No need. Pennies are really worthless. There are only 3600 seconds in an hour. If they count two at a time, with a 1 hz cadence (which I don't think anyone could keep up for 8 hours if they're not used to it) that's only 72 dollars per hour. Counting salary, benefits, and employer taxes, their time is probably worth about $50/hour to the state, and that's not even counting overtime.
So yes, the cost to count them is of the order of their value.
Considering Star Trek's positions on the continuity problem and DRM, I think maybe Star Wars' universe might be the brighter future.
"Well, what we do is make an exact duplicate of you, while killing you. Also, it might not be in that order, and sometimes one of those operations will fail."
and,
"There may only ever be one copy of the critical emergency medical software. Even if you get a portable, auxiliary storage device from the future. Move or move not. There is no copy."
Which brings to mind the Star Trek Paradox: You can copy people, but not programs.
Now, Star Wars did have it's problems, too, but at least the Republic was eventually restored.
It looks to me a lot like the article about Microsoft divesting its massive cash reserves a while back. It's "analyst" speculation by people who, by virtue of being in the "analyst" business don't actually understand the industry they're speculating on. This is what they think AMD will do because "that's how it's done." Never mind whether or not AMD thinks it'd be a good idea.
Speculators speculate on money moving, so it's rather unsurprising that they'd suggest that the response {large company} would have to lackluster performance would be to spin off the cost centers and reorganize to maximize the synergy of the core competencies.
Now, it is beneficial to make sure you're only worried about the business you're in. A lot of companies in the 90s for instance had huge in-house IT departments despite IT not being the thing that makes them money. They'd have a lot less headaches if they'd subscribed to an IT service to take care of their needs there, freeing them up to worry about the thing they really sell. You wouldn't worry about that any more than you'd worry about a company purchasing paper instead of milling it themselves.
To my untrained eye, AMD appears to be in the business of selling microprocessors. The manufacture of those isn't an incidental part of the business (the manufacture of the tools to manufacture the chips would be such an outside activity), but a key layer in their vertical integration. Unless their numbers are really small, I can't see why it'd be cost effective to drop that.
If you win a majority in a legislative body, you shouldn't bother with redistricting. After all, the opposing party undoubtedly dabbled in it and look what it got them! Gerrymandering is the "lucky rabbit's foot" of politics.
You can change the districts to have: 1) greater majorities for your party members. You will probably lose some seats, but the remaining guys are secure. or 2) slimmer majorities for your party members. You could gain some seats, but since the majorities are thinner, there's a greater chance you'll lose everything.
I imagine most parties don't pick two, and fail because of one.
Radar resolution is merely the application of a large enough array. It's a solved problem. It's not a cheap problem, but it's definitely a much easier one than figuring out where you're going to get over a month of 1-g thrust from.
The buzzing sound of a motorcycle is heard as a Brutish looking fellow rides up on his to the hero. Kicks dust in hero's face, snarls and says, "Thought you'd want this back. You're next." Then reaches down, removes what once was a mint condition mickey mantle card from between the spokes and throws it at the hero, Ricky Jay style. Before leaving he rings the little bell and silently pedals down the lonely desert highway, his bright handlebar tassels waving menacingly in the wind.
Maybe, on the other hand, I think it's more that the citizens of a democracy get the government they want. So every time there's something like VT, there's this idea that we should do something and Politicians think "passing bills" is "doing something." so that's what they'll do. Unfortunately, laws passed hastily do not get repealed when the "crisis" fades from memory, since the laws themselves also fade from memory.
Ratcheting down on freedom is a natural state of our form of government, regardless of politicians' intent because it's so much easier to do than undo.
A solution is that EVERY LAW, no matter how important, should be sunset after 5 years. (or some other agreed upon term, but having it be both relatively short and out-of-phase with political terms seems elegant to me) There is little danger of truly fundamental laws against rape or murder failing to be renewed, and the whole legal system would be simplified by having no more than 5 years of laws on the books at any given time. Unfortunately, this solution does require that the laws in question actually be reread each time...
When I see anything that could remotely be classed as "emoticon" I instinctively turn my head (or usually just rotate the screen in my mind as if i turned my head) to the left. In that orientation, 3 doesn't look anything like a heart. It does look like something else, that is definitely not a heart, though...
And my impromptu test with some Gold Bond I had lying around shows it true (but you need a thicker layer of powder on the surface than I at first thought based on the episode, perhaps because Gold Bond isn't pure talc)
Well that's because you're not supposed to try to recycle old inkjet printers. You're supposed to use them as the primary raw material for a homebrew C&C mill.
