Possibly correct. Of course, the problem is getting them in the first place. Because "possibly" having them is one of the better ways to invite interference.
Comcast is now in the VOIP market so why not prefer their own packets over others?
They already do that. Comcast Digital Voice operates on a separate channel, served by a dedicated server separate from their internet service, and does not transmit the data on the public internet. This is why regular VoIP traffic is often degraded if you run it through a router that is being choked by internet traffic (even with traffic prioritization at the router level you'll get problems caused by overloaded receive buffers), while Comcast's service stays the same. Effectively, they degrade the performance of all internet users (since the reserved bandwidth could have been used for internet traffic) to give their voice customers a consistent experience.
What are you smoking? Just because the OS supports distributed concurrency doesn't mean a cloud OS. The design is intended to support massively multi-core machines; the same techniques happen to be useful for distributed concurrency as well, but Midori isn't a cloud OS any more than an OpenMPI "OS" would be.
Midori is just a first stab at a commercial version of Singularity. When I was working at MS a few years ago Midori was already being worked on; some of Windows built-in apps were being converted to run on it so they had something to test with it. It's not exactly new, and it's only a step or two from the Research group; I don't expect to see an actual released OS from the project for a long time.
From my impression of the project, it was mostly about finding a way to make the OS scale to massively multi-core machines; Windows can run on a many-core OS, but eventually all the locking and contention at the kernel level starts costing you a lot. Both the OS and the associated.NET-like language are designed to put constraints on the programming such that the processes can be parallelized efficiently without excessive locking.
Technically, I believe the gun-type fission weapon designis vulnerable to accidental detonation. Of course, the U.S. only produced a few of these before switching over to the much safer and more powerful implosive design, usually implemented nowadays as a fusion boosted design, often with multiple stages.
Of course, as I noted, the gun-type fission weapon was only produced for a short time in the 1940s and early 50s by the U.S., and was the only design used in South Africa's nuclear program (run from the 60s to the 80s and dismantled in the early 90s). So yeah, as long as it's an implosion type weapon (or the fusion boosted version of such a weapon), the danger is negligible (aside from the small risk of spreading some nuclear material if the weapon disintegrates). Implosive weapons have such incredibly tight design tolerances that a sufficient impact would actually disable the weapon permanently, not set it off, as the necessary alignment in the components would be disrupted. Many nuclear weapons are usually air burst designs for this reason (plus the enhanced damage done by bursting a mile up or so).
Have you seen the jokes/. types come up with (e.g. last year's pink ponies theme, this year the lame chat roulette thing)? We're better off with other people's jokes.
And the alternative is? A world where every company puts up its own telephone lines? That leads to New York City being wired fifteen times over, while anyone more than 50 miles from a major city gets no service whatsoever. After all, in sufficiently low density areas, the costs of running cable outweigh the benefits. And you end up with a weird system of profitability; if you're the first to the area, your profitability depends on how many follow you; you have to lay the cable no matter how many people you serve, but if half the customers switch to a competitor, your initial outlay is worth less. You end up establishing robust competition in the areas where even a fraction of the user base is still profitable (e.g. NYC), while middling density areas get one or two competitors and low density areas have none.
Java startup time is too big a hurdle. Even with the modern JVMs the startup time is far longer than the time needed to download the page content on a broadband connection. Flash won that war largely because it didn't lag nearly as badly (and tended to be less of a memory hog). Java may win on execution speed after startup, and it may be more OSS friendly, and it may be more flexible and better documented, but if your user experience is that it takes too long to start and it eats all their memory, the rest doesn't matter. They'll click away from the page and never visit again.
Of course, that said, the reason this type of code is usually (effectively) bug free is because it *is* tested that thoroughly. So either Toyota cut corners, their code coverage module was incorrect, or something is happening that 100% code coverage couldn't catch (e.g. the cosmic ray explanation advanced previously).
I doubt it will boil down to a code review. Code used for special purpose stuff like this is usually very different from the code used in a general purpose computing device. Very few conditional branches, very straight line execution. This should make it possible to test every possible code path thoroughly, unlike, say Windows or Linux, where a complete test of every possible code path would take longer than it would take for the Sun to burn out.
