This rather simple and effective response seems lost on many, even here. Thats surprising given that so many seem to think that free markets solve almost everything. Perhaps people don't like the freedom to not buy an xbox?
The OS on these devices is not written only in these languages however, which does not make these languages useless as the GGP implied. What you have here is a vendor control problem. They are giving you a hammer even if you prefer to use screws, but only to a point.
Just like the x86 can use more than compiled C. These devices can use a lot more than you are suggesting. The JVM (ok not the crap jvm me version on phones) supports a huge number of languages that compile to byte code. There are a large number of tools that compile C++/Java/C# to objective-C for the iPhone. The list goes no. Choose your weapon. Of if you are like most people, do what the boss tells you.
If you ARE a language inventor and reading my comment, answer this: can you write a cache/MMU interface or an interrupt handler in your language? If the answer is no, go back to the drawing board.
Because if you can't do that then you can't do anything right?
Heres a novel idea. Use a language as a tool, and use the right tool for the job. If you are writing an OS perhaps you need *explicit* access to pointers, or if you are doing something with MMU you would need a asm{} section (thats not C++ either). But when i want to write a application server then that requirement is lame and garbage collection and better memory models frees the developer and compiler (escape analysis etc) to do a lot more of the relevant work.
We are not all writing an OS, so why the hell do we all need to be using a language that can write an OS? Just like all welders are not all welding Aluminum so they don't all need fancy TiG welders (just like we don't always need to use car analogies).
I don't know what you are talking about? DC distribution suffers from the same problems as AC. If there are too many consumers then the current either hits a trip or the voltage takes a dive, and that also affects the generators in the same way as AC. In fact even with a DC grid you would still run AC generators, since 1MW or more "brush" pickups are not working well at all. And then in a DC system what do you do with voltage step up and step down? you can't just use a transformer anymore....
No AC still makes far more sense than DC.
And AC grids are not vulnerable to faults spreading compared to DC. Synchronizing is not difficult, we were doing before the war dam it. If you have crap Infrastructure like the US then you have a problem regardless.
I get 100% on a residential plan for as long as I have ever tried to use it on my adsl. The longest I have run it over 90% was more than 60 days. Really if you pay for X MBit you should get X MBit. Otherwise don't call it X MBit.
Not expecting full throughput 24/7 is like expecting your car to not operate for a full journey most of the time.
I'll second that. And unlike some I robot sequel that practically no one will bother with except hard core scifi fans (so just not reading them work really well), Dans books get mainstream enough that even CERN had to put up a page explaining why angles and demons is *fiction*.
Did you watch the video? It's a squad walking around a shopping mall slaughtering everything that moves.
As a long time quake/doom player, thats what i do every FPS i play. Its like American Foreign policy. Kill em all let god sort em out! But I don't think NPCs have a soul.
Having now lived in the EU for a few years now, its really not what it appears like in the media. Most countries only follow some of the EU rules, and each country seems to ignore a difference set of rules. Really the EU is not as overreaching as they appear.
A good example is the way the UK run there boarder. You would think that a EU passport is not good enough to get into that part of EU sometimes with the question and things they ask and even seem prepared to turn you away if they think you are looking for work.
Real time encoding still requires *much* more bandwidth to look any good and can add a lot to latency. Live digital tv looks like block land with current encoding rates and hulu doesn't get close to the quality of a dvd unless you like the fuzzy "deblocking" filter look. Why would I get a HighDef monitor just to render 16x16 pixel blocks? If you are going to call it high def then give me high def, don't just colour in all the pixels...and no one will use a service with 600x800 anymore.
Well in my day it was called a mainframe, which was then upgraded to have 64 cpus, and it was in a different city, which was then linked with another 3 mainframes. Cloud computing is a stupid buzzword, its almost as stupid as saying we don't know how to program a multi core computer.
It may be a distinction... But not a new or relevant one unless you have been living under a rock for the last 20 years.
Everyone knows that news outlets are 95% of time totally correct. The other 5% of the time, its stuff I know about.
Honestly even smart scientists note just how bad they are at covering anything even remotely technical that they know about. And yet assume every other story in that very paper/web site is 100% correct.
There's all sorts of interesting pricing models an indie developer with zero retail distribution [costs] could try if they're controlling the sales.
Running a server that is reliable and can handle./ is not free. Its not even a close approximation of free. Its real money and its an expense that is incurred every single month. Decent bandwidth for a larger game is also a long way from free, and even if you don't get many sales you still have to pay.
