Now, what happens if your data center burns down, taking your backup manager and all your hardware with it?
You get the tapes from wherever you've stashed them. Can you actually read the tapes? Do you have the decryption keys where you can find them (unburned)?
Can you find compatible tape drives? This is one of the reasons I've been using DVD's for backup lately. For example, many of the DAT drives cannot read each others tapes, and if you put the tapes in the wrong drive, it may destroy them because it doesn't properly handle the thickness of the tape. The compression used by two similar drives may not be compatible, etc.
Encryption is just another way to make it harder to recover your data. If you lose the encryption key, your backup is worthless unless you use really crappy encryption.
Learn the many ways to prepare rat, because since you don't have a job, you don't have any money. There are many food like items available in your local dumpster, just be sure to get there before the rest of your neighbors do. If you manage to find anything you can sell for money, don't forget that the first $400 per month goes to your Obamacare account, then 55% of whatever is left goes to the various government agencies, mostly to pay for illegal aliens (oops, it's undocumented workers) health insurance and socialism, and then 6% more goes to sales tax, to pay for the hookers and coke necessary for the proper operation of your elected officials.
They already did the experiment, and actually found similar results but did not claim any significance. Of course they are going to repeat this, once they finish kicking themselves.
Don't you mean "They found similar results, and are about to do the experiment."
No thanks, I will wait for the first crash/accident before I fly on one...
You should be able to tell if your plane has been in a crash. Use the same method that you'd use to tell if the plastic chair you are about to sit on has been broken. It's been fixed with duct tape. So just look for a plane with duct tape on it, then you can safely get on.
So, you must have been one of those football scholars. only showed up for class once a month, yet always got excellent grades, and only needed help with words longer than three letters. Otherwise you completely missed school, where Global Cooling was the major concern, with the same bad people causing it as are now involved in causing Global Warming. And Nuclear Winter was right around the corner. And remember, your desk will protect you in case of a nuclear attack. Why should we be skeptical now?
Just because they consider cartoon maps as accurate data sources, add fudge factors to their programs, hide and manipulate data, then come up with claims that aliens are coming to kill us. What reason would there be for skepticism?
Well, I just did a survey of existing frog species, using my favorite "Frogs of the World" coloring book (chromatic values applied by a trusty half decade female co-author) as a basis, and have had my article accepted by 12 Global Warming journals, so don't write off peer generated fact books just yet.
If we have a Mount Pinatubo 0.5C 2 year temp decrease, and GW is increasing 0.1C over 100 years, then that only covers (0.5C / 0.1C * 2 * 100) or 1000 years. If they achieve 2C change, then it only covers 4000 years! What are they thinking? Obviously not about out (great^n) grand children!
We need to eliminate the problem at it's source! Al;l the experts tell us that GW is caused by humans, so we need to eliminate all humans in order to save the planet! We cannot permit the existance of a single one! We eliminated smallpox, we can eliminate this scourge too! Once they are all gone, our decendents will finally be safe from the terrible consequences of Global Warming!
Using extreme cooling methods will not improve the energy efficiency. It would probably, if anything, make it worse.
You still must expend X units of energy doing the calculations, and changing the method moving the heat thus generated away from the circuit does not change the fact that the energy was expended. I also doubt that extreme temperatures will improve the efficiency of a circuit to any useful degree.
Imagine using this on violent felons before relasing them back into society.
Is your closet emitting a green glow? Call 911. Someone stalking you from the bushes, it's a lot more obvious, especially if it alse affects their little swimmers. Someone thrown into the river with the concrete overshoe treatement, easy to find the next night. Someone robs you, a discription that includes "green glow" would eliminate a lot of suspects.
As a fellow unicorn, I did think he did splendidly. Do you know how hard it is for unicorns to type, let alone using a mouse? When trying to hit the shift button, you can't use booth front hooves at once, because then there's nothing holding up the front half of your body so your face slams into the keyboard! If you try to use your horn to hold down the shift key, then you can't see the keyboard! And the mouse, it's designed as if everyone has fingers!
I take one of my Polaroids with me to street festivals and such. See a person with a cute puppy or a funny hat or whatever's interesting, take a shot, hand it to them, walk away.
