Do you know how often I get offered something "thanking [me] for [my] positive contributions"? Every day on the top right corner of slashdot, is a lot more than from my boss or family.
Plus, the ads do pay/. bills, so they might as well keep believing that I'm seeing them.
And the worst way is to ask their boss how he thinks they're doing their job. And present the material only to him because "this is not something for the engineers to be deciding".
Did I mention I want to punch my head of marketing?
What's the typical lifespan of a kindle? That sounds like a good deal if people do change HW every couple years, not sure what the fineprint says (I can't RTFA).
> It's hasn't been that long since humans looked up at the lights in the night sky and wondered what they are
I'd surmise that they've been doing that for longer than they've been doing that "agriculture" thingy, but I can't prove it. Just a hunch from witnessing city people get away from light pollution.
What cracks me up is that not twenty years ago, I had a long discussion with a physics teacher who must not have listened to his own material and kept on arguing that we were probably the only star with a planetary system.
Considering that a major power plant typically outputs electrically about 1/3rd of its thermal power, can we invent a technology to connect a turbine to the rack cooling system? Given that processors won't directly generate steam, you may lose another 1/2 in that conversion, but that's still over 16% of the data center that could power itself... That's a lot less exotic than fuel cells.
I guess someone with enough billions has already done that math and the return wasn't there...
The citizens united decision explains in totally unambiguous terms that corporations have the same right as people with regards to speech. Read it.
Remember I was responding to: > Also, the United States is a legal entity, an abstraction. It cannot speak, much less "refer" to anything using one particular phrase. That's a rather absurd anthropomorphization. and my response was that anthropomorphizing is ok when it concerns corporations, at least when they are granted the speech rights that the constitution safeguards for humans to oppose tyranny. I took a shortcut. Here: "In the context of this same ability to speak, its corporations are people."
> Also, the United States is a legal entity, an abstraction. It cannot speak, much less "refer" to anything using one particular phrase. That's a rather absurd anthropomorphization.
from OP: 320 gigaflops/second That's 320 Giga-Floating-point operations per second per second. Because the ps in "flops" is "per second". Quantity per second squared is an acceleration.
> No it bloody isn't. If you've been hired as a programer, your job is to program. Read your contract.
Try telling that to your boss and see how slowly things move at the unemployment office. Most contracts don't have explicit clauses about bad programming, but they do have clauses about disrespect for the hierarchy.
> Good luck if you have a boss who values "meeting weight".
Then you do what your boss values. welcome the real world. You can talk about it -carefully- with his boss if he's causing you to fail.
> If you believe sitting totally bored in a meeting is a break then you a very strange person.
You're surrounded by stranger people.
> Try telling a union employee i a boring meeting that they're "on break" and what your ass get smacked down faster than you can even finish the sentence.
Strawman. We're not talking about the legal definition of a break here.
Agreed, but by the time your Mach-6 bird is actually ready to fly over Iran, the S-301 may have a 500-mile engagement envelope and an even faster interception speed. It's a lot easier to make a bigger rocket than it is to fly safely an hypersonic spy plane.
Because the Chinese and Russian can do that math too. And they're not about to just say "let them fly over, we'll never stop them". They've been expecting the blackbird to be upgraded ever since they first saw one, and especially given the recent developments in scramjets.
Slashdot Mirror
"the effects can be quickly reversed"
It's called RU-486
*ducks*
Which makes no sense. Because accredited journalists are the ones paying to be allowed to report the information.
It's iPhone-Joe who needs to be banned under that logic.
Do you know how often I get offered something "thanking [me] for [my] positive contributions"?
Every day on the top right corner of slashdot, is a lot more than from my boss or family.
Plus, the ads do pay /. bills, so they might as well keep believing that I'm seeing them.
I actually make a point of not checking the box rewarding me for being a positive force in the slashuniverse.
I thought I had disabled the slashdot advertisements a while back.
Godzilla had to dry his hair
The word you missed was "floating"
It was hidden in the title and the summary.
