So there are 222 times as many servers in the United
States as in the entire world, and there
are 1.96e13 servers in the USA. Too bad there isn't a
"-1 bad arithmetic" moderation....
About the only upside is that there's going to be a massive run on glyph carvers to make the necessary updates.
The bad part about that is that modern languages don't have any drivers for the glyph carvers--and since they're legacy hardware, the only documentation is in Mayan.... Better look at this Mayan calander site while it's still working.
That's how it worked in the universe where Spock had a beard, too.
I think the problem is that your boss's followers will then kill you in revenge. And remember . . . some of them may be Vulcans.
I am currently thinking of learning some programming languages to maybe start in that field as i have a growing interest in that. But who is gonna hire a programmer with no skill who needs a certain set of income just ot make the monthly bills?
You might have to consider someplace where they have a good track for advancement and accept lower pay for a while. Learning languages is always a good thing, in my opinion. However, you need something to write in that language. If you can think of some nifty-o little thing that people will like, you can release it publicly and use that for a little extra bounce, though I don't know how it would fit into a resume....
It's called DISC, Dynamically Reconfigurable-Set Computer.
Apparently acronyms weren't their strong point. First off, what happened to the "R"? Second, where did the "I" come from? "dynamIcally?" "reconfIgurable"?
When you write code for this processor, the compiler would figure out which operations would fit best in reprogrammable logic, then configures the logic and compiles to this custom instruction set all on its own. At runtime, the custom logic is loaded and the program executes.
I wonder how this would work in a multiprogrammed environemnt? Can you swap in instructions fast enough to make it reasonable? I assume that there's a different "instruction space" for each process, or some interesting security problems might result.
Just imagine how much our software would would actually do if everyone wrote in hand optimized ASM. Say goodbye to handy things like instant messaging and video players - we'd still be trying to get basic email clients and such to work. Sorry, but programmer time is much more valuable than a few bucks for hardware upgrades.
Certainly you don't have to write in assembler to make tight, reasonably efficient code. I can't imagine when programmers got the idea that it's reasonable for a user to ever wait to see the result of a mouse click or keystroke, but I regularly see delays of tens of seconds when using Micro$oft Outlook (it's the standard at work).
I got a lot faster response in 1988 using RMAIL inside Emacs on a 20MHz 68020 than I get with a 2GHz machine today. I refuse to believe that we couldn't have a video player if companies exercised a little thought and discipline.
Actually, the whole concept of the swing wing is a dog. Loads of extra weight, extra things to break, and a marginally improved mission profile for the vehicle.
Seems to work okay for the F-14. I've never heard of a failure of the sweep mechanism, though I imagine it has. Seems to be pretty reliable, though.
Class bully threatens to beat up the smart kid unless smart kid allows him to download answers.
Nah... seems like too much trouble for the bully. Why wouldn't he just beat up the smart kid and take his calculator, complete with answers?
Luckily the one thing the bully can't take from you is your intelligence. In my experience, the tough kids usually don't care much about grades anyway . . . until they end up driving a beer truck or sweeping up at the car dealership. Har!
It sounds like it works on the same principle that making a dive into your swimming pool is different from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge into the Pacific.
I think a better analogy would be the difference between sinking into quicksand and jumping into it from the top of a tall building (I'd have kept the Golden Gate but it's hard to move it to the quicksand).
Of course, everyone's favorite material that's hard when you hit it is Silly Putty , but presumably it's hard to impregnate Kevlar with it.
Of course they're probably even less fuel-efficient than cars. I'll bet the environmentalists won't be happy.
If we spin it right, they'll be all over it like slinky on a weasel. It "burns" (really, decomposes) hydrogen peroxide, so the exhaust is just really hot steam. Of course, eventually someone will figure out how much energy it takes to make the H_2O_2....
I'm not new around here, and I think it could have been posted early enough that I might have read it before the shower arrived. I guess the "news" part of the motto is really inappopropriate. A meteor shower is only news before it happens. Unless of course it delivers a crushing blow to the earth, which reminds me of a really cool site, the Earth Impact Calculator, which lets you estimate tremor, ejecta, blast, and radiation effects of various impacts. Really handy if you're a Dr. Doom type and want to avoid wrecking your lair along with Des Moines when you attract a horde of cometary fragments with your tractor beams....