You do realize the government could flush every penny invested in GM and Chrysler down the toilet and not miss it, right? Dragging down Toyota to prop up GM and Chrysler might make sense if the federal government was dependent on their success, but it isn't. And even if they took down Toyota, that wouldn't prevent the dozen or so other non-gov't owned brands from rushing to fill the gap (and likely succeeding given the shitty reputation of GM and Chrysler over the past couple decades). Without a motive, inventing conspiracy theories in advance seems rather pointless.
I wonder if that really means morality was affected, rather than abstract thought. At various stages of childhood brain development, it's difficult to imagine hypotheticals. Perhaps the part of their brain that envisions "could have beens" was disrupted, so they thought "she made it across safely, therefore that's the only possible result."
Well, excessive noise is grounds for a legit lawsuit. I suspect keeping mounds of manure in your backyard could be prosecuted solely on the smell. This lawsuit is groundless, but the general principle (things that affect your neighbors cannot be done if the negative effect passes a certain threshold) is sound.
Has anyone ever done so successfully? I'm allergic to just about every form of pollinating plant (though thankfully, the life threatening asthma stopped about ten years ago). I wouldn't cut down the elm tree in my yard at the time, let alone expect my neighbor to clear cut their property to solve my asthma properly (after all, I wasn't just allergic to specific trees, but the grass and shrubs as well, so they'd have had to move to non-pollinating plants or a desert theme). And I had actual medical evidence of my allergies (the whole "throat closing up" thing kind of gave it away), as opposed to a personal nutty belief. I don't think lawsuits should get beyond the filing stage in either case.
Seriously? Reposting because the first attempt at posting this exact comment was modded down? Despite the fact that others replied to you indicating that the liver processes it into usable forms? I'm sure you've got karma to burn, but asking for Redundant seems unnecessary.
You know, you can just hide the updates from those idiotic apps. I have one stupid app addicted friend whose wall I periodically check just so I can find the apps to hide from my news feed.
To be fair, your body uses fructose too, it's just used by the liver, not by each individual cell. Too much fructose is a problem, but your body does need and use some fructose.
...I wouldn't consider half the media today to tell a congruent story.
Yeah, it's fairly rare that two stories nowadays are exactly the same shape and size. They always do things like change the words, and use different words. Something about "copyright" law.
Yeah, I mean, it only got the bestreviews of any game ever released for the current crop of consoles. Clearly the fact that it doesn't suit your idea of what GTA "should be" means it's a train wreck.
Unfortunately, all bills are chock full of pork. Doesn't matter which party is involved. Most of the really egregious bits were stripped in reconciliation, e.g. the Nebraska exemption was removed. The Louisiana payment increase was kept, but it is temporary and it appears to have been justified, as it is compensating for some kinks in the payment system triggered by the local economic collapse in the wake of Katrina (specifically, the local economic collapse made the reimbursement formulas give too little money to doctors, which was leading to doctors moving operations away from where they were still sorely needed). Yeah, it probably went a little over the top to ensure a vote from Landrieu, but like I said, a little pork is in every bill.
As long as the pork isn't outrageous (and post-reconciliation fixes, it doesn't appear to be), then you accept it as part of the process and evaluate the bill on its merits. And on its merits, it's a moderate (supported by congressional Republicans as recently as the early 90s, and very similar to the system Mitt Romney instituted in Massachusetts), incremental reform of the health care system. It won't solve every problem, and it still doesn't cover everyone, but it's still a big improvement on the status quo.
As I noted above, that font is really distracting for the reader. I'd be happier with using slightly smaller font and possibly 80% black density to achieve a similar effect, while using less paper (smaller fonts mean more content per page) and not having the weird choppy contrast those dots create.
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Possibly correct. Of course, the problem is getting them in the first place. Because "possibly" having them is one of the better ways to invite interference.
Comcast is now in the VOIP market so why not prefer their own packets over others?
