re: "q: how many programmers does it take to maintain a website?"
judging by your diligent research, large companies don't really give a shit about maintaining their website, or they don't give a shit about standards compliance, which is odd since a common pinnacle of quality assurance is compliance with ISO 9001.
i'm talking about a virtualized 16-bit environment
a couple of other guys had trouble grasping that thunking wasn't limited to processor functions (thunking is merely a compatibility layer)
i didn't realize i had to explain every little detail of something so seemingly simple (maybe they read "thunk a 16 or 32 bit instruction on a 128 bit processor" as trying to directly process a 16-bit instruction on a 128-bit processor, which would obviously be problematic, especially with differences in memory mapping etc
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk_%28compatibility_mapping%29
"Thunk (or thunking) refers to the creation of a 16-bit virtual DOS machine (VDM) within a 32-bit operating platform so that there is backward compatibility for applications using older code or system calls."
perhaps for 16-bit to 128-bit i should have just talked in terms of virtualization from the outset, but honestly i thought people reading might make that connection themselves, one particular reader response claiming to be "someone who's been writing software since 1988" http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3335057&cid=42373879
if all you can pick on is semantics, then at least you're admitting that the general gist of my argument is correct
i didn't realise i had to explain things to you down to the level of what an instruction pointer is (congratulations you've demostrated as much knowledge as a CS freshman), but thanks anyway dipshit:)
if you want to perform a 16-bit instruction, the operating system converts it to a 64-bit instruction before sending it to the processor... so the processor doesn't even realise its running a 16-bit application... i guess it would be considered part of the "emulated in software" bit of your citation
for "someone who's been writing software since 1988", you don't really have much excuse for not knowing this basic and obvious stuff
seems to suggest otherwise, but in any case the operating system can always construct a 64-bit instruction from a 16-bit program instruction. thunking isn't a requirement of the processor itself
you obviously can't thunk a 64-bit instruction to run on a 16-bit processor, but surely you knew i wasn't implying that
"Because after we spend $TRILLIONS on the mission, and the conspiracy is revealed, when the real thing comes along, people won't believe it. It's tough enough convincing people to evacuate a barrier island before a hurricane or to get Mr. Truman away from Mt. St. Helens before the eruption"
what politician cares about what happens after they retire from politics? its someone else's problem
"toward the end of the Permian, "proto-mammals" that were in most ways a great deal like modern mammals were the dominant form of animal life on land. And then something happened to cause the worst mass extinction event in the planet's history... which cleared the way for the dinosaurs and reduced mammals to a small niche for almost 200 million years"
if you live near a nuclear power plant in an area prone to tidal waves and earthquakes, you would surely have to assume a certain amount of risk
that risk was probably found favorable by most living nearby compared to living next to a coal-fired plant chugging out dust and pollutants (which would also likely cause significant environmental damage if hit by a tidal wave), not to mention cheaper electricity (money talks after all).
anti-nuclear (same as greenies) are a hypocritical bunch... happy to bad-mouth a cost-efficient technology (not to mention generally more environmentally friendly), but hate the thought of paying higher prices
most of you use as much electricity as anyone else, so without nuclear, how would you propose to make up equivalent base load electricity demand if nuclear plants were all shut down? the answers usually come in the form of solar, hydro, gas, etc... which are all fine for peak supply, but you would have to cover half the country in solar panels (costing god knows how much) to generate enough base load supply (solar panels aren't all that efficient), and hydro has lots of benefits but also often has some pretty severe environmental and social effects too (try telling the Chinese who were displaced from upstream of the Three Gorges Dam how awesome hydro is).
not that i think nuclear has all the answers, but it shouldn't be discounted because of risks that are often blown out of proportion by sensationalist media. i would like to see more investment into development of potentially much safer thorium reactors. unfortunately i've read that thorium has been a victim of the corporate and political machines keen to maintain the status quo with plutonium/uranium reactors pretty much from its inception in the 50's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power)
the air at the bottom of the funnel just needs to be warmer than the air at the top, but it seems unlikely that temperature differential and some tangential baffls will be enough. tornadoes are fairly complex beasts and apparently they actually start their lives as horizontal vortices.
having said that, dust devils (as mentioned in TFA) are probably entirely different to tornadoes, so i'm not sure where this idea that an AVE could produce a tornado came from, but this is slashdot
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re: "q: how many programmers does it take to maintain a website?"
judging by your diligent research, large companies don't really give a shit about maintaining their website, or they don't give a shit about standards compliance, which is odd since a common pinnacle of quality assurance is compliance with ISO 9001.
i'm talking about a virtualized 16-bit environment
a couple of other guys had trouble grasping that thunking wasn't limited to processor functions (thunking is merely a compatibility layer)
i didn't realize i had to explain every little detail of something so seemingly simple (maybe they read "thunk a 16 or 32 bit instruction on a 128 bit processor" as trying to directly process a 16-bit instruction on a 128-bit processor, which would obviously be problematic, especially with differences in memory mapping etc
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk_%28compatibility_mapping%29
"Thunk (or thunking) refers to the creation of a 16-bit virtual DOS machine (VDM) within a 32-bit operating platform so that there is backward compatibility for applications using older code or system calls."
