I would love to be able to lean back, rest my elbows on my chair armrest, forearms vertical, and control stuff by moving my fingers around. Much less strain on the wrists.,since the hands would be directly over them and in a neutral position.
If you're trying to write portable code, fsync() is absolutely necessary. If you don't fsync(), there is no way to enforce that the data *ever* gets written to the disk platter--it could be sitting in a cache somewhere.
Sure, most implementations will flush it out to disk in a reasonable amount of time, but that behaviour isn't guaranteed anywhere.
The reason firefox calls fsync() a lot is so that if you have a power outage on a desktop machine you can boot back up and it'll open up with the same set of tabs you had at the time of the outage.
I'm fairly sure I've seen phones with GPS chips where you could choose whether or not to use "assisted GPS". If you turn off your cell radio and turn off assisted GPS, then all GPS should work as you describe.
Gasoline is not priced by supply and demand, it is priced by what the market will bear.
What would you consider to be the difference between those two? Demand is currently basically equal to supply, so the price is set as high as it can be without people screaming bloody murder and switching to alternatives.
This engine uses direct injection--that is, it has a very high pressure fuel injection system that injects fuel into the cylinder right when the compression is highest. That CVCC engine uses a standard carb.
My mom's a midwife. Her work replaced her blackberry with an iPhone and she went from multiple days without recharging to under a day. Given that she can be away for 30hrs straight, this meant getting multiple phone chargers (home, car, work, etc) and she basically needs to plug it in whenever she can.
As a homeowner I can take out a permit from the power company and rewire my own house. Under the conditions of the permit, I cannot hire anyone to do the work for me.
The only legal alternative is to hire a certified electrician to do the work (in which case I don't need a permit).
I'm a professional software developer. I have an i5 laptop with built-in graphics, 8GB of memory, a couple of external displays, and a gigabit link to 2TB of NAS. Why would I need a tower?
I don't game much anymore, and when I do most of it is on my tablet anyway. My laptop is perfectly respectable for doing office work, compiling large amounts of code, doing photography work, and hobbyist CAD work in sketchup. It decodes high def video mostly in hardware with minimal overhead.
I have no desire for gaming-grade graphics in my laptop--I'd rather have an extra hour of battery life, thanks.
I rather suspect that Harper himself (and the Conservatives in general) had little to do with our economic stability. That's more likely due to huge resource exports as well as stricter banking regulation.
Tightening up on crime while the crime rate is dropping is a joke. The claim that they have a majority "mandate" with 40% of the vote is a joke. They've been found to have breached parlimentary privilege multiple times, they've been found to be in contempt of Canadian parliament. They intentionally violated the election spending limit, they prorogued parliament twice to avoid nonconfidence votes, they fired the President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for reporting that the Chalk River nuclear facility had a high risk level, they lowballed the F-35 spending costs, they lowballed the Libya mission costs, and a string of other problems.
It just just fail the "obvious to someone skilled in the art" test.
If I go ask someone how to do the thing mentioned in the patent, and they give the same answer, the patent serves no purpose.
The intent is for inventors to reveal how they did something in return for a temporary monopoly. (As opposed to keeping it secret and thus society losing the secret if something happens to the inventor.) If many others in the field could implement the same thing given the same problem, there's no need for the patent.
when life begins (which is what was asked for), why not do what other jurisdictions have done and make it a sliding scale? As the fetus grows older, it would require more and more significant justification to allow an abortion. If they want to take an abortion pill the day after sex, no problems. If they want an abortion a couple months before it's due, it better be life-threatening to the mother.
I'd quibble with your thermometer accuracy statement. The wikipedia thermometer page says, "According to British Standards, correctly calibrated, used and maintained liquid-in-glass thermometers can achieve a measurement uncertainty of...±0.05 C up to 200 or down to 40 C".
Also, you need to make a distinction between significant figures and decimal places. If I measure a temperature of 11 degrees accurate to 1 degree, that is two significant figures. If I need to divide the temperature by 10, I get a result of 1.1, which is still two significant figures. In any case, "significant figures out" == "significant figures in" is only an estimation. To be rigorous, proper calculus error estimation should be used to determine the error bounds on the output of a calculation
Statistics also comes into play. If I take a thousand samples and 998 of them are 11, one is 10, and one is 12, I can state a margin of error of much less than 1 degree at a 95% confidence level.
