Guam has over 100,000 people on it and a busy airport full of Japanese tourists. Bad choice. Better choice would be to rent one of the uninhabitable pitcairn islands from the UK (I believe there's four islands incapable of sustaining human life on their own--just dry rocks really--but they're on a major shipping lane at least).
The obvious, blocking the zombies. If said zombies are also your customers, send them angry letters and bill them for the privilege. That's At&t standard operating procedure anyway.
No, I really do this. I got all my template files and scripts set up years ago and have never had to muck with formatting menus ever again. I just write the thing and run the script. Works like magic. I even have a command line option to the script to just pass the thing straight to the printer without me having to open the file and press print myself.
It is especially nice for presentations. I use a simple markup scheme I made up in my source file for those, run the script, and out comes a pdf presentation. I hate mucking with formatting menus.
I use a custom perl script so I can write all my essays in plain text with comment lines. The script strips out the comments, builds a latex source file, and compiles to pdf automatically. I've been considering adding in rtf support for the rare occassions I need to work with people who insist on using word processors (which I despise for being slow and inefficient for my purposes), but haven't gotten around to it yet.
I cannot help but think that a Fortran compiler is so far off the mainstream that the performance of its code will be significantly worse than a C++ compiler.
Modern fortran compilers are generally maintained by the processor makers themselves. The big advantage over C (and C++ AAAAGH! I once made the mistake of writing a PDE solver in C++ in high school...never again) is that those fortran compilers are optimised for iterated operations over every value of an array (for say, when each array value is the value of a variable at a given spatial coordinate). This makes Fortran much better for at least some (most of the one's I've had to work on) calculations.
I used to work solely in FORTRAN for simulation work. The big advantage of Fortran90/95 over C is that the compilers are heavily optimized for doing iterated operations over every value of an array. So for say, fluid dynamics, it really is the best. I suspect you might be able achieve a similar speed in C, but that you would have to hand optimise instead (ugh).
I know math is hard and all, and that it doesn't show the cable length on that link, but that's probably a 6 foot cable (I can't remember the last time I saw one shorter than six feet that I didn't cut myself), making it cheaper per foot than the undersea. Not by much though.
Of course, compare to a 100 ft cable for under $10 listed under similar products.
Monster seems to do well off the PT Barnum theory of capitalism--there's a sucker born every minute.
Once a piece of code is GPLed, anybody can do whatever they want with the code: fork a new project for example, without asking further permission from anybody, as long as they release everything under the GPL when the software is distributed.
Yes. This is true.
That doesn't mean the forked version will be the one included in the kernel.
It is amazing how people without the sightliest idea about how the GPL works feel qualified to comment about these news with such abandon.
It's amazing how assholes on the internet can summon the strength to condescend to people they know nothing about.
Sure you can fork the code. Doesn't mean a thing, and MS knows that. If your fork breaks compatibility for someone using MS's version, then they'll stay with MS's version. It's easy for MS to maintain control of their version of this driver, and as long as people use their version, who gives a fuck that you can fork it?
It's amazing how people without the slightest idea about how MS runs their business feel qualified to comment about this news with such abandon.
There's a difference between doing something because it's good for you, and doing something because it's bad for other people. One is selfish, the other is malicious.
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After the shitfest that was The Day After Tomorrow (same director), I expect 2012 to be equally stupid.
Guam has over 100,000 people on it and a busy airport full of Japanese tourists. Bad choice. Better choice would be to rent one of the uninhabitable pitcairn islands from the UK (I believe there's four islands incapable of sustaining human life on their own--just dry rocks really--but they're on a major shipping lane at least).
Typical New Englander mentality: Fuck the Irish.
Where's the +1 Hilarious Hypocrisy mod when you need it?
Pick an ethnic minority and have a party?
OH GOD HOW DO I MOD THIS? Insightful....or funny...or insightful...or funny...or insightful...DEAR GOD WHAT DO I DO?????????1one
The obvious, blocking the zombies. If said zombies are also your customers, send them angry letters and bill them for the privilege. That's At&t standard operating procedure anyway.
