Not necessarily. If you have 3 women can you make a baby in 3 months instead of 9? Given that it still takes 9 months and 2 of the women are idle, would you say that these women are performing at 1/3rd the potential speed?
I don't know about the specifications of your reproductive system, but I could make 3 babies with 3 women in 9 months with no physiological problems (the psychological effect will be different though).
What you mean is that a woman will take at least 27 months to make 3 babies from 3 men. (for the sake of simplicity we don't count twins or more here)
Why do you want to do this in the first place, are you planning a sitcom?
What amazes me most is that a journalist of a nationwide newspaper (not a tech journal), has a discussion about QT/GTK. Pretty decent. In a while we'll be getting linux tips in the tech section of tabloids:)
The funny thing is that when you have a really a LOT of trading going on, numbers become useless again and are replaced by words like "subprime", which is the word some exotic people use for trading stuff that's worth nothing.
Almost every multi-story parking lot I've been to in Europe has Smart car places. There is a simple reason: extra income for otherwise lost space in weird corners, near posts, etc..
from the have-been-living-under-a-rock-department?, sd card readers, usb ports, mp3 and video decoders have been built into, say, dvd players, for quite a few years now. I can buy them for about 100 euro at any local discounter. Come back when it has builtin skype and web capabilities. This tv is just like a tv with built-in dvd player, it probably has the same hardware as any current dvd player, except that it doesn't have the dvd-drive. This slashdot post is crap.
agree. I am a mod on a DSL forum, and the most common reason for router problems is the route table overflowing from P2P connections. Maybe the poster is torrenting like a madman? Or maybe it is a conspiracy by the **AA and the router builders. Let's see if that idea makes it into a headline tomorrow;)
yes, but that is the problem, the cooler you make something the harder it becomes to insulate. A friend of mine was working on very low temperature systems and he lost a lot of time stopping the temperature leaks that started occurring due to the low temperatures. And most systems that are supercooled at the moment are relatively small and fit into a barrel-shaped container (high volume vs low surface area), whereas a cable is the complete opposite (low volume vs high surface area).
You know what. You can keep employees from jumping ship by making your company a better working environment compared to the competition. That does not necessarily mean better pay, and the smart people will know that.
In Germany there a lot of medium sized companies that are family-owned and not registered at the stock market (take Boehringer Ingelheim for example, 40.000 employees). These companies are very robust in their long-term planning. They cannot generate a lot of money at once to invest in research in new tech, but they spend procentually more to R&D than stock-registered companies, and have the patience to do long term high-risk projects.
This works out. Their stock-market competitor Pfizer is in big troubles because they forgot to invest in R&D but instead extended their sales force. Now they have an empty drug pipeline and their sales force will have nothing to sell.
The good point you make is: these percentages have no meaning. 50% quantum efficiency, 6.8 % power conversion efficiency (note, that 6.8 was only in the Science abstract, not to be found anywhere near the press material).
A european effort's press release gives different data all together. 37.5% efficiency, measuring at 1700 suns? They concentrate the light source, but how many of these light sources and their concentrating lenses can you fit on a square meter?
Like car mileage, there should be a unit based on standard lighting conditions, and then just give the kWh/square meter, plus the projected cost to produce one square meter.
Really. The 701 was as close as you could get to the low-specced, "200" dollar laptop. With its considerable battery lifetime it is still a better option on the road than the 900. I am happy I bought the 701 because I can use it while the netbook market is being filled with better and worse models. In a year or two I will look for a new option. I want at least a touchscreen and SSD. gigabyte 912 might come close, but I can wait until something more fitting comes along:)
hmmhmm, no no. I have a virtual server with root access and even ability to use serial access over ssh if everything else fails. This is about 9 euro per month. for 72 euro per month I can get a nice single core machine with 2 GB ram and 2X250 GB in raid 1. And I'm not even at the cheapest provider. Thing is of course, that such providers work with yearly contracts and you cannot catch peak usage as nicely as with amazon's cloud. I am just saying that when you as a garage shop get a large amount of traffic at once, you not only need the hardware, you still need to make sure you make a considerable amount of cash before you bankrupt yourself into popularity.
