MCA cards could also be asked what they are, unlike pre-PnP ISA cards which were chiefly identified by blindly poking around in IO space and hoping you didn't accidentally launch an ICBM or something. This was so useful that EISA had to have it, PCI has it, and today anybody designing a new general-purpose bus for computers wouldn't even consider not having a similar feature.
That brings up an interesting point. What is the legal position of someone who under oath denies the validity of a document which gives him the only legal right to do what he does, if it turns out that he was mistaken about the validity of the document? He's said, in effect, "I'm aware of the law and I choose to ignore it," but the law itself doesn't condemn him.
Yet generations of USians have shrugged off a lot of ludicrous, incomprehensible, vaguely dangerous, and even insulting advice from instructions on imported products. (And/. posts.:-)
That *was* a little muddy. I presume that the issue with the quote from the Koran is that it was being used out of context (probably way, WAY out of context). Like making a soap commercial showing John the Baptist handing Jesus a cake of Lever 2000 as they're standing in the river. The article didn't really say.
"The better written news brodcasts/papers/etc are written at an 8th grade reading level. The more popular news sources (NY Daily News, Philly Daily News, any FOX News) are at a 3rd - 4th grade reading/comprehension level."
This probably explains why I take a quick glance at the front page of the local newspaper, read the comics page, then go read the BBC site for actual news.
Robert Benchley wrote an essay which includes a list of handy phrases for Europeans visiting the U.S. One of them has someone newly arrived in NYC getting into a cab and asking to be driven to a hotel in Chicago.
"So, this is America? That is too bad, I wanted Brazil."
Jammu and Kashmir is an interesting problem -- do you want to tick off all the buyers in India or all the buyers in Pakistan? Pleasing either group will displease the other. Maybe l10n will be expanded to include customizing maps for local markets' ideas of proper boundaries for disputed regions. It could get really crazy.
I do have to admit that Microsoft is not alone in running afoul of the diversity of speech and politics around the world. One of my wife's favorite stories is about Chevrolet being puzzled that their Nova wasn't selling in South America, until they realized that in some of the local languages the name means "won't go".
Apparently they are returning the water through the wastewater treatment system after people drink it or wash with it. So it comes back warmer, eventually, probably at surface or near-surface depth. So they're taking cold deep water out, and layering warm water on top later. This means the cold deep water is drawn down a bit -- the colder regions get smaller. The lake is huge, so probably this just establishes a new equilibrium after a while. But how different is the new steady state from the old one, and does this significantly affect things living in the lake?
My actual point, though, is that we shouldn't be guessing. I hope that someone has been measuring, modelling, and analyzing instead of guessing. It would be nice to know.
Taking or adding *one drop* changes the temperature of the lake. The question is not, "does this change the temperature," but, "is the change big enough to cause other changes that we do not want?"
If you take cold water out of the lake, and the lake does not become warmer, where did the greater energy of the warmer upper water go?
If you have a glass of water, with 4-degree water in the bottom half and 56-degree water in the top half (and Maxwell's demon sitting in the middle, I guess) then the average temperature of the water is 30 degrees. Take away the 4-degree water and the average temperature is now 56 degrees. Fill the unoccupied space with more 56-degree water and the average temperature is still 56 degrees.
You also meant 4 degrees C, not a few hundredths. Below that point, the molecules are slow enough for hydrogen bonding to begin dominating their interaction, and the structures that form take up more space than the unstructured liquid, meaning it's less dense, meaning it will rise above the denser water which is (at this temperature) slightly warmer.
If you notice, you also meant "less dense", not "lighter". H2O has the same mass/mole at any temperature (and the same weight too given equal gravitational acceleration).
Water is, indeed, interesting. Let us know when you're fully awake.
Ya know, if the only problem with putting heat into the lake is that winter doesn't take it out fast enough, they could do what I do in my home, with a closed-loop groundwater heat pump: take the heat back out in the winter to *warm* the buildings.
In sufficiently large bodies of water there's this thing called the thermocline, separating surface circulation from deeper circulation. It's somewhat like two different bodies of water stacked one on top of the other -- there's less mixing between the two than one would naively expect.
Taking deep water, warming it, and returning it disturbs the system, and it would be prudent to understand the effects of that disturbance. If the city's already doing that for drinking and washing, well, now they are doing a whole lot more of it and the effects will be more pronounced, so again it's prudent to understand the effect of increasing the pressure on the system's equilibrium.
I don't study large lakes and I don't know what significant effects, if any, might be expected. I just hope that someone *does* study this particular lake and *does* understand the issues and *was* consulted.
I do hope it works out well. It's a nifty idea.
Finally, this ignorant Yank must admit that his first thought was, "Toronto needs *cooling*?":-)
Hear, hear. Vandalism is not hacking. Someone who wants to defeat a candidate by hacking should be polishing up Stephen Byerly v1-preX, not wasting network bandwidth on silly temper tantrums.
Besides, according to commonly held beliefs, the Republicans have all the money in the universe (or soon will) so they'll just buy more servers and ride it out, no?
