Looks like the US is (like any great empire) fundamentally built on slavery (and war). It may have changed its form to suit the times, but that's what it is. Anything that interferes with free access to cheap slave-like labor becomes a legitimate target for intervention or invasion (cf. Haiti, Venezuela, practically any other country in South America, and many other places in the world).
The US hasn't gone through the same process of weaning itself off slavery and war, like the European powers were forced to after WW2, when they lost their grip on their colonies. Not that Europe is entirely clean either; with the reliance on cheap products from sweat shops in Asia.
I think you can be reasonably sure that when a woman says she wants to be an icon, she does not mean that she wants to be known as "that girl who was raped".
Well, funnily, the index (DNS) that allows you to find IPs of relevant servers (and anything else) *is* decentralized. At least for many values of "decentralized".
I guess this is publicly funded research, so the results should be available. That being said, it's kind of refreshing to not even have the ability to RTFA.
Also let's not forget at the moment that 'HTML5' is still in development (it's still not finalized), yet it's used in production now which ofcourse is actually a fubar thing to do..
Well, you wouldn't want to finalize a standard that's never been tested in the real world, would you? Standardizing on something that isn't already in widespread use might very well lead to the same mess of vendor extensions, incompatibilities and poor compliance that got us into this situation in the first place.
You see, I'm a parrot, and though touch screens are ok (if a little bothersome), I'm seriously annoyed at the Kinect on my new Xbox, which refuses to recognize my beak and toe movements. I wish people would just stick to keyboards; their wholesome nibblyness is superior to any other input device.
I'm guessing parent refers to the trick where you write to a different file then move the data in place when done. Which should be OK, for values of "sanely designed" equal or greater than "won't write metadata until data is safely on disk".
You don't need a fancy robot to determine that wing movements are a display of aggression (together with, e.g., an open beak), you can learn that through simple observation. Interestingly, wing movements (and an open beak) are also used when begging for food, but that's more of a fluttery movement.
It's four "bobcat modules" with two "logical cores" each. Each logical core has its own scheduler and integer unit, but they share L2 cache and (to some degree) FPU. The FPU can be treated as two 64-bit FPUs or one 128-bit FPU (e.g. for vector computations). In practice it's somewhere in between full dedicated cores and hyperthreading. The "bulldozer" architecture used in the more expensive CPUs has wider FPUs and (I think) extra integer pipelines.
Windows has had performance trouble with it, because it would allocate threads to the same module, rather than spreading them between modules first and only sharing modules when necessary. This may be fixed now, though. Runs very well on recent Linux versions, though. With the right parallel load an 8-core FX processor might even beat the far more expensive 4-core i7 (on typical loads, it doesn't, though).
I typically see Firefox (or Chromium) spending 10-25% CPU on animating GIFs, scrolling text and doing weirdo javascript stuff on pages that seem to be static.
Not to forget sausages. Drop the regulation against ingredients from other animals to much lower than 1%, and it would affect a lot of sausages, where the casing is often from a different animal.
WTF!?! Are you saying they actually stuff the meat of one animal into the intestines of another, and we're supposed to eat that? Bluergh!:P
If you want them to be able to just skip it, like kids being able to skip sex ed, then that just seems silly.. because they're not having a logical reason they want to skip it. Going home school is a way to skip all of the stuff in which they don't believe.
I might be able to live with kids skipping evolution, though it's silly, and they'll have trouble becoming scientists when they grow up – but that's nothing compared to skipping sex ed. That's just plain dangerous to society, and should be outlawed. Sex ed should be mandatory, even with home schooling and weirdo religious schools.
I was going to say, the physical world doesn't really care which base unit we used to count with, but computers are very particular about using base 2. When a computer is using integer math to calculate memory addresses in base two and you have a base 10 amount of memory, bad stuff will happen.
And what on earth does that have to do with displaying the correct amount of memory to the user? Is there something that will crash my computer if it displays "4.29 billion bytes of RAM"?
Yes, it'll overflow the destination string buffer for sprintf, trashing the stack, crashing your computer and possibly causing itchy feet.
Did some testing on hardware vs software for a file server back in the early 2000s. Linux RAID turned out to be faster than Dell's built-in PERC controller, so we went with that. Been happy with that ever since, no problem weaseling out of pretty bad multi-disk failures. CPU resources were cheap back then, and even cheaper now. Might be that an expensive RAID controller is better – I remember drooling at battery-backed cache memory – but who cares if the controller is more expensive than the rest of the system together?
Their support might be inconsistent between regions (or time). I've had the opposite experience; disks replaced based on SMART reporting a imminent failure, big SCSI disks replaced next day and so on. I've been less impressed with HP, and SGI (several weeks to deliver a disk for a relatively new system). But then again, this was a few years back, and in Norway (Dell support subcontracted to a local provider), so your mileage may vary. These days I have less advanced hardware and do repairs myself, with impeccable same-day service.;)
An FPGA gate is basically just a lookup table for a logical function, stored in a tiny memory cell. Routing, etc. is also configured using memory (flip-flops). I would guess the magnetic transistor would at least make FPGAs less power hungry (no need to power the flip-flops), or they might allow the chip to be built from programmable transistors, rather than using lookup tables and dedicating part of the chip area to conventional memory and arithmetic circuitry.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Looks like the US is (like any great empire) fundamentally built on slavery (and war). It may have changed its form to suit the times, but that's what it is. Anything that interferes with free access to cheap slave-like labor becomes a legitimate target for intervention or invasion (cf. Haiti, Venezuela, practically any other country in South America, and many other places in the world).
