Very, very few people who live within fifteen miles of Cape Canaveral lived there before they built a space complex. And many, many more of them have been killed driving to the shopping mall since they built a space complex.
Nobody would live there if absolute safety was the criteria for Vespucci or the Seminole - it's an unreasonable standard for real life.
This. I was a caregiver to my ALS-stricken wife for three years, and after she passed away, I was diagnosed with PTSD. It's not just combat that's stressful.
Say, about fifteen years ago, there was huge buzz about how languages and compilers were going to take care of the "Moore's Law Problem" by automating the parallelism of every task that could be broken up. With single-static assignment trees and the like the programmer was going to be freed from manually doing the parallelism.
With manufacturers starting to turn out 32- and 64-core chips, I'm wondering how well did we did on that front. I don't see a ton of software automatically not pegging a core on my CPU's. The ones that aren't quite as bad are mostly just doing a fork() in 2017. Did we get anywhere? Are we almost there? Is software just not compiled right now? Did it turn out to be harder than expected? Were languages not up to the task? Is hardware (e.g. memory access architectures) insufficient? Was the possibility oversold in the first place?
Right. Most people who 'hear' in the 20-28KHz range are picking up that their ear bones are vibrating a bit and that can get translated into sound but it's not real 'hearing' at the high frequencies.
For the vast majority of the population, there's plenty of bandwidth in the 12-16KHz range that speakers can reproduce and most people wouldn't discriminate from fan noise on the system.
The question that never seems to get asked is: Why do these executives get these incredible salaries? Does anybody - apart from the tiny elite at the top - really think it is good value for money?
It's obvious to most people. If you have to pay $2M more to get an exec who's better than the other guy enough to net your company an additional $2B in profit, there's not even a question on the table - you'd be crazy not to.
150 people to run a blogging platform, no less. I wonder what the org chart looked like. Hopefully most of them were in commissioned ad sales, but fifty seems like it would be big for that kind of business anyway.
Perl is great for people who tend to be more "verbal". The total math geeks I know really prefer python, though.
It's wonderful that we have such a joyful abundance of tools to choose from in the FLOSS world, and aren't stuck running VB.net or whatever the craptastic commercial product is these days. Be maximally productive and we can all be happy for that.
Now let's work on getting these things coordinated so I can use a python module in perl6 and the ruby folks can use a perl6 module on rails. That was one of the great dreams of the perl6 project and it doesn't seem to be effective yet.
not just dumbed down, 'human hair' is merely an upper bound, presumably several orders of magnitude above the size we're talking.
We're used to talking about microchip circuits here - 20 vs 14nm feature sizes is normal. If these guys are building quantum traps, presumably it's at least in that size range, so why not just say to help us visualize what's going on?
Google Authenticator is free, SMS 2FA isn't wire-secure, but it prevents almost all account takeovers, and "nobody" uses them because they're not mandatory.
But now we'll have a hardware dongle that will either fit in a computer or a phone, but not both (probably) and nobody will use those too? We got stronger crypto but we didn't need stronger crypto; what problem is this solving?
There are off-the-shelf solutions to suck the data off a 4S. Russians aren't "trying to unlock iPhone 4S" - if they have it, it's done. The author is just trying to be a show-off know-it-all.
Cool, story bro - you read the Apple iOS security whitepaper.
Even with $0.99 per title I'd have to pay like $100 for all I'm planning to watch this year.
"Everybody should pay $0 for movies. Then they will make lots of movies."
Heck, not even the communists actually believe that.
Balking at fifty cents an hour just makes you seem like a freeloader. Is this a consequence of everybody getting honorable mention ribbons in the spelling bee?
I'd wager that if they kept the price at $0.99 for a 1-day rental, their overall rental profits would quintuple.
They got close to a billion users to upgrade and have their computing environment be monetized with marginal cost to the company and they acted too quickly for the FTC or whomever to do anything about it.
They did this just right. If you're Microsoft, of course.
The 2% of people who switched to Mac and and 0.5% of people who switched to FLOSS desktops are totally acceptable costs.
the claims after Katrina hit 11 years ago that THE GULF COAST would see hurricane after hurricane, claiming there would be 3, 4, maybe over half a dozen per year
I just did a Google News search constrained from 8/20/2005 to 9/30/2005 and I couldn't find an article saying that. Can you please link to some?
Saying that there is too much TV implies that I should be trying to watch every show on TV.
"Nobody needs twenty three different kinds of deodorant!!!!"
