And the internal combustion engine is so last century. But it really really works well, and there's a whole gas infrastructure in place.
Seriously, rotation speed is not the whole story. Add more cache, add some flash-hybrid control, the areal density is already up, and the data rate is still higher for the AVERAGE use. Sure, random access won't be better, but that's not the average use - and it's better addressed with RAM or SSD anyway.
... make an effort to write files as continuous blocks of data, and perhaps allow you to somehow define the approximate size of the file to automatically leave space around and even in the middle of it to be able to modify it and still minimize fragmentation.
You mean like IBM mainframe JCL from the 1960s?
Those who will not learn from history are doomed to recreate it the hard way.:-);-)
The idea of ID by keyboard style was used in science fiction in the '60s and '70s by multiple authors. Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"? When I tried googling, though, I found descriptions from 2012, 2010, 2009, 2003, and 1989.
See also the important pause between spoken words in Rudyard Kipling's "The Great Game".
When I grew up in NYC, I wouldn't have been flashing an expensive camera around my neck; today people walk around with $500 to $800 iPhones and iPads plainly visible and accessible. In fact half the time they're holding the iPads up in the air in one hand taking pictures. So easy to grab!
Be sensible. If the Coast Guard made a deal with one of the sunglass companies for "even better than thermonuclear protection", it could have a WAY cool ad campaign. The FDIC can start the cosmetics line, particularly lipstick for pigs.
History and *legal* precedent suggest that you want to retain a government involvement in the mail. For some things you need *legal* proof that you mailed something on a certain day, perhaps to a certain address, especially when dealing with government dealings like taxes and property forms and legal paperwork. If anything, the question might be, Why didn't the USPS remain the most efficient transport service rather than allowing private companies to pass them? Who hobbled the USPS to allow "private competition"? (BTW - would you pay extra for air mail if you knew it was carried in the back seat of a fighter plane? Hey, they have to do some training flight time anyway . . . )
I would go the opposite direction: *encourage* target games, and even more realistic simulators, as part of trying to limit availability of real weapons. Insist that anyone who wants a gun license should be able to score high on a realistic simulator, like a driving test. Treat it like karting compared to real car racing.
That said, I have found that games like "Descent" (shooting at robots and mining machines) give me just as much excitement as games shooting at people, with fewer qualms. (Yes, it's an old example.)
PS - book partly based on this concept - "Quozl" by Alan Dean Foster. Aliens have ultra-violent entertainment and games *precisely* to avoid their inclinations to be violent in reality.
This is the most important point. The banking system could kill any target by simply refusing to handle their accounts. A generation ago, dealing completely in cash was still realistic; at this point it's a little bit tough to imagine it working at a practical level.
Nobody needs to tax bitcoins. At some point, someone needs to pay real money for electricity, or hard drives, or food, and the bitcoins have to be exchanged for real money. As long as the real world is separate from bitcoins, the tax agencies can find the money.
Where are they going to put broadcasting things around Washington at 10K feet without interfering physically, electrically, and probably other ways? Especially as they wave around in the breeze? Wouldn't it be a lot easier to build a few extra stations around the Beltway or a wider perimeter - or, hey, put them in big trucks that drive around the Beltway all day so they're harder to find . . .
Yes, I know that looks like more than 100%. As pointed out more eloquently by real military pilots, they need real flight experience. Rather than *replace* the real experience with simulation, use the lowered cost of simulation to increase the *total* time spent in training, and ensure that they can have some training every day to be in peak form, the same way most pro athletes train every day. If that's too much time for people to handle (because I don't really know how much time they spend now), lower the real time only part of the way. I would certainly prefer that there were never a shot fired in anger; at the same time I also want my team optimally prepared for whatever they need to do.
. . . and every phone must have GPS enabled (for safety of course), so that someone can know where everyone is all the time (for safety and rescue), and how fast they are moving at any given moment (to make sure the roads are safe, and incidentally charge you for road usage). And maybe we'll chip all of the children like we now chip pets, so we can always identify them and return them to their parents. Think of the children!
Anyone may do a cover of any published musical work, for a standard fee to ASCAP or other publisher. Think of all the old songs collectively known as "standards" and performed by so many people over the years.
