I have seen the power supplies on running PCs catch on fire -- PC continues to operate while smoke is rolling out of the P/S. This condition does not last long though. The extra fuel of a cardboard case might be enough to get a more interesting fire going.
Just for the sake of argument, assume Bing was exactly equivalent to Google in terms of search quality. How many people would switch to using Bing -- very few. People did not switch in droves from Detroit to Japanese autos until Detroit autos sucked in comparison for years.
Most Bing users are likely not using Bing because Bing is better (I sure don't think it is), but because it is the default browser and they are too clueless, indifferent to lazy to switch to Google (or IT has made the decision for them).
Well, you were certainly deluded or disingenuous. This country does not allow you to yell "fire" in a crowded theater for jollies, engage in libel or slander, publish child pornography, fraudulent financial statements, or classified information. etc -- You will find no evidence that these things were intended for protection in anything written by the founders.
The primary original intent of the free speech clause was to protect freedom political speech. Religious, Economic, Literature, etc. were also intended based on other writings by the founders. It was not intended as carte blanche for all conceivable forms of expression. Recents courts have historically taken an encompassing view of the free speech clause, but clearly not all-encompassing (i.e., the exceptions I stated above)
Not quite. Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan. gave Al Qaeda a safe place to base their operations, training camps, etc. In any normally legal definition of guilt, the Taliban would be considered guilty.
"After the Sudanese made it clear, in May 1996, that bin Laden would never be welcome to return,[clarification needed] Taliban-controlled Afghanistan—with previously established connections between the groups, administered with a shared militancy,[88] and largely isolated from American political influence and military power—provided a perfect location for al-Qaeda to relocate its headquarters. Al-Qaeda enjoyed the Taliban's protection and a measure of legitimacy as part of their Ministry of Defense, although only Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan."
You do have the option to compile MSIL to native code (NGen) instead of JIT. Or Excelsior JET for the JVM (never tried this). Never tried the native compiler on Mono either.
Any of these should eliminate runtime overheads (with the exception of course of the features that you use). You are always able to roll your own high performance run-time structure instead of the standard structures when you must for performance. Expressive languages often compiles into a lot of code at run time -- late binding vs. early binding is just a common and obvious one.
There's always the FORTRAN option if you need HPC.
Scientific computing is not always about HPC. It can also be language well matched to the science. Of course, it often is about HPC too. Maybe Halfdan the Black is more interested in the expressiveness of F# than he was in ultimate HPC (esp. given his comparison to Python).
What's not to like, F# with Apache License sounds like its fair game if it suits your purposes well. Why dump on someone's parade just because it does not please you? Me, I think F# is interesting, I just don't have much reason to use it.
Amen to that -- So few people, even supposed "technically with it" grasp that C-14 dating is essentially useless for evolutionary theory at all. Few C-14 people would date anything must past 100,000 years (and even that is pretty speculative with current technology). Half-life, 5730 years. 1 Mole of C-14 (14 grams) decays to a single atom in log(6.02E23)/log(2) = 79 generations, i.e., 452,670 years. C-14 dating will never be the basis for any dating of anything significant in terms of evolutionary theory.
BTW, at least some of the religious fanatics already know this.
Since we have now god-like technology, altering the laws of physics as you ancient humans think of as true. Off the top of my frond, I can think of 1) Statis fields, 2) Inertial dampers, 3) Teleportation, 4) Resurrection via any of the standard methods, 5) Time-travel, 6) phase shifting, 7) Intercellular structural reinforcement and 8) Real-time topology control . This is just limiting myself standard techniques developed during the third millenium.
Too tempting to ignore. Part of the delay in fixing the oil leak is a fault of the US government. I have no love for BP, but I don't for the gubment either. I sure blame fixing will require decades of hindsight. Maybe you will believe me if you read this , generally liberal news source
My brother wrote a letter to the editor that expressed some controversial views. About few years later, he decided to run for the state senate -- his letter to the editor was repeatedly raised by the opposition, so letters to the editor can show up -- but in the case of job reviews and suchlike, it is clear that the additional expense will discourage this.