Knuth comes from the era of machine language. He frequently did things where he relied on actual cycle counts to estimate algorithms effectiveness. MIX comes from that type of mind set.
Using a higher level language, like C, causes the compiler to be involved in the process, because of optimizations and operand selection by the compiler. Depending on the compiler and optimization settings, the fastest algorithms may come out ranked much slower because of bad choices or cases where the optimizer replaces a bad algorithm with a better one. Showing them at machine level bypasses the compilers, and provides a more realistic valuation of the algorithm, instead of a measurement of the compiler.
I wouldn't want to use the D & D books to learn a new language on the job and not all of D & D books were great,
Which version? The first Dungeon and Dragon editions were pretty sparse and relied on other game books, but the latest ones have some screwy rules that take a lot of the fun out of it.
By the way, what does this have to do with programming anyway?
Why do you always try to blaim everything religious on the Republicans? You have your own (flunked out) preacher in Al Gore, the holy pope of Global Warming. He uses the same speech methods as any preacher on the pulpit. Ya-heous, Jeh-he-zious is looooooooking downnnnnnnnnnn onnnnnnnn ya-hoo, and-da youze mUST! deliver unto his heavionaly servent (Gore) all your earthly material possessions as a gift to his glorious exortations (campaign donations), least you feel his justified wrath and damnation (loss of hookers in the oval office will do that).
Or do you think if buggy whip manufacturers reduced their price to $0.10 per whip that demand would spike again?
I'm sure a lot more people would buy them than the current $13.00 price, just in the S&M market alone. Why do you think there is absolutely no market for them? Just because you don't admit to using one, doesn't mean there is no market.
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Yes, much like the OLPC was a $100 dollar computer that cost $400 for an individual to purchase.
Yes, but you got two of them for that price, evenm though you only got to keep one.
So, it was a $100 computer that cost $200 that cost $400.
Now, what happens if your data center burns down, taking your backup manager and all your hardware with it?
You get the tapes from wherever you've stashed them. Can you actually read the tapes? Do you have the decryption keys where you can find them (unburned)?
Can you find compatible tape drives? This is one of the reasons I've been using DVD's for backup lately. For example, many of the DAT drives cannot read each others tapes, and if you put the tapes in the wrong drive, it may destroy them because it doesn't properly handle the thickness of the tape. The compression used by two similar drives may not be compatible, etc.
Encryption is just another way to make it harder to recover your data. If you lose the encryption key, your backup is worthless unless you use really crappy encryption.
Learn the many ways to prepare rat, because since you don't have a job, you don't have any money. There are many food like items available in your local dumpster, just be sure to get there before the rest of your neighbors do. If you manage to find anything you can sell for money, don't forget that the first $400 per month goes to your Obamacare account, then 55% of whatever is left goes to the various government agencies, mostly to pay for illegal aliens (oops, it's undocumented workers) health insurance and socialism, and then 6% more goes to sales tax, to pay for the hookers and coke necessary for the proper operation of your elected officials.
Shouldn't they use golf balls? Ice storms are always measured in golf balls, so why not ice bergs too?
Since they can fund their entire military on the interest they are earning on our debt that they own, they have more money to spend on other things.
I just tried to read the encoded message, and all I got was "My hovercraft is full of eels"?
Tie this story in with the faster than light story, and you get alien anal probes!
You have to be happy that the probes don't use lasers (remember, sharks).
They already did the experiment, and actually found similar results but did not claim any significance. Of course they are going to repeat this, once they finish kicking themselves.
Don't you mean "They found similar results, and are about to do the experiment."
No thanks, I will wait for the first crash/accident before I fly on one...
You should be able to tell if your plane has been in a crash. Use the same method that you'd use to tell if the plastic chair you are about to sit on has been broken. It's been fixed with duct tape. So just look for a plane with duct tape on it, then you can safely get on.
Has a 20 mile limit, takes forever between trips, slow. Sounds just like the electric cars being pushed.
Can you imagine the poor guy who stood in the wrong line for an hour?
Cannibals eat their enemies to gain their attributes, so they knew about this a long time ago.
So, you must have been one of those football scholars. only showed up for class once a month, yet always got excellent grades, and only needed help with words longer than three letters. Otherwise you completely missed school, where Global Cooling was the major concern, with the same bad people causing it as are now involved in causing Global Warming. And Nuclear Winter was right around the corner. And remember, your desk will protect you in case of a nuclear attack. Why should we be skeptical now?
