A single (single or dual core) super-duper fast processor may be good at some benchmarks but consider this.
Plugging in two Athlon 64s/Opterons doubles the memory bandwidth due to the NUMA (Hypertransport) architecture. That intel processor is choking on an old-fashioned 1980's-vintage front side bus. If you have two, they're both fighting over that bus.
This is why Pentium multiprocessor systems don't scale well. You get a bit of a benefit with a second processor, with very small and diminishing gains with additional processors.
It's bad enough one word can have dozens of meanings, but then you have cases like: Weigh, way, and whey.
The English language is spoken throughout the world in a multitude of accents and dialects. Making up a new spelling scheme on one region's colloquial pronunciation is a bad idea.
In the British Isles, where the language originated, we can barely understand each other. For example, most people are familiar with South East England accents (especially London) because that's where the major concentration of population and power (and hence TV and radio production) lies. However, people there have very little exposure to regional accents. I find London accents (and Kent, Essex, Sussex and Hertfordshire) hilarious. I am Scottish and my wife is from South London. Many people where she is from can't understand Scottish accents. We can understand theirs (always on TV and radio).
These "weigh, way and whey" homonyms are not in Scotland. We still have the asperated "h". "Wine" and "whine" are tow different sounds to us (hence why we don't find "bloody great fishes are Wales" obvious and amusing). We say "wine" and "hwine".
In Yorkshire, they still say "thee," "thou" and "thy" for "you," "you" and "your."
In America they can't pronounce the letter "t": c.f. Bill Gates' Innernet and they do queer things with their vowels.
The Australians sound like a cross between Cockeney villains and Irish tinkers.
The Saaff Ifrickens sand lik Satan incarnate.
Don't get me started on the Welsh, boyo, or them zoider drinkin wes cantry folks.
Heaven help any of us who set foot in the city of Aberdeen (the proper one in Scotland not Washington State).
...politicians are busy trying to outlaw grass-roots wifi networks in the interests of the corporations, under the excuses "War on Terror" and "Child Safety."
Heh. As soon as I turned 13 my mum was on at me constantly to get a paper round. Luckily, I didn't get one. I got a (short lived) job as a water working for some psychopaths when I was 15.
We weren't exactly short of money, but my mother was of the opinion that programming C and Modula 2 for a hobby was the devil's work and I should go out and be exploited and humiliated by some Scottish Calvinists for a pittence.
Why the free education but no free healt care? Surely in a Capitalist society, it should be up to parents to pay for their own offspring's education, and shouldn't be compulsory? After all, why should the state impose upon the people? And why should the rich have to subsidise the (otfen un-appreciated) education of the idle poor who are being yet more of a burden on society?
Perhaps he'd rather buy them on CD than have a lossy compressed file. I would. There is so much loss of resolution in MP3 and ogg/vorbis files.
For some of us, these lossily-compressed files are a big step backwards. Now that flash memory is becoming very cheap and broadband is ubiquitous, there's no need for lossy compression. FLAC does a good enough job.
Over the years, as disk space becomes cheaper, I've been ripping my CDs to FLAC and recoding to MP3 or ogg/vorbis as required. I listen to FLAC on my PeeCee using xmms and MP3 on my Palm.
Actually, there's lots of stuff being done by nursing schools to bring in male students. Partly to address the nursing shortage, and partly to achieve gender equity (or at least get closer to it) just for the sake of doing it.
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A single (single or dual core) super-duper fast processor may be good at some benchmarks but consider this.
Plugging in two Athlon 64s/Opterons doubles the memory bandwidth due to the NUMA (Hypertransport) architecture. That intel processor is choking on an old-fashioned 1980's-vintage front side bus. If you have two, they're both fighting over that bus.
This is why Pentium multiprocessor systems don't scale well. You get a bit of a benefit with a second processor, with very small and diminishing gains with additional processors.
I'm not convinced that 'helping infertile couples have children' is the ultimate rationale - is everyone ENTITLED to have children?
Some people are random and prolific producers of offspring while others can't produce a single child while trying purposefully for years.
Who are you to make a moral judgement on who should not be helped?
It's bad enough one word can have dozens of meanings, but then you have cases like: Weigh, way, and whey.
The English language is spoken throughout the world in a multitude of accents and dialects. Making up a new spelling scheme on one region's colloquial pronunciation is a bad idea.