However, search engines may well be indexing the letter to the editor you write and unless you have it published with "Name withheld by request", you run smack into the same situation. Nothing is private from someone someone sufficiently motivated to find it out.
Yes, I do enjoy snacking on kittens - Why do you ask?
Read your history more closely, Hoover policies were much closer to FDR than Coolidge. Here is the first paragraph from Wikipedia on Hoover policies.
Hoover entered office with a plan to reform the nation's regulatory system, believing that a federal bureaucracy should have limited regulation over a country's economic system.[27] A self-described Progressive and Reformer, Hoover saw the presidency as a vehicle for improving the conditions of all Americans by regulation and by encouraging volunteerism. Long before entering politics, he had denounced laissez-faire thinking.[28] As Commerce Secretary, he had taken an active pro-regulation stance. As President, he helped push tariff and farm subsidy bills through Congress.
Hoover was far from conservative. Coolidge was certainly not a perfect conservative and made numerous policy mistakes too, but he was a conservative and did nothing legally justifying impeachment (that I am aware of at least)
Re: women's suffrage -- Ideally I would pass a new amendment that codifies reasonable voting qualifications thus making the 19th and 26th amendments moot. But failing that, I would repeal this. Explaining the difference between this and the 12th-14th amendments would be a lengthy discussion. Just because I have the facts on my side, does not mean they can be successful argued to the general public and certainly not quickly.
Explaining the factual basis of why the 19th & 26th should, but not the 12th-14th is too involved.
I have long known that my fact-based views are considered fringe or worse, so re: "The American Way", so yes, I concede that point.
As a actual conservative, let me assure you Bill Clinton was no conservative. The most recent conservative president was Calvin Coolidge. The most recent Democratic Party conservative president was Grover Cleveland.
Ronald Reagan was not conservative either. Rush Limbaugh is not. Ron Paul might be (of course, his influence is essentially nil).
Repeat after me, I am a conservative, I believe and can support it up by the facts that... Obama should be impeached, George W Bush should have been impeached. Bill Clinton was impeached. George H.W. Bush should have been impeached. Ronald Reagan should have been impeached. Jimmy Carter should have been impeached. Gerald Ford should have been impeached. Richard Nixon would have been impeached had he not resigned. LBJ, JFK, DDE, HST, FDR and Hoover should all have been impeached. Of course, these all should have been convicted (removed from office), not just impeached by the house
I suspect I could say the same about virtually every member of Congress, The Supreme Court, or other Federal Judges if I had.to research their breach of trust while in office.
I would also repeal amendments 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, and 26 of the U.S. Constitution and can justify each on by clear factual based logic.
BTW, these all of these should have been convicted as well resulting in their removal from office. Wash rinse and repeat until you start getting actual conservatives in office.
Short of agreeing with me, you are not a fact-based conservative, though you may well believe that you are. You may think I am a nutjob (and most people do), but I have truth, justice, and the American way on my side.
The real trick is trying to figure out any policy difference between Hoover & FDR. An honest look at history (including several of FDR's advisor) admit the new deal was largely a continuation of the policies started by Hoover. FDR himself said that he would have voted for Hoover had he not gotten the nomination.
On the plus side, it is expected to "create or save" about 5000 jobs (a mere $160.000) -- Hard to guess how many "bogus" saved jobs are in this accounting.
On the minus side, it is guaranteed to take (theft when not done by the government) the entire income of about 16,000 workers in order to support pay for this.
When are we going to break this cycle of stupidity. And yes, this is probably better than a lot of government spending.
