I believe there's only one pharma company that still claims to be U.S. based (Merck)
If by "claims to be U.S. based" you mean "has their world headquarters in the U.S.", I believe you're wrong - there are also Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Pfizer, for example.
(Your other claims seem a bit bogus as well. Am I just responding to a troll here?)
Well, maybe not run, but, given that, at least from the pictures on the Honda site, ASIMO looks a bit like a kid with a backpack, perhaps they were thinking of a certain other robot who could certainly move rather fast with both feet off the ground, although, admittedly, that's not running....
(In any case, what the page at the Honda site said was "Through proactive control of ASIMO's posture while both feet are off the ground, the running speed was doubled from the previous 3km/hour to 6km/hour.", so it's not as if both its feet are always off the ground when running; I guess they just fixed it so that it works better in the part of the step when one foot's pushed off the ground but the other one hasn't made contact with the ground yet.)
I was really surprised by the whole energy of the place. When I went to McDonalds and they didn't have my food immediately, they said no problem we will find you and bring it to you when its ready. 2 min latter I had my fries. This particular McDonald's had around 30 registers all open. They said that they served 6000 lunches everyday -- just nuts.
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If they really wished us harm they could just stop buying our debt.
From your second paragraph (the first one quoted above), it appears we've already figured out what to do to cause harm to them.
With journaled FS (recommended) disks will spin up every 10mn or so, after some tuning.
If a file system hasn't been written to since the last syncing of the journal to disk, why would a journaled file system bother writing to (or reading from) the disks, thus causing them to be spun up?
Actually, what the General Laws of Massachusetts, Title XIV "Public Ways and Works", Chaper 90 "Motor Vehicles And Aircraft", Section 17 "Speed limits" says
Section 17. No person operating a motor vehicle on any way shall run it at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to traffic and the use of the way and the safety of the public. Unless a way is otherwise posted in accordance with the provisions of section eighteen, it shall be prima facie evidence of a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper as aforesaid (1) if a motor vehicle is operated on a divided highway outside a thickly settled or business district at a rate of speed exceeding fifty miles per hour for a distance of a quarter of a mile, or (2) on any other way outside a thickly settled or business district at a rate of speed exceeding forty miles per hour for a distance of a quarter of a mile, or (3) inside a thickly settled or business district at a rate of speed exceeding thirty miles per hour for a distance of one-eighth of a mile, or (4) within a school zone which may be established by a city or town as provided in section two of chapter eighty-five at a rate of speed exceeding twenty miles per hour. Operation of a motor vehicle at a speed in excess of fifteen miles per hour within one-tenth of a mile of a vehicle used in hawking or peddling merchandise and which displays flashing amber lights shall likewise be prima facie evidence of a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper. If a speed limit has been duly established upon any way, in accordance with the provisions of said section, operation of a motor vehicle at a rate of speed in excess of such limit shall be prima facie evidence that such speed is greater than is reasonable and proper; but, notwithstanding such establishment of a speed limit, every person operating a motor vehicle shall decrease the speed of the same when a special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic, or by reason of weather or highway conditions. Any person in violation of this section, while operating a motor vehicle through the parameters of a marked construction zone or construction area, at a speed which exceeds the posted limit, or at a speed that is greater than is reasonable and proper, shall be subject to a fine of 2 times the amount currently in effect for the violation issued. Except on a limited access highway, no person shall operate a school bus at a rate of speed exceeding forty miles per hour, while actually engaged in carrying school children.
Section 17A. Unless otherwise prohibited by federal law, the maximum speed for motor vehicles traveling on interstate highway route 90, the Massachusetts Turnpike, between the New York state border and the Westfield interchange, and from the Ludlow interchange to the Auburn interchange, interstate highway route 91 from the Vermont border to Northampton, Exit 21, and interstate 95 from the Newbury interchange 56 to the Danvers interchange 50, shall be sixty-five miles per hour.
(section 17B talks about drag racing, but we won't deal with the issues of racing while dressed in clothing generally considered more appropriate for the opposite sex here), with Section 18 "Special regulations, speed and use of vehicles" talking mainly about Bahston.
