Do you really believe that your false analogies are misleading anyone into buying your arguments? I could make absurd analogies that have no real bearing on the actual facts in an attempt to delude you, but I think that you are very unlikely to be persuaded by someone who insults your intelligence in that way.
By the way, people DO like to watch movies in my living room, and you are perfectly welcome to sell tickets. I'm also perfectly welcome to drop lead in their skulls if they cross my doorway.
Personally, I think the very concept of server- based IM is so damn stupid I can't manage to squeeze out any sympathy for poor little Time-Warner, shivering in the cold, trying to sell matches, or (*gasp*, *sob*) Microsoft being deprived of the very last penny which could have saved Bill's children from a horrible death by malnutrition.
There is actually an algorithm which allows you to compute any given digit of Pi without computing the other digits. You wouldn't need to store it, because you can just compute it when you want it. Look up is still a bitch, but only because no one has been working on it so far.
you can get a PDA with a CF wifi card for $200. Remove unnecessary parts and it should be under 200 grams. Trick is: Your video cam is recording to flash, and you want the flash connected to the pda's flash adapter when it comes in range. To do this, control SCRs from the serial port of the PDA, to switch connections. uCLinux might be helpful if you dislike PalmOS code.
Of course the alternative to enterprise is forming a political force which can exert enough power to reform the legal an economic environment to its own needs, either within the existing framework of government, or by changing it.
You don't have to live in a "free agent society" if you are willing and able to restructure society.
No, actually the CM-1 and CM-2 both placed 16 1-bit bit-slice processors on each chip, so a 65k node CM-2, for example, had 4k "beta" chips. You could program it as a 65kb-wide VLIW machine. But TMC quickly discovered that the bulk of sales opportunities were related to the Cold War, and for that purpose what was wanting was not the vast symbol-pushing capacity of the CM-1, but lots and lots of FLOPS. So they added FPUs. The FPUs used blocks of 32 1-bit CPUs like MMUs.
This lead to enormous complications. In order to maximize the throughput of the FPU, you had to keep it's pipeline full, and that meant the bit-processors had to fill a register file with data, and act as controllers for the FPUs which operated on the register file.
It was almost impossible to code well for this machine, because TMC kept most of the architecture secret, and would only let you program it using high-level abstractions. That worked fairly well with the bit-processors, which fit very well with the PL design, but for the FPUs, where each data word was a 1-bit slice through the memory of 32 bit-cpus, and access to memory was through a custom "transposer", it sucked rocks.
An Herculean task, writing a data-parallel Fortran compiler to abstract the "slicewise" machine architecture, and hence provide "dumb" fluid dynamicists and molecular modellers near full-speed access to the FPUs was eventually successful, but by that time the architecture was obsoleted.
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Actually, they can. If you keep 9 women constantly pregnant on a rotation schedule, they will produce one baby per month, with some variance and the occasional miscarriage.
As a domain expert with years in parallel computing under my belt, I claim dibs on that job.
If you read the claims, the patent covers embed tags including type information. To avoid infringing the patent, simply disregard type information in the embed tag in the browser, and get it by analysis of the head of the referenced stream instead.
I'm sorry, but if I'm forced to choose between the credibility of an august, respected, credentialled professional Chemist and a junior cadet from the Church of Sagan... well, let's just say that redness of eye and cottony diction are not my principle discriminators of respectability.
You did manage to modulate "fraudster" well enough to save your bank accounts in any potential libel trial, however! Nicely done.
If Pons or Fleischmann cared enough, they could get a court of law you hand them your ass on a platter for that calumny. These were two highly respected chemists, probably with vastly more credibility and compentence than you will every display during the entire course of your life, and they had no interest in promoting the observed phenomena dishonestly.
The fact is that *no* path to commercially useful fusion can be passed without some kind of *invention*.
Software engineers should understand very well from experience that estimating the time on a project that involves unknown design elements is quixotic.
While you can always chose, quite reasonably, to trust in the seat-of-the-pants guesswork of an experienced authority, in the absense of anything better, still I'm quite dubious that anyone is going to be able to competently predict the time scale of the specific inventions required to bring *any* of the outstanding paths to fusion within the realm of commercial utility.
Ah, but that is the problem: The hackers might put the TRUTH into the stories in the Times, which would DEFINITELY be a threat to the security of the ruling junta.
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You can't unmount a filesystem until all of the
processes that are using it are dead.
Those processes may have vital data to write out
before they exit, so shutdown gives them time
to do so.
Once all the processes that would usually be using
the filesystems are dead, the filesystems are
unmounted, and the system is halted.
Oh, and don't forget to make sure they flashed
their BIOS as well.
'ware the evil NVRAM-wocky!
> The problem is that we have no way of knowing who
> else got into their machine while they were still
> vulnerable
Let me guess. The guy who came up with this
policy was a math major?
Brass rats. Sheesh.
Unicode rocks. I use trillian pro because I like
to talk to people from a variety of cultures.
Do you really believe that your false analogies
are misleading anyone into buying your arguments?
I could make absurd analogies that have no real
bearing on the actual facts in an attempt to delude
you, but I think that you are very unlikely to be
persuaded by someone who insults your intelligence
in that way.