These bone-headed know-it-alls think they know what's best for everybody (an obvious failure of hubris over information).
If a show can find a niche audience and produce more revenue than it costs, then it's a good show for some people. And, guess what? That's how all shows are going to be once the network model fully dissolves.
Who wrote this article? Where are my killfiles in 2016? --- there's a market opportunity; Neilsen might buy up your startup
I make no pretensions that the current work isn't mere Chrome-catch-up, but if they had listened to community in 2007 they might not have had to catch up. In the days of $350M revenue from Google, "patches welcome" was an obsolete response - management simply failed to properly manage the engineering process.
from #392073:
L A Walsh 2007-08-13 11:41:59 PDT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
This isn't a new problem, but has come to stand out as a fairly major "booboo" as Firefox has more windows open and has become slower and less responsive. But firefox seems to be limited to 1 Core on a multi-way machine. I have a 2Px2Core setup (4 cores). Firefox's threading is broken in that it is constrained to 1 Core. Given that cores are increasing in number but CPU GHz is not, this is a "major bug". While it should be a goal, overall to decrease all resource usages, when it becomes necessary to use more resources, FF should be able to take advantage of *parallel* processing (running on more than one processor at a time).
It looks like they'll have this rolled out right about the ten-year mark.
Why is it so hard to get a SIMPLE display server and app store done right?
Dunno, but we're talking about operating systems with support for mobile device needs, not simple display servers. If you want a device that can pick up DHCP and start a VNC client, those are also available. It would suck to try to use one as a phone, though.
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Very, very few people who live within fifteen miles of Cape Canaveral lived there before they built a space complex. And many, many more of them have been killed driving to the shopping mall since they built a space complex.
Nobody would live there if absolute safety was the criteria for Vespucci or the Seminole - it's an unreasonable standard for real life.
This. I was a caregiver to my ALS-stricken wife for three years, and after she passed away, I was diagnosed with PTSD. It's not just combat that's stressful.
possibly CPTSD? Similar situation here.
Here's an interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Say, about fifteen years ago, there was huge buzz about how languages and compilers were going to take care of the "Moore's Law Problem" by automating the parallelism of every task that could be broken up. With single-static assignment trees and the like the programmer was going to be freed from manually doing the parallelism.
With manufacturers starting to turn out 32- and 64-core chips, I'm wondering how well did we did on that front. I don't see a ton of software automatically not pegging a core on my CPU's. The ones that aren't quite as bad are mostly just doing a fork() in 2017. Did we get anywhere? Are we almost there? Is software just not compiled right now? Did it turn out to be harder than expected? Were languages not up to the task? Is hardware (e.g. memory access architectures) insufficient? Was the possibility oversold in the first place?
the screen needs to eat up a large portion of your view field
If only there was a nascent technology that would put the image right in front of your eyes, in stereo.
3D is dead. Long live VR.
Right. Most people who 'hear' in the 20-28KHz range are picking up that their ear bones are vibrating a bit and that can get translated into sound but it's not real 'hearing' at the high frequencies.
For the vast majority of the population, there's plenty of bandwidth in the 12-16KHz range that speakers can reproduce and most people wouldn't discriminate from fan noise on the system.
The question that never seems to get asked is: Why do these executives get these incredible salaries? Does anybody - apart from the tiny elite at the top - really think it is good value for money?
It's obvious to most people. If you have to pay $2M more to get an exec who's better than the other guy enough to net your company an additional $2B in profit, there's not even a question on the table - you'd be crazy not to.
Really? I haven't noticed it. I can focus far, near, between. Sorry to hear you have that problem.
Really? How is it that the film is shot with the lens at a particular focal distance and you can refocus the image at will?
Do you have a top-secret lightfield setup and are holding out on the rest of us?
The GP poster doesn't see much in the way of children.
150 people to run a blogging platform, no less. I wonder what the org chart looked like. Hopefully most of them were in commissioned ad sales, but fifty seems like it would be big for that kind of business anyway.
I suppose they get to turn off CSPAN when they're about to engage in some particularly egregious bipartisan tyranny?
A chance, yes, but it's seven thousand three hundred twenty to one.
Perl is great for people who tend to be more "verbal". The total math geeks I know really prefer python, though.
It's wonderful that we have such a joyful abundance of tools to choose from in the FLOSS world, and aren't stuck running VB.net or whatever the craptastic commercial product is these days. Be maximally productive and we can all be happy for that.
