let go of your outdated
concepts of low "level code running super efficient"
Personally, I enjoy the challenge of writing optimized assembly code, but you're right.
The problem is that the most popular (by volume) processors today are using a machine language that was not designed to be compiler friendly. A properly designed processor architecture should take into account the hardware issues, but also the abstraction that will be used on top of it. Make it easier to write a compiler than can write very fast code. (for example, a register stack makes it easier to write faster c-style function calls)
Unfortunately, this means you have to target a specific language, but many languages use similar structural concepts, so you would still get benefits across the board.
Yeah, ok, I don't know squat about processor design. Just look at the x86 instruction set tho...
Many people criticize the Bible because a believer must accept it on faith.
This isn't true. There's plenty of prophesy in the Bible that can be checked up on. If any of the many attempts to extinguish the Jews had succeeded, the Bible would have been proven to be false. But look at that, there's now a nation, called "Israel", back in the same old place, just as prophesied. self-fullfilling prophesy? Perhaps.
What you have to take on faith is that God "is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him." Just like you have to take it on faith that people will pay you for goods and services. If you just believe there is a God because your pastor/rabbi/whatever says there is, you have faith in A MAN. People are notorious for being wrong/untrustworthy.
Evolution cannot be observed.
This isn't true either. But just because erosion could theoretically have formed Mt. Rushmore doesn't mean that it did.
As for the universe being created 6000 years ago, "the earth was without form and void." ie, it existed prior to creation. Now it does mention creation of the sun, starts, etc. Imagine the world surrounded by clouds, such as those thrown up by a large meteor impact. Froth the earth's point of view, the sun, moon, and starts do not exist.
Ok, there's probably flaws in this view, but it doesn't require a "young" universe and it doesn't require long days. Certainly you can all appreciate that having more hypothesis to examine is benefitial. The Bible is a subjective thing, how YOU interpret it is not necessarily how the WRITERS interpreted it. Which do you think is more relevant?
Why should I have to be punished to protect your children?
Wake up, this happens all the time!
Would you keep pedophiles from being punished to protect children? Would you protect murderers? Britany Spears?
Now, drug use, in private, with no children present, would probably do no harm at all to children. Do you honsetly expect people to voluntarily subject themselves to these conditions? Heck no, they'll use their drugs when they want, where they want or die whining about it.
Don't try using gesture navigation with a dirty mouse, either. And unless you wear gloves and work in a clean room, every mouse is gonna eventually get dirty.
If the world's moving towards using gestures, better buy a tablet.
And I see it as a clear sign of intelligence and strength of character to have broken free from religious dogma, which is basically what I said in the post you replied to.
I may not have understood you completely, but I would certainly agree with that. However, you seem to assume that all religion is is dogma, which is probably true for most, but not all, of them. Of course I can't provide good evidence of that, so go ahead and base your opinions on the majority.;)
Most beings, intelligent or otherwise, seek pleasure.
true.
The weakness lie in those who accept outside pressure to let their lives be controlled, instead of choosing to live their own lives and seek pleasure.
Like people who pay taxes, don't kill their annoying neighbors, drive responsibly, etc?
Religion is oppression.
Government is oppression for that matter.
Complete freedom from oppression is chaos.
Some microkernels do a better job at efficiency than Mach (L3 for example). At some point, the hardware might actually get fast enough that the trade-off is nearly always worth while. Even then, monokernels will still have a place for situations where every cycle counts I don't anticipate those situations ever going away.
I dunno, the article (mentioned by someone in an earlier comment) lists L3 at handling round trip IPC in 10 usec on a 50Mhz 486. "All times are user to user, cross-address space. They
include system call, argument copy, stack and address space switch costs."
How fast do system calls need to be? (Really, I don't know) With "low end" machines at least 10 times that speed today, this doesn't seem like very much overhead at all.
... and where every cycle counts, you probly want EVERYTHING in the kernel, FULLY debugged. Not that that's possible or anything;)
As intelligent beings, we are naturally predisposed to be biased towards anything that gives us pleasure. As such, it requires a stronger will to avoid them. (not to say that someone who doesn't avoid them is weaker, they just aren't using that strength)
Specifically with sex, though: Insects have sex. That tells you something about the level of intelligence sexual pleasure is rewarding you for. You can memorize all the pickup lines you want, anylize the opposite sex until you pass out, it changes nothing: all you really want is mindless insect pleasure.
"Evolution" has no goals. Evolution does not value intelligence per se, it values survivability. Once you have passed your genes on to the next generation, evolution is satisfied and your personal existance/wellbeing is irrelevant.
