It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th. Are they actually mailing out CDs to anyone, then? Or do they still have a couple of last-minute changes to make from the release candidate you can download right now?
I'm PstScrpt on LiveJournal. Looking at your info, I'm thinking you probably saw me on Tacit's journal.
And you've done an awful lot more assembler work than I have. I basically had half a semester on each of the two architectures, in 1995. I was a computer engineering major back then, but just finished a CS BS in December, and I've been doing more database work than anything else the last few years.
Scouting is a place to help boys grow up to be men. NORMAL men. But then they're asking for computer help. I've met a couple of programmers who were normal men. They sucked.
They would create the "Order of the Spaghetti Monster" award That was cute for all of five seconds. It's nowhere near as funny as The Church of the Subgenius or, more recently, Ceiling Cat.
the US Constitution originally counted black slaves as 3/5 of a man Slaves weren't really counted as people at all. The 3/5 thing was just to give more representation to the wealthy states (Virginia) with a lot of slaves.
So you would destroy the right of the BSA as a private organization to regulate who they associate with and who they do not? No, of course not. They should, however, be treated like any other group that does such things and not get any government favors, and not generally be treated with deference by the public at large (for instance, being taken seriously as a "good cause" for open source work). And that's gradually happening.
If you don't like it, make a newer and "better" one. Inertia is a big deal. I know some of the Spiral Scouts people personally, and it's still hard to take them seriously. I think the only group that would really stand a chance is the Girl Scouts, and the "take your daughter to work" crowd would throw a fit if they tried to become gender neutral.
Not so specifically, but she would know the guy's a first class weirdo and would probably react in all sorts of suspicious ways when she came up missing. Of course, that also means he could have decided killing her was the right thing to do.
If all of y'all would invest less in pick up trucks with "In God we Trust" stickers on the back, you might find your gas prices quite agreeable. Some of us have been driving compacts all along, and still expect a fill-up from 1/4 tank to be around $17. Granted, I know it's going to be nearly $50 to fill up my little Sunfire, but I still get a "that can't be right" moment.
There is a HUGE difference between "somehow able to communiate in English" and "being able to enjoying an english piece of media" I suppose that depends how well you need to understand it. I speak maybe 30 words of Spanish, but I still think Shakira just sounds wrong in English.
I forgive you, considering your other way-off statements so far. Communists HAD taken over Vietnam, and had MASSIVE backing from the population. Even that's too charitable to us Americans. The Vietnamese took over Vietnam, needed to pick a government and economic system, and picked communism. As I understand it, it was more about ending colonialism (French) than establishing communism to them.
She gets 1 year maternity leave, but it's all UNPAID. If you're suggesting the government should pay her for full-time parenting for a year, I'd say that would be worth considering. However, people usually want employers to do it. Why should it be their responsibility to pay her for a year to not work (for them)?
when she goes back to work, the wages she earns will be about 70% of a males' wage Probably less. It's women taking time off for childrearing that are bringing down the average, and you only get to the 70% by factoring the higher wages of women who don't do that.
This is indeed sexism, but it's not from the employers; it's from individuals and their own views of women's and men's places in the world. Until men are sacrificing their careers for their children at the same rate as women, it's going to stay that way. The only thing I'd say is unjust from the employer side is when they assume a woman is going to put them second behind her children or want maternity leave, and she has no intention of having kids, or her husband will be doing most of that work.
The idea that Nina Reiser would abandon her kids and a possible chance to stick it to Hans in the legal system just to live a footloose life in Russia How could she possibly have stuck it to him in the legal system worse than a first degree murder conviction? And her kids *are* in Russia.
Hans may very well have killed her, but you're just pointing out arguments against it.
It just seems like Java for people who hate Java from what little research I've done on it, but it also seems to be very popular (of course, hating Java is popular, too). More like Perl for people who hate Perl. It has most of the same strengths, but isn't remotely so hideous.
