I think you're being a tad too literal here. As far as Knight was concerned the money was lost because they didn't have it any longer and they had nothing to show for it.
You'll get the fragmentation whenever very large files and very small files are interchanged and deleted interactively on a near-full disk. It's that simple.
Yes, of course. And, equally, if your disk is getting full and you delete a number of small files to make room for one large one, that file's going to be fragmented, because it's highly unlikely that the files you got rid of were next to each other on the disk. However, most Linux installations never run into that, and people like me, who use it at home will probably never need to worry about defragging, unlike Windows users. I was talking about the general case and didn't want to complicate matters by bringing up corner cases ("Well, hardly ever!") because people who don't want to understand my point would probably jump on the rare exception as an excuse to ignore the basic fact that Windows always needs regular defragging and Linux doesn't.
An even better example from Heinlein is Rocket Ship Galileo, the very first of his juveniles. Not only is it about some teenage boys converting a "mail rocket" into a space ship able to reach the moon (with help, of course, from an adult, Dr. Cargraves, Heinlein made sure that all of the ship's testing took place in a military weapons test range instead of in somebody's back yard, or farm.
Defragging a potentially huge disk, in the background, on-the-fly, so the disk never slows down.
If Windows had a sane way to decide where on the disk each file does, the way Linux has had for many years (Possibly since the beginning, but I don't know.) you wouldn't need to defrag your hard disk. Ever. In fact, on the rare occasions that a Linux partition actually needs defragging, you're better off backing the partition up, reformatting it and restoring. Not only is it easier (Most Linux distros don't even provide a defragger any more.) but you don't end up having to do it over and over as you would if you defragged. And, if you only have one partition on the drive, disk IO is longer than it used to be because Linux doesn't assume that all of the files are at or near the outer edge of the platter and keeps the read/write heads about halfway up instead of at the outer edge. Once you've defragged, that isn't true any longer, and the speed advantage goes away.
I spent a number of years doing tech support for an ISP. Sometimes, we had to go into a particular control panel several times and try different settings to get things working. Most of the time, I could just tell the caller that we needed to go back to their Network Settings and they'd remember how to get there, but a significant percentage of them had already forgotten what they'd done less than three minutes ago. I don't know why, but well over half of them were using a Mac.
I've never used the ribbon, and have no opinion on it. However, it's my understanding that it takes a fair amount of time to learn how to use it properly. Now in business, time is money and unless you can show that the time spent learning how to use the ribbon is worth what it costs, most companies aren't going to change.
I'm getting sick of chaos being used as the trump card to invalidate any measure that doesn't meet the expected values.
You aren't the only one. It was clear to me the moment the AGW High Priests invoked chaos to explain what was happening that they'd made it impossible to falsify their claims because if things go the way they predict, it's considered to be proof that they're right, and if it doesn't, they just invoke chaos. IANACS, but to me, at least, ever since they started explaining inconvenient events with chaos, AGW became, as Popper would phrase it, a meaningless noise.
That being said, I do think that cutting back on CO2 emissions is a good thing and that the farmers in Iowa should be taking better care of their topsoil, because that's just common sense, and AGW has nothing to do with it.
That's because most people wear tinfoil hats with the shiny side out. Yes, it reflects the mind rays, but that just makes it easier for the NSA to locate you, and once they know where you are, it's "Game over." If you want to keep under their radar, wear a hat with the shiny side in. Being dull, it absorbs the mind rays instead of reflecting them, and the shiny side helps keep your own thoughts inside your head where they can't be read or recorded.
Let's be honest here. Nothing was "forced" through Congress.
So you're denying that Nancy Pelosi said, "You'll have to pass it in order to find out what's in it." Are you also denying that it was brought to the floor long before any member (or staff member) could possibly have read the 1000+ pages of the bill, let alone have time to understand what they were voting on? Or are you simply denying that the above facts matter?
I agree with you that doing the number crunching is best in a language designed for that but I don't think C is the answer because it was primarily designed for systems programming, not numeric. If you really need efficient number crunching, go with FORTRAN, especially as the OP says that he already has experience with it.
One reason that many predators sleep so much is to conserve energy so that they don't have to hunt so often. Cats, of course, are just one of the more extreme examples.
Many Republicans think that the ACA is a bad law that should never have been passed in its current form. They particularly resent the way it was forced through Congress with the comment, "You'll have to pass it in order to find out what's in it." and now that they know what's in it, they know why it was done that way. They can't currently get it repealed, so they tried to force the Democrats to agree to modify it (at the very least) by refusing to give the government any money until they agreed to revisit the question. Now, if we were still funding the government the way we used to, with separate appropriation bills instead of a single, all-inclusive budget bill, this probably wouldn't have happened. The House could have passed bills funding just about everything else, and unless the Senate refused to vote on them until the House passed a bill funding the ACA, there wouldn't have been a shutdown.
