It does not apply to health and auto insurance, because you only have one life (and usually one or very few cars) to insure. If you had dozens, then it would not make sense to pay someone else to do your risk averaging for you.
The maximum loss in the event your $2k laptop fails is... $2k for another laptop. You don't get so attached to a laptop that you'll spend anything just to keep it around a little longer.
If an extended warranty made sense, they wouldn't sell it to you. You're pretty much always better of taking the money the were going to charge you for the extended warranty and setting it aside in your own "personal warranty" fund. Think of all the devices you've bought over the years. How many of them have really failed during the time period and in a way that the extended warranty would even have been effective...
I was assuming that profile-guided meant that the profiling was used to guide programmers to look at parts of the code and maybe choose different algorithms, or make decisions that allow the whole algorithm to be implemented in executable code that fits entirely in cache, or storing pre-computed values somewhere, or whatever changes are indicated by figuring out where the bottlenecks are - In other words, using the profiler to figure out the best way to cheat.
Obviously, you can only gain so much without having an actual programmer in your optimization loop....
Only cell phones charge for incoming calls. And it does make sense, as long as it is used to maintain number transparency: In the US, there is no difference in area codes between cell phones and land-lines. It's unfair to spring surprise charges upon the calling party to pay for the cell network. It makes much more sense that the people with the cell phones should pay for the cell part of the connection.
A slightly longer answer is.. interferometry works well for certain problems, because you can simulate an arbitrarily narrow beam with widely enough spaced receivers. But there's no replacement for total EM-gathering area when it comes to bringing in useful signal.
If you want to count photons to measure some physical event, it's a good solution. If you want to image a bright object (say, the light side of an extra-solar planet orbiting closely to its star...), it's a good solution. If you want to intercept something you can identify as communication, you're going to need a large total physical area to your antenna, unless the target is trying to communicate with you and pumping as much power as possible on as narrow a beam as they can.
You can still do it as an array, though, to save on structural costs: You don't necessarily need an actual huge dish like Arecibo. You can gang together a lot of smaller receivers, for frequencies going all the way up to visible.
Well, we shouldn't be measuring fuel in volume anyway. It's the mass that's important, and in the thin layer about the earth where we actually drive, weight is a decent proxy for mass and can be measured with simple pressure transducers or strain gauges. No need to have a buggy mechanical float literally in the tank...
The mistake wasn't "using standard." The mistake was one vendor assuming another vendor communicated in a specific unit, which was not the correct unit. The problem would have occurred if they'd assumed cgs (a very common SI variant in astronomy....) and gotten mks instead.
The lesson is to make sure that specifications are clear, and that communication of physical values should communicate the units as well, at the very least to do a sanity check on calculations. Not to go on a crusade against the specific special case that made you aware of the general problem....
Look, all US measurements are already based on SI units. The so-called, "standard" units are defined as constant multipliers of the SI ones. We're already metric, we've just "customized" it a little...
But since our measurements are all just constant multipliers of SI units, why should we need a whole bureaucracy to implement it? Just make it the law that all new official business will be done using SI units, and have a period where road markers and so forth are posted with both.
The only real difficulty is with tooling: bolts, screws, and other parts designed for Standard units that are a close, but not quite, match up with preferred number metric counterparts, and no nationally funded "board of metrics" is going to solve that problem....
Yes, indeed. And we're not supposed to have a standing army, either, for that matter.
Now the huge capital expense and long-term planning necessary, as well as the clear martial efficacy of an air-force suggests that it is more similar to the Navy in its nature, and should probably be funded as such. If only there were some way we could modify the constitution to suit the changing times. Some process, by which we could amend it to contain the authorization it needs to fund the necessary projects....
Please stop using the pejorative, "teabaggers." It says more about you and your ignorance than about the people you intend to malign, but it's still quite insulting to people who have strong political opinions that you happen to disagree with. Discourse is the way in which you bring people over to your side. Abuse only works for a small fraction.
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You realize that a stack of hay with just the right moisture content will self ignite due to retaining heat from its decay....
It does not apply to health and auto insurance, because you only have one life (and usually one or very few cars) to insure. If you had dozens, then it would not make sense to pay someone else to do your risk averaging for you.
The maximum loss in the event your $2k laptop fails is... $2k for another laptop. You don't get so attached to a laptop that you'll spend anything just to keep it around a little longer.
If an extended warranty made sense, they wouldn't sell it to you. You're pretty much always better of taking the money the were going to charge you for the extended warranty and setting it aside in your own "personal warranty" fund. Think of all the devices you've bought over the years. How many of them have really failed during the time period and in a way that the extended warranty would even have been effective...