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen. Frederic Bastiat - What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen
Well, speaking of problem of interpretation, most people ignore one of the clearest guidelines for interpretation of Revelations, Rev 1:3 (IIRC) clearly states the prophecy is for "The time is almost here" -- There is no way to consider 2000 years later as something coming "The time is almost here". Second issue is that most modern readers have no clue re: "apocalyptic language" as is clearly used in Revelations (though is was a familiar style to Hebrew and more broadly Middle Eastern readers) of the early Christian era.
Oh, by the way, under the Roman empire, you had to have the "approval or Rome" in order to sell. You even had to display the symbol (mark) so people could tell you were licensed to sell -- I have to have approval from the US and Indiana governments to sell today for that matter. The number 666 has been assigned to just about everyone, but the case for Rome is certainly a top contender for this privilege. Certainly the well-known Christian persecution under the Roman empire is also clearly consistent with the word pictures of the prophecy. So yeah, I think the "mark of the beast" is a reference to Rome and most people abuse the related scriptures to their own detriment. I also know that this is not the most popular interpretation (accuracy is not determined by popularity however).
I know that Slashdot is hardly the ideal place for serious study of religious, but if one intends to "live their life" by the principals of the Bible (and more specifically serve Jesus Christ as their Lord), it would certainly make sense that they learn how to study the Bible, and make sure that that they do so carefully instead of relying on whatever "their preacher says". Yes, these Christians in the article are foolish, ignorant (of their Bible). It is a smear to assume they are also pro killing abortion doctors though.
But understand that many Christians do study the Bible seriously, and do not interpret , "Thou shalt not murder" as "Thou shalt not murder -- unless it is an abortion doctor". Or consider the mark of the beast as bar-code, or an unique computer id. This is a straw man attack for nearly all Christians.
Re: "lots of wiggle room", this is also an unfortunate myth.
Feel free to make fun of these Christians (or me for that matter).
Maybe, maybe not. Economists are still divided on that, many are predicting a double-dip too. I believe the Regan said
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours A recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Assuming this to be true, there are a few possibilities
1) Recovery is not possible since JC has no job to lose 2) BO is the functional equivalent and recovery is when BO loses his job 3) Recovery is futile (after all this is an article re: Bill Gates)
A million monkey's is nothing for this problem. If you had 1E100 monkey/typewriter pairs (>> atoms in universe), banging out random text at 200 WPM would will still never see a single copy of Comedy of Errors (his shortest play, 16,263 words) even if you waited 1E100 years -- You really need an infinite number of monkey/typewrites pairs, in which case you will have a Complete copy of ALL or his plays, translated into every language (representable by the typewriter character set) in under 3 hours (200 WPM needed to bang out hamlet's 32,253 words) -- OK, some languages may take a little longer because of their verbosity, call it 6 hours at most
As a bonus, you also get copies of every possible (sufficiently short) software program, etc. in the process too -- including the one referred to by the original article.
Adding (or subtracting, dividing or multiplying) monkeypower to infinity won't make it faster or slower other (infinity * 4 = infinity)
Never confuse "really big countable numbers" with infinity.
Remember to play fair with the creationist. The King James translators did not know how to translate the Hebrew (dead language and all), so they threw in unicorns, dragons, behemoths, etc. as substitutes for whatever was meant in the original language.
The so-called science mentioned is terribly inaccurate anyway... scientists have known since 1970 that life started out right handed, but it was accidentally reversed in a transporter accident as documented by James Blish -- See Wikipedia entry on Chirality if you don't believe me.
Actually, Blish only documented the accidental duplication and reversal of Mr. Spock, the remaining steps are left as a exercise for the reader.
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I have seen the power supplies on running PCs catch on fire -- PC continues to operate while smoke is rolling out of the P/S. This condition does not last long though. The extra fuel of a cardboard case might be enough to get a more interesting fire going.
Just for the sake of argument, assume Bing was exactly equivalent to Google in terms of search quality. How many people would switch to using Bing -- very few. People did not switch in droves from Detroit to Japanese autos until Detroit autos sucked in comparison for years.
