If carpenter bees are considered a type of bumble bee I hope they do extinct ASAP. Not only do they drill holes in any wooden structure they can find, but after they've built a nest the woodpeckers tear it apart and make an even bigger hole.
Population density isn't the issue, especially when you look at the amount of uninhabitable land in Africa (e.g. Sahara Desert). Take a close look at population growth and you'll see why Africa has a migration problem.
Bit rot usually means portions of the code haven't been refactored after other parts have been changed. What might have been good enough when it was first written has degraded.
Regarding the mountains - realize that some parts of Iowa are so flat that on a clear day, a person with good eyesight can look out toward the horizon and see the back of his own head.
Everyone I've known who grew up in Iowa and moved away wanted to move back, if that tells you anything
A Delta V wouldn't have anywhere near the energy needed to slow it down enough for orbit. Remember that the rocket engine and fuel would be traveling at the same speed as the probe, that's a tremendous amount of kinetic energy.
It's interesting that they can do this to the object code after it's been generated. But it sounds a lot like traditional compiler optimization to me. Or am I missing something?
I would also quibble with the headline. It isn't "fixing" the code; it's generating more efficient instructions to do the same thing.
Instead of waiting for a disaster and throwing money at it after the fact, how about also throwing their money and energy at trying to avoid disasters in the first place. Kicking the can down the road by helping people cross the Mediterranean doesn't solve the real problems of political instability, overpopulation, and poor infrastructure.
There have been efforts to cut off the horns in the past (no need to replace them with a fake, 3D printed or otherwise because it's mostly for display). The problem is that poachers don't shoot rhinos that are running around loose; they use snares or traps that kill indiscriminately, whether the horn has already been removed or not.
The best solution is to cut the market price. By flooding the market with knock-offs the price will drop enough that it won't be worth the effort and risk to kill a rhino for its horn. And maybe (maybe) idiots will stop buying it because they know that what they're buying is almost certainly fake. A poacher in Africa would know he has the real thing, but by the time it gets to Asia everyone will claim to be selling the real thing, even though most will be fake.
Some low-level customer support person didn't do what they were supposed to do in order to stop the calls. We hold the corporation responsible, but this kind of thing is almost always caused by the laziness or stupidity of someone in a cubicle somewhere and by that person's manager not following up to ensure what was supposed to be done was actually done.
The underlying cause of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing flaw in the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an operation to prepare for the close flyby.
So a "flaw" in the command sequence isn't a software fault? Sure sounds like one to me. Glad to hear the craft is functioning again though.
Historically only a small portion of the labor force has been well educated. The vast majority of the workforce was farm workers, laborers, factory workers, etc. Today most of those jobs are gone - partly because of mechanization, partly because manufacturing is too expensive in the US. Plus millions of people are out of the workforce because the government has made it so easy to qualify for disability.
A couple of dozen people moving to SF hardly qualifies as "filling up " that area. But it does indicate what shape the Democratic party is in; these are the people who got Obama elected - now there's no place for them in Washington and especially no place for them in the Clinton machine.
The news report noted that the park relies 'mainly on employees closely watching the animals' for seismological significance."
How do they know what is significant? I assume that after earthquakes in the past some zoo employee reported that he/she saw the animals behaving strangely but didn't realize they were trying to tell him an earthquake was imminent. This in the country that uses rhinoceros horns and bear gall bladders as aphrodisiacs.
Probably the same guy who told them the plane doesn't have the capacity to carry another person and associated provisions. It's basically a minimally powered glider.
I kind of wondered why a Japan to Hawaii leg was chosen, but when you look at the prevailing winds it makes sense. Probably the only route the plane could possibly complete.
Not really. Ships don't just go out to the middle of the ocean and drive around in circles. When deployed they spend most of their time in port. Even when out at sea it's rarely a problem getting small parts to a ship by helicopter; bigger parts usually require a visit to a shipyard anyway. Plus what usually breaks down is electronic.
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They convinced the the judge that they didn't commit the crime. Why is this "New for Nerds"?
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If carpenter bees are considered a type of bumble bee I hope they do extinct ASAP. Not only do they drill holes in any wooden structure they can find, but after they've built a nest the woodpeckers tear it apart and make an even bigger hole.