It's actually very simple: it's nothing more or less than an attempt by the Democrats and their fellow travelers to trivialize the Republican opposition to Obamacare and make them look like spoiled children, instead of responsible, principled adults acting to do what they believe is best for the country as a whole.
You've been duped into transferring liability for the boomer generation onto your personal balance sheet.
I'm a boomer, and I'm against the ACA, partially for exactly that reason. Of course, unlike most boomers, I'll never have to worry about health care because I have my VA benefits.
What is it that you really want to be? Do you want to be a businessman? (or woman, but then, this is Slashdot after all) If so, by all means study business. Do you want to be a project manager, or do some other type of management? If so, study that. Until you know what you want to do with the rest of your life, nobody can tell you what to study, and once you do, you won't need to ask.
I suspect two things: first, that the only thing that the instructor managed to teach was how important it is to your career to publish as much as you can. Second, that the instructor doesn't really give a flip of the fingertip that that's all that was learned.
Back in the early '80s, I did some work at JPL. Much of our work was done in a language that we were the only two people who'd ever heard of it: MPL. Why? Because it was a custom pre-processor that my partner had written for PL/1 to add all of the syntactic sugar automatically. No, I never knew why he didn't just include a set of macros and use the regular pre-processor. For all I know, it wouldn't do quite what he wanted it to do.
Coming into the San Fernando Valley, especially through the Sepulveda Pass, it looks like you're driving into a forest. Most of the valley is filled with single-story homes and most of them have, as you point out, one or more trees that are taller than the homes. Mostly what you see is trees, with occasional tall buildings sticking up. And, considering that the area would be semi-desert without water being brought in from hundreds of miles away, those trees couldn't survive without human intervention.
Safely setting up customer's computers for dual boot is fairly easy: just set up the installer so that nuking your Windows installation isn't even an option. If the only way to install Linux on your computer so that you can play this game is with dual boot, most people would be less reluctant to give it a try, especially if booting into Windows is the default, and you only get Linux if you specifically ask for it at boot time.
Not unless the hub is closed off. If it's possible to go through the central section, the most you'd have to walk in that case is 1/3 of a mile. And, that's only if both of the offices are on the outer wall of the building.
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I think you're being a tad too literal here. As far as Knight was concerned the money was lost because they didn't have it any longer and they had nothing to show for it.
You'll get the fragmentation whenever very large files and very small files are interchanged and deleted interactively on a near-full disk. It's that simple.
Yes, of course. And, equally, if your disk is getting full and you delete a number of small files to make room for one large one, that file's going to be fragmented, because it's highly unlikely that the files you got rid of were next to each other on the disk. However, most Linux installations never run into that, and people like me, who use it at home will probably never need to worry about defragging, unlike Windows users. I was talking about the general case and didn't want to complicate matters by bringing up corner cases ("Well, hardly ever!") because people who don't want to understand my point would probably jump on the rare exception as an excuse to ignore the basic fact that Windows always needs regular defragging and Linux doesn't.
An even better example from Heinlein is Rocket Ship Galileo, the very first of his juveniles. Not only is it about some teenage boys converting a "mail rocket" into a space ship able to reach the moon (with help, of course, from an adult, Dr. Cargraves, Heinlein made sure that all of the ship's testing took place in a military weapons test range instead of in somebody's back yard, or farm.
Defragging a potentially huge disk, in the background, on-the-fly, so the disk never slows down.
If Windows had a sane way to decide where on the disk each file does, the way Linux has had for many years (Possibly since the beginning, but I don't know.) you wouldn't need to defrag your hard disk. Ever. In fact, on the rare occasions that a Linux partition actually needs defragging, you're better off backing the partition up, reformatting it and restoring. Not only is it easier (Most Linux distros don't even provide a defragger any more.) but you don't end up having to do it over and over as you would if you defragged. And, if you only have one partition on the drive, disk IO is longer than it used to be because Linux doesn't assume that all of the files are at or near the outer edge of the platter and keeps the read/write heads about halfway up instead of at the outer edge. Once you've defragged, that isn't true any longer, and the speed advantage goes away.
I spent a number of years doing tech support for an ISP. Sometimes, we had to go into a particular control panel several times and try different settings to get things working. Most of the time, I could just tell the caller that we needed to go back to their Network Settings and they'd remember how to get there, but a significant percentage of them had already forgotten what they'd done less than three minutes ago. I don't know why, but well over half of them were using a Mac.
I've never used the ribbon, and have no opinion on it. However, it's my understanding that it takes a fair amount of time to learn how to use it properly. Now in business, time is money and unless you can show that the time spent learning how to use the ribbon is worth what it costs, most companies aren't going to change.
"It's complicated, but if you want, you can just think of it as a name change; under the hood, it's still pretty much the same thing."
I'm getting sick of chaos being used as the trump card to invalidate any measure that doesn't meet the expected values.
