If I had mod-points today you'd get them all. There's a button in the metro-style IE to switch to the desktop-IE which does support plugins. This is about battery consumption and providing a consistent touch-interface in metro. Plug-ins (especially Java and Flash) are terrible for pegging the CPU at 100% to display some ads, which sucks down battery like it's going out of style.
The desktop IE still supports plugins and trusted activeX and everything else that IE9 has.
Yeah, except that half the programs from that era went and modified your autoexec.bat or *.ini files in haphazard ways. Then they each had their own default location to save files to - often just c:\, or c:\docs, or even c:\windows! Then there's the fact that they all shared the same memory space, so one app gone rogue would take down everything..
I'll take Windows 7's UAC and click-once installation any day.
I understand the process and the difficulty in determining the exact location - especially while new data is still coming in, and before all the data is collated. I was just amusing myself at the symmetric uncertainty boundaries when the real uncertainty was obviously skewed in favour of the earthquake happening below the surface, rather than miles above it.
Even at 1000 meters, you'd only be able to see about 120 km. The distance you can see over the horizon is roughly proportional to the square root of your height above the surface. To see Somalia from Jeddah, you'd have to build a 100km tall tower. If they built it to 3000m, you might be able to see northern Sudan from the peak.
As to feeding Somalis, assuming about 1 USD / day to feed a person, you could feed all of Somalia for 4 months
While I agree with most of your post, if you spend hours and days trying to hunt down a class definition, then you're doing it wrong. Any IDE will let you jump to the declaration and/or definition of an identifier, and failing that, there's grep.
They aren't "lifting tons of air mass" against gravity. Gravity pushing down on the surrounding air is what is pushing the air up in the first place. This tower is a way to focus that downward push of cool air onto a narrow tube of hot air that then floats up and runs the turbines. This isn't any different than boiling small amounts of water at the bottom of a lake. The bubbles will rise quickly and that energy could be harnessed, but it would be pretty useless to try and harness the energy of the resulting water vapour eventually drifting back to the bottom of the lake.
I'll agree with you on the touch support, it's kind of iffy. But if you get a tablet that also includes an active stylus, then the handwriting recognition works, and the right-click, gestures, and hovering issues go away.
There are lots of them - and have been for good long time. I have one of these, that I got when a local hospital was selling off the old generation of computers and upgrading to these. These things are freaking amazing - usable in full sunlgiht, nearly indestructible, great battery life (plus hot-swappable batteries), but they do cost $2000+, which is why you never see them, except in hospitals or government contracted job-sites, or on sci-fi tv shows.
Fujitsu, Acer, HP, Dell, or Lenovo all have Windows tablet offerings. They just tend to be full-fledged computers, rather than toys, and so carry a higher price. Windows 7 with gestures / flicks works quite well as a tablet OS, but it is helpful to have the active digitizer with stylus, regardless of whether you also have a iPad style touchscreen.
Outhouses need to be moved frequently in order to remain sanitary (especially when you have many people using them). With the population densities you have in refugee camps and slums, that becomes unfeasible. You can't just drop an outhouse anywhere either - you need to be aware of the ground water, proximity to drinking / bathing water, soil types, etc... They "worked" in other places and times because the population densities were lower (and where they weren't, people died from water-borne bacteria and parasites all the time - up until fairly recently, water-borne disease would kill more soldiers at war than other soldiers would). Sanitation education does help in places where the density is low enough to be sustained by outhouses, but more efficient processing techniques (like composting toilets, indoor plumbing, or whatever new innovation this project might come up with) are still required where outhouses are insufficient.
If you just want to reduce how safe a community feels, then just reduce media coverage of crime. There's little correlation over time between crime rates and "feeling safe". It's nearly entirely based on how much our politicians want to keep up afraid, so we'll support their agenda, and how much the news is trying to boost ratings by being sensationalistic. This is why there are no "crime rate" stories for the 5 years in a row when the rates are falling, and on the 6th year, when it ticks up a bit, every local station is all over the "story".
CPUs and GPUs have very different focuses. A CPU is designed to take a single piece of data, run an operation on it, then grab a different piece of data, and run another operation on it. (There's a whole bunch of optimizations for running the same operation on different bits of data, and different operations on the same bit of data, but those are largely optimizations, and only apply to relatively small scales). A GPU is designed to take a butt-load (technical term) of data, and perform the same operation on all that data, followed by another operation on that same butt-load of data.
When you are cracking passwords, you have a bunch of potential passwords you want to try. On a CPU, you are stuck with hashing between 1 and maybe a dozen simultaneously. On a GPU, you could potentially run a few million simultaneously. Each step on the GPU would be slower, but your total output of hashed passwords would be much higher.
