.
Why not really hit the stereotypes and replace "positively furious" with "aroused and attracted"?
Blanket statements that imply sexism help contribute to an atmosphere that can be perceived as such, even in the absence of sexist behaviours. Try treating people positively.
My experience at several companies (ranging from 7 people to 70000) is explicitly the opposite of that you portray.
Women don't have a higher barrier of entry - indeed, the only difference in approach I've seen are the numerous "Women in IT" type forums set up to help them network. Where are the "Men in IT" forums?
Once in the team women are expected to be competent, but are respected for the full range of skills they bring to bear. I've known female DBAs and sysadmins that know their stuff and are respected for it, I've known female programmers that lead a team because they're the best developer on it, and I've known female programmers that aren't the best at churning code but excel at other aspects of software engineering and thus boost the team anyway.
That said most women tend to gravitate towards project management or business analysis roles. It's strange, but I've never heard anybody bitch about the prevalence of female BAs - it's almost a surprise these days when a BA is a man.
I also haven't heard any of them being accused of being a lesbian. Except the one with a girlfriend, and even then it was less of an accusation than an acknowledgement.
Incidentally, the men I've worked with have on occasion been immature, or socially retarded, but seldom both at the same time and never while being little boys. Indeed, the worst excesses involve alcohol, and I've seen the women in the team behaving every bit as badly under the influence as the men.
I suggest you find a better workplace - sounds like the women already made that decision.
Although you've reminded me of a Louis Theroux episode, in which he interviewed a male porn star.
(paraphrased)
LT: What are you filming here? PS: It's the anal sex money shot LT: Are you gay? PS: No LT: But you let him have sex with you like that? PS: I don't enjoy it, but it's part of the job
I'm guessing that gentleman doesn't take his work home with him..
Criminals are a subset of people, but bank employees are also a subset of people.
Why do you assume that one subset is proportionally represented in the other subset?
In the UK banks generally run criminal record checks against potential employees. That alone invalidates your working assumption, as known (i.e. convicted) criminals are thus less likely to be bank employees than other people.
The bank can put in place checks and balances. It's quite possible that the bank he refers to already has, and just keeps quiet about it because it's such a useful anti-fraud tool.
I know that when I highlight security risks to the appropriate people they act swiftly and thoroughly to minimise the risk to our customers and to the bank, and that's been the case at all the financial services companies for which I've worked.
In my experience banks take security seriously, and that includes restricting, monitoring and auditing access to sensitive information and systems.
They do not create counterfeit money. Please try and restrain your ignorance.
I'd also argue that they don't inflate the money supply either, as the money deposited with the bank is no longer in supply, whether loaned to other customers or not. But I'm not an economist.
So who implemented the banking systems? Who integrates the bank with the ATM network, the various payment schemes, the financial markets, the regulators, the central bank? Who looks after the HR system, the payroll system, the general ledger, the email systems and the intranet? Who configures and deploys the desktop software? Who configures the telephone system, the CTI, ACD and IVR, the call centre CRM system and the branch teller system? When the business need any of the above to change, who do they engage to determine the cost of change, do the design, build, test and implement it?
Most of that can be outsourced, but I've yet to see a business that has outsourced anywhere near 100% of it. Especially in financial services.
I work for a bank in a technical role. Our customers talk to me quite often.
My friend's sister is one, another friend's entire company is a customer, the exceedingly attractive and highly intelligent chief architect at a venerable British institution I met at a seminar is one..
Even ignoring the social contacts, our corporate customers do get technical assistance to use the systems we provide to them. Why on earth would we upset and risk losing the customers and their business by refusing to help them access the services for which they pay us?
I disagree. Fractional reserve banking is a measured risk, and generally a very successful one too.
It is not fraud. Nobody is intended to lose money, and as long as the people borrowing money from the bank pay it back then the bank can meet its commitments to its creditors.
Too many people misunderstand fractional reserve banking and falsely accuse it of great evil. There has been great evil in the banking sector, but it certainly isn't fractional reserve banking.
I renewed my passport early to give myself a full ten years before bumping into that.
Hopefully the system will be changed by the time it expires - although sadly it appears to be going the other way, with ever more intrusive checks in the airports.
Even with a passport you can't now leave without informing the Government in advance, even if you own a small boat.
New government in next year, but the Lib Dems have no hope of getting in and the Tories wont reduce the authoritarianism (although they should at least stop increasing it).
My only hope is to move to Scotland and fight for independence.