You aren't the only one. It was clear to me the moment the AGW High Priests invoked chaos to explain what was happening that they'd made it impossible to falsify their claims because if things go the way they predict, it's considered to be proof that they're right, and if it doesn't, they just invoke chaos. IANACS, but to me, at least, ever since they started explaining inconvenient events with chaos, AGW became, as Popper would phrase it, a meaningless noise.
That being said, I do think that cutting back on CO2 emissions is a good thing and that the farmers in Iowa should be taking better care of their topsoil, because that's just common sense, and AGW has nothing to do with it.
Thank you. I was going for Funny, but instead was modded Redundant. Such is life.
That's because most people wear tinfoil hats with the shiny side out. Yes, it reflects the mind rays, but that just makes it easier for the NSA to locate you, and once they know where you are, it's "Game over." If you want to keep under their radar, wear a hat with the shiny side in. Being dull, it absorbs the mind rays instead of reflecting them, and the shiny side helps keep your own thoughts inside your head where they can't be read or recorded.
Let's be honest here. Nothing was "forced" through Congress.
So you're denying that Nancy Pelosi said, "You'll have to pass it in order to find out what's in it." Are you also denying that it was brought to the floor long before any member (or staff member) could possibly have read the 1000+ pages of the bill, let alone have time to understand what they were voting on? Or are you simply denying that the above facts matter?
I agree with you that doing the number crunching is best in a language designed for that but I don't think C is the answer because it was primarily designed for systems programming, not numeric. If you really need efficient number crunching, go with FORTRAN, especially as the OP says that he already has experience with it.
One reason that many predators sleep so much is to conserve energy so that they don't have to hunt so often. Cats, of course, are just one of the more extreme examples.
Many Republicans think that the ACA is a bad law that should never have been passed in its current form. They particularly resent the way it was forced through Congress with the comment, "You'll have to pass it in order to find out what's in it." and now that they know what's in it, they know why it was done that way. They can't currently get it repealed, so they tried to force the Democrats to agree to modify it (at the very least) by refusing to give the government any money until they agreed to revisit the question. Now, if we were still funding the government the way we used to, with separate appropriation bills instead of a single, all-inclusive budget bill, this probably wouldn't have happened. The House could have passed bills funding just about everything else, and unless the Senate refused to vote on them until the House passed a bill funding the ACA, there wouldn't have been a shutdown.
most of the shut down travel areas were shut down merely for spite, not as a result of the government shutdown.
And now you know just what this Administration's legacy is going to look like.
I'll never understand this temper tantrum meme.
It's actually very simple: it's nothing more or less than an attempt by the Democrats and their fellow travelers to trivialize the Republican opposition to Obamacare and make them look like spoiled children, instead of responsible, principled adults acting to do what they believe is best for the country as a whole.
You've been duped into transferring liability for the boomer generation onto your personal balance sheet.
I'm a boomer, and I'm against the ACA, partially for exactly that reason. Of course, unlike most boomers, I'll never have to worry about health care because I have my VA benefits.
Brush up on the art of backstabbing, lying through your teeth, fake smiles, and keeping up appearances and you'll be successful in business.
Keeping Up Appearances may not be as much help as you suggest, especially if your family doesn't cooperate.
What is it that you really want to be? Do you want to be a businessman? (or woman, but then, this is Slashdot after all) If so, by all means study business. Do you want to be a project manager, or do some other type of management? If so, study that. Until you know what you want to do with the rest of your life, nobody can tell you what to study, and once you do, you won't need to ask.
I suspect two things: first, that the only thing that the instructor managed to teach was how important it is to your career to publish as much as you can. Second, that the instructor doesn't really give a flip of the fingertip that that's all that was learned.
Back in the early '80s, I did some work at JPL. Much of our work was done in a language that we were the only two people who'd ever heard of it: MPL. Why? Because it was a custom pre-processor that my partner had written for PL/1 to add all of the syntactic sugar automatically. No, I never knew why he didn't just include a set of macros and use the regular pre-processor. For all I know, it wouldn't do quite what he wanted it to do.
No. Much of our water comes from the Colorado and Owens Rivers.
Coming into the San Fernando Valley, especially through the Sepulveda Pass, it looks like you're driving into a forest. Most of the valley is filled with single-story homes and most of them have, as you point out, one or more trees that are taller than the homes. Mostly what you see is trees, with occasional tall buildings sticking up. And, considering that the area would be semi-desert without water being brought in from hundreds of miles away, those trees couldn't survive without human intervention.
Safely setting up customer's computers for dual boot is fairly easy: just set up the installer so that nuking your Windows installation isn't even an option. If the only way to install Linux on your computer so that you can play this game is with dual boot, most people would be less reluctant to give it a try, especially if booting into Windows is the default, and you only get Linux if you specifically ask for it at boot time.
Not unless the hub is closed off. If it's possible to go through the central section, the most you'd have to walk in that case is 1/3 of a mile. And, that's only if both of the offices are on the outer wall of the building.