And ignoring the fact that the government of France is right now trolling through the data it strongarmed out of Google's hands.
If there's anyone who has no right to see even a single byte of that data without a warrant sworn out by name against the citizens who sent that data over the wi-fi, it's the government.
Seems to me that liquid mirrors would be orders of magnitude more sensitive to vibrations than solid ones. (Experiement: fill a glass with water; tap the glass; which has a greater amplitude, the ripples on the surface of the water, or the ripples on the surface of the glass?)
And rotating something large and heavy with a motor, moreso while simultaneously manipulating its surface with several dozen actuators, is a huge source of vibrations.
It's always windy somewhere. The grid distributes the energy from where it's windy to where it's not.
I agree we need more nuke plants, but wind generation has risk of creating mass casualties, so the more nuke plants we can omit in favor of wind plants, the better.
Besides, the wind is going to be around a lot longer than the fissile material is.
As for "more jobs", it doesn't matter what you build. It creates some construction jobs up front, some maintenance jobs in the back, and the operator is going to automate just as much as he can feasibly automate.
When i first read the headline I was befuddled. The whole point of the game is that its structures replicate themselves and create other things all over the map.
But I don't recall ever seeing one that made multiple copies of itself, and then died.
I disagree. Assigning a URI to every piece of data is a duplication of data and a waste of bandwidth, both of the network and of the people designing the linking system.
As Google has proved, the web is content-addressable, and URIs are relegated to being routing tokens. They're exposed to the user, but they really don't need to be.
But consider what happens if we cause the routing also to be performed on a content-addressable basis... No more URIs. Your request for the information is routed based on requesting of the nodes near you which one is likely to know the answer. Then when you do a Google-type search, the response you get isn't a URI for your browser to follow, it's the answer itself.
Every incident of violence you have ever observed was "simulated" by your retina and optic cortex.
And whether those are polygonal avatars of women or actual women in polygonal costumes doesn't matter. It's propagandizing you into believing it's okay to do that in a video game. Whether you have the mental feature set installed to keep you from mistaking the simulation for actual behavior, or the moral feature set to keep you from thinking it's how you should behave towards real women, isn't really relevant. The desensitization is there.
There's a law called the "Truth in Negotiations Act", "TINA" for short, which essentially states that when bidding on a government contract, if you can do the job for less than you bid it for you have broken the law. The bid discloses estimated profits, and the government goes along with varying rates of profit, but if your profit is bigger than you disclose, and it's because you put in a cost item that your company (not just the department doing the bidding, to prevent firewalling to induce uncertainty) knew it could do cheaper (not that it was doing it cheaper), then you are deemed to have ripped off the government knowingly.
I'd love to see a similar law passed for consumer transactions.
So a gaming site mentioning GTA4 could be counted as violence, drugs & porn.
Yes. It could.
That game is violent, glorifies drugs, and treats women as prostitutes fit only to be murdered and robbed.
You may not need "protecting" from that, but your apparent attitude that it is not what it is could be a result of your having been propagandized by it.
They essentially defined their entire language in a couple of pages.
That's not C, and it sure isn't C++.
It's a tiny subset of either, but, like English, it's the subset pretty much any speaker can speak. And, like the commonly-spoken subset of English, it quickly hits its limitations should up anything complicated and technically constrained come.
Only in situations where, as per your example, you can cram a couple thousand actions per second into a chip executing 60 thousand instructions per second; i.e., everything you do takes a couple dozen instructions or less. Pumping the brakes on an ABS might fit that sort of model, but guiding a car to parallel-park itself will not.
Once your requirements get more complex, and involve a mix of long and short tasks at varying priorities (especially those where the long tasks are low priority and the short ones are safety-critical priority), you'll come running back to interrupt-driven designs and live happily ever after.
Not least because you can modulate the clock speed on an interrupt-driven system to zero when there's no input (and no need for periodic output), lowering your power requirements to current-leakage levels. Try that on a polling system.
Slashdot Mirror
So someone talking on a payphone can send you to jail for walking past him with your tape-recorder turned on?
And ignoring the fact that the government of France is right now trolling through the data it strongarmed out of Google's hands.
If there's anyone who has no right to see even a single byte of that data without a warrant sworn out by name against the citizens who sent that data over the wi-fi, it's the government.
And the "FirefoxSphere" is all about keeping Adblock turned on, and wondering what everyone's being so fussy about.
Seems to me that liquid mirrors would be orders of magnitude more sensitive to vibrations than solid ones. (Experiement: fill a glass with water; tap the glass; which has a greater amplitude, the ripples on the surface of the water, or the ripples on the surface of the glass?)
