They say accounts are in the black when they are good, and in the red when they are bad. Obviously white folk don't even deal with money, only those dirty black people and red people, and just as obviously, red people are dirtier than black people. I suppose they don't include yellow people because this all started before they knew about them.
I was quite amused when I first heard of it. I d onot know if it has ever actually been done, however.
Pick some random stock, send email to 2*10 suckers that it will go up, and to an equal number of suckers that it will go down.
Whichever direction it moves, divide that batch of suckers in two, pick some other random stock, send half email taht it will go up and half email that it goes down.
Repeat until you have only a few suckers left. They will see you as a genius who has correctly predicted the last {n} stock moves correctly. It may be the final sucker, or the last 2, or 4, etc.
Now tout a stock you have just bought and make some money!
To their way of thinking, you are a fossil living in the past. You think that what is must remain. They think how to grab new consumers today, and if they think they can get twice as many adclicks by trading in all the old customers for new consumers, their cold blooded short term calculations will lead them that way.
any history book will show that those are clearly British packs
Considering it was before the 1707 Act of Union (or whatever that treaty was that "united" England and Scotland), they may have been English packs (probably rugby hooligans) but they were not British packs.
Well, I am American, so I've probably got redcoat history wrong too. But they weren't British packs.
In a helocopter, the advancing and retreating blades are on the right and the left. In this it is on the top and bottom.
Yes, but in a helicopter, the left-right asymmetry would flip it out of control if not corrected. This thing's top-bottom asymmetry doesn't need correction, just proper alignment with the center of gravity. If it changed with speed, it might need some correction, but it is nothing as vital as thehelo's left-right asymmetry.
the 6600 could initiate up to four instructions per cycle
No, I think it could initiate one instruction per cycle for a maximum of four running at once. Very few instructions executed in a single cycle. The 1968 7600 was the real screamer.
the assembly language programmers unlucky enough to work on the sections of the OS that were critical to performance were always rearranging instructions to maximize instruction overlap
That was the fun part! Nothing unlucky about it at all.
Most people who visit the Californian town of Folsom, which lies at a two hour drive to the northeast of San Francisco, go there because it is situated close to the beautiful Lake Tahoe and some of the skiing areas in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Maybe it looks close if your home is in the Netherlands, but not in actual fact. No one goes to Folsom for the lake or the snow skiing (water skiing is another story). Folsom is almost at sea level, Lake Tahoe is at 6220 something, and 120 miles away.
The super computer I worked on in 1970 was a CDC 6400, came out in 1966, kid brother to the 6600 of 1964. They had a memory cycle time of 1 microsecond for 60 bits, and I think 64K words but I forget exactly. Instructions executed in various times, but the 6600 could pipeline to an extent, call it a 2-3 Mhz machine with 512K of core memory.
$10M or so.
That was the supercomputer of then, and today you can't buy a computer that slow. I don't know what goes in wristwatches these days, but I bet they are faster.
As for 1980-85, those very early PCs were faster in Mhz but didn't do as much per instruction, and didn't have quite that much memory, but they were surely close.
Yeh, this clown will have a handheld 2007 supercomputer in 2022. Big deal. So will everybody. It will be your cell phone / iPod replacement and they will be as ordinary as wristwatches used to be before they fell out of fashion. But there will be faster computers, probably not hand held, and they will be the supercomputers of that day.
Oh, you mean non-Bushie? Or do you mean anyone who values the constitution, as in the BIll of Rights, or three branches of government? Or do you mean... what, exactly?
Poor response, F in debate. Try to refute the argument itself, don't exaggerate, and don't substitute insults and cussing for reason. It looks like you have nothing to contribute to the discussion.
That professor's "respect" could just as easily be written as that professor's "fawning" or "showing off". he does it for HIS benefit, not theirs. If it makes him listen to the dean or teach the students better to wear a suit, then good for him, but to pretend he does it for them is to pretend he knows what they want or respect. That may be the case for the dean, but students are too varied to make a blanket case. You could just as easily say what his wearing of a suit is intended to show disprespect for those students who would rather he dressed casually, or those students who would rather he spent the time it takes to dress in a suit on preparing for class or grading homework. His suit is for himself, not for the students.
I don't know where you get such a laughable idea, that written language changes by written decree. If that were the case, we'd get new slang from the written dictionary which would come from written articles, not the other way round. Written and spoken language drive each other. Language is language. Spoken or written makes no difference as to how it evolves.
"architected" is not a word, since "architect" is not a verb
A. You're wrong. English is a living language. Any word that people understand as a verb is a verb. You understood what was written, therefore you are lying.
B. Your conclusion ("architected" is not a word) does not automatically follow from your premise (since "architect" is not a verb). Your logic is not logical.
