Every decade has its futuristic buzzword.
In the '60s it was "flying cars".
In the '80s it was "artificial intelligence".
Now it's "quantum computing".
Don't you find relevant that the people claiming that quantum computing is just around the corner, and will break any encryption known are the same people who are trying to build quantum computers (and are seeking funds to do it?)
I have been using long this flash disable plugin.
It is easy to use; it is simple : it just triggers internal configurations that Firefox has always had.
It adds a button to enable flash on those few sites were Flash is used for content and cannot be replaced.
I recommend ticking 'Disable at startup' and 'Ask to activate' in the preferences.
"Simple & easy" always provides better security.
Enough said.
slow down, cowboy! According to wikipedia, in Fairbanks the average is +22C for highs in July and -28C for lows in January; the record temperatures in Fairbanks are high +37C and low -54C; but these records were not set in the same year; so I doubt that Fairbanks gets "+40C to -60C over a year".
An even harsher climate, BTW, is found in Yakutsk: the average is +25C for highs in July and -41C for lows in January: this beats Fairbanks by 6C. The records are even more impressive: +38C for high , -64C for low. (This beats Fairbanks again). This is more impressive when you think that Yakutsk is home to ~ 200thousand people...
I see lotsa people claiming that Nvidia Optimus is not supported. For what is worth, last month I helped a friend install Ubuntu and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee on a new Asus laptop, and it worked perfectly well , including CUDA support (that they use for numerics in math finance)
Many years ago a freeway bypass was opened near my home: so to access the freeway I do not need to cross the city center. When I bought a TomTom device in 2010, I noted that the bypass was not yet added , so TomTom always plans a route thru the city center: I added it manually and suggested as a correction - but no official correction was ever issued. Last summer I forked another 70€ to buy a map update, in hope that it would add this correction: but no, I wasted my money. I am deeply disappointed.
The most important point is readily made in the article: BSG was barely science fiction. You may retell 90% of the plot of BSG without any sci-fi involved. As a mind exercise, try looking at the series, and recast it in ancient Greece. A bunch of Trojans are escaping by sea after Troy destruction. A legend is guiding them to a new land. During the voyage, they are often attacked by a group of Achaeans scouts. Gods intervene (to your taste). BSG is about the clash of two civilizations, and the fate of great men (and women) at the hands of destiny and the Gods. Take away the (very few) tecnological sci-fi, and you are left with Iliad II.
Thomas Hales starts his essay discussing the impact of software bugs on society, and claiming
On average, a programmer introduces 1.5 bugs
per line while typing.
That's quite wrong, a better estimate is that,
on average, a programmer introduces from 1.5 up to 5 bugs per 100 lines while typing.
A bug in a paper about bugs... quite fitting.
anybody installing solar plants on their roof, that will "break even" in more than 10 years (be it carbon or price) is heading for a huge delusion. There are many different things that can go wrong in the next 10years.
cost of maintaining the plant. Most materials , when left outside under sun and rain, do degrade; steel will rust, plastic will rot; you will need to repair, rewire, buy anew, etc etc
atmospheric events. Too much snow, a violent thunderstorm, etc etc, can destroy your valuable plant much earlier than break even. Just read what wikipedia has to say re:
hail , bringing armageddon even in sunny places as L.A. or San Diego.
Entropy. Do you really think that the solar panel can convert light into electricity with no physical side effect? Entropy affects the inner structure of the panel, so the efficiency will decay in time; in 10 years, it will not produce as much power as it does now.
This forces every office (or family) to have at least one go-to person that understands the OS thoroughly (or at least better than everyone else). That's why we should advocate F/OSS in schools. If children learn it, they will bring it to families, and, in due time, to the workplace. That is also why MS is giving Window$ for free to schools, of course
At noon today (Eastern Standard Time), the long dead ORDB spam identification system began returning false positives. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. ORDB begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, March 26th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. At 2:15, ORDB started bombing all email addresses with enough SPAM as to clog even the best spam filter. At 3:56, western civilization as we know it was declared dead.
the gimmick may be though reversed. I would put an electrical motor to force the Stirling device; this way, it would pump heat away from the CPU. According to wikipedia, using Stirling devices to cool is energy efficient and effective.
My momma always told me not to trust a guy
who claims he has
solutions of the trisection of the angle, duplication of the cube and quadrature of the circle.
I had the same problem once: I chopped finely some 40 chilis, I did not wear gloves. My hands started burning afterwards, it was quite annoying and lasting for some hours. When I got tired of the burning, I went looking for an "antidote". Since
capsaicin has been used in many prescriptions , it is listed in medical treaties; what they suggest in case of "overdose" is to take a mild
anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) ; I eat a capsule containing the chemical
Nimesulide and , believe it or not, in
5 minutes I was perfectly OK.
IMHO to get rid of burning, the best thing is to eat bread, rice or boiled potatoes. Water is actually bad, since it lowers the burning while you drink it, but raises it afterwards.
the Google translation is not very readable; when
I proposed this submission, I did summarize as follows:
HP defended , claiming the terms of their contract with Microsoft; the judge ruled that the end user request may not be dismissed based on a contract between HP and Microsoft, since this latter is unknown to the end user. The end user, a member of ADUC (a consumer organization) was given 90euro for Windows and 50euro for Works; this is just a small symbolical amount, but it is a huge signal to HP and all other major vendor; in defending, HP claimed that the license and contract to Microsoft is unilaterally written by Microsoft; the judge ruled that nonetheless, HP is to be held accountable by the EULA; the ruling seem to suggest that it may be time for vendors to address this situation.
