This hasn't been shown by the data. Viewers are shown a limited number of ads. If women get a lot of women specific ads, they'll get fewer gender neutral ones.

I still have an old ThinkPad with 256MB Ram that I have running on BeOS in a drawer.

BeOS is very responsive because EVERY thing ins threaded and they embraced multi-threading and SMP from day 1. Other OS/s use an event loop in the GUI apps while BeOS does it somewhat different. It encourages threading and not a single loop when you consume an event, process it and then go on to the next one. Events tend to spawn threads that then interact with each other. The single event consumer thing is a very old paradigm in UI design.

Another OS which is very very responsive for the same reason is Photon, the GUI running on QNX.

I miss BeOS, was really a great system.

Human industrialized society that has mature around the automobile has long had access to long range and near instantaneous restoring of full range capabilities.
To put that in more simple and concrete terms the average gasoline vehicle travels about 300-350 miles on a tank of fuel (about 5-7 hours) then can completely refuel from 0 range to 100% range in about 3 minutes at any commodity fuel station, or they can carry extra fuel in containers for very long or rural trips.

Until electric vehicles use batteries that are either: universal, interchangeable and can be swapped out in 5 minutes or they care capable of simply accepting a full charge in place in less than about 10 minutes then purely electric vehicles are doomed to be a niche market in modern society. At least until petrol fuel prices rise to make the hassles of recharging more tolerable.

We could also eliminate the charrging/range issue if people would give up the notion they need to own their own cars. IF there were simply a car club/service that you would use a car until the battery was close to depleted then drop it off at a charging center and step in to a new one, it would resolve the range issue as well. I don't see people, at least in the US, doing that any time soon.

So I'll end this the way I end all posts about electric and hybrid vehicles: switch to diesel electric instead of gasoline electric and you'll be on to something. Diesel-electric is the standard for every other transportation mode and use that isn't pure petrol or nuclear: ship, submarine, train, mining, etc. The efficiency if diesel engines is highly attuned to the constant-rate engine speed that diesel electric requires and wold probably increase hybrid vehicle range and efficiency by 2-3x.

WTF do you have such a thing???

A friend of mine who studied chemistry used to light his BBQ fires with self-made napalm. He stopped doing that whan a) some right-wing terrorists inquired about building a bomb and b) He blew the roof off his lab-room and almost killed himself.

Then went into making drug, but that ended with an raid by the cops armed with heavy weapons who kicked down the door when his mom was there. They had bugged a kettle that she bought over the mail.

Suhweet. Definitely. I one used a Nintendo Powerglove with wire cut to interface with a joystick port and used to to play a Tci Tac Toe game we wrote. Back in 92 or so. That impressed some chicks...

My sister is a veterinarian in nowhere, Africa and she has a PhD in Veterinary science. She does it because she likes it!

Once a RAID card on a machine with a critical database croaked. I EBayed for a replacement, did a buy now and phoned the seller and offered him 100$ Cash if he sent the damn card by courier RIGHT NOW at . Next morning it was waiting for me.

Problem was that the yokel who configured the card did not write down the config and I could not boot it. So I looked at the chip numbers and figure that one of them was a NVRAM chip. Took the NVRAM chip from the broken card with the hope that it had the config and plugged it into the new card. I was never in my life so happy to see Windows NT boot.

The data was rescuable, a few years later wrote a C program to reconstruct the RAID disks from image on that same damn machine, but that was critical and had to be done fast.

OF course my boss ran around and told the board that WE did some hardware engineering. He had nothing to do with it.

There was a large Time Warner outage a week or two back... it was blamed on a fiber cut in DC (that fed this area). Makes me wonder if it's just a coincidence...

To reply to myself: The commute is by train, not car. And I live 5 minutes walk from the station.

Agreed. I live in Germany, 15 km from one of the most expensive cities in the country. I live in a small town, 15 minute commute to the inner city (and 20 to my office). I own a large house, large garden, grow my own vegetables and have a much better quality of living than almost all of my colleagues. They all rent.

It's not brain surgery.

If you have 1 apple and no people then no division takes place. The answer is not 0 slices it's "no process completed". The answer is not "no one gets the apple" because there aren't any "ones" in the system to not get the apple, there is no solution other than to scream.
The problem is you don't understand how to properly express the real world in mathematical or algorithmic terms.

The OP said he knew about literal string search and didn't want that, he wants hits in line with his context. "They try very hard to present me with what they think I'm searching for instead of what I'm actually searching for."
So he doesn't want what they think he wants and he doesn't want "everything". How does he suppose the search engine will know what he wants?

You want a search engine that knows what you meant by "2000s" and doesn't just return simple string matches, but you don't want that same engine to "think" for you. How would that look to you for any arbitrary search?
How is the search engine supposed to have any context of what you want without more information?

"Peanut butter" What do you want back, places that make it, sell it, grow the peanuts, ship it, recipes, allergies, how to make it stick to people's skin, using it to get pills down your dog's throat? Is there band called peanut butter, an album, song, artist, patinting, place?

There's no "simple" search you could use that wound't require the search engine to "think" for you. A full an complete set of search parameters is needed to get to what YOU want.

Give Oracle a break.

When Java was run as a totally open source thing by Sun it did not generate enough revenue and Sun, well, died. Went bankrupt. sold all their assets. Fired all their staff. Companies still need revenue and Sun's model did not work.

I am sure Oracle is not going to keep running Java the same way after that happened.