Well, I wouldn't say "Real SF" has nothing to do with the Gee Whiz Factor. I like a little Gee Whiz in my SF. It's just that the genre can't survive on Gee Whiz alone.
This raises the bar on fake sound bites. Imagine recording thousands of phrases spoken by Mr. Burns and piecing them together with this technique to make him say "Hello, Smithers. You're quite good at turning me on".
AFAIK, Opterons have a 48-bit addressing--via 4-level page tables of 4KB each--allowing them to access 256TB, not 1TB. Maybe the chip only has 40 external address lines?
No, you're missing the point. The listeners are not using WiFi. It's only used to get the audio from the venue to the server.
You do have a point that WiFi can't replace radio without first having broadcast capability. However, that has no bearing on what they're doing in Austin, so be careful of accusing people of missing the point when they are merely staying on topic.
Yep, the extra registers are fantastic. It's about time.
There's more to this chip than that, too. The HyperTransport bus architecture they have created is very cool. Cheap, fast, and scalable for medium-sized SMP boxes. And 64-bit addressability, despite your assertion, is indeed useful today for servers, which routinely hit the 4GB barrier.
Backward compatibility is important, not only for existing software, but for existing compilers. Supporting long mode is nearly trivial. Just add the REX prefix in the appropriate places, remove deprecated instructions, support RIP addressing, and implement the ABI. Ok, that sounds like a lot, but compared to IA64 it's a cinch.
I'm under NDA, so I can't say much more, but I really like this architecture, and I want to get a dual myself for home use.
The CPU supports it, so I think it depends on the OS. AFAIK x86-64 Linux adopts one address-size per process, but I'm fully prepared to stand corrected.
You're talking about different kinds of interference. He means the term in the informal sense of messing with something. The interference you're talking about has to do with the wave properties of light interacting with small objects (like a thin slit), which AFAIK has no relation to the problem of radio spectrum whatsoever.
Here is how you could have found the length of a day, and here is how you could have found out about leap seconds. In both cases, what you are looking for appears on the first page of results.
Also, the length of a siderial day (less than 23 hours) is not why we have leap years, though it is somewhat related. We have leap years because there are not exactly 365 days in a year.
Actually, you can also calculate the earth's siderial period for yourself. You know that a year is roughly 365.25 days long, with the extra 0.25 days coming from the 1 in 4 leap years. The earth turns once relative to the sun in almost exactly 24 hours (by definition), but once per year we revolve once around the sun, effectively getting one more rotation relative to the universe for free. Thus, the actual length of a day is:
You better have a RAM expansion cartridge. The VIC20's default 3.5KB ram won't be able to run this mamoth OS, which weighs in at over 40KB!
As for getting Java to run on a C64, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it is literally impossible to get anything but the embedded version to run in under 64KB. Even the embedded version will be a challenge. But good luck!
The article says a whole lot more than that, my dear whore. It has a lot of cool ideas if you would take the time to skim it.
They have discovered a new type of route throughout the solar system, besides the conic sections typically used today, requiring orders of magnitude less energy. They can also predict up to 100 orbits into the future, with multiple ports of call on the itinerary, which is much more sophisticated than the simple slingshot method you're alluding to.
They are using chaos theory and orbital instability to their advantage. That is something most certainly not done in traditional conic orbital maneuvers, which are of such a short duration and simple nature that chaos and instability don't enter into it.
Uh, where I come from, "half a dozen Chinese guys working for half your salary" adds up to half your salary. Now, if it was "...each working for half your salary" that's different.
I assign foes as people I don't agree with, yet are insightful and bring a new angle onto the subject that I didn't see before.
Both are shown at +3.
One of the useful things of this system is the "foes of friends" feature. When someone I think is intelligent considers someone else to be a waste of time, that's useful information to me. I may read what they say, and if I agree that they are a waste of time, I'll make them a foe too.
If people use the system my way, we end up with a "web of trust" that can separate the wheat from the chaff around here. Your way doesn't do that. For instance, what do you do if you see a really ignorant hothead spout off about something? I can mark them as a foe and let others know that I think that guy is a dummy. You are forced to leave them at the default "grey" setting, thus imparting no information at all, and wasting your own time in the future reading more of that person's rants.
Your usage of "foe" to mark insightful people with whom you tend to disagree defeats the system, and is likely to be misinterpreted. The system is a lot like spam filtering, and you're injecting false positives.
(In case you're wondering, I show friends at +1 and foes at +0.)
Dude, some advice: You need to learn when to stop talking. You made your point with "Successfully sued on what grounds? "The software we stole doesn't work"?". That was brilliant. Let him respond, and deal with his arguments as they come. There's no need to shield yourself from every possible rebuttal.
