Chump change to Bill Gates, Nathan Myrhvold, Steve Jobs. But, being government money, most of it will go to bureaucratic waste.
And then there's the whole "quieter, cleaner, more efficient" angle. That hasn't really paid off well with cars, has it? Well, per car, yes, but how many people switched to pickup trucks and SUV's simply because the cars with these new requirements no longer met their needs/wants?
Sure, he was a jerk about making sure everyone knew how good he was. That was not a crime. But if he had posted in public the usernames and passwords to a government-owned system, he would have been charged with a crime. Yet, his bosses did exactly that during his trial, but Childs is now in prison, while his former bosses are sitting pretty, at taxpayers' expense.
Well, that's my first thought, anyway. But then I remember that William Jefferson (D-Louisiana, formerly) was bought with $400K, with $90K of that being cold, hard cash.... literally, it was found in his freezer by the FBI. I guess the MP's in India know what their going rate is.
When you put someone into the scanner, it's reasonable to assume the image the TSA agent sees on the screen is of the person standing inside. But with 10, 20, or how many people walking through a scan tunnel at once, it's likely a matter of time before someone figures out a way to jerk the equipment into thinking the guy 6 feet to his left has contraband on his person. Kind of like how a shoplifter will walk through the electronic sentry at the exit, just as someone else walks through; the odds are 50-50 an untrained flunky will think the shoplifter is the other person.
How do we know the mice weren't tricking the researchers into thinking they (the mice) weren't wine snobs already?
The Universe is neither friendly nor hostile; it is merely absurd. This story's set-up for a thousand wiseacre Slashdot comments is yet more proof that Adams was on the right track, after all.
Writing an essay is entirely different from writing a function in C or Perl. Unless the essay in question is rich in physics or mathematical symbols, the author will be taking his/her fingers off home row a lot less than most modern programmers.
Put another way, watch your error rate jump up when you quit posting on Slashdot and go back to your day job... if you have one, that is.
So you're saying they're using the atomic weight of some hypothetical "typical" atom, even though that "typical" atom never actually, you know, occurs in nature.
Of the 18 countries that turned down the invite, I don't know enough about Columbia, the Philippines, Tunisia, or Morocco. OTOH, the rest have fairly poor reputations for their treatment of dissidents. It isn't difficult to see why they wouldn't want to be seen at this year's ceremony.
Because if they can, then we'd want the robots to pick them before they're ripe, so that they'll be ripe just as they show up on the display case in the store.
Try explaining to a preschooler how much "crap" is his fear of the two big stranger taking him away from visibly upset Mommy and Daddy and then touching him in ways that would get 15 years to life for anyone else who did it. Better yet, try explaining that to Mommy and Daddy.
Building a Linux kernel on a dual-core AMD64: "make -j3 bzImage"
Building a Linux kernel on a quad-core or 8-core ARM: "make -j5 bzImage" or "make -j9 bzImage"
Any bets on which one will finish sooner?
The smaller ARM die means the same wafer can hold more ARM cores than any current Intel x86 or AMD cores. The term "embarrassingly parallel" comes to mind.
The address width and the data width are not dependent on each other. On AMD64, the data width (via REX.x prefixes) is 64 bits, although the maximum address bus width is 12 bits shorter.
It is entirely possible, today, to have natural 128-bit registers, accessing a 48-bit address space.
I didn't necessarily mean swapping to NFS would be a good idea. I just meant it wouldn't be as bad an idea as swapping to SSD. On a netbook, the best idea is to keep the memory load light, and save the CAD work for a more powerful system.
Turn off swap, if you can. The cost of memory is now less than the cost of the stress and lost uptime due to swap-paralysis.
I have 4G of RAM on my desktop (I doubled the RAM for $60 after I bought it) and the only time my system swaps is when I have mmap()'ed an 8G file.
Similarly, on my 512M netbook, I don't exceed RAM with crazy things like "make -j64 bzImage". Even with wear-leveling, swapping to SSD is bad form. I'd rather swap over NFS to spinning platters, than to SSD.
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Chump change to Bill Gates, Nathan Myrhvold, Steve Jobs. But, being government money, most of it will go to bureaucratic waste.
And then there's the whole "quieter, cleaner, more efficient" angle. That hasn't really paid off well with cars, has it? Well, per car, yes, but how many people switched to pickup trucks and SUV's simply because the cars with these new requirements no longer met their needs/wants?
Terry Childs.
Sure, he was a jerk about making sure everyone knew how good he was. That was not a crime. But if he had posted in public the usernames and passwords to a government-owned system, he would have been charged with a crime. Yet, his bosses did exactly that during his trial, but Childs is now in prison, while his former bosses are sitting pretty, at taxpayers' expense.