So what do you value more? Intelligence and strength of character, or mindless insect pleasure? It's entirely possible to balance the two, but if you go toward either extreme, you must give up some of the other.
So who says everyone has to be efficient?
If they paid good money for something that looks nice (that they're comfortable using), who are you to say they're wrong? My mother has a hard enough time remembering how to cut&paste, you think she'd care that the background is just a "distraction"?
I prefer to have my own choice between form or function, thank you. In fact, I prefer to be able to choose form AND function... *cough*litestep*cough*
(btw, background ain't much of a distraction if you don't hide all your program icons on it;)
I've heard of two types of "electronic paper", one uses black & white charged balls (developed at parc) the other uses capsules filled with ink and little white charged particles. ("electronic ink"
the
probability that a random Turing machine will halt
The problem I have with this is that you're starting with randomness. I fail to see why it's shoking that the result is random.
It seems to me that the probability of any truely random event (whether or not a truely random turing machine will halt) will have the same properties. This is getting chaos out of chaos, not chaos out of order.
Do consumers want or need a P4 with RDRAM? Will AMD continue to take market share,
thereby boosting DDR sales? Will RDRAM prices come down? Will DDR chipsets finally ship in
volume? And which technology really works better?
I believe one of the basic assumptions of euclidean geometry is that parallel lines do not intersect. Euclidean geometry is pretty much the norm, so it's not unreasonable to assume that's what's being used.
For example, he said, computer users must know that to turn off the computer they have to
click on "Start"--not an intuitive step to end a computing session.
This is one of the more frequent stupid complaints about the win9x interface. (not to say all complaints about it are stupid) Microsoft should just take the word "start" off of the dang button. Just have the windows logo and call it the "windows" button.
At least around here, CD-RW's are about $.50 for 80min. You can also get cd cases that are half the standard thickness. (drawback with that is you can't have those paper-inserts in the back/spine)
'course I can't say anything for car use... My car just has a non-functional 20-yrs-old tape player.:6
That's funny, I haven't seen any of those. Maybe it's because I'm viewing at +2, but all I see are people saying "before you say MS sucks & linux rules..."
It's really getting annoying. Stop being paranoid and don't respond to trolls.
But the light-emitting devices needed to do this can't be built into silicon circuits.
This is talking about older style LEDs. Consider the next paragraph:
The ideal solution would be to make light emitters from
silicon itself, but silicon does not glow efficiently.
Various tricks have been tried to squeeze light from
silicon.
And what is the article about?
A light-emitting device based
on silicon promises to end what
has become an uncomfortable
marriage.
(perhaps silicon can help your uncomfortable marriage?;)
Nothing that I could see in the article about how they overcame "silicon does not glow efficiently,"
or even if they did. Perhaps the BBC one was different, but the Nature article is a headline with some background information. Nothing really about the headline.
"not having price tags at all,
and having the cashier ask the customer how much the sign said."
I know of a store that actually does this. They're not the kind of place that would be ripped off by immature kids, so it works fine. They don't have to charge the customers for all the infrastructure required for the cashiers to know the prices, and it's actually nice (as a customer) to be trusted for a change.
Shopping cart programs with this bug would even work online as long as your traffic was very limited. It wouldn't really have the same benefit, I mean you already need to have a database to look up the prices in the first place, but with an "enthical" enough user base it wouldn't hurt either.
"The CreateProcess function creates a new process, which runs independently of the creating process. The function provides two methods for identifying the program to be executed...."
Very true, and with all their influence, why has microsoft not influenced mb manufacturers to produce a bios that will load windows faster?
It's probably due to all the dos code that still remained at the core of win9x, but with that gone is this something we may see in the future?
Clearly you couldn't put windows itself in the bios, but all the chipset drivers could be there. The bios could set up protected mode and load a large file into ram.
Or is everyone so in love with supporting legacy code that this will never happen? (even considering the amount of code that'll have to be rewritten to take advantage of 64-bit processors?)
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let go of your outdated concepts of low "level code running super efficient"
Personally, I enjoy the challenge of writing optimized assembly code, but you're right.
The problem is that the most popular (by volume) processors today are using a machine language that was not designed to be compiler friendly. A properly designed processor architecture should take into account the hardware issues, but also the abstraction that will be used on top of it. Make it easier to write a compiler than can write very fast code. (for example, a register stack makes it easier to write faster c-style function calls)
Unfortunately, this means you have to target a specific language, but many languages use similar structural concepts, so you would still get benefits across the board.
