When we moved to the UK from the USA back in the nineties I remember my dad waking up late for work because he plugged his alarm clock into a voltage converter that did not also change the frequency. Do those even exist for consumers? Fun times...
Visual Studio has to be the best debugger for python when you maintain a large code base of C/Fortan that you call from CPython with tons of callback functions, as we do in my group at a âoesmallâ aerospace company based in a Chicago.
NumPy is built on the BLAS/LAPACK and is way more useful for doing true numerical work. You should check out William Kahan's website for a good critique on why Java is completely unacceptable for numerical code.
https://people.eecs.berkeley.e...
I have a 2014 Subaru Forester with EyeSight (their adaptive (stereoscopic based) cruise control with lane departure warning system). The adaptive cruise control is amazing. I like using it in traffic on I-5 in Seattle (I said Subaru, didn't I?) and it works really well at dealing with people cutting in/stopped cars in front of me. My one complaint is when you come to a complete stop it times out and disables the system. You now have a vehicle that is idling in drive. There is an audible beep to warn you that the system is turning off, but I think I would prefer the ability to control the time out period to something more than 5 seconds.
And the military does not exist in its own reality distortion field. I know of no other line of work in this country where failure to show up for work results in a prison sentence.
A career in the military is not the same as a career anywhere else. In their situation the ability to be bribed by the enemy is too great a risk. In industry that's what NDAs and non-compete clauses are for.
Who the hell wants a staff full of debt-burdened carrot-chasers who couldn't get the job they really wanted?
Employees with a mountain of debt are less likely to cause trouble for their employer, as the employee's debt must be serviced, especially education debt in the US.
It is, for all intents and purposes, a rather relaxed version of indentured servitude, considering the overall lack of mobility in the job market.
Precisely what you would expect to hear from a tea party nut that has never worked in the public sector. Thank you. Keep up the good work being a shill for the Koch brothers and their ilk. It is only a matter of time before the super-rich (who are the only ones to truly benefit from Tea Party ideals) come after you and make your life miserable.
Besides, it seems like most IE6 users in this age are enterprise clients who can't upgrade until their vendors start supporting new browsers, or until the interprise itself gets rid of legacy programs.
Wrong, if you look at the map and the percentages, it looks like poor people running bootlegged versions of outdated windows are the main users of IE6.
Japan had the highest savings rate in the 90s, so they had enough capital to last them through even worse a recession.
You appear to have completely missed the point. Japan had the highest savings rate in the 1990s as a result of the deflation. Consumers were not consuming because they would wait until the price of anything went lower. For the same reason, industry did not invest in capital, because a loan for said capital would inevitably cost more in the long run. High savings rate in Japan did not enable them to survive their recession, it extended it a decade longer than it would have been had the government stepped in an ensured that deflation had not taken place. This is a textbook example of a deflationary spiral, which I referenced in my previous post, which you appear to have glossed over in your zeal to ignore reality.
Japan would have had deflation if only it didn't ruin its economy by inflating its money and stealing the purchasing power from its citizens. You know, you should research and show us a single time that deflation actually HURT somebody! (as opposed to inflation, which actually DESTROYED entire countries).
Let me get this straight, you argue that Japan had deflation because they had inflation. That is the most illogical thing I have read on Slashdot in a good long while. According to the oracle of Wikipedia:
The third [significant period of deflation in the United States] was between 1930–1933 when the rate of deflation was approximately 10 percent/year, part of the United States' slide into the Great Depression, where banks failed and unemployment peaked at 25%.
I would say deflation caused a bit of pain for all those unemployed people.
You obviously do not understand the fundamentals of economics on this subject. You would be better served to do a bit of research on the subject before going off as you have. For shame.
Please observe what happened to Japan in the 1990s with regard to deflation. Deflation is the last thing you want your economy to do systematically, across the board. It encourages people to put off consumption and make a recession last a lot longer than it could.
This is precisely why the Fed continues to print money. By trying to keep inflation above 2% we can avoid the nasty business of dealing with a deflationary spiral. Debtors calling to the cessation of the quantitative easing will rue the day it happens, for deflation will exacerbate any debt load.
Get a M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. There are plenty of schools that offer it and you might be surprised at how easy it is to be admitted to a program. Some even have an online masters program that makes it rather convenient to complete, like UW Seattle, where I got my M.Sc.
I work at a research lab connected to a large research university and having the M.Sc. definitely helps in getting to work on more interesting projects. The advantage with not having the Ph.D. is there is less burden on you to go find funding. The trick is to become indispensable to a couple of primary investigators that do completely different things to help improve job security. Where I work it is possible for a person with a M.Sc. to become a PI, so eventually if I start coming up with my own ideas, I should be able to work something out and be in charge of my own projects.
I'm personally convinced it's just another round of Memory Company Collusion, like the whole rambus thing.
