Vote ABC. I agree with this. I'm only worried that non-Con vote will be split between Mulcair and Trudeau, and we will end up with another Harper reign. With majority deciding the vote, it can happen. With that being said, I just can't comprehend why anyone would vote for Harper for the third bloody time. Even "old-stock Canadians:)".
In the 70-ies and 80-ies, computers had limited resources, but were hardware hacker's dream. Today we are left with basically 2 models of complicated beasts with thick layers of kludges and software hiding the lot.
What is the best way to learn about low level stuff today, in your opinion? Make your own 8-bit machine? Play with software only, because hardware is "finished" bussiness? Or something else.
I often wonder, with traces being made smaller all the time, how does this affect radiation resistance? Are we going to hit the point soon where just laying the chip open in the sunlight creates enough of random electron/hole generation, so that the device becomes useless?
We already know that chips must be hardened to work in space, how long until this is true for Earth-tied ones?
If someone has an answer, it would be interesting to know.
If we can get Liberals and NDP to scream **bloody murder*** together with regular citizens, then it might dawn on those in Ottawa that this will hurt their re-election chances. Just a thought...
Well it took USA only 10 years to recognize Kosovo as a state, after bomb-bomb "liberation". Somehow 60 years is premature for Palestine. Land of the free (lies). Home of the brave (firefighters?).
Stop invading other countries, and use that money to fix your own house. And don't give money to Israel or to anyone else. Then a Middle East peace treaty will be signed immediately.
And this my friends, is precisely what the anonymity on the internet is good. To protect us from the "big brother".
During some speech in mid-50's (after Stalin's death), Nikita Khrushchev was criticizing stalinism. Someone from the audience said: "so why haven't you people in the Central Comitee said nothing against the abuses?". "Who said that?!" - yelled Khrushchev. Silence... "Who said that?!" - yelled Khrushchev again. Silence again... "That's why." - concluded Khrushchev.
Meh. Just invade another country and dump your nuclear waste there. It is already done with spent uranium in many artillery shells (tank busting especially). Read about Falluja/Kosovo cancers/birth deformities. However, this uranium affects occupying forces as well, not just inteded victims. War side effects, I suppose. OTOH, it won't bother those sitting in Washington.
Well done Russia. Finally some competition in space research area. Maybe this will also get NASA some badly needed funds.
Then again, war in Afghanistan/Iraq/Libya/... is more pressing. And making rich richer by reducing the tax they are paying. They need their gold plated Lamborghinis after all, silver plating just won't do.
Yes. You can have your nuclear toys, but not bad bad North Koreans... They took their cue from Iraqis, Serbs, and many others that were trampled - because they didn't have nuclear weapons. Stop invading others, and need for nuclear deterrence will disappear.
And don't get me started on humanitarian interventions. Why you didn't intervene in Georgia or Sudan?
It has been known for a while that lifespan can be increased with a special diet.
Looking at plants where metabolic rates are low and lifespans are often enormous, I started wondering whether it would be possible to increase animal lifespan by reducing oxygen intake (from 21 to 18% in the air they breathe, for example). This would slow down the metabolic rate and oxidation, and hopefully increase the lifespan.
Has this been tried yet in animals and what is your opinion about this?
They supported fascist Spain, Portugal... - when it suited them. They brought down democratic governments in Latin America - when it suited them. They supported religious zealots - like in Saudi Arabia... - when it suited them. They supported dismembering of states - like in the Balkans - when it suited them. They supported changing of borders - like in the Middle East - when it suited them. They...
Current USA reminds me a lot of Roman Empire. Parallels are striking.
It's ultimate doom is also, assured.
The questions remain what will be the cause and when it will happen?
Market crash like in 1929? Immigration and population boom that will replace Anglo-Saxons? Climate change? Nuclear war? Else?
The only problem is, rest of the world will not be able to laugh. We are so dependent on USA economically, that the entire world will be plunged into a dark age.
Few monkeys in a wrong spot can do a lot of damage.
