The difference is that nobody has to develop software for, say, an iPod. I don't think a surprise launch of a handheld would go over well with 0-1 titles available at release.
I'm not sure how to break this to you, but MS is the standard. When your browser is installed on more than 90% of computers, and used on more than 80%, you pretty much get to dictate the terms. Web sites are designed first and foremost with IE compatability in mind. So when you talk about standards compliance in real world terms -- compatability with IE -- IE gets a respectable 100%.
It's sort of similar to the way the whole world primarily uses metric, except for the US. Why not switch? Because it's too much work, and we're big enough that people just have to deal with it.
The issue is the target date, not the codename/release name. Longhorn/Vista was not due to be released in 2000, or Y2K, or the first year of the new millenium, or the last year of the previous millenium, or whatever you want to call it.
No - thats the way Apple works (taking people by surprise with cool new stuff)
Microsoft announces products years in advance in an attempt to stop people buying the competitors products. When MS's software finally arrives, it tends to be..... dissapointing.
That's a fairly accurate assessment, but even if it were not, no large organization has the security to keep "an abundance of next-generation applications" a total secret. Even the NSA springs leaks. Apple may do a good job, but inevitably one of the posts on the fanboy Mac sites ends up being accurate. From the Mini Mac to the iPod Nano, there were accurate pictures and predictions weeks or months in advance, which is probably halfway through product development given Apple's release cycles.
No such rumors (to my knowledge) exist surrounding any sort of "sekret killer appz" coming out of Redmond. The article just sounds like wild speculation on the part of a grossly uninformed individual. Put another way, it's something I'd expect Dvorak to write.
Just because your imaginary friend is older doesn't make your celebration any more legitimate or rational. Have your fun, and let everyone else do the same.
what you do is you design a crib from the ground up where the bars are spaced wider. now you can put your kid in a crib, and rest assured the baby can't strangle themselves, period
I'm pretty sure they actually made the spacing more narrow. Sort of defeats the purpose of having bars if the baby can just slip through, although at least such an arrangement would preserve the natural selection feature...
I'm not familiar with the Fast Reactor, but another point to consider is that we can also recycle used fuel, as was mentioned in the article. Also, the World Nuclear Association has pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about nuclear waste, and more. (Page may appear blank -- scroll down).
If you consider traffic laws in rational, scientific manner and look at the facts rather than the rhetoric, speed limits are doing nothing for our safety. I'm not saying you should thank the next person who gets pulled over for paying your taxes, but speed limits just create more problems than they solve, such as road rage and the resulting aforementioned (in the below post) traffic-weaving.
Ah, well either that's new since '92, or I was taught wrong. I took drivers ed in VA, and they explictly told us that the only exception was for law enforcement in pursuit.
At any rate, the whole "speeding kills" argument is just fear mongering. There's little to no evidence that traveling at 90MPH on a freeway is more likely to result in an accident, and the only difference between hitting a concrete barrier at 90MPH versus 65MPH is a question of how much of you is left to scrape up. Do I think everybody has the ability to drive 100MPH? Sure. With proper training. And I'm not talking race-driver training either. Only pass on the left, never change lanes without signaling, and stay out of the left lane when not overtaking are about the only things necessary. It works in Germany, where they have a significantly lower traffic fatality rate than the US, although admittedly they have very strict vehicle maintenance regulations.
I'm not condoning weaving in and out of traffic -- that's simply dangerous and it absolutely will cause an accident eventually -- but speed is just a managed risk, and the best way to mitigate that risk is through driver training, not semi-arbitrary speed limits on highways.
And speeding tickets are definately a huge source of income. The average ticket is $150. Assuming a very low rate of 1 ticket per hour for a speed trap, for 8 hours, that's $1200 right there -- easily several times more than a cop's salary, even when you figure in all the hidden costs like dispatch, gas, vehicle maintenance, radar calibration, etc.
The town of Waldo, Fla., for example, home of a notorious speeding trap on Route 301 between Tampa and Jacksonville, gets nearly 33.5 percent of its income from traffic tickets, according to Shir Lee Cox, a division manager for the American Automobile Association in Miami. The town of Lawtey, Fla., earns nearly 68.2 percent through traffic fines. As a result, AAA recommends its members use other routes. http://money.cnn.com/2002/05/22/news/q_speed_cost/
And now it's done through automated systems in several regions. Personally, I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it except that, in an effort to keep up the "in the name of safety" facade, too many speeding tickets can result in a license suspension.
Show me an example of a state law which exempts speeding in an emergency. People do it, and some officers may ignore it, but it's not legal anywhere that I know of. Law enforcement gets some leeway, but technically they need a valid justification. Even fire/ambulance/EMS drivers aren't supposed to speed, and can be (and have been) ticketed.
