I've spotted an electric UPS car here in Hamburg. It was very spooky as it approached us from behind, so silent it was. I'd get one of those for the sole reason you don't have to pay ~2 Euros for a liter of gas.
I think it will increase OS security and create a lot of jobs in this sector. If you think this jobs are redundant, think about lawyers. The ignorant will suffer, and if they learn their lesson, they will be much better prepared for the new threat and take security more seriously. I think that computer malware is more useful than many think it is. Just remember the blaster worm. It made actually normal people think about security and the big losers were the ones who used windows in places it shouldn't have ever been.
Moral propositions are testable, like "don't do harm to others" or "do harm to others" or "help others" or "don't help others". I mean you can test them and find which is more useful for you. So from your words if science is the true subset of philosophy, then you yourself say that philosophy is not science.
Anyway, the philosophy I had at school had a lot to do with analysing Ideas of some authors, it was good as it was a source of new thinking patterns, but it didn't have any testable results, all theories were valid, and there wasn't much knowledge that proved to be useful. Well maybe I am the one who doesn't know that he doesn't knows but till today my impression of philosophy as computer scientist is that it's good for writing books but not for getting work done.
Philosophy should be more empirically testable to be anything more than a nice past time. How about "if you kick someone, he kicks back" a nice basis for a Rule of ethic, like "don't hit others". Very empirically testable. On the other hand, you can try to answer the question "Why are we here?" all you life, and 42 is as good an answer as any. And because of that, calling philosophy a science is an offense on science, because in the philosophy, as we know it, has nothing to do with science, like in testable hypotheses, more with trying to find an answer for things, that accept.* answers.
I have on of those
http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=2542
Also, It depends on what you prefer.If you are a "usefull hardware" guy, take a hard drive bay, if you are a system administrator, buy a toaster or a coffe mug holder(unless you use cd-drive tray for that).
Google:
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Spying on Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Chinese market over freedom of speech
Rehashed Programming languages over some new ideas
Rush jobs over tested software?... dunno, well see...
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
Just an Interesting Sci-Fi book by Frank Herbert(the one who wrote Dune) about what can happen if Bioengineering becomes more affordable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague
That is not realistic. If you want to provide people with a possibility of BIOS update to fix some hardware bugs, you can overwrite you bios for example with some garbage that can apply incorrect voltages, which will physically destroy your mainboard, it once happened to me. If you know how you even can load new microcode, which can kill a CPU. One can theoretically open multiple tristate gates and cause some kind of short circuit. I mean you can say "noone should kill another person, period", everyone will agree with it, but it's also not realistic.
I live in Hamburg, Germany and we have had this feature on some Subway stations for some years now. It definately works, also against bums and junkies, but not against the pocket-thieves.
I think this is a long lasting slashdot meme, I think if you are gonna invest >$100 in an ebook reader, you will surely spend half an hour researching what you can read on it. Cheap and open, and people will buy them and tell others about it. That's what I think about it.
I'm quite happy with wings3d http://www.wings3d.com/ for my 3d modelling needs. It's quite easy to pick up and is cross-platform. If there were no wings3d i'd most surely have written my own by now.
Sure, but there is no architecture which provides strong load-link/store conditional, so you cannot operate on 2 memory locations because the second will reset the first, so, it's like compare-and swap, only with more limitations.
Sorry I didn't express that more clearly, I meant word as in "machine register size", not as it was used by intel. You can use compare and swap on 32/64 bit values on x86 or on 64/128 bit values on amd64, but still no double word compare and swap where both words are in different memory locations.
Instead of churning out cores they schould tweak the x86 isa to use multiple cores efficently. 1/2-word Atomic compare and swap is not enough, you cannot make atomic lockless doubly linked lists with that. No wonder something as interesting as http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/ is not possible on x86 without major hacks.
That's the 16bit abs() in x86. There are some variations on that, like
cwd
add ax, dx
xor ax, dx
I think the version you've written is patented by some russion guy at SUN,
anyway, the fact, that you used 16bit version tells me you finished your colledge a while ago, since it a popular task in ours.
Whe have to learn some x86 asm and do some primitive buffer overflow exploits at our university.
I totally disagree. You do not own the child and if you are not able to teach(pass teaching exam) you are not good enough to teach your children math/other stuff that other children are taught at school. I think you have to look at it from a point of view of a child and not assert ownerschip of him, like with your property.
