Sartre's responses are a result of the mystery of logical contradictions he has uncovered about existence. To oversimplify it for this discussion, the "emotion" part arises from existing at of the these "logic tries to avoid contradiction" weasel-moments, weasely-word moments that is. Logic is flawed, he is at the intersection, emotional expression. You admit logic is flawed with your weasel words above, and that is the source.
I bet you've never read a single page of either Godel or Sartre, but here you declaring the case closed.
Also, it is difficult to say that space is "full" of junk. The LEO area has such a large volume that even hundres of millions of junk particles at a uniform distribution still means they are all many kilometers apart. So what is "full"?
This is the kind of important question people who see humans as having no limits need to answer:
* How many people on earth is TOO many?
* How much pollution in the air is TOO much?
* How many bad air days are TOO many?
* How little oil left is TOO little?
* How warm is TOO warm before you believe global warming?
* How much nuclear fallout from nuking Iraq/Iran is TOO much nuclear fallout?
It's hard to not be partisan with these q's, because in my experience, the god fearing republicans think no limits exist on the above questions. I'm not calling you a GFR, I'm just saying the important focus for these issues is not an absolute number, but "where do you draw the line"? The same goes for LEO garbage. Yes, the volume of LEO is colossal compared to the surface of the earth, but where does one draw the line???
IMO, if scientists can project the rate of fillup and the probability of destroying important satellites or making space travel impossible or becoming detrimental to humanity, we should listen to them, but there seems like little we can do: we haven't done anything about ANY of the issues listed above that have far more impact on humanity, what makes us think we can affect LEO decisions?
Never heard of the Existentialist literary movement, I see. Read some Sartre, it will help you to understand the dilemma of being a human and being disgusted by it.
BTW, which nascent technology's 40-years-from-now problems are you accurately predicting today, and acting to correct? Just curious.
I'm an avid nanoassembly protestor.
I carry a large novelty fly swatter and cover myself in grey toothpaste at each rally.
Cartoon Network notoriously censors The Professor whenever he uses the term "sweet zombie jesus".
I hope Comedy Central doesn't stoop this low.
(I googled for this a year ago when I noticed it and found a website saying it was due to C.N. claiming it was offensive, but I can't find the link now.)
Not to sound like a codger, but my HP48 graphing calculator from 1991 ($200!!!) is still my #1 implement! I even have my crib sheets from Field and Wave Electronmagnetics still tucked in the pouch.
I don't think you have to worry about how long it will last, or academia inventing some new math that your calculator won't do.:-)
You use their products because they are plentiful, available, and cheap....and because there are no alternatives, thanks to the companies.
OilCo's do everything in their power to make life virtually unlivable without dependence on their products. The only people who truly are free are the hippies in Marin County who live off the grid in tee-pees. I could give up my life to live in a tee-pee, because everything up to this point has been my choice, but it has been a choice between shitting behind a bush and not showering, or living in the modern world where oil is a necessity.
Another example, cities used to get money to promote mass-transit systems, until BushCo. cut those subsidies at the behest of the oil companies. This means people now have the choice of living far from work and commuting, or taking a job that pays much less somewhere else. And if they do drive, they could have a choice of driving a more fuel efficient vehicle, but due to the oil industry lobbyists and BushCo., gas standards are set to improve 5% over the next 13 years.
So you can see that there is always a choice, but the options are often so extremely far from each other as to make one option unrealistic, and the reason for this is influence of the evil (yes, evil), oil companies who care about their 10-billion a quarter earnings.
Compilers can also deal with optimization in RISC architectures more easily
This is a dead giveaway that the author is just stabbing at the wind. Scheduling is no more complex with CISC than with RISC. In fact, some compilation can be optimized even better by specialized CISC instructions that happen frequently. This is an ancient debate that is a tie.
With Just-in-Time compilation, legacy x86 programs could be painlessly run on ARM/PPC by translating them dynamically at run time, similar to how CIL and Java work.
