You can probably solve the problem just by adding some minimum about of carbs per day. I dunno, maybe a bowl or two of rice would be enough. But ask the doctor(s) in any case.
Wow. That would be, like, a balanced diet. What a revolutionary concept, eh?
...details the special constraints applying to the design of these applications: special interfaces, lack of power and memory, and interoperability between heterogeneous networks...
IOW, everything HTML was designed to fix. (Or if you prefer, everything that CSS, font tags, etc subequently broke.)
[sigh]
i.e., a 100 GB drive now becomes a 50GB drive with all the benefits of a perfectly atomic, error-free, transaction-enabled FS.
Even if this were true, plenty of people would go for that, given the cost of disk space versus the cost of downtime in today's market. After all, RAID0 only protects against the arguably lower chance of hardware failure and people are willing to take the 100% cost overhead for that.
Probably LESS of these errors: for one, European scientists are much more comfortable with multilingual / multicultural projects, and for two, they're more diligent about looking for them because it's almost expected to find some, as you say.
I do very occasionally undertake, if there is a car doing 60 in the outside lane with an empty middle lane to the left and nothing in front of it, showing no sign of moving over... but otherwise, no!
At 70mph the two-second gap is more like 70 metres, not 20, and you're right, people tend to look at you funny if you follow that far back on a busy motorway. You'll never keep the gap open.
(Come to think of it, it should have been 140 metres yesterday, because it was raining!)
The Highway Code says a lot of things which do not reflect practice on UK roads!
Flashing headlights officially means "I am here", but actually it's used most of often to say "I am here, just bear that in mind when you pull out in front of me" for letting people in from slip roads / filtering or for pedestrians crossing the road. IOW it means "I know YOU'RE there and you want to get in, so go ahead."
It also means "thank you" when passing oncoming traffic that has stopped for you on narrow / obstructed roads.
Multiple quick flashes usually mean "now you've pissed me off," usually through poor lane discipline or pulling out of side roads unexpectedly. (Or in fact most situations where a lot of US drivers would use their horn instead.) Over here, the horn is pretty much real emergency "out the way I'm leaking brake fluid" only, and it is ILLEGAL to sound it whilst the vehicle is stationary.
So to return to the topic, in fact, the flash AND THE CONTEXT together transmit a great deal more than one bit of information. If (God help me) I drive home in rush hour I probably use a flash about once every two minutes, or 1/30th Hz.:-)
PS Full beam in a 30mph would be Driving Without Due Consideration for Other Road Users, or possibly Without Due Care if the magistrate decided you'd left them on accidentally after entering the lighted area.
I don't think I could sleep at night working for an organisation where individual drives were a SPOF for mission-critical DBs, whether IDE, SCSI, SSA, or yoghurt pots and string.
I would have thought a chemistry major would have to understand the difference between energy and work, in thermodynamic terms...
I thought iron - not lead - was the point of inflexion for fission / fusion?
And presumably, now that we are given to understand there will NOT be a Big Crunch, I would expect the final near-steady-state will include a broad mix of all forms of energy, including various elements, photons, leptons, yada yada... and not that everything will turn to lead.
It says "surf speed." That could mean anything. In particular, for the perceived speed, rendering and latency are probably more important than bandwidth.
If you compare IE 5.5 using HTTP/1.0 with Opera using HTTP/1.1 you're probably most of the way to a six-fold increase on a page containing tables anyway, for instance.
I think you people are forgetting what using dial-up is like...
OTOH, I think the article is probably complete tosh.:-)
"they are functionally indistinguisable from magic spells in traditional fantasy genres."
ANY sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
In order to stay on topic...
I always liked Niven's novels, because they do include a great deal of hard sci-fi, yet at the same time he also clearly puts a great deal of thought into what technology a society would realistically have adopted. For instance, think of all the weapons that aren't weapons in the Lying Bastard...
OTOH he does cheat a bit from time to time, by introducing Slavers and Outsiders when he -does- need some magic (in the Clarke sense as above.)
On my wish list are Niven's stepping disks, and an Iain M. Banks-style drone.
There are NO systems administrators that have outrageously good technical -and- people skills. They've all buggered off and gone contracting.:-)
Other than that, mega-Insightful points to you, kfg.
Someone later in the thread mentions that there is a helpdesk between lusers and senior administrators. True - but what that means is that when it all goes horribly wrong, it's the CTO that comes and kicks your ass instead.