Most Bing users are likely not using Bing because Bing is better (I sure don't think it is), but because it is the default browser and they are too clueless, indifferent to lazy to switch to Google (or IT has made the decision for them).
You must think in Russian, not German
Movie: Firefox -- worth watching once.
Well, you were certainly deluded or disingenuous. This country does not allow you to yell "fire" in a crowded theater for jollies, engage in libel or slander, publish child pornography, fraudulent financial statements, or classified information. etc -- You will find no evidence that these things were intended for protection in anything written by the founders.
The primary original intent of the free speech clause was to protect freedom political speech. Religious, Economic, Literature, etc. were also intended based on other writings by the founders. It was not intended as carte blanche for all conceivable forms of expression. Recents courts have historically taken an encompassing view of the free speech clause, but clearly not all-encompassing (i.e., the exceptions I stated above)
It not only violates the spirit, it also violate the law (at least in some states). Chance of actual serving criminal penalties is minimal though.
Not quite. Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan. gave Al Qaeda a safe place to base their operations, training camps, etc. In any normally legal definition of guilt, the Taliban would be considered guilty.
From article
"After the Sudanese made it clear, in May 1996, that bin Laden would never be welcome to return,[clarification needed] Taliban-controlled Afghanistan—with previously established connections between the groups, administered with a shared militancy,[88] and largely isolated from American political influence and military power—provided a perfect location for al-Qaeda to relocate its headquarters. Al-Qaeda enjoyed the Taliban's protection and a measure of legitimacy as part of their Ministry of Defense, although only Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan."
You do have the option to compile MSIL to native code (NGen) instead of JIT. Or Excelsior JET for the JVM (never tried this). Never tried the native compiler on Mono either.
Any of these should eliminate runtime overheads (with the exception of course of the features that you use). You are always able to roll your own high performance run-time structure instead of the standard structures when you must for performance. Expressive languages often compiles into a lot of code at run time -- late binding vs. early binding is just a common and obvious one.
There's always the FORTRAN option if you need HPC.
Scientific computing is not always about HPC. It can also be language well matched to the science. Of course, it often is about HPC too. Maybe Halfdan the Black is more interested in the expressiveness of F# than he was in ultimate HPC (esp. given his comparison to Python).
What's not to like, F# with Apache License sounds like its fair game if it suits your purposes well. Why dump on someone's parade just because it does not please you? Me, I think F# is interesting, I just don't have much reason to use it.
Amen to that -- So few people, even supposed "technically with it" grasp that C-14 dating is essentially useless for evolutionary theory at all. Few C-14 people would date anything must past 100,000 years (and even that is pretty speculative with current technology). Half-life, 5730 years. 1 Mole of C-14 (14 grams) decays to a single atom in log(6.02E23)/log(2) = 79 generations, i.e., 452,670 years. C-14 dating will never be the basis for any dating of anything significant in terms of evolutionary theory.
BTW, at least some of the religious fanatics already know this.
Since we have now god-like technology, altering the laws of physics as you ancient humans think of as true. Off the top of my frond, I can think of 1) Statis fields, 2) Inertial dampers, 3) Teleportation, 4) Resurrection via any of the standard methods, 5) Time-travel, 6) phase shifting, 7) Intercellular structural reinforcement and 8) Real-time topology control . This is just limiting myself standard techniques developed during the third millenium.
Or maybe they are like me. I used to wear my seatbelt all the time, until the state government passed a law that said that I must wear the seat-belt.
Too tempting to ignore. Part of the delay in fixing the oil leak is a fault of the US government. I have no love for BP, but I don't for the gubment either. I sure blame fixing will require decades of hindsight. Maybe you will believe me if you read this , generally liberal news source
My brother wrote a letter to the editor that expressed some controversial views. About few years later, he decided to run for the state senate -- his letter to the editor was repeatedly raised by the opposition, so letters to the editor can show up -- but in the case of job reviews and suchlike, it is clear that the additional expense will discourage this.
