For what exactly? I'm not aware of any contract between a student and the university guaranteeing that they will only be tested on material once or that every test taken will count towards your final grade. I mean you can sue for anything, but your chances of winning such a suite seem remote at best to me.
If you actually learned the material it shouldn't matter, you should still be able to pass the retake several weeks later. If on the other hand you were like so many students who crammed the information into their brain just long enough to disgorge it on the exam then I have little sympathy if you have to recram or get a significantly lower grade.
You mean on planet earth? Because EF3+ tornado's have occurred on every continent. Also the same system could be used for mudslides, forest fires, flash floods, tsunami's, etc.
Actually up until Core optimizations made it into ICC it probably did make better code for Athlon using the "crippled" code path than trying to foist the stupid long Netburst "optimized" codepath onto the high IPC K7/K8 parts. For SSE optimized code most developers who cared were already hand tuning anyways so the loss of ICC auto-tuning was probably meaningless.
Actually, for the big guys it's not a big deal, they can spend a relatively small amount of $ and service a large percentage of the affected audience, it's the small and medium sized guys who are hardest hit because they have probably 50-90% of the cost with a fraction of the audience. For example amazone has a sub-site for the visually impaired already and added text to speech fairly easily for the Kindle.
Actually with SD it probably IS possible to lock a card to a specific device, simply encrypt the whole unit, that way even the MBR can't be read by anything but the device that set the encryption key.
Heck, across our organization the average overhead cost is ~$45/hour so unless you can train an average employee on a new OS in less than a day it makes zero sense to change.
Interest rates high? Stafford loans are at 4.5% for this year and 3.4% for next year which isn't exactly high, but since the loans are almost zero risk they should probably be closer to prime this year.
Shit labor is anything that makes you unhappy and/or fails to pay the bills. So long as you are happy and have your health, a roof over your head, and a full belly then the rest of it is just noise.
Yep, I use putty on a monthly if not weekly basis. It's great for connecting to all my networking and storage gear (especially now that it finally supports COM ports).
I have, we needed to compile Glibc to use 32bit UID's back around 2000, but this broke lots of downloadable packages. Sure for things that came with source you could compile them, but that was a major PITA and could take a LONG time vs even a sizable download.
How about close 90% of our overseas bases (leaving enough to have local sea and air ports in each theater), get the hell out of Iraq, kill a few more weapons platforms that the military doesn't even want, cut farmer subsidies for food we end up giving away, and then talk about cutting science funding?
We're keeping smart people employed doing the things they enjoy doing, that's about as good an investment as we can make. I've personally worked with guys that started their careers doing work like this, went on to do work for the military, and ended their careers doing work in industry. Those folks ended up contributing to 3 of 4 major aspects of society (caring for others is the 4th, and most of them did that as well), killing their drive and enthusiasm when they were young would have been a very bad thing for society.
I'm not sure what the cost of building a large enough chamber would be, but I know back when the budget was $3.5B it was deemed to be significant and had secondary affects on budget due to creating a longer project lifetime. Those positions may have changed given the significant cost increase and timeline slip, but it may be too late to change course now.
They built adaptive optics in this time, though there is a chance either the secondary mirror or the heat shield will fail to deploy (the heat shield is a significant risk as there is no vacuum chamber on earth large enough to fully test it).
It's still going to cost significantly less than a month in Iraq or Afghanistan....
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5 years is generally the limit I will push, since I can buy 5 year support contracts (and did with our most recent SAN purchase since year 4 and 5 can be outrageously expensive if bought after the fact) I feel I'm well enough protected. Also as you pointed out virtualization means that an OS install isn't tied to any particular box so it can live on well after the host has been retired. Since it generally takes 6-18 months to really get comfortable with a new OS, then 6-18 months to bring any new large scale project to production on it you're already up to 3 years into an OS's lifecycle before you have anything critical on it and add 5 years for hardware lifecycle and you are at 8 years, a year longer than RHEL's support lifecycle which is why the other major vendors offer 10 or 12 year support lifecycles.
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For what exactly? I'm not aware of any contract between a student and the university guaranteeing that they will only be tested on material once or that every test taken will count towards your final grade. I mean you can sue for anything, but your chances of winning such a suite seem remote at best to me.
If you actually learned the material it shouldn't matter, you should still be able to pass the retake several weeks later. If on the other hand you were like so many students who crammed the information into their brain just long enough to disgorge it on the exam then I have little sympathy if you have to recram or get a significantly lower grade.