Just because they consider cartoon maps as accurate data sources, add fudge factors to their programs, hide and manipulate data, then come up with claims that aliens are coming to kill us. What reason would there be for skepticism?
Well, I just did a survey of existing frog species, using my favorite "Frogs of the World" coloring book (chromatic values applied by a trusty half decade female co-author) as a basis, and have had my article accepted by 12 Global Warming journals, so don't write off peer generated fact books just yet.
If we have a Mount Pinatubo 0.5C 2 year temp decrease, and GW is increasing 0.1C over 100 years, then that only covers (0.5C / 0.1C * 2 * 100) or 1000 years. If they achieve 2C change, then it only covers 4000 years! What are they thinking? Obviously not about out (great^n) grand children!
We need to eliminate the problem at it's source! Al;l the experts tell us that GW is caused by humans, so we need to eliminate all humans in order to save the planet! We cannot permit the existance of a single one! We eliminated smallpox, we can eliminate this scourge too! Once they are all gone, our decendents will finally be safe from the terrible consequences of Global Warming!
Using extreme cooling methods will not improve the energy efficiency. It would probably, if anything, make it worse.
You still must expend X units of energy doing the calculations, and changing the method moving the heat thus generated away from the circuit does not change the fact that the energy was expended. I also doubt that extreme temperatures will improve the efficiency of a circuit to any useful degree.
Imagine using this on violent felons before relasing them back into society.
Is your closet emitting a green glow? Call 911. Someone stalking you from the bushes, it's a lot more obvious, especially if it alse affects their little swimmers. Someone thrown into the river with the concrete overshoe treatement, easy to find the next night. Someone robs you, a discription that includes "green glow" would eliminate a lot of suspects.
As a fellow unicorn, I did think he did splendidly. Do you know how hard it is for unicorns to type, let alone using a mouse? When trying to hit the shift button, you can't use booth front hooves at once, because then there's nothing holding up the front half of your body so your face slams into the keyboard! If you try to use your horn to hold down the shift key, then you can't see the keyboard! And the mouse, it's designed as if everyone has fingers!
They own a steam roller. How else would you do it?
I take one of my Polaroids with me to street festivals and such. See a person with a cute puppy or a funny hat or whatever's interesting, take a shot, hand it to them, walk away.
Isn't that just terrorism?
Knuth comes from the era of machine language. He frequently did things where he relied on actual cycle counts to estimate algorithms effectiveness. MIX comes from that type of mind set.
Using a higher level language, like C, causes the compiler to be involved in the process, because of optimizations and operand selection by the compiler. Depending on the compiler and optimization settings, the fastest algorithms may come out ranked much slower because of bad choices or cases where the optimizer replaces a bad algorithm with a better one. Showing them at machine level bypasses the compilers, and provides a more realistic valuation of the algorithm, instead of a measurement of the compiler.
I wouldn't want to use the D & D books to learn a new language on the job and not all of D & D books were great,
Which version? The first Dungeon and Dragon editions were pretty sparse and relied on other game books, but the latest ones have some screwy rules that take a lot of the fun out of it.
By the way, what does this have to do with programming anyway?
Why do you always try to blaim everything religious on the Republicans? You have your own (flunked out) preacher in Al Gore, the holy pope of Global Warming. He uses the same speech methods as any preacher on the pulpit. Ya-heous, Jeh-he-zious is looooooooking downnnnnnnnnnn onnnnnnnn ya-hoo, and-da youze mUST! deliver unto his heavionaly servent (Gore) all your earthly material possessions as a gift to his glorious exortations (campaign donations), least you feel his justified wrath and damnation (loss of hookers in the oval office will do that).
Or do you think if buggy whip manufacturers reduced their price to $0.10 per whip that demand would spike again?
I'm sure a lot more people would buy them than the current $13.00 price, just in the S&M market alone. Why do you think there is absolutely no market for them? Just because you don't admit to using one, doesn't mean there is no market.
Now they will be able to do to bamboo what they've done with corn. Make it too expensive to use for fuel, and too expensive to use as food.