for my area is that they are usually accurate down to a period of about 3 hours. As an example.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/24hr.shtml?world=41 79 predicted that it would be snowing yesterday morning by 0600. Sure enough, I woke at six, and it was snowing. I awoke earlier in the night (about 0400) and it hadn't yet started. Similarly, that site predicted that the snow would drop off by noon, and turn to sleet or rain by 1600. Again, this prediction came true, within an hour of the predicted time.
Generally speaking I find the BBC weather site to be accurate significantly more often than not (guesstimate 80% accuracy) with the 24 hour forecast being almost universally correct, and the 5 day forecast being the least reliable. (as expected)
This is a FAR cry from the weather predictions when I was a lad. Then the weather forecast on TV was simply a way to poke fun at the meteorologist, who clearly was doing the best he could, but invariably got it wrong.
Iiiiiiffffff you add in 'benefits' including 'benefits in kind', I am sure that Billiam is speaking something close to the truth. If you consider wage alone, this is absolute non-sense.
Assume that Billiams workforce is spread pretty evenly across the earnings spectrum. This is a pretty safe assumption considering how many employees M$ has.
Do the numbers and you will see that he would have to be paying a full 15% of his top earners that kind of money for the statement to be true.
Well, we happen to know that the top earners are almost universally not H1Bs. ( I can name about 10 of the top 50 that are almost universally natural born americans, mostly of Northern European decent).
Yet another example of Billiam spreading semi-truths I'm afraid.
First of all, If I can put a sticker on it, why not just measure it ? Second of all, for this to be at all usefull it would need to be able to measure in the micro (100ths of a millimiter) or macro (100s of meters) domain, and also be able to compute the size of any object in the distance based upon the size of an object in the foreground. I thought I was going to read how some clever mofo had figured out paralaxing or something, but no. Basically this is $99.00 for a pixel counter !
...a little odd that a settlement has already been reached ? As several posters have already alluded, it's almost like it was pre-arranged ? If this was a 'genuine' case of a mis-represented bomb hoax wouldn't Turner be up in arms about the aspersions, and be fighting to have it's name cleared, let alone fighting any payment ? The whole thing seems very strange to me.
Something is wrotten in the state of Mass-of-two-shits.
...GCC is. A Compiler and a complete set of libraries for most mainstream languages, along with the source. You have everything you need to write your application.
No need to reinvent basic_string or itoa()
But of course this is little help to those in my profession who insist upon wrapping up (obfuscating) everything they do in layers of 'abstraction'.
Most of thier stuff is legacy code before it is even released. Me, I stick to the KISS philosophy. That way, when the FNG comes along he can understand what my code is doing, and fix bugs with confidence he isn't going to break something else. But hey, that's just cynical me, YMMV.
Written by someone who has clearly never spent extended periods of time with only other men (soldiers) for company. Having done just that myself (10 yrs active duty), I can assure you that anything that has to squat to urinate is fair game.
There's no flame bait here. It's an observation about the usefullness of using an iPod for watching video when a full sized screen is available. It makes further observation that the quality of baseball player in recent years has been surprisingly low with two exceptions. And, finally it suggestes that there is almost nothing to be learned from studying a player other than the key positions of Pitcher, First-baseman, and Short-Stop.
Whoever marked this as flame-bait needs to get out and play a little more baseball.
I mean, come on, baseball players already review opponents most recent games in full color widescreen television, why bother with a tiny iPod screen ?
And another thing - it clearly hasn't had much of an effect upon their play, since the only players worth a shit in recent history have been Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez.
What's there to know about a fielder ? I can see perhaps studying A-Rods play, but even that is debatable.
The only players worth studying are Pitcher, First Baseman and Short-Stop. The rest are relatively straight-forward, and have very predictable responses - as would be expected from their positions.
This way they get drivers written for them for free, and don't need to provide any tech support for the device to those users who purchase it for linux.
I'd say that's pretty much the state of play for the majority of Linux drivers anyway. To be fair I have no way to back up that claim, but it feels that way to me.
My guess is most printer drivers are community developed. Also Modems, and Network adapters, Hard Disks and older video adapters, and Removable Mass Storage devices. The only big 'playas' doing anything in the LDD world are AMD, NVidia, HP and, I guess, Intel. Those contributions are nothing compared to their Windows effort.
This leaves scores of small manf. who hopefully will be interested enough in gaining that additional 5% market share to cooperate.
Before a label decides to "launch" an artist in a new country (especially one where there is a language barrier), significant PR and advertising needs to be done to ensure a successful launch and good rankings for that artist.
required, the record companies choose to perform these activities - and especially want to in order to fabricate interest in an otherwise unsaleable product like Appleton
Another marketing method relies upon a quality musician or group to capture market share through genuine public appreciation, something the record companies don't dare attempt, lest the masses finally realise how crap most modern music is.
And how does this compare to the efficiency gain of a centralized Power Supply (presumably there would be an efficiency gain.?)
