Queue up the internet insider trading frame up scenario.
#1 Hack A, a competitor to B, finding that A will do X. #2 Hack B, leaving hints that it was A that did it. #3 Leak to gullible idiot in B that A is doing X. #4 Trade on X happening. #5 gullible idiot trades on X happening. #7 Trade on B being found out by the SEC #6 SEC throws gullible idiot to the dogs. #7 Profit!
... the net neutrality regulations ARE NOT a government takeover of the running operations of telecoms.
True, but that's not the same thing as saying net neutrality rules don't affect cost structures for telecoms.
Selling an unlimited service and then limiting it is fraud. People should go to jail for that. Requiring vendors to tell the truth about their product and adhere to their product claims in not an unreasonable intrusion into their cost structures.
>just to accommodate those who want to carry on their luggage
I don't want to carry on luggage. I want to avoid baggage claim, not lose my bag and skip the line at check in. Carrying on is just means, not the motivation.
It boils down to "why not pre-compile entire websites into binary packages per-page? It would make it much faster and more efficient for the browser to load it..."
The way it was explained to me was that it one analyzes division from the positive side towards zero, and division from the negative side towards zero you end up with this...
0/+0 is +Infinity 0/-0 is -Infinity
Since 0/0 is BOTH +Infinity AND -Infinity you end up with TWO values. Division is only closed when it produces a single number. The answer is undefined because we don't know WHICH infinity to pick.
Mathematics hasn't evolved to multi-value constants.
If you're using normal numbers. Any self respecting field is closed over its operators, including division.
Yes. It. Is. Different. f(x)/g(x) is undefined if f(x) and g(x) are both zero, and pretending it can ever be anything else is going to get you in a lot of hot water very fast. Now, then L'Hopital's Rule can help you find the limit as a approaches x of f(a)/g(a), but that is something different, and you have to be aware it's different.
It works in the physical world. Don't be so dismissive.
That's why I never use floating point. It's a mess. It's impossible to achieve a uniform random distribution of floats. The space isn't uniform. Fixed point is nice, as long as you have an idea of how big your numbers will be.
Graph y=0/x as x -> 0 from both sides. It's a straight line (y=0) heading for (0,0). Graph y=x/x as x -> 0 from both sides. It's a straight (y=1) line heading for (0,1).
At x=0, it could be either of those answers, or anything else. No one answer is correct.
To be more correct, the 68000 certainly could support multitasking, both cooperative and preemptive -- it just could not fully support instruction restart after certain types of exceptions ( and this could not support virtual memory ala UNIX).
I was puzzled by TechyImmigrant's comment and found the same thing. The 68000 saved enough state to handle interrupts which is needed for preemptive multitasking but not bus fault exceptions which are needed to support virtual memory like with a 68451 MMU.
I am not aware of any CPUs which support interrupts that cannot support preemptive multitasking.
I too was puzzled by how I muddled up preemption with instruction restart for paging or virtual memory. I wasn't even drunk.
As usual, your shitty posting history is confirmed by yet another piece of shit post. The 68010 had nothing to do with "instruction restart". Jesus Christ.
Yes it did. It had a prefetch buffer added and retained enough state to undo an instruction when it hit a memory fault half way through executing the instruction. I have designed computers using the 68010 that took advantage of that.
>a classmate posting something questioning the pre-emptive multitasking capabilities of AmigaOS
Yes. The Amiga ran on a 68000. The 68000 didn't support instruction restart. So you couldn't properly do preemptive multitasking with it. It needed the applications to cooperate with the interruptions. So an application could undermine the preemption. The 68010 fixed this problem. There were also unix based 68000 workstations that had two 68000s, one running a clock cycle behind the other, so the state of the CPU could be rewound and the instruction restarted when necessary.
because having your latest gadget sooner than later is more important than the lives of workers
really, who cares about the sub-humans who handle your goods?
We're a customer of their services. Not an intermediary in their wage negotiations. When all imports can be blocked for weeks, it encourages people to explore local supply options, which is exactly the point.
I guess the real reason is that Chinese labour costs have increased during the last years. But considering the $20,000 price tag I agree.
That and importing stuff is a massive pain in the arse. Between ultra complicated and hard to find tariff rules, longshoremen strikes, highly variable shipping costs, theft of goods and the host country's efforts to put backdoors in products manufactured within its borders, it can be easier to just build it at home.
The sort with the plastic housing the direct the air around the chips and muffle the noise. Why doesn't everyone do that?
