What you want is a version of it that has enough performance and capability to be a full application language, which the current implementation patently does not.
By what mechanism can reaching the limit of the transistor mean that the economy itself will collapse, that we won't be able to use the existing sizes for all the things that chips go into? That we won't think of clever ways to use the transistors we can make more efficiently....
And in favor of the even more ruthless regimes that will likely follow...
There was never a good choice. Hopefully it will turn out that this was at least the least bad option. Things are starting to get pretty hot everywhere, though. I hope Tunisia won't turn out to be the Archduke Ferdinand of our generation.
Agreed. There are so many stories out there that would look good on the small screen that I can't fathom why media companies would spend fortunes just for the right to make a shitty version of something that already exists.
>. Otherwise slashcode thinks you're inserting an HTML tag. Which it will then ignore, because it only likes <em>, <b>, <a> and <quote>. It says it likes <ol> etc, but I think it just likes the idea of liking <ol>
Because it's a stupid idea encouraged by the mindlessly fastidious to map a concept that applies in one domain (i.e. hoarding stuff in the real world) to another domain without really considering whether it even makes sense to do so.
Computers are machines to organize data. The whole point of a computer is that you don't have to delete the seldom used stuff, it won't get in the way of your other stuff. You just put it on your endless array of back shelves, and let the machine worry about finding it again if you ever need it. Storage is cheap. Stop deleting stuff. You don't have to keep your drive under 5% usage. That's not neat, it's wasteful.
The niagara falls power system provides a significant portion of Canada's power, and quite a bit on the american side as well. Treaties control the amount of water diverted, but they do make full use of the gravity well. Not with inefficient and awkward water wheels, but with well designed slopes leading to properly coupled turbines.
Also, they divert the water upstream of the falls, and release it downstream, so they've actually got even more gravitational potential to take advantage of.
And all of it is a byproduct of preserving the falls from its own quite rapid erosion! (or maybe that's the byproduct of the huge amount of electrical generation)
Meh. Arguing over the what quality of diamond is "best" is pointless. They're all overvalued because of misguided sentimentality and the effectively criminal cartel, DeBeers.
They're also pretty. If you must waste your money on shiny carbon allotropes, possibly mined by children, the best one is the one that you like the best: No matter how "flawless" or "high quality" it is, you're not getting your money back. Diamonds are not an investment.
I'm very suspicious of the idea that these "non techie" managers are going to be able to guide subordinates through problems by asking questions "instead of dictating answers." Without a decent technical understanding, how would they even know what kind of questions to ask?
The socratic method is great for teaching, but the idea that you could teach something you have no experience in doesn't make sense to me.
Flextime is the best option. Or just being flexible about individual employee's starting times. You get the benefit of DST all year long, as you say, AND you spread out the commutes so that the peak travel time isn't so bad, letting roads designed for average volume actually work...
Beowulf clusters were the rage of the early noughties. In the late noughties, which we're coming out of now, it was about GPGPU tricks. I'm not sure what the next fetish will be/is...
"Umm, good question, not sure. But poke around in this menu and I'm sure you'll find it"
Indeed. Also, when this doesn't work, 90% of the time it's because they overlooked the "help" menu. Often, "Click on the help menu and type the thing you want to do" brings up an easy to read and follow list of instructions.
I think the infrequently used menus like help and window just tend to get psychologically associated with "scenery" and that's why they get overlooked so often.
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It toppled the scarcity-based economy since everything could be instantly copied for cheap
Ahh, but post scarcity economies have a big advantage over scarcity economies: plenty of stuff.
I cannot comprehend the thought process that would lead one to the conclusion that an entire population not needing to work for a living would be a problem.
...a certain percentage of the population seems to be an 'angry drunk'. (I'm not sure how we managed to forget that, considering, as I said, that was the basis of Prohibition in the first place.)
Divide that by pi to account for the varying angle of the sun through the typical day and you'll see it's quite close to the 8kWh they're claiming as an average.
What you're doing this: \int{sin(x)dx_{0}^{pi}} \over \int{1_{0}^{2pi}}
The assumption here being that you can approximate the output as P*{sin(x) : 0<=x<=pi ; 0 : elsewhere}
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Try applescript.
What you want is a version of it that has enough performance and capability to be a full application language, which the current implementation patently does not.
Even if he's right, he's wrong.
By what mechanism can reaching the limit of the transistor mean that the economy itself will collapse, that we won't be able to use the existing sizes for all the things that chips go into? That we won't think of clever ways to use the transistors we can make more efficiently....
I'm curious as to how the radiation compares to.. say.. going through an airport scanner....
Smaller than what? What they're going to be next year?
And in favor of the even more ruthless regimes that will likely follow...
