I also remember using a matrix printer with three different quality levels. The lightest draft mode was fine for everything. Higher levels were produced by printing the same line again several times, with a slight offset to fill the spaces.
Looks like somebody reintenved PROM. Besides, the word "flash" in flash drives refers to erasing whole blocks at once so it doesn't make sense in a write-once medium.
The problem is that your eyes are only 2D surfaces. Having two of them
doesn't give you a full 3D perception -- you'd have to see through
things to do that.
Thus it should be possible to fake our limited perception by using two
2D displays and head tracking. It's the same thing with hearing, you
only have 2 ears instead of 5.1, but again you'd need head tracking.
Unix needs to be booted for a number of reasons, for example kernel upgrades and most hardware changes. There's a need for some well defined and controlled permanent storage that's not just cache.
IMHO it's noteworthy that the language contains a keyword for parallel operations. So you can start using map() right now, and when the implementation and hardware improves, your existing code will scale up. (I've experienced a similar development with matrix operations in Fortran.)
You don't need to emulate x86 on x64, the processor has native support for the instructions. At least on Windows the kernel is 64 bit and the WOW layer just needs to sign extend pointers. You probably need 32 and 64 bit copies of some of the DLLs though.
That's the problem, you need 32-bit versions of all libraries involved. Such as glibc, X libraries, GTK... That's a lot of extra packages to maintain just so that you can run one single closed binary.
I understand why Adobe would target x86 mainly. But on Slashdot, it would be appropriate to mention this x86 even once in the summary. After all, we don't immediately think of "Windows on x86" when somebody says "computer".
The summary talks about 64-bitness in general, while the Linux release is for x86-64 only. Linux users on non-x86 platforms are still without Flash, for better or worse. At least there's a Sparc build for Solaris.
In pump mode, distcc runs the preprocessor remotely too. To do so, the
preprocessor must have access to all the files that it would have
accessed if had been running locally. In pump mode, therefore, distcc
gathers all of the recursively included headers, except the ones that
are default system headers, and sends them along with the source file
to the compilation server.
As a small semantic point, note that I could put up a screen and block your observer's view of my hand; by your definition, I have now made the die a "truly random" number generator even though I haven't really changed anything.
I think that's an essential point about randomness. Or at least thermodynamical entropy, with which I'm more familiar. Entropy is really a measure of how little you know about a system, and the better you define a system, the smaller its entropy.
Entropy can be calculated as k*log(W), where W is the number of microstates corresponding to your idea of the system. For example, there are more ways of arranging molecules into 1 liter of liquid water, than into 1 liter of frozen water. Thus we say that liquid water has a higher entropy.
You can define a specific arrangement of water that has zero entropy, but it's not going to last very long in that state. So in practice, you'll end up with a generic jumble of molecules. Your knowledge of that water is eventually reduced to its thermodynamical quantities (temperature, pressure, volume...), and there are many ways of having that kind of water, so it will again have the usual entropy.
[OT] The first time you wrote "prefected" I suspected a typo. I'm sure you meant "perfected". You could also leave out the apostrophes in plurals and use "distros" and "CDs" instead. Though I guess a real Grammar Nazi will now follow with the possible correctness of "CD's";)
Might as well give credit to the Linux kernel, which runs on dozens of architectures, and other upstream software providers.
I've been hoping that free software would be the way out of the x86 mess, but with all the x86 netbooks and Apple's Intel switch, things look even worse than a few years ago. Netbooks in particular seemed exciting at first, being a niche where Linux is especially strong, but most of them are still based on x86 just so that you can still run bad old Windows.
Also, it seems to me that.NET would be Microsoft's way out of x86, but with their usual pace it will probably take at least another decade.
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I also remember using a matrix printer with three different quality levels. The lightest draft mode was fine for everything. Higher levels were produced by printing the same line again several times, with a slight offset to fill the spaces.
5'10 is a perfectly normal height for a guy. Most women are shorter, unless they're wearing heals.
And in case they sustain a terrible foot injury, they can use this injectable paste to heal their heals.
