For integer math, I agree with you, but for floating point math, you need dedicated instructions that offload everything to the FPU. (Yes, we still have FPUs, they are now just an integrated component of the CPU package.)
I think spreadsheets evolved almost zero in the last 30 years. Word processing got fonts, colors... Excel is just VisiCalc with buttons.
Wrong. In the last 30 years, they've added everything from statistical functions, to greater programmability to data mining functions. Integration with SQL databases. Desktop publishing features.
And not to mention the most important advance in spreadsheets in 30 years.
Yes. I live in Florida, USA, near some of the best beaches in the world. As such, we still get LOTS of international tourists. It's not unusual to go walking in the touristy areas and hear people speaking German, Finish, Norwegian, French, Italian, Spanish and Portugese.
I mean I don't even get a shopping card from our local supermarket because I don't think it's necessary for them to have my personal information...
Increasingly, supermarkets here in the US are phasing out these shopping cards in favor of data warehousing systems similar to what Wal*Mart uses.
No Twisted? Well, no Python 3.0 for a bunch of my apps for a while...I did mention Django, though, specificially because the Django devs have no definitive plans to update it 3.0 at this time and it's not inconceivable that they might never update it for 3.0.
Potsdam University in Germany is now teaching... skills... to 'easy entry into... a supermodel, who will...love...the...student...at the end...on the inside.'
I just don't like all the big brother business, and while I use GMail for personal stuff, I wouldn't start trusting Google with sensitive documents, memos etc.
I can easily imagine a scenario whereby corporate spies gather proprietary information from a competitor using Google or other ASP through abusing the system by bribing appropriate law enforcement personnnel, courts, etc.
Maybe. You need massive amounts of energy to do any of the above, and, yes, I've noticed your statement about mastering fusion. There's a lot more to mastering fusion than simply generating it. For one, you've got to find some way to get a self-sustaining fusion reaction going without putting in more energy than you're getting out of it. Secondly, you need to find someway to contain and channel all that energy. Easier said than done. Just you try building a container to hold the sun.
Possibly. I've wondered the same thing, but wouldn't that actually be in conflict with Einstein's Relativity, particularly Special Relativity? I mean, the speed of light is constant in a vacuum for all observers, so that's it, right? Doesn't that more or less prove that distance in space means something and is thus always relevant?
I work with space engineers at a NASA contractor's site. Several of them do, in fact, ride Harleys. In fact, where I work, they have dedicated motorcycle parking in several places.
Personally, I use ldapdns, which used to be based on the djbdns code and continues to adopt some ideas from djbdns, The nice thing about ldapdns, though, is that the database store is entirely in LDAP. You change it in LDAP and the changes in the DNS server are instantaneous.
I would consider PowerDNS as well, but ldapdns is also very small, fast and lightweight and it scales well. I don't get the feeling that PowerDNS is so lightweight.
Put the damn money into comprehensive public transportation!!
But the auto companies -- you know, the ones who just asked for a big bailout and got some of it -- spent millions and millions of dollars convincing you, the unwitting public, that public transportation is a bad -- a waste of government resources!
And now you know why there's no good public transportation in most big U.S. cities, save a few.
Full disclosure: I have -- in the past -- worked for two of the Detroit Three automakers.
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For integer math, I agree with you, but for floating point math, you need dedicated instructions that offload everything to the FPU. (Yes, we still have FPUs, they are now just an integrated component of the CPU package.)
I think spreadsheets evolved almost zero in the last 30 years. Word processing got fonts, colors... Excel is just VisiCalc with buttons.
Wrong. In the last 30 years, they've added everything from statistical functions, to greater programmability to data mining functions. Integration with SQL databases. Desktop publishing features.
And not to mention the most important advance in spreadsheets in 30 years.
Yep, that's right. Clippy!
*ducking*
Do people still visit that country?
Yes. I live in Florida, USA, near some of the best beaches in the world. As such, we still get LOTS of international tourists. It's not unusual to go walking in the touristy areas and hear people speaking German, Finish, Norwegian, French, Italian, Spanish and Portugese.
