The writers might think that solved the problem (and there were several transporter duplication episodes....), but I'm not so sure. You'd end up with 100 physicists that all think the same way, so other than getting parallelizable portions of the problem done at the same time, I think it might be the same as one physicist....
Vim isn't about typing. It's about manipulating text. Some of which involves typing and that's why it has insert mode, but a lot of it is about finding your place in a document or moving one block of text from one area to another area, or changing all of something into something else according to a pattern, and you can do all of this without taking your hands off of the keyboard.
The cheapest american programmers are not making or even costing $12k a month. ($144k per year in total compensation?!) Salary.com claims an average of $56k per year ($86k in total compensation) for Programmer I, which is still quite a bit more than $1200 a month, but not 10x.
Regardless, H1-B's are not going to be making $1200 a month. They have to live here in the US, and that is barely enough to pay rent in quite a lot of places.
An extra box for searching just makes it harder to jump to that box (now you need to remember two hotkeys), and takes up space that could be showing the full url (or a lot more of the url, anyway).
I bet your real complaint is browser that don't separate the concept of searching vs. typing a url, so that if they occupy the same box there's a chance you'll get the one you didn't want. This can be solved by having some idiom that switches the context. For instance, a long time ago Firefox added "quick bookmarks" which allowed you to create a "bookmark" with a keyword and whose target contains a token that gets replaced with a url-encoded version of any text after keyword in the url bar.
Generally, yes, but in the fear expressed at Chernobyl is apparently that it will render airborne radioactive particles that are currently sequestered in vegetation, which apparently the natural organic decay process would retain.
Indeed, for e-books, "preserving layout" beyond just keeping the paragraphs (and sections, so that no individual section is too big for the reader's ram) separated is a detriment, as it interferes with readers' abilities to change the layout themselves for various reasons.
My older family members, for instance, like to change the font to a very large size, something that is not possible if the publisher spends too much effort getting the typesetting just right and freezing it in instead of allowing the device to do it on the fly.
They have done worse than that. They poison the search with useless results. Starting with their ongoing campaign to pare down and "simplify" the search interface by removing "advanced" search terms and changing the way strings and keywords are handled. (e.g enclosing in quotes no longer results in an exact string search...)
Ironically, resistor thermal noise is probably a better source of entropy than the gyro would have been. Why does the boot process require random numbers, anyway?
The ringing phones thing doesn't make sense. If the phones really are connected to a cell phone network, then the search area is really small - a few square miles surrounding the cell tower that they're connected to.
There's no need for it to auto-release from escrow after 5-10 years. Just make it "auto-release" when support ends, or when the company goes out of business. It might be difficult to define "end of support" in such a way that companies won't get around it by simply failing to declare it, but I think that with a healthy debate, something can be worked out.
The sleep you describe sounds a lot like hibernate. Sleep shouldn't need time to load crap into memory because it never unloaded memory - it should use the minimum power necessary to maintain state.
What maybe should happen is that after sleeping due to, say, lid closure, if the lid has been closed for a specified interval (say, 20 minutes), the state is also saved to the hibernate file, and after some further interval (say, an hour), the power to maintain sleep is also cut.
There seems to have been a mixing of terms, or maybe they were never separate enough in the first place, such that you need to carefully read the documentation to get the proper context, and the power settings are never quite expressive enough to do what you want them to.
In the US jurors can acquit for any reason and aren't required to say what it was. Usually they rule on findings of fact, but that is not a requirement as far as I know. There are a number of organizations proselytizing what they believe are the full "rights" of a jury, for instance, the fully informed jury association.
This is often derided by those who fear that racist jurors will acquit criminals whose victims are a discriminated against group and praised by those who fear that the the overwhelming body of existing law can be used against pretty much anyone - it's impossible t know the entirety of the law and so its impossible to avoid ever breaking it.
