With the Egyptian military completely on board with the protesters this time around, I guess the laser pointers dont have much actual purpose anymore.
Its actually quite remarkable what is happening there. More people were protesting than had voted for the president because the president decided that their constitution didnt apply to him, so the military takes down the president in response but remarkably doesnt assume power.
How many countries actually have a military that would do this sort of thing? I'm fairly certain that mine, with a military that runs an agency well known now for violating the constitution, would not.
Fairly basic engineering that the shouldn't be a single point of failure for all known life in the universe.
You dont have to go to another deep gravity well in order to spread life and/or humanity out, a fact that makes your argument completely empty. You are as short sighted as the people at NASA these days (who seem to want glory instead of logic.)
We should be working on sustainable independent space craft, starting with sustainable independent space stations. In the grand scheme of things, gravity wells are for noobs.
Well, a GPU can optimize computations on arrays but not on structures, so it's better to use structures of arrays... Even is less natural for the programmer.
It is only less natural for you because you've ignored the CPU's SIMD extensions all this time.
My question is if in all this time that you have avoided the CPU SIMD extensions, then why is it at all important that you find the GPU's version of it less natural?
(queue the folks that dont realize that SoA SSE code is a lot faster than AoS SSE code, but will now rabidly defend their suboptimal and thus mostly pointless usage of SSE)
Yet the city that we are talking about, San Francisco, also has a rigid number of Medallions issued out and thats it. If you want to own a cab in San Francisco, you have to buy a Medallion from an existing Medallion owner. There isnt an application process where you can apply to get a license and if you look like a great person to operate a cab you will get a Medallion.. its not like that at all, nor does anyone at all pretend that thats the way it is. The City doesn't. The Medallion owners don't.
If you examine all the large cities, you will find that fixed-number-of-medallion setup is overwhelmingly the norm.
..and its not just taxi services that have this protected-from-competition arrangement, and often the laws are written quite plainly to state that the licensing board for the industry must consider the impact a new license would have on existing license holders.
For example, Connecticut just recently rescinded a law which protected moving companies after a long battle with an out-of-state moving company that wanted to do business inside the state but could not get a license to do so on the grounds that the additional competition would hurt the existing license holders. Note that the article I just linked to states "Unfortunately, the old standard will still apply to taxi, livery, and motorbus carriers."
So while you sit there claiming that not all cities are like NYC, well my friend entire States are exactly like New York City. What I really think is that you dont have a real grasp of the amount of government regulation there is in the country, nor do I think that you have even a casual understanding of the intent of nearly every regulation. I think that you are likely to be someone that has regularly defended greater regulation of things that are already so regulated that the current players dont have to worry about any competition, a situation that devolved into an event that got you to call for greater regulation to begin with (housing bubble? yeah, I predict that you blame the housing bubble on a lack of regulation.)
Saw it in the theaters on its first run. It was indeed Episode 4, and even then it was known then that he wanted to make 3 sets of 3 movies, and that episode 1 would begin the second trilogy.
It isnt so much the licensing, but the enforced artificial scarcity created to protect the established.
With Taxi Medallions going for as much as $1 million, is it any wonder that people willing to sell their services as a driver want to avoid the completely corrupt taxi industry?
It's far rarer that people say "Oh, well everyone has to go sometime" when discussing cancer research
But more people should. When you consider how much money has been thrown at cancer and how little progress has actually been made (early detection is many times more important than any of the "advances" that have been made,) one has to wonder exactly how many ways that money could have been used to do some real good.
I still don't see what kind of an easy-to-do-in-a-spreadsheet kind of a business "application" would take months or years to do data storage/management in SQL...
The kind a mid-level employee evolves on a daily basis. Duh.
The task at hand isnt concrete, the task at hand is answering "What if I..."
Good for you, but what do you plan to do if, say, you contract an expensive form of cancer? The probability is pretty low that you're part of that group that can casually drop a half million or more on a treatment regime.
