Remember that DNA formed by trial and error. There could be "commented out" code in the genome that is no longer used. If there is no selective advantage in deleting it, it will hang around.
You are a computer programmer, faced with the task of decyphering almost a gigabyte of machine code, which was written by billions of programmers making random changes and seeing if the result was an improvement.
That's a pretty good way to say "first post" without getting moderated away. In fact you managed to get moderated up instead of down! Kudos. -- Patrick Doyle
That sounds pretty good! Now, if they just make it easier to manipulate. Perhaps have it support its own weight, and make it larger so you can rest your hand on it. Then change the name from "pen" to "mouse"... -- Patrick Doyle
I don't know about all these bug problems. I have run Unreal and UT on my Diamond Viper 770 with no problems (well, none that weren't my own fault). -- Patrick Doyle
Games are entertainment. If they are buggy, they are not entertaining, and they go in the Recycle Bin. (Yes, most games run under Windows.:-)
Tools help you accomplish an objective. If the tool is buggy, it could make that objective much harder to achieve, so it's important to be able to fix it.
Besides, UT is simply amazing. Whatever they're charging, it must be pennies per hour compared to how much I have played it.:-)
The part that's wrong is the fact that nobody cares if an average Joe kills himself. She was famous, so people grieve for her as they should for anybody, in a perfect world. -- Patrick Doyle
Didn't Shannon invent data compression in the Forties? IIRC, Shannon-Fano codes were a slightly clumsier version of Huffman coding which preceed Huffman coding by a few years.
experimental samples of the superconducting integrated circuits were already built and running at 300 Gigahertz - with the 3.5 mkm technology.
Er, I find that hard to believe. A 300 GHz machine would have a clock period of 3.3 picoseconds. In 3.3 picoseconds, light travels only one millimeter. Thus, a 300GHz processor would have to fit entirely within a sphere 1mm in diameter. Was that the case with the processor you heard of?
And what's "3.5 mkm"? Are you talking about 3.5nm? AFAIK, that's an order of magnitude smaller than the smallest semiconductors they can fabricate now, so I find it hard to believe a new technology could be made so small.
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well, *technically* standard CMOS logic relies on current, but it's essentially voltage based
No it doesn't. Voltage at the gate is what creates the channel that allows current to flow between the source and the drain. Ok, current is needed to overcome the gate capacitance, but it's voltage which makes the switch flip.
Ironically, though, CMOS circuit designs are dominated by current considerations. That's because the gate capacitance and the capacitance of the metal wires becomes very important for ICs, so to get that required voltage change, you need to push a lot of current into those capacitors.
So I would have said:
well, *technically* standard CMOS logic relies on voltage, but it's effectively current based
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The law says an electronic signature will have the same force as a regular one; not that they will be taken on blind faith to be Absolute Proof of identity.
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Did I miss it? Where was it argued that Code Morphing is not the same as JIT compiling?
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Patrick Doyle
We ought to do this at every site that requires free registration:
Username: Slashdot (case-sensitive)
Password: Slashdot
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Patrick Doyle
Remember that DNA formed by trial and error. There could be "commented out" code in the genome that is no longer used. If there is no selective advantage in deleting it, it will hang around.
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Patrick Doyle
Imagine this:
You are a computer programmer, faced with the task of decyphering almost a gigabyte of machine code, which was written by billions of programmers making random changes and seeing if the result was an improvement.
And you thought Perl was hard to read...
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That's a pretty good way to say "first post" without getting moderated away. In fact you managed to get moderated up instead of down! Kudos.
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Patrick Doyle
That sounds pretty good! Now, if they just make it easier to manipulate. Perhaps have it support its own weight, and make it larger so you can rest your hand on it. Then change the name from "pen" to "mouse"...
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Patrick Doyle
I don't know about all these bug problems. I have run Unreal and UT on my Diamond Viper 770 with no problems (well, none that weren't my own fault).
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Patrick Doyle
Games are entertainment. If they are buggy, they are not entertaining, and they go in the Recycle Bin. (Yes, most games run under Windows. :-)
:-)
Tools help you accomplish an objective. If the tool is buggy, it could make that objective much harder to achieve, so it's important to be able to fix it.
Besides, UT is simply amazing. Whatever they're charging, it must be pennies per hour compared to how much I have played it.
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Here's one of them:
http://www.hollywood.com/movietalk/celebrities/mbe rgman/sound/southpark/5.ram
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The part that's wrong is the fact that nobody cares if an average Joe kills himself. She was famous, so people grieve for her as they should for anybody, in a perfect world.
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http://www.hollywood.com/movietalk/celebrities/mbe rgman/html/sound.html
The last one (at the bottom) is a bit eerie in light of recent events.
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Can't complain about 100KB/sec. Thanks!
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I have a buddy doing coding making $50K right out of university. (I'd be making the same if I hadn't gone back for a Masters... :-)
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Didn't Shannon invent data compression in the Forties? IIRC, Shannon-Fano codes were a slightly clumsier version of Huffman coding which preceed Huffman coding by a few years.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Have a look at the article--she complained to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
The slashdot headline was misleading.
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And what's "3.5 mkm"? Are you talking about 3.5nm? AFAIK, that's an order of magnitude smaller than the smallest semiconductors they can fabricate now, so I find it hard to believe a new technology could be made so small.
Sorry, but I'm not convinced. I think you heard wrong.
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No it doesn't. Voltage at the gate is what creates the channel that allows current to flow between the source and the drain. Ok, current is needed to overcome the gate capacitance, but it's voltage which makes the switch flip.
Ironically, though, CMOS circuit designs are dominated by current considerations. That's because the gate capacitance and the capacitance of the metal wires becomes very important for ICs, so to get that required voltage change, you need to push a lot of current into those capacitors.
So I would have said:
(Ok, if that's what you meant, then I appologize. :-)
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These are the same reviews the first three movies got.
IMHO, reviews carry no information whatsoever. That is, they're as likely to be right as wrong.
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Yes! That's it exactly. I voted "deserved" because that was the only option I had, but "fun" hits the nail on the head.
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The law says an electronic signature will have the same force as a regular one; not that they will be taken on blind faith to be Absolute Proof of identity.
People can forge regular signatures too. Are electronic signatures less secure than regular ones?
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I thought that Dave Barry bit was pretty funny.
How about a Dave Barry Slashbox?
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