A different aspect of control. TSA screener is an entry-level job, and many of the people in it are fresh out of vocational rehab. These are people who need to be very strictly supervised. The consequences for not showing ID are harsh, but I'd bet this rule comes about as a result of screeners failing to follow procedure.
>20 hours, on 4 AA batteries. No proprietary battery.
Do not underestimate the impact of this, on its popularity. One big reason the Model 100 was so popular among journalists was the extremely good (even for now) battery life, together with the fact that the AA battery is something that you'd be able to get in even some very remote places.
>Like they refused to participate in America's war?:)
If only America could have been persuaded to refuse too, there'd be thousands not dead, and tens of thousands not maimed for life. This is no "smiley" matter.
If you do use it, and they break the law, the fact that you used it for free is not a defense for illegal practices. You can think of examples where it's possible for a provider of a free accommodation to break the law right? Just because something is free and you don't like it, doesn't mean they get to say "no Irish" or violate privacy laws in your country.
>So when lightning strikes your home, and hits the power line as it enters the house, or on the pole if it happens >to be behind your back yard, nothing bad will happen?
There should be another home with totally separate power lines, and a different family living in it, in another city far away.
>Melting ice isn't likely given the small heat input and short duration, but it's not clear that melting a little >bit of ice for a few seconds before it refreezes actually hurts anything much.
During the landing, in the back of my mind was the story "Wait it Out", by Larry Niven.
I'm waiting for the RIAA to claim infringement against something they don't actually represent the copyright (or mechanical license) to. One thing Copyright Law does a pretty good job of, is protecting you (the copyright holder) from other parties claiming your work as your own (and using that claim as a basis for litigation). I keep hoping they screw this up, and claim to represent some independent songwriter who will then press criminal charges.
Yes. The logical consequences of your line of reasoning led to nuclear war. We avoided that. We put an embargo against Cuba. Perhaps it's time to lift it. Good luck with that. Don't tell me. Write your congressman or something.
I'm working a side project that's Fortran-90. I myself started with the idea that I could or should just port it. That is not going to happen. It's scientific computing code that's been designed and tested by people far smarter than me, who understand higher math far better than I ever will, and it turns out Fortran is a reasonably expressive language for problems in that domain. Does it do anything that C couldn't do, almost in a 1:1 translation? No. But the real problem is, people might die (or worse, construction projects might not get approved:-) if this computation comes out wrong.
It seems like a small thing, but the touchpad behavior on the Mac has become important enough to me that it's actually a problem now to use a Windows laptop.
I bet you have a job, live indoors, own your own motor vehicle, have enough money to fill it with gas, aren't worried about where your next ten meals are coming from, etc.
Let's hear about how the sky is falling from somebody who was under it at the time.
The economy isn't that bad. You can *always* pick and choose your indicators. My favorites, picking the price of oil to indicate the value of the dollar, and then in the same breath, using the dollar to indicate the price of oil. (What *can't* you say with that?) My second favorite is real estate. For the last ten years, people have been building big houses far away from any sort of meaningful urban or cultural center. Now they wonder why people don't want that. They slept through real estate 101, where you learn the three most important things about real estate???
If you own a house for heaven's sake don't sell it NOW. If you don't own a house, and the hype about "prices falling" is actually true in any area you happen to live in or want to live in, then by all means buy one. (Don't come crying when it turns out that houses where you actually want to live have gone from $140 to $265/sq.ft. while the headlines have been telling you to panic.)
Where's this bad economy, again? I look around, and I don't see anything like 1933, or 1978, or 1985 for that matter.
It's a matter of opinion as to whether arming nuclear missiles and deploying them, targetted at the US, is an attack or not.
The US took the position that it was an attack, and basically gave Cuba the national death penalty. The same government that did this is still in force (on both sides). Neither side has ever backed down. The person who represents Cuba has not even apologized for the affair.
This geek didn't miss the fact that the reference to Superman 3 *was* a reference to Office Space. The indirect reference shows a bit of finesse, and understanding that the geek will get it.
In the problems that TFA addresses, I'd wager that most of the time is spent in dissemination barriers of some sort, since invariably the problems in parallel computing move into issues within the problem domain (which is ideally what we want, after all).
As for a JIT being inefficient compared to a static optimizing compiler, it depends so much on the code in question and on the platform, as to not be something you can make blanket statements about.
Let's hear from some HPC researchers on this. Get some real numbers.
>If I were Congress or the President, I'd make trading petrol futures a capital offense.
And without a futures market, how will the commodity be traded? What gets me is how many people don't realize that it's a competitive market, quite transparent, very public, and you might be trading futures yourself. (Do you look at the breakdown of the mutual funds in your 401k?
High weeds dry out and create a fire hazard. They also create a habitat for pests. Also allowing invasive plants to reach maturity, causes a nuisance to others. Dismiss it as a stupid law if you want. Calling it names won't get it changed:-)
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>He is the biggest nut job in congress. period!
Perhaps, but he has entered articles of impeachment into the Congressional Record.
Right or wrong, sane or insane, it's historic.
You know what makes business sense to me? Not buying an iPhone.
Unloaded, my standard-cab Ranger weighs "nothing", and is the most fuel-efficient vehicle I've ever driven.
>I understand where you're going with this, but I'd doubt that Martha Stewart would take a paper frying pan seriously.
If it had her company's logo on it, she might.
I think you take for granted an exaggerated view of the necessity of air travel.
