The LDS church believes the "invariant section" only applies to the book of Revelations, and other books may be added, deleted, or modified based on the divine guidance of their current prophet.
I don't know if American empire has reached its pinnacle, or if this is just another period of idiocy. If you look back at our history, we've gone through this many times and progressed despite the temporary regression. Look at the first Red Scare, the second Red Scare, the cold war, all the various anti-immigration movements, witch hunts, etc.
OMG! There's a socialist under every rock, and we need to protect ourselves from these anti-consumerist, anti-free trade, anti-American perpetrators of evil! Sharing bikes is a sign of socialism, and everyone needs to buy their own bike if we are to have a free and functioning democracy. If we let these socialist put bikes out there to share, it is inevitable they will hook our young children on their evil ideas of sharing. Once people start sharing, particularly government purchased stuffs, our young will grow into people who will want a bigger government which provides more stuffs to share. Where will it end? It won't end with bikes. It won't end with cars, RVs, boats or the like. No, soon the government will grow to offer all sorts of things. This bike program is really a back door route to medical health care. If we're getting free bikes to use, we'll want free health care. That's when the socialists have got us. Of course, free medical care will lead to limiting children, death panels, and LSD. Stop the socialists today, "Just say no to bicycles!".
I think Excel could definitely gain by going multithreaded. I'm running it in the background right now, and it runs like a 2 legged dog on a lake of molasses. If they could intelligently break down the calcs into linear algebraic equations, or run multiple non-dependent cells over the same function concurrently, that would save a bunch of time. Of course, it might help if I stopped using Excel as a giant calculator with many lines of the same function with different inputs. It may also be their "security model" that's preventing me from writing to multiple cells within a function, thus limiting my ability to optimize.
Prosecutors (District Attorneys) do not get elected for being soft on crime. Judges don't get elected for being soft on crime. They get elected for being tough on crime, facts be damned. Judges rarely get removed for sending innocent people to jail, and District Attorneys don't seem to get disbarred for pressing charges with false accusations.
An erasure isn't really that bad; although, one really shouldn't handle the coins to begin with. The problem with cleaning coins is when people do it using chemicals. The chemicals eat at the coin, and ultimately may remove some of the finer details. The more the finer details are present, the better grade the coin is. Most of your Indian Head pennies aren't really worth all that much anyway, but there are a couple in there you may treasure if it is a complete set.
But dude, it's like totally gnarly. It's bad to the b to the o to the n to the e. It rocks, kicks @ss, and is uber cool. This badge is so far out there man, it's trippindicular. The only way for an old pothead^H^H^H^H^H^H^HWired writer to express it was by doubling the awesomeness of these badges.
I'm just curious, if the kid was a wiz at cars, couldn't you have related the gas laws to the engine? It would make sense that pV=nRT would have translated very nicely to the cycle of the pistons, and the I/O temperature of the air. When I was studying thermodynamics, I couldn't help but think about its relation to a combustion engine.
It's true that GPUs are faster than normal CPUs for some operations. If you have programs that are nearly pure linear algebra and looking for single precision FLOPS, then the GPU will leave a CPU in virtual dust. If you have a lot of branching, conditionals, double or integer operations, and care about MIPS, then not so much. Image processing is one place where linear algebra is king, so just think about what you want to do with a "super-computer" before you break open Hammy.
When I first came here, this was all ocean. Everyone
said I was daft to build a castle on an ocean, but I built in all the same,
just to show them. It sank into the ocean. So I built a second one. And that
one sank into the ocean. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over,
and then sank into the ocean. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what
you're going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of Pacific.
Hey man, like the Sun is bad. There's like people everywhere getting skin cancer, and those doctor dudes will tell you it's the Sun's fault. So like, this all goes back to the radiation can kill ya, man.</nutcase>
You mean Rep. Barton didn't apologize for the "White House Shakedown"? Or, are you saying that his apology later that day actually magically rescinds the original statement?
I apologize, I do not want to live in a country where anytime a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure that is again in my words amounts to a shakedown. So I apologize.
For the record, even Fox News has his statement. Many of his fellow Republicans were ashamed of his original statement. They even continued to be ashamed of his spoken statement and he later sent out a written statement in an attempt to appease members of his own party. Rep. Barton's statements were completely self serving considering he is on the House Energy and Commerce Committee as well as a very large recipient of big oil and BP's campaign donations. Even more so, if you take his statement for face value, he is saying that nobody should ever be punished for their misdeeds.