"""quote They DO care about WindowsMedia 10 though. Stop making excuses and fix that problem.) """end quote
As soon as that problem is fixed, MS is going to introduce new and incompatible format, just in order to force Linux programmers to always play catch-up. Not a way to go. Open standards should be used. Like in normal industry.
Imagine if some idiot kept changing AWG (American wire gage) standards every few years. What, your house is on fire? Blame MicroSoftWire.
By the way, if you have actually paid for your Windows+MsOffice+Antivirus+AntiCrapware+... you probably wouldn't be so upbeat. It comes to about $1000 total per PC.
Don't believe me? Go to MS web site and actually check their prices.
I'll be glad to sell you my services once your screen fills up with 100's of pop-up baloons:)))
You have made an interesting and true statement about the distributed processing (WAN, LAN, USB, internal).
In living beings, it appears that many parallel processes take place at once. Our serial execution computers are not so good at that, doing process switching (as far as I know), therefore only one task is executed at one time in reality, for example binary addition.
For comparison, output of one neuron may be available as input to 1000 other neurons, at the SAME TIME. I don't know how we could do that in hardware, and have changing "weights" like in living brain.
Parallel programming is hard. And we have hit the GHz limit with current technology. What to do?
1) Move to real parallel technology. Maybe 1 processor/task:) Hard. Didn't work very well so far.
2) Do what we did so far, but instead of increasing the clock speed, use wider bus. Instead of 32/64 bit bus, move to 256, 512 or 1024 bit wide bus. If we do this, design process and programming concepts stays the same, but processing speed increases.
Having said that, I'm all for parallel processing if we can make it practical.
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Vote ABC. I agree with this. I'm only worried that non-Con vote will be split between Mulcair and Trudeau, and we will end up with another Harper reign. With majority deciding the vote, it can happen. With that being said, I just can't comprehend why anyone would vote for Harper for the third bloody time. Even "old-stock Canadians :)".
In the 70-ies and 80-ies, computers had limited resources, but were hardware hacker's dream. Today we are left with basically 2 models of complicated beasts with thick layers of kludges and software hiding the lot. What is the best way to learn about low level stuff today, in your opinion? Make your own 8-bit machine? Play with software only, because hardware is "finished" bussiness? Or something else.
I often wonder, with traces being made smaller all the time, how does this affect radiation resistance? Are we going to hit the point soon where just laying the chip open in the sunlight creates enough of random electron/hole generation, so that the device becomes useless? We already know that chips must be hardened to work in space, how long until this is true for Earth-tied ones? If someone has an answer, it would be interesting to know.
And they will be begging you to come back. Without filtering.
If we can get Liberals and NDP to scream **bloody murder*** together with regular citizens, then it might dawn on those in Ottawa that this will hurt their re-election chances. Just a thought ...
Use COBOL. Those guys in 1950's sure knew their stuff. Self-documenting code. It forces you to write almost normal English.
Well it took USA only 10 years to recognize Kosovo as a state, after bomb-bomb "liberation". Somehow 60 years is premature for Palestine. Land of the free (lies). Home of the brave (firefighters?). Stop invading other countries, and use that money to fix your own house. And don't give money to Israel or to anyone else. Then a Middle East peace treaty will be signed immediately.
No testing under Linux ... like it is 1999. And this is on supposedly geek site? Meh.
And this my friends, is precisely what the anonymity on the internet is good. To protect us from the "big brother". During some speech in mid-50's (after Stalin's death), Nikita Khrushchev was criticizing stalinism. Someone from the audience said: "so why haven't you people in the Central Comitee said nothing against the abuses?". "Who said that?!" - yelled Khrushchev. Silence... "Who said that?!" - yelled Khrushchev again. Silence again... "That's why." - concluded Khrushchev.
Meh. Just invade another country and dump your nuclear waste there. It is already done with spent uranium in many artillery shells (tank busting especially). Read about Falluja/Kosovo cancers/birth deformities. However, this uranium affects occupying forces as well, not just inteded victims. War side effects, I suppose. OTOH, it won't bother those sitting in Washington.
