Hmmm. When I've emerged things, it's told me something on the order of "N configuration files need updating; run 'foo' for information." "foo" (I forget the actual command and options offhand) tells you to run etc-update, which gives you a chance to update the files under your control. Admittedly, I learned about the control part the hard way, when I blithely ran etc-update and let it put in a new/etc/fstab...
Typical flash today is good for a million writes per cell.
You wish. It's more like 10.000. 1.000.000 is the figure for EEPROM, but there the access time is quite a bit longer.
Googling for flash mtbf turns up this site, which claims 1e6 program/erase cycles and 1e6 hours MTBF, and this site, which claims 5e6 program/erase cycles and 1.8e6 hour MTBF for their 1 GB flash disc, 1.0e6 hour MTBF for their 6 GB flash disc. Others claim MTBF figures such as 5e5 and 8e5 hours.
It isn't the reasonable men who seek profit, only an idiot would seek to control more than he and his family can reasonably consume in a lifetime.
So, people who run businesses--which if they're successful, often involve the control of resources whose value collectively is more than a family can reasonably consume in a lifetime--are idiots? I wouldn't want to be a consumer or someone looking for a job in the author's ideal world.
True. In BASIC09 you'd have to write "ADDR(a)<>ADDR(b)". OTOH, the idea is pretty obvious, and BASIC09 has been around for not quite a quarter of a century.
!= is an op that compares values. It _can be used_ to do what the patent covers, but it is not an operator that _just does that_ which is what the patent in fact covers.
OK... how about the Algol 68 isnt operator? (I think the semantics require it, as distinct from neq, because neq would strip all the refs from the modes of its operands.)
The MS patent specifies the context of a BASIC interpreter... but I think that IsNot is clearly inspired by isnt, or perhaps LISP's eq (as opposed to equal).
No... Evil Dead plays it straight. In the immortal words of Joe Bob Briggs, it has the one property that makes a horror flick great: anyone can die at any time.
I had a driver's license for a while--the written test was, of course, trivial, but it took me three times to barely pass the driving test. (The last time, I drove to the parallel parking spot, said to the examiner that I doubted that I could do it, and proceeded to the next portion of the test...) I never was comfortable with driving, and after being rear-ended, I decided that the world would be a safer place if I didn't drive.
Once it's at least as good as a good human driver, you bet--I'd buy one in a heartbeat, finances permitting.
(Of course, that will be the interesting part; people who can afford to be early adopters can afford human chauffeurs, so the early adopter set may not be as large as it might otherwise be.)
Sure. High Anxiety (in analog form)... and since it was a parody of Hitchcock movies, one of them must have something similar (if not quite as extreme).
P.S. - Disney hasn't done anything original on their own in YEARS (nay, DECADES).
I must respectfully disagree. Lilo and Stitch was wonderful and not the stock issue Disney movie. (Admittedly, what they've done with the characters since then is truly sad.)
...rendering the character set as graphics means that unless you have Opera, which scales graphics as well as text when you set the zoom. Not to mention that blind Inuit are SOL--does Canada have an equivalent of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
By promoting the message that ActiveX is a danger (i.e., to my customers), you are jeopardizing my ability to make a living.
No one has a right to make a living based on fraud.
The Internet Wayback Machine site has stored versions of devedge.netscape.com, which AOL evidently deleted in early October; it's not clear that the people working on Mozilla have any control over that. Unfortunately, when I clicked on a link to a PDF manual, it didn't work.
OK... if you remember way back when to vector spaces, for a given space, there are lots of "bases" (plural of basis), minimal sets of vectors that collectively "span" the space, i.e. pick any vector in the space and I can hand you a weighted sum of vectors in the basis that adds up to the vector you picked.
OK... now, let's go on to vector spaces (or is this that further generalization thereof, namely Hilbert spaces?) where the "vectors" are functions! Those have bases, too. For functions with a particular period (i.e. there's some number p such that for any x and any integer k, f(x + kp) = f(x)), you can finagle {sin kx, cos kx | k in N} to maneuver the period from 2 * pi to p and position it appropriately so that they form a basis for that space of functions. ("My photo of Aunt Sarah isn't periodic!" you say? Then we pretend it's periodic, i.e. it infinitely repeats like a Warhol Marilyn Monroe, and just never show the repetitions.)
Here's the trick: if you can arrange your basis so that those weights (remember the weighted sum?) get smaller and smaller as you go on, you can do lossy compression by throwing away all the terms past a certain point.
People did it with Chebyshev polynomials to get decent results for power series approximations (at a cost of spreading around the error) with fewer terms, and you can do it with {sin kx, cos kx | k in N}, because as k gets bigger, sin kx and cos kx wiggle faster and faster, and most pictures don't look like Moire patterns or op art. (The reason that you don't want JPEG for line art is that sharp edges are guaranteed to require lots of terms, so they're guaranteed to look bad when you leave them out.)
