You: Don't replace the old screws with the new ones.
Them: We can't do the service if we don't replace the screws.
You: Then I won't let you do the service.
Them: Ok. Next customer?
I don't think you understand how floats work. You don't "just collect them". You have to convert them into a fraction represented as a power of two. The exponent is a power of two, not a power of 10. The mantissa is the numerator of that fraction, typically with the leading 1 removed. Granted, this is something that could occur on the stack.
As for thread safety, there's a lot of math that has to happen to cacluate that fraction. On many systems, particularly embedded systems on micros without a float unit, static locations are allocated for this temporary memory, because stack accesses are often very slow on low end micros without good indexed-address instruction sets. Therefore, it is expected that the floating point libraries are not to be used reentrantly. If you launch multiple threads (or do floats at different interrupt levels) you have to save the float library static space as part of your context.
I seriously doubt they could get away with installing software on your phone, even after they arrest you.
With a warrant they could. Have you ever seen a suspected drug house after the police end a search? They can go to town on the walls with sledge hammers. Sure, you can sue them later, but even if they don't find drugs, it's unlikely that you'll get anywhere if it seems like they had probable cause to think there would be drugs there.
Even if it is backdoored, it probably isn't going to hurt you. If there is a secret backdoor in blackberries, AES encryption, etc, then the government isn't going to piss away that secret in order to bust some drug dealer or guy trading child porn. A backdoor like that would only be used in cases where you wanted to keep its existance secret, such a national security / espionage operations.
I agree. But it wasn't an initial 100x surge, right? It was a cascading failure where eventually supernodes were up 100% because there were fewer and fewer of them. It's a matter of prevention, not cure.
I am generally for multiple choice tests. They allow students who are very lucky to suceed without having to bother themselves with studying. Real life rewards people who are very lucky; multiple choice tests are a good reflection of this.
On the other hand, project based work tends to heavily favor certain types of students. It tends to be heavily biased against students who just don't give a shit.
I think that's what the patents are for. They don't use BPL. The light fixtures are located in dropped ceilings. Above the ceiling each light fixture has another light sensor. The data comes from yet another lightbulb even higher above the dropped ceiling. Those really high up lightbulbs use WiFi.
They're also working on a getting a patent for a new modem where you just set the phone headset right on the modem, by sticking both round parts in little earmuff thingies. Apparently it's only good for a couple hundred bits per second now, but they claim the next version will reach speeds in excess of 1000 bits per second. No word on whether it will work with cell phones.
They're essentially using scaled up versions of those stakes you stick in the yard next to your cement walk to light their houses. You know, the ones that cost 8 bucks and consist of a small solar panel, a couple of NiCads, an ic and an LED or two?
"disappeared" as a verb is a reference to the book 1984, where people the government doesn't like are abducted and then all traces of them are removed from past media.
I'm not sure they every got out of the game. It's common in rural areas for Mom and Pop stores/gas stations/etc to have a rack of rental movies. Maybe only a hundred or so, but still. I don't think blockbuster ever pushed a lot of these people out, because they were never there to begin with.
At 60,000 feet, i don't think it makes any difference. The odds of a collision are so slim as to be negligible. When you see planes colide it's almost exclusively at low altitude in congested areas (e.g. airports or tourist sight-seeing).
In many mid sized US airports there is a "General Aviation" gate for private planes which is separate from the high-security area. I dont' know about Japan. He might have had problems with Customs rather than security.
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Well, I suppose it goes like this:
You: Don't replace the old screws with the new ones.
Them: We can't do the service if we don't replace the screws.
You: Then I won't let you do the service.
Them: Ok. Next customer?
An interesting side effect of this, by the way, is that the number 0.1 cannot be exactly represented as an IEEE floating point number.
I don't think you understand how floats work. You don't "just collect them". You have to convert them into a fraction represented as a power of two. The exponent is a power of two, not a power of 10. The mantissa is the numerator of that fraction, typically with the leading 1 removed. Granted, this is something that could occur on the stack.
