Do any of your 5 options recognize that the DX has the page's margin built in (corporealized as the plastic bezel surrounding the display,) and so rendering the PDF's own margin is not only pointless, but undesirable?
I believe your respondent was referring specifically to the Kindle DX... in your original "PDF is not supported" posting, you only mentioned Kindle. As I understand it, the DX model has better PDF support than the earlier Kindle models.
However, it sounds as though on the DX you still cannot annotate PDFs or search them en masse.
even creating a number of threads depending on the number of detected cores was simple.
Are you guaranteed that those spawned threads will be evenly distributed amongst the cores, on a given architecture? There's also a matter of locality; you want the threads that are dealing with certain data to run on cores that are close to that data.
MT is not the same thing as MP. You may have written a multi-threaded app, but when on a single-core you likely didn't see any perf gains. MT apps on a single CPU core can have benefits-- such as, your UI can remain responsive to the user during serious number crunching-- but at 100% CPU load, this necessarily comes with the cost of your number-crunching taking longer.
MP scalability in software is hard, because you don't know (and shouldn't assume) how many CPU cores are present in the user's system. So, you have to give considerations to:
* What aspects of your software's workload is independent, and parallelizable
* How coarsely or finely you should parallelize the work (as a runtime decision,) based on the number of CPU cores present.
It's also hard because you have to forgo simplicity that you could have had with a single-threaded implementation, even when there is only one CPU core in the user's system.
Only the 2G iPhone. The 3G iPhone is incompatible with T-Mobile's 3G network.
I use a 2G iPhone with my T-Mobile service. They won't officially support it, but it does work 99% (the 1% being visual voicemail, which is an AT&T exclusive feature, AFAICT. Plain ol' voice mail continues to work as you expect.)
it's just a mental state of consumers that has changed... We're just slowly deflating back to where we were before this hyperinflation the last few years has brought.
I reserve the right to remind you that you said that.
With composite video, horizontally-oriented black-white-black-white transitions of sufficiently high frequency will be mis-interpretted as color by the sink device's color decode circuitry. By putting the color info on its own separate physical channel, you eliminate this problem.
There is also a problem with 'chroma-crawl', that I believe (IIRC) is far more pronounced with composite than with S-video.
Is there any technical reason (advantage?) why you couldn't have simply changed *your* channel to 11, and left all your neighbors' APs at 1? That certainly would have been less illegal...
It is a mistake to assume that the current financial clusterfuck is because of bad mortgages or a bubble burst (we didn't have any serious issues with the Dot Com bubble).
I don't mean this to detract from your largely spot-on comment, but the above is not entirely true.
I believe that the reason we didn't have 'any serious issues' (relative?) with the Bursting of the Dot-Com Bubble is that the Federal Reserved goosed the economy by lowering interest rates to irresponsible levels. They likely thought they were engineering a soft landing... but in truth all they did was provide a conduit for the irrational exuberance to flee away from the deflating Dot-Com bubble and into the nascent real estate bubble. They postponed the inevitable, and allowed it to get worse.
In fact, the real-estate bubble is MUCH worse. Irresponsibly low interest rates would not have been such an aggressive catalyst if it hadn't been for all the stupid subprime lending, courtesy of Frank & Dodd (or so I'm told.) The proletariat plebes responded to all the cheap credit by treating their ephemeral home equity like an ATM machine, effectively digging their own financial graves.
The market should be setting interest rates, not the government.
I wish I could put a sign on the economy, for the government's attention:
ACHTUNG! Das economy is nicht fur fingerpoken und mittengrabben. Is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzen sparken. Is nicht fur gerwerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen das cottenpicken hands in das pockets. Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights."
So, we see an adolescent James T. Kirk illicitly driving a red sports car, and being chased by a gleaming alloy air machine.... Why do I suddenly have this Rush tune stuck in my head?
CO2 is heavier than O2, and yet you aren't concerned about that, right?
