Many people assume that 'emulator' == 'simulator'. However, dictionary.com says:
3:
Computer Science. To imitate the function of (another system), as by modifications to hardware or software that allow the imitating system to accept the same data, execute the same programs, and achieve the same results as the imitated system.
This definition is general enough to cover API translation layers such as WINE.
I think that KDE should take the stupid 'K' off of the fronts of all of their app names as soon as Microsoft takes the stupid '.NET' off of the ends of all of theirs.
The UK government announces a total ban on these additional products that emit energy in regulated broadcast frequencies including: electric razors, motorized childs' toys, internal combustion engines that use spark plugs, bug zappers, light dimmers, flourescent light fixtures, arc welders, and any toy rubber balloon that is marketed primarily for rubbing against wool or hair. Additional banned items may be announced in the future as more products are evaluated.
That Bill Gates will get charged $1000 for a pack of gum?
You're assuming a gum salesman is smarter than him. That's a bad assumption.
What is more likeley is that he would convince you to provide free packs of gum to his company so that they can include it in their products in return for its promotional value to you. Once his customers are used to the idea of gum being free, he reverse engineers the flavor of your gum and distributes his own low-cost version with his products, dropping your deal.
He ends up with value add for his products while at the same time eliminating the gum market as a potential distraction from his business. Maybe it was a bad idea to try to play this game with him.
Now, corporations can get together to create a national database on all consumers. With that information, they can compute a "sucker" karma score for each person. If you have a history of making impulse buys, buying extended warranties, getting stain guard protection on your furniture purchases, frequenting shops in touristy areas, getting dealer-applied pinstriping on your cars, etc., you will have an "excellent" sucker karma.
Your sucker rating will haunt you like your credit rating. Now is the time to start being shrewd, before you build up a reputation a big fat sucker.
I've been looking for the same thing. My hands seem to have a heat regulation threshold when the air temperature goes below about 69 degrees F. They switch into heat conservation mode: "The heat needs of the body core outweighs the needs of the periphery". The blood flow constricts, and the hands rapidly drop to the ambient air temperature (I've measured it with an infrared thermometer.)
In the winter, I code with gloves with the fingers cut off like some character in a Dickens novel, and I spend a lot of time warming my hands over a range top. Right now my solution is a light bulb in one of those clip-on reading lights mounted above my keyboard tray, but it doesn't provide evenly distributed heat. I really need something that keeps the entire keyboard area gently warmed above my hands' temperature threshold.
I've thought about running ductwork from my computers' power supplies over to my keyboard. It would be a good use of the waste heat, but it would probably be kind of bulky.
int a=1; WriteLine("a is type {0} and has value {1}", a.GetType().ToString(), a.ToString());
What's the big deal about that? In Python, for example, you can do the same thing with much less fuss:
a = 1 print 'a is type %s and has value %s' % (type(a), a)
or with your positional parameters:
a = 1 print 'a is type %(1)s and has value %(2)s' % { '1': type(a), '2': a }
The same string conversions happen. 'a' is still an integer, and the language knows it. You just don't have to keep typing 'int' and 'toFoo()' over and over.
current power demands versus current solar technology efficiency: wouldn't that necessitate something like covering the whole sahara desert with solar panels?
Let's assume we want to provide all of the world's energy needs by solar power. If I recall correctly, the world currently uses about 500 exajoules of primary energy per year, or about 16 terawatts. The sun provides about 1000 watts/m^2 at our distance. However, the overall system efficiency would be somewhere around 1% of that (say 20% solar cell efficiency, 75% loss from night/day/latitude geometry , 40% weather loss, 70% storage conversion and transmission loss). That gives 10W/m^2 average output, so we need 1.6 million square kilometers, about the size of Alaska.
That sounds bad, but it's actually only 0.3% of the earth's surface area. I would guess that the best way to implement that much collector would be to develop plastic based collectors in huge sheets that are floated on the oceans. Convert the energy to hydrogen on site and pipe it to the consuming countries. By eliminating fossil fuel usage, you free up huge sources of raw materials to make all of that plastic.
You could argue that that much area would screw with the earth's climate by changing reflectivity. However, at least it's not generating a layer of greenhouse insulator. Moreover, current agriculture practices alter the reflectivity of a much larger percentage of the earth's surface.
(Don't bother replying to suggest outer space collectors. Say they were 30X more efficient than earth-based systems. Nobody's going to launch satellites with a surface area 3% the size of Alaska. We've been trying to put up a space station the size of my back yard for 20 years now, and still haven't finished.)
A scarce resource is an opportunity for profit by those who control it. The U.S. Internet infrastructure is controlled by the same parties who control vast swaths of IPv4 address space. They stand to profit if supplies get tight. I see very little motivation for these parties to ever dilute the value of their current IP address real estate by moving to IPv6.
