I say we start holding people under water. If they survive they are obviously alien and then we can burn them at the stake. I read it in a book once and it seemed like a good idea then.
But that is all small potatoes, M3 includes all of M2 (which includes M1) plus large-denomination ($100,000 or more) time deposits, balances in institutional money funds, repurchase liabilities issued by depository institutions, and Eurodollars held by U.S. residents at foreign branches of U.S. banks and at all banks in the United Kingdom and Canada."
In other words, M3 tracks what the big boys are doing with the money. This includes US dollars held in banks in Canada and the UK (called Eurodollars) not to be confused with the Euro which is the standard currency of Europe.
So in other words, they don't track the largest chunk of inflationary data. The banks, and the rich. All these sub-prime housing loans are getting funded somehow. You don't think that the M3 rate could be through the roof (to get people to buy into housing) and they decided to hide it from the general public? Sure, M1 and M2 looks fine, but with M3 the American Dollar is slipping on the global market to pay for it. I don't know if that chart lists the M3 rates, but my guess is that it doesn't.
Just last week I went to move 40,000+ small (less than 700 byte) files off an FTP server. I was lazy and decided to just use IE6's built in FTP client. I was moving the files in the background and doing other "work" in Firefox while it moved the files. A few hours later everything on my PC started closing out (crashing), even Explorer and I was left with Firefox and a few other applications running. IE, Explorer, Visual Studio 2005, and a few other applications just aborted when my machine ran out of memory (1G RAM, 2G swap).
Why IE was using over 2G of RAM for moving 40,000 files I have no clue, but I was impressed that Firefox continued to run when even Windows Explorer (and even Visual Studio... Microsoft's "crowning achievement") shut down. I guess Microsoft doesn't plan on running out of memory when coding applications.
all other security services by voluntarily-funded competitors in a free market rather than through compulsory taxation
Yeah, so the rich can hire mercenaries to take out their neighbor for more land. They don't even have to get their hands dirty. That's just how I see that happening. You'd also lead into Mega-Law companies (aka: Judge Dread/Robocop) where the company can pretty much do whatever it wants because they are the law. No thanks.
According to our forefathers, the right to vote is worth your life. My how times have slipped. But I do agree. I can't blame the voter when you have the choices you have today.
Same here. I just figured I was one of a few select people that liked Untold Legends, NFS:Carbon, Motorstorm, Warhawk, and R&C. I'm sitting on a few games I haven't even got to play yet because of Ratchet eating my PS3 time.
I guess I didn't get my "cool badge" that gives me permission to bust on the system.
Look at it this way though. If you assume that XP is all fine and dandy, your leaving yourself open for someone to try. When dealing with security, it's best to assume the worse scenario. If you think nobody will try to use it, your asking to be infiltrated. If I were in the security field, I'd put a big red warning on it and at least investigate it.
No, but it does reconnect the sequence and for the most part turn the circuit back on. A lot of industries use the "big red button" for safety shut offs. If you need to shut it off, hit the button. Need to fire it back up. Pull the button back out. What you do with the circuit has nothing to do with it being a switch or a button.
Normally bugs don't get fixed unless they break. If you work in the software industry you know this. Once the code is out there (and XP is from most accounts, the same kernel as 2K) nobody ever goes back to "double check verify" that it's actually the right way to do it.
It's a logical guess at this point, but there was no call to update the RNG because nobody complained about it until now.
You know the nice thing about Wikipedia? You can add the date yourself. Your complaining that Wiki doesn't have a holiday listed, but in retrospect, your only complaining about your own lack of ambition to add it.
Not sure if it's true anymore, but one of the guys I worked with came from Pakistan. He said he could live the rest of his life in PK on $150,000 (converted to local currency) with a nice house, servants, and no worries.
Well, I'll tell you what my dad said to me a while back. The roads would be straight if the damn counties would have worked together when they decided to lay down the road. Then again, where I grew up, it wasn't uncommon to have S-curves in the middle of nowhere for no apparent reason other than farmland or township boundaries.
Yeah, I live in an apartment and when I am sitting in the bathroom (sorry, TMI) looking at the half wall across the room, I always notice that it's not straight with the fake tile on the floor. I'm not talking about a few millimeters here. I mean this is off by about 2 inches. I've also noticed some other walls that are not straight in the time I've lived there. It freaks me out that this happened and wasn't corrected during the build. It looks like the whole building shifted and it was new when I moved in so it was built that way.
(Yes, I realized I used both Metric and Standard units, sue me)
Didn't you know? Sex is the only acceptable hobby. Men must sell their souls for it, women must regulate it and be rewarded before doing it with shiny stones and food, and anyone that defies that process is a sad and/or pathetic person. You must promote this thought in adolescents. They must be taught these rules or be hung. Early teen abortion is acceptable for anyone who does not comply. You may as well commit suicide because your life is not complete without it. Especially if your bald, fat, hairy, etc. You should just give up now because you will never be "cool" and people will hate you for not having it. They can tell by looking at you if you've had it. If you don't have it at least every other day, you will be lynched like the evil monster you are. Shame on you!
