I've riden a ride like the one buing built. It's the kind that uses a horizontal track to send the train into the first incline. Believe me, there's nothing like it. One I rode (StormRunner (?), Hershey Park, PA) went from a near dead stop to 70+ MPH in under 3 seconds, into a 90 degree first climb 12 stories high. You move so fast your eyes water from all the wind whipping past you. So fast the forces throw your head back against the headrest. So fast, it's all done with in about 27 seconds.
One big word of advice if you ride something like this: Before the ride starts, keep your head against the headrest. Your neck will thank you.
Try thinking this through in terms of return-on-investment. If $80 is all you're going to save on a product that's around $1000, it may not be worth it, especially given what else you know is going into each product. First, it's an 8% savings, hardly a significant bargain. Second, from what it sounds like you'll be doing with it, $80 extra for an Intel chip is very small sum for the increased performance (10% from your description above) you'll be getting in return. Third, assume you do find similar performance for an AMD, but might require payment for a compiler negating the $80 savings. Finally, ask yourself if searching for a free (as in beer) AMD compiler is worth $80 of your time if you already have everything in place for an Intel.
I think you're best bet is the little extra you spend for the Prescott model.
they only get to ask those people who dont hangup on them.
it would be interesting to see a poll that showed the response rate. A lot of people hang up on pollster calls, thinking they're telemarketers or something, often before the questions even get asked. Therefore, if Gallup or USAToday or Quinnipeac (sp?) phoned 20000 numbers, show how many or what percentage of them took time to actually answer the pollster's questions.
the other thing I would like to see on these public opinion polls are how the questions are presented to the pollee. E.g, phrasing of the questions, multiple choice or open ended, etc.
Knowing the history of Philadelphia, this will come out 5 years after Longhorn and/or Duke Nukem and cost $3.5 billion New World Dollars (the currency established in 2045).
I second that. I can give two examples showing why:
Circa 1870, the city started construction on City Hall. They didnt finish until around 1900. A few blocks away, a banker built one of the city's first "skyscrapers" (a 10-story building that I dont think exists anymore) in under 10 years during that 30 year window. It really woke the locals up to what was happening in local politics.
An even better example is from the late 1990s. The state authorized funds for Philly and Pittsburgh to build new separate sports stadiums for the baseball and football teams. All four funds were authorized via the same bill. I think the Pittsburgh teams were out of the old Three Rivers Stadium and into their new stadiums before the sites in Philly were even decided on.
if you're asking yourself that question, here's a partial answer:
He's the owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team. He's looks young, probably in his 30s or early 40s, has tons of money to his name, and is far from the typical millionaire/billionaire stereotype. He's not well liked by the upper NBA execs for frequent criticism of the referees, and has gotten himself fined on numerous occasions since taking ownership of the Mavs a few years ago. He once said he wouldnt trust one of them to operate a Dairy Queen (an ice cream shop in the US), to which DQ said come give it a try (Cuban did do a DQ Manager for a day). I dont think the guy has ever worn a suit in his life. He'll be hosting some reality-type TV show this fall that, from commercials, appears to be a knock off of The Apprentice.
That's pretty cool for their soccer team, considering they couldnt play any pre-Olympic exhibition matches and that the first goal they scored during these Olympics was in the wrong net. (They still won that game 4-2 over Portugal).
three panes of glass, separated by a short distance each. pump warm air into the two gaps. The middle glass is this infrared blocker dealy.
Or, if only one side needed to be warmed, use two panes instead of three with a small gap. The exterior pane is the infrared blocker. When it's cool outside or the window is shaded, pump warm air into the gap between panes.
So if I know where he lives, why don't I just go break his legs? Believe me, I've thought about it, but I don't want to do something illegal that'll get me thrown in jail. Besides, he's threatened to shoot me if I come there. So if the threat turns out to be real, I'd either have to kill him or get killed myself, either of which has consequences I don't want to consider. And on top of all that, I'm a coward.
That would probably be a good idea. The address is South Philly, and the name sounds Italian. S. Philly has a mob element to it, but is also home to a large Italian population. While I'm not labeling this guy or any other Italian South Philly resident as a mafioso, I wouldn't put it past him, especially with the threats he's made.
