The only place you find day and night is on an object that rotates around its own axix perpendicular to a bright object. Usually this would be a planet (but not Uranus).
If God is all places at once, we cannot possibly assume that it's a 24 hour day/night cycle. If it IS a 24 hour day/night cycle, that will make God a very localised phenomenon and not omnipotent.
Sadly I can't find the clip from Mock the Week, so I'll try to summarise:
Imagine arriving at the Pearly Gates, where you are indeed greeted by St. Peter.
He points to a long row of deities, each holding a sign. One says "Christian, Roman Catholic" another says "Judaism, orthodox" there's a big guy with four arms and an elephant's head holding a sign that says "Hinduism" and loads of others.
St. Peter says "Please - go forth and find the religion that you belong to."
So you wander down the line, trying to find your particular religion. You find it, you smile and say "Here's mine."
So your diety smiles and nods and turns his sign over
I work for a computer manufacturer in the EU, where we do, sadly, lose items from time to time. At the moment, lost items have been reduced to almost exclusively being lost in shipping en route to the customer's address (we ship it to their home address after repairs).
We've changed the policy of our hotliners from one of "it's still in repairs" to "we'll look into it" (followed by consulting the higher ups).
This has reduced most of the cases turn-around time from problem discovered to problem solved to around two weeks (loads of paperwork involved), but unfortunately we don't have the capacity to run continuous checks on repair times (ie, we have these repairs which seem to take a long time) nor wether or not the shipping company manages to deliver properly, so most of these cases don't come to light until the customer asks about his/her product (we do more than just computers).
Best Buy seems to have no system in place for handling such cases, which is really bad practices, because ideally you want to know just where these problems are in your chain. If things dissapear in the store, en route to an external repair shop etc., you can figure out just where to extract the money you need to reimburse the client.
Sure, 54 million dollars is a lot. Yes, cost plus 500 dollars might seems like an "okay" compensation, but looking at it from my point of view, if they (as a chain) have one case like that a day, that's more or less pocket change. No need to spend money developing a procedure for handling, hirering people to investigate the cases (i.e. people would often like their data back with computers, figure out where the store gets its money back etc.). 54 million however buys you a LOT of of procedures and hires.
As for what we do... far as I know, we offer a full refund on the purchase or an upgrade to whatever is the newest unit available (within reason - we don't swap a 22" TV to a 47" TV). The replacement unit then comes with a new full warrenty on it.
Then again, Europe in general doesn't have tort-laws as such. It's a good thing, as we avoid some of the completely insanely stupefying lawsuits you guys have. On the other hand you have them to get some kind of minimal consumer protections - we just have politicians with a brain;)
Someone should inform the TSA of proper bomb disposal procedures.
They prevent you taking a bottle of liquid with you onto the plane, due to the idea that it might be an explosive. And then dump it in a bag next to their checkpoint.
What they SHOULD be doing is call in the bomb squad, set up a big safety area around the bottle and toss whomever brought that bottle to the checkpoint in jail for a few days for disrupting public security.
After all, if you really suspect that it's an explosive, isn't that what YOU would do? Imagine that it was a stick of dynamite instead - would you just toss it in a plastic bag next to your workstation?
Well, 300 M1 Abrams' against 150.000 persian troops from 700 B.C is definately an unfair match. You don't even have to shoot at them. Just run them over. Alright, you MIGHT have to shoot at the elephants and rhinos, but...
For me, getting the flash drive for, say $200 extra would be OK, but not $1000.
Well, if you can find a 64 GB 1.8" internal SSD for 200$ (let's say 300, as it's an upgrade from the other harddrive), I'm sure you can find lots of buyers here on slashdot. Primarily because the cheapest internal 1.8" SSD available on newegg.com is a 32GB one which costs $399.
But hey - I'm sure it'll be raining cats and dogs any time soon too.
Here's my thought. You're already putting a ton of expensive stuff into this device, so why not divide the space into two or four internal channels and use RAID 0 on them?
