Depending on the language, an element in an array is referenced by either its ordinal value (1st element, 2nd element), or the cardinal value corresponding to an offset, that is, a difference counted in elements between the start of the array (1st element) and the considered element (0 position between requested element and start element, 1 position between requested element and start element).
Nominal values are used in enumerations and map/dictionaries (sets of key-values).
You have a strange notion of "net exporter". And if you think it's too old data because of the shale oil "booming" the EIA also provides data for 2013.
The "all car fires" stat includes dropped cigarettes that smolder, cars intentionally set on fire, etc.
Exactly.
How many regular cars light on fire on the highway after running over a debris such as a hitch?
NFPA report. Same source as the other stats cited in the article, not mentionning the causes was a simple oversight, right ? I didn't check the full PDF reports yet.
So, three fires for Tesla vehicles, one of them caused by "collision or overturn", and the two other by... malfunction ? There is also bias as "older vehicles were more likely to have a fire caused by mechanical or electrical failures.". I'm surprised arson counts for "only" 8 percent of reported fires.
Anyway, Musk and the writer's stats are meaningless, especially the "no one's been killed" when we have 3 cases and the rate for gasoline vehicles is 0,1%.
By eliminating Bing and Xbox, Microsoft would [admit defeat] in the consumer realm.
And you'd prefer them to not admit it and continue to pour money in bottomless pits ? Thinking about it, that sounds like a brilliant plan to get rid of Microsoft, but I'm not sure anyone of importance comes to SlashBI for the insight.
No, you didn't pay attention to the "whole" word. Obviously, it's not liquid but well-levelled whole-wheat flour : You have 6 <unit> of whole-wheat flour, and the part you know is that you want 5 cookies. The missing parts are mainly butter, sugar, eggs, but the kid forgot there's also baking powder, etc. Also I'm not sure what the unit should be. Maybe ounces ? Because with 6 cups of flour, you're going to have a lot of excess flour for only five cookies (or these are very big cookies, in which case the figure would not be to scale).
if Comcast's donations help Murray defeat McGinn, it will send a powerful message to mayors in other American cities considering initiatives to increase broadband competition.
This is the USA, completely oblivious to the message that most other developed counties would get, which is indeed that corruption should be illegal, not called "lobbying" and legal. Here again you have the 1% ruling the country acting against the 99%, and the relayed message is that the 1% elected representatives better bow to the 1% rulers. And what's the point of electing representatives, then ?
if you allow Mac OS X to upgrade your iOS development environment, you will entirely lose the ability to target anything except iOS 7
No. It's just that the new default is to build armv7(s) + arm64, and arm64 is not supported on previous iOS versions. Build for 32 bits architectures only, and you will be able to choose older targets.
'It's like going against the Mafia,' [Kevin O'Connor] said.
The patent troll's attorney also made the claim that calling someone a 'patent troll' was actually a 'hate crime' under 'Ninth Circuit precedent' and threatened to file criminal charges
It's telling that they object to being called patent trolls, but are ok with being compared to the Mafia:)
I mean suppose I tell you that you have a real problem with your house, it is slowly deteriorating towards a collapse. I am able to prove this to your satisfaction, and I am able to show you that the reason is related to water use. Any time you run water though your pipes, it moves things further along. Also, as best as I can tell, even if you stopped running water entirely, you are already past the point where you can save it, it WILL collapse, all you can do is slow it.
Well, you switched the "I"/"we" and "you" and basically missed the point on everything we told you. Your house is in a remote location, so you're pumping your water from an aquifer upon which your house is built. But you keep wasting water and pumping faster than the aquifer can resplenish. There are two consequences: 1) At some point, you won't have water anymore. 2) As the water level drops, now-dry soil weakens, and your house crumbles. We told you at the first cracks that you should stop pumping so much, but you didn't listen. We told you to install rainwater harvesting system to cut on your pumping, but you didn't want to invest in the system when you had free water.
At this point, what you can still do is stopping to pump more that the aquifer can provide. Your house will still continue to crumble for a few years until the ground stabilizes, but we can find temporary solutions (at great expense) to avoid collapse. When the soil will stabilize, we might be able to reinforce foundations. If you keep pumping as usual, there's really nothing than we can do.
