I guess it wouldn't work for ladders for whatever reason, but testing aluminium joins etc for airplanes is much easier. you cover it in red dye, clean it off and then spray a white power onto the metal. It soaks up dye from the cracks in the metal highlighting the defects too small to see otherwise.
No, in all your years of/. have you never followed one of those developer != engineer rants? For this to be considered engineering, at the very least the failure of the process should put people in mortal danger. Since People != Cats, we can assume this is not engineering. This is priobably more akin to some sort of quantom crafting than engineering.
I was introduced to all that at university and while I don't doubt that it's granted me a better insight, I can't say for sure that it's ever had an effect the code I've been paid to write. Most of these questions I read about what makes a "good" developer amount to so much navel gazing. There are of course a few basic things that every developer must be able to do, but beyond that it really depends on the persons goals, the job etc.
The borg reference itself is out of date, and so is appropriate for Gates, and Gates will always be appropriate for Microsoft. I think putting a halo on Jobs and using that for Apple stories would probably have the negative effect you're looking for.
I agree with the parent, but you could agrue that due to the quality of most of the "free" apps available out there, only a negligable amount of them would be considered effective.
I use vlc mostly just to play iso images, and i agree the UI seems a bit unpolished, but I find it refreshing that it does not try to create some craptacular media library any time I just want to create a playlist. My mp3's etc have shitty incomplete tags, there are too many and they are too crap for me to bother with attempting to correct them now. They are arranged by folder and that suits me just fine. I'm sure I've missed some settings in wmp, but out of the box at least it constantly wants me to let it trawl through hundreds of gigs worth of data looking for media to catalog by shitty mp3 tag.
Even if your prediction were to come true I doubt it would happen in my life time, so I couldn't care less. I won't be reading the article, but this sounds more interesting for from the Sci Fi grow new limbs etc angle that others will probably mention (if they haven't already, slow typist)
From scientific experiments I carried out ~20 years ago I know that a small child can punch a hole through regular wallpaper. I'm not sure that's its necessary to continue scaling the experiment up beyond that.
Aside from being a dup apparently, your post is actually a blatantly obvious observation about/. so I guess that sort of makes you part of your own problem. It's annoying to see all the same questions being repeated, but I don't see why people can't discuss the blatantly obvious problems, at least without being patronized.
All the Moore's law stuff is presumably just to make the article (which was very light) more interesting or something. This is just an attempt to put a number on the upper limit to the speed of a calculation, it has nothing to do with silicone or any of that. There has to be a finite limit to the speed of a single calculation, adding more processing units will give you a more powerful computer but it won't make it faster than the speed of that one calculation. Presumably they could also dream up with similar theories for the minimum mass required for a calculation. That would probably lead to a figure for the maximum power of a computer, since to make it more powerful you'd have to add more mass. The more mass you add the further information will have to travel. The speed of light would then be a barrier to the theoretical maximum power of a computer, assuming gravity etc wasn't an issue first.
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If only I could remember useful things.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/quotes?qt0448608/
hacking was easy back when all slashdot ids were less than 6 digits, almost everyone just used god or sex as a password...
iDontGiveARatsAss, and yet here we both are...
I'm going to sue you for making me physically ill with all your good will.
I guess it wouldn't work for ladders for whatever reason, but testing aluminium joins etc for airplanes is much easier. you cover it in red dye, clean it off and then spray a white power onto the metal. It soaks up dye from the cracks in the metal highlighting the defects too small to see otherwise.
People who live in glass houses just want attention, it's best to ignore them.
No, in all your years of /. have you never followed one of those developer != engineer rants? For this to be considered engineering, at the very least the failure of the process should put people in mortal danger. Since People != Cats, we can assume this is not engineering. This is priobably more akin to some sort of quantom crafting than engineering.
His amended bill limits the power to suspected felonies and two misdemeanors -- cyber-stalking and cyber-harassment
I was introduced to all that at university and while I don't doubt that it's granted me a better insight, I can't say for sure that it's ever had an effect the code I've been paid to write. Most of these questions I read about what makes a "good" developer amount to so much navel gazing. There are of course a few basic things that every developer must be able to do, but beyond that it really depends on the persons goals, the job etc.
The borg reference itself is out of date, and so is appropriate for Gates, and Gates will always be appropriate for Microsoft. I think putting a halo on Jobs and using that for Apple stories would probably have the negative effect you're looking for.
I agree with the parent, but you could agrue that due to the quality of most of the "free" apps available out there, only a negligable amount of them would be considered effective.
I know, it sucks that I can't use my kindle as a sun shade and read it at the same time.
There should be some sort of correlation in the results.
"give the box any ability your users might want to get out of it"
that sounds great in theory, but only if you ignore the users that would want some sort of ps3/ fleshlight hybrid, ick.
I use vlc mostly just to play iso images, and i agree the UI seems a bit unpolished, but I find it refreshing that it does not try to create some craptacular media library any time I just want to create a playlist. My mp3's etc have shitty incomplete tags, there are too many and they are too crap for me to bother with attempting to correct them now. They are arranged by folder and that suits me just fine. I'm sure I've missed some settings in wmp, but out of the box at least it constantly wants me to let it trawl through hundreds of gigs worth of data looking for media to catalog by shitty mp3 tag.
You could get to both very quickly if you were near enough to ground zero. You, wouldn't need to worry about supplies then either.
Even if your prediction were to come true I doubt it would happen in my life time, so I couldn't care less. I won't be reading the article, but this sounds more interesting for from the Sci Fi grow new limbs etc angle that others will probably mention (if they haven't already, slow typist)
From scientific experiments I carried out ~20 years ago I know that a small child can punch a hole through regular wallpaper. I'm not sure that's its necessary to continue scaling the experiment up beyond that.
Aside from being a dup apparently, your post is actually a blatantly obvious observation about /. so I guess that sort of makes you part of your own problem. It's annoying to see all the same questions being repeated, but I don't see why people can't discuss the blatantly obvious problems, at least without being patronized.
You had already surmised that carbon monoxide had beneficial uses in medicine, before reading the summary? I hope to fuck you're not a doctor.
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All the Moore's law stuff is presumably just to make the article (which was very light) more interesting or something. This is just an attempt to put a number on the upper limit to the speed of a calculation, it has nothing to do with silicone or any of that. There has to be a finite limit to the speed of a single calculation, adding more processing units will give you a more powerful computer but it won't make it faster than the speed of that one calculation. Presumably they could also dream up with similar theories for the minimum mass required for a calculation. That would probably lead to a figure for the maximum power of a computer, since to make it more powerful you'd have to add more mass. The more mass you add the further information will have to travel. The speed of light would then be a barrier to the theoretical maximum power of a computer, assuming gravity etc wasn't an issue first.
The banker was shit out of luck then.
Farts that take a month to subside do not fall under lesser side effect in my mind.
Your grammar?