How about Linux on a PlayStation 3 (their built-in browser on the PS3 OS is god-awful)? That would be a great platform for watching internet video, except it's 90% Flash, and Flash on Linux is only for x86.
I've been baffled as to why they didn't cast Amy Acker for the part of Echo Because Fox was looking to do a new Eliza Dushku show; that it was also a Joss Whedon show was Eliza's idea.
I wish a few TV shows and movies would cast actresses who can actually act instead of "some hot girl". Even within Dollhouse, Amy Acker seems to have both covered pretty well. Her character got a lot more prominent in the last couple of episodes, so I'm hoping we'll see more of her next season.
They don't have anything (that I know of) that does the same kind of multi-backend thing that MySQL does Regular Oracle tables and index-organized tables have completely different physical implementations, and bitmap indexes have a completely different physical implementation from regular indexes. They're all ACID, though.
Third, I really don't care what they do on social networking site on their own time Are these people on salary? If so, there isn't any real distinction between what's your time vs. their time -- office hours are just when you can expect to find them somewhere specific.
I do a lot of web browsing at work, and my most effective way to do a lot of work tasks is lying on my bed at home with a code printout and a pen.
How long do you cook a 2" thick steak on a 675F flat grill to get it medium rare? Apart from that being way too hot, I wouldn't call a 2" thick piece of meat a steak. That's a roast.
I think it was Steve Martin in Parenthood who said something like: You have to get a license to fish, drive a car, or fly a plane - but any moron can become a parent. It was indeed Parenthood, but Keanu Reeves said it.
Is there any reasonable and objective way to determine a teacher's performance that is independent of the students in her classroom? I expect people on a site that is *not* full of information professionals to ask this sort of question.
We have database systems. We can track individual students, and see how much each student improves in a given teacher's year vs. other years for that student and the same year for other students in the school.
The only hard part is putting the effort into writing and grading (because it can't be entirely multiple choice) tests that really are representative of a student's academic level. The only standardized tests I ever saw in public schools that I would consider adequate for such a thing were the AP tests from the College Board.
As of early 2007, when I last used it, JDeveloper still had JBuilder's problem where the menus can't keep up with the keystrokes. Type "-f, s" too fast, and you wind up with an "s" in your (unsaved) code.
While they're under general anesthetic would be barbaric (apart from whether we execute people at all)? A guillotine would only be different in the choice of what organs are removed, and how violently.
Finns are constantly drunk (unless they code neat kernels) Not true. Apart from Linus (who hasn't lived there for ages), Finland's main impact on the rest of the world is a lot of heavy metal music.
For pets places that do an injection may do it in two stages, first a sedative then the poison to stop the heart. In his books, James Herriot always talked about a single injection of Nembutal or some other anesthetic (depending on what time period he was writing about) that he used routinely for surgeries, as well. And it's not like people don't accidentally kill themselves with narcotic overdoses all the time, too.
I've never understood why a poison would be needed, at all.
and leaves the organs available for transplantation. We really ought to just go with that. Just put the condemned under general anesthetic, in a hospital, get all the organ recipients lined up in the same hospital (or a couple nearby if they need more operating rooms), and take the organs out.
I believe an actual medical doctor would not be allowed to do the removal (Hippocratic Oath), so you would need to train a nurse (if they're allowed) or a paramedic as an organ removal technician.
I'm opposed to the death penalty, but if we're going to use it, we really should get whatever benefits we can.
a Creator who wanted to leave an indisputable proof of intelligent design could have given every species a unique biochemistry that couldn't possibly have arisen through common descent. That would be better evidence of omnipotence. Design reuse is something I would expect to see from an intelligent designer with finite power. However, chronological changes in DNA, such as showing that humans split from a common ancestor earlier than chimpanzees and bonobos did, throws a wrench in that.
Keep your fucking application exe and all the bundled DLL's in your application director If you're going to do that, you might as well just use static linking. Personally, I think static linking is the way to do it, anyway, but it's really not what Microsoft pushes.
that dispensed with the idea of the clutch all the while providing pretty much the same functionality. Are you talking about being able to pick what gear you want? That's really not the important part.
