So, the X-Men are non-human for purposes of Tariffs. Of course, legally, in the US, tomatoes are vegetables, not fruits, for purposes of tariffs. (For basically the same reason: tariff differences between classes.) The result of the decision: tariff rates on the two product categories were equalized.
Well...it isn't quite that simple. UTF-8 is a fine compromise, but it has real imitations when compared to a constant width unicode encoding like UCS-2 or UCS-4.
UTF-8 is much better than other MBCS systems because backspace is not O(n) in the length of the string. That's good. That said, UTF-8 is inefficient for multilingual operation. First, many characters in UCS-2 wind up three bytes long in UTF-8. That means that FE systems require 50% more memory to do string ops than they would in UCS-2, which is itself not as compact as the individual code pages are for each of the languages. UCS-2 is a better compromise, in that case.
RAM is cheap, though -- cycles are not. UTF-8 is inefficient:
(a) backspace through a string still involves repeated calls to back-search functions and (b) worse, forward space in logical order through a string requires repeated calls to multistep logical functions.
Considering the frequency with which strings are searched for tokens, there is a significant performance hit to using UTF-8.
The whole thing? No. Each individual node in it? Yep.
Imagine a Beow...never mind, you don't have to image it; that's where it came from.
LinuxBIOS was originally created at LANL in order to build a supercomputer on the cheap. If the researchers were going to use a cluster, then they needed a way to distribute the OS to the machines. Obviously, they could have put disks on the individual nodes, but that would have been both expensive, noisy, and failure prone. They could have used a network boot strategy, but that would have been both slow and failure prone. Instead, they created a method for booting directly to their version of the Linux kernel in BIOS. They have no GUI to bring up, so this is blindingly fast, and the resulting nodes have no moving parts, so they are cheap, quiet, and reliable.
I question the value of the project outside of this particular domain, but for their application, this is exactly the right solution.
Actually, no. I don't know where the previous poster lives, but I live in Redmond, and the phone company in my part of the city is...wait for it...Verizon. (Other parts of town get PacBell. The terrifying thing is that despite its many flaws, Verizon actually seems to be the better provider.) I have no say in the matter, unless I'm willing to move across town; there is no other land line service in the area.
He's exactly right. No leaky abstractions? I once worked on a project that was delayed six months because a simple, three-line assembler routine that had to return 1 actually returned something else about one time in a thousand. The code was basically "Load x 5 direct; load y addr ind; subt x from y in place", where we could see in the logic analyzer showing the contents in the address which was to be moved into register y was 6. Literally, 999 times in a thousand, that left a 1 in register y. The other time...
We sent the errata off to the manufacturer, who had the good grace to be horrified. It then took six months to figure out how to work around the problem.
And, hey, guess what? Semiconductor holes are a leaky abstraction, too. And don't get me started on subatomic particles.
First, MS strongly supported Rep. Ron White in the last election cycle. (Quid pro quo in reverse; Rep. White had defended MS very strongly during the antitrust case, even though that wasn't terribly popular in the district.) I donated to his challenger (Rep. Inslee) because I opposed Rep. White's stand on "family values", and yet my donation is counted as coming from MS? Does that strike you as accurate?
Moreover, to the extent that my interests reflect those of my employer...doesn't that mean that my Representative should reflect my interests in Congress? OS might have a point if I donated to, say, Adam Smith's campaign (although I actually might, because of his stand on timber harvests), but even there, it strikes me as quesionable.
Priceless! A comment which is demonstrably wrong on two both of the claims it makes and yet which is moderated up.
First, Adam Smith isn't the representative for the district where Corporate HQ lies -- that's Jay Inslee. That said, a great many MS employees do live in Rep. Smith's district, and a number of them do contribute to his campaign.
So what? Well, OpenSecrets associates all contributions from individuals with the employer of the primary wage earner for the individual or its family. That means that if I make a contribution to Jay Inslee (my representative, since I'm from Redmond), it's treated as a contribution from Microsoft. Ignoring the fact that if I wanted to make a donation as a Microsoft employee, I'd donate to MSPAC, not to Jay directly, OpenSecrets treats that as a corporate bribe.
I realize that you're being funny, but Windows actually uses a 64 bit date/time structure, and has since NT 3.1. We're going to need to deal with the Y5G bug before the Windows clock rolls over.
Get a step ladder? That's what a screen reader is -- a step ladder for people who can't see text. In this case, the floor is slanted away from the shelves, though -- by using a non-textual representation of the contents of the screen (and by removing tab key based access and not providing ALT text for controls), the SW Airline site is actively preventing people who can't see their screens from using the site.
