It doesn't sound like the Transputer to me. Sure, they resemble each other in that you can build a 2D array of chips from them by design, but you miss (or inadvertently downplay) that the innovation occurs in the fundamental electronic engineering issue of what happens in the bits of circuitry that drive the pins/pads - the transputer used asynchronous links and conventional pins and a nice but conventional memory interface, the Sun chip is doing something new, or if not new, seldom seen and highly promising. Ivor Sutherland knows his stuff.
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But how do you =know= ? Rape is preceded by talking to kids isn't it? Let's put to one side the paedophile you wasted 'cos you saw it happen (this is a thought experiment), what about the rest? How do you =know= for sure? I'm arguing with two hard liners in this thread, who's to say some nutter won't denounce me as a paedophile, after all, if I were a decent human being I wouldn't be arguing against retribution for those who "deserve it" would I?
Which, if anyone is still reading, IS ON-TOPIC for RFID tags, it's all about what we do "just in case". Why object to being tagged, if you don't go near the crime scene?
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... lives on his own, just in case? While I was waiting to complete my reply, I did a quick Google about vigilante responses and I draw your attention to the bit about a 55 year old man being wrongly accused by a leaflet campaign. Mob violence, and calls to violence ("I can take out the 12-gauge") don't sound so clever now do they?. If they do, I won't pursue this any further, no point.
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You're so fired up being self-righteous you can't even see what I object to in your post. I'll give you a hint, think about trials for witchcraft, or public beheadings. That which we condemn in others we fear most in ourselves. To be clear, I'm -not- saying you're a paedophile, but ask yourself, what are you so angry at, really, deep inside? Is it your responsibility to take out every paedophile, or just the ones near to your kid's school? Will you kill the old boy who talks to kids because his wife is dead and he lives on his own.
I've used big iron multiprocessors to run my code (wot I wrote) but I can honestly say I couldn't make Windows say Hello World without severe head scratching:)
I'm interested that someone else has noticed his drift away from "geeks can change the world for the better despite being put down by the system" forte. Whichever Hogan book had the Velikovsky stuff in has the rare honour of being a book I couldn't finish reading.
Maybe it's a more general trend, I like early Niven, early Heinlein, but their later stuff that tends to preach I don't like.
They suck, but if we vote them out what do you think will happen to improve matters? Changing to a new government party seems to press a reset button and everyone forgets (a) how they stuffed us the last time they were in and (b) lets the previous lot off the hook just as all the media evidence is building up to make them squirm.
There are few more depressing sights than the Saturn V lying on its side in Florida. As a Brit, I'm not 100% behind everything the USA gets up to (that's being polite) but getting out into space (again, properly) is one thing (the other is jazz) that I'm 110% convinced is something for the USA to be proud of (and most of the rest of us to be ashamed of for not considering as important). Kennedy's words are the stuff we want our leaders and politicians to be saying, world-wide. I'd cheer just as loud if someone promised clean drinking water for the planet btw.
As for "travelling anywhere meaningful" Niven pointed the way to go - to the Belt - why look for planets when asteroids provide most everything we need in about as eco-friendly a way as one could imagine. Plus, if we do get to other star systems, being asteroid-capable is a much better bet than being planet-specific.
Right next to Voyage on my bookshelf is Titan by the same author. As Voyage is optimistic, Titan is pessimistic - and, I fear, rather too close to the mark on some issues.
I'm so stupid and I'm very sorry about the plug. No one has said anything. but I should have thought first. I'm giving up Slashdot for a while. Stupid stupid stupid.
I could just as well argue that Xiph donates to Rio, because this helps encourage adoption of the format! It's hard trying to explain to people in a company why its products should support a format "no-one uses", that requires development effort to integrate and marketing effort to justify/explain. I prefer Ogg Vorbis and I'm very happy I can buy a cute audio gadget now - but I don't agree with your tellng me who I should donate to, especially when I'm helping Ogg Vorbis become a standard by buying the hardware (which, you could say, is an indirect donation to Xiph, so maybe we agree in principle after all).
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(plug) The last thing I donated to was www.somafm.com a couple days ago. (/plug)
A compromise? Flavor (and friends) for production kernels, flavour and (friends) for development kernels. Not the other way around however, that would be wrong.