At the moment my fear of tyranny outweighs my fear of racists, though. I don't know if that will always be the case or if that historically would have been a poor assessment generally, but I think we need to think long and hard about ameliorating the potential issues of wrongful acquittals in other ways before risking an increase of wrongful convictions.
Is it? Why doesn't the sound hardware have built-in hardware decoders for common audio formats, or a DSP where the software can push out decoder and then just steam the "raw" mp3 or AC3 or whatever format?
Doing the decoding on the cpu seems like an unnecessary source of audio lag to me.
Wasn't it obvious that governments are going to have a problem with it due to a lack of ability to regulate/tax,
No, just the opposite in fact, because of the block chain. It's clearly more trackable than regular money. Governments might oppose it, but not for this reason.
banking systems are going to have a problem with it due to their not having a role in something that could be lucrative
Yes, this is obvious. The problem with bitcoin for banks is that inflation is mathematically defined - they can't just print more on a whim, they have to actually do something to generate more.
I imagine it is possible that a bank-designed crypto currency could have properties that are favorable to the banks in this way, but I think those might have a hard time gaining adoption. We've already got a currency that robs its holder of 2% of its value every year by design, why would we need another?
criminals are going to be interested in exploiting the lack of government oversight in order to either profit through its use or through outright theft?
Did you not already mention bankers? Non-banker criminals who are wise will stay well away from anything that has a list of all transactions ever associated to it by design. I think that we probably want criminals to choose crypto currency because they will be easier to prosecute!
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The writers might think that solved the problem (and there were several transporter duplication episodes....), but I'm not so sure. You'd end up with 100 physicists that all think the same way, so other than getting parallelizable portions of the problem done at the same time, I think it might be the same as one physicist....
Isn't that also the process by which Monsanto created the roundup-ready crops in the first place?
Average. Otherwise I'd never drive faster than I can walk, to minimize the impact of "suddenly appearing" obstacles that I can't avoid hitting.
Fewer characters means they can use a bigger more eye-catching font.
SteamOS handles MS games by streaming them from another machine running Windows...
Genuinely curious here.. what kind of salary range do you think is appropriate for a person to be spending $200+ on CPU alone?
You're not going to stop the one-timer, but you'll nail the addict.
And.. then what?
Vim isn't about typing. It's about manipulating text. Some of which involves typing and that's why it has insert mode, but a lot of it is about finding your place in a document or moving one block of text from one area to another area, or changing all of something into something else according to a pattern, and you can do all of this without taking your hands off of the keyboard.
Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? makes a pretty reasonable argument.
The cheapest american programmers are not making or even costing $12k a month. ($144k per year in total compensation?!) Salary.com claims an average of $56k per year ($86k in total compensation) for Programmer I, which is still quite a bit more than $1200 a month, but not 10x.
Regardless, H1-B's are not going to be making $1200 a month. They have to live here in the US, and that is barely enough to pay rent in quite a lot of places.
and here's a hint without an autocomplete, it's not your idea.
Yep. Firefox had that idea. Probably Opera, too, but I only remember Firefox's implementation of it, so that's what I used as an example.
Is that also true for "previewing" for accessibility?
An extra box for searching just makes it harder to jump to that box (now you need to remember two hotkeys), and takes up space that could be showing the full url (or a lot more of the url, anyway).
I bet your real complaint is browser that don't separate the concept of searching vs. typing a url, so that if they occupy the same box there's a chance you'll get the one you didn't want. This can be solved by having some idiom that switches the context. For instance, a long time ago Firefox added "quick bookmarks" which allowed you to create a "bookmark" with a keyword and whose target contains a token that gets replaced with a url-encoded version of any text after keyword in the url bar.
Generally, yes, but in the fear expressed at Chernobyl is apparently that it will render airborne radioactive particles that are currently sequestered in vegetation, which apparently the natural organic decay process would retain.
Indeed, for e-books, "preserving layout" beyond just keeping the paragraphs (and sections, so that no individual section is too big for the reader's ram) separated is a detriment, as it interferes with readers' abilities to change the layout themselves for various reasons.
