"every airline loses luggage and has rules on how much they will reimburse you"
Incidentally, while airline staff will, at times, attempt to lowball you, they can sometimes be...encouraged... to be more helpful by the implication(ideally true) that you are familiar with the 'The Warsaw convention (as amended by the Hague and Montreal protocols)' if your dispute involves luggage, 'Regulation 261/2004' if your dispute involves flight delays, being bumped, etc. and falls under EU jurisdiction. Trying the same with 'Rule 240' in the US is just a bluff these days, though it sometimes works; but a familiarity with the airline's "Contract of carriage" isn't...
It is well known, though, that Britain is a Very Bad place to be sued for libel. My guess would be that BA isn't going to push it, because they'd rather just have the thing blow over; but British libel law is brutal. (Incidentally, American feelings on 'libel tourism', the practice of suing people in the most favorable venue, were so strong that the "SPEECH Act", which makes all foreign libel judgements unenforceable by US courts unless compliant with 1st amendment standards, passed unanimously in both the house and senate. That's crazy rare.)
I'm not sure we can trust you crazy Dutch about infrastructure questions...
You have this freaky habit of consistently, sometimes for several centuries at a time, actually acting as though 'vital infrastructure' is something that should be carefully maintained and cared for, even when just slapping some duct tape on it and leaving it for the next guy to deal with would be cheaper in the short term... That's just so sensible and consistently virtuous that it makes me nervous.
"(You can also use QuickSync if you have that enabled)"
That might also be unhelpful to the 4960x... since it's basically a Xeon by another name, it has no integrated graphics capabilities. This isn't a major loss as a GPU(since who buys a crazy-expensive CPU and no discrete GPU if they plan to game?); but, given the substantial delta between dedicated encode hardware and doing it in software, it isn't unlikely that a rather humbler CPU with QuickSync's dedicated encoder will put up a good fight against a 4960x doing its own crunching.
I certainly suspect that having all the consoles that aren't Nintendo be 8-thread x86s will increase uptake of multithreaded games (which has been gradually improving, albeit generally with one stubbornly-huge performance-limited thread that is hard to banish because multithreading things just isn't an easy problem); but in this case, the Haswell part, the i7-4770K, is a 4-core/8-thread unit with better performance/thread, while the i7-4960X is a 6-core/12-thread unit with allegedly weaker performance/thread (though better cache and memory bandwidth may compensate for some workloads), so it is still fairly likely that the 4770k will crowd the 4960x pretty aggressively among gamers.
Depending on how they price it, ('flagship' generally adds a major pointless markup; but 'Xeon' has been known to add a nasty dose of sticker-shock when applied to single-socket parts as well), it may be a sweet workstation/single-socket server part; but if it's priced for gamer e-peen contests that's less likely.
Wouldn't multithreading require an actual overhaul of their codebase? Just pegging the hell out of a single core(ideally dragging down the browser and any other program foolish enough to embed Flash) seems like more their style...
They both leak: the integrity of the reactor vessel is Not So Good these days; but it's still overheating so they are pumping water in and pumping whatever doesn't leak into the ground into the holding tanks, which are also leaking.
The tanks are more of a tragifarce, since they've got that 'You run nuclear fucking reactors and you weren't able to build some water storage tanks that don't leak within an alarmingly short time after construction???' thing going on, and the radiation levels of the leaking material are high enough that just sending in the welders isn't necessarily doable.
The reactor leakage is the more serious problem; because those are hot enough, thermally and in the radiation sense, that just fixing the leaks is not really on the table; but not pumping substantial amounts of water, which will promptly be contaminated and partially escape, isn't really optional.
Presumably the efficiency of the chiller drops and the ice starts to melt (one presumes relatively slowly; because it's mostly insulated by being underground and water has a pretty high enthalpy of fusion) until they stop fucking up and fix the leak.
It's big and expensive(and it wouldn't totally surprise me if 'lots of vertical tubes running deep into the ground' is not a fun thing to have to maintain in earthquakeville); but the coolant is unlikely to become substantially contaminated, and virtually all contemporary refrigerants aren't particularly scary(ammonia's not fun, most of the rest are just suffocation risks).
