...and you can now say "SAT Test" without too much ridicule, as SAT no longer stands for anything. Mostly due to people having problems with the words "Aptitude".
Whoa, dude. Ease up. The OP obviously meant that cancer by its nature is your own body attacking itself, not that all cancer is the result of some intentional decision by the mind of the afflicted. My mother is at this moment probably just about one week from dying of brain cancer, and I was still able to read it for what it was and not require an apology.
I have no doubt the device can easily support it, and may even have the software installed by default in the OS. The question is will it or won't it be disabled and hidden for US consumers by contract with AT&T?
How close did they come to keeping all other factors equal? 70% less fuel actually doesn't sound like much of an improvement if they don't include all the mechanicals, safety equipment, navigation, expected weight of passengers and luggage, and other inevitable additions to a normal passenger aircraft. I've seen endless lists of super efficient cars that lack headlights, seat belts, air conditioning, power windows/locks, airbags, etc.
When I lived in San Francisco, they were pretty strict about "no feeding the meters". That is to say, they design the meters to go only up to, say 30 minutes, and that's it. If it runs out you get a ticket, but if they catch you putting more money in, you get one too. Best of both worlds!
Let me know if I'm way off base here, but once we have humans on site, why do we need robots? The robots we sent did some good work in their years of operation, but nothing humans couldn't have done in a tiny fraction of the time. Given that we happen to be the absolute best tool users ever to exist (and by a large margin), why not save tons of weight and just ship tools instead? In order to have this magical vehicle/robot (I like to call them "autobots") do anything real, we need a human making decisions. So that's either someone on Earth doing the whole lightspeed back-and-forth thing, or a human on Mars giving fast commands, but ending up doing no better than if he were actually on-site doing it himself. I guess the keyword there is "autonomous". I get that. So now you need to build all that intelligence and ability into the vehicle, do it for less weight than simply bringing another human, and make it just as flexible in its capabilities so you didn't just commit a unitasker to Mars for a couple years.
Maybe it's just my Los Angeles upbringing, but I don't see any way even a future (more efficient) fusion plant is going to generate enough energy to compensate for using up three football fields worth of urban real estate, and that's just for the ignition laser. I can only assume the plan is to build these out in the desert and transmit the electricity in...then of course tear it down and rebuild further out when urban sprawl makes more demands of the now-not-so-remote land.
Yes, piracy is rampant. I don't need some government study quantifying just how much it's happening. The reality is that content creators have to enter the market with their eyes open and accept reality. I happen to be a musician myself, and I can really relate, but we got by before recordings of any kind existed, and we will continue to survive and practice our art now that recordings are essentially free: Live performances. Works for hire. Voluntary donations. Value added (physical copy, cover art, printed lyrics, etc.). Ad revenue. All this (except the works for hire) can be done with Creative Commons music. Most of all, I don't delude myself into thinking I can give up my day job and be a rock star. I make a good, reliable living doing something that other people need. At night, I create things that I personally need to create. And I don't bitch about it when I don't get paid. I feel happy that anyone other than myself cares to hear any of it.
What I'm really interested to know is will the iPad allow me to write a book, save in unencrypted ePub format, and upload it to my own device, to be read by iBooks? I happen to be in the market for an e-reader, but not one that won't allow me to read self-authored content.
My guess is that "custom software" is software for which sales tax is not being paid. That way you always have to pay some additional tax above that for the income you earn when you sell software.
Sorry, but wherever possible I avoid booting up the iPhone browser, and prefer to use native apps. There are such apps for Wikipedia available, and free, so I don't see myself using the mobile site. Am I alone in this? I don't go to Netflix, or Facebook, or any other sites anymore where there is an application I can boot up more quickly.
I don't work that side of the IT group (I'm in development), but in a few places I've worked the workstations needed to be kept alive to perform maintenance at times when it would not affect employee work. Things like asset tracking, system/firewall upgrades, application software install and upgrades, disk optimization, etc.
It's like the problem with unplugging TVs when not in use. You can't use a remote control to turn it on if the remote sensor is not getting power first. And help desk really doesn't want to have to walk around the building flipping switches by hand.
That wasn't the point at all. If a meal is seared, fried, or otherwise cooked rapidly over (or under in the case of broiling) high heat, it takes little time. The duck will roast for 45 minutes. The daube will blend for 3 days and stew for 2 hours. The duck confit will take an hour and a half, and then a month to blend. Cheeses and cured meats can take even longer.
The point is that whatever you cook, there is an appropriate amount of time to do it, and a marketing director cannot simply dictate a change in that timing if the results are to be correct. Likewise, software takes what it takes to develop it, and assigning a deadline is just asking for it to be served underdone. Where I take issue with the Google approach as it applies to "regular" software development is that a certain piece of software, properly done in the natural amount of time, may nevertheless not be cost effective because not enough revenue is projected out of it to cover non-rushed development. When this is the case, it is proper to kill the project and reassign the developers to something more profitable. Too often this does not happen, and the profits are "generated" by shortening the deadline. Then of course the project runs over, costs go up to originally predicted levels, and the software is a loser.
It seems to me that this guy is going to receive a punishment much worse than staying in his room for 2 months. His name is on the Internet, attached to the information that he sought revenge against an ex-employer. Wow. Good luck with that whole "rest of your career" thing you thought you had.
...just name your encrypted files random.xx, and claim that they are not encrypted at all? They are just local entropy bits you consume for testing software.
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...and you can now say "SAT Test" without too much ridicule, as SAT no longer stands for anything. Mostly due to people having problems with the words "Aptitude".
Whoa, dude. Ease up. The OP obviously meant that cancer by its nature is your own body attacking itself, not that all cancer is the result of some intentional decision by the mind of the afflicted. My mother is at this moment probably just about one week from dying of brain cancer, and I was still able to read it for what it was and not require an apology.
