no, attempted that one year and the volume of other users brought *major tax software companies* servers to its knees. don't need that kind of hassle at tax time.
no real breakthroughs other than that extra power gives us bad realtime spell checking and autocomplete.
1988 fastest would be Cray Y-MP was fasted with 333 MFLOPS, 512MB RAM and also 4GB solid state disk for fast near-line storage.
So it was something like 1/30 the floating power of the machine I'm sitting at now, with 1/32 the RAM and 1/25 the SSDD.....hey, not too shabby for 25 years ago.
but there's the rub, those who do global business can't afford to be wrong. it isn't a question of x times a year but of always having current zone information
There is no serious personal tax software to run on GNU/Linux (or BSD), and many websites, systems management GUI and appliances still require IE to access. Hideous state of affairs, I hate it, but there it is.
I'm only considering percentage of all desktop systems in use. the domination of finance, science and engineering desktop by unix workstations with X11 which peaked in the 90s has declined while home pc use has skyrocked.
The point is X is nearly dead because no one is using it for computers of any kind. not for their desktop (windows, mac osx) not for their tablet (some of android which is eating window's laptop and desktop share).
Unix? who's using that at all? it's mostly dead for end users just like X11
that's amusing, to judge an OS mainly used for servers and appliances by what desktop version it has. If it's that important by all means choose your BSD by the desktop you like as long as the devices you want are supported. I myself prefer xfce4 which runs on them all
Actually, I think we would have the same benefits without the weapons. the particle accelerators and detectors and mathematics have pushed the understanding of fundamental particles, not bomb research. Anything done in a bomb from nuclear chemistry point of view has been done and studied more in fission reactors and particle accelerators.
Science is great, but we only get to try to do it better; perhaps never arriving at "properly" if that means without error or having comprehensive knowledge. It could be the fundamental workings of the universe are beyond the energies or distance/time humans can reach. We should try, of course.
Science doesn't always work; since it is a product of the human mind it can be wrong, and it is also not comprehensive but limited.
People have died and been maimed because of science that was incorrect or incomplete. Castle Bravo was to be a 4 to 6 megaton weapon test that hurt no one.
Funny thing happened, we learned that day that the "inert" lithium 7 in the 6/7 mix could absorb a neutron, and then besides releasing that neutron again also alpha decay into tritium which is of course a lovely thermonuclear fuel. Moreover those released neutrons bombarded the uranium tamper of the bomb and caused extra fission. oops. the yield was 15 megatons, people were killed and others maimed for life by radiation.
your analogy is not accurate, the majority of vulnerabilities are due to variations on the same dozen sloppy coding mistakes. A proper analogy would be most car manufacturers in some hypothetical right-hand side driving country with many highway ramps not putting bolts on the right front wheel and not having a problem most the time because most turns are to the right and not the left, and the occasional left turn is almost always followed by a right that reseats the wheel.
who is repressed by the Amish? they even have the custom of "Rumspringa" where adolescents are allowed to leave the community to see life in the outside world, and non-amish behavior and attire is overlooked. then they get to choose whether to be baptised and join the community, or not.
I could use other examples from my state but then it's not relevant to most. essentially we are locked into either of two choices, voting for any third party especially largely doesn't matter. Even if a district manages to send a third party candidate to the senate or house the two parties will continue to control the show
no it does not. A user at best can have a mass of data that looks to be random, that "plausible deniability" argument won't work in US system if government insists that it is a truecrypt volume and you are deliberately withholding password. Truecrypt can't present an alternative view of the same data.
Tell me directly, of what alternatives do you speak? The Libertarian party is largely blind to the problem of big business having government in its pockets; for example Ron Paul is a huge supporter of unfettered big business, not realizing they are a driving force behind the wars of choice for profit and power that he blames on Congress. He focuses on the puppet and not the puppet masters.
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"last minute" was a month before
It's called The Quarry ISBN 9781408703946
no, attempted that one year and the volume of other users brought *major tax software companies* servers to its knees. don't need that kind of hassle at tax time.
I've better things to do with my time that fiddling with wine and having erratic behavior at income tax time, thanks
there are only about 2 and a half very popular mainstream linux distros for personal use, all else is fringe. that's not too many.
using a long term support distro you could be good for five years. get yourself some Linux Mint and be happy
no real breakthroughs other than that extra power gives us bad realtime spell checking and autocomplete.
1988 fastest would be Cray Y-MP was fasted with 333 MFLOPS, 512MB RAM and also 4GB solid state disk for fast near-line storage.
