I wonder if a spreadsheet is really the right tool for computations that take several dozens of seconds on modern hardware, even without GPU acceleration. I am inclined to think it is not.
No, it isn't but many accountants and business controllers are using spreadsheets, some of them also learn SQL, but that isn't really all that much better for financial calculations (though better as a database which they also use spreadsheets for).
they would be forbidding people from taking their prescribed medication
No. They'd be forbidding people from taking part in the competition.
Probably depends on the drug. Several types of asthma medication is considered doping unless you have astma. If I remember correctly some 50% of professional bicycle riders officially have asthma.
Unless they invent a bullshit "disciplinary" reason for the firing in which case you are out your job and the termination allowance you thought you were entitled to. Are you a white male? Good luck fighting that one out with a lawyer...
I was thinking it would be some ritalin based medicin, and adderall is particularly abused, and maybe shouldn't even be used the way it is. But this is important: It still requires a prescription to get, so in the end by banning it, they would be forbidding people from taking their prescribed medication. Even if it is widely abused, there are a some that needs it.
Even in cycling they allow drugs that are otherwise banned, if a doctor prescribes it and documents the athlete needs it.
Confusing butt-dialed with booty call would be like confusing ladies' man with ladyboy.
While in college, a friend of mine had rounded up a group of about a dozen or so guys to go to the local strip joint for "playgirl" night. They were about to head out when someone happened to point out that it was "playgirl" night not "playboy" night. I think it would have been more fun if they would have just kept quiet and let them go ahead and go.
Yes, they would have had more fun. They might not have liked the strip show, but they would be in club full of horny women not afraid to show their sexual desires.
I have this unconscious habit of hitting the power button before putting the phone in my pocket. I never even remember that I've done it or that it's required in order to lock the phone quickly.
The problem is then if the phone has locked on its own before you press the power button yourself, then you just started the unlocking process, which in some cases is just dragging something on the screen which happens when you insert the phone into your pocket, and then you have fully unlocked phone in your pocket, ready for pocket dialing and other shenanigans.
At higher energies, we can split that nucleus apart into protons and neutrons, and at still higher ones, into individual quarks
In one sense that seems to be something you really can't do. The force between free quarks increases with distance to about 10,000N, then remains constant (no, I have no idea how this makes any sense, but it's what I read). Any force sufficient to tear two quarks apart is sufficient to generate new quarks which then bind with the "free" quarks. So you never see quarks by themselves.
IANAP, though. Does the above really mean that if you had two free quarks separated by a kilometre or a light year, that there would still be that constant 10,000N force between them?
Plus that we are not even sure quarks are individual things. They might just be eigenvalues of particle properties, nice to calculate on, but not necessarily anything real in themselves.
Shouldn't it already be legal? In an emergency you are allowed to break laws necessary to save human lives, or stop an emergency from spreading. Particular destruction of property during fire-fights are textbook examples of that.
Individual that differs more than 6-sigma from the population's mean has trouble with automated tools designed for the average person.
Gmail's spam filter is why email is still useful.
In my experience it is crap. Not as bad as Linus experience, but it stil mistook on 1 in 200 emails just like google says and that is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. Having to find important emails in the thousands of spam emails is a problem, and haven't seen any other spam filter with that many false positives.
Not that we don't need a totally revamped copyright law, just that it doesn't seem likely any time soon considering who is in charge.
You seriously think the Republicans will reform copyright if they get in office? If they do, it'll be in favour of their corporate overlords, and We The People will git shafted even more.
True, but they are slightly less in the pocket of the copyright cartels than the opposition, so if only Obama would say something about strengthening copyright legislation, the Republicans would all over weakening it;)
This isn't even the first time AMD has done this. Back in the Quake III Arena days, renaming Quake3 to Quack3 would change its performance on a Radeon. Slashdot covered the Quack3 case
Of course not, it is standard industry practice at this point. NVidia does the same.
