large covering over the top that blocks out the daylight by design? Actually, it doesn't block out daylight by design, usually. It blocks out rain, for instance. Also, many buildings have multiple floors. There's also these things called "windows" (it's not just an operating system!) which allow sufficient sunlight to come through to avoid the need for artificial lighting when possible (again, with multiple floors, it's not always possible). Some buildings also have lightwells. But there's indeed a lot of progress that can be made. Not every building is high-tech, most of them are just cheap.
I never did get the obsession other people have with the units we use in the states. Well, a specific example is when I buy mushrooms, the ones in bulk are priced in cents/oz while the packaged ones are priced in $/lb, which makes comparison uselessly difficult.
Reminds me that when the metre was created it was so that the Earth's circumference would be 40,000,000 metres. And since then we measure the Earth's circumference in metres (well, kilometres), and it's not 40,000,000. Go figure.. Actually, Earth's circumference was measured first, and the metre based on the result. But we might have been able to get more accurate results since then.
The standard example I've seen in economics classes is that if you pay for a tow company to come boost your car, you gain benefit from it, and this is reflected in the GDP (a monetary index of the quality of life... sorta). If instead, you get a boost from your neighbour, you also benefit, but the GDP does not increase. I don't get it. How does the GDP increase if you pay a tow company? And if it does increase, why would it not when your neighbour gives you the same service? The only difference is an exchange of money (within the country, so it doesn't affect GDP) and possibly more overhead for using the tow company (e.g. gas to move the tow truck), which, if anything, lowers the GDP.
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Note that the verbosity is not due to static typing. For instance, what you do in Python can also be done with most ML family languages (e.g. OCaml), which are statically typed.
For instance in OCaml you'd write: let emps = List.filter (fun e -> e.salary>limit) employees
There is nothing stopping a dedicated pirate from going, pixel by pixel, dumping the current pixel color values into a massive 2d array Actually, there is. It's called HDCP, and means that only "authenticated" output devices will get digital data.
I don't think that this problem is very likely since to my knowledge few applications ever flip the direction flag. I believe the problem happens if the kernel flips the direction flag: it will stay flipped when calling back to your application.
If they can automate the detection then they can as easily automate the circumvention. It's easy to check a crypto signature but hard to generate it (if given only the public key). I'm not saying there are any similarities between this and public key crypto, but just because you can check something easily, doesn't mean you can generate something that passes the check easily.
If you look at your link, it says that the point where revenue starts to go down is probably around 80% tax. I think we can both agree we're still pretty far from this.
if it weren't supported at all because MS tried to take a stance against it, then we'd just be complaining about the lack of support If it wasn't supported by Windows, they wouldn't do it. As you may be aware, Windows is a very large proportion of the market.
But from a quality-of-product point-of-view, very little could match (and can match) SimCity Well, except for the use after free bug that required a special case in Windows 95 so that the game would keep working. See e.g. here (look for SimCity): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
Nuclear does "create" energy (unless, I suppose, you think of mass as energy). You know, E=mc^2 is valid for chemical energy, too. So by that same token, gasoline "creates" energy. Of course it's a much smaller fraction of the mass of the fuel.
With their stupid non-functional F keys (you have to press "F-lock" at each boot. Great when you have to press e.g. "F8" at boot). All the more annoying since MS and Logitech are the 2 main keyboard providers.
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large covering over the top that blocks out the daylight by design?
Actually, it doesn't block out daylight by design, usually. It blocks out rain, for instance. Also, many buildings have multiple floors.
There's also these things called "windows" (it's not just an operating system!) which allow sufficient sunlight to come through to avoid the need for artificial lighting when possible (again, with multiple floors, it's not always possible).
Some buildings also have lightwells. But there's indeed a lot of progress that can be made. Not every building is high-tech, most of them are just cheap.
watts/hr
A Watt is already energy per time. Maybe be you meant Wh/h?
I never did get the obsession other people have with the units we use in the states.
Well, a specific example is when I buy mushrooms, the ones in bulk are priced in cents/oz while the packaged ones are priced in $/lb, which makes comparison uselessly difficult.
Reminds me that when the metre was created it was so that the Earth's circumference would be 40,000,000 metres. And since then we measure the Earth's circumference in metres (well, kilometres), and it's not 40,000,000. Go figure..
Actually, Earth's circumference was measured first, and the metre based on the result. But we might have been able to get more accurate results since then.
Do what I do. Always bcc yourself, instead of saving your message in "sent".
As a side benefit, this allows me to have all my messages in all my mailboxes.
Someone already almost beat you to this
The standard example I've seen in economics classes is that if you pay for a tow company to come boost your car, you gain benefit from it, and this is reflected in the GDP (a monetary index of the quality of life... sorta). If instead, you get a boost from your neighbour, you also benefit, but the GDP does not increase.
I don't get it.
How does the GDP increase if you pay a tow company? And if it does increase, why would it not when your neighbour gives you the same service? The only difference is an exchange of money (within the country, so it doesn't affect GDP) and possibly more overhead for using the tow company (e.g. gas to move the tow truck), which, if anything, lowers the GDP.
Note that the verbosity is not due to static typing. For instance, what you do in Python can also be done with most ML family languages (e.g. OCaml), which are statically typed.
For instance in OCaml you'd write:
let emps = List.filter (fun e -> e.salary>limit) employees
There is nothing stopping a dedicated pirate from going, pixel by pixel, dumping the current pixel color values into a massive 2d array
Actually, there is. It's called HDCP, and means that only "authenticated" output devices will get digital data.
uncompressed MPEG-2
MPEG-2 is a compression standard
I don't think that this problem is very likely since to my knowledge few applications ever flip the direction flag.
I believe the problem happens if the kernel flips the direction flag: it will stay flipped when calling back to your application.
If they can automate the detection then they can as easily automate the circumvention.
It's easy to check a crypto signature but hard to generate it (if given only the public key).
I'm not saying there are any similarities between this and public key crypto, but just because you can check something easily, doesn't mean you can generate something that passes the check easily.
If you look at your link, it says that the point where revenue starts to go down is probably around 80% tax.
I think we can both agree we're still pretty far from this.
if it weren't supported at all because MS tried to take a stance against it, then we'd just be complaining about the lack of support
If it wasn't supported by Windows, they wouldn't do it. As you may be aware, Windows is a very large proportion of the market.
All in a days work.
I think you meant "business as usual"
Actually, never mind, they mean that perimeter/diameter = 1/pi = (5/4)/4 = 5/16 = 1/3.2
I seems to me that this is a typo and should be four fifths to four, meaning
4 - 4/5 = 3.2 (same as "quarter to one" is 1 - 1/4)
back in the days that was still safe
I wonder what happened to make it unsafe? Maybe people's idea of "safe" changed?
I would:
1) End world hunger
2) Create world peace
3) Get a pony
I would have thought "dandum" ("dare", not "donare")
But from a quality-of-product point-of-view, very little could match (and can match) SimCity
Well, except for the use after free bug that required a special case in Windows 95 so that the game would keep working.
See e.g. here (look for SimCity):
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
Nuclear does "create" energy (unless, I suppose, you think of mass as energy).
You know, E=mc^2 is valid for chemical energy, too. So by that same token, gasoline "creates" energy. Of course it's a much smaller fraction of the mass of the fuel.
watching an odd DVD
Odd as in unencrypted? Last I checked it wasn't possible to legally watch DVDs on Linux in the US.
With their stupid non-functional F keys (you have to press "F-lock" at each boot. Great when you have to press e.g. "F8" at boot).
All the more annoying since MS and Logitech are the 2 main keyboard providers.