perhaps for 16-bit to 128-bit i should have just talked in terms of virtualization from the outset, but honestly i thought people reading might make that connection themselves, one particular reader response claiming to be "someone who's been writing software since 1988"
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3335057&cid=42373879
if all you can pick on is semantics, then at least you're admitting that the general gist of my argument is correct
:)
i didn't realise i had to explain things to you down to the level of what an instruction pointer is (congratulations you've demostrated as much knowledge as a CS freshman), but thanks anyway dipshit
infidel! how dare you try to prove us religious zealots wrong with your pitiful facts and science and mathematics! bah!
"So, yeah, us Americans could potentially save the planet after all. We just need more ultrahigh velocity assault rifles."
you morons can rationalize anything can't you
luckily the rest of the world knows how rediculous your empire is
troll indeed
if you want to perform a 16-bit instruction, the operating system converts it to a 64-bit instruction before sending it to the processor... so the processor doesn't even realise its running a 16-bit application... i guess it would be considered part of the "emulated in software" bit of your citation
for "someone who's been writing software since 1988", you don't really have much excuse for not knowing this basic and obvious stuff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Long_mode
seems to suggest otherwise, but in any case the operating system can always construct a 64-bit instruction from a 16-bit program instruction. thunking isn't a requirement of the processor itself
you obviously can't thunk a 64-bit instruction to run on a 16-bit processor, but surely you knew i wasn't implying that
...which would start wars in space
great idea... if you're luke skywalker
"Because after we spend $TRILLIONS on the mission, and the conspiracy is revealed, when the real thing comes along, people won't believe it. It's tough enough convincing people to evacuate a barrier island before a hurricane or to get Mr. Truman away from Mt. St. Helens before the eruption"
what politician cares about what happens after they retire from politics? its someone else's problem
i'd rather 69 99
December 21st 2013 no doubt
"toward the end of the Permian, "proto-mammals" that were in most ways a great deal like modern mammals were the dominant form of animal life on land. And then something happened to cause the worst mass extinction event in the planet's history ... which cleared the way for the dinosaurs and reduced mammals to a small niche for almost 200 million years"
maybe the dinosaurs ate all the mammals?
if every american shot at the assteroid with their beloved guns, surely the planet would be saved, right?
if it collided with the mid-eastern US it might actually do the planet a favor
care to share any sources on that?
no actually i say it as if the op is a clueless moron
re: "rapid growth of the company"
q: how many programmers does it take to maintain a website?
the facebook home page doesn't even validate
ok i didn't proof read that one very well
or another Windows 8 is Microsoft/Linux/Apple/Google FUD story... oh hang on this is slashdot; FUD stories NEVER get old :)
i'm pretty sure it would be still be possible to thunk a 16 or 32 bit instruction on a 128 bit processor
will Microsoft Windows 128-bit support 16 or 32 bit? probably not
or even better if the Apache Foundation made a search engine.... or maybe a collaborative Mozilla-Apache effort
what's your name?
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...just so i know never to hire you as a programmer (or a mathematician, engineer, physicist, etc)
if you live near a nuclear power plant in an area prone to tidal waves and earthquakes, you would surely have to assume a certain amount of risk
that risk was probably found favorable by most living nearby compared to living next to a coal-fired plant chugging out dust and pollutants (which would also likely cause significant environmental damage if hit by a tidal wave), not to mention cheaper electricity (money talks after all).
anti-nuclear (same as greenies) are a hypocritical bunch... happy to bad-mouth a cost-efficient technology (not to mention generally more environmentally friendly), but hate the thought of paying higher prices
most of you use as much electricity as anyone else, so without nuclear, how would you propose to make up equivalent base load electricity demand if nuclear plants were all shut down? the answers usually come in the form of solar, hydro, gas, etc... which are all fine for peak supply, but you would have to cover half the country in solar panels (costing god knows how much) to generate enough base load supply (solar panels aren't all that efficient), and hydro has lots of benefits but also often has some pretty severe environmental and social effects too (try telling the Chinese who were displaced from upstream of the Three Gorges Dam how awesome hydro is).
not that i think nuclear has all the answers, but it shouldn't be discounted because of risks that are often blown out of proportion by sensationalist media. i would like to see more investment into development of potentially much safer thorium reactors. unfortunately i've read that thorium has been a victim of the corporate and political machines keen to maintain the status quo with plutonium/uranium reactors pretty much from its inception in the 50's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power)
the air at the bottom of the funnel just needs to be warmer than the air at the top, but it seems unlikely that temperature differential and some tangential baffls will be enough. tornadoes are fairly complex beasts and apparently they actually start their lives as horizontal vortices.
having said that, dust devils (as mentioned in TFA) are probably entirely different to tornadoes, so i'm not sure where this idea that an AVE could produce a tornado came from, but this is slashdot