That way you'd get 200 - 400 MB/sec, halfway to or completely saturating your SATA bus. You don't get any real penalties, as you only get write-faults on the flash, and you've already included hardware to handle that. Besides, fitting 4B into 80B or 1B into 20B still gives you the same ratio, so it's not even going to wreck havok on wear leveling as far as I can tell with my very simple line of thought.
Definately wouldn't be doubling price or even close to it.
Alright, maybe, just maybe, on a windy day when the moon is aligned properly with jupiter, you might get a 50% increase in seek speed, so you'll go from 0.1 ms to 0.15 ms.
Why are people still dumm enough to buy and use an iPhone ?
The phone might have a fancy GUI, but is pretty boring regarding features, no radio, no java, and more.
It is pretty pricy, you are locked together with the phonecompany apple has chosen, they even demand money for your usage.
And what is even worse, Apple is just about the worst company in the IT business when it comes to giving the users freedom to use their products for wathever they want.
Yes there might come a SDK to make software, but they should have allowed Java from day one ! and not some self invented SDK system.
But people are so blinded by the very good Apple advertising and hyping of the products, so they don't notice how crippled the products really are. The iPhone, the iPods are very crippled when it comes to features, and you are forced to use iTunes or some not very good 3rd party products.
The best code I've ever had the pleasure of working on, was made when I worked for an actual engineering company. Not software engineering, but engineers that build physical stuff.
They understand the need for excelent documentation, rock solid requirements and that you don't get halfway in a project and change its direction (ie, "sure, the Golden Gate is halfway done, but we'd actually like it to go from Lime Point and meet up with the Bay Bridge around Treasure Island Road"). They understand that some things take half the time to do but are four times as expensive to maintain, and they prefer quality over quantity.
Third, [...] I make a habit of putting myself into situations where the slighest loss of balance may result in a life-or-death situation[;...] the gene pool will be better off if I do fall into traffic.
As I stand here at McMonkey's funeral, looking down on the horrid mess that used to be his body before he had an up close and personal encounter with the underside of an 18-wheeler, I am reminded of his sense of humour.
For one thing, he loved morbid humour. In fact, his favorite type of jokes were famous last words. And as such, isn't it fitting that his last words were "Hektor, damnit, stop pushing me you asshole!"
Quite a lot of PCs were sold with XP and labled as Vista Capable.
This turns out to be a somewhat faulty statement, unless the manufacturer has made sure that there are Vista drivers for all the parts in the computer. Gets even better when the computer came with a voucher for Vista.
Nice 3D graphics are great, but if I'm buying a mobile PC I'm more concerned about my battery life.
Then why even bother reading articles about high-end graphics cards? Were you hoping that somehow, nVidia managed to build in magical transistors that uses less power the more of them there are? Everyone knows (or should know) that high end graphics cards use a lot more energy than low end ones. Partly because they run at much higher speeds, partly because they have a lot more transistors. This one in particular has 754 million transistors - compare that to a quad core Core2, like the Q6600 that has 582 million transistors.
More transistors == more power needed Higher speeds == more power needed
heck if you're carrying it around I'd be more worried about getting a hernia
If you cannot manage to carry a 17" laptop around with you without getting a hernia, you have bigger problems than battery life on a laptop. My current one weighs around 8 lbs. Sure, it's heavier than a 12" model for obvious reasons, but really - a hernia from 8 lbs? How women in your family ever survived pregnancy with the lower back and hernia problems, is a mystery to science.
Hell, HP's 20" luggable is 15 lbs - again hardly something that'll give you much of a workout.
Why does these types of posts always show up?
High end graphic? Hah, I can settle for an automatic etch-a-sketch! Noone needs more than that. Big laptops? Anything bigger than 5" is too big! Noone will EVER have a use for it. Low battery life? I need 72 hours of continuous battery life while running simulations at Blue Gene speeds. Anything less than that is useless.
