2. Lisp has a long history of trying to help programmers, with mixed results. The term DWIM was coined by Warren Teitelman in 1966 as part of a project based on BBN Lisp, the main predecessor of Interlisp; this project of his sounds like DWIM writ large.
It is arguably more dangerous to cut corners on, say, a natural gas pipeline than anything at a nuclear plant, because nuclear facilities have a lot more redundancy in their safety systems.
Consider that it is debatable whether the events at Fukushima nuclear plants killed anyone at all, whereas natural gas explosions kill and injure people on a regular basis - Google-searching for "natural gas explosion" turns up three distinct events in the US on the first page, one of which killed an 11-year old girl in West Virginia.
I bought three years of prepaid tuition for my son and daughter in the early 2000's, about four years before the first one went to college. I liquidated investments in an UGMA fund to do so, reasoning that the prepaid plan would appreciate at the rate of tuition inflation.
Tuition was frozen in Maryland that year, and didn't increase at all until the first child graduated.
And to make things worse, the UGMA was mostly stock, and partially stock in... Apple.
When Apple releases a category killer, typically it takes a year or two before it is recognized as such (the iPad is the exception above), then they turn the crank and improve it year over year, making serious money for a decade or so total.
Note that they only have to do that about every three to four years - note the 2001 - 2005 gap (which could be extended to 2007 if you lump all the iPods together).
We should worry if Apple hasn't had a New Shiny Thing by, say, 2015, giving them some slack due to Steve's departure.
... needs to be the metadata of phone records for Congresscritters, and their staff. They're already required to log physical visits by lobbyists - seeing who calls whom during breaks in legislative sessions would be even more interesting.
Maybe that would convince them that easy global access to traffic analysis is too dangerous for routine government access.
The MacBook Air got so thin that it couldn't take the MagSafe charger cable from the rest of the portable line. It now has a slightly thinner version called MagSafe2, and yes you can get an adapter for your older power bricks - it's $10.
In their defense, Apple is doing what the market tells them to. Every time they take a current design and make it smaller/thinner/lighter, people line up to buy it.
... from the carrier, for the limited time window around the accident. I would have no problem with the carriers handling those routinely and quickly, since the data requested is much less intrusive than looking at everything on my phone (which is what they'll do if they take your phone at the scene of an accident).
Europe feeds itself and then some, and can likely do so for the foreseeable future; it doesn't need the increased yields and cheaper food that GMO adoption would produce.
Africa needs GMOs; cheaper food and nutrient-enhanced crops could save many lives there.
Africa can't adopt GMOs as long as they have to sell to Europe, and while Europe has its OMG-NO-GMO policies in effect.
Europe's anti-GMO policies are starving people in Africa. The morality of this is questionable.
Here. Refined nuclear fuel has roughly a million times as much energy per gram as any chemical source. Even counting the ore and refining, you just have to move much less stuff to get your energy - 1/100 to 1/1000 as much.
Gentlemen, you're right - I haven't looked closely at Xerox in a year or two. Ms. Burns had the right promoted-from-within credentials to run Xerox without grossly screwing it up, but it appears she did so anyway.
This just solidifies my plan to sell the Xerox stock I've had since 1988.
Xerox is not as exciting as HP, but its CEOs have not done large, showy reorganizations that destroyed once-proud solid engineering traditions, so there's that.
What I don't like is the ridiculous way that the majority of the year is DST. DST used to be approximately half the year (end of April to end of October). It got extended for stupid, venal reasons:
* Politicians wanted to look like they were "doing something" about the energy crisis * Certain businesses make more money during DST (basically any that sell outdoor activity gear), so they support any extension
I don't want to relive my life in real time. I want to remember what I promised in the meeting last week, where I'm supposed to show up for lunch, and where I left my wallet this time.
And, I want to do it with one interface, without making an effort to take notes.
A box that has a GPS unit and a database of state boundaries. It is attached to your car, and it logs how far your car moves within each state. It does no long-term path logging - its only purpose is so you can bring it to your state DMV once a year, get its totals read for your state, and get a bill for highway maintenance.
This thing must be open-source, so we can all trust that it's not a Big Brother tracking box.
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Casual web search just turns up articles about the new stations in the US.
If we don't already have equivalent stations in Russia, we could offer them a trade. They get theirs when we get ours.
If Dylan isn't good enough for you, your problem isn't non-S-expression syntax.
1. Wolfram is a notorious Lisp disser, and Mathematica is arguably a shining example of Greenspun's tenth rule.
2. Lisp has a long history of trying to help programmers, with mixed results. The term DWIM was coined by Warren Teitelman in 1966 as part of a project based on BBN Lisp, the main predecessor of Interlisp; this project of his sounds like DWIM writ large.
... they're doing it on everything.
It is arguably more dangerous to cut corners on, say, a natural gas pipeline than anything at a nuclear plant, because nuclear facilities have a lot more redundancy in their safety systems.
