Foreign companies will put some jobs here, but (and this is a big "but" for slashdot readers), those are almost all assembly-line jobs. Everything from engineering on up is done overseas. For US automotive engineers, this is the apocalypse.
How much do these disaster recovery files change every month? If they stay mostly the same, using rsync (or some other binary-diff capable tool) may let you keep your simple client/server model while bringing bandwidth under control.
But more to the point, no theoretical physicist since Einstein has attained his stature - even though the 100 years since he published E=MC^2 accounts for the vast majority of theoretical physicists who ever lived.
Newton and Gauss don't prove the value of lone-wolf researchers in modern times, which I take to be the point of the story. These days, many, many more people have access to information and the material means to spend a good chunk of time thinking. That makes it much, much harder to stand head and shoulders above the crowd. The easy discoveries have been made - nobody is going to be immortalized for discovering that distance = acceleration * time^2 these days. Einstein himself called Newton lucky because "there is only one Universe to discover and he did it."
I just render my LaTex equations into png images and insert them into my word document. Sounds crude I know, but entering an equation is enough work that outputting it to an image file isn't a huge amount of overhead, relatively speaking.
I'm excited about write-once (WORM) flash. All sides seem to agree it will be more stable, and preventing overwriting is just as important as hardware failure or format obsolescence. The only problem is this product was announced in June and still isn't available, even at sandisk's own website.
By the way, I *have* had an SD card fail. It was in my digital camera the whole time, worked fine for a couple years, then quit. The camera itself showed no sign of damage, so I don't think it was abused. It was a Kingston, too, which I consider reputable.
You're thinking too hard. Look, right now, all those grounds go into the garbage. That's the baseline. People who can afford to drink coffee will not quit to save energy. But if somebody can turn a buck buying used grounds and selling them to somebody who turns them into fuel, it's a win. I know a guy who owns a business emptying the lard bins from behind restaurants, and at least part of that becomes fuel. So this sort of thing is not all that far out.
So it rounds out to paying $3/month ($6 now) for the convenience of not having to mount an antenna on my roof...
...except the picture quality of free broadcast digital is far superior to cable analog. If you haven't cashed in on your govt. digital to analog converters yet, it's worth it for that alone.
No mention of how/in what you'd program this to actually put the GPUs to good use.
That's why the supercomputer rankings are based on reasonably complex benchmarks instead of synthetic "cores * flops/core" types of numbers. Scoring well on the benchmark is supposed to be solid evidence that the computer can in fact do something useful. My question though is whether the GPUs contributed to the benchmark score, or were just along for the ride.
Filesystems are fundamentally engineered to cope with the high latency of hard drives, so I'd imagine there are a lot of assumptions to unlearn. But what other implications are there for the OS? Since the tradeoffs between RAM and persistent storage are smaller with SSD, maybe the changes should go beyond the filesystem into the virutal memory system?
I'll go against the grain here and suggest whatever procedural OO you prefer - Java, C++, C#, etc. Where I went to school we went in the approximate order: Pascal, Assembler, Scheme, predicate calculus - seemingly anything and everything *except* plain old common languages that let students write software resembling what they see and use every day. I think that's a mistake. It's motivating for students to feel like they're writing "real" programs. Sure, eventually you should be exposed to all of them, but start off with something that has obvious application.
I'd say she stands a pretty good chance of not getting suspending, and getting the school's AUP policy changed. Are you saying she should instead simply accept suspension-martyrdom? Do you consider appealing a ruling to a higher court to be disrespectful of the law?
I think the whole point of this is the analysis capability. It's not just snapshots of old web pages. For that matter it might use archive.org as its data source.
This is the realization that church leaders (read religious nerds) came up with when they outlawed polygamy. If someone like them was ever gonna get some the attractive males had to be unavailable first.
That doesn't add up. The guys at the top of the church who make the rules are the ones who always had scads of wives. When religion ruled the social order those guys were a meal ticket and a ticket to heaven all in one. And for the "lesser" males, well, they could still find work as eunuchs.
I will chime in for perl. Perl is a great productivity-booster for innumerable little jobs and bits of analysis that I do day-to-day. I would never consider perl a replacement for a "real" programming language in a large application, but I think it compliments C++ wonderfully. "Practical Extraction and Report Language" is exactly what it is, and I don't really care for some of the more recent extensions such as object orientation. (Python may offer the best of both worlds, I don't really know).
It wouldn't have to fit into a backpack. Smugglers have submarines with 15 tons of cargo capacity. Who knows how many runs they make every year. Then there are tunnels.
