They've already moved 27 armies into Kamchatka and surrounding territories, but then they discovered that the world maps that they were working on weren't totally accurate. Now they find out that they need to create an actual line connecting to Alaska to enable their attack. It's pretty brazen of them to ask us for help.
Apple and Microsoft do not (legally speaking) compete in the same market.
You're right, Mr. Semantics: Microsoft competes in the Microsoft-compatible OS and software market, and Apple competes in Apple-compatible OS and software market. How could I have been so stupid as to confuse the two?
Apple's upper management breathed a sigh of relief when that deal went through.
They sure did, as Apple at the time looked like it was following Commodore's path straight down the toilet. Microsoft stepping in to back them up with investments and software support, even if the cash quantities were somewhat symbolic, was a major boost for the struggling company. Microsoft did not do that out of the kindness of their own hearts, nor for the modest (for Microsoft) profit they made when they sold the Apple stock. They did it so that their lawyers could attempt to argue with a straight face that they're not a desktop monopoly.
The Mac is Microsoft's antitrust insurance card. It only costs them ~5% lower market share to keep the government mostly off their backs. That's why MS bailed out Apple with a big cash transfusion and commitments for Mac versions of Office about 10 years ago.
Microsoft knows that with Apple's hardware lockin business model, there's little chance of their computer market share ever increasing by a significant amount, so this is a safe move for MS. Linux, OTOH, is a more dangerous unknown quantity. With an alien business model and dozens of companies involved with it, the ultimate impact on Microsoft's market share is unpredictable.
Nevertheless, what I said still stands. If enough students carried weapons to significantly reduce the risk of mass shootings like this, then at the end of the day overall deaths would go up, due to increased accidents (not to mention suicides, fits of rage, etc.). Facts is facts, regardless of how well they harmonize with your principles.
Your plan would do more harm than good. Given how much college students drink, if even 10% of them regularly carried firearms, there would undoubtedly be > 30 additional accidental deaths every year due to alcohol-related stupidity.
Actually, it would be the Norwegian Parliament's prerogative. If they were to say that the output of someone's mind can be distributed to all, then within Norway, it could be distributed to all. End of story.
You seem to have confused a government entitlement program that was originally intended as an economic stimulus with some kind of fundamental human right.
Secondly, it has always been questionable on how much authority the IRS and the Feds really have on non-interstate commerce.
Not since 1913. The 16th ammenment says:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
"Whatever source" does not exclude income from intrastate activies.
A show like SNL is dead if it loses any vestige of a "cool" factor. SNL had lost its big-name cast members like Will Farrell a couple of years prior, and was in one of its many periodic doldrums. This clip made millions of people aware that they had recently hired a group of new cast members that actually have a good deal of potential (although IMO the writing since then has not usually been up to par with the potential talent of the cast).
The clip and the hype around it really kept SNL from falling off the radar screen for a lot of people. The ratings didn't drop, which they very well might have in light of the strong competition like the Daily Show and its ilk that's saturating cable these days. The clip was a strong generator of buzz in a market where buzz is vitally important for survival.
Light emitted by a diode is a common side effect, usually undesirable.
While using a glass diode in my 150-in-1 kit, I independently discovered bright white LEDs about 30 years ago. The only problem is that the light only lasted about 1/2 second, and then it was followed by a little puff of smoke.
If you look up "force" on dictionary.com, you'll find 36 different meanings. From the context of the sentence, it was clear that the GP post was using meaning #3 (energy, power), not the formal physics definition #12 (f=ma). I guess that I lazily copied the term assuming the GP post's context, not remembering how literalistic the audience here tends to be. Sorry for any inconvenience.
They mentioned how a particle zooming around in it would have the force of a bus
Not really. The most powerful cosmic ray particles ever observed, which have are millions of times more energy than anything we can create, each have approximately the force of a thrown baseball. Perhaps *all* of the particles in the ring together have the energy of a moving bus.
The sysadmin's original responsibility was to ensure that enough network management capability was in place so that attacks like this can be isolated and dealt with. That's how they are supposed "keep services running or anything". Given that it appears that they failed miserably in that regard, then shutting down the mail server for 50,000 people might possibly have been their only *legal* recourse. In that case, the outage would be attributable to poor planning. But poor planning is not an excuse for engaging in your own criminal activity.
After a 5-year, $50 million network upgrade, a lot of these things people are suggesting from their armchairs are now possible.
No, the only person with an armchair problem was that guy who couldn't be bothered to get out of his and make an appropriate response to the incident. Instead, he went the lazy/fun route, kept his butt firmly planted in his chair, and took matters into his own hands as a vigilante. Now 300 million Americans have just seen their bill of rights eroded by yet another increment because the university had to set new legal precedents to cover their asses from the fallout of this poor decision.
No matter what, they could have blocked access from the entire dorm for the hour or two that it would have taken to sort out the problem legally. If their network management was sooooo crappy that even that couldn't be done, they should have just turned off their own goddamned mail server to protect it from this omnipotent hacker that was apparently impervious in his dorm room a couple of blocks away. Committing new federal felonies as a first option was not the answer.