C. Any grammer nazi who does not capitalize the first word in a sentence is a hypocrite.
D. Any grammar nazi who does not end sentences with a period is a hypocrite.
E. Any grammar nazi who complains that the "nazi" in "grammar nazi" should be capitalized does not understand how words can be used in a generic sense and thus no longer be proper names.
You realize that Japan already occupied islands off the North American continent before we even attacked them right? They were already showing their version of a manifest destiny and had control over much of the pacific, from islands off the coast of Canada and Alaska(then Russian controller) to the South Pacific.
If you are referring to the two Aleutian islands they captured, that was six months after Pearl Harbor. The war was well under way by then. And to be pedantic, yes we had already attacked them many times by then, mostly carrier raids including the famous Doolittle B-15 raid on the home islands in April 1942, but also including surface ship attacks and submarine attacks.
Alaska was bought by the US from Russia in 1867. Japan didn't even open up to the outside world until 1854 and the Meiji restoration which began their "modern" era didn't happen until 1870. They were not even remotely capable of taking any foreign islands off the American coast before 1867.
Did you get your history from a box of cornflakes?
You are right in that Japan has never come to grips with the havoc they wreaked in China and Korea and all the occupied countries.
But you are wrong in two crucial aspects: their constitution and the emperor.
The 1930s constitution (which actually came from 50 years before) required the presence of army and navy ministers at cabinet meetings to have a quorum. This gave the military a veto over the government -- they held it up to blackmail many times. They can't do that today.
The emperor has been a figurehead in Japan for 1000 years. Everything was done in his name. He has held almost no power in all that time. As proof, when he finally spoke up after the two atom bombings and told the ministers they had to surrender, he made two separate recordings of the surrender speech, and one copy was stolen by junior officers in an attempted palace coup -- they claimed the emperor had been mislead by his senior officers and they were revolting to free him.
The emperor is much less important as a figurehead now than he was then. I would guess he is about as important to the government as Queen Elizabeth II is to Britain's parliament.
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One defense is that Hans was taken by a woman looking to get out of Russia and move to America. Look! She divorced him as soon as she got her papers!
Another defense is that she moved back to Russia to get away from him.
Then there's the Russian gangster defense.
Don't forget the serial murder freind defense.
Hint: check the spellings ... carefully ... very carefully ...
Tasering the cell phone itself would be even more effective.
They say accounts are in the black when they are good, and in the red when they are bad. Obviously white folk don't even deal with money, only those dirty black people and red people, and just as obviously, red people are dirtier than black people. I suppose they don't include yellow people because this all started before they knew about them.
Start with 2**20, 1 million, and go down to the last 1024.
You need to stop being an anal retentive pessimist looking at the clouds and start being an optimist looking for the silver linings.
I was quite amused when I first heard of it. I d onot know if it has ever actually been done, however.
Pick some random stock, send email to 2*10 suckers that it will go up, and to an equal number of suckers that it will go down.
Whichever direction it moves, divide that batch of suckers in two, pick some other random stock, send half email taht it will go up and half email that it goes down.
Repeat until you have only a few suckers left. They will see you as a genius who has correctly predicted the last {n} stock moves correctly. It may be the final sucker, or the last 2, or 4, etc.
Now tout a stock you have just bought and make some money!
I wonder how much ANY random set of numbers would show patterns if one tried hard enough to find them.
To their way of thinking, you are a fossil living in the past. You think that what is must remain. They think how to grab new consumers today, and if they think they can get twice as many adclicks by trading in all the old customers for new consumers, their cold blooded short term calculations will lead them that way.
History is bunk, they say.
any history book will show that those are clearly British packs
Considering it was before the 1707 Act of Union (or whatever that treaty was that "united" England and Scotland),
they may have been English packs (probably rugby hooligans) but they were not British packs.
Well, I am American, so I've probably got redcoat history wrong too. But they weren't British packs.
In a helocopter, the advancing and retreating blades are on the right and the left. In this it is on the top and bottom.
Yes, but in a helicopter, the left-right asymmetry would flip it out of control if not corrected. This thing's top-bottom asymmetry doesn't need correction, just proper alignment with the center of gravity. If it changed with speed, it might need some correction, but it is nothing as vital as thehelo's left-right asymmetry.
the 6600 could initiate up to four instructions per cycle
No, I think it could initiate one instruction per cycle for a maximum of four running at once. Very few instructions executed in a single cycle. The 1968 7600 was the real screamer.
the assembly language programmers unlucky enough to work on the sections of the OS that were critical to performance were always rearranging instructions to maximize instruction overlap
That was the fun part! Nothing unlucky about it at all.
Most people who visit the Californian town of Folsom, which lies at a two hour drive to the northeast of San Francisco, go there because it is situated close to the beautiful Lake Tahoe and some of the skiing areas in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Maybe it looks close if your home is in the Netherlands, but not in actual fact. No one goes to Folsom for the lake or the snow skiing (water skiing is another story). Folsom is almost at sea level, Lake Tahoe is at 6220 something, and 120 miles away.