The US hasn't gone through the same process of weaning itself off slavery and war, like the European powers were forced to after WW2, when they lost their grip on their colonies. Not that Europe is entirely clean either; with the reliance on cheap products from sweat shops in Asia.
I think you can be reasonably sure that when a woman says she wants to be an icon, she does not mean that she wants to be known as "that girl who was raped".
No, just mixing up the words. Meant to say that Speer was certainly slimmer than Göring. ;)
I don't have his measurements, but you can judge for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1977-149-13,_Hermann_G%C3%B6ring,_Adolf_Hitler,_Albert_Speer.jpg
He's certainly slimmer than Speer.
Well, funnily, the index (DNS) that allows you to find IPs of relevant servers (and anything else) *is* decentralized. At least for many values of "decentralized".
I guess this is publicly funded research, so the results should be available. That being said, it's kind of refreshing to not even have the ability to RTFA.
Norway's mostly uninhabited anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem in this case.
Which of course makes for easy detection (lsattr -R), if you don't use chattr yourself.
Also let's not forget at the moment that 'HTML5' is still in development (it's still not finalized), yet it's used in production now which ofcourse is actually a fubar thing to do..
Well, you wouldn't want to finalize a standard that's never been tested in the real world, would you? Standardizing on something that isn't already in widespread use might very well lead to the same mess of vendor extensions, incompatibilities and poor compliance that got us into this situation in the first place.
...do you need fingers to operate it?
You see, I'm a parrot, and though touch screens are ok (if a little bothersome), I'm seriously annoyed at the Kinect on my new Xbox, which refuses to recognize my beak and toe movements. I wish people would just stick to keyboards; their wholesome nibblyness is superior to any other input device.
No one installs the closed nVidia drivers on production machines.
Depends on what you're producing. But yeah, I'd avoid it if not strictly necessary.
I'm guessing parent refers to the trick where you write to a different file then move the data in place when done. Which should be OK, for values of "sanely designed" equal or greater than "won't write metadata until data is safely on disk".
All of which can run the exact same packages and the same desktop environments.
You don't need a fancy robot to determine that wing movements are a display of aggression (together with, e.g., an open beak), you can learn that through simple observation. Interestingly, wing movements (and an open beak) are also used when begging for food, but that's more of a fluttery movement.
It's four "bobcat modules" with two "logical cores" each. Each logical core has its own scheduler and integer unit, but they share L2 cache and (to some degree) FPU. The FPU can be treated as two 64-bit FPUs or one 128-bit FPU (e.g. for vector computations). In practice it's somewhere in between full dedicated cores and hyperthreading. The "bulldozer" architecture used in the more expensive CPUs has wider FPUs and (I think) extra integer pipelines.
Windows has had performance trouble with it, because it would allocate threads to the same module, rather than spreading them between modules first and only sharing modules when necessary. This may be fixed now, though. Runs very well on recent Linux versions, though. With the right parallel load an 8-core FX processor might even beat the far more expensive 4-core i7 (on typical loads, it doesn't, though).
I typically see Firefox (or Chromium) spending 10-25% CPU on animating GIFs, scrolling text and doing weirdo javascript stuff on pages that seem to be static.
Not to forget sausages. Drop the regulation against ingredients from other animals to much lower than 1%, and it would affect a lot of sausages, where the casing is often from a different animal.
WTF!?! Are you saying they actually stuff the meat of one animal into the intestines of another, and we're supposed to eat that? Bluergh! :P
If you want them to be able to just skip it, like kids being able to skip sex ed, then that just seems silly.. because they're not having a logical reason they want to skip it. Going home school is a way to skip all of the stuff in which they don't believe.
I might be able to live with kids skipping evolution, though it's silly, and they'll have trouble becoming scientists when they grow up – but that's nothing compared to skipping sex ed. That's just plain dangerous to society, and should be outlawed. Sex ed should be mandatory, even with home schooling and weirdo religious schools.
Heh, support in Norway is offshored as well – to Sweden. ;)
I was going to say, the physical world doesn't really care which base unit we used to count with, but computers are very particular about using base 2. When a computer is using integer math to calculate memory addresses in base two and you have a base 10 amount of memory, bad stuff will happen.
And what on earth does that have to do with displaying the correct amount of memory to the user? Is there something that will crash my computer if it displays "4.29 billion bytes of RAM"?
Yes, it'll overflow the destination string buffer for sprintf, trashing the stack, crashing your computer and possibly causing itchy feet.
Did some testing on hardware vs software for a file server back in the early 2000s. Linux RAID turned out to be faster than Dell's built-in PERC controller, so we went with that. Been happy with that ever since, no problem weaseling out of pretty bad multi-disk failures. CPU resources were cheap back then, and even cheaper now. Might be that an expensive RAID controller is better – I remember drooling at battery-backed cache memory – but who cares if the controller is more expensive than the rest of the system together?
Aha, but can you then read the disk on another server without the same controller?
Their support might be inconsistent between regions (or time). I've had the opposite experience; disks replaced based on SMART reporting a imminent failure, big SCSI disks replaced next day and so on. I've been less impressed with HP, and SGI (several weeks to deliver a disk for a relatively new system). But then again, this was a few years back, and in Norway (Dell support subcontracted to a local provider), so your mileage may vary. These days I have less advanced hardware and do repairs myself, with impeccable same-day service. ;)
An FPGA gate is basically just a lookup table for a logical function, stored in a tiny memory cell. Routing, etc. is also configured using memory (flip-flops). I would guess the magnetic transistor would at least make FPGAs less power hungry (no need to power the flip-flops), or they might allow the chip to be built from programmable transistors, rather than using lookup tables and dedicating part of the chip area to conventional memory and arithmetic circuitry.