And rotating something large and heavy with a motor, moreso while simultaneously manipulating its surface with several dozen actuators, is a huge source of vibrations.
Information tunnelling from the future has quantum uncertainties associated with it.
Get over it.
He has to pay him first.
What have you learned about .jpg vs. .gif?
I was going to limit it to the Republican Caucus.
It's always windy somewhere. The grid distributes the energy from where it's windy to where it's not.
I agree we need more nuke plants, but wind generation has risk of creating mass casualties, so the more nuke plants we can omit in favor of wind plants, the better.
Besides, the wind is going to be around a lot longer than the fissile material is.
As for "more jobs", it doesn't matter what you build. It creates some construction jobs up front, some maintenance jobs in the back, and the operator is going to automate just as much as he can feasibly automate.
Now that's interesting.
When i first read the headline I was befuddled. The whole point of the game is that its structures replicate themselves and create other things all over the map.
But I don't recall ever seeing one that made multiple copies of itself, and then died.
Evolution is the preservation of beneficial traits
Wrong.
Evolution is the preservation of non-detrimental traits.
In this case it's, "made more money letting a few cameras wander around his family's life than in decades of laborious rock and roll."
Do they have any of Ozzy's old DNA?
i'd love to see a before-and-after diff...
That's why they're in patent trolling instead.
Kindly cease and desist using a method of concatenating letters to form words. It is patent-pending.
I disagree. Assigning a URI to every piece of data is a duplication of data and a waste of bandwidth, both of the network and of the people designing the linking system.
As Google has proved, the web is content-addressable, and URIs are relegated to being routing tokens. They're exposed to the user, but they really don't need to be.
But consider what happens if we cause the routing also to be performed on a content-addressable basis... No more URIs. Your request for the information is routed based on requesting of the nodes near you which one is likely to know the answer. Then when you do a Google-type search, the response you get isn't a URI for your browser to follow, it's the answer itself.
For want of a geologist, an earthquake prediction was lost...
All their lawyer has to do is present the science.
The prosecutor will look like an utter fool.
Every incident of violence you have ever observed was "simulated" by your retina and optic cortex.
And whether those are polygonal avatars of women or actual women in polygonal costumes doesn't matter. It's propagandizing you into believing it's okay to do that in a video game. Whether you have the mental feature set installed to keep you from mistaking the simulation for actual behavior, or the moral feature set to keep you from thinking it's how you should behave towards real women, isn't really relevant. The desensitization is there.
Yes.
There's a law called the "Truth in Negotiations Act", "TINA" for short, which essentially states that when bidding on a government contract, if you can do the job for less than you bid it for you have broken the law. The bid discloses estimated profits, and the government goes along with varying rates of profit, but if your profit is bigger than you disclose, and it's because you put in a cost item that your company (not just the department doing the bidding, to prevent firewalling to induce uncertainty) knew it could do cheaper (not that it was doing it cheaper), then you are deemed to have ripped off the government knowingly.
I'd love to see a similar law passed for consumer transactions.
A 100-employee design/manufacturing firm doesn't have someone considered to be an Operations Manager or General Manager?
Sounds like the CEO or VP is passing the buck for Getting Things Done to the Clinical department manager.
So a gaming site mentioning GTA4 could be counted as violence, drugs & porn.
Yes. It could.
That game is violent, glorifies drugs, and treats women as prostitutes fit only to be murdered and robbed.
You may not need "protecting" from that, but your apparent attitude that it is not what it is could be a result of your having been propagandized by it.
But the beer costs $10 a glass.
They have much to learn about balancing the needs of the people and the needs of the state.
They essentially defined their entire language in a couple of pages.
That's not C, and it sure isn't C++.
It's a tiny subset of either, but, like English, it's the subset pretty much any speaker can speak. And, like the commonly-spoken subset of English, it quickly hits its limitations should up anything complicated and technically constrained come.
polling has great latency response
Only in situations where, as per your example, you can cram a couple thousand actions per second into a chip executing 60 thousand instructions per second; i.e., everything you do takes a couple dozen instructions or less. Pumping the brakes on an ABS might fit that sort of model, but guiding a car to parallel-park itself will not.
Once your requirements get more complex, and involve a mix of long and short tasks at varying priorities (especially those where the long tasks are low priority and the short ones are safety-critical priority), you'll come running back to interrupt-driven designs and live happily ever after.
Not least because you can modulate the clock speed on an interrupt-driven system to zero when there's no input (and no need for periodic output), lowering your power requirements to current-leakage levels. Try that on a polling system.