You are forgetting something. For Email you MUST be on eht internet to work (because that is where the information comes from). You cannot download your email on a plane in any case. Office and standalone apps have an entirely different way of working, you can work while you are not online.
One thing I wonder about is the speed of this gizmo. Web apps tend to be high-latency slowish things.
A modern computer spends most of its time in system calls (Ok, depends on the program, but generally this is true). So Darwin runs on x86.
Would it be possible to get this thing to run on Darwin in such a way that the system calls run natively but the apps run in the emulator?
So only the non-kernel pats of a program are emulated? That might bring down that 500x a bit.
It would involve having some translation at the boundary between the apps and the kernel but is this not the way Apple emulated old 68000 programs when they did their transition to PowerPC?
Do you have some rerefence to those KGB documents??!!
And as far as small nuclear weapons is concerned, ho large is a nuclear artillery shell in any case? There is this one famous picture of an American General standing next to a field gun looking at a mushroom cloud in the distance. An artillery shell shoudl fit in the trunk of a car. And these were made in the late 50's if I recall correctly.
The difficulty of building a nuclear bomb lies in making it small. It is true what you say about grad studdents building one in a desert in the 1940's, BUT
a) most of the effort (by faaar most of it) went into enriching Uranium and making Plutonium. The effort expended to do that involved the largest industrial project in the world at the time. I once heard that a large part of the silver in the Fort Knox was melted to make electromagnetic coils for the enrichment process.
Of course, that effort has been expended and the world is now full of Plutonium and they could buy some. Interetingly, btw, one country nobody moans about who certainly has more than enough Plutonium on hand to build lots of nuclear devices is Japan. They certainly have the expertise too.
b) The two bombs were pretty large. Ok, you could park one on a container ship and float it into New York Harbour or detonate it in San Franciso Bay or in the Thames estuary but nobody is going to carry one of those 1940's devices around just like that.
Anyways, the difficulty does not lie in building the device, the difficulty lies in making an actualy deployable weapon.
I can ensure you 100% that C does NOT allow you to do a switch on a string and, for that matter, also forces you to use the xx.equals(yy) thing. In fact, in C you use strcmp which is worse.
Besides, there IS a difference in == and.equals. The one compares the CONTENTS of (possibly) TWO strings while the other checks if the strangs are the same string (and works for any object, it checks the reference).
As far as consoles are concerned take a look at the screen package. You can suspend consoles and reacitavte them on another box as well (IIRC) have sort of VNC-like capability where you can run the console on two terms (some remote) at the same time. It is really cool.
Bingo, did just that yesterday. I did not look too close at the specs but I was pleasantly surprised that my new Mobo now only had a Gigabit Port on board but that Linux supported it out of the box.
SO Gigabit is coming. Besides, if you make sure that the cable can handle the punch now you can just upgrade you gear later. And 1 Gb Switches can handle 100 MBps cards so you can then upgrade in pieces.
See if you can find a CD or MP from Kevin Bloody Wilson with his Courting song (Do you fuck on first dates). You might like that. Quite funny, actually
Don't bet on it. MY girlfriends ultimate dream is to play Gianna sisters on my Athlon Xp 2600 every day on a C64 emulator! And when she gets home I hear the chant of Gianna! Gianna!
No, he is probably planning on putting "Screw me now" subliminals on the CD and then invite that hottie from class over to listen to his music. Or better, give her a copy of the CD. Sounds like Ross Jeffries to me.
Because you have to park that load of radioactive waste on top of a tank of high explosives and ignite it in a semi controlled manner to get oti into space in the first place, maybe?
Remember Challenger, Ariane and a boatload of other rockets that went kaboom!
Search for Chris Date on Google and look for his books or his website "Database Debunkings" or something like that. Ok, he is a bit of a fanatic (and his colleague, Fabian Pascal, is like the Osama bin Laden radical of databases) but they can give you quite a few reasons why SQL sucks.
Yeah, and you plugged your wireless keyboard into you computer through a plug which, funnily, stuck out from the case unlike the mouse plug. Weird, that.
Interestingly you will not find a Windows screenshot in any Adobe manual you seen, including the WIndows version or in any classroom in a book (their official Tutorial books). All MacOS/X. For Illustrator, Golive, Photoshop and Indesign
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You are forgetting something. For Email you MUST be on eht internet to work (because that is where the information comes from). You cannot download your email on a plane in any case. Office and standalone apps have an entirely different way of working, you can work while you are not online.
One thing I wonder about is the speed of this gizmo. Web apps tend to be high-latency slowish things.
A modern computer spends most of its time in system calls (Ok, depends on the program, but generally this is true). So Darwin runs on x86.
