It doesn't matter how much the budget is if the soliders refuse to fight their own citizens.
Thought experiment for the day: President Trump decides to start deporting Muslims. Muslim citizens arm themselves to resist the totalitarian government.
I don't have enough money to justify spending it all on blowing my Australian mobile data cap. Since I do most of my listening while commuting, this means I can't afford a streaming service. MP3s and podcasts for me.
This is basically a modern transputer. As with connection machines, GPUs, and all such machines, it will very likely need a traditional host CPU to manage it, and that may well run Linux.
Rich people crimes are mostly just inconveniences to others, poor people crimes usually involve violence and death.
I don't know about that. According to this study, the global financial crisis caused half a million additional deaths due to cancer alone (essentially, people being locked out of medical treatment due to poverty and unemployment). Other causes (including long-term costs, such as the cost of youth unemployment disadvantaging that generation into their future) are obviously harder to measure.
For comparison, the number of deaths attributable to terrorism worldwide since 2006 is somewhere around 200,000.
AMD64 was a set of completely obvious extensions to the Intel X86 model.
I sometimes think that AMD's genius isn't what they added, but what they dropped by design. If it had been up to Intel, x86-64 would have a 64-bit "real mode", an even more complicated TSS, and yet another incompatible segmentation type.
Do you have any statistics to justify the tacit assumption that most mass shootings are perpetrated by recent immigrants or the descendants of recent immigrants?
Do you have any statistics to justify the tacit assumption that most mass shootings are perpetrated by recent immigrants or the descendants of recent immigrants?
Even things like cars that incorporate new computer tech, take away the bling and see if the core product is made better or more cheaply than before.
I would have to say "yes" on that one. With the possible exception of VW, pretty much any car you're likely to buy today is both more fuel efficient and safer than pretty much any car you were likely to buy 30 years ago.
I'm pretty sure commanding real armies is much more intresting than playing with plastic toysoldiers with neighbour, or nowadays owning computer and trying to dominate others virtually:D
A real effect would stick out like a sore thumb in society in general, now that people have spent 20 years with cell phones glued to their ears.
You'd think so, but cancer is actually pretty tricky to pin down and the technology and usage patterns of mobile phone usage hasn't remained constant over those 20 years.
Despite 50 years of outcome improvements, the mortality rate of cancer has remained relatively static. The reason may simply be that people are dying of cancer because they aren't dying of other things, and hence getting old enough to die from cancers that are hard to treat. Moreover, mobile phones were originally mostly car-mounted, and in recent years it's more about earbuds and bluetooth, so people haven't been literally holding the phone against their heads at a constant rate over that time.
So no, it would not necessarily stick out like a sore thumb. It's still arguably a good thing to research.
You know the worst part, though? The headline of very Slashdot story implies that doubts were raised about the study rather than how it was reported. The mistake is being compounded every time the story is retold.
(Incidentally, the "statistically underpowered" comment is accurate but irrelevant. The whole point of a small-scale study is to decide whether or not it's worth spending resources on a larger-scale study. Science journalists should know this.)
I honestly hadn't thought of that, but this is an awesome conspiracy theory. The government can't technically outlaw strong encryption, so they just send a patent troll front against any company that tries to do it instead. I would read that book.
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It doesn't matter how much the budget is if the soliders refuse to fight their own citizens.
Thought experiment for the day: President Trump decides to start deporting Muslims. Muslim citizens arm themselves to resist the totalitarian government.
How does that one play out?
Not that I have a lot of money to spend, [...]
I don't have enough money to justify spending it all on blowing my Australian mobile data cap. Since I do most of my listening while commuting, this means I can't afford a streaming service. MP3s and podcasts for me.
Yes, I should have been more clear on that. It may need a host CPU (or more than one), but there's no reason why that couldn't be on the same die.
I've written OpenCL kernels that have variable length loops and branches either of which could be run, and executed then in parallel.
The way this typically works is to use conditional execution, just like in ARM or Itanium, with the predicate bit being a set of bits. This is all explained in early research papers on GPUs, such as this one from the now-amusingly-named "Lucasfilm Pixar Project" circa 1984.
This is basically a modern transputer. As with connection machines, GPUs, and all such machines, it will very likely need a traditional host CPU to manage it, and that may well run Linux.