Sending yourself pilfered code through your company email account is probably not the wisest plan.
Depends what your goal is. Now, everyone has backups of that code: NSA, China, Russia... I'm sure these algorithms will perform well when put against each other.
So, they didn't test water pollution, only checked that fracking didn't contaminate water by using markers. Hower, other studies showed a correlation between fracking and presence of water pollutants.
Therefore, the only logical conclusion is: water pollution causes fracking !
"Today the Surface RT went from really stupendously overpriced to merely shockingly overpriced."
To paraphrase a sketch of François Pérusse : - Our daughter needs a tablet, we could go to the Microsoft Store ? We're just in front of it. - No, they're three times as expensive as any of their competitors. - No, look, they have sales. - "Super sales, all prices reduced to two times as expensive as any of our competitors." - You see ? - That's better.
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Posting an off topic comment in the top thread without reading TFA / TFS ?
You'll feel right at home :)
I also feel the need to point out that your last post was from 2011-01-09, so it's not been 3 years yet :)
I guess that they're trying to solve the mythical man-month conundrum by having women instead.
When fascism arrives, it will appear on a Harley with a cheeseburger and a credit card, not wrapped in a flag carrying a Bible.
What about wrapped in a flag on a Harley, distributing Bibles, cheeseburgers and credit cards ? :)
Reading the comments, many people are confused.
If this can help people doing less off-by-one errors ;) : cardinal vs ordinal vs nominal.
Depending on the language, an element in an array is referenced by either its ordinal value (1st element, 2nd element), or the cardinal value corresponding to an offset, that is, a difference counted in elements between the start of the array (1st element) and the considered element (0 position between requested element and start element, 1 position between requested element and start element).
Nominal values are used in enumerations and map/dictionaries (sets of key-values).
A person of average intelligence wouldn't be capable of managing a project that large.
You never heard of Longhorn, did you ? :)
(due to the US being a net exporter of oil)
You have a strange notion of "net exporter".
And if you think it's too old data because of the shale oil "booming" the EIA also provides data for 2013.
Also, "people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
The "all car fires" stat includes dropped cigarettes that smolder, cars intentionally set on fire, etc.
Exactly.
How many regular cars light on fire on the highway after running over a debris such as a hitch?
NFPA report. Same source as the other stats cited in the article, not mentionning the causes was a simple oversight, right ? I didn't check the full PDF reports yet.
So, three fires for Tesla vehicles, one of them caused by "collision or overturn", and the two other by... malfunction ?
There is also bias as "older vehicles were more likely to have a fire caused by mechanical or electrical failures.".
I'm surprised arson counts for "only" 8 percent of reported fires.
Anyway, Musk and the writer's stats are meaningless, especially the "no one's been killed" when we have 3 cases and the rate for gasoline vehicles is 0,1%.
By eliminating Bing and Xbox, Microsoft would [admit defeat] in the consumer realm.
And you'd prefer them to not admit it and continue to pour money in bottomless pits ?
Thinking about it, that sounds like a brilliant plan to get rid of Microsoft, but I'm not sure anyone of importance comes to SlashBI for the insight.
But it's obvious the cup is full of liquid
No, you didn't pay attention to the "whole" word.
Obviously, it's not liquid but well-levelled whole-wheat flour :
You have 6 <unit> of whole-wheat flour, and the part you know is that you want 5 cookies.
The missing parts are mainly butter, sugar, eggs, but the kid forgot there's also baking powder, etc.
Also I'm not sure what the unit should be. Maybe ounces ? Because with 6 cups of flour, you're going to have a lot of excess flour for only five cookies (or these are very big cookies, in which case the figure would not be to scale).
if Comcast's donations help Murray defeat McGinn, it will send a powerful message to mayors in other American cities considering initiatives to increase broadband competition.
This is the USA, completely oblivious to the message that most other developed counties would get, which is indeed that corruption should be illegal, not called "lobbying" and legal.