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You can probably solve the problem just by adding some minimum about of carbs per day. I dunno, maybe a bowl or two of rice would be enough. But ask the doctor(s) in any case. Wow. That would be, like, a balanced diet. What a revolutionary concept, eh?
i.e., a 100 GB drive now becomes a 50GB drive with all the benefits of a perfectly atomic, error-free, transaction-enabled FS. Even if this were true, plenty of people would go for that, given the cost of disk space versus the cost of downtime in today's market. After all, RAID0 only protects against the arguably lower chance of hardware failure and people are willing to take the 100% cost overhead for that.
Presumably he's interested in looking for coal on Mars, but watch out for vacuum leeks...
Probably LESS of these errors: for one, European scientists are much more comfortable with multilingual / multicultural projects, and for two, they're more diligent about looking for them because it's almost expected to find some, as you say.
At 70mph the two-second gap is more like 70 metres, not 20, and you're right, people tend to look at you funny if you follow that far back on a busy motorway. You'll never keep the gap open.
(Come to think of it, it should have been 140 metres yesterday, because it was raining!)
Flashing headlights officially means "I am here", but actually it's used most of often to say "I am here, just bear that in mind when you pull out in front of me" for letting people in from slip roads / filtering or for pedestrians crossing the road. IOW it means "I know YOU'RE there and you want to get in, so go ahead."
It also means "thank you" when passing oncoming traffic that has stopped for you on narrow / obstructed roads.
Multiple quick flashes usually mean "now you've pissed me off," usually through poor lane discipline or pulling out of side roads unexpectedly. (Or in fact most situations where a lot of US drivers would use their horn instead.) Over here, the horn is pretty much real emergency "out the way I'm leaking brake fluid" only, and it is ILLEGAL to sound it whilst the vehicle is stationary.
So to return to the topic, in fact, the flash AND THE CONTEXT together transmit a great deal more than one bit of information. If (God help me) I drive home in rush hour I probably use a flash about once every two minutes, or 1/30th Hz. :-)
PS Full beam in a 30mph would be Driving Without Due Consideration for Other Road Users, or possibly Without Due Care if the magistrate decided you'd left them on accidentally after entering the lighted area.
I don't think I could sleep at night working for an organisation where individual drives were a SPOF for mission-critical DBs, whether IDE, SCSI, SSA, or yoghurt pots and string.
Well, maybe you can prove it's a Act of God.
Two of the three "arrows of time" no longer function.
I thought iron - not lead - was the point of inflexion for fission / fusion?
And presumably, now that we are given to understand there will NOT be a Big Crunch, I would expect the final near-steady-state will include a broad mix of all forms of energy, including various elements, photons, leptons, yada yada... and not that everything will turn to lead.
Soon, however, the traffic will reach a peak. Eyethagyew...
And, "most people" != "most revenue"...
Wooo, imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
It says "surf speed." That could mean anything. In particular, for the perceived speed, rendering and latency are probably more important than bandwidth.
If you compare IE 5.5 using HTTP/1.0 with Opera using HTTP/1.1 you're probably most of the way to a six-fold increase on a page containing tables anyway, for instance.
I think you people are forgetting what using dial-up is like...
OTOH, I think the article is probably complete tosh. :-)
But what -I- want is a game where one can do that themselves, and then leave linking books lying around for other players.
"Ib bib doo waaaaaaa, bop boo...." [picture of airplane appears]
POW!
"Aaaaargh"
"That's one less Rebel scum."
You don't become king following some farcical metallurgic ceremony involving a knackered pointy thing...
Is this like "Now Get Out Of That?" used to be?
"they are functionally indistinguisable from magic spells in traditional fantasy genres."
ANY sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
In order to stay on topic...
I always liked Niven's novels, because they do include a great deal of hard sci-fi, yet at the same time he also clearly puts a great deal of thought into what technology a society would realistically have adopted. For instance, think of all the weapons that aren't weapons in the Lying Bastard...
OTOH he does cheat a bit from time to time, by introducing Slavers and Outsiders when he -does- need some magic (in the Clarke sense as above.)
On my wish list are Niven's stepping disks, and an Iain M. Banks-style drone.
Well, no labs in the States will have access to a fresh cup of really hot tea, so I guess it's up to the boys at QinetiQ...
Yeah, my Clie doesn't make that cool "chrrrrpp-st-sthck-stchk" noise when I open the cover... why not, damn it?
No, we are not doofuses, we are doofii. :-)
Dry-cleaning fluid? This must be what they call a dry sense of humour then...
Other than that, mega-Insightful points to you, kfg.
Someone later in the thread mentions that there is a helpdesk between lusers and senior administrators. True - but what that means is that when it all goes horribly wrong, it's the CTO that comes and kicks your ass instead.