Chernobyl was not...exactly a triumph of reactor design or reactor operation; but the ensuing stabilization effort was actually pretty aggressive (albeit in a 'they had unprotected conscripts attempt to mostly extinguish a melted-down nuclear reactor and then construct a new containment building right on top of it with roughly the same attention to occupational safety and health that made the old penal battalions so exciting' sense).
Wouldn't be compatible with any of the other processing equipment; but you could do it.
My impression(as a layman) is that getting fairly substantial amounts of silicon isn't a big deal, with difficulty increasing as your demands concerning purity, mono-crystallinness, and dimensional accuracy go up; but that the cost of the entire chip fabrication process get very big, very fast, if you want to work with larger wafers.
I haven't been able to figure out how I should calculate the nonvolatile storage requirements, though: HDDs are pretty heavy; but modifying the magnetic orientation shouldn't change their weight. SSDs tend to be lighter; but copying data to one means adding electrons to some of the floating gates (though exactly how many is tricky to calculate) and so there should be an actual change in mass.
Our newfound infatuation with extremely flat laptops that have about as many user-servicable parts as 2001's Monolith means that demand for 18650 Li-ion cells in laptops should be plummeting! Problem solved.
Now we just need to go liberate whoever is living on top of our lithium, and we are good to go.
Given how people who have it in large quantities tend to exude it, I've concluded that obnoxious self importance is a compound with a relatively high vapor pressure. I'm not sure I'd risk heating a celebrity architect and causing its full supply to boil off.
The better per-thread performance of the competing Haswell part may keep them away, though(unless the increased cache makes up for it). Games make better use of additional cores than they used to; but they still don't tend to go as far in that direction as server or some workstation loads.
Some people are going to buy it just because it's the flagship, of course; but better performance on highly threaded tasks won't necessarily save it among gamers. (Especially if Intel prices it so as to discourage people who might otherwise buy Xeon-based workstations from buying this part instead).
It also wouldn't fit on a 300mm (diameter) wafer... 400mm would work, and even have some room around the edges; but I probably don't even want to know what a CPU so large that you get only 1 die/400mm wafer would cost.
Does anybody know about the historical genesis of the choice?
Was there some aspect of Java that was seen as particularly useful pedagogically, or did somebody get seduced by the 'Java is the Enterprise Language Of The Future, don't you want students to be learning Relevant Job Skills?' line?
You'd think that they'd either smack the guy and transfer him to designing solar-thermal power systems, or smack the guy and have IT quietly remove all shiny materials from the materials library of his CAD program of choice... Especially after two "Hey, let's build a bloody gigantic concave parabolic reflector in the middle of a crowded area" incidents.
Ah, yes. Isn't it wonderful how neatly you can theology-launder old-school theories of concupiscence and failings of the soul by swapping in a few references to 'willpower'? I always forget how everyone has an immaterial 'will', that they are personally responsible for any defects of (how somebody with a defective will can will themselves to have a more willful will is always carefully elided; but apparently more willpower will do it...)
"Hancock is a C-based domain-specific language designed to make it easy to read, write, and maintain programs that manipulate large amounts of relatively uniform data. Because Hancock is embedded in C, it inherits all the functionality of C. Valid C programs are also valid Hancock programs, and Hancock programs can use libraries written for C. But Hancock is more than C. In addition to C constructs, Hancock provides domain-specific forms to facilitate large-scale data processing."
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"every airline loses luggage and has rules on how much they will reimburse you"
Incidentally, while airline staff will, at times, attempt to lowball you, they can sometimes be...encouraged... to be more helpful by the implication(ideally true) that you are familiar with the 'The Warsaw convention (as amended by the Hague and Montreal protocols)' if your dispute involves luggage, 'Regulation 261/2004' if your dispute involves flight delays, being bumped, etc. and falls under EU jurisdiction. Trying the same with 'Rule 240' in the US is just a bluff these days, though it sometimes works; but a familiarity with the airline's "Contract of carriage" isn't...
