I true, full shutdown would cause rioting in the streets within days. Granted, it would mostly be senior citizens, but they're mean when they're hungry!
Microsoft doesn't care about Mono for the same reason as Wine - because it doesn't - and never will - work well enough to be a factor either way. My two most recent encounters with it were: 1) trying to run the Netflix.net video player (doesn't work) and 2) trying to use the (only) free online tax filing site (surprise! also doesn't work).
Perhaps what they're really doing with these statements is pulling a number in the queue of people lining up for compensation of financial damages. It will be argued that this was a preventable outcome of the tsunami. For example, the reactors might have been placed on higher ground.
I can see their point. If elevated radiation is detected in their catch, nobody will touch it with a ten foot pole. They will have no livelihood, and that is a terrifying prospect for anybody.
The whole of tenure seems to be in decline, like pensions. A lot of teaching is done by grad students, and a lot of research is done by soft-money PhD's, which basically means you're self employed with all the job security of a sole-proprietorship but paying a university 80% overhead to use their brand name. At the same time college has become incredibly expensive for students, too. I don't understand where it all goes.
Sounds like a cool system, but it is limited to modulating the dampening, and the springs are still just passively pushing on the road, not knowing if they ought to be pulling to suck up a bump or pushing to counter body roll.
SGI is going to use up to 256 of these in a supercomputer, bring some weenies and marshmallows.
130W seems impressively low for 10 fast cores (20 hyperthreads) if you ask me. Just a few years ago that would have been an entire cabinet full of P4's complete with a dozen power supplies, etc.
How long has it been since going naked was natural for humans? We can't even stand the cold in much of the habitat we occupy. Even natives of primitive African tribes always seem to wear a little something, though I don't know why.
Don't measure progress relative to "what was expected" - that's completely arbitrary. (At least until you get as far as investing money on a specific capability).
Dreamers and sci-fi authors are just that, fiction.
"Look! Successful people drive expensive cars! Tell your brother to go buy one, that ought to get his business back on its feet in no time!"
And yet even your counter-example has some validity. Any salesperson or real estate agent will tell you that dressing nicely and driving a nice car DOES matter.
There are no easy or guaranteed solutions in education, but I think adding a little more math is likely to be fruitful.
Hey, I thought we were talking about racing here! You know how much do you think this little Ferrari-on-Ferrari fender bender cost? Even absent any mishaps, you're looking at about $1000 for a weekend of tires alone.
But seriously (outside of racing) the idea is not for everybody to own their own packs - check out Better Place Tesla has said the S will be compatible. Admittedly the fact it "can be done" isn't really the point, until there's one on our near your commute route.
That scene of the crew pushing the car back to the garage is the main thing I remember from the episode, too. That was a cheap shot. But if it was just misleading, and they didn't explicitly make false claims, I wonder if it is legally actionable.
The battery of the Tesla Model S can be swapped in 5 minutes. I don't suppose that's true of the roadster though.
I would really like them to go one step further, and divide the battery into about 4 separate packs, so they could be lifted by a single person, but just as importantly so you can only carry 1 or 2 packs if that's all you need. It would greatly reduce the weight of the car, increasing efficiency and performance. My commute is only 20 miles round trip, which is about the national average IIRC.
I guarantee you the last thing that the Japanese want is for us to stop wanting their stuff real bad.
Sure, if you stayed home sick and your boss said, "don't worry, take all the time you like, we don't need what you do," you wouldn't feel too secure.
But you also don't want your boss to say, "we can't wait for you to recover, you're fired, we'll already found else." Which is what just happened here.
Telling the truth isn't mean, and you don't get to be the richest guy in the world by sharing. You get there with a combination of perfect luck, extreme talent and motivation, and by using every trick in the book. If you didn't, somebody else who did would be #1.
It really makes me wonder, though, what would they get out of saying stuff like that if it weren't true?
You will see the same in most car magazines - their readers fancy themselves manly gearheads who don't eat salad and deeply resent any attempt to make cars quieter, less polluting, or more efficient as a threat to their rugged lust for life. The kind of people who will remove a catalytic converter for no other reason than to prove to themselves they can't be forced to use one.
In an increasingly wireless world I'm wondering why they're fooling around with physical infrastructure.
Wow, a few years ago all of slashdot was skeptical that TV distribution via Internet would even be feasible in the forseeable future, now you don't even think fiber is necessary because wireless is that good. I think you're wrong, it's a great sign of progress anyways.
Yeah, the fat guy who smokes, drinks, and eats cheeseburgers everyday should pay the same as me, the skinny guy who eats salads everyday.
Based on nothing but the above, your risk is probably lower than his, but it might or might not be. You might simply have bad genes. Without accurate predictive models, what you call "risk factors" don't have much predictive value - that's what risk fators are - factors in some sort of model. So I support better modeling.
However, we must apply them carefully. I don't think insurance rates should reflect anticipated health costs, but rather the individual's choices related to anticipated health care costs. There's no point punishing or incentivizing things that aren't choices, such as race. Without good predictive models, it's all too easy to manipulate people by stirring up vindictive emotions on the false premise that only irresponsible people would ever need treatment.
Even so, we still necessary to quantify risk factors that aren't personal choices to effectively practice (preventative) medicine.
ubiquity eventually becomes a liability amongst a crowd who views exclusion and superiority to be more important.
