I might be living under a rock...but won't this be a hindrance for X/whatever? i mean, won't we need a special X server for this? Or is this just a standard bpp value, albeit a little rare?
rigors of space travel. sure. the thing is in VACUUM and goes at a CONSTANT velocity. The probability of it hitting ANYTHING out there is like throwing a stone off of a telsat above europe and hitting a winning lottery ticket.
Copy prevention won't work. Digital media are BASED on the principle that anything (physicaly non-existent) can be copied. It's pretty much the same with a book. No matter how hard you try preventing copying it, one can still just use paper and a pencil and physicaly copy it.
which brings the question: why aren't paper sheets fucking expensive and pencils monitored by the **AA ?
therefore paper&pencils are illegal under the dmca. (ok, maybe not, but if you think about it for a moment it ain't far off)
I'm feeling slightly embarassed that i posted this, since this applies to every similar discussion and gets boring. oh well.
First, they need gravity. Man was not meant to live in low gravity. You can think more yourself. Like, what are they going to eat? Will the spaceship be big enough to have animals in there? What will/they/ eat?
What about the eight thousand years of history that humankind has here? Does that go out the window?
This all seems pointless to me. "Stupid" comes to mind as well.
Your thought is very interesting. Not particularly new, you have to admit, tho. But still, one has got to keep it in mind that things can't be banned if they have multiple uses.
A knife can kill. A knife can also harm unintentionaly. But its primary use is preparing food. Now, if you see a 15" knife, in the hands of a frothing racist, that's a different thing. but 99.999% of the time, it is in our hands (implied: we are not frothing racists), preparing food.
Same with guns. Personaly, i like target practice (paper. not ducks. why kill ducks?). More than that, target practice is much more enjoyable with real weapons. I'd be an unhappy if i either had to pay thru the nose to get a gun and licence or if i wasn't able at all.
pretty much like if you ban violent videogames crime rates won't drop, banning cables won't stop pirates. It just gives then more fuel.
Why would i need a *search engine* for my internal documents?
If there is decent hierarchy in how i organize my files i suppose it won't be hard to track down anything without the need for a very heavyweight search engine like google's.
Say i want to find an mp3. I will look under music/hard_rock/evil_peas/there_it_is.mp3
maybe it is something i haven't thought of. And my example is very silly, i know.
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Not to be picky or anything...
odd number is 2*n+1, n in Z.
Don't run if you can't walk.
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This isn't about technology. This is about philosophy. The question that arises is:
is a machine that to a human appears to be human, human?
As a side note, the saturn architecture is very elaborate, complicated, safe and efficient. When returning from stand-by, the processor talks to the power supply to find out if there is enough power to do it. "Why? Isn't it enough that if there isn't enough power the cpu won't come up?" you ask...Well, first of all, if there is little power left and the cpu starts sucking on it, memory go bye-bye. Now, the question that should bother you is... where does it find the power to do the handshaking between cpu core and power supply? Mind you, this thing can run on 3AAA batteries for a whole season. Built like a tank, you buy one and die with it. Guaranteed.
ti's don't even come close, even tho the software is really nice.
Numbers numbers numbers... what does all of this mean? I can't see the point benchmarking something generic like that. The kernel first of all wasn't meant to be used like that so it might very well not perform well on the benchmark.
So, pushing the limits a little, i could say that this isn't much different than 'bogomips'
Note that the physical counterpart thought (where you test run, for example, a car for days on end to measure it's endurance) does not apply here.
Then again, this might actually mean something regarding the low level procedures responsible for allocating memory. Never read source, tho, probably never will, out of my league:/
Yes, you are perfectly correct. In fact, the yorke cpu is a very weird risc-like core. But on a cycle-per-cycle basis it is very powerful (it goes side by side with TI's 10MHz calcs and the yorke is at 4MHz).
As for my point...i am not sure exactly... maybe that intel could do a lot better? I am not a digital circuits designer (i study physics) but i think intel's procs are low performance compared to other, bigger/meaner procs. Maybe Alphas? (be gentle, i do not know very much about these things).
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Of course. Haven't you seen any food wars?
I might be living under a rock...but won't this be a hindrance for X/whatever? i mean, won't we need a special X server for this? Or is this just a standard bpp value, albeit a little rare?
...that the computer just crashed nastily (AND that it was running windows) if anything.
those answers being...?
you really don't contribute to the discussion...
(that m$ document sucks ass. half of what it says are lies. if i knew more i'd say that all of it is lies)
I've heard about perversions, but this literaly blew me away...
Rotor was a gravity-based vertical 2d scroller game with vga/ega graphics
*sigh*
coincidentaly, i w4r3zeD it lately, and played it.
like a punch in the face sending you 10 years backwards...
