Well, I counted Intel providing official tools to automatically translate assembler code to the newer chips as a form of compatibility. It may have sucked, but running real mode 16-bit code on an Opteron would suck, too.
There *is* an unbroken chain of compatibility from the latest AMD processors back to the 8008, which was Intel's first 8-bit microprocessor (the design of which was actually started before the 4004 design, IIRC). So they were indeed "predecessors".
Not to mention that AMD got its start in the PC business by being an officially licensed 2nd source for Intel's 8086 chips.
Well the person is an idiot. His estimation of 20 years is laughably naive.
My response to this statement is a quantum superposition of two thoughts:
A. I agree. A 20 year estimate is ludicrous. It's far too much time.
B. I agree. A 20 year estimate is ridiculous. It's far too short.
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This is the real world. All projects, of every size, of every type, run by every organization, are much more likely to be over budget and behind schedule than not.
If you're the one magic "non idiot" on this planet who can always get projects approved and completed on time and under budget, then I suggest you start a management consulting firm. You'll surely make $Billions.
It would appear that a reality distortion field has altered your perception of what I said.
I didn't say that anything resembling the words you put in my mouth. I'm just pointing out which companies look especially hypocritical, and which don't.
For the record, I'm an anti "free trade" type, and I would support stiff tariffs on imports to counteract the disadvantages that US companies have paying for decent wages, acceptable working conditions, environmental and safety costs. But since few in this country agree with me, in the meantime at least I can point out turtleneck-wearing hypocrites.
Name all the other companies using that factory... without looking it up.
The difference is that most other companies don't tout that smug, righteous attitude that makes them look like huge hypocrites when they hire sweatshops.
I'll bet you anything that this code was in the kernel before you signed up here at slashdot..
What was supposed to have happened during Microsoft's security "rebirth", where they put Longhorn development on ice for about a year so they could overhaul XP for Internet-worthy security robustness? What about since that time where they've supposedly been using the most advanced code verification tools on the planet to verify their OS?
Shouldn't they have reimplemented this feature in userspace at some point during that long process?
...and stop posting irrelevant stories like this on the front page. KDE 4.0 was horrible, yes, but it's not like KDE 4 development was halted. The latest release is 4.7 and it's much more stable and feature rich than 3.5 ever was.
There's no question that KDE4 is now plenty stable. However, there must be plenty of people like me who: Can't stand the unintuitive way the UI of plasma applets and controls work; and/or strongly disagree with KDE's current "semantic desktop" goals.
After a couple of years of use, I really haven't found anything in KDE4 that's a compelling improvement over KDE3 other than that KDE4 is still actively maintained. What's worse for me, KDE4 has introduced many UI "features" that I find to be very annoying. (Maybe if I was a fan of eye candy, I'd have a different opinion. But I'm not.) If this project fixes the unmaintained code issue, I might go back to KDE3.
Please see some of the numbers I found on Mt. Saint Helen. If those numbers are off, please point me to better sources. Thanks.
The Mt. Saint Helen numbers are most probably a measure just of its explosive yield, which would be a tiny fraction of the overall thermal energy contained in all the lava driving the eruption.
But, I'm getting the mental picture of such a bomb lying there while the bomb squad attempts to disarm it.
There'd be no time for that. It would probably set to go off within a minute or two at the most. Your only hope to survive would be to start shooting at it.
I think the opposite rule — everything evaluates to true except for false (used by e.g. Lua) — makes a lot more sense.
Actually, Lua counts both 'false' and 'nil' as false. Since Lua silently returns nil for almost any reference to an undefined or missing variable, field, parameter or index, in practice the boolean checks in Lua feel rather "lax".
'Unlike school-age children, infants and toddlers "just have no idea what's going on"
That's why it's best to have them watch shows like the Teletubbies. That way, nobody of any age can figure out what's going on, and the toddlers don't feel like they're being left out.
Absolutely irrelevant. Those negatives are going to happen anyway.
Yes, it's relevant. You can't spout off about "steps towards increasing wealth overall" when overall wealth worldwide is in fact going to dramatically decrease due to climatic disruptions.
I wouldn't depend solely on GPS either, but that doesn't mean that it's a good idea to *intentionally* disable GPS and force people to use less reliable and rarely practiced methods, even if they all know how to use them.
What happened to being able to read a chart, keeping a sextant on-board, triangulating your position with a compass, and all the other skills people used to be taught?
The innumerable shipwrecks dotting the shores of the British Isles over the centuries suggest that GPS navigation might be a bit more foolproof than those methods.
You're putting the cart before the horse. The government needs to hugely INCREASE taxes right now, to stop this crazy deficit nonsense.
You don't decrease taxes until AFTER you cut government spending. You don't complain that they should decrease taxes until AFTER you have accomplished cutting government spending.
