The multiple functional units idea wasn't new with Cray's supercomputer. He was doing much the same thing in the computers he designed for Control Data Corporation (CDC).
Also, it seems astonishing that there would be no copies of that Cray software around, anywhere, other than on an old disk pack. There are still copies of the software for those CDC machines. Maybe that's because there were so many of them -- relative to the Crays.
The money for this was spent in a state and in a Congressional district. Jobs were created/preserved, each with more than one voter attached or related to it, on average.
Quite apart from the financial appreciation expressed by the employers of those voters directly and indirectly to re-election campaigns, there's also the ability of those politicians to brag about keeping/adding jobs, which impresses even those not living under the same roof as the holders of those jobs.
An unsuccessful weapons system would be one that was built of components from suppliers in few states.
If the tooth is substantially stronger than the jaw it is embedded in (or the peg of tooth is is cemented to) you won't have to worry about a broken tooth. You'll have a different, and probably worse, problem.
I'm pretty sure the same general concern applies to adhesives that are much stronger than what they glue together, and to thread that's much stronger than the pieces of cloth it sews together.
Easy enough to solve. Just replace the peg of tooth with graphene. And the tooth's root with graphene. And the jaw with graphene. And...
What's wrong with moving capital long distances? If somebody started moving capital to Kenya or Ghana, that would be a good thing for the people there, I'm rather certain.
Guess I need to RTFA, because the NSA is not a corporation, it's part of the federal government. Maybe reading the article will remove the surreal quality of the previous post.
How resistant are ferrite-core memory boards to EMP?
Never mind. While using duckduckgo to find out if I spelled "ferrite" correctly, I also found the answer in Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Answer: "relatively unaffected by EMP and radiation".
Now if they can just micro-miniaturize vacuum tube technology, we can have a vacuum tube computer-on-a-chip.
And the future envisioned in science fiction stories of the 1940s and '50s can become a reality. D. B. Davis can invent his amazing inventions, and Helen O'Loy can be "born".
Warning flag: "Dumbass Americans". But maybe despite the bigotry, this person has something useful to impart. So I skipped ahead to the next paragraph.
Nope. Market forces don't rely on rational actors acting in their own best interests. They act even in the absence of universal perfect rationality.
If someone angrily says "Fuck Samsung! I'm never buying their crap again." after their phone can't be repaired, they are not "acting rationally".
They're not doing an analysis, taking into account the fact that they are dealing with a sample size of 1, and all the rest. It's an emotional response.
In terms of how it affects Samsung, though, it's the same: no sale.
Angrily taking the complaint to their friends and relatives and acquaintances in person and on social media magnifies the effect.
OK, I'm either going to have to: (1) read this post and TFA carefully to figure out why engineers tend to both be conservative and to become left-wing terrorists, or why it's nonsense (2) say it's nonsense and move on with my day.
Option (2) is definitely faster, and option (1) may get me to the same conclusion.
Option (2) it is. (But maybe I'll check back later in case someone tries option (1) and then posts something short and insightful that I could have found out on my own.)
There's been chatter lately about St. Louis increasingly becoming an IT hub.
There's some basis for the claim. Universities, some of them pretty big deals. Washington University. (A friend with a Harvard boyfriend had a red sweatshirt with "Harvard" in big letters above its crest and a caption in small letters below: "The Washington University of New England") St. Louis University. My alma mater, MST (formerly UMR formerly MSM), just a hundred miles down I-44.
Employers that do a lot of IT. MasterCard. Emerson. Square's expanding their presence. Boeing. The IT market is pretty good.
IT user groups. You can find a bunch on meetup.