The vaccine does not even come close to preventing anything. It merely reduces the chances that you get it.... maybe. Flu vaccines are one area of vaccination where even the experts argue over its usefulness.
Rider is *not* a mainstream fusion guy. Thats why he was doing his PhD on *alternatives*. Claims that it does not apply to a polywell are unfounded as they are discussed in the manuscript IIRC.
Most physics folk (like as many climatologist think AGW is real) think that Riders PhD is pretty good. Good enough that you had better respond to the questions it raises professionally. Yes its not perfect, but facts are facts. Experimental evidence is evidence. The scattering cross section of an ion off an election is *many* times higher than the fusion cross section. So unless you change that you just can't avoid the whole entropy thing all together you and are out of luck. You can't just assert that its wrong. We have lots and lots of data on this in many many different situations. Nothing suggests that a polywell is different.
Not really. These almost identical ideas have always been there. Its just they seem to be pretty trendy right now and no one whats to believe that the physics behind them for break even is more or less bogus.
Case in point, there has been quite a bit of work done on the DPF over the years and detecting DD fusion neutrons is a basic part of the experiment. Yet nothing is even within factor 10000x of break even. Add the fact that DD fusion is 100x easier than B-p fusion.....
The black horse that does not invoke the power of "Everyone else got the physics wrong", is MTF (Magnetized Target Fusion). The GE approach is interesting.
Its also 100x harder to do than DT fusion with a fraction of the power density. So if it cost 1 million to build a 1MW B-p plant (which, by current theory and experiment is quite impossible) I can get a 1GW out of a DT plant with the same reactor design and probably 10MW with DD fusion.
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This rather simple and effective response seems lost on many, even here. Thats surprising given that so many seem to think that free markets solve almost everything. Perhaps people don't like the freedom to not buy an xbox?
However he WAS entitled to XBL as he was paying for it.
And MS are *entitled* to enforce their terms and conditions that he agreed too and not provide that service.
Either way, pissing of 3% of your customer base is not to be taken lightly.
Looking after only 3% of your customer base that cost money and performance is plain stupid.
Which part of tool are you not understanding?
The OS on these devices is not written only in these languages however, which does not make these languages useless as the GGP implied. What you have here is a vendor control problem. They are giving you a hammer even if you prefer to use screws, but only to a point.
Just like the x86 can use more than compiled C. These devices can use a lot more than you are suggesting. The JVM (ok not the crap jvm me version on phones) supports a huge number of languages that compile to byte code. There are a large number of tools that compile C++/Java/C# to objective-C for the iPhone. The list goes no. Choose your weapon. Of if you are like most people, do what the boss tells you.
If you ARE a language inventor and reading my comment, answer this: can you write a cache/MMU interface or an interrupt handler in your language? If the answer is no, go back to the drawing board.
Because if you can't do that then you can't do anything right?
Heres a novel idea. Use a language as a tool, and use the right tool for the job. If you are writing an OS perhaps you need *explicit* access to pointers, or if you are doing something with MMU you would need a asm{} section (thats not C++ either). But when i want to write a application server then that requirement is lame and garbage collection and better memory models frees the developer and compiler (escape analysis etc) to do a lot more of the relevant work.
We are not all writing an OS, so why the hell do we all need to be using a language that can write an OS? Just like all welders are not all welding Aluminum so they don't all need fancy TiG welders (just like we don't always need to use car analogies).
You mean /. is a news site? Who would have thought?
It's not a simple problem (well IMO it is), but there is clearly a need for politics here, if you want to hate anything hate software patents.
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I don't know what you are talking about? DC distribution suffers from the same problems as AC. If there are too many consumers then the current either hits a trip or the voltage takes a dive, and that also affects the generators in the same way as AC. In fact even with a DC grid you would still run AC generators, since 1MW or more "brush" pickups are not working well at all. And then in a DC system what do you do with voltage step up and step down? you can't just use a transformer anymore....
No AC still makes far more sense than DC.
And AC grids are not vulnerable to faults spreading compared to DC. Synchronizing is not difficult, we were doing before the war dam it. If you have crap Infrastructure like the US then you have a problem regardless.
I get 100% on a residential plan for as long as I have ever tried to use it on my adsl. The longest I have run it over 90% was more than 60 days. Really if you pay for X MBit you should get X MBit. Otherwise don't call it X MBit.
