Would you be as[s]uming that [64-bit processors generally run on more current], for a similar amount work done, or just having the thing switched on[?]
Both. A 64-bit ALU takes at least twice the gates of a 32-bit ALU (actually slightly more to handle long-distance carries). Also remember that 64-bit code and data structures tend to take more space than their 32-bit equivalents, overflowing the cache and requiring a faster memory bus to compensate, which in turn drains more power. Any real advantage that more transistors give (Moore's Law) will generally be eaten up by software rushed to market without optimization (Gates's Law). Finally, I'm assuming that because of their bigger die size, 64-bit CPUs drain more power than 32-bit CPUs even in HLT state.
Listen to a Japanese speaker, such as a voice actor in subtitled anime. Japanese has a reduced nominal phoneme inventory, fewer than that of Spanish but a bit more than that of 'Nesian languages. Japanese speakers do spit out phonemes quickly, so quickly in fact that speakers often elide unaccented 'i' and 'u' to palatalization or rounding of the previous consonant.
Worse yet, listen to a Toki Pona speaker. Toki Pona's minimalist phoneme inventory compares to those of 'Nesian languages such as Hawaiian. But Toki Pona speakers generally reduce ideas to simpler terms before saying them.
So latin is dead since no one grows up with latin as a first language.
"Nobody grows up with pre-Norman Old English as a mother tongue. Therefore, English is dead."
Pfft. Latin is hardly dead. It just forked into Spanish (which in turn forked into Portuguese), French, and Romanian (a branch showing heavy Slavic contributions), and the trunk of Latin became known as Italian.
Applications driving the IBM PC speaker can do sigma-delta modulation, the same principle behind Sony SACD, to reproduce arbitrary waveforms. The "Inertia Player" modplayer for PC did this.
I'm going with an AC's hypothesis that utility droids' lack of formant-synthesized speech must be a cultural thing.
for the same reason the starships made a loud noise when they blew up in the vacumn of space.
True, the interplanetary gases are far too thin to carry sound as we know it, but exploding spacecraft still make electromagnetic noise, which interferes with other spacecraft's radios.
How much does a TiVo service subscription cost? Is the Home Media Option available without the subscription? And doesn't the TiVo price reflect a rebate from a 12-month subscription commitment?
Try telling that to somebody with 100 times more money to spend on lawyers than you have, who could just filibuster the proceedings until you are forced to settle because you can no longer pay your counsel.
Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign or offer to assign any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall NOT apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility or trade secret information of the employer was used
According to commonly used EULAs, wouldn't Mac OS X itself be considered "trade secret information of the employer"?
You don't feel happy? Take Zoloft. Your kid's a bit on the lively side? We can fix that.
This reminds me of the lyrics to a song from Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix, "Hot Limit" by John Desire, reproduced as heard:
You take Zoloft...
We drink Ritalin...
You take Zoloft...
We drink Ritalin...
Precious love is always eating up my heart!
That's not how the official lyrics go, but I wonder how much Pfizer (Zoloft mfr) and Novartis (Ritalin mfr) paid John Desire to mispronounce "summer love" as "Zoloft" and "revealing" as "Ritalin". (Others have heard "You take Zoloft" as "You chase Solo," referring to Harrison Ford's character in Star Wars episodes IV through VI.)
From here it's just a small step to a world described e.g. in Ira Levin's "A perfect day" (for the German audience: "Die sanften Ungeheuer").
Or the world in The Giver by Lois Lowry, where everybody is perpetually high on drugs that deaden feelings, which are called "Stirrings" in the culture.
my original post used the totally made-up "schemae"
All I saw was the "XML Schemas" not the screw-up.
Resolution: I will not use any word in a Slashdot post that I can't pronounce.
schema (SKEE muh), pl. schemas (SKEE muhz). A stream of bytes describing rules for validating any document written in a given XML application. (Usage: The W3C always uses the plural form schemas instead of schemata (skee MAHT uh) when referring to more than one XML Schema object.)
Making circumvention devices illegal is a logical step to protect works sort of like how making lockpicks illegal except to a licensed locksmith protects homes.
Difference: Many claim that the DMCA, EUCD, and foreign counterparts provide insufficiently for something analogous to licensure of locksmiths.
barring an opening book which in my opinion is not an example of chess playing at all
Bi()hazard seems to think that pattern matching is how experienced humans play chess. An opening book is just how a computer does pattern matching in the beginning of a chess game.
Material that is copyrighted becomes public domain after a certain period of time.
No it doesn't. Material that was published before 1923 and is copyrighted becomes public domain after a certain period of time. Material first published on or after January 1, 1923, remains under the beginnings of a perpetual copyright on the installment plan. A 19-year extension in 1978 was followed by a 20-year extension in 1998. However, the Supreme Court of the United States, when upholding the second extension in Eldred v. Ashcroft, strongly hinted in its opinion that it wouldn't uphold further extensions that establish a clear installment-plan pattern.
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people turn their machine off, and you're stuck waiting for a chunk in the middle
As long as the first publisher of the file leaves a BT window open, nobody is "stuck waiting for a chunk in the middle."
Got a proof that Slashdot won't accept? Format it in LaTeX, post it on geoshitties, and link to it.
In hockey lingo, the result of the series would be expressed as Kasparov (1-1-2), X3D Fritz (1-1-2).
Would you be as[s]uming that [64-bit processors generally run on more current], for a similar amount work done, or just having the thing switched on[?]
Both. A 64-bit ALU takes at least twice the gates of a 32-bit ALU (actually slightly more to handle long-distance carries). Also remember that 64-bit code and data structures tend to take more space than their 32-bit equivalents, overflowing the cache and requiring a faster memory bus to compensate, which in turn drains more power. Any real advantage that more transistors give (Moore's Law) will generally be eaten up by software rushed to market without optimization (Gates's Law). Finally, I'm assuming that because of their bigger die size, 64-bit CPUs drain more power than 32-bit CPUs even in HLT state.
