Only those outside our system could measure the time inside our system.
No they couldn't, not unless they had their own, higher-order time dimension. (and that idea just leads to infinite regression, why stop at two levels?) If you have no time dimension, you can't do anything.
Now I suppose you might argue that they would exist with some parallel time dimension, but this still requires *something* to exist outside of our time. This means either that freewill (and the uncertainty principle) is an illusion, or there is a higher-order time dimension. (and why stop at two?)
If we are just being "timesliced," then an outside observer could exist in the same time dimension, but that's a very strange and specific case, and it doesn't really address how time works anyway. (because you haven't examined the underlying time dimension at all.)
You mean the world's most populous country has achieved more progress than a web site? Like I'm gonna believe that.
Seriously, news "reporters" don't do things, they just tell you about stuff./.ers are/.ers for maybe half an hour a day, while chinese citizens are citizens all day. This is a ridiculous comparison.
(and fwiw, anything linux will still have to deal with US copyright law)
Perhaps more relevantly, look at how software works. Companies that buy one copy of a piece of software can't distrubute as many as they want internally. Technically, this could be because of the license (ianal, of course) but I suspect that that's only a case of being extremely clear about what it allows.
So the corporation would need to buy a copy of each song for each person that wanted to play it, or get some sort of "site license." This probably would be no better than how things are now.
What he's suggesting is all fine and well unless people actually want to PLAY the music.
Every biological system on the planet works on the same principal, yes, the system will be attacked, keep functioniong, and attempt to regain controll.
Yes and no. An organism will sacrifice individual cells so that the rest may live on.
Why is Mozilla, Opera, and every other browser not supported? Very simple. People in the government aren't going to research every single obscure web browser that exists.
There is a very common wording for that, which they should have used:
For security reasons, SERVE is only compatible with browsers with SSL 3.0 capabilities,
which include: - Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and above - Netscape Navigator 6.x and above
I can't imagine why they would word it so as to imply that those are the only choices, when they don't know that that's the case. Perhaps they consulted their IT department without telling them why they wanted to know.
There was a game based on core wars called "CoreLife", which was 2 dimensional:
CoreLife: The Linear Thinkers Nightmare. By Brent Adams
Copyright (c) 1993.
CoreLife is a training program designed to improve the skills used in a multitasked environment. It is, however, just a game. (don't blame me if it can't do your taxes)
The CORE is a simulated 2 dimensional parallel processing computer with language and addressing modes similiar to conventional assembled code. The programs in memory compete for system resources (namely space), while conserving energy. This is accomplished by accumulating space as fast as possible while minimizing the number of logical threads. (parallel paths) Conflicts for space (ie. moving a new command into an opponents territory) are resolved using a dice roll based on the strength of the opponents.
STRENGTH = (AREA accumulated)/(Number of logical threads)
Programs are considered dead if net area ever falls below zero. The winner is the last program that survives.
3. Navigational AI. No, I'm not kidding. I see my students hit a new-to-them web site and then have no clue what to do. A browser "idiot mode" and "idiot tags" would be helpful, as would a browser with enough smarts to say "This looks like the link to product support" or "Click here to view cart".
I think we'd be better off with AI that would smack the web designer upside the head when it detected that the page would be confusing to navigate.
Basic rule of thumb, if you want it to be accurate don't use floating point.
Well ok, but only if accuracy is infinitely more important than space and time. A fixed-point format that can handle from 10^-308 to 10^308 with at least 53 bits of precision wouldn't be terribly useful.
You need to understand how much accuracy you have and not expect to get any more out of the calculations.
Even better: REUSE! That way you don't burn the garbage, *and* you don't fill up the landfill.
Sure, you can melt down plastic bottles and reform them into lesser-quality plastic products, but with much less energy, you can sterilize a glass bottle and reuse it at the same quality level.
__int64 works perfectly well on win32 (if slower than long), but the OS uses 32-bit time_t. Microsoft simply took advantage of the fact that everything needs to be recompiled anyway to expand the time_t width in the api.
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Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange" (emph. mine)
If you get really literal, there's a possible exception of either the original author or the FSF. (ie, you don't have to give it to the second party;)
SIP packages are pretty rare in general, most non-surface mount chips with < ~40 pins are DIP. I still have a few tubes of old RAM for a 286, it's all DIP.
They also had the occasional problem of wiggling loose after a huge number of heat/cool cycles. (hence the locks on memory slots now)
We used their LZW compression algorithm in our product (for compressing product update files). It compresses text quite well for very little code.
LZSS has comparable compression rates, and you don't need a symbol table. It uses back references to the previous data instead of variable length codes. (I believe zlib uses LZSS.)
There's a lot of other compression algorithms, many of which are equally simple. If you gave up after LZW, you didn't try very hard.
