My university CS dept taught assembly on x86, but lots of people took a required (for the B.S., not for the B.A.) course from the computer engineering dept that taught HC11 assembly first.
just drink beer and you won't have to worry about plastic bottles...
I'm only 26 and I remember when coke and pepsi came in glass bottles...I imagine there are a lot of people alive today that have never seen anything other than plastic coke and pepsi bottles. I even remember the car dealership we used to go to when I was little - it had a glass bottle vending machine. each bottle was on its side with its cap pointing out towards you. Each bottle was had spring loaded mechanical fingers around the bottle neck, which were locked most of the time. You put in money and it would "unlock" the bottles, open a door, and pull out a bottle. Once you pulled one bottle out they would all lock again. I wonder if you could pull two out at the same time?
here in Maine they have gotten rid of several hydro power plants. These are old (some around 200 years) dams that were built to provide mechanical power to saw mills and factories. There were literally hundreds of these things scattered all over Maine (except the large areas of wilderness that were never developed). When the mechanical power was no longer needed they were converted into small power plants, many provided only enough power for a few hundred or sometimes a few thousand homes.
I think it actually does make sense to remove some of these smaller dams, since many of them are getting to the point where it is not cost effective to perform maintenance. One company agreed to remove three several dams from a river in exchange for the permits to increase capacity (by raising water levels) at three small dams located on a branch off that same river, and for an agreement that the river resoration groups and state would not seek to block re-permitting of these dams. This allowed the fish passage up the main branch, and the increased capacity on the other branch made up for the capacity lost by the other dams removal.
Obiously the larger dams are not being removed, since these make up a significant portion of our electricity supply
"If we all lied and denied it would we still be working at Apple today? Even more so, is that the kind of person that Apple wants working for them?"
Ummm... so it doesn't matter if you break the rules as long as you confess before your boss finds out? Seriously, just because you confess, it doesn't mean that all should be forgiven.
In the U.S. a batchelors degree is considered a 4 year degree (although some people take 5, especially if they switch majors). A masters degree is usually completed in 2 years.
vtech used a custom compiled kernel, and have also been using Linux on the cluster.
I used to work for a site with a 256 node Xserve cluster that was running the latest OS X 10.4 (we started with 10.3 and switched to 10.4 shortly after it was releases). They still run an up to date 10.4 on the cluster, but now they also have a portion of the cluster running Linux, which performs better than OS X for many HPC applications. They are working on software that will interface with TORQUE/Moab to install either a Linux or OS X disk image prior to launching a job thereby allowing a fully dynamic OS X / Linux hybrid cluster.
Xnu appears to have issues with its memory manager. Sites often write their own simple memory manager in order to get the best possible benchmarks for OS X. VTech did it. We did it. Ours was a IOKit driver that loaded at system boot. The first thing it did was grab about 90% of the physical RAM (contiguous). The driver had to be loaded at boot or else this would have failed. Then we wrote a library that would overload the malloc familly of functions to use our memory manager rather than the default. This ensured that our high performance app would always get physcally contiguous memory which improved cache hits and greatly improved the performance of Goto's blas libraries (he has a very low oppinion of the OS X memory manager).
one time at work we wanted a cheap mouse for a computer that we would normally ssh into, so no need for anything fancy. we ran over to best buy and bought a memorex mouse for $3, and the cashier tried to sell us a warantee on it
Bush also talked about social security reform and eliminating federal income tax in favor of a federal sales tax (which I would be totally in favor for, since the IRS is a hug administrative cost that could be massivly scaled back with a simpler federal tax code)
Of course after he was elected we didn't hear to much about this stuff
I have a buddy who is a UK citizen, has lived in several contries, and spent his teen & college years in the US (Maine). He recently took a job in Provo, Utah and works in a small tech company with mostly Mormons. He is a big partier and drinker, so I don't know if Utah is really the place for him, but he has no complaints about how he is treated by Mormons. His company is opening up a branch in England and they asked if he'd be willing to be transfered out there and he jumped at the chance, so it worked out good for him.