...the Dragon 32 (a Welsh-made near-clone of the Tandy TRS-80)...
The Tano Dragon was not a near-clone of the Z-80-based TRS-80; it was a near-clone of the Tandy Color Computer which used the Motorola 6809, the best microprocessor of its era.
I'm curious about where you found a reference to the brewer being defective; no other web site I've seen on the subject has said anything other than that McDonalds kept their coffee hot.
That said, the lady suffered from third degree burns as a result of not thinking. She held the styrofoam cup between her legs and then removed the lid, the main thing keeping said legs from squashing said cup and drenching her in hot coffee, so she could add sugar and cream, for [insert favorite deity here]'s sake!
It's as if you were at your favorite steak restaurant and decided to hold the steak knife under your arm while you used both hands to unscrew the A-1 sauce bottle lid and pour some on the steak--anyone who would do that is a danger to him or herself, and I would say that's a fair characterization of the hot coffee lady.
If I may act like a M$ fanboy for a sec...if IE use drops to 0% across the board, how does this affect M$'s bottom line?
If that happens, then more web designers will design web sites to conform to standards, rather than to make them work on IE. Web apps using XUL will be more prevalent, which is critical for MS. (Go back to the first MS antitrust suit and read the sections about "applications barrier to entry.") XUL would then carry through Andreesson's long-ago threat of turning MS Windows into a "collection of badly written device drivers," so that you can count on apps being around even if you don't use Windows--and MS can't let that happen.
I'm tired of waiting for nVidia to catch up with kernel changes, and tired of getting drivers that don't support all the features of the hardware that I buy (or broken drivers, like the ATI driver that I could always count on freezing my wife's computer in the midst of a spiffy 3D screensaver every so often).
I have five PClones, and would cheerfully buy graphics hardware for them from a company that takes Linux seriously by providing or allowing full-featured, open source drivers.
Especially Algol 68, the best programming language you probably never used, a victim of nasty (and not necessarily accurate) propaganda. I urge all to track down a copy of the History of Programming Languages II proceedings and read Charles Lindsey's excellent and bittersweet paper on the history of Algol 68.
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Hmmm. When I've emerged things, it's told me something on the order of "N configuration files need updating; run 'foo' for information." "foo" (I forget the actual command and options offhand) tells you to run etc-update, which gives you a chance to update the files under your control. Admittedly, I learned about the control part the hard way, when I blithely ran etc-update and let it put in a new /etc/fstab...
Typical flash today is good for a million writes per cell.
You wish. It's more like 10.000. 1.000.000 is the figure for EEPROM, but there the access time is quite a bit longer.
Googling for flash mtbf turns up this site, which claims 1e6 program/erase cycles and 1e6 hours MTBF, and this site, which claims 5e6 program/erase cycles and 1.8e6 hour MTBF for their 1 GB flash disc, 1.0e6 hour MTBF for their 6 GB flash disc. Others claim MTBF figures such as 5e5 and 8e5 hours.
From the linked essay:
It isn't the reasonable men who seek profit, only an idiot would seek to control more than he and his family can reasonably consume in a lifetime.
So, people who run businesses--which if they're successful, often involve the control of resources whose value collectively is more than a family can reasonably consume in a lifetime--are idiots? I wouldn't want to be a consumer or someone looking for a job in the author's ideal world.
True. In BASIC09 you'd have to write "ADDR(a)<>ADDR(b)". OTOH, the idea is pretty obvious, and BASIC09 has been around for not quite a quarter of a century.
!= is an op that compares values. It _can be used_ to do what the patent covers, but it is not an operator that _just does that_ which is what the patent in fact covers.
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OK... how about the Algol 68 isnt operator? (I think the semantics require it, as distinct from neq, because neq would strip all the refs from the modes of its operands.)
The MS patent specifies the context of a BASIC interpreter... but I think that IsNot is clearly inspired by isnt, or perhaps LISP's eq (as opposed to equal).
(And what's with
No... Evil Dead plays it straight. In the immortal words of Joe Bob Briggs, it has the one property that makes a horror flick great: anyone can die at any time.
I had a driver's license for a while--the written test was, of course, trivial, but it took me three times to barely pass the driving test. (The last time, I drove to the parallel parking spot, said to the examiner that I doubted that I could do it, and proceeded to the next portion of the test...) I never was comfortable with driving, and after being rear-ended, I decided that the world would be a safer place if I didn't drive.
Once it's at least as good as a good human driver, you bet--I'd buy one in a heartbeat, finances permitting.
(Of course, that will be the interesting part; people who can afford to be early adopters can afford human chauffeurs, so the early adopter set may not be as large as it might otherwise be.)
"I have here a list of 228 Communist--er, patents that Linux infringes!"
At least we don't need to ask the rhetorical question about decency.
Sure. High Anxiety (in analog form)... and since it was a parody of Hitchcock movies, one of them must have something similar (if not quite as extreme).
P.S. - Disney hasn't done anything original on their own in YEARS (nay, DECADES).