Borrow-and-spend doesn't help your tax burden in any way. The inevitable result of this policy is that the government will print money to dilute the debt. This results to an invisible tax on peoples' cash savings. There's no such thing as a free lunch. (And if this Laffer Curve theory were true, we'd be running huge surpluses by now after all the tax cuts of the past decade. But it's not true: It's the biggest fraud pushed on the ignorant American public in the past quarter century.)
If you want the government to be smaller and spend less, go talk about that on a thread about government programs. Get the people signed up to cancel or cut those programs. Get the laws changed to implement the cutbacks. But don't talk about lowering taxes until after you get that signed into law.
so which tax are we getting rid of to offset this new one?
The local sales taxes that you're already supposed to be reporting on your state income tax return. A centrally managed internet sales tax system would greatly reduce your individual burden of keeping track of your online purchases, and computing, reporting and remitting the appropriate funds.
(I presume that you're not criminally evading these taxes right now, right?.)
A national internet sales tax would give us fewer taxes and less government. It would replace dealing with thousands of redundant individual local tax rates and authorities with a single system.
I think you have to look at the particular isotopes involved in the middle-range elements to see what happens in each case.
(Let's assume for the moment that the unlikely claims about this device are true.) Since they say there's no radioactive waste, we have to assume that they're producing a stable Cu isotope. The only choices for this are Cu-63 or Cu-65. That means that if they're adding one proton, they start with Ni-62 or Ni-64. Of the two, only Ni-62 is naturally present in more than trace amounts at about 3% concentration.
Ni-62 weighs 61.9283 amu, and H weighs 1.0078, for a sum of 62.9361. Cu-63 weighs 62.9296 amu. That leaves 0.0065 amu of energy left over after converting Ni+H to Cu. This equates to about 6 MeV, which is a respectable yield.. So in theory it could release energy. (Which would actually due more to the free proton than the nickel.)
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Well, I counted Intel providing official tools to automatically translate assembler code to the newer chips as a form of compatibility. It may have sucked, but running real mode 16-bit code on an Opteron would suck, too.
Try eating your money.
There *is* an unbroken chain of compatibility from the latest AMD processors back to the 8008, which was Intel's first 8-bit microprocessor (the design of which was actually started before the 4004 design, IIRC). So they were indeed "predecessors".
Not to mention that AMD got its start in the PC business by being an officially licensed 2nd source for Intel's 8086 chips.
Our progress is being destroyed by our monetary policy.
Money is nothing more than some arbitrary magnetic patterns on some mainframe disk drive. Don't waste your time obsessing over it.
You don't keep money around for decades; It's a short-term medium used to buy real investments.
In the meantime, if you want progress, quit whining and start working towards progress.
Well the person is an idiot. His estimation of 20 years is laughably naive.
My response to this statement is a quantum superposition of two thoughts:
A. I agree. A 20 year estimate is ludicrous. It's far too much time.
B. I agree. A 20 year estimate is ridiculous. It's far too short.
This is the real world. All projects, of every size, of every type, run by every organization, are much more likely to be over budget and behind schedule than not.
If you're the one magic "non idiot" on this planet who can always get projects approved and completed on time and under budget, then I suggest you start a management consulting firm. You'll surely make $Billions.
It would appear that a reality distortion field has altered your perception of what I said.
I didn't say that anything resembling the words you put in my mouth. I'm just pointing out which companies look especially hypocritical, and which don't.
For the record, I'm an anti "free trade" type, and I would support stiff tariffs on imports to counteract the disadvantages that US companies have paying for decent wages, acceptable working conditions, environmental and safety costs. But since few in this country agree with me, in the meantime at least I can point out turtleneck-wearing hypocrites.
Name all the other companies using that factory... without looking it up.
The difference is that most other companies don't tout that smug, righteous attitude that makes them look like huge hypocrites when they hire sweatshops.
Tell me how an application can tell whether a particular parsing task takes place ring 0 or in user space.
I'll bet you anything that this code was in the kernel before you signed up here at slashdot..
What was supposed to have happened during Microsoft's security "rebirth", where they put Longhorn development on ice for about a year so they could overhaul XP for Internet-worthy security robustness? What about since that time where they've supposedly been using the most advanced code verification tools on the planet to verify their OS?
Shouldn't they have reimplemented this feature in userspace at some point during that long process?
...and stop posting irrelevant stories like this on the front page. KDE 4.0 was horrible, yes, but it's not like KDE 4 development was halted. The latest release is 4.7 and it's much more stable and feature rich than 3.5 ever was.
There's no question that KDE4 is now plenty stable. However, there must be plenty of people like me who: Can't stand the unintuitive way the UI of plasma applets and controls work; and/or strongly disagree with KDE's current "semantic desktop" goals.