Yeah, and run 20x slower.
what do you all think about our choice of primary CPU architecture
The R&D was sunk into x86 by the two most able teams, Intel and AMD. Companies are driven by profit, and higher profit meant honing x86 and leveraging an installed base. That's the only reason why we are x86 world.
But claiming a RISC world would be better is again an argument that has been put to rest decades ago: we'd be having the same argument reversed if RISC was the dominant architecture.
Further, there are pedants out there who will argue all x86 is really RISC under the hood, but that's a bit misleading.
So maybe it works for the average 18-35 year old male in good condition, but what about pregnant women in the way, or children, or older people? What if they accidentally happen to be in range?
Are soldiers trained to only use it on crowds of men? Or to point it at a house to chase people out? Do they have training to avoid high-risk groups?
Doubtful. This is just the war industry trying out a new gadget. Who makes it? I'd like to buy their stock. I don't want to miss out on another Halliburton opportunity where the stock rose 600% after invading Iraq.
I don't understand why someone would go through the effort of downloading movies from their TiVo to watch on a PC.
- Basic TiVo quality isn't so hot - The TV shows that I record in high-quality usually exist on purchasable DVD's anyway - Who ever watch movies more than once or twice? Thanks to Netflix, there is a never ending list of good movies that I've never seen
I don't see all the fuss. TiVo is fine, the DRM is fine. TiVo records disposable media, and media worth hanging onto is worth purchasing for better transfer quality.
Can I get some anecdotal evidence about who actually needs so proliferate their TiVo data?
The only case I can see is if your kid is on the local news and you want a permanent record. Even then, you can usually contact the news station for that.
I understand the risks of going public, but I also look at Intel dumping billions of profit into fabs.
I just can't sit back and say, "It's the investor's fault AMD is hurting." AMD has been public for a long, long time. If the investors are such a risk maybe the should do some cost cutting and fund new fab capacity with profit rather than speculative public investor funds. If you want to say that investor's caused this, then you are saying AMD "plays the market" by putting important eggs in the public's basket. Maybe AMD shouldn't be public anymore.
Well, they have a ton of fab capacity coming onlin in the next 18-24 months. Dresden was largely due to their K7 success, but it takes years to make a fab: they planned dresden 5~7 years ago.
AFAIK, this has always been AMDs problem: my earliest recollection is when they bought NexGen's K6 and sold it to Compaq in the sub-$1000 segment in 1995. Since then, anytime the get a good product, they blow it on production, leaving Intel to fill the void they created.
It is where they have failed again and again and again. I can't believe they haven't learned yet.
What really ticks me off in "modern" MMORPGs is the carebear attitude towards the players. Why don't they just hand out everything to everyone?
WTF are you talking about? I started in June'06 and it's been a slog just to get to end game content with my friends/guild./played is 15 days and I'm still level 55. When I heard from my friends in beta how long it took them to go from 60 to 61 (12 hours, in full purples), I wanted to quit right there. Maybe it was better in your "good ole days", and I at first thought no penatly for dying was lame but that changed. WOW is far from a welfare state economy, and that's coming from a mid-30-something raised on REAL games, ones that had no save/restore features. (Ever had to exit Wernda's dungeon from level 10 with your mage and bishop dead, e.g. no teleports or ressurects? A wipe there means you LITERALLY wipe your roster.)
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This reminds me of the piss-poor attempt at security in Firefox extension certification.
You can't say this is useless, and support nVidia or ATI's stream computing, they are the same thing.
This is the future of CPUs: everyone is doing it, and with GFX manufacturers heading down this path, it proves to be a very interesting future.
Sartre's responses are a result of the mystery of logical contradictions he has uncovered about existence. To oversimplify it for this discussion, the "emotion" part arises from existing at of the these "logic tries to avoid contradiction" weasel-moments, weasely-word moments that is. Logic is flawed, he is at the intersection, emotional expression. You admit logic is flawed with your weasel words above, and that is the source.
