I think 2038 is a nonissue. Technological progress is accelerating. It took us 30 years to upgrade from 2 decimal digits to 4 for storing years. It will not take 30 years to upgrade from 32 bits to 256 bits for time.
I hate to dredge up history for anyone who discovered computers after the introduction of Windows XP, but there was no such thing as "home edition" before that. There were "server" versions (as laughable as that distinction is) and no-suffix versions for everything else. "Windows 2000" WAS the "home edition", simply because it was not "Windows 2000 Server".
"sept is the French for 7, so let's try the French for 8, 'huit.'" -- very weak link. everything else about the site is in english. I have up after "oct" and "octo" and "octa" didn't work.
There are no areas where the cost of energy is consistent all day and night and year round (is anyone using 100% geothermal or nuclear yet?). If you think you live in such an area then you are at one end of an energy subsidization deal.
That is, if you are a day person and paying 15c/kWh at 2PM, and your nocturnal neighbor is paying the same 15c/kWh at 2AM, he is subsidizing your price. Or vice versa.
Then the $1000 would get them $1000 worth of support. Which is probably about 10 hours worth of configuration of a base image to meet the client's needs. An excellent deal for both sides.
Until today I didn't know Google had a presence in France. How many billions of dollars would a judgment need to be to make it worthwhile for them to just pack up and leave?
To extend the analogy... In the same way that this article discusses rotating the particles to alter the net influence, consider that the front and rear of the spaceship could be vibrating in such a controlled manner that the rear side is more likely to hit particles before they annihilate and the front is more likely to NOT.
Instead of considering quantum magnetic fields, consider the simpler scenario (but less feasible to exploit) of quantum particles. In the vein of Hawking radiation... If two *particles* spontaneously appear and then, instead of immediately annihilating each other, one of them runs into the back of the spaceship, the spaceship has gained some momentum and the particle has lost some. I am not sure how that loss of momentum is "paid for" when the particle shortly thereafter finally annihilates its partner anti-particle, but the spaceship got a "free" boost.
What did I do? Missed out on a lot of chances to hang out with my friends. There are maybe a hundred people who I would call "friend". Over half of them live within an hour's travel radius of me, and most of those do something interesting and unpredictable at least a few nights a week. When I get off work, you (and your grandparent post) would propose that I call 50+ people just to find out where I can see one or more of my friends on short notice? How about I just check facebook (the only social network with reasonable event RSVPing. Or possibly read a lot of twitter/plurk posts for the same info) and see that 4 friends are going to X bar and 3 are going to see Y movie, then call one of those 7 people instead of having to interrupt 10+ people to find them?
I disagree. When I write code that depends on OpenGL, I code to OpenGL's standards as long as it runs on some target platform. If the OGL implementation for YOUR platform of choice is broken, complain to someone who isn't me. Ditto just about any other library or driver.
Has anyone even considered the possibility that the blame here lies with Microsoft or ATI? It bothers me how most Windows users blame an application when a library or driver is at fault. Just because only one app crashes doesn't mean that app is broken. If MS says some_rare_function() works, and it really causes one game to crash on particular systems, that's MS's fault.
+1 for AdMuncher. Adblock is superior within Firefox, but AdMuncher is a solution for ALL of your web browsing. I used it for years before switching to FF.
Once Google stops being open and starts trying to lock me into their services, then I'll be worried
We hear this all the time. By that logic, Microsoft doesn't force you to use Windows, therefore they are not evil.
Almost every application Microsoft publishes, web based or otherwise, forces you to keep using their applications if you want continued access to your data. Try getting your documents out of Microsoft Office without losing data (mostly formatting). Try migrating your email out of Hotmail.
The Google alternatives for both of these offer simple lossless mass exporting, for backup and migration purposes. If I want to stop using Google Docs today I can click a couple of buttons and have all of my data on my local PC ready to use in whatever other office suite I choose. Ditto gmail.
I am relatively sure that Nintendo never licensed me to do anything. I *purchased* a piece of hardware from them. It is now mine to do with as I please, within the confines of the law. That law being set by the legislature and later by judges, as this judge is doing.
If my AC can use 1Wh of electricity to move 12 BTU (~4Wh) of heat from the already-cool interior to the warmer exterior of my home, can I run an AC installed backwards to get a heater that is 4x as efficient as an electric heater?
To answer my own question, yes. That would be a Heat Pump, which can have a Coefficient of Performance of 3-4 while an electric heater has a COP of 1.
There are 1W LEDs. Imagine that same bulb with 30 of those. And a massive heat sink, because it would put out a significant amount of heat. While far less than the equivalent incandescent bulb, the problem is that LEDs don't like being that hot, while incandescent filaments continue working just fine.
Suppress wages. No, we get a rise of between 3 and 4% EVERY year.
Yes, and either you are a below-average worker being over-paid, or an above-average worker being under-paid. Standardized pay scales and raises mean wage suppression for any above-average employee. Since you said "No", I assume you aren't.
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I think 2038 is a nonissue. Technological progress is accelerating. It took us 30 years to upgrade from 2 decimal digits to 4 for storing years. It will not take 30 years to upgrade from 32 bits to 256 bits for time.
