In performance-sensitive tight loops, it can still make sense to code in ASM to avoid pipeline bubbles and stalls in some very limited situations.
And that will work until the next rev of the board's chip, which your hardware vendor will change when he wants to and not notify you about. You'll know about it when the customer complaints roll in about poor performance or during your next rev of the firmware when your performance stats go to hell. And, if you're trying to do this for COTS hardware, forget it - you won't even know which chips you'll be running on. The bottom line? Unless price (and cost to your company) is of no concern, write the code as cleanly as possible and run it through an optimizer.
Try shooting someone who's done nothing physical against you, even a provocateur, and we'll see how long you get to keep your "Second Amendment" Gun. BTW, Rene, are you making an implicit threat against some future government agent who might just want to talk?
I was referring to the too-late too-little tepid response from Obama that failed to acknowledge that he was even a terrorist or it had anything to do with Islam, jihad, etc.
Well, he responded more quickly than the former Idiot-in-Chief did with the "Shoe Bomber" (two vs. six days) and he did state that intelligence mistakes were made and quickly held inquiries and issued a report saying why things were missed (something that was never acknowledged or looked into by - again - former Idiot-in-Chief). And, of course, you're right that he didn't say that he was a terrorist (one of the signs of an intelligent person is that they don't feel a need to state the obvious) and that he didn't actually tar an entire religion with the brush of the actions of only a few (because that's always helped us so well in the past), but most of us think that's actually a good thing.
The only fumble was I had to explain the joke.
I guess if I had your "sense of humor", I wouldn't be surprised that most people didn't get it. If you think you're going to be funny with material like this, you should try to get a job writing jokes for Dennis Miller. Otherwise, you could watch a little less Glenn Beck and end up a bit funnier to normal people.
Well, the "Christmas Bomber" is in prison right now, being prosecuted, and probably, at the end of the day, going to prison for a large number of years. I doubt the Chinese will help us do the same thing to their "warriors". Or did you just fumble a rather irrelevant (and stupid) slam against the current administration?
At least he did better than GWB, who took six days to talk about Richard Reid, the reason why we now need to take off our shoes (God knows he couldn't come back from vacation early, either).
Less than 7% of corn consumed in the US is directly ingested, the rest being used for animal feed, high-fructose corn syrup, starch, and other products. As such, the issue is probably not a great concern (although, if it hurts Monsanto and breaks the stranglehold this company has on the corn industry, it's a good idea). Also, since the whole point of the RR trait is to allow farmers to douse their fields in Roundup, I'd also check to see how of the stuff the corn has absorbed.
Ooh, ooh!!!! I know!!! The spider races propagate by biting humans who become one of them!!! My spider sense is tingling! Just like when I heard about the most cliched movie of all time.
In order for this to be a bad deal for Adobe, you need to assume that this company would grow, overnight, to consume 100x the licenses. In addition, since the probablility of corporate growth is less than one, it's an even better deal for Adobe. And the longer the company might take to grow to consume 100x the licenses, the better off Adobe would be for forcing their hand now, as opposed to waiting for them to grow to get more money. I see no error in what Adobe did, unless you think that a vast uprising of other Adobe customers would ensue. Yes, pissing off "your customers" is a bad thing. Pissing off "one customer", when you have millions, and when you can get money from that one customer with little or no blowback? Seems like a winning scenario to me.
The article says that it's a prototype, and the production version is supposed to be a lot more sleek.
And this is why Apple consistently wins. It would never ever show something that ugly and clunky, even as a "prototype".
And as for Microsoft's tablet? The hardware doesn't matter. The software will still suck. I've seen their tablet PC software before. It's sucked for years and, even with Vist... uh, Win7 as a basis and with multi-touch hung like a giant set of balls on the side (which is how it will be integrated, it will suck now. How do we know this? We know this because it will still have to work with all of the other sucky Microsoft software out there. And even if they have Microsoft Office Sucky Tablet Edition ready to go, they wouldn't have changed the UI enough for fear of breaking the eleventy bazillion other pieces of sucky software that runs on Windows. So it is a give that the software will suck. And, as such, it won't matter what they do with the hardware. They could paint it hot pink and give it a baboon's ass - it's running Windows. Ergo, "Suck Inside".
Take both. Really. They're both useful. In fact, stay on long enough to take one this term and the other another term. If you have to wait a year or two for the second to come around again, even better. You can use the time to boink co-eds. And besides, the job market is still sucking.
Ask the people at your workplace... and then we'll all laugh ourselves silly while they beat you with a baseball bat. The first rule of Non-productivity Club is that you don't talk about Non-productivity Club.
You put them on edge and send the message that things are different.
I find that figuring out who the top two or three FUs are and terminating them has a similar effect. Plus, you don't need to rescind a dress code afterward.