There is actually no scenarios where proprietary software is better for it's user. NONE. It's only good for the one who produced that code to hold on the know-how. And you cannot create know how out of nothing, you are always gonna ALWAYS stand on someone's shoulders, be it the creater of binary code or the author of some common algorithm, thousands of whom did their work to archieve this level of science. The users of proprietary software are mostly 1: forced to upgrade at some point 2: left in the rain 3: will be pushed and milked as much as they can. What is wrong with expecting a source of a programm when I BUY one. If I am the knowledgeble one I can fix the problems or quirks I don't like, if I am not, someone else will, or I can pay someone to do it. Why should I depend on someone if I don't have to. I just don't see the logical proof that shows me that proprietary software is better model. Sure, alot of proprietary software is better, because people are ignorant and pour money into it. But why should I omit the source when I can have it. It is so typical of humans to take the short turn gain today and a disaster tomorrow over better long turn strategy. I mean look around - oil, global warming, pollution, in the end it'l bite us in the ass, but no, we still want a quick one today and leaving our children to deal with the shit tomorrow, pretending nothing is wrong. I don't want to sound like a hipocret, I don't always adhere to the principle above, but at least I am aware of it and try to choose the right direction if possible and not pretend that nothing is wrong and advocate the illogical.
I have played the first gears - the graphics was great, the testosterone-laden pieces of hunk were entertaining to watch, but after some time it just becomes boring. For me, there was no point in playing it, there was no drama, no engaging story, no twists to explore, nothing to justificate endless hours of repetitive wasting the same enemies. I mean, I wonder what all the hype is about, when someone will ask me of what can change the nature of a man again? What's the point in those unreal 10 & gears 20 & halo 30 where the only thing changed is the graphics and why do they blame it on piracy when any sane person can tell you if you make a bad game it won't sell.
Slashdot Mirror
1337 bogomips is enough for everybody!
Cant' one define a Kilogram from E=mc^2? take some value for energy, c is a constant, and a kilogram can be defined as a fraction of m.
I've spotted an electric UPS car here in Hamburg. It was very spooky as it approached us from behind, so silent it was. I'd get one of those for the sole reason you don't have to pay ~2 Euros for a liter of gas.
I think it will increase OS security and create a lot of jobs in this sector. If you think this jobs are redundant, think about lawyers. The ignorant will suffer, and if they learn their lesson, they will be much better prepared for the new threat and take security more seriously. I think that computer malware is more useful than many think it is. Just remember the blaster worm. It made actually normal people think about security and the big losers were the ones who used windows in places it shouldn't have ever been.
Moral propositions are testable, like "don't do harm to others" or "do harm to others" or "help others" or "don't help others". I mean you can test them and find which is more useful for you. So from your words if science is the true subset of philosophy, then you yourself say that philosophy is not science. Anyway, the philosophy I had at school had a lot to do with analysing Ideas of some authors, it was good as it was a source of new thinking patterns, but it didn't have any testable results, all theories were valid, and there wasn't much knowledge that proved to be useful. Well maybe I am the one who doesn't know that he doesn't knows but till today my impression of philosophy as computer scientist is that it's good for writing books but not for getting work done.
Philosophy should be more empirically testable to be anything more than a nice past time. How about "if you kick someone, he kicks back" a nice basis for a Rule of ethic, like "don't hit others". Very empirically testable. On the other hand, you can try to answer the question "Why are we here?" all you life, and 42 is as good an answer as any. And because of that, calling philosophy a science is an offense on science, because in the philosophy, as we know it, has nothing to do with science, like in testable hypotheses, more with trying to find an answer for things, that accept .* answers.
I have on of those http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=2542 Also, It depends on what you prefer.If you are a "usefull hardware" guy, take a hard drive bay, if you are a system administrator, buy a toaster or a coffe mug holder(unless you use cd-drive tray for that).
Google:
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Spying on Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Chinese market over freedom of speech
Rehashed Programming languages over some new ideas
Rush jobs over tested software?... dunno, well see...
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
Win7 is faster, more scalable, more stable, MUCH less bug ridden, better security, and supports new tech...than XP
By your rankings, Linux must be the worst OS out there and Windows ME rules with an iron fist.
You are wrong, most dx9 games run faster in winxp and it uses less memory and swap, so the actual experience feels for me actually faster.
