I'm nearly thirty and had very poor spelling until a couple of years ago. Every time I made a mistake I would type out the word 100 times correctly. Each mistake in those 100 times would require 100 additional typings.
It has helped significantly. Grammar, however, I still find to be a confusing topic.
Yes. Surely the software is clustered and scalable after 5 years of continual growth.
Lots of companies can drop ship a rack of servers preconfigured to spec (network configured, images loaded, etc.) well inside of a week.
The only excuse is if they're out of datacenter space and even that is a really bad excuse unless the growth curve suddenly and significantly changed after July.
In short, someone high up made a conscious decision NOT to upgrade the system to stay ahead of demand. If I was a customer in December, I would no longer be a customer now.
If there was a 100% chance that the flight would be one way (explosion on return) I would still be very tempted to go for a 6 month stay on the space station.
Since most people that go up do come down, I would be more than happy with those odds if given the opportunity.
Unfortunately that is an operating system problem.
We need a way to tell the operating system that some memory is important and other segments can be dropped at any time (cached or precalculated data) provided the application is told so it can rebuild it when necessary.
The OS scheduler would choose which applications are idle to the user and dump some of the applications data.
Ideally you could tell the operating system that the memory is useful but not terribly important and the OS will decide how much to keep around and how much to free based on memory availability and activity.
Applications should not be expected to dynamically change cache sizes dynamically based on system usage patterns.
Microsoft and Apple focus on making programs easy to learn NOT efficient to use. Companies who train employees want programs that are efficient to use and have less concern over whether they are easy to learn.
Sounds like the redesign sacrificed efficiency in order to make it easier to pick-up. This is a common issue.
No reason it couldn't be both. Have a command line area in the new GUI application that supports all of the hot-keys and quick data entry methods but with improved presentation of the data.
If "God" really created us in his image, he is either: (1) Grossly incompetent. (2) He is weak himself.
or (3) God is still in grade school and we're a part of his science experiment to determine if "flaw x" has any chance of surviving. It's a bit like the volcano experiment. Everybody knows the results but they do the experiment anyway.
And finally the good ol' fact that the people who work there are usually not the creme of the crop, the best of the best and the spearhead of excellence, or they'd be in free enterprise making more money. You often get what you pay for. The population demands low paid government workers then wonders why they get low quality government work completed.
The difference between <div class="article"> and <article> is that "<article>" has some implied meaning that a search engine will in fact be able to infer. This has little to do with display in a browser. It has quite a bit to do with giving search engines the intelligence to focus on important components of the page.
So I would need a look-up table to see what his work hours typically are - I wonder what we'd call it?
Typical work hours vary significantly within a single time-zone already. Some businesses close at 4pm or 6pm, and others at 9pm or later, some open at 7am and others open at 11am, and some even open at 5pm.
You already need to know what his companies specific work hours typically are even if you're in the same time zone. The number of people working exactly 9am to 5pm is shrinking all the time. Flex time, shift work, etc. all threw out that assumption a long time ago.
No it doesn't. XML made for humans is readable by humans. XML made for computers is not going to be any easier to read by humans in a text editor than a typical binary document format.
Heck, I've even seen self-defining XML documents where the top half contained the tag names and meanings for the bottom half, essentially defining macros to reduce duplication. Toss in several different character encodings and write the data in a random order using pointers (again, to reduce duplication) and you've got something nearly impossible for a human to understand without assistance.
You know that if every person in a city makes a phone call at the same time, good chance a large number of them won't get through.
If all cell-phone clients make calls at the same time, most won't get through.
If all Pizza-Hut customers went to the same store at the same time, many will go away hungry.
If everyone with a flat-rate flight pass tried to take the same flight, many would be bumped.
I can't think of a single "unlimited" consumer product in the history of mankind that could actually give all purchasers an unlimited amount of the product.
I can't even find the Postgres analogue of that to make fun of.
Your Google foo is pretty weak then. I found that the words PostgreSQL Support brought up a number of companies, some of which (Enterprise DB) seem to have some fairly large clients.
Morality aside, each time we've gotten into a bind, a war has bailed us out. This may very well be the first time that *while* at war, this is happening.