OK. I kid (a bit). Normally, something that drastic isn't needed. However, PP is correct about the need for strong managerial intervention. I just find that dress codes are a bit "oblique" in this area. Instead, you take the time to do immediate one-on-one assessment/notification sessions with all of your people and make sure that they understand the expected norms. In the short term, you hold frequent follow-on sessions to assess and remediate (if necessary). Over a few weeks, as the norms become inculcated into the workforce, you can drop off on the frequency of the norming activities and start discussing actual work-related activities in your meetings. If employees can't cut it with the new norms, you terminate and re-hire (and, given that you are having "frequent" assessment sessions, this should produce enough of a paper trail to satisfy HR).
Doing it this way takes more managerial time and effort than putting a dress code into place (and note that, if you don't have time to do this, there is more FU'ed with your organization than the current employee behavior), but it makes sure that the actual message is being sent, rather than some oblique notion that "something has changed". Plus, it also provides a starting point for frequent assessment and feedback - including many chances to give positive feedback - something that managers should be striving for, anyway.
The Terror Pussies - that'd be a good name for a band. Unfortunately, it's also a description of most of our Congress and a lot of our fellow citizens (especially the ones with Rs after their names).
He admitted on an NPR interview where he was touting these things that he consults with the companies that make them and is paid by the companies to "consult" on security issues. Read this as, "Because I used to work for the Federal government in a high position, stupid news-people like you give me credibility that I haven't earned. BTW, I get paid money by these companies to say how great these machines are, but you would never question my motives other than via a mealy-mouthed disclaimer, so you're obviously too stupid to catch me even if I do lie about how good the machines are. And did I mention that they work, really, reaaaaally great?."
Most of the crap that you get in travel these days came via this sumbitch and I wouldn't trust him if he said the sky was blue. In fact, if he says these machines can detect explosives, I'd believe that they actually paint your ass blue and give you hemorrhoids. But it's OK, we all get to pay for them.
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... blaming IE for attacks is a dangerous approach that could cause a false sense of security.
Because a false sense of security is better than no sense of security at all.
In performance-sensitive tight loops, it can still make sense to code in ASM to avoid pipeline bubbles and stalls in some very limited situations.
And that will work until the next rev of the board's chip, which your hardware vendor will change when he wants to and not notify you about. You'll know about it when the customer complaints roll in about poor performance or during your next rev of the firmware when your performance stats go to hell. And, if you're trying to do this for COTS hardware, forget it - you won't even know which chips you'll be running on. The bottom line? Unless price (and cost to your company) is of no concern, write the code as cleanly as possible and run it through an optimizer.
Try shooting someone who's done nothing physical against you, even a provocateur, and we'll see how long you get to keep your "Second Amendment" Gun. BTW, Rene, are you making an implicit threat against some future government agent who might just want to talk?
... social interaction may be the last thing holding some of the target audience from going lone gunman...
These days it's "lone underpants-man". Get with the times!
Woooooooshhhhhh!!!!!
I was referring to the too-late too-little tepid response from Obama that failed to acknowledge that he was even a terrorist or it had anything to do with Islam, jihad, etc.
Well, he responded more quickly than the former Idiot-in-Chief did with the "Shoe Bomber" (two vs. six days) and he did state that intelligence mistakes were made and quickly held inquiries and issued a report saying why things were missed (something that was never acknowledged or looked into by - again - former Idiot-in-Chief). And, of course, you're right that he didn't say that he was a terrorist (one of the signs of an intelligent person is that they don't feel a need to state the obvious) and that he didn't actually tar an entire religion with the brush of the actions of only a few (because that's always helped us so well in the past), but most of us think that's actually a good thing.
The only fumble was I had to explain the joke.
I guess if I had your "sense of humor", I wouldn't be surprised that most people didn't get it. If you think you're going to be funny with material like this, you should try to get a job writing jokes for Dennis Miller. Otherwise, you could watch a little less Glenn Beck and end up a bit funnier to normal people.
Well, the "Christmas Bomber" is in prison right now, being prosecuted, and probably, at the end of the day, going to prison for a large number of years. I doubt the Chinese will help us do the same thing to their "warriors". Or did you just fumble a rather irrelevant (and stupid) slam against the current administration?
At least he did better than GWB, who took six days to talk about Richard Reid, the reason why we now need to take off our shoes (God knows he couldn't come back from vacation early, either).
OK. So now that you can get the nicotine solution, where can you get the THC solution?
Less than 7% of corn consumed in the US is directly ingested, the rest being used for animal feed, high-fructose corn syrup, starch, and other products. As such, the issue is probably not a great concern (although, if it hurts Monsanto and breaks the stranglehold this company has on the corn industry, it's a good idea). Also, since the whole point of the RR trait is to allow farmers to douse their fields in Roundup, I'd also check to see how of the stuff the corn has absorbed.
May our tongues be gentle, our e-mails be simple and our websites be accessible...
And the congregation responds: And may porn flow freely without fear of spam and malware.
