That's not a great example, seeing as how Microsoft ultimately won that battle.
"Won?" Well, that's debatable. After all the appeals, neither side got exactly what it wanted, but I'll grant you that MS ultimately got the better side of the deal: no split into two companies, but it did release details of their API, and showed more glasnost than they had previously.
The point is that the Department of Justice showed that it had the cojones to go after Microsoft, and that made MS proceed more cautiously thereafter.
Linux developers will have it cracked and running any distro within a few days, AMD & Intel is not going to shoot themselves in the foot, microsoft might commit corporate suicide
And I would be surprised if Intel and AMD didn't actually help Linux developers do it.
This whole thing smells of Microsoft trying to sell more Windows 10, not Intel and AMD trying to sell fewer chips.
If this is something that would be, say, an antitrust violation, it really doesn't matter unless the government functionaries are willing to take them to court.
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth---and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up---that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. -- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. -- Ray Kurzweil
On a 8-core machine, a processor will be placed into a wait queue roughly 7 out of 8 times that it needs access. Further, The expected length of time in the queue is (1-(1/8)). This is of course, for an 8-core system. Adding more cores results in the waiting time increasing asymptotically towards infinity.
Sorry, that doesn't sound right. The expected length of time in the queue should be on the order of nt, where n is the number of cores and t is the average time required to process a memory-request. (A better formula would use the average length of the queue instead of n but to first order it still would be roughly linear with n.) So, the time required would increase linearly with the number of cores.
You're partly right: ice is less dense than water. That's why it floats on water.
However, liquid water does change its density as a function of temperature. In 1 atm, water is densest at 4 degrees Celsius. Its density goes down in either direction from that temperature. And of course, it gets far less dense when it turns into water vapor.
Criminals have committed fraud with credit cards for a long time. They will continue to do so, no matter what technologies we use to protect our cards. And we will continue to use credit cards despite this, because they're convenient.
Check your statement every month, and report fraudulent charges. I have never had a problem getting fraudulent charges reversed. Also, credit-card companies have an interest in avoiding fraudulent charges, so many employ analytic algorithms to detect suspicious charges, and contact you about them.
The EMV chip cannot be read wirelessly. It must make contact with electrodes in the card reader. It is not the same as an RFID chip, which some cards have also. So, EMV chips may be vulnerable to a fake reader (as magnetic stripes are to a skimmer) but you'd have to insert your card into one in order to be compromised. So, don't be promiscuous. Think before you use your card with a machine that looks suspicious.
And let's not forget that it has always been possible to read credit cards wirelessly -- with human eyes. Keep it concealed unless you're using it.
TFA says the study adjusted for the size of the company, but I wonder how?
I would assume large companies pay their CEOs more than smaller ones, but large companies have a hard time getting any larger compared to smaller ones. If they already dominate their market, then presumably there's not much left of their market to acquire.
So ISIS's goal is the same as the Republicans. Provoke a war, then capitalize on it.
It's worked as an economic stimulous plan for years.
War is expensive on many levels, including economic. But on its face, it is not an "economic stimulus plan." When you drop a bomb on someone, you don't send them a bill.
To be sure, war efforts have spurred the creation of many technologies more rapidly than they might have been created otherwise. But I'm not sure it's worth it.
Never mind whether it's even harmful or not. It's arrogant and rude to force other people to breath your fumes, whether they come from your cigarette or -- uh, elsewhere.
Why does it have to be 'drones?' If they are tethered to the ground anyway, why wouldn't balloons be an easier and cheaper solution than a hovering quadcopter?
The human genome has about 3.2 billion base-pairs, each of which can be in one of four configurations. So, that's 6.4 billion bits, or about 800 megabytes. And that doesn't even consider the fact that the vast majority of "values" those bases can take on do not make a viable organism.
You might be able to encode information in the inert portions of the human genome, but exabyes worth? Not a chance.
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That's not a great example, seeing as how Microsoft ultimately won that battle.
"Won?" Well, that's debatable. After all the appeals, neither side got exactly what it wanted, but I'll grant you that MS ultimately got the better side of the deal: no split into two companies, but it did release details of their API, and showed more glasnost than they had previously.
The point is that the Department of Justice showed that it had the cojones to go after Microsoft, and that made MS proceed more cautiously thereafter.
Linux developers will have it cracked and running any distro within a few days, AMD & Intel is not going to shoot themselves in the foot, microsoft might commit corporate suicide
And I would be surprised if Intel and AMD didn't actually help Linux developers do it.
This whole thing smells of Microsoft trying to sell more Windows 10, not Intel and AMD trying to sell fewer chips.