Then I suspect you weren't paying attention. Perhaps I just wasn't paying attention to conservatives. I never minded Clinton, but Dole seemed fairly innocuous, too. Back then, the Republicans were focused more on economic stuff where I'm just a pragmatist.
In one of those opinion polls, voters weren't even asked their opinion of Obama. Also, Michigan has open primaries. So, not only were we told that the Democratic primary wouldn't count, but we were allowed to instead vote in the Republican primary, which did count. I and most of the other Democrats I know voted for McCain.
Michigan and Ohio are bleeding jobs like crazy. They have the highest state-level corporate taxes and the most restrictions on employers with respect to hiring and firing. Michigan is one of 2 states that actually *lost* population from one census to the next. People are actively fleeing there. There just aren't any jobs, at any level. Michigan has an entirely revamped business tax system going in shortly (recently?). Everyone knew the old one sucked. Still, we're not going to come out of our nosedive until GM, Ford and Chrysler have stopped making cuts for a few years. The influence of politicians on Michigan's economy (and Ohio's, to a smaller extent) is dwarfed by the lousy marketing of those three companies.
Michigan is only one of two to have shrunk? I would have thought North and South Dakota and Wyoming all would have. And Louisiana will probably be down in 2010.
The programming job market here (Detroit) has actually pretty good for the last couple of years.
Higher gas prices means fewer gas consumers whilst lower prices brings more consumption. We're witnessing that right now. For envirodems, lower consumption is a GOOD thing not a bad thing. Well, yes, but most of us didn't want it to be so sudden. A 5-10% per year increase beyond inflation for ten or 15 years would have gotten people buying smaller cars and using trains more without being remotely so painful.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure free public healthcare (welfare) is a cornerstone of his campaign... Hospitals are required to treat people who can't pay. Sometimes that destroys them, but usually it just translates into higher prices for everyone, so you're paying for them in your insurance rates, anyway. And the current system has massive administrative overhead and encourages the poor to avoid treatment until it's a much more expensive emergency that's paid by everyone. And those rates have to be paid by employers, discouraging them from hiring people and raising their expenses relative to foreign competition.
I wish you weren't totally full of shit, but Kucinich was the only candidate to propose a reasonable health care system. If you're not paying attention, don't post.
This is what gets said at every single election. I don't recall much of that in 1996, when I voted for Harry Browne. Every election since 2000, though, including this next one, has been about trying to minimize the damage from that jackass from Texas (Rove more than Bush).
Regardless, our current plurality system is always going to reinforce a two party system. If you're opposed to that, try to push for state referendums on instant runoff voting.
Actually, I recall x86's real mode pages actually overlapped in the bus address ranges that they mapped to. So in this case number of pages * page size doesn't give total addressable real memory. Can't remember the actual numbers, however. You seem to be the first one to remember the gist of it. The 8086 had 16 bit pointers (I think there was another term) and 16 bit segments. The physical address was Segment*16 + pointer, meaning only the four least significant bits were identified entirely by the simple pointer and there was effectively 20 bit addressing, for 1MB of addressable memory.
According to my x86 assembler teacher (this is the guy who taught us to time delays by calculating cycles and clock speed, so take it with a grain of salt), the idea was to allow programs to use hard-coded pointer values, while the segment would let the program be put wherever in memory it actually fit. I was taking x86 assembler from the EE department at the time, and when I asked my SPARC assembler teacher in the CS department how SPARC did it, he said that everything there used relative pointers.
I turn 32 in three weeks. I should not be filling in details that were before everyone else's time.
Since a 64 bit processor can address vast amounts of RAM, wouldn't it be even better and cheaper just to have 200GB of RAM rather than 200GB of SSD? I don't know that you'd really need a lot of flash memory for this, maybe only a few meg allowing for spacing out the writes to avoid wear, but flash could allow you to do write caching when you normally wouldn't trust it, because it won't go away if you lose power.
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How can a question about the subject of the story be offtopic?
It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th.
Are they actually mailing out CDs to anyone, then? Or do they still have a couple of last-minute changes to make from the release candidate you can download right now?
