But, this is generally a good thing. If there is a technology that can minimize collateral damage to citizens of countries that are not targets in the 'war' between the USA and terrorism, then why shouldn't it be used, by both sides?
There seems to be a cultural difference between the USA and the rest of the Western world, in that Americans are unable to conceive a government funded entity (directly funded or indirectly via 'license' fees) that is substantially free from Government influence. Possibly because there are apparantly no such entities in the USA. But in this matter, the USA is the exception rather than the rule, with respect to democratic governments.
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Hmm, I think now I was wrong; from reading further it looks like you do need MPI to get beyond 2-way. But there is enough memory bandwidth that single system image would probably work quite well.
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Yes, I believe it is 12-way SMP. The memory is connected to the CPU's in a crossbar switch.
Possibly, the reason is that it is US government policy that abstinence is the only preventative measure, even going so far as to de-fund humanitarian organizations that go so far as to suggest that a condom might be an alternative (and more practical) solution.
The US government bullshits so much, it do you blame anyone for not believing a word they say?
The biggest problem we ran into with speech recognition was one of expectation. Users like speech recognition, but once they get it - they automatically tend to want the next step (AI).
Naturally. Human speech evolved at the same time as other human social interactions. Using speech with a device that has no understanding of context is not something that could possibly come naturally to an adult human. A child perhaps, could learn at an early age to treat machine-speech and human-speech as different media, it would be an interesting experiment.
Ok, but how many atoms are there in the universe? Serious question! I think its something like 10^70, which, on an exponential scale, is not even than twice as big as 2^128.
You don't understand the exponential function, do you? Hint: consider for a few minutes how big 2^64 is. Then think for a few more minutes how big 2^128 is.
But, the point is that the final vote is between more than two candidates, however the system for that final vote really only works properly if there are exactly two candidates.
think the US is the only democracy in the world that does not ahve a multi-party system. In most other democracies, if the winning party has less than a majority of the vote, they have to form a governing coalition in their Parliament.
Or, they have a second-round vote where the voters choose from the top two candidates from the firs round. France does this I think. Australia has a very cool system of preferential voting.
I don't think so. One DVD in 4 seconds... how many DVD's can you fit in a stationwagon? A few thousand at least (probably 10's of thousands). Each thousand DVD's gives you an hour to drive to the destination to meet the bandwidth requirements.
Except, that I don't think you can drive from CERN to CalTech, even with a few days to do it;) So, you might actually be right! But they still have a tremendous way to go to exceed the bandwidth of a supertanker....
No, the OS would have returned an error code (a HRESULT, most likely), it is then up to the application designer to do what they want with it. Look up the MSDN docs for OpenFile (or is it FileOpen?) to see exactly what this error code can contain.
The Word designers chose to display a simple message box with "Disk Full", rather than do anything more useful with the error code.
Why is this modded flamebait? It is factually completely correct. And I doubt there are any (ex?-)employees of (insert whatever company is responsible) here to start a flamewar....
Exactly. Reading that blog, I was really shocked that that they spent a decade without fixing the obvious and simple bug of an incorrect error message. Surely most programmers, when they encountered an error "Disk is full" and a quick check showed that it wasn't in fact full, would fix that bug first and get a correct error message? Sheesh, talk about denial - they spent years not knowing for sure what the actual error was!
He mentions that the Mac version of the bug finally gut quashed due to the superior diagnostic tools on OS X. Let me guess: 'strace' ? LOL
The other hilarious aspect is that it took them a few years to figure out that if they set Word's internal open-file limit to something smaller than the OS open-file limit then Word would be able to flush some files before encountering an OS error! It is pretty obvious that (even back then) nobody really understood how the software works, or how application software should interact with the OS.
I don't understand how we can look at gender in the workplace as being a positive thing (as in your example) but not also use it with the negative. For example, you would never hear someone say, "In X industry, some studies have shown that departments lead by female chiefs, run less efficiently and have more disputes among workers".