It's not that he doesn't want to give up code. He actually wants to use and contribute to the GPL project. He just doesn't want to give up the whole #! because of that. So instead of using GPL code for part of the project, and contributing improvements to the code he takes (not to mention saving himself the time of creating that code from scratch), he takes the only option available to him: totally proprietary code.
Everyone's licenses are satisfied, but there are a few inefficiencies: he has to spend longer than he should have to reinventing the wheel, and the community misses out on whatever improvements he would've made to the wheel.
The entire post was simply lamenting those inefficiencies.
I think at least one of those steps will probably take quite a while.. unless you've got a cluster to divy up the work. Blender is nice, but even it doesn't have realtime raytracing, you know. And the audio probably isn't procedural.
The IAU recently cemented the definition of planet, carefully avoiding a useful classification that generalizes to objects outside the solar system. Suffice to say, under the current definition, no extrasolar body is a planet, even if it's a sub-molecular copy of Earth squarely in the habitable zone of a star which purely by coincidence happens to be a spectral twin of Sol.
Don't bother. It's not about the mob at all, but actually a traveling all-male choir. Why would you think it's about the mob? Because the name sounds Italian? racist.
I think you got his post backwards. He's saying that in the case mentioned, the town basically annexed the guy's wall by telling him what had to be on it. In that case, he believes the town should've been responsible for the cost of the repainting rather than the guy who no longer owns what was formerly his wall.
What's funny is that there's an animated version of that that plays with the stories on slashdot occasionally. It's a fake newspaper called "Windows Server Times" or something and one of the headlines is that companies are switching from Linux to Windows Server. Of course, why you'd be inclined to trust Pro-Microsoft articles in a news rag called, "Windows Server Times" even if it was real is a mystery to me.
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No need. Pennies are really worthless. There are only 3600 seconds in an hour. If they count two at a time, with a 1 hz cadence (which I don't think anyone could keep up for 8 hours if they're not used to it) that's only 72 dollars per hour. Counting salary, benefits, and employer taxes, their time is probably worth about $50/hour to the state, and that's not even counting overtime.
So yes, the cost to count them is of the order of their value.
Considering Star Trek's positions on the continuity problem and DRM, I think maybe Star Wars' universe might be the brighter future.
"Well, what we do is make an exact duplicate of you, while killing you. Also, it might not be in that order, and sometimes one of those operations will fail."
and,
"There may only ever be one copy of the critical emergency medical software. Even if you get a portable, auxiliary storage device from the future. Move or move not. There is no copy."
Which brings to mind the Star Trek Paradox: You can copy people, but not programs.
Now, Star Wars did have it's problems, too, but at least the Republic was eventually restored.
One word my friend: Morlocks.
And btw, if you think being a melanin-free sub-surface dweller is tough, try being a carefree Eloi. The system eats those guys for breakfast.
It looks to me a lot like the article about Microsoft divesting its massive cash reserves a while back. It's "analyst" speculation by people who, by virtue of being in the "analyst" business don't actually understand the industry they're speculating on. This is what they think AMD will do because "that's how it's done." Never mind whether or not AMD thinks it'd be a good idea.
Speculators speculate on money moving, so it's rather unsurprising that they'd suggest that the response {large company} would have to lackluster performance would be to spin off the cost centers and reorganize to maximize the synergy of the core competencies.
Now, it is beneficial to make sure you're only worried about the business you're in. A lot of companies in the 90s for instance had huge in-house IT departments despite IT not being the thing that makes them money. They'd have a lot less headaches if they'd subscribed to an IT service to take care of their needs there, freeing them up to worry about the thing they really sell. You wouldn't worry about that any more than you'd worry about a company purchasing paper instead of milling it themselves.
To my untrained eye, AMD appears to be in the business of selling microprocessors. The manufacture of those isn't an incidental part of the business (the manufacture of the tools to manufacture the chips would be such an outside activity), but a key layer in their vertical integration. Unless their numbers are really small, I can't see why it'd be cost effective to drop that.
If you win a majority in a legislative body, you shouldn't bother with redistricting. After all, the opposing party undoubtedly dabbled in it and look what it got them! Gerrymandering is the "lucky rabbit's foot" of politics.
You can change the districts to have:
1) greater majorities for your party members. You will probably lose some seats, but the remaining guys are secure.
or
2) slimmer majorities for your party members. You could gain some seats, but since the majorities are thinner, there's a greater chance you'll lose everything.
I imagine most parties don't pick two, and fail because of one.
The keyboard and the monitor are the interface ports for a self-repairing, hydrocarbon powered, 100W device that closes the feedback loop.
