Why? Are there any practical home uses for that kind of speed?
Well, maybe 12Tbps is overkill, but I'm currently waiting for a five- to six-hour disk clone to finish.
This is only about half a terabyte, so:
12Tbps / 8 = 1.5TBps
0.5 @ 1.5/sec = 0.33 seconds
That would have made my day.
You got my hopes up there, thinking the quote might be from a much better book. I forgot the title, but it involves a sentient radio signal, an accidentally too-successful attempt to evolve artificial intelligence, wetware processors, and the eventual victory of a robotic caterpillar toy with a program more sophisticated than the owner expected.
Not sure about the robotic caterpillar part, but 'sentient radio signal' sounds a lot like A for Andromeda by Fred Hoyle.
Wikipedia says it's a TV series, but I remember reading the book - apparently a novelization of the show.
However, if used on something like a netbook or tablet, it would make a lot of sense, since the browser would be one of the first things opened on the device.
I don't get it, why does loading a copy of WebKit in the login manager make sense? That you open a browser soon later doesn't matter, since the by far most common browsers, Firefox and Chrome, would not benefit from that in any way: Firefox since it doesn't use WebKit, Chrome since it has its own copy - you will have 2 copies of WebKit in memory at that point, each taking >25MB!
The distro would be bundling LightDM and the browser. Why would they build them against two different copies of WebKit?
As in, versions that don't bring up a message box saying "Assertion 'p != np' failed! Get Dave to fix this!" when you enter an out of range value, or whatever.
Let me guess... you've never had to convert an in-house tool to be used by the outside world?
Are you aware that AMD is even bigger on the whole "this processor has a defect in one core so we'll disable it and sell it cheaper" bit? They have dual-core processors that are just quad-core chips with half the thing disabled. Usually, those parts are disabled for valid reasons, but sometimes, if demand for the cheaper ones is too high (or they've got less defects than expected) they have to disable working parts. I know of several people who bought X3s and re-enabled the last core, giving them a quad-core processor at triple-core price. I also know that many of those people eventually reverted the chips back to triple-core, as the last core caused significant crashing.
Then obviously those cores were disabled for a good reason. That hardly backs up your point about choosing to disable working parts.
However, your point is still valid. I am currently using an x2 550. The third core works fine, the fourth core is bad. I have been happily running with three cores enabled for over a year now.
Nice catch. Gary Numan did a new wave punkish synthpop song called "cars" that I liked back in 1980 when it made the top 40 charts in the US. Apparently it had hit #1 in the pop charts in the UK the year before. A true one hit wonder. So maybe he switched from writing music to writing code.
He is also known for 'Down in the Park' which was covered by The Foo Fighters (on the X-Files soundtrack, no less) and Marilyn Manson in the '90's.
I believe he toured internationally sometime in the last few years - he's still going strong.
When you refactor your sig, it should be while((People++)->Color && People::COLOR_BROWN) actions::attack(People);
Shiatty coding leads to shiatty thought, but that's just my opinion.
Why on earth would you include a test for an enum/constant being non-zero in a loop?
Also your naming scheme is inconsistent. What is 'actions'? Come to think of it, what is 'People'? A pointer variable or a class name?
I do believe your joke is a failure, sir.
I occasionally used to smear a bit of chili along the side of my cigarettes. It clears out your throat something fierce, but it's kinda nice too. Hard to get the level right, though.
Does that mean they have finally fixed the decades-old problem where their mice occasionally send a spurious scroll-wheel event for no reason?
Because seriously, that's a deal-breaker for me.
I'm not American, I have no interest in cars and even I enjoy watching it. Purely because of the presenters.
Sometimes they really are arseholes to each other, though...
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Someone handed me Lord of the Rings when I was 20. I missed meals and classes for 2 days. /shame
Shame? Why, because you didn't read LotR until you were twenty?
Hand in your junior geek card at once!
Yes, but what lines are you smoothing? That's what this algorithm's about - generating the lines.
Maybe Microsoft bought Skype so they could figure out how to block it with their security products and/or kill it so it's no longer an issue? B-)
Or perhaps just add code to it that politely asks the firewall if it's allowed through, so the firewall doesn't need to know how to block it.
Why? Are there any practical home uses for that kind of speed?
Well, maybe 12Tbps is overkill, but I'm currently waiting for a five- to six-hour disk clone to finish.
This is only about half a terabyte, so:
12Tbps / 8 = 1.5TBps
0.5 @ 1.5/sec = 0.33 seconds
That would have made my day.
You got my hopes up there, thinking the quote might be from a much better book. I forgot the title, but it involves a sentient radio signal, an accidentally too-successful attempt to evolve artificial intelligence, wetware processors, and the eventual victory of a robotic caterpillar toy with a program more sophisticated than the owner expected.