However, search engines may well be indexing the letter to the editor you write and unless you have it published with "Name withheld by request", you run smack into the same situation. Nothing is private from someone someone sufficiently motivated to find it out.
Yes, I do enjoy snacking on kittens - Why do you ask?
Read your history more closely, Hoover policies were much closer to FDR than Coolidge. Here is the first paragraph from Wikipedia on Hoover policies.
Hoover entered office with a plan to reform the nation's regulatory system, believing that a federal bureaucracy should have limited regulation over a country's economic system.[27] A self-described Progressive and Reformer, Hoover saw the presidency as a vehicle for improving the conditions of all Americans by regulation and by encouraging volunteerism. Long before entering politics, he had denounced laissez-faire thinking.[28] As Commerce Secretary, he had taken an active pro-regulation stance. As President, he helped push tariff and farm subsidy bills through Congress.
Hoover was far from conservative. Coolidge was certainly not a perfect conservative and made numerous policy mistakes too, but he was a conservative and did nothing legally justifying impeachment (that I am aware of at least)
Re: women's suffrage -- Ideally I would pass a new amendment that codifies reasonable voting qualifications thus making the 19th and 26th amendments moot. But failing that, I would repeal this. Explaining the difference between this and the 12th-14th amendments would be a lengthy discussion. Just because I have the facts on my side, does not mean they can be successful argued to the general public and certainly not quickly.
Explaining the factual basis of why the 19th & 26th should, but not the 12th-14th is too involved.
I have long known that my fact-based views are considered fringe or worse, so re: "The American Way", so yes, I concede that point.
As a actual conservative, let me assure you Bill Clinton was no conservative. The most recent conservative president was Calvin Coolidge. The most recent Democratic Party conservative president was Grover Cleveland.
Ronald Reagan was not conservative either. Rush Limbaugh is not. Ron Paul might be (of course, his influence is essentially nil).
Repeat after me, I am a conservative, I believe and can support it up by the facts that ...
Obama should be impeached, George W Bush should have been impeached. Bill Clinton was impeached. George H.W. Bush should have been impeached. Ronald Reagan should have been impeached. Jimmy Carter should have been impeached. Gerald Ford should have been impeached. Richard Nixon would have been impeached had he not resigned. LBJ, JFK, DDE, HST, FDR and Hoover should all have been impeached. Of course, these all should have been convicted (removed from office), not just impeached by the house
I suspect I could say the same about virtually every member of Congress, The Supreme Court, or other Federal Judges if I had.to research their breach of trust while in office.
I would also repeal amendments 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, and 26 of the U.S. Constitution and can justify each on by clear factual based logic.
BTW, these all of these should have been convicted as well resulting in their removal from office. Wash rinse and repeat until you start getting actual conservatives in office.
Short of agreeing with me, you are not a fact-based conservative, though you may well believe that you are. You may think I am a nutjob (and most people do), but I have truth, justice, and the American way on my side.
Won't someone think of the poor starving Horta babies?
The real trick is trying to figure out any policy difference between Hoover & FDR. An honest look at history (including several of FDR's advisor) admit the new deal was largely a continuation of the policies started by Hoover. FDR himself said that he would have voted for Hoover had he not gotten the nomination.
On the plus side, it is expected to "create or save" about 5000 jobs (a mere $160.000) -- Hard to guess how many "bogus" saved jobs are in this accounting.
On the minus side, it is guaranteed to take (theft when not done by the government) the entire income of about 16,000 workers in order to support pay for this.
When are we going to break this cycle of stupidity. And yes, this is probably better than a lot of government spending.
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.
Frederic Bastiat - What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen
Wow, the US spends 255 trillion dollars a year on oil -- no wonder we are broke.
Using very rounded figures: 20 million barrels per day @ 100 $ / barrel = $2 billion / day.