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Foreign companies will put some jobs here, but (and this is a big "but" for slashdot readers), those are almost all assembly-line jobs. Everything from engineering on up is done overseas. For US automotive engineers, this is the apocalypse.
Seems like it should be possible to make larger, high-lift blades (that would have too much drag for use near sea-level).
I swear by cygwin, which lets you use rsync plus hundreds of other POSIX/Linux applications. These are the real McCoy, not half-baked re-implementations.
How much do these disaster recovery files change every month? If they stay mostly the same, using rsync (or some other binary-diff capable tool) may let you keep your simple client/server model while bringing bandwidth under control.
4GB of files once per month, why bother using the network?
But more to the point, no theoretical physicist since Einstein has attained his stature - even though the 100 years since he published E=MC^2 accounts for the vast majority of theoretical physicists who ever lived.
Newton and Gauss don't prove the value of lone-wolf researchers in modern times, which I take to be the point of the story. These days, many, many more people have access to information and the material means to spend a good chunk of time thinking. That makes it much, much harder to stand head and shoulders above the crowd. The easy discoveries have been made - nobody is going to be immortalized for discovering that distance = acceleration * time^2 these days. Einstein himself called Newton lucky because "there is only one Universe to discover and he did it."
I'm a researcher. If I went under a bus nobody would notice.
I just render my LaTex equations into png images and insert them into my word document. Sounds crude I know, but entering an equation is enough work that outputting it to an image file isn't a huge amount of overhead, relatively speaking.
By the way, I *have* had an SD card fail. It was in my digital camera the whole time, worked fine for a couple years, then quit. The camera itself showed no sign of damage, so I don't think it was abused. It was a Kingston, too, which I consider reputable.
This is rather a contradiction. What is the point of fashion and jewelry, if not to prove you have money to burn?
Anti-theism, on the other hand, gets back into the realm of missionaries and zealots.
You're thinking too hard. Look, right now, all those grounds go into the garbage. That's the baseline. People who can afford to drink coffee will not quit to save energy. But if somebody can turn a buck buying used grounds and selling them to somebody who turns them into fuel, it's a win. I know a guy who owns a business emptying the lard bins from behind restaurants, and at least part of that becomes fuel. So this sort of thing is not all that far out.
That's why the supercomputer rankings are based on reasonably complex benchmarks instead of synthetic "cores * flops/core" types of numbers. Scoring well on the benchmark is supposed to be solid evidence that the computer can in fact do something useful. My question though is whether the GPUs contributed to the benchmark score, or were just along for the ride.
Filesystems are fundamentally engineered to cope with the high latency of hard drives, so I'd imagine there are a lot of assumptions to unlearn. But what other implications are there for the OS? Since the tradeoffs between RAM and persistent storage are smaller with SSD, maybe the changes should go beyond the filesystem into the virutal memory system?
Boy will they be ticked when I release my competitor on the iPhone for $4.99!
I'll go against the grain here and suggest whatever procedural OO you prefer - Java, C++, C#, etc. Where I went to school we went in the approximate order: Pascal, Assembler, Scheme, predicate calculus - seemingly anything and everything *except* plain old common languages that let students write software resembling what they see and use every day. I think that's a mistake. It's motivating for students to feel like they're writing "real" programs. Sure, eventually you should be exposed to all of them, but start off with something that has obvious application.
I'd say she stands a pretty good chance of not getting suspending, and getting the school's AUP policy changed. Are you saying she should instead simply accept suspension-martyrdom? Do you consider appealing a ruling to a higher court to be disrespectful of the law?
I think the whole point of this is the analysis capability. It's not just snapshots of old web pages. For that matter it might use archive.org as its data source.
That doesn't add up. The guys at the top of the church who make the rules are the ones who always had scads of wives. When religion ruled the social order those guys were a meal ticket and a ticket to heaven all in one. And for the "lesser" males, well, they could still find work as eunuchs.
Yeah, well I don't call Dell for gentoo support either. Who cares, they don't know anything.
The article goes a step further and talks about the specific event that gave rise to the checklist in aviation. (But I won't spoil it for you here!)
I will chime in for perl. Perl is a great productivity-booster for innumerable little jobs and bits of analysis that I do day-to-day. I would never consider perl a replacement for a "real" programming language in a large application, but I think it compliments C++ wonderfully. "Practical Extraction and Report Language" is exactly what it is, and I don't really care for some of the more recent extensions such as object orientation. (Python may offer the best of both worlds, I don't really know).
It wouldn't have to fit into a backpack. Smugglers have submarines with 15 tons of cargo capacity. Who knows how many runs they make every year. Then there are tunnels.