You realize of course that the English language has 40 phonems, but only 26 letters, and of those letters, you can make up for some of the missing sounds by using 2 letter combinations (for example 'th' and 'sh' ), but then there are the letters that have multiple sounds, as well as multiple letters having the same sound. The alphabet used for English is a F-ing mess! You'd think it was designed by bored monks in the middle ages that were either stoned, drunk, or both.
Unless you're talking about kanji, which is a freaking nightmare. If a kanji keyboard actually had all the kanji characters you'd need it would take a multifloor building just to hold the keyboard.
Researchers do a lot of things, even if only to understand how other people do them. On the other hand, this guy was a moron for publishing this stuff. The moment you put something like that out where anyone can get there hands on it, it's too late to stop scum from grabbing it. You'd think after the first time he'd realize that. At this point, I wonder if it was intentional on his part.
There absolutely is a market, just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. Here's an easy way for you to get to see it and find out more about what's going on. Go to your local power company and talk to them. Those guys have meetings, and most of them are happy to let people observe or even participate. Sit in on a few of them, you'll learn a lot. You'll probably learn a lot of things you never suspected. The power company is kind of like a swan. It looks calm and placid on the surface, but below the water those feet are paddling like mad to keep that comfortable illusion going for the customers.
Well your 'little more' is x4.23 as much. Instead of selling at the market price for supplying power at 2.6, they were selling it at the customer purchasing price of 11. Now they are being dropped back down to normal supply pricing. It was inevitable. Those kinds of premiums are only temporary to jump start an industry. Once they get large enough, the premium is removed and they then have to compete with everybody else in the market. After all, a market that makes nothing can't afford maintenance and other costs and collapses.
If it was a simple supply and demand issue, then they wouldn't have been getting demand pricing for supply. Now they will be getting the same kind of pricing as other suppliers instead of purchasers. No company will ever stay in business if they pay the same for product as they sell it for.
Whether the kids have an email address or not, I think the real issue is that trying to teach someone to program by starting with a low level language instead of a high level language is kind of like throwing someone that can't swim into the deep end of a river. It seems to me that the languages used to teach are intended to be rather simple, and though that limits their functionality, it makes it a lot easier to learn, and a lot less scare. If you just hit them with professional type stuff at square one, a lot of them will just give up right there and many others will avoid it in the first place because they've already heard how difficult it is. Back to the whole swimming thing, it's like starting them off in waist deep water learning how to float.
I've always thought of SYSMark as just a tool for testing the CPU anyway. Other than that, another person whining about benchmarks not being fair. So what year, heck, what decade should we queue up for more deja vu statements? Everyone in the industry has been complaining about this or that benchmark being unfair to this or that product since the first benchmark program was released. The solution is to know what each benchmark is good for testing, and weigh the results appropriately. It reminds me of an adult complaining that they have to take twice as much of the kids gummy vitamins.
Except for the entire issue of a license plate itself. Either it's going to be too small to read at the normal range the drone will be sighted at, or too damn big and heavy to allow the drone to operate. I still don't see why people are so freaked out over the toy R/C Aircraft getting more popular these days, despite some idiot changing the name to 'drone'. You know they've been flying those things since before I was even born.
Debasing in of no relevance since we haven't used coins of any precious metal since before I was even born. Their composition now is only relevant to appearance, durability, and weight.
At the clubs I went to, tipping with coins wouldn't get you thrown out, just the cold shoulder and otherwise ignored. Trying to put something in the panties though, that would definitely get you thrown out. The girls wore a garter for tips.
Talk to US military that was stationed overseas. That's how it works on base, and nobody has a problem with it, unless they liked having a couple of pounds of fake copper coins in their pockets.
When I was in the US military and stationed overseas, we used US money on base. Didn't have a single cent there at all. Too damned expensive to ship over. So if you bought stuff on base, the price was rounded to the nearest nickel. The stores didn't mind at all, especially since you'd see people picking up all kinds of extra stuff to get that total exactly right to round down. <sarcasm>Gee, buying more stuff just to save two cents. Yeah, the stores were really aghast...</sarcasm>
Well technically, the USA doesn't have a penny, it's small copper colored coin is named the 'cent'. So in that aspect, it wouldn't be last. Unless you consider all overpriced virtually worthless coppery coinage 'pennies'.
The mint has been wanting to ditch the cent for many decades, but the government won't let them do it. It seems the company that makes the blanks doesn't want to loose that chunk of business so has been paying off politicians for decades to prevent it. So basically Canada has nothing to do with it, other than beating us to it. Don't you just hate being second place? Well cheer up, if we don't do it soon, we won't even get third place, and how will you feel then?