I'm PstScrpt on LiveJournal. Looking at your info, I'm thinking you probably saw me on Tacit's journal.
And you've done an awful lot more assembler work than I have. I basically had half a semester on each of the two architectures, in 1995. I was a computer engineering major back then, but just finished a CS BS in December, and I've been doing more database work than anything else the last few years.
Scouting is a place to help boys grow up to be men. NORMAL men.
But then they're asking for computer help. I've met a couple of programmers who were normal men. They sucked.
They would create the "Order of the Spaghetti Monster" award
That was cute for all of five seconds. It's nowhere near as funny as The Church of the Subgenius or, more recently, Ceiling Cat.
the US Constitution originally counted black slaves as 3/5 of a man
Slaves weren't really counted as people at all. The 3/5 thing was just to give more representation to the wealthy states (Virginia) with a lot of slaves.
So you would destroy the right of the BSA as a private organization to regulate who they associate with and who they do not?
No, of course not. They should, however, be treated like any other group that does such things and not get any government favors, and not generally be treated with deference by the public at large (for instance, being taken seriously as a "good cause" for open source work). And that's gradually happening.
If you don't like it, make a newer and "better" one.
Inertia is a big deal. I know some of the Spiral Scouts people personally, and it's still hard to take them seriously. I think the only group that would really stand a chance is the Girl Scouts, and the "take your daughter to work" crowd would throw a fit if they tried to become gender neutral.
It took me a minute to realize it was intentional, too.
Good point. *We* were killing each other way before that.
Not so specifically, but she would know the guy's a first class weirdo and would probably react in all sorts of suspicious ways when she came up missing. Of course, that also means he could have decided killing her was the right thing to do.
don't forget we went through 1000 years of conflict.
You guys were killing each other long before that.
If all of y'all would invest less in pick up trucks with "In God we Trust" stickers on the back, you might find your gas prices quite agreeable.
Some of us have been driving compacts all along, and still expect a fill-up from 1/4 tank to be around $17. Granted, I know it's going to be nearly $50 to fill up my little Sunfire, but I still get a "that can't be right" moment.
There is a HUGE difference between "somehow able to communiate in English" and "being able to enjoying an english piece of media"
I suppose that depends how well you need to understand it. I speak maybe 30 words of Spanish, but I still think Shakira just sounds wrong in English.
I forgive you, considering your other way-off statements so far. Communists HAD taken over Vietnam, and had MASSIVE backing from the population.
Even that's too charitable to us Americans. The Vietnamese took over Vietnam, needed to pick a government and economic system, and picked communism. As I understand it, it was more about ending colonialism (French) than establishing communism to them.
She gets 1 year maternity leave, but it's all UNPAID.
If you're suggesting the government should pay her for full-time parenting for a year, I'd say that would be worth considering. However, people usually want employers to do it. Why should it be their responsibility to pay her for a year to not work (for them)?
when she goes back to work, the wages she earns will be about 70% of a males' wage
Probably less. It's women taking time off for childrearing that are bringing down the average, and you only get to the 70% by factoring the higher wages of women who don't do that.
This is indeed sexism, but it's not from the employers; it's from individuals and their own views of women's and men's places in the world. Until men are sacrificing their careers for their children at the same rate as women, it's going to stay that way. The only thing I'd say is unjust from the employer side is when they assume a woman is going to put them second behind her children or want maternity leave, and she has no intention of having kids, or her husband will be doing most of that work.
The idea that Nina Reiser would abandon her kids and a possible chance to stick it to Hans in the legal system just to live a footloose life in Russia
How could she possibly have stuck it to him in the legal system worse than a first degree murder conviction? And her kids *are* in Russia.
Hans may very well have killed her, but you're just pointing out arguments against it.
It just seems like Java for people who hate Java from what little research I've done on it, but it also seems to be very popular (of course, hating Java is popular, too).
More like Perl for people who hate Perl. It has most of the same strengths, but isn't remotely so hideous.
