So how's the weather back there in the States? Pretty miserable in the NE this time of year, I bet. Nope, its been the warmest I can ever remember. It almost hit 70F/21C last week in Boston, in January. If this is global warming then I'm all for it! So what if its snowing a couple of feet in the SW desert.
While I do agree with your post, I can also say that "Gamer Funk" is all too real an occurance. Behind every sterotype is some element of truth. So much so that a couple years back GenCon started putting gentle reminders in the program. The reminder went something like "We would like to point out that all GenCon Hotels provide showers, soap, and shampoo..." I believe this years nag even recommended using deoderant AFTER the shower.
Even less about safety and more about the cheap cameras they use to see if you are "running" the tollbooth. You are correct about them reading "at speed"
Can't anyone think outside of the box? Just pressurize the bucket. The only trick is keeping structural integrity of the straw when you throw the release valve on the bucket. The water will come out like a firehose.
Having worked in the military world, I can say that there was a program called Janus. Since everything is an acronym in the military and the most common acronyms starting in "J" stand for Joint something or other, Janus will forever mean Joint Anus.
So why not say it like it is: *Fortran* compatability, since that is what C was origionally designed to be compatible with. That way you could link with those pesky fortran math libraries.
Excellent, This must be why Wesley Clark is one of the founders of WaveCrest Labratories that make Magnet Powered Cars. I new there was a reason he didn't get the nomination!!
History does not record whether the router had the chicken or the fish.
Well as I once played escort to a box on an airplane, I can answer this all important question. The airlines actually offer a class of ticket without a meal for just this situation. Imagine my surprise. Supposedly my company saved 5 dollars on the ticket that way.
What is much more fun is to get it through security. I would hate to try it with security the way it is now. As it was it took a couple hours of searching and wierd questions. I don't think you could even do it nowadays.
While I don't know anything about this particular show, it often comes down to the show wanting to eliminate large crowds gathering on the show floor. Ideally people should be moving around. Allowing them to play with the hardware causes people to gather waiting for their turn etc. From the show organizers point of view this will block the isle ways between venders and not allow people to get to some venders booths. Those venders cut off will complain and since they spent good money on the booth they have every right to complain.
Sony probably couldn't come to a compromise since their booth was designed to allow people to take their own test drives. This means they probably didn't have the staff on hand to run continuous demos and most likely didn't have the booth space for demos to work. Most likely all of their "compromises" involved user test drives. Microsoft did nothing wrong by complaining. Underhanded as it is, since I bet their booths were sufficently far apart.
Denying they complained is, however, typical Microsoft.
100" projector, screen and line doubler $3000
SetTop box $700
Radioshack Antenna $17.99
I already owned my surround sound stereo since you would never use the silly speakers that come in a tv anyways. But I would put it at $3000 it I had
to guess. Even then I am still less than $7000,
what kind of TV is $10,000 anyways? Tack on the Tivo, cable, VCR, and my PS2 and I still haven't gotten to $10,000!
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While I don't want to harp too much on your rant
you are pointing at an area of science that is
much theorized and at some point actually will be field testable.
How would you test to see if matter is
popping in and out of existence?
This is
one of those hard to wrap your mind around theories from Hawking and the rest of the croud. The theory is that there is virtual matter popping
in to existance as a matter antimatter pair and it immediatly destroys itself.(ie popping back out of existance) When it pops into the edge of an event horizon of a black hole one part of the pair can be made real, while the black hole gobbles up the rest. The end result is "radiation" emitted from
the black hole. It is also why black holes "evaporate". Black holes created in laboratories do actually evaporate and do emit radiation, so it stands to reason someone will be able to prove or disprove the theory at some point.
Search Google for Hawking Radiation if you really
want to try to understand it. or try this link:
http://library.thinkquest.org/C007571/english/adva nce/core2.htm?tqskip=1
With clockless computing you can move on to the next stage as quickly as you're done with the one before.
Actually you can do even better. If the instruction executed does not need the memory stage of the pipeline, it can exit the pipline before that stage. This will allow multiple quick instructions (eg shift) to execute and exit the pipeline while the slow memory instruction ties up the memory stage. This psuedo parallel operation is what clocked processors can only do with multiple pipelines.
For general programming there will be no difference. Its when you try to optimize that difference appear. Optimization in async logic is very difficult. In synchronous logic you need to optimize around the superpipeline. You reorder your instructions so data is available to later instructions without causing it to stall the pipeline. Since you know exactly how long each instruction takes in cycles you can schedule
correctly, even force schedules with NOP instructions.
