I'm sorry, but if a novel has 200-300 pages of introduction, the author has failed. I got through about 50 pages of Anathem before throwing in the towel. There are millions of books out there which I'd rather spend 300 pages with.
At least stuff actually happens in the first few pages of Snow Crash. The first 50 pages of Anathem has less going on in it than appendices of "Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics". That's right, steam tables are more interesting than this book.
We only sold 5.3 million copies of Gears of War. At $60 a piece, that's a mere $300 million, give or take, in gross receipts. Our top executives can barely afford the maintenance costs on their exotic Italian sports cars. Please, think of the execs!
With a code size of 11 kilobytes and a dynamic memory usage of less than 2 kilobytes (yes, kilobytes!), it certainly fits the bill of the ultra-low-power microcontrollers typically used in such devices.
With my IPv6-enabled Commodore 64, I'm ready to surf both IPv6 websites.
> Lightweight (under 1.5kg including the power supply), 12h+ REAL battery life, built-in 3G modem
Your first 3 criteria are at odds with each other. Weight is largely a function of battery size, and you can't do 12+ hours of 3G without a good chunk of battery.
Actually, the next router on the chain will see the MAC address of the WAN ethernet port, which isn't generally the same MAC address as the radio broadcasts.
But you are certainly correct that it's a link-layer protocol that goes no further than 1 hop.
Kindly sir, I am a Nigerian Prince trying to transfer some data from a zero-ed out hard drive to my cousin in the U.S.A. If you would kindly deposit $60 into my bank account, I will send you the hard drive. Upon your transmission of the data to my cousin, I will promptly return your $60, plus $40 for your effort. You may also keep the hard drive.
Progress? Variables? We're talking about public toilets - not exactly a new concept. Put a rookie cop and a janitor in charge of a few small buildings with regular old American Standards (heck, Kohler if you want to splurge), and you've got the model that many cities have successfully used for many years.
Quantum mechanics is a model for the universe where nondeterminism is the basis of everything we observe. One way to think of this is that the universe is a multidimensional field of random number generation. Atoms "exist" at places in the field where the likelyhood of an atom existing approaches 1. In this model, macroscopic things appear deterministic because they are assembled from a great number of "highly likely" atoms.
This model requires absolutely no decision making in order to achieve randomness.
The headline and one sentence of the article were misleading. Nondeterminism, or randomness, might be the cause of free will, but nobody is actually claiming that subatomic particles themselves make decisions.
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I'm sorry, but if a novel has 200-300 pages of introduction, the author has failed. I got through about 50 pages of Anathem before throwing in the towel. There are millions of books out there which I'd rather spend 300 pages with.
At least stuff actually happens in the first few pages of Snow Crash. The first 50 pages of Anathem has less going on in it than appendices of "Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics". That's right, steam tables are more interesting than this book.
The Atari 2600 and 5200 platforms were as different as the 2600 was from the C64.
We only sold 5.3 million copies of Gears of War. At $60 a piece, that's a mere $300 million, give or take, in gross receipts. Our top executives can barely afford the maintenance costs on their exotic Italian sports cars. Please, think of the execs!
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> Does C-64 assembler work anything like A2600?
Yes. They all were based on MOS 6502-series chips.
With a code size of 11 kilobytes and a dynamic memory usage of less than 2 kilobytes (yes, kilobytes!), it certainly fits the bill of the ultra-low-power microcontrollers typically used in such devices.
With my IPv6-enabled Commodore 64, I'm ready to surf both IPv6 websites.
Uhhh, yeah, that's two batteries.
> Lightweight (under 1.5kg including the power supply), 12h+ REAL battery life, built-in 3G modem
Your first 3 criteria are at odds with each other. Weight is largely a function of battery size, and you can't do 12+ hours of 3G without a good chunk of battery.
Actually, the next router on the chain will see the MAC address of the WAN ethernet port, which isn't generally the same MAC address as the radio broadcasts.
But you are certainly correct that it's a link-layer protocol that goes no further than 1 hop.
If your prototype makes milliwatts and Saving the Third World requires gigawatts, that makes you 10^(-12) of a genius.
No. If your inexpensive prototype makes milliwatts, and there are real world applications that require cheap milliwatts, that makes you a genius.
But tell us about your prototype power generator for the 3rd world. If you don't have one, then by your own "math", you're a complete idiot.
Kindly sir, I am a Nigerian Prince trying to transfer some data from a zero-ed out hard drive to my cousin in the U.S.A. If you would kindly deposit $60 into my bank account, I will send you the hard drive. Upon your transmission of the data to my cousin, I will promptly return your $60, plus $40 for your effort. You may also keep the hard drive.
Your friend,
Prince Njeme Nawabi, P.O.S.
A friend of mine used to actually receive angry letters from a major soft drink company due to name similarities.
I, too, am friends with Ronald C. Cola.
I don't understand Google's motivation for installing this without prompting the user or providing a removal option.
Two words. "Beta."
OK, "Beta version."
I've been to dozens of LAN parties, and I've never lost any equipment. In fact, I usually end up leaving with more equipment than I came with.
If people choose to take those prototypes and turn them into big balls of mud, then that is their own fault.
Exactly where do you work that you actually throw away working code (a.k.a. "prototypes")? I don't think I've ever seen a prototype get thrown away.
I'm glad someone finally wrote an article about how image manipulation can distort people's perceptions of reality.
Progress? Variables? We're talking about public toilets - not exactly a new concept. Put a rookie cop and a janitor in charge of a few small buildings with regular old American Standards (heck, Kohler if you want to splurge), and you've got the model that many cities have successfully used for many years.
Quantum mechanics is a model for the universe where nondeterminism is the basis of everything we observe. One way to think of this is that the universe is a multidimensional field of random number generation. Atoms "exist" at places in the field where the likelyhood of an atom existing approaches 1. In this model, macroscopic things appear deterministic because they are assembled from a great number of "highly likely" atoms.
This model requires absolutely no decision making in order to achieve randomness.
Nondeterminism does not imply a *decision*. Throw some dice. Dice do not "think" before they land in order to figure out what numbers to have face up.
Nobody said primary ray.
The headline and one sentence of the article were misleading. Nondeterminism, or randomness, might be the cause of free will, but nobody is actually claiming that subatomic particles themselves make decisions.
Try to explain the single photon double-slit experiment without nondeterminism.
Religion? Whatever man.
Subatomic particles do not have free will.
Every bounce casts a new ray, so "3 casts per pixel" is an accurate description.