I'm very surprised that someone has decided to build a very big airport near Tijuana or Vancouver to take over the role of a central hub for international flights.
At some point someone is going to have to recall software and no one knows how much that costs yet. Chances are that will happen in the EU, Australia or New Zealand first but I expect Microsoft will be the 1st to get hit as well.
TeX doesn't use lines, it uses boxes and there are some subtle differences in the concept. If your game, you can use METAFont to create paths and build boxes around it and then typeset in those that but it gets messy and it breaks the "does this look good" metrics. Its on par with writing in basic TeX without even loading the plain.tex macro set.
TeX could be retrofitted to cope with modern fonts, but modern fonts (and many included with TeX) just don't have the proper kerning tables and other metadata to make the results look good. While there are some font designers working on that issue, their fonts tend to be the ones for European marketing and not describing complex math formulas.
As far as that XML pixie dust that seems to be the drug of choice, Knuth proved that it is bad parsing before it ever even existed yet it grows more common every day.
Are doing or talking about doing? Did Toowoomba ever solve their waste disposal issue? If their plan ever happened, their filtered water would then be piped upstream where it would be filtered by billions of tons of rock in a natural ecosystem which is not much different than building a water plant downstream of a sewage plant the process that makes it safe for humans to reconsume involves other natural processes. Did you mean Gloucester as the city in the the UK that is using some wastewater for industrial use and watering parks? London also often gets mentioned. Tamworth is another that fits into the category of "they aren't doing it" There is waste water that is being used, just not directly back into a system for human consumption. Plenty of golf courses are watered with water from a sewage plant. There are several South African plants that I know about but none of that water is intentionally for use by humans. We can go over the details of that report if you want... Ch 3... US: Water Factory 21: Its water is used to keep the ocean water from getting into the deeper water table. West Basin (and most of the others in the US including about 50 that aren't listed in that report): Typical Purple Pipe system in the US. UOSA: injects water into the biological active area of the river The table 6 shows 0 used as drinking water. Namibia... uses a massive algae pool Singapore: the main plant showing "its safe for humans". It costs them more than desalination but they make water for silicon industry and a trivial amount ends up in bottled water to be sold at the plant tour gift shop. Japan: recycle water can be used for some indoor use like toilets. Belgium uses a biological pool for at least 2 months. Most of the rest of Europe: 3rd pipe system Israel: used for irrigation
Like I said, name one of those towns. I keep hearing that its being done yet no one can name names because it is not being done. The US arm's research isn't using what you would use in a city and like the one in the space station, its is much different technology.
Can you name one place that intentionally takes sewage water and filters it and puts it back in the drinking water without a large natural process being involved? The novelty bottled drinking water from NewWater in Singapore doesn't count since it get cleaned up for semiconductor use before having some other minerals added and put back in and given to tourist of their plant. If you take human sewage and dump it in the ocean, the oceans chemicals will destroy any viruses and prions that made it that far. If you don't use a natural filter such as the ocean or billions of tons of sand and natural biological filters (like Singapore), your counting on absolutely no holes in two consecutive membranes which are stressed to nearly their bursting pressure for years. If you think mad cow is bad, wait until the results come out when someone is stupid enough to try what your proposing with blackwater. The lead and heavy metal content in the road runoff in Melbourne is so high that its cheaper to desalinate than remove the metals.
Water tanks were removed because it they do bad things for river health and they are a major source of nasty things like malaria. I have seen very few water tanks aren't perfect for breeding mosquitos.
Australia is running out of water due to incompetence. I have on my desk the Victorian Desalination Project IfEoI which appears to be written so that only one company can provide a solution. They keep talking 3.1 billion dollars yet the plant is only 4 times larger than the Tampa FL plant that cost $150 million. They also want to take the desalinated water and pump it very far uphill and far away to be stored yet the plant size will be able to meet the daily demands of the city which is all much closer to sea level. It cost $.035/kl to pump water up 100 meters based on current prices and assuming 100% efficient pumps. I have spoken to 3 companies that could provide a solution yet not one of them will be submitting to the local governments paper game since they are convinced they can't win. A billion dollar project is going to cost the average Victorian family about 1000 not including costs dealing with interest.
The world does have CPUs that aren't x86. For some of them, adding a stack frame is adding numbers to the constants you use relative to the stack pointer. When you have to build a virutal machine to run 16 or 32 bit code on an old 8 but CPU there are other tricks as well.
Older compilers (and many current 8 bit) will generate a new stack frame for most nested levles of { where they couldn't tell if there was a new frame or not. Modern compilers see a much larger picture.
