Progress bars do not make sequences of actions complete any faster. In fact, they make them slower.
The progress bar may use CPU cycles, but this will only make the task slower if the task is CPU bound. IO bound tasks won't go faster in the absence of a progress bar.
Is a younger generation of developers influencing Microsoft? The last few rounds of college grads on the management fast track at MS have had time to play with git in high school, college, and even perhaps as a personal tool at work. Maybe their personal preferences are affecting the Microsoft feature set.
Woudn't key timings be correlated to frequency of use? For instance, if I type "Have a great day!" at the end of every email, won't I get faster at it? And won't it be faster than phrases like "Fourscore and twenty years ago"? If the two metrics are correlated you don't need to examine them both to generate a user signature.
Everyone seems to forget that we aren't the customers, we're the product. This is all about increasing the quality of their data for their real customers.
Exactly. Facebook has admitted that 80 million accounts are fake; now it needs to take steps to reassure customers that the eyeballs they've been selling are real.
The article says the synthetic material is porous. Can this material be used as a water filter? If the material forms a cage like structure, can it be used in medicine to trap a virus or bacterium before infection occurs? What can you do with such a material?
Google can afford to lose $300 per customer in a limited market like KC. But most customers won't just throw away $300 on something they don't plan to use. By collecting $300 per customer, Google is ensuring that their users are motivated to use their service.
If you teach all the constructs of English grammar and effective Word Processor use, you get students who can correct the misuse of "they're", "there" and "their", express their ideas, and save a file. But it takes more than an understanding of grammar to produce novelists, journalists, poets, and technical writers. I hope that Estonia will not stop at teaching "programming" alone but that their curricula will encourage creativity.
If a security suite detects a virus and doesn't quarantine that computer, it is only putting all the other computers on the network at risk. If quarantining upon detection happened to the majority of networked computers, then there would be "herd immunity" protection for computers both with and without antivirus protection.
I wonder how AC Neilsen feels about this. Why spend the big bucks Neilsen's market research on what people are watching -- when google can tell you what people are watching, and for less?
Flexible lithium power source combined with flexible OLED display means you could have a woven, wearable, textile display. Could be handy as a safety garment for construction workers, and probably fodder for an ugly sweater contest.
Subscriber Joe pays DirecTV $100/mo for his family to watch TV shows. DirecTV gives some of the money to Viacom to produce shows, but the show production costs are actually covered by advertisements aimed at Joe's kids. The advertisers costs are eventually covered when Joe buys licensed Viacom toys, back-to-school supplies, and happy meals. So the shows that Joe's family watches cost him more than just what he pays DirecTV anyway.
But this year, Joe's budget is tighter and he isn't buying as many happy meals. Advertisers have noticed and aren't willing to pay Viacom as much for ad time on Nickelodeon. With ad sales down, Viacom is trying to make up the shortfall from their distributors, like DirecTV. DirecTV can compensate by raising subscriber fees, or charging more for ads, or both. The result will be an increase in Joe's monthly bill.
Subscriber Joe's entertainment would be cheaper if he stopped paying $100/month for his kid's eyeballs to be proselytized everyday. His money would go a lot farther on Kickstarter, funding open-licensed documentary/cartoon/comedy/reality shows that he wants to be produced.
When I lived in Dallas in the early 2000s, there was a free paper -- I don't remember the name of it -- but you'd see available from a newspaper dispenser outside of restaurants like Denny's right next to the Dallas Morning News. One front page story was about a young con artist that seemed to invent these kinds of scams -- anything to make money. As a high school student, he pulled off the lego barcode-style theft, but before his reputation at Target soured, he sold the merchandise out of his car to fellow students. For a while he sold drugs, but was methodical about it -- dealing pot got you money, but dealing crack got you killed. In college, another of his schemes was to sell fake IDs. He started by pasting new photos onto old IDs, but eventually made enough money to upgrade to a full laminate printer and a machine capable of duplicating the copy-protection on a Texas Driver's license. He kept his head down, letting others do the sales work for him, and made a lot of money. The story chronicled several other instances of this guys criminal genius, and they were all fascinating. Eventually, knowing that the authorities were onto him, he fled the country to some Island to enjoy his money and youth. At least that was the story.
When an analysis concludes "therefore, the basic laws of economics don't apply," then just like one that says "therefore, the law of gravity doesn't apply," our first instinct should be to question the analysis, not the basic laws.
Exactly. Supply and demand is still in effect here. A sufficient increase in supply of crude oil will lower the price of refined petroleum products.
Energy differential is critical for efficiency, and smaller reactors may be far less efficient than large ones.
We can heat water from room temperature into steam -- a difference of 100-200 degrees F -- and it will run a heat engine. However, reduce the difference in temperature to 50 degrees -- like you see between groundwater and an hot summer day in the US, and the heat engine won't run. We don't exploit geo-thermal for electricity generation because it's so inefficient that it's a net energy loss.
The same applies for SMRs versus gigawatt generators, especially if the SMRs are running significantly cooler. A few gigawatt generators will have transmission line losses. But a large number for SMRs may be dramatically less efficient. Does anyone have numbers on this?
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Progress bars do not make sequences of actions complete any faster. In fact, they make them slower.
The progress bar may use CPU cycles, but this will only make the task slower if the task is CPU bound. IO bound tasks won't go faster in the absence of a progress bar.
"The Innocence of Muslims" is most certainly NOT the reason for the desire to ban youtube.