I guess what I am asking here is I assume that all those individual rectifiers are less efficient that one large rectifier. Wouldn't the efficiency gain balance or in fact result in a savings ?
OK, OK, maybe I have oversimplified the issue, but it seems incredibly wasteful to incorporate a 12 (9, 15, insert number here) volt rectifier in each piece of electronic equipment, for the reasons I have already given.
It seems to me (NOT an EE) that the efficiency of these devices must be poor when compared to a single large rectifier.
As for stepping down (or up) the voltage within a device, it seems that most of my gadgets use 12VDC, and as time goes on, this has appeared to become the standard - I haven't seen a 9V or 15V device for a while now, although I assume they still exist. I can't believe that it would be that hard for all the equipment manf. to standardize on that one voltage.
As for filtering/grounding, surely this could be done at the power jack ? As for hair dryers, I am bald you insensitive clod !
So over the course of the last *60 years that adds up to about 60 part per million raising that 0.05% to a whopping 0.056%.
Now, I don't claim to be a atmospheric scientific, so I don't know how important that number is, but I don't class the amount of CO2 as a lot, shouldn't we be more worried about the amount of Oxygen, I mean it's really corrosive. I don't want to rust
And what exectly is it you object to about anti-humanism ?
My explanation is a valid hypothesis based upon my experience working in a large corporation and trying to comply with SOX. If that is all that is required to make it 'anti-humanist' so be it, that's not much of a criticism.
As for my worldview, I am actually a socialist capitalist, I just see room for improvement, like a little more onus upon the individual.
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You obviously haven't met any of the menopausals in my extended family, they're all basket cases !
for my area is that they are usually accurate down to a period of about 3 hours. As an example.
1 79 predicted that it would be snowing yesterday morning by 0600. Sure enough, I woke at six, and it was snowing. I awoke earlier in the night (about 0400) and it hadn't yet started.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/24hr.shtml?world=4
Similarly, that site predicted that the snow would drop off by noon, and turn to sleet or rain by 1600. Again, this prediction came true, within an hour of the predicted time.
Generally speaking I find the BBC weather site to be accurate significantly more often than not (guesstimate 80% accuracy) with the 24 hour forecast being almost universally correct, and the 5 day forecast being the least reliable. (as expected)
This is a FAR cry from the weather predictions when I was a lad. Then the weather forecast on TV was simply a way to poke fun at the meteorologist, who clearly was doing the best he could, but invariably got it wrong.
Iiiiiiffffff you add in 'benefits' including 'benefits in kind', I am sure that Billiam is speaking something close to the truth. If you consider wage alone, this is absolute non-sense.
Assume that Billiams workforce is spread pretty evenly across the earnings spectrum. This is a pretty safe assumption considering how many employees M$ has.
Do the numbers and you will see that he would have to be paying a full 15% of his top earners that kind of money for the statement to be true.
Well, we happen to know that the top earners are almost universally not H1Bs. ( I can name about 10 of the top 50 that are almost universally natural born americans, mostly of Northern European decent).
Yet another example of Billiam spreading semi-truths I'm afraid.
Are you fucking kidding me, that is childs play.
First of all, If I can put a sticker on it, why not just measure it ? Second of all, for this to be at all usefull it would need to be able to measure in the micro (100ths of a millimiter) or macro (100s of meters) domain, and also be able to compute the size of any object in the distance based upon the size of an object in the foreground. I thought I was going to read how some clever mofo had figured out paralaxing or something, but no. Basically this is $99.00 for a pixel counter !
Stupid.
I doubt that many were complicit, but I don't doubt that at least one might be.
Some old software doesn't work in M$ latest OS.... film at 11.
...a little odd that a settlement has already been reached ? As several posters have already alluded, it's almost like it was pre-arranged ? If this was a 'genuine' case of a mis-represented bomb hoax wouldn't Turner be up in arms about the aspersions, and be fighting to have it's name cleared, let alone fighting any payment ? The whole thing seems very strange to me.
Something is wrotten in the state of Mass-of-two-shits.
...GCC is. A Compiler and a complete set of libraries for most mainstream languages, along with the source. You have everything you need to write your application.
No need to reinvent basic_string or itoa()
But of course this is little help to those in my profession who insist upon wrapping up (obfuscating) everything they do in layers of 'abstraction'.
Most of thier stuff is legacy code before it is even released. Me, I stick to the KISS philosophy. That way, when the FNG comes along he can understand what my code is doing, and fix bugs with confidence he isn't going to break something else. But hey, that's just cynical me, YMMV.
Sorry, wrong parent, should have been posted to grandparent
Written by someone who has clearly never spent extended periods of time with only other men (soldiers) for company. Having done just that myself (10 yrs active duty), I can assure you that anything that has to squat to urinate is fair game.
What Ass-Hat marked this as flame-bait ?
There's no flame bait here. It's an observation about the usefullness of using an iPod for watching video when a full sized screen is available. It makes further observation that the quality of baseball player in recent years has been surprisingly low with two exceptions. And, finally it suggestes that there is almost nothing to be learned from studying a player other than the key positions of Pitcher, First-baseman, and Short-Stop.