This is pure speculation-- I fell asleep during Pulmonary Mechanics-- but I suspect the turbulence that arises from inhalation stirs up the unswept volume sufficiently that it gets replaced in short order.:)
3. Sulfur Hexaflouride is apparently safe enough to inhale... well, as safe as helium, anyway. It will make your voice very deep, owing to its high density. There are countless Youtube videos that demonstrate all of the hijinx possible with this heavier-than-air gas.
However, since it displaces oxygen, you would eventually die from asphyxiation if you breathed it exclusively for several minutes.
When the plane goes into a dive, it matches the speed of an object in free-fall. This causes the environment around the people to "fall" at the same speed the people are falling, so they stay in the same space within the environment.
And how, pray tell, does that differ from the orbiting space shuttle, or the ISS?
IIRC, the shuttle's trajectory traces out an ellipse. The zero-G airplane traces out a parabola. But, its parabola is just an aborted ellipse; aborted because you crash into the thing you were attempting to orbit (because your parabola wasn't wide enough to miss the edge of the thing you were trying to orbit.)
(So once again, we learn that Douglas Adams was right: the key to flying is to throw yourself at the ground, and miss.)
Perhaps what we need is an RFC hall-of-shame... when we find websites that don't support the +, add their domain name to the roster.
With enough promotion throughout geekdom, it could become such an embarrassing badge of dishonor that it evokes corrective action... similar to getting RBL'd for relaying spam (except that humans react to it, rather than MTA scripts.)
Once again, BWJones fails to disappoint with another fascinating personal anecdote.
I'm curious about the lag time of the satcon link between Nevada, and Afghanistan. Particularly how they mitigate its effect on the pilots' lagged responses to lagged remote stimulii.
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Do any of your 5 options recognize that the DX has the page's margin built in (corporealized as the plastic bezel surrounding the display,) and so rendering the PDF's own margin is not only pointless, but undesirable?
if they don't hit something they most likely won't hit anything.
An astutely profound observation. Absolutely profound.
I believe your respondent was referring specifically to the Kindle DX... in your original "PDF is not supported" posting, you only mentioned Kindle. As I understand it, the DX model has better PDF support than the earlier Kindle models. However, it sounds as though on the DX you still cannot annotate PDFs or search them en masse.
even creating a number of threads depending on the number of detected cores was simple.
Are you guaranteed that those spawned threads will be evenly distributed amongst the cores, on a given architecture? There's also a matter of locality; you want the threads that are dealing with certain data to run on cores that are close to that data.
MT is not the same thing as MP. You may have written a multi-threaded app, but when on a single-core you likely didn't see any perf gains. MT apps on a single CPU core can have benefits-- such as, your UI can remain responsive to the user during serious number crunching-- but at 100% CPU load, this necessarily comes with the cost of your number-crunching taking longer.
MP scalability in software is hard, because you don't know (and shouldn't assume) how many CPU cores are present in the user's system. So, you have to give considerations to:
* What aspects of your software's workload is independent, and parallelizable
* How coarsely or finely you should parallelize the work (as a runtime decision,) based on the number of CPU cores present.
It's also hard because you have to forgo simplicity that you could have had with a single-threaded implementation, even when there is only one CPU core in the user's system.
Only the 2G iPhone. The 3G iPhone is incompatible with T-Mobile's 3G network.
I use a 2G iPhone with my T-Mobile service. They won't officially support it, but it does work 99% (the 1% being visual voicemail, which is an AT&T exclusive feature, AFAICT. Plain ol' voice mail continues to work as you expect.)
Apparently not.
I reserve the right to remind you that you said that.
John Titor, is that you?
With composite video, horizontally-oriented black-white-black-white transitions of sufficiently high frequency will be mis-interpretted as color by the sink device's color decode circuitry. By putting the color info on its own separate physical channel, you eliminate this problem.
There is also a problem with 'chroma-crawl', that I believe (IIRC) is far more pronounced with composite than with S-video.