IBM developed a work-around for ATA-66 and ATA-100 by using an 80-conductor cable with a 40-pin interface, by stringing a "ground" conductor between each "signal" conductor.
Not that this concept is anything new, half of the 40 pins from earlier versions of ATA were grounded. (every other one) Same thing with old parallel ports, the data lines have ground interleaved.
The story suggests that TV may be solely responsible for the counrty's ills. This is obviously untrue, but boring old truth doesn't sell anything. (ah, what's that called? "yellow-dog journalism"? I forget...)
Still, this doesn't mean that TV has nothing to do with it. Personal responsibility is important, but that doesn't mean the individual spontaneously acted with no external motivation.
Some external stimulus (possibly TV) is encouraging people to choose these actions. The people in question need to be held responsible, but this stimulus should be addressed as well.
Firstly, there's no absolute truth outside of abstract though (mathematics, logic, philosophy).
There is absolute truth, it's just not possible for us to discover it. (this is only one possible view of the world, but science would be worthless if it were untrue)
Everything becomes a matter probability.
to you, to us. To reality, everything either is or it isn't. (at least, above the quantum level. who knows below that...)
When you talk of the "probability of the existance of God," you're talking about how likely it is that this idea matches with absolute truth. If you could just check, it would be 1 or 0 exactly.
7-zip is nice too (really good compression), but the UI sucks. Out of all the free zip progs I've tried, EnZip's UI is perfect. (I haven't tried the JZip that another poster mentions tho.)
Heck, the term "computer chip" is so generic that a BCD converter or a DAC fits the definition (sneaks under the wire, barely).
Yeah, I know... I'm just being a jerk 'cuz people call opamps and logic gates "computer chips.":6 It's a good way to distinguish from potato for people who don't know silicon, but still...
Moot point, though, because they're talking about Intel shipping its billionth x86 family chip.
Right, most people use the term too loosely, here it's being used too specifically. That's a sure recipe for confusion.
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Only those outside our system could measure the time inside our system.
No they couldn't, not unless they had their own, higher-order time dimension. (and that idea just leads to infinite regression, why stop at two levels?) If you have no time dimension, you can't do anything.
Now I suppose you might argue that they would exist with some parallel time dimension, but this still requires *something* to exist outside of our time. This means either that freewill (and the uncertainty principle) is an illusion, or there is a higher-order time dimension. (and why stop at two?)
If we are just being "timesliced," then an outside observer could exist in the same time dimension, but that's a very strange and specific case, and it doesn't really address how time works anyway. (because you haven't examined the underlying time dimension at all.)
You mean the world's most populous country has achieved more progress than a web site? Like I'm gonna believe that.
/.ers are /.ers for maybe half an hour a day, while chinese citizens are citizens all day. This is a ridiculous comparison.
Seriously, news "reporters" don't do things, they just tell you about stuff.
(and fwiw, anything linux will still have to deal with US copyright law)
Perhaps more relevantly, look at how software works. Companies that buy one copy of a piece of software can't distrubute as many as they want internally. Technically, this could be because of the license (ianal, of course) but I suspect that that's only a case of being extremely clear about what it allows.
So the corporation would need to buy a copy of each song for each person that wanted to play it, or get some sort of "site license." This probably would be no better than how things are now.
What he's suggesting is all fine and well unless people actually want to PLAY the music.
Windows really badly needs sudo, and no, "Run As..." doesn't work well enough to count.
Why not? I've been running as a "restricted user" for ages, just using Run As for stuff that needs higher priveledges. It works great.
Of course I rarely run Windows Update, but who cares when I'm behind a firewall and never use Microsoft Internet products?
Just to be extra annoying, there's no well-publicized external Flash viewer to use outside of the browser, either.
Doesn't everyone use IrfanView? Ok, it's not well-publicized, but it's so good that it doesn't have to be.
No, #2 is two people relaxing in recliners around the coffee table, having their souls sucked out by some ink blot thing.
I particularly like #3: Laptops in a campfire.
Oh wait, Microsoft must be testing out a new business plan:
10 Spam
20 Collect more email addresses
30 Spam some more!
40 ?
50 GOTO 40
60 Profit!
Of course as soon as you write that as a basic program it becomes:
40 PRINT
Every biological system on the planet works on the same principal, yes, the system will be attacked, keep functioniong, and attempt to regain controll.
Yes and no. An organism will sacrifice individual cells so that the rest may live on.
Is the machine the organism or is it just a cell?
There is a very common wording for that, which they should have used:
I can't imagine why they would word it so as to imply that those are the only choices, when they don't know that that's the case. Perhaps they consulted their IT department without telling them why they wanted to know.