I bet you've never read a single page of either Godel or Sartre, but here you declaring the case closed.
Nice try.
Stay in school kid, don't do drugs.
Um, no, his response shows he hasn't read it. Same with yours.
I'm right, ain't I.
Also, it is difficult to say that space is "full" of junk. The LEO area has such a large volume that even hundres of millions of junk particles at a uniform distribution still means they are all many kilometers apart. So what is "full"?
This is the kind of important question people who see humans as having no limits need to answer:
* How many people on earth is TOO many?
* How much pollution in the air is TOO much?
* How many bad air days are TOO many?
* How little oil left is TOO little?
* How warm is TOO warm before you believe global warming?
* How much nuclear fallout from nuking Iraq/Iran is TOO much nuclear fallout?
It's hard to not be partisan with these q's, because in my experience, the god fearing republicans think no limits exist on the above questions. I'm not calling you a GFR, I'm just saying the important focus for these issues is not an absolute number, but "where do you draw the line"? The same goes for LEO garbage. Yes, the volume of LEO is colossal compared to the surface of the earth, but where does one draw the line???
IMO, if scientists can project the rate of fillup and the probability of destroying important satellites or making space travel impossible or becoming detrimental to humanity, we should listen to them, but there seems like little we can do: we haven't done anything about ANY of the issues listed above that have far more impact on humanity, what makes us think we can affect LEO decisions?
And yet, here you are, still breathing.
Never heard of the Existentialist literary movement, I see. Read some Sartre, it will help you to understand the dilemma of being a human and being disgusted by it.
BTW, which nascent technology's 40-years-from-now problems are you accurately predicting today, and acting to correct? Just curious.
I'm an avid nanoassembly protestor.
I carry a large novelty fly swatter and cover myself in grey toothpaste at each rally.
Cartoon Network notoriously censors The Professor whenever he uses the term "sweet zombie jesus".
I hope Comedy Central doesn't stoop this low.
(I googled for this a year ago when I noticed it and found a website saying it was due to C.N. claiming it was offensive, but I can't find the link now.)
Actually, drop the 0.5 if you are talking about a cycle, you have to assume the energy enters and leaves in a complete cycle.
Not to sound like a codger, but my HP48 graphing calculator from 1991 ($200!!!) is still my #1 implement! I even have my crib sheets from Field and Wave Electronmagnetics still tucked in the pouch.
:-)
I don't think you have to worry about how long it will last, or academia inventing some new math that your calculator won't do.
Again, bugfixes are specifically not the same under S/O.
You use their products because they are plentiful, available, and cheap. ...and because there are no alternatives, thanks to the companies.
OilCo's do everything in their power to make life virtually unlivable without dependence on their products. The only people who truly are free are the hippies in Marin County who live off the grid in tee-pees. I could give up my life to live in a tee-pee, because everything up to this point has been my choice, but it has been a choice between shitting behind a bush and not showering, or living in the modern world where oil is a necessity.
Another example, cities used to get money to promote mass-transit systems, until BushCo. cut those subsidies at the behest of the oil companies. This means people now have the choice of living far from work and commuting, or taking a job that pays much less somewhere else. And if they do drive, they could have a choice of driving a more fuel efficient vehicle, but due to the oil industry lobbyists and BushCo., gas standards are set to improve 5% over the next 13 years.
So you can see that there is always a choice, but the options are often so extremely far from each other as to make one option unrealistic, and the reason for this is influence of the evil (yes, evil), oil companies who care about their 10-billion a quarter earnings.
Compilers can also deal with optimization in RISC architectures more easily
This is a dead giveaway that the author is just stabbing at the wind. Scheduling is no more complex with CISC than with RISC. In fact, some compilation can be optimized even better by specialized CISC instructions that happen frequently. This is an ancient debate that is a tie.
With Just-in-Time compilation, legacy x86 programs could be painlessly run on ARM/PPC by translating them dynamically at run time, similar to how CIL and Java work.
