"..the FBI, CIA, or NSA does the stuff you were spouting off about.." FTFY.
It is fairly well-known that the NSA has been listening in since 9/11; even former NSA analysts have come forward to voice their concerns about listening in on the conversations of normal American citizens.
Would you please elaborate on the "poor performance". What are/were you doing? Gaming, video encoding, or what? I have a 64-bit X2 dual in a system I built for $300. The only reason I considered a 64-bit processor was so I could stick 4gb of RAM into it, so please further elaborate on how "they burned (you) with their 64 bit processors". What additional benefit were you expecting from 64-bit architecture? I've used this machine for some CPU-heavy statistical/programming work (Natural Language Processing), and it performed adequately. It even handles high-detail Civ4 games well, despite using only onboard video.
The Atom is FAR inferior in terms of performance, so to answer your question, no. The Atom is designed for mobile computing, so it sacrifices performance for power-saving gains. This is meant to compete with intels low priced desktop-orientated CPUs.
Because designing a slick UI that actually does something better than a simple one is a very difficult task. Even worse, there will be an inevitable backlash from users, because most people don't want to learn anything new... sort of a "if it wasn't broke why the hell did you change it!?!?" mentality.
Well, "he" is a single mother of 4 who works w/ a Tribal Council, meaning she is probably paid a little better than a social worker. Considering the fact that you can buy a decent house in the boonies around Duluth for $60,000, I'd say that this will greatly cut into her kids' college fund.
If someone wants to be a programmer, the difference in salary between that and an engineer is negligible. Here is some statistical data that may help your son...
(from Occupational Outlook Handbook, bls.gov) Median annual wages of computer and information scientists: $97,970 Median annual wage of computer programmer: $85,430 Average median of all engineer professions you mentioned: $79,090
I'd also like to point out that Econometrics, Biochemistry, Statistics, Actuarial Science, and Operations Management pair nicely with CSCI if earnings is important.
It is an outside chance that this is a threat... We aren't talking about sociology or math, we are talking about people whose education is centered around death. This obviously is a case of a jest in poor taste rather than terroristic threats. I hope this doesn't result in an expulsion for the lady in question, although I don't think suspension is out of line.
As a side note, I was educated at and work for the UMN. There are administrators here who thrive on this sort of drama; it makes their otherwise boring routines interesting. From my experience, I'd place the blame 50-50. Half knee-jerk reaction from bored administrators, half stupidity on Amanda's part for not realizing here comments may be taken seriously.
i think what he is saying is that the screen-image would reverse (mirrored), so the backwards text isn't a problem.
I actually did this once with directions I printed off from the internet, and it worked OK despite the backwards text.
If I was going to do it again, I'd make the font really big and use the "mirror image" option when I printed it. I would also put about 5 different colored bars between the directions so I could more easily find the next exit/direction.
You are right, it would be trivial to do association analysis on this problem. The obvious answer is the quality of apps isn't important to Apple, as long as their Appstore is speckled with a handful of popular, high-quality apps that they can advertise ("there's an app for that..."). The more apps they sell, the more money goes into their own pockets. It took a blatant violation, which might hurt future sales due to fears of astro-turfing, for them to respond to this problem.
computing friggen large numbers isn't as easy as it appears. Consider the fact that your computer contains a discrete(limited) number of bits, and the processor can operate on about 64 bits at a time (depending on architecture). Try putting 2^100 into a scientific calculator, it will probably overflow (can't represent a number that large). 2^43,112,609 is a huge, huge, number.
(wikipedia) Several public-key cryptography algorithms, such as RSA or the Diffie-Hellman key exchange are based on large prime numbers (for example with 512 bits). They rely on the fact that it is thought to be much easier (i.e., more efficient) to perform the multiplication of two (large) numbers x and y than to calculate x and y (assumed coprime) if only the product xy is known.
Many mathematical research subjects are not firmly grounded in real-world applications.
Electing police officers would be insanely costly and prone to manipulation by local socioeconomic factors, corruption, etc. Taser is actually making a camera surveillance system designed to record officer's actions, and this would be ideal IMHO. Unfortunately, it will probably never see widespread use (its called AXON).
Even more unfortunately, it is elected officials that have actually given the police enough power to harass citizens. Case in point, disorderly conduct. This is known as a catch-all offense. If you offend someone, act boisterous, or even walk down the fucking street without a clear destination (which you must tell police about), you can be arrested. Public intoxication, what a fucking load of shit. How many thousands of drunk people are there in any town on any given weekend? It allows police officers to arbitrarily arrest people, and then convict them with a 99.99% success rate. You don't even have to take a breathalyzer.
