Take the funding that goes to any one of our air craft carrier groups. They get far more cash than NASA does. Any one of our aircraft carrier groups alone gives us the strongest navy and airforce in the world, so any argument for over 3 is lost on me. This money could be put to really positive use (NASA, education, science grants).
Something about knowing your heat dissipating per square inch just doesn't impressive. What they really like is when you can convert Fahrenheit to Kelvin in your head. THAT gets the ladies.
IPv6 has a reasonable degree of backward compatibility, unlike metric...
I am stunned trying to think of a response... Metric isn't backwards compatible? 1 inch = 2.54 cm... and let's see.. if I multiply.. no.. maybe.. no... you're right, you can't go back!
Why was Japan in the war to begin with, on the axis side? Oh yeah, the US forced them to trade at gun point, signing them into the Unequal Treaties which humiliated the entire country, and a younger and violent military force was able to usurp. Then they went off and killed 20,000,000 Chinese among others. Oops. Our bad.
He did what almost anyone would do in his position: saved his skin and kept his country from going into total civil war. If he had surrendered one second earlier the army would have coup'd against the divinity of the emperor. Yeah, you're right, that would have been much better.
Oh and calling it a sneak attack.. Well guess what genius: every attack is a sneak attack or a failed attack. Ever heard of D Day?
Finally I might add that we not only nuked two Japanese cities, we firebombed other ones. Our killing of their civilians was nothing compared to their army's against China, but that doesn't make it any more right. Just like recent conflicts, this was caused entirely by our country. If I hold any responsibility for the crap carried out by this country in the name of money, I am both ashamed and sorry.
You take the more assertive way. I just refer to Christianity as mythology. Iinstead of being strongly offended and starting an argument, those around me just die a little inside. It's far more rewarding.
At RIT the same system is used. Any email that has a.eml (I beleive, an outlook email file),.vba/s,.exe,.com,.scr and a few others are automatically turned into a text file saying it was replaced. Unfortunately the original message is also often turned into a text file saying it was replaced. I don't have too much of a problem with this system as most people know not to email executables. A simple rarring/zipping solves this security system, for better and for worse. I'd prefer the red flag method myself, except in cases when it is known to be a virus.
Does this mean I won't have to hear all the really stupid conversations over cell phones I hear all the time now? Can we replace the annoying ringer with a shock collar as well?
It sure took me a long time to figure out how to install drivers. I don't understand why X has to has to be off, and as far as I'm concerned, it's a major flaw. Come to think of it I can't even remember how I did it, since my evironment automatically launches into X and there is no single "autoexec" type file to tell me where it's deciding to run startx, or even if it uses something other than startx.
Now I'm not asking for help right now because I don't need it right now. However these things aren't where I'd look for them, so as far as I'm concerned they aren't where they should be. If it takes "getting used to" just to install the video driver, thing's aren't right. Especially if the default video driver is so wrong that it's harmful to your hardware.
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You haven't completely assumed the worst case. ...they want revenge.
C is also alive in the Computer Engineering industry. When you have severely limited ram and rom (say, a few k), you need a lean programming langauge. It's pretty much assumed to either be in assembly or C. C++ is too bulky, and those other languages don't really exist (aside from Basic on some chips) at this level. There is no operating system to drive them. Before C can ever be declared dead, we need massive change in the world of FPGA's, etc.
"The ATM I use is programmed in C#!"
(God help us all)
I'm using wikipedia now for my encyclopedia over google (which I used to use). I've also been looking for alternative searching systems but google still seems to be the best. I wouldn't put much stock in them staying on top after profit driven investors get to them. Froogle has been an interesting foray, I must say.
Don't worry. Soon they'll adopt the business model of the dot com bust and go bust themselves. I'm hoping for an alternative but for the time being, they are still the best option. If anyone has any suggestions for replacements, I'd gladly hear it! I've been using wikipedia for my encyclopedia lately (I used to use google).
I am reminded I am only 20 (and in the US), but that Guinness looks so good. I'm also in Massachusetts which appears to have the worst alcohol laws of any state I've been in.
People here are shocked when I talk about liquor sold in gas stations! (I'm from Maine, founder of prohibition in the US)
Perhaps we could divide the number of mhz by another factor, likely the amount of time to do certain operations. I mean, they need to be able to brag about a chip well before it finishes development. They can't close to guess how it will perform on a given benchmark.
Also an issue in rating. Let's say we have more than more core in a chip-- this will become very popular soon. The hz rating may not be high, and yet it'll do more more cycle. (This is also why they are likely abandoning this measurement. Who knows, maybe the chip will even change speeds depending on how it's being used).
