It isn't always that obvious. I suffered considerable hearing loss when I was in the Army. According to the audiologist, it wasn't caused by rifle or artillery fire, like you might think. It was long-term exposure to the sound of diesel generators, which didn't seem that loud when I worked near them.
Just because a CPU appears to run OK under normal conditions does not mean that everything is fine. If you look at the datasheet, you will see that the CPU is tested and guaranteed to run under certain specified ranges of voltages, temperatures, timing margins, etc. An overclocked CPU may no longer work over the same range of conditions as it would at its marked speed. Overclocking can also shorten the life of the part or damage it. It may work today, but start getting flakey after months or years of being overclocked.
Couldn't IBM make page offset interval == page length and claim the 65520 unused values are "reserved for future use" (and be able to address 4GB of RAM out of the box) instead of wasting them all on overlaying pages of memory, creating additional problems for the developers?
No. That would create more problems than it solved. An 8086 program is composed of a set of segments, some small, some large. The segment registers make these segments addressable by the CPU. A system with 128K of RAM can have hundreds of segments. The 8086 addressing hardware forces an alignment restriction of 16 bytes on segments. Your scheme would create an alignment restriction of 64K on segments.
The 8086 was designed to support high level languages like PL/M and Pascal. It was not designed to be a VAX-like system running C with a linear address space.
To be fair, how many countries get attacked on a daily basis with rockets? They also have to worry about news reports that inadvertently tell the bad guys how to adjust their fire. Britain had a similar problem during World War II with German rockets.
You want to stay out of prison? Don't go out and publicly and intentionally violate federal laws. You can call it civil disobedience. I call it a criminal act, leavened with stupidity. Start fucking around with military installations that handle nuclear weapons and you are likely to get shot.
There are other types of computers in this world besides the "PC".
Those of us who design and program embedded systems are used to using CPUs that are obsolete in the PC marketplace. A 486DX is more than sufficient for a huge range of applications, including VOIP.
I've seen real films of lab animals exposed to nerve agents. It can kill them in less than a minute. A chemical can get in your body and screw up your nervous system very quickly. A biological agent takes more time. There were reported cases of the Spanish Flu that killed people within hours, although it's unknown how long the virus was present and multiplying before symptoms were noticed.
Zip codes don't map to tax rates. I used to live in a zip code where the post office and part of the zip code was in Washington, D.C. and the rest of the zip code was in Maryland. This used to confuse many companies whose software assumed that all of a zip code could be associated with a single state.
Didn't we learn anything from the internment of Japanese citzens during WWII?
The problem wasn't the internment of Japanese citizens. During war, it is common to intern enemy aliens. The problem was that American citizens with Japanese ancestry were also interned.
Did the fact that the US has a constitution prevent other abuses of rights and liberties, such as the prohibition of alcohol or the internment of Japanese Americans (most of whom were full US citizens)? Nope.
Prohibition did require a constitutional amendment (Eighteenth Amendment). The sad thing is that after Franklin Roosevelt and his abuse of the Constitution, the federal government would not bother amending the constitution to enact a similar ban. It would just assert that it had the power to do as it pleases.
Bullshit. You have absolutely no idea as to what you are talking about.
Can you imagine the damage some antisocial radio vandal could do to the Mars Rovers, for instance, if the command traffic was sent in the clear?
More bullshit. Many spacecraft command uplinks are not encrypted. You need to know a lot of things and have some very expensive hardware before you are going to be able to command a spacecraft. Just knowing the uplink frequency is a small piece of the puzzle.
Why does there have to be a physical drug? You can make your own drugs in your brain by engaging in certain behaviors, like running long distances, having sex, etc.
Broaden your horizons. I gave up on most pop music years ago. I started listening to Swing, classic Jazz, Opera, Folk, Qawwali, Klezmer, and anything else that was interesting. Much of it recorded before I was born. There is a lot of great music out there if you are willing to try something new.
The manufacturer does not want the price to float. In many cases, they go to a great deal of effort to control the retail price of their products. They want their products sold at particular price points, not at prices determined by the whims of wholesalers and retailers.
Even consumers can be turned off by free markets. Look at the airline industry. How much does it cost to fly from point A to point B? The answer varies wildly, based on many variables, and changes with time.