my buddy basically offered me $60-70k to come down and work at his company as a software engineer in Huntsville. Right now I work for a non-profit research lab in Maine and make 65k, with a 4% salary adjustment due in October, and a possible promotion after that. I like Maine, but there aren't too many games in town for a software engineer, and there aren't a lot of good job opportunities for my wife either. I also have a fairly long commute (I take a bus) since 1) the lab is on an island off the coast of Maine so real estate prices are inflated compared to inland, and 2) I choose to live one of the "larger" cities in Maine (we don't have big cities here)
I was tempting, but my wife isn't too excited by the idea of moving to Alabama, and honestly neither am I (I have been in Huntsville, and it isn't bad there - almost a spot of blue in a sea of red if you know what I mean)
I'm 26 and I eat McDonalds about once per year. I eat mostly veggies, whole grains, and chicken (grilled or baked, not fried). Too bad I have a defective gene that causes my body to produce too much bad cholesterol and not enough good cholesterol. Heart disease has plagued my mothers side of the familly - her dad passed away when she was 12 from a massive heart attack, and many of her uncles suffered a similar fate. The defect has been traced back to and ancestor back in France I believe (or maybe it was Quebec). There are probably a lot of french canadiens out there with the same problem.
only if you're parents make below a certain amount. My parents were middle class and I couldn't get any subsidized loans. That meant if I had taken out a loan either I had to pay the interest every month or have the interest accrue while I was in school. I got through college with no loans (i had a academic full-tuition scholarship for 1-year, and my parents paid my living expenses plus tuition for the other three years. I could have kept the full-tuition ride all 4 years if I hadn't partied so much my first year).
your weatherperson is trying to be fairly specific. I admit to not reading the article, but I do know a little about computer simulation, and I would guess they are looking at larger trends in temperature and storm patterns. Not trying to accurately predict daily temperatures and precipitation like your weatherman (who interprets/puts a local spin on data (s)he gets from noaa).
I had purchased a new house in January and was very busy with the move and painting, so I had three netflix DVDs that sat in my entertainment center for months and months. I'm still busy, but I don't have time for one movie a night anymore, so I finally switched down to the unlimited two-at-a-time
my grocery store bags the groceries and puts them back in the cart after they are rung up. They will also push them to your car if you wish (they don't usually ask me if I need help since I'm a fit 26 year old male, but I'd say about 10% of the time when I have a really full cart they'll ask if I'd like any help, just to be polite).
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and the new pilot they shot was called "where no man has gone before" (I think), but they aired "The Man Trap" first.
My university CS dept taught assembly on x86, but lots of people took a required (for the B.S., not for the B.A.) course from the computer engineering dept that taught HC11 assembly first.
I'm only 26 and I remember when coke and pepsi came in glass bottles...I imagine there are a lot of people alive today that have never seen anything other than plastic coke and pepsi bottles. I even remember the car dealership we used to go to when I was little - it had a glass bottle vending machine. each bottle was on its side with its cap pointing out towards you. Each bottle was had spring loaded mechanical fingers around the bottle neck, which were locked most of the time. You put in money and it would "unlock" the bottles, open a door, and pull out a bottle. Once you pulled one bottle out they would all lock again. I wonder if you could pull two out at the same time?
I think it actually does make sense to remove some of these smaller dams, since many of them are getting to the point where it is not cost effective to perform maintenance. One company agreed to remove three several dams from a river in exchange for the permits to increase capacity (by raising water levels) at three small dams located on a branch off that same river, and for an agreement that the river resoration groups and state would not seek to block re-permitting of these dams. This allowed the fish passage up the main branch, and the increased capacity on the other branch made up for the capacity lost by the other dams removal.
Obiously the larger dams are not being removed, since these make up a significant portion of our electricity supply
if you're worried about using up fresh water so quickly then why aren't you complaining about all the people moving to Nevada, Arizona, etc.
Las Vegas has been seeing a population boom. What a rediculous place for a major city...
"If we all lied and denied it would we still be working at Apple today? Even more so, is that the kind of person that Apple wants working for them?"
Ummm... so it doesn't matter if you break the rules as long as you confess before your boss finds out? Seriously, just because you confess, it doesn't mean that all should be forgiven.
MS Office on OS X is a Carbon app, so no, it wouldn't be a simple Unix to Unix port.
stop reading slashdot out loud
lots of employeers consider a masters degree to be equivalent to 2 years of experience
I am the coconut monkey!
boy was I pissed when they changed his voice.