Funny. The GP was correct, every crisis ends whether it ends because it genuinely came to and end, or people got tired of hearing about it. No one talks about the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill any more, no one was talking about the 1979 Ixtoc Oil Spill until recently, and the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill was fading from memory. In a few months, few people will really be talking about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Big media will move on to the next news item when this gets old. The people's motivation to do something about this will have waned. BP is taking a PR hit now, but by next year, much will be forgotten.
I don't know who marked you troll, but WHOOSH. Back in the 80's, the boards and 5.25" floppies were filled with crap like that, and C-64's "pirated" games too. I've still got a 300 baud modem in a box filled with all my other Commodore stuff.
Considering how loudly we broadcast to the universe, we probably create a much bigger foot print in the RF than a planet our size should. So, they might find us eventually. Whether or not we want to be found is a different question, and I think the answer lies in the benevolence of our discoverers. But if there's intelligent life within only 60 l.y., then we've probably been heard or will be soon enough.
LimeWire should hand the business over for the balance owned, then the US Government should tax the RIAA for $1.5T. The IRS should track every penny of that money down as vigorously the RIAA hunted down LimeWire and make sure there isn't any funny accounting going on.
I dunno, I found new used for plotters recently, and combined with a color printer, I can do new stuff I didn't think about before. I've been making stencils to do wood working. I've also made some stencils for my roommates cakes. Using an inkjet printer, we can substitute the ink cartridges for food coloring cartridges and print onto sugar paper or fondant (very thin). Can also make game pieces using the cutter/plotter and using a laser printer to print onto sticky paper.
I've stopped thinking about printers in the traditional sense where I print stuff to read on paper, but started to use them in more of a home-fabrication sense. I've been tempted to try to construct one of those 3D resin printer from a kit to print using molding chocolates.
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The LDS church believes the "invariant section" only applies to the book of Revelations, and other books may be added, deleted, or modified based on the divine guidance of their current prophet.
If you think its bad here, check out the comment sections on CNN, Yahoo!, or Fox. The sense here is roses compared to that dairy air.
I don't know if American empire has reached its pinnacle, or if this is just another period of idiocy. If you look back at our history, we've gone through this many times and progressed despite the temporary regression. Look at the first Red Scare, the second Red Scare, the cold war, all the various anti-immigration movements, witch hunts, etc.
So you're saying vote for Cthulu?
OMG! There's a socialist under every rock, and we need to protect ourselves from these anti-consumerist, anti-free trade, anti-American perpetrators of evil! Sharing bikes is a sign of socialism, and everyone needs to buy their own bike if we are to have a free and functioning democracy. If we let these socialist put bikes out there to share, it is inevitable they will hook our young children on their evil ideas of sharing. Once people start sharing, particularly government purchased stuffs, our young will grow into people who will want a bigger government which provides more stuffs to share. Where will it end? It won't end with bikes. It won't end with cars, RVs, boats or the like. No, soon the government will grow to offer all sorts of things. This bike program is really a back door route to medical health care. If we're getting free bikes to use, we'll want free health care. That's when the socialists have got us. Of course, free medical care will lead to limiting children, death panels, and LSD. Stop the socialists today, "Just say no to bicycles!".
I think Excel could definitely gain by going multithreaded. I'm running it in the background right now, and it runs like a 2 legged dog on a lake of molasses. If they could intelligently break down the calcs into linear algebraic equations, or run multiple non-dependent cells over the same function concurrently, that would save a bunch of time. Of course, it might help if I stopped using Excel as a giant calculator with many lines of the same function with different inputs. It may also be their "security model" that's preventing me from writing to multiple cells within a function, thus limiting my ability to optimize.
Then when your time comes, may your journey onward be filled with clogs. Perhaps a few people will be delighted to clog on your grave.
Prosecutors (District Attorneys) do not get elected for being soft on crime. Judges don't get elected for being soft on crime. They get elected for being tough on crime, facts be damned. Judges rarely get removed for sending innocent people to jail, and District Attorneys don't seem to get disbarred for pressing charges with false accusations.