So it was something like 1/30 the floating power of the machine I'm sitting at now, with 1/32 the RAM and 1/25 the SSDD.....hey, not too shabby for 25 years ago.
but there's the rub, those who do global business can't afford to be wrong. it isn't a question of x times a year but of always having current zone information
There is no serious personal tax software to run on GNU/Linux (or BSD), and many websites, systems management GUI and appliances still require IE to access. Hideous state of affairs, I hate it, but there it is.
I'm only considering percentage of all desktop systems in use. the domination of finance, science and engineering desktop by unix workstations with X11 which peaked in the 90s has declined while home pc use has skyrocked.
key link in that page is dead.
here's the situation: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/timezones-137583.html
bottom line, you need paid support from Oracle to get correct timezone info
you're all grumpy and confused.
The point is X is nearly dead because no one is using it for computers of any kind. not for their desktop (windows, mac osx) not for their tablet (some of android which is eating window's laptop and desktop share).
Unix? who's using that at all? it's mostly dead for end users just like X11
that's amusing, to judge an OS mainly used for servers and appliances by what desktop version it has. If it's that important by all means choose your BSD by the desktop you like as long as the devices you want are supported. I myself prefer xfce4 which runs on them all
Actually, I think we would have the same benefits without the weapons. the particle accelerators and detectors and mathematics have pushed the understanding of fundamental particles, not bomb research. Anything done in a bomb from nuclear chemistry point of view has been done and studied more in fission reactors and particle accelerators.
Science is great, but we only get to try to do it better; perhaps never arriving at "properly" if that means without error or having comprehensive knowledge. It could be the fundamental workings of the universe are beyond the energies or distance/time humans can reach. We should try, of course.
I've watched the AI folk fart around with those things for over 25 years; they've nothing to show.
Even my preferred hobby of symbolic AI has gotten mostly nowhere in the last 30 years.
Let's just make certain animals smarter and call it a day. what could go wrong?
Science doesn't always work; since it is a product of the human mind it can be wrong, and it is also not comprehensive but limited.
People have died and been maimed because of science that was incorrect or incomplete. Castle Bravo was to be a 4 to 6 megaton weapon test that hurt no one.
Funny thing happened, we learned that day that the "inert" lithium 7 in the 6/7 mix could absorb a neutron, and then besides releasing that neutron again also alpha decay into tritium which is of course a lovely thermonuclear fuel. Moreover those released neutrons bombarded the uranium tamper of the bomb and caused extra fission. oops. the yield was 15 megatons, people were killed and others maimed for life by radiation.
your analogy is not accurate, the majority of vulnerabilities are due to variations on the same dozen sloppy coding mistakes. A proper analogy would be most car manufacturers in some hypothetical right-hand side driving country with many highway ramps not putting bolts on the right front wheel and not having a problem most the time because most turns are to the right and not the left, and the occasional left turn is almost always followed by a right that reseats the wheel.
You're too grumpy to be thinking clearly.
There are far more Macs than desktop Linux or Unix machines, they don't run X normally.
There are far more Windows boxes too.
And as you point out, Android and all the other mobile device OS far outweigh Linux or Unix desktop.
So there you go, X is mostly dead but for us fringe Linux or BSD desktop users. Yay for your worries.
who is repressed by the Amish? they even have the custom of "Rumspringa" where adolescents are allowed to leave the community to see life in the outside world, and non-amish behavior and attire is overlooked. then they get to choose whether to be baptised and join the community, or not.
it is not an ad for google. the viewers of this movie, google's users, are product not market
he's just famous example everyone in USA knows,
I could use other examples from my state but then it's not relevant to most. essentially we are locked into either of two choices, voting for any third party especially largely doesn't matter. Even if a district manages to send a third party candidate to the senate or house the two parties will continue to control the show
but then you get punished for contempt of court and obstruction. they need to have something to read after answering the password.
no it does not. A user at best can have a mass of data that looks to be random, that "plausible deniability" argument won't work in US system if government insists that it is a truecrypt volume and you are deliberately withholding password. Truecrypt can't present an alternative view of the same data.
You are now enlightened, that'll be two dollars.
indeed, not just brain neurons but peripheral nervous system too. known for even longer time period than you mention, it's 30+ years.
Tell me directly, of what alternatives do you speak? The Libertarian party is largely blind to the problem of big business having government in its pockets; for example Ron Paul is a huge supporter of unfettered big business, not realizing they are a driving force behind the wars of choice for profit and power that he blames on Congress. He focuses on the puppet and not the puppet masters.