Yeah, and run 20x slower.
what do you all think about our choice of primary CPU architecture
The R&D was sunk into x86 by the two most able teams, Intel and AMD. Companies are driven by profit, and higher profit meant honing x86 and leveraging an installed base. That's the only reason why we are x86 world.
But claiming a RISC world would be better is again an argument that has been put to rest decades ago: we'd be having the same argument reversed if RISC was the dominant architecture.
Further, there are pedants out there who will argue all x86 is really RISC under the hood, but that's a bit misleading.
Be happy!
I love when AMD has to invent specific test conditions to win via marketing.
"Testing all day."
"Typical usage model."
*yawn*
Get back to us when you have a better design, and not a better marketing department.
So maybe it works for the average 18-35 year old male in good condition, but what about pregnant women in the way, or children, or older people? What if they accidentally happen to be in range?
Are soldiers trained to only use it on crowds of men? Or to point it at a house to chase people out? Do they have training to avoid high-risk groups?
Doubtful. This is just the war industry trying out a new gadget. Who makes it? I'd like to buy their stock. I don't want to miss out on another Halliburton opportunity where the stock rose 600% after invading Iraq.
--begin opinion--
I don't understand why someone would go through the effort of downloading movies from their TiVo to watch on a PC.
- Basic TiVo quality isn't so hot
- The TV shows that I record in high-quality usually exist on purchasable DVD's anyway
- Who ever watch movies more than once or twice? Thanks to Netflix, there is a never ending list of good movies that I've never seen
I don't see all the fuss. TiVo is fine, the DRM is fine. TiVo records disposable media, and media worth hanging onto is worth purchasing for better transfer quality.
Can I get some anecdotal evidence about who actually needs so proliferate their TiVo data?
The only case I can see is if your kid is on the local news and you want a permanent record. Even then, you can usually contact the news station for that.
--end opinion--
Gee, someone has a case of Moore Envy.
Lemme guess, you're a republican.
I understand the risks of going public, but I also look at Intel dumping billions of profit into fabs.
I just can't sit back and say, "It's the investor's fault AMD is hurting." AMD has been public for a long, long time. If the investors are such a risk maybe the should do some cost cutting and fund new fab capacity with profit rather than speculative public investor funds. If you want to say that investor's caused this, then you are saying AMD "plays the market" by putting important eggs in the public's basket. Maybe AMD shouldn't be public anymore.
Um, what?
Stay in school, kid.
I'm well aware of the costs of a fab.
Well, they have a ton of fab capacity coming onlin in the next 18-24 months. Dresden was largely due to their K7 success, but it takes years to make a fab: they planned dresden 5~7 years ago.
...or do a better job with managing profits.
Can't blame the investors for a company's failure to supply customers.
AFAIK, this has always been AMDs problem: my earliest recollection is when they bought NexGen's K6 and sold it to Compaq in the sub-$1000 segment in 1995. Since then, anytime the get a good product, they blow it on production, leaving Intel to fill the void they created.
It is where they have failed again and again and again. I can't believe they haven't learned yet.
Um, dude, you clearly forgot your original post.
What really ticks me off in "modern" MMORPGs is the carebear attitude towards the players. Why don't they just hand out everything to everyone?
/played is 15 days and I'm still level 55. When I heard from my friends in beta how long it took them to go from 60 to 61 (12 hours, in full purples), I wanted to quit right there. Maybe it was better in your "good ole days", and I at first thought no penatly for dying was lame but that changed. WOW is far from a welfare state economy, and that's coming from a mid-30-something raised on REAL games, ones that had no save/restore features. (Ever had to exit Wernda's dungeon from level 10 with your mage and bishop dead, e.g. no teleports or ressurects? A wipe there means you LITERALLY wipe your roster.)
WTF are you talking about? I started in June'06 and it's been a slog just to get to end game content with my friends/guild.