Seconded. If one believes that Party X is wrong, wouldn't one wish for as many as possible to be able to view Party X's site and see the wrongness for themselves? This action just reflects discredit on the attackers, who come off as being people who want to hide their *own* wrongness.
Exactly. IBM's team have been patiently clearing the board and marshalling their pieces for a satisfying win. I think the board is pretty well cleared now.
I was thinking specifically of all the recent worry about one of the Mars rovers getting stuck somewhere. If they worked in tandem, perhaps each carrying half of the specialized instruments, then if A gets stuck B can grab him and pull him free.
Repair is a bit more difficult. But if you're going to send a dozen robots at once, send a box of spares along too. Besides, "repair" doesn't necessarily mean "return to factory spec.s". It could be as crude as "remove (or cut away) bent part X that's preventing the robot's further locomotion". If you have two robots working closely together, the controllers can use them to help each other in creative ways too.
I agree that a specialized repair model is probably not a good idea until you have hundreds of the little beasties roaming around. Better to have a few parts and simple tools that any could use.
Point that out to your representatives in Congress. Last time gas prices started zooming up, they zoomed right back down again, as if by magic, when Congress started making noises about finding out why.
For thoroughness, I should point out that "profits are up 40%" needs some context. If ExxonMobil earned $100 last year and $140 this year (out of umpty-ump billion dollars of revenue) then profits are up 40% but they only made enough more to throw a pizza party for the Directors. They *could* have been taking unusually low profits to hold pump prices down and prevent massive interest in (say) hydrogen, thinking they'd make it up again when their costs decreased.
If your grocer was making 1% of sales last year (and he'd be thrilled to get that much) and this year is making a killing at 1.4% of sales, his profit is up 40% too, but in context, some days it must be hard for him to remember why he opens the doors at all.
Depends on how you want to balance the equation. If your cost is less, you can take a little more profit and still undercut the competitor who hasn't got your advantage (eventually taking his customers and raking in still more profit). Or you can take it all as profit now if you're in a hurry. Or you could plow it all into temporary price cuts to drive the other guy into bankruptcy, buy his assets for cheap, then decide all over again how you want to play the next round (as a bigger player).
You *could* even decide you are earning enough on your investment and just cut prices because you are such a nice person, if you don't mind being turned out at the next annual stockholders' meeting.
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MCA cards could also be asked what they are, unlike pre-PnP ISA cards which were chiefly identified by blindly poking around in IO space and hoping you didn't accidentally launch an ICBM or something. This was so useful that EISA had to have it, PCI has it, and today anybody designing a new general-purpose bus for computers wouldn't even consider not having a similar feature.
That brings up an interesting point. What is the legal position of someone who under oath denies the validity of a document which gives him the only legal right to do what he does, if it turns out that he was mistaken about the validity of the document? He's said, in effect, "I'm aware of the law and I choose to ignore it," but the law itself doesn't condemn him.
Instead of asking $50,000, how about a much more symbolic $699? :-}
Yet generations of USians have shrugged off a lot of ludicrous, incomprehensible, vaguely dangerous, and even insulting advice from instructions on imported products. (And /. posts. :-)
That *was* a little muddy. I presume that the issue with the quote from the Koran is that it was being used out of context (probably way, WAY out of context). Like making a soap commercial showing John the Baptist handing Jesus a cake of Lever 2000 as they're standing in the river. The article didn't really say.
You mean, "ESPECIALLY as the Republic of China".
"The better written news brodcasts/papers/etc are written at an 8th grade reading level. The more popular news sources (NY Daily News, Philly Daily News, any FOX News) are at a 3rd - 4th grade reading/comprehension level."
This probably explains why I take a quick glance at the front page of the local newspaper, read the comics page, then go read the BBC site for actual news.
Robert Benchley wrote an essay which includes a list of handy phrases for Europeans visiting the U.S. One of them has someone newly arrived in NYC getting into a cab and asking to be driven to a hotel in Chicago.
"So, this is America? That is too bad, I wanted Brazil."
Jammu and Kashmir is an interesting problem -- do you want to tick off all the buyers in India or all the buyers in Pakistan? Pleasing either group will displease the other. Maybe l10n will be expanded to include customizing maps for local markets' ideas of proper boundaries for disputed regions. It could get really crazy.
I do have to admit that Microsoft is not alone in running afoul of the diversity of speech and politics around the world. One of my wife's favorite stories is about Chevrolet being puzzled that their Nova wasn't selling in South America, until they realized that in some of the local languages the name means "won't go".
Apparently they are returning the water through the wastewater treatment system after people drink it or wash with it. So it comes back warmer, eventually, probably at surface or near-surface depth. So they're taking cold deep water out, and layering warm water on top later. This means the cold deep water is drawn down a bit -- the colder regions get smaller. The lake is huge, so probably this just establishes a new equilibrium after a while. But how different is the new steady state from the old one, and does this significantly affect things living in the lake?
My actual point, though, is that we shouldn't be guessing. I hope that someone has been measuring, modelling, and analyzing instead of guessing. It would be nice to know.
That's exactly the point. Some people do not want to bet; they want to *know*.
Taking or adding *one drop* changes the temperature of the lake. The question is not, "does this change the temperature," but, "is the change big enough to cause other changes that we do not want?"