Not sure about the robotic caterpillar part, but 'sentient radio signal' sounds a lot like A for Andromeda by Fred Hoyle.
Wikipedia says it's a TV series, but I remember reading the book - apparently a novelization of the show.
You mean like the IIITECH? (The International Internet Institute of Technology)
That's just a rip-off of iiNet.*
* An Australian ISP, for those not in the iiKnow.
Yep, Linux 160.0 Beta.
Hah! It's a shame Ubuntu went with Feisty Fawn.
Fanged Flesh-Eating Bat is a much cooler name.
Like the last release candidates of Slackware 13.37?
More like TeX (current stable version 3.141592653).
It's like blaming a software manufacturer for your car crashing when you just went too fast.....
Best car analogy!
However, if used on something like a netbook or tablet, it would make a lot of sense, since the browser would be one of the first things opened on the device.
I don't get it, why does loading a copy of WebKit in the login manager make sense? That you open a browser soon later doesn't matter, since the by far most common browsers, Firefox and Chrome, would not benefit from that in any way: Firefox since it doesn't use WebKit, Chrome since it has its own copy - you will have 2 copies of WebKit in memory at that point, each taking >25MB!
The distro would be bundling LightDM and the browser. Why would they build them against two different copies of WebKit?
>versions of the same tools
Versions?
As in, versions that don't bring up a message box saying "Assertion 'p != np' failed! Get Dave to fix this!" when you enter an out of range value, or whatever.
Let me guess... you've never had to convert an in-house tool to be used by the outside world?
Are you aware that AMD is even bigger on the whole "this processor has a defect in one core so we'll disable it and sell it cheaper" bit? They have dual-core processors that are just quad-core chips with half the thing disabled. Usually, those parts are disabled for valid reasons, but sometimes, if demand for the cheaper ones is too high (or they've got less defects than expected) they have to disable working parts. I know of several people who bought X3s and re-enabled the last core, giving them a quad-core processor at triple-core price. I also know that many of those people eventually reverted the chips back to triple-core, as the last core caused significant crashing.
Then obviously those cores were disabled for a good reason. That hardly backs up your point about choosing to disable working parts.
However, your point is still valid. I am currently using an x2 550. The third core works fine, the fourth core is bad. I have been happily running with three cores enabled for over a year now.
Exterior Wall ALUMINUM/VINYL
Is that normal in the USA? Here in Australia we tend to use mainly wood or bricks. Vinyl tends to be used only on floors, if anywhere.
So while there might be software installed the part in the article that mentions waving a wand to deactivate is funny...
I reckon the person who said that has just been reading too much Harry Potter.
Computers are magic, aren't they?
I wonder if the capes were made in China.
Probably. It's been years since I've seen a cape factory in this country.
Oh? What on Earth do you think they do at Cape Canaveral then, huh?
No, that would be 1 stryke per byte of data shared.
1 strike per bit. According to the definition I just made up, 1 stryke is equal to 8 strikes.
Hear, hear!
I laughed.
I guess I'm dumber now.
Nice catch. Gary Numan did a new wave punkish synthpop song called "cars" that I liked back in 1980 when it made the top 40 charts in the US. Apparently it had hit #1 in the pop charts in the UK the year before. A true one hit wonder. So maybe he switched from writing music to writing code.
He is also known for 'Down in the Park' which was covered by The Foo Fighters (on the X-Files soundtrack, no less) and Marilyn Manson in the '90's.
I believe he toured internationally sometime in the last few years - he's still going strong.
When you refactor your sig, it should be while((People++)->Color && People::COLOR_BROWN) actions::attack(People);
Shiatty coding leads to shiatty thought, but that's just my opinion.
Why on earth would you include a test for an enum/constant being non-zero in a loop?
Also your naming scheme is inconsistent. What is 'actions'? Come to think of it, what is 'People'? A pointer variable or a class name?
I do believe your joke is a failure, sir.
Bahahahahaha nice one!
That took me a while...
Or smoke it
holy shit! i never thought of that.
i'm absolutely going to do this.
I occasionally used to smear a bit of chili along the side of my cigarettes. It clears out your throat something fierce, but it's kinda nice too. Hard to get the level right, though.
Their mice and keyboards are second to none
Does that mean they have finally fixed the decades-old problem where their mice occasionally send a spurious scroll-wheel event for no reason?
Because seriously, that's a deal-breaker for me.
I'm not American, I have no interest in cars and even I enjoy watching it. Purely because of the presenters.
Sometimes they really are arseholes to each other, though...