So, yeah, you have to drive at "safe and proper" speeds, but if you drive more than 1/4 or 1/8 mile (depending on where you're driving) at speeds above the posted speed (hmm, 1/4 mile, see previous comment about putting on women's clothing and hanging around in bars^W^W^W^Wracing) that's prima facie evidence of driving at an unreasonable or improper speed.
Bah! It's not the True blinking cursor if it can be made to not blink. The True blinking cursor remains immutable, ineffable, and unavoidable from power on, to power off...
The Blinking Cursor that can be seen on a screen is not the eternal Blinking Cursor.
There was a shop, opened by a bunch of cooks, where you could buy a complete 5-course dinner. The dinner was served with the shop's own special dinnerware and cutlery; the dinnerware couldn't be served on standard plates or eaten with standard silverware. The shop's thinking of switching to standard porcelain and glass for their dinnerware, and standard stainless steel for their cutlery, but it'll still have to be made specially.
The ingredients, and recipes, for the mashed potatoes and vegetables for the main course is available from the shop, for free. You can't get the recipes or special for the salad, the dessert, the appetizers, or the meat or fish in the main course, however.
They offered to give the kids free dinners.
There's also a large shopping hall in the same town, with shops that offer food in a number of ways:
a complete dinner, on standard plates, with standard silverware;
a complete dinner - you bring your own plates in, and they'll serve it;
sandwiches, for those with special small plates who have to eat while they're traveling or working;
catered meals for large events;
etc..
Some parts of the meals there are cooked by professional cooks, some are cooked by people in the town. The shops gather the courses together and serve them. You can get a "pre-packaged" meal, or you can order different courses off the menu and have them put them together - or you can just order the "give me everything on the menu" package and decide what you want to have.
For the full 5-course meals, you can get several different styles, from styles that are, at least to some degree, as fancy as those in the first store, to other simpler styles that some consider better for that simplicity and others consider a bit, well, unpolished.
I.e., tastes vary - some consider the courses from the shopping hall almost as good as - or, for some, as good as or better than - what you can get at the first store. Others think they're OK, but just not as well done. Some say that the first store does a better job of making sure all the courses work well together, as they're all prepared by the same people - although some of them are actually taken from the same places that stock the shelves in the shopping hall.
Ingredients and recipes for all of the dishes available for the shopping hall are available for free.
Some people argue that it's a good thing that you can get the recipes, although, in practice, a lot of customers just want dinner made for them, and the recipe doesn't matter. At least some of them think the chefs at the first store do a better job of making a dinner than do the collection of people who prepare stuff at the shopping hall. Others find that the stuff served both at the first store and in the shopping hall isn't quite right for them - doesn't taste right, has ingredients to which they're allergic, etc. - and are happy that they can get the recipes for the stuff in the shopping hall and cook it the way they want.
Some of the customers at the shopping hall think that if you don't buy the raw ingredients and recipes and cook them yourself, you're really not using the shopping hall the way you should be; those people tend to like rice dishes.
You can get the raw ingredients, and pots and pans and cooking utensils, at the shopping hall - but the other store does, at least, give away some ingredients, and their own special line of pots and pans and cooking utensils (although some of the pots look more than a bit like the ones you can get at the shopping hall, just as is the case for some of the ingredients you can get). You can even get equipment and seed to grow vegetables at the shopping hall, but most people don't go that far.
Oh, and the first store uses special glass to make the glasses, from which they can't make wine glasses, so they don't offer wine with their meals. (Th
And in the end, I still yearn for the blinking cursor.
At least on Tiger, that's Terminal > Window Settings..., select Display, check Blink, click "Use Settings as Defaults". HTH.:-)
But if you want really old, try Hercules. Runs on your Linux boxes, your Windows boxes, and your Mini. Makes your Apple// look shiny and modern, especially if you boot OS/360 on it....
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An immune system has to be _reactive_.
