True, but like anything else, it follows natural laws, so it is possible to predict it, if we can find an easy way to consider all the variables ( or most of them, at least ).
Aw, bless....
Which is why I am confident we will someday find a way to predict ( with 100% accuracy ) weather patterns.
Easy. All you need is a really big computer. Make it spherical, with a radius of about 6400km, put it around 150 million km from the sun, cover 2/3rds of the surface with water, set up the initial conditions, and wait and see what happens. 100% accurate.
Unless you're in England, in which case it will always rain.
Yes and no. Ignorancy means that, but moderation of "Ignorant" generally has additional negative connotations. This means that such moderation might seem misplaced for the original question.
There is no moderation "Ignorant" (at least there wasn't last time I had mod points)...although many feel there should be.
Agree about the connotations (i.e. "you SHOULD know this"), but that's another matter.
Furthermore; while poster was ignorant of the fact, the posted question itself was not ignorant per se.
Well, a question is not capable of knowledge, and therefore can neither know nor not know. But the question was posed by a person who was ignorant of a particular fact and concerned the matter he/she was ignorant about.
I don't know if there is such a term as an "ignorant question" (which would be the opposite of a rhetorical question), but if there is, it qualifies.
Not that I'm saying the poster is stupid for asking - it's a fair question.
Hello, where did you pull that out of? India has over a billion people with far less the area of the US.
Just about every country in the world has a higher population density than the US, except maybe Canada, Russia and Greenland (the icy places). We manage.
It's also one of the main reasons why people elsewhere are less obese - you can actually walk to most places you might need to get to, so people do, and don't just get in the car. Saves petrol too.
I'd hardly call not knowing what a speed bin is "ignorant". The poster didn't know.
That's what "ignorant" means. From latin, ignorare, "to be unaware [of sth], not to know". Antonym of scire,"to know, to be aware [of sth]". (cf. "Science").
Of course I realise that everything can be reduced down. But you need some sort of agreed upon structure to define where those images are located on the page, what page they are located on, should they be transformed before being rendered, etc. etc. etc.
This is much the same as the people who sat down and defined what the data in the jpeg represented and how it should be defined. Its just occuring at a higher level. The data itself is meaning less unless you know how to interpret it.
Very true. But many such definitions already exist (PS, PDF, DVI, HTML, MIME), and many of them are frequently expressed in ASCII (or unicode if you want to be picky) format.
(your original post seemed to imply that ASCII could *only* be used to convey (human-readable) text, which I'm sure you realise isn't true)
Because 99% of the CPU works, and you know which bits don't, and can live without them?
The cache is allocated physically. It isn't a question of it having 1023 Kbytes instead of 1024 so then being sold as a 512K model...
Maybe not 1023K, but something along those lines it exactly what it is. I'm guessing here but presumably the cache part of the die is divided into cells (say, 32 cells of 32K each, or whatever) and if more than half the cells are working, you can use half of them and map them transparently so the processor 'sees' a single 512K cache rather than a 1024K cache with holes in it.
Net result: instead of having a broken CPU which you'd throw away, you now have a perfectly-functional-if-slightly-slower CPU. Makes sense or what?
So, yes, 2 Russians and a Brit... But also 2 Americans and a Russian.
Look at where they were when they did the research they got the prize for.
"The decisive theory explaining how the atoms interact and are ordered in the superfluid state was formulated in the 1970s by Anthony Leggett."
(http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/2003/press. html)
Bloat has nothing to do with open source-ness. The problem is that windows/MS-only setups force you to use the bloated app, whereas many people like having the choice to use whatever app they like, bloated or not.
Me, I like mozilla because I like heaps of functionality, but sometimes I use pine. And thanks to the marvel that is IMAP, they both work equally well whenever I want them to.
I tried using Mozilla 1.4 with my work account. It took me ages to figure out how to authenticate: user name = domainname/username/mailbox-alias. Obviously!
That's your work account's fault... on the setup here, username = username, as the IMAP server uses the same NIS db as is used for logins...
My biggest complaint with Mozilla 1.4 Mail is that I haven't figured out if I can get it to disconnect from a mail server once it's connected without quitting the app.
I guess 'work offline' will disconnect you.
I connect to three accounts, and there are times that I don't want it to keep checking them all.
Well you could turn off automatic checking ("check every X minutes") for the accounts you only want to check on demand. Then use the little pull-down menu on the "get new messages" button to select the account you want to check.
It's probably not exactly what you want, but close enough. The other way would be to have 3 separate profiles and run 3 instances of moz/thunderbird, but that would be a pain.
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Aw, bless....
Which is why I am confident we will someday find a way to predict ( with 100% accuracy ) weather patterns.
Easy. All you need is a really big computer. Make it spherical, with a radius of about 6400km, put it around 150 million km from the sun, cover 2/3rds of the surface with water, set up the initial conditions, and wait and see what happens. 100% accurate.
