I've got 106 processes running on my XP laptop and I'm not even doing work right now. (At which point add another good dozen++ processes.)
And lots of these processes are already multi-threaded. (Including most of the tools and frameworks I use and some of the code I'm writing.)
So even though some of this sounds theoretical, I don't think I even need any kind of software upgrade to benefit from having an 80 core processor today just for scheduling processes. (Though, the memory bandwidth issues others have pointed out would need some attention.)
To compact all folders in an account, click the account on the left, and then click "File -> Compact Folders". Compacting an account may take from a few seconds to 20 minutes or more, depending on how much mail you have and how recently you last compacted the folders. If you have trouble doing this and the process stalls, try compacting one folder at a time by right-clicking on the folder and choosing "Compact This Folder".
I got an undergraduate CS degree from Rice University in 1986. It was during my 4 years there that the CS department was created. Previously it had been a program jointly administered by the EE and Mathematical Sciences (aka Applied Math, already separate from the "pure" Mathematics department) departments.
Given this history our courses tended to be cross-listed as CS, EE, and MS courses. We had "real" EE classes and "real" math classes as requirements for graduation. Other classes were real CS courses that some EEs (and fewer Math Scientists) would also take, e.g. Algorithms and Data Structures, Compiler Design, Programming Languages. But others were straight EE (Digital Logic Design) or MS courses (Linear Algebra). Heck, we even had to take a logic class that was listed as a Philosophy course!
We tended to have one or two courses per semester that required programming, but the majority of the work was written (algorithms written in an abstract language, complexity analysis, proofs).
So today I do IT stuff, even much-dreaded web development. But similar to the IT:CS::plumbing:physics comment earlier in this thread, I consider myself a plumber. I don't do much CS. But I feel I have a deeper understanding of what's going on below the surface than folks who've just learned "programming" and I'm confident I can learn any new valves, pipes, and regulators that come along in the future.
pay to place a video on YouTube's popular front page."
Oh the vanity! People really do that??? If I want you to see my video I'll put it on my own site and mention it somewhere, maybe even slashdot and it it's interesting word will get around, if it's not, my ego won't be crushed. I will be pissed if those weasels at thinkgeek steal it for another merchandising product.
Well, someone was willing to pay ABC/Disney $40M to run the pseudo-history of 9/11 this weekend... (Without running ads, even.) Or maybe they're doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. No wait, that's not right... Or maybe it is Right?
The real problem is not their identification but the reason they are not liked.
Another problem is people who generalize about individuals based on their nationality.
Knowing that someone is a United States' citizen should not be the basis for inferring that that individual supports the U.S. government's current administration or its policies, foreign or domestic.
Should I assume any Italian supports Berlusconi? That any German is a member of the CDU? That Tony Blair is every Brit's personal spokesmodel? That any Chinese is a fervent Communist?
I believe we all generalize and stereotype to help us maintain a tractably sized model of our environment. But to act on those stereotypes when interacting with individuals is unsophisticated and unfortunate.
The game's description implies that the decisions of one or two people influence the lives of everyone else, but developments in history in the last 20-30 years have firmly established that this rarely the case. Political and military history, history from the top-down, is very much out of style and for very good reason.
I'm sympathetic to this concept in theory, but it seems to me that the United States recently invaded Iraq due purely to the motivations of and manipulations by a very small number of individuals. They may have rallied others to the cause, but without them no Iraq war.
Quasi-Disclaimer: I know one of the Muzzy Lane principals, but I haven't seen the game. I also know my 3rd grader would love to try it, as he's already hooked on XConq, FreeCiv, C-Evo, and Populous (on the old SNES!).
MPG estimates are easy to reach when drive like a responsible person, and according to the cars manual.
Yup. I just tanked up our '03 HCH and the readout gave 49.2MPG. But for this tank we were concentrating on keeping the mileage up. More typical is 42.3ish. In either case, the number is higher than the actual MPG computed by measuring gallons and miles, which for a reported ~42 is more like an actual ~39. Our mechanic tells me all trip computers just make estimates based on engine load; none of them actually measure fuel flow.
And yet it still feels great every time I'm at a full stop and the engine is off.
If you don't want monthly charges, you can get a lifetime subscription. It's a bit expensive, but it increases the value of the Tivo if you were to resell it.
I thought that was only your lifetime with that TiVo, i.e. not transferable.
(I got the lifetime sub, figuring I'd keep it > 2 years. Looks like I'll win that bet.:-)
I thought that in German one doesn't call anything X-sharp, but rather (Perlishly) one_note_higher($x).'is' (e.g. F# is spoken Gis, i.e. G-flat).
I also think in German a B-natural is called h ('ha' in German, though pronounced 'aitch' in the Good ol' U.S. of Stateside and 'haitch' in many other GB-derived localities:-).
According to this stem cell transplant from the patient themselves is "standard and contemporary treatment" (in contrast to an "emerging therapy") for multiple myeloma (described here).
I believe this is a more refined form of what used to be called a "bone marrow transplant", but someone else probably can explain that in excurciating detail.:-)
I have friend who had this done and she is well on her way to recovery.
I don't have a reference to it, but I thought that Admiral Grace Hopper and her crowd had done something just like this generations ago simply by hooking up the accumulator of a Univac to a D/A converter, which in those days resulted in audible frequencies! A quick search on Google found something similar was done on a CDC 3300 (search for CDC 3300 in this page).
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I've got 106 processes running on my XP laptop and I'm not even doing work right now. (At which point add another good dozen++ processes.)
And lots of these processes are already multi-threaded. (Including most of the tools and frameworks I use and some of the code I'm writing.)