In async programming NOP instructions can't be implemented. They don't really make sense anyways. The pipeline in an async chip is technically allways stalling. So you will need to learn many more consequences to the instructions you choose. At times the data has an effect on the speed of the instruction.
Using logic like DCVSL a 32 bit shift operation would finish faster if the data was a binary 1 versus any number that used multiple 1's in its representation. This makes optimization rather intersting. For example you can perform byte operations faster than word operations.
In the async processor I did for my thesis, we simply ran the optimized synchronous code throwing out the NOP instructions. The result was fater execution even if the code was not optimized for the correct processor.
Yeah you are missing something. Windows NT server
needs to have enough "Client Access Licenses" to server all of your clients, no matter what the
client is. There are similar arangements for Sql Server etc. Big companies tend to often run short of CAL licenses. Also remember MS at one point tried to change the license agreement so that big companies would need 2 workstation licenses if they wished to "ghost" the computer after it came in. Finally there is upgrades to computers. That computer came with 95 and now has 98 on it etc.
Since my masters thesis was a asynchronous general purpose micropocessor, I can tell you that if you are interested in finding out how to do this search for articles on DCVSL. Differential Cascade Voltage Switched Logic.
Basically the gates include extra circuitry that determines when gate has completed switching. The major benefit is that heat is significantly reduced in the chip. Also the design of the chip in my thesis allowed for multiple pipeline exits and the ability to have multiple ALU's etc. The design of the chip is infact easier once you get over the hump and understand how to deal without a clock.
The big problem was dealing with memory chips. Your processor and memory may get "out of phase"
with each other and you end up waiting for the next memory cycle, every time you go to memory.
Since I have some experience in this area (as a competitor), The concept is sound. The problem you will run into though is that the competition is out in a large field with no available electricity. Unless you wish to build a power station right on the field or you invent really
good super conductors, it won't work.
What would be more interesting in term of genetic manipulations is to breed a super pumpkin. The problem with the big cannons that the pumpkins explode in the barrels when hit by high pressure. If you were to breed a pumpkin similar to a white pumpkin with a higher density it may be possible to push a pumkin to super sonic speeds.
Also you could shape the pumpkin into more of a bullet so to cut down on wind resistance. Of course the holy grail would be to shape the pumpkin like a little airplane with wings that won't brake off and can be shot out of a cannon at high speed.
This brings up an interesting point. Since more companies are starting to use the DMCA legistlation as a club to whack anyone they want, we as the grieved parties must come up with the "official" way to pronounce DMCA when used as a verb.
I personally am leaning toward Dim'sa however it does sound a little like interesting food.
"The RIAA DMCA'd me today and didn't even leave a fortune cookie!"
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While I do agree with your post, I can also say that "Gamer Funk" is all too real an occurance. Behind every sterotype is some element of truth. So much so that a couple years back GenCon started putting gentle reminders in the program. The reminder went something like "We would like to point out that all GenCon Hotels provide showers, soap, and shampoo..." I believe this years nag even recommended using deoderant AFTER the shower.
So which computer game is it, Doom or Unreal?
I see he is following Microsoft's email retention policy to the letter!
Even less about safety and more about the cheap cameras they use to see if you are "running" the tollbooth. You are correct about them reading "at speed"
But think of the children! We must protect the children with those laws!
Even better check out: http://ir.sco.com/calculator.cfm and see how a default investment in sco is doing ;)
Can't anyone think outside of the box? Just pressurize the bucket. The only trick is keeping structural integrity of the straw when you throw the release valve on the bucket. The water will come out like a firehose.
Having worked in the military world, I can say that there was a program called Janus. Since everything is an acronym in the military and the most common acronyms starting in "J" stand for Joint something or other, Janus will forever mean Joint Anus.
So why not say it like it is: *Fortran* compatability, since that is what C was origionally designed to be compatible with. That way you could link with those pesky fortran math libraries.
Excellent, This must be why Wesley Clark is one of the founders of WaveCrest Labratories that make Magnet Powered Cars. I new there was a reason he didn't get the nomination!!
Well as I once played escort to a box on an airplane, I can answer this all important question. The airlines actually offer a class of ticket without a meal for just this situation. Imagine my surprise. Supposedly my company saved 5 dollars on the ticket that way.