I recently cancelled Sky Sports and Sky Movies, but I still watch Sky One (the basic entry package in the UK)? For Buffy - whoops - oh I know - Futurama - oh dear.
That's unfair to OpenGL (I can't speak for DirectX, I've never used it but I know it has its fans). Sure you could draw a cube on a screen using any random API, (BASIC?), and your first cube might appear quicker than if you tried using OpenGL, but getting your head around 3D graphics requires -work-, and OpenGL is a good way to get from a cube to something more because it is a well thought out abstraction. Incidentally, that's why I applaud nVIDIA against all the "everything must be available as source code" folks - you can play with OpenGL under Linux for peanuts compared to the cost of an SGI ten years ago.
From my last visit to the museum combined with reading, I recall that "species" is one of those concepts that works well most of the time, but gets fuzzy at the boundaries. So at sometime T we have N species, at T +100,000 years we have N+1 species, (assuming no extinctions in the meantime for this example) but pinning down exactly when N became N+1 isn't easy, or even -meaningful-. I may be wrong, but I do have the wit to realise it's a touchy subject in science.
There are excptions at PC World indeed, and the chain has improved of late - you can buy OEM stuff cheaper than the stuff in fancy packaging - so if you're in a hurry, it's faster to go to PCW and often cheaper if you offset the postage.
PC World still isn't Fry's. I have a limited experience of one store in (Sunnyd^Hvale) and it is -very- impressive just to see the sheer amount of stuff. Who cares about the staff, they don't get in your way. Although I was gobsmacked by one thing, it looked to me like they try to search you on the way out, whereas at PCW all you have to do is walk past the checkout. Altough walking out of PCW into blistering sunshine as we have this weekend comes pretty close to Fry's...
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It doesn't sound like the Transputer to me. Sure, they resemble each other in that you can build a 2D array of chips from them by design, but you miss (or inadvertently downplay) that the innovation occurs in the fundamental electronic engineering issue of what happens in the bits of circuitry that drive the pins/pads - the transputer used asynchronous links and conventional pins and a nice but conventional memory interface, the Sun chip is doing something new, or if not new, seldom seen and highly promising. Ivor Sutherland knows his stuff.
It must be horrible to live life so cynically and literally. His instructor was saying something to make him =think= about what happens. There's a post a few down from yours about using 45 degree bends. Go check out High Speed Signal Propagation (Advanced Black Magic) by Johnson and Graham ISBN 0-13-084408-X. You might learn something.
But how do you =know= ? Rape is preceded by talking to kids isn't it? Let's put to one side the paedophile you wasted 'cos you saw it happen (this is a thought experiment), what about the rest? How do you =know= for sure? I'm arguing with two hard liners in this thread, who's to say some nutter won't denounce me as a paedophile, after all, if I were a decent human being I wouldn't be arguing against retribution for those who "deserve it" would I?
Which, if anyone is still reading, IS ON-TOPIC for RFID tags, it's all about what we do "just in case". Why object to being tagged, if you don't go near the crime scene?
(whoops hit submit by mistake, here's the rest)
... lives on his own, just in case? While I was waiting to complete my reply, I did a quick Google about vigilante responses and I draw your attention to the bit about a 55 year old man being wrongly accused by a leaflet campaign. Mob violence, and calls to violence ("I can take out the 12-gauge") don't sound so clever now do they?. If they do, I won't pursue this any further, no point.
You're so fired up being self-righteous you can't even see what I object to in your post. I'll give you a hint, think about trials for witchcraft, or public beheadings. That which we condemn in others we fear most in ourselves. To be clear, I'm -not- saying you're a paedophile, but ask yourself, what are you so angry at, really, deep inside? Is it your responsibility to take out every paedophile, or just the ones near to your kid's school? Will you kill the old boy who talks to kids because his wife is dead and he lives on his own.
Less of that toilet mouth. Prescott is British
I can take out the 12-gauge.
Oh great, a vigilante. When I was a kid, it wasn't a capital offense for an adult to talk to me.
I've used big iron multiprocessors to run my code (wot I wrote) but I can honestly say I couldn't make Windows say Hello World without severe head scratching :)
1024x768 display with shared memory. Hah!
Paraphrasing a misquote: the point of science fiction isn't to interpret the world, it's to change it.