Actually, in this case I really wonder if he manages to make a profit. I looked at the amazon cloud recently, and if you really have one CPU unit running there non-stop -for year, it is pretty expensive, around 700 dollars I believe. For something like that you could also just get a dedicated rack server. So if this guy apparently needs a lot more than that, he sure needs to make quite a lot of money from his facebook app, because he will be spending several thousands of dollars on CPU power.
Since the guy is still a student, instead of learning another language at his university, he should apply for an exchange year in a foreign country. As long as he's not completely socially backwards, he'll find that it is amazingly easy to get around and meet new people there.
As a foreigner, you'll be surprised on how many foreigners you'll meet. Since every exchange student is more or less on it's own, they're all trying to make the best of it. AND PARTY:D Meeting local people might be more difficult, just because they're not mixing with the foreigners as much, and he'll have to do an effort to learn the language of the country you're going to. But the experience will be worth a lot, not just on the resume.
Your result is correct, but really, how did you get there again? Please now. Take pen, paper, and a calculator and write everything down. How many laptops are lost per week? Which percentage of them are recovered? Which percentage of them remain lost? How many laptops are that? At the end, multiply by the amount of weeks in a year.
Or maybe you were just trying to prove that your nickname is even more appropriate than that of BadAnalogyGuy
bingo. The problem is there. I've followed an introductory course on parallel programming (not saying I'm an expert, though), and while the idea of multiple processor programming is fairly simple, the implementation is amazingly difficult and painful.
Example: "race condition" Say processor one is trying to find the optimal value of variable A, and processor two is doing something different, but calling some subfunction which changes variable A, then processor one might keep on running forever.
The other main problem is the deadlock: Processor one needs the final result of variable B to calculate variable A, but processor two needs the final result of variable A to calculate B. Both processors will come to a standstill, and the program is halting forever.
For simple programs, these things are relatively easy to troubleshoot. But for your huge program package with hundreds of modules, it is almost impossible to know what is happening.
Actually, it is the duty of intel and co. to find a way to prevent these situations, but also there, what kind of genius is able to program an automated debugger that can find deadlocks and race conditions.
me too, never bought a first version of anything, except now the eee 701. It looks like a cheap toy because of the small screen and simple looks. I wish the newer models also didn't try to look so shiny. I will wait a little more before getting an additional netbook that I can like as much as my 701. Also, due to the small screen and throttled cpu, its battery life is pretty neat. As the EEE 701 is cheap enough, you could get it first and see if a really nice netbook will be available later. Maybe with some tablet functionality. That's what's I miss most.
Or if shock resistance of the hard drive is a criterion, then the one with the conventional spinning disk hard drive will never be the "best", just because it's roomy. That's like saying that the Cadillac Escalade is the most comfortable infantry combat vehicle*
*As far as my eee is concerned, infantry combat is a good description of what it has wen through already, be it a combat in the urban jungle;)
this kind of ad is not objectionable, it is outright irritating. Since you generally need readers to get paid for advertisements, irritating your public seems like an unprofitable business plan in the long run.
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I bet you never laid your eyes on the DLT
I don't know about the specifications of your reproductive system, but I could make 3 babies with 3 women in 9 months with no physiological problems (the psychological effect will be different though).
What you mean is that a woman will take at least 27 months to make 3 babies from 3 men. (for the sake of simplicity we don't count twins or more here)
Why do you want to do this in the first place, are you planning a sitcom?
What amazes me most is that a journalist of a nationwide newspaper (not a tech journal), has a discussion about QT/GTK. Pretty decent. In a while we'll be getting linux tips in the tech section of tabloids :)
The funny thing is that when you have a really a LOT of trading going on, numbers become useless again and are replaced by words like "subprime", which is the word some exotic people use for trading stuff that's worth nothing.
??? Have no words for numbers
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??? Profit!
Almost every multi-story parking lot I've been to in Europe has Smart car places. There is a simple reason: extra income for otherwise lost space in weird corners, near posts, etc..
from the have-been-living-under-a-rock-department?, sd card readers, usb ports, mp3 and video decoders have been built into, say, dvd players, for quite a few years now. I can buy them for about 100 euro at any local discounter. Come back when it has builtin skype and web capabilities. This tv is just like a tv with built-in dvd player, it probably has the same hardware as any current dvd player, except that it doesn't have the dvd-drive. This slashdot post is crap.
agree. I am a mod on a DSL forum, and the most common reason for router problems is the route table overflowing from P2P connections. Maybe the poster is torrenting like a madman? Or maybe it is a conspiracy by the **AA and the router builders. Let's see if that idea makes it into a headline tomorrow ;)
yes, but that is the problem, the cooler you make something the harder it becomes to insulate. A friend of mine was working on very low temperature systems and he lost a lot of time stopping the temperature leaks that started occurring due to the low temperatures. And most systems that are supercooled at the moment are relatively small and fit into a barrel-shaped container (high volume vs low surface area), whereas a cable is the complete opposite (low volume vs high surface area).