This kind of crap is so frustrating. Do you think that "Europe" can only plan one space mission at a time? If they're planning this moon shot thingy, they therefore must no longer be supporting the ISS, right?
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Well, I wouldn't say "Real SF" has nothing to do with the Gee Whiz Factor. I like a little Gee Whiz in my SF. It's just that the genre can't survive on Gee Whiz alone.
Microsoft software comes pre-hacked.
Small aperture?
There are event-based parsers that don't need to read the whole file. I think expat is one of these.
"Keyboard is still better"? If only there were a "-1: Obvious" moderation...
This raises the bar on fake sound bites. Imagine recording thousands of phrases spoken by Mr. Burns and piecing them together with this technique to make him say "Hello, Smithers. You're quite good at turning me on".
AFAIK, Opterons have a 48-bit addressing--via 4-level page tables of 4KB each--allowing them to access 256TB, not 1TB. Maybe the chip only has 40 external address lines?
You do have a point that WiFi can't replace radio without first having broadcast capability. However, that has no bearing on what they're doing in Austin, so be careful of accusing people of missing the point when they are merely staying on topic.
Yebbut being the "owner of all software code and licensing rights" has nothing to do with patents.
I think that's what Compatibility mode is, though I'm not sure because we don't use that mode.
There's more to this chip than that, too. The HyperTransport bus architecture they have created is very cool. Cheap, fast, and scalable for medium-sized SMP boxes. And 64-bit addressability, despite your assertion, is indeed useful today for servers, which routinely hit the 4GB barrier.
Backward compatibility is important, not only for existing software, but for existing compilers. Supporting long mode is nearly trivial. Just add the REX prefix in the appropriate places, remove deprecated instructions, support RIP addressing, and implement the ABI. Ok, that sounds like a lot, but compared to IA64 it's a cinch.
I'm under NDA, so I can't say much more, but I really like this architecture, and I want to get a dual myself for home use.
What are you talking about? Name one extra item of "cost" or "administration" or "hassle" that comes from using a 64-bit machine versus a 32-bit one.
The CPU supports it, so I think it depends on the OS. AFAIK x86-64 Linux adopts one address-size per process, but I'm fully prepared to stand corrected.
You're talking about different kinds of interference. He means the term in the informal sense of messing with something. The interference you're talking about has to do with the wave properties of light interacting with small objects (like a thin slit), which AFAIK has no relation to the problem of radio spectrum whatsoever.
One useful definition I have heard is that A orbits B iff A's path relative to B is always concave toward B.
Also, the length of a siderial day (less than 23 hours) is not why we have leap years, though it is somewhat related. We have leap years because there are not exactly 365 days in a year.
Actually, you can also calculate the earth's siderial period for yourself. You know that a year is roughly 365.25 days long, with the extra 0.25 days coming from the 1 in 4 leap years. The earth turns once relative to the sun in almost exactly 24 hours (by definition), but once per year we revolve once around the sun, effectively getting one more rotation relative to the universe for free. Thus, the actual length of a day is:
This is still not entirely accurate, but it is within 1/10 second of the actual value.As for getting Java to run on a C64, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it is literally impossible to get anything but the embedded version to run in under 64KB. Even the embedded version will be a challenge. But good luck!
(Hint: the article never makes any reference to any kind of "fixed structure".)
They have discovered a new type of route throughout the solar system, besides the conic sections typically used today, requiring orders of magnitude less energy. They can also predict up to 100 orbits into the future, with multiple ports of call on the itinerary, which is much more sophisticated than the simple slingshot method you're alluding to.
They are using chaos theory and orbital instability to their advantage. That is something most certainly not done in traditional conic orbital maneuvers, which are of such a short duration and simple nature that chaos and instability don't enter into it.
Uh, where I come from, "half a dozen Chinese guys working for half your salary" adds up to half your salary. Now, if it was "...each working for half your salary" that's different.
If people use the system my way, we end up with a "web of trust" that can separate the wheat from the chaff around here. Your way doesn't do that. For instance, what do you do if you see a really ignorant hothead spout off about something? I can mark them as a foe and let others know that I think that guy is a dummy. You are forced to leave them at the default "grey" setting, thus imparting no information at all, and wasting your own time in the future reading more of that person's rants.
Your usage of "foe" to mark insightful people with whom you tend to disagree defeats the system, and is likely to be misinterpreted. The system is a lot like spam filtering, and you're injecting false positives.
(In case you're wondering, I show friends at +1 and foes at +0.)
Dude, some advice: You need to learn when to stop talking. You made your point with "Successfully sued on what grounds? "The software we stole doesn't work"?". That was brilliant. Let him respond, and deal with his arguments as they come. There's no need to shield yourself from every possible rebuttal.
Good grief.
Well, except BeOS. And Hurricane, and Tornado, and K42.