Though, OTOH, the mob there has the collective IQ of a doormat. Years of FBI investigations, plea bargains, convictions, internal squabbling, one-ups-manship, etc. have seriously torn the mob apart and left them with true low lifes incapable of the true leadership required for a mob. Even if someone did come along, someone else would whack him just because he wanted to be the boss or he didnt like him. (Two good books in the subject are The Goodfella Tapes and The Last Gangster, both by George Anastasia) I dont think they would be capable of running scams online.
Sideshow Mel (i think), after seeing Homer dangling from a hot air ballon at a football game: "Dear God, look at that blimp! He's hanging from a ballon!"
.NET is miles ahead of anything MS has ever created in terms of security
I'm a little hesitant at that. About a year ago plus (when I was still in college), a MS guy came to campus to give a demo on.NET, and that included a survey of the security features. A classic MS fallicy has happened here too: The Feature Creep. It is so overloaded with features I felt it made the thing unusable and difficult to understand.
My suspicions were confirmed when the guy couldn't get a Demo to work correctly. His demo program, written in C# and provided to him by MS, was supposed to deny him access in scenario #1, and it worked correctly. But he couldn't retool the program to get scenario #2 right, where access was to be granted. No matter what the guy did, he kept getting denied access. Makes me wonder whether scenario #1 was actually correct or provided the expected denial for a different reason than intended. Oddly enough, the same guy had it working at a conference of local ACM chapters a week earlier.
My take on something like this: Yeah, you could get the configuration right when setting up your security model. But if it's this easy to get it wrong such that the program is unusable, then it's just as easy to get it wrong while still being usable.
You're not constrained to a specific editor. You could use anything the system had on it. Emacs, vi, pico, some Notepad-like tool that was in the desktop (forget if it was gnome or kde), whatever. No special IDEs - just the regular gcc, g++, or IBM's Java SDK were provided and also used on the judging side (IBM was a contest sponsor).
The only real problem regarding editors was for emacs users, especially those used to their own config setup. But - those are the breaks of participating in such a contest. Though it really shouldn't matter much since more people use vi than emacs 2 to 1 anyway. (proof - fourth paragraph)
agreed. A setup where the host controls the show is best for this situation. I personally participated in the ACM's programming contests during their Fall '01 and '02 competitions, and can give info on the environment they use. (FWIW, we never got past the regional competition either year).
Basically, the contest was staged in a typical university computer lab, and all the machines were using some special image created just for the contest and installed that morning. A log was created of all activity from the rooms being used, and checked later (I think the admin did this via a router or firewall). Any activity other than the network connection required for the submission software got your team DQ'd.
one of the oddest things in that episode was how Comic Book Guy sees an ad for InternetKing (IIRC, with a pic of Homer) in one scene, but a later scene shows Homer reading a book saying "ooh! they have the internet on computers now!"
silly question - is there a FlanCrest Enterprises out there?
one thing that always nagged me about AOL when I was a user was their mail storage policy. They deleted mail messages two weeks after you've opened it, or 30 days after receipt if unopened. It puzzled me that you had to pay a fee to use AOL and they deleted your mail for you, whereas free webmail services such as Hotmail or Yahoo! would let you keep your mail around as long as you'd like. (Dont know if AOL still uses this policy)
IM was another similar nag. The free client for non-AOL users came with things like away messages and otehr cool things. The client app AOL required subscribers to use didnt come with those things, and wouldn't allow the free client to run on top of it. (They eventually changed this, but I was at college by this point and really only used AOL when I was home on break)
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I've riden a ride like the one buing built. It's the kind that uses a horizontal track to send the train into the first incline. Believe me, there's nothing like it. One I rode (StormRunner (?), Hershey Park, PA) went from a near dead stop to 70+ MPH in under 3 seconds, into a 90 degree first climb 12 stories high. You move so fast your eyes water from all the wind whipping past you. So fast the forces throw your head back against the headrest. So fast, it's all done with in about 27 seconds.