Well done Russia. Finally some competition in space research area. Maybe this will also get NASA some badly needed funds. Then again, war in Afghanistan/Iraq/Libya/... is more pressing. And making rich richer by reducing the tax they are paying. They need their gold plated Lamborghinis after all, silver plating just won't do.
...Commander, your bounty has been paid. I guess koalas are next.
Yes. You can have your nuclear toys, but not bad bad North Koreans... They took their cue from Iraqis, Serbs, and many others that were trampled - because they didn't have nuclear weapons. Stop invading others, and need for nuclear deterrence will disappear. And don't get me started on humanitarian interventions. Why you didn't intervene in Georgia or Sudan?
...or ignore contract disputes and switch to Linux and DOS. Yeah baby!
It has been known for a while that lifespan can be increased with a special diet.
Looking at plants where metabolic rates are low and lifespans are often enormous, I started wondering whether it would be possible to increase animal lifespan by reducing oxygen intake
(from 21 to 18% in the air they breathe, for example).
This would slow down the metabolic rate and oxidation, and hopefully increase the lifespan.
Has this been tried yet in animals and what is your opinion about this?
Thank you.
"If only cheap and super-tough weren't mutually incompatible."
:)
Not true at all. Super tough titanium or steel ball is very cheap
Point is - if something has 10 times more parts - it is 10 times as likely to FAIL.
Gone are the days when world looked at USA as a saviour
... - when it suited them. ... - when it suited them. ...
(WW2).
Since then, USA Empire has intervened in more than FIFTY
countries around the world - to support it's own perceived interests.
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/American_holocaust.htm
They supported fascist Spain, Portugal
They brought down democratic governments in Latin America - when it suited them.
They supported religious zealots - like in Saudi Arabia
They supported dismembering of states - like in the Balkans - when it suited them.
They supported changing of borders - like in the Middle East - when it suited them.
They
Current USA reminds me a lot of Roman Empire.
Parallels are striking.
It's ultimate doom is also, assured.
The questions remain what will be the cause and when it will happen?
Market crash like in 1929?
Immigration and population boom that will replace Anglo-Saxons?
Climate change?
Nuclear war?
Else?
The only problem is, rest of the world will not be able to laugh.
We are so dependent on USA economically, that the entire world will
be plunged into a dark age.
Few monkeys in a wrong spot can do a lot of damage.
"""quote
:)))
/s
They DO care about WindowsMedia 10 though. Stop making excuses and fix that problem.)
"""end quote
As soon as that problem is fixed, MS is going to introduce new and incompatible format,
just in order to force Linux programmers to always play catch-up. Not a way to go.
Open standards should be used. Like in normal industry.
Imagine if some idiot kept changing AWG (American wire gage) standards every few years.
What, your house is on fire? Blame MicroSoftWire.
By the way, if you have actually paid for your Windows+MsOffice+Antivirus+AntiCrapware+...
you probably wouldn't be so upbeat. It comes to about $1000 total per PC.
Don't believe me?
Go to MS web site and actually check their prices.
I'll be glad to sell you my services once your screen fills up with 100's of pop-up baloons
format c:
Just check this page for practical details on wireless power transfer.
Tesla 1904-1919.
http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1919-05-00.htm
Thank you.
I'll investigate your suggestions further.
You have made an interesting and true statement about the distributed processing
(WAN, LAN, USB, internal).
In living beings, it appears that many parallel processes take place at once.
Our serial execution computers are not so good at that, doing process switching
(as far as I know), therefore only one task is executed at one time in reality,
for example binary addition.
For comparison, output of one neuron may be available as input to 1000 other neurons,
at the SAME TIME.
I don't know how we could do that in hardware, and have changing "weights" like
in living brain.
Parallel programming is hard. And we have hit the GHz limit with
:)
current technology. What to do?
1)
Move to real parallel technology. Maybe 1 processor/task
Hard. Didn't work very well so far.
2)
Do what we did so far, but instead of increasing the clock speed,
use wider bus. Instead of 32/64 bit bus, move to 256, 512 or 1024 bit
wide bus.
If we do this, design process and programming concepts stays the same,
but processing speed increases.
Having said that, I'm all for parallel processing if we can make it
practical.