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Or do you gleefully unleash the carnage, and keep replaying the level until you get the grenade to send the full family of four flying down the stairs without hitting a single step on the way down.
Count me in.
Nope, mass murder of civilians is basically not justifiable at all.
Maybe, but it is fun - I used to play European wargames with the intent of causing nuclear holocaust; I kept score by the death count.
The gaming market is in desperate need of a proper "kill the civvies" or "nuke the planet" game, it's been far too long..
You're right, hopelessly offtopic.
My battery life is "unknown" as I've never run it off the mains. Based on the laptop it replaced (same chassis builder, same 'desktop replacement' approach to spec) battery life will be somewhere around 40 minutes.
The actual box is a Rock Xtreme 790 (http://rockdirect.com/viewNotebook.php?pName=XTREME%20790), with a couple of upgrades, so maybe post a query in the Rock forum (or the forum of your local Clevo chassis supplier - I think that's Sager in the US)
He's saving $70/year. So the maths is
$300 + $30/y
against
$70/y + $30/y
The $30/y is being spent now, thus it is not an incremental cost in the future.
Yes, but only if you are willing to embed in the same law that Clergy from any religion are not permitted to sanction heterosexual union either.
Homophobic religions are still homophobic.
Cherish your innocence.
Differentiate between a "smart saver" and someone ensuring they have a few months salary available in liquid form.
Frankly the first 3 months gross salary I have in savings can earn as little as it likes as long as I can access it relatively risk free as cash within a month.
It gives me financial security, peace of mind and the ability to tell my employer to go fuck himself if he ever steps out of line. That's worth far more to me than an extra 4-5% return on investment.
Without disagreeing with you, I'd suggest that small scale problems have different answers to large scale ones.
The obvious approach is thus to teach both.
Although there are a lot of petabyte scale problems out there, as a proportion of the total problem space they are still minute. Most students wont need to work on them.
Further to that, there's no point being able to address a large scale problem if the building blocks you're using (which individually need to deal with individual data points) aren't sufficiently optimal.
Taking Google as an example, they deal with frankly astonishing volumes of data (both stored and in transit) and have designed their systems to handle that volume. They disregard some low scale issues because redundancy and volume smooth the bumps. Knowing which small scale issues to ignore requires a fairly fundamental understanding at that micro scale and how it translates to the macro level at which they operate.
Hmm, I think I just repeated your point.
Hmm. Does this need to be cake from a girl, or would cake from any reasonably competent baker suffice?
How much Angel Cake for a horizontally scalable multi-threaded multi-client games server with incorporated physics engine? Or do I need to bid in slices of Battenburg for one of those?
And the rules, in our society, aren't fair to women.
So that's why women score higher in exams than boys these days?
Why women get better degrees?
Why women earn more per hour for part-time work?
Why women get a year off for a new child and men get two weeks? (In the UK; Denmark has a fairer system)
Why men are more likely to be assaulted than women?
Why men under 25 are more likely to be victims of domestic violence than women?
Why women claiming rape get anonymity while the men they accuse get named in the press, even if the woman made the accusation up?
Why men are more likely to commit suicide than women?
Too fucking right I'm taking it personally.
That isn't sexism, that's acerbic critique of the advertising industry.
In fact, it's supporting the feminist cause, by highlighting an area of genuine sexism, preyed upon by that advertising industry. If society at large (male and female) didn't respond positively to beautiful women in association with products (of whatever type) then the advertising industry would not continue to use them, and the comparison to kung-fu kittens would no longer be required.
Since feminism is in fact sexist (by promoting women ahead of men, irrespective of capability) then I guess the presentation was indeed sexist - against men. Seems I agree with you after all.
Denial? Only in those that don't stop to think.
There are a great deal of many people posting here would be positively furious if their code was fixed/rewritten by a female who was a better programmer than them.
That's supposition; if you replaced 'female' with 'person' in your sentence it wouldn't necessarily be any less true.
Why not really hit the stereotypes and replace "positively furious" with "aroused and attracted"?
Blanket statements that imply sexism help contribute to an atmosphere that can be perceived as such, even in the absence of sexist behaviours. Try treating people positively.
For what it's worth, girls get bullied every bit as much as boys at school.
The bullying is usually more psychological (as opposed to male physical bullying) but has comparable impacts on the victims.
Not that this invalidates the broad thrust of your post.
My experience at several companies (ranging from 7 people to 70000) is explicitly the opposite of that you portray.
