They sound great and all, but I can't blame Forbes for not talking about a chain with only 23 stores. At least half of the US states won't have one, and 90% of customers are unlikely to have one in driving distance. It's good that there are a few small chains and indys still flourishing out there, but it in no way counteracts the (theorized) death of a multi-national giant like Best Buy, Borders, or Circuit City.
That said, I've been reading articles about "the death of bricks and mortar [thing] stores" for a decade or more now, and it never seems to actually happen. A few big chains collapse, but there's always someone left standing. My recession-hit local town centre still has a book shop, several record shops, at least four computer game shops, a couple of tech shops, a home appliance shop, and god knows how many survivors of similar so-called dying breeds. Far fewer than there used to be, sure, but the stragglers are still there.
Read it again. We're not talking about Intel compilers working better with Intel chips. We're talking about Intel compilers arbitrarily running a processor faster if it's ID is an Intel one. You can take a Via chip- same architecture, same everything- and fool the computer into thinking it's an Intel product, and it'll run faster for no reason at all.
This would be the equivalent of MS Windows arbitrarily running code slower unless it has a unique "made by Microsoft" identifier.
Newtons are a measure of force, while joules are a measure of energy. F=MA gives you force (and I'm fairly sure meters/second and kilogrammes give you newtons in that formula); I think one joule is equal to one newton meter, i.e. the energy required to apply one newton of force for one meter of distance. And that's probably nearing the limit of my knowledge without a serior Wikipedia refresher crash course first...
That works out to an impact force of 984,000 (exactly what these units are I don't know offhand. I just know the formula is F = MA).
Newtons, I think. Although I thought the A in F=MA was for "acceleration", whereas you've used m/s (a velocity) so I'm not certain we've got the maths right on that one. But then it's been a long time since I last thought of that formula...
"Terrorize" was and is a word completely separate from "terrorism". The Wolf in Red Riding Hood terrorized the Granny; that doesn't make the Wolf a terrorist.
See now what you've done there is change the meaning of the word "accident"...
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/accident accident n. 1. a. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: car accidents on icy roads. b. An unforeseen incident: A series of happy accidents led to his promotion. c. An instance of involuntary urination or defecation in one's clothing. 2. Lack of intention; chance: ran into an old friend by accident.
Nobody says accidents aren't preventable, or that they occur purely by random chance. And accidents aren't necessarily blameless- if something is accidental, it means there was no intent to do it. That makes no statement as to whether there was negligence or idiocy involved.
It's probably not a brash statement to say that almost all negative accidents are caused by negligence of some sort.
Sounds like an interesting social study into what happens when you introduce direct competition into an otherwise cooperation based system.
Has implications in terms of, for example, the UK NHS reforms (who's sole stated aim is just that- replace cooperation with competition to "increase efficiency").
I'm not sure what your point is really. You're quite right that LibreOffice doesn't include an email client. However, an organization is allowed to user programmes from multiple sources. Aside from the dozens of rival email clients out there, bot open source and proprietary, it's also worth pointing out that you can buy Outlook separately from the rest of the MS Office suite. There's nothing stopping you ditching Word/Excel/PowerPoint/etc. in favour of LibreOffice, while keeping Outlook.
That's one up on history education here in the UK. Here we learn exactly 3 topics- The Tudors, the two World Wars, and 1x classical civilization of choice.
I believe some Tory politician or other decided once that it would be unpatriotic to learn too much about the history of anywhere that isn't British and didn't involve winning...
Similar to how you would write code for iOS or Windows, I suspect- neither of which give you the source code. You just write to the APIs and hope to catch everything else in testing.
Ever since the very first mechanical computers, it's been clear that there's no problem in scaling them. It's a matter of miniaturisation, getting bigger rooms to build them in, getting a big enough power supply, good enough cooling, and parts that don't break quicker than you can replace them. The actual logic behind the computer, though, was never in question.
With quantum computing, nobodies even sure if it's possible to scale them up. You can't just stick two 2x qbit computers together and call it a 4x qbit computer. There's serious design issues to overcome before it's even slightly possible.
If you can come up with a piece of theoretical research to show that quantum computers cannot scale, you can have $100,000. If you can come up with theoretical research to show that quantum computers scale perfectly well (and how), you can be the next Bill Gates.
It's as good a military strategy as any. If your rivals can't maintain their war machines without nuts and bolts imported from USA, they can't really fight a war against USA. It's one of the main reasons for America fighter jets being pushed as an export, and Trident missiles being sold to the UK, etc.