There was never a good choice. Hopefully it will turn out that this was at least the least bad option. Things are starting to get pretty hot everywhere, though. I hope Tunisia won't turn out to be the Archduke Ferdinand of our generation.
Agreed. There are so many stories out there that would look good on the small screen that I can't fathom why media companies would spend fortunes just for the right to make a shitty version of something that already exists.
>. Otherwise slashcode thinks you're inserting an HTML tag. Which it will then ignore, because it only likes <em>, <b>, <a> and <quote>. It says it likes <ol> etc, but I think it just likes the idea of liking <ol>
Surely a droid would find the Deathstar comforting...
Because it's a stupid idea encouraged by the mindlessly fastidious to map a concept that applies in one domain (i.e. hoarding stuff in the real world) to another domain without really considering whether it even makes sense to do so.
Computers are machines to organize data. The whole point of a computer is that you don't have to delete the seldom used stuff, it won't get in the way of your other stuff. You just put it on your endless array of back shelves, and let the machine worry about finding it again if you ever need it. Storage is cheap. Stop deleting stuff. You don't have to keep your drive under 5% usage. That's not neat, it's wasteful.
The niagara falls power system provides a significant portion of Canada's power, and quite a bit on the american side as well. Treaties control the amount of water diverted, but they do make full use of the gravity well. Not with inefficient and awkward water wheels, but with well designed slopes leading to properly coupled turbines.
Also, they divert the water upstream of the falls, and release it downstream, so they've actually got even more gravitational potential to take advantage of.
And all of it is a byproduct of preserving the falls from its own quite rapid erosion! (or maybe that's the byproduct of the huge amount of electrical generation)
Meh. Arguing over the what quality of diamond is "best" is pointless. They're all overvalued because of misguided sentimentality and the effectively criminal cartel, DeBeers.
They're also pretty. If you must waste your money on shiny carbon allotropes, possibly mined by children, the best one is the one that you like the best: No matter how "flawless" or "high quality" it is, you're not getting your money back. Diamonds are not an investment.
I'm very suspicious of the idea that these "non techie" managers are going to be able to guide subordinates through problems by asking questions "instead of dictating answers." Without a decent technical understanding, how would they even know what kind of questions to ask?
The socratic method is great for teaching, but the idea that you could teach something you have no experience in doesn't make sense to me.
Well part of MS's problem in the mobile arena is marketing: They really should have put more thought into calling an early attempt, "wince"....
The last time DST was adjusted there were congressmen arguing it would be good for farmers...because the plants would get more sunlight...
Flextime is the best option. Or just being flexible about individual employee's starting times. You get the benefit of DST all year long, as you say, AND you spread out the commutes so that the peak travel time isn't so bad, letting roads designed for average volume actually work...
But.. you'd have to go through the machine. If it's not safe to go through, the detector isn't going to do much other than say, "yeah, you're screwed"
Beowulf clusters were the rage of the early noughties. In the late noughties, which we're coming out of now, it was about GPGPU tricks. I'm not sure what the next fetish will be/is...
"Umm, good question, not sure. But poke around in this menu and I'm sure you'll find it"
Indeed. Also, when this doesn't work, 90% of the time it's because they overlooked the "help" menu. Often, "Click on the help menu and type the thing you want to do" brings up an easy to read and follow list of instructions.
I think the infrequently used menus like help and window just tend to get psychologically associated with "scenery" and that's why they get overlooked so often.
It toppled the scarcity-based economy since everything could be instantly copied for cheap
Ahh, but post scarcity economies have a big advantage over scarcity economies: plenty of stuff .
I cannot comprehend the thought process that would lead one to the conclusion that an entire population not needing to work for a living would be a problem.
You don't have to be an engineer to see the obvious solution...
Instead of one big kidney, just print thousands of tiny ones. Possibly over multiple sessions....
I like your sig, but what you do call your nameless operating system?
You should just skip step two and give them a print-out of this flowchart instead: http://xkcd.com/627/
A massive computer-controlled Archimedes mirror.
We have that. here or here if you want to stay in US. Also here or here
They don't tend to be very mobile, though.
...a certain percentage of the population seems to be an 'angry drunk'. (I'm not sure how we managed to forget that, considering, as I said, that was the basis of Prohibition in the first place.)
Maybe it was all the booze?
Divide that by pi to account for the varying angle of the sun through the typical day and you'll see it's quite close to the 8kWh they're claiming as an average.
What you're doing this: \int{sin(x)dx_{0}^{pi}} \over \int{1_{0}^{2pi}}
The assumption here being that you can approximate the output as P*{sin(x) : 0<=x<=pi ; 0 : elsewhere}