Anyway, speeding laws are primarily just a means of government income with a vague promise of somehow making the streets safer. How often do you see police monitoring residential areas where speed is a real danger, vice highways where it's a negligible risk?
Not that it matters anymore.. The last time I can remember traffic moving over 25MPH was at the track.
That's only K-12. Pell grants have been frozen for 4 years, which essentially means they're devaluing due to inflation: ~3% per year means it's decreased by about 12%. Of course quoting percentages says nothing of real dollars. It may be that the 7% increase in K-12 spending was more, less, or equal to the money saved by not increasing Pell grants. The government's income is, unlike most peoples, immune from inflation because it's a portion of GDP rather than a flat value. Meanwhile government budgets are written in actual dollars rather than a percentage of income. Who budgets like that? Only poor planners and (perhaps synonymously) the government. Considering federal income increased 4.7% from 2003-2004 alone (the only figure I could find offhand). Then you have to look at how much educational costs have increased over the same time. Textbooks, chalk, software, etc., etc. Maybe they haven't increased at all. But more likely they've at least followed inflation. I'd say a 7% "increase" in actual dollars of educational spending is more likely a relative decrease, but that's just me.
People often fail to account for inflation, which basically fuels the economy (or at least creates some panacea), because in actual dollars people feel like they're making more money year over year.
There is no variance, since it's not a question plugging in the memory and seeing what frequency it runs at. It's not like taking a typical measurement for, say, voltage or temperature.
Peak performance for overclocking is defined by most review sites as the maximum frequency at which stable performance can be obtained. There would be no variance, aside from normal component degredation over time, since the test is a "stress test." That is, they run the same test over and over at a given frequency until they're satisfied that the system is stable. It varies from reviewer to reviewer, and is typically anywhere from several minutes to 24 hours. That is to say, the "variance" is built in to the test by running it repeatedly. If any of the tests crash or any anomolies are noted, the test is considered a failure, and the previous stable frequency would be the peak. There is no "+/- 5MHz" because at +5 MHz the system became unstable.
From the briefing provided by US sources, Defense Update understands that Trophy is design to form a "beam" of fragments, which will intercept any incoming HEAT threat, including RPG rockets at a range of 10 - 30 meters from the protected platform. Which works out well for everyone except soldiers that work 10-30 meters from the protected platforms, who were quoted as saying, "F*ck..."
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The difference is that nobody has to develop software for, say, an iPod. I don't think a surprise launch of a handheld would go over well with 0-1 titles available at release.
I'm not sure how to break this to you, but MS is the standard. When your browser is installed on more than 90% of computers, and used on more than 80%, you pretty much get to dictate the terms. Web sites are designed first and foremost with IE compatability in mind. So when you talk about standards compliance in real world terms -- compatability with IE -- IE gets a respectable 100%.
It's sort of similar to the way the whole world primarily uses metric, except for the US. Why not switch? Because it's too much work, and we're big enough that people just have to deal with it.
The issue is the target date, not the codename/release name. Longhorn/Vista was not due to be released in 2000, or Y2K, or the first year of the new millenium, or the last year of the previous millenium, or whatever you want to call it.
No - thats the way Apple works (taking people by surprise with cool new stuff)
Microsoft announces products years in advance in an attempt to stop people buying the competitors products. When MS's software finally arrives, it tends to be..... dissapointing.
That's a fairly accurate assessment, but even if it were not, no large organization has the security to keep "an abundance of next-generation applications" a total secret. Even the NSA springs leaks. Apple may do a good job, but inevitably one of the posts on the fanboy Mac sites ends up being accurate. From the Mini Mac to the iPod Nano, there were accurate pictures and predictions weeks or months in advance, which is probably halfway through product development given Apple's release cycles.
No such rumors (to my knowledge) exist surrounding any sort of "sekret killer appz" coming out of Redmond. The article just sounds like wild speculation on the part of a grossly uninformed individual. Put another way, it's something I'd expect Dvorak to write.
Just because your imaginary friend is older doesn't make your celebration any more legitimate or rational. Have your fun, and let everyone else do the same.
Well if winning the award itself didn't stop them, there's always the fact that they don't exist.
what you do is you design a crib from the ground up where the bars are spaced wider. now you can put your kid in a crib, and rest assured the baby can't strangle themselves, period
I'm pretty sure they actually made the spacing more narrow. Sort of defeats the purpose of having bars if the baby can just slip through, although at least such an arrangement would preserve the natural selection feature...
Done and done!
Oh crap...
I'm not familiar with the Fast Reactor, but another point to consider is that we can also recycle used fuel, as was mentioned in the article. Also, the World Nuclear Association has pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about nuclear waste, and more. (Page may appear blank -- scroll down).