If it's his actual audio, that's a different story. And if it wasn't formally "published" according to the rules, that's yet another story. OTOH there are "audio environment" companies (one of which looks like misspelled "music") who do very close covers of popular numbers precisely so that they don't have to pay the royalties on the originals.
Where I am, I *am* the old dog. The difference is, I learned software design, while most of my colleagues are hardware guys who have to slap some code together to get the hardware to work. I teach them. And I introduced Subversion and configuration management and better tools (some open-source). Some people get it, others don't. Age isn't the determinant.
I was a teaching assistant for IBM 360 assembler in 1978. We had been taught, and I taught others, better practices than that. In fact, one of the professors had a complete block-structured language implemented in assembler macros.
Simple tools don't force poor design or ugly work. The finest sculptures were done with hammer and chisel.
..."if you grope my wife and try to intimidate me on a street corner you said a fair chance I will shoot you in the head regardless of which iphone model you couldn't afford" people tend to get over their "issues" or get dead. Frankly either one works for me
Reasonable. My concern is that some people seem to let this same attitude slide into "You looked at me funny, which I consider being disrespected, so I feel perfectly justified in shooting you since I happen to have a gun on me". Though they probably wouldn't express it that way.
When my father was in school in NYC, there was an occasional fistfight; when I was in school, there was an occasional knifing; by a few years later, there was an occasional shooting. The reasons - teenage stupidity - were no more serious, but the outcomes certainly were.
Or maybe the second amendment was written because there was no money for a standing army, so every citizen was supposed to be ready to join the MILITIA and fight against INVASION as the British and French tried both by sea and over land from Canada and the Indian territories?
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And the internal combustion engine is so last century. But it really really works well, and there's a whole gas infrastructure in place.
Seriously, rotation speed is not the whole story. Add more cache, add some flash-hybrid control, the areal density is already up, and the data rate is still higher for the AVERAGE use. Sure, random access won't be better, but that's not the average use - and it's better addressed with RAM or SSD anyway.
... make an effort to write files as continuous blocks of data, and perhaps allow you to somehow define the approximate size of the file to automatically leave space around and even in the middle of it to be able to modify it and still minimize fragmentation.
You mean like IBM mainframe JCL from the 1960s?
:-) ;-)
Those who will not learn from history are doomed to recreate it the hard way.
The idea of ID by keyboard style was used in science fiction in the '60s and '70s by multiple authors. Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"? When I tried googling, though, I found descriptions from 2012, 2010, 2009, 2003, and 1989.
See also the important pause between spoken words in Rudyard Kipling's "The Great Game".
... "once we can prove that they can not be taken over by an enemy"
/. forgets the meaning of "rootkit", let's discuss this again. ;-) I, for one, am not holding my breath. :-) ;-)
When you stop getting spam and
. . . . because, of course, nobody will ever be as smart and stupid at the same time as Gaius Baltar.
"Patience" can also mean "We will win if we just outwait and outprocreate everyone else".
When I grew up in NYC, I wouldn't have been flashing an expensive camera around my neck; today people walk around with $500 to $800 iPhones and iPads plainly visible and accessible. In fact half the time they're holding the iPads up in the air in one hand taking pictures. So easy to grab!
Be sensible. If the Coast Guard made a deal with one of the sunglass companies for "even better than thermonuclear protection", it could have a WAY cool ad campaign. The FDIC can start the cosmetics line, particularly lipstick for pigs.
They won't focus on this distraction, they'll just license the logo to it. Give them props for using it before someone else did.
Hey! Keep it clean! This is a family website!
History and *legal* precedent suggest that you want to retain a government involvement in the mail. For some things you need *legal* proof that you mailed something on a certain day, perhaps to a certain address, especially when dealing with government dealings like taxes and property forms and legal paperwork. If anything, the question might be, Why didn't the USPS remain the most efficient transport service rather than allowing private companies to pass them? Who hobbled the USPS to allow "private competition"? (BTW - would you pay extra for air mail if you knew it was carried in the back seat of a fighter plane? Hey, they have to do some training flight time anyway . . . )
I would go the opposite direction: *encourage* target games, and even more realistic simulators, as part of trying to limit availability of real weapons. Insist that anyone who wants a gun license should be able to score high on a realistic simulator, like a driving test. Treat it like karting compared to real car racing.
