The Beeb may have had the BBC owl logo on it, but they were sold by (and the profits went to) Acorn. The Electron was basically a lost cost version of the Beeb, another part of the product line - it wasn't a rival. I was Acorn employeee ~12.
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Nope.
If you read Wolfram's "A new kind of science" you'll see that behaviour of systems like this is typically independent of initial conditions. It's the rule that counts. Of couse when a lot of rules are competing in parallel then the most efficient will win, so presumably DNA has itself evolved so that typical mutations are viable.
This sounds like a great way for them to lose their almost monopoly on the movie listings business.
moviefone.com is/was the only AOL site I use, but I'll just as happily use a competitor provied by Microsoft, Yahoo, Google or whoever steps up to the plate.
The only point I could see in using FPGAs would be if you were trying to rectreate an early MSI PDP-8 (these things existed before the single-chip microprocessor).
Maybe, but the functional capabilities of cars hasn't really changed for years.. They basically do all that anyone wants, and it's just a matter of what shape/color you want. Ditto for computers - they *used* to be annoyingly slow, but nowadays even old computers are fast enough for most people's needs. Heck, I'm a programmer and I still use a PII 233MHz - I've upgraded it with memory, additional hard drive, better CD drive and an ethernet card (for $10-15 a pop off eBay), and I simply have no need for a new machine. When I eventually do have to upgrade I'll be looking for *features* like size & low noise, as well as low cost, rather than some 3GHz penis extension.
It seems MS weenies often cite X being client-server as a weakness of Linux, and now Microsoft is going the client-server display route themselves! No doubt they're touting this as some radical new architecture. Yawn.
I didn't say that it couldn't be successful or a standard on the Windows platform - just that it isn't going to compete with.pdf! If anyone is OK with Windows-only then they may use this format, but anyone who is currently taking the bother to export to.pdf for distribution is doing so for a reason...
How on earth can this compete with.pdf if it's not a cross-platform standard?!! The WHOLE point to.pdf is that it's universally available. This is just another Windows-only format.
Huh? RMS's GNU posse were concentrating on things like emacs, gcc, glibs that may ring a bell with you. Linux only beat GNU to deliver a free Unix OS because all that Linus had to write was a kernel - the rest of Linux is... GNU.
If RMS & the FSF had been putting there effort into HURD rather than the rest of GNU, then Linux would not have attracted developers, because there would be no Linux - just a useless kernel sitting on some unknown Finn's hard drive.
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The kernel itself has supported 64 bit file ops since 2.4. glibc off_t, stat, fseek etc are 64bit if you choose them to be via standard compiler flags.
HIV transmission may be preventable, and anyways in the scheme of things it is pretty difficult to transmit.. However, a real fullblown worldwide Ebola plague or somesuch (and the soviets manufactured metric TONS of even worse biological agents, such as Marlburg), could easily wipe out 90% of the population in most highly populated areas.
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True, but it would be useful if Google could return links in more than one ranking order. The current (most linked to) order is certainly the generally most useful (at least I can think what'd be better), but it'd be nice to get at some of the "deep web" content that isn't so well connected. Perhaps to have an option for Google to return stuff in reverse order, or maybe to allow you to select a "linked together cluster" level you want to see - from max (default) to min.
No - he's not saying that he doesn't *read* patents, but rather that as a matter of policy he doesn't bother to check whether patents even may *exist*. He's not talking about ignoring known patents, but rather about not putting himself in a position where it could be claimed that he had.
Well, the whole thread is kinda of interesting, if it ever goes to trial, it will be slam dunk for the side for "willful violation". I mean, they are actively talking about ignoring the patents, as if they don't exisit.
Well, IANAL, but I think Linus's whole point was that by being plum ignorant about whether or not any patents exist in a given area, then no one has a leg to stand on to say that you willfully violated their patent, whereas if you knew it existed then they could claim that you did.
The low house edge for blackjack already assumes that you are playing perfectly (i.e. basic strategy)... If you DON'T play perfectly then the house will rape you just as well as at any other game.
Even playing perfectly though you will lose over the long run at blackjack unless you count and wang in/out or modify your bets significantly to take advantage of the count information. Winning "more times than not" without counting just means you're on a lucky streak (which could be hundreds of games long).
The Russians not only landed on the moon, but explored it with their unamnned "lunakhod" rovers, and also brought back rock samples (all unmanned).
While the US pisses away 1/2 billion at a time to put up shuttles, the entire Russian space budget is 120 million, and yet they are the ones who are sending up unmanned supply craft every few months to keep ISS operating.
If it's a matter of getting a job done in space then I'd bet on Russia. If it's a matter of pissing away huge sums of money for little benefit then the US is light years ahead.
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The Beeb may have had the BBC owl logo on it, but they were sold by (and the profits went to) Acorn. The Electron was basically a lost cost version of the Beeb, another part of the product line - it wasn't a rival. I was Acorn employeee ~12.
Nope.
If you read Wolfram's "A new kind of science" you'll see that behaviour of systems like this is typically independent of initial conditions. It's the rule that counts. Of couse when a lot of rules are competing in parallel then the most efficient will win, so presumably DNA has itself evolved so that typical mutations are viable.