After a couple of years of use, I really haven't found anything in KDE4 that's a compelling improvement over KDE3 other than that KDE4 is still actively maintained. What's worse for me, KDE4 has introduced many UI "features" that I find to be very annoying. (Maybe if I was a fan of eye candy, I'd have a different opinion. But I'm not.) If this project fixes the unmaintained code issue, I might go back to KDE3.
Please see some of the numbers I found on Mt. Saint Helen. If those numbers are off, please point me to better sources. Thanks.
The Mt. Saint Helen numbers are most probably a measure just of its explosive yield, which would be a tiny fraction of the overall thermal energy contained in all the lava driving the eruption.
But, I'm getting the mental picture of such a bomb lying there while the bomb squad attempts to disarm it.
There'd be no time for that. It would probably set to go off within a minute or two at the most. Your only hope to survive would be to start shooting at it.
I think the opposite rule — everything evaluates to true except for false (used by e.g. Lua) — makes a lot more sense.
Actually, Lua counts both 'false' and 'nil' as false. Since Lua silently returns nil for almost any reference to an undefined or missing variable, field, parameter or index, in practice the boolean checks in Lua feel rather "lax".
'Unlike school-age children, infants and toddlers "just have no idea what's going on"
That's why it's best to have them watch shows like the Teletubbies. That way, nobody of any age can figure out what's going on, and the toddlers don't feel like they're being left out.
Absolutely irrelevant. Those negatives are going to happen anyway.
Yes, it's relevant. You can't spout off about "steps towards increasing wealth overall" when overall wealth worldwide is in fact going to dramatically decrease due to climatic disruptions.
Yes, it is good. It makes major economies more efficient which is a step towards increasing wealth overall.
Never mind that orders of magnitude more wealth than that is going to be squandered having to build levees, dikes and seawalls over the next century.
I wouldn't depend solely on GPS either, but that doesn't mean that it's a good idea to *intentionally* disable GPS and force people to use less reliable and rarely practiced methods, even if they all know how to use them.
Massive WOOSH.
Is that supposed to be the last sound you hear after your ship hits the rocks and the water is rushing in over your head?
What happened to being able to read a chart, keeping a sextant on-board, triangulating your position with a compass, and all the other skills people used to be taught?
The innumerable shipwrecks dotting the shores of the British Isles over the centuries suggest that GPS navigation might be a bit more foolproof than those methods.
You're putting the cart before the horse. The government needs to hugely INCREASE taxes right now, to stop this crazy deficit nonsense.
You don't decrease taxes until AFTER you cut government spending. You don't complain that they should decrease taxes until AFTER you have accomplished cutting government spending.
Borrow-and-spend doesn't help your tax burden in any way. The inevitable result of this policy is that the government will print money to dilute the debt. This results to an invisible tax on peoples' cash savings. There's no such thing as a free lunch. (And if this Laffer Curve theory were true, we'd be running huge surpluses by now after all the tax cuts of the past decade. But it's not true: It's the biggest fraud pushed on the ignorant American public in the past quarter century.)
If you want the government to be smaller and spend less, go talk about that on a thread about government programs. Get the people signed up to cancel or cut those programs. Get the laws changed to implement the cutbacks. But don't talk about lowering taxes until after you get that signed into law.
so which tax are we getting rid of to offset this new one?
The local sales taxes that you're already supposed to be reporting on your state income tax return. A centrally managed internet sales tax system would greatly reduce your individual burden of keeping track of your online purchases, and computing, reporting and remitting the appropriate funds.
(I presume that you're not criminally evading these taxes right now, right?.)
We need fewer taxes and a smaller government.
A national internet sales tax would give us fewer taxes and less government. It would replace dealing with thousands of redundant individual local tax rates and authorities with a single system.
"Their TV screens were distorted. Cordless phones ran into interference. Computer hard drives were corrupted."
All these things have also occurred in my home. I think that the wooden studs in my house may have become magnetized.
I think you have to look at the particular isotopes involved in the middle-range elements to see what happens in each case.
(Let's assume for the moment that the unlikely claims about this device are true.) Since they say there's no radioactive waste, we have to assume that they're producing a stable Cu isotope. The only choices for this are Cu-63 or Cu-65. That means that if they're adding one proton, they start with Ni-62 or Ni-64. Of the two, only Ni-62 is naturally present in more than trace amounts at about 3% concentration.
Ni-62 weighs 61.9283 amu, and H weighs 1.0078, for a sum of 62.9361. Cu-63 weighs 62.9296 amu. That leaves 0.0065 amu of energy left over after converting Ni+H to Cu. This equates to about 6 MeV, which is a respectable yield.. So in theory it could release energy. (Which would actually due more to the free proton than the nickel.)