While I think that the idea of terraforming the planet is silly, the presence of water is good. It means that if we ever colonise the planet (in bubbles, not because we terraform it) that water is one less thing we have to worry about transporting there (or creating). Large amounts of water also means that we can probably create Oxygen, making the idea of a permenant station even more viable.
I'm not sure that the presence of water is enough. Mars' atmosphere a surface pressure 1% (from memory) of the Earths. If we 'release' the frozen ice, won't a whole heap of water simply 'evaporate' into space? I'm not a mars terraforming expert, but it seems to me that having water is just one of many things needed.
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Ok, that sounds reasonable. Not that I really have any of those problems (it was a joke:-) I will trial a green desktop for a while though. Thanks
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I agree that it does look good. However, I will stick with blue because it sooths, calms and refreshes me so that I don't smash my monitor in uncontrollable rages.
Forgive me if I'm wrong (I've not coded parallel things before), but if the code is re-entrant, does this go a long way towards running the code in parallel? Obviously there are other factors involved here, like addressing memory, but this is thought of in re-entrant programming. I'm not sure what the difference is... please enlighten me:-)
It's got more to do with conformance of groups. If the study was not flawed and was less myopic, then I'd be interested. As it stands though, I'd not wipe my......with it.
In theory, I cannot flaw this decision. If the reply/feedback must be from a person who has purchased the book, then this would immediately rule out many variables. Even better would be if Amazon sent a free copy of the book (to persons whose profile indicates they are interested in the subject) with the proviso that they must provide feedback. There could be a checklist that people responding must follow, and if the response does not meet certain Performance Indicators, then the cost of the book will no longer be waived. If the system was well documented and the waivers clear and ambiguous, then I'd participate without hesistation.
This code of conduct (CCC) for nongovernmtal organisations (NGOs) is a result of BSR and shows the effectiveness of clear communication and cooperation (CCC). The groups participating in the guidelines (apart from MS and G) are BCISH, BSR, EFF, HRW and RWB. A YS (Yahoo subsidiary) was cited by HRGs to identify PAs who were posting AGOs and O&I online.
What is the point? The conclusions in the paper (paraphrased or abbreviated):
Upgrading office programs is time-consuming and expensive ...Yes...
OpenOffice.org is free, extremely stable, and supports the ISO Open Document Standard.
And?
...it is recommended to adopt a policy of both ad hoc and periodic training...
Well, that's insightful
This is because these costs are too much influenced by factors like inflation and market flow.
Ok, good. A non-conclusion
A model that differentiates between cost of migration and costs of ownership better
respond to the managers' needs.
Wow, what a breakthrough
5. There are no extra costs due to lack of productivity arising from the use of the
OOo.
I thought the paper was about FLOSS; not just OOo. Hmm, this is a strange conclusion to make considering the report title.
I agree. Triage for reinstalling a video card is appropriate. All calls I make get answered in one one ring or less. No press this or press that. Just a parrot on the other end of the line who is an experienced triage nurse. Triage is most important. Using this metaphor, they can assess how critical your request is. How critical THEY think your reqeust is. THEY make the call. This isn't an emergency room; it's a customer support number that you ring because of non-critical hardware upgrades. "Triage" is a load of crap; the "urgency" is imposed by them themselves. It's like a doctor installing a faulty pacemaker and then saying that if you replace the battery you must go first through triage. It's artificial. Home Windows is not a life or death situation. If I want to install a new video-card I am damn well entitled to do so, without going through the Microsoft "triage". That is my point. If you think it's OK for MS to dictate to you what and what you cannot do to your hardware, then fine. Do not call me a "tard without a clue" though; when, in fact, I do. I'd go as far as saying that it is you who doesn't have a clue, because you buy into all the propaganda that is apparent in your post. Thanks.
Microsoft CRM (Customer relationship management). Interesting idea. WGA. Deciding what can and cannot be played/viewed. Having a great help-desk that only ever gets used because people buy a new video card and need to reactivate Windows. In fact, I didn't even know that Microsoft had customer relationships (apart from, we give you a piece of crappy software and you pay us to try and use it). Last time I was involved in Microsoft CRM, it went something like this:
Me: Hi. I just bought a new video card and now Windows is asking me to reactivate.
MS: Thanks for calling Microsoft. How can we help?
Me: I just bought a new video card and now Windows is asking me to reactivate. How do I do this?
MS: Thanks for calling Microsoft. Your call is important to us. All our operators are busy at the moment. Please hold the line. **Microsoft jingle plays**
MS Rep: Thanks for calling Microsoft. How can I serve you today?