Would it be possible to get this thing to run on Darwin in such a way that the system calls run natively but the apps run in the emulator?
So only the non-kernel pats of a program are emulated? That might bring down that 500x a bit.
It would involve having some translation at the boundary between the apps and the kernel but is this not the way Apple emulated old 68000 programs when they did their transition to PowerPC?
Gives new meaning to the term deadlock.
Do you have some rerefence to those KGB documents??!!
And as far as small nuclear weapons is concerned, ho large is a nuclear artillery shell in any case? There is this one famous picture of an American General standing next to a field gun looking at a mushroom cloud in the distance. An artillery shell shoudl fit in the trunk of a car. And these were made in the late 50's if I recall correctly.
Even the Israelis have nuclear artillery shells.
The difficulty of building a nuclear bomb lies in making it small. It is true what you say about grad studdents building one in a desert in the 1940's, BUT
a) most of the effort (by faaar most of it) went into enriching Uranium and making Plutonium. The effort expended to do that involved the largest industrial project in the world at the time. I once heard that a large part of the silver in the Fort Knox was melted to make electromagnetic coils for the enrichment process.
Of course, that effort has been expended and the world is now full of Plutonium and they could buy some. Interetingly, btw, one country nobody moans about who certainly has more than enough Plutonium on hand to build lots of nuclear devices is Japan. They certainly have the expertise too.
b) The two bombs were pretty large. Ok, you could park one on a container ship and float it into New York Harbour or detonate it in San Franciso Bay or in the Thames estuary but nobody is going to carry one of those 1940's devices around just like that.
Anyways, the difficulty does not lie in building the device, the difficulty lies in making an actualy deployable weapon.
Is there something like a cordless twiddler?
Quite frankl,y the systems that the programmers write are there for the convenience of the lemmings, whether the programmers like it or not.
The plants are smelted down??!!! Hell, what sort of affinity for for lead do they have?
Yeah but the Solar System is not that big. In fact, not even close
I can ensure you 100% that C does NOT allow you to do a switch on a string and, for that matter, also forces you to use the xx.equals(yy) thing. In fact, in C you use strcmp which is worse.
.equals. The one compares the CONTENTS of (possibly) TWO strings while the other checks if the strangs are the same string (and works for any object, it checks the reference).
Besides, there IS a difference in == and
As far as consoles are concerned take a look at the screen package. You can suspend consoles and reacitavte them on another box as well (IIRC) have sort of VNC-like capability where you can run the console on two terms (some remote) at the same time. It is really cool.
Bingo, did just that yesterday. I did not look too close at the specs but I was pleasantly surprised that my new Mobo now only had a Gigabit Port on board but that Linux supported it out of the box.
SO Gigabit is coming. Besides, if you make sure that the cable can handle the punch now you can just upgrade you gear later. And 1 Gb Switches can handle 100 MBps cards so you can then upgrade in pieces.
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See if you can find a CD or MP from Kevin Bloody Wilson with his Courting song (Do you fuck on first dates). You might like that. Quite funny, actually
Don't bet on it. MY girlfriends ultimate dream is to play Gianna sisters on my Athlon Xp 2600 every day on a C64 emulator! And when she gets home I hear the chant of Gianna! Gianna!
You probably got a B from reading the textbook in the first place. You should really get a speech synthesizer to read it. Now THAT would be cool.
No, he is probably planning on putting "Screw me now" subliminals on the CD and then invite that hottie from class over to listen to his music. Or better, give her a copy of the CD. Sounds like Ross Jeffries to me.
Maybe thats why the Americans overestimated the Soviet test yields: It really was one HELL of an oil well fire!
Because then half of Slashdot will whine that their jobs were outsourced to machine-land.
Because you have to park that load of radioactive waste on top of a tank of high explosives and ignite it in a semi controlled manner to get oti into space in the first place, maybe?
Remember Challenger, Ariane and a boatload of other rockets that went kaboom!
Firewall, what firewall?? (Unless, of course, its made of lead).
You just need to get close!
Search for Chris Date on Google and look for his books or his website "Database Debunkings" or something like that. Ok, he is a bit of a fanatic (and his colleague, Fabian Pascal, is like the Osama bin Laden radical of databases) but they can give you quite a few reasons why SQL sucks.
http://www.dbdebunk.com
Yeah, and you plugged your wireless keyboard into you computer through a plug which, funnily, stuck out from the case unlike the mouse plug. Weird, that.
Interestingly you will not find a Windows screenshot in any Adobe manual you seen, including the WIndows version or in any classroom in a book (their official Tutorial books). All MacOS/X. For Illustrator, Golive, Photoshop and Indesign
The really sweet thing is that if you type zast in Suse Linux yast comes up anyways. Nice little touch that.