Now let's work on getting these things coordinated so I can use a python module in perl6 and the ruby folks can use a perl6 module on rails. That was one of the great dreams of the perl6 project and it doesn't seem to be effective yet.
not just dumbed down, 'human hair' is merely an upper bound, presumably several orders of magnitude above the size we're talking.
We're used to talking about microchip circuits here - 20 vs 14nm feature sizes is normal. If these guys are building quantum traps, presumably it's at least in that size range, so why not just say to help us visualize what's going on?
We have good 2FA now and hardly anybody uses it.
Google Authenticator is free, SMS 2FA isn't wire-secure, but it prevents almost all account takeovers, and "nobody" uses them because they're not mandatory.
But now we'll have a hardware dongle that will either fit in a computer or a phone, but not both (probably) and nobody will use those too? We got stronger crypto but we didn't need stronger crypto; what problem is this solving?
They lump XP and Vista together rendering any technical justification unlikely.
As if there aren't any API's in Win7+ that might be useful to Firefox?
There are off-the-shelf solutions to suck the data off a 4S. Russians aren't "trying to unlock iPhone 4S" - if they have it, it's done. The author is just trying to be a show-off know-it-all.
Cool, story bro - you read the Apple iOS security whitepaper.
Even with $0.99 per title I'd have to pay like $100 for all I'm planning to watch this year.
"Everybody should pay $0 for movies. Then they will make lots of movies."
Heck, not even the communists actually believe that.
Balking at fifty cents an hour just makes you seem like a freeloader. Is this a consequence of everybody getting honorable mention ribbons in the spelling bee?
I'd wager that if they kept the price at $0.99 for a 1-day rental, their overall rental profits would quintuple.
They got close to a billion users to upgrade and have their computing environment be monetized with marginal cost to the company and they acted too quickly for the FTC or whomever to do anything about it.
They did this just right. If you're Microsoft, of course.
The 2% of people who switched to Mac and and 0.5% of people who switched to FLOSS desktops are totally acceptable costs.
the claims after Katrina hit 11 years ago that THE GULF COAST would see hurricane after hurricane, claiming there would be 3, 4, maybe over half a dozen per year
I just did a Google News search constrained from 8/20/2005 to 9/30/2005 and I couldn't find an article saying that. Can you please link to some?
Saying that there is too much TV implies that I should be trying to watch every show on TV.
"Nobody needs twenty three different kinds of deodorant!!!!"
These bone-headed know-it-alls think they know what's best for everybody (an obvious failure of hubris over information).
If a show can find a niche audience and produce more revenue than it costs, then it's a good show for some people. And, guess what? That's how all shows are going to be once the network model fully dissolves.
Who wrote this article? Where are my killfiles in 2016? --- there's a market opportunity; Neilsen might buy up your startup
I make no pretensions that the current work isn't mere Chrome-catch-up, but if they had listened to community in 2007 they might not have had to catch up. In the days of $350M revenue from Google, "patches welcome" was an obsolete response - management simply failed to properly manage the engineering process.
from #392073:
L A Walsh 2007-08-13 11:41:59 PDT
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
This isn't a new problem, but has come to stand out as a fairly major "booboo" as Firefox has more windows open and has become slower and less responsive.
But firefox seems to be limited to 1 Core on a multi-way machine. I have a 2Px2Core setup (4 cores). Firefox's threading is broken in that it is constrained to 1 Core.
Given that cores are increasing in number but CPU GHz is not, this is a "major bug". While it should be a goal, overall to decrease all resource usages, when it becomes necessary to use more resources, FF should be able to take advantage of *parallel* processing (running on more than one processor at a time).
It looks like they'll have this rolled out right about the ten-year mark.
Apple tells developers what features and technologies they may support in their applications:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jaxx-...
Do you always agree with the current Apple management?
"It didn't! Its dreams were SHATTERED!"
(queue the Rolling Stones)
Trump will put him out of business anyway.
That's silly. SpaceX is Made in the USA and he wants to mostly shut down NASA anyway. Maybe leave a few people to open and close the gates for SpaceX.
Snarkiness aside, NASA is rushing back to doing Aeronautics. They're no dummies.
Why is it so hard to get a SIMPLE display server and app store done right?
Dunno, but we're talking about operating systems with support for mobile device needs, not simple display servers. If you want a device that can pick up DHCP and start a VNC client, those are also available. It would suck to try to use one as a phone, though.