What is the gas for?
I was assuming that profile-guided meant that the profiling was used to guide programmers to look at parts of the code and maybe choose different algorithms, or make decisions that allow the whole algorithm to be implemented in executable code that fits entirely in cache, or storing pre-computed values somewhere, or whatever changes are indicated by figuring out where the bottlenecks are - In other words, using the profiler to figure out the best way to cheat.
Obviously, you can only gain so much without having an actual programmer in your optimization loop....
No, I'm pretty sure that the Chinese Crested is the canine abomination...
But... it didn't really happen to sony. It happened to their customers....
Does that mean they weren't using a profiler before now??
That... actually explains quite a bit...
Only cell phones charge for incoming calls. And it does make sense, as long as it is used to maintain number transparency: In the US, there is no difference in area codes between cell phones and land-lines. It's unfair to spring surprise charges upon the calling party to pay for the cell network. It makes much more sense that the people with the cell phones should pay for the cell part of the connection.
Boy is egg on their face over that one.
A slightly longer answer is.. interferometry works well for certain problems, because you can simulate an arbitrarily narrow beam with widely enough spaced receivers. But there's no replacement for total EM-gathering area when it comes to bringing in useful signal.
If you want to count photons to measure some physical event, it's a good solution. If you want to image a bright object (say, the light side of an extra-solar planet orbiting closely to its star...), it's a good solution. If you want to intercept something you can identify as communication, you're going to need a large total physical area to your antenna, unless the target is trying to communicate with you and pumping as much power as possible on as narrow a beam as they can.
You can still do it as an array, though, to save on structural costs: You don't necessarily need an actual huge dish like Arecibo. You can gang together a lot of smaller receivers, for frequencies going all the way up to visible.
I wouldn't want to shout all of those requests off, though. How would my clock get updated?
Or is the actual complaining about audio quality what you really enjoy in music ?!?
Is there anything wrong with that though? It's pretty cathartic to get off on a rant about something you're passionate about....
What are you talking about? Laserdisc was analogue. It almost has more in common with vinyl than with CD...
, so I'd get all of my groceries for the month in one order
Well I guess you saved money. That's about three and a half weeks of frozen dinners, canned food and dry goods by my count, though...
I think you're confusing trademarks with patents....
Why? I...
Not only that, but they describe energy of astronomical proportions using ergs...
Well, we shouldn't be measuring fuel in volume anyway. It's the mass that's important, and in the thin layer about the earth where we actually drive, weight is a decent proxy for mass and can be measured with simple pressure transducers or strain gauges. No need to have a buggy mechanical float literally in the tank...
Quiznos is way better, and their "small, regular, and large" sizes mean they don't have to change their menus!
I don't think subway even has a size between "not quite enough" and "really, that's too much."...
The mistake wasn't "using standard." The mistake was one vendor assuming another vendor communicated in a specific unit, which was not the correct unit. The problem would have occurred if they'd assumed cgs (a very common SI variant in astronomy....) and gotten mks instead.
The lesson is to make sure that specifications are clear, and that communication of physical values should communicate the units as well, at the very least to do a sanity check on calculations. Not to go on a crusade against the specific special case that made you aware of the general problem....
Seriously?? A "Metric" board???
Look, all US measurements are already based on SI units. The so-called, "standard" units are defined as constant multipliers of the SI ones. We're already metric, we've just "customized" it a little...
But since our measurements are all just constant multipliers of SI units, why should we need a whole bureaucracy to implement it? Just make it the law that all new official business will be done using SI units, and have a period where road markers and so forth are posted with both.
The only real difficulty is with tooling: bolts, screws, and other parts designed for Standard units that are a close, but not quite, match up with preferred number metric counterparts, and no nationally funded "board of metrics" is going to solve that problem....
Yes, indeed. And we're not supposed to have a standing army, either, for that matter.
Now the huge capital expense and long-term planning necessary, as well as the clear martial efficacy of an air-force suggests that it is more similar to the Navy in its nature, and should probably be funded as such. If only there were some way we could modify the constitution to suit the changing times. Some process, by which we could amend it to contain the authorization it needs to fund the necessary projects....
Please stop using the pejorative, "teabaggers." It says more about you and your ignorance than about the people you intend to malign, but it's still quite insulting to people who have strong political opinions that you happen to disagree with. Discourse is the way in which you bring people over to your side. Abuse only works for a small fraction.
Just.. FYI, private sector teachers make substantially less than public sector teachers....
They were in there 20s... 50 years ago.. The old people are the hippies....