Because it's mostly cosmetic and actually restricts airflow. My motherboard doesn't have a single fan on it, if it was covered in shrouding it wouldn't receive much airflow from the case fans. It doesn't muffle the sound either, an actively cooled motherboard with shrouding is louder than a passively cooled motherboard without it.
There are fans that attach to openings in the airguide that suck cold air from within the box and run it over the motherboard and the hot air is then vented out through the back panel. It is pretty quiet. The video card is the loudest thing. I've done water cooling in the past, which is much quieter though and in my next gaming computer I'll probably go for water cooling again.
A big box. The sort that holds the MB horizontally with the drives underneath. A sabertooth motherboard. The sort with the plastic housing the direct the air around the chips and muffle the noise. Why doesn't everyone do that? A 4 core top end Ivy Bridge i7, 64GB dram. Dual 500Gig SSD mirrored. In hotplug housing. Dual 1TB rotating mirrored, for local backup. In hotplug housing. Some expensive Nvidia card.
Why? #1 The CPU is the first model with my logic in it. So it's personal. Also employee discount. #2 I wanted to play 3D games after a hiatus of a few years. #3 Hotplug housing is awesome. You can pull em out and put em back in again.
At least we can figure out how to invest in tech. If it's not making a profit or similar return on investment, it's not a good investment. Art has no means of determining merit or whether one approach is better than another. Money got spent and you get funny colored umbrellas or whatever. If it's your place and you happen to like funny colored umbrellas, then we're good. If you're purchasing art as a proxy for someone else, then that quickly becomes an abusable position.
I think that has led to the current sad state of art where expensive art has an unusual lack of noteworthiness to it.
I can't afford expensive art, but I can afford some of the art I like. I buy that. I don't expect it to make money. I expect it to look good.
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Queue up the internet insider trading frame up scenario.
#1 Hack A, a competitor to B, finding that A will do X.
#2 Hack B, leaving hints that it was A that did it.
#3 Leak to gullible idiot in B that A is doing X.
#4 Trade on X happening.
#5 gullible idiot trades on X happening.
#7 Trade on B being found out by the SEC
#6 SEC throws gullible idiot to the dogs.
#7 Profit!
True, but that's not the same thing as saying net neutrality rules don't affect cost structures for telecoms.
Selling an unlimited service and then limiting it is fraud. People should go to jail for that. Requiring vendors to tell the truth about their product and adhere to their product claims in not an unreasonable intrusion into their cost structures.
>just to accommodate those who want to carry on their luggage
I don't want to carry on luggage. I want to avoid baggage claim, not lose my bag and skip the line at check in. Carrying on is just means, not the motivation.
It boils down to "why not pre-compile entire websites into binary packages per-page? It would make it much faster and more efficient for the browser to load it..."
http://developers.slashdot.org...
Or we could write programs, compile them and let users run them on their computer.
Interesting list:
0 * 1/z -> 0
z / z --> 1
The way it was explained to me was that it one analyzes division from the positive side towards zero, and division from the negative side towards zero you end up with this ...
0/+0 is +Infinity
0/-0 is -Infinity
Since 0/0 is BOTH +Infinity AND -Infinity you end up with TWO values. Division is only closed when it produces a single number. The answer is undefined because we don't know WHICH infinity to pick.
Mathematics hasn't evolved to multi-value constants.
If you're using normal numbers. Any self respecting field is closed over its operators, including division.
Yes. It. Is. Different. f(x)/g(x) is undefined if f(x) and g(x) are both zero, and pretending it can ever be anything else is going to get you in a lot of hot water very fast. Now, then L'Hopital's Rule can help you find the limit as a approaches x of f(a)/g(a), but that is something different, and you have to be aware it's different.
It works in the physical world. Don't be so dismissive.
That's why I never use floating point. It's a mess. It's impossible to achieve a uniform random distribution of floats. The space isn't uniform.
Fixed point is nice, as long as you have an idea of how big your numbers will be.
Yup.
Graph y=0/x as x -> 0 from both sides. It's a straight line (y=0) heading for (0,0).
Graph y=x/x as x -> 0 from both sides. It's a straight (y=1) line heading for (0,1).
At x=0, it could be either of those answers, or anything else. No one answer is correct.
I was puzzled by TechyImmigrant's comment and found the same thing. The 68000 saved enough state to handle interrupts which is needed for preemptive multitasking but not bus fault exceptions which are needed to support virtual memory like with a 68451 MMU.
I am not aware of any CPUs which support interrupts that cannot support preemptive multitasking.
