Since the tsunami was west of the dateline, and TFA didn't mention the time or coordinate system used, I thought it might have been possible...
But according to wikipedia, the earthquake that caused the tsunami occurred at 2004-12-26 00:58 UTC. According to this paper, the "cosmic onslaught" hit us at 2004-12-27 21:30 UTC.
So, no. It isn't possible for the neutron star event to have caused the tsunami as it was outside of the tsunami event's light cone.
After it was all done, my team got.......laid off.
I've always seen that as a good thing. Or at least an inevitable thing. A programmers role is to make themselves (and often, a bunch of other people) redundant.
We automate stuff so no-one has to think about how it really works ever again. And if you do it right the first time, there should be little need to change it ever again.
The only thing that should keep us employed in the same business is feature creep. Where the business you are working for has improved its efficiency and can now spend more time and money adding new requirements.
The other thing that keeps us going is technology and legal changes.
This is one of the strengths of LLVM. If your hardware performs better with some specific tweaks to the code, then write an optimising pass that makes the appropriate transformations. Then you can keep your back end machine code generator as simple as possible. Even better, write your optimiser in a generic way so anyone else tackling a similar problem can reuse your work. Heck if you're lucky someone else has already done so.
Quick thoughts;
For your second and third tests it might be useful to test the TTL you got back to see if it is about to expire.
I wouldn't expect querying the www name to be much different to the domain itself.
Some of those popular sites might have deliberately low TTL's so they can quickly fail over the site to another IP address if something breaks.
The police would certainly have access to a point a click tool that could find an image, embedded in a word document, included in a zip file, attached to an email, in an outlook pst file, that was deleted from the filesystem.
For a very long time if you typed in "define:term" in any search request you'd get results that look pretty similar to what you now get in dictionary for their web terms. But no, I've never noticed a link or button anywhere either.
The structure of where things are stored in the registry is also an issue. Since registry keys are usually ordered based on how they are used, not which application they relate to. For example HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.ext or HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{class id}.
So installing any application that requires a number of OS services to be able to find it, means you have to pollute all kinds of registry keys.
The economy only recovered in WW2 because the New Deal had already done so much to reduce the level of debt in the economy. WW2 represented a massive mobilisation of the entire economy. Manufacturing was kick started in a big way, while at the same time the population were living quite thriftily and many consumables were rationed. We wont see a significant recovery from this economic crisis until the people cut back on spending, pay off their debt, and learn to live within their means.
Consider the following statements about scientific knowledge (paraphrasing from David Hume..);
- Anything that can be mathematically proven is worth knowing.
- Anything that can be derived from or tested by observation is worth knowing.
- Every other belief is not worth knowing.
This sounds fair on the surface. But what if you applied the above tests to themselves?
Can the above tests be mathematically proven? No.
Were the above tests derived from observation? No.
Can the above tests be tested by observation? No.
So there must be some kind of knowledge, that cannot be proven, and cannot be tested, and yet is still worth knowing.
Without some kind of faith or belief that cannot be tested you can't define what science is at all.
Yeah I remember reading a discussion on this related chrome on linux and the time gnome takes to read it's icon cache for each process. I believe even with chrome, process creation is insignificant compared to the cost of initialising a new renderer.
There is a "new tab" graph that attempts to measure this. The various
lines on the graph are tracking how quickly we get to each stage in
constructing the page. We hit the first line 20ms faster on Linux
than Windows likely due to the zygote and "slow" Windows process
creation, but process startup seems to be a relatively small part of
the total time. Linux hits other lines later and Linux and Windows
hit the finish line at around the same time.
I think a user should be allowed to block a global extension from loading, but not be able to uninstall it. I also think firefox should have a number of it's own internal features turned into extensions that are installed and enabled by default, but which a user can then go to the addons screen and disable.
Heck twitter could provide their own url shortening and their urls would be even shorter that the competitors. They don't need to provide a protocol or hostname in their links.
I highly recommend you read (or watch) Steve Keen. An Australian economist who is one of the few credited as having a model that predicted this crisis before it happened.
Just because you (and most economists) don't know an economist who predicted this crisis, does not mean that no economists predicted it. I agree that the crisis can be partly blamed on the inability of people to model the economy correctly, but I believe that the cause of the credit crisis can be, and has been, modeled.
There is a big dis-connection between the most widely used models of the economy and actual economic reality, I believe most of these models should be thrown away as they can easily be falsified from existing empirical evidence.
imagine playing a FPS with a high-quality Wii-remote-like device and 3D head tracking
... combined with nvidia 3D vision. It's the perfect combo. You already need to wear funky glasses and have a usb dongle near the screen. Just put little led's in the glasses and a small camera in the dongle and the immersion would be complete.
So, wine needs this for 16bit dos emulation? And it's broken on x64 but fine on x32 processors? Could wine on x64 use dosbox style emulation for 16bit code to get around this requirement?
From the later discussion on that topic, it seems the conclusion was that windows had a large history in the profile and may be bitblt'ing the first draw operation from main memory. Both of which have an impact on how slow it feels to the user.
Agile Computing - Maintaining good specs and requirements is hard. Just give me something based on this vague description and then I'll blame you when it doesn't do what I want.
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Since the tsunami was west of the dateline, and TFA didn't mention the time or coordinate system used, I thought it might have been possible...
But according to wikipedia, the earthquake that caused the tsunami occurred at 2004-12-26 00:58 UTC. According to this paper, the "cosmic onslaught" hit us at 2004-12-27 21:30 UTC.