But not too reactive. The suggestion has been made that the problem isn't that our immune systems don't react to H5N1, it's that it reacts too vigorously, as per, for example, this article, Bird Flu Triggers Immune System 'Storm'.
Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health is quoted in that article as saying that this might be why the young and healthy get stricken more severely (presumably he's referring to H5N1, but perhaps that happened with the 1918 flu as well):
"This is basically a cytokine storm induced by this specific virus, which then leads to respiratory distress syndrome," Osterholm said. "This also makes sense of why you tend to see a preponderance of severe illness in those who tend to be the healthiest, because the ability to increase the production of cytokines is actually higher in those who are not immune-compromised. It's more likely in those who are otherwise healthy."
I.e., "hired out" means "hired people from", not "contracted out to". They might have needed to buy the expertise of folks from DEC, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft didn't develop NT, any more than hiring Charles Simonyi means they didn't develop Word. (Their purchase of Forethought does mean they didn't originally develop PowerPoint.) No, NT isn't hugely innovative - but, then neither are most core OSes, these days; the improvements are largely incremental.
From a quick look at the paper, Singularity is at least an interesting system; some ideas might resemble what's done in other systems, but you'll probably find that with just about any new OS (and I might be a bit suspicious of an OS that isn't influenced by any other system; perhaps such an OS's developers are titanic geniuses who don't need to stand on the shoulders of others, or perhaps they're just legends in their own minds).
C# is not an OS (Windows) dependent language. It is a platform (ie - Intel x86) dependent language.
I.e., there exists no native CLR for IA-64 (or any other instruction set), and there cannot be one? Are you certain of that?
If you aren't doing any tasks like that which require Windows, the raw machine code (or bytecode, I don't know which is the correct term) can just execute on the x86 processor.
Are you asserting here that the raw machine code into which C# is compiled is x86 machine code? It's not - it's Microsoft Intermediate Language, which gets translated to machine language before the code is run.
and they hired out another company to make NT for them
Indeed? What company might that be? (If the answer you give is "Digital Equipment Corporation", please cite information to support that answer, and note that "DEC sued Microsoft over it and part of the settlement was that they had to {support|keep supporting} NT on Alpha" isn't sufficient without references.)
From what i remember of my hardware courses last semester, the newest x86 cpus are basically a cisc interpreter attached to a risc chip.
More like a translator that converts x86 instructions to a RISC-like internal representation, which might or might not be a reasonable instruction set for machine code. See The Microarchitecture of the Pentium® 4 Processor (the Pentium {Pro,II,III} and the Pentium M are similar in concept).
All apple would have to do is have intel make the chips: A. without the interpreter at all.. thus making it a different platform with added benefit of greater efficiency and cost savings to boot..
So are you asserting here that getting Intel to do the engineering necessary to remove the translation code, and developing a compiler for that instruction set, and porting to the new instruction set, would save money over using an instruction set for which compilers already exist and for which low-level machine support already existed in OS X?
or B. work with intel to make a different microcode interpreter.
...so that they still have to port the C/C++/Objective C compiler (and any JIT for Java), and the machine support in the OS, but not get any performance benefit?
(BTW, I think the conversion of instructions is largely done by hardware, not microcode.)
but most of Apple's profits these days come from selling music
Do you have a source for the numbers you used to determine that? Their Q4 2005 Unaudited Summary Data shows revenue for systems (broken down by desktops, which means "non-notebook", and portables), iPods, "Other Music Products" (iTunes Music Store sales and "iPod related services and accessories"), peripherals and other hardware, and "software & other", and shows computers being responsible for more revenue than iPods or music (I'm assuming that by "selling music" you mean "selling music and music players"), but doesn't show costs or profits for those categories, so it doesn't show that more profits came from computers than from music (and also doesn't show that it didn't come from computers).
Darwin has a mach-based "microkernel" but there's only one thread running under it - the FreeBSD kernel.
Or, at least, kernel code based on BSD - but developed independently; it's not just FreeBSD lifted up and modified to plug into Mach. In Tiger, for example, the MP locking, and VFS layer, are significantly different from FreeBSD.
