Pounds are units of both mass and force, which is a problem with the "standard" system of weights and measurements. Usually there is a distinction made if it is ambiguous and matters (lb_f or lb_m). It's my understanding that this is because the unit was named before the concepts of mass and weight were observed to be different, but that may be apocryphal.
The tragedy is that Europeans are apparently determined to screw up a perfectly good unit system by adding back the ambiguity in the creation of the kilograms-force unit (kg_f).
The joke is that those very arguments of specificity are often made about the second amendment, while other clauses and amendments are assumed to be broadly protective of the people's liberty.
Which they would then do absolutely nothing about, because it's completely legal and rational. In fact, it's the mechanism the government relies on when they use tax policy to manipulate you towards their various economic and social behavioral goals.
If they want people to stop doing something, they should demonstrate that you can still get other things done without doing the thing they want people to stop doing.
I doubt Europe as a whole would cut off trade over it, and probably wouldn't even reduce trade by a noticeable amount, but is it so difficult to imagine that the Chinese would simply not care at all about whether or not Marco Polo visited them, and would care somewhat about not offending guests and traders?
This still sounds like a place where cleverness is needed. For instance, is it possible to divide up the work in a different way that takes better advantage of parallel primitive instructions? Maybe separate the flailers and fighters first and then run one vector fight routine and one vector flail routine on each of the respective lists.
If the transistors are there, there ought to be some clever way to get them to do what they want. If they aren't, there's got to be a clever way to throw out the parts of the computation that are least noticeable to create something that is both "good enough" and possible.
Carmack's team didn't whine to the press about shitty FPU performance.
And they're all available on netflix's disk service, which they're inexplicably trying to kill off before having the streaming nailed down.
If you want to see one of the good movies made before last month on the streaming service, well.. good luck, it might be on there for a couple weeks some time. If all you want is a Japanese film student's knockoff of one of those good movies, though, you've got hundreds of choices.
Also, surely you won't actually check for MAJOR > anything, as any major version other than the one you coded for won't guarantee the presence of whatever feature your application requires.
That happens with every cable channel. They bootstrap with something cheap, and then go through a phase where they have better access to the thing they are supposed to focus on, then they make their own shows, then they realize that if they're making their own shows, it would be cheaper to just air wrestling and reality tv shows than to actually produce something.
For instance Syfy, which started out showing Forbidden Planet and Gamara reruns, at one time had a show with incredible effects done by the Jim Henson company, and now is down to a show about people competing in one-off puppetry contests hosted by the Jim Henson company, and the requisite something night wrestling show (a quasi-reality show starring stunt-men instead of using stunt-men to produce movies and such)
At least they change their name every time they make a change to be more disappointing. Is there anything educational on TLC any more?
The weird thing is that a lot of cable channels are under the umbrella of one of the big networks, so it makes little sense why instead of pursuing their respective niches, or abandoning the channels, they all go for the same "broad appeal" crap.
But cars replaced horses because they were cheaper to own and operate, more capable and more reliable. If, during the early days of cars when they were really just curiosities, you tried to mandate a shift over to cars, you would have caused a lot of infrastructure and transportation issues.
Maybe, but that kind of thing only ever needed to be done in a tight loop. If you're looking for the OS version by string and you're deciding between "Windows 9" or "Windows 95" there's not much difference between a nine character string and a ten character string. Plus, who is checking the windows version by string in a tight loop? Surely you would branch before or set a flag before the loop.
Also, doesn't windows provide more reliable version numbers via api? --quick google search-- Apparently, it used to, but as of 8.1, that api has been deliberately broken?
Which doesn't bode well for the continued existence of their "dial-up only" email provider continuing to stay in business and provide that email address. Submitter should migrate them over to gmail or other large, likely-to-have-plenty-of-warning-before-service-stops web mail company sooner, just to inoculate against the possibility of an unexpected cutoff (presumably they stay because they don't want to lose contact with people using that email address, but they will lose contact pretty quick if the provider goes out of business.)
The problem with a nuke war is the huge number of people who would suffer and die as a result of it, so I fail to see how the same number of people suffering or dying in a "natural die-off" would be any kind of improvement.
That won't work. Even if you create a will leaving everything to your clone-copy, anytime you travel your clone-heir would be stuck in probate for months afterward and the government would demand a huge cut of your net worth.
'cause that's all the Mythbusters guys needed for pretty much every fingerprint reader they tested (admittedly, before the iPhone 5s came out, so I suppose there could have been some advances since then)
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Pounds are units of both mass and force, which is a problem with the "standard" system of weights and measurements. Usually there is a distinction made if it is ambiguous and matters (lb_f or lb_m). It's my understanding that this is because the unit was named before the concepts of mass and weight were observed to be different, but that may be apocryphal.
The tragedy is that Europeans are apparently determined to screw up a perfectly good unit system by adding back the ambiguity in the creation of the kilograms-force unit (kg_f).