My older family members, for instance, like to change the font to a very large size, something that is not possible if the publisher spends too much effort getting the typesetting just right and freezing it in instead of allowing the device to do it on the fly.
They have done worse than that. They poison the search with useless results. Starting with their ongoing campaign to pare down and "simplify" the search interface by removing "advanced" search terms and changing the way strings and keywords are handled. (e.g enclosing in quotes no longer results in an exact string search...)
Ironically, resistor thermal noise is probably a better source of entropy than the gyro would have been. Why does the boot process require random numbers, anyway?
Rankings don't tell anything about proficiency. If the other 29 ahead are pretty functional, then #30 is probably also pretty functional.
The ringing phones thing doesn't make sense. If the phones really are connected to a cell phone network, then the search area is really small - a few square miles surrounding the cell tower that they're connected to.
The straighter the line the bigger the circle....
There's no need for it to auto-release from escrow after 5-10 years. Just make it "auto-release" when support ends, or when the company goes out of business. It might be difficult to define "end of support" in such a way that companies won't get around it by simply failing to declare it, but I think that with a healthy debate, something can be worked out.
It's interesting that "Comes with a totally different OS" is a selling point of the most expensive Win8
The sleep you describe sounds a lot like hibernate. Sleep shouldn't need time to load crap into memory because it never unloaded memory - it should use the minimum power necessary to maintain state.
What maybe should happen is that after sleeping due to, say, lid closure, if the lid has been closed for a specified interval (say, 20 minutes), the state is also saved to the hibernate file, and after some further interval (say, an hour), the power to maintain sleep is also cut.
There seems to have been a mixing of terms, or maybe they were never separate enough in the first place, such that you need to carefully read the documentation to get the proper context, and the power settings are never quite expressive enough to do what you want them to.
In the US jurors can acquit for any reason and aren't required to say what it was. Usually they rule on findings of fact, but that is not a requirement as far as I know. There are a number of organizations proselytizing what they believe are the full "rights" of a jury, for instance, the fully informed jury association.
This is often derided by those who fear that racist jurors will acquit criminals whose victims are a discriminated against group and praised by those who fear that the the overwhelming body of existing law can be used against pretty much anyone - it's impossible t know the entirety of the law and so its impossible to avoid ever breaking it.
At the moment my fear of tyranny outweighs my fear of racists, though. I don't know if that will always be the case or if that historically would have been a poor assessment generally, but I think we need to think long and hard about ameliorating the potential issues of wrongful acquittals in other ways before risking an increase of wrongful convictions.
Is it? Why doesn't the sound hardware have built-in hardware decoders for common audio formats, or a DSP where the software can push out decoder and then just steam the "raw" mp3 or AC3 or whatever format?
Doing the decoding on the cpu seems like an unnecessary source of audio lag to me.
Wasn't it obvious that governments are going to have a problem with it due to a lack of ability to regulate/tax,
No, just the opposite in fact, because of the block chain. It's clearly more trackable than regular money. Governments might oppose it, but not for this reason.
banking systems are going to have a problem with it due to their not having a role in something that could be lucrative
Yes, this is obvious. The problem with bitcoin for banks is that inflation is mathematically defined - they can't just print more on a whim, they have to actually do something to generate more.
I imagine it is possible that a bank-designed crypto currency could have properties that are favorable to the banks in this way, but I think those might have a hard time gaining adoption. We've already got a currency that robs its holder of 2% of its value every year by design, why would we need another?
criminals are going to be interested in exploiting the lack of government oversight in order to either profit through its use or through outright theft?
Did you not already mention bankers? Non-banker criminals who are wise will stay well away from anything that has a list of all transactions ever associated to it by design. I think that we probably want criminals to choose crypto currency because they will be easier to prosecute!
Wise criminals probably just go into banking.