If you cheap service, they'll give you an unwieldy NAT setup behind a dynamic IP address. If you want your own fixed IP address, you'll pay the tollkeepers a handsome fee to get it.
Actually, at least up to the Deskpro 386/16, I remember the BIOS only giving a fixed menu of 40 or so hard drive "types", each with a different pre-coded sector/cylinder/track combination. IIRC, there was no way to store user-defined combinations, as they only used a few bytes of nonvolatile CMOS configuration memory to store the state. On at least one occasion, I had to use an EPROM burner to copy the BIOS and hack in my new hard drive params into one of the type table entries. Maybe they fixed this by the time of the 386/25M.
It seems that without copyright claims over the features in question, SCO's complaints are based on their contract with IBM over the Unix source code. SCO asserts that this contract license is viral. In fact, it's the Ebola virus of licenses: If you write some code then link it with System V, your code becomes a derivative work of Unix, and it falls under the control of the Unix license forever. Your code becomes permanently tainted and it can never be revealed to anyone, even in its original form from before it was linked to Unix.
Meanwhile, SCO says that the GPL is barely viral at all, not even worthy of a runny nose. That's because they linked their code to a bunch of GPL'd software, but they say that they can ignore the license because "hey, we didn't really mean it". In fact, the GPL must be so unviral that SCO can still distribute this code from their FTP site.
It will be interesting to see if any court buys both of these arguments at the same time.
Hell I even bought a Compaq Deskpro 386/25M. Who knew the bios could only be accessed by boot disks!!!
IIRC, the hard drive parameters for Compaq machines of that era were hard-coded in the BIOS. So if you want to upgrade from the 60 megabyte drive that came with the system, you might have to get out your EPROM burner. Good luck!
As long as we're nit-picking, interstellar space does typically contain about 1 atom per cubic cm. I guess if you took a sheet of space about 1 square mile in size and about 1 angstrom unit thick, you'd get a single-digit number of atoms.
However, to be more consistent with popular media science measurement systems, we would more correctly say that a sheet of interstellar space the size of a football field and the thickness of a human hair would contain about 3000 atoms.
Oddly enough, you didn't mention the single biggest problem facing the SETI program: the likelyhood that use of omnidirectional radio is not long lived.
Actually, I don't think that the receivers used by SETI are sensitive enough to pick up anybody's omnidirectional signals. If we pick up anything at all, it would be because they are beaming massively powerful signals in a narrow beam directed specifically at our solar system. We certainly aren't going to stumble onto any random local alien TV broadcasts.
First look at census data and rate how much teachers are getting paid vs how high test scores are - you will see almost an opposite coorlation.
I'd bet that the correlation is largely because you have to pay a teacher more to accept a job at a crappy school in a dangerous neighborhood teaching kids who are "damaged goods" than you have to pay a teacher to accept a job at a distinguished school in a good neighborhood teaching kids with motivated parents.
You've probably never seen a properly tuned and set up LCD display. Get it to phase lock perfectly by adjusting on a 1-pixel checkerboard (like an old X background) until there are no artifacts (my monitor has automatic lock fine tuning, but it only works perfectly when such a bitmap is displayed).
Turn on sub-pixel sampling (a.k.a. ClearType). Now you've effectively got 3840x1024 resolution in the luminance channel on text. You'll never go back to a fuzzy 100 pound room heating CRT again, even if it's a high-quality 21" unit.
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This definition is general enough to cover API translation layers such as WINE.
They're both branding strategies. How are they not analogous?
I think that KDE should take the stupid 'K' off of the fronts of all of their app names as soon as Microsoft takes the stupid '.NET' off of the ends of all of theirs.
Actually, whiskey is essentially the same as beer. Just substitute soot for the hops, then concentrate the final product by a factor of 10.
Vitamin A is poisonous in excessive quantities.
A robot may not infringe Disney's intellectual property, or, through inaction, allow a human being to infringe Disney's intellectual property.
A robot must obey the orders given it by affiliated marketing partners except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
These CDs code to 65537.
The UK government announces a total ban on these additional products that emit energy in regulated broadcast frequencies including: electric razors, motorized childs' toys, internal combustion engines that use spark plugs, bug zappers, light dimmers, flourescent light fixtures, arc welders, and any toy rubber balloon that is marketed primarily for rubbing against wool or hair. Additional banned items may be announced in the future as more products are evaluated.
You're assuming a gum salesman is smarter than him. That's a bad assumption.
What is more likeley is that he would convince you to provide free packs of gum to his company so that they can include it in their products in return for its promotional value to you. Once his customers are used to the idea of gum being free, he reverse engineers the flavor of your gum and distributes his own low-cost version with his products, dropping your deal.
