I believe a divide-by-zero operation will spit one out.
I'm pretty sure dividing by zero either gives you a SIGFPE or +/-Infinity, depending on which you want. You need to do stuff like divide 0 by 0 to get NaN.
I admit I haven't been keeping up with the latest in POTS modems, not having had a need for 'em in a couple of years... but I haven't heard of any modems that have preliminary versions of v.92. Are there any? If not, I don't think v.92 will get anywhere... many months before v.90 was ratified (wasn't it over a year?), X2 and K56Flex modems were out and supported by ISPs. Before v.34{bis,ter,whatever the 33.6k standard is} came out, there were 33.6k modems using a preliminary protocol. The same was true back to the 9600 days, and perhaps even earlier. I remember when USR came out with their 9600 HST modems, before there was a v.32 standard. (v.32 was much nicer though... symmetric:)
So, v.92's supposed to be approved in four months or so... shouldn't there be modems out already?
Sure, ISDN has been available for quite a few years... I think I got my line in 1994. The problem is that the phone companies here supply a U interface, rather than an S/T. This means you have to supply your own NT1, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but that's led to CPE manufacturers integrating the NT1 into the device. Bad... now you can't hook up anything else to the line. (Unless the manufacturer was nice enough to include a S/T port... Cisco 7xx routers, for example).
In the US, people just use ISDN for a fast Internet connection, rather than actually using it as an Integrated Services Digital Network. Almost nobody uses ISDN telephone sets, and as a result, they're pretty expensive. The phone companies don't know what to do if you do want to use an ISDN phone; I've been trying to get my phone company (Southwestern Bell) to add a few call appearances to my line, and they screwed it up, making my line non-functional. They reverted back to the previous configuration, and are now trying to figure out what to do next... it's been over a month now.
Anyways, I guess that wasn't really relevant to what you were saying, but I felt like complaining:) At least in my area, a plain ISDN line with no extra voice features (no calling number delivery, no call forwarding, no call waiting, etc...) is about the same price as two analog lines, with no per-minute charges for local calls. Not a bad deal... However, if you do want the extra voice features, they cost more than the equivalents on a POTS line:(
I'm generally quite happy with my ISDN line; I can't get DSL or cable modem access where I am, but if/when I can, I'll probably keep the ISDN line and use it just for voice calls.
A partial solution (for the majority that don't understand Japanese): have an English subtitle track with the Neil Gaiman version, and have another English subtitle track with a literally translated version. And if it really annoys you to hear the Neil Gaiman English audio with subtitles that don't match, switch to the French audio track:) (okay, perhaps not terribly practical, but I honestly wouldn't mind a setup like that).
And FWIW, I think Gaiman did an excellent job with the English version.
Where can I get more info about that? I always wanted to know how those worked.
I dunno, I'm sure there's a site out there that explains it all... but basically, liquid crystals (I don't know what they're crystals of:) will polarize light, and a small electric current can be used to change the crystals' alignments, thereby changing the direction of polarization.
You then have a backlight (usually a fluorescent tube), a polarizing filter in front of it, and the sheet of liquid crystals in front of that. With the crystals polarized in the same direction as the filter, the backlight shines through. With the crystals perpendicular to the filter, the light is blocked. And with them at some angle in between, the light is partially blocked.
Now, the LCD sheet is actually subdivided into pixels, and the polarization of each pixel can be changed independently of the others (or at least more or less independently:) I believe the active matrix screens do allow for completely independent control of all the pixels, whereas with the older dual scan (or even older plain STN) screens, the previous row could slightly affect the current row as the electronics scanned down flipping those crystals around, causing shadows and stuff. So, you now have a grayscale LCD screen... to turn that into a color screen, just put a filter with red, green, and blue stripes on top, and voilà!:) Color screen:) But make sure the stripes on the filter are aligned with the LCD pixels:)
I could be wrong on some of that... I'm not an expert on LCD screens or anything; I just read something about 'em in some magazine a long time ago...