Everyone I know works more than 40 hours a week and nobody gets paid overtime.
The solution to this problem is simple. Tell your prospective employer you are willing to work forty hours a week, but you're willing to negotiate more hours for higher pay. Then, when they say they expect you to work "till the job is done," tell them no.
I've found it works better expressed in terms they can relate to, e.g., "I'm just so unproductive on a long work week I end up getting less done," or "I make so many mistakes the last twenty hours I spend the next forty cleaning them up," though what's really true is "my family and my life are more important than the emergency you're too cheap to staff."
My favorite line is, "a professional works till the job is done." This is actually true, but incomplete. It should end with "and sends you a bill for every minute it took." Check with your lawyer and see if you can get a flat rate for an open-ended job.
Of course, it helps if you're good enough that even your manager can see that you're a bargain....
The problem with that is that you'd be infringing on what is traditionally state territory, which rarely ends well.
In support of this,
the Air Commerce Act of 1926 gave authority to regulate aviation to the Federal Government. If you know a pilot, ask him or her what they think about the Federal Aviation Administration. I suspect you will get a tirade about over-regulation, security-irrelevant Presidential TFRs, ridiculous medical requirements and so forth.
While air travel is much safer than it was in 1926, so is automobile travel, and the states still regulate that. I'd say we're a lot better off in the civil liberties department with respect to autos than we are with respect to aircraft, and it's because the states find it a lot harder to get together on restrictions.
By the way, this apparent digression is in fact on-topic--Schnier frequently writes about nutty aviation security, and mentioned it in his current issue.
Eliza says: Why do you ask why wasn't this review written in an interactive format?
Eliza? Ha! I would appreciate it if you would continue.
(Note: EMACS contains a version of Eliza which can be run usingM-x doctor. There is also a command that can be used to make Zippy mode converse with doctor mode, but I can't find it after a few moments of searching. It is really more interesting to think about than to see it run...).
In the end, even with cameras and GPS build-in to the car, it would still be easier and more reliable to just tail you in an unmarked car.
Hmmm. I think it probably costs on the order of $50/hour to have someone "tail you in an unmarked car." That strongly limits the number of tails going on at any time. It's a little different if you can tail everyone at once. And look back at the records from last week or last month. Currently, we don't have the technology to say, "Dano, go tail Mr. Muskr last week and see who he met with."
I think my strongest objection to this kind of thing is that I'm paying for a device that can be used against me. That just rubs me the wrong way.
Also, chances are are I could whip Einstein's ass, but not many (other than maybe my mom) could think that I am more intelligent than him.
Though it isn't usally emphasized, Einstein was described as a very strong man. Maybe you couldn't whip his ass. Unless you're talking about now, in which case I don't really want to think about what you meant....
Fines are often too low all-around. Look at the rich Porsche driver. He can easily afford to pay those speeding tickets, can't he?
Well, in the states I'm familiar with (mostly northern-tier), he'll lose his license after too many tickets. And if you drive after suspension, then you can end up in jail.
Which might be worse on Mr. Richie Porshedriver than on your standard scrote (technical cop term meaning, roughly, "anyone that isn't a police officer") . . . .
by looking cool, do you mean like a pot of boiling water? because that's exactly what it would look like. I don't find it particularly cool to watch water boil.
I'm afraid you lack the soul of the geek, sir. Boiling is a fascinating process, but one that we usually don't get to observe closely because a) boiling water is hot and b) pans are usually opaque. I imagined something like your motherboard standing on end in a clear sealed tank, with bubbles rising off the stuff that produced significant amounts of heat (probably just the CPU).
Unless your comment was a pun on "cool," in which case you do have the soul of a geek . . .
yes... but no-one's concerned about reusing the water you used to put out the fire. coolant, on the other hand, should stick around for more than a few seconds before it bubbles off into the atmosphere.