I must respectfully disagree. Lilo and Stitch was wonderful and not the stock issue Disney movie. (Admittedly, what they've done with the characters since then is truly sad.)
I prefer
(love algol 68 | honk)
thanks.
...rendering the character set as graphics means that unless you have Opera, which scales graphics as well as text when you set the zoom. Not to mention that blind Inuit are SOL--does Canada have an equivalent of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
By promoting the message that ActiveX is a danger (i.e., to my customers), you are jeopardizing my ability to make a living.
No one has a right to make a living based on fraud.
The Internet Wayback Machine site has stored versions of devedge.netscape.com, which AOL evidently deleted in early October; it's not clear that the people working on Mozilla have any control over that. Unfortunately, when I clicked on a link to a PDF manual, it didn't work.
OK... if you remember way back when to vector spaces, for a given space, there are lots of "bases" (plural of basis), minimal sets of vectors that collectively "span" the space, i.e. pick any vector in the space and I can hand you a weighted sum of vectors in the basis that adds up to the vector you picked.
OK... now, let's go on to vector spaces (or is this that further generalization thereof, namely Hilbert spaces?) where the "vectors" are functions! Those have bases, too. For functions with a particular period (i.e. there's some number p such that for any x and any integer k, f(x + kp) = f(x)), you can finagle {sin kx, cos kx | k in N} to maneuver the period from 2 * pi to p and position it appropriately so that they form a basis for that space of functions. ("My photo of Aunt Sarah isn't periodic!" you say? Then we pretend it's periodic, i.e. it infinitely repeats like a Warhol Marilyn Monroe, and just never show the repetitions.)
Here's the trick: if you can arrange your basis so that those weights (remember the weighted sum?) get smaller and smaller as you go on, you can do lossy compression by throwing away all the terms past a certain point.
People did it with Chebyshev polynomials to get decent results for power series approximations (at a cost of spreading around the error) with fewer terms, and you can do it with {sin kx, cos kx | k in N}, because as k gets bigger, sin kx and cos kx wiggle faster and faster, and most pictures don't look like Moire patterns or op art. (The reason that you don't want JPEG for line art is that sharp edges are guaranteed to require lots of terms, so they're guaranteed to look bad when you leave them out.)
Surely wanting a particular outcome is not confined to industry.
...is giving "rebates" in the form of gift cards, that can only be redeemed at Best Buy.
When I tried FC3T2, I was able to burn a CD as myself (under FC2, I had to su in order to burn a CD)--so I expect that they've corrected that problem.
...the Dragon 32 (a Welsh-made near-clone of the Tandy TRS-80)...
The Tano Dragon was not a near-clone of the Z-80-based TRS-80; it was a near-clone of the Tandy Color Computer which used the Motorola 6809, the best microprocessor of its era.
...shouldn't it be "Reboot Hill"?
Am I the only one who thinks that this $250 000 could have been put to better use?
Who's to decide what's better use? Should we all give all money not needed for a subsistence living to charity, lest we be considered selfish?
I'm curious about where you found a reference to the brewer being defective; no other web site I've seen on the subject has said anything other than that McDonalds kept their coffee hot.
That said, the lady suffered from third degree burns as a result of not thinking. She held the styrofoam cup between her legs and then removed the lid, the main thing keeping said legs from squashing said cup and drenching her in hot coffee, so she could add sugar and cream, for [insert favorite deity here]'s sake!
It's as if you were at your favorite steak restaurant and decided to hold the steak knife under your arm while you used both hands to unscrew the A-1 sauce bottle lid and pour some on the steak--anyone who would do that is a danger to him or herself, and I would say that's a fair characterization of the hot coffee lady.
If I may act like a M$ fanboy for a sec...if IE use drops to 0% across the board, how does this affect M$'s bottom line?
If that happens, then more web designers will design web sites to conform to standards, rather than to make them work on IE. Web apps using XUL will be more prevalent, which is critical for MS. (Go back to the first MS antitrust suit and read the sections about "applications barrier to entry.") XUL would then carry through Andreesson's long-ago threat of turning MS Windows into a "collection of badly written device drivers," so that you can count on apps being around even if you don't use Windows--and MS can't let that happen.
That's de Moivre's theorem, but yes, you're right, though I don't know historically which came first.
I'm tired of waiting for nVidia to catch up with kernel changes, and tired of getting drivers that don't support all the features of the hardware that I buy (or broken drivers, like the ATI driver that I could always count on freezing my wife's computer in the midst of a spiffy 3D screensaver every so often).
I have five PClones, and would cheerfully buy graphics hardware for them from a company that takes Linux seriously by providing or allowing full-featured, open source drivers.
Especially Algol 68, the best programming language you probably never used, a victim of nasty (and not necessarily accurate) propaganda. I urge all to track down a copy of the History of Programming Languages II proceedings and read Charles Lindsey's excellent and bittersweet paper on the history of Algol 68.