And the worst way is to ask their boss how he thinks they're doing their job. And present the material only to him because "this is not something for the engineers to be deciding".
Did I mention I want to punch my head of marketing?
Faith in humanity restored.
What's the typical lifespan of a kindle?
That sounds like a good deal if people do change HW every couple years, not sure what the fineprint says (I can't RTFA).
You could have just said you didn't read it. There's a link right up there, and it's not very long...
"Austin had held that political speech may be banned based on the speaker’s corporate identity."
"Austin is overruled"
Read the whole thing. Corporations are equal to people when it comes to freedom of political speech.
They are a democracy and use metric at home. We're in uncharted territory when it comes to first-time to Mars.
> It's hasn't been that long since humans looked up at the lights in the night sky and wondered what they are
I'd surmise that they've been doing that for longer than they've been doing that "agriculture" thingy, but I can't prove it. Just a hunch from witnessing city people get away from light pollution.
What cracks me up is that not twenty years ago, I had a long discussion with a physics teacher who must not have listened to his own material and kept on arguing that we were probably the only star with a planetary system.
Just rename yourself Abdul Achmed Al Siri, and the NSA will provide you with free fiber.
Considering that a major power plant typically outputs electrically about 1/3rd of its thermal power, can we invent a technology to connect a turbine to the rack cooling system? Given that processors won't directly generate steam, you may lose another 1/2 in that conversion, but that's still over 16% of the data center that could power itself...
That's a lot less exotic than fuel cells.
I guess someone with enough billions has already done that math and the return wasn't there...
Can I call this planned obsolescence yet?
I have drives much older than that, and I'm not worried that they are engineered to fail soon (they will, but not by design)
The citizens united decision explains in totally unambiguous terms that corporations have the same right as people with regards to speech. Read it.
Remember I was responding to:
> Also, the United States is a legal entity, an abstraction. It cannot speak, much less "refer" to anything using one particular phrase. That's a rather absurd anthropomorphization.
and my response was that anthropomorphizing is ok when it concerns corporations, at least when they are granted the speech rights that the constitution safeguards for humans to oppose tyranny. I took a shortcut. Here:
"In the context of this same ability to speak, its corporations are people."
*facepalm*
Talk to his boss about it. Until his boss makes him stop, your job remains to take orders from your boss.
> Also, the United States is a legal entity, an abstraction. It cannot speak, much less "refer" to anything using one particular phrase. That's a rather absurd anthropomorphization.
But its corporations are people.
from OP: 320 gigaflops/second
That's 320 Giga-Floating-point operations per second per second. Because the ps in "flops" is "per second".
Quantity per second squared is an acceleration.
Like an ATM Machine, really.
> No it bloody isn't. If you've been hired as a programer, your job is to program. Read your contract.
Try telling that to your boss and see how slowly things move at the unemployment office.
Most contracts don't have explicit clauses about bad programming, but they do have clauses about disrespect for the hierarchy.
> Good luck if you have a boss who values "meeting weight".
Then you do what your boss values. welcome the real world.
You can talk about it -carefully- with his boss if he's causing you to fail.
> If you believe sitting totally bored in a meeting is a break then you a very strange person.
You're surrounded by stranger people.
> Try telling a union employee i a boring meeting that they're "on break" and what your ass get smacked down faster than you can even finish the sentence.
Strawman. We're not talking about the legal definition of a break here.
Agreed, but by the time your Mach-6 bird is actually ready to fly over Iran, the S-301 may have a 500-mile engagement envelope and an even faster interception speed. It's a lot easier to make a bigger rocket than it is to fly safely an hypersonic spy plane.
Because the Chinese and Russian can do that math too. And they're not about to just say "let them fly over, we'll never stop them". They've been expecting the blackbird to be upgraded ever since they first saw one, and especially given the recent developments in scramjets.
I'm looking forward to the remake of "Christine" with a truck the size of a house in the title role.