Technically this is not true. In fact you can mix 16/32 bit code selectors within a single task with no problems. Of course you have todo a far jump to go into a diff mode [which basically means loading the descriptor for the code segment] but that isnt unstable its just slow.
I mean when you search for something like "decorrelated linear transform" and get the first 10 links to volvo/gm/ford/toyota and that stupid X-cam thingy you can be fairly certain they are doctored results.
If the search engine you use doesn't return real links, guess what, just guess, oh common guess,
USE A DIFFERENT SEARCH ENGINE!
There are plenty out there [hint: you can probably do a search for them!]
everytime I turn my back/. sneaks another stupid story in here.
Since when is having your picture taken in *public* a violation of your privacy?
Will you stupid people just goto school, grow some logic capabilities and put some thought into it. If you are sitting in public you can hardly expect privacy.
Now as to whether the tolls are a good idea? Hell yes. I think it should be three times as much. Go take a friggin bus once in a while you damn whiny non-realistic bitches. Holy shit, you think the environment and gas supplies are endless?
HAahhahahaha this is funny. Um here's a tip of reality for you [free of charge]. After every mission with the shuttle they spend 1000's of hours checking and replacing the >30k tiles that line the heat shield part of the body.
I'd say that the *design* is 25+ years old but the actual shuttle is at best a few years [thats stretching it!]
Say my dad suddenly picks up a cs book and starts programming all of a sudden.
That is not what I meant and you know it. What I think of as a net pioneer is someone who established a part of the net [say a RFC about a protocol or algorithm] that is integral to the net today.
Like the designers of IP are pioneers [with limited forsight...] or the developers of HTTP or FTP or etc...
Some dork who wrote some P2P crap is not a pioneer, in fact I'd say P2P is detrimental to the cost effectiveness of the net today. Its the whole reason why ISPs are now charging more and more [to a limited degree I'd say SMTP is detrimental too but at least it has more practical uses...]
So if I am not celebrating some horde-monger's life its because I don't appreciate what he did.
It seems insanity and ranting is rewarded here. Yeah 1984 is here, oh no hide away!
Ha...
Hmmm, lets see people have sat on corners with signs [adverts] since the turn of the century. Nothing new. Now if the the OP just opened their eyes and looked around they would see the world is now falling down around them.
Go get a job and move out of your parents garage ya bum!
Actually no. Receiving mail under a pseudonym is not illegal. The assumption is that unless you are a tennant of the address you cannot open the mail [unless the company has some policy, e.g. registered mail].
I mean I can subscribe to Maxim as "Joe Dirt"....:-)
Um VGA mode has been around for like 15 or so years now [late 80's]. I doubt it will be dropped on a whim since supporting it has become trivial and to some extent required.
I mean if nvidia dropped VGA support then they would lose their somewhat strong linux group. Also your BIOS would no longer work....
I can imagine in the next 5 to 10 years it will be gone but not soon and definiately not without a change to the MOBO bios.
Why? Any decent OS should let you use a safe mode [e.g. 640x480x16 colors] before switching automagically to a higher color mode.
Next your going to comment that anyone with a 5 yr old soundblaster PCI16 should get the latest and greatest PCI64 Soundblaster 128 or something just because supporting widespread hardware that is older than a month is taboo.
Why don't they just release a 16x AGP system and be done with? I think after our GFX cards can receive the library of congress in a billionth of a second from the cpu then we should be ok
if only it had 16-bit sound. Well, the GBA does.
since when? The DirectSound channels in the GBA [there are two] are 8-bits PCM each and run at either clock or a divisor of clock [e.g. anything that divides 2^24 Hz is fairly easy to approximate but anything >20khz is a bad idea].
Actually a while back I proposed a related mod to the GBA which was a cart-pass-through. The cart would be like an FX chip [except that it would work with all games and not be built into one cart]. Things like PCM sound take considerable time on a GBA so offloading it to another unit would be a great idea. [could also offload some GFX too]
If you premeditated the murder even using a "large mass of metal" its still murder in the first. I mean try killing your neighbour with a light saber [or whatever newly invented killing device you can find] and see how quickly you get charged with age-old law.
Tom
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The process that happens inside a refrigeration system is based on physics. It does not matter which gas. In fact, water, alchohol, and even good old CO2 all can be used as refrigerents and do just a good a job cooling food as Freon did. Well, I should note that water wouldn't be that good for freezing stuff, however for cooling you house it would work fine.
Yet if you paid attention in your grade 9 science class you would have learned that not all chemicals work easily as well.
