Let us make some Laser emitting diodes and put them behind the eyelids so that they cant even avoid it by closing their eye lids. Wow! You are en evil genius Dr Parviz.
Google can issue a public notice "We are going to stop indexing you because you belly ache so much. Tell us within one week why we should not drop your sites from our index."
. I can come up with my own deus ex machinas, thank you.
The correct plural form of deus ex machina is deii ex machina, not deus ex machinas. OMG, they dont seem to teach anything in Latin classes these days. Now etgay utoy foay ymay awnlay.
I agree with you. Most of what passes for science fiction is essentially "space fantasy". It is all the same old story but the props are different. Take a medieval knights and dragons story and replace Excalibur with light sabre, horses with space ships, strange countries with strange planets and you get what passes for Sci-Fi. Real science fiction where the props are much less important, (and the story teller goes out of his way to make them more prosaic and commonplace) but the theme, the storyline etc is science based is very difficult to find. The likes of Asimov and Clarke do not find big audiences. Even Chrichton had some decent half science stories. It is George Lucas and his clones with stunted imagination rule the roost in the SciFi genre.
The universities are tax exempt charity institutions. Both CMU and UPitt along with a bunch of smaller colleges like Chatham occupy lots of space and valuable real estate and are exempted from taxes. They consume lots and lots city services during their games and their use of public spaces for their protests and cultural events and such like. Back when Pittsburgh had lots of corporate HQ and steel mills paying taxes, the additional services did not pose a significant burden on the city.
Pittsburgh's economy was never a single industry town like Detroit. It had steel of course, but it also had coal, glass, paint, textiles, Heinz and railroads. But over the last three decades it lost almost all of them. Now the city infrastructure is crumbling. The univs had some prior agreements to "voluntarily" pay money to the city despite their tax exempt status, because the univs knew the kind of burden they are placing on the city. Right now there is bickering about negotiating the amount for the next five years are so. So all these things are grand standing by different parties to stake out their negotiating positions.
The city is just acting stupidly by threatening to tax the students and tuition fees. It should simply reduce police and fire services to the univ neighbourhoods and ask the univs to hire private security for protection and refuse to maintain things like synchronized traffic lights and traffic by pass and other such things. Also it should charge market rates for their sewer connections, water supplies and use of public spaces for utilities. The univs will come back begging to give up their tax exempt status and agree to pay real estate taxes like all other residents and businesses are paying. In fact if their tax exempt status is revoked, almost all the businesses and private property owners will see a big reduction in their tax bills.
Blame the greedy CMU that charges 48000$ a year from their students, sits on billion dollars worth of prime real estate and refuses to bear its fair share of the cost of providing civic services passing the burden on the shrinking tax base.
Right now the install base of iPhone is much bigger than Droid's. So the initial sales will be slower. But it will pick up eventually if the platform is a hit. When they come back they might find that their niche has been already filled by their competitor.
As web developer you use two profiles. One to launch FF with all these tool bars, but you dont surf the net in this instance. A separte default FF without all these extensions, just the basic NoScript alone will be used for surfing the net.
Great idea. Where were you when every politician was calmoring for the government to do something when there was the wild fires in CA? When Georgia is hit with floods, suddenly all those "Govt get off my back" people vanish from the scene and "Govt, do something for ME" crowd runs loose. Let the energy users pay the FULL price of energy, with no government subsidy, no government permission to pollute then you can argue "I am willing to pay, so get off my lawn".
When I say "no pollution", it is zero pollution. No acceptable level business. The the energy companies do not have the right to belch anything into the atmosphere. It has to capture everything and bury it in its own premises. If they cant do that they need to pay for the privilege of emitting the pollutants. And we, the people, will charge them fair rates for it.
The Corps has recommended the levees be strengthened. It was very well known that New Orleans was in danger long before Katrina. Heck my daughter found a Nat Geo article with maps predicting flooding way before Katrina while looking for pictures to cut and paste for a 2nd grade project. The cities and the state and the feds never gave it the funding needed and diverted the funding to dredge shipping channels for the super tankers to ply through.
Now Corps would have a case against the city and the state and let it transfer the liability to the city.
1. First buy a lots of call options of thinly traded mundane non volatile stock of canned goods and survival/camping gear purveyors.
2. Create a hysteria and panic about the world ending due to Y2K or Planet Nibiru or Mayan Calender cycle ending or Banks collapsing or Obama winning the elections.
3....
4. Stock of survivalgears_are_us.com zooms up and..... profit!
In implicit methods they use under relaxation factors so heavily! In some sense the stability provided by the under relaxation scheme is related to the same CFL condition.
Not satisfied with killing software competitors by the Embrace, Extend and Extinguish methodology, now they are doing it to licenses. Pretty soon Apache license will be incompatible with everything non Microsoft, inlcuding Apache Web Server. Run, Run away when you still can!
What? Explicit global time stepping scheme parallelizes badly? My understanding is that it parallelizes nicely but the solution time explodes because if you halve the grid spacing, the mesh becomes eight times bigger and time step becomes half and your solution takes 16 times longer. Solution scaling at O(N^4) kills you. The only thing worse than this is probably Cramer's Rule to solve simultaneous equations. (Recalling from the classic text book in CFD by my guru Dale Anderson with Tannehill and Pletcher.)
The programming techniques and mathematical formulations needed to take advantage of such very large number of processors continue to be the main stumbling blocks. Some kind of simulations parallelize naturally. Time accurate fulid flow simulation for example is very easy to parallelize and technically you can devote a processor for each element and do time marching nicely. But not all physics problems are amenable to parallelization. Further even in the nice cases like fluid flow, if one tries to do solution adaptive meshing, no uniform grids etc, the time step slows down so much the simulation takes too long even on a 100 million processor machine.
