Re:AMI BIOS and beeping console
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Pet Bugs?
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You make an interesting argument, which is slightly wrong and completely irrelevant.
It is slightly wrong, because the circular keyboard buffer has the capacity of 32 bytes, which suffices for 16 keystrokes, each represented as SCAN + ASCII.
It is completely irrelevant, since modifier keys status is kept in bytes 417h and 418h. Instead, when a modifier + regular key combination is pressed, ASCII is 00h and SCAN reflects the combination.
Thus the necessity to redirect INT 9 interrupt if handling modifier key events alone is required.
Trains in Russia are heavily used for both long and short distances. Short distance trains are usually powered by electricity, while long distance work on fuel.
Besides, how exactly "fatalities per million train km" isn't "a very useful way" to compare statistics? It provides you exactly with the chance of being killed if you take train for X hours.
When I lived in USSR, train derailments were something practically unheard off. There were couple of head-to-head collisions, but this isn't exactly train safety, rather administration.
I will tell you what. Never else have I seen better rails condition than in Russia. Perhaps the train companies in (for example) Britain have calculated their cost of life loss in accidents (like Ford), and decided that it isn't worth to keep the rails properly.
More importantly, what is the project, and why is your boss specifying language features rather than project design goals?
Because there is no project, but an idiot who decided to troll Slashdot today? What kind of boss do you think will know what all the criterias this dude mentioned mean, that won't be able to pick the language himself? Don't tell me you are that gullible.
My point? Evolution is a non issue. The real debate is in the origin of the framework by which everything evolves. Scientists playing with DNA can make pretty much anything happen. But they still can't create matter with a thought.
Not necessarily. One of the possible answers - Process Physics.
Suddenly your conjecture isn't so obvious after all, eh?
I was talking about the S and K combinators, which are these closed functions:
K x y = x
S x y z = (x z)(y z)
It turns out you can rewrite any lambda calculus program, and thus, any computable function, with just these! (One of the neatest things I've ever learned...)
Oh, thanks - now I remember:) I and J are similar to S and K, but for another variant of lambda calculus, where all variables must be "used" (so, K would not be valid anymore).
By the way, did you know that you can express both S and K using only one combinator?
If you define X as lambda x . (x S K), then (X (X (X X))) and (X (X (X (X X)))) resolve to K and S, respectively. This one was invented by Mayer Goldberg, our CS faculty member.
It's not even true... There were passport numbers (letters with numbers, actually), but you got a passport only when you became 16. And even those numbers almost weren't used.
Re:Craziness with transcendental and imaginary #s
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Share The Pi!
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Yep, this bit is usually referenced when speaking of Euler equation.
What about the controversial issues in these
open encyclopedias - I don't mean Windows/Linux
stuff, I am talking about the really controversial
things, such as Middle East conflict, for example.
Are projects like Wikipedia built to deal with it? Usenet-style wars on articles?
Just don't tell me the regular users will decide what's right and wrong, it won't work.
Actually, something like "coding under Xtreme conditions" is actually part of the training that soldiers in IDF computer units receive as part of their course...
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You make an interesting argument, which is slightly wrong and completely irrelevant.
It is slightly wrong, because the circular keyboard buffer has the capacity of 32 bytes, which suffices for 16 keystrokes, each represented as SCAN + ASCII.
It is completely irrelevant, since modifier keys status is kept in bytes 417h and 418h. Instead, when a modifier + regular key combination is pressed, ASCII is 00h and SCAN reflects the combination.
Thus the necessity to redirect INT 9 interrupt if handling modifier key events alone is required.
Eh, bullshit.
Trains in Russia are heavily used for both long and short distances. Short distance trains are usually powered by electricity, while long distance work on fuel.
Besides, how exactly "fatalities per million train km" isn't "a very useful way" to compare statistics? It provides you exactly with the chance of being killed if you take train for X hours.
When I lived in USSR, train derailments were something practically unheard off. There were couple of head-to-head collisions, but this isn't exactly train safety, rather administration.
I will tell you what. Never else have I seen better rails condition than in Russia. Perhaps the train companies in (for example) Britain have calculated their cost of life loss in accidents (like Ford), and decided that it isn't worth to keep the rails properly.
More importantly, what is the project, and why is your boss specifying language features rather than project design goals?
Because there is no project, but an idiot who decided to troll Slashdot today? What kind of boss do you think will know what all the criterias this dude mentioned mean, that won't be able to pick the language himself? Don't tell me you are that gullible.
My point? Evolution is a non issue. The real debate is in the origin of the framework by which everything evolves. Scientists playing with DNA can make pretty much anything happen. But they still can't create matter with a thought.
Not necessarily. One of the possible answers - Process Physics.
Suddenly your conjecture isn't so obvious after all, eh?
I was talking about the S and K combinators, which are these closed functions:
K x y = x
S x y z = (x z)(y z)
It turns out you can rewrite any lambda calculus program, and thus, any computable function, with just these! (One of the neatest things I've ever learned...)
Oh, thanks - now I remember :) I and J are similar to S and K, but for another variant of lambda calculus, where all variables must be "used" (so, K would not be valid anymore).
By the way, did you know that you can express both S and K using only one combinator?
If you define X as lambda x . (x S K), then (X (X (X X))) and (X (X (X (X X)))) resolve to K and S, respectively. This one was invented by Mayer Goldberg, our CS faculty member.
Heh, your notion of "relatively easy" and "not as nice" must be somewhat different from mine...
Actually, there is a simpler language that uses only two functions (!), but this one is pretty hard to program in directly.
Are you talking about the IJ basis for the lambda calculus?
It's not even true... There were passport numbers (letters with numbers, actually), but you got a passport only when you became 16. And even those numbers almost weren't used.
Yep, this bit is usually referenced when speaking of Euler equation.
Don't be ridiculous. Why do you think the start end end indexes into pi will be of shorter length than the message itself?
Assuming computing power doubles every 18 months, computers will be 16777216 times faster in 36 years (24 18 month periods = 2^24 times faster)
I think you are overly optimistic. Computers today already approach the limits of density (uncertainty principle) and speed (speed of light).
What about the controversial issues in these open encyclopedias - I don't mean Windows/Linux stuff, I am talking about the really controversial things, such as Middle East conflict, for example.
Are projects like Wikipedia built to deal with it? Usenet-style wars on articles?
Just don't tell me the regular users will decide what's right and wrong, it won't work.
The three GB allowance per month represents something like 600 MP3 songs (average 5Mb per song) or 300 two to three minute MPEG videos a month.
Napster and pr0n :)
Actually, something like "coding under Xtreme conditions" is actually part of the training that soldiers in IDF computer units receive as part of their course...