Yeah, ok, I don't know squat about processor design. Just look at the x86 instruction set tho...
Hang on, then why should we care if cloning is illegal?
Aside from cases of non-genetic infertility, why do we need another method for creating people?
Perhaps cloning (whole) humans SHOULD be illegal, except at approved clinics, to prevent the much more obious possible abuses?
I have noticed this. I have a 400MHz system, so the game runs kinda slow. I found accuracy improved when I raised the screen resolution.
I assume the points the mouse hits are a little harder to fit to a straight line. (or subsequent straight lines are easier to map to a curve?)
And since most of the graphics are renderred on the video card, it didn't really slow down the game in a noticable way.
Many people criticize the Bible because a believer must accept it on faith.
This isn't true. There's plenty of prophesy in the Bible that can be checked up on. If any of the many attempts to extinguish the Jews had succeeded, the Bible would have been proven to be false. But look at that, there's now a nation, called "Israel", back in the same old place, just as prophesied. self-fullfilling prophesy? Perhaps.
What you have to take on faith is that God "is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him." Just like you have to take it on faith that people will pay you for goods and services. If you just believe there is a God because your pastor/rabbi/whatever says there is, you have faith in A MAN. People are notorious for being wrong/untrustworthy.
Evolution cannot be observed.
This isn't true either. But just because erosion could theoretically have formed Mt. Rushmore doesn't mean that it did.
As for the universe being created 6000 years ago, "the earth was without form and void." ie, it existed prior to creation. Now it does mention creation of the sun, starts, etc. Imagine the world surrounded by clouds, such as those thrown up by a large meteor impact. Froth the earth's point of view, the sun, moon, and starts do not exist.
Ok, there's probably flaws in this view, but it doesn't require a "young" universe and it doesn't require long days. Certainly you can all appreciate that having more hypothesis to examine is benefitial. The Bible is a subjective thing, how YOU interpret it is not necessarily how the WRITERS interpreted it. Which do you think is more relevant?
Why should I have to be punished to protect your children?
Wake up, this happens all the time!
Would you keep pedophiles from being punished to protect children? Would you protect murderers? Britany Spears?
Now, drug use, in private, with no children present, would probably do no harm at all to children. Do you honsetly expect people to voluntarily subject themselves to these conditions? Heck no, they'll use their drugs when they want, where they want or die whining about it.
Don't try using gesture navigation with a dirty mouse, either. And unless you wear gloves and work in a clean room, every mouse is gonna eventually get dirty.
If the world's moving towards using gestures, better buy a tablet.
But security through obscurity doesn't work, does it?
And I see it as a clear sign of intelligence and strength of character to have broken free from religious dogma, which is basically what I said in the post you replied to.
I may not have understood you completely, but I would certainly agree with that. However, you seem to assume that all religion is is dogma, which is probably true for most, but not all, of them. Of course I can't provide good evidence of that, so go ahead and base your opinions on the majority. ;)
Most beings, intelligent or otherwise, seek pleasure.
true.
The weakness lie in those who accept outside pressure to let their lives be controlled, instead of choosing to live their own lives and seek pleasure.
Like people who pay taxes, don't kill their annoying neighbors, drive responsibly, etc?
Religion is oppression.
Government is oppression for that matter. Complete freedom from oppression is chaos.
Some microkernels do a better job at efficiency than Mach (L3 for example). At some point, the hardware might actually get fast enough that the trade-off is nearly always worth while. Even then, monokernels will still have a place for situations where every cycle counts I don't anticipate those situations ever going away.
I dunno, the article (mentioned by someone in an earlier comment) lists L3 at handling round trip IPC in 10 usec on a 50Mhz 486. "All times are user to user, cross-address space. They include system call, argument copy, stack and address space switch costs."
How fast do system calls need to be? (Really, I don't know) With "low end" machines at least 10 times that speed today, this doesn't seem like very much overhead at all.
As intelligent beings, we are naturally predisposed to be biased towards anything that gives us pleasure. As such, it requires a stronger will to avoid them. (not to say that someone who doesn't avoid them is weaker, they just aren't using that strength)
Specifically with sex, though: Insects have sex. That tells you something about the level of intelligence sexual pleasure is rewarding you for. You can memorize all the pickup lines you want, anylize the opposite sex until you pass out, it changes nothing: all you really want is mindless insect pleasure.