Technically it was the large one-time (short-term) financial investment by the government that bailed you out BUT that only works because it was large and short-term. A large sustained subsidy (long-term government funding) quickly becomes something you depend on. Without it areas would suffer and with it those areas tread water.
A massive short-term (3 to 5 year) investment into infrastructure like public transit capital could accomplish the same thing, possibly with a much better ROI.
The "borrow when times are bad, pay off debt when they're good" concept does work, but for some reason that became "borrow when times are bad, cut taxes and continue to borrow when they're good". This isn't going to work very well.
have been watching the show instead of trying to just jump right in
Stargate writers seem to love their inside jokes. You don't miss much in the episode by not knowing the back-story but there is a fair amount of humour added if you do.
Not only that, when they got to my house, we didn't have a fiber drop to the house (it was at the end of the block), so the tech called his boss, who sent a truck full of people to dig the trench and run the line the rest of the way to the house (across several neighbors' yards).
Sounds like me in the old BBS days. I had used up all of the lines they ran to the house, so they came out and ran an additional line from the box under the street (horizontal drill under the pavement, quite neat).
About a year later I ran out of lines again, they did the drill trick again but ran a few hundred pieces of copper instead of the usual 2 lines.
I moved about 6 months after that and cancelled service on all lines. Great fun.
Given that any imbalance will eventually become a problem, relying on short-term cycles is a pretty good idea.
I mean, imagine if electricity produced a surplus of water. Hugely beneficial byproduct in the short term for countries with droughts, but if you use the technology too much the oceans will start to rise and coastal cities go poof.
Being "matter-neutral" is a reasonable goal to have.
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I'm nearly thirty and had very poor spelling until a couple of years ago. Every time I made a mistake I would type out the word 100 times correctly. Each mistake in those 100 times would require 100 additional typings.
It has helped significantly. Grammar, however, I still find to be a confusing topic.
Yes. Surely the software is clustered and scalable after 5 years of continual growth.
Lots of companies can drop ship a rack of servers preconfigured to spec (network configured, images loaded, etc.) well inside of a week.
The only excuse is if they're out of datacenter space and even that is a really bad excuse unless the growth curve suddenly and significantly changed after July.
In short, someone high up made a conscious decision NOT to upgrade the system to stay ahead of demand. If I was a customer in December, I would no longer be a customer now.
If there was a 100% chance that the flight would be one way (explosion on return) I would still be very tempted to go for a 6 month stay on the space station.
Since most people that go up do come down, I would be more than happy with those odds if given the opportunity.
Unfortunately that is an operating system problem.
We need a way to tell the operating system that some memory is important and other segments can be dropped at any time (cached or precalculated data) provided the application is told so it can rebuild it when necessary.
The OS scheduler would choose which applications are idle to the user and dump some of the applications data.
Ideally you could tell the operating system that the memory is useful but not terribly important and the OS will decide how much to keep around and how much to free based on memory availability and activity.
Applications should not be expected to dynamically change cache sizes dynamically based on system usage patterns.
The CEO is directly responsible for morale and hiring practises. If they employee was hired/retained due to dollar concerns, then its his problem.
If dollars saved on salary is less than dollars lost due to issues from low salary employees (bad PR, lost clients, etc.); CEO made a bad decision.
Microsoft and Apple focus on making programs easy to learn NOT efficient to use. Companies who train employees want programs that are efficient to use and have less concern over whether they are easy to learn.
Sounds like the redesign sacrificed efficiency in order to make it easier to pick-up. This is a common issue.
No reason it couldn't be both. Have a command line area in the new GUI application that supports all of the hot-keys and quick data entry methods but with improved presentation of the data.
If "God" really created us in his image, he is either:
(1) Grossly incompetent.
(2) He is weak himself.
or (3) God is still in grade school and we're a part of his science experiment to determine if "flaw x" has any chance of surviving. It's a bit like the volcano experiment. Everybody knows the results but they do the experiment anyway.
So I would need a look-up table to see what his work hours typically are - I wonder what we'd call it?