The chances are also low that he will ever contract a detectable cancer.
Insurance rates arent high because of cancer. Insurance rates are high because many people with insurance go to the doctor for the stupidest reasons.
Did you think that there was another explanation for why catastrophic health insurance was an order of magnitude cheaper than the insurance you are talking about? Sorry, there isn't. Overall, cancer is cheaper for society than the common cold. Thanks Obama!
So you either are feigning ignorance posting your 20% figure and complaining about a very small difference in cost for a huge improvement in your employees, or you're really ignorant about basic economics and math.
Doesnt sound to me like there was any improvement at all for his employees. They had insurance before, and they have insurance now.
The moment you tried to blame anyone but the politicians.
The blame lies 100% with the politicians. Nobody else is to blame. No corporations are to blame. No lobby groups are to blame. Only the politicians are selling laws.
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With the Egyptian military completely on board with the protesters this time around, I guess the laser pointers dont have much actual purpose anymore.
Its actually quite remarkable what is happening there. More people were protesting than had voted for the president because the president decided that their constitution didnt apply to him, so the military takes down the president in response but remarkably doesnt assume power.
How many countries actually have a military that would do this sort of thing? I'm fairly certain that mine, with a military that runs an agency well known now for violating the constitution, would not.
Too bad, WKRP's Thanksgiving special was one of the most hilarious things ever witnessed on broadcast television.
You seem to be mistaken.
yes, youtube has a lot of shit.. but it also has some of the best stuff available.
For example, Vika Yermolyeva. and Sungha Jung.
We'll excuse your ignorance if you stop being ignorant.
Yes it does.
Fairly basic engineering that the shouldn't be a single point of failure for all known life in the universe.
You dont have to go to another deep gravity well in order to spread life and/or humanity out, a fact that makes your argument completely empty. You are as short sighted as the people at NASA these days (who seem to want glory instead of logic.)
We should be working on sustainable independent space craft, starting with sustainable independent space stations. In the grand scheme of things, gravity wells are for noobs.
Well, a GPU can optimize computations on arrays but not on structures, so it's better to use structures of arrays... Even is less natural for the programmer.
It is only less natural for you because you've ignored the CPU's SIMD extensions all this time.
My question is if in all this time that you have avoided the CPU SIMD extensions, then why is it at all important that you find the GPU's version of it less natural?
(queue the folks that dont realize that SoA SSE code is a lot faster than AoS SSE code, but will now rabidly defend their suboptimal and thus mostly pointless usage of SSE)
Boots on Mars. Why is this so hard to understand?
Its hard to understand trading one deep gravity well for another.
They came from widely separated place beyond our Galaxy.
We don't know that. All we know is a couple directions, not their distance. Could be from craft surrounding our solar system...
Yet the city that we are talking about, San Francisco, also has a rigid number of Medallions issued out and thats it. If you want to own a cab in San Francisco, you have to buy a Medallion from an existing Medallion owner. There isnt an application process where you can apply to get a license and if you look like a great person to operate a cab you will get a Medallion.. its not like that at all, nor does anyone at all pretend that thats the way it is. The City doesn't. The Medallion owners don't.
..and its not just taxi services that have this protected-from-competition arrangement, and often the laws are written quite plainly to state that the licensing board for the industry must consider the impact a new license would have on existing license holders.
If you examine all the large cities, you will find that fixed-number-of-medallion setup is overwhelmingly the norm.
For example, Connecticut just recently rescinded a law which protected moving companies after a long battle with an out-of-state moving company that wanted to do business inside the state but could not get a license to do so on the grounds that the additional competition would hurt the existing license holders. Note that the article I just linked to states "Unfortunately, the old standard will still apply to taxi, livery, and motorbus carriers."