He ends up with value add for his products while at the same time eliminating the gum market as a potential distraction from his business. Maybe it was a bad idea to try to play this game with him.
Your sucker rating will haunt you like your credit rating. Now is the time to start being shrewd, before you build up a reputation a big fat sucker.
I don't believe that one. I know that they charge teenagers more because they're a higher risk. How would it be illegal to charge the elderly more?
In the winter, I code with gloves with the fingers cut off like some character in a Dickens novel, and I spend a lot of time warming my hands over a range top. Right now my solution is a light bulb in one of those clip-on reading lights mounted above my keyboard tray, but it doesn't provide evenly distributed heat. I really need something that keeps the entire keyboard area gently warmed above my hands' temperature threshold.
I've thought about running ductwork from my computers' power supplies over to my keyboard. It would be a good use of the waste heat, but it would probably be kind of bulky.
What's the big deal about that? In Python, for example, you can do the same thing with much less fuss:
or with your positional parameters:
The same string conversions happen. 'a' is still an integer, and the language knows it. You just don't have to keep typing 'int' and 'toFoo()' over and over.
Nope again. 140,000 terawatthours == 140*10^15 watthours.
Nope, you need to check your units. An exajoule is 10^18 joules. You assume it's 10^15 joules, but that's just a mere petajoule.
Let's assume we want to provide all of the world's energy needs by solar power. If I recall correctly, the world currently uses about 500 exajoules of primary energy per year, or about 16 terawatts. The sun provides about 1000 watts/m^2 at our distance. However, the overall system efficiency would be somewhere around 1% of that (say 20% solar cell efficiency, 75% loss from night/day/latitude geometry , 40% weather loss, 70% storage conversion and transmission loss). That gives 10W/m^2 average output, so we need 1.6 million square kilometers, about the size of Alaska.
That sounds bad, but it's actually only 0.3% of the earth's surface area. I would guess that the best way to implement that much collector would be to develop plastic based collectors in huge sheets that are floated on the oceans. Convert the energy to hydrogen on site and pipe it to the consuming countries. By eliminating fossil fuel usage, you free up huge sources of raw materials to make all of that plastic.
You could argue that that much area would screw with the earth's climate by changing reflectivity. However, at least it's not generating a layer of greenhouse insulator. Moreover, current agriculture practices alter the reflectivity of a much larger percentage of the earth's surface.
(Don't bother replying to suggest outer space collectors. Say they were 30X more efficient than earth-based systems. Nobody's going to launch satellites with a surface area 3% the size of Alaska. We've been trying to put up a space station the size of my back yard for 20 years now, and still haven't finished.)
If you cheap service, they'll give you an unwieldy NAT setup behind a dynamic IP address. If you want your own fixed IP address, you'll pay the tollkeepers a handsome fee to get it.
Actually, at least up to the Deskpro 386/16, I remember the BIOS only giving a fixed menu of 40 or so hard drive "types", each with a different pre-coded sector/cylinder/track combination. IIRC, there was no way to store user-defined combinations, as they only used a few bytes of nonvolatile CMOS configuration memory to store the state. On at least one occasion, I had to use an EPROM burner to copy the BIOS and hack in my new hard drive params into one of the type table entries. Maybe they fixed this by the time of the 386/25M.
He was just carried along by the angular momentum of the congressional/lobbyist revolving door.
Meanwhile, SCO says that the GPL is barely viral at all, not even worthy of a runny nose. That's because they linked their code to a bunch of GPL'd software, but they say that they can ignore the license because "hey, we didn't really mean it". In fact, the GPL must be so unviral that SCO can still distribute this code from their FTP site.
It will be interesting to see if any court buys both of these arguments at the same time.
IIRC, the hard drive parameters for Compaq machines of that era were hard-coded in the BIOS. So if you want to upgrade from the 60 megabyte drive that came with the system, you might have to get out your EPROM burner. Good luck!
However, to be more consistent with popular media science measurement systems, we would more correctly say that a sheet of interstellar space the size of a football field and the thickness of a human hair would contain about 3000 atoms.
Actually, I don't think that the receivers used by SETI are sensitive enough to pick up anybody's omnidirectional signals. If we pick up anything at all, it would be because they are beaming massively powerful signals in a narrow beam directed specifically at our solar system. We certainly aren't going to stumble onto any random local alien TV broadcasts.
I'd bet that the correlation is largely because you have to pay a teacher more to accept a job at a crappy school in a dangerous neighborhood teaching kids who are "damaged goods" than you have to pay a teacher to accept a job at a distinguished school in a good neighborhood teaching kids with motivated parents.
Turn on sub-pixel sampling (a.k.a. ClearType). Now you've effectively got 3840x1024 resolution in the luminance channel on text. You'll never go back to a fuzzy 100 pound room heating CRT again, even if it's a high-quality 21" unit.