If there is a queue of messages occupying the pipe, then we know that there is a queue lined up to transmit the message. Suppose the message is actually occupies 0.5 ±.1 milliseconds of bandwidth, but the current users wait 100 ms for responses, it is not hard to use standard queuing theory to realize the message queue depth is in the large number of 10s of messages, Shaving 6 milliseconds can (being an outsider looking at the situation), result in increasing the capacity 25 or more times. So, it is actually worth the cost.
My uses for batteries are for digital clocks, my electronic thermostats, and a portable radio that has analog tuning. My grandkids use batteries for toys.
I need the aaa's for my wireless mouse. So, for me personally, a dozen batteries lasts me one year. Nickel Metal Hydrate, or whatever, I look at the cost per milli-watt hour.
My granddaughter's school had a science fair. One project was to compare batteries and manufacturer's claims. The students bought 6 alkaline batteries of all the available brands, including Dollar store and heavily promoted. They took some small electric motors (from toys), and breadboarded the motors with a timer.
The Dollar store batteries lasted less than half the hours of the best cells. Duracell was not the one with the most energy, nor the one with the Bunny (Energizer). The winner was Ray-o-vac, followed by Panasonic.
Since the kids were truly impartial, I took it to avoid the top two most expensive brands for Ray-o-vac or Panasonic.
If I mention brands, it is because you can probably do the same experiment as the kids did, and obtain the same results.
What sells windows is the office product. And without a good alternative, businesses will continue with W7 or W8 or W9.
Linux needs good applications. OO and libreoffice need a better interface, the menu a la word 2003 version is not too practical. Also bizzare functionality is worse.
In one of our large parking garages, (7 floors), seniors often forget the floor, and more than that, they don't note the row-aisle number, only the general location. The seniors rely on their car key panic thing when they remember how close they were.
At the elevators there are reminders of the floor, and at the building entrance there is a small pad with tear off sheet and a pen, the drivers want to write a note to themselves. At 70, which I am, I still have a good memory.
Since computers, we programmers or others who write internationally, we use yyyy-mm-dd sometimes mm is written in full. The French method is day,month year,
Another stupid thing is the USA being out of step with the world, who have progressed passed them in manufacturing, and design.
The world is on the metric system, with metric tons, kilograms, grams, etc. And Litres for gallons quarts pints ounces, etc...
Even England dispensed with the old english measures.
My view is that the IPOD design, as well as most other designs are in metric measures, but for the Americans, are expressed in miles, yards, feet, inches, and fingernails.
Actually, the going price around here is about $1000. This amount includes the in-ear unit, the adjustment for correcting higher frequencies above the normal levels, and the preparation of silicon molds that will allow the unit to fit into the auditory canal and not fall out because of a sudden movement or because, in winter, we tend to wear hats with ear flaps.
In the older IBM mainframe days, particularly with MVS, MFT and with development under VM (Circa 1980), we could boot an operating system, have an address stop set by the virtual machine, and when the opsys hit the address and gave control to the human (system programmer), he did a savesys. Which is essentially a hibernate.
Instead of taking 10 minutes to boot a system, it could be done in less than two. So, what we need in good old linux is a savesys concept. A concept we used in 1978+ until IBM sold the company on abandoning VM because it did not sell hardware and VM would stop having support.
There are many projects from which to learn. The way I would do the learning is to start with a small to medium sized project by a) get the user documentation b) study the documentation and c) experiment/use the software. After you understand the functional aspects of the product, your project should be to download the source, including makefile or build information. Then as a second stop, I would look in the source to find the explanation in the user manual, or vice-versa.
Looking at a source library collection without knowing the user functionality will be a most difficult learning process. I would say that this latter approach will lead to frustration and abandonment of your learning wishes.
Many commercial documents require signatures. A signature from each party, and a signature on each page footing or where amendments were made.
Doing this with PDF files is somewhat awkward. Electronic signatures can be hacked. A human signature via fax has won acceptability, first of all, because it is one-to-one in communication. We don't know of telephone lines being hacked.
I used to think as you do, and as Federalists do, that Quebecers will suffer with independance. Now I realize that it might even be good for Quebec to go it alone. We have resources, we export electricity, and we have abundant mineral wealth.
Is that a reason for Separation or is it the fear by Francophones that their language and culture will disappear in the next 75 years. In my view, separation is a sociological solution to a 6 million population in a sea of 350 million English speaking neighbours.
So, my bottom line is that the disappearance of French to English and Spanish is inevitable . Separation will delay this loss by 50 years, and thats all.
For me it was Gilman and Rose's A Programming Language. (APL), developed by Dr Kenneth Iverson. He opened my mind to thinking of solutions to problems in a different way. Sadly, APL has dwindled to almost nothing, and is probably only used by Actuaries and some aficionados. Dr Iverson's son and his peers developed J as an alternative. Once you think of the solution by not thinking of the underlying programming language, progress in thinking can be made.
