An instant message sent to an IP address is a bit like a postcard sent nextday air and requiring hand delivery. Sure, there's no envelope, and it doesn't end up in a mail box, but it still obviously counts as mail.
It's the old rate-of-energy-consumption vs energy-consumed misused once again.
I'm of the opinion that we should just dump Watts, KWh, BTUs, etc and put everything in terms of Joules and time. It would clear up so much confusion among the public.
100 Watt lightbulbs should be 100 Joules/second bulbs. Electricity should be sold by the MegaJoule.
Heck, even fuels could be sold by the MJ. People would then see the superiority of Diesel in terms of MJ per gallon. Or be able to easily compare the energy used to heat with natural gas versus electricty.
Curious, Just one observation. If as you suggest 'their' hatred is indoctrinal and religious in nature, how do you explain the widespread condemnation of the 9/11 attacks throughout the Muslim world by religious leaders/media/extreme movements?
The interesting question is not why Republicans do not object when their Republican president issues these orders,
Actually they do. There is plenty of division within the party right now and plenty of Republicans pissed off for the same reason those on the left are pissed off.
This is manipulating search data for political purposes to suit their own agenda. It raises doubts in my mind about how much I can trust their search engine to try and be accurate, honest and to help me find what I'm looking for.
Now they're just another group of monopolist bullies.
Bullcrap.
Google is the one being bullied here. The government has police and guns and plenty of power. They can take your shit. They can put you in jail.
Google is doing the only thing they can do to protest: they're refusing to provide a service. They're not slaves, you know.
But even then they're not really free since they've been forced to use their resources to publish this ruling. They can't really say 'no', can they?
Calling Google a bully is like calling protestors that sit down in the street bullies. When the other side has the force of law and violence on it's side, that's all a sane person can do.
We could have had this long ago if not for the fact that the AGP bus is slow as hell when moving data from graphics card memory back to main memory/CPU.
Sure, you could do computations in graphics memeory, if you didn't mind waiting forever to read the results back.
Globalization isn't necessarily a bad thing but I would like to see the results of an economic simulation where an entire coutry, like say the US, wraps itself in isolationist economic and trade policies, and see what happens.
You don't have to. Just imagine cutting your state or city off from the rest of the country. You'll get the same sort of results.
One of the first reasons given for the attack is our support of Israel:
"The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased."
So, do you condemn our support of Israel? You must realize that, without our support, Israel will be "erased". Are we wrong to help prevent the erasure of Israel?
He also tells us what we can do to get back on his good side:
"(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?...
(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest."...
And apparently Bill's blow-job in the White house is one of the worst kinds of events:
"(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.
Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations? "
Do you really believe we deserve to be attacked because the president got is cigar smoked?
It's been suggested that the best way to decide what is or is not a planet is to determine if the mass is held together the force of gravity or electrostatic forces (like metal bonds).
If by gravity then it should be considered a planet. If by chemisty then it's just a hunk of rock.
The next big upgrade cycle for us is going to be upgrading from 17" CRTs to 19" LCDs.
Well it's about time! And how about going dual monitor?
The only upgrade I've seen that really made any difference in productivity is going dual monitors. More RAM, faster CPU -- they never really translated into increases in getting the job done.
Study links warm offices to fewer typing errors and higher productivity
When the office temperature in a month-long study increased from 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, typing errors fell by 44 percent and typing output jumped 150 percent. Hedge's study was exploring the link between changes in the physical environment and work performance.
"The results of our study also suggest raising the temperature to a more comfortable thermal zone saves employers about $2 per worker, per hour," says Hedge, who presented his findings this summer at the 2004 Eastern Ergonomics Conference and Exposition in New York City.
I submit that the reason startups happen most often in the USA is simply because US society approves of people getting rich. There's no embarrassment in being wealthy. Your property rights are protected and taxes are relatively low.
In many other parts of the world the rich must fear "the people". As a result the "pre-rich" give up before they start for fear of making themselves a target.
Given the content of the article, you're right. It should not have been posted to hardware. On the other hand, how do you know that you can trust your hardware not to corrupt your data?
Soft errors are a genuine problem. It's possible, though unlikely, that a cosmic ray might come whizzing by and flip a bit in DRAM, for example.
How do you know it happened? A '4' in your spreadsheet could become a '6' and you'd never know it. ECC can help, of course.
And while on the subject of trusting hardware not to muck up your data, consider important data sent over a network. This paper looked at how many damaged packets pass both the link level CRC and TCP's checksum. They found that up to 1 in 16 million packets was a damaged packet silently passed to the APP layer. That's good reason to have your app do one final check on the data before using it.
SLA? Bullshit. If I buy a car called "Toyota 85MPH Blue Car" it had damned well better not be goverened to 55MPH. "But when you bought the car, the dealer never signed an agreement guaranteeing speed." Bull-shit.
ISPs don't sell you the car. They let you use the highway they've built.
Do you really expect to be able to drive 85mph during rush hour?
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An instant message sent to an IP address is a bit like a postcard sent nextday air and requiring hand delivery. Sure, there's no envelope, and it doesn't end up in a mail box, but it still obviously counts as mail.
I'm of the opinion that we should just dump Watts, KWh, BTUs, etc and put everything in terms of Joules and time. It would clear up so much confusion among the public.
100 Watt lightbulbs should be 100 Joules/second bulbs. Electricity should be sold by the MegaJoule.
Heck, even fuels could be sold by the MJ. People would then see the superiority of Diesel in terms of MJ per gallon. Or be able to easily compare the energy used to heat with natural gas versus electricty.