It is well known, though, that Britain is a Very Bad place to be sued for libel. My guess would be that BA isn't going to push it, because they'd rather just have the thing blow over; but British libel law is brutal. (Incidentally, American feelings on 'libel tourism', the practice of suing people in the most favorable venue, were so strong that the "SPEECH Act", which makes all foreign libel judgements unenforceable by US courts unless compliant with 1st amendment standards, passed unanimously in both the house and senate. That's crazy rare.)
I'm not sure we can trust you crazy Dutch about infrastructure questions... You have this freaky habit of consistently, sometimes for several centuries at a time, actually acting as though 'vital infrastructure' is something that should be carefully maintained and cared for, even when just slapping some duct tape on it and leaving it for the next guy to deal with would be cheaper in the short term... That's just so sensible and consistently virtuous that it makes me nervous.
It's less of an issue with SSDs; but where background tasks can really bite you is storage I/O. That is annoying.
"(You can also use QuickSync if you have that enabled)" That might also be unhelpful to the 4960x... since it's basically a Xeon by another name, it has no integrated graphics capabilities. This isn't a major loss as a GPU(since who buys a crazy-expensive CPU and no discrete GPU if they plan to game?); but, given the substantial delta between dedicated encode hardware and doing it in software, it isn't unlikely that a rather humbler CPU with QuickSync's dedicated encoder will put up a good fight against a 4960x doing its own crunching.
I certainly suspect that having all the consoles that aren't Nintendo be 8-thread x86s will increase uptake of multithreaded games (which has been gradually improving, albeit generally with one stubbornly-huge performance-limited thread that is hard to banish because multithreading things just isn't an easy problem); but in this case, the Haswell part, the i7-4770K, is a 4-core/8-thread unit with better performance/thread, while the i7-4960X is a 6-core/12-thread unit with allegedly weaker performance /thread (though better cache and memory bandwidth may compensate for some workloads), so it is still fairly likely that the 4770k will crowd the 4960x pretty aggressively among gamers.
Depending on how they price it, ('flagship' generally adds a major pointless markup; but 'Xeon' has been known to add a nasty dose of sticker-shock when applied to single-socket parts as well), it may be a sweet workstation/single-socket server part; but if it's priced for gamer e-peen contests that's less likely.
Wouldn't multithreading require an actual overhaul of their codebase? Just pegging the hell out of a single core(ideally dragging down the browser and any other program foolish enough to embed Flash) seems like more their style...
They both leak: the integrity of the reactor vessel is Not So Good these days; but it's still overheating so they are pumping water in and pumping whatever doesn't leak into the ground into the holding tanks, which are also leaking.
The tanks are more of a tragifarce, since they've got that 'You run nuclear fucking reactors and you weren't able to build some water storage tanks that don't leak within an alarmingly short time after construction???' thing going on, and the radiation levels of the leaking material are high enough that just sending in the welders isn't necessarily doable.
The reactor leakage is the more serious problem; because those are hot enough, thermally and in the radiation sense, that just fixing the leaks is not really on the table; but not pumping substantial amounts of water, which will promptly be contaminated and partially escape, isn't really optional.
Presumably the efficiency of the chiller drops and the ice starts to melt (one presumes relatively slowly; because it's mostly insulated by being underground and water has a pretty high enthalpy of fusion) until they stop fucking up and fix the leak.
It's big and expensive(and it wouldn't totally surprise me if 'lots of vertical tubes running deep into the ground' is not a fun thing to have to maintain in earthquakeville); but the coolant is unlikely to become substantially contaminated, and virtually all contemporary refrigerants aren't particularly scary(ammonia's not fun, most of the rest are just suffocation risks).
"Russian crack team that saved Chernobyl"
Chernobyl was not...exactly a triumph of reactor design or reactor operation; but the ensuing stabilization effort was actually pretty aggressive (albeit in a 'they had unprotected conscripts attempt to mostly extinguish a melted-down nuclear reactor and then construct a new containment building right on top of it with roughly the same attention to occupational safety and health that made the old penal battalions so exciting' sense).
