Not sure why you need a citation when it's something you can witness with your own eyes.

This is exactly it. Wish I had mod points.

You'd think they'd find a way to make it fit precisely onto one CD. The previous distributions have all hovered around 650MB, why can't this one?

It's precise, not accurate.

I've sat through interviews before where I got hit with some of these "puzzle" questions. The thing that really struck me was that the questions were the kind you'd need to be a Nobel Laureate to solve (not really), but were completely obvious if you *knew* the answer. So, as these were "novel" or "neat" "brain-teasers" - they really assessed only if you were some mathematical savant - and had nothing to do with your coding, or even problem-solving abilities. I'm 100% sure that the interviewer wouldn't have been able to figure out the answers, if he hadn't already known them.

These are really just a proxy IQ test with questions that only someone on the far right end of the bell curve can answer. The reason they do this is because requiring an actual IQ test to be taken is illegal, so they've found a loophole. If the company that was hiring you was not actually requiring that the questions be solved, then my guess is that they had a lower IQ bar than Google but didn't understand the reason behind what Google/Microsoft et al does enough to find some questions that were hard but still easier than Google's questions. Basically a cargo cult approach to hiring.

Seeing as you are the vim user, you will have significantly less RSI. At times like this it, uh, comes in handy.

It is the same deal with racial terms - and it's not bad attitude on the part of the observer so much as it's that the association with other non-skin color aspects of the phenotype that catches up with whatever word you choose to call the rose. Propensity for criminality, for example.

We've had half a century or more of increased attempts to change the attitude of those who observe it. In 2011 it's impossible to turn on a television or open a newspaper without being hit with an attempt to modify the viewer's attitude in the way that you suggest. Fortunately, the unchecked immigration in our countries has brought the diversity experience to everyone. Now we are forced to ask who we believe - the media or our own lying eyes?

World of Warcraft?

A good sword would do wonders, but you'd need one first and how long could you keep swinging it before you're chow?

That's why you need a choke point that limits them to single file, then an oiled uphill slope to get to your location. To one side of the slope you need a very deep ditch to accumulate the zombie remains. And you need a safety harness and anchor point so that you don't inadvertently slip down your oiled slope to be munched on by the zombie horde. And you need a sign saying "attach safety harness before fighting zombies" so that you don't go into action in absent-minded professor mode.

Progress Quest is one of the best antidotes to gaming. Because it shows how robotic and mindless the whole process is, you can start to see games for what they are in many cases - different values of the same variables designed to suck you in, exercise your pleasure centers and part you from your money. Seeing the process from the PQ perspective is like swallowing the red pill.

Gaming in terms of money is relatively cheap. In terms of opportunity cost, it's very expensive. The time that could be spent on what used to be life is now sucked away in some fake universe. Sampling some of the highest art of gaming can be beneficial, but too much of a good thing is a definite vice.

That's one of the reasons I would have ethical qualms about creating a mindless, addictive game - doing such is all too similar to manufacturing or growing drugs.

How do I get Aussies to riot. It seem we will put up with anything like whipped dogs.

The same way you get anyone else to riot. Wait until they have to have nothing else to lose.

You raise some good points. It is certain that as your own intelligence increases to where you find yourself smarter than all but a fraction of a percent of the population, the ideas you have will be mostly correct but most other people won't be able to understand you. This can be incredibly frustrating.

Other than restrict yourself to using only your mundane ideas, you need some way for people to take you seriously. This means credentials (e.g. doctor, lawyer, engineer, MBA), and/or it means making enough money that you can afford to hire and fire until you find others who will take you seriously. Or living with other similarly smart people who can understand you. Sucks, but that's the way the world works.

Also, be very careful about uncovering the BS that the average Joe believes in. You will find a lot in life that everyday folks believe which won't stand up to scrutiny. However, think long and hard before you argue against it publicly, as you either face breaking taboos or interfering with the interests of powerful people.

"Interest rates will fluctuate." - who could argue with that?

FWIW I predict that that particles will have some speed limited to that which will be found in the complex plane.

I also really don't see what the big deal is about TDP - all that determines is what sort of HSF you use. The important thing is the idle power because that is where the CPU sits most of the time.

The unintended consequences of trying to eliminate false positives is that a comparatively huge number of true negatives go free because many will be smart enough to commit risk averse crimes. In murder cases, for every 1 innocent person you save from life sentences or execution you are in effect sentencing many more innocent people to a much more grisly death at the hands of murderers.

There are several things that can momentarily override the need to educate your children. A tornado less than a mile away and heading in your direction, for example. On the whole though, I agree that doing this is a form of "educational debt" that you should make up for your kids at a later date. A similar concept to "technical debt".

Kids also need to learn when it is appropriate to ask questions.