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Hey. What are some examples of modern day oppression?

I know of women, and human trafficking…

Would the oppression of Jews in some cities be counted as one?

Do you have any other examples?
How can they be tied in to slavery in America in the 1800’s?

Dole Qs.

Say there is a 1 Mb file and i want to multiply successive bytes together and want to do it 20 times.How long will it take ?

Also in general how many calculations(not floating point) can a modern computer do ?

1. You need to read the data. Which takes some time.
Note: 1Mb is 125 000 bytes. I guess that you wanted to write something like 1MiB (MiB = Mega-binary byte) instead of Mb (Mega bit).
Let’s ignore that.
2. You need to load it to the computing unit (ALU or something like that)
3. You need to request multiplication
4. You need to read the data.

I suggest 3 ways from here:
CPU (1 core, 1 ALU) – this is the only one that I will calculate
CPU (1 to 8 cores, n ALU’s, n FPU’s, very long optimization path)
GPU (let’s assume 1024 cores)

Multiplication is a binary operation… unless you wanted a decimal operation – which can be split into several instructions.
Assumption: CPU can make the multiplication in 1 cycle.
Assumption: GPU can load/multiply/return it in 1 pass as well

CPU can be ~1GHz => 1 000 000 000 000 cycles per second
20 000 multiplications would be performed in 1/50 000 000 part of the second (if I did correct math here ).
GPU can do the same much faster.

Now let’s go back to the data load… HDD has usually transfer ~20MiB/s. Load time would be ~1s. Multiplication time would be very small when compared to this.

Note: Things like data loading, offset calculation, etc. would take some time. My guess is that it would still take less than 1.001 second including data loading.

I love midevil based stories, but I have so many modern opinions I like to put into my writing, plus my style of writing is not very midevil-ish. If you could hint me in the right direction (with out giving me the answers cause i want to write this myself) that would be amazing.
Please and thank you!
=)

This is a delicate balancing act, since the speech patterns that were acceptable in times past now sound stilted and even pedantic to modern readers. For instance, back in Charles Dickens’s day, contractions were used only by the lower classes. But to write dialogue sans contractions nowadays sticks out like Ebenezer Scrooge at the office Christmas party.

It’s important to develop a good ear for the rhythm and flow of period dialogue, by reading extensively in period literature. Some people have had excellent success mimicking period dialogue (Patrick O’Brian comes to mind), but usually it’s best to find a happy medium. Give your dialogue just enough of an “antique” flavor to keep the reader in the period without bogging him down in alien speech patterns. For example, in the time period in which my recently released medieval novel Behold the Dawn is set, modern-day English was almost entirely unknown, so I had to find a speech pattern that would be intelligible to readers while still grounding them within the setting. For the most part, I accomplished this simply by a judicious use of appropriate dialect.. just enough to give the reader the sense that he was reading a medieval tale, but not enough to make the story incomprehensible.

-K.M. Weiland
Historical and Speculative Novelist
http://www.kmweiland.com

What is the difference between Traditional
Marketing and Modern Marketing? Give some examples of those
companies which are doing Business in India more than 50
years and how they changed from traditional marketing to
modern marketing.

Marketing as I understand is: creating awareness and demand for a product or services and using the supply chain management system, ensuring that it reaches the end user effectively. The Traditional marketing has a manufacturer, whole lot of middleman including traditional advertising and customers. modern marketing has a manufacturer and customers without wwhich no business will function. But the middleman, advertisements and monitoring of demand and supply has undergone lots of changes. Big malls are directly supplying goods from manufacturers to consumers doing away with middlemen. MLMs and Direct Marketing have totally eliminated the middlemen and passing 60% of middlemen revenue to consumers who put some effort by way of word of mouth publicity. Modern communication tools are doing their bit of advertising and monitoring. End consumers get convenience.

My bedroom is looking half modern half old, I need some help on making it look a bit more modern without spending a huge amount of money. Any suggestions?
MY wardrobe is looking fairly old, same with my blind…
I almost definitely will not replace my wardrobe so I need help on making it look more modern. My desk is glass and I need help cleaning it properly. Also the door is Victorian (I think) but is broken alot, so much that you can see through it. Thanks

Try these ideas….=)
Add a floor lamp that’s a bold color….
Add an ottoman to the seating arrangement ; in a bright color that will blend in with shades of the current colors….
Mirrors will make a room look bigger…
Group 6-8 framed photo’s,eye level,on the wall ; frames all the same color;black;gold;silver;brass;wood etc…(inexpensive frames can be found at Dollar Stores)….
Add plants or silk plants….
Cover a Couch or chair with a new slip cover…
Fresh or silk exotic flowers are a nice touch too..
=)
Clean the glass on your desk with 1 part vinegar to 2 parts water…use soft cloth..
Your Wardrobe could be draped on top with a square table cloth (or a piece of fabric,only angle the corners to fall so the points are in the center of each side of it,so the tips are about 10" down each side…….(hope that made sense) Putting tassles on each tip would be a nice touch too……then top that with a large plant or vase,or both…

Whenever i ask a question about baseball , people always separate the modern era and the pre modern era. Why? What are the pros and cons to the pre modern era and the rules of the game at the time?

Do you think the games rules are better now or before? and why?

Before 1900 the rules changed quite a bit. Here are just a few of the rules that were in place at one time.

The pitching mound was closer.
At various times it took 5, 6, and 7 balls for a walk.
The batter could request where he wanted the pitch.
You could throw the ball at a runner to get him out.
If a fielder caught the ball on a bounce the batter was out.

People back during the ancient days of the Roman Empire enjoyed watching that sort of entertainment. Why not now?

If that form of entertainment were brought back to modern day society, would modern man enjoy that form of entertainment?

Today, men do not like to think about death, they’ll do anything to keep their mind off of it, that is why today’s entertainment, even the fighting aspect of the industry, is more of a homosexual propaganda and a business than anything else, its not really a sport, and its not really entertainment, well entertainment for the braindead masses – yes.

I can’t think of any right now. By modern song, I mean anytime in the past 20-30 years. Much thanks to anyone who reads this plea.

Don’t worry, be happy.

I am thinking of upgrading my system. I currently have 512m RAM and 256M Graphics. Now I think of buying another 1G RAM and another 512M Graphics. Are these ok for modern games? +what do I have to look at before buying? Motherboard slots? Energy consumption? What?

First u need a powerful graphic card like Geforce GTX 270 which is sufficient.
All modern games use 512MB graphic cards.
In order to run game smoother,a graphic card of min DDR3 memory is needed.The more powerful the graphic card is,the more power consumption and the overheat are.

A powerful,multi core and good performance processor is needed nowadays.The clockspeed is also important cuz it determines the speed and power of any processor.The more clockspeed is,the more powerful the processor is.
A Intel Core 2 quad or core 7I is sufficient

A good power supply of min 600 Watts is needed cuz the graphic card use more electricity than any other hardwares.A graphic card can use 400 Watts up to different level.

It’s important to add more memory ram into the pc cuz it can get slower if there r too many games installed or to satisfy the games system requirement.
New games use a min of 2GB so better have at least 2GB up to 6GB.
DDR 2 or DDR 3 memory ram r sufficient.
Kingston and Corsair r the best memory ram.

U can choose any motherboards.For me,it doesn’t matter but I prefer Gigabyte motherboards.

I think I have told u all things u should know.
Peace!

Is Modern Warfare: Reflex supposed to be modern Warfare 2 or just the first one? Are there any major differences between the Xbox and Wii version?

its the first one, but its for wii thats the only difference. the graphics are slightly different too but its the same story and stuff