As a place to live? The cost of living is average to low. Despite the sprawl, I can get from South City ("Dutchtown") to NW St. Louis County in 40 minutes, when it's not rush hour. Even rush hour is not all *that* bad; my co-worker in St. Peters (in St. Charles County) commutes to just a few blocks from the Arch after passing through St. Louis County and all of the City in about 40 minutes. The St. Louis Symphony is pretty damn good, as are the Art Museum and the St. Louis Zoo. Despite the recent problems in Ferguson and nearby communities and the problems all inner cities seem to have, the St. Louis metro area is not as portrayed or imagined. Interracial couples don't cause raised eyebrows, much less raised fists. "Dutchtown" is still an ethnic enclave, but Bosnian, not German. (The only US Bosnian-language newspaper is published here.) The Hindus and Muslims I work with get along just fine with everyone. You can even be a Cubs or Mets fan, and not get picked on. Much. (It's more condescension, I think.)
Reason to think it's hype: It's chatter. Some of it is from the same people that thought "business incubators" were a good idea, or that football team owners were too poor to build a stadium. And it could be I'm somewhat biased in my opinions and selective in what I choose to notice, or to mention.
Not banned, and not from arXiv, but a recent Nobel laureate was co-author of a paper that recently didn't survive peer-review at a couple of supposedly prestigious medical journals (JAMA and NEJM, as I recall). (Link below.)
They took their paper elsewhere, where it was better received.
How recent? The latest round of awards. How recently? The rejections happened before the awarding of the prize.
Feather in the cap of the publishing journal, and a black eye for the two that rejected it.
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The multiple functional units idea wasn't new with Cray's supercomputer. He was doing much the same thing in the computers he designed for Control Data Corporation (CDC).
Also, it seems astonishing that there would be no copies of that Cray software around, anywhere, other than on an old disk pack. There are still copies of the software for those CDC machines. Maybe that's because there were so many of them -- relative to the Crays.
The money for this was spent in a state and in a Congressional district. Jobs were created/preserved, each with more than one voter attached or related to it, on average.
Quite apart from the financial appreciation expressed by the employers of those voters directly and indirectly to re-election campaigns, there's also the ability of those politicians to brag about keeping/adding jobs, which impresses even those not living under the same roof as the holders of those jobs.
An unsuccessful weapons system would be one that was built of components from suppliers in few states.
So, how many angels can dance on a pinhead?
Oh, wait. That's theology. Completely different.
Old design, rugged, does the job, still in use.
B-52 or AK-47? Both.
If the tooth is substantially stronger than the jaw it is embedded in (or the peg of tooth is is cemented to) you won't have to worry about a broken tooth. You'll have a different, and probably worse, problem.
I'm pretty sure the same general concern applies to adhesives that are much stronger than what they glue together, and to thread that's much stronger than the pieces of cloth it sews together.
Easy enough to solve. Just replace the peg of tooth with graphene. And the tooth's root with graphene. And the jaw with graphene. And ...
Promotion: The process by which an excellent engineer becomes a terrible manager.
That old definition also applies to programming, perhaps even better than to engineering.
What's wrong with moving capital long distances? If somebody started moving capital to Kenya or Ghana, that would be a good thing for the people there, I'm rather certain.
The point is, a lack of laws is not why this happened.
But if you think another law would have prevented it,you would be doing the world a big favor by describing it.
And soon.
What about the Larkin Decision?
We'll know it's true, because they've never broken the law, violated the Constitution, or been insubordinate before, right?
Gateway Electronics is still around. http://www.gatewaycatalog.com/
A bit of a trip for most people. (Sorry.)
Guess I need to RTFA, because the NSA is not a corporation, it's part of the federal government. Maybe reading the article will remove the surreal quality of the previous post.
How resistant are ferrite-core memory boards to EMP?
Never mind. While using duckduckgo to find out if I spelled "ferrite" correctly, I also found the answer in Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Answer: "relatively unaffected by EMP and radiation".
Wow. I had no idea.
Now if they can just micro-miniaturize vacuum tube technology, we can have a vacuum tube computer-on-a-chip.
And the future envisioned in science fiction stories of the 1940s and '50s can become a reality. D. B. Davis can invent his amazing inventions, and Helen O'Loy can be "born".
Warning flag: "Dumbass Americans". But maybe despite the bigotry, this person has something useful to impart. So I skipped ahead to the next paragraph.
Nope. Market forces don't rely on rational actors acting in their own best interests. They act even in the absence of universal perfect rationality.
