Re:Great job, now to clean up XML itself
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Tim Bray Says RELAX
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XML is not a programming language. Lisp is not a markup language. I believe the comparison you were looking for was to s-expressions, which are a lot lighter than XML but don't do nearly as much. That, and nobody outside Lisp/Schemers use them. Hell, the nascent JSON spec already has more traction.
I hate the state-based motion controls on Gears, though. You know, when you're behind the wall, the controls are of a different state than when running freely. It really does distract from an active firefight.
This is possibly the least efficient way to cool a processor ever conceived. A thermocouple is like a dam, except with heat. It doesn't generate much energy unless there's heat buildup on once side. Heat buildup is exactly what you do not want in your processor. I'd be amazed if a chip didn't break outright set up like this.
That's why you'd need a different design. I'm not a thermal engineer, and I presume you aren't either. But it's not really that unbelieveable that a cooling design could be implemented that would be able to do both at the same time.
He doesn't need to be a thermal engineer; what you're saying is fucking retarded. A thermocouple requires a temperature differential to produce electricity. The greater the differential, the greater the current generated. A heat sink removes temperature differential. The greater the differential removed, the greater the cooling. Are you beginning to see the problem here? You can't arbitrarily combine two diametrically opposed things and expect shit to work. Am I getting through yet? Do I need to break out the crayolas and draw you a fucking map?
Yeah, I meant to reply to myself and forgot. I'd give you my upmods if I could. Still, you reversed one thing: the shearing caused by fast cooling produces martensite, not pearlite. Bainite (I think) is produced by fast cooling down to some intermediate temperature followed by slow cooling.
Either that, or he's confused about basic smithing. The basic idea behind a sword is that you beat the shit out of the edge while it's cooling to form hard, brittle martensite while the rest of the body forms as soft pearlite to avoid cracking. Then there's the L6 bainite supersword, which is just nuts.
You're a bit confused here. First off, Damascus steel can refer to two types of metal: pattern-welded and wootz. The folded type is pattern-welded; any asshole can make this. You just take a couple of different ores, fold them together a few times and you end up with patterns. The acid or laser or whatever bath is simply used to make the finished sword look better. It doesn't really change the chemical or mechanical makeup of the sword (ie dunking Herbert Q. Orcslayer in acid will never turn it into Damascus).
Wootz is an entirely different animal. The technique was lost because it depended upon certain ores with trace impurities which dried up in the 1700s or so. The carbon would clump together which formed the distinctive banding.
Summary: pattern-welded = 2 different ores folded in alternating layers form a pattern, wootz = forging process and chemical composition of ore results in macroscopic pattern-forming carbon lamellae
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We'd be more than happy to give away Detroit
It's not the Large Earth Collider that kills people, it's the large Earth collision
Only after you sell it for game time cards
XML is not a programming language. Lisp is not a markup language. I believe the comparison you were looking for was to s-expressions, which are a lot lighter than XML but don't do nearly as much. That, and nobody outside Lisp/Schemers use them. Hell, the nascent JSON spec already has more traction.
But I already have an Everquest subscription!
Though true, it does nothing to reduce the magnitude of his asshattery in absolute terms
It will, but nobody will want it because of the lack of a rumble pack
Wow, that comment generated a mod frezy. PROTIP: the parent is not a troll. Should you feel the need to mod it down, do so with flamebait.
Way to recommend the 44 year old arthritic the two most activity-heavy game types, douchebag.
I believe the English translation would be "penis"
What's with that name? Is he a super hero?
Not enterprise enough. You should set it up so that the ThingImpl superclass implements INukable, then update the XML mappings in 6 different places.
I take it you're an Emacs user. How droll.
This is possibly the least efficient way to cool a processor ever conceived. A thermocouple is like a dam, except with heat. It doesn't generate much energy unless there's heat buildup on once side. Heat buildup is exactly what you do not want in your processor. I'd be amazed if a chip didn't break outright set up like this.
He doesn't need to be a thermal engineer; what you're saying is fucking retarded. A thermocouple requires a temperature differential to produce electricity. The greater the differential, the greater the current generated. A heat sink removes temperature differential. The greater the differential removed, the greater the cooling. Are you beginning to see the problem here? You can't arbitrarily combine two diametrically opposed things and expect shit to work. Am I getting through yet? Do I need to break out the crayolas and draw you a fucking map?
Thermo FUCKING dynamics.
Bullshit. Dump 10% Kool-aid powder in there and get Kool-aid. Stick a teabag in there and get tea. Run it through some beans and get coffee.
Annoyingly, they don't know how fast the memory is
Yeah, I meant to reply to myself and forgot. I'd give you my upmods if I could. Still, you reversed one thing: the shearing caused by fast cooling produces martensite, not pearlite. Bainite (I think) is produced by fast cooling down to some intermediate temperature followed by slow cooling.
That just means you're a lazy asshole
Either that, or he's confused about basic smithing. The basic idea behind a sword is that you beat the shit out of the edge while it's cooling to form hard, brittle martensite while the rest of the body forms as soft pearlite to avoid cracking. Then there's the L6 bainite supersword, which is just nuts.
You're a bit confused here. First off, Damascus steel can refer to two types of metal: pattern-welded and wootz. The folded type is pattern-welded; any asshole can make this. You just take a couple of different ores, fold them together a few times and you end up with patterns. The acid or laser or whatever bath is simply used to make the finished sword look better. It doesn't really change the chemical or mechanical makeup of the sword (ie dunking Herbert Q. Orcslayer in acid will never turn it into Damascus).
Wootz is an entirely different animal. The technique was lost because it depended upon certain ores with trace impurities which dried up in the 1700s or so. The carbon would clump together which formed the distinctive banding.
Summary: pattern-welded = 2 different ores folded in alternating layers form a pattern, wootz = forging process and chemical composition of ore results in macroscopic pattern-forming carbon lamellae
Wow, looks like a phpBB in here. Does that mean I have to post even more retardedly than normal?
Sexp syntax is so dead simple that it is difficult to visually parse.
(big-wad (of stuff (wibble (blargh foo) lambda (foghat) (baz bork bork) bork ))
Don't forget about software transactional memory. Haskell already has it, and I'm sure there are more implementations to come (Perl 6, for instance).