The test subjects could all count and they were subjected to an adding program that the all did very well with... until I pointed out that I though they were seeing 4+3 as find the 4 and count 1,2,,3 on the next keys. The pattern matching was done with a wide range of other subject matter including having them find quotes in Shakespearean plays. It appeared to me that they could judge how long a boring speech was and point out a proportionally long paragraph in a book if it was all on one page.
More like punch card cobal. Fortran didn't care about spaces at all once you got past the line number and comment section of the line. Nearly all other spaces where optional for most versions and there were a few versions where you could delete all extra spaces and the compiler would be happy.
The 3 year olds were at test at Stephens College (Columbia Mo) in their preschool education classes around 1986 or so. There are published papers but I've got no idea where to find them to cite them.
if is functional in C and it always has been. if(foo) gets reduced to "test(foo)" followed by a "jump if NE" in most cases with nearly every CPU out there.
And according to the parser, that has nothing to do with the indenting, line spacing or in some cases the curly braces. My take on a code is it has to be understood at several levels and one of those is a higher level where such things are trivial all the way down to knowing that the sub brace has been added so they can put a extra variable on the stack. Remember in C the {} does mean "create a new stack frame" as well as grouping.
Because what you might call a coding standard describing how to format a line of code just happens to be a trivially small piece of the pie. The core involves design and implementation details. I look at so many projects today that are never done. They all comes from a lack of understanding the basics. We tend to throw new languages at problems in an effort to solve the real problems yet more and more projects are late, over budget and never fully complete. My core coding standard is "write it in a language where it can be finished" which is knocking out more and more of the trendy languages since you can't complete a project if its core run time keeps changing. I have written a number of programs that are done. They don't get updated, they don't need to since they just keep meeting their requirements decade after decade yet statement formatting wasn't a major issue with most of them and the ones that it did were languages that predate the free form concepts like FORTRAN on punch cards.
That depends on how you parse the closing }. I have no problem wrapping my head around if foo then stuff else other stuff. I don't need it to sick out with extra special formatting. Most people have an innate basic built in "light" ignore for it since it doesn't matter unless your focusing on the statement lists after the else. If you ask a bunch of 3 year olds which looks best, they seem to pick K&R and can point out the structure better than the extra line feeds or white space in other coding formats.
The T1s have lots of contexts so they can deal with running poorly optimised code that spends all of its time chasing pointers. A typical T1 CPU will run program 1, grab a pointer, try to load its data and stall from a cache miss but that switches to program 2 which had already stalled and now has its data ready so it can grab that, do a pointer calculation and stall again so the CPU is off to thread 3. The key to the T1 is there is not context swap between them. The T1 seems to very quick running poorly optimised ODD code but its a real dog running anything that has been optimised. Running hand optimised code on it is a waste of time. The T1 is the pinnacle of the solution "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection"
I don't think they are even using markers. I thought they were using a process that basically duplicates the DNA a massive number of times, then use gravity vs. capillary action to weigh the different chromosomes which may or may not have been through a blender 1st. They are not comparing gigabits of data to verify a DNA match.
Crash avoidance is about energy management at its last stage. On dry pavement a typical car can do about.9 g left or right,.95 g stopping and about.5 g at best acceleration without losing control. Most cars can decelerate at more than 100 g directly ahead with little harm to its occupants as a last resort. Some cars are better and trucks are worse but you can't ignore the laws of physics. I suspect that chance of getting into an accident is highly related to traffic density * some constant / coefficient of friction.
If your local politician is one that favours the longer terms and they refuse to consider any arguments then the best approach is that if 95 years is better than 50, then 200 should be even better. Its only going to take one of these idiots to fall for that argument and introduce something to have Disney (and their other owners) screaming at them for going too far but about 200 years is where many of Disney's copyrighted works would then require them to pay other people who get nothing according to today's terms.
The mob ties are interesting. It would appear that sometimes the local mob is the only factor with any civic pride who is willing put push the issue. I saw an article many years ago where someone researched the road construction in Kansas City during the mob rule there. It turns out that the city paid about 10% more for the roads built during that time than they should have. The big kicker is the quality of the roads built at that time was substantially better than roads built before or after and there appears to be some very impressive return on investment since. Some of the roads were still in great shape even though they had no maintenance at all in the decades wince they were built.
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I'm very surprised that someone has decided to build a very big airport near Tijuana or Vancouver to take over the role of a central hub for international flights.