I wouldn't be upset if they ditched all the coins less than the quarter right now.
Actually I've seen info on several cases where no, you never get any legal recourse because the cops charge the seized assests instead of the owner so the judges ruled that the owner is not the (forgot the legal term so I'll try to reword it) harmed victim and so has no standing to sue or otherwise make claims for it's return. Yes, I'm dead serious here, it's the common scam they use, especially when it's cash they steal.
In short, Yes. Though I did hear a rumor that they were also doing it to demonstrate their attack system so they can sell/rent it to people. There are many ways to demonstrate something like that, but of course, they chose to do it in a gratuitously mean fashion that will piss of lots of people. Other than that, they're just trying to wave their dicks around. Pretty much a failure at impressing anyone, it's not like this is a new accomplishment or anything, they are just doing the same thing lots of people have done before them, so their just a bunch of wannabe griefers with little to no talent.
As to the wings, it could simply be a lifting body. I don't know enough about aerodynamics to tell at a glance if that body shape qualifies as a lifting body, but such things do exist and have been used since at least the 50s in experimental aircraft.
Especially since superfluids are totally bizzare. People should hit youtube and search for superfluids, I bet they'd find some really weird stuff. (Like a tubular fountain of liquid that never stops, liquids crawling up the sides of the container, and even liquids that appear to be leaking out the bottom of a glass.)
Not all words, especially smaller ones, are necessarily part of an acronym. For instance, 'Laser' is an acronym for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation', and not 'Labseor'. Also, 'FBI' is an acronym for 'Federal Bureau of Investigation', and not 'FBOI', though I've heard a bunch of unofficial translations that are much funnier.
Oh stop whining already. Of course, any acronym that uses its own acronym as part of it's acronym is in fact infinitely recursive.
Also, Wine is not an emulator in the same way that BMW is not a car. Whether the namers were being sarcastic, ironic, funny, contrary, or petulant, it does fall under the category of emulator, even if it's got significant differences from the traditional ones most people are familiar with. (It's kind of like arguing, That's not Red, it's Sanguine with a touch of Sunset Rose.)
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You realize of course that the English language has 40 phonems, but only 26 letters, and of those letters, you can make up for some of the missing sounds by using 2 letter combinations (for example 'th' and 'sh' ), but then there are the letters that have multiple sounds, as well as multiple letters having the same sound. The alphabet used for English is a F-ing mess! You'd think it was designed by bored monks in the middle ages that were either stoned, drunk, or both.
Ah Ha! ;)
Very punny.
English spelling is also atrocious. It works much better with a true phonetic alphabet.
Unless you're talking about kanji, which is a freaking nightmare. If a kanji keyboard actually had all the kanji characters you'd need it would take a multifloor building just to hold the keyboard.
Researchers do a lot of things, even if only to understand how other people do them.
On the other hand, this guy was a moron for publishing this stuff. The moment you put something like that out where anyone can get there hands on it, it's too late to stop scum from grabbing it. You'd think after the first time he'd realize that. At this point, I wonder if it was intentional on his part.
There absolutely is a market, just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there.
Here's an easy way for you to get to see it and find out more about what's going on.
Go to your local power company and talk to them. Those guys have meetings, and most of them are happy to let people observe or even participate.
Sit in on a few of them, you'll learn a lot.
You'll probably learn a lot of things you never suspected. The power company is kind of like a swan. It looks calm and placid on the surface, but below the water those feet are paddling like mad to keep that comfortable illusion going for the customers.
Well your 'little more' is x4.23 as much. Instead of selling at the market price for supplying power at 2.6, they were selling it at the customer purchasing price of 11.
Now they are being dropped back down to normal supply pricing.
It was inevitable. Those kinds of premiums are only temporary to jump start an industry. Once they get large enough, the premium is removed and they then have to compete with everybody else in the market. After all, a market that makes nothing can't afford maintenance and other costs and collapses.
If it was a simple supply and demand issue, then they wouldn't have been getting demand pricing for supply.
Now they will be getting the same kind of pricing as other suppliers instead of purchasers.
No company will ever stay in business if they pay the same for product as they sell it for.
Whether the kids have an email address or not, I think the real issue is that trying to teach someone to program by starting with a low level language instead of a high level language is kind of like throwing someone that can't swim into the deep end of a river.
It seems to me that the languages used to teach are intended to be rather simple, and though that limits their functionality, it makes it a lot easier to learn, and a lot less scare. If you just hit them with professional type stuff at square one, a lot of them will just give up right there and many others will avoid it in the first place because they've already heard how difficult it is. Back to the whole swimming thing, it's like starting them off in waist deep water learning how to float.