In the British Isles, where the language originated, we can barely understand each other. For example, most people are familiar with South East England accents (especially London) because that's where the major concentration of population and power (and hence TV and radio production) lies. However, people there have very little exposure to regional accents. I find London accents (and Kent, Essex, Sussex and Hertfordshire) hilarious. I am Scottish and my wife is from South London. Many people where she is from can't understand Scottish accents. We can understand theirs (always on TV and radio).
These "weigh, way and whey" homonyms are not in Scotland. We still have the asperated "h". "Wine" and "whine" are tow different sounds to us (hence why we don't find "bloody great fishes are Wales" obvious and amusing). We say "wine" and "hwine".
In Yorkshire, they still say "thee," "thou" and "thy" for "you," "you" and "your."
In America they can't pronounce the letter "t": c.f. Bill Gates' Innernet and they do queer things with their vowels.
The Australians sound like a cross between Cockeney villains and Irish tinkers.
The Saaff Ifrickens sand lik Satan incarnate.
Don't get me started on the Welsh, boyo, or them zoider drinkin wes cantry folks.
Heaven help any of us who set foot in the city of Aberdeen (the proper one in Scotland not Washington State).
..."Of these English tourists!"
/me ducks.
Yeehaw cowboy!
Taking risk for risk's sake is insane.
Why take a risk when you can assess it and engineer it out, thus reducing the over-all risk?
Calm down dude, it's OK, I used to work for Sun. I heared all about ZFS before they started writing the code.
"128 bits should be enough for anyone." - Scott G. McNealy (retired).
/me ducks.
...or, as my mother used to say while she was beating me, "Two wrongs don't make a right!"
Slow news day in Kansas, Toto?
Zeus is so going to kick your ass.
His name is Jupiter.
...politicians are busy trying to outlaw grass-roots wifi networks in the interests of the corporations, under the excuses "War on Terror" and "Child Safety."
It is not a barrier, but neither is it an enabler. Unfortunately I am not rich.
...that stupidity is no barrier to obtaining wealth.
s/water/waiter/
Heh. As soon as I turned 13 my mum was on at me constantly to get a paper round. Luckily, I didn't get one. I got a (short lived) job as a water working for some psychopaths when I was 15.
We weren't exactly short of money, but my mother was of the opinion that programming C and Modula 2 for a hobby was the devil's work and I should go out and be exploited and humiliated by some Scottish Calvinists for a pittence.
The more I learn about America, the more incredulous I am. I can't understand it at all.
Why the free education but no free healt care? Surely in a Capitalist society, it should be up to parents to pay for their own offspring's education, and shouldn't be compulsory? After all, why should the state impose upon the people? And why should the rich have to subsidise the (otfen un-appreciated) education of the idle poor who are being yet more of a burden on society?
Perhaps he'd rather buy them on CD than have a lossy compressed file. I would. There is so much loss of resolution in MP3 and ogg/vorbis files.
For some of us, these lossily-compressed files are a big step backwards. Now that flash memory is becoming very cheap and broadband is ubiquitous, there's no need for lossy compression. FLAC does a good enough job.
Over the years, as disk space becomes cheaper, I've been ripping my CDs to FLAC and recoding to MP3 or ogg/vorbis as required. I listen to FLAC on my PeeCee using xmms and MP3 on my Palm.
No one's proposing that we attempt to breathe the atmosphere on Mars.
It would be an interesting and valuable laerning exercise setting up a semi-independent colony on Mars. We need some nuclear powered rockets first.
Being an adult is awesome if you just follow the golden words of Paul McCartney and let it be!
We might as well give up now.
So how is this any better than the swing-wing designs of the F-14 and Tornado? I thought the consensus was that moving wings were a Bad Idea?
You've already been modded "Flamebait" :-)
Does your wife know you watch that?
Does yours?
And the operators were random joes hired off the street. Law enforcement goes through a slightly more rigorous hiring procedure.
Law enforcement "professionals" are human beings like the rest of us.
You sound like an "I'm a Christian." Presumably you know all about the fallability of us Men. Or are you a Republican/Tory/New Labour?
One experiment does not a scientific study make. And Brazil are nice guys. And they have Sepultura and Soulfly.
Actually, there's lots of stuff being done by nursing schools to bring in male students. Partly to address the nursing shortage, and partly to achieve gender equity (or at least get closer to it) just for the sake of doing it.
Here in the UK there's plenty of "politically-correct" discrimination against male nurses
You see, the only reason non-gay men could possibly want to be nurses is to get their filthy hands on the female patients.
More honest vitriol from the Great British Public on all matters here.
It makes me weep to have to live amongst such "humans."