Hey, guess what? It isn't hard to make your site accessible -- in fact, you have to avoid all of the basic tenets of site design to make your site inaccessible. You have to work at it. So why shouldn't Access sue the bastards who worked so hard to make their sites pretty, instead of legal?
Translucence doesn't solve the problem -- in fact, it doesn't even help. The contents of the underlying document are obscured and distorted, and the user is not in control of what is shown on the screen.
The dialog didn't autosize because there is a tradeoff between attrctiveness and usability. The Apple design assumes that users don't care what's underneath the window they're looking at. Basically, that design depends on the assumption that if my application has a modal dialog up, then you should look at the dialog, and not at the underlying app.
Fair enough -- except that it turns out to not be true. One frequent action that users take is to move a modal dialog out of the way in order to look at their document, and then navigate the dialog based on what's on the screen. Having dialogs of constant size facilitates that user operation; altering dialog height to fit the dialog's contents its workability inhibits it.
Probem is, it doesn't seem to me that Plato's benevolent dictator doesn't want the job. In fact, I'd argue that someone who was qualified to be benevolent dictator (having been raised for that purpose his whole life) would know that he was qualified, and actively seek the job, since that would best serve his people.
(Use of the masculine pronoun is considered here -- Plato would never admit of the possibility that a woman would be qualified for any job.)
All right, Rasta Prefect, you're a troll. You can't really be that ignorant.
Water is one of the two exceptional substances I know of that is actually densest slightly above the temperature at which it freezes (at normal atmospheric pressure, etc.) The other one if elemental gallium.
Do you believe in a free marketplace of ideas (where ideas are traded for currency or other valuable items in a free marketplace) or do you believe in a marketplace of free ideas? The GPL demands the second -- that's the problem with it.
How come there's no Windows version of this? I demand a Windows port of this feature! It just shows you how strong a monopoly Linux has among the skript k1dd13z, that this was released without ANY Windows support!
Those are exactly the terms of the preoposed final judgement that Microsoft and the DOJ have suggested to the court, though. The non-settling states really do want to demand that Windows be completely rewritten.
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So, the X-Men are non-human for purposes of Tariffs. Of course, legally, in the US, tomatoes are vegetables, not fruits, for purposes of tariffs. (For basically the same reason: tariff differences between classes.) The result of the decision: tariff rates on the two product categories were equalized.
Well...it isn't quite that simple. UTF-8 is a fine compromise, but it has real imitations when compared to a constant width unicode encoding like UCS-2 or UCS-4.
UTF-8 is much better than other MBCS systems because backspace is not O(n) in the length of the string. That's good. That said, UTF-8 is inefficient for multilingual operation. First, many characters in UCS-2 wind up three bytes long in UTF-8. That means that FE systems require 50% more memory to do string ops than they would in UCS-2, which is itself not as compact as the individual code pages are for each of the languages. UCS-2 is a better compromise, in that case.
RAM is cheap, though -- cycles are not. UTF-8 is inefficient:
(a) backspace through a string still involves repeated calls to back-search functions and
(b) worse, forward space in logical order through a string requires repeated calls to multistep logical functions.
Considering the frequency with which strings are searched for tokens, there is a significant performance hit to using UTF-8.
The whole thing? No. Each individual node in it? Yep.
Imagine a Beow...never mind, you don't have to image it; that's where it came from.
LinuxBIOS was originally created at LANL in order to build a supercomputer on the cheap. If the researchers were going to use a cluster, then they needed a way to distribute the OS to the machines. Obviously, they could have put disks on the individual nodes, but that would have been both expensive, noisy, and failure prone. They could have used a network boot strategy, but that would have been both slow and failure prone. Instead, they created a method for booting directly to their version of the Linux kernel in BIOS. They have no GUI to bring up, so this is blindingly fast, and the resulting nodes have no moving parts, so they are cheap, quiet, and reliable.
I question the value of the project outside of this particular domain, but for their application, this is exactly the right solution.
Actually, no. I don't know where the previous poster lives, but I live in Redmond, and the phone company in my part of the city is...wait for it...Verizon. (Other parts of town get PacBell. The terrifying thing is that despite its many flaws, Verizon actually seems to be the better provider.) I have no say in the matter, unless I'm willing to move across town; there is no other land line service in the area.
And I had my mod points expire this morning...
He's exactly right. No leaky abstractions? I once worked on a project that was delayed six months because a simple, three-line assembler routine that had to return 1 actually returned something else about one time in a thousand. The code was basically "Load x 5 direct; load y addr ind; subt x from y in place", where we could see in the logic analyzer showing the contents in the address which was to be moved into register y was 6. Literally, 999 times in a thousand, that left a 1 in register y. The other time...
We sent the errata off to the manufacturer, who had the good grace to be horrified. It then took six months to figure out how to work around the problem.