I too was puzzled by how I muddled up preemption with instruction restart for paging or virtual memory. I wasn't even drunk.
As usual, your shitty posting history is confirmed by yet another piece of shit post. The 68010 had nothing to do with "instruction restart". Jesus Christ.
Yes it did. It had a prefetch buffer added and retained enough state to undo an instruction when it hit a memory fault half way through executing the instruction. I have designed computers using the 68010 that took advantage of that.
Yes. These things bubbled up slowly from my subconscious since earlier today. Years of crypto has ruined my CPU architecture skills.
As I remember it, it was an Apollo workstation that used that method.
>a classmate posting something questioning the pre-emptive multitasking capabilities of AmigaOS
Yes. The Amiga ran on a 68000. The 68000 didn't support instruction restart. So you couldn't properly do preemptive multitasking with it. It needed the applications to cooperate with the interruptions. So an application could undermine the preemption. The 68010 fixed this problem. There were also unix based 68000 workstations that had two 68000s, one running a clock cycle behind the other, so the state of the CPU could be rewound and the instruction restarted when necessary.
>isp's were ALREADY under the domain of the fcc.
A very different domain of the FCC.
> obvious repub
Wut? Your brain appears to be broken.
I can't afford expensive art, but I can afford some of the art I like. I buy that. I don't expect it to make money. I expect it to look good.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that expensive art should be a lot better at the things you use art for than cheap art.
Expectation and reality don't seem to line up a whole lot in my experience.
Net neutrality is good. It is good that big ISPs are subject to it.
However a world in which ISPs are placed within the legal framework of phone companies is bad.
A well written net neutrality law would have been better than the FCC bringing ISPs under their wing.
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The answer has to be 0 right?
No. The answer would be : None
longshoremen strikes
because having your latest gadget sooner than later is more important than the lives of workers
really, who cares about the sub-humans who handle your goods?
We're a customer of their services. Not an intermediary in their wage negotiations. When all imports can be blocked for weeks, it encourages people to explore local supply options, which is exactly the point.
I guess the real reason is that Chinese labour costs have increased during the last years. But considering the $20,000 price tag I agree.
That and importing stuff is a massive pain in the arse. Between ultra complicated and hard to find tariff rules, longshoremen strikes, highly variable shipping costs, theft of goods and the host country's efforts to put backdoors in products manufactured within its borders, it can be easier to just build it at home.
The sort with the plastic housing the direct the air around the chips and muffle the noise. Why doesn't everyone do that?
Because it's mostly cosmetic and actually restricts airflow. My motherboard doesn't have a single fan on it, if it was covered in shrouding it wouldn't receive much airflow from the case fans. It doesn't muffle the sound either, an actively cooled motherboard with shrouding is louder than a passively cooled motherboard without it.
There are fans that attach to openings in the airguide that suck cold air from within the box and run it over the motherboard and the hot air is then vented out through the back panel. It is pretty quiet. The video card is the loudest thing. I've done water cooling in the past, which is much quieter though and in my next gaming computer I'll probably go for water cooling again.
#1 The CPU is the first model with my logic in it. So it's personal. Also employee discount.
Err, do you work for Intel?
Yes.
A big box. The sort that holds the MB horizontally with the drives underneath.
A sabertooth motherboard. The sort with the plastic housing the direct the air around the chips and muffle the noise. Why doesn't everyone do that?
A 4 core top end Ivy Bridge i7, 64GB dram.
Dual 500Gig SSD mirrored. In hotplug housing.
Dual 1TB rotating mirrored, for local backup. In hotplug housing.
Some expensive Nvidia card.
Why?
#1 The CPU is the first model with my logic in it. So it's personal. Also employee discount.
#2 I wanted to play 3D games after a hiatus of a few years.
#3 Hotplug housing is awesome. You can pull em out and put em back in again.
What makes you think Firefox is safe from MITM attacks?
Most tech is crap too.
At least we can figure out how to invest in tech. If it's not making a profit or similar return on investment, it's not a good investment. Art has no means of determining merit or whether one approach is better than another. Money got spent and you get funny colored umbrellas or whatever. If it's your place and you happen to like funny colored umbrellas, then we're good. If you're purchasing art as a proxy for someone else, then that quickly becomes an abusable position.
I think that has led to the current sad state of art where expensive art has an unusual lack of noteworthiness to it.
I can't afford expensive art, but I can afford some of the art I like. I buy that. I don't expect it to make money. I expect it to look good.