Well, it all depends on where you live. In my corner of reality (Boston), tens of thousands live perfectly fine without their own cars. They use the T, bus, and occasionally taxis.
I don't know, but at least T-mobile is starting to offer GSM service. When a GSM phone when you switch companies you just need to put in a new SIM card.
I don't know if you are just trolling or not, but I'll say something on this.
Horst Simon (director of NERSC) gave a talk in our school a few months ago and talked about the difference in supercomputing in Japan and US.
Basically what he said is, US companies have no incentive to build hardware for supercomputing - the market is not big enough, and the government does not provide the support (although the recent DoE HPCS initiative might change this). Meanwhile, Japan government put in a lot of money and effort in supercomputing - Earth Simulator is basically a government effort down to the hardware design stage.
'To regain the leadership', he said, they are working with IBM now on the architecture of the next Power series architecture to make it more scientific computing friendly.
It's not about the technology - both Japan and US are capable of building good supercomputers. And it's not clear that vector processing is really good for scientific supercomputing anyway (one example - earth simulator, won't prove that it's good).
It's more about the market, and who is willing to put more money in.
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Here in Japan, my car's navigation system takes into account any congestion and would direct me to the "quickest" route rather than the shortest.
Did it occur to you that the typos are put in there on purpose to make decrypting harder?
Let's remove all doors from cars because a passenger suffering from limb injuries would have trouble opening them and would be trapped inside.
How about laptops? You got to reboot those once in a while right?
From wikipedia page for taikonauts,
"Official English text issued by the Chinese government uses astronaut."
IDEA Awards? as in CIA Agency?
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(hi lameness filter)
So you need hands to type ... what if you had an accident?
You use something else, or get someone to help.
Not a reason to get rid of keyboards.
Are you sure doing everything eletronically would eliminate that 80%?
How about editing?
What if there are a large number of serials on random locations?
Or they are tiled with random offset?
But presumably for a color laser the embedded serial number in a doc can be linked to the sales record and thus leaves a paper trail.
God knows which daisy wheel printer would generate a particular head signature.
Well, it all depends on where you live. In my corner of reality (Boston), tens of thousands live perfectly fine without their own cars. They use the T, bus, and occasionally taxis.
If a car can run windows I'm sure someone will hack it and run linux on the car
Worthless, as in it didn't tell you something you don't already know?
How about Asians can have HIV immunity too?
According to Wikipedia, da Vinci Project was planning to make its first competitive flight on Oct 2, but has to delay. So at least someone is close.
When common folk's computer is still infested with adware/trojan/god-knows-what
This just creates an illusion of security.
Well, you have to take into account that high performace interconnect are expensive. Look at Myrinet. One NIC costs ~$1500.
I do feel some discount is involved.
I guess you wrote this after reading the first two experiments.
In the third he used 1200.
Nice way to jump the gun.
That's not a review. That's just a list of features copied from the README file or something.
And notice that out of 10 paragraphs, 6 start with Taroon?
I don't know, but at least T-mobile is starting to offer GSM service. When a GSM phone when you switch companies you just need to put in a new SIM card.
It's MATLAB
Spammers can make use of the unrestricted wifi to spam to their hearts delight.
Would the place become a base for spam corporations?
I don't know if you are just trolling or not, but I'll say something on this.
Horst Simon (director of NERSC) gave a talk in our school a few months ago and talked about the difference in supercomputing in Japan and US.
Basically what he said is, US companies have no incentive to build hardware for supercomputing - the market is not big enough, and the government does not provide the support (although the recent DoE HPCS initiative might change this). Meanwhile, Japan government put in a lot of money and effort in supercomputing - Earth Simulator is basically a government effort down to the hardware design stage.
'To regain the leadership', he said, they are working with IBM now on the architecture of the next Power series architecture to make it more scientific computing friendly.
It's not about the technology - both Japan and US are capable of building good supercomputers. And it's not clear that vector processing is really good for scientific supercomputing anyway (one example - earth simulator, won't prove that it's good).
It's more about the market, and who is willing to put more money in.
If you look at top500.org, you see that the current top Intel-based cluster is #5, the one with 2304 procs in LLNL.
The article says their cluster has 'more than 2000 processors'. So presumably they mean 'more than 2304'?
Then of course there still the possibility of error introduced by the pharmacist entering the prescription into the computer.
Wouldn't it be great if the prescription itself can contain a barcode describing the drugs used, which could be scanned into the computer?