Re:By the Constitution of the United States
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The H-1B Swindle
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Huh? You mean they are planning to send home people, who are here _legally_, who obey all laws and pay full-blown taxes? And at the same time they are not doing anything about the hordes of illegals in the US? This is not possible, even if we take into account the immense stupidity of the aforementioned Administration. You probably misunderstood something. Legal guest workers will not be _sent_ home by anyone, unless they want to go home themselves. This is going to be that way until I say otherwise.
Re:By the Constitution of the United States
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The H-1B Swindle
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Wrong. H1-B is a so called "dual-intent" visa, not a "non-immigrant" visa.
This only means that something is wrong with your camera. EP mode does increase the chance of dropouts, but other than that there's no difference in the quality of pictire in each frame. The same data is received form the imaging unit, the same data is recorded on tape in both SP and EP. The recording is digital, meaning that there is no chance of getting any extra "noise" in EP mode. The packet either can be read later (which means that you get the same quality as SP) or cannot be read later (which means that it gets dropped).
Well, the important thing you must understand is that in the US you are not allowed to refer to Mendeleev table as such (use "periodic table" instead) for the very same reason you are not allowed to refer to Tsiolkovsky equiation as such (use "rocket equation" instead) and so on (the other examples are numerous). This story with the table is just a part of widely forced breeding program passed under the guise of "patriotic upbringing". Everything that is of non-US origin must be either downplayed or distorted to appear "invented in the US". The attempt to introduce the new format of the table is nothing else than just a next step in that direction. It says that "schools are ordering the new table"? LOL!!! They better do! See what will happen if they try to refuse...
Look like the guy doesn't understand the difference between "distributed" and "parallel" computing. Multithreaded parallel computing was a native feature of all Widnows NT systems from the very beginning.
A quinessential example of american "journalism"..
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US to Pay to go to ISS
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Bunch of nonsense and BS. Nothing in the ISS project is done for free. Russia was taking US astronauts to the station seemengly "for free" as a payment for certain debt it owed to the US side of the project (the full details are openly available on the Net). This debt is about to get repaid in full accordance with pervious mutual agreements between Russian and US sides of the project. There's nothing new in this announcement. That's how it was planned to be from the very beggining. And now american "journalists" are trying to represent it as if Russia suddenly made a cunning surprise decision about charging US for giving its astronauts a ride to ISS. Talk about primitive demagogy.
The truth is that Russia didn't make any concrete decisions and/or announcements about future terms of collabortion with US that will take effect once US uses up all its "free rides". It's just that someone high in the chain of command on the US side needed a new cooked sensation (most likely - to divert public attention from something elese, as usual) and paid someone else some very good money to push it into mainstream mass media in the US. Your tax dollars at work, so to say. Typical Slashdot's morons, as always, swallowed the bait very quickly.
That explains a lot. And I live in the real world. Things are different here. Windows code is stable and reliable. Codecs don't download in the middle of the movie and don't cause reboots.
Firstly, there's no situation whan a codec might be needed mid-movie. Secondly, a new codec never requires a reboot.
When you are trying to invent some BS at least make an effort to sound more plausible.
Re:This is sort of cool, but...
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Lego Logic Gates
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Ternary "Setun" machines developed in Moscow State University in the 50's are well-known examples of non-binary computers.
It could be, of course. But not such a massive increase.
BTW, this makes a good example of how public opinion can be manipulated. City traffic autorities quietly reduce yellows - the number of red light accidents goes up dramatically - people start actually asking for red light cameras.
Well, the red light cameras have already been deployed in several regions in the US just to try how the whole thing works. The interesting thing about that is that the actual hardware is manufactured by independent companies (I don't remember exact names, but as far as I remember these were some well-known names in defence business, LM, Rthn or something of that nature). These companies don't sell this equipment to the authorities but lease it under condition that some portion of the profits is paid to the company. The result of all this was, not surprisingly, "magically" reduced duration of yellow light in these areas with the obvious intent to increase the number of red light running incidents and hence the profit. The whole ordeal was well-covered in the automotive press at the time, including "Sport Compact Car" and such "couch driver's" magazines as "Car & Driver", just to name a few. I don't remember whether the companies used their influence on city authorities in order to persuade them to reduce the yellow duration, or the city authorities came up with this idea by themselves.