Their "food" will remain awful.
my windows machine does that already and, in fact, it does it every day!
wait... oh... blowing *out*, not "up"
They can make illegal out of whatever they want, but noone will/can force me to (not) use a specific os on the pc i am using in my own home.
it is not possible to make linux/whatever disappear.
they lose.
light is going at the same speed as "radio".
Happy birthday man, i wish you a hundred years old...
rigors of space travel.
sure.
the thing is in VACUUM and goes at a CONSTANT velocity.
The probability of it hitting ANYTHING out there is like throwing a stone off of a telsat above europe and hitting a winning lottery ticket.
Same Old Shit.
Copy prevention won't work. Digital media are BASED on the principle that anything (physicaly non-existent) can be copied. It's pretty much the same with a book. No matter how hard you try preventing copying it, one can still just use paper and a pencil and physicaly copy it.
which brings the question: why aren't paper sheets fucking expensive and pencils monitored by the **AA ?
therefore paper&pencils are illegal under the dmca. (ok, maybe not, but if you think about it for a moment it ain't far off)
I'm feeling slightly embarassed that i posted this, since this applies to every similar discussion and gets boring. oh well.
First, they need gravity. Man was not meant to live in low gravity. You can think more yourself. Like, what are they going to eat? Will the spaceship be big enough to have animals in there? What will /they/ eat?
What about the eight thousand years of history that humankind has here? Does that go out the window?
This all seems pointless to me. "Stupid" comes to mind as well.
Someone who uses a 15" blade for cooking purposes is, at least, crazy in my book.
Your thought is very interesting. Not particularly new, you have to admit, tho. But still, one has got to keep it in mind that things can't be banned if they have multiple uses.
A knife can kill. A knife can also harm unintentionaly. But its primary use is preparing food. Now, if you see a 15" knife, in the hands of a frothing racist, that's a different thing. but 99.999% of the time, it is in our hands (implied: we are not frothing racists), preparing food.
Same with guns. Personaly, i like target practice (paper. not ducks. why kill ducks?). More than that, target practice is much more enjoyable with real weapons. I'd be an unhappy if i either had to pay thru the nose to get a gun and licence or if i wasn't able at all.
pretty much like if you ban violent videogames crime rates won't drop, banning cables won't stop pirates. It just gives then more fuel.
Anyway, just some thoughts...
...of this law while greece was under military goverment (which in the end was overthrown with the help of students). It goes pretty much like this:
No more than three people are allowed to be together, unless they are talking about football.
Somehow, i do not know exactly, this fits here.
..."microsofts new stringent security audit".
am i the only one who reads this as
"we now pay attention to compiler warnings"
;)
...lego mindstorms!!!
forget the robotic lego rubik cube solver! This is the REAL DEAL!
Imagine small khaki-colored legos going into actual battle.
-the lego death squad
EAT BRICKS YOU SOBs!!!
Why would i need a *search engine* for my internal documents?
If there is decent hierarchy in how i organize my files i suppose it won't be hard to track down anything without the need for a very heavyweight search engine like google's.
Say i want to find an mp3. I will look under music/hard_rock/evil_peas/there_it_is.mp3
maybe it is something i haven't thought of. And my example is very silly, i know.
Not to be picky or anything...
odd number is 2*n+1, n in Z.
Don't run if you can't walk.
This isn't about technology. This is about philosophy. The question that arises is:
is a machine that to a human appears to be human, human?
As a side note, the saturn architecture is very elaborate, complicated, safe and efficient. When returning from stand-by, the processor talks to the power supply to find out if there is enough power to do it. "Why? Isn't it enough that if there isn't enough power the cpu won't come up?" you ask...Well, first of all, if there is little power left and the cpu starts sucking on it, memory go bye-bye. Now, the question that should bother you is... where does it find the power to do the handshaking between cpu core and power supply? Mind you, this thing can run on 3AAA batteries for a whole season. Built like a tank, you buy one and die with it. Guaranteed.
ti's don't even come close, even tho the software is really nice.
Numbers numbers numbers... what does all of this mean? I can't see the point benchmarking something generic like that. The kernel first of all wasn't meant to be used like that so it might very well not perform well on the benchmark.
:/
So, pushing the limits a little, i could say that this isn't much different than 'bogomips'
Note that the physical counterpart thought (where you test run, for example, a car for days on end to measure it's endurance) does not apply here.
Then again, this might actually mean something regarding the low level procedures responsible for allocating memory. Never read source, tho, probably never will, out of my league
Yes, you are perfectly correct. In fact, the yorke cpu is a very weird risc-like core. But on a cycle-per-cycle basis it is very powerful (it goes side by side with TI's 10MHz calcs and the yorke is at 4MHz).
As for my point...i am not sure exactly... maybe that intel could do a lot better? I am not a digital circuits designer (i study physics) but i think intel's procs are low performance compared to other, bigger/meaner procs. Maybe Alphas? (be gentle, i do not know very much about these things).
Are you familiar with the yorke cpu?