Perhaps this is how multiplication is done in OOXML. They do leap years in dates wrong, too. oh my, it is clearly spelled on page 890 of the draft:
to retain backward compatibility with MSDOS 16bit mode,
the operands of any multiplication that may exceeds a 16 bit boundary must be converted to farsi and multiplied using an abacus emulator, as per sec (II)par alpha comma 2; the result may or may not appear in Windows Genuine Octal Format (a.k.a. fake octal - that is octal without the leading zero and minus 1) for added convenience of EndUser(tm).
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Every decade has its futuristic buzzword. In the '60s it was "flying cars". In the '80s it was "artificial intelligence". Now it's "quantum computing". Don't you find relevant that the people claiming that quantum computing is just around the corner, and will break any encryption known are the same people who are trying to build quantum computers (and are seeking funds to do it?)
I have been using long this flash disable plugin. It is easy to use; it is simple : it just triggers internal configurations that Firefox has always had. It adds a button to enable flash on those few sites were Flash is used for content and cannot be replaced. I recommend ticking 'Disable at startup' and 'Ask to activate' in the preferences. "Simple & easy" always provides better security.
Enough said.
...by 6C.
sorry that was supposed to be "16C"
slow down, cowboy! According to wikipedia, in Fairbanks the average is +22C for highs in July and -28C for lows in January; the record temperatures in Fairbanks are high +37C and low -54C; but these records were not set in the same year; so I doubt that Fairbanks gets "+40C to -60C over a year". An even harsher climate, BTW, is found in Yakutsk: the average is +25C for highs in July and -41C for lows in January: this beats Fairbanks by 6C. The records are even more impressive: +38C for high , -64C for low. (This beats Fairbanks again). This is more impressive when you think that Yakutsk is home to ~ 200thousand people...
I see lotsa people claiming that Nvidia Optimus is not supported. For what is worth, last month I helped a friend install Ubuntu and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee on a new Asus laptop, and it worked perfectly well , including CUDA support (that they use for numerics in math finance)
Many years ago a freeway bypass was opened near my home: so to access the freeway I do not need to cross the city center. When I bought a TomTom device in 2010, I noted that the bypass was not yet added , so TomTom always plans a route thru the city center: I added it manually and suggested as a correction - but no official correction was ever issued. Last summer I forked another 70€ to buy a map update, in hope that it would add this correction: but no, I wasted my money. I am deeply disappointed.
The most important point is readily made in the article: BSG was barely science fiction. You may retell 90% of the plot of BSG without any sci-fi involved. As a mind exercise, try looking at the series, and recast it in ancient Greece. A bunch of Trojans are escaping by sea after Troy destruction. A legend is guiding them to a new land. During the voyage, they are often attacked by a group of Achaeans scouts. Gods intervene (to your taste). BSG is about the clash of two civilizations, and the fate of great men (and women) at the hands of destiny and the Gods. Take away the (very few) tecnological sci-fi, and you are left with Iliad II.
On average, a programmer introduces 1.5 bugs per line while typing.
That's quite wrong, a better estimate is that, on average, a programmer introduces from 1.5 up to 5 bugs per 100 lines while typing.
A bug in a paper about bugs... quite fitting.
... it is a logo. Saturn runs Debian GNU/Linux.
I use unison. So I never need to drive my notebook to work.
Great, now even the posts are making copies of themselves!
the gimmick may be though reversed. I would put an electrical motor to force the Stirling device; this way, it would pump heat away from the CPU. According to wikipedia, using Stirling devices to cool is energy efficient and effective.
My momma always told me not to trust a guy who claims he has solutions of the trisection of the angle, duplication of the cube and quadrature of the circle.
back in the days before Doom, so we had to dream PONG, You Insensitive Clod!
I had the same problem once: I chopped finely some 40 chilis, I did not wear gloves. My hands started burning afterwards, it was quite annoying and lasting for some hours. When I got tired of the burning, I went looking for an "antidote". Since capsaicin has been used in many prescriptions , it is listed in medical treaties; what they suggest in case of "overdose" is to take a mild anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) ; I eat a capsule containing the chemical Nimesulide and , believe it or not, in 5 minutes I was perfectly OK.
IMHO to get rid of burning, the best thing is to eat bread, rice or boiled potatoes. Water is actually bad, since it lowers the burning while you drink it, but raises it afterwards.
- Ferrari
wins both driver's and constructor's
2007
Formula 1 championship
- Ducati wins both
driver's
constructor's
2007
championship
So what were you saying about Italian mechanical devices again?the Google translation is not very readable; when I proposed this submission, I did summarize as follows:
HP defended , claiming the terms of their contract with Microsoft; the judge ruled that the end user request may not be dismissed based on a contract between HP and Microsoft, since this latter is unknown to the end user. The end user, a member of ADUC (a consumer organization) was given 90euro for Windows and 50euro for Works; this is just a small symbolical amount, but it is a huge signal to HP and all other major vendor; in defending, HP claimed that the license and contract to Microsoft is unilaterally written by Microsoft; the judge ruled that nonetheless, HP is to be held accountable by the EULA; the ruling seem to suggest that it may be time for vendors to address this situation.
to retain backward compatibility with MSDOS 16bit mode, the operands of any multiplication that may exceeds a 16 bit boundary must be converted to farsi and multiplied using an abacus emulator, as per sec (II)par alpha comma 2; the result may or may not appear in Windows Genuine Octal Format (a.k.a. fake octal - that is octal without the leading zero and minus 1) for added convenience of EndUser(tm).
.Dumb assed drivers.....?. if they use this gizmo, then Darwin will get us rid of them in one generation time