I don't understand your sarcasm. My point was simply that a comparison of USPS, UPS, and FedEx must take into account their differing nature if it is to make valid conclusions beyond "The amount I pay at the counter is least at ".
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In the case of government run health care the government loses money if people are sick. So they have an incentive to redefine what sick means.
There, fixed that for you (see CPI for similar example).
Try sending a letter or small package through the USPS, UPS and FedEx and let me know which one was more cost effective.
Should I include consideration of the laws restricting operation of the latter two private companies, and the special benefits the first one gets, or should I pretend they are all on a level playing field?
Slashdot will be offering a new service at the end of the year that will let users take a photo of an article summary and have it reposted within two days, making the smartphone one step closer to replacing editors.
Forget RFID; the illuminati need to ramp up production on bio tech so that everything is traceable like this. Then your tinfoil hats and body gloves will be useless.
That's why I've been investing in antique tinfoil hats and body gloves. Did you know that modern "tin"foil hats are actually made from aluminum? Shocking, I know.
Yeah, I liked that the redid MGS1 for a newer system with better 3D capabilities, though I was put off by the excessive number of cutscenes. I didn't even bother to finish (was a rental), as I was constantly thinking, "OK, I've been playing the actual game for two minutes now, I guess another cutscene is about to interrupt."
Yes, if we ignore the cost of running Comcast, their bandwidth is virtually free. After all, even if they stopped using bandwidth, the cost of keeping everything running wouldn't go down much, therefore the bandwidth costs almost nothing.
I recetly got some cheap Sylvania incandescents and three of the four burned out within a few weeks of being installed. I'm guessing that they've lowered the quality of them, due to less demand.
A few years ago I got some N:vision CFLs, have used them about 8 hours a day since, and they still haven't given me any trouble. They're EDXO-23, giving 500K white. It's quite close in color temperature and brightness to the incandescent I was using before, and I've never had any desire to go back. I tried their other two color temperatures. The daylight was very blue in comparison, and the other end was too orange/yellow. Before I found this brand, I wasn't really wild about CFLs.
I remember the opening to Metal Gear Solid on Playstation 1 over a decade ago. It was the first game that had good voice acting that actually improved the game, rather than made it comedic. The opening was like a movie, and you wanted to play. I'll always remember this game as the first that had solid voice acting throughout, and a serious tone. I booted the original up recently and was still impressed by the production quality (despite the PS1's polygon inherent difficulties). They managed to keep the quality in later games as well.
It was a big letdown finding out this wasn't the final optimization to Hello World, transforming it from a junky affair of #include and printf (or puts) into a highly-refined program of half the source text. The headline really had me rekindling my youthful yearning for a smaller Hello World. I am so let down right now. I'm calling a friend.
Furthermore, any program which does much is going to use most of the routines in that 11K that's always linked in.
Still, growing up with the Mac compilers of the 1990s where stripping unused routines out of the executable was a standard feature, I'm amazed that many compilers even today don't do that. If I define 20 functions in a source file and only call one, and it doesn't call any of the others either, why the hell does the linker link everything else in? I've written several toy assemblers over the years and they all stripped out unused routines (you'd mark the boundary between each routine so the linker knew). It's very useful there because size does matter when writing in assembler, and you might want to include a general utilities library without having to manually figure out which routines you actually call.
I'm glad they're finally solving the problem of incompatible car chargers. Just about all my friends have had that problem with their electric vehicles. It's a huge problem. It makes sense for them to attack this, considering how they already solved the problem of incompatible cellphone chargers long ago.
The higher cost of hearing aids came from the miniaturization, and the price has stayed high. However, with surface mount components now readily available, I expect that there will be more competition in this space.
I can't imagine a hearing aid having more than a battery, ASIC, microphone, and speaker. Discrete components are so 1980s.
Your post is appreciated. I seem to have taken up a similar position with regarding technology and being realistic on the limits of its reliability, and putting that above shinyness.
In the 24 cases where driver age was reported or readily inferred, the drivers included those of the ages 60, 61, 63, 66, 68, 71, 72, 72, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89--and I'm leaving out the son whose age wasn't identified, but whose 94-year-old father died as a passenger.
Any chance the driver age directly affected the likelihood that the age was reported or readily inferred? If so, you're measuring this, rather than any effect driver age had on occurrence.
Thanks for the link to that post. I love the catch-22 nature of it. "We can't make our protection software work unless you unprotect large portions of the iPhone, thereby exposing it and thus needing protection." Next they'll be accusing Apple of monopoly practices by making the iPhone OS secure.
Round your address to your block, e.g. write 1200 Main instead of 1234 Main. Of course they'll be able to poinpoint you by the fact that they have all the other addresses on the block, then this odd 1200 which doesn't exist. Being paranoid is tough.
Sounds like NewEgg accidentally shipped some top-secret prototype chips which us plebs didn't even know how to use. I suppose that was why they made them appear to be plastic toys, so that we'd never figure out how to interface to them. In reality, they have advanced plastic heat sinks (electrical insulators), and even more advanced plastic processors. There's a knock at the door, one mome
I just wanted to note that apparently Mozilla didn't remove anything from MetLab's servers; all data was intact and unharmed. Things were copied, yes, but that didn't prevent MetLab from continuing to use their UI elements, unlike what their accusations make it sound like (last time I had my car stolen, I couldn't drive it until I got it back, but maybe MetLab inhabits a different dimension than me).