I would question if that sort of war could exist. World War 1 marked the end of all previous styles of war with the machine gun. You charge at me with the entire cavalry of Europe since the beginning of feudalism, and a few people with machine guns can take them out (assuming of course ammo and flat terrain, that's not the point, please don't fight this remark it's just a comparison).
In WW2 the tank almost made this machine gunner obsolete. This one major advantage was gone as vehicles impenetrable to machine gun fire could now squash them.
Now what do we have? Planes that can destroy entire battlefields and cannot be stopped. Even without the planes non-nuclear ICBM's can still decimate very large areas with no way of stopping them. Guerilla tactics only work in the least malleable environments (Vietnam), as a simple air strike can take out any defense position.
Simply put, the thousand vs thousand battles are over, in the sense that they existed in WW2, because air forces are currently unstoppable. I wouldn't say the US has a monopoly of this situation either. I wouldn't put it past Britain, China, Europe, or Russia to be able to destroy any single targets they choose, although they may not be able to do it as many times or with as much accuracy. I also wouldn't put it past Japan to be able to do the same given short preparation (this isn't any sort of stab at Japan, I just think they'd easily be able to "catch up" militarily if circumstances dictated such). In the unlikely situation that all missiles, bombs, and airplanes are "used" up, then we might see it happen. However, information is now omnipresent. I do not believe even the US has the power to mask the position of a million military personal anymore.
Uh depends on the RAID. Raid 0 (not really raid), yes the drives are really dependent on eachother. One fails, you lose everything. RAID 1 they are completely independent duplications. One drive goes away the other one still works. I'm not so sure about the other raids, but 0/1 is enough for me personally. If you want to stack two drives end to end to form a longer drive, I would be confused as why, unless you really needed a partition that big (dvd editing?). I probably wouldn't have a partition above 80 gigs anyway.
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I think they'll buy a race track and name it the Nocona Speedway.
Take the funding that goes to any one of our air craft carrier groups. They get far more cash than NASA does. Any one of our aircraft carrier groups alone gives us the strongest navy and airforce in the world, so any argument for over 3 is lost on me. This money could be put to really positive use (NASA, education, science grants).
Something about knowing your heat dissipating per square inch just doesn't impressive. What they really like is when you can convert Fahrenheit to Kelvin in your head. THAT gets the ladies.
Oops my bad. Took "ISS" for something else. Well, reason #2 still applies :) (not that I want them to do it)
They wrote the infectable software... they provide windows as a kill-all solution but don't package a real firewall... How can we not blame them?
IPv6 has a reasonable degree of backward compatibility, unlike metric...
I am stunned trying to think of a response... Metric isn't backwards compatible? 1 inch = 2.54 cm... and let's see.. if I multiply.. no.. maybe.. no... you're right, you can't go back!
Why was Japan in the war to begin with, on the axis side? Oh yeah, the US forced them to trade at gun point, signing them into the Unequal Treaties which humiliated the entire country, and a younger and violent military force was able to usurp. Then they went off and killed 20,000,000 Chinese among others. Oops. Our bad.
He did what almost anyone would do in his position: saved his skin and kept his country from going into total civil war. If he had surrendered one second earlier the army would have coup'd against the divinity of the emperor. Yeah, you're right, that would have been much better.
Oh and calling it a sneak attack.. Well guess what genius: every attack is a sneak attack or a failed attack. Ever heard of D Day?
Finally I might add that we not only nuked two Japanese cities, we firebombed other ones. Our killing of their civilians was nothing compared to their army's against China, but that doesn't make it any more right. Just like recent conflicts, this was caused entirely by our country. If I hold any responsibility for the crap carried out by this country in the name of money, I am both ashamed and sorry.
... but then everyone listens to you because your words are BACKED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!!
You take the more assertive way. I just refer to Christianity as mythology. Iinstead of being strongly offended and starting an argument, those around me just die a little inside. It's far more rewarding.
At RIT the same system is used. Any email that has a .eml (I beleive, an outlook email file), .vba/s, .exe, .com, .scr and a few others are automatically turned into a text file saying it was replaced. Unfortunately the original message is also often turned into a text file saying it was replaced. I don't have too much of a problem with this system as most people know not to email executables. A simple rarring/zipping solves this security system, for better and for worse. I'd prefer the red flag method myself, except in cases when it is known to be a virus.
It would have worked too if it weren't for you meddling kids!
Phones are adding things. Watches are getting bigger. Let Phone(t) be a function defining a Phone at type t, likewise for Watch(t).