Also forgot this link in my below post: http://www.investigatemagazine.com/july00speed.htm
If you consider traffic laws in rational, scientific manner and look at the facts rather than the rhetoric, speed limits are doing nothing for our safety. I'm not saying you should thank the next person who gets pulled over for paying your taxes, but speed limits just create more problems than they solve, such as road rage and the resulting aforementioned (in the below post) traffic-weaving.
At any rate, the whole "speeding kills" argument is just fear mongering. There's little to no evidence that traveling at 90MPH on a freeway is more likely to result in an accident, and the only difference between hitting a concrete barrier at 90MPH versus 65MPH is a question of how much of you is left to scrape up. Do I think everybody has the ability to drive 100MPH? Sure. With proper training. And I'm not talking race-driver training either. Only pass on the left, never change lanes without signaling, and stay out of the left lane when not overtaking are about the only things necessary. It works in Germany, where they have a significantly lower traffic fatality rate than the US, although admittedly they have very strict vehicle maintenance regulations.
I'm not condoning weaving in and out of traffic -- that's simply dangerous and it absolutely will cause an accident eventually -- but speed is just a managed risk, and the best way to mitigate that risk is through driver training, not semi-arbitrary speed limits on highways.
And speeding tickets are definately a huge source of income. The average ticket is $150. Assuming a very low rate of 1 ticket per hour for a speed trap, for 8 hours, that's $1200 right there -- easily several times more than a cop's salary, even when you figure in all the hidden costs like dispatch, gas, vehicle maintenance, radar calibration, etc. And now it's done through automated systems in several regions. Personally, I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it except that, in an effort to keep up the "in the name of safety" facade, too many speeding tickets can result in a license suspension.
I don't see how that joke could possibly backfire.
Show me an example of a state law which exempts speeding in an emergency. People do it, and some officers may ignore it, but it's not legal anywhere that I know of. Law enforcement gets some leeway, but technically they need a valid justification. Even fire/ambulance/EMS drivers aren't supposed to speed, and can be (and have been) ticketed.
Anyway, speeding laws are primarily just a means of government income with a vague promise of somehow making the streets safer. How often do you see police monitoring residential areas where speed is a real danger, vice highways where it's a negligible risk?
Not that it matters anymore.. The last time I can remember traffic moving over 25MPH was at the track.
Just don't drop the second M or you've got the motto for an entirely different organization.
Yeah, they learn.. sometimes too well.
To which Eustace replied, "You don't know me!"
That's only K-12. Pell grants have been frozen for 4 years, which essentially means they're devaluing due to inflation: ~3% per year means it's decreased by about 12%. Of course quoting percentages says nothing of real dollars. It may be that the 7% increase in K-12 spending was more, less, or equal to the money saved by not increasing Pell grants. The government's income is, unlike most peoples, immune from inflation because it's a portion of GDP rather than a flat value. Meanwhile government budgets are written in actual dollars rather than a percentage of income. Who budgets like that? Only poor planners and (perhaps synonymously) the government. Considering federal income increased 4.7% from 2003-2004 alone (the only figure I could find offhand). Then you have to look at how much educational costs have increased over the same time. Textbooks, chalk, software, etc., etc. Maybe they haven't increased at all. But more likely they've at least followed inflation. I'd say a 7% "increase" in actual dollars of educational spending is more likely a relative decrease, but that's just me.
People often fail to account for inflation, which basically fuels the economy (or at least creates some panacea), because in actual dollars people feel like they're making more money year over year.
It'll stop in about 2 years, at which point we'll start
But at least internet regulation will continue to increase...... Save the children!
Personally I hope McCain gets elected, but moderates seem to be the least popular option these days.
Perhaps you think talking in public is rude and that we should all silently keep to ourselves, heads down, like convicts.
You insensitive clod.. We're not convicts, we're Japanese!
Right. Hell.
Besides education...
There is no variance, since it's not a question plugging in the memory and seeing what frequency it runs at. It's not like taking a typical measurement for, say, voltage or temperature.
Peak performance for overclocking is defined by most review sites as the maximum frequency at which stable performance can be obtained. There would be no variance, aside from normal component degredation over time, since the test is a "stress test." That is, they run the same test over and over at a given frequency until they're satisfied that the system is stable. It varies from reviewer to reviewer, and is typically anywhere from several minutes to 24 hours. That is to say, the "variance" is built in to the test by running it repeatedly. If any of the tests crash or any anomolies are noted, the test is considered a failure, and the previous stable frequency would be the peak. There is no "+/- 5MHz" because at +5 MHz the system became unstable.
From the briefing provided by US sources, Defense Update understands that Trophy is design to form a "beam" of fragments, which will intercept any incoming HEAT threat, including RPG rockets at a range of 10 - 30 meters from the protected platform. Which works out well for everyone except soldiers that work 10-30 meters from the protected platforms, who were quoted as saying, "F*ck..."
Holy recurring joke, Batman!
I'd say we need a "Paranoid" mod, but that would probably be a +1 on Slashdot.