Optimizing for games makes sense or rendering software. Optimizing for benchmarks seems like a pretty clear violation of the rules.
It does point out an weakness in benchmarks over in game tests though. If a company spends all of their time optimizing for specific applications then they will get lower marks in a benchmark than they would in real life. But it isn't fair to apply these to benchmarks. Lends more credence to the 'top 5 games' benchmarks that tomshardware or whoever uses.
Optimizing things by application is a good thing. While benchmarks are nice and all I don't think ATI gave a shit about cheating on benchmarks. At the time the game art on the cover of every video card was Quake 3. It isn't shocking to see they did a few optimizations for it, I'd be surprised if they didn't. Cool read though, neat seeing groups hack little toys like that together.
Grey area have been around before technology. Public speeches/appearances. Newspaper articles. Work related duties. So on. Nothing new here just as the GP says.
Uhhh... how many restraining orders does she put out that she can't be expected to track them all??? How'd you get an informative mod:/ He didn't say leave Facebook... And on that issue it would be dealt with the same way restraining orders deal with public places.
"have to respectfully disagree with you there. It's not that feminists are trying to get more rights than men, it's that they're trying to get them more rights than they currently have. Totally different." "The goal of feminism is to get women more rights"
Sounds like we are in agreement...I think that the goal of a feminism promoting women is sexist. If you cared about equality your fight wouldn't be for women it would be for equality generally. A good example is in Canada when women were granted the right to voted the feminist movement celebrated as would I. But Nellie McClung pushed that men should have the right to vote. Which is fully in line with feminism but clearly opposed to Equalism.
A lot of the issues you listed are cultural and suck and we will keep working towards fixing these issues, I think/hope they will get better with time. BTW women win the nobel prize all the time and its nothing special at all, maybe you are thinking of 20years ago.
I don't think all feminists are bad but I think it lends itself to abuse whereas stating that you are an equalist does not.
Feminism has turned into a bitch movement. Women have equal rights pretty much, they need defending and the occasional tweak, I don't believe there is such a gap that there needs to be a movement any more.
That said if anyone asks I tell them I'm an equalist NOT a feminist. The goal of feminism is to get women more rights which is at its root sexist. Equalists fight for equality which basically everyone can stand behind comfortably.
Assholes abound. Did the Debian community support these guys? Did their comments get a following or were they condemned by both guys and girls of the debian community. I think that's your answer.
Actually watch that slideshow. The first 5slides are about guys and over all it has almost as many guy slides as girl slides. Crass and inappropriate yes, sexist maybe not? I don't know the guy. But I'm sure a stuck up guy could complain about the first slide showing a muscle bound guy, crotch censored and talking about size being important. Lets go with sexist to both genders? I'm an equalist not a feminist and this doesn't really offend me at all. Damn stupid for a presentation but not particularly imbalanced.
Also as mentioned it was one thing and a small group if that's the best you've got we are fucking golden. Hell my dad is a lawyer and in the courtroom I hear more imbalanced women directed comments in an average day. (Most because there are a lot of older lawyers)
If you live in a northeastern state maybe. Go anywhere where religiousness is decently above the average and you will see girls unable to work anywhere out of a dress and men with long hair beaten up. The worst one is discrimination against gays.
I know a guy that is gender confused, bi-sexual with long hair fairly gender neutral and lives in a religious community. Growing up he got beaten regularly by a wide variety of the city, including people stoning him. He had his jaw broken a few times, been shoved down flights of stairs (this is half by adults too not kids) and even stabbed.
Just because you happen to live in a nice part of the country don't think it is the same everywhere. Violent crimes over these things ramps up a lot as soon as you travel into the bible belt. I think defending 'equalists' (I much prefer equalists over feminists) is very important.
OSS because of the 1.9% number is pretty much a boys club, we often say things that we wouldn't say around women. This can result in some off colour words like the stallman comment. The 1st two are actually sexist and the last one is... the feminist movement being overprotective (which i think is ok in this case). So two examples of real sexism.
That said, OSS IS a sheer meritocracy. I don't or very rarely know the gender race or even political views of people I work with. And conversations rarely turn nearly as bad as thing you can hear at bars or clubs or school. Perhaps its because nerds don't get laid as often but we don't seem to parade it around when we do as if it would make us better people. The worst WORST thing I can think of is the 'there are no girls on the internet' joke meme. But I bet if you ask around I'm sure most guys will say there are far too few girls on the internet. And we'd be more than happy to have more.
I think the media's representation of nerds does far FAR worse in deterring girls from FOSS than the actual nerd community ever could. As well a large % of us statistically have social issues, aspbergers and the like which make seeking out girls more difficult.