If you put it deep enough in the fluid, the bubbles will condense on the way up. If the heat of vaporization is anything reasonable, this should work quite well to remove heat from your chip--the fluid changing to a gas absorbs a bunch of heat, and then swims away with it, while more cool fluid rushes in to take its place. Probably look cool, too.
What happens when the government agencies that don't care so much about your rights--CIA, FBI, NSA, police, whatever--decide that this system can be very useful for them?
I've got a better question. What happens when your spouse/S.O. finds the free web site that lets them track your car? Oooowweeee.
"You're going to be stopping a lane (or more) full of cars to try and contain a single offender
If he's speeding, chances are no one is close behind him.
And if they are, then they are probably speeding too.
I suppose it's not possible that the speeder is overtaking
someone? I imagine that the usual effect will be to stop
several cars in front of the offender, too.
In my state, most of these wankers would blow through the red
light, too. That, in my opinion, is what Mr. Law should be doing instead of writing speeding tickets--ticketing the people blowing through lights five seconds after they've turned red. That behavior is extremely dangerous . . . but it's a lot easier to look for speeders, who by comparison are almost risk-free.
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So there are 222 times as many servers in the United States as in the entire world, and there are 1.96e13 servers in the USA. Too bad there isn't a "-1 bad arithmetic" moderation....
That might also show that vaporware existed in 1981, too.
The bad part about that is that modern languages don't have any drivers for the glyph carvers--and since they're legacy hardware, the only documentation is in Mayan.... Better look at this Mayan calander site while it's still working.
That's how it worked in the universe where Spock had a beard, too. I think the problem is that your boss's followers will then kill you in revenge. And remember . . . some of them may be Vulcans.
You might have to consider someplace where they have a good track for advancement and accept lower pay for a while. Learning languages is always a good thing, in my opinion. However, you need something to write in that language. If you can think of some nifty-o little thing that people will like, you can release it publicly and use that for a little extra bounce, though I don't know how it would fit into a resume....
Good luck.
The first one I heard about was the PDP-11/60. According to this link, it was introduced in 1977. I'm sure there were others.
Apparently acronyms weren't their strong point. First off, what happened to the "R"? Second, where did the "I" come from? "dynamIcally?" "reconfIgurable"?
I wonder how this would work in a multiprogrammed environemnt? Can you swap in instructions fast enough to make it reasonable? I assume that there's a different "instruction space" for each process, or some interesting security problems might result.
Certainly you don't have to write in assembler to make tight, reasonably efficient code. I can't imagine when programmers got the idea that it's reasonable for a user to ever wait to see the result of a mouse click or keystroke, but I regularly see delays of tens of seconds when using Micro$oft Outlook (it's the standard at work).
I got a lot faster response in 1988 using RMAIL inside Emacs on a 20MHz 68020 than I get with a 2GHz machine today. I refuse to believe that we couldn't have a video player if companies exercised a little thought and discipline.
Seems to work okay for the F-14. I've never heard of a failure of the sweep mechanism, though I imagine it has. Seems to be pretty reliable, though.
Nah ... seems like too much trouble for the bully. Why wouldn't he just beat up the smart kid and take his calculator, complete with answers?
Luckily the one thing the bully can't take from you is your intelligence. In my experience, the tough kids usually don't care much about grades anyway . . . until they end up driving a beer truck or sweeping up at the car dealership. Har!
I think a better analogy would be the difference between sinking into quicksand and jumping into it from the top of a tall building (I'd have kept the Golden Gate but it's hard to move it to the quicksand).
Of course, everyone's favorite material that's hard when you hit it is Silly Putty , but presumably it's hard to impregnate Kevlar with it.
If we spin it right, they'll be all over it like slinky on a weasel. It "burns" (really, decomposes) hydrogen peroxide, so the exhaust is just really hot steam. Of course, eventually someone will figure out how much energy it takes to make the H_2O_2....
By the way, if anyone's interested, here's the National Air and Space Museum's page on the rocket belt.
