It's not so much how many transistors you have that limits speed, it's how big they are - and the 8086 transistors are *much* bigger than current generation transistors. I suppose you could make a chip with exactly 8086 architecture with 2007 technology and make it quite fast - maybe that's what you meant.
Do you mean that: "Lacks binary distribution for all" = "There are binary distribution for most"?
If "Lacks binary distribution for all" = "There are binary distribution for none"
Do you still think they're the same?
The statement regarding PostgreSQL should be written more clearly. Given the choice between assuming incompetence (writing an easily misinterpreted sentence) and malice (bias), one should usually charitably assume incompetence.
Never seen one dropped, but I've seen one closed with a pen lying on top of the keyboard. Cracked the display diagonally on an almost brand new ThinkPad. Ugh.
I don't have any Mod points right now, but isn't a reply to an Offtopic post pretty much automatically offtopic? Go ahead and mod me Offtopic, I'll consider that an affirmative answer.
I didn't RTFA, but from the summary, it sounds like a lack of communication, research, and critical thinking skills, not "techno" skills. Not every dang thing is a "techno" skill just because you're using a computer to do it.
No it's not. The alternative is to not vote at all, or vote third party, which, as has been explained, is the same thing. And that does not produce a less evil outcome. Voting so as to minimize evil is not voting for evil.
"You cannot be TOTALLY ignorant. You will know something."
That's awfully nice of you. It doesn't explain reality, however. You admit there is such a thing as a "bad" vote, and do not set any limit on what fraction of votes is "bad". The *result* can be quite "bad". This conforms better with reality than saying all those "bad" votes magically somehow cancel each other out. What is the proposed mechanism for that? Anti-votes? Super-vote-symmetry?
Yeah, but he did come up with the idea for those $100 laptops to help kids in third-world countries! OK, he couldn't get people to buy them for $300 to help others out, but it was a good intention!
Note: this is not a real opinion. If it had been a real opinion, you would have been informed as to where to put it. Thank you.
I think beginner's luck has some meaning in activities like golf and bowling where the first time (or first few times) you play, you don't even know what to concentrate on, so you're just relaxed, and that in itself enables you do to reasonably well.
Then when you learn a technique or two (or *think* you've learned), you focus on those so much (and they may not be the right technique or what's important), you're no longer relaxed. You now feel some pressure to perform since you're no longer a beginner, and boom, you can't play as well as you did before.
And of course there's the subjective aspect, that when you play the first time, you don't expect to hit a strike, so when you do, you feel like you've really accomplished something. Later, when you *don't* get a strike, you feel like you've failed - something you wouldn't have felt the first time. So you remember the *feeling* of success from the early experiences, even though the scores were really no better.
You did notice how 'interface-free' was in single quotation marks, didn't you? That's all you need to know.
It's also why I'll never eat at a place that has a sign that says "Fresh" Seafood, or the like.
I don't see how you can say "freefall" when you also admit that in your experience, the price has gone from $19 to $14. To me "freefall" suggests a 50% decrease or more.
I also disagree with the $18-20 figure. I've only paid $18-20 a handful of times, usually some European import CD or something.
CDs, in my experience, have always cost *around* $15.
I'm less certain about what they cost nowadays. As I said, I don't buy many now. The last one I bought was a European import of a youth orchestra playing a Nielsen symphony and the Barber Cello Concerto. It was $17-something.
I admit, I don't actually remember, over twenty years ago, him saying "$0.50".
It was an order of magnitude kind of thing. I do remember reading a few years ago that they cost $0.60 to produce.
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It's not so much how many transistors you have that limits speed, it's how big they are - and the 8086 transistors are *much* bigger than current generation transistors. I suppose you could make a chip with exactly 8086 architecture with 2007 technology and make it quite fast - maybe that's what you meant.
So can I prevent cancer by eating rancid butter, parmesan cheese or artificial pineapple flavoring? Yay!
Not true. IIRC someone's gotten a material to exhibit negative refractive index at infrared wavelengths.
Good grief. How about funny?