Canada recognized the problem ten years ago with federal and provincial revenues. We realized that small business creates wealth, large enterprises export the jobs to China. Small business hires local people. People who have jobs have some discretionary income to spend, and that spending generates taxes. When you generate 9.9% unemployment because the work is done in China, then you should realize that job exporting is the cause of a) bankruptcy in dollars and b) bankruptcy in higher education.
My view, tech should be limited to a lab period, one or two days per week. And get jobs repatriated by putting a large tax (import duty) on foreign goods. That will make it more advantageous to deter companies from going offshore and will a) create more jobs and allow more students access to university. (No money means no money for higher education)
Learning concentration is in my view a major problem. We are so used to search engines use that we can't be bothered to think out a solution. We immediately look for the 3 minute solution that we find on the web .
And the bigger problem is that students can't concentrate for 15 minutes at a time. Their mind has been conditioned to short spurts
And when a student finds the solution to his assignment on the web, it is copy, paste, and not even a proof read.
Which states have indicated that handwriting is no longer necessary to be taught in grade school, only keyboarding.
No, internally in the province there is a rising and vigorous nationalistic pressure. There will be a good chance for a provinclal Partie Quebecois government within the next 18 months, and with it will be a steady withdraw of joint Canadian Quebec Programs, and the fiscal transfer of monies to Quebec for Quebec to do it alone. Quebec has been working to fully disassociate itself from Canada, and it will succeed because it has wealth, because of all the Hydro Electric and mineral resources. Canada will be split with a foreign country between the east coast and Ontario on the west side.
The Conservative government wants the USA to favor Canada when we come to sell our dirty energy. I call the energy dirty, considering the source and present and past environmental damages.
Once again, the conservatives only want short term solutions. The conservatives are splitting the country into three, with Quebec Nationalists gaining strength.
I am seeing Canada going into difficult political times in the very near future. The copyright law is only one aspect of a dictatorship type of government.
My son is a Mensa member. He is definitely not like your depiction of others. He has fluency in 7 languages, has worked in Russia, schooled in Canada in English, French, Hebrew, Spanish. He is pretty good in Portugese, reads / writes / speaks Russian and is following Romanian.
Also composes music and does his own lyrics. Jumped 2 years of school and finished 2 years younger than his classmates.
He is also not a NERD.
So, the only problem his mother and I have with a son that is so bright, is keeping up with his richness of knowledge.
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No words to thank Intel for this OpenSource on Patents Idea. Do the patent, but opensource it.
If there is a queue of messages occupying the pipe, then we know that there is a queue lined up to transmit the message.
Suppose the message is actually occupies 0.5 ±.1 milliseconds of bandwidth, but the current users wait 100 ms for responses, it is not hard to use standard queuing theory to realize the message queue depth is in the large number of 10s of messages,
Shaving 6 milliseconds can (being an outsider looking at the situation), result in increasing the capacity 25 or more times. So, it is actually worth the cost.
My uses for batteries are for digital clocks, my electronic thermostats, and a portable radio that has analog tuning. My grandkids use batteries for toys.
I need the aaa's for my wireless mouse. So, for me personally, a dozen batteries lasts me one year. Nickel Metal Hydrate, or whatever, I look at the cost per milli-watt hour.
My granddaughter's school had a science fair. One project was to compare batteries and manufacturer's claims.
The students bought 6 alkaline batteries of all the available brands, including Dollar store and heavily promoted.
They took some small electric motors (from toys), and breadboarded the motors with a timer.
The Dollar store batteries lasted less than half the hours of the best cells. Duracell was not the one with the most energy, nor the one with the Bunny (Energizer). The winner was Ray-o-vac, followed by Panasonic.
Since the kids were truly impartial, I took it to avoid the top two most expensive brands for Ray-o-vac or Panasonic.
If I mention brands, it is because you can probably do the same experiment as the kids did, and obtain the same results.
What sells windows is the office product. And without a good alternative, businesses will continue with W7 or W8 or W9.
Linux needs good applications. OO and libreoffice need a better interface, the menu a la word 2003 version is not too practical. Also bizzare functionality is worse.
They need good QA (OO and LO)
In one of our large parking garages, (7 floors), seniors often forget the floor, and more than that, they don't note the row-aisle number, only the general location.
The seniors rely on their car key panic thing when they remember how close they were.
At the elevators there are reminders of the floor, and at the building entrance there is a small pad with tear off sheet and a pen, the drivers want to write a note to themselves. At 70, which I am, I still have a good memory.
Do you sincerely believe that the USA has exclusivity on intelligence?
Since computers, we programmers or others who write internationally, we use yyyy-mm-dd sometimes mm is written in full.
The French method is day,month year,
Another stupid thing is the USA being out of step with the world, who have progressed passed them in manufacturing, and design.
The world is on the metric system, with metric tons, kilograms, grams, etc. And Litres for gallons quarts pints ounces, etc...
Even England dispensed with the old english measures.
My view is that the IPOD design, as well as most other designs are in metric measures, but for the Americans, are expressed in miles, yards, feet, inches, and fingernails.
Did you charge stamp money to deliver the mail to them?
There is a difference between paypal.org and paypall.org
Which is the correct URL?
