They legally cannot discriminate based on race, sex, or age. But anything else is fair game. That's the way it is. To deny that the sorters have any bias is naive. If you're worth your salt, you'd put effort in your resume to keep it from happening to yourself, or use it to make your ink and paper to stand out in a positive way above the other sheets of paper with ink on them that you're competing with.

Whoever is in charge of finding new hires will get a stack of 100+ resumes. They need to sort through and grab a handful of resumes they want to interview from. They most certainly are not got to interview every applicant that throws a resume their way. They need to divide the pile into yes, no, and maybes. If they get a big enough pile of "yes" then the maybes will not even make it to consideration.

First thing they do is skim for any spelling mistakes. If they find one, you're out of the pile. Giant block of text? You're out! Ugly font? You're out! In this preliminary sorting procedure, any bias that the sorter has will separate a yes from a maybe, or a maybe from a no.

Every detail counts. Sloppy, inappropriate, or antiquated email addresses that could cause the reviewer to twinge in any way will affect your changes of getting into the interview pile. If you want your best foot forward, this is just one of a number of things to avoid on a resume.

While the articles is very interesting on explaining the chip archetecture and technical specifications, I can't believe there sin't a single actual gaming benchmark on these chips yet.

The best they can do is give an estimated calculation on how the chips may or may not actually live up to. They estimate that it will be faster at gaming than ATI's already released 5870.

By the time Nvidia actually releases their Fermi GPU's, ATI's Cypres will have been actively selling for over 3 months. And there's a funny thing about advancements over time: things keep getting faster (aka Moore's Law). Supposing that chips are supposed to double in transistor count every year, the new Fermi chips need to have 20% more transistors than ATI's RV5870 if they release 3 months later... just to keep on the same curve.

And there's still no mention of pricing... but that's expected on a product that doesn't actually run games yet. I don't see a lot of optimism on the gaming front, so I hope for Nvidia's sake that the investment into GPGPU is the branch out they need to trump ATI's sales.

Some people have a problem with their fantasy games seem too much like reality.

Warning: Reality may not be suitable for younger children.

Just when you think Chocolate Milk was far enough, Coke raises the bar.

East Coast = Hurricanes
West Cost = Earthquakes
Midwest = Tornadoes

Here's a thought: regardless of where it's build, the dangerous part will be underground. Last I heard, tornadoes don't burrow.

You need to lay it on a bit thicker. Someone might think you're serious.

Now you know the irony that Lou Gehrig felt when he found out he had Lou Gehrig's disease.

Since beer is already off the list for Iranians, that leaves only one option.

The Spanish Inquisition!

Because microwave ovens, lasers, LEDs, solar cells, and satellites wouldn't be around if it weren't for pure research in the fields of physics, chemistry, and material science. Businesses will decide what research is profitable once theren't enough solid knowledge and know how to make the efficient and effective. Businesses don't invent things from scratch, they rework what's already known into a commercial product.

Adam starts to get lonely in the Garden of Eden and asks God for a partner to enjoy life with. God puts Adam asleep, and he awakes to Eve sleeping next to him.

Adam: Wow God, she's beautiful. But by rib hurts like a bitch.
God: Ya, sorry about that. There were some complications, and I needed to use one of your ribs to finish making her.
Adam: I gotta admit, she's absolutely gorgeous, so I think it's a fair trade. Whoa now, I'm starting to feel kinda funny. Why am I getting hard down there?
God: Now that you have a woman, I installed a new feature for you. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but I think you'll have a lot of fun with that.
Adam: Now I'm feeling kinda whoozy.
God: Oh yes, that brings up another important detail. When I took your rib, there was substantial blood loss. You're two most important physical organs are your dick and your brain. Unfortunately, you now only have enough blood to use one at a time.

You should definitely avoid the new "Che" movie, if someone tries to drag you to that one. 2:40 is nothing.

I still use my TI-89 all the time. On rare occasions I actually do integrals, but usually it's solving for an algebraic variable. And I get a lot of use out of the built in unit conversion.

But honestly i use it mostly for add/subtract/divide/multiply. This poor thing hasn't gotten a full use of functionality for many years since my days in linear algebra and diff eq.

They're bigger than Jesus you know.