More importantly, testing the character parsing and handling of both the installer and multiple other parts of the distribution. Whether it was a good idea to pick a challenging name is probably dependent on the observer.
What are you trying to say?
You think the sack of meat below your neck has anything to do with your consciousness?
Yes, it does. And that's been known with certainty for at least a decade.
Consciousness arises because of the constant feedback between hundreds of generalized areas in your brain, and the nerves that connect them to the real world. The brain alone is no more conscious than your peripheral nervous system alone.
Unemployment does not exist because consumers want to consume less. There is plenty of meaningful work which is not getting done, despite many people being eager to do it.
The choices are accept a shorter week so others can also have a job, try to sweep back progress and destroy the robots, or cheerfully pay more taxes so others can go on the dole and stay there.
How about the Karl Marx option of working the same and getting more TV's, more phones, more cars and so on? If the super-rich are anything to go by, the limit to consumption per person is an extremely high bar. Productivity growth will not make a significant proportion of population hit that limit any time soon.
for why the H-1B system ought to be massively reduced and US contracts should be awarded only to actual US companies instead of shell-game "subsidiaries."
Here's the reality, though -- Infosys is one of the real big outsourcing companies that is used by most of the very large software companies in the US.
As a software worker, I think better for this to go to a US company, but the work would likely be done largely by Infosys or another similar company. As a taxpayer, I'd rather the savings on the development go to me, than padding the profits of a government contractor.
I'm saddened by this story, but not shocked. The fact that I'm not shocked makes me even more sad.
Don't be. If you're not substantially in the 1% -- like multimillionaire, you wouldn't have 90% of the stuff you own if it wasn't for people living like that.
And that's good living compared to the people who made most of the stuff you own.
That's the thing -- everyone feels bad for people who live like that, but virtually no one would be willing to give up their lifestyle for it.
DirectX is an API, not a standard. It doesnt even have a spec doc like OpenGL does.
And yet its the standard that the majority of games use.
Go figure. Your definition doesn't match reality, I guess.
Cities in Motion 2 is probably one of the best tycoon games available. Highly recommended.
Well I've got a 14 hour day time flight next week, so I'm tempted to buy a game for the first time in years.
Looks like I can buy it online at http://store.steampowered.com/app/225420, rather than find a store here in whatever city I'm in today.
This concerns me though:
Other Requirements: Broadband Internet connection
Obviously I don't have a Broadband Internet connection when I'm 40,000 foot above the indian ocean somewhere south-west of Australia.
Indeed. The extremely thin skin that people have developed over the past few decades is very frustrating, as is the reliance on a media ecosystem dedicated to sensationalizing to make money.
Land of the wimp, home of the scared
One of the problems with working less than full time is that many modern jobs have a good-sized portion of fixed overhead -- just keeping up with what is going on, staying current, attending meetings and so on can take up a significant fraction of your work week. If you cut a day out of your week, the fixed overhead gets proportionally larger...
Another problem is that there are fixed overheads associated with having employees. Just finding and hiring the right ones (and getting rid of the wrongly chosen ones) is a challenge, and having to deal with 20% extra employees means extra costs for the company. Companies are often reluctant to let their employees cut hours.
They did not realize that they were making contrary inputs. And I do not agree that they recognized the stall. The pilot in control kept pulling back at the stick for most of the fall, and no sane pilot would do that if he knew he was in a stall.
The Airbus way of not making the physical sticks move in concert must have contributed to the confusion. The mishap report does not dare say that.
DirectX is a standard. It may not be the one you like, for technical, political or zealotry reasons, but the fact is, it is a standard available on the bulk of systems that can play "advanced" games.
Well, sorta. If you do enough technobabble and you're willing to count close enough as a hit, then getting it right isn't that hard.
Point in case, in ST's case the Navigational Deflector (emitted by the deflector dish) was actually supposed to protect against space debris, micro-meteorites, etc. (Still a good idea, mind you, because when you're moving even close enough to the speed of light, a single grain of sand packs more energy than a broadside from a 20'th century battleship.)
Dealing with particles via magnetic field was actually the job of the Bussard Collectors (you know, those red glowing things at the front of the nacelles), a.k.a., ramscoops. Which actually didn't deflect it, but collected all that mostly hydrogen in the ship's path.
So, yeah, if you make a complete hash of which did what, and how, and still call it a ST deflector shield, yeah, you can count it as a hit.
But then by the same lax standard I can claim that Jesus endorsed binary code. Matthew 5:37: "But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."
(And yes, I'm a huge ST and SW nerd. I know, I know, I'll go not get laid now.;)
Yes, the Enterprise had several deflector dishes (main deflector for one) for moving things out of the way
Yes it had ramscoops for collecting things
It (at least the D, the greatest of all Enterprises) also specifically had low power navigational shields
Lasers can't even penetrate our navigation shields. Don't they know that?
Before I sent my original comment I did a tcpdump on YouTube just to be sure. TCP all the way.
And I can assure you that the IP stacks can tell the difference. Just look at the TCP offloading done in Linux. Only recently has some work been done on optimizing UDP offload, and it is nowhere near as mature.
I think what he meant was that on electric cars you tend to take advantage of regenerative braking (i.e. braking with the engine instead of with the brakes themselves).
This should make your brake pads last a lot longer, though I'm not sure it'd be "forever".
When I was a constantly-broke student I used to drive very carefully in order to save fuel. One of my techniques was to brake using the engine as much as possible (fuel consumption drops down to zero when doing this).
When I took the car to a routine inspection the mechanic made a point to say that typically he'd replace the pads on a car that old, but they were still almost new.
So yeah, you can save a lot of wear on the brake pads if you try. Of course it also helps if you don't live in the city.
FYI, that's not particularly great to do for your car -- you're wearing your engine parts instead of your brake pads.
That's not even remotely like what an EV does, which is turn the electric motor into a generator. Its designed for that, your IC engine isn't.
Some EVs, like the Volt, don't use the physical brakes unless you hit the brake pedal pretty hard. I believe the Tesla, though, the brakes are 100% mechanical and only when you let off the accelerator do you get regenerative braking.
It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.
