I thought it was the accepted reverse-engineering process - I'm thought there had been a few ICs years back that were cloned by a similar method - the first team with an electron microscope, the second team uses the spec to create a functionally equivalent chip.
Well work out how to do it yourself or accept that part of the deal of having someone else work it out for you is that you have to let everyone else see how you did whatever your program does. The deal might be too one sided for you... if so don't take it.
You could try asking the original author if they'll let you have a copyright license to those two lines of code (they might appreciate you simply being honest enough to ask) or you could help them put these useful features into a library that they could (again with permission) release under the LGPL and then you could link it in as well as make it useful for a vast number of other people. Or you could offer to pay them for a license to use the bit of code you need.
OP Said you could buy the machine, you just couldn't use it on other people. You're welcome to use it on yourself. I'm sure you can buy surgical instruments and hack yourself apart if you want, but I think it's best if you are suitably trained before you do it to others. If all regulation from government is symptomatic of a nanny state then you make the term meaningless. Every road sign is nannying you by that logic.
So when perfectly safe white folk are being treated in a manner that's only suitable for all those dangerous minorities there is a problem? I agree random screening is Bullshit. I think that profiling would certainly provide better results, but it would be at the expense of the freedom of certain groups within society, and can't be justified because of that. Are people with strong religious beliefs are more likely to be terrorists than Atheists? Should we be pestering Christians more than Buddhists? Men more than Women? Those with low incomes more than those with higher incomes? You only think profiling is ok because you see yourself as not in any of the 'dangerous' groups, and hence you don't care what happens to anyone else, so long as your journey is not inconvenienced. It's an incredibly selfish attitude, that leads to distrust, intolerance and hatred. It is the very meaning of prejudice. Genocidal acts are committed with the reasoning that people with certain attributes are seen as dangerous.
So you have a choice: distrust everyone who doesn't fit into your very narrow view of safe, acceptable people, or accept that in the name of yours, and others freedoms, there is some risk that not everyone will respect those freedoms and some will use them against you. The alternative, which you propose, is that you become the person taking freedoms from others and then - to quote the oft repeated phrase - the terrorists have won.
Surely some of that protectionism is in the public interest, since those trained, insured, professionals actually know what they are looking at (and when they get it wrong they have liability insurance). Look at all the wonky alternative medicine that's already out there and tell me you want to create an industry of people with legitimate diagnostic equipment that don't know how to correctly gather or interpret the results from those machines and then using them to diagnose people with all manner of nasty things that they probably don't have.
I would have put it as a convenience feature - there's plenty of 24fps source material out there and cross-conversion is tricky. One interesting point to note is that cinema screens tend to double- or triple-expose each frame (e.g. the light is flashing at 48 or 72Hz, the film frames are changing at 24Hz) to reduce the perception of flicker. So quite probably the point at which smooth motion is perceived and the point at which flicker is perceived (or irritating) is very different. Makes me think of strobe lights: there's a point at which the movement is no longer jerky, but the flashing is still very apparent.
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90% chance of the vaccine working (10% chance of it not working). 1% chance of it killing you, 99% chance of it not killing you.
The two are presented as mutually exclusive. Whilst there might be a correlation (vaccine doesn't work means higher chance of death due to vaccine due to some interaction for example), the overall statistics are still the same.
Also you seem to have lost a 1%, who I presume are taking the Michael Jordan approach to HIV?
According to the security they were monitored the whole time. Possibly they were trying to avoid having another Rainbow Warrior on their hands by recognizing a bunch of hippies as just that and _not_ shooting them on sight. People protest at all things related to Nuclear Energy all the time, I doubt they could really enforce security in the way you suggest (we all know what happens when you give Cartman Authoritah), and I hope they have a more intelligence based approach.
A fusion accident would be pretty boring in the scheme of things. As soon as you switch off whatever is containing the plasma you lose the heat and pressure needed to make the reaction occur... so it stops. Maybe damage the plant a bit, but essentially AFAIK there's no possible runaway scenario.
What happened to 'the solution to pollution is dilution'. Depending on the foodstuff, why not just ensure that the contaminated stuff is mixed with a suitable quantity of the good stuff. Works fine for ergot (and mouse urine/faeces) in wheat, and no doubt there are lots of other contaminants in food at 'acceptable' levels that people simply aren't aware of.