If someone angrily says "Fuck Samsung! I'm never buying their crap again." after their phone can't be repaired, they are not "acting rationally".
They're not doing an analysis, taking into account the fact that they are dealing with a sample size of 1, and all the rest. It's an emotional response.
In terms of how it affects Samsung, though, it's the same: no sale.
Angrily taking the complaint to their friends and relatives and acquaintances in person and on social media magnifies the effect.
No rationality involved.
OK, I'm either going to have to: (1) read this post and TFA carefully to figure out why engineers tend to both be conservative and to become left-wing terrorists, or why it's nonsense (2) say it's nonsense and move on with my day.
Option (2) is definitely faster, and option (1) may get me to the same conclusion.
Option (2) it is. (But maybe I'll check back later in case someone tries option (1) and then posts something short and insightful that I could have found out on my own.)
Because this time it's different. No, really.
Not different like the last time it was different but wasn't. This time it's really different.
Not really different like the last time it was really different but wasn't. This time it's really really different.
Got it.
Sorry. Failed wordplay.
"Because culture and geography or specifically, a lack thereof"
There's plenty of "geography". It may suck (opinions differ, obviously) but there is a lot of it. No arguing with that.
The reason it was supposed to be funny was because Texas is big, you see.
Never mind. Someone in this conversation lacks a sense of humor, and the more I type, the more it seems likely it's me.
There's been chatter lately about St. Louis increasingly becoming an IT hub.
There's some basis for the claim. Universities, some of them pretty big deals. Washington University. (A friend with a Harvard boyfriend had a red sweatshirt with "Harvard" in big letters above its crest and a caption in small letters below: "The Washington University of New England") St. Louis University. My alma mater, MST (formerly UMR formerly MSM), just a hundred miles down I-44.
Employers that do a lot of IT. MasterCard. Emerson. Square's expanding their presence. Boeing. The IT market is pretty good.
IT user groups. You can find a bunch on meetup.
As a place to live? The cost of living is average to low. Despite the sprawl, I can get from South City ("Dutchtown") to NW St. Louis County in 40 minutes, when it's not rush hour. Even rush hour is not all *that* bad; my co-worker in St. Peters (in St. Charles County) commutes to just a few blocks from the Arch after passing through St. Louis County and all of the City in about 40 minutes. The St. Louis Symphony is pretty damn good, as are the Art Museum and the St. Louis Zoo. Despite the recent problems in Ferguson and nearby communities and the problems all inner cities seem to have, the St. Louis metro area is not as portrayed or imagined. Interracial couples don't cause raised eyebrows, much less raised fists. "Dutchtown" is still an ethnic enclave, but Bosnian, not German. (The only US Bosnian-language newspaper is published here.) The Hindus and Muslims I work with get along just fine with everyone. You can even be a Cubs or Mets fan, and not get picked on. Much. (It's more condescension, I think.)
Reason to think it's hype: It's chatter. Some of it is from the same people that thought "business incubators" were a good idea, or that football team owners were too poor to build a stadium. And it could be I'm somewhat biased in my opinions and selective in what I choose to notice, or to mention.
Still, St. Louis is worth considering.
Not banned, and not from arXiv, but a recent Nobel laureate was co-author of a paper that recently didn't survive peer-review at a couple of supposedly prestigious medical journals (JAMA and NEJM, as I recall). (Link below.)
They took their paper elsewhere, where it was better received.
How recent? The latest round of awards. How recently? The rejections happened before the awarding of the prize.
Feather in the cap of the publishing journal, and a black eye for the two that rejected it.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=angus+deaton+paper+rejected&t=ffcm
So, is "barcode injection" jargon now? Apparently. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=barc...
Texas has lots of geography. Haven't you seen a map? It's big.
And a long stretch of it is by the ocean, so it's not all dusty prairie.
Generally, when people use the term, they are referring to specific rights explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution.
Some also include in that category the ones not specifically mentioned.
Golly. I could have not read "Data and Goliath" and learned *one* of the appalling truths in it from Slashdot only a few wees later.
Maybe you can find the manuals on the Internet.