The problem, sir, is that nuclear disarmament isn't necesarily a path to increased stability and in nuclear politics, stability trumps everything else.
The way it works is like this (I wish I knew who to credit for this and how to state it better, but the former is lost in memory and the latter... Well, whatever.;) ). Take a Wild West town -- its been decided that there've been too many shootouts and its got to stop. Everyone agrees, and to this end all of the guns will be destroyed in the town square.
But I start thinking "Well, I know I'm going to give up all of my guns... But my neighbor Billy, well, he's a bit of a scoundrel. I bet he's gonna keep one back... Since I know I'm responsible enough to have one or two I'd better keep a couple myself... Just in case...." -- and then my neighbor Nancy, she knows about my problems with Billy and probably figures I'm going to be keeping one so she decides she's going to keep one, secret-like. Betty-Lou does the same. Pretty soon there's a new kind of arms race -- the race to cheat the most without getting caught, and the problem is then that the cheatingest folks have gained the upper hand, and do we really want that?
Heh. And when's the last time you saw a kid down at the hobby store picking up some more exacto blades, a tube of model airplane glue, and another pot of paint? I mean a kid the age you were when you first assembled a model tank or whatever?
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No, the cure is now several steps further out. As long as insulin prices would remain high then a cheap-to-produce cure would have an extremely strong market position. With a dramatic cut in the cost of insulin a cure that cost the same amount to produce is less interesting to pursue.
I read it, I understood it and I disagree with it. You almost never have "twice as many registers" unless you do a LOT of hacky manipulation or you need to operate on numbers bigger than 4294967296.
AL, AH. Poof, the 16bit chip magically has twice as many registers without "...a LOT of hacky manipulation..." when dealing with 8bit data. The same benefit exists on the 64bit chip when you're working on 32bit numbers.
Please re-read my post starting from But even for 8bit math, the 16bit processor is going to be faster.... and realize that you can extend that 8:16 to be 32:64 and it still holds true. When doing 32bit math on a 64bit processor you have, effectively, twice as many registers. Also, please recognize that I was just writing a quick sketch for Ohreally_factor's benefit...
The Indian government is doing a lot to combat the "small pockets" thing... And as a society they're doing more. Some of it has good impacts and some not so good. Examples of the government's involvement: companies in India need to fill a quota of unskilled workers getting on-the-job training. Parents of schoolchildren are fined in their kids speak anything but English at school.
The social aspects are interesting as well. Unemployment is seen as something that needs to be combatted against, and everyone is supposed to pitch in. "Everyone" in India has maid service, for instance. In that vein all buildings have doormen, everyone has a gardner in every week,...
The downside of this pressure to combat unemployment is that firing someone in India is nearly impossible, even if they need to be fired. Also, look up "chalta hai"
For "why exactly" you'd need to take a course in algorithms and then study assembly -- and since I'm not qualified to teach either I'll be happy to give you a "why approximately" that might aid your understanding. Lets take an eight-bit processor and a sixteen-bit processor -- and for the sake of argument lets say they're both clocked at the same speed, have the same number of registers, and have the same amount of cache.
Now I can do 16bit math on the 8bit processor, but its going to take me a ton of extra cycles for each operation. Take addition, as a simple case... Instead of just adding two sixteen bit values and being done in one clock cycle, I need to add the low-order bytes, and add the high order bytes, and handly the carry myself,... You get the idea, I hope.
But even for 8bit math, the 16bit processor is going to be faster. On the 8bit processor you've got your registers, and when you run out you're going to need to start pushing and popping values onto the stack, or copying them to and from core memory. Each of those operations is going to take you a clock tick -- and do enough of them and you're going to see a cache miss and there will be cycles while you're not running because you're waiting for stuff to get cached. But on the 16bit processor you've got instructions to treat each half of your 16bit registers as a seperate 8bit register, so you've got a lot more breathing room before you start running out of register space.
To be honest I think this guy might be too blame with his "getting adventures into the mainstream" crap. Now its RPG he tries to bolt ontop of it to create some frankenstein monster, back then it was 3D.
I'd love to see a good RPG/Adventure hybrid. The Hero's Quest/Quest For Glory games were a ton of fun.
I'll add that doing 3d does not require an engine like most people are thinking of. Pre-rendered is fine for adventure games, and would keep costs down a lot.
I'd rather have an hour and a half of good gameplay concentrated into an hour and a half to play than "Final Fantasy" syndrome where you've got an hour and a half of good gameplay spread across 30 hours.
Apology accepted, with thanks for being cool enough to offer it. Straight up, given the modern meaning of the word it doesn't seem inappropriate at all to me. There was probably only one reason it rolled off my fingers when I wrote the original post -- and that was because I heard NASA mission control use it right before the t-minus nine hold was over and Discovery launched.
I don't have a church, and no god crap to save for it. The word, in the common vernacular, means "safe journey"... If my last post didn't make that clear to an idiot like you then I have little hope that this one will.
I wish I had been there. I'd actually been too too busy at work to even know there was a launch pending and found out at more or less the last minute on the first... When it was scrubbed I spent some time with the books and our planned expenditures trying to find a way to fly down to see it but just couldn't juggle the numbers.
On the plus side, I got to watch a shuttle launch with my wife and five-year-old son today, even if only online... I'm not sure if the little guy understood completely that this wasn't just a movie (we haven't talked a lot about the space program, he's too into dinosaurs...). I think he realised it was something real when I started crying a bit when the SRBs seperated and my cheering when the MECO call crossed the radio.
Wow... And the troll I expected was a wish for the crew to die on re-entry to motivate NASA to replace the shuttle...
