She serves as an important 'symbolic' head of state. This is a part of why we don't make a super-celebrity out of our prime minister, the way the US does with their president. When we need someone to patriotically rally around, we don't need to wrap a politician up in a flag and recognize him as the embodiment of our national values and virtues. We have a monarch for that.
In terms of actual powers? Lots, but by general convention these days she doesn't actually use them. In theory she appoints the prime minister (in practice, she simply formalises the election result), opens parliament (via representative, as she is personally barred from setting foot in the Commons), can close it again at any time, could (but won't) veto and law passed by refusing to sign it, is the ultimate head of the Church of England with the power to alter doctrine on a whim, grants titles and honors (rubber-stamps committee decisions) and is the legal owner of every swan on a stretch of the Thames.
In the event that she actually tried to exercise an of these powers, you can be confident parliament would quickly find a way to bypass and take them away. It's a simple deal: She gets to keep her vast country-ruling powers, on condition she never uses them.
The differences are a lot more serious than that. In theological terms they are very different. Most importantly the protestants place great value on the personal relationship between each believer and Christ, while the Catholic church place themselves as the divinely appointed intermediary. This also means they claim for themselves the exclusive power to interpret or decree God's teachings. The two major branches of Christianity are on good terms right now, but remember that past centuries were characterized by the two taking turns to persecute and torture each other in the struggle for influence.
As best I could work out my contract, my ultimate boss was the Pope.
It never came up, though. As the lowest of the low in IT support, and only support staff, I never had any involvement with the religious side at all. I just fixed computers.
I did once get stuck behind a visiting bishop of somewhere-or-other. He wanted to give a presentation in the chapel (The only time IT ever had to venture in there), but at the last moment we found our portable projection screen was damaged. I spent the entire duration of the presentation sitting behind the screen, holding it in place. No-one in the audience knew I was there.
Because: 1. They have money. 2. I, being unemployed, did not. 3. The church didn't actually exercise much control over the everyday running of the school anyway.
Princibles are all very well if you have money. When you've been unemployed for six months with nothing but a diploma and a CCNA, you take what work you can get.
And your proposed solution isn't exactly princibled either. Self-censorship? Never say anything that could offend anyone, because you may some day need their favor?
If you've managed to find my real name, it would be quite an achievement. Prove it: Give the initials. You can easily find my website, as I've linked to it a few times, but there's no real name up there. Best you'll find is a group photo, but it doesn't say which person in the photo is me.
I use Retroshare. Similar thing IM-wise, encrypted messaging, but it also has some excellent file searching/browsing/transfer capabilities (Great for those with a healthy disrespect for copyright), runs fully decentralised (Great for those in more repressive countries where IM software servers are blocked) and can also handle decentralised forums and mail transfer.
The typical internet user is unlikely to incur the wrath of the NSA or even law enforcement unless they are involved in crime or political activism. They may choose to hide on princible.
What they do have to fear is the casual background check.
For example: I loathe the catholic church. A bunch of homophobic superstitious idiots with ridiculous beliefs that even they have had to shy away from out of embarassment. Stuck-up people who claim to be the sole early authority on issues of morality, though apparently this includes sheltering a truely obscene number of child-molesters in their ranks from the public relations disaster of actually being caught by law enforcement.
My first job out of university was in IT support at a catholic school.
Now, imagine if I had been dumb enough to write the above under my real name somewhere? The school may very well have put my name into google to check if I have any skeletons, found something like the above, and decided not to offer me the job. I'd never have learned why, just gotten the 'your application was not successful' form letter, so it's impossible to say how often this happens - but with facebook and google requiring real names for an increasing number of social media concerns, this is surely happening with increasing frequency.
It's not treated consistently even within the series. It isn't even clear if Time Lord is the name they use for their own species, of if it is a rank or title granted to individuals.
Which creates a problem. Dr Who is infamous for the loose canon, but the movie is bad even by Dr Who standards. Daleks being *polite*? The doctor being somehow half human, a characteristic never acknowledged anywhere else?
He's replaced the screwdriver several times, including upgrading the hardware - apparently he just copies over the software each time, probably because it'd take years to get it working the way he likes otherwise.
The zygon framing story seemed a bit forced - it just distracted from the more important events. The main story went very, very nicely. Canon consistancy achieved quite well (Packed full of references to the classic series), though I think I saw them acknowledge the existance of the movie in there - and that alone is a serious, serious problem.
