More like: 3) Earth organisms completely unable to compete with native organisms that have been adapting to that environment for millions of years 4) Earth organisms swiftly wiped out
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when a program asks the OS for memory, the OS assigns a chunk of address space, but doesn't assign memory (physical, virtual, or otherwise) until the program actually tries to use it.
not true. the virtual address space is determined at the time of allocation. otherwise the program won't know where it's allowed to write to. only the physical pages are assigned on actual use (and can be swapped, reassigned, etc).
Windows users also weren't adjusted to having to work under non-admin account.
by using a non-admin account for the last couple of years i learned that the system is much less secure this way.
on windows the only program that could auto update was google chrome. firefox, flash, thunderbird, java, etc, all required manual update checks (which a non too computer savvy user, like my wife, won't do). firefox actually shows that there's an update available when chacking manually, but requires to be "run as administrator" to actually install it.
same problem for the mac. system update checks won't happen automatically in non-admin accounts.
eventually i got pissed of having to update everything manually and switched my accounts to admin.
i know enough about EE, trust me. here are some facts for you and all that declared me wrong:
power is not linear with frequency, electrical current is. this is because current flows through MOS transistors only when they're switching. so more switches cause more current linearly. since power is proportional to the square of current (P=I^2/R), it is also proportional to the square of frequency.
all that argued that power is linear with voltage (which is true) should just have asked themselves how voltage and current relate (hint: linearly).
two cores on lower clock rate may consume less energy than one core with fast clocking. energy use is proportional to the square of the clock rate, so it's a matter of tuning to achieve lower power. the only question is whether the slow cores will be fast enough for the important sequential tasks (if there are such at all).
some animals use tools, that's right. they have a set of 1, 2, maybe 3 tools. humans have (at least) millions of tools and keep creating new ones specialized for the particular problem that needs to be solved. that's one of the things that sets us apart.
Existing approaches to security, and the notion that everyone should just learn to use a computer, are both arrogant and unhelpful. You don't need to know thermodynamics to drive your car
bad analogy. absolutely bad. "learn" does not correspond at all with "know thermodynamics". more correct in your line of thinking will be "know semiconductor physics to use a computer". and we both agree that it's really not necessary.
on the other hand people "learn" to drive their cars. they need to have a driver's license to prove it to the traffic police.
the computer is supposed to be a tool that helps instead of getting in one's way, but so are cars. and learning how to use a car before you do is compulsory.
there are not many compilers i know of, that decide by themselves to make threads out of some parts of code. and exactly why do you think you're going to "end up waiting longer"? you just have more execution units in a HT processor. by "took a parallel programming course" do you mean that you finished it successfully? from your comment i doubt it very much.
and if you try SIM-IM, you will find that it's far better even than kopete (and has been for years). i still don't uderstand why KDE had to build a new messenger from the ground up, when we have this cross-platform messenger with KDE support. it's development was abandoned at the time kopete was stating up, and just needed to be picked up. it's developed again, thankfully:))
Yeah, "you" stepped in to europe and saved our asses from the Nazis.
no, it's the red army that saved europe's asses from the nazis (with financial help from america, of course). the americans "stepped" there (the normandy invasion) with the only and sole purpose to stop further advancement of the soviets. because, you know, they didn't leave the territories under their control for some 50 years;) if the soviet army was allowed to reach the west european coasts churchill would be having a very hard time negotiating half of the continent out ot the soviet "sphere of influence".
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3) Earth organisms completely unable to compete with native organisms that have been adapting to that environment for millions of years
4) Earth organisms swiftly wiped out
indeed!
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when a program asks the OS for memory, the OS assigns a chunk of address space, but doesn't assign memory (physical, virtual, or otherwise) until the program actually tries to use it.
not true. the virtual address space is determined at the time of allocation. otherwise the program won't know where it's allowed to write to. only the physical pages are assigned on actual use (and can be swapped, reassigned, etc).
No, because...
did you notice what this story was about?
very true. the biggest problem with internet voting is not technological at all. the lack of voting booth makes your vote controllable and sellable.
Windows users also weren't adjusted to having to work under non-admin account.
by using a non-admin account for the last couple of years i learned that the system is much less secure this way.
on windows the only program that could auto update was google chrome. firefox, flash, thunderbird, java, etc, all required manual update checks (which a non too computer savvy user, like my wife, won't do). firefox actually shows that there's an update available when chacking manually, but requires to be "run as administrator" to actually install it.
same problem for the mac. system update checks won't happen automatically in non-admin accounts.
eventually i got pissed of having to update everything manually and switched my accounts to admin.
well said.
yes, those paper forms suck. :)
I could use such a mail account for communications with the government.
i suspect that this is exactly the purpose of the government provided email addresses.
i know enough about EE, trust me. here are some facts for you and all that declared me wrong:
power is not linear with frequency, electrical current is. this is because current flows through MOS transistors only when they're switching. so more switches cause more current linearly. since power is proportional to the square of current (P=I^2/R), it is also proportional to the square of frequency.
all that argued that power is linear with voltage (which is true) should just have asked themselves how voltage and current relate (hint: linearly).
two cores on lower clock rate may consume less energy than one core with fast clocking. energy use is proportional to the square of the clock rate, so it's a matter of tuning to achieve lower power. the only question is whether the slow cores will be fast enough for the important sequential tasks (if there are such at all).
i bet that's the case.
when this kind of "error" appears in elections software, be sure that it's not by accident.
you're wrong, this would have made it 0.99.10. 1.-99.0 must have been added.
some animals use tools, that's right. they have a set of 1, 2, maybe 3 tools. humans have (at least) millions of tools and keep creating new ones specialized for the particular problem that needs to be solved. that's one of the things that sets us apart.
i've got a friend with a 5-digit number, 7xxxx.
are you getting donations already? ;)
13.0.0.0.0
is this something like a mayan IPv5 network address? it wasn't until recently that we got larger address space than the mayas with IPv6.
S.T.A.N.D.S.: Synthetic Transforming Android Normally for Dangerous Sabotage
yes, but they are so large negatives that the addition is likely to wrap the result back to positive;)
Existing approaches to security, and the notion that everyone should just learn to use a computer, are both arrogant and unhelpful. You don't need to know thermodynamics to drive your car
bad analogy. absolutely bad. "learn" does not correspond at all with "know thermodynamics". more correct in your line of thinking will be "know semiconductor physics to use a computer". and we both agree that it's really not necessary.
on the other hand people "learn" to drive their cars. they need to have a driver's license to prove it to the traffic police.
the computer is supposed to be a tool that helps instead of getting in one's way, but so are cars. and learning how to use a car before you do is compulsory.
there are not many compilers i know of, that decide by themselves to make threads out of some parts of code. and exactly why do you think you're going to "end up waiting longer"? you just have more execution units in a HT processor. by "took a parallel programming course" do you mean that you finished it successfully? from your comment i doubt it very much.
and if you try SIM-IM, you will find that it's far better even than kopete (and has been for years). i still don't uderstand why KDE had to build a new messenger from the ground up, when we have this cross-platform messenger with KDE support. it's development was abandoned at the time kopete was stating up, and just needed to be picked up. it's developed again, thankfully:))
what is it then? a vegetable?
Yeah, "you" stepped in to europe and saved our asses from the Nazis.
no, it's the red army that saved europe's asses from the nazis (with financial help from america, of course). the americans "stepped" there (the normandy invasion) with the only and sole purpose to stop further advancement of the soviets. because, you know, they didn't leave the territories under their control for some 50 years;) if the soviet army was allowed to reach the west european coasts churchill would be having a very hard time negotiating half of the continent out ot the soviet "sphere of influence".