As for userland, the system library (called libSystem on Darwin/OS X, unlike the libc on most other UN*Xes) is based on BSD, but not identical to FreeBSD's - for example, a lot of the get*by* routines just communicate with lookupd in Darwin/OS X.
Again, then why did Microsoft announce that they were SHUTTING DOWN SFU, because the new Unix capabilities would be BUILTIN to Windows?
Because there's no need to offer SFU as a product if it's bundled with the OS? Note that it could be "bundled with the OS" without the OS being BSD-based.
BTW, the funniest Adsense I saw was on the Hulk'in Lunar Eclipse page where ads were offering Lunar Real Estate for Sale
The funniest one I saw was on the FAQ on the Ethereal Web site, wherein the references to "Fibre Channel" and "Fibre Distributed Data Interface" in the list of protocols it can dissect once provoked Google to put an ad up for a product that does contain fibre, but it's not in the product to help unclog your data network, if you know what I mean and I think you do....
(At this point, it appears that WildPackets has paid a trillion or so dollars to make sure they're the only thing advertised when you go to any page on the Ethereal Web site, so you no longer get ads for Colon Blow(TM).)
For better or worse, not all systems deliver SIGSEGV when you dereference a pointer that points outside the mapped address space, some deliver SIGBUS - and, for better or worse, some systems deliver SIGBUS when you dereference an unaligned pointer.
pthread_sigmask is apparently the propper way to do things because it works properly in a threaded environment.
The current Single UNIX Specification says of pthread_sigmask():
If any of the SIGFPE, SIGILL, SIGSEGV, or SIGBUS signals are generated while they are blocked, the result is undefined, unless the signal was generated by the kill() function, the sigqueue() function, or the raise() function.
so if you mean that the thread should block SIGSEGV and/or SIGBUS (and SIGFPE, for the divide-by-zero case) either when it starts or in the signal handler, there's no guarantee that'll work.
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-1, Flamebait? Yeesh....
"There is no sin except mismoderation." -Oscar Wilde
If by "claims to be U.S. based" you mean "has their world headquarters in the U.S.", I believe you're wrong - there are also Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Pfizer, for example.
(Your other claims seem a bit bogus as well. Am I just responding to a troll here?)
Well, maybe not run, but, given that, at least from the pictures on the Honda site, ASIMO looks a bit like a kid with a backpack, perhaps they were thinking of a certain other robot who could certainly move rather fast with both feet off the ground, although, admittedly, that's not running....
(In any case, what the page at the Honda site said was "Through proactive control of ASIMO's posture while both feet are off the ground, the running speed was doubled from the previous 3km/hour to 6km/hour.", so it's not as if both its feet are always off the ground when running; I guess they just fixed it so that it works better in the part of the step when one foot's pushed off the ground but the other one hasn't made contact with the ground yet.)
Yup. You'd have been better off with the "we knew it was a bad idea in the first place" left.
From your second paragraph (the first one quoted above), it appears we've already figured out what to do to cause harm to them.
If a file system hasn't been written to since the last syncing of the journal to disk, why would a journaled file system bother writing to (or reading from) the disks, thus causing them to be spun up?
s/says/say/, sorry about that.
Actually, what the General Laws of Massachusetts, Title XIV "Public Ways and Works", Chaper 90 "Motor Vehicles And Aircraft", Section 17 "Speed limits" says is:
and adds in Section 17A "Speed limit; Massachusetts Turnpike":
(section 17B talks about drag racing, but we won't deal with the issues of racing while dressed in clothing generally considered more appropriate for the opposite sex here), with Section 18 "Special regulations, speed and use of vehicles" talking mainly about Bahston.
So, yeah, you have to drive at "safe and proper" speeds, but if you drive more than 1/4 or 1/8 mile (depending on where you're driving) at speeds above the posted speed (hmm, 1/4 mile, see previous comment about putting on women's clothing and hanging around in bars^W^W^W^Wracing) that's prima facie evidence of driving at an unreasonable or improper speed.