Or do they spit their phonemes out faster?
Listen to a Japanese speaker, such as a voice actor in subtitled anime. Japanese has a reduced nominal phoneme inventory, fewer than that of Spanish but a bit more than that of 'Nesian languages. Japanese speakers do spit out phonemes quickly, so quickly in fact that speakers often elide unaccented 'i' and 'u' to palatalization or rounding of the previous consonant.
Worse yet, listen to a Toki Pona speaker. Toki Pona's minimalist phoneme inventory compares to those of 'Nesian languages such as Hawaiian. But Toki Pona speakers generally reduce ideas to simpler terms before saying them.
I agree. I'll upgrade from 16-bit to 32-bit when my favorite Sega Genesis and Super NES games are ported to Game Boy Advance.
if your 64 bit processor runs the same as your 32 bit one and has 64 bit instructions why would you still use a 32 bit ?
I'm assuming that a 32-bit processor draws less current than a 64-bit processor, which becomes important for handheld devices.
Can't such devices be battery-powered and recharged at night, like the iPod player?
I don't see how you could teach this language in a book unless it was sheet music.
What prevents using, say, w, u, o, a, e, i, j to refer to seven tones from low to high?
Funny thing about Esperanto is that they seem to be a lodge or something.
In a way. Many Esperanto-speaking households participate in Pasporta Servo, which offers free lodging to Esperanto speakers.
So latin is dead since no one grows up with latin as a first language.
"Nobody grows up with pre-Norman Old English as a mother tongue. Therefore, English is dead."
Pfft. Latin is hardly dead. It just forked into Spanish (which in turn forked into Portuguese), French, and Romanian (a branch showing heavy Slavic contributions), and the trunk of Latin became known as Italian.
So he had to resort to the good ol PC speaker.
Applications driving the IBM PC speaker can do sigma-delta modulation, the same principle behind Sony SACD, to reproduce arbitrary waveforms. The "Inertia Player" modplayer for PC did this.
I'm going with an AC's hypothesis that utility droids' lack of formant-synthesized speech must be a cultural thing.
for the same reason the starships made a loud noise when they blew up in the vacumn of space.
True, the interplanetary gases are far too thin to carry sound as we know it, but exploding spacecraft still make electromagnetic noise, which interferes with other spacecraft's radios.
How much does a TiVo service subscription cost? Is the Home Media Option available without the subscription? And doesn't the TiVo price reflect a rebate from a 12-month subscription commitment?
Try telling that to somebody with 100 times more money to spend on lawyers than you have, who could just filibuster the proceedings until you are forced to settle because you can no longer pay your counsel.
Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign or offer to assign any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall NOT apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility or trade secret information of the employer was used
According to commonly used EULAs, wouldn't Mac OS X itself be considered "trade secret information of the employer"?
Just use a microphone, sing
But by now, you've infringed the songwriter's copyright by fixing a recording of a copyrighted musical work.
You don't feel happy? Take Zoloft. Your kid's a bit on the lively side? We can fix that.
This reminds me of the lyrics to a song from Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix, "Hot Limit" by John Desire, reproduced as heard:
That's not how the official lyrics go, but I wonder how much Pfizer (Zoloft mfr) and Novartis (Ritalin mfr) paid John Desire to mispronounce "summer love" as "Zoloft" and "revealing" as "Ritalin". (Others have heard "You take Zoloft" as "You chase Solo," referring to Harrison Ford's character in Star Wars episodes IV through VI.)
From here it's just a small step to a world described e.g. in Ira Levin's "A perfect day" (for the German audience: "Die sanften Ungeheuer").
Or the world in The Giver by Lois Lowry, where everybody is perpetually high on drugs that deaden feelings, which are called "Stirrings" in the culture.
my original post used the totally made-up "schemae"
All I saw was the "XML Schemas" not the screw-up.
Resolution: I will not use any word in a Slashdot post that I can't pronounce.
schema (SKEE muh), pl. schemas (SKEE muhz). A stream of bytes describing rules for validating any document written in a given XML application. (Usage: The W3C always uses the plural form schemas instead of schemata (skee MAHT uh) when referring to more than one XML Schema object.)
From the link you gave: "plural schemata; also schemas". Therefore, "schemas" isn't wrong according to Webster.
Making circumvention devices illegal is a logical step to protect works sort of like how making lockpicks illegal except to a licensed locksmith protects homes.
Difference: Many claim that the DMCA, EUCD, and foreign counterparts provide insufficiently for something analogous to licensure of locksmiths.
barring an opening book which in my opinion is not an example of chess playing at all
Bi()hazard seems to think that pattern matching is how experienced humans play chess. An opening book is just how a computer does pattern matching in the beginning of a chess game.
When a human player take a look at the chess board, he rejects the vast majority of the possible moves and concentrate only on very few of them.
This is called pruning the search tree. Computer chess players do this too; see a description of alpha-beta pruning.
No. MPEG-2 video and Dolby Digital audio, both of which are required for decoding Region 1 DVD Video titles, are patented in the United States.
Material that is copyrighted becomes public domain after a certain period of time.
No it doesn't. Material that was published before 1923 and is copyrighted becomes public domain after a certain period of time. Material first published on or after January 1, 1923, remains under the beginnings of a perpetual copyright on the installment plan. A 19-year extension in 1978 was followed by a 20-year extension in 1998. However, the Supreme Court of the United States, when upholding the second extension in Eldred v. Ashcroft, strongly hinted in its opinion that it wouldn't uphold further extensions that establish a clear installment-plan pattern.