Unfortunately with the military gets in the habit of bribing congressmen, and the congressmen get in the habit of receiving bribes the purpose is very rarely less war. We need a larger distance between our congressmen and our military, not smaller. For example, the congresses ability to specify that certain military money be spent in their home districts leads to some very noxious bedfellows; we will vote for a larger military-industrial complex as long as it helps me get re-elected.
Not to encourage article reading, but they cover 95% of the cost of tuition, up to a maximum of $2000 dollars a year. So if your tuition is $1000 per year ( yea, yea, I know, ridiculously low) they would reimburse you $950. If your tuition is $10,000 a year, you get $2000. What Amazon is willing to pay has nothing to do with what it actually costs.
All of which reinforces the fact that this is more of a PR move than a real, viable help with a serious education. There are a number of low-end jobs (yes, even McDonald's) that offer tuition assistance to some degree or the other. This isn't looking like an especially fine deal.
I remember when I was a kid and they were testing the Enterprise out near Edwards air base. Periodically we would see it fly (glide) over on its way to a test landing during recess ( I was like 6 or 7 years old). My father was a fighter pilot and took me out to an open house at the air base. I was a huge Star Trek fan and seeing a real life Enterprise space shuttle was pretty amazing. I even got to sit in the pilots seat and generally look around. In terms of geektastic childhoods it doesn't get much better than that.
Utah resident here, just over the freeway from the fire. The area in question, like all of the major Utah fires this season, is mostly grasslands. Annual grasses, small bushes, that sort of thing. There are some scrub oak and juniper further up the canyon, but these also are really bushy, barely up to the height of a man, and regrow pretty quickly.
The idiocy here is not an idiocy of controlled burns. It is an idiocy of building on a hill that burns off every few years as grass lands in the west are prone to do. Without the target shooters in a dry year like this one it's almost certainly lightning would have done the trick later in the year; this hill has burnt off every few years for the last several decades I've been here.
That being said, it seems really hard to justify target shooting at a random spot in the hills in these kinds of conditions.
In the mean time demand from Europe has fallen off a cliff, and demand from China has turned down. The US is not doing half the growth economists were predicting 6 months ago. All in all, it would be strange if we weren't seeing a significant drop in crude prices and the associated gas prices.
The process doesn't necessarily brighten the sky, it actually reflects some percentage of the incoming light back out into space, but in the process it makes the light much more diffuse, creating the visual conditions described. I'm not sure the additional, diffuse light that would persist after sunset would significantly change the situation for potatoes. Testing would be order, which is the kind of thing that is going on here. It's good to understand what the consequences of such a scheme would be so they can be weighed against the alternatives (continued, significant global warming).
Except the diamonds are used during the manufacturing process to lay down the bits, not during usage when changing the bit values. It's kind of hard to imagine moving the tiny presses up and down 100 times faster than current speeds...
It would be far more of an issue except that windows 7 phone apps are running in the CLR. They just need a new CLR runtime engine for the new environment and to ensure library compatibility and every 7.5 app should run on 8.
Oh, the memories. I always believed that Bill should have been impeached, not for the silly 'crimes' he was accused of, but for a serious violation of aesthetics. Gees, he was the President, couldn't he do better than that? It reflected poorly on the whole country.
The real humor from TFA comes from reading the comments that follow it. A quick read through tells you that the lottery commission has nothing to fear.
This suit makes a lot more sense if you view Facebook users the way Facebook views them; not as customers, but as vendors. Facebook's customers are the people that they sell data to. The users are simply vendors, selling their personal data in exchange for the social networking provided by Facebook. The suit simply claims that the user in question was not paid.
Ha, government is hardly that powerless. Perhaps they could pass clarification of what non-obvious means; construing the term very strictly. The patent office would then be instructed to review every software patent for compliance with the definition, and the fees for the review hearing raised to a million dollars, should the patent owner wish to attend the review. Otherwise the patent would be summarily declared invalid.
Emulation is just going to need a re-think. In the future emulators will likely consist of one core doing the converting from ancient to modern while a second core handles the actual execution. In fact, multiple cores could be used to do the converting. As long as at least one core executes native code at the speed of the original you're good to go.
I'll second that. Currently I have 63 processes running consuming 3.05 GBs ( out of 12). Another 8.8 GBs is cached, leaving me 379 MBs free. About what it should look like.
I get a chuckle from the cnn article on this topic, that states you could use the extra 160 hp when you needed to pass somebody (in case the standard 480 horses isn't enough)
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I suppose I should be pleased. My very local ISP gives me a consistent 15/15 for $40 - $60 when bundled with local phones.