Fans *deny* that movie.
And the temporal hypercomputer trick? That was just very cool.
Cache performance impact is very heavily dependant upon application characteristics. Specifically, active memory.
Best case, when you're working with an active set that's larger than L3 but under L4 - around 100MB or so - and you're accessing it on a repeating pattern, and the compiler hasn't found any tweaks to help, and you're not multitasking, and the OS isn't swapping you out every slice, and the stars are aligned in your favor... the theoretical maximum performance gain can be up to 2x. It's very rare you'll find a program that benefits that much, though. Closest I can think of is image processing.
So in the real world, anywhere from 'no benefit' to 'double the speed' depending on application.
It'd cost a lot more, too. The moon landing was hard enough, and in space terms that's little more than a trip around the block. No long-term sustainable life support, radiation shielding only enough for a short trip, the ship itsself was absolutely tiny. A trip to mars would need so much more than that, the only realistic way to even built the interplanetary ship would be to assemble it in orbit. It would be one of the most expensive scientific projects, if not the most expensive, ever undertaken.
China and the EU are in an on-and-off trade war over photovoltaics. China is heavily subsidising production there in order to churn the panels out so cheap, European manufacturers cannot match them - thus effectively securing a production monopoly which can later be leveraged. Taking a loss now to secure a strategic advantage. The EU is not happy with this.
Actually, lead alone is a very bad material to stop high-energy neutrons. What you really want is a 1U block of boron, with a 1U block of lead or UPS below it to catch the resulting gamma.
Look up. I did some very rough calculations and, even assuming McD is getting screwed on meat prices and that the cost of production doubled, the quarter-pounder still would only go up by about $1.
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She serves as an important 'symbolic' head of state. This is a part of why we don't make a super-celebrity out of our prime minister, the way the US does with their president. When we need someone to patriotically rally around, we don't need to wrap a politician up in a flag and recognize him as the embodiment of our national values and virtues. We have a monarch for that.
In terms of actual powers? Lots, but by general convention these days she doesn't actually use them. In theory she appoints the prime minister (in practice, she simply formalises the election result), opens parliament (via representative, as she is personally barred from setting foot in the Commons), can close it again at any time, could (but won't) veto and law passed by refusing to sign it, is the ultimate head of the Church of England with the power to alter doctrine on a whim, grants titles and honors (rubber-stamps committee decisions) and is the legal owner of every swan on a stretch of the Thames.
In the event that she actually tried to exercise an of these powers, you can be confident parliament would quickly find a way to bypass and take them away. It's a simple deal: She gets to keep her vast country-ruling powers, on condition she never uses them.
The differences are a lot more serious than that. In theological terms they are very different. Most importantly the protestants place great value on the personal relationship between each believer and Christ, while the Catholic church place themselves as the divinely appointed intermediary. This also means they claim for themselves the exclusive power to interpret or decree God's teachings. The two major branches of Christianity are on good terms right now, but remember that past centuries were characterized by the two taking turns to persecute and torture each other in the struggle for influence.
Mystery solved: He just hopped forward and got the final version long ago.
No need. There are plenty of lucrative job opportunities awaiting a released convict with outdated education.
Mugger, burgler, car thief, drug dealer, extortionist...
Most annoyingly, I actually typed it all correctly - before looking at it, thinking I'd made a mistake, and going back to 'correct' the error.
As best I could work out my contract, my ultimate boss was the Pope.
It never came up, though. As the lowest of the low in IT support, and only support staff, I never had any involvement with the religious side at all. I just fixed computers.
I did once get stuck behind a visiting bishop of somewhere-or-other. He wanted to give a presentation in the chapel (The only time IT ever had to venture in there), but at the last moment we found our portable projection screen was damaged. I spent the entire duration of the presentation sitting behind the screen, holding it in place. No-one in the audience knew I was there.
Because:
1. They have money.
2. I, being unemployed, did not.
3. The church didn't actually exercise much control over the everyday running of the school anyway.
Princibles are all very well if you have money. When you've been unemployed for six months with nothing but a diploma and a CCNA, you take what work you can get.
And your proposed solution isn't exactly princibled either. Self-censorship? Never say anything that could offend anyone, because you may some day need their favor?