Then I suspect you weren't paying attention.
Perhaps I just wasn't paying attention to conservatives. I never minded Clinton, but Dole seemed fairly innocuous, too. Back then, the Republicans were focused more on economic stuff where I'm just a pragmatist.
In one of those opinion polls, voters weren't even asked their opinion of Obama.
Also, Michigan has open primaries. So, not only were we told that the Democratic primary wouldn't count, but we were allowed to instead vote in the Republican primary, which did count. I and most of the other Democrats I know voted for McCain.
Michigan and Ohio are bleeding jobs like crazy. They have the highest state-level corporate taxes and the most restrictions on employers with respect to hiring and firing. Michigan is one of 2 states that actually *lost* population from one census to the next. People are actively fleeing there. There just aren't any jobs, at any level.
Michigan has an entirely revamped business tax system going in shortly (recently?). Everyone knew the old one sucked. Still, we're not going to come out of our nosedive until GM, Ford and Chrysler have stopped making cuts for a few years. The influence of politicians on Michigan's economy (and Ohio's, to a smaller extent) is dwarfed by the lousy marketing of those three companies.
Michigan is only one of two to have shrunk? I would have thought North and South Dakota and Wyoming all would have. And Louisiana will probably be down in 2010.
The programming job market here (Detroit) has actually pretty good for the last couple of years.
Higher gas prices means fewer gas consumers whilst lower prices brings more consumption. We're witnessing that right now. For envirodems, lower consumption is a GOOD thing not a bad thing.
Well, yes, but most of us didn't want it to be so sudden. A 5-10% per year increase beyond inflation for ten or 15 years would have gotten people buying smaller cars and using trains more without being remotely so painful.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure free public healthcare (welfare) is a cornerstone of his campaign...
Hospitals are required to treat people who can't pay. Sometimes that destroys them, but usually it just translates into higher prices for everyone, so you're paying for them in your insurance rates, anyway. And the current system has massive administrative overhead and encourages the poor to avoid treatment until it's a much more expensive emergency that's paid by everyone. And those rates have to be paid by employers, discouraging them from hiring people and raising their expenses relative to foreign competition.
I wish you weren't totally full of shit, but Kucinich was the only candidate to propose a reasonable health care system. If you're not paying attention, don't post.
This is what gets said at every single election.
I don't recall much of that in 1996, when I voted for Harry Browne. Every election since 2000, though, including this next one, has been about trying to minimize the damage from that jackass from Texas (Rove more than Bush).
Regardless, our current plurality system is always going to reinforce a two party system. If you're opposed to that, try to push for state referendums on instant runoff voting.
Actually, I recall x86's real mode pages actually overlapped in the bus address ranges that they mapped to. So in this case number of pages * page size doesn't give total addressable real memory. Can't remember the actual numbers, however.
You seem to be the first one to remember the gist of it. The 8086 had 16 bit pointers (I think there was another term) and 16 bit segments. The physical address was Segment*16 + pointer, meaning only the four least significant bits were identified entirely by the simple pointer and there was effectively 20 bit addressing, for 1MB of addressable memory.
According to my x86 assembler teacher (this is the guy who taught us to time delays by calculating cycles and clock speed, so take it with a grain of salt), the idea was to allow programs to use hard-coded pointer values, while the segment would let the program be put wherever in memory it actually fit. I was taking x86 assembler from the EE department at the time, and when I asked my SPARC assembler teacher in the CS department how SPARC did it, he said that everything there used relative pointers.
I turn 32 in three weeks. I should not be filling in details that were before everyone else's time.
Since a 64 bit processor can address vast amounts of RAM, wouldn't it be even better and cheaper just to have 200GB of RAM rather than 200GB of SSD?
I don't know that you'd really need a lot of flash memory for this, maybe only a few meg allowing for spacing out the writes to avoid wear, but flash could allow you to do write caching when you normally wouldn't trust it, because it won't go away if you lose power.