I have no doubt the device can easily support it, and may even have the software installed by default in the OS. The question is will it or won't it be disabled and hidden for US consumers by contract with AT&T?
How close did they come to keeping all other factors equal? 70% less fuel actually doesn't sound like much of an improvement if they don't include all the mechanicals, safety equipment, navigation, expected weight of passengers and luggage, and other inevitable additions to a normal passenger aircraft. I've seen endless lists of super efficient cars that lack headlights, seat belts, air conditioning, power windows/locks, airbags, etc.
When I lived in San Francisco, they were pretty strict about "no feeding the meters". That is to say, they design the meters to go only up to, say 30 minutes, and that's it. If it runs out you get a ticket, but if they catch you putting more money in, you get one too. Best of both worlds!
Let me know if I'm way off base here, but once we have humans on site, why do we need robots? The robots we sent did some good work in their years of operation, but nothing humans couldn't have done in a tiny fraction of the time. Given that we happen to be the absolute best tool users ever to exist (and by a large margin), why not save tons of weight and just ship tools instead? In order to have this magical vehicle/robot (I like to call them "autobots") do anything real, we need a human making decisions. So that's either someone on Earth doing the whole lightspeed back-and-forth thing, or a human on Mars giving fast commands, but ending up doing no better than if he were actually on-site doing it himself. I guess the keyword there is "autonomous". I get that. So now you need to build all that intelligence and ability into the vehicle, do it for less weight than simply bringing another human, and make it just as flexible in its capabilities so you didn't just commit a unitasker to Mars for a couple years.
Ironic, you know, like rain on your wedding day.
Maybe it's just my Los Angeles upbringing, but I don't see any way even a future (more efficient) fusion plant is going to generate enough energy to compensate for using up three football fields worth of urban real estate, and that's just for the ignition laser. I can only assume the plan is to build these out in the desert and transmit the electricity in...then of course tear it down and rebuild further out when urban sprawl makes more demands of the now-not-so-remote land.
Yes, piracy is rampant. I don't need some government study quantifying just how much it's happening. The reality is that content creators have to enter the market with their eyes open and accept reality. I happen to be a musician myself, and I can really relate, but we got by before recordings of any kind existed, and we will continue to survive and practice our art now that recordings are essentially free: Live performances. Works for hire. Voluntary donations. Value added (physical copy, cover art, printed lyrics, etc.). Ad revenue. All this (except the works for hire) can be done with Creative Commons music. Most of all, I don't delude myself into thinking I can give up my day job and be a rock star. I make a good, reliable living doing something that other people need. At night, I create things that I personally need to create. And I don't bitch about it when I don't get paid. I feel happy that anyone other than myself cares to hear any of it.
His biggest mistake was, when confronted by the judge about the emails, when he simply replied: "Bazinga!"
You could upgrade your connection. That's hardware acceleration right there.
What I'm really interested to know is will the iPad allow me to write a book, save in unencrypted ePub format, and upload it to my own device, to be read by iBooks? I happen to be in the market for an e-reader, but not one that won't allow me to read self-authored content.
My guess is that "custom software" is software for which sales tax is not being paid. That way you always have to pay some additional tax above that for the income you earn when you sell software.
I wonder if the meeting went something like this.
Sorry, but wherever possible I avoid booting up the iPhone browser, and prefer to use native apps. There are such apps for Wikipedia available, and free, so I don't see myself using the mobile site. Am I alone in this? I don't go to Netflix, or Facebook, or any other sites anymore where there is an application I can boot up more quickly.
I don't work that side of the IT group (I'm in development), but in a few places I've worked the workstations needed to be kept alive to perform maintenance at times when it would not affect employee work. Things like asset tracking, system/firewall upgrades, application software install and upgrades, disk optimization, etc.
It's like the problem with unplugging TVs when not in use. You can't use a remote control to turn it on if the remote sensor is not getting power first. And help desk really doesn't want to have to walk around the building flipping switches by hand.
Do you really mean to compare char pointers to test for string equivalence?
You're close with regard to the fall of the Republic, but more precisely I'd peg it to 1942.
Dude, I hope your wife doesn't read your
Woo hoo!!! I'm gonna go get me a Hummer!
Sounds a lot like a television channels running ads for their own shows. How often do you see NBC airing an ad for a CBS show? Is that wrong?
That wasn't the point at all. If a meal is seared, fried, or otherwise cooked rapidly over (or under in the case of broiling) high heat, it takes little time. The duck will roast for 45 minutes. The daube will blend for 3 days and stew for 2 hours. The duck confit will take an hour and a half, and then a month to blend. Cheeses and cured meats can take even longer.
The point is that whatever you cook, there is an appropriate amount of time to do it, and a marketing director cannot simply dictate a change in that timing if the results are to be correct. Likewise, software takes what it takes to develop it, and assigning a deadline is just asking for it to be served underdone. Where I take issue with the Google approach as it applies to "regular" software development is that a certain piece of software, properly done in the natural amount of time, may nevertheless not be cost effective because not enough revenue is projected out of it to cover non-rushed development. When this is the case, it is proper to kill the project and reassign the developers to something more profitable. Too often this does not happen, and the profits are "generated" by shortening the deadline. Then of course the project runs over, costs go up to originally predicted levels, and the software is a loser.
...I always figured that today's dominant innovation platform was "getting rich off the stuff you create".
It seems to me that this guy is going to receive a punishment much worse than staying in his room for 2 months. His name is on the Internet, attached to the information that he sought revenge against an ex-employer. Wow. Good luck with that whole "rest of your career" thing you thought you had.
...just name your encrypted files random.xx, and claim that they are not encrypted at all? They are just local entropy bits you consume for testing software.