Is there any technical reason (advantage?) why you couldn't have simply changed *your* channel to 11, and left all your neighbors' APs at 1? That certainly would have been less illegal...
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I don't mean this to detract from your largely spot-on comment, but the above is not entirely true.
I believe that the reason we didn't have 'any serious issues' (relative?) with the Bursting of the Dot-Com Bubble is that the Federal Reserved goosed the economy by lowering interest rates to irresponsible levels. They likely thought they were engineering a soft landing... but in truth all they did was provide a conduit for the irrational exuberance to flee away from the deflating Dot-Com bubble and into the nascent real estate bubble. They postponed the inevitable, and allowed it to get worse.
In fact, the real-estate bubble is MUCH worse. Irresponsibly low interest rates would not have been such an aggressive catalyst if it hadn't been for all the stupid subprime lending, courtesy of Frank & Dodd (or so I'm told.) The proletariat plebes responded to all the cheap credit by treating their ephemeral home equity like an ATM machine, effectively digging their own financial graves.
The market should be setting interest rates, not the government.
I wish I could put a sign on the economy, for the government's attention:
So, we see an adolescent James T. Kirk illicitly driving a red sports car, and being chased by a gleaming alloy air machine. ... Why do I suddenly have this Rush tune stuck in my head?
No, that's the Schadenfreude Principle. The Misanthropic Principle is "the universe is finely tuned so that annoying gits arise."
CO2 is heavier than O2, and yet you aren't concerned about that, right?
This is pure speculation-- I fell asleep during Pulmonary Mechanics-- but I suspect the turbulence that arises from inhalation stirs up the unswept volume sufficiently that it gets replaced in short order. :)
3. Sulfur Hexaflouride is apparently safe enough to inhale... well, as safe as helium, anyway. It will make your voice very deep, owing to its high density. There are countless Youtube videos that demonstrate all of the hijinx possible with this heavier-than-air gas.
However, since it displaces oxygen, you would eventually die from asphyxiation if you breathed it exclusively for several minutes.
It's baffling that someone with that kind of talent would be working for spammers instead of in a tenured university position.
Why $pammer$ in$tead of $chool? I$ that really your que$tion? $omehow, I think you might have mi$$ed the mo$t obviou$ motivation.
When the plane goes into a dive, it matches the speed of an object in free-fall. This causes the environment around the people to "fall" at the same speed the people are falling, so they stay in the same space within the environment.
And how, pray tell, does that differ from the orbiting space shuttle, or the ISS?
IIRC, the shuttle's trajectory traces out an ellipse. The zero-G airplane traces out a parabola. But, its parabola is just an aborted ellipse; aborted because you crash into the thing you were attempting to orbit (because your parabola wasn't wide enough to miss the edge of the thing you were trying to orbit.)
(So once again, we learn that Douglas Adams was right: the key to flying is to throw yourself at the ground, and miss.)
Er... yes, like that. :) Too bad, I liked the sound of "RFC hall of shame" better.
Perhaps what we need is an RFC hall-of-shame... when we find websites that don't support the +, add their domain name to the roster.
With enough promotion throughout geekdom, it could become such an embarrassing badge of dishonor that it evokes corrective action... similar to getting RBL'd for relaying spam (except that humans react to it, rather than MTA scripts.)
Wishful thinking?
Once again, BWJones fails to disappoint with another fascinating personal anecdote.
I'm curious about the lag time of the satcon link between Nevada, and Afghanistan. Particularly how they mitigate its effect on the pilots' lagged responses to lagged remote stimulii.
Alas, that's probably Classified.
Your problem is the radix that you choose to think in. Simply switch to base 10 million, and then you'll only have one digit to remember, not 7.
Seriously. I have seen glaciers that move faster than Freenet.
You misspelled 'threat'. I prefer to get my health care on a timely basis, from the doctor of my choosing, thankyouverymuch.
If you want to start that game, it is being powered by the Big Bang. ...which was powered by The Great A'tuin, when it Defecated.