Or the later draft-freier-ssl-version3-02
Those drafts, and more stuff, is linked to from the Netscape SSLv3 page.
There's also RFC 2256 for TLS 1.0.
The Blinking Cursor that can be seen on a screen is not the eternal Blinking Cursor.
I think all of you might find it's like:
There was a shop, opened by a bunch of cooks, where you could buy a complete 5-course dinner. The dinner was served with the shop's own special dinnerware and cutlery; the dinnerware couldn't be served on standard plates or eaten with standard silverware. The shop's thinking of switching to standard porcelain and glass for their dinnerware, and standard stainless steel for their cutlery, but it'll still have to be made specially.
The ingredients, and recipes, for the mashed potatoes and vegetables for the main course is available from the shop, for free. You can't get the recipes or special for the salad, the dessert, the appetizers, or the meat or fish in the main course, however.
They offered to give the kids free dinners.
There's also a large shopping hall in the same town, with shops that offer food in a number of ways:
etc..
Some parts of the meals there are cooked by professional cooks, some are cooked by people in the town. The shops gather the courses together and serve them. You can get a "pre-packaged" meal, or you can order different courses off the menu and have them put them together - or you can just order the "give me everything on the menu" package and decide what you want to have.
For the full 5-course meals, you can get several different styles, from styles that are, at least to some degree, as fancy as those in the first store, to other simpler styles that some consider better for that simplicity and others consider a bit, well, unpolished.
I.e., tastes vary - some consider the courses from the shopping hall almost as good as - or, for some, as good as or better than - what you can get at the first store. Others think they're OK, but just not as well done. Some say that the first store does a better job of making sure all the courses work well together, as they're all prepared by the same people - although some of them are actually taken from the same places that stock the shelves in the shopping hall.
Ingredients and recipes for all of the dishes available for the shopping hall are available for free.
Some people argue that it's a good thing that you can get the recipes, although, in practice, a lot of customers just want dinner made for them, and the recipe doesn't matter. At least some of them think the chefs at the first store do a better job of making a dinner than do the collection of people who prepare stuff at the shopping hall. Others find that the stuff served both at the first store and in the shopping hall isn't quite right for them - doesn't taste right, has ingredients to which they're allergic, etc. - and are happy that they can get the recipes for the stuff in the shopping hall and cook it the way they want.
Some of the customers at the shopping hall think that if you don't buy the raw ingredients and recipes and cook them yourself, you're really not using the shopping hall the way you should be; those people tend to like rice dishes.
You can get the raw ingredients, and pots and pans and cooking utensils, at the shopping hall - but the other store does, at least, give away some ingredients, and their own special line of pots and pans and cooking utensils (although some of the pots look more than a bit like the ones you can get at the shopping hall, just as is the case for some of the ingredients you can get). You can even get equipment and seed to grow vegetables at the shopping hall, but most people don't go that far.
Oh, and the first store uses special glass to make the glasses, from which they can't make wine glasses, so they don't offer wine with their meals. (Th
At least on Tiger, that's Terminal > Window Settings..., select Display, check Blink, click "Use Settings as Defaults". HTH. :-)
But if you want really old, try Hercules. Runs on your Linux boxes, your Windows boxes, and your Mini. Makes your Apple // look shiny and modern, especially if you boot OS/360 on it....
But not too reactive. The suggestion has been made that the problem isn't that our immune systems don't react to H5N1, it's that it reacts too vigorously, as per, for example, this article, Bird Flu Triggers Immune System 'Storm'.
Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health is quoted in that article as saying that this might be why the young and healthy get stricken more severely (presumably he's referring to H5N1, but perhaps that happened with the 1918 flu as well):
I.e., "hired out" means "hired people from", not "contracted out to". They might have needed to buy the expertise of folks from DEC, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft didn't develop NT, any more than hiring Charles Simonyi means they didn't develop Word. (Their purchase of Forethought does mean they didn't originally develop PowerPoint.) No, NT isn't hugely innovative - but, then neither are most core OSes, these days; the improvements are largely incremental.
