We have NAN to represent numbers that aren't. The hardware should have NAP (or NAR if they must) to represent a Pointer or Reference that is intentionally not dereferencable. The difference between this and a zero pointer would be well defined results when you 1) dereferenced, or 2) indexed based on the pointer.
You may deposit my share of the billion of dollars saved by this idea in my Paypal account.
When my AT&T line goes down (which it does far too often given that the lines are underground) I get a credit on my next bill for the time form my trouble call until service is restored.
Don't they do the same thing for cell phones?
[Asked as a long-time Sprint customer. I don't know Sprint's policy -- on the other hand they've never been down [that I knew of anyway]]
> If they look ahead and start to accelerate earlier this will cause a similar improvement
> in reduction of traffic impediment.
Which will be negated when they plow into the back end of the guy in front of them who didn't accelerate earlier.
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The Penultimatum: Surrender or else next time I threaten you, I'll really mean it.
The latest (print) issue of Scientific American has a very clear article explaining what a Higgs particle is (or isn't) and why anyone might want to find one.
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The theory predicts that there should be a SIG here.
As I recall:
Multics ran on a mainframe system with 36 bit words (yep, 36 bits) giving you a choice of 6 bit BCD or 9 bit ASCII++ characters, 18 bit half-words used for indexing arrays, etc. 80 bit floating point arithmetic sharing the same general purpose registers as the 36 bit integer registers (2x36 bit registers holding the mantissa + and 8 bit "extension register" used to hold the exponent.) and a powerful but quite different memory map/virtual memory/ring of protection memory architecture.
It had a single I/O instruction: CIOC (meaning connect to I/O controller) All that did was wake up the attached I/O coprocessor (the IOC) which executed IO Control programs (a unique language) that you left in main memory. The IOC, by the way also participated in the memory management and ring of protection scheme.
Altogether a *different* beast from anything being built today.
Portable code? We don't do portable code, Were MULTICS!
Sure you could write an emulator -- using a x86, or a Turing machine if you want to. At least you could *START* writing an emulator, but I'll cover any bet you want to make that you never FINISH writing an emulator.
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What happens if I don't have a SIG?
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> At least for outdoor municipal wifi, the routers are usually mounted on utility poles. There's no shortage of cheap power on utility poles!
You would think so, would you. However as they just discovered here in St. Louis, they only turn the power on to the street lights at night! D'Oh.
RTFA here
Article I; Section 8:
The Congress shall have power to... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
The purpose of the law is *NOT* to protect the author. The purpose is to benefit the public by providing a reasonable way to compensate the author for work which in a "limited time" will enter the public domain where everyone can use it.
Alas, there's no definition of "limited times" Ay, there's the rub. [(c) 1602, Wm. Shakespeare, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]
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We have NAN to represent numbers that aren't. The hardware should have NAP (or NAR if they must) to represent a Pointer or Reference that is intentionally not dereferencable. The difference between this and a zero pointer would be well defined results when you 1) dereferenced, or 2) indexed based on the pointer.
You may deposit my share of the billion of dollars saved by this idea in my Paypal account.
I'm still waiting for a computer to convince me it's as smart as a parrot.
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When my AT&T line goes down (which it does far too often given that the lines are underground) I get a credit on my next bill for the time form my trouble call until service is restored. Don't they do the same thing for cell phones? [Asked as a long-time Sprint customer. I don't know Sprint's policy -- on the other hand they've never been down [that I knew of anyway]]
> in reduction of traffic impediment.
Which will be negated when they plow into the back end of the guy in front of them who didn't accelerate earlier.
--
The Penultimatum: Surrender or else next time I threaten you, I'll really mean it.
The latest (print) issue of Scientific American has a very clear article explaining what a Higgs particle is (or isn't) and why anyone might want to find one.
--
The theory predicts that there should be a SIG here.
As I recall: Multics ran on a mainframe system with 36 bit words (yep, 36 bits) giving you a choice of 6 bit BCD or 9 bit ASCII++ characters, 18 bit half-words used for indexing arrays, etc. 80 bit floating point arithmetic sharing the same general purpose registers as the 36 bit integer registers (2x36 bit registers holding the mantissa + and 8 bit "extension register" used to hold the exponent.) and a powerful but quite different memory map/virtual memory/ring of protection memory architecture. It had a single I/O instruction: CIOC (meaning connect to I/O controller) All that did was wake up the attached I/O coprocessor (the IOC) which executed IO Control programs (a unique language) that you left in main memory. The IOC, by the way also participated in the memory management and ring of protection scheme. Altogether a *different* beast from anything being built today. Portable code? We don't do portable code, Were MULTICS! Sure you could write an emulator -- using a x86, or a Turing machine if you want to. At least you could *START* writing an emulator, but I'll cover any bet you want to make that you never FINISH writing an emulator. -- What happens if I don't have a SIG?
You would think so, would you. However as they just discovered here in St. Louis, they only turn the power on to the street lights at night! D'Oh. RTFA here
We already have the eraser/joystick in the center of the thinkpad keyboard and no one likes it (except me)
I wonder of Josh Wheedon is available. I wouldn't mind a ride on the Serenity Tardis.
Article I; Section 8: The Congress shall have power to ... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
The purpose of the law is *NOT* to protect the author. The purpose is to benefit the public by providing a reasonable way to compensate the author for work which in a "limited time" will enter the public domain where everyone can use it.
Alas, there's no definition of "limited times" Ay, there's the rub. [(c) 1602, Wm. Shakespeare, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]