At some point someone is going to have to recall software and no one knows how much that costs yet. Chances are that will happen in the EU, Australia or New Zealand first but I expect Microsoft will be the 1st to get hit as well.
TeX doesn't use lines, it uses boxes and there are some subtle differences in the concept. If your game, you can use METAFont to create paths and build boxes around it and then typeset in those that but it gets messy and it breaks the "does this look good" metrics. Its on par with writing in basic TeX without even loading the plain.tex macro set.
TeX could be retrofitted to cope with modern fonts, but modern fonts (and many included with TeX) just don't have the proper kerning tables and other metadata to make the results look good. While there are some font designers working on that issue, their fonts tend to be the ones for European marketing and not describing complex math formulas.
As far as that XML pixie dust that seems to be the drug of choice, Knuth proved that it is bad parsing before it ever even existed yet it grows more common every day.
Are doing or talking about doing?
Did Toowoomba ever solve their waste disposal issue? If their plan ever happened, their filtered water would then be piped upstream where it would be filtered by billions of tons of rock in a natural ecosystem which is not much different than building a water plant downstream of a sewage plant the process that makes it safe for humans to reconsume involves other natural processes.
Did you mean Gloucester as the city in the the UK that is using some wastewater for industrial use and watering parks? London also often gets mentioned.
Tamworth is another that fits into the category of "they aren't doing it"
There is waste water that is being used, just not directly back into a system for human consumption. Plenty of golf courses are watered with water from a sewage plant.
There are several South African plants that I know about but none of that water is intentionally for use by humans.
We can go over the details of that report if you want...
Ch 3... US: Water Factory 21: Its water is used to keep the ocean water from getting into the deeper water table.
West Basin (and most of the others in the US including about 50 that aren't listed in that report): Typical Purple Pipe system in the US.
UOSA: injects water into the biological active area of the river
The table 6 shows 0 used as drinking water.
Namibia... uses a massive algae pool
Singapore: the main plant showing "its safe for humans". It costs them more than desalination but they make water for silicon industry and a trivial amount ends up in bottled water to be sold at the plant tour gift shop.
Japan: recycle water can be used for some indoor use like toilets.
Belgium uses a biological pool for at least 2 months.
Most of the rest of Europe: 3rd pipe system
Israel: used for irrigation
Like I said, name one of those towns. I keep hearing that its being done yet no one can name names because it is not being done. The US arm's research isn't using what you would use in a city and like the one in the space station, its is much different technology.
Can you name one place that intentionally takes sewage water and filters it and puts it back in the drinking water without a large natural process being involved? The novelty bottled drinking water from NewWater in Singapore doesn't count since it get cleaned up for semiconductor use before having some other minerals added and put back in and given to tourist of their plant. If you take human sewage and dump it in the ocean, the oceans chemicals will destroy any viruses and prions that made it that far. If you don't use a natural filter such as the ocean or billions of tons of sand and natural biological filters (like Singapore), your counting on absolutely no holes in two consecutive membranes which are stressed to nearly their bursting pressure for years. If you think mad cow is bad, wait until the results come out when someone is stupid enough to try what your proposing with blackwater. The lead and heavy metal content in the road runoff in Melbourne is so high that its cheaper to desalinate than remove the metals.
Water tanks were removed because it they do bad things for river health and they are a major source of nasty things like malaria. I have seen very few water tanks aren't perfect for breeding mosquitos.
Australia is running out of water due to incompetence. I have on my desk the Victorian Desalination Project IfEoI which appears to be written so that only one company can provide a solution. They keep talking 3.1 billion dollars yet the plant is only 4 times larger than the Tampa FL plant that cost $150 million. They also want to take the desalinated water and pump it very far uphill and far away to be stored yet the plant size will be able to meet the daily demands of the city which is all much closer to sea level. It cost $.035/kl to pump water up 100 meters based on current prices and assuming 100% efficient pumps. I have spoken to 3 companies that could provide a solution yet not one of them will be submitting to the local governments paper game since they are convinced they can't win. A billion dollar project is going to cost the average Victorian family about 1000 not including costs dealing with interest.
The world does have CPUs that aren't x86. For some of them, adding a stack frame is adding numbers to the constants you use relative to the stack pointer. When you have to build a virutal machine to run 16 or 32 bit code on an old 8 but CPU there are other tricks as well.
You don't know how wrong that is...
Older compilers (and many current 8 bit) will generate a new stack frame for most nested levles of { where they couldn't tell if there was a new frame or not. Modern compilers see a much larger picture.