One big word of advice if you ride something like this: Before the ride starts, keep your head against the headrest. Your neck will thank you.
Try thinking this through in terms of return-on-investment. If $80 is all you're going to save on a product that's around $1000, it may not be worth it, especially given what else you know is going into each product. First, it's an 8% savings, hardly a significant bargain. Second, from what it sounds like you'll be doing with it, $80 extra for an Intel chip is very small sum for the increased performance (10% from your description above) you'll be getting in return. Third, assume you do find similar performance for an AMD, but might require payment for a compiler negating the $80 savings. Finally, ask yourself if searching for a free (as in beer) AMD compiler is worth $80 of your time if you already have everything in place for an Intel.
I think you're best bet is the little extra you spend for the Prescott model.
they only get to ask those people who dont hangup on them.
it would be interesting to see a poll that showed the response rate. A lot of people hang up on pollster calls, thinking they're telemarketers or something, often before the questions even get asked. Therefore, if Gallup or USAToday or Quinnipeac (sp?) phoned 20000 numbers, show how many or what percentage of them took time to actually answer the pollster's questions.
the other thing I would like to see on these public opinion polls are how the questions are presented to the pollee. E.g, phrasing of the questions, multiple choice or open ended, etc.
Knowing the history of Philadelphia, this will come out 5 years after Longhorn and/or Duke Nukem and cost $3.5 billion New World Dollars (the currency established in 2045).
I second that. I can give two examples showing why:
Circa 1870, the city started construction on City Hall. They didnt finish until around 1900. A few blocks away, a banker built one of the city's first "skyscrapers" (a 10-story building that I dont think exists anymore) in under 10 years during that 30 year window. It really woke the locals up to what was happening in local politics.
An even better example is from the late 1990s. The state authorized funds for Philly and Pittsburgh to build new separate sports stadiums for the baseball and football teams. All four funds were authorized via the same bill. I think the Pittsburgh teams were out of the old Three Rivers Stadium and into their new stadiums before the sites in Philly were even decided on.
if you're asking yourself that question, here's a partial answer:
He's the owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team. He's looks young, probably in his 30s or early 40s, has tons of money to his name, and is far from the typical millionaire/billionaire stereotype. He's not well liked by the upper NBA execs for frequent criticism of the referees, and has gotten himself fined on numerous occasions since taking ownership of the Mavs a few years ago. He once said he wouldnt trust one of them to operate a Dairy Queen (an ice cream shop in the US), to which DQ said come give it a try (Cuban did do a DQ Manager for a day). I dont think the guy has ever worn a suit in his life. He'll be hosting some reality-type TV show this fall that, from commercials, appears to be a knock off of The Apprentice.
That's pretty cool for their soccer team, considering they couldnt play any pre-Olympic exhibition matches and that the first goal they scored during these Olympics was in the wrong net. (They still won that game 4-2 over Portugal).
three panes of glass, separated by a short distance each. pump warm air into the two gaps. The middle glass is this infrared blocker dealy.
Or, if only one side needed to be warmed, use two panes instead of three with a small gap. The exterior pane is the infrared blocker. When it's cool outside or the window is shaded, pump warm air into the gap between panes.
IANACE
it leaves behind only those truely interested in the field.
when printing a monospace 12 point font on a piece of paper.
There is even one, for some reason, at the McMurdo Station on Antarctica.
I would hate to be the armored truck driver responsible for keeping that one filled.
So if I know where he lives, why don't I just go break his legs? Believe me, I've thought about it, but I don't want to do something illegal that'll get me thrown in jail. Besides, he's threatened to shoot me if I come there. So if the threat turns out to be real, I'd either have to kill him or get killed myself, either of which has consequences I don't want to consider. And on top of all that, I'm a coward.
That would probably be a good idea. The address is South Philly, and the name sounds Italian. S. Philly has a mob element to it, but is also home to a large Italian population. While I'm not labeling this guy or any other Italian South Philly resident as a mafioso, I wouldn't put it past him, especially with the threats he's made.