I mean I don't even get a shopping card from our local supermarket because I don't think it's necessary for them to have my personal information...
Increasingly, supermarkets here in the US are phasing out these shopping cards in favor of data warehousing systems similar to what Wal*Mart uses.
Same thing.
No Twisted? Well, no Python 3.0 for a bunch of my apps for a while...I did mention Django, though, specificially because the Django devs have no definitive plans to update it 3.0 at this time and it's not inconceivable that they might never update it for 3.0.
Unless you're trying to learn how to code Django apps, which won't work on Python 3.0. Neither will a lot of other 3rd party modules.
Lemme guess... you're a student of the Sun Microsystems'-sponsored Bill Joy School of Version Numbering?
Feel free to complain on my spelling when more than half of your population know on what side of the USA the atlantic and the pacific rest ..
High standards. I'd be happy with a quarter, myself. ;)
Potsdam University in Germany is now teaching ... skills ... to 'easy entry into ... a supermodel, who will...love...the...student...at the end...on the inside.'
Whoosh. My post was (obviously) tongue-in-cheek.
It came with his computer. Therefore, it was free.
I just don't like all the big brother business, and while I use GMail for personal stuff, I wouldn't start trusting Google with sensitive documents, memos etc.
I can easily imagine a scenario whereby corporate spies gather proprietary information from a competitor using Google or other ASP through abusing the system by bribing appropriate law enforcement personnnel, courts, etc.
Maybe. You need massive amounts of energy to do any of the above, and, yes, I've noticed your statement about mastering fusion. There's a lot more to mastering fusion than simply generating it. For one, you've got to find some way to get a self-sustaining fusion reaction going without putting in more energy than you're getting out of it. Secondly, you need to find someway to contain and channel all that energy. Easier said than done. Just you try building a container to hold the sun.
Possibly. I've wondered the same thing, but wouldn't that actually be in conflict with Einstein's Relativity, particularly Special Relativity? I mean, the speed of light is constant in a vacuum for all observers, so that's it, right? Doesn't that more or less prove that distance in space means something and is thus always relevant?
Or simply 'dampen'? 'Suppress' is a little more severe than 'dampen'.
wl, i do smtmes, bt i dont knw wht ur tlking abt wrt spelng.
If one raid disk fails it doesn't blow up the entire cluster.
Unless it was made by Sony.
I work with space engineers at a NASA contractor's site. Several of them do, in fact, ride Harleys. In fact, where I work, they have dedicated motorcycle parking in several places.
Attention, AMD Marketroids: Please kill yourselves. Now. Do it now.
*blink*
Yes. All of you.
Personally, I use ldapdns, which used to be based on the djbdns code and continues to adopt some ideas from djbdns, The nice thing about ldapdns, though, is that the database store is entirely in LDAP. You change it in LDAP and the changes in the DNS server are instantaneous.
I would consider PowerDNS as well, but ldapdns is also very small, fast and lightweight and it scales well. I don't get the feeling that PowerDNS is so lightweight.
They suck precisely because they spent money lobbying against public transportation.
But, try going to Toronto, which has a very good public transportation system. Or even Washington, D.C., which has an excellent subway system.
Worse ISP's pay for the upload, not the download, so everyone outside their network requesting that data costs them.
Ahhhh! Now we know the real reason why ISPs hate P2P and cap uploads...hmph. Learn something new everyday.
Maybe it's just me, but my trust in meth instructions is inversely related to the number of spelling errors.
So I take it that trust doesn't extend to tech news stories? Remember what site you're on, man.
Yeah, but we'd probably all be the first in line to buy some 'boobies computing'!
Put the damn money into comprehensive public transportation!!
But the auto companies -- you know, the ones who just asked for a big bailout and got some of it -- spent millions and millions of dollars convincing you, the unwitting public, that public transportation is a bad -- a waste of government resources!
And now you know why there's no good public transportation in most big U.S. cities, save a few.
Full disclosure: I have -- in the past -- worked for two of the Detroit Three automakers.