Condemned in English.
Praised in Arabic.
Don't confuse democracy and freedom. They're not the same at all.
Actually they do. There is plenty of division within the party right now and plenty of Republicans pissed off for the same reason those on the left are pissed off.
*shudder*
Jeb is the only Bush worth a damn. He just can't be a real Bush.
I think Barbara has something to tell George Sr.
Maybe something about getting lonely while he was away...
Now that the Republicans have completed their transformation into the party of the religious socialists, somebody had to stand up for free enterprise.
I just never thought it would be Al Gore. Good for him.
Freedom of speech != Freedom to offend
Freedom of speech isn't worth much if one can't use offensive speech.
"Bush is an idiot", for example, might offend Bush, but can anyone really say it shouldn't be protected speech?
By definition, laws are based on a sense of morality and fairness.
Don't use the words "by definition" if what you say doesn't come directly from a definition.
In particular, there is nothing in the definition of "law" that says it must be "based on a sense of morality and fairness".
There are plenty of European countries that would disagree. They are democracies, but most do limit speech.
Is there really nothing more behind the desire to collect additional taxes?
Just who are you to question The People's desire for football stadiums?
Bullcrap.
Google is the one being bullied here. The government has police and guns and plenty of power. They can take your shit. They can put you in jail.
Google is doing the only thing they can do to protest: they're refusing to provide a service. They're not slaves, you know.
But even then they're not really free since they've been forced to use their resources to publish this ruling. They can't really say 'no', can they?
Calling Google a bully is like calling protestors that sit down in the street bullies. When the other side has the force of law and violence on it's side, that's all a sane person can do.
We could have had this long ago if not for the fact that the AGP bus is slow as hell when moving data from graphics card memory back to main memory/CPU.
Sure, you could do computations in graphics memeory, if you didn't mind waiting forever to read the results back.
Globalization isn't necessarily a bad thing but I would like to see the results of an economic simulation where an entire coutry, like say the US, wraps itself in isolationist economic and trade policies, and see what happens.
You don't have to. Just imagine cutting your state or city off from the rest of the country. You'll get the same sort of results.
Their grievances are real, stop whitewashing them. I do not enjoy the threat posed by terrorism either, but I do condemn our own actions.
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Have you yet read Osama's "Letter to America" ?
One of the first reasons given for the attack is our support of Israel:
"The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased."
So, do you condemn our support of Israel? You must realize that, without our support, Israel will be "erased". Are we wrong to help prevent the erasure of Israel?
He also tells us what we can do to get back on his good side:
"(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest."
And apparently Bill's blow-job in the White house is one of the worst kinds of events:
"(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.
Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations? "
Do you really believe we deserve to be attacked because the president got is cigar smoked?
It's been suggested that the best way to decide what is or is not a planet is to determine if the mass is held together the force of gravity or electrostatic forces (like metal bonds).
If by gravity then it should be considered a planet. If by chemisty then it's just a hunk of rock.
This makes the most sense to me.
The next big upgrade cycle for us is going to be upgrading from 17" CRTs to 19" LCDs.
Well it's about time! And how about going dual monitor?
The only upgrade I've seen that really made any difference in productivity is going dual monitors. More RAM, faster CPU -- they never really translated into increases in getting the job done.
Here's a link to the story.
Study links warm offices to fewer typing errors and higher productivity
When the office temperature in a month-long study increased from 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, typing errors fell by 44 percent and typing output jumped 150 percent. Hedge's study was exploring the link between changes in the physical environment and work performance.
"The results of our study also suggest raising the temperature to a more comfortable thermal zone saves employers about $2 per worker, per hour," says Hedge, who presented his findings this summer at the 2004 Eastern Ergonomics Conference and Exposition in New York City.
And that's to make more pie.
I submit that the reason startups happen most often in the USA is simply because US society approves of people getting rich. There's no embarrassment in being wealthy. Your property rights are protected and taxes are relatively low.
In many other parts of the world the rich must fear "the people". As a result the "pre-rich" give up before they start for fear of making themselves a target.
Given the content of the article, you're right. It should not have been posted to hardware. On the other hand, how do you know that you can trust your hardware not to corrupt your data?
Soft errors are a genuine problem. It's possible, though unlikely, that a cosmic ray might come whizzing by and flip a bit in DRAM, for example.
How do you know it happened? A '4' in your spreadsheet could become a '6' and you'd never know it. ECC can help, of course.
And while on the subject of trusting hardware not to muck up your data, consider important data sent over a network. This paper looked at how many damaged packets pass both the link level CRC and TCP's checksum. They found that up to 1 in 16 million packets was a damaged packet silently passed to the APP layer. That's good reason to have your app do one final check on the data before using it.
SLA? Bullshit. If I buy a car called "Toyota 85MPH Blue Car" it had damned well better not be goverened to 55MPH. "But when you bought the car, the dealer never signed an agreement guaranteeing speed." Bull-shit.
ISPs don't sell you the car. They let you use the highway they've built.
Do you really expect to be able to drive 85mph during rush hour?
It's in the algorithms, not the format (unless it's a bloated format--which it doesn't appear to be from what I've seen of it).
But formats sometime imply algorithms that may have poor running times.
That said, I think the problem with ODF might be the use of multiple files as a part of the format. Every file seek is going to cost you big time.