(The other obvious reason being that exporting billions of dollars of military equipment is good moneymaking business)
"Invasion" is probably putting it a bit strong. Contrary to popular belief, not all wars are about conquest and regime change- most are conflicts over specific issues. Although China and India are on relatively good terms these days, it was only the 90's when they were still slinging insults across the border at each other over nuclear tests, border disputes, democracy and the Dalai Lama. And with China ramping up its navy and presence in the South China Sea, it's easy to see why India still wants to stay well-armed.
To be fair, the article was written by mathmeticians, not geologists. I think they were just enjoying "doing the math", rather than trying to make scientific statements.
The article is from the BBC Radio 4 programme "More or Less", which is a wonderful show which basically "does the math" on all things current affairs. Well worth looking up on the old iPlayer.
I wish they provided it to me. I live in a big town in the UK, relatively far from any other big towns (relative by UK standards, that is), and there's no local site. I can pick any of about 4 sites centred between 30 and 40 miles away; just no good for me, for a "local ads" site.
You could let them off by saying "you live somewhere small, and they're mostly USA" etc., but it's a symptom of their odd site design. Rather than just giving every add a "location" value, and letting you search by "miles from my location" (which is how other ads sites I've used work), they insist on having no location data except for pre-set areas. That choice makes it unusable for me...
there will be no civil war. A modern military can put down it's populace in no time. You don't have the weapons, tactics or manpower to take on a police force, let alone the US army. Plus our ruling class own the media. Look how far Occupy Wall Street got...
Tell that to the rulers of- Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Yemen. Also try the broadly non-violent Colour Revolutions.
OK, now I realise that the US military (the best funded in the world by a very wide margin) is somewhat a different kettle of fish. But the point of many of those revolutions was that, when push came to shove, many soldiers simply couldn't be forced to massacre their own populations. It's why Egypt ended so quickly, and it's why civil war won out in Libya (and is simmering away in Syria), with massive defections. I can't see the rank and file college kids of the US Army really turning their guns on unarmed crowds of their friends and neighbours.
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And if I discover a huge diamond mine, I might destroy the value of your diamonds. That doesn't mean I've stolen your diamond property.
"Don't take their money- they might not keep giving us money forever!"
It's probably for the best that you aren't running a hosting company.
They sound great and all, but I can't blame Forbes for not talking about a chain with only 23 stores. At least half of the US states won't have one, and 90% of customers are unlikely to have one in driving distance. It's good that there are a few small chains and indys still flourishing out there, but it in no way counteracts the (theorized) death of a multi-national giant like Best Buy, Borders, or Circuit City.
That said, I've been reading articles about "the death of bricks and mortar [thing] stores" for a decade or more now, and it never seems to actually happen. A few big chains collapse, but there's always someone left standing. My recession-hit local town centre still has a book shop, several record shops, at least four computer game shops, a couple of tech shops, a home appliance shop, and god knows how many survivors of similar so-called dying breeds. Far fewer than there used to be, sure, but the stragglers are still there.
Read it again. We're not talking about Intel compilers working better with Intel chips. We're talking about Intel compilers arbitrarily running a processor faster if it's ID is an Intel one. You can take a Via chip- same architecture, same everything- and fool the computer into thinking it's an Intel product, and it'll run faster for no reason at all.
This would be the equivalent of MS Windows arbitrarily running code slower unless it has a unique "made by Microsoft" identifier.
Thanks, it's all coming flooding back to me.
Newtons are a measure of force, while joules are a measure of energy. F=MA gives you force (and I'm fairly sure meters/second and kilogrammes give you newtons in that formula); I think one joule is equal to one newton meter, i.e. the energy required to apply one newton of force for one meter of distance. And that's probably nearing the limit of my knowledge without a serior Wikipedia refresher crash course first...
That works out to an impact force of 984,000 (exactly what these units are I don't know offhand. I just know the formula is F = MA).
Newtons, I think. Although I thought the A in F=MA was for "acceleration", whereas you've used m/s (a velocity) so I'm not certain we've got the maths right on that one. But then it's been a long time since I last thought of that formula...
I'm guessing the US Navy isn't funding railgun research in order to make steel targets go "ding".
Try reading the thread you're replying to before raging at your keyboard.
"Terrorize" was and is a word completely separate from "terrorism". The Wolf in Red Riding Hood terrorized the Granny; that doesn't make the Wolf a terrorist.
See now what you've done there is change the meaning of the word "accident"...
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/accident
accident n.
1.
a. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: car accidents on icy roads.
b. An unforeseen incident: A series of happy accidents led to his promotion.
c. An instance of involuntary urination or defecation in one's clothing.
2. Lack of intention; chance: ran into an old friend by accident.
Nobody says accidents aren't preventable, or that they occur purely by random chance. And accidents aren't necessarily blameless- if something is accidental, it means there was no intent to do it. That makes no statement as to whether there was negligence or idiocy involved.
It's probably not a brash statement to say that almost all negative accidents are caused by negligence of some sort.
