A growing number of restaurants do have card readers at each table.
This can be a big advantage because many waiters seem to think that the final round trip of picking up your card, processing and returning it is their lowest priority task. With a card reader, you can sometimes avoid an extra 10 minutes or more of waiting around after the end of your meal.
give us the 5-1/4 inch format disc and we can at least HALF the number of physical HD we are force to use now
Why stop there?
The very first hard drive, the IBM 350 RAMAC, had fifty 24-inch platters. If we went back to that form factor, with this new technology you could pack over 130,000 TB into a single drive!
I've analyzed the sounds. If you adjust the equalization carefully, clean up the noise, and adjust the playback speed you can make out that it's actually a message spoken in German:
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Games are literally just sets of well defined rules.
Well, so is the physical universe.
You also don't seem to remember all of the go fanbois on this site a few years ago who kept asserting that go has some kind of inscrutable emergent behavior that requires human intuition to master, and machines were never going beat humans at go.
Maybe people who are making similar assumptions about the world in general are repeating that mistake.
Yet you trust you life to hundreds of random human strangers in the traffic you navigate nearly every day, many of whom are distracted, buzzed, senile or just plain idiots.
At any rate, the bulk of the hardware doesn't need to totally failsafe as long as there are effective backup measures in place such as collision avoidance systems (which generally don't require anywhere near as much compute power). We already have such things in many of today's cars to help with the highly unreliable controllers mentioned in the first paragraph.
very long since we have to change numbers pretty often because of fraud. With my Chase card, I think my number changed three times since I got it six years ago. With my Barclays card, I've already changed number three times just this year! Neither card has a chip, so I swipe them at a lot of places. Food trucks seem to be the worst since twice immediately after I bought something from a taco truck, I had charges from FAST STOP 1107 in Texas three different times.
The government has a program in place that you can take advantage of to prevent credit card fraud at high-risk situations like taco trucks. It's a paper certificate called a "Federal Reserve Note", and it's now widely available.
I'd love to see how much energy they could get out of Ni-Fe and Ni-Zn batteries using modern manufacturing techniques... no toxic or exotic compounds required!
Very few industrial processes create more pollution than nickel smelting.
Many organizations have already addressed this problem by not using the SSN as an authenticator, but instead using only the last four digits of the SSN as the authenticator.
They also use these same four digits as a stand-in for the full SSN in a lower-security context, thereby killing two birds with one stone.
You're assuming that people will have no choice but to get expensive high-tech electric vehicles.
However, even under an ICE ban, people will still be able to use simpler tried-and-true transportation like this, or even this, which also has the advantage of dovetailing with the new policies of the current presidential administration.
I was stuck in one of the last CS classes at my university that used punched cards and batch processing. We got charged several dollars of "funny money" every time we ran a process that constructed a binary tree with a couple of hundred elements. (Between the threat of draining our accounts and the ~1 hour turn-around time per run, I guess we really had an incentive to pour over our code for bugs offline. The whole experience sucked.)
Now, the price for same computation at Amazon would probably be measured in picodollars.
In the older case, one person could probably rack up enough charges to pay for their own minicomputer (or even a TRS-80, which was probably almost as fast as their damned mainframe) in a relatively short time. In the Amazon case, you can run a VM continuously, and it might still cost less than buying and maintaining a dedicated PC of similar capacity.
That's an extremely contrived situation. Maybe the human target would start feeling the heat and eventually step out of your laser beam.
OTOH, if you used integers that overflow, at some point the laser could reverse polarity without warning. That could blow up your entire research station!
Have they also looked at bugs that typically plague statically typed languages but dynamically typed languages usually don't suffer?
For example, many statically typed languages do little or nothing to help you avoid integer overflows, which can result in severe crashes and vulnerabilities. Many dynamically typed languages, such as Python, gracefully switch to big integer types as needed.
For over 50 years now, we've had a stiff tariff on imported light trucks. What was the outcome? The USA is the pickup truck capital of the world.