And you want me to work in I.T.? Piss on you.
Well, that's my first thought, anyway. But then I remember that William Jefferson (D-Louisiana, formerly) was bought with $400K, with $90K of that being cold, hard cash.... literally, it was found in his freezer by the FBI. I guess the MP's in India know what their going rate is.
Health issues aside...
When you put someone into the scanner, it's reasonable to assume the image the TSA agent sees on the screen is of the person standing inside. But with 10, 20, or how many people walking through a scan tunnel at once, it's likely a matter of time before someone figures out a way to jerk the equipment into thinking the guy 6 feet to his left has contraband on his person. Kind of like how a shoplifter will walk through the electronic sentry at the exit, just as someone else walks through; the odds are 50-50 an untrained flunky will think the shoplifter is the other person.
How do we know the mice weren't tricking the researchers into thinking they (the mice) weren't wine snobs already?
The Universe is neither friendly nor hostile; it is merely absurd. This story's set-up for a thousand wiseacre Slashdot comments is yet more proof that Adams was on the right track, after all.
You left out "XML-aware" and "dynamic response".
So how long will it be, before we see an influx of profanities in PHP and Python, just to ruin their squeaky-clean images?
Writing an essay is entirely different from writing a function in C or Perl. Unless the essay in question is rich in physics or mathematical symbols, the author will be taking his/her fingers off home row a lot less than most modern programmers.
Put another way, watch your error rate jump up when you quit posting on Slashdot and go back to your day job... if you have one, that is.
Your ass is safe, for now.
But really, those five words are the #1 takeaway.
So you're saying they're using the atomic weight of some hypothetical "typical" atom, even though that "typical" atom never actually, you know, occurs in nature.
If what Assange did is considered "rape," then this must be, as well.
Yeah, too bad they couldn't give Assange the prize before the accusations crawled out of the woodwork, like they did with Gore.
Of the 18 countries that turned down the invite, I don't know enough about Columbia, the Philippines, Tunisia, or Morocco. OTOH, the rest have fairly poor reputations for their treatment of dissidents. It isn't difficult to see why they wouldn't want to be seen at this year's ceremony.
Because if they can, then we'd want the robots to pick them before they're ripe, so that they'll be ripe just as they show up on the display case in the store.
you would think bureaucrats, with their stickler for regulation and procedure, would be able to understand that not every PDF is created equal
You answer your own implied question: being sticklers for regulation and procedure means they don't have to, you know, think about what they're doing.
Billings, MT is reporting -2 deg F (-18 deg C) as I type this. I expect 16 deg F would be a heat wave right now.
Which is just a way of telling you "go to hell" using different words.
It's possible to walk through the scanner, and *still* be pulled aside for TSA assault.
Troll FAIL. (And so do I, for responding to one.)
Try explaining to a preschooler how much "crap" is his fear of the two big stranger taking him away from visibly upset Mommy and Daddy and then touching him in ways that would get 15 years to life for anyone else who did it. Better yet, try explaining that to Mommy and Daddy.
Which means that the health risks are jacked up that much higher, for the flight crew, and for other people who fly regularly as part of their jobs.
Imagine these scenarios:
Building a Linux kernel on a dual-core AMD64: "make -j3 bzImage"
Building a Linux kernel on a quad-core or 8-core ARM: "make -j5 bzImage" or "make -j9 bzImage"
Any bets on which one will finish sooner? The smaller ARM die means the same wafer can hold more ARM cores than any current Intel x86 or AMD cores. The term "embarrassingly parallel" comes to mind.
The address width and the data width are not dependent on each other. On AMD64, the data width (via REX.x prefixes) is 64 bits, although the maximum address bus width is 12 bits shorter.
It is entirely possible, today, to have natural 128-bit registers, accessing a 48-bit address space.
I didn't necessarily mean swapping to NFS would be a good idea. I just meant it wouldn't be as bad an idea as swapping to SSD. On a netbook, the best idea is to keep the memory load light, and save the CAD work for a more powerful system.
Turn off swap, if you can. The cost of memory is now less than the cost of the stress and lost uptime due to swap-paralysis.
I have 4G of RAM on my desktop (I doubled the RAM for $60 after I bought it) and the only time my system swaps is when I have mmap()'ed an 8G file.
Similarly, on my 512M netbook, I don't exceed RAM with crazy things like "make -j64 bzImage". Even with wear-leveling, swapping to SSD is bad form. I'd rather swap over NFS to spinning platters, than to SSD.