Yes, the word I chose did have religious overtones for anyone willfully blind enough to overlook the modern usage. No, I did not abdicate responsibility for Discovery's flight to some invisible friend. I'm terribly sorry to have chosen a word which piqued your overly developed case of offensensitivity.
Can you explain why, please? Why couldn't I take the (hypothetical) person who gave me the bins to court and present them with a demand that they fulfill their portion of the license agreement? Why would a judge not grant a court order demanding they do so?
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And whoever modded this offtopic has clearly never played nethack.
The way it works is like this (I wish I knew who to credit for this and how to state it better, but the former is lost in memory and the latter... Well, whatever. ;) ). Take a Wild West town -- its been decided that there've been too many shootouts and its got to stop. Everyone agrees, and to this end all of the guns will be destroyed in the town square.
But I start thinking "Well, I know I'm going to give up all of my guns... But my neighbor Billy, well, he's a bit of a scoundrel. I bet he's gonna keep one back... Since I know I'm responsible enough to have one or two I'd better keep a couple myself... Just in case...." -- and then my neighbor Nancy, she knows about my problems with Billy and probably figures I'm going to be keeping one so she decides she's going to keep one, secret-like. Betty-Lou does the same. Pretty soon there's a new kind of arms race -- the race to cheat the most without getting caught, and the problem is then that the cheatingest folks have gained the upper hand, and do we really want that?
Heh. And when's the last time you saw a kid down at the hobby store picking up some more exacto blades, a tube of model airplane glue, and another pot of paint? I mean a kid the age you were when you first assembled a model tank or whatever?
No, the cure is now several steps further out. As long as insulin prices would remain high then a cheap-to-produce cure would have an extremely strong market position. With a dramatic cut in the cost of insulin a cure that cost the same amount to produce is less interesting to pursue.
TinyMUCK was derived from TinyMUD which also allowed this.
AL, AH. Poof, the 16bit chip magically has twice as many registers without "...a LOT of hacky manipulation..." when dealing with 8bit data. The same benefit exists on the 64bit chip when you're working on 32bit numbers.
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Wouldn't gravity and leverage have more to do with leaning against aircraft than the FAA?
Please re-read my post starting from But even for 8bit math, the 16bit processor is going to be faster.... and realize that you can extend that 8:16 to be 32:64 and it still holds true. When doing 32bit math on a 64bit processor you have, effectively, twice as many registers. Also, please recognize that I was just writing a quick sketch for Ohreally_factor's benefit...
The social aspects are interesting as well. Unemployment is seen as something that needs to be combatted against, and everyone is supposed to pitch in. "Everyone" in India has maid service, for instance. In that vein all buildings have doormen, everyone has a gardner in every week, ...
The downside of this pressure to combat unemployment is that firing someone in India is nearly impossible, even if they need to be fired. Also, look up "chalta hai"
Now I can do 16bit math on the 8bit processor, but its going to take me a ton of extra cycles for each operation. Take addition, as a simple case... Instead of just adding two sixteen bit values and being done in one clock cycle, I need to add the low-order bytes, and add the high order bytes, and handly the carry myself, ... You get the idea, I hope.
But even for 8bit math, the 16bit processor is going to be faster. On the 8bit processor you've got your registers, and when you run out you're going to need to start pushing and popping values onto the stack, or copying them to and from core memory. Each of those operations is going to take you a clock tick -- and do enough of them and you're going to see a cache miss and there will be cycles while you're not running because you're waiting for stuff to get cached. But on the 16bit processor you've got instructions to treat each half of your 16bit registers as a seperate 8bit register, so you've got a lot more breathing room before you start running out of register space.
I'd love to see a good RPG/Adventure hybrid. The Hero's Quest/Quest For Glory games were a ton of fun.
I'll add that doing 3d does not require an engine like most people are thinking of. Pre-rendered is fine for adventure games, and would keep costs down a lot.
I'd rather have an hour and a half of good gameplay concentrated into an hour and a half to play than "Final Fantasy" syndrome where you've got an hour and a half of good gameplay spread across 30 hours.
Not so hard. Comes out like often-sensitivity. And I think Stallman coined it, so it might be a neologism in both senses. ;)
Apology accepted, with thanks for being cool enough to offer it. Straight up, given the modern meaning of the word it doesn't seem inappropriate at all to me. There was probably only one reason it rolled off my fingers when I wrote the original post -- and that was because I heard NASA mission control use it right before the t-minus nine hold was over and Discovery launched.
A space station? Which eight don't count then, and why? Salyut 1, Salyut 3, Salyut 4, Salyut 5, Salyut 6, Salyut 7, Skylab, Mir, ISS?
I don't have a church, and no god crap to save for it. The word, in the common vernacular, means "safe journey"... If my last post didn't make that clear to an idiot like you then I have little hope that this one will.
It was routine until Challenger went down. Then it was routine until we lost Columbia.
Amateur radio? You can even get a shuttle QSL card...
On the plus side, I got to watch a shuttle launch with my wife and five-year-old son today, even if only online... I'm not sure if the little guy understood completely that this wasn't just a movie (we haven't talked a lot about the space program, he's too into dinosaurs...). I think he realised it was something real when I started crying a bit when the SRBs seperated and my cheering when the MECO call crossed the radio.
Yes, the word I chose did have religious overtones for anyone willfully blind enough to overlook the modern usage. No, I did not abdicate responsibility for Discovery's flight to some invisible friend. I'm terribly sorry to have chosen a word which piqued your overly developed case of offensensitivity.
Godspeed, Discovery, and come home safe!
Can you explain why, please? Why couldn't I take the (hypothetical) person who gave me the bins to court and present them with a demand that they fulfill their portion of the license agreement? Why would a judge not grant a court order demanding they do so?