They are likely grateful that people are using their software rather than the superior (and free) Microsoft Security Essentials. (Yes, MS makes a piece of software that is superior in virtually every way to its competition. Hard to believe, but it's true.)
The fundamental difference between Microsoft and Apple (or other consumer product companies) is that people like you or I are not MS customers.
Microsoft's customers are Dell, HP and Acer, and large corporate IT departments. That's where most of their money comes from, and they know it. MS cares about their needs and not ours.
http://lib.mipt.ru/?spage=reg_user
From the Moscow institute of physics and technology. Described as a "little school-level problem":-)
Be prepared to dust off your knowledge of Kirchoff's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_circuit_laws) and ohms law, and to solve a system of equations that boils down to a 6x6 matrix.
Who the hell uses Fahrenheit for anything remotely connected to science? I can understand translating 0K to -273.15C, then 1K is -272.15C -- but how meaningful to anyone is -459.67F?
> Oh, and while you're at it, can you make it so the program pokes the writer in the eye every time he writes the words "win" and/or "fail" in all caps? Thanks.
> Tylenol is effective for fever and mild analgesia.
Key here being "mild". Acetaminophen, in my experience, has absolutely no noticeable effect on real pain. Opiates are pretty much the only thing in the pharmacopoeia that really work for this. All drawbacks aside, if you have real pain, those pale in comparison. (The worst of them, imho, is the constipation:-)
(I recently had knee surgery involving drilling holes, hammers/chisels, screws & staples, and even 60mg Codeine did nothing in the first 48 hrs post op. Good thing there are stronger meds than that -- percosets ftw.)
If you're using the x87, just give up. It is very hard to efficiently conform to IEEE on that evil beast. (even setting the control register to mung precision only affects the fraction, not the exponent, so you still have to store to memory and reload to properly set precision.)
A former colleague described it (the entire x87 unit) as "Satan incarnate in silicon".:-)
The brackets were implied by the ordering.
Yes, a slightly non obvious case that comes up fairly often -- optimizing the computation of dot product of long vectors. This involves summing lists of numbers, and changing the order of summation (either through vectorization or threading) changes the results. Kahan summation would help if compilers did not break it.
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Replace "Cows" with "Cops" and then I'll be interested...
Is that a metric or imperial Library of Congress?
It is a bit behind the times with no Sata 3 (6 GBps) support.
You said "rape" twice...
Just pointing that out...
Lame.
Eye think eye sea what their doing hear. :-)
Those aren't bugs, they're features.
See how easy that was?
No hypocrisy here, move on citizen.
They are likely grateful that people are using their software rather than the superior (and free) Microsoft Security Essentials. (Yes, MS makes a piece of software that is superior in virtually every way to its competition. Hard to believe, but it's true.)
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf
I am not going to go through one of those machines.
VERY scary stuff here.....
Yeah -- I just tried https://slashdot.org/ and got redirected to http://.../
Not cool.
The fundamental difference between Microsoft and Apple (or other consumer product companies) is that people like you or I are not MS customers.
Microsoft's customers are Dell, HP and Acer, and large corporate IT departments. That's where most of their money comes from, and they know it. MS cares about their needs and not ours.
http://lib.mipt.ru/?spage=reg_user From the Moscow institute of physics and technology. Described as a "little school-level problem" :-)
Be prepared to dust off your knowledge of Kirchoff's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_circuit_laws) and ohms law, and to solve a system of equations that boils down to a 6x6 matrix.
Who the hell uses Fahrenheit for anything remotely connected to science? I can understand translating 0K to -273.15C, then 1K is -272.15C -- but how meaningful to anyone is -459.67F?
When did Congress declare it, and against whom?
Oh wait, it's not really legally a war is it?
> Oh, and while you're at it, can you make it so the program pokes the writer in the eye every time he writes the words "win" and/or "fail" in all caps? Thanks.
THIS :-)
I hate them with the heat of a thousand burning suns.
Have a watch of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM
If you can sit through this without laughing, you should seek professional help.
And the wireless network created by an airport extreme can be very easily extended with the cheaper airport express.
Works great for me.
>Mobiles haven't even reached the low bar of being suitable for posting on Slashdot yet.
I'm posting this from my ipad. Seems both suitable and mobile enough to me.
> Tylenol is effective for fever and mild analgesia.
Key here being "mild". Acetaminophen, in my experience, has absolutely no noticeable effect on real pain. Opiates are pretty much the only thing in the pharmacopoeia that really work for this. All drawbacks aside, if you have real pain, those pale in comparison. (The worst of them, imho, is the constipation :-)
(I recently had knee surgery involving drilling holes, hammers/chisels, screws & staples, and even 60mg Codeine did nothing in the first 48 hrs post op. Good thing there are stronger meds than that -- percosets ftw.)
You know, I don't think I'll click on that link at work....
(just a hunch, given the url)
> there is no way in hell he'd ever spend that much on Viagra
Of course he wouldn't -- he would spend 6k on the hookers, 6 on the viagra, and 6 on the blow. :-)
(I hope your dad gets well.)
If you're using the x87, just give up. It is very hard to efficiently conform to IEEE on that evil beast. (even setting the control register to mung precision only affects the fraction, not the exponent, so you still have to store to memory and reload to properly set precision.)
A former colleague described it (the entire x87 unit) as "Satan incarnate in silicon". :-)
The brackets were implied by the ordering. Yes, a slightly non obvious case that comes up fairly often -- optimizing the computation of dot product of long vectors. This involves summing lists of numbers, and changing the order of summation (either through vectorization or threading) changes the results. Kahan summation would help if compilers did not break it.