Not expecting full throughput 24/7 is like expecting your car to not operate for a full journey most of the time.
The FSM will have issues with this convection.
Well if some folks here have there way. It would be public domain the day it was published.
Guess some people want the cake, and forgot that the cake is a lie!
I'll second that. And unlike some I robot sequel that practically no one will bother with except hard core scifi fans (so just not reading them work really well), Dans books get mainstream enough that even CERN had to put up a page explaining why angles and demons is *fiction*.
Did you watch the video? It's a squad walking around a shopping mall slaughtering everything that moves.
As a long time quake/doom player, thats what i do every FPS i play. Its like American Foreign policy. Kill em all let god sort em out! But I don't think NPCs have a soul.
Having now lived in the EU for a few years now, its really not what it appears like in the media. Most countries only follow some of the EU rules, and each country seems to ignore a difference set of rules. Really the EU is not as overreaching as they appear.
A good example is the way the UK run there boarder. You would think that a EU passport is not good enough to get into that part of EU sometimes with the question and things they ask and even seem prepared to turn you away if they think you are looking for work.
Real time encoding still requires *much* more bandwidth to look any good and can add a lot to latency. Live digital tv looks like block land with current encoding rates and hulu doesn't get close to the quality of a dvd unless you like the fuzzy "deblocking" filter look. Why would I get a HighDef monitor just to render 16x16 pixel blocks? If you are going to call it high def then give me high def, don't just colour in all the pixels...and no one will use a service with 600x800 anymore.
Well in my day it was called a mainframe, which was then upgraded to have 64 cpus, and it was in a different city, which was then linked with another 3 mainframes. Cloud computing is a stupid buzzword, its almost as stupid as saying we don't know how to program a multi core computer.
It may be a distinction... But not a new or relevant one unless you have been living under a rock for the last 20 years.
Everyone knows that news outlets are 95% of time totally correct. The other 5% of the time, its stuff I know about.
Honestly even smart scientists note just how bad they are at covering anything even remotely technical that they know about. And yet assume every other story in that very paper/web site is 100% correct.
Right. Sorry, i assumed wrong.
There's all sorts of interesting pricing models an indie developer with zero retail distribution [costs] could try if they're controlling the sales.
Running a server that is reliable and can handle ./ is not free. Its not even a close approximation of free. Its real money and its an expense that is incurred every single month. Decent bandwidth for a larger game is also a long way from free, and even if you don't get many sales you still have to pay.
So if you marry your sister and don't have any kids? So either get the snip or get a genetics test to ensure low risk.
The vaccine does not even come close to preventing anything. It merely reduces the chances that you get it.... maybe. Flu vaccines are one area of vaccination where even the experts argue over its usefulness.
Rider is *not* a mainstream fusion guy. Thats why he was doing his PhD on *alternatives*. Claims that it does not apply to a polywell are unfounded as they are discussed in the manuscript IIRC.
Most physics folk (like as many climatologist think AGW is real) think that Riders PhD is pretty good. Good enough that you had better respond to the questions it raises professionally. Yes its not perfect, but facts are facts. Experimental evidence is evidence. The scattering cross section of an ion off an election is *many* times higher than the fusion cross section. So unless you change that you just can't avoid the whole entropy thing all together you and are out of luck. You can't just assert that its wrong. We have lots and lots of data on this in many many different situations. Nothing suggests that a polywell is different.
And all that is true *without* Rider results.
He has done some real science. Just not that much of it. I would however advise against investing in Focus Fusion.
Not really. These almost identical ideas have always been there. Its just they seem to be pretty trendy right now and no one whats to believe that the physics behind them for break even is more or less bogus.
Case in point, there has been quite a bit of work done on the DPF over the years and detecting DD fusion neutrons is a basic part of the experiment. Yet nothing is even within factor 10000x of break even. Add the fact that DD fusion is 100x easier than B-p fusion.....
The black horse that does not invoke the power of "Everyone else got the physics wrong", is MTF (Magnetized Target Fusion). The GE approach is interesting.
Its also 100x harder to do than DT fusion with a fraction of the power density. So if it cost 1 million to build a 1MW B-p plant (which, by current theory and experiment is quite impossible) I can get a 1GW out of a DT plant with the same reactor design and probably 10MW with DD fusion.
Neutrons will probably cheap enough to deal with.
I think straw man does not mean what you think it means.