Honestly the price of ALL memory has gone up between 20 and 100 percent in the past year (go look at ddr2/ddr3 prices, they're the same or HIGHER than they were last year. 4 gigs for 50 bucks a year ago, 2 gigs for 45 bucks now. There was an overlap period on newegg where UNREGISTERED ECC DDR3 @ 1333 was CHEAPER than Non-ECC consumer sticks by 10-20 bucks for the same capacity. Obviously that has since changed, but the point is memory is suspiciously going up in price while most other consumer hardware is still on the way down.)
Have you taken into account the difference in inflation of your local currency and that of the currency used where the RAM in question is made? Assuming a Taiwanese manufacturer selling in the US, my back of the envelope calculations put a $50 quantity of RAM last year at most $53 today due to exchange rates. Add on another 2% for inflation (http://forecasts.org/inflation.htm) we get $54.
Then again that does not take into account the dip in supply as a result of manufacturers holding off production while the western economies tanked over the last year or two. It comes down to how accurately did the manufacturers predict the drop in demand. It is possible demand exceeds supply enough to increase prices by about $5-$15 at the moment.
I think it is plausible that we are only seeing market forces at play here. Someone should look into it a bit more though, to be sure.
I guess that works if you enjoy working in a panopticon. One of the most aggravating things is to have your back to everyone else in the group, headphones blasting to drone out the ambient noise (three programmers in a room with 14 servers/workstations and A/C), and then get surprised from behind by someone like the boss. Never sit with your back to the door. Isn't that how James Butler Hickok went out?
False. The density of air does not change with speed. What you may be trying to refer to is called the Reynolds number, a dimensionless quantity that relates fluid velocity with viscosity and characteristic length-scale. This is what allows the Mythbusters to make their own wind tunnel using water for the "Tail-gate Up or Down" episode. By setting the velocity of the water to compensate for the increased viscosity compared to air, they can get pretty close to simulating highway speeds for their model truck (characteristic length scales having been taken into consideration as well).
The only thing that would be pretty dense at those speeds would be this anonymous coward.
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When we moved to the UK from the USA back in the nineties I remember my dad waking up late for work because he plugged his alarm clock into a voltage converter that did not also change the frequency. Do those even exist for consumers? Fun times...
Visual Studio has to be the best debugger for python when you maintain a large code base of C/Fortan that you call from CPython with tons of callback functions, as we do in my group at a âoesmallâ aerospace company based in a Chicago.
NumPy is built on the BLAS/LAPACK and is way more useful for doing true numerical work. You should check out William Kahan's website for a good critique on why Java is completely unacceptable for numerical code. https://people.eecs.berkeley.e...
I have a 2014 Subaru Forester with EyeSight (their adaptive (stereoscopic based) cruise control with lane departure warning system). The adaptive cruise control is amazing. I like using it in traffic on I-5 in Seattle (I said Subaru, didn't I?) and it works really well at dealing with people cutting in/stopped cars in front of me. My one complaint is when you come to a complete stop it times out and disables the system. You now have a vehicle that is idling in drive. There is an audible beep to warn you that the system is turning off, but I think I would prefer the ability to control the time out period to something more than 5 seconds.
Side lobes? Must be a Ferengi thing...
A career in the military is not the same as a career anywhere else. In their situation the ability to be bribed by the enemy is too great a risk. In industry that's what NDAs and non-compete clauses are for.
Who the hell wants a staff full of debt-burdened carrot-chasers who couldn't get the job they really wanted?
Employees with a mountain of debt are less likely to cause trouble for their employer, as the employee's debt must be serviced, especially education debt in the US.
It is, for all intents and purposes, a rather relaxed version of indentured servitude, considering the overall lack of mobility in the job market.
By my calculations we could replace every elected member of the federal government within 6 years. Where does 18 come from?
oh, and don't forget the aqueducts
Precisely what you would expect to hear from a tea party nut that has never worked in the public sector. Thank you. Keep up the good work being a shill for the Koch brothers and their ilk. It is only a matter of time before the super-rich (who are the only ones to truly benefit from Tea Party ideals) come after you and make your life miserable.
Why doesn't Amazon implement this system and make money off all the other schmucks how won't do this task themselves?
reminds me of a friend's copy of Nevermind by the band Nirvaba (sic) that he picked up in South East Asia when he was living there.
The correct term for neck hair is "neard", and I agree with you. There's nothing wrong with having one.
Besides, it seems like most IE6 users in this age are enterprise clients who can't upgrade until their vendors start supporting new browsers, or until the interprise itself gets rid of legacy programs.
Wrong, if you look at the map and the percentages, it looks like poor people running bootlegged versions of outdated windows are the main users of IE6.
Japan had the highest savings rate in the 90s, so they had enough capital to last them through even worse a recession.
