yeah I agree - stupid language, silly rules - honestly I'm doing my best to mangle the silly bits in public as much as possible so that eventually the pedants give up hopefully my grandkids wont have to deal with that crap
er... no.... (check out www.sizes.com for such esoteria) a 'tonne' is a metric ton - 1000kg and pretty close to 2240lbs (so you're close). 2240lbs is called in the US a 'long ton' and elsewhere (ie all the non0US english speaking countries) just a 'ton'.... 2000lbs is called in the US a 'short ton' and also just a 'ton'
well I was thinking of what I'd buy when, as a kid, my mother sent me to the butcher.... as others have pointed out not everyone always orders those 1/2 pound steaks/burgers just for themselves
doh!... yes you're right... living 20 years in the US will do that to you:-).... I should of course point out that elsewhere in the world it's not a "2x4" it's a "4x2"....
My Dad wrote a gardening book, when NZ went metric they 'translated it to metric'... converted all the places where he said "plant the seeds an inch apart" to "plant the seeds about 2.54cm apart".... silly of course and people quickly learned to do the everyday approximations we mostly use for day to day usage. 50mph is the speedlimit because it's a ound number in the right range, so is 80kph. Buying a pound of meat for dinner is about the same as buying 1/2 a kilo - both will get you fed about right. Half a litre is about a pint, a metre is about a yard. A 2x4 is about a 10x20 etc etc... honestly I don't understand why americans are so scared about changing
there are 2 fluid ounces in use - the american one and the everywhere else one (same with pints/gallons/etc) - the US has always had it's own private units for fluids - the reasons have mostly to do with various english royalty jiggering the tax system - one particular one being frozen in place by the american revolution. The US will probably get to claim their's as the only/best/etc system by default as the rest of the world standardizes on metric
Moving to the US I found I really missed 'morning/afternoon tea time" turns out lots of really important informal communication goes on there.... so make a space and time at least once a day for people to sit down together and just talk
Watt's law - P=VI = V2/R - double the voltage and you can get 1/4 times the power loss over the same wires.... the really low voltages (high current) used by PCs would require huge copper bus bars through the building
psychologist friend of mine recently pointed out that treating a corporation as a 'person' might open them to other possibilities... in fact he pointed out that if you look at the behaviour of modern corporations and analyze them using the normal psychological diagnostic criteria (DMS-III) the diagnosis 'psychopath' often comes out....
25 years ago I was using a mainframe, size of a basketball court - supported 30 terminals and untold card batch users.... it had a memory clock speed of 1Mhz and 40Mb of disk... core memory (real core - hand strung in the 3rd world) was roughly $1Million/megabyte.... and we thought it was great.... and were completely amazed by what replaced it (a Vax the size of a couple of large fridges).... it's been this way for probably 40 years now.... honestly the 486 was just a (small) step on that path...
Moores law basicly makes sure we get to keep doing this for a while until atomic or quantum effects get in the way (not long now...)
Actually the 486 is a pretty boring chip to lionize - the 386 was a major architecture change (as were the RISC chips growing up around it) following the mistep into segmentation that was the 286. Intel had this capability architecture jag going for a while which tended to cloud their vision a little - the 286/432/960 all had leanings in that direction, some a little more exterme than others... the problem was that to use those sorts of architectures in anger you need strongly typed languages that can manipulate pointers (or segments etc) as a seperate kind of object from data.... IMHO C and Unix (and the rise of the RISCs) had a lot to do with their downfall
But let's be honest here. Computer Science 101: an efficient algorithm coded in an inefficient way will always beat out an inefficient algorithm coded by hand in 100% optimized assembly.
well so? - that proves nothing. To make any sort of usefull point you have to compare the same things.
In reality carefully hand crafted assembly will usually beat compiler built code (not always there's always that superoptimised goodie you never thought of).... but it's seldom worth doing the hard work... the real trick is to have done enough of both to be able to decide when it's worth your time to tune something (and what to tune)
not necesarily - it may not be 'prior art' but it may be under the 'obvious to someone practiced in the art' for example if it's common prcactice to tag work yet to be done with 'TODO' comments (highlited by a number of editors including VIM) and then use a tool (such as GREP or vim) to extract, locate or otherwise point out these comments then it's probably not patentable - on the other hand someone like a patent examiner who is not practiced in the art is unlikely to know this
of course Australia and NZ had already been discovered (10s of 1000s of years before in the case of Oz and about 1000 before in the case of NZ). Cook was just the first white guy to get there (or 2nd in the case of NZ)
err - look at the photos they will answer at least part of your answer..... back-hoes.... they aren't just buying 40 computers.... they're building a building to put them in....
when my kids were really young I reorganized my work so I worked at home 4 days a week... I got the kid(s) in the morning, my wife worked mornings as a part time teacher... morning was get up, get kkid(s) up, feed them, go for a walk (playground, cafe etc) come home by 11, put kids to nap, start work, wife comes home at about the time the kid wakes, I work 'till horribly late (I do startups).
This worked really well for the first few years and I'm someone who actually gets more work done when working at home - I'm really pleased I got to spend that time with the kids whe nthey were really young....
Konq at least attempts to solve this by having a delete button next to the URL - clicking that black thing with an X on it while 'holding' text from a hilite clears the URL so you can drop a new one in there
well I'm going to send you up to look after the TNT next time, Darwin will take care of it.... What you use to set of TMT etc is not and electrical current.... it's an electrically fired detonator - that creates the shock wave in the explosive that causes the detonation... uh kind of like firing a bullet into it.... that's the difference between "detonation" or "explosive" and just burning fast - the chemical decomposition is driven by a shockwave at the speed of sound.
