A sentence should for rehabilitation, not revenge. In 9 years (especially in a US prisson) they will not be rehabilitated, they will be angry, pissed off, without a future. They won't fit into society and be good citicens, much more likely they will have been pushed over the edge mentally and commit far worse crimes.
Usually with these kind of asynchronous cpus the communication with the outside world is made synchronous again. Just the inside of the processor is asynchronous. This is relativly easy since you only have to make sure that the asynchronous path is travelled faster than a clock cycle. The big advantage is that not every flipflop has to be active at every clock pulse and thus saves a lot of energy. Also the chip doesn't turn into a giant clock transmitter.
Its their own rocket and they are trying to sell it to ESA. The US has little to do with it. I don't know why you think europe sucks, Arianne has been pretty successfull.
If your room is 43C you better not stay in it to long.... Is the 43C really the room temperature or the temperature at some other point in the computer? (which sounds much more likely)
Maybe because the DVB standard is based on MPEG2? Using MPEG4 wouldn't make much of a difference for the high datarates that are used for these streams. MPEG4 is aimed more for bitrates lower than 2mbit. (Sort of a successor to MPEG1)
Suppose in one place there is a disaster and the power goes out... Now there they could use HAM equipment for communicating... (Assuming people still have it as it is useless at other times and you can practice or test it).
Who is going to hear you scream for help? Not the guy in the place were the power is still on. The only thing he hears (Assuming......) is BPL
I hope you don't mean a normal TV satellite receiver.... GPS signals are incredibly weak. Most GPS receivers use an analogue front-end with an AD converter interface to a digital processor (often ARM based). The processor has to correlate the different signals from the different sattelites and retrieve their data. This data then has to be interpreted. All this has to be done with time measurements that have to be in the nanosecond range in order to be usefull.
Even the reports on the behaviour are overstated: -only the males nest on the ground, females nest in the trees. And the simple explanation is that they are to heavy to have good support in a tree. -The nests are not like gorilla's (besides the fact that they also don't sleep in trees) The chimps nest in moist places, gorillas hate water and would never do that. (I don't sleep in a tree, does that make me half-gorilla?) -They don't howl at the moon, but are simply more vocal on moon lit nights.
They might be interesting because of there (size related) behaviour but the articles are definitly based on some sensationalist pseudo scientists.
Incomplete followups to be precise.... DNA test have proven it to be chimps. Just large ones. But that probably wasn't exiting enought for the mainstream press.
Its nothing more than sensationalist press... The apes do exist but they are simply chimpansees. According to collected DNA not even a new subspecies but part of the 'schweinfurthii' family.
They just get larger then most chimps, which is not totally uncommon.
What kind of HAL do you mean? POSIX? Linux programs get the same interface in about every architecture as long as you stay away from assembler and accessing io directly (which is the kernels job anyway).... And even if you do program part in assembler its good practice to do it in C first so even then porting won't be a problem.
You are using the same old story about the little inventor and the big bad company.... A little spin on that one:
An inventor with his new shiny invention and a few tens of thousands of dollars to spare goes to the patent office and gets a patent. (Ignoring the fact that a few thousand others might come up with the same solution when presented with his problem) Now the inventor goes to the manufacturer and waives around his patent. Manufacturer says: 'great, but by the way we have a few patents of our own that cover part of your invention' Inventor has no way to sell it to anyone but that one manufacturer and gets screwed anyway.
If you are a inventor and want protection use an NDA. The current system punishes unrelated third parties that just happend to have the same idea (possibly even years earlier).
Personally I don't think there is anything special about software... Patents are just wrong. The patent system assumes that ideas are something unique and that it is something special to come up with new ideas. It is only with software that the mistake becomes really obvious.
If it were really neccessary for us to advance how the hell did the monkey ever come out of the tree without a working patent system?
Hooray for 'deft' but I have been posting here for a while longer...... I've seen way to many cooler things than just another rambling on this website.
Are you seriously sugesting they should refrain from advancing themselves because the US (which is well known for sharing wit the rest of the world) has done it before?
Short term maybe, but for the long term you need more to sustain this comfort level. One way to sustain is by making sure you have a sufficient knowledge level and spread it. (e.g. the edusat part of their space program)
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A sentence should for rehabilitation, not revenge.
In 9 years (especially in a US prisson) they will not be rehabilitated, they will be angry, pissed off, without a future. They won't fit into society and be good citicens, much more likely they will have been pushed over the edge mentally and commit far worse crimes.
That is exactly what this thing does...Use a conventional rocket to get away from earth's surface and then continue with ion propulsion to the moon.
Jeroen
Usually with these kind of asynchronous cpus the communication with the outside world is made synchronous again. Just the inside of the processor is asynchronous. This is relativly easy since you only have to make sure that the asynchronous path is travelled faster than a clock cycle.