Great Barrington, Massachusetts was hit with an F4 in 1995.
One big problem is any form of encryption is illegal using your HAM license. So no PGP, no HTTPS, no SSH, etc.
You mean on planet earth? Because EF3+ tornado's have occurred on every continent. Also the same system could be used for mudslides, forest fires, flash floods, tsunami's, etc.
Uh, the CEO diversifying his portfolio is perfectly normal, in fact a CEO who doesn't is probably too financially reckless to lead a bluechip.
Actually, the best use is to install drivers that bypass DRM.
Actually up until Core optimizations made it into ICC it probably did make better code for Athlon using the "crippled" code path than trying to foist the stupid long Netburst "optimized" codepath onto the high IPC K7/K8 parts. For SSE optimized code most developers who cared were already hand tuning anyways so the loss of ICC auto-tuning was probably meaningless.
Actually, for the big guys it's not a big deal, they can spend a relatively small amount of $ and service a large percentage of the affected audience, it's the small and medium sized guys who are hardest hit because they have probably 50-90% of the cost with a fraction of the audience. For example amazone has a sub-site for the visually impaired already and added text to speech fairly easily for the Kindle.
Yeah, but if Windows can't find an MBR it won't be able to format it, you'd need something lower level.
3/4 of the launch phones have the SD slot internal, only one AFAIK has the slot under the battery.
Actually with SD it probably IS possible to lock a card to a specific device, simply encrypt the whole unit, that way even the MBR can't be read by anything but the device that set the encryption key.
Heck, across our organization the average overhead cost is ~$45/hour so unless you can train an average employee on a new OS in less than a day it makes zero sense to change.
Interest rates high? Stafford loans are at 4.5% for this year and 3.4% for next year which isn't exactly high, but since the loans are almost zero risk they should probably be closer to prime this year.
Shit labor is anything that makes you unhappy and/or fails to pay the bills. So long as you are happy and have your health, a roof over your head, and a full belly then the rest of it is just noise.
Yep, I use putty on a monthly if not weekly basis. It's great for connecting to all my networking and storage gear (especially now that it finally supports COM ports).
I have, we needed to compile Glibc to use 32bit UID's back around 2000, but this broke lots of downloadable packages. Sure for things that came with source you could compile them, but that was a major PITA and could take a LONG time vs even a sizable download.
Agreed, XFCE was my preferred WM as well, worked really well with Hummingbird and Exceed from Windows =)
How about close 90% of our overseas bases (leaving enough to have local sea and air ports in each theater), get the hell out of Iraq, kill a few more weapons platforms that the military doesn't even want, cut farmer subsidies for food we end up giving away, and then talk about cutting science funding?
We're keeping smart people employed doing the things they enjoy doing, that's about as good an investment as we can make. I've personally worked with guys that started their careers doing work like this, went on to do work for the military, and ended their careers doing work in industry. Those folks ended up contributing to 3 of 4 major aspects of society (caring for others is the 4th, and most of them did that as well), killing their drive and enthusiasm when they were young would have been a very bad thing for society.
Yeah, because stopping investment in science is SO going to make use the leader of the world economy for the next century....
I'm not sure what the cost of building a large enough chamber would be, but I know back when the budget was $3.5B it was deemed to be significant and had secondary affects on budget due to creating a longer project lifetime. Those positions may have changed given the significant cost increase and timeline slip, but it may be too late to change course now.
They built adaptive optics in this time, though there is a chance either the secondary mirror or the heat shield will fail to deploy (the heat shield is a significant risk as there is no vacuum chamber on earth large enough to fully test it).
It's still going to cost significantly less than a month in Iraq or Afghanistan....
5 years is generally the limit I will push, since I can buy 5 year support contracts (and did with our most recent SAN purchase since year 4 and 5 can be outrageously expensive if bought after the fact) I feel I'm well enough protected. Also as you pointed out virtualization means that an OS install isn't tied to any particular box so it can live on well after the host has been retired. Since it generally takes 6-18 months to really get comfortable with a new OS, then 6-18 months to bring any new large scale project to production on it you're already up to 3 years into an OS's lifecycle before you have anything critical on it and add 5 years for hardware lifecycle and you are at 8 years, a year longer than RHEL's support lifecycle which is why the other major vendors offer 10 or 12 year support lifecycles.