>It's about control
A different aspect of control. TSA screener is an entry-level job, and many of the people
in it are fresh out of vocational rehab. These are people who need to be very strictly supervised.
The consequences for not showing ID are harsh, but I'd bet this rule comes about as a result of
screeners failing to follow procedure.
>20 hours, on 4 AA batteries. No proprietary battery.
Do not underestimate the impact of this, on its popularity.
One big reason the Model 100 was so popular among journalists was
the extremely good (even for now) battery life, together with the
fact that the AA battery is something that you'd be able to get in
even some very remote places.
>Like they refused to participate in America's war?
If only America could have been persuaded to refuse too, there'd be thousands not dead,
and tens of thousands not maimed for life. This is no "smiley" matter.
>If you don't like it, don't use it.
If you do use it, and they break the law, the fact that you used it for free is not a defense for illegal practices. You can think of examples where it's possible for a provider of a free accommodation to break the law right? Just because something is free and you don't like it, doesn't mean they get to say "no Irish" or violate privacy laws in your country.
>So when lightning strikes your home, and hits the power line as it enters the house, or on the pole if it happens
>to be behind your back yard, nothing bad will happen?
There should be another home with totally separate power lines, and a different family living in it, in another city far away.
Redundancy, man.
>If you have lost DNS, game is over, you lose.
I play the TLS trump card.
>Melting ice isn't likely given the small heat input and short duration, but it's not clear that melting a little
>bit of ice for a few seconds before it refreezes actually hurts anything much.
During the landing, in the back of my mind was the story "Wait it Out", by Larry Niven.
I'm waiting for the RIAA to claim infringement against something they don't actually represent the copyright (or mechanical license) to. One thing Copyright Law does a pretty good job of, is protecting you (the copyright holder) from other parties claiming your work as your own (and using that claim as a basis for litigation).
I keep hoping they screw this up, and claim to represent some independent songwriter who will then press criminal charges.
Yes. The logical consequences of your line of reasoning led to nuclear war.
We avoided that. We put an embargo against Cuba. Perhaps it's time to lift it.
Good luck with that. Don't tell me. Write your congressman or something.
I'm working a side project that's Fortran-90. :-) if this computation comes out wrong.
I myself started with the idea that I could or should just port it.
That is not going to happen. It's scientific computing code that's
been designed and tested by people far smarter than me, who understand
higher math far better than I ever will, and it turns out Fortran is a
reasonably expressive language for problems in that domain. Does it do
anything that C couldn't do, almost in a 1:1 translation? No. But the
real problem is, people might die (or worse, construction projects might
not get approved
It seems like a small thing, but the touchpad behavior on the Mac has become important enough to me that it's actually a problem now to use a Windows laptop.
You cannot spell. That makes your message not worth a reply.
I bet you have a job, live indoors, own your own motor vehicle, have enough money to fill it with gas, aren't worried about where your next ten meals are coming from, etc.
Let's hear about how the sky is falling from somebody who was under it at the time.
The economy isn't that bad. You can *always* pick and choose your indicators. My favorites, picking the price of oil to indicate the value of the dollar, and then in the same breath, using the dollar to indicate the price of oil. (What *can't* you say with that?) My second favorite is real estate. For the last ten years, people have been building big houses far away from any sort of meaningful urban or cultural center. Now they wonder why people don't want that. They slept through real estate 101, where you learn the three most important things about real estate???
If you own a house for heaven's sake don't sell it NOW. If you don't own a house, and the hype about
"prices falling" is actually true in any area you happen to live in or want to live in, then by all means buy one. (Don't come crying when it turns out that houses where you actually want to live have gone from $140 to $265/sq.ft. while the headlines have been telling you to panic.)
Where's this bad economy, again? I look around, and I don't see anything like 1933, or 1978, or 1985 for that matter.
>Cuba never attacked us directly
It's a matter of opinion as to whether arming nuclear missiles and deploying them, targetted at the US, is an attack or not.
The US took the position that it was an attack, and basically gave Cuba the national death penalty.
The same government that did this is still in force (on both sides). Neither side has ever backed down.
The person who represents Cuba has not even apologized for the affair.
This geek didn't miss the fact that the reference to Superman 3 *was* a reference to Office Space.
The indirect reference shows a bit of finesse, and understanding that the geek will get it.
So how do they keep troublemakers from just buying a ticket?
In the problems that TFA addresses, I'd wager that most of the time is spent in dissemination barriers of some sort, since invariably the problems in parallel computing move into issues within the problem domain (which is ideally what we want, after all).
As for a JIT being inefficient compared to a static optimizing compiler, it depends so much on the code in question and on the platform, as to not be something you can make blanket statements about.
Let's hear from some HPC researchers on this. Get some real numbers.
>A recession's when your neighbor loses his job. When you lose yours, it's a depression.
If you have a neighbor, that means you're still living indoors.
Things can get worse.
>If I were Congress or the President, I'd make trading petrol futures a capital offense.
And without a futures market, how will the commodity be traded?
What gets me is how many people don't realize that it's a competitive market, quite transparent, very public, and you might be trading futures yourself. (Do you look at the breakdown of the mutual funds in your 401k?
>It's a damn stupid law if it is
:-)
High weeds dry out and create a fire hazard. They also create a habitat for pests. Also allowing invasive plants to reach maturity, causes a nuisance to others. Dismiss it as a stupid law if you want. Calling it names won't get it changed