It looks like I'm observing something like this happening now in CA. They just learned a few lessons and doing it differently today. But it is the same basic idea...
US is currently preparing for a completely different thing - a more or less massive roll-out of red-light cameras (the thing where you get you car's photograph in the mail and a red-light ticket). As a preparation for this measure, stop lights are adjusted (most of the time the duration of yellow is simply reduced) in order to increase you chances of running red light, thus increasing the profit generated by red-light tickets. (This will also increase the fatality rate, of course, but this doesn't seem to be a reason for concern.) I'm amazed how much more often these days in California I see cars crossing intersection right under my nose even when I have green. A couple of years ago I'd see something like this about once in a month. These days I see it virtually every day.
In this evironment it is highly unlikely (read - impossible) that US authorities will implement anything tha will to decrease your chances of running red light. Today they prefer to make money by decresing public safety, not by increasing it. So you can forget about anything like "driver friendly" stop light for a while.
What is this nonsense? Why would you cite this completely unrelated clause? The original poster obviously refers to the second clause: "[...] Provided that you keep all Content intact and in the same form as made available by Sony on the Sony Sites, you may, using an industry-standard web browser, temporarily download and view the Content for your personal, non-commercial use but only in the course of browsing the Sony Sites [...]"
What they probably menat is that they were tryng to install the upgrade version of XP over 2000. Although neither of the articles say that explicitly.
The tone and the format of the Slashdot synopsys (like the reference to the BSOD) suggest that it was written by some MS-hater-lamer who simply forgot to have his juice in the moring and was pulling the whole thing out of his a$$.
It could be intentional in a different way. SOme pro-Linux admin could have sabotaged the whole thing. After the death of desktop Linux things like this are no so uncommon. I often run into similar things at the place where I work.
Well, for any a typical lamerish pro-Linux BS site, like Slashdot, for example, everything is a Microsoft error. Learn to live with it of stop reading.
The main problem with LiIon batteries used in cell phones (as opposed to LiPoly batteries AMA is talking about) is that they are 1) hard-cased and give no warning before venting, 2) vent extremely voilently.
LiPO batteries are soft-cased (polymer pouch) and usually swell like a sausage before anything bad happens, which both serves as 1) visual warning and 2) provide pressure relief, meaning that when the pouch ruptures the pressure is not as high.
Strictly, technically speaking, batteries do not "explode". There are no explisives in a LiIon battery, i.e. there's noting that can "explode". The technical term for the process is "venting". Pressure builds in the hard-cased battery and eventially it vents through holes specifically provided for this purpose (thes holes are called "vents"). Unfortunately, in a hard-cased battery venting occurs without any observable warning and when the internal gas pressure is rather high and, which creates a loud sound. In some cases it can also be accompanied with expulsion of hot and/or burning electrolyte. It is expected that general public will prefer to refer to this process as an "explosion".
The article says the covering vent holes can lead to this "explosion". That's pure nonsense. Vent holes in the battery have no other function but to provide an exit path for internal gases during venting, i.e. when it is already too late.
The defintion on one of their pages says
===
hologram - (HOL-o-gram)
definition: usually a three-dimensional image, produced by capturing a laser light interface pattern on film.
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That's "interference", not "interface", stupid!
Toy trains, of course. Unfortunately, in US the toy market got screwed up the same way as any other market - the manucfacturers flooded it with worthless crap in order to push the real toys into the upscale "model" market. For this reason you'll have to pay a pretty penny for a real toy train set, but IMHO it is worth it.
Well, that's exactly what we have in this case. This translation unit neither declares nor defines 'printf'. Which immediately means that calling it without a prototupe leads to undefined behavior.
