Comment Re:Monitor performance? (Score 1) 515
Imagine if the performance of the master bedroom were a major area to be monitored...
Imagine if the performance of the master bedroom were a major area to be monitored...
If I lived in Arkansas, and I only drive on local roads in state, and I do 3-4000 miles a year doing so,... why would this be justified by either Constitution or 10th amendment?
Probably because your state built local roads where you live, you are not having to drive out of state to get to where your going! Thus interstate commerce is being prevented and thus falls under federal regulation!
IANAL!
On the minus side, it means that a big company can add a paragraph to their legal threatograms saying "Please note that if you lose in court, you'll have to pay our fees. We're up to £1,500 already and we haven't even started yet.
Can we sue them for extortion, then?
and then let's be generous and say 40 hours to get precedents
Why the hell should should a lawyer earn 10000 pounds just for *1 week* of simple research [90% of which is probably done by a secretary anyway]? That's a freakin' year's salary for some people!
First, while it's true that numerical math is not used in many CS areas, discrete math is. Logic, set operations, and the like are used pervasively in CS. And learning numerical math is a core breadth area that instills mental discipline. Quite frankly, if math is not your strong point, then you should consider moving out of CS.
Are you kidding?
I was in a PhD program in Electrical Engineering at a top-10 university [not trying to start a pissing contest here]. Quite frankly, I had a much better opinion of CS until I started taking a lot of graduate-level CS courses there.
Saying CS people do a lot of math is like saying a bank teller or cashier does math all day.
I found undergrad and graduate CS students alike would go running for the hills as soon as someone said the words 'integral' or 'derivative' . Random processes and statistics were avoided.
Most 'numerically' focused papers/research was focused about speeding up raw calculations (such as matrix multiplication) without any understanding of the application and without any critical examination of the possibility for lowering complexity through close approximation, transforms, etc...
Many papers (especially related to CPU/compiler performance don't even average measurements properly). Even the industry-standard 'SPEC' CPU benchmarks use the wrong type of averaging which leads to incorrect results -- in some cases a faster computer (which completes all benchmarks faster than a slower computer) can have a *worse* score than the slower computer].
Computer architecture and programming are fine things to learn, but they are not enough in themselves. If a person wants to be an architect, they have to know not only about construction but also about design -- art, etc... Likewise, I think too much of CS is focused on either way-to-abstract stuff and/or trade skills without giving students a chance at actually learning something more domain-specific.
Programmers are a dime a dozen. Decent programmers that truly understand what they are implementing (in a specialized field - engineering, sciences, etc) are very rare.
I suggest replacing IT with Construction and replace 'hang some coat hooks' with 'replace a hard drive' ?
Will the result be any better?
Forward your outgoing mail in your mailserver to your ISPs SMTP server.
Problem solved.
You do realize one can get their own VPS for about $100/year, right?
Did you call them for the residential account or the business one?
Their residential TOS forbids running servers at home. I cant imagine that they eould happily help in such a case....
But if they did, I would like to do the same!
No wonder British food tastes so bad!
[and BTW, F1RST P0ST!]
excellent points
people can look at Russia and easily see kt as a failure of Communism. Why do people assume that the USA is a good example of a successful capitalistic government?
(perhaps if success is defined more broadly than GDP the point becomes more clear)
[is a student that graduates with a C average a success?]
Haven't you noticed how people not so many years agou used to look quite old and frail already in their sixties, but now we are no longer surprised to find that people in their seventies are still physically active and mentally alert?
Yes. Then I realize that old people haven't changed... When I was 10, people in their 40s looked aged, people in their 60s looked very old and frail, and people in their 80s looked like something from a horror movie.
Now that I'm in my 30s, I find people in their 40s don't look so old. And people in their 60s don't look all that much different with the exception of some white/grey hair and a few more blemishes on their skin.
While individual houses may be designed to handle up to 200 amps, do you really think the distribution system is designed to handle every house drawing their maximum possible (200 amp) load all at the same time?
So go eat some hogwash yourself...
How do you like them photons?
Let me put it this way:
I work in a high technology company that makes a lot of software.
If our source code got into the hands of the competition, it would set them back a few decades.
They would run into so many bugs without knowing the 'workarounds' (or just flat out what to avoid), they wouldn't know what hit them.
Considering the crap that American car companies design, I think the Chinese are probably just trying to figure out what NOT to do.
Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user!
