If you know the MTBF on your computing system (including every necessary system all the way back to the watershed that's driving the hydroelectric plant) then yes, you can do a cost-benefit analysis.
But if you're a yahoo at J. Random University who's just writing in his thesis, you're going to type:w ever few words, no?
If the system it runs on is out of your control, and you have no idea of the probability of a crash in the next few weeks, and you only have one or two shots to get it done, you need to maximize the robustness.
But yea, you're right, don't get paralytic about it. Just organize your data and state info into a data structure that can be serialized to a file and read back in later.
AMD got ahead of Intel on 64-bit with backward compatibility to IA32.
So when Intel releases Prescott and turns on the Yamhill features, AMD's 64-bit system will suddenly be incompatible with Intel's 64-bit system.
There is no chicken and egg, here. Intel will still sell more chips than AMD regardless of compatibility design; then those interested in compatibility will choose Intel to get the larger market to sell their SW into. This will also happen if Itanium prevails, though AMD will have the backward compatibility to help it a little with some markets.
Intel will win, no matter how many people say on message boards they want AMD.
The apt comparison is Microsoft and Apple. Enthusiasm and commitment are not the dominant forces of economics.
Any program that you intend to run for more than a day or two you should checkpoint its intermediate results to disk, even if this adds 100% to the run time.
--Blair
P.S. Alternatively, you could write a program to have the rebooted computer pull scrabble tiles from a bag structure and print them to the screen. You might at least get some clue as to whether it was asking the right question.
Big disadvantage with this, though, is that the thinner it gets, the trickier it is to get into your quickdraw. I had length-matched 'draws with BD 'hotwire' krabs on them in the crux section so I wouldn't fumble the clip. A 3mm spider-silk rope wuld be very tricky to clip with - like using prussik cord. perhaps you could stiffen a section in the manner of the Beal program ropes to make clipping easier and the sheath more durable?
Damn.
Babelfish just looks at me funny when I feed it this.
- The moon's orbit about the Earth is a 100-page equation, not a constant.
- The Earth's rotation is not circular (it "sloshes").
- The Earth's shape is not constant.
- The Earth's mass is not constant, so the general relativistic field in which the moon orbits is not constant.
- Okay, so we know where that telescope is relative to the moon. Now where is it relative to my house? To Washington? To Wendy's?
- Isn't this just an attempt by the Bush White House to wag the dog to distract attention from the fistfight the President and Vice President had during the game Sunday?
How big a difference does component versus composite video make on the PS2? (Or versus S-video for that matter?)
It's subtle. S-video is a little sharper and deeper than composite video, and component video has slightly richer color than S-video.
But mostly, S-video uses that nifty mini-DIN connector* and two audio connectors, and for component video you need five plugs, which makes you super-l33t with the chix in the AV club...
--Blair
* - Actually, it's not really nifty. I despise multi-pin connectors with symmetrical housings. If I can't insert it blind without hunting for alignment or using my finger to make a wax impression, it sucks. D-sub was the only connector that was ever designed correctly. RJ's are okay, but still require a little poking to get them in right.
P.S. Now accepting donations for the Kate Botello Cosmetic Surgery Fund. (If there's any money left over, we'll get Adam a voice synthesizer chip that works...)
That's more attributable to Grace Hopper, but she didn't coin it, she just made a joke of it, pasting the moth in her lab notebook and annotating it "first real bug".
Shell comes down, buries in dirt, explodes. Shrapnel flies everywhere, but mostly up. Maybe shell has an altitude based fuse, so it explodes in the air. Shrapnel flies everywhere.
New way:
Shell comes down, gets zapped by laser. Shrapnel flies everywhere.
Still, you have supersonic, ballistic shrapnel, and still, you have it landing full-speed on the target.
Slashdot Mirror
"Embrace, and extend."
AMD's will be incompatible with software written for Intel's.
--Blair
If you know the MTBF on your computing system (including every necessary system all the way back to the watershed that's driving the hydroelectric plant) then yes, you can do a cost-benefit analysis.
:w ever few words, no?
But if you're a yahoo at J. Random University who's just writing in his thesis, you're going to type
If the system it runs on is out of your control, and you have no idea of the probability of a crash in the next few weeks, and you only have one or two shots to get it done, you need to maximize the robustness.
But yea, you're right, don't get paralytic about it. Just organize your data and state info into a data structure that can be serialized to a file and read back in later.
--Blair
AMD got ahead of Intel on 64-bit with backward compatibility to IA32.
So when Intel releases Prescott and turns on the Yamhill features, AMD's 64-bit system will suddenly be incompatible with Intel's 64-bit system.
There is no chicken and egg, here. Intel will still sell more chips than AMD regardless of compatibility design; then those interested in compatibility will choose Intel to get the larger market to sell their SW into. This will also happen if Itanium prevails, though AMD will have the backward compatibility to help it a little with some markets.
Intel will win, no matter how many people say on message boards they want AMD.