Me: Err... I need to reactivate Windows
MS Rep: How many computers do you currently have Windows installed on?
Me: None, it's broken
MS Rep: The Microsoft(TM)(R)(C)(Patent Pending) XP Operating System is for use on one computer only. Because your copy is not installed on a computer, you are in violation of the EULA subclause 287.111, where it clearly says that you must install Windows (TM) (C) (Patent Pending) on ONE computer only.
Me: Yes, I am trying to install it on this computer
MS Rep: You cannot install it on that computer because you are in violation of the EULA by not having it installed on any computer at all
Less is not more if there is no option to view more detail. This is Gnomes worst "feature". Apps are able to fail and get away with displaying error messages like "Application Failed to Load". How is this helpful?
At the risk of being labelled a troll, I have a few obversations to make. I yearn to return to Gnome (I made the switch from Gnome--which I'd been using for 3 years--to KDE about a year ago. I'm not sure if it's a "feature" of Gnome, but when Gnome apps (at least on my systems) fail, they don't even give a reasonable error message. This may be a design feature, to make it "easier", but, in fact, makes things stupidly difficult. If something fails, then I want to know WHY (at least give me the option of more detailed error messages). KDE is consistent. Gnome isn't (yet). 3 years ago, I would laugh at KDE users, because I knew that "Gnome was best". These days I take a more pragmatic view. Ideoligally, Gnome may be better. In practice, KDE takes the cake.
Ncurses (New curses for those not familiar with it) is, as far as I know, the best solution to what you're asking. There's probably other libraries available, but I've never looked--Ncurses is tried, tested and does its job well.
Slashdot Mirror
That's actually more interesting than the actual story. Thanks
Yes, Valve is bad, but Steam isn't as bad as you're making out
Well, that's ok then
I have seen everything now. WTF kind of country do you people live in? :-)
The key words (ok, phrases): "approximately", "of sorts"
While I think that the idea of terraforming the planet is silly, the presence of water is good. It means that if we ever colonise the planet (in bubbles, not because we terraform it) that water is one less thing we have to worry about transporting there (or creating). Large amounts of water also means that we can probably create Oxygen, making the idea of a permenant station even more viable.
I'm not sure that the presence of water is enough. Mars' atmosphere a surface pressure 1% (from memory) of the Earths. If we 'release' the frozen ice, won't a whole heap of water simply 'evaporate' into space? I'm not a mars terraforming expert, but it seems to me that having water is just one of many things needed.
Perhaps it would be better to update the kernel
Ok, that sounds reasonable. Not that I really have any of those problems (it was a joke :-) I will trial a green desktop for a while though. Thanks
I agree that it does look good. However, I will stick with blue because it sooths, calms and refreshes me so that I don't smash my monitor in uncontrollable rages.
So, anything within the loop (using your example) cannot depend on i-1 being known? So, for the loop:
;-)
for (i = 0; i doSomething (i);
doSomething() cannot know or infer i-1. Is that right? So doSomething() really has to regard i as (almost) random. So the loop becomes:
for (i = 0; i doSomething (uniqueRand (i/RANDMAX*100);
No wonder it's so complicated and hard to debug
Forgive me if I'm wrong (I've not coded parallel things before), but if the code is re-entrant, does this go a long way towards running the code in parallel? Obviously there are other factors involved here, like addressing memory, but this is thought of in re-entrant programming. I'm not sure what the difference is... please enlighten me :-)
It's got more to do with conformance of groups. If the study was not flawed and was less myopic, then I'd be interested. As it stands though, I'd not wipe my... ...with it.
In theory, I cannot flaw this decision. If the reply/feedback must be from a person who has purchased the book, then this would immediately rule out many variables. Even better would be if Amazon sent a free copy of the book (to persons whose profile indicates they are interested in the subject) with the proviso that they must provide feedback. There could be a checklist that people responding must follow, and if the response does not meet certain Performance Indicators, then the cost of the book will no longer be waived. If the system was well documented and the waivers clear and ambiguous, then I'd participate without hesistation.
Well, if they need employees to review the entire contents of games, I will volunteer for only $100 an hour
This code of conduct (CCC) for nongovernmtal organisations (NGOs) is a result of BSR and shows the effectiveness of clear communication and cooperation (CCC). The groups participating in the guidelines (apart from MS and G) are BCISH, BSR, EFF, HRW and RWB. A YS (Yahoo subsidiary) was cited by HRGs to identify PAs who were posting AGOs and O&I online.