People need to understand the importance of the and rise up and request this or it'll never happen. I really can't see Fox users shutting off their TVs due to inadequately cited information... they have interviewers that berate people and cut mics so.
No, I think journalists and bloggers are both crap. Investigation and fact checking is rare. I'm not saying it is impossible for good to come from them simply rare. Reuters isn't a media company. They are an information, fact gathering and verifying service. This is called a wire-feed.
While bloggers are crap might be a generalization it is true that they have no controls or standards set for them. News sites are the same (many media groups such as fox got declared entertainment and have no legal reason to say the truth).
Again, I said news is crap. I think basically you aren't realizing that there are 3 groups we are talking about. Bloggers, News media like CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and WIRE-FEEDS like Reuters, AP and AFP.
I think the thing you don't know is that there was a ruling a while back in regards to Monsanto essentially paying Fox to lie about their products, where it was ruled that news organizations have no obligation to provide truthful reporting. This one decision caused more damage than anything else. BUT a wire-feed is a completely different beast, has nothing to do with sensationalism.
You are showing that seasonal vaccines negatively effect the H1N1 virus. Even in your quote it says that the goal of not using the seasonal vaccine is so that you can focus on the H1N1 vaccine. Which is to say the vaccine is a good thing and useful and Lancet supports it.
All roads lead to reuters? If you read stories from actual media, ie not blogs they DO do this, and you can follow most things back to reuters and AP. Fox and MSNBC both might link to the same reuters info amusingly enough. Or if it is particularly charged they link to nothing and you can tell right away that it is going to be a blathering opinion piece.
Reuters issues apologies and if it is a big mistake has a whole article making the correction. Bloggers aren't expected to do anything. And often they don't.
As well if Reuters makes a mistake it is because of something in the field, a misunderstanding or a commander lying. Maybe a miscount or a typo very very rarely a photographer going rogue. It is very very unlikely the Reuters will ever release an article that is wrong due to a lack of fact checking. And i doubt you can give a single example in the last 20years that involves source amnesia. This completely protects them from this problem, and in fact makes Reuters on of the only things bringing us real facts.
The problem showcased in the summary is because Bloggers are very rarely investigative journalists, what this means is their data comes from someplace else. Because they have no standards they often take anything as a source, even other Bloggers they don't know. This would be the equivalent of CNN lifting articles from the opinion section of MSNBC. While it is possible the opinion section could be filled with truth and gold there is not even a remote guarantee. Lately, taking a page from bloggers news stations actually have started to do 'research' the same way as Bloggers, and are lifting articles from the blogosphere. This is a horrible source that clearly isn't to be trusted but they are lazy. Now what is happening is that News AND Blogs have turned into GOSSIP. The only advantage News has is that sometimes they have some journalistic standards, atleast many of them spent years in university for this so their is a chance. The advantage blogs have is that their is a comment system with ratings, like/. making lots of mistakes they are often corrected if you read through the first few pages.
But Reuters is completely different, there are about 4~5 wire feed sources and maybe a halfdozen trusted inside bloggers and press releases. This makes up the entirety of our trusted news sources. Once you can show me a blogosphere that has 10,000 fulltime people willing to risk their lives to get information from the places we need it, dangerous battlegrounds, ranking politicians and so on. Then it might be ready to take over. But if we lost our trusted sources now, we would be blind, we would only have worthless gossip to work with and we would be completely unable to build our own opinions.
Please feel free to like blogs more than mainstream news. But please dear lord don't rank blogs over AP or reuters. There is no sense in that at all, you are making a fatal mistake.
Oh man I failed reading comprehension, missed the last line GP said which made your argument look insane. @_@ GJ proving your own point. And not being insane. I rightly expect to be modded into oblivion now.
He doesn't remember it because we ENDED polio. Good job proving his point. Polio cases are a small SMALL percentage of what they used to be and restricted to only poor countries.
No, nice fallacious attack though. I think he's say instead of listening to a comedian you should listen to a doctor or a head of medicine. Or hell listen to the data.
That's fine, I bet vaccinations does a better job than 20%. Every hospital I've been too has been very clean, and does have sinks and gloves everywhere. People get a lot of infections at hospitals, the people there are at the highest risk. And high risk situations are when vaccines make the most sense. I won't comment on the enforcement but the vaccine for these people makes really good sense.
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Optimizing for games makes sense or rendering software. Optimizing for benchmarks seems like a pretty clear violation of the rules.
It does point out an weakness in benchmarks over in game tests though. If a company spends all of their time optimizing for specific applications then they will get lower marks in a benchmark than they would in real life. But it isn't fair to apply these to benchmarks. Lends more credence to the 'top 5 games' benchmarks that tomshardware or whoever uses.