Rich people crimes are mostly just inconveniences to others, poor people crimes usually involve violence and death.
I don't know about that. According to this study, the global financial crisis caused half a million additional deaths due to cancer alone (essentially, people being locked out of medical treatment due to poverty and unemployment). Other causes (including long-term costs, such as the cost of youth unemployment disadvantaging that generation into their future) are obviously harder to measure.
For comparison, the number of deaths attributable to terrorism worldwide since 2006 is somewhere around 200,000.
And, as you're probably implying here, they didn't.
Well, I was mostly having a go at Slashdot editors, but yes, that is what I was implying.
AMD64 was a set of completely obvious extensions to the Intel X86 model.
I sometimes think that AMD's genius isn't what they added, but what they dropped by design. If it had been up to Intel, x86-64 would have a 64-bit "real mode", an even more complicated TSS, and yet another incompatible segmentation type.
I do find it hard to believe that the WORLD Health Organisation gave their numbers primarily in Fahrenheit.
You're oncologist's statement doesn't do anything to explain the reason a teenager might get cancer.
Sure it does. One of the main causes of teenagers getting cancer is not dying in infancy.
The Walking Dead hasn't used amnesia as a reason to bring back a long-thought-dead character? Excuse me, I need to go pitch a spec script.
Here's the exact quote:
Emphasis added, obviously.
How about the worst mass shooting in American history, you ignorant piece of shit.
Yes, I know about that one. What about all the others?
You're the problem.
Don't blame this one on me. My country hasn't had a mass shooting since 1996.
Really? I did a quick search and this is all I could find on the topic.
On a related note, I'm sure the NRA will now run a publicity campaign encouraging gay people to arm themselves for self-defence.
Do you have any statistics to justify the tacit assumption that most mass shootings are perpetrated by recent immigrants or the descendants of recent immigrants?
My problem with agile is the daily meeting crap.
Meetings are a necessary evil. The fact is, you're working with and for other people, and as such, you need to know what's what.
If it's a choice between daily short meetings or weekly long meetings, I'll take the short meetings any time.
Even things like cars that incorporate new computer tech, take away the bling and see if the core product is made better or more cheaply than before.
I would have to say "yes" on that one. With the possible exception of VW, pretty much any car you're likely to buy today is both more fuel efficient and safer than pretty much any car you were likely to buy 30 years ago.
Who the hell wants to buy a product that can become abandoned by the manufacturer the instant something potentially better comes along?
I don't have an iPhone either.
I'm pretty sure commanding real armies is much more intresting than playing with plastic toysoldiers with neighbour, or nowadays owning computer and trying to dominate others virtually :D
Drones are more politically palatable, though.
We do know that, yes. But we don't know all of the mechanisms that can cause cancer.
Look, it's highly unlikely. But I'm still in favour of doing small-scale studies using different test setups every so often.
A real effect would stick out like a sore thumb in society in general, now that people have spent 20 years with cell phones glued to their ears.
You'd think so, but cancer is actually pretty tricky to pin down and the technology and usage patterns of mobile phone usage hasn't remained constant over those 20 years.
Despite 50 years of outcome improvements, the mortality rate of cancer has remained relatively static. The reason may simply be that people are dying of cancer because they aren't dying of other things, and hence getting old enough to die from cancers that are hard to treat. Moreover, mobile phones were originally mostly car-mounted, and in recent years it's more about earbuds and bluetooth, so people haven't been literally holding the phone against their heads at a constant rate over that time.
So no, it would not necessarily stick out like a sore thumb. It's still arguably a good thing to research.
You know the worst part, though? The headline of very Slashdot story implies that doubts were raised about the study rather than how it was reported. The mistake is being compounded every time the story is retold.
(Incidentally, the "statistically underpowered" comment is accurate but irrelevant. The whole point of a small-scale study is to decide whether or not it's worth spending resources on a larger-scale study. Science journalists should know this.)
A more accurate headline would be "Cell Phone Links to Cancer Only Found in Incomplete Half-Understood Studies".
FTFY
I honestly hadn't thought of that, but this is an awesome conspiracy theory. The government can't technically outlaw strong encryption, so they just send a patent troll front against any company that tries to do it instead. I would read that book.