Sure it is... if you have a monochrome monitor, or if you had the Apple color monitor with the monochrome/color switch, you could get 560x192 resolution out of it, instead of the standard 280x192. If you wanted color, you could still do some tricks with the half-pixel shift. I saw it put to good use in a font drawing routine; two bits on next to each other gives you white, but if you flip the high order bit, you still get white, but shifted over half a pixel. Thus, you could get a capital "I" like:
Thats the first time I have heard of RGB being layed out in stripes.... There is a shadow mask used to control the 3 electron beams.
Well, LCD screens don't use electron beams. And we are talking about LCD screens here... they use colored filters, with the colors laid out in stripes.
After all what is being discussed is just 1 bit of color accuracy per color component.
Well, it is exponential... the difference between 1-bit (monochrome) and 2-bit (4 grays) is very noticeable:) As you get more bits, it starts making less difference, but still, I can easily tell the difference between a 5-bit color ramp (32 shades) and a 6-bit one (64 shades). The difference between 4 and 5 bits would be even more noticeable. (And my laptop's LCD screen is capable of displaying more than 5 bits per color component... looks like it can do the full 8 bits that the video chips put out).
The capability is simply due to the fact that the chip doesn't prepend the ethernet header for you, so the software has to fill in the second six bytes of each packet.
True, but the ethernet chip still needs to know its own MAC address, so it can know that it's supposed to pay attention to an incoming packet. (I suppose you could set the thing into promiscuous mode and do the filtering in software, but that makes your CPU work harder:)
It isn't very realistic, for one thing; there are many things attributable to malice that cannot be explained away by stupidity.
Well then, obviously those are things the statement doesn't apply to. The statement isn't "Never attribute anything to malice," it's "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity." It says nothing about those things that cannot be explained by stupidity.
"The less believable a conspiracy is, the more likely it is that it's true."
Doesn't seem to be true in my experience.
"When you can't say 'Fuck,' you can't say 'Fuck The Government.'"
Ahhh, that Lenny Bruce; such a wise man.
Ohhh... so quotes from science fiction novelists are worthless, but if a heroin-addicted comedian who liked the word "fuck" says something, it's sage wisdom for the masses, eh?
Is there a substance with a high heat conductivity that is also very flexible so that it clings to the CPU?
I dunno how good it is compared to the traditional zinc oxide in oily stuff, but my Alpha 21164A cpu/motherboard came with a Grafoil sheet to stick between the CPU and heatsink. It's a sheet of flexible graphite, and according to the company that makes the stuff, "has excellent directional, electrical and thermal conduction properties.... It is also effective in... heat sink applications." It's the official DEC-recommended stuff to use, so I guess it's supposed to be good:)
Re:"the devil guy" has a name...
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He has no name... A lot of people think he's named Chuck though, apparently due to some misinformation from Walnut Creek. See this link
Macintosh did not offer drag-and drop printing until a latter date with System 7.5!
While it wasn't bundled in with the system, Quickdraw GX gave you desktop printers (drag and drop printing), and ran on System 7.something (where something < 5:) I'm thinking 7.1.x, but I don't remember.
There is no requirement, as far as the overall US domain administration is concerned, that the user of a "locality" US domain name actually be in or have any connection with that locality. For example, the user of Smith.Boston.MA.US could actually reside in New Hampshire.
Copyright protects "original works of authorship" that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. The fixation need not be directly perceptible so long as it may be communicated with the aid of a machine or device. Copyrightable works include the following categories:
(1) literary works;
(2) musical works, including any accompanying words
(3) dramatic works, including any accompanying music
(4) pantomimes and choreographic works
(5) pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
(6) motion pictures and other audiovisual works
(7) sound recordings
(8) architectural works
These categories should be viewed broadly. For example, computer programs and most "compilations" may be registered as "literary works"; maps and architectural plans may be registered as "pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works."
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.
English is the one language where new words are thrown in on a daily basis. New words are invented to describe an invention and we don't really think twice about it. It is the dominant language in science for that reason. It is very accepting.