You appear to have completely missed the point. Japan had the highest savings rate in the 1990s as a result of the deflation. Consumers were not consuming because they would wait until the price of anything went lower. For the same reason, industry did not invest in capital, because a loan for said capital would inevitably cost more in the long run. High savings rate in Japan did not enable them to survive their recession, it extended it a decade longer than it would have been had the government stepped in an ensured that deflation had not taken place. This is a textbook example of a deflationary spiral, which I referenced in my previous post, which you appear to have glossed over in your zeal to ignore reality.
Japan would have had deflation if only it didn't ruin its economy by inflating its money and stealing the purchasing power from its citizens. You know, you should research and show us a single time that deflation actually HURT somebody! (as opposed to inflation, which actually DESTROYED entire countries).
Let me get this straight, you argue that Japan had deflation because they had inflation. That is the most illogical thing I have read on Slashdot in a good long while. According to the oracle of Wikipedia:
The third [significant period of deflation in the United States] was between 1930–1933 when the rate of deflation was approximately 10 percent/year, part of the United States' slide into the Great Depression, where banks failed and unemployment peaked at 25%.
I would say deflation caused a bit of pain for all those unemployed people.
You obviously do not understand the fundamentals of economics on this subject. You would be better served to do a bit of research on the subject before going off as you have. For shame.
Please observe what happened to Japan in the 1990s with regard to deflation. Deflation is the last thing you want your economy to do systematically, across the board. It encourages people to put off consumption and make a recession last a lot longer than it could.
This is precisely why the Fed continues to print money. By trying to keep inflation above 2% we can avoid the nasty business of dealing with a deflationary spiral. Debtors calling to the cessation of the quantitative easing will rue the day it happens, for deflation will exacerbate any debt load.
52 * 5 * 1 = 260
nmap is 13 years old today. May it live to be 113.
In Seattle and over 21, try Shorty's for pinball fun. Last time I went there it was cash only.
http://www.shortydog.com/
Get a M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. There are plenty of schools that offer it and you might be surprised at how easy it is to be admitted to a program. Some even have an online masters program that makes it rather convenient to complete, like UW Seattle, where I got my M.Sc.
I work at a research lab connected to a large research university and having the M.Sc. definitely helps in getting to work on more interesting projects. The advantage with not having the Ph.D. is there is less burden on you to go find funding. The trick is to become indispensable to a couple of primary investigators that do completely different things to help improve job security. Where I work it is possible for a person with a M.Sc. to become a PI, so eventually if I start coming up with my own ideas, I should be able to work something out and be in charge of my own projects.
I'm personally convinced it's just another round of Memory Company Collusion, like the whole rambus thing.
Honestly the price of ALL memory has gone up between 20 and 100 percent in the past year (go look at ddr2/ddr3 prices, they're the same or HIGHER than they were last year. 4 gigs for 50 bucks a year ago, 2 gigs for 45 bucks now. There was an overlap period on newegg where UNREGISTERED ECC DDR3 @ 1333 was CHEAPER than Non-ECC consumer sticks by 10-20 bucks for the same capacity. Obviously that has since changed, but the point is memory is suspiciously going up in price while most other consumer hardware is still on the way down.)
Have you taken into account the difference in inflation of your local currency and that of the currency used where the RAM in question is made? Assuming a Taiwanese manufacturer selling in the US, my back of the envelope calculations put a $50 quantity of RAM last year at most $53 today due to exchange rates. Add on another 2% for inflation (http://forecasts.org/inflation.htm) we get $54.
Then again that does not take into account the dip in supply as a result of manufacturers holding off production while the western economies tanked over the last year or two. It comes down to how accurately did the manufacturers predict the drop in demand. It is possible demand exceeds supply enough to increase prices by about $5-$15 at the moment.
I think it is plausible that we are only seeing market forces at play here. Someone should look into it a bit more though, to be sure.
I guess that works if you enjoy working in a panopticon. One of the most aggravating things is to have your back to everyone else in the group, headphones blasting to drone out the ambient noise (three programmers in a room with 14 servers/workstations and A/C), and then get surprised from behind by someone like the boss. Never sit with your back to the door. Isn't that how James Butler Hickok went out?
Looks like someone may disagree with you on that one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EScPiP2QjXM
False. The density of air does not change with speed. What you may be trying to refer to is called the Reynolds number, a dimensionless quantity that relates fluid velocity with viscosity and characteristic length-scale. This is what allows the Mythbusters to make their own wind tunnel using water for the "Tail-gate Up or Down" episode. By setting the velocity of the water to compensate for the increased viscosity compared to air, they can get pretty close to simulating highway speeds for their model truck (characteristic length scales having been taken into consideration as well).
The only thing that would be pretty dense at those speeds would be this anonymous coward.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number