Your comment helps support my assertion that the OP's market is a niche market at best. I am not an avid cyclist and had no idea there were special shirts just for cyclist with pockets on their backs. I am into fitness and workout regularly so I am not completely unfamiliar with athletic apparel.
Never watched tour de france, or other cycling event? This is where they keep water bottles if they don't empty and throw them away immediately.
No, but it has to surrender its own information to the government for taxation purposes.
Much of raison d'etre for bitcoin is gone if seller is not anonymous.
Bitcoin was not designed for selling drugs, and protecting that is not a goal in itself, plus drug dealers are already breaking the law which is why they want to hide there ID, they can break VAT laws too.
I do wonder if women are shying away from the CS class because of cultural issues or the way they are treated, or if it's something like not being interested.
How would they know how they would be treated? There is no discrimination in CS on the contrary, but there are a constant stream of bullshit articles claiming there is by pointing at gender imbalances in professors and IT hires.
My first thought on that was that surely crocodiles, alligators, and turtles are also modern descendants of the dinosaur lineage. I don't think they evolved from small mammals.
No... Just like mammals are not descendants of dinosaurs. Not all prehistoric animals were dinosaurs, only the birds were. The reptile and mammal ancestors were contemporary with dinosaurs but were different groups. Think of them as respectively furry, scaly and feathered prehistoric -saurs, with the feathered being the dinos.
It's what has been dubbed "slicing tactics" around these areas. You continuously push for huge spying bills, which all get shot down, to finally get that smaller one you were actually aiming for passed, which would have no snowball-in-hell chance to pass if people weren't already used to the outrageous demands.
For reference, see pretty much any legislation concerning terrorism or copyright.
It is the door in the face sales strategy, as opposed to the foot in the door strategy where you start small and reasonable.
This wasn't an EU court. It was the UK High Court, which based it's ruling on the UK Human Rights Act, which is a UK act of parliament which enshrines the European Convention on Human Rights (a treaty which pre-dates the EU and the EC) into UK law. (Where "UK" kind of excludes Scotland. IANAL, let alone a constitutional one).
Oh thank god. I though this might be a story about an EU court that was actually about something that happened in an EU court. That never happens.
It's a Unicode bug. Unicode tries to merge different characters into a single code point, because long ago they had the same origin. This particular character exists in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and mathematics, so can be rendered four different ways, but they all share one code point.
Applications have to guess what font to use. Being a mathematical program, this one defaults to the system language (Japanese) but has logic to detect this "no" character and render it in a different font. It isn't clever enough to notice that the rest of the sentence is Japanese, but it shouldn't have to be.
The funny thing is that the same have never been done with latin letters and symbols, because that would be a mess. I really don't understand why they couldn't see it would be the same in Asian langauges.
Actually, slashcode does support Unicode, all that needs to be done for/. to get Unicode is reconfiguring the database (and converting old comments, I guess).
No, it already works. It was active for a while some 10 years ago, but was removed because it was hard to sanitize. You could easily write you own comment score by reversing direction at the right time.
Still they could reactivate it if they just found a reasonable way of sanitizing features they don't want.
Performance gains 10% over 6 years? They're waaay higher. 10-15% per tick maybe.
Why is this modded up?
The fastest Intel CPUs currently on the market are two years old. Current trend for the last few years is 0% per year, with no gains at all in the latest generation, but there were big improvements before that but mostly with Sandy Bridge, but that is close to being 5-6 years ago now.
It isn't just front-line soldiers that get bombed by "friendly" air-force. Secret nuclear facilities in no-fly zones at home get the friendly treatment too.
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I wonder if a spreadsheet is really the right tool for computations that take several dozens of seconds on modern hardware, even without GPU acceleration. I am inclined to think it is not.
No, it isn't but many accountants and business controllers are using spreadsheets, some of them also learn SQL, but that isn't really all that much better for financial calculations (though better as a database which they also use spreadsheets for).
they would be forbidding people from taking their prescribed medication
No. They'd be forbidding people from taking part in the competition.