Oh, I think there are many languages where new words are continually added to the language (I don't think English literally gets new words on a daily basis:) For example, Chinese has words for "computer," "internet," "e-mail," "mouse" (both the computer one and the rodent:), and other modern words. The other language I know well, Thai, doesn't seem to do as well though... they just take the English words and pronounce them with a strong Thai accent:)
English isn't the dominant scientific language either... many important research papers are still published in German, Russian, French, and probably others. Other posts have mentioned that German was a requirement for Chemistry... my degree is in Math, and I wished I knew German; there were a lot of obscure math books written in German. (I took French instead, which was helpful too...:)
Anyways, I do think that English is gonna be the de facto standard though... which is fine with me:)
While Chinese is #1 by number of speakers, I don't think that's a particularly good criterion for a world language. A world language should be spoken, or at least understood, in every part of the world. Mandarin is basically only spoken in China/Taiwan (not counting Chinatown:)... on the other hand, if you go to some random country, chances are pretty good that you won't have to look too hard to find someone who understands English. English is even the official language of quite a few countries...
Not that I have anything against Chinese... I'm fluent in Mandarin:)
According to the copyright in the source, it was written in 1993. OpenBSD wasn't around until 1995... so, I doubt it was originally written for OpenBSD:) (wasn't imported into OpenBSD until 1996, BTW).
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Obviously you haven't heard of x.com :) (or q.com, for that matter, but I wouldn't expect anyone to have heard of them).
I'm pretty sure dividing by zero either gives you a SIGFPE or +/-Infinity, depending on which you want. You need to do stuff like divide 0 by 0 to get NaN.
So, v.92's supposed to be approved in four months or so... shouldn't there be modems out already?
In the US, people just use ISDN for a fast Internet connection, rather than actually using it as an Integrated Services Digital Network. Almost nobody uses ISDN telephone sets, and as a result, they're pretty expensive. The phone companies don't know what to do if you do want to use an ISDN phone; I've been trying to get my phone company (Southwestern Bell) to add a few call appearances to my line, and they screwed it up, making my line non-functional. They reverted back to the previous configuration, and are now trying to figure out what to do next... it's been over a month now.
Anyways, I guess that wasn't really relevant to what you were saying, but I felt like complaining :) At least in my area, a plain ISDN line with no extra voice features (no calling number delivery, no call forwarding, no call waiting, etc...) is about the same price as two analog lines, with no per-minute charges for local calls. Not a bad deal... However, if you do want the extra voice features, they cost more than the equivalents on a POTS line :(
I'm generally quite happy with my ISDN line; I can't get DSL or cable modem access where I am, but if/when I can, I'll probably keep the ISDN line and use it just for voice calls.
ARIN handles IP address delegation for the Americas. Ask whois.arin.net.
And FWIW, I think Gaiman did an excellent job with the English version.
If that's the case, why does NT4 for Alpha support a small handful of ethernet and video cards compared to NT4 for x86?
I dunno, I'm sure there's a site out there that explains it all... but basically, liquid crystals (I don't know what they're crystals of :) will polarize light, and a small electric current can be used to change the crystals' alignments, thereby changing the direction of polarization.
You then have a backlight (usually a fluorescent tube), a polarizing filter in front of it, and the sheet of liquid crystals in front of that. With the crystals polarized in the same direction as the filter, the backlight shines through. With the crystals perpendicular to the filter, the light is blocked. And with them at some angle in between, the light is partially blocked.
Now, the LCD sheet is actually subdivided into pixels, and the polarization of each pixel can be changed independently of the others (or at least more or less independently :) I believe the active matrix screens do allow for completely independent control of all the pixels, whereas with the older dual scan (or even older plain STN) screens, the previous row could slightly affect the current row as the electronics scanned down flipping those crystals around, causing shadows and stuff. So, you now have a grayscale LCD screen... to turn that into a color screen, just put a filter with red, green, and blue stripes on top, and voilà! :) Color screen :) But make sure the stripes on the filter are aligned with the LCD pixels :)
I could be wrong on some of that... I'm not an expert on LCD screens or anything; I just read something about 'em in some magazine a long time ago...
