At my local big box electronics store, there are 50 checkouts, and one line feeding them all. They usually only have 15 lines open, and there's never a wait. During this season, they open all 50 and the line, while long looking, moves very fast. There is an employee who coordinates the movements between lines, and it flows really well.
Folks, watch out for a nefarious bleak future where computer generated faces are the new future. Because before you know it, you will roll over in bed and that computer face will be YOUR WIFE.
Thanks for listening, and you all have a Merry Christmas.
"administered without deception" could mean that the doctors were deceived into thinking that the placebo was real, thus passing along that mistaken belief to their patients, but not lying while doing it. Thus proving that the lie isn't the important part of placebo, just the mistaken belief.
When are we going to see Bohemian Rhapsody done in the original Klingon?
Translated to English: "Mama, I killed a hyoo man, put a batleth in his head, gave a twist and now he's dead. Mama, now my life's begun! More honor to our house has no one done!"
You see all these type of cases in news where all the police cameras failed at the same time and it happens when the police used questionable force on a suspect.
Every button on an officer's uniform should be a mini-cam. I'd be happy with them driving google cars too. They all can't fail then...
By saying the government is evil, you include the department of Transportation (hint: maintaining the roads and signage), the post office, the FDA, FAA, CDC, and so on. Tell me how each is evil and/or powerhungry, please.
DoT: Did you know they don't consider every human life invaluable? It's true! They have actuaries that tell them how much to spend on road safety, and how many lives lost is "good enough"
Post Office: Only one organization drives its employees violently/suicidaly insane more than the military. Strangely, "Going Army Vet" isn't the term for shooting up the workplace.
FDA: Really? You don't know this one?
FAA: More incompetent than evil. If they were doing their jobs, TSA wouldn't exist.
CDC: They put HIV in your slim jims (cross departmental work with FDA).
and so on: All of the other agencies do the same as the CDC, but with your mountain dew.
How is algorithm development relevant to "various interactions of the hardware components"?
Because developing an algorithm should take the environment into account. One processor or many? Cluster? How much RAM/Swap? Network exists/ is fast? An example of a change in hardware causing a marked change in algorithm response: a basic computing course used to teach the benefits of parallel processing by running a program that would return results in human-time (slow for one machine, but fast for multiple machines). The bottleneck was the 10Mb half-duplex network (the program was supposed to pull data from a lot of sources and compile it, so it was slower when only one computer did the DL). Then we upgraded the lab to be 100Mb-Full. The example had to be artificially limited to remain useful, because even just one computer returned responses in faster than human-time.
Another example from my MUDing days: I took advantage of a MUD's server's slow disk syncing to "save" my character's state, remove my items, get killed, wait for the prior save state to get written to the drive, re-log in (loading from the save state), and thus duplicate items. The "save" algorithm was probably perfect in mental-space, but on the real world of that old SunOS box with the noisy drive (with the MUD probably running at nice 18), there were gaps that allowed me to skip around the algorithm as intended.
It would be if the consumers would go to the factory to do their purchasing, but they're too lazy to go to 30 different factories for all of the food they buy every day. Food needs preserved somehow. We used to use incredible amounts of salt, smoke, or lye to do it.
"This goes against claims of major health benefits from consuming foods and particularly supplements that contain antioxidants."/quote?
Good thing that worms in a lab are so biologically analogous to humans. Time to stop eating tomatoes, broccoli, and spinach
I stopped doing that decades ago after I grew up and couldn't be forced to eat them. Now I look at my friends who are vegetarians, and am shocked at how old they look compared to my mostly meat-eating self.
Yes, that's it, Thiel. Spend $100,000 to make sure 20 potential future competitors never get anywhere, and have no degree to fall back on. When their dreams crash, they'll be your coding slaves because no one else will want them. Good strategy.
I bought an iPhone 4 recently (previously used a 1st gen iPhone). The choice was between it an an n900. N900 was winning on all counts except ease of upgrade (which was not a major factor at all). N900 lost when I went to a local store and saw the thickness of the n900. My pocket space is valuable.
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Supercomputer Race. Unless supercomputers start blowing up or growing arms.
At my local big box electronics store, there are 50 checkouts, and one line feeding them all. They usually only have 15 lines open, and there's never a wait. During this season, they open all 50 and the line, while long looking, moves very fast. There is an employee who coordinates the movements between lines, and it flows really well.
Ah, there you're wrong. They're Bank of America. Americans don't speak other languages...
Qué?
They're going to have to fight snookie for skankofamerica.example.com
Folks, watch out for a nefarious bleak future where computer generated faces are the new future. Because before you know it, you will roll over in bed and that computer face will be YOUR WIFE. Thanks for listening, and you all have a Merry Christmas.
It's a Christmas Miracle! I'm getting Married!