It looks like with this tariff, we can eventually be the kings solar panel as well. All we need is the right marketing strategy.
If we can get people to pay over $60K for a pickup, we can also get them to support solar panels with high profit margins. A good start would be to market "heavy duty" panels and promote them as an enabler of rugged individualism.
Styling will also be key: for example maybe carbon-fiber frames, menacing hexagonal honeycomb collector grids, and prominent oversized exposed heat sinks on the electronics. Who wouldn't want the most bad-assed roof on their block?
You never know, people might start installing several times the solar capacity they would ever use just so they can brag about their peak kilowatt capacities.
If hundreds of professional astrophysicists are devoting their careers to studying a problem, you can be sure that nothing you come up with off the top of your head, without knowing anything about the subject, is going to have any merit.
If hundreds of professional astrophysicists are devoting their careers to studying a problem, you can be sure that nothing you come up with off the top of your head, without knowing anything about the subject, is going to dissuade them from following the money.
So true. It's simply disgusting that there is this cabal of union bosses, Leftist billionaires and government bureaucrats which is conspiring to further fund the *myth* of extragalactic cosmic rays, all in an attempt to push their agenda of redistribution of wealth and punishing Job Creators.
For example, when is the last time you asked a question about C? Probably never. Why? Because its very easy to understand and the libraries are also easy to find.
I have decades of experience writing C code, and I still look up C-related questions all the time.
Why? Because nearly every feature in C and its libraries is like a minefield, ready to explode in your face if you make even the tiniest misstep. You need to check and double-check everything you do, and relying on human memory alone isn't sufficient.
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A growing number of restaurants do have card readers at each table.
This can be a big advantage because many waiters seem to think that the final round trip of picking up your card, processing and returning it is their lowest priority task. With a card reader, you can sometimes avoid an extra 10 minutes or more of waiting around after the end of your meal.
give us the 5-1/4 inch format disc and we can at least HALF the number of physical HD we are force to use now
Why stop there?
The very first hard drive, the IBM 350 RAMAC, had fifty 24-inch platters. If we went back to that form factor, with this new technology you could pack over 130,000 TB into a single drive!
Does this include Slashdot and its other sites?
Glancing down at the CPU core usage meters on the task bar, each at about 1% ...
Probably not.
I've analyzed the sounds. If you adjust the equalization carefully, clean up the noise, and adjust the playback speed you can make out that it's actually a message spoken in German:
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Games are literally just sets of well defined rules.
Well, so is the physical universe.
You also don't seem to remember all of the go fanbois on this site a few years ago who kept asserting that go has some kind of inscrutable emergent behavior that requires human intuition to master, and machines were never going beat humans at go.
Maybe people who are making similar assumptions about the world in general are repeating that mistake.
Yet you trust you life to hundreds of random human strangers in the traffic you navigate nearly every day, many of whom are distracted, buzzed, senile or just plain idiots.
At any rate, the bulk of the hardware doesn't need to totally failsafe as long as there are effective backup measures in place such as collision avoidance systems (which generally don't require anywhere near as much compute power). We already have such things in many of today's cars to help with the highly unreliable controllers mentioned in the first paragraph.
you can only go so far being an ass
Well, you can get at least as far as President of the United States.
I think I used this technology almost 50 years ago, at the zoo. I got a plastic elephant fabricated on demand with no human help.
very long since we have to change numbers pretty often because of fraud. With my Chase card, I think my number changed three times since I got it six years ago. With my Barclays card, I've already changed number three times just this year! Neither card has a chip, so I swipe them at a lot of places. Food trucks seem to be the worst since twice immediately after I bought something from a taco truck, I had charges from FAST STOP 1107 in Texas three different times.
The government has a program in place that you can take advantage of to prevent credit card fraud at high-risk situations like taco trucks. It's a paper certificate called a "Federal Reserve Note", and it's now widely available.
Meanwhile, spewage continues at places like Norilsk.
Fixing it in one place hasn't eliminated the problem.