So let me in on your secret: What is this thing that you get paid for, every minute you do it, whenever you have time to do it? It probably takes a couple of hours to scavenge for parts and assemble a PC if you have a reasonable source. So let's say you put together a $200 PC in a couple of hours, you have something you can choose to do instead that pays better than $100/hour? Awesome, I genuinely would like to know what it is. In fact if anyone out there knows of a take-it-or-leave it, paid by the hour, voluntary and well paid source of income, let me know.
It does, but some order of magnitudes less needs to be mined for the same amount of energy. Add in breeder reactors and drop that by some more orders of magnitude and you have a much, much smaller problem.
It would not do to imply that an all-powerful, all-knowing being needs not play with their creation like an ADD toddler playing with their ant farm.
First off, the sentence doesn't make a lot of sense. 'needs _not_ play'? So you'd like us to imply that your all powerful all knowing being _is_ like your ritalin deprived child?
If not, why would it 'not do'? What's going to happen? Let me borrow your troll hat: your all knowing creator is a whore loving cunt who would fornicate with a diseased baboon in exchange for a bucket of mouldy semen. Your all knowing creator knew I was going to say that, and has done nothing to prevent it. Either it has no self respect, or does not care for anything I may do, which means that there is no reason for me to prostrate myself before it except to appease its vanity, in which case your all-knowing, all-powerful creator has a mentality somewhere between that of a spoilt child and a third world dictator, and is therefore not worthy of mine or anyone else's worship.
You've missed the point there: You're comparing what you can predict from statistics with knowing everything. If I roll a dice a bazillion times then I expect to see 1/6 of the rolls to be 6s, 1/6 to be 3s etc. The all knowing creator would be able to tell you the result of every single roll in advance - because the all knowing creator created it and knows exactly what will happen. That would also mean the dice are no longer truly random, since the sequence is already known - again because I'm the all knowing creator. The same applies to this free will argument: you may have the illusion of free will because you don't know that everything you do has been pre-planned, including the thought process that leads you to believe you have made a free decision. The all knowing creator either knows the of everything in the universe at the quantum level for the whole of time or isn't an all knowing creator.
It's at that point that the whole concept of some higher power becomes, to me at least, ludicrous. It's basically arguing that the entirety of our reality is a simulation.
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Mod parent up. Everyone whinges about poor specifications: Van Halen had theirs written very clearly, and the M&Ms were a trap to ensure someone had read and paid attention to them...
But are the address registers limited to 32 bits? It's sizeof(void*) that you need, not sizeof(int). Also I'm not sure what you mean by 'paged' applications? Paging is an OS/MMU function - nothing to do really with the address space of the CPU. If you mean the addressable space from a specific process you might be onto something, but again a lot of that is an OS limitation, not a CPU one. You can access 36bits of memory on 32-bit x86 from a single process if you do the right magic for example.
You usually have a switch on the clutch as well as the brakes to disable cruise control. I have found on at least one car (vauxhall/opel corsa) that if you knock it out of gear the cruise control doesn't realise and starts increasing revs - I didn't wait to see how far it would go... For all manual cars the system should expect a correlation between road speed and engine revs (gear ratios are fixed after all) and disable the cruise control and flag a fault if this is not the case.
In the UK our insurance keeps going up because we've imported some compensation culture. So when I ran into the back of a people carrier (minivan) on my motorcycle, and bruised my shoulder a bit, my insurance pays out £25,000 because apparently I gave everyone in the car whiplash... I'd imagine a similar thing does wonders for your insurance premiums.
Depends, now that we have £9000 a year tuition in the UK, a four year masters is £36,000 - approx $57,395. It's gone from getting grants just over 10 years ago, to paying £1000, then £3000, and now £9000.
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I thought it was the accepted reverse-engineering process - I'm thought there had been a few ICs years back that were cloned by a similar method - the first team with an electron microscope, the second team uses the spec to create a functionally equivalent chip.