Exactly - and the words of the OP, "some studies", is not particularly positive. I would normally interpret that to mean "less than half". That is, I think a reasonable alternative way of structuring the sentence
"some studies have shown that departments lead by female chiefs, run more efficiently and have less disputes among workers"
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"Most studies found that departments lead by female chiefs do not run any more efficiently or have any fewer disputes among workers. (No information supplied on the number of departments that run less efficiently...)"
Of course, this has nothing to do with discrimination as such, but poor language does nothing to help the cause.
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I don't know about the GCC contributors page, but I have met a programmer from AMD who was working on gcc, so there is at least one of them ;)
Yes.
Err, AMD have had developers working on optimizing GCC for quite a while now....
LOL, I can imagine the conversation...
"Yes, it really is possible for these boxes to get h4x0r3d, just like Windows!"
But, this is generally a good thing. If there is a technology that can minimize collateral damage to citizens of countries that are not targets in the 'war' between the USA and terrorism, then why shouldn't it be used, by both sides?
There seems to be a cultural difference between the USA and the rest of the Western world, in that Americans are unable to conceive a government funded entity (directly funded or indirectly via 'license' fees) that is substantially free from Government influence. Possibly because there are apparantly no such entities in the USA. But in this matter, the USA is the exception rather than the rule, with respect to democratic governments.
Hmm, I think now I was wrong; from reading further it looks like you do need MPI to get beyond 2-way. But there is enough memory bandwidth that single system image would probably work quite well.
Yes, I believe it is 12-way SMP. The memory is connected to the CPU's in a crossbar switch.
The US government bullshits so much, it do you blame anyone for not believing a word they say?
Naturally. Human speech evolved at the same time as other human social interactions. Using speech with a device that has no understanding of context is not something that could possibly come naturally to an adult human. A child perhaps, could learn at an early age to treat machine-speech and human-speech as different media, it would be an interesting experiment.
Ok, but how many atoms are there in the universe? Serious question! I think its something like 10^70, which, on an exponential scale, is not even than twice as big as 2^128.
You don't understand the exponential function, do you? Hint: consider for a few minutes how big 2^64 is. Then think for a few more minutes how big 2^128 is.
'cause on x86 architecture there is no separate 'readable' vs 'executable' flags. If you can read it, you can execute it.
But, the point is that the final vote is between more than two candidates, however the system for that final vote really only works properly if there are exactly two candidates.
Or, they have a second-round vote where the voters choose from the top two candidates from the firs round. France does this I think. Australia has a very cool system of preferential voting.
The ones from which we observe two groups that have zero technical expertise slug it out in a buzzword fight.
Neither. We just stand on the sidelines and laugh.
yes, but the parent wanted an analog computer. An abacus deals with integers (or decimal expansions), which puts it firmly into the digital class.
Yes, but that can be massively parallelized. The total time taken need only be the time to burn & read 1 DVD.
Except, that I don't think you can drive from CERN to CalTech, even with a few days to do it ;) So, you might actually be right! But they still have a tremendous way to go to exceed the bandwidth of a supertanker....
Microsoft would naturally head towards the one that it thinks will make it the most money, and society be goddammed.
The Word designers chose to display a simple message box with "Disk Full", rather than do anything more useful with the error code.
Why is this modded flamebait? It is factually completely correct. And I doubt there are any (ex?-)employees of (insert whatever company is responsible) here to start a flamewar....
He mentions that the Mac version of the bug finally gut quashed due to the superior diagnostic tools on OS X. Let me guess: 'strace' ? LOL
The other hilarious aspect is that it took them a few years to figure out that if they set Word's internal open-file limit to something smaller than the OS open-file limit then Word would be able to flush some files before encountering an OS error! It is pretty obvious that (even back then) nobody really understood how the software works, or how application software should interact with the OS.
Exactly - and the words of the OP, "some studies", is not particularly positive. I would normally interpret that to mean "less than half". That is, I think a reasonable alternative way of structuring the sentence
"some studies have shown that departments lead by female chiefs, run more efficiently and have less disputes among workers"
is
"Most studies found that departments lead by female chiefs do not run any more efficiently or have any fewer disputes among workers. (No information supplied on the number of departments that run less efficiently...)"
Of course, this has nothing to do with discrimination as such, but poor language does nothing to help the cause.