I thing $700 billion per year might be more likely than $700B every day
How about "Scientology"? -- That should be popular with the crowd here.
Well, speaking of problem of interpretation, most people ignore one of the clearest guidelines for interpretation of Revelations, Rev 1:3 (IIRC) clearly states the prophecy is for "The time is almost here" -- There is no way to consider 2000 years later as something coming "The time is almost here". Second issue is that most modern readers have no clue re: "apocalyptic language" as is clearly used in Revelations (though is was a familiar style to Hebrew and more broadly Middle Eastern readers) of the early Christian era.
Oh, by the way, under the Roman empire, you had to have the "approval or Rome" in order to sell. You even had to display the symbol (mark) so people could tell you were licensed to sell -- I have to have approval from the US and Indiana governments to sell today for that matter. The number 666 has been assigned to just about everyone, but the case for Rome is certainly a top contender for this privilege. Certainly the well-known Christian persecution under the Roman empire is also clearly consistent with the word pictures of the prophecy. So yeah, I think the "mark of the beast" is a reference to Rome and most people abuse the related scriptures to their own detriment. I also know that this is not the most popular interpretation (accuracy is not determined by popularity however).
I know that Slashdot is hardly the ideal place for serious study of religious, but if one intends to "live their life" by the principals of the Bible (and more specifically serve Jesus Christ as their Lord), it would certainly make sense that they learn how to study the Bible, and make sure that that they do so carefully instead of relying on whatever "their preacher says". Yes, these Christians in the article are foolish, ignorant (of their Bible). It is a smear to assume they are also pro killing abortion doctors though.
But understand that many Christians do study the Bible seriously, and do not interpret , "Thou shalt not murder" as "Thou shalt not murder -- unless it is an abortion doctor". Or consider the mark of the beast as bar-code, or an unique computer id. This is a straw man attack for nearly all Christians.
Re: "lots of wiggle room", this is also an unfortunate myth.
Feel free to make fun of these Christians (or me for that matter).
Maybe, maybe not. Economists are still divided on that, many are predicting a double-dip too. I believe the Regan said
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
A depression is when you lose yours
A recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Assuming this to be true, there are a few possibilities
1) Recovery is not possible since JC has no job to lose
2) BO is the functional equivalent and recovery is when BO loses his job
3) Recovery is futile (after all this is an article re: Bill Gates)
Of course, the assumption may be flawed.
A million monkey's is nothing for this problem. If you had 1E100 monkey/typewriter pairs (>> atoms in universe), banging out random text at 200 WPM would will still never see a single copy of Comedy of Errors (his shortest play, 16,263 words) even if you waited 1E100 years -- You really need an infinite number of monkey/typewrites pairs, in which case you will have a Complete copy of ALL or his plays, translated into every language (representable by the typewriter character set) in under 3 hours (200 WPM needed to bang out hamlet's 32,253 words) -- OK, some languages may take a little longer because of their verbosity, call it 6 hours at most
As a bonus, you also get copies of every possible (sufficiently short) software program, etc. in the process too -- including the one referred to by the original article.
Adding (or subtracting, dividing or multiplying) monkeypower to infinity won't make it faster or slower other (infinity * 4 = infinity)
Never confuse "really big countable numbers" with infinity.
Well, we know one thing for certain: "Resistance is futile"
Dude, he said 20K visitors. There is NO way that an IE6 fan club has that many visitors.
Remember to play fair with the creationist. The King James translators did not know how to translate the Hebrew (dead language and all), so they threw in unicorns, dragons, behemoths, etc. as substitutes for whatever was meant in the original language.
... scientists have known since 1970 that life started out right handed, but it was accidentally reversed in a transporter accident as documented by James Blish -- See Wikipedia entry on Chirality if you don't believe me.
The so-called science mentioned is terribly inaccurate anyway
Actually, Blish only documented the accidental duplication and reversal of Mr. Spock, the remaining steps are left as a exercise for the reader.