Oh, sorry, I had a social acceptance moment there.
IMO, it is not the _interface_ that is cool about Time Machine, but the ease of use and the fact that it is fully automatic.
What's the difference? The interface is how you use software. If it's easy to use, it has a good interface.
If we are talking absolutes here, the most fully automatic application would have no interface. I'm not pointing this to you, but the combination of your post and the GP.
Ah, the old dated, "Java's slow" remark. Java's Client VM may be, sure. But you can always use the server VM or native compilation. Also, Eclipse is quite possibly the coolest IDE I've used, right up next to Visual Studio. The non-version manager code history features alone won me over.
C#/.NET is gaining popularity because it's installed by default on the OS that has market share and partly because it's Microsoft. Hell, the company I work for approved it's use before Flash simply because it's MS. If a non MS Java VM was installed by default with Windows Update things might be different. It may also be the the thought that Java cannot be compiled into native executables which are less apt to "code stealing" through de-compilation, which is wrong.
Now that Sun is opening it's Java implementations, it can only look up as far as performance and platform support. As a side note, Java has increased in performance most notably with SE5 and 6 and has done wonders for the speed and performance numbers. It may be "too little-too late" for you, but please stop using the argument of Java being slow if you haven't been programming in Java for a few years.
Also, deprecation is not a bad thing. It's called adapting and changing. Microsoft's model is to start over every few years with a new OS full of bugs and problems. Of course, they charge the consumer for it. That's their business model. Deprecation can morph languages into something better without steep learning curves and alienating the former clients. Hell, I was surprised when Microsoft brought "Goto" back in C#. Sure, it's main usage is sort of a hack to switch fall-through, but I'd argue that Goto is about as archaic and needless as it gets. At least Java had the foresight to deprecate it to discourage it's use.
Having programmed in Java and C#, I don't see what your getting at on the claim that.NET is somehow better than that which it was modeled after. Unless you truly are here as a Microsoft fan or employee trying to up-sell the company. Java is just as capable and stable as.NET (I'd arguably say Java's grown more stable and capable over the years.) All your previous posts I've read point me to this belief of you being here for "fan or fortune."
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Yeah, damn them video games and their video capability... Why don't people just go back to good old fashioned board games. Who needs fancy graphics!?
Your telling me that putting something on Mars is easier than the moon? I think the knowledge of placing a craft on another solar body still exists.
I say we start holding people under water. If they survive they are obviously alien and then we can burn them at the stake. I read it in a book once and it seemed like a good idea then.
http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Articles/M3_Money_supply.asp
So in other words, they don't track the largest chunk of inflationary data. The banks, and the rich. All these sub-prime housing loans are getting funded somehow. You don't think that the M3 rate could be through the roof (to get people to buy into housing) and they decided to hide it from the general public? Sure, M1 and M2 looks fine, but with M3 the American Dollar is slipping on the global market to pay for it. I don't know if that chart lists the M3 rates, but my guess is that it doesn't.
Just last week I went to move 40,000+ small (less than 700 byte) files off an FTP server. I was lazy and decided to just use IE6's built in FTP client. I was moving the files in the background and doing other "work" in Firefox while it moved the files. A few hours later everything on my PC started closing out (crashing), even Explorer and I was left with Firefox and a few other applications running. IE, Explorer, Visual Studio 2005, and a few other applications just aborted when my machine ran out of memory (1G RAM, 2G swap).
Why IE was using over 2G of RAM for moving 40,000 files I have no clue, but I was impressed that Firefox continued to run when even Windows Explorer (and even Visual Studio... Microsoft's "crowning achievement") shut down. I guess Microsoft doesn't plan on running out of memory when coding applications.
If the latest Crysis Demo has anything to say about it, there goes one of your "Pros."
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2209704,00.asp
Yeah, so the rich can hire mercenaries to take out their neighbor for more land. They don't even have to get their hands dirty. That's just how I see that happening. You'd also lead into Mega-Law companies (aka: Judge Dread/Robocop) where the company can pretty much do whatever it wants because they are the law. No thanks.
According to our forefathers, the right to vote is worth your life. My how times have slipped. But I do agree. I can't blame the voter when you have the choices you have today.
Well, this _IS_ the Internet.
She died from neglect a few years back and nobody head the heart to tell you.
You didn't know that the Beowulf project was named after the movie?
Same here. I just figured I was one of a few select people that liked Untold Legends, NFS:Carbon, Motorstorm, Warhawk, and R&C. I'm sitting on a few games I haven't even got to play yet because of Ratchet eating my PS3 time.