Consider that it is debatable whether the events at Fukushima nuclear plants killed anyone at all, whereas natural gas explosions kill and injure people on a regular basis - Google-searching for "natural gas explosion" turns up three distinct events in the US on the first page, one of which killed an 11-year old girl in West Virginia.
... were former physicists. Granted, we're mainly a NASA/NOAA contractor so the domain knowledge is very useful.
The Post glories in pun-based headlines. Witness today:
Rebooting the reputation of computer legend who helped defeat Hitler
For a story on a posthumous pardon for Alan Turing.
I bought three years of prepaid tuition for my son and daughter in the early 2000's, about four years before the first one went to college. I liquidated investments in an UGMA fund to do so, reasoning that the prepaid plan would appreciate at the rate of tuition inflation.
Tuition was frozen in Maryland that year, and didn't increase at all until the first child graduated.
And to make things worse, the UGMA was mostly stock, and partially stock in ... Apple.
1998 - iMac
1999 - iBook
2001 - iPod
2005 - iPod shuffle/mini/nano
2007 - iPhone
2008 - MacBook Air
2010 - iPad
When Apple releases a category killer, typically it takes a year or two before it is recognized as such (the iPad is the exception above), then they turn the crank and improve it year over year, making serious money for a decade or so total.
Note that they only have to do that about every three to four years - note the 2001 - 2005 gap (which could be extended to 2007 if you lump all the iPods together).
We should worry if Apple hasn't had a New Shiny Thing by, say, 2015, giving them some slack due to Steve's departure.
... needs to be the metadata of phone records for Congresscritters, and their staff. They're already required to log physical visits by lobbyists - seeing who calls whom during breaks in legislative sessions would be even more interesting.
Maybe that would convince them that easy global access to traffic analysis is too dangerous for routine government access.
The MacBook Air got so thin that it couldn't take the MagSafe charger cable from the rest of the portable line. It now has a slightly thinner version called MagSafe2, and yes you can get an adapter for your older power bricks - it's $10.
In their defense, Apple is doing what the market tells them to. Every time they take a current design and make it smaller/thinner/lighter, people line up to buy it.
... from the carrier, for the limited time window around the accident. I would have no problem with the carriers handling those routinely and quickly, since the data requested is much less intrusive than looking at everything on my phone (which is what they'll do if they take your phone at the scene of an accident).
... and emphatically NOT fine with PRISM or its derivatives.
The earthquake that caused the tsunami that made Fukushima break (whew!) also damaged several dams in the area.
One of them washed away five homes and killed at least four people.
In response to this, they shut down the energy source that didn't kill anyone.
... commercial space suit ...
Bill Gates frustrated because Microsoft is irrelevant in mobile.
Europe feeds itself and then some, and can likely do so for the foreseeable future; it doesn't need the increased yields and cheaper food that GMO adoption would produce.
Africa needs GMOs; cheaper food and nutrient-enhanced crops could save many lives there.
Africa can't adopt GMOs as long as they have to sell to Europe, and while Europe has its OMG-NO-GMO policies in effect.
Europe's anti-GMO policies are starving people in Africa. The morality of this is questionable.
Vernor Vinge coined the term.
And we really don't want it.
See above. One gram of uranium can replace a thousand kilograms of any chemical fuel.
Here. Refined nuclear fuel has roughly a million times as much energy per gram as any chemical source. Even counting the ore and refining, you just have to move much less stuff to get your energy - 1/100 to 1/1000 as much.
Built into my eyeglasses, encrypted link to a server *I* own which anonymizes my queries, nobody gets my data off it without a subpoena.
Google and the government can both go jump off a cliff.
Gentlemen, you're right - I haven't looked closely at Xerox in a year or two. Ms. Burns had the right promoted-from-within credentials to run Xerox without grossly screwing it up, but it appears she did so anyway.
This just solidifies my plan to sell the Xerox stock I've had since 1988.
... which has had all female CEOs since 2001.
Xerox is not as exciting as HP, but its CEOs have not done large, showy reorganizations that destroyed once-proud solid engineering traditions, so there's that.
What I don't like is the ridiculous way that the majority of the year is DST. DST used to be approximately half the year (end of April to end of October). It got extended for stupid, venal reasons:
* Politicians wanted to look like they were "doing something" about the energy crisis
* Certain businesses make more money during DST (basically any that sell outdoor activity gear), so they support any extension
DST should be half the year, max.
I don't want to relive my life in real time. I want to remember what I promised in the meeting last week, where I'm supposed to show up for lunch, and where I left my wallet this time.
And, I want to do it with one interface, without making an effort to take notes.
A box that has a GPS unit and a database of state boundaries. It is attached to your car, and it logs how far your car moves within each state. It does no long-term path logging - its only purpose is so you can bring it to your state DMV once a year, get its totals read for your state, and get a bill for highway maintenance.
This thing must be open-source, so we can all trust that it's not a Big Brother tracking box.