And, well, multiprocess has its own problems too, it seems. This was making the rounds a few months ago.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=113754.0

Actually, they started the memshrink project two years ago, and the result has been dramatic improvements in memory usage.
http://www.itworld.com/sites/default/files/figure3_browserfootprint.jpg

That's from a while ago.

They also aggressively handled memory leakage in addons recently.

Their JS performance has dramatically increased recently w/ IonMonkey and the baseline compiler. They also introduced asm.js.
http://jlongster.com/s/lljs-cloth/ http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/

They also switched to multi-process and sandboxing in FirefoxOS, although apparently addon support makes that problematic on the desktop, although they do use multiple threads for various operations on the desktop. (You can of course sandbox firefox itself on most operating systems if you so desire, just like any other process)

http://news.newenergytimes.net/2013/05/21/rossi-manipulates-academics-to-create-illusion-of-independent-test/
Last comment.
"Here is how Rossi has fooled the same bunch of academic physicists this time: "
Seems like a good approach.

The number of times the answer is "Rossi" to the questions in main post is pretty damning too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_(rover)#Shoulder_troubles
Probably would make more progress if it wasn't for this, then.

Naw. You're right. That'll teach me to just google for random website snippets.
Site looked plausible, but I'm guessing they just made a mistake.
Wikipedia lists nuclear energy production at 2731Twh in 2008 and wind at 212.

Soo.
212/2731 = 8%

Pretty close to what you gave.
The 19% for average production seems correct tho...

Hm. Also kinda interesting to take the installed capacity figure for 2010 and divide by the generation value.

Sooo.
Installed capacity in 2010. 196.630 GW.

Power generation in 2010... 327,850 GWh.

327850 / 197 = 1664h

1664 / (365*24) = 19%

Sooo, actual production for any given GW of installed capacity averaged 19%?

I'd seen typical figures using 25% or higher.

It seems to me it produced a lot less than 1/10th the power.
According to Wikipedia, total wind production in 2010 was 327.850TWh
According to "nuclear power today" -- "In 2011, production was 2518 billion kWh"

The years are roughly the same, so...
328 / 2518000 = 0.000130262

Which seems a lot more plausible. There just isn't that much wind out there.
That is, not 10% of Nuclear but 0.01% of Nuclear.

Good code must work, but looking nice is optional. Additionally, when debugging code (sometimes code you wrote an hour ago), you need to see not only the code, but what is happening in the hardware. At that point, it's irrelevant whether the code looks nice or not. It's also not always true that good looking code will work. There are errata for microcontrollers (and microprocessors, though those are usually handled at the OS/driver level), so the obvious and beautiful solution may not work at all.

Debugging is what you do when something doesn't work the way you expected. This means that, by definition, the code isn't understandable. If it were understandable, there wouldn't be a problem, right?

Just a couple questions come to mind:

First: What is the purpose of keeping the information? If it's just to have a record for your own sake of what and when and how much, do you even need to scan the statement or receipt or keep the original? or can having all the info imported into a money manager be enough?

I've been using Quicken for over a decade (still using Quicken 2000 actually as later versions are bloaty) to keep all my financial history in detail. For answering questions like "When did I buy that Belkin KVM switch so I can see if the warranty period has expired" searching the register is good enough as I add enough info the memos. In this example (real one from just a week ago), finding the information easily was enough, and it's to my advantage to have all the individual statements and detail items combined into larger account histories rather than parse an archive tree full of pdf/ocr files (FWIW: even this old version of quicken lets me attach scans of receipts to entries)

Second Question: In what cases is the Original Paper required as opposed to a scan? If you need to show an original statement, receipt or other document to prove some thing or get something approved, do you know when an electronic copy or reproduction is as acceptable as the original? I don't think this is an area with consistent clear cut answers yet because of its newness.

Let's take an admittedly unlikely example. You have a house but have moved to take a job out of state, and you're trying to sell the house. Some scumbag squatter moves in and tries submitting false documents to claim ownership. All the documents relating to purchase and any mortgages have been scanned and shredded. Will the courts, police, banks, city and county offices etc. give you any trouble because they are not signed originals? What if the scumbag claims you fabricated the documents (like he did) and his are the originals? What if some entities accept a scan and others don't?

I've implemented a hybrid system where different documents get scanned / destroyed at different times. I have a single card-file cabinet (Filing cabinet with half-height drawers). Paper copies of everything from the current year and previous year are kept in a drawer. At the end of each year, I take all the documents from year-1, shred most of them (assuming any need for them has past), and put the ones I deem most critical in a small box to archive.

Well, supposedly the server does game saving (which probably would have required a small amount of effort to make cloud based in the first place), and syncing a small amount of information about city stats between players (this last one was trivially spoofed and apparently is the thin justification for making it always-on multiplayer online).

I'd say they went out of their way to break offline play.

Unwritten?
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``Perhaps whoever designed it had eyes that responded to different wavelengths,'' offered Trillian.

``Or didn't have much imagination,'' muttered Arthur.

``Perhaps,'' said Marvin, ``he was feeling very depressed.''

In fact, though they weren't to know it, the decor had been chosen in honour of its owner's sad, lamented, and tax-deductible
condition.
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Actually, you can do some opengl too - is kinda fun, although utility hasn't been terribly high for me due to limited subset.
But, for example, ssh -YC, launch glxgears.

Hedgewars worked for me too.

Not only that, but on his other point, the memshrink project took off, Firefox has been using significantly less memory than other browsers.
On my system, for 5-10 tabs, Firefox uses about half as much memory as Chrome. For a large number of tabs, Chrome explodes to gigabytes of memory while Firefox doesn't go up by much at all.
Not to mention tab groups make organising that large number of tabs a lot easier.

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/category/memshrink/

Bit of clarification on the linux instructions.
http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com/

Has the typing commands portion of the instructions simplified down to:
wget http://goo.gl/34v87; sudo bash 34v87

run at least twice.

And:
sudo cgpt add -i 6 -P 5 -S 1 /dev/mmcblk0

To set ubuntu as the default boot.

So. No need to type in anything too complex w/ dd

...they'd rather see Home users use a different licensing model... something with more long term revenue for the company. One way to help such a new model would be to make the current purchase model less attractive.

nahh. That couldn't be.