Is a younger generation of developers influencing Microsoft? The last few rounds of college grads on the management fast track at MS have had time to play with git in high school, college, and even perhaps as a personal tool at work. Maybe their personal preferences are affecting the Microsoft feature set.
The summary doesn't say, so we may never know!
Woudn't key timings be correlated to frequency of use? For instance, if I type "Have a great day!" at the end of every email, won't I get faster at it? And won't it be faster than phrases like "Fourscore and twenty years ago"? If the two metrics are correlated you don't need to examine them both to generate a user signature.
Post your 'authorized_keys' file and fqdn here to find out.
No obvious voter fraud here.
Everyone seems to forget that we aren't the customers, we're the product. This is all about increasing the quality of their data for their real customers.
Exactly. Facebook has admitted that 80 million accounts are fake; now it needs to take steps to reassure customers that the eyeballs they've been selling are real.
Looking at the addresses Uniloc listed in the lawsuit, the locations are just rented office units -- lots of businesses are using the building.
7160 Dallas Parkway, Plano, Texas, 75024
http://binged.it/OpbYL9
315 North Broadway, Tyler, Texas
http://binged.it/Opc1Xy
The article says the synthetic material is porous. Can this material be used as a water filter? If the material forms a cage like structure, can it be used in medicine to trap a virus or bacterium before infection occurs? What can you do with such a material?
Google can afford to lose $300 per customer in a limited market like KC. But most customers won't just throw away $300 on something they don't plan to use. By collecting $300 per customer, Google is ensuring that their users are motivated to use their service.
If you teach all the constructs of English grammar and effective Word Processor use, you get students who can correct the misuse of "they're", "there" and "their", express their ideas, and save a file. But it takes more than an understanding of grammar to produce novelists, journalists, poets, and technical writers. I hope that Estonia will not stop at teaching "programming" alone but that their curricula will encourage creativity.
If a security suite detects a virus and doesn't quarantine that computer, it is only putting all the other computers on the network at risk. If quarantining upon detection happened to the majority of networked computers, then there would be "herd immunity" protection for computers both with and without antivirus protection.
I wonder how AC Neilsen feels about this. Why spend the big bucks Neilsen's market research on what people are watching -- when google can tell you what people are watching, and for less?
Flexible lithium power source combined with flexible OLED display means you could have a woven, wearable, textile display. Could be handy as a safety garment for construction workers, and probably fodder for an ugly sweater contest.
This site shows the locations of several Raspberry Pi owners; look like there are plenty in the US.
http://rastrack.ryanteck.org.uk/
Subscriber Joe pays DirecTV $100/mo for his family to watch TV shows. DirecTV gives some of the money to Viacom to produce shows, but the show production costs are actually covered by advertisements aimed at Joe's kids. The advertisers costs are eventually covered when Joe buys licensed Viacom toys, back-to-school supplies, and happy meals. So the shows that Joe's family watches cost him more than just what he pays DirecTV anyway.
But this year, Joe's budget is tighter and he isn't buying as many happy meals. Advertisers have noticed and aren't willing to pay Viacom as much for ad time on Nickelodeon. With ad sales down, Viacom is trying to make up the shortfall from their distributors, like DirecTV. DirecTV can compensate by raising subscriber fees, or charging more for ads, or both. The result will be an increase in Joe's monthly bill.
Subscriber Joe's entertainment would be cheaper if he stopped paying $100/month for his kid's eyeballs to be proselytized everyday. His money would go a lot farther on Kickstarter, funding open-licensed documentary/cartoon/comedy/reality shows that he wants to be produced.
When I lived in Dallas in the early 2000s, there was a free paper -- I don't remember the name of it -- but you'd see available from a newspaper dispenser outside of restaurants like Denny's right next to the Dallas Morning News. One front page story was about a young con artist that seemed to invent these kinds of scams -- anything to make money. As a high school student, he pulled off the lego barcode-style theft, but before his reputation at Target soured, he sold the merchandise out of his car to fellow students. For a while he sold drugs, but was methodical about it -- dealing pot got you money, but dealing crack got you killed. In college, another of his schemes was to sell fake IDs. He started by pasting new photos onto old IDs, but eventually made enough money to upgrade to a full laminate printer and a machine capable of duplicating the copy-protection on a Texas Driver's license. He kept his head down, letting others do the sales work for him, and made a lot of money. The story chronicled several other instances of this guys criminal genius, and they were all fascinating. Eventually, knowing that the authorities were onto him, he fled the country to some Island to enjoy his money and youth. At least that was the story.
Does anyone else know who I'm talking about?
When an analysis concludes "therefore, the basic laws of economics don't apply," then just like one that says "therefore, the law of gravity doesn't apply," our first instinct should be to question the analysis, not the basic laws.
Exactly. Supply and demand is still in effect here. A sufficient increase in supply of crude oil will lower the price of refined petroleum products.
Could we then map NP-HARD computation problems onto real world physics systems to find solutions?
How about not using Flash? (At least not on the kid's account!)
Well that seems to be the iPad approach!
Energy differential is critical for efficiency, and smaller reactors may be far less efficient than large ones. We can heat water from room temperature into steam -- a difference of 100-200 degrees F -- and it will run a heat engine. However, reduce the difference in temperature to 50 degrees -- like you see between groundwater and an hot summer day in the US, and the heat engine won't run. We don't exploit geo-thermal for electricity generation because it's so inefficient that it's a net energy loss. The same applies for SMRs versus gigawatt generators, especially if the SMRs are running significantly cooler. A few gigawatt generators will have transmission line losses. But a large number for SMRs may be dramatically less efficient. Does anyone have numbers on this?