I'd love to see how much energy they could get out of Ni-Fe and Ni-Zn batteries using modern manufacturing techniques... no toxic or exotic compounds required!
Very few industrial processes create more pollution than nickel smelting.
This is clearly the most high-tech way yet to say: "My hovercraft is full of eels"
Many organizations have already addressed this problem by not using the SSN as an authenticator, but instead using only the last four digits of the SSN as the authenticator.
They also use these same four digits as a stand-in for the full SSN in a lower-security context, thereby killing two birds with one stone.
It's brilliant.
"Alexa, turn on Fire"
Not a good command to give if you keep your Bluetooth-enabled Zippo lighter in your desk drawer.
You're assuming that people will have no choice but to get expensive high-tech electric vehicles.
However, even under an ICE ban, people will still be able to use simpler tried-and-true transportation like this, or even this, which also has the advantage of dovetailing with the new policies of the current presidential administration.
I was hitting refresh on this very site for the last couple of days, and I got nothing.
The difference is in the price.
I was stuck in one of the last CS classes at my university that used punched cards and batch processing. We got charged several dollars of "funny money" every time we ran a process that constructed a binary tree with a couple of hundred elements. (Between the threat of draining our accounts and the ~1 hour turn-around time per run, I guess we really had an incentive to pour over our code for bugs offline. The whole experience sucked.)
Now, the price for same computation at Amazon would probably be measured in picodollars.
In the older case, one person could probably rack up enough charges to pay for their own minicomputer (or even a TRS-80, which was probably almost as fast as their damned mainframe) in a relatively short time. In the Amazon case, you can run a VM continuously, and it might still cost less than buying and maintaining a dedicated PC of similar capacity.
That's an extremely contrived situation. Maybe the human target would start feeling the heat and eventually step out of your laser beam.
OTOH, if you used integers that overflow, at some point the laser could reverse polarity without warning. That could blow up your entire research station!
What exceptions? The most common behavior is a silently incorrect result.
Have they also looked at bugs that typically plague statically typed languages but dynamically typed languages usually don't suffer?
For example, many statically typed languages do little or nothing to help you avoid integer overflows, which can result in severe crashes and vulnerabilities. Many dynamically typed languages, such as Python, gracefully switch to big integer types as needed.
For over 50 years now, we've had a stiff tariff on imported light trucks. What was the outcome? The USA is the pickup truck capital of the world.
It looks like with this tariff, we can eventually be the kings solar panel as well. All we need is the right marketing strategy.
If we can get people to pay over $60K for a pickup, we can also get them to support solar panels with high profit margins. A good start would be to market "heavy duty" panels and promote them as an enabler of rugged individualism.
Styling will also be key: for example maybe carbon-fiber frames, menacing hexagonal honeycomb collector grids, and prominent oversized exposed heat sinks on the electronics. Who wouldn't want the most bad-assed roof on their block?
You never know, people might start installing several times the solar capacity they would ever use just so they can brag about their peak kilowatt capacities.
If hundreds of professional astrophysicists are devoting their careers to studying a problem, you can be sure that nothing you come up with off the top of your head, without knowing anything about the subject, is going to dissuade them from following the money.
So true. It's simply disgusting that there is this cabal of union bosses, Leftist billionaires and government bureaucrats which is conspiring to further fund the *myth* of extragalactic cosmic rays, all in an attempt to push their agenda of redistribution of wealth and punishing Job Creators.
Maybe not everything in this world always has to be about "Jobs". Maybe you could learn to live a little.
For example, when is the last time you asked a question about C? Probably never. Why? Because its very easy to understand and the libraries are also easy to find.
I have decades of experience writing C code, and I still look up C-related questions all the time.
Why? Because nearly every feature in C and its libraries is like a minefield, ready to explode in your face if you make even the tiniest misstep. You need to check and double-check everything you do, and relying on human memory alone isn't sufficient.
I've heard that the United States Navy has just put in a special expedited order for 50,000 copies of this book.