Well work out how to do it yourself or accept that part of the deal of having someone else work it out for you is that you have to let everyone else see how you did whatever your program does. The deal might be too one sided for you ... if so don't take it.
You could try asking the original author if they'll let you have a copyright license to those two lines of code (they might appreciate you simply being honest enough to ask) or you could help them put these useful features into a library that they could (again with permission) release under the LGPL and then you could link it in as well as make it useful for a vast number of other people. Or you could offer to pay them for a license to use the bit of code you need.
Like drawing pictures of your hum drum day-to-day activities on the walls of your cave?
Or the diaries of Samuel Pepys?
OP Said you could buy the machine, you just couldn't use it on other people. You're welcome to use it on yourself. I'm sure you can buy surgical instruments and hack yourself apart if you want, but I think it's best if you are suitably trained before you do it to others. If all regulation from government is symptomatic of a nanny state then you make the term meaningless. Every road sign is nannying you by that logic.
So when perfectly safe white folk are being treated in a manner that's only suitable for all those dangerous minorities there is a problem? I agree random screening is Bullshit. I think that profiling would certainly provide better results, but it would be at the expense of the freedom of certain groups within society, and can't be justified because of that. Are people with strong religious beliefs are more likely to be terrorists than Atheists? Should we be pestering Christians more than Buddhists? Men more than Women? Those with low incomes more than those with higher incomes? You only think profiling is ok because you see yourself as not in any of the 'dangerous' groups, and hence you don't care what happens to anyone else, so long as your journey is not inconvenienced. It's an incredibly selfish attitude, that leads to distrust, intolerance and hatred. It is the very meaning of prejudice. Genocidal acts are committed with the reasoning that people with certain attributes are seen as dangerous.
So you have a choice: distrust everyone who doesn't fit into your very narrow view of safe, acceptable people, or accept that in the name of yours, and others freedoms, there is some risk that not everyone will respect those freedoms and some will use them against you. The alternative, which you propose, is that you become the person taking freedoms from others and then - to quote the oft repeated phrase - the terrorists have won.
Surely some of that protectionism is in the public interest, since those trained, insured, professionals actually know what they are looking at (and when they get it wrong they have liability insurance). Look at all the wonky alternative medicine that's already out there and tell me you want to create an industry of people with legitimate diagnostic equipment that don't know how to correctly gather or interpret the results from those machines and then using them to diagnose people with all manner of nasty things that they probably don't have.
We still have Chimera, so probably more of a disuse than misuse thing.
I would have put it as a convenience feature - there's plenty of 24fps source material out there and cross-conversion is tricky. One interesting point to note is that cinema screens tend to double- or triple-expose each frame (e.g. the light is flashing at 48 or 72Hz, the film frames are changing at 24Hz) to reduce the perception of flicker. So quite probably the point at which smooth motion is perceived and the point at which flicker is perceived (or irritating) is very different. Makes me think of strobe lights: there's a point at which the movement is no longer jerky, but the flashing is still very apparent.
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90% chance of the vaccine working (10% chance of it not working).
1% chance of it killing you, 99% chance of it not killing you.
The two are presented as mutually exclusive. Whilst there might be a correlation (vaccine doesn't work means higher chance of death due to vaccine due to some interaction for example), the overall statistics are still the same.
Also you seem to have lost a 1%, who I presume are taking the Michael Jordan approach to HIV?
According to the security they were monitored the whole time. Possibly they were trying to avoid having another Rainbow Warrior on their hands by recognizing a bunch of hippies as just that and _not_ shooting them on sight. People protest at all things related to Nuclear Energy all the time, I doubt they could really enforce security in the way you suggest (we all know what happens when you give Cartman Authoritah), and I hope they have a more intelligence based approach.
It's not really that complex to use Google:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_physics
Health Physicists "focus on the evaluation and protection of human health from radiation".
If you followed the link you'd have seen that argument covered later in the song... A certain extract of the willow tree is mentioned.
Ever wonder why cricket helmets are mandatory for children? A friend of mine is part of that reason...
A fusion accident would be pretty boring in the scheme of things. As soon as you switch off whatever is containing the plasma you lose the heat and pressure needed to make the reaction occur... so it stops. Maybe damage the plant a bit, but essentially AFAIK there's no possible runaway scenario.
