COBOL's greatest advantage over C and its decedents is no IEEE 754, floating point arithmetic "issues." Granted the precision may be viewed as "negligible," but not for penny pinchers. Now, the problem with the precision is taxed on the programmer to do their math/algorithm correctly.
That's only seen as an advantage because accountants are such decimal chauvinists.
It there were 64 cents in a dollar, they'd have no problem with IEEE 754 math, since any errors introduced by the algorithm would be the exact same errors they would get by doing the problem with paper and pencil. (They want to see familiar errors, not unfamiliar ones. The familiar errors are defined by accountants to be "correct".).
I'm curious why don't think solar is a renewable energy source?
Because you burn up the nuclear fuel, then it's gone. Just like fossil fuels.
Sure, you might get to burn it some more if there we lived in a fantasy world where breeder reactors and fuel reprocessing were practical, economical, safe or secure. That wouldn't change the fact that it's still getting used up on a human timescale.
There are lots of members of the Linux Foundation, but most of them don't repeatedly inflict thousands of man-hours of emergency bug fix work on the core developers.
And we will roundly reject them when they are arbitrary, ambiguous, or deleterious to existing definitions. Case in point - jackasses trying to deplanet Pluto.
By "we", you must mean the set of people who failed to master Sesame Street's rudimentary "One of these things is not like the others" game.
Just high enough to cover the cost over time to wire those farmers who feel that they can't do without terrestrial broadband.
Somebody needs to remind those GOP-voting rural dwellers who play the "higher food price" card every time the topic of their subsidized services comes up: Any government-directed reallocation of their costs is a socialist policy. Socialist!!!!
(BTW, I've got a garden, so I know that the total quantity of food that can be produced in urban areas is statistically insignificant. That's why rural areas are so spread out in the first place.)
we built a new, double-blind encryption technology that prevents both Google and our partners from viewing our respective users' personally identifiable information
so I expect (and hope) it's just the non-technical Verge misunderstanding some piece of meaningless PR-speak.
No, Intel is adding new opcodes to support virtual assistants. This will make them much more efficient, since there will be no high-level language overhead involved in processing user requests.
One of the most significant new opcodes is the SCIFALXWV src instruction, or "Set Carry if 'Alexa' detected in WAV data". This scans the memory buffer pointed to by the source operand, and of length specified by RCX, using a language code specified in RDX, and then uses advanced pattern matching logic to determine whether or not it contains a recording of a human voice speaking the word "Alexa". If it does, it sets the carry flag, otherwise it resets the flag.
Narayanan estimates that Bitcoin mining now uses about five gigawatts of electricity per day
I've been searching all my life, and I have yet to find a single news article from any source that manages to discuss the fundamental physical concepts of energy, power and time without erroneously jumbling them all together.
Why are Windows 8 apps different than other Windows apps? Why does MS have a store that segregates different versions of Windows apps? Why isn't it just one store that can detect your Windows version? Is this what we can expect with Windows 10 going forward?
Because it's really hard. You need to hire genius minds of a quality available only to the likes of Google, Apple or Linux distros in order to run a multi-version store.
A1) What apple is you looking at? A2) What apple are you looking at?
A1) What apples is you looking at? A2) What apples are you looking at?
It looks like the appropriate selection in your particular example depends not on the plurality of the subject, but instead on whether or not you speak in one particular well-known American ethnic dialect.
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Natural gas only appears cheap to those who fail to account for the damage caused by CO2 emissions and methane leakage.
You need to keep updated with the latest propaganda.
I have seen the latest update: Climate change is now a "Chinese hoax".
COBOL's greatest advantage over C and its decedents is no IEEE 754, floating point arithmetic "issues." Granted the precision may be viewed as "negligible," but not for penny pinchers. Now, the problem with the precision is taxed on the programmer to do their math/algorithm correctly.
That's only seen as an advantage because accountants are such decimal chauvinists.
It there were 64 cents in a dollar, they'd have no problem with IEEE 754 math, since any errors introduced by the algorithm would be the exact same errors they would get by doing the problem with paper and pencil. (They want to see familiar errors, not unfamiliar ones. The familiar errors are defined by accountants to be "correct".).
That's great if all of your strings are of fixed length, like in some kind of 1960s punched card stack.
COBOL can slice and dice data in ways C and SQL can't even dream of.
But then again, so could almost any other decent general-purpose computer language.