Probably depends on the drug. Several types of asthma medication is considered doping unless you have astma. If I remember correctly some 50% of professional bicycle riders officially have asthma.
Unless they invent a bullshit "disciplinary" reason for the firing in which case you are out your job and the termination allowance you thought you were entitled to. Are you a white male? Good luck fighting that one out with a lawyer...
That is why you have unions.
I was thinking it would be some ritalin based medicin, and adderall is particularly abused, and maybe shouldn't even be used the way it is. But this is important: It still requires a prescription to get, so in the end by banning it, they would be forbidding people from taking their prescribed medication. Even if it is widely abused, there are a some that needs it.
Even in cycling they allow drugs that are otherwise banned, if a doctor prescribes it and documents the athlete needs it.
Companies can fire anyone at any time. People can't simply hire themselves into any position at any time.
Sure, but if you are sane you negotiate a notice period, which means free money if they fire you on the spot.
Confusing butt-dialed with booty call would be like confusing ladies' man with ladyboy.
While in college, a friend of mine had rounded up a group of about a dozen or so guys to go to the local strip joint for "playgirl" night.
They were about to head out when someone happened to point out that it was "playgirl" night not "playboy" night. I think it would
have been more fun if they would have just kept quiet and let them go ahead and go.
Yes, they would have had more fun. They might not have liked the strip show, but they would be in club full of horny women not afraid to show their sexual desires.
I have this unconscious habit of hitting the power button before putting the phone in my pocket. I never even remember that I've done it or that it's required in order to lock the phone quickly.
The problem is then if the phone has locked on its own before you press the power button yourself, then you just started the unlocking process, which in some cases is just dragging something on the screen which happens when you insert the phone into your pocket, and then you have fully unlocked phone in your pocket, ready for pocket dialing and other shenanigans.
At higher energies, we can split that nucleus apart into protons and neutrons, and at still higher ones, into individual quarks
In one sense that seems to be something you really can't do. The force between free quarks increases with distance to about 10,000N, then remains constant (no, I have no idea how this makes any sense, but it's what I read). Any force sufficient to tear two quarks apart is sufficient to generate new quarks which then bind with the "free" quarks. So you never see quarks by themselves.
IANAP, though. Does the above really mean that if you had two free quarks separated by a kilometre or a light year, that there would still be that constant 10,000N force between them?
Plus that we are not even sure quarks are individual things. They might just be eigenvalues of particle properties, nice to calculate on, but not necessarily anything real in themselves.
Oh yeah? Well at my job we have walls and a roof! Also, we wear clothes.
And they necessary to solve your problems or are they just traditional?
Shouldn't it already be legal? In an emergency you are allowed to break laws necessary to save human lives, or stop an emergency from spreading. Particular destruction of property during fire-fights are textbook examples of that.
Individual that differs more than 6-sigma from the population's mean has trouble with automated tools designed for the average person.
Gmail's spam filter is why email is still useful.
In my experience it is crap. Not as bad as Linus experience, but it stil mistook on 1 in 200 emails just like google says and that is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. Having to find important emails in the thousands of spam emails is a problem, and haven't seen any other spam filter with that many false positives.
Not that we don't need a totally revamped copyright law, just that it doesn't seem likely any time soon considering who is in charge.
You seriously think the Republicans will reform copyright if they get in office? If they do, it'll be in favour of their corporate overlords, and We The People will git shafted even more.
True, but they are slightly less in the pocket of the copyright cartels than the opposition, so if only Obama would say something about strengthening copyright legislation, the Republicans would all over weakening it ;)
This isn't even the first time AMD has done this. Back in the Quake III Arena days, renaming Quake3 to Quack3 would change its performance on a Radeon. Slashdot covered the Quack3 case
Of course not, it is standard industry practice at this point. NVidia does the same.
