That is not the reason. And the situation was that the PhD wasn't thinking about the problem in a general manner. I wouldn't be suprised if you yourself would have problems writing a program of this type, A.C. I consider it trivial.
That said, I've run into "architects" with phd's or 25 years experience who couldn't figure out how to write a program that transferred data from an XML file to a database (or visa versa.)
Actually it was IBM who switched the CAPS-Lock and the Control keys. The HHKB has the keys in their original position, as any old UNIX guy will tell you. For us old vi users, the HHKB keeps the CTL key where it belongs.
You realize that NASA mostly awards contracts to companies like Rockwell, Boeing, Lockheed, EG&G, IBM, etc. to do the development and construction of many of these rockets and such. I'm sure they do some work themselves, but most of the work involved in the space programs was actually done by commercial contractors.
NASA doesn't build the boosters, a company out in UTAH does. NASA doesn't build the spacesuits, a company in New Jersey does. And I believe that it's EG&G that handles most of the work at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Could be some other company nowadays.)
Protecting the city of New Orleans from flooding was the responsibility of the city and state, not the federal government. It's (the corps of engineers) responsibility was to maintain a shipping channel for barges on the Mississippi. And the levees were built for the shipping channel.
New Orleans failed its residents by not building their own levee system (or coordinating with the corps of engineering). The city's system should be built adequate to protect the city from flooding in the event of a major hurricane. New Orleans also failed its residents by not having in place an adequate plan for handling the emergency caused by flooding of the city. They needed to get more of their own residents involved when planning for this situation. They needed to be better prepared to handle a situation which was reasonably expected to occur at some time.
Congress wouldn't fund enhancments of the levees in New Orleans because these fund had been mishandled in the past. (i.e. corruption). They had good reason to believe that funds they might provide for such reasons would be ill used. Lack of technology was not why an adequate levee system was not in place. Funding was.
Oh regarding previous post- additionally, if that original gaim is already popped up and active, don't even show the dialog at all. Just start the second gaim. From the context, that's what they wanted. And in the slight chance it wasn't what they wanted, they can always easily quit the second one with a click of a button.
And there we have it. The original dialog really wasn't what was needed, neither is just activating the existing gaim window. What was needed was a dialog that provides the choice:
Pop Up Currently Running gaim
Start new gaim
That's what I think should have been done. Don't just pop up a dialog and say there's an instance of gaim already running. That's pretty bad. And just opening the currently running app just doesn't fill the bill either. God, does it take all that much brains to figure this out!?
That would be news to me. I've read that dinosaurs, big as they were, had very small, walnut sized brains.
Why would the size of brain be correlated with the body size? I could understand a bigger brain being needed to control something with more joints (or degrees of freedom) in the body. But body size alone wouldn't necessarily dictate a bigger brain. If the creature has very good vision or hearing (for communications purposes) they'ld need a bigger brain as well.
Maybe the neanderthals brain was just wired differently than homo sapiens and had different strengths and weaknesses.
I don't think it is really necessary to completely abandon the city. But I think that before rebuilding they really really ought to consider raising the level of land by about 15 feet. That certainly would take a hell of a lot of earthmoving equipment, but It could (and probably should) be done. It would be expensive, I'm sure, but if the residents want to have that extra measure of security, it would be worth it. Being that many of the houses are flooded and will likely have to be rebuilt anyway.
What I think of now is the half of million people that won't be able to return to their homes for weeks, some won't have homes to return to, or will be living in temporary arrangements for months.
I wonder how many papers in mathematics he reviewed in his study. Many of them are incomprehensible to anyone who is not working in topic covered by the papers. I doubt you'ld be able to classify them as 'true' or 'false' in the same sense you might classify some biological research or some medical research. If a mathematics paper has been published in a well respected, peer reviewed journal, there's a pretty good chance it's true. (but not 100%)
Ah yes. Mechanical systems such as these 'material handling' systems are prone to such problems. Those software engineers experienced in this field and who do a good job subscribe to one simple rule:
Hardware Lies.