That said, I have found that games like "Descent" (shooting at robots and mining machines) give me just as much excitement as games shooting at people, with fewer qualms. (Yes, it's an old example.)
PS - book partly based on this concept - "Quozl" by Alan Dean Foster. Aliens have ultra-violent entertainment and games *precisely* to avoid their inclinations to be violent in reality.
On the contrary - I'm betting that the only reason anybody needed to think about making it illegal is that someone *did* it.
This is the most important point. The banking system could kill any target by simply refusing to handle their accounts. A generation ago, dealing completely in cash was still realistic; at this point it's a little bit tough to imagine it working at a practical level.
Nobody needs to tax bitcoins. At some point, someone needs to pay real money for electricity, or hard drives, or food, and the bitcoins have to be exchanged for real money. As long as the real world is separate from bitcoins, the tax agencies can find the money.
Where are they going to put broadcasting things around Washington at 10K feet without interfering physically, electrically, and probably other ways? Especially as they wave around in the breeze? Wouldn't it be a lot easier to build a few extra stations around the Beltway or a wider perimeter - or, hey, put them in big trucks that drive around the Beltway all day so they're harder to find . . .
Yes, I know that looks like more than 100%. As pointed out more eloquently by real military pilots, they need real flight experience. Rather than *replace* the real experience with simulation, use the lowered cost of simulation to increase the *total* time spent in training, and ensure that they can have some training every day to be in peak form, the same way most pro athletes train every day. If that's too much time for people to handle (because I don't really know how much time they spend now), lower the real time only part of the way. I would certainly prefer that there were never a shot fired in anger; at the same time I also want my team optimally prepared for whatever they need to do.
. . . and every phone must have GPS enabled (for safety of course), so that someone can know where everyone is all the time (for safety and rescue), and how fast they are moving at any given moment (to make sure the roads are safe, and incidentally charge you for road usage). And maybe we'll chip all of the children like we now chip pets, so we can always identify them and return them to their parents. Think of the children!
Mod parent up. Please. STABILITY is what allows people to ship PRODUCTS for MONEY, which pays the electric bills for all these tubes.
Anyone may do a cover of any published musical work, for a standard fee to ASCAP or other publisher. Think of all the old songs collectively known as "standards" and performed by so many people over the years.
If it's his actual audio, that's a different story. And if it wasn't formally "published" according to the rules, that's yet another story. OTOH there are "audio environment" companies (one of which looks like misspelled "music") who do very close covers of popular numbers precisely so that they don't have to pay the royalties on the originals.
Where I am, I *am* the old dog. The difference is, I learned software design, while most of my colleagues are hardware guys who have to slap some code together to get the hardware to work. I teach them. And I introduced Subversion and configuration management and better tools (some open-source). Some people get it, others don't. Age isn't the determinant.
I was a teaching assistant for IBM 360 assembler in 1978. We had been taught, and I taught others, better practices than that. In fact, one of the professors had a complete block-structured language implemented in assembler macros.
Simple tools don't force poor design or ugly work. The finest sculptures were done with hammer and chisel.
..."if you grope my wife and try to intimidate me on a street corner you said a fair chance I will shoot you in the head regardless of which iphone model you couldn't afford" people tend to get over their "issues" or get dead. Frankly either one works for me
Reasonable. My concern is that some people seem to let this same attitude slide into "You looked at me funny, which I consider being disrespected, so I feel perfectly justified in shooting you since I happen to have a gun on me". Though they probably wouldn't express it that way.
When my father was in school in NYC, there was an occasional fistfight; when I was in school, there was an occasional knifing; by a few years later, there was an occasional shooting. The reasons - teenage stupidity - were no more serious, but the outcomes certainly were.
Or maybe the second amendment was written because there was no money for a standing army, so every citizen was supposed to be ready to join the MILITIA and fight against INVASION as the British and French tried both by sea and over land from Canada and the Indian territories?
I had only been worrying about "Rob this house while everyone's at work/school because you'll find guns in it". Now I have to worry about BOTH sides.