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I don't understand your sarcasm. My point was simply that a comparison of USPS, UPS, and FedEx must take into account their differing nature if it is to make valid conclusions beyond "The amount I pay at the counter is least at ".
There, fixed that for you (see CPI for similar example).
Should I include consideration of the laws restricting operation of the latter two private companies, and the special benefits the first one gets, or should I pretend they are all on a level playing field?
Slashdot will be offering a new service at the end of the year that will let users take a photo of an article summary and have it reposted within two days, making the smartphone one step closer to replacing editors.
That's why I've been investing in antique tinfoil hats and body gloves. Did you know that modern "tin"foil hats are actually made from aluminum? Shocking, I know.
Yeah, I liked that the redid MGS1 for a newer system with better 3D capabilities, though I was put off by the excessive number of cutscenes. I didn't even bother to finish (was a rental), as I was constantly thinking, "OK, I've been playing the actual game for two minutes now, I guess another cutscene is about to interrupt."
Yes, if we ignore the cost of running Comcast, their bandwidth is virtually free. After all, even if they stopped using bandwidth, the cost of keeping everything running wouldn't go down much, therefore the bandwidth costs almost nothing.
Hello, this is the Extraneous Apostrophe Collection Company. We're here to collect one extraneous apostrophe from ironicsky. Are you him?
A few years ago I got some N:vision CFLs, have used them about 8 hours a day since, and they still haven't given me any trouble. They're EDXO-23, giving 500K white. It's quite close in color temperature and brightness to the incandescent I was using before, and I've never had any desire to go back. I tried their other two color temperatures. The daylight was very blue in comparison, and the other end was too orange/yellow. Before I found this brand, I wasn't really wild about CFLs.
I remember the opening to Metal Gear Solid on Playstation 1 over a decade ago. It was the first game that had good voice acting that actually improved the game, rather than made it comedic. The opening was like a movie, and you wanted to play. I'll always remember this game as the first that had solid voice acting throughout, and a serious tone. I booted the original up recently and was still impressed by the production quality (despite the PS1's polygon inherent difficulties). They managed to keep the quality in later games as well.
It was a big letdown finding out this wasn't the final optimization to Hello World, transforming it from a junky affair of #include and printf (or puts) into a highly-refined program of half the source text. The headline really had me rekindling my youthful yearning for a smaller Hello World. I am so let down right now. I'm calling a friend.
Still, growing up with the Mac compilers of the 1990s where stripping unused routines out of the executable was a standard feature, I'm amazed that many compilers even today don't do that. If I define 20 functions in a source file and only call one, and it doesn't call any of the others either, why the hell does the linker link everything else in? I've written several toy assemblers over the years and they all stripped out unused routines (you'd mark the boundary between each routine so the linker knew). It's very useful there because size does matter when writing in assembler, and you might want to include a general utilities library without having to manually figure out which routines you actually call.
Only 18 bytes (including newline):
echo Hello World!
I thought this was the way it worked in all lawsuits. Someone sues, and money is trasferred to lawyers, regardless of anything else.
I'm glad they're finally solving the problem of incompatible car chargers. Just about all my friends have had that problem with their electric vehicles. It's a huge problem. It makes sense for them to attack this, considering how they already solved the problem of incompatible cellphone chargers long ago.
...sold.
Obviously his solution is a computer without any RAM (or ROM). Zero bytes means no space for malware means NO MALWARE. This guy is a genius.
I can't imagine a hearing aid having more than a battery, ASIC, microphone, and speaker. Discrete components are so 1980s.
Your post is appreciated. I seem to have taken up a similar position with regarding technology and being realistic on the limits of its reliability, and putting that above shinyness.
Your statement is a tautology. "All the X around these Y problems is just that, X." Well duh!
Any chance the driver age directly affected the likelihood that the age was reported or readily inferred? If so, you're measuring this, rather than any effect driver age had on occurrence.
Thanks for the link to that post. I love the catch-22 nature of it. "We can't make our protection software work unless you unprotect large portions of the iPhone, thereby exposing it and thus needing protection." Next they'll be accusing Apple of monopoly practices by making the iPhone OS secure.
Round your address to your block, e.g. write 1200 Main instead of 1234 Main. Of course they'll be able to poinpoint you by the fact that they have all the other addresses on the block, then this odd 1200 which doesn't exist. Being paranoid is tough.
Sounds like NewEgg accidentally shipped some top-secret prototype chips which us plebs didn't even know how to use. I suppose that was why they made them appear to be plastic toys, so that we'd never figure out how to interface to them. In reality, they have advanced plastic heat sinks (electrical insulators), and even more advanced plastic processors. There's a knock at the door, one mome
I just wanted to note that apparently Mozilla didn't remove anything from MetLab's servers; all data was intact and unharmed. Things were copied, yes, but that didn't prevent MetLab from continuing to use their UI elements, unlike what their accusations make it sound like (last time I had my car stolen, I couldn't drive it until I got it back, but maybe MetLab inhabits a different dimension than me).