Ooh, ooh!!!! I know!!! The spider races propagate by biting humans who become one of them!!! My spider sense is tingling! Just like when I heard about the most cliched movie of all time.
I'd be more concerned about what happens when it passes it's 30,000 milage limit rather than when it passes it's 40 mi charge limit.
Can we toss in 3D standards at the same time and make a real mess of it?
I've always thought that that was "For all intents and purposes."
Not on Slashdot, where men are geeks and English-speakers are nervous...
In order for this to be a bad deal for Adobe, you need to assume that this company would grow, overnight, to consume 100x the licenses. In addition, since the probablility of corporate growth is less than one, it's an even better deal for Adobe. And the longer the company might take to grow to consume 100x the licenses, the better off Adobe would be for forcing their hand now, as opposed to waiting for them to grow to get more money. I see no error in what Adobe did, unless you think that a vast uprising of other Adobe customers would ensue. Yes, pissing off "your customers" is a bad thing. Pissing off "one customer", when you have millions, and when you can get money from that one customer with little or no blowback? Seems like a winning scenario to me.
In the year 4545
If man is still alive
Singularity comes about
Sergey Brin's face staring out
Sure, he might get away with a small gain here and there but if he is that kind of person he will have far bigger problems in the long run.
Yeah. That seemed to be the case with the Wall Street bankers.
Which leads me to the actual reality: All you need is a big enough gain and you won't have to give a lot of thought about the "long run".
The article says that it's a prototype, and the production version is supposed to be a lot more sleek.
And this is why Apple consistently wins. It would never ever show something that ugly and clunky, even as a "prototype".
And as for Microsoft's tablet? The hardware doesn't matter. The software will still suck. I've seen their tablet PC software before. It's sucked for years and, even with Vist... uh, Win7 as a basis and with multi-touch hung like a giant set of balls on the side (which is how it will be integrated, it will suck now. How do we know this? We know this because it will still have to work with all of the other sucky Microsoft software out there. And even if they have Microsoft Office Sucky Tablet Edition ready to go, they wouldn't have changed the UI enough for fear of breaking the eleventy bazillion other pieces of sucky software that runs on Windows. So it is a give that the software will suck. And, as such, it won't matter what they do with the hardware. They could paint it hot pink and give it a baboon's ass - it's running Windows. Ergo, "Suck Inside".
Take both. Really. They're both useful. In fact, stay on long enough to take one this term and the other another term. If you have to wait a year or two for the second to come around again, even better. You can use the time to boink co-eds. And besides, the job market is still sucking.
... but Madden 09 on all consoles as well?
They need to sell Madden '10 somehow.
Ask the people at your workplace... and then we'll all laugh ourselves silly while they beat you with a baseball bat. The first rule of Non-productivity Club is that you don't talk about Non-productivity Club.
You put them on edge and send the message that things are different.
I find that figuring out who the top two or three FUs are and terminating them has a similar effect. Plus, you don't need to rescind a dress code afterward.
OK. I kid (a bit). Normally, something that drastic isn't needed. However, PP is correct about the need for strong managerial intervention. I just find that dress codes are a bit "oblique" in this area. Instead, you take the time to do immediate one-on-one assessment/notification sessions with all of your people and make sure that they understand the expected norms. In the short term, you hold frequent follow-on sessions to assess and remediate (if necessary). Over a few weeks, as the norms become inculcated into the workforce, you can drop off on the frequency of the norming activities and start discussing actual work-related activities in your meetings. If employees can't cut it with the new norms, you terminate and re-hire (and, given that you are having "frequent" assessment sessions, this should produce enough of a paper trail to satisfy HR).
Doing it this way takes more managerial time and effort than putting a dress code into place (and note that, if you don't have time to do this, there is more FU'ed with your organization than the current employee behavior), but it makes sure that the actual message is being sent, rather than some oblique notion that "something has changed". Plus, it also provides a starting point for frequent assessment and feedback - including many chances to give positive feedback - something that managers should be striving for, anyway.
The Terror Pussies - that'd be a good name for a band. Unfortunately, it's also a description of most of our Congress and a lot of our fellow citizens (especially the ones with Rs after their names).
He admitted on an NPR interview where he was touting these things that he consults with the companies that make them and is paid by the companies to "consult" on security issues. Read this as, "Because I used to work for the Federal government in a high position, stupid news-people like you give me credibility that I haven't earned. BTW, I get paid money by these companies to say how great these machines are, but you would never question my motives other than via a mealy-mouthed disclaimer, so you're obviously too stupid to catch me even if I do lie about how good the machines are. And did I mention that they work, really, reaaaaally great?."
Most of the crap that you get in travel these days came via this sumbitch and I wouldn't trust him if he said the sky was blue. In fact, if he says these machines can detect explosives, I'd believe that they actually paint your ass blue and give you hemorrhoids. But it's OK, we all get to pay for them.