Yeah, set up a digester that takes biodegradable material and generates methane. Should be cheap enough to leave a plastic tub or three at each school so they can continue to observe/monitor and look at the effects of input material, temperature and the like on the rate of gas prodduction.
Xix.
I for one am glad a geek IS the project manager.
More focused on getting it right than meeting deadlines.
That would explain why GNU/Hurd is such an excellent OS
Well to be fair, it's the longest BSD troll I've seen AFAIR. They usually go like "BSD is dying! Netcraft confirms it !" and "BSD is dead to me!".
These are based on the original BSD troll which was very similar to the FP, which used to (many years ago) make an appearance in almost every story related to BSD.
Banks use their r&d for competitive advantage. The chances of them freely releasing their work to help humanity (and their competitors) is not very high.
How many major infrastructure projects have been attempted at all over the past 40 years? That is the entire problem, as far as I see it, is we are falling behind because we are not building anything. Successive governments keep playing it safe and if there is a surplus the money does not get invested into major infrastructure projects, it gets "invested" into winning the next election through middle class welfare. The mining boom will eventually end and we will be left in the tough times with nothing to show from the good times.
9 employers in 12 years is excessive for a programmer? I guess you don't know many contractors then. Regular 3 to 12 month gigs are the norm and nobody bats an eyelid at it.
Not in the browser market, no. They have enough market share that they're able to influence the market and keep the innovations and advancements flowing, and that's all that matters to them.
So their main goal is not to make money but to produce innovations and advancements? I'm sure their shareholders would be interested in that one.
Oh come now, we all know you just enjoy the ability to play with no clothes on! Must admit I have done that more than once.
A big problem online poker players face is the nonsense that the GP was sprouting. The trouble is that they know nothing about the topic at hand yet feel they are qualified to talk about it (well, I guess the same goes for any topic really). You summed it up nicely - in a game of poker it is player v player, the house does not care one bit who wins and loses as they get a "rake" out of every pot. Their sole interest - the one that makes them the most money - is to make as many people play as possible. The better players tend to play more tables therefore provide more income to the sites, which is why sites reward high volume players regardless of whether they are winners or losers (and there are quite a number of high volume winners). The site gets paid regardless of who wins and loses a game, there is no way for them to end up behind on a hand played.
If I were playing a cash game I would fist pump if I saw my AK get called by 43. Yes, the flop comes out 443 this time however in the long run (and poker is about the long run, as in tens if not hundreds of thousands of hands if you play seriously online) you will destroy that clown. Yes he wins this game, however over the next 10 times this happens he will lose around 2/3 of the hands, providing a nice profit.
You clearly don't know what you are talking about or you wouldn't make such blatantly false statement.
I'm glad someone beat me to it. That statement was just absurd and shows a total ignorance of the subject being discussed, made worse with the condescending "you are all so sadly mistaken and I am now going to tell you how it is" tone.
The ONLY game where computers are a match with the top human players is heads up limit holdem. There is no other poker game where computers would be favoured against a top pro so the statement "pitted against a computer, their results suddenly fall well within a bell curve of chance" is just false.
When I look in my database there is a very strong trend where winrates reduce as the stakes increase. This would indicate that as opponents get tougher, it is harder to beat the game in the long run. This flies in the face of the notion that poker is only a game of chance which would lead to no correlation between opponent skill level and winrates.
It would have been interesting to a C, C++ and Fortran shootout on some heavy number crunching. Throw in some OpenGL, OpenCL and assembly for good measure. We always get to see how high level languages compare, when in reality for most apps that are written in higher level languages raw speed is one of the lesser factors when choosing a language. Yet we never see shootouts between the lower level languages which would be used if speed truly was a concern.
Information technology used *anywhere* in the Aussie government should be approved by Defense Signals Directorate, the assessment doesn't mean it's going to be used by military personnel ("security forces") for sensitive tasks.
I'm not surprised they are evaluating the iPhone/iPad. It's trendy, is probably cheaper than Blackberry (AFAIK only currently evaluated smart phone product) and it has all the hallmarks of classic "Spiderman Pyjamas" for style aware executives. Probably more a case of people having private iPhones and being underwhelmed by the available approved options.
No doubt they'll get pressure to assess Andriod next.
TFA here though isn't referring to someone "sneaking a few minutes break at work to check a website while they wait for an email", it is talking about a police officer accessing personal and by its nature I would imagine very sensitive information on a police database, not a random website, that they had no legal reason to be accessing. This is a far cry from using company time to surf the web.
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