Sounds like an interesting social study into what happens when you introduce direct competition into an otherwise cooperation based system.
Has implications in terms of, for example, the UK NHS reforms (who's sole stated aim is just that- replace cooperation with competition to "increase efficiency").
Except these laptops are just generic Chinese junk... not really what most folks are likely to want.
Whereas Lenovo is finest American workmanship?
Lucky we're talking about the sales of a Chinese laptop in France then, eh?
Why we would argue about this when the internet knows all the answers, I don't know...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_military#Budget
A little shy of $1 trillion in 2010, apparently. (530 + 130 + 30 + 260).
I'm not sure what your point is really. You're quite right that LibreOffice doesn't include an email client. However, an organization is allowed to user programmes from multiple sources. Aside from the dozens of rival email clients out there, bot open source and proprietary, it's also worth pointing out that you can buy Outlook separately from the rest of the MS Office suite. There's nothing stopping you ditching Word/Excel/PowerPoint/etc. in favour of LibreOffice, while keeping Outlook.
Apologies, yep. The National Curriculum applies to England, Wales and N. Ireland. You lucky Scottish devils.
Mmmmm, so mathematics is out then ?
That's one up on history education here in the UK.
The key word in that sentence began with an "h" and rhymed with "mystery".
That's one up on history education here in the UK. Here we learn exactly 3 topics- The Tudors, the two World Wars, and 1x classical civilization of choice.
I believe some Tory politician or other decided once that it would be unpatriotic to learn too much about the history of anywhere that isn't British and didn't involve winning...
Similar to how you would write code for iOS or Windows, I suspect- neither of which give you the source code. You just write to the APIs and hope to catch everything else in testing.
Ever since the very first mechanical computers, it's been clear that there's no problem in scaling them. It's a matter of miniaturisation, getting bigger rooms to build them in, getting a big enough power supply, good enough cooling, and parts that don't break quicker than you can replace them. The actual logic behind the computer, though, was never in question.
With quantum computing, nobodies even sure if it's possible to scale them up. You can't just stick two 2x qbit computers together and call it a 4x qbit computer. There's serious design issues to overcome before it's even slightly possible.
If you can come up with a piece of theoretical research to show that quantum computers cannot scale, you can have $100,000. If you can come up with theoretical research to show that quantum computers scale perfectly well (and how), you can be the next Bill Gates.
It's as good a military strategy as any. If your rivals can't maintain their war machines without nuts and bolts imported from USA, they can't really fight a war against USA. It's one of the main reasons for America fighter jets being pushed as an export, and Trident missiles being sold to the UK, etc.
(The other obvious reason being that exporting billions of dollars of military equipment is good moneymaking business)
They've fought wars before. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War
"Invasion" is probably putting it a bit strong. Contrary to popular belief, not all wars are about conquest and regime change- most are conflicts over specific issues. Although China and India are on relatively good terms these days, it was only the 90's when they were still slinging insults across the border at each other over nuclear tests, border disputes, democracy and the Dalai Lama. And with China ramping up its navy and presence in the South China Sea, it's easy to see why India still wants to stay well-armed.
To be fair, the article was written by mathmeticians, not geologists. I think they were just enjoying "doing the math", rather than trying to make scientific statements.
The article is from the BBC Radio 4 programme "More or Less", which is a wonderful show which basically "does the math" on all things current affairs. Well worth looking up on the old iPlayer.
I wish they provided it to me. I live in a big town in the UK, relatively far from any other big towns (relative by UK standards, that is), and there's no local site. I can pick any of about 4 sites centred between 30 and 40 miles away; just no good for me, for a "local ads" site.
You could let them off by saying "you live somewhere small, and they're mostly USA" etc., but it's a symptom of their odd site design. Rather than just giving every add a "location" value, and letting you search by "miles from my location" (which is how other ads sites I've used work), they insist on having no location data except for pre-set areas. That choice makes it unusable for me...
...being reported to the FBI by a barista with a patriotic leaflet.
1984 gets nearer every day.
there will be no civil war. A modern military can put down it's populace in no time. You don't have the weapons, tactics or manpower to take on a police force, let alone the US army. Plus our ruling class own the media. Look how far Occupy Wall Street got...
Tell that to the rulers of- Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Yemen. Also try the broadly non-violent Colour Revolutions.
OK, now I realise that the US military (the best funded in the world by a very wide margin) is somewhat a different kettle of fish. But the point of many of those revolutions was that, when push came to shove, many soldiers simply couldn't be forced to massacre their own populations. It's why Egypt ended so quickly, and it's why civil war won out in Libya (and is simmering away in Syria), with massive defections. I can't see the rank and file college kids of the US Army really turning their guns on unarmed crowds of their friends and neighbours.