Since his computer was in a dorm room, the correct thing to do would have been to walk down to the dorm, get the local Resident Adviser or whoever is in charge to open up the room (which is undoubtedly allowed in emergency situations under the lease-like contract that students sign), unplug the network jack, and call the police. This would have had the additional benefit of clearly preserving any evidence of wrongdoing within the attacking system.
Even if access to the room were not possible, they could have simply gone down to the router, pulled the plug on that room, and called the police.
Illegally counter-hacking the attacking computer (which also was likely to taint any evidence in the system) was *not* necessary under the exigent circumstances.
Um, microwaves are for reheating leftovers. In many cases, they can do a better job at evenly reheating than an oven or rangetop. It also takes orders of magnitude less fossil fuel to zap an item for 20 seconds than to warm up an entire oven just to reheat a serving of leftovers.
I'd wager that given the large up-front costs, it will be a long, long time before each household and business has enough on-site energy storage like flywheels or batteries to cover even short rainy spells. Until that time, the utilities will have plenty of opportunity to buy electricity low and sell it high.
Imagine the checks they will have to pay out now that people can set up their roof as a money farm for 1/10 the cost!
They'll be crying all the way to the bank. It will most likely get up like used books at a campus bookstore: buy at 25% list, sell at 75% list, bookstore pockets the difference.
The utility companies would be making more profit than ever, and they wouldn't even have to bother building as many power plants or buying as much fuel.
The train motor is electric, which is very efficient. If it's 85% efficient, only about 3800 hp has to be dumped as heat from the train, and this is from a huge vehicle that has plenty of room for cooling equipment (of course, a 40% efficient central electric power plant would be dumping an additional 70,000 or so hp from its stacks or coolers somewhere else).
A gasoline engine is only about 25% efficient, so the dragster has to dump at least 24,000 hp as heat from a much smaller volume. However, top fuel dragsters are probably much more inefficient than 25%; IIRC, they burn several gallons of nitromethane in a 5-second 1/4 mile. By my calculations, if they burn 4 gallons in 5 seconds, that's a rate of 52,000 hp of chemical energy, most of which must be dissipated as waste heat.
Like it or not, it's 3 ops (push,mov,pop) per subroutine
Any processor has to do the exact same work, whether the user-visible encoding is done this way or as an "SP indexed" addressing mode. At the micro-op level, it all gets renamed, reordered, etc. so that the same things are happening. Moreover, that particular sequence is so common, in all probability most X86 CPUs have special logic just to optimally execute that entire sequence faster that the naive RISC equivalent.
Please tell me how using a prefix byte to bump a 16bit operation up to 32 is efficient encoding?
It's efficient because you hardly ever need to use a size prefix in normal code. In 16-bit mode, the default is 16-bit operations. In 32-bit mode, the default is 32-bit operations. Prefixes are for unusual cases where you're using the "wrong" size for your current mode.
Note that a lot of RISC architectures would require multiple 32-bit instructions to do the job that a single x86 prefix byte does because they don't natively support 16-bit operations at all.
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They've already moved 27 armies into Kamchatka and surrounding territories, but then they discovered that the world maps that they were working on weren't totally accurate. Now they find out that they need to create an actual line connecting to Alaska to enable their attack. It's pretty brazen of them to ask us for help.
Congratulations on your definitive example of doublespeak.
Just what fsck do you think it is that they're selling on their website for $129? Let me guess: "Macs don't use OSes! They run on Ponies!"
You're right, Mr. Semantics: Microsoft competes in the Microsoft-compatible OS and software market, and Apple competes in Apple-compatible OS and software market. How could I have been so stupid as to confuse the two?
They sure did, as Apple at the time looked like it was following Commodore's path straight down the toilet. Microsoft stepping in to back them up with investments and software support, even if the cash quantities were somewhat symbolic, was a major boost for the struggling company. Microsoft did not do that out of the kindness of their own hearts, nor for the modest (for Microsoft) profit they made when they sold the Apple stock. They did it so that their lawyers could attempt to argue with a straight face that they're not a desktop monopoly.
Exactly. I always wait until the last minute, then file a form 4868 instead.
The Mac is Microsoft's antitrust insurance card. It only costs them ~5% lower market share to keep the government mostly off their backs. That's why MS bailed out Apple with a big cash transfusion and commitments for Mac versions of Office about 10 years ago.
Microsoft knows that with Apple's hardware lockin business model, there's little chance of their computer market share ever increasing by a significant amount, so this is a safe move for MS. Linux, OTOH, is a more dangerous unknown quantity. With an alien business model and dozens of companies involved with it, the ultimate impact on Microsoft's market share is unpredictable.