There was a game based on core wars called "CoreLife", which was 2 dimensional:
3. Navigational AI. No, I'm not kidding. I see my students hit a new-to-them web site and then have no clue what to do. A browser "idiot mode" and "idiot tags" would be helpful, as would a browser with enough smarts to say "This looks like the link to product support" or "Click here to view cart".
I think we'd be better off with AI that would smack the web designer upside the head when it detected that the page would be confusing to navigate.
Yeah, but the online activation is a real pain. And then if you swap more than 4 keys around, you have to do it all over again.
The one true windows path is:
C:\WINNT\System32\krnl386.exe
Unless you're running and older system, in which case it is:
C:\Windows\Win.com
Basic rule of thumb, if you want it to be accurate don't use floating point.
Well ok, but only if accuracy is infinitely more important than space and time. A fixed-point format that can handle from 10^-308 to 10^308 with at least 53 bits of precision wouldn't be terribly useful.
You need to understand how much accuracy you have and not expect to get any more out of the calculations.
Even better: REUSE! That way you don't burn the garbage, *and* you don't fill up the landfill.
Sure, you can melt down plastic bottles and reform them into lesser-quality plastic products, but with much less energy, you can sterilize a glass bottle and reuse it at the same quality level.
That's a software problem.
__int64 works perfectly well on win32 (if slower than long), but the OS uses 32-bit time_t. Microsoft simply took advantage of the fact that everything needs to be recompiled anyway to expand the time_t width in the api.
This is only true if you distribute the source code with the binary.
> I believe you can even withold the source until it is requested (don't quote me on that, though).
Yep, but you have to provide the source to anyone who asks for it.
IANAL, but: (Section 3b of GPL)
If you get really literal, there's a possible exception of either the original author or the FSF. (ie, you don't have to give it to the second party
SIP packages are pretty rare in general, most non-surface mount chips with < ~40 pins are DIP. I still have a few tubes of old RAM for a 286, it's all DIP.
They also had the occasional problem of wiggling loose after a huge number of heat/cool cycles. (hence the locks on memory slots now)
We used their LZW compression algorithm in our product (for compressing product update files). It compresses text quite well for very little code.
LZSS has comparable compression rates, and you don't need a symbol table. It uses back references to the previous data instead of variable length codes. (I believe zlib uses LZSS.)
There's a lot of other compression algorithms, many of which are equally simple. If you gave up after LZW, you didn't try very hard.
IBM developed a work-around for ATA-66 and ATA-100 by using an 80-conductor cable with a 40-pin interface, by stringing a "ground" conductor between each "signal" conductor.
Not that this concept is anything new, half of the 40 pins from earlier versions of ATA were grounded. (every other one) Same thing with old parallel ports, the data lines have ground interleaved.
Win32 userland/kernel split is 2:2
You sure about that? In Win9x, the top half of memory is shared by all processes. NT is different, although I don't remember exactly how it works.
Win9x is pretty weak tho, you can take down a machine from a dos box. (iirc: echo f f000-ffff {garbage} | debug)
For a change, take personal responsibility.
The story suggests that TV may be solely responsible for the counrty's ills. This is obviously untrue, but boring old truth doesn't sell anything. (ah, what's that called? "yellow-dog journalism"? I forget...)
Still, this doesn't mean that TV has nothing to do with it. Personal responsibility is important, but that doesn't mean the individual spontaneously acted with no external motivation.
Some external stimulus (possibly TV) is encouraging people to choose these actions. The people in question need to be held responsible, but this stimulus should be addressed as well.
Firstly, there's no absolute truth outside of abstract though (mathematics, logic, philosophy).
There is absolute truth, it's just not possible for us to discover it. (this is only one possible view of the world, but science would be worthless if it were untrue)
Everything becomes a matter probability.
to you, to us. To reality, everything either is or it isn't. (at least, above the quantum level. who knows below that...)
When you talk of the "probability of the existance of God," you're talking about how likely it is that this idea matches with absolute truth. If you could just check, it would be 1 or 0 exactly.
I highly recommend EnZip.
7-zip is nice too (really good compression), but the UI sucks. Out of all the free zip progs I've tried, EnZip's UI is perfect. (I haven't tried the JZip that another poster mentions tho.)
Heck, the term "computer chip" is so generic that a BCD converter or a DAC fits the definition (sneaks under the wire, barely).
:6 It's a good way to distinguish from potato for people who don't know silicon, but still...
Yeah, I know... I'm just being a jerk 'cuz people call opamps and logic gates "computer chips."
Moot point, though, because they're talking about Intel shipping its billionth x86 family chip.
Right, most people use the term too loosely, here it's being used too specifically. That's a sure recipe for confusion.
Ah well.