My problem with Fox is not that it reports from the right, but that it often reports a mindblowingly slanted and outright false version of the news. They've also been known to go out of their way to *create* news, and then cover it as though they had nothing to do with it.
For instance, they've had an "entertainment" show on the channel say something outrageous and inflammatory, and then what is supposedly a straight news show reported that "people are saying...." without mentioning that the only people saying it were other people on Fox.
I tried one in my living/dining area. It got stuck under the dining room table amongst the chair/table legs, and it got hung up on the living room rug.
An awful lot of advertising is peddling fantasy. Look at the beer ads, or the Axe commercials, or the ads for shaving products.
As far as "truth in advertising", you could start by requiring that any claims in the advertisement (spoken or written, explicit or implied to a reasonable person) must be supportable with documentation available on request. Any ads found to contravene this would be banned and significant penalties applied. Make it easy for people to complain about violations, give it real teeth.
If some place claims, "we've got the most experienced staff in the business", they'd better be able to document relevent career experience for all their employees as well as all the employees of their competitors. If they say "the best burger in town" they should be able to back it up with independent polling.
They're not advertising the model, so truth in advertising doesn't apply. There was a case where a mascara company got in trouble for photoshopping, but it was because they artificially enhanced the model's eyelashes, basically making it look like their product was better than it actually was.
If the corporation is just a group of people, then it should be the individual people that have freedom of speech, not the corporation.
If the corporation as a whole is considered a legal entity, then if it is found to do harm it should be subject to similar penalties as people. If an individual would be put in jail for a similar offence, the corporation should be legally prevented from doing business for a similar period of time--and maybe the corporate officers should have to take turns being in jail.
In other words, if you pool your resources to gain the legal benefits of incorporation, you should have to share any legal penalties as well.
In Canada at least this does not happen. I've claimed on home insurance twice, both times they simply paid out without hassle and I lost the discount for not having any claims in the past X years.
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Currently the biggest cpu caches are something like 32MB. On-die memory is *expensive*, so 8GB will take a while.
I would love to be able to lean back, rest my elbows on my chair armrest, forearms vertical, and control stuff by moving my fingers around. Much less strain on the wrists.,since the hands would be directly over them and in a neutral position.
If you're trying to write portable code, fsync() is absolutely necessary. If you don't fsync(), there is no way to enforce that the data *ever* gets written to the disk platter--it could be sitting in a cache somewhere.
Sure, most implementations will flush it out to disk in a reasonable amount of time, but that behaviour isn't guaranteed anywhere.
The reason firefox calls fsync() a lot is so that if you have a power outage on a desktop machine you can boot back up and it'll open up with the same set of tabs you had at the time of the outage.
I'm fairly sure I've seen phones with GPS chips where you could choose whether or not to use "assisted GPS". If you turn off your cell radio and turn off assisted GPS, then all GPS should work as you describe.
Gasoline is not priced by supply and demand, it is priced by what the market will bear.
What would you consider to be the difference between those two? Demand is currently basically equal to supply, so the price is set as high as it can be without people screaming bloody murder and switching to alternatives.
This engine uses direct injection--that is, it has a very high pressure fuel injection system that injects fuel into the cylinder right when the compression is highest. That CVCC engine uses a standard carb.
Diesel engines are more expensive than gas. It pays off in the end, but most people are short-sighted and don't want to pay the upfront costs.
How much do you think it actually costs to print an 800-page book?
It's still math, it's just in the hardware rather than the software.
I find it hard to use a desktop late at night with a toddler in my lap, but a tablet (touchpad for me too, actually) works fine.
My mom's a midwife. Her work replaced her blackberry with an iPhone and she went from multiple days without recharging to under a day. Given that she can be away for 30hrs straight, this meant getting multiple phone chargers (home, car, work, etc) and she basically needs to plug it in whenever she can.
As a homeowner I can take out a permit from the power company and rewire my own house. Under the conditions of the permit, I cannot hire anyone to do the work for me.
The only legal alternative is to hire a certified electrician to do the work (in which case I don't need a permit).
I'm a professional software developer. I have an i5 laptop with built-in graphics, 8GB of memory, a couple of external displays, and a gigabit link to 2TB of NAS. Why would I need a tower?
I don't game much anymore, and when I do most of it is on my tablet anyway. My laptop is perfectly respectable for doing office work, compiling large amounts of code, doing photography work, and hobbyist CAD work in sketchup. It decodes high def video mostly in hardware with minimal overhead.