What happened to 'the solution to pollution is dilution'. Depending on the foodstuff, why not just ensure that the contaminated stuff is mixed with a suitable quantity of the good stuff. Works fine for ergot (and mouse urine/faeces) in wheat, and no doubt there are lots of other contaminants in food at 'acceptable' levels that people simply aren't aware of.
So let me in on your secret: What is this thing that you get paid for, every minute you do it, whenever you have time to do it? It probably takes a couple of hours to scavenge for parts and assemble a PC if you have a reasonable source. So let's say you put together a $200 PC in a couple of hours, you have something you can choose to do instead that pays better than $100/hour? Awesome, I genuinely would like to know what it is. In fact if anyone out there knows of a take-it-or-leave it, paid by the hour, voluntary and well paid source of income, let me know.
It does, but some order of magnitudes less needs to be mined for the same amount of energy. Add in breeder reactors and drop that by some more orders of magnitude and you have a much, much smaller problem.
It would not do to imply that an all-powerful, all-knowing being needs not play with their creation like an ADD toddler playing with their ant farm.
First off, the sentence doesn't make a lot of sense. 'needs _not_ play'? So you'd like us to imply that your all powerful all knowing being _is_ like your ritalin deprived child?
If not, why would it 'not do'? What's going to happen? Let me borrow your troll hat: your all knowing creator is a whore loving cunt who would fornicate with a diseased baboon in exchange for a bucket of mouldy semen. Your all knowing creator knew I was going to say that, and has done nothing to prevent it. Either it has no self respect, or does not care for anything I may do, which means that there is no reason for me to prostrate myself before it except to appease its vanity, in which case your all-knowing, all-powerful creator has a mentality somewhere between that of a spoilt child and a third world dictator, and is therefore not worthy of mine or anyone else's worship.
You've missed the point there: You're comparing what you can predict from statistics with knowing everything. If I roll a dice a bazillion times then I expect to see 1/6 of the rolls to be 6s, 1/6 to be 3s etc. The all knowing creator would be able to tell you the result of every single roll in advance - because the all knowing creator created it and knows exactly what will happen. That would also mean the dice are no longer truly random, since the sequence is already known - again because I'm the all knowing creator. The same applies to this free will argument: you may have the illusion of free will because you don't know that everything you do has been pre-planned, including the thought process that leads you to believe you have made a free decision. The all knowing creator either knows the of everything in the universe at the quantum level for the whole of time or isn't an all knowing creator.
It's at that point that the whole concept of some higher power becomes, to me at least, ludicrous. It's basically arguing that the entirety of our reality is a simulation.
Mod parent up. Everyone whinges about poor specifications: Van Halen had theirs written very clearly, and the M&Ms were a trap to ensure someone had read and paid attention to them...
But are the address registers limited to 32 bits? It's sizeof(void*) that you need, not sizeof(int). Also I'm not sure what you mean by 'paged' applications? Paging is an OS/MMU function - nothing to do really with the address space of the CPU. If you mean the addressable space from a specific process you might be onto something, but again a lot of that is an OS limitation, not a CPU one. You can access 36bits of memory on 32-bit x86 from a single process if you do the right magic for example.
Unfortunately the first two rules of what is being referred two prevent me from disclosing what is being referred to...
You usually have a switch on the clutch as well as the brakes to disable cruise control. I have found on at least one car (vauxhall/opel corsa) that if you knock it out of gear the cruise control doesn't realise and starts increasing revs - I didn't wait to see how far it would go... For all manual cars the system should expect a correlation between road speed and engine revs (gear ratios are fixed after all) and disable the cruise control and flag a fault if this is not the case.
In the UK our insurance keeps going up because we've imported some compensation culture. So when I ran into the back of a people carrier (minivan) on my motorcycle, and bruised my shoulder a bit, my insurance pays out £25,000 because apparently I gave everyone in the car whiplash... I'd imagine a similar thing does wonders for your insurance premiums.
Depends, now that we have £9000 a year tuition in the UK, a four year masters is £36,000 - approx $57,395. It's gone from getting grants just over 10 years ago, to paying £1000, then £3000, and now £9000.