What is much more fun is to get it through security. I would hate to try it with security the way it is now. As it was it took a couple hours of searching and wierd questions. I don't think you could even do it nowadays.
Sony probably couldn't come to a compromise since their booth was designed to allow people to take their own test drives. This means they probably didn't have the staff on hand to run continuous demos and most likely didn't have the booth space for demos to work. Most likely all of their "compromises" involved user test drives. Microsoft did nothing wrong by complaining. Underhanded as it is, since I bet their booths were sufficently far apart.
Denying they complained is, however, typical Microsoft.
100" projector, screen and line doubler $3000
SetTop box $700
Radioshack Antenna $17.99
I already owned my surround sound stereo since you would never use the silly speakers that come in a tv anyways. But I would put it at $3000 it I had to guess. Even then I am still less than $7000, what kind of TV is $10,000 anyways? Tack on the Tivo, cable, VCR, and my PS2 and I still haven't gotten to $10,000!
How would you test to see if matter is popping in and out of existence?
This is one of those hard to wrap your mind around theories from Hawking and the rest of the croud. The theory is that there is virtual matter popping in to existance as a matter antimatter pair and it immediatly destroys itself.(ie popping back out of existance) When it pops into the edge of an event horizon of a black hole one part of the pair can be made real, while the black hole gobbles up the rest. The end result is "radiation" emitted from the black hole. It is also why black holes "evaporate". Black holes created in laboratories do actually evaporate and do emit radiation, so it stands to reason someone will be able to prove or disprove the theory at some point.
Search Google for Hawking Radiation if you really want to try to understand it. or try this link:a nce/core2.htm?tqskip=1
http://library.thinkquest.org/C007571/english/adv
Actually you can do even better. If the instruction executed does not need the memory stage of the pipeline, it can exit the pipline before that stage. This will allow multiple quick instructions (eg shift) to execute and exit the pipeline while the slow memory instruction ties up the memory stage. This psuedo parallel operation is what clocked processors can only do with multiple pipelines.
correctly, even force schedules with NOP instructions.
In async programming NOP instructions can't be implemented. They don't really make sense anyways. The pipeline in an async chip is technically allways stalling. So you will need to learn many more consequences to the instructions you choose. At times the data has an effect on the speed of the instruction.
Using logic like DCVSL a 32 bit shift operation would finish faster if the data was a binary 1 versus any number that used multiple 1's in its representation. This makes optimization rather intersting. For example you can perform byte operations faster than word operations.
In the async processor I did for my thesis, we simply ran the optimized synchronous code throwing out the NOP instructions. The result was fater execution even if the code was not optimized for the correct processor.
Yeah you are missing something. Windows NT server needs to have enough "Client Access Licenses" to server all of your clients, no matter what the client is. There are similar arangements for Sql Server etc. Big companies tend to often run short of CAL licenses. Also remember MS at one point tried to change the license agreement so that big companies would need 2 workstation licenses if they wished to "ghost" the computer after it came in. Finally there is upgrades to computers. That computer came with 95 and now has 98 on it etc.
Since my masters thesis was a asynchronous general purpose micropocessor, I can tell you that if you are interested in finding out how to do this search for articles on DCVSL. Differential Cascade Voltage Switched Logic.
Basically the gates include extra circuitry that determines when gate has completed switching. The major benefit is that heat is significantly reduced in the chip. Also the design of the chip in my thesis allowed for multiple pipeline exits and the ability to have multiple ALU's etc. The design of the chip is infact easier once you get over the hump and understand how to deal without a clock.
The big problem was dealing with memory chips. Your processor and memory may get "out of phase" with each other and you end up waiting for the next memory cycle, every time you go to memory.
What would be more interesting in term of genetic manipulations is to breed a super pumpkin. The problem with the big cannons that the pumpkins explode in the barrels when hit by high pressure. If you were to breed a pumpkin similar to a white pumpkin with a higher density it may be possible to push a pumkin to super sonic speeds.
Also you could shape the pumpkin into more of a bullet so to cut down on wind resistance. Of course the holy grail would be to shape the pumpkin like a little airplane with wings that won't brake off and can be shot out of a cannon at high speed.
I personally am leaning toward Dim'sa however it does sound a little like interesting food.
"The RIAA DMCA'd me today and didn't even leave a fortune cookie!"
So what do you expect slashdot to do? Phone every every webmaster to verify content?