Are you really spending almost $3000 on a laptop? You can get refurb (same warranty) Studio 17's for a bit over $600, and a new one with Blu-Ray and a 1920x1200 screen for about $1000.
I'm not likely to ever be on a criminal jury. If the jury can't ask questions, see complete court transcripts, do their own research and call witnesses, I'm usually going to consider that to be reasonable doubt. No prosecutor would ever let me on.
And yes, I see the point about prejudicing jurors, but I see that as less of a problem than lawyers not covering everything they should have.
How do you blame technology for some jackass failing to take his civic responsibility seriously? This is people who *are* taking their civic responsibility seriously; they are doing more than they're required to. They may not be taking the rules of how juries are supposed to behave seriously, but those rules don't deserve to be respected.
I don't think x86 machines are decode-bandwidth-limited I'd be a lot more concerned with latency, there. Decode is one more step in the pipeline that the first new instruction has to go through after a branch misprediction.
My preference would be MIPS or SPARC inspired I'd like to see the old AMD 29000 architecture come back. It was originally killed because AMD needed to put all of their engineers to work on x86, but it was doing pretty well for itself at the time. It uses the register window idea from the original Berkeley RISC project (and SPARC), but the window size can be different for each call, so it doesn't waster registers.
You can probably depend on your system being fully functional for longer. I had a $250 set of computer speakers (Altec Lansing) that I was very happy with for a year or so. When the subwoofer stopped working, though, I quickly discovered there's not a damn thing I can do to repair it. None of the local shops will touch it, and when I tried to take apart the main subwoofer/amp unit to look for broken wires and burnt out fuzes, I discovered that the screws just hold the internal components to the boards. The boards themselves are glued together.
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How about Linux on a PlayStation 3 (their built-in browser on the PS3 OS is god-awful)? That would be a great platform for watching internet video, except it's 90% Flash, and Flash on Linux is only for x86.
I've been baffled as to why they didn't cast Amy Acker for the part of Echo
Because Fox was looking to do a new Eliza Dushku show; that it was also a Joss Whedon show was Eliza's idea.
I wish a few TV shows and movies would cast actresses who can actually act instead of "some hot girl".
Even within Dollhouse, Amy Acker seems to have both covered pretty well. Her character got a lot more prominent in the last couple of episodes, so I'm hoping we'll see more of her next season.
Olivia Williams, too.
They don't have anything (that I know of) that does the same kind of multi-backend thing that MySQL does
Regular Oracle tables and index-organized tables have completely different physical implementations, and bitmap indexes have a completely different physical implementation from regular indexes. They're all ACID, though.
Third, I really don't care what they do on social networking site on their own time
Are these people on salary? If so, there isn't any real distinction between what's your time vs. their time -- office hours are just when you can expect to find them somewhere specific.
I do a lot of web browsing at work, and my most effective way to do a lot of work tasks is lying on my bed at home with a code printout and a pen.
How long do you cook a 2" thick steak on a 675F flat grill to get it medium rare?
Apart from that being way too hot, I wouldn't call a 2" thick piece of meat a steak. That's a roast.
I think it was Steve Martin in Parenthood who said something like: You have to get a license to fish, drive a car, or fly a plane - but any moron can become a parent.
It was indeed Parenthood, but Keanu Reeves said it.
Not all of us have the patience to listen to text.
Is there any reasonable and objective way to determine a teacher's performance that is independent of the students in her classroom?
I expect people on a site that is *not* full of information professionals to ask this sort of question.
We have database systems. We can track individual students, and see how much each student improves in a given teacher's year vs. other years for that student and the same year for other students in the school.
The only hard part is putting the effort into writing and grading (because it can't be entirely multiple choice) tests that really are representative of a student's academic level. The only standardized tests I ever saw in public schools that I would consider adequate for such a thing were the AP tests from the College Board.