I didn't miss that. The important point is what they're doing rather than how they're doing it; the tool they use doesn't really matter.
Population density isn't the issue, especially when you look at the amount of uninhabitable land in Africa (e.g. Sahara Desert). Take a close look at population growth and you'll see why Africa has a migration problem.
Bit rot usually means portions of the code haven't been refactored after other parts have been changed. What might have been good enough when it was first written has degraded.
Regarding the mountains - realize that some parts of Iowa are so flat that on a clear day, a person with good eyesight can look out toward the horizon and see the back of his own head.
Everyone I've known who grew up in Iowa and moved away wanted to move back, if that tells you anything
A Delta V wouldn't have anywhere near the energy needed to slow it down enough for orbit. Remember that the rocket engine and fuel would be traveling at the same speed as the probe, that's a tremendous amount of kinetic energy.
It's interesting that they can do this to the object code after it's been generated. But it sounds a lot like traditional compiler optimization to me. Or am I missing something?
I would also quibble with the headline. It isn't "fixing" the code; it's generating more efficient instructions to do the same thing.
Instead of waiting for a disaster and throwing money at it after the fact, how about also throwing their money and energy at trying to avoid disasters in the first place. Kicking the can down the road by helping people cross the Mediterranean doesn't solve the real problems of political instability, overpopulation, and poor infrastructure.
There have been efforts to cut off the horns in the past (no need to replace them with a fake, 3D printed or otherwise because it's mostly for display). The problem is that poachers don't shoot rhinos that are running around loose; they use snares or traps that kill indiscriminately, whether the horn has already been removed or not.
The best solution is to cut the market price. By flooding the market with knock-offs the price will drop enough that it won't be worth the effort and risk to kill a rhino for its horn. And maybe (maybe) idiots will stop buying it because they know that what they're buying is almost certainly fake. A poacher in Africa would know he has the real thing, but by the time it gets to Asia everyone will claim to be selling the real thing, even though most will be fake.
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing"
It's Green Energy. They don't want to start Anthropogenic Lunar Warming
We all have brain farts occasionally, don't worry about it.
Some low-level customer support person didn't do what they were supposed to do in order to stop the calls. We hold the corporation responsible, but this kind of thing is almost always caused by the laziness or stupidity of someone in a cubicle somewhere and by that person's manager not following up to ensure what was supposed to be done was actually done.
DOE tests NWEI's WEC at WETS to gather performance data on MHK technologies. Then they spell out "megawatt" and "kilowatt".
No contradiction at all. She's using the Majestic Plural.
Imagine you wrote a shell script...
That's software.
The underlying cause of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing flaw in the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an operation to prepare for the close flyby.
So a "flaw" in the command sequence isn't a software fault? Sure sounds like one to me. Glad to hear the craft is functioning again though.
Historically only a small portion of the labor force has been well educated. The vast majority of the workforce was farm workers, laborers, factory workers, etc. Today most of those jobs are gone - partly because of mechanization, partly because manufacturing is too expensive in the US. Plus millions of people are out of the workforce because the government has made it so easy to qualify for disability.
A couple of dozen people moving to SF hardly qualifies as "filling up " that area. But it does indicate what shape the Democratic party is in; these are the people who got Obama elected - now there's no place for them in Washington and especially no place for them in the Clinton machine.
The news report noted that the park relies 'mainly on employees closely watching the animals' for seismological significance."
How do they know what is significant? I assume that after earthquakes in the past some zoo employee reported that he/she saw the animals behaving strangely but didn't realize they were trying to tell him an earthquake was imminent. This in the country that uses rhinoceros horns and bear gall bladders as aphrodisiacs.
Probably the same guy who told them the plane doesn't have the capacity to carry another person and associated provisions. It's basically a minimally powered glider.
I kind of wondered why a Japan to Hawaii leg was chosen, but when you look at the prevailing winds it makes sense. Probably the only route the plane could possibly complete.
This really applies for long-term deployments
Not really. Ships don't just go out to the middle of the ocean and drive around in circles. When deployed they spend most of their time in port. Even when out at sea it's rarely a problem getting small parts to a ship by helicopter; bigger parts usually require a visit to a shipyard anyway. Plus what usually breaks down is electronic.