Wouldn't be compatible with any of the other processing equipment; but you could do it.
My impression(as a layman) is that getting fairly substantial amounts of silicon isn't a big deal, with difficulty increasing as your demands concerning purity, mono-crystallinness, and dimensional accuracy go up; but that the cost of the entire chip fabrication process get very big, very fast, if you want to work with larger wafers.
I haven't been able to figure out how I should calculate the nonvolatile storage requirements, though: HDDs are pretty heavy; but modifying the magnetic orientation shouldn't change their weight. SSDs tend to be lighter; but copying data to one means adding electrons to some of the floating gates (though exactly how many is tricky to calculate) and so there should be an actual change in mass.
Our newfound infatuation with extremely flat laptops that have about as many user-servicable parts as 2001's Monolith means that demand for 18650 Li-ion cells in laptops should be plummeting! Problem solved.
Now we just need to go liberate whoever is living on top of our lithium, and we are good to go.
Given how people who have it in large quantities tend to exude it, I've concluded that obnoxious self importance is a compound with a relatively high vapor pressure. I'm not sure I'd risk heating a celebrity architect and causing its full supply to boil off.
You don't know desktop gamers very well.
The better per-thread performance of the competing Haswell part may keep them away, though(unless the increased cache makes up for it). Games make better use of additional cores than they used to; but they still don't tend to go as far in that direction as server or some workstation loads.
Some people are going to buy it just because it's the flagship, of course; but better performance on highly threaded tasks won't necessarily save it among gamers. (Especially if Intel prices it so as to discourage people who might otherwise buy Xeon-based workstations from buying this part instead).
It also wouldn't fit on a 300mm (diameter) wafer... 400mm would work, and even have some room around the edges; but I probably don't even want to know what a CPU so large that you get only 1 die/400mm wafer would cost.
...head explodes.
Be fair: I ordered an extra 16 GB of RAM not long ago, and the two DIMMs together only weighed maybe 50 grams.
Does anybody know about the historical genesis of the choice?
Was there some aspect of Java that was seen as particularly useful pedagogically, or did somebody get seduced by the 'Java is the Enterprise Language Of The Future, don't you want students to be learning Relevant Job Skills?' line?
They call the Loss Adjuster who came up with that figure 'Jack the Ripper'.
You'd think that they'd either smack the guy and transfer him to designing solar-thermal power systems, or smack the guy and have IT quietly remove all shiny materials from the materials library of his CAD program of choice... Especially after two "Hey, let's build a bloody gigantic concave parabolic reflector in the middle of a crowded area" incidents.
How much are the secrets of going into a surprisingly steep decline worth these days?
Ah, yes. Isn't it wonderful how neatly you can theology-launder old-school theories of concupiscence and failings of the soul by swapping in a few references to 'willpower'? I always forget how everyone has an immaterial 'will', that they are personally responsible for any defects of (how somebody with a defective will can will themselves to have a more willful will is always carefully elided; but apparently more willpower will do it...)
I think the better question is why is AT&T holding call records for 26 years.
I don't know what they do with them; but, whatever it is, they developed a custom programming language to make it easier and more efficient.
"Hancock is a C-based domain-specific language designed to make it easy to read, write, and maintain programs that manipulate large amounts of relatively uniform data. Because Hancock is embedded in C, it inherits all the functionality of C. Valid C programs are also valid Hancock programs, and Hancock programs can use libraries written for C. But Hancock is more than C. In addition to C constructs, Hancock provides domain-specific forms to facilitate large-scale data processing."
Doesn't involve a judge though. Just the DEA.
Wrong. If there's a subpoena, there's a judge.
Not necessarily. The DEA gained the ability to issue 'administrative subpoenas' in 1970, and uses them routinely and on a nontrivial scale. All they have to do is assert that the material is 'relevant to an investigation' and out it goes. No muss, no fuss, no tedious judicial oversight.
In other news, an ample supply of white flags is a cheap and effective national defense strategy...