So, no. It isn't possible for the neutron star event to have caused the tsunami as it was outside of the tsunami event's light cone.
After it was all done, my team got .... ...laid off.
I've always seen that as a good thing. Or at least an inevitable thing. A programmers role is to make themselves (and often, a bunch of other people) redundant.
We automate stuff so no-one has to think about how it really works ever again. And if you do it right the first time, there should be little need to change it ever again.
The only thing that should keep us employed in the same business is feature creep. Where the business you are working for has improved its efficiency and can now spend more time and money adding new requirements.
The other thing that keeps us going is technology and legal changes.
This is one of the strengths of LLVM. If your hardware performs better with some specific tweaks to the code, then write an optimising pass that makes the appropriate transformations. Then you can keep your back end machine code generator as simple as possible. Even better, write your optimiser in a generic way so anyone else tackling a similar problem can reuse your work. Heck if you're lucky someone else has already done so.
Heck, take the average gain of the whole tv show, as well as the ads, and make sure they are *All* set to the same percentage of the peak volume.
When I hovered my mouse of the "old facebook" a tooltip was displayed that showed what the old setting was. But still, not very obvious.
I haven't looked at it in a while, but if you were tagged in an album, any of your friends could view the *whole* album.
Quick thoughts;
For your second and third tests it might be useful to test the TTL you got back to see if it is about to expire.
I wouldn't expect querying the www name to be much different to the domain itself.
Some of those popular sites might have deliberately low TTL's so they can quickly fail over the site to another IP address if something breaks.
block editor? pfft.
The police would certainly have access to a point a click tool that could find an image, embedded in a word document, included in a zip file, attached to an email, in an outlook pst file, that was deleted from the filesystem.
For a very long time if you typed in "define:term" in any search request you'd get results that look pretty similar to what you now get in dictionary for their web terms. But no, I've never noticed a link or button anywhere either.
I have read previously that one of google's objectives is to lower the profit level of things their competitors make money from.
... not that this helps the patient very much.
The structure of where things are stored in the registry is also an issue. Since registry keys are usually ordered based on how they are used, not which application they relate to. For example HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.ext or HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{class id}.
So installing any application that requires a number of OS services to be able to find it, means you have to pollute all kinds of registry keys.
The economy only recovered in WW2 because the New Deal had already done so much to reduce the level of debt in the economy. WW2 represented a massive mobilisation of the entire economy. Manufacturing was kick started in a big way, while at the same time the population were living quite thriftily and many consumables were rationed. We wont see a significant recovery from this economic crisis until the people cut back on spending, pay off their debt, and learn to live within their means.
Proof by contradiction;
Consider the following statements about scientific knowledge (paraphrasing from David Hume..);
- Anything that can be mathematically proven is worth knowing.
- Anything that can be derived from or tested by observation is worth knowing.
- Every other belief is not worth knowing.
This sounds fair on the surface. But what if you applied the above tests to themselves?
Can the above tests be mathematically proven? No.
Were the above tests derived from observation? No.
Can the above tests be tested by observation? No.
So there must be some kind of knowledge, that cannot be proven, and cannot be tested, and yet is still worth knowing.
Without some kind of faith or belief that cannot be tested you can't define what science is at all.
Yeah I remember reading a discussion on this related chrome on linux and the time gnome takes to read it's icon cache for each process. I believe even with chrome, process creation is insignificant compared to the cost of initialising a new renderer.
http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/d86faf0eff41b998;
There is a "new tab" graph that attempts to measure this. The various lines on the graph are tracking how quickly we get to each stage in constructing the page. We hit the first line 20ms faster on Linux than Windows likely due to the zygote and "slow" Windows process creation, but process startup seems to be a relatively small part of the total time. Linux hits other lines later and Linux and Windows hit the finish line at around the same time.
I think a user should be allowed to block a global extension from loading, but not be able to uninstall it. I also think firefox should have a number of it's own internal features turned into extensions that are installed and enabled by default, but which a user can then go to the addons screen and disable.
Heck twitter could provide their own url shortening and their urls would be even shorter that the competitors. They don't need to provide a protocol or hostname in their links.
Yeah, it's an oldie. (hence the blatant quoting above).
I highly recommend you read (or watch) Steve Keen. An Australian economist who is one of the few credited as having a model that predicted this crisis before it happened.
Just because you (and most economists) don't know an economist who predicted this crisis, does not mean that no economists predicted it. I agree that the crisis can be partly blamed on the inability of people to model the economy correctly, but I believe that the cause of the credit crisis can be, and has been, modeled.
There is a big dis-connection between the most widely used models of the economy and actual economic reality, I believe most of these models should be thrown away as they can easily be falsified from existing empirical evidence.
imagine playing a FPS with a high-quality Wii-remote-like device and 3D head tracking
... combined with nvidia 3D vision. It's the perfect combo. You already need to wear funky glasses and have a usb dongle near the screen. Just put little led's in the glasses and a small camera in the dongle and the immersion would be complete.
So, wine needs this for 16bit dos emulation? And it's broken on x64 but fine on x32 processors? Could wine on x64 use dosbox style emulation for 16bit code to get around this requirement?
From the later discussion on that topic, it seems the conclusion was that windows had a large history in the profile and may be bitblt'ing the first draw operation from main memory. Both of which have an impact on how slow it feels to the user.
I know of no second or third sequels.
Fixed that for you, since obviously the first movie isn't a sequel...
Agile Computing - Maintaining good specs and requirements is hard. Just give me something based on this vague description and then I'll blame you when it doesn't do what I want.