As of early 2007, when I last used it, JDeveloper still had JBuilder's problem where the menus can't keep up with the keystrokes. Type "-f, s" too fast, and you wind up with an "s" in your (unsaved) code.
While they're under general anesthetic would be barbaric (apart from whether we execute people at all)? A guillotine would only be different in the choice of what organs are removed, and how violently.
But then you have to find some other way to kill them. I suppose you could use a guillotine, but it doesn't really seem necessary.
Finns are constantly drunk (unless they code neat kernels)
Not true. Apart from Linus (who hasn't lived there for ages), Finland's main impact on the rest of the world is a lot of heavy metal music.
For pets places that do an injection may do it in two stages, first a sedative then the poison to stop the heart.
In his books, James Herriot always talked about a single injection of Nembutal or some other anesthetic (depending on what time period he was writing about) that he used routinely for surgeries, as well. And it's not like people don't accidentally kill themselves with narcotic overdoses all the time, too.
I've never understood why a poison would be needed, at all.
and leaves the organs available for transplantation.
We really ought to just go with that. Just put the condemned under general anesthetic, in a hospital, get all the organ recipients lined up in the same hospital (or a couple nearby if they need more operating rooms), and take the organs out.
I believe an actual medical doctor would not be allowed to do the removal (Hippocratic Oath), so you would need to train a nurse (if they're allowed) or a paramedic as an organ removal technician.
I'm opposed to the death penalty, but if we're going to use it, we really should get whatever benefits we can.
a Creator who wanted to leave an indisputable proof of intelligent design could have given every species a unique biochemistry that couldn't possibly have arisen through common descent.
That would be better evidence of omnipotence. Design reuse is something I would expect to see from an intelligent designer with finite power. However, chronological changes in DNA, such as showing that humans split from a common ancestor earlier than chimpanzees and bonobos did, throws a wrench in that.
Keep your fucking application exe and all the bundled DLL's in your application director
If you're going to do that, you might as well just use static linking. Personally, I think static linking is the way to do it, anyway, but it's really not what Microsoft pushes.
that dispensed with the idea of the clutch all the while providing pretty much the same functionality.
Are you talking about being able to pick what gear you want? That's really not the important part.
Are you really spending almost $3000 on a laptop? You can get refurb (same warranty) Studio 17's for a bit over $600, and a new one with Blu-Ray and a 1920x1200 screen for about $1000.
I'm not likely to ever be on a criminal jury. If the jury can't ask questions, see complete court transcripts, do their own research and call witnesses, I'm usually going to consider that to be reasonable doubt. No prosecutor would ever let me on.
And yes, I see the point about prejudicing jurors, but I see that as less of a problem than lawyers not covering everything they should have.
How do you blame technology for some jackass failing to take his civic responsibility seriously?
This is people who *are* taking their civic responsibility seriously; they are doing more than they're required to. They may not be taking the rules of how juries are supposed to behave seriously, but those rules don't deserve to be respected.
I don't think x86 machines are decode-bandwidth-limited
I'd be a lot more concerned with latency, there. Decode is one more step in the pipeline that the first new instruction has to go through after a branch misprediction.
My preference would be MIPS or SPARC inspired
I'd like to see the old AMD 29000 architecture come back. It was originally killed because AMD needed to put all of their engineers to work on x86, but it was doing pretty well for itself at the time. It uses the register window idea from the original Berkeley RISC project (and SPARC), but the window size can be different for each call, so it doesn't waster registers.
nobody has made a multi-core powerPC chip as far as I know
Isn't that what's in a PlayStation 3?
You can probably depend on your system being fully functional for longer. I had a $250 set of computer speakers (Altec Lansing) that I was very happy with for a year or so. When the subwoofer stopped working, though, I quickly discovered there's not a damn thing I can do to repair it. None of the local shops will touch it, and when I tried to take apart the main subwoofer/amp unit to look for broken wires and burnt out fuzes, I discovered that the screws just hold the internal components to the boards. The boards themselves are glued together.