And, hey, guess what? Semiconductor holes are a leaky abstraction, too. And don't get me started on subatomic particles.
How about Secure Client Authentication and Manipulation Protocol (The SCAM protocol)?
Fair enough. Two things, then.
First, MS strongly supported Rep. Ron White in the last election cycle. (Quid pro quo in reverse; Rep. White had defended MS very strongly during the antitrust case, even though that wasn't terribly popular in the district.) I donated to his challenger (Rep. Inslee) because I opposed Rep. White's stand on "family values", and yet my donation is counted as coming from MS? Does that strike you as accurate?
Moreover, to the extent that my interests reflect those of my employer...doesn't that mean that my Representative should reflect my interests in Congress? OS might have a point if I donated to, say, Adam Smith's campaign (although I actually might, because of his stand on timber harvests), but even there, it strikes me as quesionable.
Priceless! A comment which is demonstrably wrong on two both of the claims it makes and yet which is moderated up.
First, Adam Smith isn't the representative for the district where Corporate HQ lies -- that's Jay Inslee. That said, a great many MS employees do live in Rep. Smith's district, and a number of them do contribute to his campaign.
So what? Well, OpenSecrets associates all contributions from individuals with the employer of the primary wage earner for the individual or its family. That means that if I make a contribution to Jay Inslee (my representative, since I'm from Redmond), it's treated as a contribution from Microsoft. Ignoring the fact that if I wanted to make a donation as a Microsoft employee, I'd donate to MSPAC, not to Jay directly, OpenSecrets treats that as a corporate bribe.
No -- Kip Thorne has a subcription to Penthouse because Cygnus X-1 is a black hole.
No. MS Word 10.0 is Word 2002, the version which ships with Office XP.
I realize that you're being funny, but Windows actually uses a 64 bit date/time structure, and has since NT 3.1. We're going to need to deal with the Y5G bug before the Windows clock rolls over.
The problem with this is simple: the only lawsuits permitted under the ADA proper are to force compliance. Money damages aren't allowed.
Get a step ladder? That's what a screen reader is -- a step ladder for people who can't see text. In this case, the floor is slanted away from the shelves, though -- by using a non-textual representation of the contents of the screen (and by removing tab key based access and not providing ALT text for controls), the SW Airline site is actively preventing people who can't see their screens from using the site.
Hey, guess what? It isn't hard to make your site accessible -- in fact, you have to avoid all of the basic tenets of site design to make your site inaccessible. You have to work at it. So why shouldn't Access sue the bastards who worked so hard to make their sites pretty, instead of legal?
Translucence doesn't solve the problem -- in fact, it doesn't even help. The contents of the underlying document are obscured and distorted, and the user is not in control of what is shown on the screen.
The dialog didn't autosize because there is a tradeoff between attrctiveness and usability. The Apple design assumes that users don't care what's underneath the window they're looking at. Basically, that design depends on the assumption that if my application has a modal dialog up, then you should look at the dialog, and not at the underlying app.
Fair enough -- except that it turns out to not be true. One frequent action that users take is to move a modal dialog out of the way in order to look at their document, and then navigate the dialog based on what's on the screen. Having dialogs of constant size facilitates that user operation; altering dialog height to fit the dialog's contents its workability inhibits it.
Probem is, it doesn't seem to me that Plato's benevolent dictator doesn't want the job. In fact, I'd argue that someone who was qualified to be benevolent dictator (having been raised for that purpose his whole life) would know that he was qualified, and actively seek the job, since that would best serve his people.
(Use of the masculine pronoun is considered here -- Plato would never admit of the possibility that a woman would be qualified for any job.)
All right, Rasta Prefect, you're a troll. You can't really be that ignorant.
Water is one of the two exceptional substances I know of that is actually densest slightly above the temperature at which it freezes (at normal atmospheric pressure, etc.) The other one if elemental gallium.
No virus that ever ran on Unix? Three words: the Morris worm.
Do you believe in a free marketplace of ideas (where ideas are traded for currency or other valuable items in a free marketplace) or do you believe in a marketplace of free ideas? The GPL demands the second -- that's the problem with it.
Yeah, but if you figure out whether its' everywhere or nowhere, you can't get any output any more.
Of course...they are, after all, the Official Death Spiral Network, aren't they?
How come there's no Windows version of this? I demand a Windows port of this feature! It just shows you how strong a monopoly Linux has among the skript k1dd13z, that this was released without ANY Windows support!
Those are exactly the terms of the preoposed final judgement that Microsoft and the DOJ have suggested to the court, though. The non-settling states really do want to demand that Windows be completely rewritten.
Actually, I think that it's nuclear fusion, not meiosis. In humans, only males have any cells whatsoever which undergo meiosis in adulthood.