In this scheme, light traveling one second at 186,000 mph goes . . . 1/186,000 of a mile (about 1/3 of an inch!)
If "Lacks binary distribution for all" = "There are binary distribution for none"
Do you still think they're the same?
The statement regarding PostgreSQL should be written more clearly. Given the choice between assuming incompetence (writing an easily misinterpreted sentence) and malice (bias), one should usually charitably assume incompetence.
He said "(fans excluded)".
Never seen one dropped, but I've seen one closed with a pen lying on top of the keyboard. Cracked the display diagonally on an almost brand new ThinkPad. Ugh.
". . .uh, er, . . . it must've been that dang spyware again! I swear!"
I don't have any Mod points right now, but isn't a reply to an Offtopic post pretty much automatically offtopic? Go ahead and mod me Offtopic, I'll consider that an affirmative answer.
(as seen in the Veggie Tales movie, Esther) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther..._The_Girl_Wh o_Became_Queen
I suspect he's concerned about cavitation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation.
I didn't RTFA, but from the summary, it sounds like a lack of communication, research, and critical thinking skills, not "techno" skills. Not every dang thing is a "techno" skill just because you're using a computer to do it.
Tied for largest. Also second lowest year in terms total ozone concentration in the hole.
There's noise in the data. It is shrinking.
http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ has details.
And nice use of sparklines.
You wouldn't be skeptical of an article about peak oil in a medical journal? I would. About the journal as well, come to think of it.
Processing and packaging uses polymers, processing uses lots of water and energy.
But it doesn't make a lot of sense, given that it could go in the Science category. (Pseudo-science?)
You want a "PI chart"?
Here ya go:
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No it's not. The alternative is to not vote at all, or vote third party, which, as has been explained, is the same thing. And that does not produce a less evil outcome. Voting so as to minimize evil is not voting for evil.
That's awfully nice of you. It doesn't explain reality, however. You admit there is such a thing as a "bad" vote, and do not set any limit on what fraction of votes is "bad". The *result* can be quite "bad". This conforms better with reality than saying all those "bad" votes magically somehow cancel each other out. What is the proposed mechanism for that? Anti-votes? Super-vote-symmetry?
I didn't read the summary much less TFA, but the answer is "NO!"
I changed my sig a while back. It's quite apropos for this thread.
I like PDX better than any other airport I've been to, and I'm glad it's always my final destination.
PHX (similar abbreviation, hmmm, a coincidence/) also has free Wi-Fi.
I saw a website that summarizes Wi-Fi availability in airports throughout the US. I don't feel like googling it now, that's OK, you can.
Note: this is not a real opinion. If it had been a real opinion, you would have been informed as to where to put it. Thank you.
Then when you learn a technique or two (or *think* you've learned), you focus on those so much (and they may not be the right technique or what's important), you're no longer relaxed. You now feel some pressure to perform since you're no longer a beginner, and boom, you can't play as well as you did before.
And of course there's the subjective aspect, that when you play the first time, you don't expect to hit a strike, so when you do, you feel like you've really accomplished something. Later, when you *don't* get a strike, you feel like you've failed - something you wouldn't have felt the first time. So you remember the *feeling* of success from the early experiences, even though the scores were really no better.
You did notice how 'interface-free' was in single quotation marks, didn't you? That's all you need to know.
It's also why I'll never eat at a place that has a sign that says "Fresh" Seafood, or the like.
I don't see how you can say "freefall" when you also admit that in your experience, the price has gone from $19 to $14. To me "freefall" suggests a 50% decrease or more.
I also disagree with the $18-20 figure. I've only paid $18-20 a handful of times, usually some European import CD or something. CDs, in my experience, have always cost *around* $15.
I'm less certain about what they cost nowadays. As I said, I don't buy many now. The last one I bought was a European import of a youth orchestra playing a Nielsen symphony and the Barber Cello Concerto. It was $17-something.
I admit, I don't actually remember, over twenty years ago, him saying "$0.50".
It was an order of magnitude kind of thing. I do remember reading a few years ago that they cost $0.60 to produce.