Wait.. doesn't DC stand for "Detective Comics"? Are you saying they named their company, Detective Comics Comics?
But I seem to recall some broken Russian computer equipment recently, so I'm not inclined to believe they made it the full 188.
Radar resolution is merely the application of a large enough array. It's a solved problem. It's not a cheap problem, but it's definitely a much easier one than figuring out where you're going to get over a month of 1-g thrust from.
Act 2, Scene 1:
Location: arid desert. hilly. lots of dust.
The buzzing sound of a motorcycle is heard as a Brutish looking fellow rides up on his to the hero. Kicks dust in hero's face, snarls and says, "Thought you'd want this back. You're next." Then reaches down, removes what once was a mint condition mickey mantle card from between the spokes and throws it at the hero, Ricky Jay style. Before leaving he rings the little bell and silently pedals down the lonely desert highway, his bright handlebar tassels waving menacingly in the wind.
Well, 2.5/3 isn't bad. It's much better than coal's 0/3.
While you're rejecting the hype, don't forget to also be sceptical of the anti-hype panicky soundbites.
"Why I don't even use the hospital, because how could Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging possibly be save?"
Maybe, on the other hand, I think it's more that the citizens of a democracy get the government they want. So every time there's something like VT, there's this idea that we should do something and Politicians think "passing bills" is "doing something." so that's what they'll do. Unfortunately, laws passed hastily do not get repealed when the "crisis" fades from memory, since the laws themselves also fade from memory.
Ratcheting down on freedom is a natural state of our form of government, regardless of politicians' intent because it's so much easier to do than undo.
A solution is that EVERY LAW, no matter how important, should be sunset after 5 years. (or some other agreed upon term, but having it be both relatively short and out-of-phase with political terms seems elegant to me) There is little danger of truly fundamental laws against rape or murder failing to be renewed, and the whole legal system would be simplified by having no more than 5 years of laws on the books at any given time. Unfortunately, this solution does require that the laws in question actually be reread each time...
When I see anything that could remotely be classed as "emoticon" I instinctively turn my head (or usually just rotate the screen in my mind as if i turned my head) to the left. In that orientation, 3 doesn't look anything like a heart. It does look like something else, that is definitely not a heart, though...
Yes, but with whose money are you trying to pay for those things?
Because if it happens under your house, it's called a "sinkhole."
Wait, what? potholes don't come from cars. They come from water damage. Either frost or erosion.
Just plain ol' ordinary talcum powder IIRC
And my impromptu test with some Gold Bond I had lying around shows it true (but you need a thicker layer of powder on the surface than I at first thought based on the episode, perhaps because Gold Bond isn't pure talc)
Well that's because you're not supposed to try to recycle old inkjet printers. You're supposed to use them as the primary raw material for a homebrew C&C mill.
It's not that he doesn't want to give up code. He actually wants to use and contribute to the GPL project. He just doesn't want to give up the whole #! because of that. So instead of using GPL code for part of the project, and contributing improvements to the code he takes (not to mention saving himself the time of creating that code from scratch), he takes the only option available to him: totally proprietary code.
Everyone's licenses are satisfied, but there are a few inefficiencies: he has to spend longer than he should have to reinventing the wheel, and the community misses out on whatever improvements he would've made to the wheel.
The entire post was simply lamenting those inefficiencies.
I think at least one of those steps will probably take quite a while.. unless you've got a cluster to divy up the work. Blender is nice, but even it doesn't have realtime raytracing, you know. And the audio probably isn't procedural.
The IAU recently cemented the definition of planet, carefully avoiding a useful classification that generalizes to objects outside the solar system. Suffice to say, under the current definition, no extrasolar body is a planet, even if it's a sub-molecular copy of Earth squarely in the habitable zone of a star which purely by coincidence happens to be a spectral twin of Sol.
Don't bother. It's not about the mob at all, but actually a traveling all-male choir. Why would you think it's about the mob? Because the name sounds Italian? racist.
Well yeah, if by "Military," you mean, "Congress"
I think you got his post backwards. He's saying that in the case mentioned, the town basically annexed the guy's wall by telling him what had to be on it. In that case, he believes the town should've been responsible for the cost of the repainting rather than the guy who no longer owns what was formerly his wall.
What's funny is that there's an animated version of that that plays with the stories on slashdot occasionally. It's a fake newspaper called "Windows Server Times" or something and one of the headlines is that companies are switching from Linux to Windows Server. Of course, why you'd be inclined to trust Pro-Microsoft articles in a news rag called, "Windows Server Times" even if it was real is a mystery to me.