I'd be a bedwetting liberal if you burst into my room at night with a loaded shotgun to 'stop me', because you 'have enough guts'. I don't think 'having guts' is a reasonable excuse for being allowed to have a gun.
Gun nuts always go on about the one appropriate use of firearms (other than for sports, which is quite OK) is to protect property. What I want to know is whether they rank their amended constitutional right above that of their obligation to follow the laws of the country?
Single-nationals are under the thumb of the people and government of the country they serve. Multinationals have no such ties and if a government tries to enforce laws like fair dealing, human rights, etc, the multinational can simply stop supporting that country and concentrate on ones that are less well developed.
It can't [run every possible instruction combination]. Running every possible combination would take an indefinately long period of time (infinity).
Indeed, that's my point. The BIOS makes no great time-consuming effort to ensure the CPU works accurately and completely. The CPU's correct functioning is essential, as the FDIV bug showed. The CPU is the most essential part of the computer. And the only tests done on it are ones that work out which CPU it is, and some basic sanity. As the CPU isn't fully tested, and it's more important than the memory, why is the memory fully tested?
the hard drive is not essential to the functioning of the computer. With modern operating systems, usually a hard drive is required, but again, it's not essential.
Some form of device from which the OS, software, etc is loaded is necessary. If it's possible to use every block on this device, then to be sure of success every block on this device should be tested. This is the crackpot theory of BIOS memory testing applied to other system parts. My point is that hard drives map bad blocks out as and when they find them, when they're actually needed. So should memory. That's what I mean by 'waiting for memory to fail rather than test the whole lot'.
I've never trusted PCs because the BIOS 'tests the memory' before booting up. Why do they do this?
Does it run every possible combination of CPU instructions on boot up? No!
Does it check every single block on the hard drive? No!
Does it check all the blocks of floppies, CDs, DVDs, etc to make sure they work? No!
If the memory test is essential to the functioning of the system, why do they let you skip it?
Obviously, the smart thing to do is to _wait_ for the memory to fail rather than test the whole lot for a minute or two. After doing a full test once, the first time you boot, you can leave a very low priority memory tester running, or leave the full test to some quiet period with a cron job - a decent memory test of course, not that half-witted test that BIOSes do.
Java is already being shaped by expert group communities, with Sun's developers at the helm having the final say. How is this different from the same way structures work with other open source projects? You're free (in most countries) to download the source code to Java's classes and runtime JVM implementation, you're just not allowed to make your own one based on Sun's implementation, and you're not allowed to call it 'Java' without paying Sun a lot of money for a license. Who cares? If you want to participate in the Java community, almost all the flexibility you need is there.
I don't know if I'd be comfortable to know that a section of code I wrote went into a heart monitor. What if I screwed something up and the monitor failed to alert the nurse of a problem?
You could save yourself from those considerable worries if you remember to mount a scratch monkey when testing your software. But, seriously, the more important a medical device is, the simpler it's made. From what I see, most of the medical applications of software are for patient record databases, schedulers, AI-based data mining for research, etc. There are also programs to take data from patient monitors and jazz it up, but it's not the case of having a desktop PC running your life support machine.
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G4s only really get fantastic performance when they can parallelize with their matrix operations. Coincidentally, Photoshop spends most of its time applying filters, which are... matrix operations! Now you know who bankrolls Apple - print media companies.
Is it 'illegal' to buy a piece of software and to then use a crack downloaded from a warez site to remove the dongle check? You paid your money for a legal copy, but you don't want to deal with a device that might interfere with the functioning of your parallel port.
Someone else writing the crack: illegal (DMCA)
Someone serving you the crack: illegal (DMCA)
Using the crack: legal - until UCITA is enacted, or until you're no longer sold a 'proof of purchase', but sold a license agreement that gets around all consumer protection laws.
Never, ever get into a license agreement without consumer protection backup if at all possible. If the company doing the licensing doesn't like the cut of your giblets, it can point to clause 666: "the company reserves the right to alter the terms of your license at any time without prior notification", revoke your license and leave you high and dry, with no recompense or legal recourse.
"So, if these fibres take in light and output it 30x brighter, why not make a feedback loop?"
It's a great idea, but the problem is that you're getting more energy out of the system than you put in. Energy efficiency doesn't go over 100%, so either these phosphors have energy hidden in them (and they'll run out over time, like batteries), or this system collects a lot of ambient light and concentrates it into a small space.
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What is this? Yesterday we get "The Rise of Amiga", which managed to confuse real Amigas and that new-wave bulldadda they call "Amiga SDK". Now we have "The Rise of QNX". What's next?
Perhaps you need to read your history books too, as it was the English government at the centre of the Empire. Scottish, Welsh and Irish citizens, like the Americans, were the victims of this power trip.
And secondly, you're validating my point; people seem to think they get more unfettered rights than "keep" and "bear". There are no special rights for to "obtain", "display", "lend" or "sell" arms in the 2nd amendment.