Unless you're in England, in which case it will always rain.
There is no moderation "Ignorant" (at least there wasn't last time I had mod points)...although many feel there should be.
Agree about the connotations (i.e. "you SHOULD know this"), but that's another matter.
Furthermore; while poster was ignorant of the fact, the posted question itself was not ignorant per se.
Well, a question is not capable of knowledge, and therefore can neither know nor not know. But the question was posed by a person who was ignorant of a particular fact and concerned the matter he/she was ignorant about.
I don't know if there is such a term as an "ignorant question" (which would be the opposite of a rhetorical question), but if there is, it qualifies.
Not that I'm saying the poster is stupid for asking - it's a fair question.
Just about every country in the world has a higher population density than the US, except maybe Canada, Russia and Greenland (the icy places). We manage.
It's also one of the main reasons why people elsewhere are less obese - you can actually walk to most places you might need to get to, so people do, and don't just get in the car. Saves petrol too.
That's what "ignorant" means. From latin, ignorare, "to be unaware [of sth], not to know". Antonym of scire ,"to know, to be aware [of sth]". (cf. "Science").
Yeah! My iPod stores 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it!
An HP ProLiant DL140 server, apparently.
Oh wait, you've probably got a different ad...
This is much the same as the people who sat down and defined what the data in the jpeg represented and how it should be defined. Its just occuring at a higher level. The data itself is meaning less unless you know how to interpret it. Very true. But many such definitions already exist (PS, PDF, DVI, HTML, MIME), and many of them are frequently expressed in ASCII (or unicode if you want to be picky) format.
(your original post seemed to imply that ASCII could *only* be used to convey (human-readable) text, which I'm sure you realise isn't true)
Don't be silly. UUencoded jpegs. You realise the image attachments in your email are actually sent as (ASCII) text, don't you?
Damn, you're right.
Because 99% of the CPU works, and you know which bits don't, and can live without them?
The cache is allocated physically. It isn't a question of it having 1023 Kbytes instead of 1024 so then being sold as a 512K model...
Maybe not 1023K, but something along those lines it exactly what it is. I'm guessing here but presumably the cache part of the die is divided into cells (say, 32 cells of 32K each, or whatever) and if more than half the cells are working, you can use half of them and map them transparently so the processor 'sees' a single 512K cache rather than a 1024K cache with holes in it.
Net result: instead of having a broken CPU which you'd throw away, you now have a perfectly-functional-if-slightly-slower CPU. Makes sense or what?
Going back IIRC to the 386SX, which was a 386DX with a nonfunctioning (and hence deactivated) FPU....
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Hi Nick!
* 3 posts that list off all the ubiquitous predicable posts which are sure to follow.
I welcome our ubiquitous predictable post overlords!
Good, now we can look forward to them being burnt at the stake like the heretics they are.
(google://cathars+dualism)
"spelling nazi's, in case your wondering", surely.
get it right.
Look at where they were when they did the research they got the prize for.
"The decisive theory explaining how the atoms interact and are ordered in the superfluid state was formulated in the 1970s by Anthony Leggett.". html)
(http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/2003/press
If you look at his CV you will see:
1967-1983 University of Sussex.
(conflating lectureships and professorships here)
So in the 70s, when he formulated his theories, he worked in the UK. Brit.
I guess the great lakes make the difference.
p.s. nice plug. very subtle
In maoist china russia is bigger than you! And vice versa!
http://nationmaster.com/graph-T/geo_are_lan
The A in AOL also stands for "America", but that doesn't mean we don't suffer from AOLosers over here...
Rather one of those than a Sherman DD - at least it won't tip over at the slightest bit of wind!
Oh, sorry, people born after 1985 tend to think they're the same thing, don't they?
Nicolaus Otto (German), shurely?
Quite.
Bloat has nothing to do with open source-ness. The problem is that windows/MS-only setups force you to use the bloated app, whereas many people like having the choice to use whatever app they like, bloated or not.
Me, I like mozilla because I like heaps of functionality, but sometimes I use pine. And thanks to the marvel that is IMAP, they both work equally well whenever I want them to.
That's your work account's fault... on the setup here, username = username, as the IMAP server uses the same NIS db as is used for logins...
My biggest complaint with Mozilla 1.4 Mail is that I haven't figured out if I can get it to disconnect from a mail server once it's connected without quitting the app.
I guess 'work offline' will disconnect you.
I connect to three accounts, and there are times that I don't want it to keep checking them all.
Well you could turn off automatic checking ("check every X minutes") for the accounts you only want to check on demand. Then use the little pull-down menu on the "get new messages" button to select the account you want to check.
It's probably not exactly what you want, but close enough. The other way would be to have 3 separate profiles and run 3 instances of moz/thunderbird, but that would be a pain.