Library problems? Were there ever 16-bit programs that were not statically linked to their libraries?
Yes, and it was a largely manual process. I suggest you find an old 16-bit Windows programming textbook and learn about the hoops people used to have to jump through to implement dynamic linking. When software versions changed, then as now, what could possibly go wrong?
Many Apple users now have to use the official legal lightning cables included with their IPhone
Well, you don't say.
Luckily, I happen to have a bunch of legal charging cables for my Android phone scattered around the house. They kind of accumulate from miscellaneous gadgets.
Not having to keep track of a single magic cable is one less complication in my life.
Now, with multi-gigabit pipes making up the networks, data can be written, pushed, and read again, all at much higher bitrates than reading any storage medium. It's the read-write to physical medium that are the bottleneck with the sneakernet now.
TFA says that they have 19 million SD cards. If each one is a mid-range 6 megabyte per second speed and we access them all in parallel, that gives 912 terabit per second potential max bandwidth, which almost certainly exceeds any network you're thinking about.
who were trying to do so while keeping their Emperor as a face-saving gesture.
No, a faction of their leadership was considering an armistice as long as the government was left in place largely intact. Other factions were intent on fighting on until the death of the last soldier.
Do you really think that these leaders who certainly faced executions for war crimes were willing to turn themselves over to the Allies within the next couple of days, but hesitated only because the cared about whether the emperor was saving face?
No matter what, any negotiations to settle this would have dragged on for weeks, all while the Soviet Union staged a bloody invasion from the north, and the Americans continued fire bombing cities to keep up the pressure. Far more would have died than from the atom bombs.
Here's a homework assignment for you: Assume that you're in charge of Allied forces on August 5, 1945. This war has been going on for almost six years, and has claimed an average of around 200,000 lives per week for that entire period - most of them innocent men, women and children.
Your task in this alternate world is to figure out how to bring an end to the war with the loss of fewer lives beyond that date than were lost in the real world, but without using any nuclear bombs. Keep in mind that tens of thousands of innocent victims are still dying on a daily basis from conventional attacs. You get zero credit for hand-waving or philosophical rants. Actionable strategic plans only.
The scientists at CERN have always told us that any mini black holes they create with their collider would immediately evaporate, so don't worry. Now it turns out that they could grow instead?!
That means that we're still at risk for this entire planet suddenly being swallowed up at any mo - *
Even if what you say is true, at this point Windows Phone 8 is still likely to join the ranks of technologies like Betamax and BeOS: "Better" solutions that just never gained critical mass.
The UN is predicting a 22 ft sea level rise over the next 1000 years. That means you're allocating only $22 million to make and stack each cubic mile of ice. I don't care how many John Galts you think you're going to put on the job, that's just not going to happen.
So that $20 note that I am holding is just a figment of my imagination?
The value of that note is a figment of the collective imaginations of a group of people. If most of that group changes their mind about its value, it can easily become worth no more than the nice paper stock it's printed on. This has happened to currencies at many times throughout history.
Even gold has value only because of social convention. That material actually has few practical uses of significant value.
Maybe Cass can use the same explanation to explain our $16 Trillion debt.
The same explanation does hold in both cases. The main difference is that climate is a real physical phenomenon, whereas money is purely psychological. It's a measure of intention that people try to keep track of using rewriteable magnetic patterns on spinning disks.
I concluded long ago that due to human nature, nothing will be done about climate change until the resulting unfolding disasters force people to make desperate feats of geoengineering to attempt to reverse the damage. The cost of those efforts is probably going to make $16T look like a drop in the bucket.
Interestingly, if you hop in your car and drive a mile to buy a Powerball lottery ticket, you are more likely to be killed in a wreck than to win the jackpot.
Just another reason we need space less and less. We can explore this vast and empty vacuum just fine from right here.
But without space, we wouldn't be able to enjoy heroic stories about the maintenence staff using up an eight hour spacewalk to MacGyver open an access panel on the telescope. What fun is that?
I'm not even going to try to discuss this topic with you, because you're simply going to claim that anything that I say is opinion, whereas anything you say is a fact. QED.
The taxes on refineries especially account for nearly 1 dollar on the cost of gasoline in the US. Think about that the next time you go to the gas station and buy gas.
That doesn't even begin to pay for the external costs of petroleum use. The tax ought to be tripled.
OTA digital subchannels are what saved me from cable. Between and DIY and educational shows on 3 PBS channels, and the old reruns on various commercial "retro" subchannels, I'm now getting much better programming than the "reality" crap played 24/7 on the burned out carcasses of what used to be decent cable channels. Best of all, it's free.
I suppose that there are plenty of pyramids available there in which to store it, but don't you don't think that the Mexican drug cartels might dig it up and sell it to The Terrorists?
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Library problems? Were there ever 16-bit programs that were not statically linked to their libraries?
Yes, and it was a largely manual process. I suggest you find an old 16-bit Windows programming textbook and learn about the hoops people used to have to jump through to implement dynamic linking. When software versions changed, then as now, what could possibly go wrong?
10 years later and we're still running games and applications that are 32bit that only use a single core.
At least 64-bit OSes are widespread now.
Almost ten years after the 80386 was introduced, most people were still running "OSes" which were little more than GUI shells running on 16-bit DOS.
Many Apple users now have to use the official legal lightning cables included with their IPhone
Well, you don't say.
