It would be exactly the same. Think of the cannon spinning around a ball at the equator; the explosive force is added to the initial velocity of the actual cannon itself.
...with no coordination of those 2,000 coders required whatsoever.
What scale? Its XP with 10 million lines of bloat added. Do the maths. 10 million lines devided by 2,000 coders = 5,000 lines each. Thats a puny project.
Then this shouldn't concern you. If it is purely hypothetical, and basically criminalizes something that noone wants to do, then don't worry about it.
Yeah, because that's exactly what we need, _more_ useless legislation. Not even considering the potential for misinterpretation and abuse of said legislation.
Anyone who includes misleading "words" or "images" intended to confuse a minor into viewing a possibly harmful Web site could be imprisoned for up to 20 years and fined, the bill says.
How many porn sites try to attract minors anyway? Minors don't have credit cards.
...it supported ANSI standard JOIN syntax long before Oracle, for example. (And don't get me started on MySQL which is only _very_ recently following standards.)
I've worked with both, (learnt on Oracle, then worked with MS SQL, and then Oracle, and then back to MS SQL) and honestly, you can learn SQL on whatever you like and your core SQL skills will be completely transferrable between different DBMSes.
...for all connecting passengers. Many (most?) countries, such as France, don't require immigration if you are just connecting. Makes sense, you would think, as for countries that don't require immigation it helps promote their airports as hubs with all the attendant economic benefits. Much faster transfers, no visa hassles, etc. I guess the US is a big enough landmass with few alternative hubs nearby.
This fact is how Canadian Mahar Arar was extraordinarily renditioned by the US to Syria coming home to Canada from holiday in Tunisia - he had the misfortune to connect in New York.
The idea is that you can type on it while holding it in your hands. You cannot do this with hinged keyboards. If you need something bigger for portable use, you could get something like the Thinkoutside Stowaway Bluetooth; I have one and it works great while folding up very small. Or as others have suggested a folding/rolling USB keyboard.
I supported a pretty buggy specialised software package (few hundred installs.)
Me: Can you find the diagnostic log on your desktop and email it to me? (...a few minutes go by) Customer: No, it's not on my desktop, and why would it be anyway, I never printed it out.
Another customer called up to say "your software package isn't working".
(...a few minutes on diagnostics, they can't give any straight answers. Finally:) Me: What do you see on the screen? Customer: Nothing Me: What do you mean nothing? Customer: It's black. Me (it dawns): Is the computer on? Customer: No, that's the problem, it won't turn on. (...ended up because it wasn't plugged in...)
We also got plenty of really irate customers who would refuse to go through any diagnostic steps, and just declare "no, I don't have time, you just fix it"; I then discovered the most annyoing phrase in the universe: "Please sir, you need to help me to help you" - saying this to them just drove them crazy, and I must confess I took a certain pleasure in it.
Having said all that, you do come to realise that everybody in the world just isn't as computer literate as yourself; I'm sure these people all knew about plenty of stuff I know nothing about personally.
Now I am not 100% sure on this, but I think copying for personal use without a profit (e.g. you copy a friend's CD) was and still is legal in Spain. AFAIK what this law does is clarify that unauthorised copying over P2P does _not_ fall within this exemption.
...if everyone was completely rational and did the same. But they aren't, and generally _don't_ bid their maximum to start with. If someone outbids them, they will reconsider and often up their bid. Sniping doesn't give the other bidders this chance, and avoids irrational bidding wars (as a sibling post pointed out, the best strategy is both to snipe _and_ bid your maximum.)
If you need evidence of this, just take a look at some bidding histories on eBay and see bids being increased between two or more people.
...and accept "no" as an answer, I don't see a problem with it. We do similar ourselves as we are concerned that the customer may have had technical or other difficulties.
...but the US has historically not done badly (there are a lot of US flags on that list, and of the top four "weeks at no. 1" three are American (including Sampras in the no. 1 spot.)
There is already a regional strength factor, with the European and South American tournaments ranked highest, but the factor is arguably much too weak (the lowest being Asia and Oceanaia, at 0.93 each.)
Plug the two together with a firewire connection and you've immediately got a 400mbs TCP/IP network connection. This functionality is built in to XP, and Sony had support for it on their Vaios since at least 2000 (my first Vaio).
No, as I say space itself has a cost (more of an issue with the often smaller living spaces we have here in Europe perhaps) and this machine is a media server/PVR for the living room, so the aesthetics are also important. I got it probably four years ago when 240gb _was_ enough and it has just grown somewhat organically. I'm very happy with the Shuttle with the sole exception of one thing - the noise it makes (although I have replaced the stock fan and power supply and it is now a good bit quieter.) Shuttle + the four externals is still a good bit smaller than most standard cases.
My point is just that a smaller number of large drives can make sense if you attribute a cost to space/noise/electricity, which many Slashdotters probably don't, it's a personal preference. And a two-bay Shuttle can now give you 1.5tb of capacity in a nice compact space. Which is enough. For the moment.
...for me anyway. I'm currently using a Shuttle with 2x internal and 4x external drives, total capacity 1.45tb (started out at 2x 120gb, after an initial internal upgrade have just been adding externals at whatever the gb/euro 'sweet spot' was at the time.)
Well at this stage I'd be quite happy to get rid of all the external drives with their space/wires/noise/electricity requirements for 1.5tb over just two internal drives. This rationale also goes for datacenters, space and power consumption are two very important variables there that you may not consider immediately when thinking about drive size.
...although in a fit of pedantry, it is actually impossible to distinguish between these two using merely "logic", you need real world "knowledge" to manage it.
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It would be exactly the same. Think of the cannon spinning around a ball at the equator; the explosive force is added to the initial velocity of the actual cannon itself.
...with no coordination of those 2,000 coders required whatsoever.
