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http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012...
I've more faith in Musk than in Bolden. "[going to Mars has] always been a goal of SpaceX. We're hoping to develop the technology to do that in probably 12 to 15 years."
http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-0801-morrison-musk-spacex-20120...
I keep using Gentoo mostly out of inertia; I understand it, and don't have to mess with it much. My systems remain current, and I don't break them... um, very often.
A very long time ago, when I was running Mandrake on a tiny Pentium-II system (kids, ask your grandfathers) I spent a week installing Gentoo. Holy cow, that was a laborious process - but there was a surprising and obvious performance benefit at the end. That conditional compilation business, where I could excise stuff like spellcheck, qt, nautilus, support for scripting languages I didn't care about - really made a noticeable difference on my limited systems.
Since then I've spent some money and gotten some decent hardware, and I don't notice the bloat in my systems so much. My useflags have become much less restrictive. Gentoo keeps everything current, and if something new tickles my fancy I can simply emerge it and a few minutes later it's there - with it and its dependencies tailored to whatever useflags I still keep.
So Gentoo works for me. (But my brothers run Ubuntu on my recommendation - they're cupholder-next-next-next-finish kind of guys.)
I suppose you're referring to Lisi? Neither he nor E8 were even mentioned in the article. You're both OT and unnecessarily unpleasant.
(Obligatory: Oh yeah, and get off my lawn.)
The conductor has a better shot at hearing the performers then the performers do - I had the experience of singing near the orchestra's percussion section and all I could hear were drums, drums, drums. But the podium isn't all that perfect a listening post either (as you mention), and I'll guess that during tech rehearsal the conductor frequently wears a set of headphones tended by the sound desk.
I'm not surprised by the result. Judging solely from my choral background, of course conductors are needed. We're trained from day one to follow maestro's direction, but to listen to our neighbors and blend in. Working with a good conductor and a poor one is night-and-day. If you are just up there to wave your arms and keep time, you're not doing the job. Good conductors emote, use a variety of gestures, know their music very well, are unafraid to take charge, and correct-correct-correct. We performers are there to do what we are told; we know that we cannot hear all the sections as well as the conductor can, and that the conductor's interpretation of the music takes precedence over our own. Not all the dynamics in a performance - by a long shot - are explicitly scored.
If you watched the video, you'll have noticed that they explicitly said that compromised applications ought not be able to cross the sel4 barrier and compromise other (possibly critical) applications running on the same platform.
It's not unusual for PR flacks to wax lyrical about "partnerships" with their customers, but this report has an especial air of sincerity about it. It is confiding without giving away state secrets, conversational, straightforward, hopeful for the future. These are people I'd like to know better, or to emulate. Kudos to its author.
But then I started Lisp in earnest, found GC useful (necessary!) there, and more recently have gone functional with Clojure. Couldn't do without GC now.
One of these days perhaps we'll have concurrent collectors a la Azul, running on a specialized core/MMU on some multiprocessor SoC, and GC will fade into the background and nobody will care so much about performance.
Hey, I can dream.
http://www.space.com/26438-isee3-spacecraft-engines-fired.ht...
(I'm a satisfied PCC customer. Excellent machines, careful assembly, responsive personal support. But your post is simply not HN-worthy.)
I sympathize with OP's desire to satisfy unsecured debts to the family, but I'm less inclined to cover an equity investment.
A friend of mine in SoCal keeps earthquake supplies in multiple closets in his home, to improve the odds that he'll at least have water in case of a partial collapse. He takes earthquake preparedness very seriously.
You can sell to us.
(Oh yeah - and get off my lawn.)
But then you get noticed, acquire new responsibilities, start managing things, running meetings, get a budget, negotiate contracts, handle staffing... and the first thing you know you have an eight-to-five job.
In any case, I expect the incipient googlecars will have capacitive sensors on the steering wheel, requiring that your fingerprints are on the controls.
My point was that sentence guidelines should generally be data-driven, the dependent variable being the crime rate for a specific offense. I did not mention edge cases, judicial discretion, capital offenses, recidivism, rehabilitation, and other gnarly stuff.
Sentences should be high enough to deter crime, and no higher. If one month of prison time doesn't reduce your petty theft rate significantly, then double it. Measure the new offense rate then double the penalty again. Eventually you'll reach that knee in the curve where any additional punishment you can mete out has little significant effect, and that's your magic number.
The idea of "lesser crimes" should not be used to influence punishment. You cannot linearly compare shoplifting against auto theft or battery - so it's not possible to assign commensurate sentences. Compile the offense rates and then go for the knees, dispassionately.
Go to college and sample a variety of disciplines. Make acquaintances of people from different fields. Concentrate on your own studies, but hang with a diverse crowd. It isn't high school anymore.
I grok your mercenary prime directive, and readily admit that a college diploma isn't an automatic meal ticket. But you'll be better for the experience, and if you learn for pleasure a well-chosen college can be a three-or-four year Candyland.