Which means, those laser scanners don't always read the label as they should, boxes and things get caught on edges and don't move even when the conveyor is on, electro-mechanical equipment doesn't always work, switches sometimes stick, etc, etc. Your job as a software engineer is to anticipate these and to try to make sense out of the information the hardware's giving it, even though something may be garbled, and write your program so that the system can keep running and that operators are made aware of the mechanical problems the software is seeing so they can correct the situation.
My definition of this operating system is the worst thing that ever happened to computers.
Why? Talk about an obtuse command language - it had it. What was with all those \\xxx cards. User unfriendly to the max. It set computing back 10 years compared to operating systems such as VMS or UNIX which had reasonable command interpreters.
even if the quality of their news output has dropped of late.
It's still way better than american broadcast news. BBC news is shown on the local PBS station at 11:00 pm here. I can actually find out what's happening in the world by watching them. US broadcasts will have a segment on what's happening in Iraq, but virtually nothing about anything else. And if our soldiers weren't in Iraq, we'ld barely see any world news at all. Pretty pathetic.
So a volcano is essentially the Earth doing a core dump. I'm guessing that would be from a segmentation fault. I never realized that Earth was just like a huge Unix machine.
Not only that, they need to be able to accurately assess how competant people are. Many confuse an outgoing personality with technical competence. This is often quite detrimental to the projects they're trying to manage. They'll assign some gross incompetent as the architect for the project, which can cause some big problems.
Being that your problems were with the serial ATA drive, I'ld say that the problems weren't really because of any memory, cpu, or chip problems. They were caused by timing differences between the drive and the board's SATA controller. When sending a stream of bits, they'll get out of synch after just a few dozen bits. With a 2% clock difference, the controller would be sending bit 51, while the receiver is reading bit 50. I'm not terribly knowledgeable about SATA, but if it's using an asynchrhonous transmission, the clocks on both parts of the system must both be very accurate so the receiver and sender don't get out of synch.
So the grandparent's comment about clock differences of several percent not making a hill of beans would still generally stand. Its just that in these situations where your communicating asynchronously (serial) between two systems, the clock rate of the receiver has to closely match that of the sender.
Someone who is knowledgable about SATA could tell you for sure whether or not I'm talking out my ass.
If testing a ASUS mobo (at 202 MHZ FSB) showed it to have a HUGE advantage over the other mobos, then it would have a HUGE advantage at a stock 200 MHZ FSB as well. A 1% performance difference is noise, statistically insignificant. For practical purposes, boards that perform within 5% of each other are pretty much the same. You're going to get more performance differences in your system because of other factors, like the disk drive, graphics card, or memory you choose to use.
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That is not the reason. And the situation was that the PhD wasn't thinking about the problem in a general manner. I wouldn't be suprised if you yourself would have problems writing a program of this type, A.C. I consider it trivial.
That said, I've run into "architects" with phd's or 25 years experience who couldn't figure out how to write a program that transferred data from an XML file to a database (or visa versa.)
Actually it was IBM who switched the CAPS-Lock and the Control keys. The HHKB has the keys in their original position, as any old UNIX guy will tell you. For us old vi users, the HHKB keeps the CTL key where it belongs.
Just two?
NASA doesn't build the boosters, a company out in UTAH does. NASA doesn't build the spacesuits, a company in New Jersey does. And I believe that it's EG&G that handles most of the work at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Could be some other company nowadays.)
Not only that, they put it in the wrong location on the keyboard. Caps and Left Ctl should be reversed.
She's just lonely and wants you to come over to her cubicle.
New Orleans failed its residents by not building their own levee system (or coordinating with the corps of engineering). The city's system should be built adequate to protect the city from flooding in the event of a major hurricane. New Orleans also failed its residents by not having in place an adequate plan for handling the emergency caused by flooding of the city. They needed to get more of their own residents involved when planning for this situation. They needed to be better prepared to handle a situation which was reasonably expected to occur at some time.