The process of refridgeration depends on a gas that expands quickly. When it expands it absorbs heat then you condense it elsewhere to let go of the heat.
freon apparently fit the bill since it had a nice efficiency behind it.
So the choices at the time were bad for environment freon or bad for the environment non-freon [recall wasting electricity is in fact bad for the environment].
Tom
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Correction, SONY is now a major label on somewhat decently made products.
You think that brandnames are the manufacturers? Next you're going to tell me that an IBM Aptiva is made 100% in an IBM factory and not some slave labour camp in taiwan......
I wish the best of luck for MSFT because quite frankly nobody else is.
For all of you with the wittism to point out new laws came about for cars, locomotives, etc...
The point of the article is that existing laws didn't bend for the new technology.
It was illegal to murder someone before the car. Its illegal to murder someone after the invention of a car. Its even illegal to murder someone in a car *and* with a car.
In the states there is "vehicular manslaughter" but premeditated murder with a car is still IIRC murder in the 1st. The former charge would be if you unintentionally cause an accident that is your fault that kills someone.
Anyways, its just more bs from a news source. Don't they just point out the obvious for a living then call it news?
Um, technically if you run an MSFT OS then MSFT *does* have complete control over your PC. It just lets you click on things and make noises. There is no technical reason why MS couldn't "own" your computer even back in the MS-DOS days.
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Technically this is not true. In fact you can mix 16/32 bit code selectors within a single task with no problems. Of course you have todo a far jump to go into a diff mode [which basically means loading the descriptor for the code segment] but that isnt unstable its just slow.
Tom
Any chance someone will get it to run Linux instead?
WTF does that have todo with anything? I bet your wrist watch doesn't run linux either...
Seriously people. There is dedicated then there is stupid. Guess which one this articles' poster is.
Tom
I mean when you search for something like "decorrelated linear transform" and get the first 10 links to volvo/gm/ford/toyota and that stupid X-cam thingy you can be fairly certain they are doctored results.
If the search engine you use doesn't return real links, guess what, just guess, oh common guess,
USE A DIFFERENT SEARCH ENGINE!
There are plenty out there [hint: you can probably do a search for them!]
Tom
everytime I turn my back /. sneaks another stupid story in here.
Since when is having your picture taken in *public* a violation of your privacy?
Will you stupid people just goto school, grow some logic capabilities and put some thought into it. If you are sitting in public you can hardly expect privacy.
Now as to whether the tolls are a good idea? Hell yes. I think it should be three times as much. Go take a friggin bus once in a while you damn whiny non-realistic bitches. Holy shit, you think the environment and gas supplies are endless?
Tom
overwrite rom or flash? Um you realize that digital cameras both have a flash bulb and flash/rom memory right?
And you got +2?
Tom
HAahhahahaha this is funny. Um here's a tip of reality for you [free of charge]. After every mission with the shuttle they spend 1000's of hours checking and replacing the >30k tiles that line the heat shield part of the body.
I'd say that the *design* is 25+ years old but the actual shuttle is at best a few years [thats stretching it!]
Tom
Say my dad suddenly picks up a cs book and starts programming all of a sudden.
That is not what I meant and you know it. What I think of as a net pioneer is someone who established a part of the net [say a RFC about a protocol or algorithm] that is integral to the net today.
Like the designers of IP are pioneers [with limited forsight...] or the developers of HTTP or FTP or etc...
Some dork who wrote some P2P crap is not a pioneer, in fact I'd say P2P is detrimental to the cost effectiveness of the net today. Its the whole reason why ISPs are now charging more and more [to a limited degree I'd say SMTP is detrimental too but at least it has more practical uses...]
So if I am not celebrating some horde-monger's life its because I don't appreciate what he did.
Tom
Um, no. P2P was not Gene's invention. In fact P2P existed in limited forms already. Consider the IRC DCC file transfer [exact same idea!]
In fact before Gnutella I used to get mp3s off of napster or IRC rooms with automated bots.
Nothing friggin new. Again don't get me wrong. Its sad to hear of a suicide but its not news.
Because no "net pioneer" is 25 years old? I mean is any winsock hacker a pioneer?
/. news.
Seriously. Its sad to here someone killed themselves but it happens everyday. Not news and specially not
Tom
The OP is interesting because....
It seems insanity and ranting is rewarded here. Yeah 1984 is here, oh no hide away!
Ha...
Hmmm, lets see people have sat on corners with signs [adverts] since the turn of the century. Nothing new. Now if the the OP just opened their eyes and looked around they would see the world is now falling down around them.
Go get a job and move out of your parents garage ya bum!