But that's exactly the key innovation of facebook - exclusion. All its users are not in one big group that can all see each other; you have to be invited, i.e. "friended." Thus the lame people aren't too bothersome to the cool people, even if they do access the same domain name. Friend networks can rise and fall all within facebook. At least that's the idea. We'll see.
Do you have any particular reason for thinking education has gone downhill? Judging by SAT scores, average SAT math scores have gone up a bit while verbal skills have gone down somewhat over the last 40 years. That's actually good, considering a larger percentage of all students take the SAT than 40 years ago, bringing down the average score.
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I true, full shutdown would cause rioting in the streets within days. Granted, it would mostly be senior citizens, but they're mean when they're hungry!
Wow, that doesn't look anything like deep sea vessels I have seen. It's... sporty.
"But that's just because (blah blah blah)!!"
Exactly.
I can see their point. If elevated radiation is detected in their catch, nobody will touch it with a ten foot pole. They will have no livelihood, and that is a terrifying prospect for anybody.
The whole of tenure seems to be in decline, like pensions. A lot of teaching is done by grad students, and a lot of research is done by soft-money PhD's, which basically means you're self employed with all the job security of a sole-proprietorship but paying a university 80% overhead to use their brand name. At the same time college has become incredibly expensive for students, too. I don't understand where it all goes.
Sounds like a cool system, but it is limited to modulating the dampening, and the springs are still just passively pushing on the road, not knowing if they ought to be pulling to suck up a bump or pushing to counter body roll.
130W seems impressively low for 10 fast cores (20 hyperthreads) if you ask me. Just a few years ago that would have been an entire cabinet full of P4's complete with a dozen power supplies, etc.
How long has it been since going naked was natural for humans? We can't even stand the cold in much of the habitat we occupy. Even natives of primitive African tribes always seem to wear a little something, though I don't know why.
How about draping it under the crotch with an elastic band around the waist to hold it up?
As a bonus everybody wouldn't have to look at each others' gonads.
Just think, somebody's naked butt would get wiped on that cloth ten times per day. That's a deal-breaker right there.
Dreamers and sci-fi authors are just that, fiction.
And yet even your counter-example has some validity. Any salesperson or real estate agent will tell you that dressing nicely and driving a nice car DOES matter.
There are no easy or guaranteed solutions in education, but I think adding a little more math is likely to be fruitful.
They're so funny, every... single... time.
But seriously (outside of racing) the idea is not for everybody to own their own packs - check out Better Place Tesla has said the S will be compatible. Admittedly the fact it "can be done" isn't really the point, until there's one on our near your commute route.
That scene of the crew pushing the car back to the garage is the main thing I remember from the episode, too. That was a cheap shot. But if it was just misleading, and they didn't explicitly make false claims, I wonder if it is legally actionable.
I would really like them to go one step further, and divide the battery into about 4 separate packs, so they could be lifted by a single person, but just as importantly so you can only carry 1 or 2 packs if that's all you need. It would greatly reduce the weight of the car, increasing efficiency and performance. My commute is only 20 miles round trip, which is about the national average IIRC.
Sure, if you stayed home sick and your boss said, "don't worry, take all the time you like, we don't need what you do," you wouldn't feel too secure.
But you also don't want your boss to say, "we can't wait for you to recover, you're fired, we'll already found else." Which is what just happened here.
Telling the truth isn't mean, and you don't get to be the richest guy in the world by sharing. You get there with a combination of perfect luck, extreme talent and motivation, and by using every trick in the book. If you didn't, somebody else who did would be #1.
You will see the same in most car magazines - their readers fancy themselves manly gearheads who don't eat salad and deeply resent any attempt to make cars quieter, less polluting, or more efficient as a threat to their rugged lust for life. The kind of people who will remove a catalytic converter for no other reason than to prove to themselves they can't be forced to use one.
No, the US government does not avoid foreign-built computers. Mainly because there is no other kind.
There is, but it's called "+1 Informative", "+1 Insightful", "+1 Underrated," etc. But "+1 Agree" is what it always truly meant.
Wow, a few years ago all of slashdot was skeptical that TV distribution via Internet would even be feasible in the forseeable future, now you don't even think fiber is necessary because wireless is that good. I think you're wrong, it's a great sign of progress anyways.
Based on nothing but the above, your risk is probably lower than his, but it might or might not be. You might simply have bad genes. Without accurate predictive models, what you call "risk factors" don't have much predictive value - that's what risk fators are - factors in some sort of model. So I support better modeling.
However, we must apply them carefully. I don't think insurance rates should reflect anticipated health costs, but rather the individual's choices related to anticipated health care costs. There's no point punishing or incentivizing things that aren't choices, such as race. Without good predictive models, it's all too easy to manipulate people by stirring up vindictive emotions on the false premise that only irresponsible people would ever need treatment.
Even so, we still necessary to quantify risk factors that aren't personal choices to effectively practice (preventative) medicine.
But that's exactly the key innovation of facebook - exclusion. All its users are not in one big group that can all see each other; you have to be invited, i.e. "friended." Thus the lame people aren't too bothersome to the cool people, even if they do access the same domain name. Friend networks can rise and fall all within facebook. At least that's the idea. We'll see.
Do you have any particular reason for thinking education has gone downhill? Judging by SAT scores, average SAT math scores have gone up a bit while verbal skills have gone down somewhat over the last 40 years. That's actually good, considering a larger percentage of all students take the SAT than 40 years ago, bringing down the average score.