Typical work hours vary significantly within a single time-zone already. Some businesses close at 4pm or 6pm, and others at 9pm or later, some open at 7am and others open at 11am, and some even open at 5pm.
You already need to know what his companies specific work hours typically are even if you're in the same time zone. The number of people working exactly 9am to 5pm is shrinking all the time. Flex time, shift work, etc. all threw out that assumption a long time ago.
It's the tights and cape you're wearing that made us think sidekick.
not a spectator through the lense of you camera.
I generally make it a rule to have the camera out during 2 hours of the day, one at sunset and one at sunrise.
Otherwise it stays in the hotel.
I still take 1 to 2 photos a day during good weather that are worth printing and framing which is more than enough to fill my walls.
XML means it is readable by humans.
No it doesn't. XML made for humans is readable by humans. XML made for computers is not going to be any easier to read by humans in a text editor than a typical binary document format.
Heck, I've even seen self-defining XML documents where the top half contained the tag names and meanings for the bottom half, essentially defining macros to reduce duplication. Toss in several different character encodings and write the data in a random order using pointers (again, to reduce duplication) and you've got something nearly impossible for a human to understand without assistance.
Resource sharing is pretty normal.
You know that if every person in a city makes a phone call at the same time, good chance a large number of them won't get through.
If all cell-phone clients make calls at the same time, most won't get through.
If all Pizza-Hut customers went to the same store at the same time, many will go away hungry.
If everyone with a flat-rate flight pass tried to take the same flight, many would be bumped.
I can't think of a single "unlimited" consumer product in the history of mankind that could actually give all purchasers an unlimited amount of the product.
I can't even find the Postgres analogue of that to make fun of.
Your Google foo is pretty weak then. I found that the words PostgreSQL Support brought up a number of companies, some of which (Enterprise DB) seem to have some fairly large clients.
Still, I'm pretty sure that Google's new datacenter wipes its ass with a datacenter the size of this one.
I'm pretty sure Google's datacentre has evolved beyond the need for an ass.
Morality aside, each time we've gotten into a bind, a war has bailed us out. This may very well be the first time that *while* at war, this is happening.
Technically it was the large one-time (short-term) financial investment by the government that bailed you out BUT that only works because it was large and short-term. A large sustained subsidy (long-term government funding) quickly becomes something you depend on. Without it areas would suffer and with it those areas tread water.
A massive short-term (3 to 5 year) investment into infrastructure like public transit capital could accomplish the same thing, possibly with a much better ROI.
The "borrow when times are bad, pay off debt when they're good" concept does work, but for some reason that became "borrow when times are bad, cut taxes and continue to borrow when they're good". This isn't going to work very well.
That means every single car would be wasting enough power to drive a NYC to LA round trip annually.
How much fuel is wasted hauling around energy (fuel and battery) in todays vehicles? How about todays electric cars?
A 15 mile per day leakage may well break even if the weight of the devices is significantly lighter.
have been watching the show instead of trying to just jump right in
Stargate writers seem to love their inside jokes. You don't miss much in the episode by not knowing the back-story but there is a fair amount of humour added if you do.
Not only that, when they got to my house, we didn't have a fiber drop to the house (it was at the end of the block), so the tech called his boss, who sent a truck full of people to dig the trench and run the line the rest of the way to the house (across several neighbors' yards).
Sounds like me in the old BBS days. I had used up all of the lines they ran to the house, so they came out and ran an additional line from the box under the street (horizontal drill under the pavement, quite neat).
About a year later I ran out of lines again, they did the drill trick again but ran a few hundred pieces of copper instead of the usual 2 lines.
I moved about 6 months after that and cancelled service on all lines. Great fun.
I'll procrastinate sometime tomorrow, my show is on now.
Freight train dosage may be higher but it can be reused or even applied to entire groups in a single application of said dosage.
Given that any imbalance will eventually become a problem, relying on short-term cycles is a pretty good idea.
I mean, imagine if electricity produced a surplus of water. Hugely beneficial byproduct in the short term for countries with droughts, but if you use the technology too much the oceans will start to rise and coastal cities go poof.
Being "matter-neutral" is a reasonable goal to have.
It's most unfortunate his first name isn't Henry.