If this is something that would be, say, an antitrust violation, it really doesn't matter unless the government functionaries are willing to take them to court.
Well, that has happened before.
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth---and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up---that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. -- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. -- Ray Kurzweil
On a 8-core machine, a processor will be placed into a wait queue roughly 7 out of 8 times that it needs access. Further, The expected length of time in the queue is (1-(1/8)). This is of course, for an 8-core system. Adding more cores results in the waiting time increasing asymptotically towards infinity.
Sorry, that doesn't sound right. The expected length of time in the queue should be on the order of nt, where n is the number of cores and t is the average time required to process a memory-request. (A better formula would use the average length of the queue instead of n but to first order it still would be roughly linear with n.) So, the time required would increase linearly with the number of cores.
The interview was on CNN, which staffs a meteorologist that is a climate change denier.
He was not a denier, he was a skeptic. And he has changed his opinion.
You're partly right: ice is less dense than water. That's why it floats on water.
However, liquid water does change its density as a function of temperature. In 1 atm, water is densest at 4 degrees Celsius. Its density goes down in either direction from that temperature. And of course, it gets far less dense when it turns into water vapor.
You're driving it wrong.
Criminals have committed fraud with credit cards for a long time. They will continue to do so, no matter what technologies we use to protect our cards. And we will continue to use credit cards despite this, because they're convenient.
Check your statement every month, and report fraudulent charges. I have never had a problem getting fraudulent charges reversed. Also, credit-card companies have an interest in avoiding fraudulent charges, so many employ analytic algorithms to detect suspicious charges, and contact you about them.
The EMV chip cannot be read wirelessly. It must make contact with electrodes in the card reader. It is not the same as an RFID chip, which some cards have also. So, EMV chips may be vulnerable to a fake reader (as magnetic stripes are to a skimmer) but you'd have to insert your card into one in order to be compromised. So, don't be promiscuous. Think before you use your card with a machine that looks suspicious.
And let's not forget that it has always been possible to read credit cards wirelessly -- with human eyes. Keep it concealed unless you're using it.
I, for one, welcome our new garden-tending robot overlords.
No seriously, this could be a good thing. I like how precisely it plants and waters each seed. That could produce high efficiency.
TFA says the study adjusted for the size of the company, but I wonder how?
I would assume large companies pay their CEOs more than smaller ones, but large companies have a hard time getting any larger compared to smaller ones. If they already dominate their market, then presumably there's not much left of their market to acquire.
How about this one: RFC 1149 needs to be revised to include sharks?
What the hell are all of these accountants still doing?
For one thing, they're keeping up with laws regarding taxation, and shepherding the flow of money in an organization.
Accountancy is not just about counting.
Citation? Or is this missing a sarcasm tag?
"Other speakers will include four of Trump's children, Las Vegas casino owner Phil Ruffin, and actor and former underwear model Antonio Sabato Jr."
What, no Kardashians?
In reality, this shows the tolerance of the GOP. They'll have debate, they'll welcome discourse with people generally on the other side of an issue.
And then they'll just go on the way they did before, working against the concerns of those same people. This is not tolerance, it's pandering.
Have you ever had bison? It's delicious.
Never mind.
Oh wait, look!
So ISIS's goal is the same as the Republicans. Provoke a war, then capitalize on it.
It's worked as an economic stimulous plan for years.
War is expensive on many levels, including economic. But on its face, it is not an "economic stimulus plan." When you drop a bomb on someone, you don't send them a bill.
To be sure, war efforts have spurred the creation of many technologies more rapidly than they might have been created otherwise. But I'm not sure it's worth it.
Trump has never changed his position.
On H-1Bs, perhaps not. On everything else, he has adopted, in the words of one analyst, "more positions than the Kamasutra."
Never mind whether it's even harmful or not. It's arrogant and rude to force other people to breath your fumes, whether they come from your cigarette or -- uh, elsewhere.
Why does it have to be 'drones?' If they are tethered to the ground anyway, why wouldn't balloons be an easier and cheaper solution than a hovering quadcopter?
Because America.
The human genome has about 3.2 billion base-pairs, each of which can be in one of four configurations. So, that's 6.4 billion bits, or about 800 megabytes. And that doesn't even consider the fact that the vast majority of "values" those bases can take on do not make a viable organism.
You might be able to encode information in the inert portions of the human genome, but exabyes worth? Not a chance.
...he's single.
Plenty of obese neckbeards to throw. It's not like anybody will ever miss them.
Irrelevant to the question of whether it actually works. Which it doesn't.