While I generally agree, I would like integrated graphics in their high end chips. That north-bridge gives be the shits when trying to do some numerical computing. It takes too long to move data from system memory to gpu memory. An integrated chip will alleviate this.
You have an extremely small percentage of extremely powerful people whose greed knows no bounds. Ethics and morality are completely non-existent; except of course for their elite families.
Granted, a particularly bad example. But I think the GPs point still stands.
There is a shitload to know and understand about computers, both hardware and software. Not to mention the stacks of software. It is similar to expecting a scientist to know all about all of science. Not possible.
I would be awful in a software development house; totally unemployable. Adhering to all the standards and such. But I still have my usefulness. I don't really understand a lot about networking shite but that doesn't stop me from writing parallel rendering algorithms and engines for smp machines, clusters and workstations; multiple GPUs in a single machine, multiple in multiple machines, etc. This is for realtime interaction of terabyte datasets. All I know is that I want arrays of SSDs on a network drive for storage. I don't really give too much of a fuck how it is done unless I identify that portion as a significant bottleneck.
I get the proof of concept code up when people tell me it can't be done that way then I throw it to the dev team to implement properly and move onto the next task.
A poster above highlighted using linux for the devs and testing in a VM environment. I think this gets top marks and is how I can get most of what I need done.
I thought I was going to have to inject silicon under the skin on my shoulder. Funny, didn't think all those implant leakages produced well adjusted, although a little quiet and drooley, bar wenches.
Lawyers are even worse. Once, when I used to live with a bunch of lawyers, a girl from one of their offices (contract lawyer) was so into porn that she used to come around to our house and bring her weekly favourite movies, put them on and proceed to tell us which bits were her favourite. She loved watching female orgasms. She would have been a lot of fun.
My point is, let women make those decisions. Let women take offence if they do so and let them take action if need be. Men that take that line just look... desperate and hopeless.
My wife took me to a strip club for my birthday, got me drunk, bought me a lapdance and then took advantage of me.
Most women that I know realise that there are women that don't do much for their liberation. They are ok with it and accept it and enjoy it for what it is. Just as there are men who pretend to be bigger feminists than women and in doing so look stupid.
For weeks and weeks audio didn't work on my machine. I tried all sorts of things. Well, honestly, I did a two second search and tried one thing. It's just that sound is not that important for my work machine so I don't really care.
Then, all of a sudden it started to work. It turned out that all I needed to do was reboot after updating (kernel or something). Lucky I had that client that did some nasty stuff with memory that required me to reboot. I couldn't remember the last time I rebooted.
I download mine from the site. However, the last time I downloaded one was about 9 months ago. Yes I have had to reinstall it, oh, only about a billion times since then (gotta stop tinkering), but I've always used the one I originally grabbed.
If there is another thing Linux has taught me, it is to always keep a local copy of the really important things. That, and my ISP will always go 'down' at what I believe to be a critical time.
Cause you can make huge amounts of cash as a tradesperson (I earn $80K but a carpenter friend of mine is more than double that). Plus, for some reason, all the women (slight generalisation) prefer to marry tradies cause they can fix the house, etc.
We also have those who have chips on their shoulders about those with degrees and will refuse to get one on principle.
But you cannot deny that some will play it up to appear to be brilliant and conform to what has been stereotyped. These fakers can be difficult to spot right up until they have to do something. I've across a few of these. They are just social misfits and not too bright. Some, however, are clever at the lie; will sit back and pretend to know the solution and allow others the 'opportunity' to solve it the way the faker would.
I've found that those people who are genuinely smart are also fine socially (pretty much are good at anything presented to them). They have a few interesting quirks but nothing debilitating.
Won't it depend on typical behaviour of the system at hand? Program for the typical case but prepare a single memcopy (not that I use them) for the 3 standard deviations case (and one for the outlier). Copying the memory, while expensive, *may* not be as expensive as extensive cache missing in the typical case.
I have to admit I was thinking the same. How does a balloon get you into space exactly? Them MIT people are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to keep enrollments up. This is amateur stuff. Fun, but not ground breaking.
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While I generally agree, I would like integrated graphics in their high end chips. That north-bridge gives be the shits when trying to do some numerical computing. It takes too long to move data from system memory to gpu memory. An integrated chip will alleviate this.
We breath oxygen. What do you breath there?
You have an extremely small percentage of extremely powerful people whose greed knows no bounds. Ethics and morality are completely non-existent; except of course for their elite families.
Granted, a particularly bad example. But I think the GPs point still stands.