In the U.S. a batchelors degree is considered a 4 year degree (although some people take 5, especially if they switch majors). A masters degree is usually completed in 2 years.
that was his point. it doesn't work wih 2.4 so he needs to use a 2.6 kernel
vtech used a custom compiled kernel, and have also been using Linux on the cluster. I used to work for a site with a 256 node Xserve cluster that was running the latest OS X 10.4 (we started with 10.3 and switched to 10.4 shortly after it was releases). They still run an up to date 10.4 on the cluster, but now they also have a portion of the cluster running Linux, which performs better than OS X for many HPC applications. They are working on software that will interface with TORQUE/Moab to install either a Linux or OS X disk image prior to launching a job thereby allowing a fully dynamic OS X / Linux hybrid cluster. Xnu appears to have issues with its memory manager. Sites often write their own simple memory manager in order to get the best possible benchmarks for OS X. VTech did it. We did it. Ours was a IOKit driver that loaded at system boot. The first thing it did was grab about 90% of the physical RAM (contiguous). The driver had to be loaded at boot or else this would have failed. Then we wrote a library that would overload the malloc familly of functions to use our memory manager rather than the default. This ensured that our high performance app would always get physcally contiguous memory which improved cache hits and greatly improved the performance of Goto's blas libraries (he has a very low oppinion of the OS X memory manager).
he goes to parties with some mormons he met and all they do is eat ice cream and drink root beer
one time at work we wanted a cheap mouse for a computer that we would normally ssh into, so no need for anything fancy. we ran over to best buy and bought a memorex mouse for $3, and the cashier tried to sell us a warantee on it
Bush also talked about social security reform and eliminating federal income tax in favor of a federal sales tax (which I would be totally in favor for, since the IRS is a hug administrative cost that could be massivly scaled back with a simpler federal tax code) Of course after he was elected we didn't hear to much about this stuff
I have a buddy who is a UK citizen, has lived in several contries, and spent his teen & college years in the US (Maine). He recently took a job in Provo, Utah and works in a small tech company with mostly Mormons. He is a big partier and drinker, so I don't know if Utah is really the place for him, but he has no complaints about how he is treated by Mormons. His company is opening up a branch in England and they asked if he'd be willing to be transfered out there and he jumped at the chance, so it worked out good for him.
my buddy basically offered me $60-70k to come down and work at his company as a software engineer in Huntsville. Right now I work for a non-profit research lab in Maine and make 65k, with a 4% salary adjustment due in October, and a possible promotion after that. I like Maine, but there aren't too many games in town for a software engineer, and there aren't a lot of good job opportunities for my wife either. I also have a fairly long commute (I take a bus) since 1) the lab is on an island off the coast of Maine so real estate prices are inflated compared to inland, and 2) I choose to live one of the "larger" cities in Maine (we don't have big cities here) I was tempting, but my wife isn't too excited by the idea of moving to Alabama, and honestly neither am I (I have been in Huntsville, and it isn't bad there - almost a spot of blue in a sea of red if you know what I mean)
I'm 26 and I eat McDonalds about once per year. I eat mostly veggies, whole grains, and chicken (grilled or baked, not fried). Too bad I have a defective gene that causes my body to produce too much bad cholesterol and not enough good cholesterol. Heart disease has plagued my mothers side of the familly - her dad passed away when she was 12 from a massive heart attack, and many of her uncles suffered a similar fate. The defect has been traced back to and ancestor back in France I believe (or maybe it was Quebec). There are probably a lot of french canadiens out there with the same problem.
only if you're parents make below a certain amount. My parents were middle class and I couldn't get any subsidized loans. That meant if I had taken out a loan either I had to pay the interest every month or have the interest accrue while I was in school. I got through college with no loans (i had a academic full-tuition scholarship for 1-year, and my parents paid my living expenses plus tuition for the other three years. I could have kept the full-tuition ride all 4 years if I hadn't partied so much my first year).
or you could have purchased a warehouse full of plywood and vinyl siding before the post-katrina demmand drove up the prices
your weatherperson is trying to be fairly specific. I admit to not reading the article, but I do know a little about computer simulation, and I would guess they are looking at larger trends in temperature and storm patterns. Not trying to accurately predict daily temperatures and precipitation like your weatherman (who interprets/puts a local spin on data (s)he gets from noaa).
I had purchased a new house in January and was very busy with the move and painting, so I had three netflix DVDs that sat in my entertainment center for months and months. I'm still busy, but I don't have time for one movie a night anymore, so I finally switched down to the unlimited two-at-a-time
my grocery store bags the groceries and puts them back in the cart after they are rung up. They will also push them to your car if you wish (they don't usually ask me if I need help since I'm a fit 26 year old male, but I'd say about 10% of the time when I have a really full cart they'll ask if I'd like any help, just to be polite).
you are right. it was 366!