I would rather the country paid for test spacecraft which will not provide an immediate return but may provide a return in thirty years; then pay for obamaphones so that "baby mamas" can call the future "baby dads".
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/02/electric-cars-in-alaska/ So if our neighbors in the crispy cool north do it without an issue, what makes it impossible or insane in the rest of the country? This is not only possible, but we have a sort of prototype out there already. Next up is to start doing Nuc plants again.
The utter lack of "possiblenous" in so many slashdotters makes me think that it would be impossible to have any more than 64 K of Ram in computers.
Who sort of misses the point of the article that the engines need heating to make sure they start.
One of the things that often happens is that I suddenly start feeling minor pain in my knees and stop and check my seat alignment. After riding for a month and a half the seat has slipped maybe a centimeter, and throws my leg alignment off. I need an extra long stem on my bike A serious bicyclist knows that fit is important. Bad fit can mean several things, physical damage to the body --most often to the knees, rapid fatigue, and difficulty controlling the bike.
I don't see how people using a "bike sharing" bike can hope to get a good fit. Which just gives bicycling more of a bad name. Only pretend to be bicyclists like Rahm Emanuel and Bloomberg push them. I don't remember Emanuel's predecessor the second Mayor Daley ever pushing them, and he was a real cyclist.
Well in my ten years of active driving I've had whiplash a couple of times. While my thirty years of bicycling, I've had no major injuries, road rash about ten times, and occasional athletic type injuries you expect in an active person.
The ACA was passed and signed and gone through the courts; it's the law.
This was brought up a long time and debunked. No law is ever judged 100% constitutional only the aspects brought before the court are adjudicated. The mandate as a mandate was actually judged unconstitutional. The mandate as a tax is constitutional. However there are still many court cases about it which can be overturned. I know of at least two cases making their way up the courts, one being that the tax was not properly passed as a tax has to originate in the house. The second is the tax subsidies to people in states that do not have exchanges.
Obamacare is in fact up and running, what's not is the federal web site.
Your state's isn't in place? That isn't the Feds' fault, it's your state government's. Illinois' is in place, and we have the most dysfunctional government in the US. Why isn't yours?
States are not required to provide exchanges, the federal government is. Many states opted out. Seems they should have been following Illinois example. Because of course you should always follow the lead of the most corrupt state in the country, where in the last 50 years 50% of it's governors went to jail, and is vying for California most insolvent.
Of course the big question is if a state as pathetic as Illinois could do it, why couldn't the Obama administration?
Battery life is just another dimension to the performance curve. Along with CPU usage, memory usage and defect count.
For 20+ years Microsoft has maintained a position where they did not need to compete on performance. Moore's law and being a monopoly helped them keep that position.
Now after 20+ years, all the bad habits are ingrained. So much so that a lowly programmer trying to write some new clean code is chastised by his manager who was a programmer in the old days and "knows better".
It is not just one big thing, but hundreds of little things that add up to one stinking pile of crap.
I could point out the excess of svchost.exe processes, the chokepoint of the registry, the fact that when I run find or updatedb on a NTFS or VFAT partition it takes twenty times longer, or a hundred other things. But the fact is that it is all those things not one. Which makes things worse because when a lowly programmer actually gets a manager to agree to fix one of these things, they don't get m,uch improvement and the manager says "see told you so, not worth the effort".
I remember as a young pup writing a part of a program which suddenly crashed in certain circumstances but not on NT only in Win95. Of course the problem was not detected until the program was out in the field because all the developers used NT.
I was using memory mapped IO. At one point I was reading from I something in an array of variable size. At the end I was supposed to determine how many there were. Simple enough calculate the length divide by the size.
So I cast the final address and the base address into an int and subtracted to get the length. Turns out that when using NT the address of memory mapped IO is something like 0x1XXXXXXX and on WIn95 it's 0x8XXXXXXX. So on WIn95 the addresses got cast into negative numbers and returned a negative length. All because I used ints instead of unsigned ints.
BTW when I worked at Lucent, I got a chance to speak to one the the automated testers. Turns out that often times when you run an automated stress test, and get an intermittent failure a couple of times out of a thousand that it is usually an int somewhere that should have been declared an unsigned int.
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One thing that does bother me though.
If I understood correctly, google now has a version which clamp on to your glasses. Are you supposed to unclamp them everytime you drive?
What's next? Getting a ticket for putting on makeup while driving?
Change gthe oil in my car, add radiator fluid, fix a tire. I also know how to unclog a drain.
So if coding is so routine, then everyone should know how to do.
PS: A lot of effort has been made to allow the masses to code. COBOL, VB/VBA come to mind. If it is so mechanical why the effort?
I would rather the country paid for test spacecraft which will not provide an immediate return but may provide a return in thirty years; then pay for obamaphones so that "baby mamas" can call the future "baby dads".
Doh a test flight no pilot.
why do you need the government promoting them? You would think if it was such a great idea that people would just ber flocking to them.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/02/electric-cars-in-alaska/
So if our neighbors in the crispy cool north do it without an issue, what makes it impossible or insane in the rest of the country? This is not only possible, but we have a sort of prototype out there already. Next up is to start doing Nuc plants again.