This sounds like a great way for them to lose their almost monopoly on the movie listings business.
moviefone.com is/was the only AOL site I use, but I'll just as happily use a competitor provied by Microsoft, Yahoo, Google or whoever steps up to the plate.
The Harris HD-6120 "PDP-8 on a chip" is still available, and is what this guy is using:
- 2. htm
http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/SBC6120
The only point I could see in using FPGAs would be if you were trying to rectreate an early MSI PDP-8 (these things existed before the single-chip microprocessor).
Maybe, but the functional capabilities of cars hasn't really changed for years.. They basically do all that anyone wants, and it's just a matter of what shape/color you want. Ditto for computers - they *used* to be annoyingly slow, but nowadays even old computers are fast enough for most people's needs. Heck, I'm a programmer and I still use a PII 233MHz - I've upgraded it with memory, additional hard drive, better CD drive and an ethernet card (for $10-15 a pop off eBay), and I simply have no need for a new machine. When I eventually do have to upgrade I'll be looking for *features* like size & low noise, as well as low cost, rather than some 3GHz penis extension.
It wasn't even news yesterday.
* 2002-11-18 19:46:46 Segway $4,950 at Amazon - 3/2003 delivery (articles,news) (rejected)
You want wireless, then put 802.11b between your computer and x-terminal, dumbass.
It seems MS weenies often cite X being client-server as a weakness of Linux, and now Microsoft is going the client-server display route themselves! No doubt they're touting this as some radical new architecture. Yawn.
No dude - it'd be kinda like viewing crappy EGA dithered porn you downloaded from some BBS 10 years ago.
Cool! We'll be able to heat up pop-tarts in the CD drive!
I didn't say that it couldn't be successful or a standard on the Windows platform - just that it isn't going to compete with .pdf! If anyone is OK with Windows-only then they may use this format, but anyone who is currently taking the bother to export to .pdf for distribution is doing so for a reason...
How on earth can this compete with .pdf if it's not a cross-platform standard?!! The WHOLE point to .pdf is that it's universally available. This is just another Windows-only format.
Huh? RMS's GNU posse were concentrating on things like emacs, gcc, glibs that may ring a bell with you. Linux only beat GNU to deliver a free Unix OS because all that Linus had to write was a kernel - the rest of Linux is ... GNU.
If RMS & the FSF had been putting there effort into HURD rather than the rest of GNU, then Linux would not have attracted developers, because there would be no Linux - just a useless kernel sitting on some unknown Finn's hard drive.
The kernel itself has supported 64 bit file ops since 2.4. glibc off_t, stat, fseek etc are 64bit if you choose them to be via standard compiler flags.
IOW: STFU.
.. or pay their taxes by writing a cheque to "The Man".
We have BT, and they freakin' invented hyperlinks.
That's nothing. We have Al Gore, and he invented the whole freakin' internet!
HIV transmission may be preventable, and anyways in the scheme of things it is pretty difficult to transmit.. However, a real fullblown worldwide Ebola plague or somesuch (and the soviets manufactured metric TONS of even worse biological agents, such as Marlburg), could easily wipe out 90% of the population in most highly populated areas.
True, but it would be useful if Google could return links in more than one ranking order. The current (most linked to) order is certainly the generally most useful (at least I can think what'd be better), but it'd be nice to get at some of the "deep web" content that isn't so well connected. Perhaps to have an option for Google to return stuff in reverse order, or maybe to allow you to select a "linked together cluster" level you want to see - from max (default) to min.
No - he's not saying that he doesn't *read* patents, but rather that as a matter of policy he doesn't bother to check whether patents even may *exist*. He's not talking about ignoring known patents, but rather about not putting himself in a position where it could be claimed that he had.
Well, the whole thread is kinda of interesting, if it ever goes to trial, it will be slam dunk for the side for "willful violation". I mean, they are actively talking about ignoring the patents, as if they don't exisit.
Well, IANAL, but I think Linus's whole point was that by being plum ignorant about whether or not any patents exist in a given area, then no one has a leg to stand on to say that you willfully violated their patent, whereas if you knew it existed then they could claim that you did.
The low house edge for blackjack already assumes that you are playing perfectly (i.e. basic strategy)... If you DON'T play perfectly then the house will rape you just as well as at any other game.
Even playing perfectly though you will lose over the long run at blackjack unless you count and wang in/out or modify your bets significantly to take advantage of the count information. Winning "more times than not" without counting just means you're on a lucky streak (which could be hundreds of games long).
The Russians not only landed on the moon, but explored it with their unamnned "lunakhod" rovers, and also brought back rock samples (all unmanned).
While the US pisses away 1/2 billion at a time to put up shuttles, the entire Russian space budget is 120 million, and yet they are the ones who are sending up unmanned supply craft every few months to keep ISS operating.
If it's a matter of getting a job done in space then I'd bet on Russia. If it's a matter of pissing away huge sums of money for little benefit then the US is light years ahead.
Nice explanation - thanks!
Has "I'm a rocket scientist" helped you get laid?
This sounds to me like the good old dry British sense of humor at work, not some US style "you farted in my airspace" whacky law suit.