They already do that. Comcast Digital Voice operates on a separate channel, served by a dedicated server separate from their internet service, and does not transmit the data on the public internet. This is why regular VoIP traffic is often degraded if you run it through a router that is being choked by internet traffic (even with traffic prioritization at the router level you'll get problems caused by overloaded receive buffers), while Comcast's service stays the same. Effectively, they degrade the performance of all internet users (since the reserved bandwidth could have been used for internet traffic) to give their voice customers a consistent experience.
What are you smoking? Just because the OS supports distributed concurrency doesn't mean a cloud OS. The design is intended to support massively multi-core machines; the same techniques happen to be useful for distributed concurrency as well, but Midori isn't a cloud OS any more than an OpenMPI "OS" would be.
Midori is just a first stab at a commercial version of Singularity. When I was working at MS a few years ago Midori was already being worked on; some of Windows built-in apps were being converted to run on it so they had something to test with it. It's not exactly new, and it's only a step or two from the Research group; I don't expect to see an actual released OS from the project for a long time.
From my impression of the project, it was mostly about finding a way to make the OS scale to massively multi-core machines; Windows can run on a many-core OS, but eventually all the locking and contention at the kernel level starts costing you a lot. Both the OS and the associated .NET-like language are designed to put constraints on the programming such that the processes can be parallelized efficiently without excessive locking.
Could not be more obnoxious sounding. Only hipsters love hipsters because they often don't see how truly annoying they are.
But at least the description is accurate. *ducks*
As long as they limit their suits to infringements on hardware patents, I'm okay with that.
Technically, I believe the gun-type fission weapon design is vulnerable to accidental detonation. Of course, the U.S. only produced a few of these before switching over to the much safer and more powerful implosive design, usually implemented nowadays as a fusion boosted design, often with multiple stages.
Of course, as I noted, the gun-type fission weapon was only produced for a short time in the 1940s and early 50s by the U.S., and was the only design used in South Africa's nuclear program (run from the 60s to the 80s and dismantled in the early 90s). So yeah, as long as it's an implosion type weapon (or the fusion boosted version of such a weapon), the danger is negligible (aside from the small risk of spreading some nuclear material if the weapon disintegrates). Implosive weapons have such incredibly tight design tolerances that a sufficient impact would actually disable the weapon permanently, not set it off, as the necessary alignment in the components would be disrupted. Many nuclear weapons are usually air burst designs for this reason (plus the enhanced damage done by bursting a mile up or so).
guest@xkcd:/$ go up
You cannot go up.
guest@xkcd:/$ go down
On our first date?
Have you seen the jokes /. types come up with (e.g. last year's pink ponies theme, this year the lame chat roulette thing)? We're better off with other people's jokes.
And the alternative is? A world where every company puts up its own telephone lines? That leads to New York City being wired fifteen times over, while anyone more than 50 miles from a major city gets no service whatsoever. After all, in sufficiently low density areas, the costs of running cable outweigh the benefits. And you end up with a weird system of profitability; if you're the first to the area, your profitability depends on how many follow you; you have to lay the cable no matter how many people you serve, but if half the customers switch to a competitor, your initial outlay is worth less. You end up establishing robust competition in the areas where even a fraction of the user base is still profitable (e.g. NYC), while middling density areas get one or two competitors and low density areas have none.
Java startup time is too big a hurdle. Even with the modern JVMs the startup time is far longer than the time needed to download the page content on a broadband connection. Flash won that war largely because it didn't lag nearly as badly (and tended to be less of a memory hog). Java may win on execution speed after startup, and it may be more OSS friendly, and it may be more flexible and better documented, but if your user experience is that it takes too long to start and it eats all their memory, the rest doesn't matter. They'll click away from the page and never visit again.
Of course, that said, the reason this type of code is usually (effectively) bug free is because it *is* tested that thoroughly. So either Toyota cut corners, their code coverage module was incorrect, or something is happening that 100% code coverage couldn't catch (e.g. the cosmic ray explanation advanced previously).
