Yes, it's scientifically proven that if you swap the MPH and KPH on your odometer, you get 5 points on your IQ right there, because now you're driving rationally.:/
Right now, the fields where it is important to be metric: medicine and science, are already metric. Everything else is just normal day-to-day stuff where metricization buys you nothing. Americans like the old way because it developed form day to day needs. 4 cups in a quart and 4 quarts in a gallon are easy for shoppers. I have little to no interest in dealing with numbers of deciliters. When I am shopping for milk, it's easier for me to make my purchase in the cone of uncertainty of future needs. I either need a pint, a quart, or a gallon. Increasing granularity nets me very little other than a profound feeling of rationalism and the edifying feeling that I am finally, at long last, buying my milk scientifically.
I didn't know there WAS a Bible Belt in Europe, especially the Netherlands. Here in the US, non-abortion-related medicine is usually without any religious controversy, save for the Christian Scientists (who are, depending on what angle you view them from, neither Christian nor scientific), a relatively small, fringe sect that believes that all medical care represents faithlessness.
Here in the deep-south, there's a modern-day parable that goes around Christian circles that demonstrates the general philosophy in this regard: A man goes over a cliff overlooking treacherous waters and manages to grab hold of a thin root half-way down. In desperation he cries out to God, "Save me! Send me deliverence!" Having thus prayed, he resolves to place his trust in God. A man walks by the cliff and lowers a rope. "Grab the rope!" he says. The hanging man replies, "I cannot! I have placed my trust in the Lord, and I will await His deliverance." Next a boat drives by under the cliff. The man in the boat says, "Jump! I'll catch you!" The hanging man replies as he did to the first. Next, a rescue helicopter hovers nearby, and a man lowers a ladder. "Grab the ladder!" he says. Again the hanging man replies as he did to the previous two. Slowly, the hanging man loses his grip, falls into the swirling waters, and drowns. He arrives at heaven, meets God, and cries, "Why did you never answer my prayer?" To which God replies, "What are you talking about? I sent you a man with a rope, a boat, a helicopter..."
No. Vaccination rates are highest in the Bible belt, while they are lowest on the west coast. I think it has less to do with political affiliation and more to do with who reads idiot granola mommy and food blogs.
This isn't so bad as you make out; there is no telling how long this bug has been there, but did not appear until now, and with limited impact, and a fix was released in a matter of hours.
As for sanity checking, there is no guarantee that would have caught this bug; the malformed URL has a deceptive proximity to correctness, to wit, that all the characters belong in a URL and are presented in the correct order. The essential missing piece, the hostname, is explicitly defined as ambiguous in RFC 3986 because it can take multiple forms. The port number is, in fact, optional entirely (though the RFC says you "should" omit the ":" in such cases ["should" is significantly more ambiguous in RFC parlance than "must"]).
Trying to write sanity checks for all such cases would be exhaustive. How many different kinds of almost-correct URL's do you need to check? The combinations could run into the thousands, and each one parsed differently than the other.
Well, my guess would be that they tokenize by the port separator ':' before doing validation of the URL, and end up performing network operations on empty strings. How in the world that break the installation, I have no clue. It may be that it caches the convo, and on trying to read the cache again it breaks? Maybe not.
I don't get too angry about Russian astroturfers on Slashdot anymore than I do the telemarketers that call me up when I'm trying to eat dinner. I can't imagine the job being any more fun, either. But it is sad.
For gaming purposes, the processor is definitely not your bottleneck, as long as it supports enough PCI Express slots to fulfill the needs of your video cards.
These are budget CPU's for low power consumption. The initial Broadwell offering was for mobile, and this is their first desktop offering, targeting business and office with pretty decent integrated graphics, but nothing you'd want for gaming. You would stick with your i7 4770 until the 14nm line begins targeting performance computing.
That first one would have saved me a lot of grief. I graduated from a university where I would correct CS professors on a daily basis and brought an ego the size of Jupiter into a shop with some very, very smart UNIX devs with 15+ years experience. When the dot-bomb hit, there was no question of who should go. It was a humbling experience and probably the most useful to me. No matter how smart you think you are, there is always someone smarter. Be quiet and listen before you speak. You might learn something.
80%? Bah! Would you like some cocoa to go with your milk and sugar? If a chocolate bar doesn't make me scrunch up my face and run for a glass of water, it's not enough!
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Yes, it's scientifically proven that if you swap the MPH and KPH on your odometer, you get 5 points on your IQ right there, because now you're driving rationally. :/
Wait, America, or the planet? Nuking either is a bad idea, but one of those options is rather self-defeating...
Right now, the fields where it is important to be metric: medicine and science, are already metric. Everything else is just normal day-to-day stuff where metricization buys you nothing. Americans like the old way because it developed form day to day needs. 4 cups in a quart and 4 quarts in a gallon are easy for shoppers. I have little to no interest in dealing with numbers of deciliters. When I am shopping for milk, it's easier for me to make my purchase in the cone of uncertainty of future needs. I either need a pint, a quart, or a gallon. Increasing granularity nets me very little other than a profound feeling of rationalism and the edifying feeling that I am finally, at long last, buying my milk scientifically.