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Huh? You mean they are planning to send home people, who are here _legally_, who obey all laws and pay full-blown taxes? And at the same time they are not doing anything about the hordes of illegals in the US? This is not possible, even if we take into account the immense stupidity of the aforementioned Administration. You probably misunderstood something. Legal guest workers will not be _sent_ home by anyone, unless they want to go home themselves. This is going to be that way until I say otherwise.
Wrong. H1-B is a so called "dual-intent" visa, not a "non-immigrant" visa.
As everything in Linux - they "can be used with good successs", meaning that they don't work, but don't crash that often either.
This only means that something is wrong with your camera. EP mode does increase the chance of dropouts, but other than that there's no difference in the quality of pictire in each frame. The same data is received form the imaging unit, the same data is recorded on tape in both SP and EP. The recording is digital, meaning that there is no chance of getting any extra "noise" in EP mode. The packet either can be read later (which means that you get the same quality as SP) or cannot be read later (which means that it gets dropped).
Well, the important thing you must understand is that in the US you are not allowed to refer to Mendeleev table as such (use "periodic table" instead) for the very same reason you are not allowed to refer to Tsiolkovsky equiation as such (use "rocket equation" instead) and so on (the other examples are numerous). This story with the table is just a part of widely forced breeding program passed under the guise of "patriotic upbringing". Everything that is of non-US origin must be either downplayed or distorted to appear "invented in the US". The attempt to introduce the new format of the table is nothing else than just a next step in that direction. It says that "schools are ordering the new table"? LOL!!! They better do! See what will happen if they try to refuse...
Exactly. I can do the same thing in C++ using only one line of code, provided a have proper library :)
Look like the guy doesn't understand the difference between "distributed" and "parallel" computing. Multithreaded parallel computing was a native feature of all Widnows NT systems from the very beginning.
Bunch of nonsense and BS. Nothing in the ISS project is done for free. Russia was taking US astronauts to the station seemengly "for free" as a payment for certain debt it owed to the US side of the project (the full details are openly available on the Net). This debt is about to get repaid in full accordance with pervious mutual agreements between Russian and US sides of the project. There's nothing new in this announcement. That's how it was planned to be from the very beggining. And now american "journalists" are trying to represent it as if Russia suddenly made a cunning surprise decision about charging US for giving its astronauts a ride to ISS. Talk about primitive demagogy. The truth is that Russia didn't make any concrete decisions and/or announcements about future terms of collabortion with US that will take effect once US uses up all its "free rides". It's just that someone high in the chain of command on the US side needed a new cooked sensation (most likely - to divert public attention from something elese, as usual) and paid someone else some very good money to push it into mainstream mass media in the US. Your tax dollars at work, so to say. Typical Slashdot's morons, as always, swallowed the bait very quickly.
That explains a lot. And I live in the real world. Things are different here. Windows code is stable and reliable. Codecs don't download in the middle of the movie and don't cause reboots.
Firstly, there's no situation whan a codec might be needed mid-movie. Secondly, a new codec never requires a reboot. When you are trying to invent some BS at least make an effort to sound more plausible.
Ternary "Setun" machines developed in Moscow State University in the 50's are well-known examples of non-binary computers.
This is old news. At least a month old. Actually, I can't get rid of a feeling that this was already published right here, on Slashdot.
It could be, of course. But not such a massive increase. BTW, this makes a good example of how public opinion can be manipulated. City traffic autorities quietly reduce yellows - the number of red light accidents goes up dramatically - people start actually asking for red light cameras.
Well, the red light cameras have already been deployed in several regions in the US just to try how the whole thing works. The interesting thing about that is that the actual hardware is manufactured by independent companies (I don't remember exact names, but as far as I remember these were some well-known names in defence business, LM, Rthn or something of that nature). These companies don't sell this equipment to the authorities but lease it under condition that some portion of the profits is paid to the company. The result of all this was, not surprisingly, "magically" reduced duration of yellow light in these areas with the obvious intent to increase the number of red light running incidents and hence the profit. The whole ordeal was well-covered in the automotive press at the time, including "Sport Compact Car" and such "couch driver's" magazines as "Car & Driver", just to name a few. I don't remember whether the companies used their influence on city authorities in order to persuade them to reduce the yellow duration, or the city authorities came up with this idea by themselves. It looks like I'm observing something like this happening now in CA. They just learned a few lessons and doing it differently today. But it is the same basic idea...