Seriously, what's the point? The parrent post is about as insightful as an observation that liquid water is wet. If you didn't know beforehand, you'd have to be an idiot.
If I were Colbert, I'd be seeking justice from the courts on this one.
Why? The Democratic (and any other)party is not run by the government. It's not the government's (nor the judicial branch IMHO) job to decide who can and can't run as a candidate for the parties. That's up to them. How do they decide? Check their bylaws. If their bylaws state that candidates must be approved by committee, then they're entitled to do so.
Doesn't mean, however, that he can't run for president on his own.
One more notch in the belt of wouldbe fearmongers (like say... terrorists).
Hell, I'm looking forward to the day that someone grabs a regular trolley suitcase, fills it up with some kind of explosive and loads of small metal balls (maybe steel bearings), and detonates it in the middle of an airport terminal. Think of it as a mobile Claymore.
What'll they do to stop "potential" terrorists then? How will they make us "feel" safe? Move security check points to the curb? Arrest people who walk around with regular bags because they make people feel uncomfortable? Maybe force everyone to be nude in public - that'd be a hoot.
How long 'till some some "bad guys" (ie terrorists) procure/build one and just turn it on in say.. a major airport?
Another thing that makes me curious. 1/64th inch (0.4 mm) worth of skin. Would something like say latex paint block it then? Would make it perfect for bankrobberies or the like. Wear a few of these, be painted in latex for camoflage and just simply wander in, take what you need and leave them in the bank to keep them from alarming anyone.
Oh, and if anyone's interested, I know the pefect way to disrupt ALL air traffic in the US or most other countries without having to highjack any planes at all.
I work as a hotliner for a computer retailer (no, not Dell).
The latest trend on our computers is to bundle them with a trial edition of Microsoft Office (60 days). This doesn't support saving your files it seems, nor priting or anything else even remotely useful apart from viewing documents.
Once we explain customers that they have to pay Microsoft to get a fully functioning version of the program, they almost always ask where to get something else, that works without having to pay for it. I always tell them to try out OpenOffice.org - see if it fits their needs. If it does, great - they've just saved a minor fortune. If not, they can always switch back to paying for MS Office.
Same when the computer is bundled with MS Works, which for some really arcane reason doesn't want to play nice with MS Office.
While I've no feedback from all of the customers that I've advised to try out OO.o, I have heard from several of them that they will never use MS Office again, when their trial version is so "buggy", that you can't even use it properly in the trial period.
Does ODF (well, something other than MS' formats) have a future? I would say it has a big future as long as Microsoft shoots itself in the foot instead of luring customers in with fully functioning/compatible programs.
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Day, where?
The only place you find day and night is on an object that rotates around its own axix perpendicular to a bright object. Usually this would be a planet (but not Uranus).
If God is all places at once, we cannot possibly assume that it's a 24 hour day/night cycle.
If it IS a 24 hour day/night cycle, that will make God a very localised phenomenon and not omnipotent.
Sadly I can't find the clip from Mock the Week, so I'll try to summarise:
Imagine arriving at the Pearly Gates, where you are indeed greeted by St. Peter.
He points to a long row of deities, each holding a sign. One says "Christian, Roman Catholic" another says "Judaism, orthodox" there's a big guy with four arms and an elephant's head holding a sign that says "Hinduism" and loads of others.
St. Peter says "Please - go forth and find the religion that you belong to."
So you wander down the line, trying to find your particular religion. You find it, you smile and say "Here's mine."
So your diety smiles and nods and turns his sign over
"BLUFF!"
I work for a computer manufacturer in the EU, where we do, sadly, lose items from time to time. At the moment, lost items have been reduced to almost exclusively being lost in shipping en route to the customer's address (we ship it to their home address after repairs).
... far as I know, we offer a full refund on the purchase or an upgrade to whatever is the newest unit available (within reason - we don't swap a 22" TV to a 47" TV). The replacement unit then comes with a new full warrenty on it.
;)
We've changed the policy of our hotliners from one of "it's still in repairs" to "we'll look into it" (followed by consulting the higher ups).