You do realize that the US also scripts "chatter" back and forth between the ground crew and the flight crew? They very likely also write up press releases ahead of time that only get changed when something doesn't follow the plan. That China would do the same thing isn't at all surprising, or even deceiptful. The issue is one of incompetance at being unable to control release times.
I'm against assuming that they are safe. Potatoes are already mildly toxic, and other plants in the nightshade family are very much so. I don't think it's unreasonable to take a step back, and compare the toxicity of the the new varieties. I'd like to assume that this is already being done before releasing a new variety into the food supply, but I'm not sure that's a safe assumption.
You say that like there's just one group - I happen to support reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing the use of safer nuclear reactor technologies, and the careful use of GMO crops. I'm against patenting GMO life. I'm against assuming all GMO plants are safe for consumption just because their progenitors were safe - that same protein that protects against potato blight may be toxic to more than just the bugs spreading it. On the other hand, it's more than likely less toxic than dumping insecticides on the plants.
There are plenty of people out there who don't simply define themselves as "environmentalists", but look at individual issues and see potential issues that should be mitigated against.
Amdahl's law is saying that no matter how much paralization you get, you are still going to be limited by the longest non-paralizable path. This is no different than your real life example - your longest non-paralizable path (say CPU->PCB assembly->ROM flashing->final assembly->packaging) is going to limit how fast you can manufacture your iPhones. It doesn't matter how fast you can manufacture glass backs, or RAM, if it's not on that critical path, you won't be speeding up your result at all.
Gold's value has almost no relation to it's usefullness vs. supply - the primary demand for gold is to hoard it in the hopes that enough other people will try and hoard it to keep the price going up.
Coffee cups are a bit of a vague measurement though - I have a "12-cup" coffee that brews roughly 2 litres of coffee (5-6 oz per cup), which is unrelated to a 250mL/8oz "cup", and most coffee mugs run near the 9-10oz size, and many travel mugs are in the 16+oz range. In many european cafes, a cup amounts to 4 oz. I would assume from experience that the 6 cups of coffee is refering to half a 12-cup pot of coffee (34 oz, or two cups in my travel mug).
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If I had mod-points today you'd get them all. There's a button in the metro-style IE to switch to the desktop-IE which does support plugins. This is about battery consumption and providing a consistent touch-interface in metro. Plug-ins (especially Java and Flash) are terrible for pegging the CPU at 100% to display some ads, which sucks down battery like it's going out of style.
The desktop IE still supports plugins and trusted activeX and everything else that IE9 has.
Movies != music. Music is treated specially in Canada's copyright legislation.
They're doing that too in the form of intializing devices in parallel.
RTFA and find out..
Hint... The answer is yes. But note that they do re-intialize drivers even in the hybrid boot, so that takes care of a majority of kernel level issues
Yeah, except that half the programs from that era went and modified your autoexec.bat or *.ini files in haphazard ways. Then they each had their own default location to save files to - often just c:\, or c:\docs, or even c:\windows! Then there's the fact that they all shared the same memory space, so one app gone rogue would take down everything..
I'll take Windows 7's UAC and click-once installation any day.
I understand the process and the difficulty in determining the exact location - especially while new data is still coming in, and before all the data is collated. I was just amusing myself at the symmetric uncertainty boundaries when the real uncertainty was obviously skewed in favour of the earthquake happening below the surface, rather than miles above it.
I like that it's listed at a depth of 1km, with an uncertainty of +/- 7.4 km... I really hate those sky-quakes.
Fortunately, thanks to gravity, it only takes 10.1 seconds to travel that km.
Even at 1000 meters, you'd only be able to see about 120 km. The distance you can see over the horizon is roughly proportional to the square root of your height above the surface. To see Somalia from Jeddah, you'd have to build a 100km tall tower. If they built it to 3000m, you might be able to see northern Sudan from the peak.
As to feeding Somalis, assuming about 1 USD / day to feed a person, you could feed all of Somalia for 4 months
The graphic is showing the new tower at 1 mile, not one km. In that case it would be twice as tall.
While I agree with most of your post, if you spend hours and days trying to hunt down a class definition, then you're doing it wrong. Any IDE will let you jump to the declaration and/or definition of an identifier, and failing that, there's grep.
They aren't "lifting tons of air mass" against gravity. Gravity pushing down on the surrounding air is what is pushing the air up in the first place. This tower is a way to focus that downward push of cool air onto a narrow tube of hot air that then floats up and runs the turbines. This isn't any different than boiling small amounts of water at the bottom of a lake. The bubbles will rise quickly and that energy could be harnessed, but it would be pretty useless to try and harness the energy of the resulting water vapour eventually drifting back to the bottom of the lake.
I'll agree with you on the touch support, it's kind of iffy. But if you get a tablet that also includes an active stylus, then the handwriting recognition works, and the right-click, gestures, and hovering issues go away.