My Favourite language is APL (Check out apl360 and the book by Gilman and Rose)
Actually, the going price around here is about $1000. This amount includes the in-ear unit, the adjustment for correcting higher frequencies above the normal levels, and the preparation of silicon molds that will allow the unit to fit into the auditory canal and not fall out because of a sudden movement or because, in winter, we tend to wear hats with ear flaps.
In the older IBM mainframe days, particularly with MVS, MFT and with development under VM (Circa 1980), we could boot an operating system, have an address stop set by the virtual machine, and when the opsys hit the address and gave control to the human (system programmer), he did a savesys. Which is essentially a hibernate.
Instead of taking 10 minutes to boot a system, it could be done in less than two. So, what we need in good old linux is a savesys concept. A concept we used in 1978+ until IBM sold the company on abandoning VM because it did not sell hardware and VM would stop having support.
There are many projects from which to learn. The way I would do the learning is to start with a small to medium sized project by a) get the user documentation
b) study the documentation and c) experiment/use the software.
After you understand the functional aspects of the product, your project should be to download the source, including makefile or build information. Then as a second stop, I would look in the source to find the explanation in the user manual, or vice-versa.
Looking at a source library collection without knowing the user functionality will be a most difficult learning process. I would say that this latter approach will lead to frustration and abandonment of your learning wishes.
Many commercial documents require signatures. A signature from each party, and a signature on each page footing or where amendments were made.
Doing this with PDF files is somewhat awkward. Electronic signatures can be hacked. A human signature via fax has won acceptability, first of all, because it is one-to-one in communication. We don't know of telephone lines being hacked.
Or better still, tax each email classified as junk. Junk is usually advertising, etc, which is what kept the postal service alive
I used to think as you do, and as Federalists do, that Quebecers will suffer with independance. Now I realize that it might even be good for Quebec to go it alone. We have resources, we export electricity, and we have abundant mineral wealth.
Is that a reason for Separation or is it the fear by Francophones that their language and culture will disappear in the next 75 years. In my view, separation is a sociological solution to a 6 million population in a sea of 350 million English speaking neighbours.
So, my bottom line is that the disappearance of French to English and Spanish is inevitable . Separation will delay this loss by 50 years, and thats all.
For me it was Gilman and Rose's A Programming Language. (APL), developed by Dr Kenneth Iverson. He opened my mind to thinking of solutions to problems in a different way. Sadly, APL has dwindled to almost nothing, and is probably only used by Actuaries and some aficionados. Dr Iverson's son and his peers developed J as an alternative. Once you think of the solution by not thinking of the underlying programming language, progress in thinking can be made.
Canada recognized the problem ten years ago with federal and provincial revenues. We realized that small business creates wealth, large enterprises export the jobs to China. Small business hires local people. People who have jobs have some discretionary income to spend, and that spending generates taxes. When you generate 9.9% unemployment because the work is done in China, then you should realize that job exporting is the cause of a) bankruptcy in dollars and b) bankruptcy in higher education.
My view, tech should be limited to a lab period, one or two days per week. And get jobs repatriated by putting a large tax (import duty) on foreign goods. That will make it more advantageous to deter companies from going offshore and will a) create more jobs and allow more students access to university. (No money means no money for higher education)
Is what your are saying "We don't need knowledge people with brains, only doers who can't think past the immediate task.
Learning concentration is in my view a major problem. We are so used to search engines use that we can't be bothered to think out a solution. We immediately look for the 3 minute solution that we find on the web .
And the bigger problem is that students can't concentrate for 15 minutes at a time. Their mind has been conditioned to short spurts
And when a student finds the solution to his assignment on the web, it is copy, paste, and not even a proof read.
Which states have indicated that handwriting is no longer necessary to be taught in grade school, only keyboarding.
No, internally in the province there is a rising and vigorous nationalistic pressure. There will be a good chance for a provinclal Partie Quebecois government within the next 18 months, and with it will be a steady withdraw of joint Canadian Quebec Programs, and the fiscal transfer of monies to Quebec for Quebec to do it alone. Quebec has been working to fully disassociate itself from Canada, and it will succeed because it has wealth, because of all the Hydro Electric and mineral resources. Canada will be split with a foreign country between the east coast and Ontario on the west side.
The Conservative government wants the USA to favor Canada when we come to sell our dirty energy. I call the energy dirty, considering the source and present and past environmental damages.
Once again, the conservatives only want short term solutions.
The conservatives are splitting the country into three, with Quebec Nationalists gaining strength.
I am seeing Canada going into difficult political times in the very near future. The copyright law is only one aspect of a dictatorship type of government.
Should'nt you be laughing with your wallet? With the extra by not having an Iphone, I was able to buy my wife a diamond ring.
My son is a Mensa member. He is definitely not like your depiction of others. He has fluency in 7 languages, has worked in Russia, schooled in Canada in English, French, Hebrew, Spanish. He is pretty good in Portugese, reads / writes / speaks Russian and is following Romanian.
Also composes music and does his own lyrics. Jumped 2 years of school and finished 2 years younger than his classmates.
He is also not a NERD.
So, the only problem his mother and I have with a son that is so bright, is keeping up with his richness of knowledge.