Optimizing things by application is a good thing. While benchmarks are nice and all I don't think ATI gave a shit about cheating on benchmarks. At the time the game art on the cover of every video card was Quake 3. It isn't shocking to see they did a few optimizations for it, I'd be surprised if they didn't. Cool read though, neat seeing groups hack little toys like that together.
Wait, that's not cool anymore? Don't worry though you are on /. no one here is cool or gives a shit about it.
Grey area have been around before technology. Public speeches/appearances. Newspaper articles. Work related duties. So on. Nothing new here just as the GP says.
Uhhh... how many restraining orders does she put out that she can't be expected to track them all??? How'd you get an informative mod :/ He didn't say leave Facebook... And on that issue it would be dealt with the same way restraining orders deal with public places.
"have to respectfully disagree with you there. It's not that feminists are trying to get more rights than men, it's that they're trying to get them more rights than they currently have. Totally different."
"The goal of feminism is to get women more rights"
Sounds like we are in agreement...I think that the goal of a feminism promoting women is sexist. If you cared about equality your fight wouldn't be for women it would be for equality generally. A good example is in Canada when women were granted the right to voted the feminist movement celebrated as would I. But Nellie McClung pushed that men should have the right to vote. Which is fully in line with feminism but clearly opposed to Equalism.
A lot of the issues you listed are cultural and suck and we will keep working towards fixing these issues, I think/hope they will get better with time. BTW women win the nobel prize all the time and its nothing special at all, maybe you are thinking of 20years ago.
I don't think all feminists are bad but I think it lends itself to abuse whereas stating that you are an equalist does not.
Feminism has turned into a bitch movement. Women have equal rights pretty much, they need defending and the occasional tweak, I don't believe there is such a gap that there needs to be a movement any more.
That said if anyone asks I tell them I'm an equalist NOT a feminist. The goal of feminism is to get women more rights which is at its root sexist. Equalists fight for equality which basically everyone can stand behind comfortably.
Assholes abound. Did the Debian community support these guys? Did their comments get a following or were they condemned by both guys and girls of the debian community. I think that's your answer.
Actually watch that slideshow. The first 5slides are about guys and over all it has almost as many guy slides as girl slides. Crass and inappropriate yes, sexist maybe not? I don't know the guy. But I'm sure a stuck up guy could complain about the first slide showing a muscle bound guy, crotch censored and talking about size being important. Lets go with sexist to both genders? I'm an equalist not a feminist and this doesn't really offend me at all. Damn stupid for a presentation but not particularly imbalanced.
Also as mentioned it was one thing and a small group if that's the best you've got we are fucking golden. Hell my dad is a lawyer and in the courtroom I hear more imbalanced women directed comments in an average day. (Most because there are a lot of older lawyers)
If you live in a northeastern state maybe. Go anywhere where religiousness is decently above the average and you will see girls unable to work anywhere out of a dress and men with long hair beaten up. The worst one is discrimination against gays.
I know a guy that is gender confused, bi-sexual with long hair fairly gender neutral and lives in a religious community. Growing up he got beaten regularly by a wide variety of the city, including people stoning him. He had his jaw broken a few times, been shoved down flights of stairs (this is half by adults too not kids) and even stabbed.
Just because you happen to live in a nice part of the country don't think it is the same everywhere. Violent crimes over these things ramps up a lot as soon as you travel into the bible belt. I think defending 'equalists' (I much prefer equalists over feminists) is very important.
The article is about women you dolt. No shit he said girl. That was the comparison.
OSS because of the 1.9% number is pretty much a boys club, we often say things that we wouldn't say around women. This can result in some off colour words like the stallman comment. The 1st two are actually sexist and the last one is ... the feminist movement being overprotective (which i think is ok in this case). So two examples of real sexism.
That said, OSS IS a sheer meritocracy. I don't or very rarely know the gender race or even political views of people I work with. And conversations rarely turn nearly as bad as thing you can hear at bars or clubs or school. Perhaps its because nerds don't get laid as often but we don't seem to parade it around when we do as if it would make us better people. The worst WORST thing I can think of is the 'there are no girls on the internet' joke meme. But I bet if you ask around I'm sure most guys will say there are far too few girls on the internet. And we'd be more than happy to have more.
I think the media's representation of nerds does far FAR worse in deterring girls from FOSS than the actual nerd community ever could. As well a large % of us statistically have social issues, aspbergers and the like which make seeking out girls more difficult.
People need to understand the importance of the and rise up and request this or it'll never happen. I really can't see Fox users shutting off their TVs due to inadequately cited information... they have interviewers that berate people and cut mics so.
