In, say, 1975, it may have been true that PBS showed a decent percentage of intelligent, out-of-mainstream programming--I certainly remember it being more high-minded when I was a kid--but that hasn't been the case for a long time.
As a foreigner, my only experience with PBS was an hour long subject about hot dogs in America in one of the fine Delta Airlines planes from New York to Brussels.
Come on ! What's the point in cheating at counterstrike ? To always win the game ? Auto-aim and immortality can be fun for 5 minutes, but afterwards it makes the game boring for the cheaters and unwinnable for the honnest (counter)terrorists.
But most thieves are dumb, or at least cheap; do you think they are going to erase PhotoShop, etc and go out and buy a copy
Of course, a mere little burglar only willing to break into your house, will NEVER dare to make an illegal copy of Photoshop, which is a capital offense.
As it turns out, I know where socks go. According to a friend whose ex-husband used to repair washing machines, there is usually a gap between the basin and the top of the machine. Socks (and other light items) are occasionally sloshed over the top and into the internals of the washing machine
Great ! You've ruined billions of/. readers' moviegoing experience !
but if people don't want one enough to get one, what are they going to do when it gets pushed through their door?
Well maybe they will first ask us if we want one. They probably can't afford millions of those computers (Belgium : ten millions inhabitants, don't know how many households). I am happy with my t-bird 1200 and I don't want a stupid celery 450.
When they delivered free internet (SWING), it was the most crappy service on the market, you could hardly attain 3kBps.
Now if you want to flame me about the measure being discriminatory to the rich, you're welcome. Europeans don't reason that way.
The novel was transcribed to an excellent comic mini series back in the beginning of th 90s. Some pages can be seen on this page. The scenario is pretty well respected as it was written by Haldeman himself. I readthe comic before the book, and was disappointed by neither.
IP over Avian carriers was first proposed 11 years ago.
an RFC is not a hack, it's a proposition. If I were to build a break even nuclear fusion plant in my kitchen, it would be the hack of the year, although the principles are 40 years old
As opposed to hacking an XBox to use Linux (which I agree is a noble pursuit, if not flawed), why not find a cost-effective way to make a "LBox" out of cheap hardware. Put a penguin on the cover or something.
having programmed a 8051 a while ago, I'll guess BC is a pseudo 16-bit register formed by registers B and C, and it seems to me you're trying to put a 20-bit number in it (5 nibbles). But since the 4 MSB are 0, let's say you said LD BC,FFFFH in the first line. I further guess that loop will be 'executed' (there's nothing to execute) 65536 times before going on with lines 4.
No, it's european for what you call billion. What we call a billion is a million millions (what you call a trillion). What we call a trillion in turn is a million billions (what you call a quintillion). I guess you gun carrying republican voting (or not voting) anti abortion pro death penalty hamburger eater get the idea.
What we call a milliard is a thousand millions, what we call a billiard is a thousand billions,
what we call a trilliard is a thousand trillions and so on. This is perfect English, but also works in French, Italian, Dutch and many others.
Excuse me to have cited by heart, but I DID make the jump to the #transistor/die, when I talked about the 12 mm2 to 120 mm2 jump.
If you really want to count by transistor, we come from 2300 transistors on the 4004. We should thus expect 2.3 milliards transistors on the last generation, but instead we stick with a lousy 50 millions last time I checked. That's 20 times too few, or about 7 moore law generations. 10 fucking years, even worse than I told you. Thanks helping me making my point.
76.923076923, but the interesting thing is, that its both horizontal and vertical so its actually 5917.1597633 times better on the same square-inch.
Even more amazing is the fact that thirty years represent 20 Moore law generations. If we take this into account, we should have had a 2^20 = 1,000,000 factor, yet we only reach 6000. Even if we take into account the fact that we now take some 120 mm2 instead of 12 mm2 (ten times more), we still are log2 1e6 - log2 60,000 = 4 Moore law generations backwards ! That's six fucking years ! And you can add five more years if we stay at said 12 mm2.
At least, things are less serious as for the CPU clock : from four kHz to two GHz, it's only one generation backwards.
Is it me or didn't Arthur C. Clark, also father of the geostationary satellite, describe something that can be seen as hyperlinks, in his novel 2001 A space odyssey, more precisely on the orbital station around the earth ? can't check myself, I lent the book to a friend some years ago.
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You can do much better : wait till you're moderator, choose some random regular poster, and bitchslap him ! If you do all of this to the same person, the/. scripts will see it, and reset YOU karma to 0. (Did that)
I could perfectly live with it if it were not for the phone bill (In Belgium we pay about 1.5$ an hour during night).