The test subjects could all count and they were subjected to an adding program that the all did very well with... until I pointed out that I though they were seeing 4+3 as find the 4 and count 1,2,,3 on the next keys. The pattern matching was done with a wide range of other subject matter including having them find quotes in Shakespearean plays. It appeared to me that they could judge how long a boring speech was and point out a proportionally long paragraph in a book if it was all on one page.
More like punch card cobal. Fortran didn't care about spaces at all once you got past the line number and comment section of the line. Nearly all other spaces where optional for most versions and there were a few versions where you could delete all extra spaces and the compiler would be happy.
The 3 year olds were at test at Stephens College (Columbia Mo) in their preschool education classes around 1986 or so. There are published papers but I've got no idea where to find them to cite them.
if is functional in C and it always has been.
if(foo) gets reduced to "test(foo)" followed by a "jump if NE" in most cases with nearly every CPU out there.
And according to the parser, that has nothing to do with the indenting, line spacing or in some cases the curly braces. My take on a code is it has to be understood at several levels and one of those is a higher level where such things are trivial all the way down to knowing that the sub brace has been added so they can put a extra variable on the stack. Remember in C the {} does mean "create a new stack frame" as well as grouping.
Because what you might call a coding standard describing how to format a line of code just happens to be a trivially small piece of the pie. The core involves design and implementation details. I look at so many projects today that are never done. They all comes from a lack of understanding the basics. We tend to throw new languages at problems in an effort to solve the real problems yet more and more projects are late, over budget and never fully complete. My core coding standard is "write it in a language where it can be finished" which is knocking out more and more of the trendy languages since you can't complete a project if its core run time keeps changing. I have written a number of programs that are done. They don't get updated, they don't need to since they just keep meeting their requirements decade after decade yet statement formatting wasn't a major issue with most of them and the ones that it did were languages that predate the free form concepts like FORTRAN on punch cards.
The code is important. The braces are syntactical sugar.
That depends on how you parse the closing }. I have no problem wrapping my head around if foo then stuff else other stuff. I don't need it to sick out with extra special formatting.
Most people have an innate basic built in "light" ignore for it since it doesn't matter unless your focusing on the statement lists after the else.
If you ask a bunch of 3 year olds which looks best, they seem to pick K&R and can point out the structure better than the extra line feeds or white space in other coding formats.
My new standard comes from a 1950's comp sci book.
"Programs consists of input, output, processing and storage."
Lose focus of that and the project will be late, over budget and most likely broken in ways no one will understand for years.
The T1s have lots of contexts so they can deal with running poorly optimised code that spends all of its time chasing pointers. A typical T1 CPU will run program 1, grab a pointer, try to load its data and stall from a cache miss but that switches to program 2 which had already stalled and now has its data ready so it can grab that, do a pointer calculation and stall again so the CPU is off to thread 3. The key to the T1 is there is not context swap between them. The T1 seems to very quick running poorly optimised ODD code but its a real dog running anything that has been optimised. Running hand optimised code on it is a waste of time. The T1 is the pinnacle of the solution "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection"
I don't think they are even using markers. I thought they were using a process that basically duplicates the DNA a massive number of times, then use gravity vs. capillary action to weigh the different chromosomes which may or may not have been through a blender 1st. They are not comparing gigabits of data to verify a DNA match.
Crash avoidance is about energy management at its last stage. On dry pavement a typical car can do about .9 g left or right, .95 g stopping and about .5 g at best acceleration without losing control. Most cars can decelerate at more than 100 g directly ahead with little harm to its occupants as a last resort. Some cars are better and trucks are worse but you can't ignore the laws of physics.
I suspect that chance of getting into an accident is highly related to traffic density * some constant / coefficient of friction.
If your local politician is one that favours the longer terms and they refuse to consider any arguments then the best approach is that if 95 years is better than 50, then 200 should be even better. Its only going to take one of these idiots to fall for that argument and introduce something to have Disney (and their other owners) screaming at them for going too far but about 200 years is where many of Disney's copyrighted works would then require them to pay other people who get nothing according to today's terms.
The mob ties are interesting. It would appear that sometimes the local mob is the only factor with any civic pride who is willing put push the issue. I saw an article many years ago where someone researched the road construction in Kansas City during the mob rule there. It turns out that the city paid about 10% more for the roads built during that time than they should have. The big kicker is the quality of the roads built at that time was substantially better than roads built before or after and there appears to be some very impressive return on investment since. Some of the roads were still in great shape even though they had no maintenance at all in the decades wince they were built.