An erasure isn't really that bad; although, one really shouldn't handle the coins to begin with. The problem with cleaning coins is when people do it using chemicals. The chemicals eat at the coin, and ultimately may remove some of the finer details. The more the finer details are present, the better grade the coin is. Most of your Indian Head pennies aren't really worth all that much anyway, but there are a couple in there you may treasure if it is a complete set.
But dude, it's like totally gnarly. It's bad to the b to the o to the n to the e. It rocks, kicks @ss, and is uber cool. This badge is so far out there man, it's trippindicular. The only way for an old pothead^H^H^H^H^H^H^HWired writer to express it was by doubling the awesomeness of these badges.
I'm just curious, if the kid was a wiz at cars, couldn't you have related the gas laws to the engine? It would make sense that pV=nRT would have translated very nicely to the cycle of the pistons, and the I/O temperature of the air. When I was studying thermodynamics, I couldn't help but think about its relation to a combustion engine.
It's true that GPUs are faster than normal CPUs for some operations. If you have programs that are nearly pure linear algebra and looking for single precision FLOPS, then the GPU will leave a CPU in virtual dust. If you have a lot of branching, conditionals, double or integer operations, and care about MIPS, then not so much. Image processing is one place where linear algebra is king, so just think about what you want to do with a "super-computer" before you break open Hammy.
Man, now I've got that stupid Kevin Bacon movie in my head.
When I first came here, this was all ocean. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on an ocean, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the ocean. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the ocean. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the ocean. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of Pacific.
Dat might work well, until dis guy screws ova the "cobbler". Den he'll be swimmin' wid deez new shoes.
Hollywood types, they go around with lawyers, but construction guys, some of them have a real temper.
Hey man, like the Sun is bad. There's like people everywhere getting skin cancer, and those doctor dudes will tell you it's the Sun's fault. So like, this all goes back to the radiation can kill ya, man.</nutcase>
Of course 2^5 != 32. 2^5==7.
I apologize, I do not want to live in a country where anytime a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure that is again in my words amounts to a shakedown. So I apologize.
For the record, even Fox News has his statement. Many of his fellow Republicans were ashamed of his original statement. They even continued to be ashamed of his spoken statement and he later sent out a written statement in an attempt to appease members of his own party. Rep. Barton's statements were completely self serving considering he is on the House Energy and Commerce Committee as well as a very large recipient of big oil and BP's campaign donations. Even more so, if you take his statement for face value, he is saying that nobody should ever be punished for their misdeeds.
Funny. The GP was correct, every crisis ends whether it ends because it genuinely came to and end, or people got tired of hearing about it. No one talks about the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill any more, no one was talking about the 1979 Ixtoc Oil Spill until recently, and the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill was fading from memory. In a few months, few people will really be talking about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Big media will move on to the next news item when this gets old. The people's motivation to do something about this will have waned. BP is taking a PR hit now, but by next year, much will be forgotten.
I don't know who marked you troll, but WHOOSH. Back in the 80's, the boards and 5.25" floppies were filled with crap like that, and C-64's "pirated" games too. I've still got a 300 baud modem in a box filled with all my other Commodore stuff.
Considering how loudly we broadcast to the universe, we probably create a much bigger foot print in the RF than a planet our size should. So, they might find us eventually. Whether or not we want to be found is a different question, and I think the answer lies in the benevolence of our discoverers. But if there's intelligent life within only 60 l.y., then we've probably been heard or will be soon enough.
LimeWire should hand the business over for the balance owned, then the US Government should tax the RIAA for $1.5T. The IRS should track every penny of that money down as vigorously the RIAA hunted down LimeWire and make sure there isn't any funny accounting going on.
It might, assuming a normal person even paid any attention to their claims. Truth is though, few will pay any attention and fewer will care.
I dunno, I found new used for plotters recently, and combined with a color printer, I can do new stuff I didn't think about before. I've been making stencils to do wood working. I've also made some stencils for my roommates cakes. Using an inkjet printer, we can substitute the ink cartridges for food coloring cartridges and print onto sugar paper or fondant (very thin). Can also make game pieces using the cutter/plotter and using a laser printer to print onto sticky paper.
I've stopped thinking about printers in the traditional sense where I print stuff to read on paper, but started to use them in more of a home-fabrication sense. I've been tempted to try to construct one of those 3D resin printer from a kit to print using molding chocolates.
See, and I wish we had real liberals, and a government for and by the people, not just corporatist striped blue or red.