Congress wouldn't fund enhancments of the levees in New Orleans because these fund had been mishandled in the past. (i.e. corruption). They had good reason to believe that funds they might provide for such reasons would be ill used. Lack of technology was not why an adequate levee system was not in place. Funding was.
Oh regarding previous post- additionally, if that original gaim is already popped up and active, don't even show the dialog at all. Just start the second gaim. From the context, that's what they wanted. And in the slight chance it wasn't what they wanted, they can always easily quit the second one with a click of a button.
Pop Up Currently Running gaim
Start new gaim
That's what I think should have been done. Don't just pop up a dialog and say there's an instance of gaim already running. That's pretty bad. And just opening the currently running app just doesn't fill the bill either. God, does it take all that much brains to figure this out!?
They're revealing the game pixel by pixel. Since 'asteroids' was drawn with vector graphics, not raster, it's not asteroids.
Why would the size of brain be correlated with the body size? I could understand a bigger brain being needed to control something with more joints (or degrees of freedom) in the body. But body size alone wouldn't necessarily dictate a bigger brain. If the creature has very good vision or hearing (for communications purposes) they'ld need a bigger brain as well.
Maybe the neanderthals brain was just wired differently than homo sapiens and had different strengths and weaknesses.
That would likely mostly have to be discarded. But raising the level of the land, at least some of it, might be a good idea.
What I think of now is the half of million people that won't be able to return to their homes for weeks, some won't have homes to return to, or will be living in temporary arrangements for months.
I wonder how many papers in mathematics he reviewed in his study. Many of them are incomprehensible to anyone who is not working in topic covered by the papers. I doubt you'ld be able to classify them as 'true' or 'false' in the same sense you might classify some biological research or some medical research. If a mathematics paper has been published in a well respected, peer reviewed journal, there's a pretty good chance it's true. (but not 100%)
Indeed the ablative heat shield on the apollo capsule was plastic. Something similar to baeklite.
Hardware Lies.
Which means, those laser scanners don't always read the label as they should, boxes and things get caught on edges and don't move even when the conveyor is on, electro-mechanical equipment doesn't always work, switches sometimes stick, etc, etc. Your job as a software engineer is to anticipate these and to try to make sense out of the information the hardware's giving it, even though something may be garbled, and write your program so that the system can keep running and that operators are made aware of the mechanical problems the software is seeing so they can correct the situation.
My definition of this operating system is
the worst thing that ever happened to computers.
Why? Talk about an obtuse command language - it had it. What was with all those \\xxx cards. User unfriendly to the max. It set computing back 10 years compared to operating systems such as VMS or UNIX which had reasonable command interpreters.
It's still way better than american broadcast news. BBC news is shown on the local PBS station at 11:00 pm here. I can actually find out what's happening in the world by watching them. US broadcasts will have a segment on what's happening in Iraq, but virtually nothing about anything else. And if our soldiers weren't in Iraq, we'ld barely see any world news at all. Pretty pathetic.
So a volcano is essentially the Earth doing a core dump. I'm guessing that would be from a segmentation fault. I never realized that Earth was just like a huge Unix machine.
Not only that, they need to be able to accurately assess how competant people are. Many confuse an outgoing personality with technical competence. This is often quite detrimental to the projects they're trying to manage. They'll assign some gross incompetent as the architect for the project, which can cause some big problems.
Actually, when you look at the logo, it looks more like V\\V. WTF is that?
Birdie Birdie in the sky Dropped some whitewash in my eye I'm no baby, I don't cry I'm just glad that cows don't fly
So the grandparent's comment about clock differences of several percent not making a hill of beans would still generally stand. Its just that in these situations where your communicating asynchronously (serial) between two systems, the clock rate of the receiver has to closely match that of the sender.
Someone who is knowledgable about SATA could tell you for sure whether or not I'm talking out my ass.
Big deal? No way is a 1% difference a big deal.