The joke is that those very arguments of specificity are often made about the second amendment, while other clauses and amendments are assumed to be broadly protective of the people's liberty.
Which they would then do absolutely nothing about, because it's completely legal and rational. In fact, it's the mechanism the government relies on when they use tax policy to manipulate you towards their various economic and social behavioral goals.
If they want people to stop doing something, they should demonstrate that you can still get other things done without doing the thing they want people to stop doing.
I doubt Europe as a whole would cut off trade over it, and probably wouldn't even reduce trade by a noticeable amount, but is it so difficult to imagine that the Chinese would simply not care at all about whether or not Marco Polo visited them, and would care somewhat about not offending guests and traders?
This still sounds like a place where cleverness is needed. For instance, is it possible to divide up the work in a different way that takes better advantage of parallel primitive instructions? Maybe separate the flailers and fighters first and then run one vector fight routine and one vector flail routine on each of the respective lists.
If the transistors are there, there ought to be some clever way to get them to do what they want. If they aren't, there's got to be a clever way to throw out the parts of the computation that are least noticeable to create something that is both "good enough" and possible.
Carmack's team didn't whine to the press about shitty FPU performance.
That sounds like a pretty stupid idea if they aren't able to leverage the GPUs to accomplish it....
I think sapphire is used for the Apple watch will require much less material.
Because the watch has smaller area, or because the only people who will be buying it are the fanboys because it's a watch.
Maybe, unless they cared more about trading with the europeans than offending them.
Why wasn't that encoded into the packaging, instead of a "you lose if you're not diligent, no take backs" question?
And they're all available on netflix's disk service, which they're inexplicably trying to kill off before having the streaming nailed down.
If you want to see one of the good movies made before last month on the streaming service, well.. good luck, it might be on there for a couple weeks some time. If all you want is a Japanese film student's knockoff of one of those good movies, though, you've got hundreds of choices.
That series thing is pretty good though.
Also, surely you won't actually check for MAJOR > anything, as any major version other than the one you coded for won't guarantee the presence of whatever feature your application requires.
That happens with every cable channel. They bootstrap with something cheap, and then go through a phase where they have better access to the thing they are supposed to focus on, then they make their own shows, then they realize that if they're making their own shows, it would be cheaper to just air wrestling and reality tv shows than to actually produce something.
For instance Syfy, which started out showing Forbidden Planet and Gamara reruns, at one time had a show with incredible effects done by the Jim Henson company, and now is down to a show about people competing in one-off puppetry contests hosted by the Jim Henson company, and the requisite something night wrestling show (a quasi-reality show starring stunt-men instead of using stunt-men to produce movies and such)
At least they change their name every time they make a change to be more disappointing. Is there anything educational on TLC any more?
The weird thing is that a lot of cable channels are under the umbrella of one of the big networks, so it makes little sense why instead of pursuing their respective niches, or abandoning the channels, they all go for the same "broad appeal" crap.
But cars replaced horses because they were cheaper to own and operate, more capable and more reliable. If, during the early days of cars when they were really just curiosities, you tried to mandate a shift over to cars, you would have caused a lot of infrastructure and transportation issues.
Maybe, but that kind of thing only ever needed to be done in a tight loop. If you're looking for the OS version by string and you're deciding between "Windows 9" or "Windows 95" there's not much difference between a nine character string and a ten character string. Plus, who is checking the windows version by string in a tight loop? Surely you would branch before or set a flag before the loop.
Also, doesn't windows provide more reliable version numbers via api?
--quick google search--
Apparently, it used to, but as of 8.1, that api has been deliberately broken?
I'm not sure you can support a claim's veracity by simply making the same claim using the word, "monkeys".
It's bad enough that we have so many laws that it is advantageous to a corporation to claim one.
What does this have to do with the clone-copy continuity problem?
To take the bait, though, how are libertarians of all people going to be seen as a source of oppression?
Which doesn't bode well for the continued existence of their "dial-up only" email provider continuing to stay in business and provide that email address. Submitter should migrate them over to gmail or other large, likely-to-have-plenty-of-warning-before-service-stops web mail company sooner, just to inoculate against the possibility of an unexpected cutoff (presumably they stay because they don't want to lose contact with people using that email address, but they will lose contact pretty quick if the provider goes out of business.)
The problem with a nuke war is the huge number of people who would suffer and die as a result of it, so I fail to see how the same number of people suffering or dying in a "natural die-off" would be any kind of improvement.
does disbelief constitute a more logical position than non-knowing?
That won't work. Even if you create a will leaving everything to your clone-copy, anytime you travel your clone-heir would be stuck in probate for months afterward and the government would demand a huge cut of your net worth.
Which would be a medical cause of death....
Did it take a laser printer?
'cause that's all the Mythbusters guys needed for pretty much every fingerprint reader they tested (admittedly, before the iPhone 5s came out, so I suppose there could have been some advances since then)
Do race cars have power steering? I'd think it would add a decent bit of weight and sap a non negligible part of their engine power allotment.