Whoever marked this as flame-bait needs to get out and play a little more baseball.
I mean, come on, baseball players already review opponents most recent games in full color widescreen television, why bother with a tiny iPod screen ?
And another thing - it clearly hasn't had much of an effect upon their play, since the only players worth a shit in recent history have been Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez.
What's there to know about a fielder ? I can see perhaps studying A-Rods play, but even that is debatable.
The only players worth studying are Pitcher, First Baseman and Short-Stop. The rest are relatively straight-forward, and have very predictable responses - as would be expected from their positions.
This way they get drivers written for them for free, and don't need to provide any tech support for the device to those users who purchase it for linux.
I'd say that's pretty much the state of play for the majority of Linux drivers anyway. To be fair I have no way to back up that claim, but it feels that way to me.
My guess is most printer drivers are community developed. Also Modems, and Network adapters, Hard Disks and older video adapters, and Removable Mass Storage devices. The only big 'playas' doing anything in the LDD world are AMD, NVidia, HP and, I guess, Intel. Those contributions are nothing compared to their Windows effort.
This leaves scores of small manf. who hopefully will be interested enough in gaining that additional 5% market share to cooperate.
Where do I sign up as a developer?
OK, so why not simply create a script that relies upon loadlin rather than reinvent the wheel.
...loadlin is too difficult ?
Before a label decides to "launch" an artist in a new country (especially one where there is a language barrier), significant PR and advertising needs to be done to ensure a successful launch and good rankings for that artist.
....
required, the record companies choose to perform these activities - and especially want to in order to fabricate interest in an otherwise unsaleable product like Appleton
Another marketing method relies upon a quality musician or group to capture market share through genuine public appreciation, something the record companies don't dare attempt, lest the masses finally realise how crap most modern music is.
Imagine if Celine Dion
Sorry, had to stop reading there!!!
Quick, burn fossil fuels, keep the earth warm, it's fscking cold outside, I had to put my furseal skin parka on today !
3.5W wasted
And how does this compare to the efficiency gain of a centralized Power Supply (presumably there would be an efficiency gain.?)
I guess what I am asking here is I assume that all those individual rectifiers are less efficient that one large rectifier. Wouldn't the efficiency gain balance or in fact result in a savings ?
OK, OK, maybe I have oversimplified the issue, but it seems incredibly wasteful to incorporate a 12 (9, 15, insert number here) volt rectifier in each piece of electronic equipment, for the reasons I have already given.
It seems to me (NOT an EE) that the efficiency of these devices must be poor when compared to a single large rectifier.
As for stepping down (or up) the voltage within a device, it seems that most of my gadgets use 12VDC, and as time goes on, this has appeared to become the standard - I haven't seen a 9V or 15V device for a while now, although I assume they still exist. I can't believe that it would be that hard for all the equipment manf. to standardize on that one voltage.
As for filtering/grounding, surely this could be done at the power jack ? As for hair dryers, I am bald you insensitive clod !
... Is it worth lobbying for a industrial AC/DC rectifier in each house at the meter.
I shudder to think what percentage of the total cost of each electric/electronic device is made up of the 12 vdc power supply.
Said Supply usually lasts less than three years, replacements are generally quite expensive.
Disposal of the original is bad for the environment.
And is is obviously less efficient to condition power for each device than to condition it in one centralized place.
It seems that the debate over AC vs DC should be renewed, but I don't need to see an elephant being electrocuted as a part of it.
Yep, all that diversity is obviously bad for the CO2 level.
Quick, kill, and burn, kill and burn, save the planet !
What, you mean like Rome, NY where the poverty rate is approaching 15%, yep, would just love a place like that ?
Surely, a lot is a relative term.
It looks to me like we're in a period of time were the atmosphere is running out of CO2, and perhaps we should be replenishing it ?
What this means is that if you have a lot of C02 in the air, it will trap the heat
Please define 'a lot of CO2'.
You do realise that under 'normal' conditions CO2 makes up approximately 0.05% by mass (yes, that's 5 per 10,000, not 5 per 100).
Best scientific estimates I have read indicate that human activity might have changed that amount by about 1 part per million per year (0.0001%)
So over the course of the last *60 years that adds up to about 60 part per million raising that 0.05% to a whopping 0.056%.
Now, I don't claim to be a atmospheric scientific, so I don't know how important that number is, but I don't class the amount of CO2 as a lot, shouldn't we be more worried about the amount of Oxygen, I mean it's really corrosive. I don't want to rust
anti-humanistic worldview
And what exectly is it you object to about anti-humanism ? My explanation is a valid hypothesis based upon my experience working in a large corporation and trying to comply with SOX. If that is all that is required to make it 'anti-humanist' so be it, that's not much of a criticism.
As for my worldview, I am actually a socialist capitalist, I just see room for improvement, like a little more onus upon the individual.