From a quick look at the paper, Singularity is at least an interesting system; some ideas might resemble what's done in other systems, but you'll probably find that with just about any new OS (and I might be a bit suspicious of an OS that isn't influenced by any other system; perhaps such an OS's developers are titanic geniuses who don't need to stand on the shoulders of others, or perhaps they're just legends in their own minds).
I.e., there exists no native CLR for IA-64 (or any other instruction set), and there cannot be one? Are you certain of that?
Are you asserting here that the raw machine code into which C# is compiled is x86 machine code? It's not - it's Microsoft Intermediate Language, which gets translated to machine language before the code is run.
Indeed? What company might that be? (If the answer you give is "Digital Equipment Corporation", please cite information to support that answer, and note that "DEC sued Microsoft over it and part of the settlement was that they had to {support|keep supporting} NT on Alpha" isn't sufficient without references.)
It's called Rosetta (and it's software, not hardware, if you weren't aware of that).
More like a translator that converts x86 instructions to a RISC-like internal representation, which might or might not be a reasonable instruction set for machine code. See The Microarchitecture of the Pentium® 4 Processor (the Pentium {Pro,II,III} and the Pentium M are similar in concept).
So are you asserting here that getting Intel to do the engineering necessary to remove the translation code, and developing a compiler for that instruction set, and porting to the new instruction set, would save money over using an instruction set for which compilers already exist and for which low-level machine support already existed in OS X?
...so that they still have to port the C/C++/Objective C compiler (and any JIT for Java), and the machine support in the OS, but not get any performance benefit?
(BTW, I think the conversion of instructions is largely done by hardware, not microcode.)
Do you have a source for the numbers you used to determine that? Their Q4 2005 Unaudited Summary Data shows revenue for systems (broken down by desktops, which means "non-notebook", and portables), iPods, "Other Music Products" (iTunes Music Store sales and "iPod related services and accessories"), peripherals and other hardware, and "software & other", and shows computers being responsible for more revenue than iPods or music (I'm assuming that by "selling music" you mean "selling music and music players"), but doesn't show costs or profits for those categories, so it doesn't show that more profits came from computers than from music (and also doesn't show that it didn't come from computers).
Or, at least, kernel code based on BSD - but developed independently; it's not just FreeBSD lifted up and modified to plug into Mach. In Tiger, for example, the MP locking, and VFS layer, are significantly different from FreeBSD.
As for userland, the system library (called libSystem on Darwin/OS X, unlike the libc on most other UN*Xes) is based on BSD, but not identical to FreeBSD's - for example, a lot of the get*by* routines just communicate with lookupd in Darwin/OS X.
Wrong:
Not "ppc64", just "ppc", and not "Mach-O 64-bit", just "Mach-O", unlike libSystem:
You don't need a kernel built in 64-bit mode to run 64-bit binaries in userland. If you think you do, you've made an incorrect assumption somewhere.
Because there's no need to offer SFU as a product if it's bundled with the OS? Note that it could be "bundled with the OS" without the OS being BSD-based.
The funniest one I saw was on the FAQ on the Ethereal Web site, wherein the references to "Fibre Channel" and "Fibre Distributed Data Interface" in the list of protocols it can dissect once provoked Google to put an ad up for a product that does contain fibre, but it's not in the product to help unclog your data network, if you know what I mean and I think you do....
(At this point, it appears that WildPackets has paid a trillion or so dollars to make sure they're the only thing advertised when you go to any page on the Ethereal Web site, so you no longer get ads for Colon Blow(TM).)
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
For better or worse, not all systems deliver SIGSEGV when you dereference a pointer that points outside the mapped address space, some deliver SIGBUS - and, for better or worse, some systems deliver SIGBUS when you dereference an unaligned pointer.
The current Single UNIX Specification says of pthread_sigmask():
so if you mean that the thread should block SIGSEGV and/or SIGBUS (and SIGFPE, for the divide-by-zero case) either when it starts or in the signal handler, there's no guarantee that'll work.