And all macs; they also use firmware. And most fords, or at least 1993 fords with antilock brakes, come to think of it, and presumably more recent ones as well. Wait, why do we think forth is dying out again?
Not at all convinced about that... OS X is better than NeXT in some ways, and a lot worse in others. PDF instead of Display PS is a big letdown, for instance, and one that I'll never understand.
Why would they give you more than the minimum required, if you agreed to that minimum? Does it gain them anything? Are you honestly going to work less now because they didn't give you an unnecessary bonus?
(Disregard the above if your company is non-for-profit, employee-owned, or determined to get sued by stockholders.)
Dude, software should never be able to damage hardware. Not in 2003. Part of this is just common sense -- how could anyone design hardware that bad? But beyond that, it is only a matter of time before someone writes a virus that includes this cute little effect. It is no longer possible to blow up a CRT by giving it an out-of-range signal, or to call halt-and-catch-fire, or to blow up your car's engine by overreving it (assume you haven't screwed with the rev limiter). It is not okay for normal usage to damage hardware, and in the computer world 'normal usage' means any data at all, even malicious or (in the case of Mandrake, it seems) really bad data.
Can someone point to the offending code in the install program? I'd like to whip together a quick Windows 95/98 program to produce the same effect. Then anyone who thinks this situation is outrageous (hardware being damaged by software? in 2003?), and who has a dell machine under warrantee, can run the program and give Dell, the angry giant, a bit of incentive to motivate LG.
No matter what I do, I should never be able to get the US to launch a nuclear strike. It doesn't matter what action I'm contemplating; my actions should be entirely disassociated from that destructive event. Similarly, there is no way that data sent to a device (as opposed to illegal, non-data signals sent on the same lines) should ever cause the device to permanently malfunction. The data is simply a customer of the device; the device should not cause destruction based on the advice of a non-trusted user. It can go fuck the user's data up (and the gov't can go put me back in my little box)... but damage to anyone or anything else should simply not happen.
Beware gcj native code generation for exceptions. Be very very ware... it's about 100,000 times slower than java, for reasons that are totally beyond my comprehension. Milliseconds to handle a single thrown exception.
No, don't see Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science, as it's illiterate trash. But for the best non-introductory material on the subject, read Wolfram's academic works; much, much more readable, focused, and interesting.
This is what dialog boxes are for. "As a new feature to you, our valued drone, we can start fiddling bits on your computer at random. If you voted for the current administration, click yes. Otherwise, look at getting another ISP." Very simple... make it the user's conscious (or unconscious, for most users) decision, and avoid the whole issue entirely.
HP recently (about a year ago, when they said "we're stopping calculator development"...) authorized use of the ROMs in emulators, and even distributes official ROMs, for emulator use, from there website for free.
So what you're saying is that HP's calculator business would go under in about a week if TI were to sell a calculator keypad for $20 that clips onto the bottom of a palm pilot and interfaces to HP's free (what were they thinking?) emulator.
Power4 also uses significantly thicker metal layers on the chip, which increases MTBF to something seriously unreasonable, but adds capacitance and decreases maximum clock speed. The G5 is basically always faster than a single Power4 core, ignoring L3 (G5 has 512K L2 at ~2GHz, Power4 has 1.5MB L2 at ~1GHz).
Mod parent up as insightful. I'm too lazy to read the whole thing, so it wasn't interesting; it surely wasn't funny. Nor is it offtopic and, not having been rated yet, it is neither underrated nor overrated. And it's not trolling, it's metatrolling... besides, with that much text, there has to be/something/ insightful in there.
No, no, this is the chinese government. The 15th to the 17th means they release the film on the 15th and, when everyone is suitably distracted, actually try it on the 17th.
It is my understanding that the Dell servers only support detection of two-bit errors, at most, so how can you trust it's results? With that many machines, the statistics of a bit error in RAM gets quite high.
So you have fast incorrect data. And, since it's a supercomputer, they're not exactly checking the results in their spare time.
Oh, wait. What do you mean they might have taken that into account?
Noble gasses can be quite reactive, under the right conditions. It's just that they're (for the most part) much less reactive than other elements, in the same situation. Xenon hexaflouride and xenon tetraflouride, for instance, are quite easily made and quite stable; this doesn't prevent xenon from being a noble gas, but rather suggests that the term 'noble gas' should not be used a synonym for the (now obsolete) 'inert gas.'
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And all macs; they also use firmware. And most fords, or at least 1993 fords with antilock brakes, come to think of it, and presumably more recent ones as well. Wait, why do we think forth is dying out again?
Same but improved OS
Not at all convinced about that... OS X is better than NeXT in some ways, and a lot worse in others. PDF instead of Display PS is a big letdown, for instance, and one that I'll never understand.