There was no home edition
I hate to dredge up history for anyone who discovered computers after the introduction of Windows XP, but there was no such thing as "home edition" before that. There were "server" versions (as laughable as that distinction is) and no-suffix versions for everything else. "Windows 2000" WAS the "home edition", simply because it was not "Windows 2000 Server".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
If we can do things like that by accident, with century-old technology, imagine what it would be like today, on purpose.
"sept is the French for 7, so let's try the French for 8, 'huit.'" -- very weak link. everything else about the site is in english. I have up after "oct" and "octo" and "octa" didn't work.
There are no areas where the cost of energy is consistent all day and night and year round (is anyone using 100% geothermal or nuclear yet?). If you think you live in such an area then you are at one end of an energy subsidization deal.
That is, if you are a day person and paying 15c/kWh at 2PM, and your nocturnal neighbor is paying the same 15c/kWh at 2AM, he is subsidizing your price. Or vice versa.
You, sir, are part of the precipitate.
Then the $1000 would get them $1000 worth of support. Which is probably about 10 hours worth of configuration of a base image to meet the client's needs. An excellent deal for both sides.
Until today I didn't know Google had a presence in France. How many billions of dollars would a judgment need to be to make it worthwhile for them to just pack up and leave?
To extend the analogy... In the same way that this article discusses rotating the particles to alter the net influence, consider that the front and rear of the spaceship could be vibrating in such a controlled manner that the rear side is more likely to hit particles before they annihilate and the front is more likely to NOT.
Instead of considering quantum magnetic fields, consider the simpler scenario (but less feasible to exploit) of quantum particles. In the vein of Hawking radiation... If two *particles* spontaneously appear and then, instead of immediately annihilating each other, one of them runs into the back of the spaceship, the spaceship has gained some momentum and the particle has lost some. I am not sure how that loss of momentum is "paid for" when the particle shortly thereafter finally annihilates its partner anti-particle, but the spaceship got a "free" boost.
Say what? "How has the DHS..." is perfectly acceptable.
What did I do? Missed out on a lot of chances to hang out with my friends. There are maybe a hundred people who I would call "friend". Over half of them live within an hour's travel radius of me, and most of those do something interesting and unpredictable at least a few nights a week. When I get off work, you (and your grandparent post) would propose that I call 50+ people just to find out where I can see one or more of my friends on short notice? How about I just check facebook (the only social network with reasonable event RSVPing. Or possibly read a lot of twitter/plurk posts for the same info) and see that 4 friends are going to X bar and 3 are going to see Y movie, then call one of those 7 people instead of having to interrupt 10+ people to find them?
"proper anticheat system" = server admin who bans cheaters. problem solved.
I disagree. When I write code that depends on OpenGL, I code to OpenGL's standards as long as it runs on some target platform. If the OGL implementation for YOUR platform of choice is broken, complain to someone who isn't me. Ditto just about any other library or driver.
Has anyone even considered the possibility that the blame here lies with Microsoft or ATI? It bothers me how most Windows users blame an application when a library or driver is at fault. Just because only one app crashes doesn't mean that app is broken. If MS says some_rare_function() works, and it really causes one game to crash on particular systems, that's MS's fault.
+1 for AdMuncher. Adblock is superior within Firefox, but AdMuncher is a solution for ALL of your web browsing. I used it for years before switching to FF.
Once Google stops being open and starts trying to lock me into their services, then I'll be worried
We hear this all the time. By that logic, Microsoft doesn't force you to use Windows, therefore they are not evil.
Almost every application Microsoft publishes, web based or otherwise, forces you to keep using their applications if you want continued access to your data. Try getting your documents out of Microsoft Office without losing data (mostly formatting). Try migrating your email out of Hotmail.
The Google alternatives for both of these offer simple lossless mass exporting, for backup and migration purposes. If I want to stop using Google Docs today I can click a couple of buttons and have all of my data on my local PC ready to use in whatever other office suite I choose. Ditto gmail.
Since you opened with a list of worthless certifications... You can expect a lot of things you aren't prepared for.
I am relatively sure that Nintendo never licensed me to do anything. I *purchased* a piece of hardware from them. It is now mine to do with as I please, within the confines of the law. That law being set by the legislature and later by judges, as this judge is doing.
If my AC can use 1Wh of electricity to move 12 BTU (~4Wh) of heat from the already-cool interior to the warmer exterior of my home, can I run an AC installed backwards to get a heater that is 4x as efficient as an electric heater?
To answer my own question, yes. That would be a Heat Pump, which can have a Coefficient of Performance of 3-4 while an electric heater has a COP of 1.
There are 1W LEDs. Imagine that same bulb with 30 of those. And a massive heat sink, because it would put out a significant amount of heat. While far less than the equivalent incandescent bulb, the problem is that LEDs don't like being that hot, while incandescent filaments continue working just fine.
I agree. If my job consists of making 200 widgets per day, and yours 100, are we doing the same job?
"Sure, the constitution has its flaws, but it's better than what we have now"
This button made me smile, then frown, then cry.
Suppress wages. No, we get a rise of between 3 and 4% EVERY year.
Yes, and either you are a below-average worker being over-paid, or an above-average worker being under-paid. Standardized pay scales and raises mean wage suppression for any above-average employee. Since you said "No", I assume you aren't.
And if the school paid the teacher to develop the lesson plans then you would be right. Most teachers develop their lesson plans on unpaid time.