Though, OTOH, the mob there has the collective IQ of a doormat. Years of FBI investigations, plea bargains, convictions, internal squabbling, one-ups-manship, etc. have seriously torn the mob apart and left them with true low lifes incapable of the true leadership required for a mob. Even if someone did come along, someone else would whack him just because he wanted to be the boss or he didnt like him. (Two good books in the subject are The Goodfella Tapes and The Last Gangster, both by George Anastasia) I dont think they would be capable of running scams online.
I live near philly, maybe I'll pay him a visit.... or least go do a recon.
Sideshow Mel (i think), after seeing Homer dangling from a hot air ballon at a football game: "Dear God, look at that blimp! He's hanging from a ballon!"
Dan put together the Civil Rights Action Team (CRAT).
I guess Civil Rights Action Panel was on the list of rejected titles?
.NET is miles ahead of anything MS has ever created in terms of security
.NET, and that included a survey of the security features. A classic MS fallicy has happened here too: The Feature Creep. It is so overloaded with features I felt it made the thing unusable and difficult to understand.
I'm a little hesitant at that. About a year ago plus (when I was still in college), a MS guy came to campus to give a demo on
My suspicions were confirmed when the guy couldn't get a Demo to work correctly. His demo program, written in C# and provided to him by MS, was supposed to deny him access in scenario #1, and it worked correctly. But he couldn't retool the program to get scenario #2 right, where access was to be granted. No matter what the guy did, he kept getting denied access. Makes me wonder whether scenario #1 was actually correct or provided the expected denial for a different reason than intended. Oddly enough, the same guy had it working at a conference of local ACM chapters a week earlier.
My take on something like this: Yeah, you could get the configuration right when setting up your security model. But if it's this easy to get it wrong such that the program is unusable, then it's just as easy to get it wrong while still being usable.
As long as they don't put out 2.5x the heat
this guy would certainly agree.
how dare you suggest that Don Knuth cant "do"
you naysayer. Of course Al Gore invented the internet. It is, after all, based on Al-Gore-ithms.
You're not constrained to a specific editor. You could use anything the system had on it. Emacs, vi, pico, some Notepad-like tool that was in the desktop (forget if it was gnome or kde), whatever. No special IDEs - just the regular gcc, g++, or IBM's Java SDK were provided and also used on the judging side (IBM was a contest sponsor).
The only real problem regarding editors was for emacs users, especially those used to their own config setup. But - those are the breaks of participating in such a contest. Though it really shouldn't matter much since more people use vi than emacs 2 to 1 anyway. (proof - fourth paragraph)
agreed. A setup where the host controls the show is best for this situation. I personally participated in the ACM's programming contests during their Fall '01 and '02 competitions, and can give info on the environment they use. (FWIW, we never got past the regional competition either year).
Basically, the contest was staged in a typical university computer lab, and all the machines were using some special image created just for the contest and installed that morning. A log was created of all activity from the rooms being used, and checked later (I think the admin did this via a router or firewall). Any activity other than the network connection required for the submission software got your team DQ'd.
From Crosby's interview:
It changed it from being about the music to being about what you look like.
No wonder Britney Spears is famous!
an opinion paper on why dyhydrogen monoxide must be banned would perhaps do the trick?
Fark's gonna need a new cliche for studies of the useless
one of the oddest things in that episode was how Comic Book Guy sees an ad for InternetKing (IIRC, with a pic of Homer) in one scene, but a later scene shows Homer reading a book saying "ooh! they have the internet on computers now!"
silly question - is there a FlanCrest Enterprises out there?
one thing that always nagged me about AOL when I was a user was their mail storage policy. They deleted mail messages two weeks after you've opened it, or 30 days after receipt if unopened. It puzzled me that you had to pay a fee to use AOL and they deleted your mail for you, whereas free webmail services such as Hotmail or Yahoo! would let you keep your mail around as long as you'd like. (Dont know if AOL still uses this policy)
IM was another similar nag. The free client for non-AOL users came with things like away messages and otehr cool things. The client app AOL required subscribers to use didnt come with those things, and wouldn't allow the free client to run on top of it. (They eventually changed this, but I was at college by this point and really only used AOL when I was home on break)