I can download anything i want from work (university) and at home I do little but/. and E2. In fact, if I gave my 800 kbps ADSL modem to E2 and used my old modem for myself, I'd probably give myself and other noders a significant speedup.
This is similar to the technique used to add color to pictures of Russia, circa 1863-1944. Images can be found at The Library of Congress's website. The link is: (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html). Enjoy!
While we are used to slashdotters not reading the article, this is the first time I see one not even bothering to read the/. story.
When In was in my third year of engineering, three years ago, the first thing the Heat and Mass transfer ever said to us was "it's just the theory, there's about 30% error, everyone designs the cool fins empirically".
You put the heat sinc on the processor/chemical reactor/whatever and see if it's stable. If it is, cut off a piece and try again.
Despite telling it's empiric, the asshole eventually busted me for not knowing the formula for film condensation. And now I am graduated, I still can't see why this discipline is so important for electronical engineers.
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Come on ! What's the point in cheating at counterstrike ? To always win the game ? Auto-aim and immortality can be fun for 5 minutes, but afterwards it makes the game boring for the cheaters and unwinnable for the honnest (counter)terrorists.
Public education is a a waste of my tax EUROS : I don't have kids.
Oops, I make a living in education.
When they delivered free internet (SWING), it was the most crappy service on the market, you could hardly attain 3kBps.
Now if you want to flame me about the measure being discriminatory to the rich, you're welcome. Europeans don't reason that way.
The novel was transcribed to an excellent comic mini series back in the beginning of th 90s. Some pages can be seen on this page. The scenario is pretty well respected as it was written by Haldeman himself. I readthe comic before the book, and was disappointed by neither.
Squaresoft was founded in 1973. click here for next page. ---> And then in 1998 came Final Fantasy X.
having programmed a 8051 a while ago, I'll guess BC is a pseudo 16-bit register formed by registers B and C, and it seems to me you're trying to put a 20-bit number in it (5 nibbles). But since the 4 MSB are 0, let's say you said LD BC,FFFFH in the first line. I further guess that loop will be 'executed' (there's nothing to execute) 65536 times before going on with lines 4.
No, it's european for what you call billion. What we call a billion is a million millions (what you call a trillion). What we call a trillion in turn is a million billions (what you call a quintillion). I guess you gun carrying republican voting (or not voting) anti abortion pro death penalty hamburger eater get the idea.
What we call a milliard is a thousand millions, what we call a billiard is a thousand billions, what we call a trilliard is a thousand trillions and so on. This is perfect English, but also works in French, Italian, Dutch and many others.
Oops sorry, I meant 40 times too few (8 moore law generations, 12 years)
Excuse me to have cited by heart, but I DID make the jump to the #transistor/die, when I talked about the 12 mm2 to 120 mm2 jump.
If you really want to count by transistor, we come from 2300 transistors on the 4004. We should thus expect 2.3 milliards transistors on the last generation, but instead we stick with a lousy 50 millions last time I checked. That's 20 times too few, or about 7 moore law generations. 10 fucking years, even worse than I told you. Thanks helping me making my point.
At least, things are less serious as for the CPU clock : from four kHz to two GHz, it's only one generation backwards.
According to Donald Knuth, Art cannot be taught to a computer. Science can.
Is it me or didn't Arthur C. Clark, also father of the geostationary satellite, describe something that can be seen as hyperlinks, in his novel 2001 A space odyssey, more precisely on the orbital station around the earth ? can't check myself, I lent the book to a friend some years ago.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) /. scripts will see it, and reset YOU karma to 0. (Did that)
You can do much better : wait till you're moderator, choose some random regular poster, and bitchslap him ! If you do all of this to the same person, the
I could perfectly live with it if it were not for the phone bill (In Belgium we pay about 1.5$ an hour during night).
/. and E2. In fact, if I gave my 800 kbps ADSL modem to E2 and used my old modem for myself, I'd probably give myself and other noders a significant speedup.
I can download anything i want from work (university) and at home I do little but
While we are used to slashdotters not reading the article, this is the first time I see one not even bothering to read the
j35 d00d ! "BOOBEIS" is such a funny word
When In was in my third year of engineering, three years ago, the first thing the Heat and Mass transfer ever said to us was "it's just the theory, there's about 30% error, everyone designs the cool fins empirically".
You put the heat sinc on the processor/chemical reactor/whatever and see if it's stable. If it is, cut off a piece and try again.
Despite telling it's empiric, the asshole eventually busted me for not knowing the formula for film condensation. And now I am graduated, I still can't see why this discipline is so important for electronical engineers.
Well if your don't like it, don't watch it, and go back watching "all my circuits" again.