How is Google going to pay for this? How much advertising is going to on every page? Won't customers ignore (or block) most ads once we start to intuitively realize where they are on the page?
Isn't the hopelessness of endless ads why dotcoms failed? Consumers are already at a negative savings rate; we can't spend any more than we already do.
The VLT and HST which were used in these studies are incapable of detecting radiation at these wavelengths so any galaxies being managed by advanced civilizations would effectively be invisible.
We detect quasars because they emit so much damn radiation. We assume this is from the accretion disk around a black hole. Why would such an advanced civilization put out so much usable energy?
Because you have no clue what you're talking about.
Furthermore, there's a lot more to it than simply sticking a bunch of batteries in the trunk. Some consumers use their trunks.
Also, by adding all that weight, you're changing the dynamics of the car. For a dealer to sell a car modified like that, it now needs to go through safety tests.
I don't think you can have it both ways. If some consumers use their trunks, then some consumers probably use their trunks to store batteries. Don't you think the existing safety tests cover the possibility of a full trunk?
don't forget the effect of inflation on your wallet though. XBOX 360 isn't cheaper because the purchasing power of your dollar is also less than it was when the original XBOX came out.
The dollar may be worth less, but I have more of them. Get it?
Tweaking by a leap second now and then is far less disruptive than tweaking by an hour every 500-600 years.
Why? If we switch to leap hours, the only software (and that's what the change is about) that will be disrupted by the change will be software that has to be working 500-600 years from now. A lot of programs could safely ignore leap hours, unlike now, when many programs can't ignore leap seconds.
If there were going to be radical changes made to timekeeping, I expect that decimal time would be the top candidate.
Well, this isn't a radical change like decimal time, in that it will have zero effect on John Doe's wrist watch. Second, decimal time is not exclusive with the leap hour; we could do both.
Have they thought about redefining the length of a second (and consequently minute, hour) to achieve these perfect 24-hour days?
Well, we actually can't predict too accurately the rate of the slowing of the Earth's rotation. Leap seconds are added not on a regular schedule, but only when astronomical measurements show they must be.
Have you tested the speed difference when you change only one non-header file? I bet incremental compilation will make that quite a bit faster. In addition, if you want to compile that changed source file to check for syntax or type errors, you don't have to check for collision between it and the whole rest of the project, only collisions between it and the header defining it.
Something like 99% of the complaints are from the same group who spend all day watching TV just to complain about "indecency" based on their own standard.
Whereas I watch TV all day in search of indecency. That you, Showtime, for bringing us "The L Word", which made hot girl-on-girl action classy (again).
The only light language that I've seen Microsoft push is VBScript.
This is Microsoft Research, which is different from Microsoft, proper. For instance, MR sponsors Simon Peyton Jones, who spends an enormous amount of effort on Haskell.
If you look at proceedings from years past, you will see that this isn't the MS fan club meeting.
He's polling 4-5% when the polling is done by his people. The question they ask is, "If the election were held today, would you vote for John Kerry, George W. Bush, or Michael Badnarik?" Needless to say, the numbers are a bit soft.
It's POSSIBLE that what you say is true, but it's complete speculation. There are systems of equations that, for instance, have no solutions, for which this can't be proven by Peano arithmetic. You're just making things up as you go along, however.
That's a load of bullshit. Just because two problems are hard doesn't mean they're equivalent. I challenge you to give one reference about the equivalence of the three body problem and the halting problem.
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PennyArcade donated to the ESA, which is a lobbying group, not a charity.
That's bullshit.
How is Google going to pay for this? How much advertising is going to on every page? Won't customers ignore (or block) most ads once we start to intuitively realize where they are on the page?
Isn't the hopelessness of endless ads why dotcoms failed? Consumers are already at a negative savings rate; we can't spend any more than we already do.
The VLT and HST which were used in these studies are incapable of detecting radiation at these wavelengths so any galaxies being managed by advanced civilizations would effectively be invisible.
We detect quasars because they emit so much damn radiation. We assume this is from the accretion disk around a black hole. Why would such an advanced civilization put out so much usable energy?