I'm interested that someone else has noticed his drift away from "geeks can change the world for the better despite being put down by the system" forte. Whichever Hogan book had the Velikovsky stuff in has the rare honour of being a book I couldn't finish reading.
Maybe it's a more general trend, I like early Niven, early Heinlein, but their later stuff that tends to preach I don't like.
I blame communism for the past 1500 years of Chinese ossification, make no bones about it.
IIRC there's a space elevator figuring in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy.
They suck, but if we vote them out what do you think will happen to improve matters? Changing to a new government party seems to press a reset button and everyone forgets (a) how they stuffed us the last time they were in and (b) lets the previous lot off the hook just as all the media evidence is building up to make them squirm.
There are few more depressing sights than the Saturn V lying on its side in Florida. As a Brit, I'm not 100% behind everything the USA gets up to (that's being polite) but getting out into space (again, properly) is one thing (the other is jazz) that I'm 110% convinced is something for the USA to be proud of (and most of the rest of us to be ashamed of for not considering as important). Kennedy's words are the stuff we want our leaders and politicians to be saying, world-wide. I'd cheer just as loud if someone promised clean drinking water for the planet btw.
I suppose if you'd checked those first two links you'd have realised you'd confused the company with one "l" with the company with "ll" in its name?
As for "travelling anywhere meaningful" Niven pointed the way to go - to the Belt - why look for planets when asteroids provide most everything we need in about as eco-friendly a way as one could imagine. Plus, if we do get to other star systems, being asteroid-capable is a much better bet than being planet-specific.
Right next to Voyage on my bookshelf is Titan by the same author. As Voyage is optimistic, Titan is pessimistic - and, I fear, rather too close to the mark on some issues.
I'm so stupid and I'm very sorry about the plug. No one has said anything. but I should have thought first. I'm giving up Slashdot for a while. Stupid stupid stupid.
I could just as well argue that Xiph donates to Rio, because this helps encourage adoption of the format! It's hard trying to explain to people in a company why its products should support a format "no-one uses", that requires development effort to integrate and marketing effort to justify/explain. I prefer Ogg Vorbis and I'm very happy I can buy a cute audio gadget now - but I don't agree with your tellng me who I should donate to, especially when I'm helping Ogg Vorbis become a standard by buying the hardware (which, you could say, is an indirect donation to Xiph, so maybe we agree in principle after all).
PS (plug) The last thing I donated to was www.somafm.com a couple days ago. (/plug)
A compromise? Flavor (and friends) for production kernels, flavour and (friends) for development kernels. Not the other way around however, that would be wrong.
I recently cancelled Sky Sports and Sky Movies, but I still watch Sky One (the basic entry package in the UK)? For Buffy - whoops - oh I know - Futurama - oh dear.
That's unfair to OpenGL (I can't speak for DirectX, I've never used it but I know it has its fans). Sure you could draw a cube on a screen using any random API, (BASIC?), and your first cube might appear quicker than if you tried using OpenGL, but getting your head around 3D graphics requires -work-, and OpenGL is a good way to get from a cube to something more because it is a well thought out abstraction. Incidentally, that's why I applaud nVIDIA against all the "everything must be available as source code" folks - you can play with OpenGL under Linux for peanuts compared to the cost of an SGI ten years ago.
From my last visit to the museum combined with reading, I recall that "species" is one of those concepts that works well most of the time, but gets fuzzy at the boundaries. So at sometime T we have N species, at T +100,000 years we have N+1 species, (assuming no extinctions in the meantime for this example) but pinning down exactly when N became N+1 isn't easy, or even -meaningful-. I may be wrong, but I do have the wit to realise it's a touchy subject in science.
There are excptions at PC World indeed, and the chain has improved of late - you can buy OEM stuff cheaper than the stuff in fancy packaging - so if you're in a hurry, it's faster to go to PCW and often cheaper if you offset the postage.
PC World still isn't Fry's. I have a limited experience of one store in (Sunnyd^Hvale) and it is -very- impressive just to see the sheer amount of stuff. Who cares about the staff, they don't get in your way. Although I was gobsmacked by one thing, it looked to me like they try to search you on the way out, whereas at PCW all you have to do is walk past the checkout. Altough walking out of PCW into blistering sunshine as we have this weekend comes pretty close to Fry's ...