Just an Interesting Sci-Fi book by Frank Herbert(the one who wrote Dune) about what can happen if Bioengineering becomes more affordable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague
That is not realistic. If you want to provide people with a possibility of BIOS update to fix some hardware bugs, you can overwrite you bios for example with some garbage that can apply incorrect voltages, which will physically destroy your mainboard, it once happened to me. If you know how you even can load new microcode, which can kill a CPU. One can theoretically open multiple tristate gates and cause some kind of short circuit. I mean you can say "noone should kill another person, period", everyone will agree with it, but it's also not realistic.
I live in Hamburg, Germany and we have had this feature on some Subway stations for some years now. It definately works, also against bums and junkies, but not against the pocket-thieves.
I think this is a long lasting slashdot meme, I think if you are gonna invest >$100 in an ebook reader, you will surely spend half an hour researching what you can read on it. Cheap and open, and people will buy them and tell others about it. That's what I think about it.
I'm quite happy with wings3d http://www.wings3d.com/ for my 3d modelling needs. It's quite easy to pick up and is cross-platform. If there were no wings3d i'd most surely have written my own by now.
Sure, but there is no architecture which provides strong load-link/store conditional, so you cannot operate on 2 memory locations because the second will reset the first, so, it's like compare-and swap, only with more limitations.
Sorry I didn't express that more clearly, I meant word as in "machine register size", not as it was used by intel. You can use compare and swap on 32/64 bit values on x86 or on 64/128 bit values on amd64, but still no double word compare and swap where both words are in different memory locations.
Instead of churning out cores they schould tweak the x86 isa to use multiple cores efficently. 1/2-word Atomic compare and swap is not enough, you cannot make atomic lockless doubly linked lists with that. No wonder something as interesting as http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/ is not possible on x86 without major hacks.
That's the 16bit abs() in x86. There are some variations on that, like cwd add ax, dx xor ax, dx I think the version you've written is patented by some russion guy at SUN, anyway, the fact, that you used 16bit version tells me you finished your colledge a while ago, since it a popular task in ours. Whe have to learn some x86 asm and do some primitive buffer overflow exploits at our university.
iMad fits the bill perfectly, or is it already taken? ;)
I totally disagree. You do not own the child and if you are not able to teach(pass teaching exam) you are not good enough to teach your children math/other stuff that other children are taught at school. I think you have to look at it from a point of view of a child and not assert ownerschip of him, like with your property.
Which is quite useful if you are a one of those, but not really for the rest of us (and especially those using notebooks).
There is actually no scenarios where proprietary software is better for it's user. NONE. It's only good for the one who produced that code to hold on the know-how. And you cannot create know how out of nothing, you are always gonna ALWAYS stand on someone's shoulders, be it the creater of binary code or the author of some common algorithm, thousands of whom did their work to archieve this level of science. The users of proprietary software are mostly 1: forced to upgrade at some point 2: left in the rain 3: will be pushed and milked as much as they can. What is wrong with expecting a source of a programm when I BUY one. If I am the knowledgeble one I can fix the problems or quirks I don't like, if I am not, someone else will, or I can pay someone to do it. Why should I depend on someone if I don't have to. I just don't see the logical proof that shows me that proprietary software is better model. Sure, alot of proprietary software is better, because people are ignorant and pour money into it. But why should I omit the source when I can have it. It is so typical of humans to take the short turn gain today and a disaster tomorrow over better long turn strategy. I mean look around - oil, global warming, pollution, in the end it'l bite us in the ass, but no, we still want a quick one today and leaving our children to deal with the shit tomorrow, pretending nothing is wrong. I don't want to sound like a hipocret, I don't always adhere to the principle above, but at least I am aware of it and try to choose the right direction if possible and not pretend that nothing is wrong and advocate the illogical.
I have played the first gears - the graphics was great, the testosterone-laden pieces of hunk were entertaining to watch, but after some time it just becomes boring. For me, there was no point in playing it, there was no drama, no engaging story, no twists to explore, nothing to justificate endless hours of repetitive wasting the same enemies. I mean, I wonder what all the hype is about, when someone will ask me of what can change the nature of a man again? What's the point in those unreal 10 & gears 20 & halo 30 where the only thing changed is the graphics and why do they blame it on piracy when any sane person can tell you if you make a bad game it won't sell.