Phone(t) = Watch(t) | t->infinity
Does this mean I won't have to hear all the really stupid conversations over cell phones I hear all the time now? Can we replace the annoying ringer with a shock collar as well?
It sure took me a long time to figure out how to install drivers. I don't understand why X has to has to be off, and as far as I'm concerned, it's a major flaw. Come to think of it I can't even remember how I did it, since my evironment automatically launches into X and there is no single "autoexec" type file to tell me where it's deciding to run startx, or even if it uses something other than startx.
Now I'm not asking for help right now because I don't need it right now. However these things aren't where I'd look for them, so as far as I'm concerned they aren't where they should be. If it takes "getting used to" just to install the video driver, thing's aren't right. Especially if the default video driver is so wrong that it's harmful to your hardware.
You haven't completely assumed the worst case.
...they want revenge.
(/joke)
C is also alive in the Computer Engineering industry. When you have severely limited ram and rom (say, a few k), you need a lean programming langauge. It's pretty much assumed to either be in assembly or C. C++ is too bulky, and those other languages don't really exist (aside from Basic on some chips) at this level. There is no operating system to drive them. Before C can ever be declared dead, we need massive change in the world of FPGA's, etc.
"The ATM I use is programmed in C#!"
(God help us all)
I'm using wikipedia now for my encyclopedia over google (which I used to use). I've also been looking for alternative searching systems but google still seems to be the best. I wouldn't put much stock in them staying on top after profit driven investors get to them. Froogle has been an interesting foray, I must say.
Don't worry. Soon they'll adopt the business model of the dot com bust and go bust themselves. I'm hoping for an alternative but for the time being, they are still the best option. If anyone has any suggestions for replacements, I'd gladly hear it! I've been using wikipedia for my encyclopedia lately (I used to use google).
I am reminded I am only 20 (and in the US), but that Guinness looks so good. I'm also in Massachusetts which appears to have the worst alcohol laws of any state I've been in.
People here are shocked when I talk about liquor sold in gas stations! (I'm from Maine, founder of prohibition in the US)
Perhaps we could divide the number of mhz by another factor, likely the amount of time to do certain operations. I mean, they need to be able to brag about a chip well before it finishes development. They can't close to guess how it will perform on a given benchmark.
Also an issue in rating. Let's say we have more than more core in a chip-- this will become very popular soon. The hz rating may not be high, and yet it'll do more more cycle. (This is also why they are likely abandoning this measurement. Who knows, maybe the chip will even change speeds depending on how it's being used).
Perhaps maximum throughput would be best.
I would question if that sort of war could exist. World War 1 marked the end of all previous styles of war with the machine gun. You charge at me with the entire cavalry of Europe since the beginning of feudalism, and a few people with machine guns can take them out (assuming of course ammo and flat terrain, that's not the point, please don't fight this remark it's just a comparison).
In WW2 the tank almost made this machine gunner obsolete. This one major advantage was gone as vehicles impenetrable to machine gun fire could now squash them.
Now what do we have? Planes that can destroy entire battlefields and cannot be stopped. Even without the planes non-nuclear ICBM's can still decimate very large areas with no way of stopping them. Guerilla tactics only work in the least malleable environments (Vietnam), as a simple air strike can take out any defense position.
Simply put, the thousand vs thousand battles are over, in the sense that they existed in WW2, because air forces are currently unstoppable. I wouldn't say the US has a monopoly of this situation either. I wouldn't put it past Britain, China, Europe, or Russia to be able to destroy any single targets they choose, although they may not be able to do it as many times or with as much accuracy. I also wouldn't put it past Japan to be able to do the same given short preparation (this isn't any sort of stab at Japan, I just think they'd easily be able to "catch up" militarily if circumstances dictated such). In the unlikely situation that all missiles, bombs, and airplanes are "used" up, then we might see it happen. However, information is now omnipresent. I do not believe even the US has the power to mask the position of a million military personal anymore.
Are we referring to electronic voting? :)
If so, I'm hoping they do the papertrail work. No reason not to.
Optimus Prime is jewish?
(/nothing to see here, you don't get it>
Uh depends on the RAID. Raid 0 (not really raid), yes the drives are really dependent on eachother. One fails, you lose everything. RAID 1 they are completely independent duplications. One drive goes away the other one still works. I'm not so sure about the other raids, but 0/1 is enough for me personally. If you want to stack two drives end to end to form a longer drive, I would be confused as why, unless you really needed a partition that big (dvd editing?). I probably wouldn't have a partition above 80 gigs anyway.