What scale? Its XP with 10 million lines of bloat added.
Do the maths. 10 million lines devided by 2,000 coders = 5,000 lines each. Thats a puny project.
...problem solved. (Most of the historical "issues" with LCD such as screen door, etc. have been solved and they are more than competitive with DLP.)
I conclude that Googles efforts to combat click fraud are reasonable.
Maybe should have been in the summary. The document is also fascinating account of how they go about it however.
It also completely distorts the labour market...
Credit card surcharges are very common, particularly when booking air travel.
Then this shouldn't concern you. If it is purely hypothetical, and basically criminalizes something that noone wants to do, then don't worry about it.
Yeah, because that's exactly what we need, _more_ useless legislation. Not even considering the potential for misinterpretation and abuse of said legislation.
Anyone who includes misleading "words" or "images" intended to confuse a minor into viewing a possibly harmful Web site could be imprisoned for up to 20 years and fined, the bill says.
How many porn sites try to attract minors anyway? Minors don't have credit cards.
...it supported ANSI standard JOIN syntax long before Oracle, for example. (And don't get me started on MySQL which is only _very_ recently following standards.)
I've worked with both, (learnt on Oracle, then worked with MS SQL, and then Oracle, and then back to MS SQL) and honestly, you can learn SQL on whatever you like and your core SQL skills will be completely transferrable between different DBMSes.
...for all connecting passengers. Many (most?) countries, such as France, don't require immigration if you are just connecting. Makes sense, you would think, as for countries that don't require immigation it helps promote their airports as hubs with all the attendant economic benefits. Much faster transfers, no visa hassles, etc. I guess the US is a big enough landmass with few alternative hubs nearby.
This fact is how Canadian Mahar Arar was extraordinarily renditioned by the US to Syria coming home to Canada from holiday in Tunisia - he had the misfortune to connect in New York.
The idea is that you can type on it while holding it in your hands. You cannot do this with hinged keyboards. If you need something bigger for portable use, you could get something like the Thinkoutside Stowaway Bluetooth; I have one and it works great while folding up very small. Or as others have suggested a folding/rolling USB keyboard.
...or alternatively just in specified file types:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_bad_search.htm
I provide this merely as useful information, I'm not trying to defend Microsoft.
You'll never see a European or Japanese review complaining that a gadget is too small, only US reviewers (although certainly not all.)
I think it has to do with finger fatness among certain American reviewers, reminds me of that Simpsons episode...
Another customer called up to say "your software package isn't working".
We also got plenty of really irate customers who would refuse to go through any diagnostic steps, and just declare "no, I don't have time, you just fix it"; I then discovered the most annyoing phrase in the universe: "Please sir, you need to help me to help you" - saying this to them just drove them crazy, and I must confess I took a certain pleasure in it.
Having said all that, you do come to realise that everybody in the world just isn't as computer literate as yourself; I'm sure these people all knew about plenty of stuff I know nothing about personally.
Now I am not 100% sure on this, but I think copying for personal use without a profit (e.g. you copy a friend's CD) was and still is legal in Spain. AFAIK what this law does is clarify that unauthorised copying over P2P does _not_ fall within this exemption.
...if everyone was completely rational and did the same. But they aren't, and generally _don't_ bid their maximum to start with. If someone outbids them, they will reconsider and often up their bid. Sniping doesn't give the other bidders this chance, and avoids irrational bidding wars (as a sibling post pointed out, the best strategy is both to snipe _and_ bid your maximum.)
If you need evidence of this, just take a look at some bidding histories on eBay and see bids being increased between two or more people.
...and accept "no" as an answer, I don't see a problem with it. We do similar ourselves as we are concerned that the customer may have had technical or other difficulties.
...but the US has historically not done badly (there are a lot of US flags on that list, and of the top four "weeks at no. 1" three are American (including Sampras in the no. 1 spot.)
There is already a regional strength factor, with the European and South American tournaments ranked highest, but the factor is arguably much too weak (the lowest being Asia and Oceanaia, at 0.93 each.)
Plug the two together with a firewire connection and you've immediately got a 400mbs TCP/IP network connection. This functionality is built in to XP, and Sony had support for it on their Vaios since at least 2000 (my first Vaio).
No, as I say space itself has a cost (more of an issue with the often smaller living spaces we have here in Europe perhaps) and this machine is a media server/PVR for the living room, so the aesthetics are also important. I got it probably four years ago when 240gb _was_ enough and it has just grown somewhat organically. I'm very happy with the Shuttle with the sole exception of one thing - the noise it makes (although I have replaced the stock fan and power supply and it is now a good bit quieter.) Shuttle + the four externals is still a good bit smaller than most standard cases.
My point is just that a smaller number of large drives can make sense if you attribute a cost to space/noise/electricity, which many Slashdotters probably don't, it's a personal preference. And a two-bay Shuttle can now give you 1.5tb of capacity in a nice compact space. Which is enough. For the moment.
...for me anyway. I'm currently using a Shuttle with 2x internal and 4x external drives, total capacity 1.45tb (started out at 2x 120gb, after an initial internal upgrade have just been adding externals at whatever the gb/euro 'sweet spot' was at the time.)
Well at this stage I'd be quite happy to get rid of all the external drives with their space/wires/noise/electricity requirements for 1.5tb over just two internal drives. This rationale also goes for datacenters, space and power consumption are two very important variables there that you may not consider immediately when thinking about drive size.
...although in a fit of pedantry, it is actually impossible to distinguish between these two using merely "logic", you need real world "knowledge" to manage it.
Not that I am a computer of any sort.
Does that question interest you? Please go on.
...thanks!
Is this a mistake; I thought the ice sheet was only a couple of kilometers thick. Hundreds of miles would be through the earth's crust, surely?