The apt comparison is Microsoft and Apple. Enthusiasm and commitment are not the dominant forces of economics.
--Blair
Any program that you intend to run for more than a day or two you should checkpoint its intermediate results to disk, even if this adds 100% to the run time.
--Blair
P.S. Alternatively, you could write a program to have the rebooted computer pull scrabble tiles from a bag structure and print them to the screen. You might at least get some clue as to whether it was asking the right question.
Big disadvantage with this, though, is that the thinner it gets, the trickier it is to get into your quickdraw. I had length-matched 'draws with BD 'hotwire' krabs on them in the crux section so I wouldn't fumble the clip. A 3mm spider-silk rope wuld be very tricky to clip with - like using prussik cord. perhaps you could stiffen a section in the manner of the Beal program ropes to make clipping easier and the sheath more durable?
Damn.
Babelfish just looks at me funny when I feed it this.
--Blair
- The moon's orbit about the Earth is a 100-page equation, not a constant.
- The Earth's rotation is not circular (it "sloshes").
- The Earth's shape is not constant.
- The Earth's mass is not constant, so the general relativistic field in which the moon orbits is not constant.
- Okay, so we know where that telescope is relative to the moon. Now where is it relative to my house? To Washington? To Wendy's?
- Isn't this just an attempt by the Bush White House to wag the dog to distract attention from the fistfight the President and Vice President had during the game Sunday?
--Blair
Ahem.
That is why they call them Flash chips, you know.
--Blair
"Mulling over 'No Score +1 Bonus' checkbox just now...although 'Post Anonymously' would probably be safer..."
How big a difference does component versus composite video make on the PS2? (Or versus S-video for that matter?)
It's subtle. S-video is a little sharper and deeper than composite video, and component video has slightly richer color than S-video.
But mostly, S-video uses that nifty mini-DIN connector* and two audio connectors, and for component video you need five plugs, which makes you super-l33t with the chix in the AV club...
--Blair
* - Actually, it's not really nifty. I despise multi-pin connectors with symmetrical housings. If I can't insert it blind without hunting for alignment or using my finger to make a wax impression, it sucks. D-sub was the only connector that was ever designed correctly. RJ's are okay, but still require a little poking to get them in right.
Almost there.
Game consoles have Component Video outputs, too, and I could tell the difference between composite, S, and component video on my PS2.
The only component (other than my TV itself) I've found that has more than one CV input (without costing $2k) is this one:
Kenwood VR-510
prices and (glowing, possibly astroturfed) reviews
I got the $399 one; $27 for ground shipping. It should arrive early this week.
--Blair
"No, I did need a new receiver, too."
Yes it does. It does exactly that. It kills bacteria. Bacteria--yeast--are what cause fermentation. Kill them, you prevent fermentation.
--Blair
...be having this discussion.
Extended Play
--Blair
P.S. Now accepting donations for the Kate Botello Cosmetic Surgery Fund. (If there's any money left over, we'll get Adam a voice synthesizer chip that works...)
No, canning, of fruit, even, was invented nearly 200 years ago.
Pasteurization, the same basic thing with lower temperatures, was "invented" 150 years ago.
--Blair
That's more attributable to Grace Hopper, but she didn't coin it, she just made a joke of it, pasting the moth in her lab notebook and annotating it "first real bug".
--Blair
Old way:
Shell comes down, buries in dirt, explodes. Shrapnel flies everywhere, but mostly up. Maybe shell has an altitude based fuse, so it explodes in the air. Shrapnel flies everywhere.
New way:
Shell comes down, gets zapped by laser. Shrapnel flies everywhere.
Still, you have supersonic, ballistic shrapnel, and still, you have it landing full-speed on the target.
--Blair
Why not go to Afghanistan and observe it first-hand?
--Blair
Should I be surprised that I've never noticed the P4 ads until I saw the one popping up at the top of this thread?
--Blair
And have they ever been wrong?
--Blair
I think the archaeologists were hired by some governmental entity to do the testing...
--Blair
I think 9/11 just proved that the only time you can change the world is when it craps its pants.
--Blair
Uh, you do realize the lights are not on, right?
--Blair
"Coincidence? Or conspiracy..."
Negazactly.
The existing wire has existing capacity.
Adding a switch to the end just adds a switch to the end, which you can do by adding a switch to the end.
If you need additional capacity, you're going to pull more wire.
These toys are neat for the same reason in-wall wiring was neat in the '20s. It's neater.
--Blair
I think that's exactly what he was mentioning.
--Blair
"Hey! Isn't that John Ashcroft...in a dress?"
There is, it's called
DON'T CLICK ON EXECUTABLE ATTACHMENTS, EINSTEIN!
--Blair
(*COFF*)
(*COFF COFF*)
--Blair
"Allergic to lint."
And it's John Campbell.
Amazing Stories was Hugo Gernsback, in case anyone's just wondering.
--Blair