Chromebooks are popular in schools now. And by popular, I mean with the school districts.
Chromebooks are cheap. The district can negotiate with multiple hardware manufacturers for volume discounts. A Chromebook is easily replaced if lost, stolen or eaten. All of the student's "cloud based" course work and assignments are instantly on the new Chromebook as soon as the student logs in. The Chromebooks are easily reset -- even remotely, for the next incoming school year. With Cloud Print, students -- or faculty -- can print to various printers in the school to which they are given access. Access to everything on a Chromebook is centrally controlled once the district joins new Chromebook hardware to their Google account.
Now given the above, THAT is the biggest reason why I see Google Docs as a chat application. If everyone had Windows or Macs they could use other potential chat applications.
If it is an algorithm calculating PI, it would be mathematically provably correct. This formula (there are more than one) calculate PI to arbitrary precision. All that is left to question is the correctness of the implementation.
Since PI has been independently calculated by so many different implementations over time, the initial digits of them can be cross checked for correctness. One early effort, was it in the 1950s maybe(?) calculated PI to 2000 places, and that was called a 'stunt' to show off a computer. If other implementations get the same first 2000 places, can we assume their implementation of whatever formula they use is correct?
Maybe you're saying something different: that someone could commit fraud by stopping generating PI and then substituting a random number generator. In that case, their results will disagree with the next person who tries to beat their record and it will be obvious.
1. Find a new marketing gimmick for the stringy chicken meat. Maybe it is for kids!
2. Make fast growth chickens grow more slowly. Give them something that slows down growth to counteract the growth hormones. Then we can all enjoy two new drugs in our meat.
Even in the EU if you are using Windows, your obvious level of masochism is considered to be sufficient demonstration of consent enough to allow Microsoft to abuse you in whatever way it deems is in its corporate interests.
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Just wait until CSS has new features designed SPECIFICALLY to support advertising! It will be amazing and wonderful! Ads like you've never seen before! Especially if CSS can pull in ads with executable code from third party web sites!
You don't need a datacenter unless you need to scale up significantly.
You can google and youtube for it but . . . in 2012 Twitter rewrote from Ruby On Rails to Java. You should listen to their reasons why. They went to Java because they needed to handle a billion tweets per day. Each one has to be routed to phones, email addresses, and other things in near real time. Yes, they need a datacenter, but not because they use Java. They use Java because it was MORE efficient. It is in fact much more efficient. That's why it is number one. The people who are using it and spending significant money on it are not stupid as apparently you are.
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Chromebooks are popular in schools now. And by popular, I mean with the school districts.
Chromebooks are cheap. The district can negotiate with multiple hardware manufacturers for volume discounts. A Chromebook is easily replaced if lost, stolen or eaten. All of the student's "cloud based" course work and assignments are instantly on the new Chromebook as soon as the student logs in. The Chromebooks are easily reset -- even remotely, for the next incoming school year. With Cloud Print, students -- or faculty -- can print to various printers in the school to which they are given access. Access to everything on a Chromebook is centrally controlled once the district joins new Chromebook hardware to their Google account.
Now given the above, THAT is the biggest reason why I see Google Docs as a chat application. If everyone had Windows or Macs they could use other potential chat applications.
If Facebook is to be investigated for a crime, it should be for using PHP.
Cute. The next person to beat that record needs to calculate ten times as many digits to get one more digit in the number of digits.
If it is an algorithm calculating PI, it would be mathematically provably correct. This formula (there are more than one) calculate PI to arbitrary precision. All that is left to question is the correctness of the implementation.
Since PI has been independently calculated by so many different implementations over time, the initial digits of them can be cross checked for correctness. One early effort, was it in the 1950s maybe(?) calculated PI to 2000 places, and that was called a 'stunt' to show off a computer. If other implementations get the same first 2000 places, can we assume their implementation of whatever formula they use is correct?
Maybe you're saying something different: that someone could commit fraud by stopping generating PI and then substituting a random number generator. In that case, their results will disagree with the next person who tries to beat their record and it will be obvious.
> All that time and energy wasted on showing off. Nerds are hilarious.
As opposed to . . . athletes showing off.
Or Reality TV.
People with brains might actually appreciate nerds showing off.
I would also point out . . .
All that time and energy wasted on . . . Facebook.
Also include the husband's boyfriend in the pictures too please. Don't discriminate.
There is no problem so great that it cannot be solved by adding more government regulation and taxes.
Hot dogs are made in the image of, um, something. I like to put a hamburger in my mouth. So I also similarly like hot dogs.
I don't remember that. But a thank you for pointing it out: Thanks!
Please don't forget 'social media influencers'.
> They'll go nuts again tomorrow.
Uh, No.
They stay nuts continuously. You just notice it again tomorrow. But they were nuts the entire time. So they don't go nuts again. They are nuts still.
> The photos were shared but not with this use in mind.
When I shared the photo I imagined someone might use it for a hamburger advertisement.
But OMG!!! Someone used it for a hot dog advertisement! I never had this use in mind when I shared it!
That is exactly right!
Someone shared photos on CC, and someone else used it to train an AI.
So what!
Nothing is wrong with that.
But I would be curious to know what is wrong with that in someone's imagination where that is wrong.
The trained neural network consists of matricies of connection weights. No images are in the trained network. Just 'trained' interconnection weights.
I sometimes tether with 4G and it works fine. It's not like I'm trying to download the Library Of Congress when tethering.
Real or Fake 5G is actually a legitimate question. AT&T currently offers fake 5G service.
> Making exercising a thing you do 3 times a week.
The Windows support guy said I should Power Cycle at least twice a day.
But I said, I don't even own a bike.
It is back up again.
> ...a bawling kid at night in an airplane at 35,000ft
> If you could blot _that_ out I'd be well impressed.
Some airlines are proud to offer convenient, complimentary child muzzles.
A GMO Chicken-Salmon-Ostrich chimera would taste soooooo much better.
1. Find a new marketing gimmick for the stringy chicken meat. Maybe it is for kids!
2. Make fast growth chickens grow more slowly. Give them something that slows down growth to counteract the growth hormones. Then we can all enjoy two new drugs in our meat.
Even in the EU if you are using Windows, your obvious level of masochism is considered to be sufficient demonstration of consent enough to allow Microsoft to abuse you in whatever way it deems is in its corporate interests.
> Because I turned off updates years ago.
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Forget cyptocurrency.
Just wait until CSS has new features designed SPECIFICALLY to support advertising! It will be amazing and wonderful! Ads like you've never seen before! Especially if CSS can pull in ads with executable code from third party web sites!
. . . to continue my previous post. But Java is not SO different. But no other platform is "close" to Java except maybe dot NET.
I think my stated reason would be correct. The cost or rewriting, would be too high. As you prove by showing that COBOL is so different.
You don't need a datacenter unless you need to scale up significantly.
You can google and youtube for it but . . . in 2012 Twitter rewrote from Ruby On Rails to Java. You should listen to their reasons why. They went to Java because they needed to handle a billion tweets per day. Each one has to be routed to phones, email addresses, and other things in near real time. Yes, they need a datacenter, but not because they use Java. They use Java because it was MORE efficient. It is in fact much more efficient. That's why it is number one. The people who are using it and spending significant money on it are not stupid as apparently you are.
But who would the robots strip?