Fact is, a considerable portion of police officers are ignorant, freedom-hating, egotistical/narcissistic, thuggish, and racist. Most fall into at least one of those categories. But it is something that we as a society need, and there is really no better alternative.
It is limited to geological, environmental, and weather datasets. Ohh yea, and the usability of the website is about as good as you'd expect from the government.
Some movies are made to entertain people between the ages of 4 and 70 (i.e. spiderman). The wider the age range, the less room there is for typical plot elements, because younger audiences get bored quickly. Some movies are pretty good just because of their CGI alone. I might be risking my geek-card here, but none of the new Star Wars were actually that boring due to all the big-budget CGI/effects.
Laptops are wayy more common than they were a decade ago, and yet I still here a lot of people saying "labtop". I know that my girlfriend can spell "laptop", and yet she still pronounces it with a "b" rather than "p".
Errors crashing a bank website result in loss of dollars, a false negative (drunk but they let you go) reading from a Breathalyzer may result in a drunk driver killing someone.
U.S. Military, FAA, and other government organizations have coding standards for commercial products, why should a device intended to gather evidence and promote public safety be unregulated? Especially in this case, where the device can unrecoverable fail due to a logic-error, and not report that such an error occurred?
I read the report earlier, and there are some very valid issues with the source. The first is that in incorrectly averages readings taken, assigning more weight to the first reading than the subsequent ones. It also has a buffer overflow issue, where an array is being written past its end, and even if this results in an error, it goes unreported.
You would have to be a fricken moron not to have a problem with mis-averaging, however in my experiences with law-people, they can be even worse than PHBs.
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"..the FBI, CIA, or NSA does the stuff you were spouting off about.." FTFY.
It is fairly well-known that the NSA has been listening in since 9/11; even former NSA analysts have come forward to voice their concerns about listening in on the conversations of normal American citizens.
Would you please elaborate on the "poor performance". What are/were you doing? Gaming, video encoding, or what? I have a 64-bit X2 dual in a system I built for $300. The only reason I considered a 64-bit processor was so I could stick 4gb of RAM into it, so please further elaborate on how "they burned (you) with their 64 bit processors". What additional benefit were you expecting from 64-bit architecture? I've used this machine for some CPU-heavy statistical/programming work (Natural Language Processing), and it performed adequately. It even handles high-detail Civ4 games well, despite using only onboard video.
The Atom is FAR inferior in terms of performance, so to answer your question, no. The Atom is designed for mobile computing, so it sacrifices performance for power-saving gains. This is meant to compete with intels low priced desktop-orientated CPUs.
Because designing a slick UI that actually does something better than a simple one is a very difficult task. Even worse, there will be an inevitable backlash from users, because most people don't want to learn anything new... sort of a "if it wasn't broke why the hell did you change it!?!?" mentality.
Well, "he" is a single mother of 4 who works w/ a Tribal Council, meaning she is probably paid a little better than a social worker. Considering the fact that you can buy a decent house in the boonies around Duluth for $60,000, I'd say that this will greatly cut into her kids' college fund.
RTFA
If someone wants to be a programmer, the difference in salary between that and an engineer is negligible. Here is some statistical data that may help your son...
(from Occupational Outlook Handbook, bls.gov)
Median annual wages of computer and information scientists: $97,970
Median annual wage of computer programmer: $85,430
Average median of all engineer professions you mentioned: $79,090
(all engineering professions)
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm#earnings
I'd also like to point out that Econometrics, Biochemistry, Statistics, Actuarial Science, and Operations Management pair nicely with CSCI if earnings is important.
It is an outside chance that this is a threat... We aren't talking about sociology or math, we are talking about people whose education is centered around death. This obviously is a case of a jest in poor taste rather than terroristic threats. I hope this doesn't result in an expulsion for the lady in question, although I don't think suspension is out of line.
As a side note, I was educated at and work for the UMN. There are administrators here who thrive on this sort of drama; it makes their otherwise boring routines interesting. From my experience, I'd place the blame 50-50. Half knee-jerk reaction from bored administrators, half stupidity on Amanda's part for not realizing here comments may be taken seriously.
i think what he is saying is that the screen-image would reverse (mirrored), so the backwards text isn't a problem.