So even though some of this sounds theoretical, I don't think I even need any kind of software upgrade to benefit from having an 80 core processor today just for scheduling processes. (Though, the memory bandwidth issues others have pointed out would need some attention.)
Cheers,
Richard
Help->Mozilla Thunderbird Help -> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders.
First paragraph:
Is this too deep...?
Cheers,
Richard
I got an undergraduate CS degree from Rice University in 1986. It was during my 4 years there that the CS department was created. Previously it had been a program jointly administered by the EE and Mathematical Sciences (aka Applied Math, already separate from the "pure" Mathematics department) departments.
Given this history our courses tended to be cross-listed as CS, EE, and MS courses. We had "real" EE classes and "real" math classes as requirements for graduation. Other classes were real CS courses that some EEs (and fewer Math Scientists) would also take, e.g. Algorithms and Data Structures, Compiler Design, Programming Languages. But others were straight EE (Digital Logic Design) or MS courses (Linear Algebra). Heck, we even had to take a logic class that was listed as a Philosophy course!
We tended to have one or two courses per semester that required programming, but the majority of the work was written (algorithms written in an abstract language, complexity analysis, proofs).
So today I do IT stuff, even much-dreaded web development. But similar to the IT:CS::plumbing:physics comment earlier in this thread, I consider myself a plumber. I don't do much CS. But I feel I have a deeper understanding of what's going on below the surface than folks who've just learned "programming" and I'm confident I can learn any new valves, pipes, and regulators that come along in the future.
Cheers,
Richard
Well, someone was willing to pay ABC/Disney $40M to run the pseudo-history of 9/11 this weekend... (Without running ads, even.) Or maybe they're doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. No wait, that's not right... Or maybe it is Right?
Cheers,
Richard
Another problem is people who generalize about individuals based on their nationality.
Knowing that someone is a United States' citizen should not be the basis for inferring that that individual supports the U.S. government's current administration or its policies, foreign or domestic.
Should I assume any Italian supports Berlusconi? That any German is a member of the CDU? That Tony Blair is every Brit's personal spokesmodel? That any Chinese is a fervent Communist?
I believe we all generalize and stereotype to help us maintain a tractably sized model of our environment. But to act on those stereotypes when interacting with individuals is unsophisticated and unfortunate.
Cheers,
Richard
Perhaps you should tell him never to click on the link. It may start with www.paypal.com but it could well end in .scr...
Cheers,
Richard
Mod parent up!
I'm sympathetic to this concept in theory, but it seems to me that the United States recently invaded Iraq due purely to the motivations of and manipulations by a very small number of individuals. They may have rallied others to the cause, but without them no Iraq war.
Quasi-Disclaimer: I know one of the Muzzy Lane principals, but I haven't seen the game. I also know my 3rd grader would love to try it, as he's already hooked on XConq, FreeCiv, C-Evo, and Populous (on the old SNES!).
Cheers,
Richard
Yup. I just tanked up our '03 HCH and the readout gave 49.2MPG. But for this tank we were concentrating on keeping the mileage up. More typical is 42.3ish. In either case, the number is higher than the actual MPG computed by measuring gallons and miles, which for a reported ~42 is more like an actual ~39. Our mechanic tells me all trip computers just make estimates based on engine load; none of them actually measure fuel flow.
And yet it still feels great every time I'm at a full stop and the engine is off.
Cheers,
Richard
But, um, the article is about scientific creativity and productivity, not artistic.
If you don't want monthly charges, you can get a lifetime subscription. It's a bit expensive, but it increases the value of the Tivo if you were to resell it.
I thought that was only your lifetime with that TiVo, i.e. not transferable.
(I got the lifetime sub, figuring I'd keep it > 2 years. Looks like I'll win that bet.:-)
Other candidates for intentional use of the album as an art form:
Cheers,
Richard
You can go here and type in a Zip+4 and get pretty darn close...
As seen on http://slashdot.org/: Have you Meta Moderated recently?
Ah, good, thanks for the correction! My one year of Gymnasium was 5th grade, 29 years ago, and memory failed to serve.
But it does substantiate the point that "sharp" is not used in all languages. :-)
Cheers,
Richard
I thought that in German one doesn't call anything X-sharp, but rather (Perlishly) one_note_higher($x).'is' (e.g. F# is spoken Gis, i.e. G-flat).
I also think in German a B-natural is called h ('ha' in German, though pronounced 'aitch' in the Good ol' U.S. of Stateside and 'haitch' in many other GB-derived localities :-).
Cheers,
Richard
Yes, but it's our mess, and we love it. :-)
According to this stem cell transplant from the patient themselves is "standard and contemporary treatment" (in contrast to an "emerging therapy") for multiple myeloma (described here).
I believe this is a more refined form of what used to be called a "bone marrow transplant", but someone else probably can explain that in excurciating detail. :-)
I have friend who had this done and she is well on her way to recovery.
Cheers,
Richard
Dang, MS retaliates quickly:
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> or the AG's office press release here [state.ma.us].
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0046'
Permission denied
Cheers,
Richard (proud to have voted for Reilly!)
Does MS really know how to block ports?
Robert L. Forward also wrote about elevators (up and down, slinkying across the lunar surface) in Timemaster.
I don't have a reference to it, but I thought that Admiral Grace Hopper and her crowd had done something just like this generations ago simply by hooking up the accumulator of a Univac to a D/A converter, which in those days resulted in audible frequencies! A quick search on Google found something similar was done on a CDC 3300 (search for CDC 3300 in this page).
Cheers,Richard