I guess I didn't get my "cool badge" that gives me permission to bust on the system.
Look at it this way though. If you assume that XP is all fine and dandy, your leaving yourself open for someone to try. When dealing with security, it's best to assume the worse scenario. If you think nobody will try to use it, your asking to be infiltrated. If I were in the security field, I'd put a big red warning on it and at least investigate it.
No, but it does reconnect the sequence and for the most part turn the circuit back on. A lot of industries use the "big red button" for safety shut offs. If you need to shut it off, hit the button. Need to fire it back up. Pull the button back out. What you do with the circuit has nothing to do with it being a switch or a button.
No, but it was worded a little funny and sounded like you said that particular holiday was not listed.
Normally bugs don't get fixed unless they break. If you work in the software industry you know this. Once the code is out there (and XP is from most accounts, the same kernel as 2K) nobody ever goes back to "double check verify" that it's actually the right way to do it.
It's a logical guess at this point, but there was no call to update the RNG because nobody complained about it until now.
Sure you can... Those big red buttons depress, and you have to grab the edge and pull it back out.
You know the nice thing about Wikipedia? You can add the date yourself. Your complaining that Wiki doesn't have a holiday listed, but in retrospect, your only complaining about your own lack of ambition to add it.
Not sure if it's true anymore, but one of the guys I worked with came from Pakistan. He said he could live the rest of his life in PK on $150,000 (converted to local currency) with a nice house, servants, and no worries.
Well, I'll tell you what my dad said to me a while back. The roads would be straight if the damn counties would have worked together when they decided to lay down the road. Then again, where I grew up, it wasn't uncommon to have S-curves in the middle of nowhere for no apparent reason other than farmland or township boundaries.
Yeah, I live in an apartment and when I am sitting in the bathroom (sorry, TMI) looking at the half wall across the room, I always notice that it's not straight with the fake tile on the floor. I'm not talking about a few millimeters here. I mean this is off by about 2 inches. I've also noticed some other walls that are not straight in the time I've lived there. It freaks me out that this happened and wasn't corrected during the build. It looks like the whole building shifted and it was new when I moved in so it was built that way.
(Yes, I realized I used both Metric and Standard units, sue me)
Didn't you know? Sex is the only acceptable hobby. Men must sell their souls for it, women must regulate it and be rewarded before doing it with shiny stones and food, and anyone that defies that process is a sad and/or pathetic person. You must promote this thought in adolescents. They must be taught these rules or be hung. Early teen abortion is acceptable for anyone who does not comply. You may as well commit suicide because your life is not complete without it. Especially if your bald, fat, hairy, etc. You should just give up now because you will never be "cool" and people will hate you for not having it. They can tell by looking at you if you've had it. If you don't have it at least every other day, you will be lynched like the evil monster you are. Shame on you!
Oh, sorry, I had a social acceptance moment there.
If we are talking absolutes here, the most fully automatic application would have no interface. I'm not pointing this to you, but the combination of your post and the GP.
Ah, the old dated, "Java's slow" remark.
Java's Client VM may be, sure. But you can always use the server VM or native compilation. Also, Eclipse is quite possibly the coolest IDE I've used, right up next to Visual Studio. The non-version manager code history features alone won me over.
C#/.NET is gaining popularity because it's installed by default on the OS that has market share and partly because it's Microsoft. Hell, the company I work for approved it's use before Flash simply because it's MS. If a non MS Java VM was installed by default with Windows Update things might be different. It may also be the the thought that Java cannot be compiled into native executables which are less apt to "code stealing" through de-compilation, which is wrong.
Now that Sun is opening it's Java implementations, it can only look up as far as performance and platform support. As a side note, Java has increased in performance most notably with SE5 and 6 and has done wonders for the speed and performance numbers. It may be "too little-too late" for you, but please stop using the argument of Java being slow if you haven't been programming in Java for a few years.
Also, deprecation is not a bad thing. It's called adapting and changing. Microsoft's model is to start over every few years with a new OS full of bugs and problems. Of course, they charge the consumer for it. That's their business model. Deprecation can morph languages into something better without steep learning curves and alienating the former clients. Hell, I was surprised when Microsoft brought "Goto" back in C#. Sure, it's main usage is sort of a hack to switch fall-through, but I'd argue that Goto is about as archaic and needless as it gets. At least Java had the foresight to deprecate it to discourage it's use.
Some benchmarks and links:
http://www.kano.net/javabench/data
http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/java-slow/
Having programmed in Java and C#, I don't see what your getting at on the claim that .NET is somehow better than that which it was modeled after. Unless you truly are here as a Microsoft fan or employee trying to up-sell the company. Java is just as capable and stable as .NET (I'd arguably say Java's grown more stable and capable over the years.) All your previous posts I've read point me to this belief of you being here for "fan or fortune."