Your comment helps support my assertion that the OP's market is a niche market at best. I am not an avid cyclist and had no idea there were special shirts just for cyclist with pockets on their backs. I am into fitness and workout regularly so I am not completely unfamiliar with athletic apparel.
Never watched tour de france, or other cycling event? This is where they keep water bottles if they don't empty and throw them away immediately.
All of those new features were in 5.1. 5.2 is just a few bug fixes.
Yes in the old numbering system 5.1 would have been 5.0.0, and this 5.2 is the old 5.0.1.
No, but it has to surrender its own information to the government for taxation purposes.
Much of raison d'etre for bitcoin is gone if seller is not anonymous.
Bitcoin was not designed for selling drugs, and protecting that is not a goal in itself, plus drug dealers are already breaking the law which is why they want to hide there ID, they can break VAT laws too.
How would they know how they would be treated? There is no discrimination in CS on the contrary, but there are a constant stream of bullshit articles claiming there is by pointing at gender imbalances in professors and IT hires.
My first thought on that was that surely crocodiles, alligators, and turtles are also modern descendants of the dinosaur lineage. I don't think they evolved from small mammals.
No... Just like mammals are not descendants of dinosaurs. Not all prehistoric animals were dinosaurs, only the birds were. The reptile and mammal ancestors were contemporary with dinosaurs but were different groups. Think of them as respectively furry, scaly and feathered prehistoric -saurs, with the feathered being the dinos.
It's what has been dubbed "slicing tactics" around these areas. You continuously push for huge spying bills, which all get shot down, to finally get that smaller one you were actually aiming for passed, which would have no snowball-in-hell chance to pass if people weren't already used to the outrageous demands.
For reference, see pretty much any legislation concerning terrorism or copyright.
It is the door in the face sales strategy, as opposed to the foot in the door strategy where you start small and reasonable.
This wasn't an EU court. It was the UK High Court, which based it's ruling on the UK Human Rights Act, which is a UK act of parliament which enshrines the European Convention on Human Rights (a treaty which pre-dates the EU and the EC) into UK law. (Where "UK" kind of excludes Scotland. IANAL, let alone a constitutional one).
Oh thank god. I though this might be a story about an EU court that was actually about something that happened in an EU court. That never happens.
It's a Unicode bug. Unicode tries to merge different characters into a single code point, because long ago they had the same origin. This particular character exists in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and mathematics, so can be rendered four different ways, but they all share one code point.
Applications have to guess what font to use. Being a mathematical program, this one defaults to the system language (Japanese) but has logic to detect this "no" character and render it in a different font. It isn't clever enough to notice that the rest of the sentence is Japanese, but it shouldn't have to be.
The funny thing is that the same have never been done with latin letters and symbols, because that would be a mess. I really don't understand why they couldn't see it would be the same in Asian langauges.
Actually, slashcode does support Unicode, all that needs to be done for /. to get Unicode is reconfiguring the database (and converting old comments, I guess).
No, it already works. It was active for a while some 10 years ago, but was removed because it was hard to sanitize. You could easily write you own comment score by reversing direction at the right time.
Still they could reactivate it if they just found a reasonable way of sanitizing features they don't want.
No, they really don't. The whole point is that critic reviews are if anything incredibly shallow, essentially little more than hipsterish circlejerks.
Well, to give the GP credit they are useful for people who want to be in on the circlejerk, and there seems to be a lot of those people.
Performance gains 10% over 6 years? They're waaay higher. 10-15% per tick maybe.
Why is this modded up?
The fastest Intel CPUs currently on the market are two years old. Current trend for the last few years is 0% per year, with no gains at all in the latest generation, but there were big improvements before that but mostly with Sandy Bridge, but that is close to being 5-6 years ago now.
It isn't just front-line soldiers that get bombed by "friendly" air-force. Secret nuclear facilities in no-fly zones at home get the friendly treatment too.