No, I really do this. I got all my template files and scripts set up years ago and have never had to muck with formatting menus ever again. I just write the thing and run the script. Works like magic. I even have a command line option to the script to just pass the thing straight to the printer without me having to open the file and press print myself.
It is especially nice for presentations. I use a simple markup scheme I made up in my source file for those, run the script, and out comes a pdf presentation. I hate mucking with formatting menus.
Again, tape recorder (unless you work in a secret underground building where they shoot people with recording devices).
You just don't know how to do this on a computer.
I use a custom perl script so I can write all my essays in plain text with comment lines. The script strips out the comments, builds a latex source file, and compiles to pdf automatically. I've been considering adding in rtf support for the rare occassions I need to work with people who insist on using word processors (which I despise for being slow and inefficient for my purposes), but haven't gotten around to it yet.
No, you don't need to be able to write in cursive. You really don't. Writing legibly is necessary, but cursive is not.
Long gone are the days where you write long compositions by hand. And they aren't coming back.
Print for anything someone else needs to read, and short hand for anything only you need to read is more than enough.
I cannot help but think that a Fortran compiler is so far off the mainstream that the performance of its code will be significantly worse than a C++ compiler.
Modern fortran compilers are generally maintained by the processor makers themselves. The big advantage over C (and C++ AAAAGH! I once made the mistake of writing a PDE solver in C++ in high school...never again) is that those fortran compilers are optimised for iterated operations over every value of an array (for say, when each array value is the value of a variable at a given spatial coordinate). This makes Fortran much better for at least some (most of the one's I've had to work on) calculations.
the best thermodynamic properties to read about at the beach.
I'd say the rate of heat transfer from sand to human skin.
I used to work solely in FORTRAN for simulation work. The big advantage of Fortran90/95 over C is that the compilers are heavily optimized for doing iterated operations over every value of an array. So for say, fluid dynamics, it really is the best. I suspect you might be able achieve a similar speed in C, but that you would have to hand optimise instead (ugh).
I know math is hard and all, and that it doesn't show the cable length on that link, but that's probably a 6 foot cable (I can't remember the last time I saw one shorter than six feet that I didn't cut myself), making it cheaper per foot than the undersea. Not by much though.
Of course, compare to a 100 ft cable for under $10 listed under similar products.
Monster seems to do well off the PT Barnum theory of capitalism--there's a sucker born every minute.
Since when has this ever stopped a judge from issuing a warrant?
Shhhhh! Don't give them any more ideas.
You can certainly try. Be sure to post back with the results of this experiment.
Did you hear that whooshing sound?
It's the sound of your Alicia Silverstone impersonation.
It isn't that HE thinks manually installing the latest versions is any better, it's that the person writing the requirements does.
The /sarcasm tags I didn't bother to type?
Once a piece of code is GPLed, anybody can do whatever they want with the code: fork a new project for example, without asking further permission from anybody, as long as they release everything under the GPL when the software is distributed.
Yes. This is true.
That doesn't mean the forked version will be the one included in the kernel.
It is amazing how people without the sightliest idea about how the GPL works feel qualified to comment about these news with such abandon.
It's amazing how assholes on the internet can summon the strength to condescend to people they know nothing about.
Sure you can fork the code. Doesn't mean a thing, and MS knows that. If your fork breaks compatibility for someone using MS's version, then they'll stay with MS's version. It's easy for MS to maintain control of their version of this driver, and as long as people use their version, who gives a fuck that you can fork it?
It's amazing how people without the slightest idea about how MS runs their business feel qualified to comment about this news with such abandon.
Who said MS would ever accept code contributions?
There's a difference between doing something because it's good for you, and doing something because it's bad for other people. One is selfish, the other is malicious.
Ah, so their motive here is try this in court and invalidate the entire GPL!
See, I knew we couldn't trust them.