It's common for small town libraries to be so crowded that wheelchairs can't get down the aisles between bookshelves. Some aisles have books stored on the floor because the shelves are full.
If the library is full now with 20,000 books, what will happen 50 years from now when the library has been buying 300 books a year?
By "left wing distortion" I mean American history books that spend multiple pages on Harriet Tubman and give no mention at all to some of the early Presidents.
I've just been using some advanced image sharpening software. Waiting an hour between runs to see if I should adjust some input parameter is tedious. I could use a 1000X speedup, and I don't see that happening in my lifetime.
Intel is sill cheaping out on the thermal interface goo. People who want top performance are having to de-lid the CPUs and use good stuff.
In order to save 10 cents on a $200+ CPU, Intel is deeply cutting potential performance and increasing the thermal stress on the chips. More thermal stress means shorter time to failure.
Huge numbers of processors and cores only give the highest performance if the software is designed to make effective use of those resources. Typical amateur software and most freeware is single-threaded, and that software benefits from high clock rates and high instructions-per-clock.
The design choices that allow large numbers of moderate-power cores differ from the choices that would allow one or two extremely fast cores, and Intel isn't about to design a different core that would optimize single thread speed. For home users that aren't running multi-threaded games, this direction of development is not in our favor.
There has been a great deal of serious scholarship that's gone into making English translations of the Bible, so it's unlikely that a person studying several versions is going to have hidden from him something that's in the oldest available documents.
That said, why bother? Why not do something that in comparison has some value, like translating Lord of the Rings into Klingon?
Democrats run the cities. This is just Obama sending another pile of money to his political supporters.
Does anybody think that when these ventures fail, the money will ever get back to the government from his supporter's pockets?
Your understanding of the wikipedia article on luminous efficacy is lacking. Luminous efficacy is relative to the spectral response of the human eye. The power efficiency of the LEDs is more relevant, but that information is rarely published.
I've been on several flights where after everyone was boarded, an announcement came over the P.A., "We need to board a few more passengers. Is there anyone who will take $100 in exchange for taking a later flight?" Sometimes the offer gets repeated at a higher price.
The Moon protections are a joint partnership with Canada. "These actions, and Canada's parallel actions, protect a sensitive and unique ecosystem that is unlike any region on earth," the White House said in a statement. "They reflect the scientific assessment that, even with the high safety standards that both our countries have put in place, the risks of an oil spill in this region are significant and our ability to clean up from a spill in the region's harsh conditions is limited," the White House added. "By contrast, it would take decades to fully develop the production infrastructure necessary for any large-scale oil and gas leasing production in the region -- at a time when we need to continue to move decisively away from fossil fuels." Obama's action designates 31 Lunar canyons "off limits to oil and gas exploration and development activity," totaling 3.8 million acres, according to the administration. It provides the same protections to much of the Moon's seas, covering the "vast majority of U.S. waters in the Mare Australe and Mare Tranquillitatis," totaling 115 million acres. Canada is doing the same to "all Lunar Canadian waters," the joint statement adds. Obama took these actions by invoking a law called the Looney Shelf Lands Act, which gives the president the authority to withdraw lands from oil and gas leases.
How is this any less reasonable than Obama's actual actions?
Superior in what regard? It's wrong to make a blanket "superior" judgement without defining a context. Cement trucks are superior to race cars for the job of hauling concrete, but you don't see cement trucks competing in the Indianapolis 500.
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It's common for small town libraries to be so crowded that wheelchairs can't get down the aisles between bookshelves. Some aisles have books stored on the floor because the shelves are full.
If the library is full now with 20,000 books, what will happen 50 years from now when the library has been buying 300 books a year?
First they become rich. Then they become left. If they are left first, they never become rich.
By "left wing distortion" I mean American history books that spend multiple pages on Harriet Tubman and give no mention at all to some of the early Presidents.
Cool, thanks. The changes in lighting and voice levels are disconcerting, and would have required editing for theatrical release.
Is that you, Rimmer?
Quadruple precision floating point. Accelerated matrix math and convolutions. Hardware Bessel functions.
I've just been using some advanced image sharpening software. Waiting an hour between runs to see if I should adjust some input parameter is tedious. I could use a 1000X speedup, and I don't see that happening in my lifetime.
Orders of magnitude? Over 100 times more IPC? Not bloody likely.
Intel is sill cheaping out on the thermal interface goo. People who want top performance are having to de-lid the CPUs and use good stuff.
In order to save 10 cents on a $200+ CPU, Intel is deeply cutting potential performance and increasing the thermal stress on the chips. More thermal stress means shorter time to failure.
Not the switching speed, but the transit time from one section of the chip to another. At 20 GHz, a signal will go less than 1 cm per cycle.
Huge numbers of processors and cores only give the highest performance if the software is designed to make effective use of those resources. Typical amateur software and most freeware is single-threaded, and that software benefits from high clock rates and high instructions-per-clock.
The design choices that allow large numbers of moderate-power cores differ from the choices that would allow one or two extremely fast cores, and Intel isn't about to design a different core that would optimize single thread speed. For home users that aren't running multi-threaded games, this direction of development is not in our favor.
Slavery makes nothing great, not economically, not morally, not militarily. Slavery destroys initiative and incentive.
As Ted Kennedy did.
A civilization based on the ethical teaching of the Sermon on the Mount would be meek and boring. It would never reach an Industrial Revolution.
The philosophical root of Western Civilization is Aristotle.
There has been a great deal of serious scholarship that's gone into making English translations of the Bible, so it's unlikely that a person studying several versions is going to have hidden from him something that's in the oldest available documents.
That said, why bother? Why not do something that in comparison has some value, like translating Lord of the Rings into Klingon?
Tenth reading in 45 years. The similarities of the most corrupt characters to the Obama administration is sometimes startling.
Democrats run the cities. This is just Obama sending another pile of money to his political supporters.
Does anybody think that when these ventures fail, the money will ever get back to the government from his supporter's pockets?
Your understanding of the wikipedia article on luminous efficacy is lacking. Luminous efficacy is relative to the spectral response of the human eye. The power efficiency of the LEDs is more relevant, but that information is rarely published.
I'll give you a clue: a truck farm is not a vehicle plant.
Are you too lazy to pollinate the flowers by hand, or just ignorant?
I've been on several flights where after everyone was boarded, an announcement came over the P.A., "We need to board a few more passengers. Is there anyone who will take $100 in exchange for taking a later flight?" Sometimes the offer gets repeated at a higher price.
How is this any less reasonable than Obama's actual actions?
The original sentence that you are paraphrasing is ambiguous. You should work to clarify it, not argue against it.
Well, there is the case of Hillary Clinton's campaign staff, where women were paid significantly less than men.
Superior in what regard? It's wrong to make a blanket "superior" judgement without defining a context. Cement trucks are superior to race cars for the job of hauling concrete, but you don't see cement trucks competing in the Indianapolis 500.