The big advantage is that not every flipflop has to be active at every clock pulse and thus saves a lot of energy. Also the chip doesn't turn into a giant clock transmitter.
Jeroen
Its their own rocket and they are trying to sell it to ESA. The US has little to do with it.
I don't know why you think europe sucks, Arianne has been pretty successfull.
Jeroen
If your room is 43C you better not stay in it to long....
Is the 43C really the room temperature or the temperature at some other point in the computer? (which sounds much more likely)
Jeroen
Because he went up in a Soyuz capsule???
Jeroen
Maybe because the DVB standard is based on MPEG2?
Using MPEG4 wouldn't make much of a difference for the high datarates that are used for these streams.
MPEG4 is aimed more for bitrates lower than 2mbit. (Sort of a successor to MPEG1)
Jeroen
Show them the written offer they supplied with the binaries. (You did buy the product or have the binaries do you?)
Jeroen
Suppose in one place there is a disaster and the power goes out...
Now there they could use HAM equipment for communicating... (Assuming people still have it as it is useless at other times and you can practice or test it).
Who is going to hear you scream for help?
Not the guy in the place were the power is still on.
The only thing he hears (Assuming......) is BPL
Jeroen
assembler
I hope you don't mean a normal TV satellite receiver....
GPS signals are incredibly weak.
Most GPS receivers use an analogue front-end with an AD converter interface to a digital processor (often ARM based).
The processor has to correlate the different signals from the different sattelites and retrieve their data. This data then has to be interpreted.
All this has to be done with time measurements that have to be in the nanosecond range in order to be usefull.
Jeroen
Even the reports on the behaviour are overstated:
-only the males nest on the ground, females nest in the trees. And the simple explanation is that they are to heavy to have good support in a tree.
-The nests are not like gorilla's (besides the fact that they also don't sleep in trees) The chimps nest in moist places, gorillas hate water and would never do that.
(I don't sleep in a tree, does that make me half-gorilla?)
-They don't howl at the moon, but are simply more vocal on moon lit nights.
They might be interesting because of there (size related) behaviour but the articles are definitly based on some sensationalist pseudo scientists.
Jeroen
A dutch news site:+ 4257491+19433379
http://www.vpro.nl/wetenschap/index.shtml?3626936
On the left side you can see some photos and a family tree. The yellow spots are where the DNA samples fitted in the tree.
Jeroen
Incomplete followups to be precise....
DNA test have proven it to be chimps. Just large ones. But that probably wasn't exiting enought for the mainstream press.
Jeroen
Its nothing more than sensationalist press...
The apes do exist but they are simply chimpansees. According to collected DNA not even a new subspecies but part of the 'schweinfurthii' family.
They just get larger then most chimps, which is not totally uncommon.
Jeroen
Since every major chip manufacturor has plants in china I assume you won't be buying any new pc's anytime in the near future?
You weren't modded redundant by any chance?
What kind of HAL do you mean? POSIX?
Linux programs get the same interface in about every architecture as long as you stay away from assembler and accessing io directly (which is the kernels job anyway).... And even if you do program part in assembler its good practice to do it in C first so even then porting won't be a problem.
Jeroen
You are using the same old story about the little inventor and the big bad company....
A little spin on that one:
An inventor with his new shiny invention and a few tens of thousands of dollars to spare goes to the patent office and gets a patent. (Ignoring the fact that a few thousand others might come up with the same solution when presented with his problem)
Now the inventor goes to the manufacturer and waives around his patent. Manufacturer says: 'great, but by the way we have a few patents of our own that cover part of your invention'
Inventor has no way to sell it to anyone but that one manufacturer and gets screwed anyway.
If you are a inventor and want protection use an NDA.
The current system punishes unrelated third parties that just happend to have the same idea (possibly even years earlier).
Jeroen
Personally I don't think there is anything special about software... Patents are just wrong.
The patent system assumes that ideas are something unique and that it is something special to come up with new ideas. It is only with software that the mistake becomes really obvious.
If it were really neccessary for us to advance how the hell did the monkey ever come out of the tree without a working patent system?
Jeroen
No, but the most industrialised ones did....
And since they were producing them a lot it has a big impact.
Jeroen
On second thought.... forget about the operating system....
Hooray for 'deft' but I have been posting here for a while longer...... I've seen way to many cooler things than just another rambling on this website.
Are you seriously sugesting they should refrain from advancing themselves because the US (which is well known for sharing wit the rest of the world) has done it before?
Jeroen
I know this is slashdot but would you please RTFA!!!!
Its an UNmanned mission.
Short term maybe, but for the long term you need more to sustain this comfort level. One way to sustain is by making sure you have a sufficient knowledge level and spread it.
(e.g. the edusat part of their space program)
Jeroen