"The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'." It's even worse when those anecdotes are culled from miscellaneous websites, unreliably geocoded, and possibly multiply reported.
Anyone know the fastest Windows HPC cluster *not* built by Microsoft purely as a marketing exercise to say 'look we can do HPC?'. And that actually gets used.
How does a Windows HPC cluster present itself? Do you submit batch jobs from a GUI?
Eeek, I'd forgotten about that. I thought it was okay for people to do minor works on existing electrical installations in their own homes? Obviously if an electrician does anything they ought to do some paperwork, but this seems excessive for something you do yourself.
What happens if you don't fill in a BS7671:2008? Can they lock you up for 42 days?
Suspicion is that it only got passed in the House of Commons because of party politics - Labour making deals with one of the Northern Irish parties. There's less party politics in the House Of Lords, which explains the 'conscience' thing. However, it's not so much the conscience of the people, but the conscience of a bunch of unelected ex-politicians, politician's friends, and bishops.
And of course the House Of Commons can overrule the House Of Lords by invoking the Parliament Act.
Wow, well spotted. I normally assume when I see organisations saying they don't discriminate against any religion that they include atheism and agnosticism as well!
Oh well, I wouldn't join any club that would have someone like me as a member.
A lot of these speccy games that used randomly generated lookup codes (either in a book or lenslok) could be beaten by poking the frame counter to zero before loading the game. Random numbers on the speccy were generated from the frame counter - it was pretty much the only source of entropy on the box[1]. So if you did:
then, since interrupts were disabled during LOAD, the random number generator would always pick the same one (or possibly two in edge cases) 'random' example. So you only had to copy this one down to pass to your friends along with your C60 cassette.
I'm not sure if other sources of entropy were available. I vaguely recall the Z80's IR register looking rather random, and maybe you could get noise out of the cassette input... Happy days...
Barry
[1] The real source of entropy they relied on was the time between the computer starting and the user typing LOAD "". [2] I looked this up - I don't remember it being 3 bytes, but the internet doesn't lie.
So tell me, when you go to sleep at night, or perhaps go under general anaesthetic in hospital, what wakes up? Is it you, or is it a copy of you? And importantly, how could you tell?
Why does MS and Apple put huge amounts of money into developing browsers when Firefox exists? IE and Safari generate zero revenue for the company since they give the software away, so it can't look too good on the balance sheet.
I can only think that it's some kind of NIH syndrome, or content-control-freakery, or that if they suddenly stopped making a browser and said 'oh flip it, Firefox wins' that confidence in the corporation (and hence share price) would nose dive.
"Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy"
And you can do it NOW. With almost ANY computer.
He's either not done his research or he's an idiot.
Well, it's not just you, but probably millions like you. Plenty of the summary is comprehensible, but I get the fear that it's really just a slashvertisement for his book (third link in summary).
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"The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'." It's even worse when those anecdotes are culled from miscellaneous websites, unreliably geocoded, and possibly multiply reported.
Great. So why not err... save loads of money and just do it on Linux or Solaris?
Anyone know the fastest Windows HPC cluster *not* built by Microsoft purely as a marketing exercise to say 'look we can do HPC?'. And that actually gets used.
How does a Windows HPC cluster present itself? Do you submit batch jobs from a GUI?
Yeah, because confusion between metric and non-metric units has never been a problem on Mars probes has it?
The thing is guys.... we're all assholes! Ask any girl (if you know any).
I can see the problem at the ceremony now:
Queen: "Arise Sir Hawking. Errmmmmm".
Take back off television, switch on television, switch off room lights, thump television, look for little sparks. That's how it's done.
Eeek, I'd forgotten about that. I thought it was okay for people to do minor works on existing electrical installations in their own homes? Obviously if an electrician does anything they ought to do some paperwork, but this seems excessive for something you do yourself.
What happens if you don't fill in a BS7671:2008? Can they lock you up for 42 days?
He's talking about 'Brazil', the film directed by Terry Gilliam. We're getting there. I have to fill in a 27b/6 when I want to do some plumbing.
Suspicion is that it only got passed in the House of Commons because of party politics - Labour making deals with one of the Northern Irish parties. There's less party politics in the House Of Lords, which explains the 'conscience' thing. However, it's not so much the conscience of the people, but the conscience of a bunch of unelected ex-politicians, politician's friends, and bishops.
And of course the House Of Commons can overrule the House Of Lords by invoking the Parliament Act.
Six weeks. Nice round number. If it had been 43, people would just have said 'why not 42, it's a nice round number of weeks'.
Quite why they need forty-something anyway we don't know...
Wow, well spotted. I normally assume when I see organisations saying they don't discriminate against any religion that they include atheism and agnosticism as well!
Oh well, I wouldn't join any club that would have someone like me as a member.
...sense reigns:
from the UK Scouting web site:
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Who can be a Scout?
Scouting is open to all young people aged 6 to 25 of every faith and background.
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- so write them some software.
A lot of these speccy games that used randomly generated lookup codes (either in a book or lenslok) could be beaten by poking the frame counter to zero before loading the game. Random numbers on the speccy were generated from the frame counter - it was pretty much the only source of entropy on the box[1]. So if you did:
POKE 23762,0; POKE 23763,0; POKE 23764,0; LOAD "" [2]
then, since interrupts were disabled during LOAD, the random number generator would always pick the same one (or possibly two in edge cases) 'random' example. So you only had to copy this one down to pass to your friends along with your C60 cassette.
I'm not sure if other sources of entropy were available. I vaguely recall the Z80's IR register looking rather random, and maybe you could get noise out of the cassette input... Happy days...
Barry
[1] The real source of entropy they relied on was the time between the computer starting and the user typing LOAD "".
[2] I looked this up - I don't remember it being 3 bytes, but the internet doesn't lie.
So tell me, when you go to sleep at night, or perhaps go under general anaesthetic in hospital, what wakes up? Is it you, or is it a copy of you? And importantly, how could you tell?
Does Prince have any children? I mean, how small would *they* be?
Why does MS and Apple put huge amounts of money into developing browsers when Firefox exists? IE and Safari generate zero revenue for the company since they give the software away, so it can't look too good on the balance sheet.
I can only think that it's some kind of NIH syndrome, or content-control-freakery, or that if they suddenly stopped making a browser and said 'oh flip it, Firefox wins' that confidence in the corporation (and hence share price) would nose dive.
Any other ideas?
As easy as 'apt-get install boinc'? Or you can click things in synaptic. Ubuntu ftw again.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
"Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy"
And you can do it NOW. With almost ANY computer.
He's either not done his research or he's an idiot.
...to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Any jokes about the Captain's Log will be flushed out by the moderation system...
Trusted Platform Module - not mentioned in the article. You can probably google it yourself, or wikipedia has an entry.
It's pretty much Palladium all over again. Remember that?
too new to know there's an option in your account setings to only see stories from certain authors... Suggest you go box-clicking straightaway.
I'm allergic to stupidity. Can we ban these people?
Are they allergic? Let's not let data get in the way of a good argument: No they're not.
Wow, even Wikipedia agrees.
So your biggest expense on these was... Win2k!??
Well, it's not just you, but probably millions like you. Plenty of the summary is comprehensible, but I get the fear that it's really just a slashvertisement for his book (third link in summary).