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It isn't always that obvious. I suffered considerable hearing loss when I was in the Army. According to the audiologist, it wasn't caused by rifle or artillery fire, like you might think. It was long-term exposure to the sound of diesel generators, which didn't seem that loud when I worked near them.
Just because a CPU appears to run OK under normal conditions does not mean that everything is fine. If you look at the datasheet, you will see that the CPU is tested and guaranteed to run under certain specified ranges of voltages, temperatures, timing margins, etc. An overclocked CPU may no longer work over the same range of conditions as it would at its marked speed. Overclocking can also shorten the life of the part or damage it. It may work today, but start getting flakey after months or years of being overclocked.
No. That would create more problems than it solved. An 8086 program is composed of a set of segments, some small, some large. The segment registers make these segments addressable by the CPU. A system with 128K of RAM can have hundreds of segments. The 8086 addressing hardware forces an alignment restriction of 16 bytes on segments. Your scheme would create an alignment restriction of 64K on segments.
The 8086 was designed to support high level languages like PL/M and Pascal. It was not designed to be a VAX-like system running C with a linear address space.
To be fair, how many countries get attacked on a daily basis with rockets? They also have to worry about news reports that inadvertently tell the bad guys how to adjust their fire. Britain had a similar problem during World War II with German rockets.
You want to stay out of prison? Don't go out and publicly and intentionally violate federal laws. You can call it civil disobedience. I call it a criminal act, leavened with stupidity. Start fucking around with military installations that handle nuclear weapons and you are likely to get shot.
Those of us who design and program embedded systems are used to using CPUs that are obsolete in the PC marketplace. A 486DX is more than sufficient for a huge range of applications, including VOIP.
See Bird Flu Drug Rendered Useless for how China fucked the rest of the world by misusing a human antiviral drug on chickens.
I've seen real films of lab animals exposed to nerve agents. It can kill them in less than a minute. A chemical can get in your body and screw up your nervous system very quickly. A biological agent takes more time. There were reported cases of the Spanish Flu that killed people within hours, although it's unknown how long the virus was present and multiplying before symptoms were noticed.
Zip codes don't map to tax rates. I used to live in a zip code where the post office and part of the zip code was in Washington, D.C. and the rest of the zip code was in Maryland. This used to confuse many companies whose software assumed that all of a zip code could be associated with a single state.
I was thinking of attaching a JATO unit to a swallow.
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An inertial platform drifts and requires periodic recalibration.
Some people seem to be unclear on the definition of lesbian.
It is not illegal, and as far as I know, never been illegal to encrypt a wireline telephone call.
The problem wasn't the internment of Japanese citizens. During war, it is common to intern enemy aliens. The problem was that American citizens with Japanese ancestry were also interned.
Prohibition did require a constitutional amendment (Eighteenth Amendment). The sad thing is that after Franklin Roosevelt and his abuse of the Constitution, the federal government would not bother amending the constitution to enact a similar ban. It would just assert that it had the power to do as it pleases.
Bullshit. You have absolutely no idea as to what you are talking about.
Can you imagine the damage some antisocial radio vandal could do to the Mars Rovers, for instance, if the command traffic was sent in the clear?
More bullshit. Many spacecraft command uplinks are not encrypted. You need to know a lot of things and have some very expensive hardware before you are going to be able to command a spacecraft. Just knowing the uplink frequency is a small piece of the puzzle.
What about the Little Ice Age?
Before the Walkman, the only people that I ever saw wearing headphones in public were the sound guys on film crews with their Nagra recorders.
They aren't stupid to the person involved. Severe depression, whatever the cause, can make death an attractive alternative.
Why does there have to be a physical drug? You can make your own drugs in your brain by engaging in certain behaviors, like running long distances, having sex, etc.
Terrorist groups often finance their operations with petty crime, like credit card fraud.
It depends on state law. Federal law only requires that one party knows that the call is being recorded, and it doesn't require a beep.
Broaden your horizons. I gave up on most pop music years ago. I started listening to Swing, classic Jazz, Opera, Folk, Qawwali, Klezmer, and anything else that was interesting. Much of it recorded before I was born. There is a lot of great music out there if you are willing to try something new.
Even consumers can be turned off by free markets. Look at the airline industry. How much does it cost to fly from point A to point B? The answer varies wildly, based on many variables, and changes with time.