There are lots of them - and have been for good long time. I have one of these, that I got when a local hospital was selling off the old generation of computers and upgrading to these. These things are freaking amazing - usable in full sunlgiht, nearly indestructible, great battery life (plus hot-swappable batteries), but they do cost $2000+, which is why you never see them, except in hospitals or government contracted job-sites, or on sci-fi tv shows.
Fujitsu, Acer, HP, Dell, or Lenovo all have Windows tablet offerings. They just tend to be full-fledged computers, rather than toys, and so carry a higher price. Windows 7 with gestures / flicks works quite well as a tablet OS, but it is helpful to have the active digitizer with stylus, regardless of whether you also have a iPad style touchscreen.
Outhouses need to be moved frequently in order to remain sanitary (especially when you have many people using them). With the population densities you have in refugee camps and slums, that becomes unfeasible. You can't just drop an outhouse anywhere either - you need to be aware of the ground water, proximity to drinking / bathing water, soil types, etc... They "worked" in other places and times because the population densities were lower (and where they weren't, people died from water-borne bacteria and parasites all the time - up until fairly recently, water-borne disease would kill more soldiers at war than other soldiers would). Sanitation education does help in places where the density is low enough to be sustained by outhouses, but more efficient processing techniques (like composting toilets, indoor plumbing, or whatever new innovation this project might come up with) are still required where outhouses are insufficient.
And in a village without abundant electricity, what do you propose would power this vacuum?
If you just want to reduce how safe a community feels, then just reduce media coverage of crime. There's little correlation over time between crime rates and "feeling safe". It's nearly entirely based on how much our politicians want to keep up afraid, so we'll support their agenda, and how much the news is trying to boost ratings by being sensationalistic. This is why there are no "crime rate" stories for the 5 years in a row when the rates are falling, and on the 6th year, when it ticks up a bit, every local station is all over the "story".
CPUs and GPUs have very different focuses. A CPU is designed to take a single piece of data, run an operation on it, then grab a different piece of data, and run another operation on it. (There's a whole bunch of optimizations for running the same operation on different bits of data, and different operations on the same bit of data, but those are largely optimizations, and only apply to relatively small scales). A GPU is designed to take a butt-load (technical term) of data, and perform the same operation on all that data, followed by another operation on that same butt-load of data.
When you are cracking passwords, you have a bunch of potential passwords you want to try. On a CPU, you are stuck with hashing between 1 and maybe a dozen simultaneously. On a GPU, you could potentially run a few million simultaneously. Each step on the GPU would be slower, but your total output of hashed passwords would be much higher.
You do realize that the US also scripts "chatter" back and forth between the ground crew and the flight crew? They very likely also write up press releases ahead of time that only get changed when something doesn't follow the plan. That China would do the same thing isn't at all surprising, or even deceiptful. The issue is one of incompetance at being unable to control release times.
Absolutely. This protest is completely unhelpful, and only serves to enforce the idea that anyone who has any questions about GMO foods is a nut-job.
I'm against assuming that they are safe. Potatoes are already mildly toxic, and other plants in the nightshade family are very much so. I don't think it's unreasonable to take a step back, and compare the toxicity of the the new varieties. I'd like to assume that this is already being done before releasing a new variety into the food supply, but I'm not sure that's a safe assumption.
you environmentalists
You say that like there's just one group - I happen to support reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing the use of safer nuclear reactor technologies, and the careful use of GMO crops. I'm against patenting GMO life. I'm against assuming all GMO plants are safe for consumption just because their progenitors were safe - that same protein that protects against potato blight may be toxic to more than just the bugs spreading it. On the other hand, it's more than likely less toxic than dumping insecticides on the plants.
There are plenty of people out there who don't simply define themselves as "environmentalists", but look at individual issues and see potential issues that should be mitigated against.
Amdahl's law is saying that no matter how much paralization you get, you are still going to be limited by the longest non-paralizable path. This is no different than your real life example - your longest non-paralizable path (say CPU->PCB assembly->ROM flashing->final assembly->packaging) is going to limit how fast you can manufacture your iPhones. It doesn't matter how fast you can manufacture glass backs, or RAM, if it's not on that critical path, you won't be speeding up your result at all.
Gold's value has almost no relation to it's usefullness vs. supply - the primary demand for gold is to hoard it in the hopes that enough other people will try and hoard it to keep the price going up.
Coffee cups are a bit of a vague measurement though - I have a "12-cup" coffee that brews roughly 2 litres of coffee (5-6 oz per cup), which is unrelated to a 250mL/8oz "cup", and most coffee mugs run near the 9-10oz size, and many travel mugs are in the 16+oz range. In many european cafes, a cup amounts to 4 oz. I would assume from experience that the 6 cups of coffee is refering to half a 12-cup pot of coffee (34 oz, or two cups in my travel mug).