"Evolution" has no goals. Evolution does not value intelligence per se, it values survivability. Once you have passed your genes on to the next generation, evolution is satisfied and your personal existance/wellbeing is irrelevant.
So what do you value more? Intelligence and strength of character, or mindless insect pleasure? It's entirely possible to balance the two, but if you go toward either extreme, you must give up some of the other.
So who says everyone has to be efficient? If they paid good money for something that looks nice (that they're comfortable using), who are you to say they're wrong? My mother has a hard enough time remembering how to cut&paste, you think she'd care that the background is just a "distraction"?
I prefer to have my own choice between form or function, thank you. In fact, I prefer to be able to choose form AND function... *cough*litestep*cough*
(btw, background ain't much of a distraction if you don't hide all your program icons on it ;)
have to have a special driver to run my hard drive.
Think about this a minute. Where would the driver be stored?
I've heard of two types of "electronic paper", one uses black & white charged balls (developed at parc) the other uses capsules filled with ink and little white charged particles. ("electronic ink"
Can a person under 13 be legally bound by the license? I assumed this restriction was to prevent people from abusing the license using children.
the probability that a random Turing machine will halt
The problem I have with this is that you're starting with randomness. I fail to see why it's shoking that the result is random.
It seems to me that the probability of any truely random event (whether or not a truely random turing machine will halt) will have the same properties. This is getting chaos out of chaos, not chaos out of order.
Do consumers want or need a P4 with RDRAM? Will AMD continue to take market share, thereby boosting DDR sales? Will RDRAM prices come down? Will DDR chipsets finally ship in volume? And which technology really works better?
Tune in next week for the exciting conclusion!!
I believe one of the basic assumptions of euclidean geometry is that parallel lines do not intersect. Euclidean geometry is pretty much the norm, so it's not unreasonable to assume that's what's being used.
For example, he said, computer users must know that to turn off the computer they have to click on "Start"--not an intuitive step to end a computing session.
This is one of the more frequent stupid complaints about the win9x interface. (not to say all complaints about it are stupid) Microsoft should just take the word "start" off of the dang button. Just have the windows logo and call it the "windows" button.
At least around here, CD-RW's are about $.50 for 80min. You can also get cd cases that are half the standard thickness. (drawback with that is you can't have those paper-inserts in the back/spine)
'course I can't say anything for car use... My car just has a non-functional 20-yrs-old tape player. :6
To all those claiming MS sucks, Linux rules...
That's funny, I haven't seen any of those. Maybe it's because I'm viewing at +2, but all I see are people saying "before you say MS sucks & linux rules..."
It's really getting annoying. Stop being paranoid and don't respond to trolls.
But the light-emitting devices needed to do this can't be built into silicon circuits.
This is talking about older style LEDs. Consider the next paragraph:
The ideal solution would be to make light emitters from silicon itself, but silicon does not glow efficiently. Various tricks have been tried to squeeze light from silicon.
And what is the article about?
A light-emitting device based on silicon promises to end what has become an uncomfortable marriage.
(perhaps silicon can help your uncomfortable marriage? ;)
Nothing that I could see in the article about how they overcame "silicon does not glow efficiently," or even if they did. Perhaps the BBC one was different, but the Nature article is a headline with some background information. Nothing really about the headline.
hmm, how long for a rijndael de/encriptor?
come to think of it, if you had a library with a css decoder in it, it'd take only one line of say, c.
"not having price tags at all, and having the cashier ask the customer how much the sign said."
I know of a store that actually does this. They're not the kind of place that would be ripped off by immature kids, so it works fine. They don't have to charge the customers for all the infrastructure required for the cashiers to know the prices, and it's actually nice (as a customer) to be trusted for a change.
Shopping cart programs with this bug would even work online as long as your traffic was very limited. It wouldn't really have the same benefit, I mean you already need to have a database to look up the prices in the first place, but with an "enthical" enough user base it wouldn't hurt either.
Windows does not have any concept of a fork.
Well, maybe not exactly...
"The CreateProcess function creates a new process, which runs independently of the creating process. The function provides two methods for identifying the program to be executed. ..."
Very true, and with all their influence, why has microsoft not influenced mb manufacturers to produce a bios that will load windows faster?
It's probably due to all the dos code that still remained at the core of win9x, but with that gone is this something we may see in the future?
Clearly you couldn't put windows itself in the bios, but all the chipset drivers could be there. The bios could set up protected mode and load a large file into ram.
Or is everyone so in love with supporting legacy code that this will never happen? (even considering the amount of code that'll have to be rewritten to take advantage of 64-bit processors?)