Sure it is... if you have a monochrome monitor, or if you had the Apple color monitor with the monochrome/color switch, you could get 560x192 resolution out of it, instead of the standard 280x192. If you wanted color, you could still do some tricks with the half-pixel shift. I saw it put to good use in a font drawing routine; two bits on next to each other gives you white, but if you flip the high order bit, you still get white, but shifted over half a pixel. Thus, you could get a capital "I" like:
**** ******
** **
**insteadofa chunkier **
** **
**** ******
(each "**" represents one pixel).
Well, LCD screens don't use electron beams. And we are talking about LCD screens here... they use colored filters, with the colors laid out in stripes.
Well, it is exponential... the difference between 1-bit (monochrome) and 2-bit (4 grays) is very noticeable :) As you get more bits, it starts making less difference, but still, I can easily tell the difference between a 5-bit color ramp (32 shades) and a 6-bit one (64 shades). The difference between 4 and 5 bits would be even more noticeable. (And my laptop's LCD screen is capable of displaying more than 5 bits per color component... looks like it can do the full 8 bits that the video chips put out).
True, but the ethernet chip still needs to know its own MAC address, so it can know that it's supposed to pay attention to an incoming packet. (I suppose you could set the thing into promiscuous mode and do the filtering in software, but that makes your CPU work harder :)
Well then, obviously those are things the statement doesn't apply to. The statement isn't "Never attribute anything to malice," it's "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity." It says nothing about those things that cannot be explained by stupidity.
Doesn't seem to be true in my experience. Ohhh... so quotes from science fiction novelists are worthless, but if a heroin-addicted comedian who liked the word "fuck" says something, it's sage wisdom for the masses, eh?I dunno how good it is compared to the traditional zinc oxide in oily stuff, but my Alpha 21164A cpu/motherboard came with a Grafoil sheet to stick between the CPU and heatsink. It's a sheet of flexible graphite, and according to the company that makes the stuff, "has excellent directional, electrical and thermal conduction properties.... It is also effective in ... heat sink applications." It's the official DEC-recommended stuff to use, so I guess it's supposed to be good :)
He has no name... A lot of people think he's named Chuck though, apparently due to some misinformation from Walnut Creek. See this link
While it wasn't bundled in with the system, Quickdraw GX gave you desktop printers (drag and drop printing), and ran on System 7.something (where something < 5 :) I'm thinking 7.1.x, but I don't remember.
So don't do it. You don't have to change your domain if you move. See http://www.nic.us/usdom-overview.html:
Doesn't actually have to be art... from http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/ci rc1.html:
WHAT WORKS ARE PROTECTED?
Copyright protects "original works of authorship" that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. The fixation need not be directly perceptible so long as it may be communicated with the aid of a machine or device. Copyrightable works include the following categories:
These categories should be viewed broadly. For example, computer programs and most "compilations" may be registered as "literary works"; maps and architectural plans may be registered as "pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works."
From http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/ci rc1.html:
WHAT IS COPYRIGHT?
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.
2.99792458x10^8 is an integer.
Oh, I think there are many languages where new words are continually added to the language (I don't think English literally gets new words on a daily basis :) For example, Chinese has words for "computer," "internet," "e-mail," "mouse" (both the computer one and the rodent :), and other modern words. The other language I know well, Thai, doesn't seem to do as well though... they just take the English words and pronounce them with a strong Thai accent :)
English isn't the dominant scientific language either... many important research papers are still published in German, Russian, French, and probably others. Other posts have mentioned that German was a requirement for Chemistry... my degree is in Math, and I wished I knew German; there were a lot of obscure math books written in German. (I took French instead, which was helpful too... :)
Anyways, I do think that English is gonna be the de facto standard though... which is fine with me :)
Not that I have anything against Chinese... I'm fluent in Mandarin :)
Who the heck is Chuck?
Your wife has good taste :) I want one of those Powermac G4s, but they're a kinda boring gray... I wanna translucent orange G4 :)
According to the copyright in the source, it was written in 1993. OpenBSD wasn't around until 1995... so, I doubt it was originally written for OpenBSD :) (wasn't imported into OpenBSD until 1996, BTW).