I've always thought of SYSMark as just a tool for testing the CPU anyway.
Other than that, another person whining about benchmarks not being fair. So what year, heck, what decade should we queue up for more deja vu statements?
Everyone in the industry has been complaining about this or that benchmark being unfair to this or that product since the first benchmark program was released.
The solution is to know what each benchmark is good for testing, and weigh the results appropriately.
It reminds me of an adult complaining that they have to take twice as much of the kids gummy vitamins.
Except for the entire issue of a license plate itself. Either it's going to be too small to read at the normal range the drone will be sighted at, or too damn big and heavy to allow the drone to operate.
I still don't see why people are so freaked out over the toy R/C Aircraft getting more popular these days, despite some idiot changing the name to 'drone'.
You know they've been flying those things since before I was even born.
That's what was taught back in the 80s, so the idea isn't exactly new.
(For as far as I know it was taught a lot earlier, but I started in the 80s.)
Debasing in of no relevance since we haven't used coins of any precious metal since before I was even born. Their composition now is only relevant to appearance, durability, and weight.
At the clubs I went to, tipping with coins wouldn't get you thrown out, just the cold shoulder and otherwise ignored.
Trying to put something in the panties though, that would definitely get you thrown out. The girls wore a garter for tips.
Talk to US military that was stationed overseas. That's how it works on base, and nobody has a problem with it, unless they liked having a couple of pounds of fake copper coins in their pockets.
Then stop being so damn slow to adopt reasonable and rational measures!
When I was in the US military and stationed overseas, we used US money on base.
Didn't have a single cent there at all. Too damned expensive to ship over.
So if you bought stuff on base, the price was rounded to the nearest nickel. The stores didn't mind at all, especially since you'd see people picking up all kinds of extra stuff to get that total exactly right to round down.
<sarcasm>Gee, buying more stuff just to save two cents. Yeah, the stores were really aghast...</sarcasm>
Well technically, the USA doesn't have a penny, it's small copper colored coin is named the 'cent'.
So in that aspect, it wouldn't be last. Unless you consider all overpriced virtually worthless coppery coinage 'pennies'.
The mint has been wanting to ditch the cent for many decades, but the government won't let them do it. It seems the company that makes the blanks doesn't want to loose that chunk of business so has been paying off politicians for decades to prevent it.
So basically Canada has nothing to do with it, other than beating us to it.
Don't you just hate being second place? Well cheer up, if we don't do it soon, we won't even get third place, and how will you feel then?
I wouldn't be upset if they ditched all the coins less than the quarter right now.
Actually I've seen info on several cases where no, you never get any legal recourse because the cops charge the seized assests instead of the owner so the judges ruled that the owner is not the (forgot the legal term so I'll try to reword it) harmed victim and so has no standing to sue or otherwise make claims for it's return.
Yes, I'm dead serious here, it's the common scam they use, especially when it's cash they steal.
In short, Yes.
Though I did hear a rumor that they were also doing it to demonstrate their attack system so they can sell/rent it to people.
There are many ways to demonstrate something like that, but of course, they chose to do it in a gratuitously mean fashion that will piss of lots of people.
Other than that, they're just trying to wave their dicks around. Pretty much a failure at impressing anyone, it's not like this is a new accomplishment or anything, they are just doing the same thing lots of people have done before them, so their just a bunch of wannabe griefers with little to no talent.
As to the wings, it could simply be a lifting body. I don't know enough about aerodynamics to tell at a glance if that body shape qualifies as a lifting body, but such things do exist and have been used since at least the 50s in experimental aircraft.
Especially since superfluids are totally bizzare. People should hit youtube and search for superfluids, I bet they'd find some really weird stuff. (Like a tubular fountain of liquid that never stops, liquids crawling up the sides of the container, and even liquids that appear to be leaking out the bottom of a glass.)
Not all words, especially smaller ones, are necessarily part of an acronym.
For instance, 'Laser' is an acronym for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation', and not 'Labseor'.
Also, 'FBI' is an acronym for 'Federal Bureau of Investigation', and not 'FBOI', though I've heard a bunch of unofficial translations that are much funnier.
Oh stop whining already. Of course, any acronym that uses its own acronym as part of it's acronym is in fact infinitely recursive.
Also, Wine is not an emulator in the same way that BMW is not a car. Whether the namers were being sarcastic, ironic, funny, contrary, or petulant, it does fall under the category of emulator, even if it's got significant differences from the traditional ones most people are familiar with. (It's kind of like arguing, That's not Red, it's Sanguine with a touch of Sunset Rose.)