That quote immediately made me think of this, completely non-obligatory XKCD.
/sigh... and as I do in every single thread this comes up in: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/previe...
Further data: 7 of the 8 most vaccinated states went to Romney in '12.
I didn't know there WAS a Bible Belt in Europe, especially the Netherlands. Here in the US, non-abortion-related medicine is usually without any religious controversy, save for the Christian Scientists (who are, depending on what angle you view them from, neither Christian nor scientific), a relatively small, fringe sect that believes that all medical care represents faithlessness.
Here in the deep-south, there's a modern-day parable that goes around Christian circles that demonstrates the general philosophy in this regard: A man goes over a cliff overlooking treacherous waters and manages to grab hold of a thin root half-way down. In desperation he cries out to God, "Save me! Send me deliverence!" Having thus prayed, he resolves to place his trust in God. A man walks by the cliff and lowers a rope. "Grab the rope!" he says. The hanging man replies, "I cannot! I have placed my trust in the Lord, and I will await His deliverance." Next a boat drives by under the cliff. The man in the boat says, "Jump! I'll catch you!" The hanging man replies as he did to the first. Next, a rescue helicopter hovers nearby, and a man lowers a ladder. "Grab the ladder!" he says. Again the hanging man replies as he did to the previous two. Slowly, the hanging man loses his grip, falls into the swirling waters, and drowns. He arrives at heaven, meets God, and cries, "Why did you never answer my prayer?" To which God replies, "What are you talking about? I sent you a man with a rope, a boat, a helicopter..."
No. Vaccination rates are highest in the Bible belt, while they are lowest on the west coast. I think it has less to do with political affiliation and more to do with who reads idiot granola mommy and food blogs.
This isn't so bad as you make out; there is no telling how long this bug has been there, but did not appear until now, and with limited impact, and a fix was released in a matter of hours.
As for sanity checking, there is no guarantee that would have caught this bug; the malformed URL has a deceptive proximity to correctness, to wit, that all the characters belong in a URL and are presented in the correct order. The essential missing piece, the hostname, is explicitly defined as ambiguous in RFC 3986 because it can take multiple forms. The port number is, in fact, optional entirely (though the RFC says you "should" omit the ":" in such cases ["should" is significantly more ambiguous in RFC parlance than "must"]).
Trying to write sanity checks for all such cases would be exhaustive. How many different kinds of almost-correct URL's do you need to check? The combinations could run into the thousands, and each one parsed differently than the other.
There's a new version up that fixes the bug, so the point is moot.
Well, my guess would be that they tokenize by the port separator ':' before doing validation of the URL, and end up performing network operations on empty strings. How in the world that break the installation, I have no clue. It may be that it caches the convo, and on trying to read the cache again it breaks? Maybe not.
"Smithers... release the hounds."
The paper-clip CD extractor. I keep one in my desk at all times.
I don't get too angry about Russian astroturfers on Slashdot anymore than I do the telemarketers that call me up when I'm trying to eat dinner. I can't imagine the job being any more fun, either. But it is sad.
*err PCI lanes
For gaming purposes, the processor is definitely not your bottleneck, as long as it supports enough PCI Express slots to fulfill the needs of your video cards.
These are budget CPU's for low power consumption. The initial Broadwell offering was for mobile, and this is their first desktop offering, targeting business and office with pretty decent integrated graphics, but nothing you'd want for gaming. You would stick with your i7 4770 until the 14nm line begins targeting performance computing.
Addendum: If you're the newbie and unpopular, consider that you are not, in fact, right.
That first one would have saved me a lot of grief. I graduated from a university where I would correct CS professors on a daily basis and brought an ego the size of Jupiter into a shop with some very, very smart UNIX devs with 15+ years experience. When the dot-bomb hit, there was no question of who should go. It was a humbling experience and probably the most useful to me. No matter how smart you think you are, there is always someone smarter. Be quiet and listen before you speak. You might learn something.
Ignorance of the law is an excuse?
No. Lack of intent is an excuse, and is part of the law for which ignorance is not an excuse.
If that phrase made no sense to you, then you either (a) don't understand AI or (b) don't understand Pac-Man.
Universities may be publicly funded, but when it comes to research patents they are as commercial as any corporation.
The upgrade will be free for one year after the release. But what after that year?
After that, you'll have to free-upgrade to Windows 11.
I forgot that years hate being anthropomorphized..
No, they do not.
80%? Bah! Would you like some cocoa to go with your milk and sugar? If a chocolate bar doesn't make me scrunch up my face and run for a glass of water, it's not enough!
j/k; 80% is nice. But 90% is nicer.