Here again you have the 1% ruling the country acting against the 99%, and the relayed message is that the 1% elected representatives better bow to the 1% rulers. And what's the point of electing representatives, then ?
Didn't Xerox have a wonderful research department?
You know, the one where Apple got all it's ideas from...
The memo mentions some "Xexox PARC Syndrome" (sic), about some hardware company doing software R&D, I wonder if this is related ?
if you allow Mac OS X to upgrade your iOS development environment, you will entirely lose the ability to target anything except iOS 7
No. It's just that the new default is to build armv7(s) + arm64, and arm64 is not supported on previous iOS versions. Build for 32 bits architectures only, and you will be able to choose older targets.
'It's like going against the Mafia,' [Kevin O'Connor] said.
The patent troll's attorney also made the claim that calling someone a 'patent troll' was actually a 'hate crime' under 'Ninth Circuit precedent' and threatened to file criminal charges
It's telling that they object to being called patent trolls, but are ok with being compared to the Mafia :)
syndrome of people not acknowledging software not created by Microsoft
Why would anyone install some perfectly working third-party application on a pristine Microsoft system ?
I suggest Microsoft Windows Briefcase.
I thought the Surface v1 kickstand already had two positions: opened and closed ? Wasn't it working as advertized ?
And a spying one, at that.
At least they got that part right: It was a spying device.
French show no respect for stork's privacy !
Of course "feet" is not a unit. Everybody in the world except a couple of countries knows that.
Well, I agree that feet usually come in pairs rather than units. Still, that's not a reason to mock disabled countries.
I mean suppose I tell you that you have a real problem with your house, it is slowly deteriorating towards a collapse. I am able to prove this to your satisfaction, and I am able to show you that the reason is related to water use. Any time you run water though your pipes, it moves things further along. Also, as best as I can tell, even if you stopped running water entirely, you are already past the point where you can save it, it WILL collapse, all you can do is slow it.
Well, you switched the "I"/"we" and "you" and basically missed the point on everything we told you.
Your house is in a remote location, so you're pumping your water from an aquifer upon which your house is built. But you keep wasting water and pumping faster than the aquifer can resplenish. There are two consequences:
1) At some point, you won't have water anymore.
2) As the water level drops, now-dry soil weakens, and your house crumbles.
We told you at the first cracks that you should stop pumping so much, but you didn't listen.
We told you to install rainwater harvesting system to cut on your pumping, but you didn't want to invest in the system when you had free water.
At this point, what you can still do is stopping to pump more that the aquifer can provide. Your house will still continue to crumble for a few years until the ground stabilizes, but we can find temporary solutions (at great expense) to avoid collapse. When the soil will stabilize, we might be able to reinforce foundations.
If you keep pumping as usual, there's really nothing than we can do.
Sending yourself pilfered code through your company email account is probably not the wisest plan.
Depends what your goal is. Now, everyone has backups of that code: NSA, China, Russia... I'm sure these algorithms will perform well when put against each other.
Anyone know a good freedom dealer? I'm an addict and need my fix of freedom, but I can't seem to find it within the borders of the US at this point.
Maybe are you too close to the borders ?
how is this NOT an aircraft carrier?
Simple, pick your favourite:
Ceci n'est pas un porte-avions. (René Magritte)
This isn't the aircraft carrier you're looking for. (Obi-Wan Kenobi)
'protect our children and their innocence.'
Probably misspelt "ignorance".
Who would want knowledgeable citizens ?
So, they didn't test water pollution, only checked that fracking didn't contaminate water by using markers.
Hower, other studies showed a correlation between fracking and presence of water pollutants.
Therefore, the only logical conclusion is: water pollution causes fracking !
"Today the Surface RT went from really stupendously overpriced to merely shockingly overpriced."
To paraphrase a sketch of François Pérusse :
- Our daughter needs a tablet, we could go to the Microsoft Store ? We're just in front of it.
- No, they're three times as expensive as any of their competitors.
- No, look, they have sales.
- "Super sales, all prices reduced to two times as expensive as any of our competitors."
- You see ?
- That's better.