As for thread safety, there's a lot of math that has to happen to cacluate that fraction. On many systems, particularly embedded systems on micros without a float unit, static locations are allocated for this temporary memory, because stack accesses are often very slow on low end micros without good indexed-address instruction sets. Therefore, it is expected that the floating point libraries are not to be used reentrantly. If you launch multiple threads (or do floats at different interrupt levels) you have to save the float library static space as part of your context.
That is a regular expression. It searches for the word imgladiusedperl .
They already do this. All it takes is a warrant from a judge to get the records.
I seriously doubt they could get away with installing software on your phone, even after they arrest you.
With a warrant they could. Have you ever seen a suspected drug house after the police end a search? They can go to town on the walls with sledge hammers. Sure, you can sue them later, but even if they don't find drugs, it's unlikely that you'll get anywhere if it seems like they had probable cause to think there would be drugs there.
Even if it is backdoored, it probably isn't going to hurt you. If there is a secret backdoor in blackberries, AES encryption, etc, then the government isn't going to piss away that secret in order to bust some drug dealer or guy trading child porn. A backdoor like that would only be used in cases where you wanted to keep its existance secret, such a national security / espionage operations.
That's funny. They call my wife that too. Ever since she shot that moose from a helicopter, they won't let it go.
Really? I just saw a very distressed electric sheep running out the back door...
That's why I don't install new versions until they've been around for awhile
Isn't that part of what caused this? :-)
I agree. But it wasn't an initial 100x surge, right? It was a cascading failure where eventually supernodes were up 100% because there were fewer and fewer of them. It's a matter of prevention, not cure.
I am generally for multiple choice tests. They allow students who are very lucky to suceed without having to bother themselves with studying. Real life rewards people who are very lucky; multiple choice tests are a good reflection of this.
On the other hand, project based work tends to heavily favor certain types of students. It tends to be heavily biased against students who just don't give a shit.
Screw that. I've got the Holiday Special.
My favorite part of Wierd Al's "White and Nerdy" video is when they trade a bootleg copy vhs with a cover drawn in crayon of that thing.
It really is more horrible than you can imagine. I had to watch it in two sittings.
I think that's what the patents are for. They don't use BPL. The light fixtures are located in dropped ceilings. Above the ceiling each light fixture has another light sensor. The data comes from yet another lightbulb even higher above the dropped ceiling. Those really high up lightbulbs use WiFi.
Technically speaking, isn't light part of the spectrum?
They're also working on a getting a patent for a new modem where you just set the phone headset right on the modem, by sticking both round parts in little earmuff thingies. Apparently it's only good for a couple hundred bits per second now, but they claim the next version will reach speeds in excess of 1000 bits per second. No word on whether it will work with cell phones.
They're essentially using scaled up versions of those stakes you stick in the yard next to your cement walk to light their houses. You know, the ones that cost 8 bucks and consist of a small solar panel, a couple of NiCads, an ic and an LED or two?
Since someone will correct me, let me do it myself. That is to say using the the verb "disappeared" with a direct object. It was already a verb...
"disappeared" as a verb is a reference to the book 1984, where people the government doesn't like are abducted and then all traces of them are removed from past media.
I'm not sure they every got out of the game. It's common in rural areas for Mom and Pop stores/gas stations/etc to have a rack of rental movies. Maybe only a hundred or so, but still. I don't think blockbuster ever pushed a lot of these people out, because they were never there to begin with.
That's what they tell you until you land at ATL. Then it turns out they just lost your luggage.
Whether or not that's a downside has a great deal to do with your point of view...
At 60,000 feet, i don't think it makes any difference. The odds of a collision are so slim as to be negligible. When you see planes colide it's almost exclusively at low altitude in congested areas (e.g. airports or tourist sight-seeing).
unless they possess a substantial force of character, its hard for these kinds of nutjobs to pull others into their delusion.
Apparently, as Winston Zedemore put it,
If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say
In many mid sized US airports there is a "General Aviation" gate for private planes which is separate from the high-security area. I dont' know about Japan. He might have had problems with Customs rather than security.
By the way, throwing stars are illegal in many states, including mine: http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title35/ar47/ch5.html (Search for "star" in the text)