US is currently preparing for a completely different thing - a more or less massive roll-out of red-light cameras (the thing where you get you car's photograph in the mail and a red-light ticket). As a preparation for this measure, stop lights are adjusted (most of the time the duration of yellow is simply reduced) in order to increase you chances of running red light, thus increasing the profit generated by red-light tickets. (This will also increase the fatality rate, of course, but this doesn't seem to be a reason for concern.) I'm amazed how much more often these days in California I see cars crossing intersection right under my nose even when I have green. A couple of years ago I'd see something like this about once in a month. These days I see it virtually every day. In this evironment it is highly unlikely (read - impossible) that US authorities will implement anything tha will to decrease your chances of running red light. Today they prefer to make money by decresing public safety, not by increasing it. So you can forget about anything like "driver friendly" stop light for a while.
What is this nonsense? Why would you cite this completely unrelated clause? The original poster obviously refers to the second clause: "[...] Provided that you keep all Content intact and in the same form as made available by Sony on the Sony Sites, you may, using an industry-standard web browser, temporarily download and view the Content for your personal, non-commercial use but only in the course of browsing the Sony Sites [...]"
What they probably menat is that they were tryng to install the upgrade version of XP over 2000. Although neither of the articles say that explicitly. The tone and the format of the Slashdot synopsys (like the reference to the BSOD) suggest that it was written by some MS-hater-lamer who simply forgot to have his juice in the moring and was pulling the whole thing out of his a$$.
It could be intentional in a different way. SOme pro-Linux admin could have sabotaged the whole thing. After the death of desktop Linux things like this are no so uncommon. I often run into similar things at the place where I work.
Well, for any a typical lamerish pro-Linux BS site, like Slashdot, for example, everything is a Microsoft error. Learn to live with it of stop reading.
Cell phone battery is LiIon, not a LiPo. It being a hard-cased LiIon is main reason for these incidents occuring without warning and being so violent.
The main problem with LiIon batteries used in cell phones (as opposed to LiPoly batteries AMA is talking about) is that they are 1) hard-cased and give no warning before venting, 2) vent extremely voilently. LiPO batteries are soft-cased (polymer pouch) and usually swell like a sausage before anything bad happens, which both serves as 1) visual warning and 2) provide pressure relief, meaning that when the pouch ruptures the pressure is not as high.
Strictly, technically speaking, batteries do not "explode". There are no explisives in a LiIon battery, i.e. there's noting that can "explode". The technical term for the process is "venting". Pressure builds in the hard-cased battery and eventially it vents through holes specifically provided for this purpose (thes holes are called "vents"). Unfortunately, in a hard-cased battery venting occurs without any observable warning and when the internal gas pressure is rather high and, which creates a loud sound. In some cases it can also be accompanied with expulsion of hot and/or burning electrolyte. It is expected that general public will prefer to refer to this process as an "explosion". The article says the covering vent holes can lead to this "explosion". That's pure nonsense. Vent holes in the battery have no other function but to provide an exit path for internal gases during venting, i.e. when it is already too late.
The defintion on one of their pages says === hologram - (HOL-o-gram) definition: usually a three-dimensional image, produced by capturing a laser light interface pattern on film. === That's "interference", not "interface", stupid!
Toy trains, of course. Unfortunately, in US the toy market got screwed up the same way as any other market - the manucfacturers flooded it with worthless crap in order to push the real toys into the upscale "model" market. For this reason you'll have to pay a pretty penny for a real toy train set, but IMHO it is worth it.
Well, that's exactly what we have in this case. This translation unit neither declares nor defines 'printf'. Which immediately means that calling it without a prototupe leads to undefined behavior.