Well, actually I did. However, a conclusion is a conclusion, no matter which way you look at it (unless, of course, you look at it the wrong way).
What is the point? The conclusions in the paper (paraphrased or abbreviated):
...Yes...
...it is recommended to adopt a policy of both ad hoc and periodic training...
Upgrading office programs is time-consuming and expensive
OpenOffice.org is free, extremely stable, and supports the ISO Open Document Standard.
And?
Well, that's insightful
This is because these costs are too much influenced by factors like inflation and market flow.
Ok, good. A non-conclusion
A model that differentiates between cost of migration and costs of ownership better respond to the managers' needs.
Wow, what a breakthrough
5. There are no extra costs due to lack of productivity arising from the use of the OOo.
I thought the paper was about FLOSS; not just OOo. Hmm, this is a strange conclusion to make considering the report title.
I agree. Triage for reinstalling a video card is appropriate. All calls I make get answered in one one ring or less. No press this or press that. Just a parrot on the other end of the line who is an experienced triage nurse. Triage is most important. Using this metaphor, they can assess how critical your request is. How critical THEY think your reqeust is. THEY make the call. This isn't an emergency room; it's a customer support number that you ring because of non-critical hardware upgrades. "Triage" is a load of crap; the "urgency" is imposed by them themselves. It's like a doctor installing a faulty pacemaker and then saying that if you replace the battery you must go first through triage. It's artificial. Home Windows is not a life or death situation. If I want to install a new video-card I am damn well entitled to do so, without going through the Microsoft "triage". That is my point. If you think it's OK for MS to dictate to you what and what you cannot do to your hardware, then fine. Do not call me a "tard without a clue" though; when, in fact, I do. I'd go as far as saying that it is you who doesn't have a clue, because you buy into all the propaganda that is apparent in your post. Thanks.
Microsoft CRM (Customer relationship management). Interesting idea. WGA. Deciding what can and cannot be played/viewed. Having a great help-desk that only ever gets used because people buy a new video card and need to reactivate Windows. In fact, I didn't even know that Microsoft had customer relationships (apart from, we give you a piece of crappy software and you pay us to try and use it). Last time I was involved in Microsoft CRM, it went something like this:
....
Me: Hi. I just bought a new video card and now Windows is asking me to reactivate.
MS: Thanks for calling Microsoft. How can we help?
Me: I just bought a new video card and now Windows is asking me to reactivate. How do I do this?
MS: Thanks for calling Microsoft. Your call is important to us. All our operators are busy at the moment. Please hold the line. **Microsoft jingle plays**
MS Rep: Thanks for calling Microsoft. How can I serve you today?
Me: Err... I need to reactivate Windows
MS Rep: How many computers do you currently have Windows installed on?
Me: None, it's broken
MS Rep: The Microsoft(TM)(R)(C)(Patent Pending) XP Operating System is for use on one computer only. Because your copy is not installed on a computer, you are in violation of the EULA subclause 287.111, where it clearly says that you must install Windows (TM) (C) (Patent Pending) on ONE computer only.
Me: Yes, I am trying to install it on this computer
MS Rep: You cannot install it on that computer because you are in violation of the EULA by not having it installed on any computer at all
Me:
Less is not more if there is no option to view more detail. This is Gnomes worst "feature". Apps are able to fail and get away with displaying error messages like "Application Failed to Load". How is this helpful?
At the risk of being labelled a troll, I have a few obversations to make. I yearn to return to Gnome (I made the switch from Gnome--which I'd been using for 3 years--to KDE about a year ago. I'm not sure if it's a "feature" of Gnome, but when Gnome apps (at least on my systems) fail, they don't even give a reasonable error message. This may be a design feature, to make it "easier", but, in fact, makes things stupidly difficult. If something fails, then I want to know WHY (at least give me the option of more detailed error messages). KDE is consistent. Gnome isn't (yet). 3 years ago, I would laugh at KDE users, because I knew that "Gnome was best". These days I take a more pragmatic view. Ideoligally, Gnome may be better. In practice, KDE takes the cake.
Ncurses (New curses for those not familiar with it) is, as far as I know, the best solution to what you're asking. There's probably other libraries available, but I've never looked--Ncurses is tried, tested and does its job well.
Yep, that's right. Read it any way you like, but it's still not a contradiction.
The company has secured $100 million in venture capital and is set to build its first facility in Dresden, Germany
:-)
Yep, looks like a contradiction to me. You're 100% wrong