If you've managed to find my real name, it would be quite an achievement. Prove it: Give the initials. You can easily find my website, as I've linked to it a few times, but there's no real name up there. Best you'll find is a group photo, but it doesn't say which person in the photo is me.
I use Retroshare. Similar thing IM-wise, encrypted messaging, but it also has some excellent file searching/browsing/transfer capabilities (Great for those with a healthy disrespect for copyright), runs fully decentralised (Great for those in more repressive countries where IM software servers are blocked) and can also handle decentralised forums and mail transfer.
It depends who you are hiding from.
The typical internet user is unlikely to incur the wrath of the NSA or even law enforcement unless they are involved in crime or political activism. They may choose to hide on princible.
What they do have to fear is the casual background check.
For example: I loathe the catholic church. A bunch of homophobic superstitious idiots with ridiculous beliefs that even they have had to shy away from out of embarassment. Stuck-up people who claim to be the sole early authority on issues of morality, though apparently this includes sheltering a truely obscene number of child-molesters in their ranks from the public relations disaster of actually being caught by law enforcement.
My first job out of university was in IT support at a catholic school.
Now, imagine if I had been dumb enough to write the above under my real name somewhere? The school may very well have put my name into google to check if I have any skeletons, found something like the above, and decided not to offer me the job. I'd never have learned why, just gotten the 'your application was not successful' form letter, so it's impossible to say how often this happens - but with facebook and google requiring real names for an increasing number of social media concerns, this is surely happening with increasing frequency.
It's not treated consistently even within the series. It isn't even clear if Time Lord is the name they use for their own species, of if it is a rank or title granted to individuals.
Which creates a problem. Dr Who is infamous for the loose canon, but the movie is bad even by Dr Who standards. Daleks being *polite*? The doctor being somehow half human, a characteristic never acknowledged anywhere else?
He's replaced the screwdriver several times, including upgrading the hardware - apparently he just copies over the software each time, probably because it'd take years to get it working the way he likes otherwise.
I think the TARDIS translation system handles that in the same way it handles language, given that it's never come up before.
The new series had a similar line, but it might be just coincidence.
Doctor: "Nothing happens. And it keeps on happening."
Something like that, anyway. The consequence of trying to change a fixed moment in time.
The zygon framing story seemed a bit forced - it just distracted from the more important events. The main story went very, very nicely. Canon consistancy achieved quite well (Packed full of references to the classic series), though I think I saw them acknowledge the existance of the movie in there - and that alone is a serious, serious problem.
Fans *deny* that movie.
And the temporal hypercomputer trick? That was just very cool.
It's also pretty poor, for a cache. That's why it's an L4 cache, rather than replacing the L3 or L2.
Cache performance impact is very heavily dependant upon application characteristics. Specifically, active memory.
Best case, when you're working with an active set that's larger than L3 but under L4 - around 100MB or so - and you're accessing it on a repeating pattern, and the compiler hasn't found any tweaks to help, and you're not multitasking, and the OS isn't swapping you out every slice, and the stars are aligned in your favor... the theoretical maximum performance gain can be up to 2x. It's very rare you'll find a program that benefits that much, though. Closest I can think of is image processing.
So in the real world, anywhere from 'no benefit' to 'double the speed' depending on application.
Well, that took all of thirty seconds.
Proof enough for the Commission to impose an import tariff.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23475584
The BBC is about as reliable a source as you can get.
Not including the occasional war fought to secure access to supplies.
It'd cost a lot more, too. The moon landing was hard enough, and in space terms that's little more than a trip around the block. No long-term sustainable life support, radiation shielding only enough for a short trip, the ship itsself was absolutely tiny. A trip to mars would need so much more than that, the only realistic way to even built the interplanetary ship would be to assemble it in orbit. It would be one of the most expensive scientific projects, if not the most expensive, ever undertaken.
China and the EU are in an on-and-off trade war over photovoltaics. China is heavily subsidising production there in order to churn the panels out so cheap, European manufacturers cannot match them - thus effectively securing a production monopoly which can later be leveraged. Taking a loss now to secure a strategic advantage. The EU is not happy with this.
Actually, lead alone is a very bad material to stop high-energy neutrons. What you really want is a 1U block of boron, with a 1U block of lead or UPS below it to catch the resulting gamma.
Look up. I did some very rough calculations and, even assuming McD is getting screwed on meat prices and that the cost of production doubled, the quarter-pounder still would only go up by about $1.