The utter lack of "possiblenous" in so many slashdotters makes me think that it would be impossible to have any more than 64 K of Ram in computers.
Who sort of misses the point of the article that the engines need heating to make sure they start.
Make sure to wear gloves too. Nothing nastier then putting your hands on ice cold handlebars in subfreezing weather. even if the bars are well padded.
One of the things that often happens is that I suddenly start feeling minor pain in my knees and stop and check my seat alignment. After riding for a month and a half the seat has slipped maybe a centimeter, and throws my leg alignment off. I need an extra long stem on my bike A serious bicyclist knows that fit is important.
Bad fit can mean several things, physical damage to the body --most often to the knees, rapid fatigue, and difficulty controlling the bike.
I don't see how people using a "bike sharing" bike can hope to get a good fit. Which just gives bicycling more of a bad name. Only pretend to be bicyclists like Rahm Emanuel and Bloomberg push them. I don't remember Emanuel's predecessor the second Mayor Daley ever pushing them, and he was a real cyclist.
Well in my ten years of active driving I've had whiplash a couple of times. While my thirty years of bicycling, I've had no major injuries, road rash about ten times, and occasional athletic type injuries you expect in an active person.
The ACA was passed and signed and gone through the courts; it's the law.
This was brought up a long time and debunked. No law is ever judged 100% constitutional only the aspects brought before the court are adjudicated. The mandate as a mandate was actually judged unconstitutional. The mandate as a tax is constitutional. However there are still many court cases about it which can be overturned. I know of at least two cases making their way up the courts, one being that the tax was not properly passed as a tax has to originate in the house. The second is the tax subsidies to people in states that do not have exchanges.
Obamacare is in fact up and running, what's not is the federal web site.
Your state's isn't in place? That isn't the Feds' fault, it's your state government's. Illinois' is in place, and we have the most dysfunctional government in the US. Why isn't yours?
States are not required to provide exchanges, the federal government is. Many states opted out. Seems they should have been following Illinois example. Because of course you should always follow the lead of the most corrupt state in the country, where in the last 50 years 50% of it's governors went to jail, and is vying for California most insolvent.
Of course the big question is if a state as pathetic as Illinois could do it, why couldn't the Obama administration?
the takeover sale is complete?
Will Microsoft merge this line with the Surface line?
Are these things going to be orphaned?
At least since the time of the OED.
But then a lot of words we use now were invented by Shakespeare.
Battery life is just another dimension to the performance curve. Along with CPU usage, memory usage and defect count.
For 20+ years Microsoft has maintained a position where they did not need to compete on performance. Moore's law and being a monopoly helped them keep that position.
Now after 20+ years, all the bad habits are ingrained. So much so that a lowly programmer trying to write some new clean code is chastised by his manager who was a programmer in the old days and "knows better".
It is not just one big thing, but hundreds of little things that add up to one stinking pile of crap.
I could point out the excess of svchost.exe processes, the chokepoint of the registry, the fact that when I run find or updatedb on a NTFS or VFAT partition it takes twenty times longer, or a hundred other things. But the fact is that it is all those things not one. Which makes things worse because when a lowly programmer actually gets a manager to agree to fix one of these things, they don't get m,uch improvement and the manager says "see told you so, not worth the effort".
You can't take down the business use for a random hour at a random time.
Funny because HomeDepot, OfficeMax, Microcenter, NewEgg, Tiger Direct, Sears, and Target all to to name a just a few.
64 bit versions of Windows have never had this sort of cruft.
Not true they have to build it in to support apps that use the 32 bit API.
On my linux machine all the background processes plus firefox use less then 15% CPU. It's not the apps.
" Among them were top contractors like Northrop Grumman, Deloitte LLP, SAIC Inc. General Dynamics and Booz Allen Hamilton."
It makes me so comfortable to know that it was possible that Eric Snowden would have had access to my data.
grill class?
Why not? It's turing complete!
You may well be advocating a felony here.
Lying to a federal official is a felony, and for the purpose of the law the site may well be considered a federal official.
is an urban scientist?
Apple is the new Microsoft.
Just with a shinier surface.
What part of "So I cast..." did you not understand?
Unsigned integers are not just for optimization.
I remember as a young pup writing a part of a program which suddenly crashed in certain circumstances but not on NT only in Win95.
Of course the problem was not detected until the program was out in the field because all the developers used NT.
I was using memory mapped IO. At one point I was reading from I something in an array of variable size. At the end I was supposed to determine how many there were. Simple enough calculate the length divide by the size.
So I cast the final address and the base address into an int and subtracted to get the length.
Turns out that when using NT the address of memory mapped IO is something like 0x1XXXXXXX and on WIn95 it's 0x8XXXXXXX. So on WIn95 the addresses got cast into negative numbers and returned a negative length. All because I used ints instead of unsigned ints.
BTW when I worked at Lucent, I got a chance to speak to one the the automated testers. Turns out that often times when you run an automated stress test, and get an intermittent failure a couple of times out of a thousand that it is usually an int somewhere that should have been declared an unsigned int.