So while you sit there claiming that not all cities are like NYC, well my friend entire States are exactly like New York City. What I really think is that you dont have a real grasp of the amount of government regulation there is in the country, nor do I think that you have even a casual understanding of the intent of nearly every regulation. I think that you are likely to be someone that has regularly defended greater regulation of things that are already so regulated that the current players dont have to worry about any competition, a situation that devolved into an event that got you to call for greater regulation to begin with (housing bubble? yeah, I predict that you blame the housing bubble on a lack of regulation.)
Yes.
Saw it in the theaters on its first run. It was indeed Episode 4, and even then it was known then that he wanted to make 3 sets of 3 movies, and that episode 1 would begin the second trilogy.
It isnt so much the licensing, but the enforced artificial scarcity created to protect the established.
With Taxi Medallions going for as much as $1 million, is it any wonder that people willing to sell their services as a driver want to avoid the completely corrupt taxi industry?
There is a way to make it work so that it benefits all involved
Tell that to the cast of Star Wars 4, 5, and 6.
It's far rarer that people say "Oh, well everyone has to go sometime" when discussing cancer research
But more people should. When you consider how much money has been thrown at cancer and how little progress has actually been made (early detection is many times more important than any of the "advances" that have been made,) one has to wonder exactly how many ways that money could have been used to do some real good.
Here is physicist Paul Davies that has looked into cancer research. $100 billion in research just in the United States since Nixon declared war on it. Eye opener at 5:30.
Govt. employee unions should be illegal since they screw the taxpayer, the people who actually pay the bills.
The worst of it is that when the screwing happens, those tax payers that get screwed werent even old enough to pay taxes (and many not even born yet.)
"Sure, we'll give you union guys a great pension 30 years from now when you retire -- no problem! hell, my constituents wont even feel it"
I still don't see what kind of an easy-to-do-in-a-spreadsheet kind of a business "application" would take months or years to do data storage/management in SQL...
The kind a mid-level employee evolves on a daily basis. Duh.
The task at hand isnt concrete, the task at hand is answering "What if I..."
...Because it's not like your side of the story could possibly be corroborated by receipts, packing slips, or even the actual product.
You mean the stuff that the government seized when they raided your home?
..anything but a dictionary, right?
Good for you, but what do you plan to do if, say, you contract an expensive form of cancer? The probability is pretty low that you're part of that group that can casually drop a half million or more on a treatment regime.
The chances are also low that he will ever contract a detectable cancer.
Insurance rates arent high because of cancer. Insurance rates are high because many people with insurance go to the doctor for the stupidest reasons.
Did you think that there was another explanation for why catastrophic health insurance was an order of magnitude cheaper than the insurance you are talking about? Sorry, there isn't. Overall, cancer is cheaper for society than the common cold. Thanks Obama!
This seems like a misunderstanding similar to how people misunderstand how tax rates work.
From the Federal tax table for fiscal year 2012:
If I make $56,049 then my tax is $10,036
If I make $56,050 then my tax is $10,049
Earning $1 more would cost me $12
This is not unique.
So you either are feigning ignorance posting your 20% figure and complaining about a very small difference in cost for a huge improvement in your employees, or you're really ignorant about basic economics and math.
Doesnt sound to me like there was any improvement at all for his employees. They had insurance before, and they have insurance now.
Now who is being disingenuous?
At this rate, it'll never get instituted!
Do you understand that you don't get to make up definitions of words?
Sounds like a silly premise. Who says Intel would even want to do it?
Seems to me that Intel charges a high premium for all 22nm-based chips, so they wouldnt use a 22nm fab without getting big bucks in return.
He is correct, a 5-year payback is the norm. You size the array to maximize your bang-for-the-buck.
The AC that replied to him cited otherwise. Seems that electricity has to cost $0.50/kWh in order for it to pay back in 5 years.
$0.50/kWh is not the norm. Its 500% of the norm.
The moment you tried to blame anyone but the politicians.
The blame lies 100% with the politicians. Nobody else is to blame. No corporations are to blame. No lobby groups are to blame. Only the politicians are selling laws.
Wake the fuck up.