Why would they give you more than the minimum required, if you agreed to that minimum? Does it gain them anything? Are you honestly going to work less now because they didn't give you an unnecessary bonus?
(Disregard the above if your company is non-for-profit, employee-owned, or determined to get sued by stockholders.)
And let's say the moon really IS made of green cheese...
Well, drawing capacitors and resistors should work, at least vaguely... inductors may be harder. :-)
The name cairo lives on... chi rho = xp.
If your employment was contingent on you writing 100% bug free code, would you have a job ?
Yes. Want fries with that code?
Java supports chinese variable names. Don't ask me how I know this. Don't ask my coworkers, either.
Dude, software should never be able to damage hardware. Not in 2003. Part of this is just common sense -- how could anyone design hardware that bad? But beyond that, it is only a matter of time before someone writes a virus that includes this cute little effect. It is no longer possible to blow up a CRT by giving it an out-of-range signal, or to call halt-and-catch-fire, or to blow up your car's engine by overreving it (assume you haven't screwed with the rev limiter). It is not okay for normal usage to damage hardware, and in the computer world 'normal usage' means any data at all, even malicious or (in the case of Mandrake, it seems) really bad data.
Can someone point to the offending code in the install program? I'd like to whip together a quick Windows 95/98 program to produce the same effect. Then anyone who thinks this situation is outrageous (hardware being damaged by software? in 2003?), and who has a dell machine under warrantee, can run the program and give Dell, the angry giant, a bit of incentive to motivate LG.
No matter what I do, I should never be able to get the US to launch a nuclear strike. It doesn't matter what action I'm contemplating; my actions should be entirely disassociated from that destructive event. Similarly, there is no way that data sent to a device (as opposed to illegal, non-data signals sent on the same lines) should ever cause the device to permanently malfunction. The data is simply a customer of the device; the device should not cause destruction based on the advice of a non-trusted user. It can go fuck the user's data up (and the gov't can go put me back in my little box)... but damage to anyone or anything else should simply not happen.
Beware gcj native code generation for exceptions. Be very very ware... it's about 100,000 times slower than java, for reasons that are totally beyond my comprehension. Milliseconds to handle a single thrown exception.
No, don't see Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science, as it's illiterate trash. But for the best non-introductory material on the subject, read Wolfram's academic works; much, much more readable, focused, and interesting.
This is what dialog boxes are for. "As a new feature to you, our valued drone, we can start fiddling bits on your computer at random. If you voted for the current administration, click yes. Otherwise, look at getting another ISP." Very simple... make it the user's conscious (or unconscious, for most users) decision, and avoid the whole issue entirely.
HP recently (about a year ago, when they said "we're stopping calculator development"...) authorized use of the ROMs in emulators, and even distributes official ROMs, for emulator use, from there website for free.
Mailbox->Synchronize "Account"
Cron job it if you need to.
So what you're saying is that HP's calculator business would go under in about a week if TI were to sell a calculator keypad for $20 that clips onto the bottom of a palm pilot and interfaces to HP's free (what were they thinking?) emulator.
Power4 also uses significantly thicker metal layers on the chip, which increases MTBF to something seriously unreasonable, but adds capacitance and decreases maximum clock speed. The G5 is basically always faster than a single Power4 core, ignoring L3 (G5 has 512K L2 at ~2GHz, Power4 has 1.5MB L2 at ~1GHz).
Mod parent up as insightful. I'm too lazy to read the whole thing, so it wasn't interesting; it surely wasn't funny. Nor is it offtopic and, not having been rated yet, it is neither underrated nor overrated. And it's not trolling, it's metatrolling... besides, with that much text, there has to be /something/ insightful in there.
No, no, this is the chinese government. The 15th to the 17th means they release the film on the 15th and, when everyone is suitably distracted, actually try it on the 17th.
It is my understanding that the Dell servers only support detection of two-bit errors, at most, so how can you trust it's results? With that many machines, the statistics of a bit error in RAM gets quite high.
So you have fast incorrect data. And, since it's a supercomputer, they're not exactly checking the results in their spare time.
Oh, wait. What do you mean they might have taken that into account?
Why is this only +3? This is the funniest thing I've read on slashdot in months.
Should be 8 FPops/cycle, no? Four-element parallel MAC with altivec, pipelined to one a cycle?
(Yes, we all know Rpeak is meaningless. Still.)
Noble gasses can be quite reactive, under the right conditions. It's just that they're (for the most part) much less reactive than other elements, in the same situation. Xenon hexaflouride and xenon tetraflouride, for instance, are quite easily made and quite stable; this doesn't prevent xenon from being a noble gas, but rather suggests that the term 'noble gas' should not be used a synonym for the (now obsolete) 'inert gas.'
Oral tests. No one dares cheat if they know there's an oral test coming up.