I've been in computers for 20 years. Where I work, we have nondisclosure agreements with Intel and AMD, and I have seen presentations on the latest upcoming technology from both companies. They described virtualization in detail. When I read "VT" I had no idea what it stood for, and after reading a bit of the article I gathered it must refer to virtualization, but still didn't know what the "T" was until I saw the Wikipedia link. (When you think about it, putting "technology" in the acronym is pretty dumb. Everything in a computer is a "technology". We don't call memory RAMT.)
You also aren't even observing the past, you are observing the present - the light waves as they are currently striking your eye.
This is not the way the rest of us use the term "see". When light waves reach my eye after bouncing off a dog, I say that I see the dog, not that I see the light waves. Same with a star: when light reaches my eye after being emitted from a star, I say that I'm seeing the star.
Since the light left the star N years ago, I'm seeing the star the way it would have looked to a local observer N years ago. This part is not a matter of opinion or of semantics. If you accept that the light has traveled for N years, then it is a fact.
You might think that particles have some real quantum state even if they haven't been observed yet. In fact, there are experiments proving that this is false: the particles are in a quantum-entangled state (ie. they are "in both states") until they are observed. If you assume they are in some state until observed, you will reach an incorrect conclusion regarding the outcome of such an experiment. This is a very hard concept to accept for many people, and physicists wouldn't accept it either if it weren't for the fact that mountains of evidence demonstrate it conclusively.
Well, I'm currently working on ARM, and stuff almost always ends up smaller than x86 code.
Really? That hasn't been my experience.
Well, you get to do fancy addressing modes on the rare occasions that you need them... But not too fancy, no pre/post increment/decrement etc.
Increment/decrement of a register is one of those 1-byte instructions. And don't underestimate those fancy instructions. It's very nice to be able to do things like a nondestructive multiply by 5 without using up the ALU.
Well, you could say that it was an OK (but not great) encoding for 8086, but it's totally unsuited to encoding the instructions that modern software actually uses.
Well... it's not ideal for code compression, but I wouldn't call it "totally unsuited".
Incandescents and the sun give off yellowish light.
No, the sun gives off pure white light by definition. (That's why we have evolved to see that spectrum as the neutral colour. If you look at the spectrum, arguably it's actually a shade of green.) The reason the sun looks yellow in the sky is because the blue light has been scattered away by the atmosphere, making the sky look blue; the remaining (less scattered) light looks yellow as a result. However, if you look at a piece of white paper in the sunlight, it looks white because the yellow light directly from the sun combines with the blue light from the sky and adds back up to pure white again.
The reason people prefer "warm" yellow light is purely emotional as far as I know. It reminds them of campfires and candles.
This was not a comment to the viewer. It was a comment directed at the staff during the making of the film. I don't think there's any reason to doubt he believed Jar Jar was funny.
Lucas said he and Steven Spielberg recently finalized the script for the film.
"It's going to be fantastic. It's going to be the best one yet," the 62-year-old filmmaker said
This from the guy who can be heard in the making of the Phantom Menace saying about Jar Jar Binks: "we've never had a character this funny before".
Question: what was the highest mountain in the world before Everest was discovered?
Answer: Everest was the highest. We just didn't know it yet.
People are not innocent before proven guilty. They are presumed innocent by the justice system until proven guilty. Before the proof, they may be guilty or innocent, and a trial doesn't change that. (In fact, trials never find anyone "innocent"; they only find people "not guilty", and the presumption of innocence does the rest.)
One might think OJ was guilty, but the justice system must presume he was innocent because he was not legally proven guilty.
No, Linus very much agrees with the "quid pro quo" of the GPL. He believes that if you take his code and extend it, you should have to contribute back.
Actually that's not what the GPL says. The GPL says if you have to provide source to anyone you give a modified binary to.
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Yes, as soon as the moon moves to within 95 miles altitude.
I've been in computers for 20 years. Where I work, we have nondisclosure agreements with Intel and AMD, and I have seen presentations on the latest upcoming technology from both companies. They described virtualization in detail. When I read "VT" I had no idea what it stood for, and after reading a bit of the article I gathered it must refer to virtualization, but still didn't know what the "T" was until I saw the Wikipedia link. (When you think about it, putting "technology" in the acronym is pretty dumb. Everything in a computer is a "technology". We don't call memory RAMT.)
So am I a moron? I guess so.
I've said it before, the problem with the prequels was that there was no Han Solo.
And what happens when your friendly host country stops being friendly? Does your "nation" have its own army to defend the embassy?
This is not the way the rest of us use the term "see". When light waves reach my eye after bouncing off a dog, I say that I see the dog, not that I see the light waves. Same with a star: when light reaches my eye after being emitted from a star, I say that I'm seeing the star.
Since the light left the star N years ago, I'm seeing the star the way it would have looked to a local observer N years ago. This part is not a matter of opinion or of semantics. If you accept that the light has traveled for N years, then it is a fact.
You might think that particles have some real quantum state even if they haven't been observed yet. In fact, there are experiments proving that this is false: the particles are in a quantum-entangled state (ie. they are "in both states") until they are observed. If you assume they are in some state until observed, you will reach an incorrect conclusion regarding the outcome of such an experiment. This is a very hard concept to accept for many people, and physicists wouldn't accept it either if it weren't for the fact that mountains of evidence demonstrate it conclusively.
Induction is easier to make waterproof than metal wires.
Presumably the "Ac" is from "acetyl".
You can have intermediate results, and then ultimately an end result.
No, the sun gives off pure white light by definition. (That's why we have evolved to see that spectrum as the neutral colour. If you look at the spectrum, arguably it's actually a shade of green.) The reason the sun looks yellow in the sky is because the blue light has been scattered away by the atmosphere, making the sky look blue; the remaining (less scattered) light looks yellow as a result. However, if you look at a piece of white paper in the sunlight, it looks white because the yellow light directly from the sun combines with the blue light from the sky and adds back up to pure white again.
The reason people prefer "warm" yellow light is purely emotional as far as I know. It reminds them of campfires and candles.
This was not a comment to the viewer. It was a comment directed at the staff during the making of the film. I don't think there's any reason to doubt he believed Jar Jar was funny.
I must be more sleep-deprived than I thought.
My point is about the importance of the word "presumed". This whole "shades of gray" business has no bearing.
Question: what was the highest mountain in the world before Everest was discovered?
Answer: Everest was the highest. We just didn't know it yet.
People are not innocent before proven guilty. They are presumed innocent by the justice system until proven guilty. Before the proof, they may be guilty or innocent, and a trial doesn't change that. (In fact, trials never find anyone "innocent"; they only find people "not guilty", and the presumption of innocence does the rest.)
One might think OJ was guilty, but the justice system must presume he was innocent because he was not legally proven guilty.
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Try this distro.
People have used humour to deal with tragedy for as long as humour has existed.
Got a link?
Any trait not needed will be eroded by random mutations until it no longer functions.
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