This has reduced most of the cases turn-around time from problem discovered to problem solved to around two weeks (loads of paperwork involved), but unfortunately we don't have the capacity to run continuous checks on repair times (ie, we have these repairs which seem to take a long time) nor wether or not the shipping company manages to deliver properly, so most of these cases don't come to light until the customer asks about his/her product (we do more than just computers).
Best Buy seems to have no system in place for handling such cases, which is really bad practices, because ideally you want to know just where these problems are in your chain. If things dissapear in the store, en route to an external repair shop etc., you can figure out just where to extract the money you need to reimburse the client.
Sure, 54 million dollars is a lot. Yes, cost plus 500 dollars might seems like an "okay" compensation, but looking at it from my point of view, if they (as a chain) have one case like that a day, that's more or less pocket change. No need to spend money developing a procedure for handling, hirering people to investigate the cases (i.e. people would often like their data back with computers, figure out where the store gets its money back etc.). 54 million however buys you a LOT of of procedures and hires.
As for what we do
Then again, Europe in general doesn't have tort-laws as such. It's a good thing, as we avoid some of the completely insanely stupefying lawsuits you guys have. On the other hand you have them to get some kind of minimal consumer protections - we just have politicians with a brain
Depends on what you mean by "alien" - could just mean extra solar.
However, an extraterrestrial planet is any non-earth planet.
Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm definately not playing neither horseball nor donkeyball!
Someone should inform the TSA of proper bomb disposal procedures.
They prevent you taking a bottle of liquid with you onto the plane, due to the idea that it might be an explosive. And then dump it in a bag next to their checkpoint.
What they SHOULD be doing is call in the bomb squad, set up a big safety area around the bottle and toss whomever brought that bottle to the checkpoint in jail for a few days for disrupting public security.
After all, if you really suspect that it's an explosive, isn't that what YOU would do? Imagine that it was a stick of dynamite instead - would you just toss it in a plastic bag next to your workstation?
It's a tagging system, not a big intelligent computer. I mean - what could possibly go wrong?
I always thought it was "The Master of Web" or "Web Master" or something like that.
Well, 300 M1 Abrams' against 150.000 persian troops from 700 B.C is definately an unfair match. You don't even have to shoot at them. Just run them over. Alright, you MIGHT have to shoot at the elephants and rhinos, but ...
That's not the previously most black. That's just the current benchmark of black. Top of the line isn't the benchmark ;)
But hey - I'm sure it'll be raining cats and dogs any time soon too.
Here's my thought. You're already putting a ton of expensive stuff into this device, so why not divide the space into two or four internal channels and use RAID 0 on them?
That way you'd get 200 - 400 MB/sec, halfway to or completely saturating your SATA bus. You don't get any real penalties, as you only get write-faults on the flash, and you've already included hardware to handle that. Besides, fitting 4B into 80B or 1B into 20B still gives you the same ratio, so it's not even going to wreck havok on wear leveling as far as I can tell with my very simple line of thought.
Definately wouldn't be doubling price or even close to it.
Alright, maybe, just maybe, on a windy day when the moon is aligned properly with jupiter, you might get a 50% increase in seek speed, so you'll go from 0.1 ms to 0.15 ms.
Why are people still dumm enough to buy and use an iPhone ?
The phone might have a fancy GUI, but is pretty boring regarding features, no radio, no java, and more.
It is pretty pricy, you are locked together with the phonecompany apple has chosen, they even demand money for your usage.
And what is even worse, Apple is just about the worst company in the IT business when it comes to giving the users freedom to use their products for wathever they want.
Yes there might come a SDK to make software, but they should have allowed Java from day one ! and not some self invented SDK system.
But people are so blinded by the very good Apple advertising and hyping of the products, so they don't notice how crippled the products really are.
The iPhone, the iPods are very crippled when it comes to features, and you are forced to use iTunes or some not very good 3rd party products.
No thanks i prefer my freedom.