Nevertheless, what I said still stands. If enough students carried weapons to significantly reduce the risk of mass shootings like this, then at the end of the day overall deaths would go up, due to increased accidents (not to mention suicides, fits of rage, etc.). Facts is facts, regardless of how well they harmonize with your principles.
Your plan would do more harm than good. Given how much college students drink, if even 10% of them regularly carried firearms, there would undoubtedly be > 30 additional accidental deaths every year due to alcohol-related stupidity.
You seem to have confused a government entitlement program that was originally intended as an economic stimulus with some kind of fundamental human right.
Not since 1913. The 16th ammenment says:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
"Whatever source" does not exclude income from intrastate activies.
The clip and the hype around it really kept SNL from falling off the radar screen for a lot of people. The ratings didn't drop, which they very well might have in light of the strong competition like the Daily Show and its ilk that's saturating cable these days. The clip was a strong generator of buzz in a market where buzz is vitally important for survival.
... it's also been discovered that *all* physical phenomena may also rely on Quantum Effect.
From that description, I think that it would be better named "Harsh Hairshirt".
While using a glass diode in my 150-in-1 kit, I independently discovered bright white LEDs about 30 years ago. The only problem is that the light only lasted about 1/2 second, and then it was followed by a little puff of smoke.
Although it probably has a clause excluding coverage for loss incurred during dangerous showboating stunts.
If you look up "force" on dictionary.com, you'll find 36 different meanings. From the context of the sentence, it was clear that the GP post was using meaning #3 (energy, power), not the formal physics definition #12 (f=ma). I guess that I lazily copied the term assuming the GP post's context, not remembering how literalistic the audience here tends to be. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Not really. The most powerful cosmic ray particles ever observed, which have are millions of times more energy than anything we can create, each have approximately the force of a thrown baseball. Perhaps *all* of the particles in the ring together have the energy of a moving bus.
The sysadmin's original responsibility was to ensure that enough network management capability was in place so that attacks like this can be isolated and dealt with. That's how they are supposed "keep services running or anything". Given that it appears that they failed miserably in that regard, then shutting down the mail server for 50,000 people might possibly have been their only *legal* recourse. In that case, the outage would be attributable to poor planning. But poor planning is not an excuse for engaging in your own criminal activity.
No, the only person with an armchair problem was that guy who couldn't be bothered to get out of his and make an appropriate response to the incident. Instead, he went the lazy/fun route, kept his butt firmly planted in his chair, and took matters into his own hands as a vigilante. Now 300 million Americans have just seen their bill of rights eroded by yet another increment because the university had to set new legal precedents to cover their asses from the fallout of this poor decision.
No matter what, they could have blocked access from the entire dorm for the hour or two that it would have taken to sort out the problem legally. If their network management was sooooo crappy that even that couldn't be done, they should have just turned off their own goddamned mail server to protect it from this omnipotent hacker that was apparently impervious in his dorm room a couple of blocks away. Committing new federal felonies as a first option was not the answer.
Even if access to the room were not possible, they could have simply gone down to the router, pulled the plug on that room, and called the police.
Illegally counter-hacking the attacking computer (which also was likely to taint any evidence in the system) was *not* necessary under the exigent circumstances.
Um, microwaves are for reheating leftovers. In many cases, they can do a better job at evenly reheating than an oven or rangetop. It also takes orders of magnitude less fossil fuel to zap an item for 20 seconds than to warm up an entire oven just to reheat a serving of leftovers.
I'd wager that given the large up-front costs, it will be a long, long time before each household and business has enough on-site energy storage like flywheels or batteries to cover even short rainy spells. Until that time, the utilities will have plenty of opportunity to buy electricity low and sell it high.
They'll be crying all the way to the bank. It will most likely get up like used books at a campus bookstore: buy at 25% list, sell at 75% list, bookstore pockets the difference.
The utility companies would be making more profit than ever, and they wouldn't even have to bother building as many power plants or buying as much fuel.
A gasoline engine is only about 25% efficient, so the dragster has to dump at least 24,000 hp as heat from a much smaller volume. However, top fuel dragsters are probably much more inefficient than 25%; IIRC, they burn several gallons of nitromethane in a 5-second 1/4 mile. By my calculations, if they burn 4 gallons in 5 seconds, that's a rate of 52,000 hp of chemical energy, most of which must be dissipated as waste heat.
Any processor has to do the exact same work, whether the user-visible encoding is done this way or as an "SP indexed" addressing mode. At the micro-op level, it all gets renamed, reordered, etc. so that the same things are happening. Moreover, that particular sequence is so common, in all probability most X86 CPUs have special logic just to optimally execute that entire sequence faster that the naive RISC equivalent.
It's efficient because you hardly ever need to use a size prefix in normal code. In 16-bit mode, the default is 16-bit operations. In 32-bit mode, the default is 32-bit operations. Prefixes are for unusual cases where you're using the "wrong" size for your current mode.
Note that a lot of RISC architectures would require multiple 32-bit instructions to do the job that a single x86 prefix byte does because they don't natively support 16-bit operations at all.