The super computer I worked on in 1970 was a CDC 6400, came out in 1966, kid brother to the 6600 of 1964. They had a memory cycle time of 1 microsecond for 60 bits, and I think 64K words but I forget exactly. Instructions executed in various times, but the 6600 could pipeline to an extent, call it a 2-3 Mhz machine with 512K of core memory.
$10M or so.
That was the supercomputer of then, and today you can't buy a computer that slow. I don't know what goes in wristwatches these days, but I bet they are faster.
As for 1980-85, those very early PCs were faster in Mhz but didn't do as much per instruction, and didn't have quite that much memory, but they were surely close.
Yeh, this clown will have a handheld 2007 supercomputer in 2022. Big deal. So will everybody. It will be your cell phone / iPod replacement and they will be as ordinary as wristwatches used to be before they fell out of fashion. But there will be faster computers, probably not hand held, and they will be the supercomputers of that day.
No, I think he just spaced out ....
Oh, you mean non-Bushie? Or do you mean anyone who values the constitution, as in the BIll of Rights, or three branches of government? Or do you mean ... what, exactly?
That's a pretty low score. Perhaps you were thinking 4.1 out of 5 max.
And their enemies, wow, the many opportunities to devastate them with hurricanes, yeh, that will teach them a thing or two.
Poor response, F in debate. Try to refute the argument itself, don't exaggerate, and don't substitute insults and cussing for reason. It looks like you have nothing to contribute to the discussion.
That professor's "respect" could just as easily be written as that professor's "fawning" or "showing off". he does it for HIS benefit, not theirs. If it makes him listen to the dean or teach the students better to wear a suit, then good for him, but to pretend he does it for them is to pretend he knows what they want or respect. That may be the case for the dean, but students are too varied to make a blanket case. You could just as easily say what his wearing of a suit is intended to show disprespect for those students who would rather he dressed casually, or those students who would rather he spent the time it takes to dress in a suit on preparing for class or grading homework. His suit is for himself, not for the students.
I don't know where you get such a laughable idea, that written language changes by written decree. If that were the case, we'd get new slang from the written dictionary which would come from written articles, not the other way round. Written and spoken language drive each other. Language is language. Spoken or written makes no difference as to how it evolves.
"architected" is not a word, since "architect" is not a verb
A. You're wrong. English is a living language. Any word that people understand as a verb is a verb. You understood what was written, therefore you are lying.
B. Your conclusion ("architected" is not a word) does not automatically follow from your premise (since "architect" is not a verb). Your logic is not logical.
C. Any grammer nazi who does not capitalize the first word in a sentence is a hypocrite.
D. Any grammar nazi who does not end sentences with a period is a hypocrite.
E. Any grammar nazi who complains that the "nazi" in "grammar nazi" should be capitalized does not understand how words can be used in a generic sense and thus no longer be proper names.
F. Grammar nazis suck.
MOD this one up as funny if you understand the joke, OTHERWISE LEAVE IT FRICKIN' ALONE.
Yes sir. That probably won't teach me to get pedantic, but it ought to.
You realize that Japan already occupied islands off the North American continent before we even attacked them right? They were already showing their version of a manifest destiny and had control over much of the pacific, from islands off the coast of Canada and Alaska(then Russian controller) to the South Pacific.
If you are referring to the two Aleutian islands they captured, that was six months after Pearl Harbor. The war was well under way by then. And to be pedantic, yes we had already attacked them many times by then, mostly carrier raids including the famous Doolittle B-15 raid on the home islands in April 1942, but also including surface ship attacks and submarine attacks.
Alaska was bought by the US from Russia in 1867. Japan didn't even open up to the outside world until 1854 and the Meiji restoration which began their "modern" era didn't happen until 1870. They were not even remotely capable of taking any foreign islands off the American coast before 1867.
Did you get your history from a box of cornflakes?
You are right in that Japan has never come to grips with the havoc they wreaked in China and Korea and all the occupied countries.
But you are wrong in two crucial aspects: their constitution and the emperor.
The 1930s constitution (which actually came from 50 years before) required the presence of army and navy ministers at cabinet meetings to have a quorum. This gave the military a veto over the government -- they held it up to blackmail many times. They can't do that today.
The emperor has been a figurehead in Japan for 1000 years. Everything was done in his name. He has held almost no power in all that time. As proof, when he finally spoke up after the two atom bombings and told the ministers they had to surrender, he made two separate recordings of the surrender speech, and one copy was stolen by junior officers in an attempted palace coup -- they claimed the emperor had been mislead by his senior officers and they were revolting to free him.
The emperor is much less important as a figurehead now than he was then. I would guess he is about as important to the government as Queen Elizabeth II is to Britain's parliament.