Women don't have a higher barrier of entry - indeed, the only difference in approach I've seen are the numerous "Women in IT" type forums set up to help them network. Where are the "Men in IT" forums?
Once in the team women are expected to be competent, but are respected for the full range of skills they bring to bear. I've known female DBAs and sysadmins that know their stuff and are respected for it, I've known female programmers that lead a team because they're the best developer on it, and I've known female programmers that aren't the best at churning code but excel at other aspects of software engineering and thus boost the team anyway.
That said most women tend to gravitate towards project management or business analysis roles. It's strange, but I've never heard anybody bitch about the prevalence of female BAs - it's almost a surprise these days when a BA is a man.
I also haven't heard any of them being accused of being a lesbian. Except the one with a girlfriend, and even then it was less of an accusation than an acknowledgement.
Incidentally, the men I've worked with have on occasion been immature, or socially retarded, but seldom both at the same time and never while being little boys. Indeed, the worst excesses involve alcohol, and I've seen the women in the team behaving every bit as badly under the influence as the men.
I suggest you find a better workplace - sounds like the women already made that decision.
Although you've reminded me of a Louis Theroux episode, in which he interviewed a male porn star.
(paraphrased)
LT: What are you filming here?
PS: It's the anal sex money shot
LT: Are you gay?
PS: No
LT: But you let him have sex with you like that?
PS: I don't enjoy it, but it's part of the job
I'm guessing that gentleman doesn't take his work home with him..
Nah, it was blueq3 that said that, not me.
And 1 in every 100 may mean 0 in 50000 (and 500 in the next 500). Probabilities are fun.
Fractional reserve banking is not fraud. See my other responses here for further information and suitable insults.
Criminals are a subset of people, but bank employees are also a subset of people.
Why do you assume that one subset is proportionally represented in the other subset?
In the UK banks generally run criminal record checks against potential employees. That alone invalidates your working assumption, as known (i.e. convicted) criminals are thus less likely to be bank employees than other people.
The bank can put in place checks and balances. It's quite possible that the bank he refers to already has, and just keeps quiet about it because it's such a useful anti-fraud tool.
I know that when I highlight security risks to the appropriate people they act swiftly and thoroughly to minimise the risk to our customers and to the bank, and that's been the case at all the financial services companies for which I've worked.
In my experience banks take security seriously, and that includes restricting, monitoring and auditing access to sensitive information and systems.
They do not create counterfeit money. Please try and restrain your ignorance.
I'd also argue that they don't inflate the money supply either, as the money deposited with the bank is no longer in supply, whether loaned to other customers or not. But I'm not an economist.
So who implemented the banking systems? Who integrates the bank with the ATM network, the various payment schemes, the financial markets, the regulators, the central bank? Who looks after the HR system, the payroll system, the general ledger, the email systems and the intranet? Who configures and deploys the desktop software? Who configures the telephone system, the CTI, ACD and IVR, the call centre CRM system and the branch teller system? When the business need any of the above to change, who do they engage to determine the cost of change, do the design, build, test and implement it?
Most of that can be outsourced, but I've yet to see a business that has outsourced anywhere near 100% of it. Especially in financial services.
I work for a bank in a technical role. Our customers talk to me quite often.
My friend's sister is one, another friend's entire company is a customer, the exceedingly attractive and highly intelligent chief architect at a venerable British institution I met at a seminar is one..
Even ignoring the social contacts, our corporate customers do get technical assistance to use the systems we provide to them. Why on earth would we upset and risk losing the customers and their business by refusing to help them access the services for which they pay us?
I disagree. Fractional reserve banking is a measured risk, and generally a very successful one too.
It is not fraud. Nobody is intended to lose money, and as long as the people borrowing money from the bank pay it back then the bank can meet its commitments to its creditors.
Too many people misunderstand fractional reserve banking and falsely accuse it of great evil. There has been great evil in the banking sector, but it certainly isn't fractional reserve banking.
Find another bogeyman.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4987415/All-travel-plans-to-be-tracked-by-Government.html
(reported at the time in other publications too - google for e-borders at a guess)
I renewed my passport early to give myself a full ten years before bumping into that.
Hopefully the system will be changed by the time it expires - although sadly it appears to be going the other way, with ever more intrusive checks in the airports.
Even with a passport you can't now leave without informing the Government in advance, even if you own a small boat.
New government in next year, but the Lib Dems have no hope of getting in and the Tories wont reduce the authoritarianism (although they should at least stop increasing it).
My only hope is to move to Scotland and fight for independence.