Iowa is a great spot for giving everyone in the US and Canada decent average latency. It's possible that they might be considering making a play for VoIP or real-time MMPGs or some other real-time interactive service.
The patients' rights movement (part of the civil rights movement) emptied many of those facilities before Reagan came along. He merely stopped paying for empty buildings.
I don't know who this "whistle blower" was (likely a government official who they didn't bribe well enough), but EVERY company that does business in China bribes. It's more than a way of life there, it's absolutely ubiquitous.
It's not just China, either.
And calling this "bribery" isn't always correct. "Extortion" is probably just as a appropriate at times.
Western multinationals can't do business in most parts of the world (and even US companies in parts of Europe) without some local official demanding money up front to make sure important documents like applications for permits don't "go missing", or that so-and-so's brother on some commission can be "advised" to make the right decision -- the implication being that you'll be held up if you don't pay up.
You make USA out to be some benevolent deity, and even bring the Vietnam war up despite it being one of the greatest violations and shames of the USA. You must be completely indoctrinated. It seems you have plenty of schooling, maybe you should try some actual education?
You must think schools in the USA work the same way they do in your homeland, comrade. There's plenty of anti-Americanism in education and many professional educators feel the same way you do about the USA and Vietnam. I heard plenty anti-Americanism growing up.
But Communism has shown itself to be a ruthless, murderous ideology. It's terrible that the USA was unable to save the South Vietnamese from the Communist North.
If anyone should be ashamed it's Chinese communists. Many Vietnamese would have been spared if not for Chinese efforts to impose communism on the country.
Slashdot is turning into a hypocritical pro-USA outlet with all this demonizing of China. I think the Chinese should stop beating around the bush and just kick all big American corporations out of their country. There is an inevitable cold war building up between the two anyway.
The cold war began in 1949 when China went communist, despite receiving help from the USA during World War 2.
They even sent Chinese to help the North Vietnamese kill Americans in Vietnam during the Vietnam war.
Even so the USA reached out to China. Trade was increased. We allowed technology developed in the USA to make its way into China. We allowed China to access the internet and much of the information and knowledge the West has to offer. We've tried being friends.
There is a perception that the Chinese government is a monolithic entity, with unity of purpose. This is not at all the case. Because the communist party has a monopoly on political power, everyone with ambition has to be in it. So the CCP includes people of every ideological hue, from hardcore Marxists to free market libertarians.
Yeah, but the one thing they all have in common is nationalism, racism, and xenophobia.
Don't think for a second that if you're just nice to them they'll treat you fairly. They only see it as a weakness to exploit.
The only exception might be the people of Hong Kong, a great city, but even there most have benevolent feelings of superiority.
Is there any possible a close encounter to Mars that might cause C/2013A1 to act as if it were orbiting mars, (at least for half a rev duration of that single pass)?
A perfect glancing blow that tore the comet to pieces might leave some little bits in orbit. A few may even find themselves in orbit around the sun as new asteroids. Most of the comet would become vapor.
Anything else leaves a big crater or deflects the comet a small amount on its way back out of the solar system.
I've seen economists say that you can't buy an annuity on the free market that would give you as good a return as Social Security.
It's one of those things that the government can do more efficiently than private enterprise.
It has nothing to do with government efficiency, except in the sense that the government can more efficiently put young workers in jail if they don't give up enough money so the government can continue to make social security payments to retirees.
I thought that most HPC users needed double-precision maths.
Why, then, would a card aimed at the HPC market have so many single-precision cores alongside the double-precision cores?
I'm not sure it has separate DP cores along side SP cores.
It's possible that the double-precision features of the card are made possible by first taking the outputs of the single-precision circuits and then building on that so that there is no separate DP core -- just extra circuitry added to the SP cores.
You see the "he determines?" The Obama administration didn't make that up, because it's currently valid law. And it will be valid law until it is defeated in court or repealed.
So a single conservative supreme court justice is all that potentially stands in the way of continuing this practice?
Middle class incomes stagnated, that's what. The rich got a *lot* richer, everyone else got jack shit.
Not true. The median income from 1965 to 2005 (in 2005 dollars) shows a general trend upward. If anything it shows movement towards stagnation BEFORE "trickle down" tax rates went into effect.
And no, everyone else didn't get jack shit. Just look on your desk right now. You have what at one time would have been considered a supercomputer attached to a global network that you use to bitch about how exploited you are.
Lowering the highest marginal income tax rates beat back inflation in the early 80's and helped to provide capital for funding the technological advances and products of the last 30 years.
And yeah, some people became rich being a part of all that. So what?
Not really. We have a dog's breakfast of programs that provide food subsidies, housing subsidies, subsidies for mothers with children they can't support, free cell phones, unemployment benefits, medical subsides, and disability subsidies.
Perhaps managers need to be more focused to get their job done.
And let's not turn this into an argument about which style of thinking is superior. A thing is superior to another only give a particular goal and context. Some forms of thinking best in one context are deadly in another.
The key to a successful organization is making sure each kind of thinking finds appropriate application in a proper context and that they ultimately work together.