Tom
truth?
Actually no. Receiving mail under a pseudonym is not illegal. The assumption is that unless you are a tennant of the address you cannot open the mail [unless the company has some policy, e.g. registered mail].
.... :-)
I mean I can subscribe to Maxim as "Joe Dirt"
Tom
Yeah, informative, "say wha?"
/. moderators....
Stupid
Um VGA mode has been around for like 15 or so years now [late 80's]. I doubt it will be dropped on a whim since supporting it has become trivial and to some extent required.
I mean if nvidia dropped VGA support then they would lose their somewhat strong linux group. Also your BIOS would no longer work....
I can imagine in the next 5 to 10 years it will be gone but not soon and definiately not without a change to the MOBO bios.
Tom
Actually again here's the shamer.
Your super has the right to enter your apartment.
If you rent a car the cops *cannot* randomly search and sieze the car. The company you rented from can [if its in the contract].
So how about you think before you post again?
Tom
Its their cars not yours. For all it matters they could put dice in the mirrors if they want.
If you don't like it, go with another company.
Tom
Why? Any decent OS should let you use a safe mode [e.g. 640x480x16 colors] before switching automagically to a higher color mode.
Next your going to comment that anyone with a 5 yr old soundblaster PCI16 should get the latest and greatest PCI64 Soundblaster 128 or something just because supporting widespread hardware that is older than a month is taboo.
Tom
a)doubling speeds
b)doing small increments?
Why don't they just release a 16x AGP system and be done with? I think after our GFX cards can receive the library of congress in a billionth of a second from the cpu then we should be ok
Tom
if only it had 16-bit sound. Well, the GBA does.
since when? The DirectSound channels in the GBA [there are two] are 8-bits PCM each and run at either clock or a divisor of clock [e.g. anything that divides 2^24 Hz is fairly easy to approximate but anything >20khz is a bad idea].
Actually a while back I proposed a related mod to the GBA which was a cart-pass-through. The cart would be like an FX chip [except that it would work with all games and not be built into one cart]. Things like PCM sound take considerable time on a GBA so offloading it to another unit would be a great idea. [could also offload some GFX too]
Tom
Not being a lawyer and all...
If you premeditated the murder even using a "large mass of metal" its still murder in the first. I mean try killing your neighbour with a light saber [or whatever newly invented killing device you can find] and see how quickly you get charged with age-old law.
Tom
The process that happens inside a refrigeration system is based on physics. It does not matter which gas. In fact, water, alchohol, and even good old CO2 all can be used as refrigerents and do just a good a job cooling food as Freon did. Well, I should note that water wouldn't be that good for freezing stuff, however for cooling you house it would work fine.
Yet if you paid attention in your grade 9 science class you would have learned that not all chemicals work easily as well.
The process of refridgeration depends on a gas that expands quickly. When it expands it absorbs heat then you condense it elsewhere to let go of the heat.
freon apparently fit the bill since it had a nice efficiency behind it.
So the choices at the time were bad for environment freon or bad for the environment non-freon [recall wasting electricity is in fact bad for the environment].
Tom
Correction, SONY is now a major label on somewhat decently made products.
You think that brandnames are the manufacturers? Next you're going to tell me that an IBM Aptiva is made 100% in an IBM factory and not some slave labour camp in taiwan......
I wish the best of luck for MSFT because quite frankly nobody else is.
Tom
How much would it cost to build a 20G NVRAM drive that performs 10x better than a platter?
Just to nitpick disk access times are in milliseconds and memory access times are in nanoseconds. That is more than a mere factor of 10.
Of course 20GB of NVRAM would probably difficult to mass-produce....
Tom
For all of you with the wittism to point out new laws came about for cars, locomotives, etc...
The point of the article is that existing laws didn't bend for the new technology.
It was illegal to murder someone before the car. Its illegal to murder someone after the invention of a car. Its even illegal to murder someone in a car *and* with a car.
In the states there is "vehicular manslaughter" but premeditated murder with a car is still IIRC murder in the 1st. The former charge would be if you unintentionally cause an accident that is your fault that kills someone.
Anyways, its just more bs from a news source. Don't they just point out the obvious for a living then call it news?
Tom
Um, technically if you run an MSFT OS then MSFT *does* have complete control over your PC. It just lets you click on things and make noises. There is no technical reason why MS couldn't "own" your computer even back in the MS-DOS days.
Tom
Worried about EULA's do what everyone else does. Ignore the EULA then if you get caught thats when you squeal like a stuck pig.
No sense fighting a giant before your a victim.
Tom