I don't know if the railroads still do this, but you used to see men walking down the length of a train tapping each wheel with a hammer and listening to the way they rang. They did this because if a wheel was going bad (i.e., cracking) they wouldn't sound right. It might have looked like busy-work, or featherbedding, but it prevented many train wrecks and saved countless lives.

Maintaining a presence on the 'dark' side of the moon so you can have even better astronomy is pretty cool.

Not just better telescopes, or even bigger ones. Imagine how big you can make radio telescopes there, and how much more sensitive they'll be with the Moon insulating them from all of the Earth's radio output.

Nope. If a computer can turn an LED on/off, that's an output device. How it's normally used doesn't matter, it's how it _can_ be used.

So, by your definition a monitor is not an output device, because "in the general sense of the word, you won't be storing or sending data to another standard device" with it. OK, whatever.

Assuming the discussion is regarding the usual keyboards used with IBM type PCs, the indicator lights are under control of the computer, and not just simple local indicators.

EVERY cert test I've ever taken tests not knowledge of the subject/product, but the ability to do rote memorization of the training materials, even if it's wrong. It's all a moneymaking scam.

On my phone? Whenever my provider pushes an update.
On my computer? Only when my current OS isn't doing something I need it to do.

I'll say this. I'm from the state that exported him, so he'd stop pestering people here and spread his attentions around (kinda like Arkansas did with Clinton).

I stand behind my statement.

I think that the idea is that no demon can force you to make such a pact. They can try to trick you, but when it comes right down to it you have to make the decision yourself. You can't even claim that you didn't understand what you were agreeing to because anybody capable of summoning a demon is (or should be) able to understand exactly what the end result of any pact is going to be.

I was saying the the OP was an unworkable solution. You seem to be arguing something completely different.

HAH! TOO LATE!

Why should he be any different than any other president sitting in office in the last 45 years?

Even their damn name is synonymous with the word search.

Just because you refer to searching as "Googling" doesn't mean that you have to use them for your searches. As I mentioned in another post I use Startpage.com when I want to google for something.

You might try Startpage.com because it doesn't keep track of your IP, does everything over https and doesn't remove punctuation "to get you more results" when you put the quotation marks around a phrase to make sure that you only saw results with the exact phrase. Much better than Google!

Using a beefier GPU isn't necessarily the wrong choice, assuming you can sink enough heat. From my perspective, the critical questions are how it compares in terms of power per watt and minimum idle power.

For example, consider two GPUs. The faster chip uses 80% more power at full throttle, but gives you twice the computing power. So if you need to do 10 units of work, the slower ship will take 10 seconds to do it, and the second one will take five seconds, but will use the same amount of power as the first chip would use in 9 seconds. Assuming the idle power on the faster chip doesn't eat up all the gains, you'll end up with better battery life by using the faster chip.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find full specs for the Nvidia Quadro K620M, so I can't say for sure whether that's the reason for that design decision.

We can strive to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities.

That we can. What we can't do (without things like quotas) is ensure equality of outcome, which is what this article is really about. No matter how neutral and objective Microsoft's hiring practices are, they can't hire women who don't apply there and won't hire women who aren't qualified. There's also, of course, the problem that HR is again confusing credentials for ability, but that's an ongoing issue that's as much of a problem for men with great computer skills but no degree as it is for women.