I have no desire for gaming-grade graphics in my laptop--I'd rather have an extra hour of battery life, thanks.
I rather suspect that Harper himself (and the Conservatives in general) had little to do with our economic stability. That's more likely due to huge resource exports as well as stricter banking regulation.
Tightening up on crime while the crime rate is dropping is a joke. The claim that they have a majority "mandate" with 40% of the vote is a joke. They've been found to have breached parlimentary privilege multiple times, they've been found to be in contempt of Canadian parliament. They intentionally violated the election spending limit, they prorogued parliament twice to avoid nonconfidence votes, they fired the President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for reporting that the Chalk River nuclear facility had a high risk level, they lowballed the F-35 spending costs, they lowballed the Libya mission costs, and a string of other problems.
It just just fail the "obvious to someone skilled in the art" test.
If I go ask someone how to do the thing mentioned in the patent, and they give the same answer, the patent serves no purpose.
The intent is for inventors to reveal how they did something in return for a temporary monopoly. (As opposed to keeping it secret and thus society losing the secret if something happens to the inventor.) If many others in the field could implement the same thing given the same problem, there's no need for the patent.
when life begins (which is what was asked for), why not do what other jurisdictions have done and make it a sliding scale? As the fetus grows older, it would require more and more significant justification to allow an abortion. If they want to take an abortion pill the day after sex, no problems. If they want an abortion a couple months before it's due, it better be life-threatening to the mother.
I'd quibble with your thermometer accuracy statement. The wikipedia thermometer page says, "According to British Standards, correctly calibrated, used and maintained liquid-in-glass thermometers can achieve a measurement uncertainty of...±0.05 C up to 200 or down to 40 C".
Also, you need to make a distinction between significant figures and decimal places. If I measure a temperature of 11 degrees accurate to 1 degree, that is two significant figures. If I need to divide the temperature by 10, I get a result of 1.1, which is still two significant figures. In any case, "significant figures out" == "significant figures in" is only an estimation. To be rigorous, proper calculus error estimation should be used to determine the error bounds on the output of a calculation
Statistics also comes into play. If I take a thousand samples and 998 of them are 11, one is 10, and one is 12, I can state a margin of error of much less than 1 degree at a 95% confidence level.
My problem with Fox is not that it reports from the right, but that it often reports a mindblowingly slanted and outright false version of the news. They've also been known to go out of their way to *create* news, and then cover it as though they had nothing to do with it.
For instance, they've had an "entertainment" show on the channel say something outrageous and inflammatory, and then what is supposedly a straight news show reported that "people are saying...." without mentioning that the only people saying it were other people on Fox.
I interpreted it as eating more than you grow...as in growing plants/animals and harvesting them.
I tried one in my living/dining area. It got stuck under the dining room table amongst the chair/table legs, and it got hung up on the living room rug.
An awful lot of advertising is peddling fantasy. Look at the beer ads, or the Axe commercials, or the ads for shaving products.
As far as "truth in advertising", you could start by requiring that any claims in the advertisement (spoken or written, explicit or implied to a reasonable person) must be supportable with documentation available on request. Any ads found to contravene this would be banned and significant penalties applied. Make it easy for people to complain about violations, give it real teeth.
If some place claims, "we've got the most experienced staff in the business", they'd better be able to document relevent career experience for all their employees as well as all the employees of their competitors. If they say "the best burger in town" they should be able to back it up with independent polling.
They're not advertising the model, so truth in advertising doesn't apply. There was a case where a mascara company got in trouble for photoshopping, but it was because they artificially enhanced the model's eyelashes, basically making it look like their product was better than it actually was.
If the corporation is just a group of people, then it should be the individual people that have freedom of speech, not the corporation.
If the corporation as a whole is considered a legal entity, then if it is found to do harm it should be subject to similar penalties as people. If an individual would be put in jail for a similar offence, the corporation should be legally prevented from doing business for a similar period of time--and maybe the corporate officers should have to take turns being in jail.
In other words, if you pool your resources to gain the legal benefits of incorporation, you should have to share any legal penalties as well.
In Canada at least this does not happen. I've claimed on home insurance twice, both times they simply paid out without hassle and I lost the discount for not having any claims in the past X years.
Around here running that 24x7 would cost ~ $200. You'd need to run it for several years to pay for the cost of a new system.