Well, I was more meaning a '3D home cinema' with a prerecorded DVD type thingy. Because of the way it's projected, you can move your head around the 3D scene like it's real, even though you can't interact with it. The fully interactive method (ie walking about moves the camera) requires mega bandwidth, but perhaps you could fit a 2 hour immersive 3D movie into 1000Gb if you squeezed it a bit:)
Why are the FBI involved in worldwide snooping? Isn't it their job to investivate internal affairs? Then again, maybe Jack Straw fell in love with their Carnivore and invited them to Europe.
Ok, so realtime immersion takes huge amounts of bandwidth, but do you think they could come up with acceptable compression for it? Perhaps this is a new use for the super-dense CDs?
On another note, I thought the one thing that killed the illusion of immersion was a delay
between movement and the environment's reaction.
Obviously, these new 3D projected rooms fix that
problem with VR headset latency, but for fully interactive tasks (not just looking), will Internet2 be able to respond quickly enough?
That was my point. There are enough PHBs in the world that won't consider anything other than Microsoft. So a machine that can do pretty things, even if it's a PC must be a 'games machine' or some other niche, non-productive antithesis of capitalism. See the jargon file entry on the Amiga Persecution Complex.
It's not that there are a lot of redundant apps trying to be the 'in' program of the day, because that existed before the OSS craze too. It was called 'freeware' and the great ugly 'shareware', where you would be asked to pay $10 for a piece-of-sh*t program (archiver binary front-ends, for example).
The great thing about Open Source is that the source is open.
You don't have to buy a textbook on how to write a text editor, you don't have to completely re-invent the wheel. You can look at how other people did it. And you can even take the bits you like from their implementation!
I'm all for lots of small projects as well as the huge ones; small projects are far easier for an outsider to read and understand.
Oh no, that could never happen in the USA. The very thought of a powerful entity to protect rights rather than profits... that just sails too close to socialism which as we all know is just another word for the scourge of communism.
Yes, this is a troll. I just can't believe that Americans would want their rights to be trampled in order to support an unfettered business market. Who cares about money when life's not worth living?
Is this just a cunning ploy by the Germans to work out who is the big cheese behind Echelon? You know, "Identify yourself so I can sue you!". So, it'll be Deutschland vs "Number 1" (*) from the UK and Baron Silas Greenback (**) from the USA.
* From The Prisoner
** From Dangermouse, who wasn't fighting an ugly toad, but the almighty buck itself!
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I'd be a bedwetting liberal if you burst into my room at night with a loaded shotgun to 'stop me', because you 'have enough guts'. I don't think 'having guts' is a reasonable excuse for being allowed to have a gun.
Gun nuts always go on about the one appropriate use of firearms (other than for sports, which is quite OK) is to protect property. What I want to know is whether they rank their amended constitutional right above that of their obligation to follow the laws of the country?
Single-nationals are under the thumb of the people and government of the country they serve. Multinationals have no such ties and if a government tries to enforce laws like fair dealing, human rights, etc, the multinational can simply stop supporting that country and concentrate on ones that are less well developed.
Politicians are not the ones in control. The multinationals are.
N64 appeals to the younger audience (13 years old and under)
...with quality family-friendly games like Goldeneye!
It can't [run every possible instruction combination]. Running every possible combination would take an indefinately long period of time (infinity).
Indeed, that's my point. The BIOS makes no great time-consuming effort to ensure the CPU works accurately and completely. The CPU's correct functioning is essential, as the FDIV bug showed. The CPU is the most essential part of the computer. And the only tests done on it are ones that work out which CPU it is, and some basic sanity. As the CPU isn't fully tested, and it's more important than the memory, why is the memory fully tested?
the hard drive is not essential to the functioning of the computer. With modern operating systems, usually a hard drive is required, but again, it's not essential.
Some form of device from which the OS, software, etc is loaded is necessary. If it's possible to use every block on this device, then to be sure of success every block on this device should be tested. This is the crackpot theory of BIOS memory testing applied to other system parts. My point is that hard drives map bad blocks out as and when they find them, when they're actually needed. So should memory. That's what I mean by 'waiting for memory to fail rather than test the whole lot'.
- Does it run every possible combination of CPU instructions on boot up? No!
- Does it check every single block on the hard drive? No!
- Does it check all the blocks of floppies, CDs, DVDs, etc to make sure they work? No!
- If the memory test is essential to the functioning of the system, why do they let you skip it?
Obviously, the smart thing to do is to _wait_ for the memory to fail rather than test the whole lot for a minute or two. After doing a full test once, the first time you boot, you can leave a very low priority memory tester running, or leave the full test to some quiet period with a cron job - a decent memory test of course, not that half-witted test that BIOSes do.Java is already being shaped by expert group communities, with Sun's developers at the helm having the final say. How is this different from the same way structures work with other open source projects? You're free (in most countries) to download the source code to Java's classes and runtime JVM implementation, you're just not allowed to make your own one based on Sun's implementation, and you're not allowed to call it 'Java' without paying Sun a lot of money for a license. Who cares? If you want to participate in the Java community, almost all the flexibility you need is there.