I actually did this once with directions I printed off from the internet, and it worked OK despite the backwards text.
If I was going to do it again, I'd make the font really big and use the "mirror image" option when I printed it. I would also put about 5 different colored bars between the directions so I could more easily find the next exit/direction.
You are right, it would be trivial to do association analysis on this problem. The obvious answer is the quality of apps isn't important to Apple, as long as their Appstore is speckled with a handful of popular, high-quality apps that they can advertise ("there's an app for that..."). The more apps they sell, the more money goes into their own pockets. It took a blatant violation, which might hurt future sales due to fears of astro-turfing, for them to respond to this problem.
netflix watch instantly... a couple other major web video players use it too.
you can see in the video that the "wallpaper" is anchored to the floor and ceiling.
I'd also point out, that from an Automata Theory standpoint, "The task of software verification is not solvable by a computer" (MIT's own Sipser).
computing friggen large numbers isn't as easy as it appears. Consider the fact that your computer contains a discrete(limited) number of bits, and the processor can operate on about 64 bits at a time (depending on architecture). Try putting 2^100 into a scientific calculator, it will probably overflow (can't represent a number that large). 2^43,112,609 is a huge, huge, number.
(wikipedia)
Several public-key cryptography algorithms, such as RSA or the Diffie-Hellman key exchange are based on large prime numbers (for example with 512 bits). They rely on the fact that it is thought to be much easier (i.e., more efficient) to perform the multiplication of two (large) numbers x and y than to calculate x and y (assumed coprime) if only the product xy is known.
Many mathematical research subjects are not firmly grounded in real-world applications.
Multiplication also has a geometric definition.
Electing police officers would be insanely costly and prone to manipulation by local socioeconomic factors, corruption, etc. Taser is actually making a camera surveillance system designed to record officer's actions, and this would be ideal IMHO. Unfortunately, it will probably never see widespread use (its called AXON).
Even more unfortunately, it is elected officials that have actually given the police enough power to harass citizens. Case in point, disorderly conduct. This is known as a catch-all offense. If you offend someone, act boisterous, or even walk down the fucking street without a clear destination (which you must tell police about), you can be arrested. Public intoxication, what a fucking load of shit. How many thousands of drunk people are there in any town on any given weekend? It allows police officers to arbitrarily arrest people, and then convict them with a 99.99% success rate. You don't even have to take a breathalyzer.
Fact is, a considerable portion of police officers are ignorant, freedom-hating, egotistical/narcissistic, thuggish, and racist. Most fall into at least one of those categories. But it is something that we as a society need, and there is really no better alternative.
(3) Abstaining/reducing risky sexual behaviors. For slashdotters, this shouldn't be a problem.
He is 11. I am guessing he will be attending college at a real university. He passed a calculus based physics class, give him some credit.
Too bad there is no census data on the website.
Wow these are some amazing data sets . http://www.data.gov/catalog#raw
It is limited to geological, environmental, and weather datasets. Ohh yea, and the usability of the website is about as good as you'd expect from the government.
don't rely on special effects for content
Some movies are made to entertain people between the ages of 4 and 70 (i.e. spiderman). The wider the age range, the less room there is for typical plot elements, because younger audiences get bored quickly. Some movies are pretty good just because of their CGI alone. I might be risking my geek-card here, but none of the new Star Wars were actually that boring due to all the big-budget CGI/effects.
Laptops are wayy more common than they were a decade ago, and yet I still here a lot of people saying "labtop". I know that my girlfriend can spell "laptop", and yet she still pronounces it with a "b" rather than "p".
correction, you may refuse a roadside breath test, but not one at the police station.
In Minnesota (and other states), it is a crime to refuse a roadside breathalyzer test due to "implied consent" laws.
Errors crashing a bank website result in loss of dollars, a false negative (drunk but they let you go) reading from a Breathalyzer may result in a drunk driver killing someone.
U.S. Military, FAA, and other government organizations have coding standards for commercial products, why should a device intended to gather evidence and promote public safety be unregulated? Especially in this case, where the device can unrecoverable fail due to a logic-error, and not report that such an error occurred?
I read the report earlier, and there are some very valid issues with the source. The first is that in incorrectly averages readings taken, assigning more weight to the first reading than the subsequent ones. It also has a buffer overflow issue, where an array is being written past its end, and even if this results in an error, it goes unreported.
You would have to be a fricken moron not to have a problem with mis-averaging, however in my experiences with law-people, they can be even worse than PHBs.