"administered without deception" could mean that the doctors were deceived into thinking that the placebo was real, thus passing along that mistaken belief to their patients, but not lying while doing it. Thus proving that the lie isn't the important part of placebo, just the mistaken belief.
All the good puns have been taken. Now I've got to find a double entendre for Bombus Terrestris.
If you forget your encryption passphrase, you're screwed. A root passphrase is trivialy bypassed if you have physical access.
I'm sure it's memorable for somebody with Aspergers.
IsimfswA that's only eight characters; good for nisplus on an old solaris box...
When are we going to see Bohemian Rhapsody done in the original Klingon?
Translated to English: "Mama, I killed a hyoo man, put a batleth in his head, gave a twist and now he's dead. Mama, now my life's begun! More honor to our house has no one done!"
7 characters? Child's play. Start with a minimum of 15 characters, and increase by four to eight every time you change your password.
You see all these type of cases in news where all the police cameras failed at the same time and it happens when the police used questionable force on a suspect.
Every button on an officer's uniform should be a mini-cam. I'd be happy with them driving google cars too. They all can't fail then...
Idle hands. Create some important sounding busy work.
Ok, you answered my question. Get back under your bridge.
The difference between a joke and a troll is the interpretation of the reader.
By saying the government is evil, you include the department of Transportation (hint: maintaining the roads and signage), the post office, the FDA, FAA, CDC, and so on. Tell me how each is evil and/or powerhungry, please.
DoT: Did you know they don't consider every human life invaluable? It's true! They have actuaries that tell them how much to spend on road safety, and how many lives lost is "good enough"
Post Office: Only one organization drives its employees violently/suicidaly insane more than the military. Strangely, "Going Army Vet" isn't the term for shooting up the workplace.
FDA: Really? You don't know this one?
FAA: More incompetent than evil. If they were doing their jobs, TSA wouldn't exist.
CDC: They put HIV in your slim jims (cross departmental work with FDA).
and so on: All of the other agencies do the same as the CDC, but with your mountain dew.
NSA has wicked cool toys but no sense or morality.
Um, what? NSA isn't some group of assassins.
How is algorithm development relevant to "various interactions of the hardware components"?
Because developing an algorithm should take the environment into account. One processor or many? Cluster? How much RAM/Swap? Network exists/ is fast? An example of a change in hardware causing a marked change in algorithm response: a basic computing course used to teach the benefits of parallel processing by running a program that would return results in human-time (slow for one machine, but fast for multiple machines). The bottleneck was the 10Mb half-duplex network (the program was supposed to pull data from a lot of sources and compile it, so it was slower when only one computer did the DL). Then we upgraded the lab to be 100Mb-Full. The example had to be artificially limited to remain useful, because even just one computer returned responses in faster than human-time.
Another example from my MUDing days: I took advantage of a MUD's server's slow disk syncing to "save" my character's state, remove my items, get killed, wait for the prior save state to get written to the drive, re-log in (loading from the save state), and thus duplicate items. The "save" algorithm was probably perfect in mental-space, but on the real world of that old SunOS box with the noisy drive (with the MUD probably running at nice 18), there were gaps that allowed me to skip around the algorithm as intended.
A coworker of mine earns $10k/year more with his MIT MSEE than anyone else in the department with an MSEE. I say emphatically yes.
How much per year does he pay on his MIT MSEE loans? Is it worth the cost after taxes?
It would be if the consumers would go to the factory to do their purchasing, but they're too lazy to go to 30 different factories for all of the food they buy every day. Food needs preserved somehow. We used to use incredible amounts of salt, smoke, or lye to do it.
I have noticed the same thing, that all the vegetarians I know are all pasty white and sickly looking
And wrinkly. Why are friends younger than me balding and getting wrinkles? They need some animal protein.
While I agree with your sentiment and think the whole thing is stupid, when was the last time you saw someone under 18 reading a newspaper?
Last week. Funnies count, right?
Well...
"This goes against claims of major health benefits from consuming foods and particularly supplements that contain antioxidants."/quote?
Good thing that worms in a lab are so biologically analogous to humans. Time to stop eating tomatoes, broccoli, and spinach
I stopped doing that decades ago after I grew up and couldn't be forced to eat them. Now I look at my friends who are vegetarians, and am shocked at how old they look compared to my mostly meat-eating self.
Yes, that's it, Thiel. Spend $100,000 to make sure 20 potential future competitors never get anywhere, and have no degree to fall back on. When their dreams crash, they'll be your coding slaves because no one else will want them. Good strategy.
...when you could have a Nokia N900?
I bought an iPhone 4 recently (previously used a 1st gen iPhone). The choice was between it an an n900. N900 was winning on all counts except ease of upgrade (which was not a major factor at all). N900 lost when I went to a local store and saw the thickness of the n900. My pocket space is valuable.
I saw a searchlight in the sky without a silhouette. Maybe Commissioner Gorden was using the Anonymous-Signal?