Unfortunately with the military gets in the habit of bribing congressmen, and the congressmen get in the habit of receiving bribes the purpose is very rarely less war. We need a larger distance between our congressmen and our military, not smaller. For example, the congresses ability to specify that certain military money be spent in their home districts leads to some very noxious bedfellows; we will vote for a larger military-industrial complex as long as it helps me get re-elected.
Not to encourage article reading, but they cover 95% of the cost of tuition, up to a maximum of $2000 dollars a year. So if your tuition is $1000 per year ( yea, yea, I know, ridiculously low) they would reimburse you $950. If your tuition is $10,000 a year, you get $2000. What Amazon is willing to pay has nothing to do with what it actually costs. All of which reinforces the fact that this is more of a PR move than a real, viable help with a serious education. There are a number of low-end jobs (yes, even McDonald's) that offer tuition assistance to some degree or the other. This isn't looking like an especially fine deal.
I remember when I was a kid and they were testing the Enterprise out near Edwards air base. Periodically we would see it fly (glide) over on its way to a test landing during recess ( I was like 6 or 7 years old). My father was a fighter pilot and took me out to an open house at the air base. I was a huge Star Trek fan and seeing a real life Enterprise space shuttle was pretty amazing. I even got to sit in the pilots seat and generally look around. In terms of geektastic childhoods it doesn't get much better than that.
I just keep waiting for the spring cleaning notice for GWT.
Utah resident here, just over the freeway from the fire. The area in question, like all of the major Utah fires this season, is mostly grasslands. Annual grasses, small bushes, that sort of thing. There are some scrub oak and juniper further up the canyon, but these also are really bushy, barely up to the height of a man, and regrow pretty quickly. The idiocy here is not an idiocy of controlled burns. It is an idiocy of building on a hill that burns off every few years as grass lands in the west are prone to do. Without the target shooters in a dry year like this one it's almost certainly lightning would have done the trick later in the year; this hill has burnt off every few years for the last several decades I've been here. That being said, it seems really hard to justify target shooting at a random spot in the hills in these kinds of conditions.
In the mean time demand from Europe has fallen off a cliff, and demand from China has turned down. The US is not doing half the growth economists were predicting 6 months ago. All in all, it would be strange if we weren't seeing a significant drop in crude prices and the associated gas prices.
A closer translation: As he is worthy, trusts he his guests
The process doesn't necessarily brighten the sky, it actually reflects some percentage of the incoming light back out into space, but in the process it makes the light much more diffuse, creating the visual conditions described. I'm not sure the additional, diffuse light that would persist after sunset would significantly change the situation for potatoes. Testing would be order, which is the kind of thing that is going on here. It's good to understand what the consequences of such a scheme would be so they can be weighed against the alternatives (continued, significant global warming).
Except the diamonds are used during the manufacturing process to lay down the bits, not during usage when changing the bit values. It's kind of hard to imagine moving the tiny presses up and down 100 times faster than current speeds...
It would be far more of an issue except that windows 7 phone apps are running in the CLR. They just need a new CLR runtime engine for the new environment and to ensure library compatibility and every 7.5 app should run on 8.
I have a hard time getting too excited about USB 3.0 for hard drive use when everything I have already support eSATA.
Oh, the memories. I always believed that Bill should have been impeached, not for the silly 'crimes' he was accused of, but for a serious violation of aesthetics. Gees, he was the President, couldn't he do better than that? It reflected poorly on the whole country.
The real humor from TFA comes from reading the comments that follow it. A quick read through tells you that the lottery commission has nothing to fear.
This suit makes a lot more sense if you view Facebook users the way Facebook views them; not as customers, but as vendors. Facebook's customers are the people that they sell data to. The users are simply vendors, selling their personal data in exchange for the social networking provided by Facebook. The suit simply claims that the user in question was not paid.
My long handle causes the left side bar to overlap the story area. Needs a max-width style badly
The bright red lights at least are warnings to other humans that the helicopter is operating. Safety first you know.
Ha, government is hardly that powerless. Perhaps they could pass clarification of what non-obvious means; construing the term very strictly. The patent office would then be instructed to review every software patent for compliance with the definition, and the fees for the review hearing raised to a million dollars, should the patent owner wish to attend the review. Otherwise the patent would be summarily declared invalid.
Emulation is just going to need a re-think. In the future emulators will likely consist of one core doing the converting from ancient to modern while a second core handles the actual execution. In fact, multiple cores could be used to do the converting. As long as at least one core executes native code at the speed of the original you're good to go.
I'll second that. Currently I have 63 processes running consuming 3.05 GBs ( out of 12). Another 8.8 GBs is cached, leaving me 379 MBs free. About what it should look like.
I get a chuckle from the cnn article on this topic, that states you could use the extra 160 hp when you needed to pass somebody (in case the standard 480 horses isn't enough)