Because you have no clue what you're talking about.
of ego.
If we go in that direction our TVs will report us when we channel flip to avoid commercials.
Umm, you do realise that many Digital TV services and ALL IPTV services do this already, right?
Can you give us more information or a citation? What are the consequences for the consumer who does flip?
Furthermore, there's a lot more to it than simply sticking a bunch of batteries in the trunk. Some consumers use their trunks.
Also, by adding all that weight, you're changing the dynamics of the car. For a dealer to sell a car modified like that, it now needs to go through safety tests.
I don't think you can have it both ways. If some consumers use their trunks, then some consumers probably use their trunks to store batteries. Don't you think the existing safety tests cover the possibility of a full trunk?
MacOS uses a ton of OpenGL and other chutzpah for its basic functionality
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
don't forget the effect of inflation on your wallet though. XBOX 360 isn't cheaper because the purchasing power of your dollar is also less than it was when the original XBOX came out.
The dollar may be worth less, but I have more of them. Get it?
Tweaking by a leap second now and then is far less disruptive than tweaking by an hour every 500-600 years.
Why? If we switch to leap hours, the only software (and that's what the change is about) that will be disrupted by the change will be software that has to be working 500-600 years from now. A lot of programs could safely ignore leap hours, unlike now, when many programs can't ignore leap seconds.
If there were going to be radical changes made to timekeeping, I expect that decimal time would be the top candidate.
Well, this isn't a radical change like decimal time, in that it will have zero effect on John Doe's wrist watch. Second, decimal time is not exclusive with the leap hour; we could do both.
Have they thought about redefining the length of a second (and consequently minute, hour) to achieve these perfect 24-hour days?
Well, we actually can't predict too accurately the rate of the slowing of the Earth's rotation. Leap seconds are added not on a regular schedule, but only when astronomical measurements show they must be.
usual short-sighted thinking by the Americans.
Oh, I get it; you were trolling.
The old balance used to be: Intel made the processors, Microsoft made the OS, and neither the twain shall meet.
It's never. Never the twain shall meet.
Sweet!! April 29th is my 22nd birthday!
Why is this modded up as "informative"?
Have you tested the speed difference when you change only one non-header file? I bet incremental compilation will make that quite a bit faster. In addition, if you want to compile that changed source file to check for syntax or type errors, you don't have to check for collision between it and the whole rest of the project, only collisions between it and the header defining it.
That's easily the coolest case I've ever seen.
It's easily the worst movie I have ever seen.
I watched it in a marathon with Sphere, and Sphere was the good one!
Something like 99% of the complaints are from the same group who spend all day watching TV just to complain about "indecency" based on their own standard.
Whereas I watch TV all day in search of indecency. That you, Showtime, for bringing us "The L Word", which made hot girl-on-girl action classy (again).
Trolltech chooses licenses based on business. DJB choose this license to be a control freak.
I'm not saying he doesn't have a right to do so, it just makes him annoying.
Why would most students fail? Because DJB is now, and has always been, an asshole.
Takes a different tach - in this case it points out quite how bad emails can be in a corporate environment.
ITYM "a different tack."
HTH.
HAND.
The only light language that I've seen Microsoft push is VBScript.
This is Microsoft Research, which is different from Microsoft, proper. For instance, MR sponsors Simon Peyton Jones, who spends an enormous amount of effort on Haskell.
If you look at proceedings from years past, you will see that this isn't the MS fan club meeting.
You're new here, aren't you?
I hope this doesn't affect my rights online, somehow.
He's polling 4-5% when the polling is done by his people. The question they ask is, "If the election were held today, would you vote for John Kerry, George W. Bush, or Michael Badnarik?" Needless to say, the numbers are a bit soft.
It's POSSIBLE that what you say is true, but it's complete speculation. There are systems of equations that, for instance, have no solutions, for which this can't be proven by Peano arithmetic. You're just making things up as you go along, however.
He gives no evidence, he merely "strongly suspects."
That's a load of bullshit. Just because two problems are hard doesn't mean they're equivalent. I challenge you to give one reference about the equivalence of the three body problem and the halting problem.
You mean growing pains?