I'm not new around here, and I think it could have been posted early enough that I might have read it before the shower arrived. I guess the "news" part of the motto is really inappopropriate. A meteor shower is only news before it happens. Unless of course it delivers a crushing blow to the earth, which reminds me of a really cool site, the Earth Impact Calculator, which lets you estimate tremor, ejecta, blast, and radiation effects of various impacts. Really handy if you're a Dr. Doom type and want to avoid wrecking your lair along with Des Moines when you attract a horde of cometary fragments with your tractor beams....
The solution to this problem is simple. Tell your prospective employer you are willing to work forty hours a week, but you're willing to negotiate more hours for higher pay. Then, when they say they expect you to work "till the job is done," tell them no.
I've found it works better expressed in terms they can relate to, e.g., "I'm just so unproductive on a long work week I end up getting less done," or "I make so many mistakes the last twenty hours I spend the next forty cleaning them up," though what's really true is "my family and my life are more important than the emergency you're too cheap to staff."
My favorite line is, "a professional works till the job is done." This is actually true, but incomplete. It should end with "and sends you a bill for every minute it took." Check with your lawyer and see if you can get a flat rate for an open-ended job.
Of course, it helps if you're good enough that even your manager can see that you're a bargain....
Editor is a euphemism for it I've never heard before....
In support of this, the Air Commerce Act of 1926 gave authority to regulate aviation to the Federal Government. If you know a pilot, ask him or her what they think about the Federal Aviation Administration. I suspect you will get a tirade about over-regulation, security-irrelevant Presidential TFRs, ridiculous medical requirements and so forth.
While air travel is much safer than it was in 1926, so is automobile travel, and the states still regulate that. I'd say we're a lot better off in the civil liberties department with respect to autos than we are with respect to aircraft, and it's because the states find it a lot harder to get together on restrictions.
By the way, this apparent digression is in fact on-topic--Schnier frequently writes about nutty aviation security, and mentioned it in his current issue.
Eliza? Ha! I would appreciate it if you would continue.
(Note: EMACS contains a version of Eliza which can be run usingM-x doctor. There is also a command that can be used to make Zippy mode converse with doctor mode, but I can't find it after a few moments of searching. It is really more interesting to think about than to see it run...).
Hmmm. I think it probably costs on the order of $50/hour to have someone "tail you in an unmarked car." That strongly limits the number of tails going on at any time. It's a little different if you can tail everyone at once. And look back at the records from last week or last month. Currently, we don't have the technology to say, "Dano, go tail Mr. Muskr last week and see who he met with."
I think my strongest objection to this kind of thing is that I'm paying for a device that can be used against me. That just rubs me the wrong way.
Though it isn't usally emphasized, Einstein was described as a very strong man. Maybe you couldn't whip his ass. Unless you're talking about now, in which case I don't really want to think about what you meant....
Well, in the states I'm familiar with (mostly northern-tier), he'll lose his license after too many tickets. And if you drive after suspension, then you can end up in jail.
Which might be worse on Mr. Richie Porshedriver than on your standard scrote (technical cop term meaning, roughly, "anyone that isn't a police officer") . . . .
I'm afraid you lack the soul of the geek, sir. Boiling is a fascinating process, but one that we usually don't get to observe closely because a) boiling water is hot and b) pans are usually opaque. I imagined something like your motherboard standing on end in a clear sealed tank, with bubbles rising off the stuff that produced significant amounts of heat (probably just the CPU).
Unless your comment was a pun on "cool," in which case you do have the soul of a geek . . .
If you put it deep enough in the fluid, the bubbles will condense on the way up. If the heat of vaporization is anything reasonable, this should work quite well to remove heat from your chip--the fluid changing to a gas absorbs a bunch of heat, and then swims away with it, while more cool fluid rushes in to take its place. Probably look cool, too.
I've got a better question. What happens when your spouse/S.O. finds the free web site that lets them track your car? Oooowweeee.
I suppose it's not possible that the speeder is overtaking someone? I imagine that the usual effect will be to stop several cars in front of the offender, too.
In my state, most of these wankers would blow through the red light, too. That, in my opinion, is what Mr. Law should be doing instead of writing speeding tickets--ticketing the people blowing through lights five seconds after they've turned red. That behavior is extremely dangerous . . . but it's a lot easier to look for speeders, who by comparison are almost risk-free.