You know what. You can keep employees from jumping ship by making your company a better working environment compared to the competition. That does not necessarily mean better pay, and the smart people will know that.
This works out. Their stock-market competitor Pfizer is in big troubles because they forgot to invest in R&D but instead extended their sales force. Now they have an empty drug pipeline and their sales force will have nothing to sell.
Like car mileage, there should be a unit based on standard lighting conditions, and then just give the kWh/square meter, plus the projected cost to produce one square meter.
Forget terrorists. The added logistical complexity to keep the low temperature on the whole network will do it all for you.
How was it again? "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
Really. The 701 was as close as you could get to the low-specced, "200" dollar laptop. With its considerable battery lifetime it is still a better option on the road than the 900. I am happy I bought the 701 because I can use it while the netbook market is being filled with better and worse models. In a year or two I will look for a new option. I want at least a touchscreen and SSD. gigabyte 912 might come close, but I can wait until something more fitting comes along :)
hmmhmm, no no. I have a virtual server with root access and even ability to use serial access over ssh if everything else fails. This is about 9 euro per month. for 72 euro per month I can get a nice single core machine with 2 GB ram and 2X250 GB in raid 1. And I'm not even at the cheapest provider. Thing is of course, that such providers work with yearly contracts and you cannot catch peak usage as nicely as with amazon's cloud. I am just saying that when you as a garage shop get a large amount of traffic at once, you not only need the hardware, you still need to make sure you make a considerable amount of cash before you bankrupt yourself into popularity.
Actually, in this case I really wonder if he manages to make a profit. I looked at the amazon cloud recently, and if you really have one CPU unit running there non-stop -for year, it is pretty expensive, around 700 dollars I believe. For something like that you could also just get a dedicated rack server. So if this guy apparently needs a lot more than that, he sure needs to make quite a lot of money from his facebook app, because he will be spending several thousands of dollars on CPU power.
As a foreigner, you'll be surprised on how many foreigners you'll meet. Since every exchange student is more or less on it's own, they're all trying to make the best of it. AND PARTY :D Meeting local people might be more difficult, just because they're not mixing with the foreigners as much, and he'll have to do an effort to learn the language of the country you're going to. But the experience will be worth a lot, not just on the resume.
Or maybe you were just trying to prove that your nickname is even more appropriate than that of BadAnalogyGuy
Indeed. Every time you think you're going to far, you end up going to close.
Example: "race condition" Say processor one is trying to find the optimal value of variable A, and processor two is doing something different, but calling some subfunction which changes variable A, then processor one might keep on running forever.
The other main problem is the deadlock: Processor one needs the final result of variable B to calculate variable A, but processor two needs the final result of variable A to calculate B. Both processors will come to a standstill, and the program is halting forever.
For simple programs, these things are relatively easy to troubleshoot. But for your huge program package with hundreds of modules, it is almost impossible to know what is happening.
Actually, it is the duty of intel and co. to find a way to prevent these situations, but also there, what kind of genius is able to program an automated debugger that can find deadlocks and race conditions.
me too, never bought a first version of anything, except now the eee 701. It looks like a cheap toy because of the small screen and simple looks. I wish the newer models also didn't try to look so shiny. I will wait a little more before getting an additional netbook that I can like as much as my 701. Also, due to the small screen and throttled cpu, its battery life is pretty neat. As the EEE 701 is cheap enough, you could get it first and see if a really nice netbook will be available later. Maybe with some tablet functionality. That's what's I miss most.
*As far as my eee is concerned, infantry combat is a good description of what it has wen through already, be it a combat in the urban jungle ;)
I sense a lot of dark forces in you, young man. We could use more of your kind in the empire.
this kind of ad is not objectionable, it is outright irritating. Since you generally need readers to get paid for advertisements, irritating your public seems like an unprofitable business plan in the long run.