The best code I've ever had the pleasure of working on, was made when I worked for an actual engineering company. Not software engineering, but engineers that build physical stuff.
They understand the need for excelent documentation, rock solid requirements and that you don't get halfway in a project and change its direction (ie, "sure, the Golden Gate is halfway done, but we'd actually like it to go from Lime Point and meet up with the Bay Bridge around Treasure Island Road"). They understand that some things take half the time to do but are four times as expensive to maintain, and they prefer quality over quantity.
Least the ones I worked with
For one thing, he loved morbid humour. In fact, his favorite type of jokes were famous last words. And as such, isn't it fitting that his last words were "Hektor, damnit, stop pushing me you asshole!"
Quite a lot of PCs were sold with XP and labled as Vista Capable.
This turns out to be a somewhat faulty statement, unless the manufacturer has made sure that there are Vista drivers for all the parts in the computer. Gets even better when the computer came with a voucher for Vista.
Not fun working in a hotline
More transistors == more power needed
Higher speeds == more power neededIf you cannot manage to carry a 17" laptop around with you without getting a hernia, you have bigger problems than battery life on a laptop. My current one weighs around 8 lbs. Sure, it's heavier than a 12" model for obvious reasons, but really - a hernia from 8 lbs? How women in your family ever survived pregnancy with the lower back and hernia problems, is a mystery to science.
Hell, HP's 20" luggable is 15 lbs - again hardly something that'll give you much of a workout.
Why does these types of posts always show up?
Seriously, what's the point? The parrent post is about as insightful as an observation that liquid water is wet. If you didn't know beforehand, you'd have to be an idiot.
Doesn't mean, however, that he can't run for president on his own.
One more notch in the belt of wouldbe fearmongers (like say ... terrorists).
Hell, I'm looking forward to the day that someone grabs a regular trolley suitcase, fills it up with some kind of explosive and loads of small metal balls (maybe steel bearings), and detonates it in the middle of an airport terminal. Think of it as a mobile Claymore.
What'll they do to stop "potential" terrorists then? How will they make us "feel" safe? Move security check points to the curb? Arrest people who walk around with regular bags because they make people feel uncomfortable? Maybe force everyone to be nude in public - that'd be a hoot.
How long 'till some some "bad guys" (ie terrorists) procure/build one and just turn it on in say .. a major airport?
Another thing that makes me curious. 1/64th inch (0.4 mm) worth of skin. Would something like say latex paint block it then? Would make it perfect for bankrobberies or the like. Wear a few of these, be painted in latex for camoflage and just simply wander in, take what you need and leave them in the bank to keep them from alarming anyone.
Oh, and if anyone's interested, I know the pefect way to disrupt ALL air traffic in the US or most other countries without having to highjack any planes at all.
Does the extra space "left over" mean they can do an on-die GPU for cheap?
Is that part of their roadmap?
I work as a hotliner for a computer retailer (no, not Dell).
The latest trend on our computers is to bundle them with a trial edition of Microsoft Office (60 days). This doesn't support saving your files it seems, nor priting or anything else even remotely useful apart from viewing documents.
Once we explain customers that they have to pay Microsoft to get a fully functioning version of the program, they almost always ask where to get something else, that works without having to pay for it. I always tell them to try out OpenOffice.org - see if it fits their needs. If it does, great - they've just saved a minor fortune. If not, they can always switch back to paying for MS Office.
Same when the computer is bundled with MS Works, which for some really arcane reason doesn't want to play nice with MS Office.
While I've no feedback from all of the customers that I've advised to try out OO.o, I have heard from several of them that they will never use MS Office again, when their trial version is so "buggy", that you can't even use it properly in the trial period.
Does ODF (well, something other than MS' formats) have a future? I would say it has a big future as long as Microsoft shoots itself in the foot instead of luring customers in with fully functioning/compatible programs.
But maybe that's just me.
You get a cash cow. When they don't accept bovine payments you simply milk the cow.