(But without all that boilerplate and flowery prose syntax.)
They used to preinstall games.
Now they preinstall conduits for monetization.
The abandoned records were nothing compared to the shocking sight that was found near the back of the stockroom:
The rotting body of an emaciated cartoon giraffe, its neck still chained to a standpipe.
Gotta admit, I can't read either. Never mind.
I'm curious why don't think solar is a renewable energy source?
Because you burn up the nuclear fuel, then it's gone. Just like fossil fuels.
Sure, you might get to burn it some more if there we lived in a fantasy world where breeder reactors and fuel reprocessing were practical, economical, safe or secure. That wouldn't change the fact that it's still getting used up on a human timescale.
I eat exactly *0* homecooked meals a week. My time is worth more to me than the $$ is costs to get a (good) restaurant meal.
Given how unhealthy most restaurant meals are, you're probably hacking far more time off the end of your life than you'd ever save by not cooking.
I want a plugin to limit the browser to 24 FPS to make it look more cinematic.
There are lots of members of the Linux Foundation, but most of them don't repeatedly inflict thousands of man-hours of emergency bug fix work on the core developers.
It would probably be easy to make an X86 just as safe and just as slow as the Itanium by simply disabling X86 speculative features altogether.
Since you failed at Sesame Street, it's not surprising that you continue making mistakes.
And we will roundly reject them when they are arbitrary, ambiguous, or deleterious to existing definitions.
Case in point - jackasses trying to deplanet Pluto.
By "we", you must mean the set of people who failed to master Sesame Street's rudimentary "One of these things is not like the others" game.
Just high enough to cover the cost over time to wire those farmers who feel that they can't do without terrestrial broadband.
Somebody needs to remind those GOP-voting rural dwellers who play the "higher food price" card every time the topic of their subsidized services comes up: Any government-directed reallocation of their costs is a socialist policy. Socialist!!!!
(BTW, I've got a garden, so I know that the total quantity of food that can be produced in urban areas is statistically insignificant. That's why rural areas are so spread out in the first place.)
If more farmers gave up farming in order to move from "the boondocks" to cities, your prices at the grocery checkout would likely rise.
In our alleged market economy, that would be the most appropriate way to allocate that cost.
we built a new, double-blind encryption technology that prevents both Google and our partners from viewing our respective users' personally identifiable information
For those who are wondering, here's how it works:
so I expect (and hope) it's just the non-technical Verge misunderstanding some piece of meaningless PR-speak.
No, Intel is adding new opcodes to support virtual assistants. This will make them much more efficient, since there will be no high-level language overhead involved in processing user requests.
One of the most significant new opcodes is the SCIFALXWV src instruction, or "Set Carry if 'Alexa' detected in WAV data". This scans the memory buffer pointed to by the source operand, and of length specified by RCX, using a language code specified in RDX, and then uses advanced pattern matching logic to determine whether or not it contains a recording of a human voice speaking the word "Alexa". If it does, it sets the carry flag, otherwise it resets the flag.
Narayanan estimates that Bitcoin mining now uses about five gigawatts of electricity per day
I've been searching all my life, and I have yet to find a single news article from any source that manages to discuss the fundamental physical concepts of energy, power and time without erroneously jumbling them all together.
Just using the word "datum" in today's world makes you look like a stilted egghead. That word is probably on its way out.
Why would I replace the word when we're specifically talking about data?
Why are Windows 8 apps different than other Windows apps? Why does MS have a store that segregates different versions of Windows apps? Why isn't it just one store that can detect your Windows version? Is this what we can expect with Windows 10 going forward?
Because it's really hard. You need to hire genius minds of a quality available only to the likes of Google, Apple or Linux distros in order to run a multi-version store.
The 1st form feels weird.
It's not the same situation:
A1) What apple is you looking at?
A2) What apple are you looking at?
A1) What apples is you looking at?
A2) What apples are you looking at?
It looks like the appropriate selection in your particular example depends not on the plurality of the subject, but instead on whether or not you speak in one particular well-known American ethnic dialect.
Are we sure it is?
We're pretty sure, but we need to wait until more data is available before we officially close the debate.
We're pretty sure, but we need to wait until more data are available before we officially close the debate.
Well, that settles it: The second form just feels weird and stilted, like a grammar rule from a musty out-of-date dictionary. Debate closed.