Looks like somebody reintenved PROM. Besides, the word "flash" in flash drives refers to erasing whole blocks at once so it doesn't make sense in a write-once medium.
The problem is that your eyes are only 2D surfaces. Having two of them doesn't give you a full 3D perception -- you'd have to see through things to do that.
Thus it should be possible to fake our limited perception by using two 2D displays and head tracking. It's the same thing with hearing, you only have 2 ears instead of 5.1, but again you'd need head tracking.
Tsubame is actually 'swallow',
Is that an African, a European, or an Asian swallow?
Don't confuse not knowing what something "is" with the inability to make working devices with them.
But... nobody knows exactly what the meaning of "is" is.
Unix needs to be booted for a number of reasons, for example kernel upgrades and most hardware changes. There's a need for some well defined and controlled permanent storage that's not just cache.
It's got electrolytes!
On the other hand, imagine a surgeon following handwritten notes from another surgeon.
Vowels, bowels, what's the difference?
Don't you mean Minnie, she's the one who's fucking goofy...
IMHO it's noteworthy that the language contains a keyword for parallel operations. So you can start using map() right now, and when the implementation and hardware improves, your existing code will scale up. (I've experienced a similar development with matrix operations in Fortran.)
I think Red Bull gives me wings. Or at least my future children may have a few extra limbs.
What's the plural of FLOPS then? My preciouss FLOPSes?
Don't we have better things for which to build custom chips?
You don't need to emulate x86 on x64, the processor has native support for the instructions. At least on Windows the kernel is 64 bit and the WOW layer just needs to sign extend pointers. You probably need 32 and 64 bit copies of some of the DLLs though.
That's the problem, you need 32-bit versions of all libraries involved. Such as glibc, X libraries, GTK... That's a lot of extra packages to maintain just so that you can run one single closed binary.
I understand why Adobe would target x86 mainly. But on Slashdot, it would be appropriate to mention this x86 even once in the summary. After all, we don't immediately think of "Windows on x86" when somebody says "computer".
The summary talks about 64-bitness in general, while the Linux release is for x86-64 only. Linux users on non-x86 platforms are still without Flash, for better or worse. At least there's a Sparc build for Solaris.
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What's a statistition? A statistician with a superstition?
In pump mode, distcc runs the preprocessor remotely too. To do so, the preprocessor must have access to all the files that it would have accessed if had been running locally. In pump mode, therefore, distcc gathers all of the recursively included headers, except the ones that are default system headers, and sends them along with the source file to the compilation server.
As a small semantic point, note that I could put up a screen and block your observer's view of my hand; by your definition, I have now made the die a "truly random" number generator even though I haven't really changed anything.
I think that's an essential point about randomness. Or at least thermodynamical entropy, with which I'm more familiar. Entropy is really a measure of how little you know about a system, and the better you define a system, the smaller its entropy.
Entropy can be calculated as k*log(W), where W is the number of microstates corresponding to your idea of the system. For example, there are more ways of arranging molecules into 1 liter of liquid water, than into 1 liter of frozen water. Thus we say that liquid water has a higher entropy.
You can define a specific arrangement of water that has zero entropy, but it's not going to last very long in that state. So in practice, you'll end up with a generic jumble of molecules. Your knowledge of that water is eventually reduced to its thermodynamical quantities (temperature, pressure, volume...), and there are many ways of having that kind of water, so it will again have the usual entropy.
[OT] The first time you wrote "prefected" I suspected a typo. I'm sure you meant "perfected". You could also leave out the apostrophes in plurals and use "distros" and "CDs" instead. Though I guess a real Grammar Nazi will now follow with the possible correctness of "CD's" ;)
Might as well give credit to the Linux kernel, which runs on dozens of architectures, and other upstream software providers.
I've been hoping that free software would be the way out of the x86 mess, but with all the x86 netbooks and Apple's Intel switch, things look even worse than a few years ago. Netbooks in particular seemed exciting at first, being a niche where Linux is especially strong, but most of them are still based on x86 just so that you can still run bad old Windows.
Also, it seems to me that .NET would be Microsoft's way out of x86, but with their usual pace it will probably take at least another decade.