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No they did not. They wanted tax increases on income.
That's an important difference because it protects the wealth of rich New England Democrats.
Iowa is a great spot for giving everyone in the US and Canada decent average latency. It's possible that they might be considering making a play for VoIP or real-time MMPGs or some other real-time interactive service.
The patients' rights movement (part of the civil rights movement) emptied many of those facilities before Reagan came along. He merely stopped paying for empty buildings.
Nah. You have to go back to moment dirty American infidels touched pristine Saudi Arabian Holy Land. That was Osama's gripe from the start.
Dirty communist hippi bombers are too busy at working at universities in Illinois and at Columbia.
According to the most recent SST anomaly map found here, much of the Gulf Stream is anomalously warmer than expected.
It's not just China, either.
And calling this "bribery" isn't always correct. "Extortion" is probably just as a appropriate at times.
Western multinationals can't do business in most parts of the world (and even US companies in parts of Europe) without some local official demanding money up front to make sure important documents like applications for permits don't "go missing", or that so-and-so's brother on some commission can be "advised" to make the right decision -- the implication being that you'll be held up if you don't pay up.
That's because it was a volunteer force, and to me that makes it even more significant.
No one forced these Americans to fight for the Chinese. Yet they did it anyway.
You must think schools in the USA work the same way they do in your homeland, comrade. There's plenty of anti-Americanism in education and many professional educators feel the same way you do about the USA and Vietnam. I heard plenty anti-Americanism growing up.
But Communism has shown itself to be a ruthless, murderous ideology. It's terrible that the USA was unable to save the South Vietnamese from the Communist North.
If anyone should be ashamed it's Chinese communists. Many Vietnamese would have been spared if not for Chinese efforts to impose communism on the country.
We all look the same to you. Got it.
The cold war began in 1949 when China went communist, despite receiving help from the USA during World War 2.
They even sent Chinese to help the North Vietnamese kill Americans in Vietnam during the Vietnam war.
Even so the USA reached out to China. Trade was increased. We allowed technology developed in the USA to make its way into China. We allowed China to access the internet and much of the information and knowledge the West has to offer. We've tried being friends.
Still China stabs the USA in the back.
Is it a mistake then to trust China?
A perfect glancing blow that tore the comet to pieces might leave some little bits in orbit. A few may even find themselves in orbit around the sun as new asteroids. Most of the comet would become vapor.
Anything else leaves a big crater or deflects the comet a small amount on its way back out of the solar system.
It has nothing to do with government efficiency, except in the sense that the government can more efficiently put young workers in jail if they don't give up enough money so the government can continue to make social security payments to retirees.
Note that the number of single cores divided by double cores is exactly 3.
2688/896 = 3
It isn't too much of stretch to assume that NVIDIA have figured out a way to use 3 SP cores to make a DP core.
I'm not sure it has separate DP cores along side SP cores.
It's possible that the double-precision features of the card are made possible by first taking the outputs of the single-precision circuits and then building on that so that there is no separate DP core -- just extra circuitry added to the SP cores.
So a single conservative supreme court justice is all that potentially stands in the way of continuing this practice?
The Bush policy was extraordinary rendition and a stay at Guantanamo until guilt or innocence could be determined -- and that was for non-citizens!
Middle class incomes stagnated, that's what. The rich got a *lot* richer, everyone else got jack shit.
Not true. The median income from 1965 to 2005 (in 2005 dollars) shows a general trend upward. If anything it shows movement towards stagnation BEFORE "trickle down" tax rates went into effect.
And no, everyone else didn't get jack shit. Just look on your desk right now. You have what at one time would have been considered a supercomputer attached to a global network that you use to bitch about how exploited you are.
Lowering the highest marginal income tax rates beat back inflation in the early 80's and helped to provide capital for funding the technological advances and products of the last 30 years.
And yeah, some people became rich being a part of all that. So what?
Not really. We have a dog's breakfast of programs that provide food subsidies, housing subsidies, subsidies for mothers with children they can't support, free cell phones, unemployment benefits, medical subsides, and disability subsidies.
The system is so crazy that we have parents actually encouraging their kids to BE crazy so they can receive more money.
But by gaming the system a person can do pretty well. A single mother with two kids making $29,000/year receives net income and benefits of over $57,000. Earning more income actually results in a net decrease in total income+benefits -- this is the "welfare cliff".
This is typical behavior for the Islamic fundamentalist who are predominantly uneducated.
As opposed to more educated Muslims that have the skill to pilot airplanes into tall buildings.
And don't forget program counter relative addressing modes for position-independent code.
When I started on x86 I was shocked to learn there was no PC-relative addressing mode. What a hassle.
Someone call the robot paramedics!
Perhaps managers need to be more focused to get their job done.
And let's not turn this into an argument about which style of thinking is superior. A thing is superior to another only give a particular goal and context. Some forms of thinking best in one context are deadly in another.
The key to a successful organization is making sure each kind of thinking finds appropriate application in a proper context and that they ultimately work together.