Sure detonators can be set off by stray electrical impluses and when they've been stuffed into something that will detonate and hooked up to long wires that act a lot like antennae firing up a transmitter near by is probably not a good idea.... but that's a property of the entire system, not the explosive itself.
well there were no '040s (or even '030s) when the Mac 2 came out. Not even an MMU, though there was a socket for one (for those of use with A/UX) that was normally filled with a dummy pal
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yeah I agree - stupid language, silly rules - honestly I'm doing my best to mangle the silly bits in public as much as possible so that eventually the pedants give up hopefully my grandkids wont have to deal with that crap
er ... no .... (check out www.sizes.com for such esoteria) a 'tonne' is a metric ton - 1000kg and pretty close to 2240lbs (so you're close). 2240lbs is called in the US a 'long ton' and elsewhere (ie all the non0US english speaking countries) just a 'ton' .... 2000lbs is called in the US a 'short ton' and also just a 'ton'
well I was thinking of what I'd buy when, as a kid, my mother sent me to the butcher .... as others have pointed out not everyone always orders those 1/2 pound steaks/burgers just for themselves
doh! ... yes you're right ... living 20 years in the US will do that to you :-) .... I should of course point out that elsewhere in the world it's not a "2x4" it's a "4x2" ....
My Dad wrote a gardening book, when NZ went metric they 'translated it to metric' ... converted all the places where he said "plant the seeds an inch apart" to "plant the seeds about 2.54cm apart" .... silly of course and people quickly learned to do the everyday approximations we mostly use for day to day usage. 50mph is the speedlimit because it's a ound number in the right range, so is 80kph. Buying a pound of meat for dinner is about the same as buying 1/2 a kilo - both will get you fed about right. Half a litre is about a pint, a metre is about a yard. A 2x4 is about a 10x20 etc etc ... honestly I don't understand why americans are so scared about changing
The imperial ton is 20 hundredweight (2240 lbs) while the american ton is 2000lbs
there are 2 fluid ounces in use - the american one and the everywhere else one (same with pints/gallons/etc) - the US has always had it's own private units for fluids - the reasons have mostly to do with various english royalty jiggering the tax system - one particular one being frozen in place by the american revolution. The US will probably get to claim their's as the only/best/etc system by default as the rest of the world standardizes on metric
Moving to the US I found I really missed 'morning/afternoon tea time" turns out lots of really important informal communication goes on there .... so make a space and time at least once a day for people to sit down together and just talk
Watt's law - P=VI = V2/R - double the voltage and you can get 1/4 times the power loss over the same wires .... the really low voltages (high current) used by PCs would require huge copper bus bars through the building
psychologist friend of mine recently pointed out that treating a corporation as a 'person' might open them to other possibilities ... in fact he pointed out that if you look at the behaviour of modern corporations and analyze them using the normal psychological diagnostic criteria (DMS-III) the diagnosis 'psychopath' often comes out ....
Moores law basicly makes sure we get to keep doing this for a while until atomic or quantum effects get in the way (not long now ...)
Actually the 486 is a pretty boring chip to lionize - the 386 was a major architecture change (as were the RISC chips growing up around it) following the mistep into segmentation that was the 286. Intel had this capability architecture jag going for a while which tended to cloud their vision a little - the 286/432/960 all had leanings in that direction, some a little more exterme than others ... the problem was that to use those sorts of architectures in anger you need strongly typed languages that can manipulate pointers (or segments etc) as a seperate kind of object from data .... IMHO C and Unix (and the rise of the RISCs) had a lot to do with their downfall
well so? - that proves nothing. To make any sort of usefull point you have to compare the same things.
In reality carefully hand crafted assembly will usually beat compiler built code (not always there's always that superoptimised goodie you never thought of) .... but it's seldom worth doing the hard work ... the real trick is to have done enough of both to be able to decide when it's worth your time to tune something (and what to tune)
he's described this number in a book with a finite number of numbered pages ..... methinks something's fishy here ....
an a worm as a monster stomping through your city ....
they get paid by the claim .... someone got paid a pretty penny to file this one ....
not necesarily - it may not be 'prior art' but it may be under the 'obvious to someone practiced in the art' for example if it's common prcactice to tag work yet to be done with 'TODO' comments (highlited by a number of editors including VIM) and then use a tool (such as GREP or vim) to extract, locate or otherwise point out these comments then it's probably not patentable - on the other hand someone like a patent examiner who is not practiced in the art is unlikely to know this
boy you read fast, I only just started it ....
of course Australia and NZ had already been discovered (10s of 1000s of years before in the case of Oz and about 1000 before in the case of NZ). Cook was just the first white guy to get there (or 2nd in the case of NZ)
err - look at the photos they will answer at least part of your answer ..... back-hoes .... they aren't just buying 40 computers .... they're building a building to put them in ....
This worked really well for the first few years and I'm someone who actually gets more work done when working at home - I'm really pleased I got to spend that time with the kids whe nthey were really young ....
Konq at least attempts to solve this by having a delete button next to the URL - clicking that black thing with an X on it while 'holding' text from a hilite clears the URL so you can drop a new one in there
given that they are footing the bill ....
Sure detonators can be set off by stray electrical impluses and when they've been stuffed into something that will detonate and hooked up to long wires that act a lot like antennae firing up a transmitter near by is probably not a good idea .... but that's a property of the entire system, not the explosive itself.
well there were no '040s (or even '030s) when the Mac 2 came out. Not even an MMU, though there was a socket for one (for those of use with A/UX) that was normally filled with a dummy pal
Those guys over in High Energy Magic ... I've read all the stories about what goes wrong over there ....