The CFL condition that limits the maximum time step one can take shows no sign of relenting. Score has been Courant (the C in CFL) 1, Moore 0 for the last three decades.
In the web server market place, Microsoft want to play the numbers game and "marketshare" with Apache. So they paid oodles of money to get the hosting providers like Go Daddy and One-on-One(?) to switch to IIS from Apache. So the total number of sites, percentage swung wildly. Take a look at netcraft.com But you dig further and get million most popular sites, there is no swing. Apache at stead 67%, IIS at steady 25% or so steadily declining, its loss being gain of google.
Microsoft also included some kind of Cash back scheme to woo sites away from google and into bing!. So it is not anything new. It has not worked so far. But if they throw a billion dollars at it, who knows what would happen.
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Let us make some Laser emitting diodes and put them behind the eyelids so that they cant even avoid it by closing their eye lids. Wow! You are en evil genius Dr Parviz.
Google can issue a public notice "We are going to stop indexing you because you belly ache so much. Tell us within one week why we should not drop your sites from our index."
Anyone who thinks it is telekinesis, please raise my hand.
Any way I don't think you are actually going to pay any extra tax. It is all politics as I said to coax bigger payment out of CMU management.
. I can come up with my own deus ex machinas, thank you.
The correct plural form of deus ex machina is deii ex machina, not deus ex machinas. OMG, they dont seem to teach anything in Latin classes these days. Now etgay utoy foay ymay awnlay.
I agree with you. Most of what passes for science fiction is essentially "space fantasy". It is all the same old story but the props are different. Take a medieval knights and dragons story and replace Excalibur with light sabre, horses with space ships, strange countries with strange planets and you get what passes for Sci-Fi. Real science fiction where the props are much less important, (and the story teller goes out of his way to make them more prosaic and commonplace) but the theme, the storyline etc is science based is very difficult to find. The likes of Asimov and Clarke do not find big audiences. Even Chrichton had some decent half science stories. It is George Lucas and his clones with stunted imagination rule the roost in the SciFi genre.
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Pittsburgh's economy was never a single industry town like Detroit. It had steel of course, but it also had coal, glass, paint, textiles, Heinz and railroads. But over the last three decades it lost almost all of them. Now the city infrastructure is crumbling. The univs had some prior agreements to "voluntarily" pay money to the city despite their tax exempt status, because the univs knew the kind of burden they are placing on the city. Right now there is bickering about negotiating the amount for the next five years are so. So all these things are grand standing by different parties to stake out their negotiating positions.
The city is just acting stupidly by threatening to tax the students and tuition fees. It should simply reduce police and fire services to the univ neighbourhoods and ask the univs to hire private security for protection and refuse to maintain things like synchronized traffic lights and traffic by pass and other such things. Also it should charge market rates for their sewer connections, water supplies and use of public spaces for utilities. The univs will come back begging to give up their tax exempt status and agree to pay real estate taxes like all other residents and businesses are paying. In fact if their tax exempt status is revoked, almost all the businesses and private property owners will see a big reduction in their tax bills.
Blame the greedy CMU that charges 48000$ a year from their students, sits on billion dollars worth of prime real estate and refuses to bear its fair share of the cost of providing civic services passing the burden on the shrinking tax base.
Right now the install base of iPhone is much bigger than Droid's. So the initial sales will be slower. But it will pick up eventually if the platform is a hit. When they come back they might find that their niche has been already filled by their competitor.
As web developer you use two profiles. One to launch FF with all these tool bars, but you dont surf the net in this instance. A separte default FF without all these extensions, just the basic NoScript alone will be used for surfing the net.
When I say "no pollution", it is zero pollution. No acceptable level business. The the energy companies do not have the right to belch anything into the atmosphere. It has to capture everything and bury it in its own premises. If they cant do that they need to pay for the privilege of emitting the pollutants. And we, the people, will charge them fair rates for it.
Now Corps would have a case against the city and the state and let it transfer the liability to the city.
Yes they are stupid. Human beings are not evolved to live below sea level.
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That is the ultimate instruction.
I have this wonderful proof for this conjecture, but unfortunately the 80 char limit for sig in slashdot is too small for it.
Would you please make it a car analogy?
I would like an elegant weapon from an more civilized age.
2. Create a hysteria and panic about the world ending due to Y2K or Planet Nibiru or Mayan Calender cycle ending or Banks collapsing or Obama winning the elections.
3. ...
4. Stock of survivalgears_are_us.com zooms up and ..... profit!
In implicit methods they use under relaxation factors so heavily! In some sense the stability provided by the under relaxation scheme is related to the same CFL condition.
Not satisfied with killing software competitors by the Embrace, Extend and Extinguish methodology, now they are doing it to licenses. Pretty soon Apache license will be incompatible with everything non Microsoft, inlcuding Apache Web Server. Run, Run away when you still can!
What? Explicit global time stepping scheme parallelizes badly? My understanding is that it parallelizes nicely but the solution time explodes because if you halve the grid spacing, the mesh becomes eight times bigger and time step becomes half and your solution takes 16 times longer. Solution scaling at O(N^4) kills you. The only thing worse than this is probably Cramer's Rule to solve simultaneous equations. (Recalling from the classic text book in CFD by my guru Dale Anderson with Tannehill and Pletcher.)
We know what answer it is going to give. 42. Save the money.
Technically, shouldn't 640K processors be enough for every one?
The CFL condition that limits the maximum time step one can take shows no sign of relenting. Score has been Courant (the C in CFL) 1, Moore 0 for the last three decades.
Microsoft also included some kind of Cash back scheme to woo sites away from google and into bing!. So it is not anything new. It has not worked so far. But if they throw a billion dollars at it, who knows what would happen.