I doubt it will boil down to a code review. Code used for special purpose stuff like this is usually very different from the code used in a general purpose computing device. Very few conditional branches, very straight line execution. This should make it possible to test every possible code path thoroughly, unlike, say Windows or Linux, where a complete test of every possible code path would take longer than it would take for the Sun to burn out.
You do realize the government could flush every penny invested in GM and Chrysler down the toilet and not miss it, right? Dragging down Toyota to prop up GM and Chrysler might make sense if the federal government was dependent on their success, but it isn't. And even if they took down Toyota, that wouldn't prevent the dozen or so other non-gov't owned brands from rushing to fill the gap (and likely succeeding given the shitty reputation of GM and Chrysler over the past couple decades). Without a motive, inventing conspiracy theories in advance seems rather pointless.
I wonder if that really means morality was affected, rather than abstract thought. At various stages of childhood brain development, it's difficult to imagine hypotheticals. Perhaps the part of their brain that envisions "could have beens" was disrupted, so they thought "she made it across safely, therefore that's the only possible result."
Well, excessive noise is grounds for a legit lawsuit. I suspect keeping mounds of manure in your backyard could be prosecuted solely on the smell. This lawsuit is groundless, but the general principle (things that affect your neighbors cannot be done if the negative effect passes a certain threshold) is sound.
Has anyone ever done so successfully? I'm allergic to just about every form of pollinating plant (though thankfully, the life threatening asthma stopped about ten years ago). I wouldn't cut down the elm tree in my yard at the time, let alone expect my neighbor to clear cut their property to solve my asthma properly (after all, I wasn't just allergic to specific trees, but the grass and shrubs as well, so they'd have had to move to non-pollinating plants or a desert theme). And I had actual medical evidence of my allergies (the whole "throat closing up" thing kind of gave it away), as opposed to a personal nutty belief. I don't think lawsuits should get beyond the filing stage in either case.
Seriously? Reposting because the first attempt at posting this exact comment was modded down? Despite the fact that others replied to you indicating that the liver processes it into usable forms? I'm sure you've got karma to burn, but asking for Redundant seems unnecessary.
You know, you can just hide the updates from those idiotic apps. I have one stupid app addicted friend whose wall I periodically check just so I can find the apps to hide from my news feed.
To be fair, your body uses fructose too, it's just used by the liver, not by each individual cell. Too much fructose is a problem, but your body does need and use some fructose.
...I wouldn't consider half the media today to tell a congruent story.
Yeah, it's fairly rare that two stories nowadays are exactly the same shape and size. They always do things like change the words, and use different words. Something about "copyright" law.
P.S. You probably meant coherent.
Yeah, I mean, it only got the best reviews of any game ever released for the current crop of consoles. Clearly the fact that it doesn't suit your idea of what GTA "should be" means it's a train wreck.
Technically, there are a few Defense Department regs that are supposed to require Ada. "Special" exemptions are granted as a matter of course though.
Unfortunately, all bills are chock full of pork. Doesn't matter which party is involved. Most of the really egregious bits were stripped in reconciliation, e.g. the Nebraska exemption was removed. The Louisiana payment increase was kept, but it is temporary and it appears to have been justified, as it is compensating for some kinks in the payment system triggered by the local economic collapse in the wake of Katrina (specifically, the local economic collapse made the reimbursement formulas give too little money to doctors, which was leading to doctors moving operations away from where they were still sorely needed). Yeah, it probably went a little over the top to ensure a vote from Landrieu, but like I said, a little pork is in every bill.
As long as the pork isn't outrageous (and post-reconciliation fixes, it doesn't appear to be), then you accept it as part of the process and evaluate the bill on its merits. And on its merits, it's a moderate (supported by congressional Republicans as recently as the early 90s, and very similar to the system Mitt Romney instituted in Massachusetts), incremental reform of the health care system. It won't solve every problem, and it still doesn't cover everyone, but it's still a big improvement on the status quo.
As I noted above, that font is really distracting for the reader. I'd be happier with using slightly smaller font and possibly 80% black density to achieve a similar effect, while using less paper (smaller fonts mean more content per page) and not having the weird choppy contrast those dots create.