If you take cold water out of the lake, and the lake does not become warmer, where did the greater energy of the warmer upper water go?
If you have a glass of water, with 4-degree water in the bottom half and 56-degree water in the top half (and Maxwell's demon sitting in the middle, I guess) then the average temperature of the water is 30 degrees. Take away the 4-degree water and the average temperature is now 56 degrees. Fill the unoccupied space with more 56-degree water and the average temperature is still 56 degrees.
*cough* The Nature Conservancy *cough*
You meant "compounds".
You also meant 4 degrees C, not a few hundredths. Below that point, the molecules are slow enough for hydrogen bonding to begin dominating their interaction, and the structures that form take up more space than the unstructured liquid, meaning it's less dense, meaning it will rise above the denser water which is (at this temperature) slightly warmer.
If you notice, you also meant "less dense", not "lighter". H2O has the same mass/mole at any temperature (and the same weight too given equal gravitational acceleration).
Water is, indeed, interesting. Let us know when you're fully awake.
Ya know, if the only problem with putting heat into the lake is that winter doesn't take it out fast enough, they could do what I do in my home, with a closed-loop groundwater heat pump: take the heat back out in the winter to *warm* the buildings.
In sufficiently large bodies of water there's this thing called the thermocline, separating surface circulation from deeper circulation. It's somewhat like two different bodies of water stacked one on top of the other -- there's less mixing between the two than one would naively expect.
:-)
Taking deep water, warming it, and returning it disturbs the system, and it would be prudent to understand the effects of that disturbance. If the city's already doing that for drinking and washing, well, now they are doing a whole lot more of it and the effects will be more pronounced, so again it's prudent to understand the effect of increasing the pressure on the system's equilibrium.
I don't study large lakes and I don't know what significant effects, if any, might be expected. I just hope that someone *does* study this particular lake and *does* understand the issues and *was* consulted.
I do hope it works out well. It's a nifty idea.
Finally, this ignorant Yank must admit that his first thought was, "Toronto needs *cooling*?"
Hear, hear. Vandalism is not hacking. Someone who wants to defeat a candidate by hacking should be polishing up Stephen Byerly v1-preX, not wasting network bandwidth on silly temper tantrums.
Besides, according to commonly held beliefs, the Republicans have all the money in the universe (or soon will) so they'll just buy more servers and ride it out, no?
Seconded. If one believes that Party X is wrong, wouldn't one wish for as many as possible to be able to view Party X's site and see the wrongness for themselves? This action just reflects discredit on the attackers, who come off as being people who want to hide their *own* wrongness.
Exactly. IBM's team have been patiently clearing the board and marshalling their pieces for a satisfying win. I think the board is pretty well cleared now.
"...does anyone else think that "Vexatious Litigant" should be a class in the mock-RPG ProgressQuest?"
No, but Dave Barry probably thinks it'd be a good name for a rock band.
There are other factors.
When SCO v. IBM winds up, lots of other cases become unstayed. RHAT v. SCO. SCO v. AutoZone. SCO v. Novell. And [drumroll] IBM v. SCO.
Notice that SCO can't disengage from IBM even by losing. The beatings will continue until IBM has what it wants.
I was thinking specifically of all the recent worry about one of the Mars rovers getting stuck somewhere. If they worked in tandem, perhaps each carrying half of the specialized instruments, then if A gets stuck B can grab him and pull him free.
Repair is a bit more difficult. But if you're going to send a dozen robots at once, send a box of spares along too. Besides, "repair" doesn't necessarily mean "return to factory spec.s". It could be as crude as "remove (or cut away) bent part X that's preventing the robot's further locomotion". If you have two robots working closely together, the controllers can use them to help each other in creative ways too.
I agree that a specialized repair model is probably not a good idea until you have hundreds of the little beasties roaming around. Better to have a few parts and simple tools that any could use.
Point that out to your representatives in Congress. Last time gas prices started zooming up, they zoomed right back down again, as if by magic, when Congress started making noises about finding out why.
For thoroughness, I should point out that "profits are up 40%" needs some context. If ExxonMobil earned $100 last year and $140 this year (out of umpty-ump billion dollars of revenue) then profits are up 40% but they only made enough more to throw a pizza party for the Directors. They *could* have been taking unusually low profits to hold pump prices down and prevent massive interest in (say) hydrogen, thinking they'd make it up again when their costs decreased.
If your grocer was making 1% of sales last year (and he'd be thrilled to get that much) and this year is making a killing at 1.4% of sales, his profit is up 40% too, but in context, some days it must be hard for him to remember why he opens the doors at all.
Depends on how you want to balance the equation. If your cost is less, you can take a little more profit and still undercut the competitor who hasn't got your advantage (eventually taking his customers and raking in still more profit). Or you can take it all as profit now if you're in a hurry. Or you could plow it all into temporary price cuts to drive the other guy into bankruptcy, buy his assets for cheap, then decide all over again how you want to play the next round (as a bigger player).
You *could* even decide you are earning enough on your investment and just cut prices because you are such a nice person, if you don't mind being turned out at the next annual stockholders' meeting.