Luckily, I happen to have a bunch of legal charging cables for my Android phone scattered around the house. They kind of accumulate from miscellaneous gadgets.
Not having to keep track of a single magic cable is one less complication in my life.
Now, with multi-gigabit pipes making up the networks, data can be written, pushed, and read again, all at much higher bitrates than reading any storage medium. It's the read-write to physical medium that are the bottleneck with the sneakernet now.
TFA says that they have 19 million SD cards. If each one is a mid-range 6 megabyte per second speed and we access them all in parallel, that gives 912 terabit per second potential max bandwidth, which almost certainly exceeds any network you're thinking about.
who were trying to do so while keeping their Emperor as a face-saving gesture.
No, a faction of their leadership was considering an armistice as long as the government was left in place largely intact. Other factions were intent on fighting on until the death of the last soldier.
Do you really think that these leaders who certainly faced executions for war crimes were willing to turn themselves over to the Allies within the next couple of days, but hesitated only because the cared about whether the emperor was saving face?
No matter what, any negotiations to settle this would have dragged on for weeks, all while the Soviet Union staged a bloody invasion from the north, and the Americans continued fire bombing cities to keep up the pressure. Far more would have died than from the atom bombs.
F: philosophical rant.
Here's a homework assignment for you: Assume that you're in charge of Allied forces on August 5, 1945. This war has been going on for almost six years, and has claimed an average of around 200,000 lives per week for that entire period - most of them innocent men, women and children.
Your task in this alternate world is to figure out how to bring an end to the war with the loss of fewer lives beyond that date than were lost in the real world, but without using any nuclear bombs. Keep in mind that tens of thousands of innocent victims are still dying on a daily basis from conventional attacs. You get zero credit for hand-waving or philosophical rants. Actionable strategic plans only.
Forcing viewers to interrupt the experience of a movie because they have to get up and change a tape is not "quality".
The scientists at CERN have always told us that any mini black holes they create with their collider would immediately evaporate, so don't worry. Now it turns out that they could grow instead?!
That means that we're still at risk for this entire planet suddenly being swallowed up at any mo - *
Apparently, Nokia agrees with you.
They think the future of their Windows Phones is so bright, they got out of the phone business altogether.
Its the best mobile OS on the market right now.
Even if what you say is true, at this point Windows Phone 8 is still likely to join the ranks of technologies like Betamax and BeOS: "Better" solutions that just never gained critical mass.
So you've never heard of the quagmire in Iraq?
You're thinking about the NIEDA, not the NRA.
Hopefully, they'll also be able to detect abnormalities in robot behavior... Before things get out of hand.
How about they ask the Americans for help? We have had a lot of experience with nukes
Yeah, let's send teams from the Hanford site. They've had a quarter century's worth of experience in failing to clean up a nuclear mess.
The UN is predicting a 22 ft sea level rise over the next 1000 years. That means you're allocating only $22 million to make and stack each cubic mile of ice. I don't care how many John Galts you think you're going to put on the job, that's just not going to happen.
or dumping enough ice on the Antarctica continent for the next millennium to counter sea level rise.
Right. For only $16T.
You're an idiot.
You could now, but probably not if you wait for a runaway positive feedback to happen.
So that $20 note that I am holding is just a figment of my imagination?
The value of that note is a figment of the collective imaginations of a group of people. If most of that group changes their mind about its value, it can easily become worth no more than the nice paper stock it's printed on. This has happened to currencies at many times throughout history.
Even gold has value only because of social convention. That material actually has few practical uses of significant value.
Maybe Cass can use the same explanation to explain our $16 Trillion debt.
The same explanation does hold in both cases. The main difference is that climate is a real physical phenomenon, whereas money is purely psychological. It's a measure of intention that people try to keep track of using rewriteable magnetic patterns on spinning disks.
I concluded long ago that due to human nature, nothing will be done about climate change until the resulting unfolding disasters force people to make desperate feats of geoengineering to attempt to reverse the damage. The cost of those efforts is probably going to make $16T look like a drop in the bucket.
For example, the US rate of 1.1 per 100M miles
Interestingly, if you hop in your car and drive a mile to buy a Powerball lottery ticket, you are more likely to be killed in a wreck than to win the jackpot.
Just another reason we need space less and less. We can explore this vast and empty vacuum just fine from right here.
But without space, we wouldn't be able to enjoy heroic stories about the maintenence staff using up an eight hour spacewalk to MacGyver open an access panel on the telescope. What fun is that?
your position is almost entirely ideological.
So is yours.
I'm not even going to try to discuss this topic with you, because you're simply going to claim that anything that I say is opinion, whereas anything you say is a fact. QED.
So long.
The taxes on refineries especially account for nearly 1 dollar on the cost of gasoline in the US. Think about that the next time you go to the gas station and buy gas.
That doesn't even begin to pay for the external costs of petroleum use. The tax ought to be tripled.
OTA digital subchannels are what saved me from cable. Between and DIY and educational shows on 3 PBS channels, and the old reruns on various commercial "retro" subchannels, I'm now getting much better programming than the "reality" crap played 24/7 on the burned out carcasses of what used to be decent cable channels. Best of all, it's free.
Bury it in Yucatan.
I suppose that there are plenty of pyramids available there in which to store it, but don't you don't think that the Mexican drug cartels might dig it up and sell it to The Terrorists?