There is a shitload to know and understand about computers, both hardware and software. Not to mention the stacks of software. It is similar to expecting a scientist to know all about all of science. Not possible.
I would be awful in a software development house; totally unemployable. Adhering to all the standards and such. But I still have my usefulness. I don't really understand a lot about networking shite but that doesn't stop me from writing parallel rendering algorithms and engines for smp machines, clusters and workstations; multiple GPUs in a single machine, multiple in multiple machines, etc. This is for realtime interaction of terabyte datasets. All I know is that I want arrays of SSDs on a network drive for storage. I don't really give too much of a fuck how it is done unless I identify that portion as a significant bottleneck.
I get the proof of concept code up when people tell me it can't be done that way then I throw it to the dev team to implement properly and move onto the next task.
A poster above highlighted using linux for the devs and testing in a VM environment. I think this gets top marks and is how I can get most of what I need done.
Only ones stupid enough to enlist?
Yeah, agreed. To pass up an opportunity to use "funbags" verges on criminal.
// Summed up perfectly
*= 2;
Phew!
I thought I was going to have to inject silicon under the skin on my shoulder. Funny, didn't think all those implant leakages produced well adjusted, although a little quiet and drooley, bar wenches.
Cool ... use it to predict the next financial crash.
The story is that gblnetnt07 (cabinet 311R) really needed to be rebooted and TG185 has less than 0 ports left
Sheeze! I bet that was your pager.
I was having a bitch of a time too. For weeks it didn't work. As a last straw I rebooted. Everything was fine :)
ID10Ts
Awesome.
Ummm ... Sit closer?
PS I love my 30" monitors.
This is what they were searching for, isn't it. This is it. Particle detected!
And clearly it has a bitchin' sense of humour.
Lawyers are even worse. Once, when I used to live with a bunch of lawyers, a girl from one of their offices (contract lawyer) was so into porn that she used to come around to our house and bring her weekly favourite movies, put them on and proceed to tell us which bits were her favourite. She loved watching female orgasms. She would have been a lot of fun.
My point is, let women make those decisions. Let women take offence if they do so and let them take action if need be. Men that take that line just look ... desperate and hopeless.
My wife took me to a strip club for my birthday, got me drunk, bought me a lapdance and then took advantage of me.
Most women that I know realise that there are women that don't do much for their liberation. They are ok with it and accept it and enjoy it for what it is. Just as there are men who pretend to be bigger feminists than women and in doing so look stupid.
For weeks and weeks audio didn't work on my machine. I tried all sorts of things. Well, honestly, I did a two second search and tried one thing. It's just that sound is not that important for my work machine so I don't really care.
Then, all of a sudden it started to work. It turned out that all I needed to do was reboot after updating (kernel or something). Lucky I had that client that did some nasty stuff with memory that required me to reboot. I couldn't remember the last time I rebooted.
I download mine from the site. However, the last time I downloaded one was about 9 months ago. Yes I have had to reinstall it, oh, only about a billion times since then (gotta stop tinkering), but I've always used the one I originally grabbed.
If there is another thing Linux has taught me, it is to always keep a local copy of the really important things. That, and my ISP will always go 'down' at what I believe to be a critical time.
Cause you can make huge amounts of cash as a tradesperson (I earn $80K but a carpenter friend of mine is more than double that). Plus, for some reason, all the women (slight generalisation) prefer to marry tradies cause they can fix the house, etc.
We also have those who have chips on their shoulders about those with degrees and will refuse to get one on principle.
But you cannot deny that some will play it up to appear to be brilliant and conform to what has been stereotyped. These fakers can be difficult to spot right up until they have to do something. I've across a few of these. They are just social misfits and not too bright. Some, however, are clever at the lie; will sit back and pretend to know the solution and allow others the 'opportunity' to solve it the way the faker would.
I've found that those people who are genuinely smart are also fine socially (pretty much are good at anything presented to them). They have a few interesting quirks but nothing debilitating.
your mom does
*did*
NEWSFLASH!
Journalist doesn't fully understand computer technologies.
Are you really that surprised?
You both are correct.
Won't it depend on typical behaviour of the system at hand? Program for the typical case but prepare a single memcopy (not that I use them) for the 3 standard deviations case (and one for the outlier). Copying the memory, while expensive, *may* not be as expensive as extensive cache missing in the typical case.
I have to admit I was thinking the same. How does a balloon get you into space exactly? Them MIT people are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to keep enrollments up. This is amateur stuff. Fun, but not ground breaking.