By the way, people DO like to watch movies in my
living room, and you are perfectly welcome to sell
tickets. I'm also perfectly welcome to drop lead
in their skulls if they cross my doorway.
Personally, I think the very concept of server-
based IM is so damn stupid I can't manage to
squeeze out any sympathy for poor little
Time-Warner, shivering in the cold, trying to
sell matches, or (*gasp*, *sob*) Microsoft
being deprived of the very last penny which
could have saved Bill's children from a horrible
death by malnutrition.
There is actually an algorithm which allows you
to compute any given digit of Pi without computing
the other digits. You wouldn't need to store it,
because you can just compute it when you want it.
Look up is still a bitch, but only because no one
has been working on it so far.
In the U.S. we'd just shoot them. No problem.
Your dual P3-850 from 3.5 years ago will wipe the
floor with the mono P3-733 XBox.
you can get a PDA with a CF wifi card for $200.
Remove unnecessary parts and it should be under
200 grams. Trick is: Your video cam is recording
to flash, and you want the flash connected to the
pda's flash adapter when it comes in range.
To do this, control SCRs from the serial port
of the PDA, to switch connections. uCLinux might
be helpful if you dislike PalmOS code.
Of course the alternative to enterprise is
forming a political force which can exert enough
power to reform the legal an economic environment
to its own needs, either within the existing
framework of government, or by changing it.
You don't have to live in a "free agent society"
if you are willing and able to restructure society.
You don't compete by being a better wage slave.
You compete by breaking out of wage slavery and
becoming an entrepreneur.
GPG works with Kmail out of the box.
It's the easiest crypto UI that I've ever
operated.
You should try KDE's KMail with gpg integration.
It is milk-simple and as easy to use as a nipple.
No, actually the CM-1 and CM-2 both placed 16
1-bit bit-slice processors on each chip, so a
65k node CM-2, for example, had 4k "beta" chips.
You could program it as a 65kb-wide VLIW machine.
But TMC quickly discovered that the bulk of sales
opportunities were related to the Cold War, and
for that purpose what was wanting was not the
vast symbol-pushing capacity of the CM-1, but
lots and lots of FLOPS. So they added FPUs.
The FPUs used blocks of 32 1-bit CPUs like MMUs.
This lead to enormous complications. In order
to maximize the throughput of the FPU, you had
to keep it's pipeline full, and that meant the
bit-processors had to fill a register file with
data, and act as controllers for the FPUs which
operated on the register file.
It was almost impossible to code well for this
machine, because TMC kept most of the architecture
secret, and would only let you program it using
high-level abstractions. That worked fairly well
with the bit-processors, which fit very well with
the PL design, but for the FPUs, where each data
word was a 1-bit slice through the memory of 32
bit-cpus, and access to memory was through a custom
"transposer", it sucked rocks.
An Herculean task, writing a data-parallel Fortran
compiler to abstract the "slicewise" machine
architecture, and hence provide "dumb" fluid
dynamicists and molecular modellers near full-speed
access to the FPUs was eventually successful,
but by that time the architecture was obsoleted.
Actually, they can. If you keep 9 women constantly
pregnant on a rotation schedule, they will produce
one baby per month, with some variance and the
occasional miscarriage.
As a domain expert with years in parallel computing
under my belt, I claim dibs on that job.
This is a big flap over not much, really.
If you read the claims, the patent covers
embed tags including type information. To
avoid infringing the patent, simply disregard
type information in the embed tag in the browser,
and get it by analysis of the head of the
referenced stream instead.
That's what he *wants* you to think!
I'm sorry, but if I'm forced to choose between
the credibility of an august, respected, credentialled
professional Chemist and a junior cadet from the
Church of Sagan... well, let's just say that
redness of eye and cottony diction are not my
principle discriminators of respectability.
You did manage to modulate "fraudster" well enough
to save your bank accounts in any potential libel
trial, however! Nicely done.
"It was a hoax."
If Pons or Fleischmann cared enough, they could
get a court of law you hand them your ass on a
platter for that calumny. These were two highly
respected chemists, probably with vastly more
credibility and compentence than you will every
display during the entire course of your life,
and they had no interest in promoting the
observed phenomena dishonestly.
You, sir, are a troll.
The fact is that *no* path to commercially useful
fusion can be passed without some kind of *invention*.
Software engineers should understand very well from
experience that estimating the time on a project
that involves unknown design elements is quixotic.
While you can always chose, quite reasonably, to
trust in the seat-of-the-pants guesswork of an
experienced authority, in the absense of anything better,
still I'm quite dubious that anyone is going to
be able to competently predict the time scale of
the specific inventions required to bring *any*
of the outstanding paths to fusion within the
realm of commercial utility.
Wow, Carl, send me some of what you've been
smoking!
*puffs*
Yeah, man, you're making so much sense to me now!
Wow. You just slashedotted someone's house.
That's cold, man. Cold.
Cool. Oh, and what the hell is C & C?
Canadian and Coke?
Ah, but that is the problem: The hackers might
put the TRUTH into the stories in the Times, which
would DEFINITELY be a threat to the security of
the ruling junta.
Seriously, this guy is right. So what if the
personal server runs on 7.5w. A DVD+RW runs on 0.
I'd like a 3" blank, though.