I don't know if I'd be comfortable to know that a section of code I wrote went into a heart monitor. What if I screwed something up and the monitor failed to alert the nurse of a problem?
You could save yourself from those considerable worries if you remember to mount a scratch monkey when testing your software. But, seriously, the more important a medical device is, the simpler it's made. From what I see, most of the medical applications of software are for patient record databases, schedulers, AI-based data mining for research, etc. There are also programs to take data from patient monitors and jazz it up, but it's not the case of having a desktop PC running your life support machine.
G4s only really get fantastic performance when they can parallelize with their matrix operations. Coincidentally, Photoshop spends most of its time applying filters, which are... matrix operations! Now you know who bankrolls Apple - print media companies.
Reverse Engineering in the UK is illegal
The law disagrees with you
- Someone else writing the crack: illegal (DMCA)
- Someone serving you the crack: illegal (DMCA)
- Using the crack: legal - until UCITA is enacted, or until you're no longer sold a 'proof of purchase', but sold a license agreement that gets around all consumer protection laws.
Never, ever get into a license agreement without consumer protection backup if at all possible. If the company doing the licensing doesn't like the cut of your giblets, it can point to clause 666: "the company reserves the right to alter the terms of your license at any time without prior notification", revoke your license and leave you high and dry, with no recompense or legal recourse.Yes - they used the Z machine.
I seem to remember that Sega released a Sonic CD for the PC, which contained all the Sonic games, emulated, including the MegaCD Sonic CD game.
"So, if these fibres take in light and output it 30x brighter, why not make a feedback loop?"
It's a great idea, but the problem is that you're getting more energy out of the system than you put in. Energy efficiency doesn't go over 100%, so either these phosphors have energy hidden in them (and they'll run out over time, like batteries), or this system collects a lot of ambient light and concentrates it into a small space.
Perhaps you need to read your history books too, as it was the English government at the centre of the Empire. Scottish, Welsh and Irish citizens, like the Americans, were the victims of this power trip.
And secondly, you're validating my point; people seem to think they get more unfettered rights than "keep" and "bear". There are no special rights for to "obtain", "display", "lend" or "sell" arms in the 2nd amendment.
Well, I was more meaning a '3D home cinema' with a prerecorded DVD type thingy. Because of the way it's projected, you can move your head around the 3D scene like it's real, even though you can't interact with it. The fully interactive method (ie walking about moves the camera) requires mega bandwidth, but perhaps you could fit a 2 hour immersive 3D movie into 1000Gb if you squeezed it a bit :)
Why are the FBI involved in worldwide snooping? Isn't it their job to investivate internal affairs? Then again, maybe Jack Straw fell in love with their Carnivore and invited them to Europe.
Ok, so realtime immersion takes huge amounts of bandwidth, but do you think they could come up with acceptable compression for it? Perhaps this is a new use for the super-dense CDs?
On another note, I thought the one thing that killed the illusion of immersion was a delay between movement and the environment's reaction. Obviously, these new 3D projected rooms fix that problem with VR headset latency, but for fully interactive tasks (not just looking), will Internet2 be able to respond quickly enough?
Does it actually make chips, or is it just an IP litigati... uh, design company?
That was my point. There are enough PHBs in the world that won't consider anything other than Microsoft. So a machine that can do pretty things, even if it's a PC must be a 'games machine' or some other niche, non-productive antithesis of capitalism. See the jargon file entry on the Amiga Persecution Complex.
It's not that there are a lot of redundant apps trying to be the 'in' program of the day, because that existed before the OSS craze too. It was called 'freeware' and the great ugly 'shareware', where you would be asked to pay $10 for a piece-of-sh*t program (archiver binary front-ends, for example).
The great thing about Open Source is that the source is open . You don't have to buy a textbook on how to write a text editor, you don't have to completely re-invent the wheel. You can look at how other people did it. And you can even take the bits you like from their implementation!
I'm all for lots of small projects as well as the huge ones; small projects are far easier for an outsider to read and understand.
Oh no, that could never happen in the USA. The very thought of a powerful entity to protect rights rather than profits... that just sails too close to socialism which as we all know is just another word for the scourge of communism.
Yes, this is a troll. I just can't believe that Americans would want their rights to be trampled in order to support an unfettered business market. Who cares about money when life's not worth living?
Is this just a cunning ploy by the Germans to work out who is the big cheese behind Echelon? You know, "Identify yourself so I can sue you!". So, it'll be Deutschland vs "Number 1" (*) from the UK and Baron Silas Greenback (**) from the USA.
* From The Prisoner
** From Dangermouse, who wasn't fighting an ugly toad, but the almighty buck itself!
... to leave your guns lying around on the kitchen table, for your kids to shoot themselves with.
Very important right, that.