No, I think journalists and bloggers are both crap. Investigation and fact checking is rare. I'm not saying it is impossible for good to come from them simply rare. Reuters isn't a media company. They are an information, fact gathering and verifying service. This is called a wire-feed.
While bloggers are crap might be a generalization it is true that they have no controls or standards set for them. News sites are the same (many media groups such as fox got declared entertainment and have no legal reason to say the truth).
Again, I said news is crap. I think basically you aren't realizing that there are 3 groups we are talking about. Bloggers, News media like CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and WIRE-FEEDS like Reuters, AP and AFP.
I think the thing you don't know is that there was a ruling a while back in regards to Monsanto essentially paying Fox to lie about their products, where it was ruled that news organizations have no obligation to provide truthful reporting. This one decision caused more damage than anything else. BUT a wire-feed is a completely different beast, has nothing to do with sensationalism.
Wow talk about /vertisement. This sounds like it was written by a marketing person. Scary :/
Proved the wrong thing.
You are showing that seasonal vaccines negatively effect the H1N1 virus. Even in your quote it says that the goal of not using the seasonal vaccine is so that you can focus on the H1N1 vaccine. Which is to say the vaccine is a good thing and useful and Lancet supports it.
Yay terrible arguments.
All roads lead to reuters? If you read stories from actual media, ie not blogs they DO do this, and you can follow most things back to reuters and AP. Fox and MSNBC both might link to the same reuters info amusingly enough. Or if it is particularly charged they link to nothing and you can tell right away that it is going to be a blathering opinion piece.
Reuters issues apologies and if it is a big mistake has a whole article making the correction. Bloggers aren't expected to do anything. And often they don't.
/. making lots of mistakes they are often corrected if you read through the first few pages.
As well if Reuters makes a mistake it is because of something in the field, a misunderstanding or a commander lying. Maybe a miscount or a typo very very rarely a photographer going rogue. It is very very unlikely the Reuters will ever release an article that is wrong due to a lack of fact checking. And i doubt you can give a single example in the last 20years that involves source amnesia. This completely protects them from this problem, and in fact makes Reuters on of the only things bringing us real facts.
The problem showcased in the summary is because Bloggers are very rarely investigative journalists, what this means is their data comes from someplace else. Because they have no standards they often take anything as a source, even other Bloggers they don't know. This would be the equivalent of CNN lifting articles from the opinion section of MSNBC. While it is possible the opinion section could be filled with truth and gold there is not even a remote guarantee. Lately, taking a page from bloggers news stations actually have started to do 'research' the same way as Bloggers, and are lifting articles from the blogosphere. This is a horrible source that clearly isn't to be trusted but they are lazy. Now what is happening is that News AND Blogs have turned into GOSSIP. The only advantage News has is that sometimes they have some journalistic standards, atleast many of them spent years in university for this so their is a chance. The advantage blogs have is that their is a comment system with ratings, like
But Reuters is completely different, there are about 4~5 wire feed sources and maybe a halfdozen trusted inside bloggers and press releases. This makes up the entirety of our trusted news sources. Once you can show me a blogosphere that has 10,000 fulltime people willing to risk their lives to get information from the places we need it, dangerous battlegrounds, ranking politicians and so on. Then it might be ready to take over. But if we lost our trusted sources now, we would be blind, we would only have worthless gossip to work with and we would be completely unable to build our own opinions.
Please feel free to like blogs more than mainstream news. But please dear lord don't rank blogs over AP or reuters. There is no sense in that at all, you are making a fatal mistake.
He didn't say listen to Frist he said don't listen to Maher. I take it you never learned the difference between iff and if statements or logic gates.
Mod parent up, its totally true. the fact that it is at -1 is an insult to /. to have something so clearly modded "-1 disagree, i'm ignorant"
Oh man I failed reading comprehension, missed the last line GP said which made your argument look insane. @_@ GJ proving your own point. And not being insane. I rightly expect to be modded into oblivion now.
He doesn't remember it because we ENDED polio. Good job proving his point. Polio cases are a small SMALL percentage of what they used to be and restricted to only poor countries.
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Give me a good peer reviewed study that says flu shots are bad.
No, nice fallacious attack though. I think he's say instead of listening to a comedian you should listen to a doctor or a head of medicine. Or hell listen to the data.
That's fine, I bet vaccinations does a better job than 20%. Every hospital I've been too has been very clean, and does have sinks and gloves everywhere. People get a lot of infections at hospitals, the people there are at the highest risk. And high risk situations are when vaccines make the most sense. I won't comment on the enforcement but the vaccine for these people makes really good sense.