I know you're being facetious, but notice Apple's recent attempt to prevent anyone from developing for iOS with cross-platform middleware or any non-Apple tools.
Yes. Modern CPUs can be given what's called a 'microcode update' during system boot by driver. Microcode updates are volatile, so they need to be reapplied on each boot. Generally this is done to fix minor bugs that slipped through testing. In this case, Intel is allowing the microcode to unlock additional capabilities.
Only available for Windows 7 right now, but generally microcode update drivers are available for all common platforms (e.g., Linux). If Intel is serious about this business model, it's likely that they'll roll out updated microcode drivers for other supported platforms soon.
It's illegal under federal law. Doesn't matter what state law says, if the Justice Department can convince a judge that federal law applies (not too hard).
The fatal flaw was the same as the one in my Lion Repelling Rock. The software was flawed at a fundamental level, because it more or less assumed that censorship is based on people going through firewall/proxy logs by hand. In real life, grep doesn't get bored.
It wasn't always as you describe. Philosophy has really always been the study of the unknowable. And as knowledge progresses and we learn how to discover things, they stop being philosophy. Much of what we consider science was once the purview of philosophy, until science was invented. There's a reason why an older name for science is 'natural philosophy,' and why PhD stands for Doctorate of Philosophy.
Of course, in today's world the realm of the unknowable is so obscure that 'philosophy,' in modern times has been relegated largely to obscurity.
No, the UN was conceived as a forum for international diplomacy, to foster international cooperation. Its first act was to pledge each member to continue the war (the second world one) until complete victory had been achieved.
According to a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, only about 10% of Americans have more than 2 drinks per day. By comparison, over 35% of Americans consider themselves abstainers. More than half the population has at most one drink, if they drink at all. http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/153/1/64
Now, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with your level of alcohol consumption, this study suggests you're probably healthier than those 35% abstainers. But stop fooling yourself: you're consuming several times the normal amount of alcohol and by any reasonable definition, you are a heavy drinker.
It doesn't matter. If you promise people you won't sue over something, you can't later change your mind and sue them. It's called promissory estoppel. If they tried, any competent judge would throw the case out before trial.
Maxwell-Boltzmann is just an idealization and doesn't really apply if you're considering the entire atmosphere. If it told the whole story, blimps wouldn't work.
You're mostly correct, but the GP is (mostly) right about user-mode graphics drivers.
WDDM drivers (i.e., native Vista/Win7 graphics drivers) are actually a pair of drivers: a lightweight kernel-mode driver for talking directly to the hardware, and a user-mode component for doing everything else (i.e., implementing OpenGL and DirectX primitives).
Why do you assume adding a third party will improve things? Political systems get more retarded as the population increases, not as the number of parties decreases. In all honesty, when you consider the primary election system, you yanks have a lot more variation in opinion at election time than we do up in Canada. And after election, your Congress is like a herd of cats, everyone has their own opinion and turf to defend. Honestly, you have too much political choice and opinion, as far as I can tell. With so many options on the table, the public never pays attention to the little details. And the devil is in the details. The end result is your government's execution is terrible. Every district and every special interest gets their piece of the pie. So nothing ever really gets fixed, because someone's taking advantage of the flaw in the system, and they've got their own lobbying group.
The difference between the American Congress and the multi-party parliamentary systems you all seem to pine for isn't that we have more parties, it's that we have stronger party leadership. My government may not do what I want... or even a compromise. But at least it'll do it reasonably well, because our leaders don't have to appease their insane backbenchers.
Congress cannot constrain its own future actions (at least, not without a constitutional amendment). That's a general principle of all legislative bodies. Otherwise Republicans would pass laws making universal health care illegal, and Democrats would pass laws making unions untouchable.
So no, strictly speaking congress doesn't have to read their own laws. They can pass as many conflicting laws as they want. It's the executive and judicial branches that are responsible for reading and interpreting.
True, but batteries suck. As much as they've improved in recent years, they're still far less useful than fuel. Carbon chains, especially hydrocarbons, are relatively stable, energy dense, easy to transport and comparatively easy to convert into mechanical or electric energy. If you can find a way to efficiently and easily produce hydrocarbons directly from carbon dioxide, water and an arbitrary energy source, you've basically just solved any energy crisis and cured global warming.
Yes, because society should only ever work on one thing at a time. The technology that exists today is perfect and cannot be improved upon. These so-called scientists should be throwing away their useless "research," start rolling up their sleeves and laying down concrete for EV charging stations. I think we can all agree that this is the best long-term strategy for solving our energy problems.
The video is cool, but the rest of your comment is too ridiculous to justify a non-sarcastic response.
An interesting point, I wasn't aware of the Oberth effect. However, theoretically a VASIMR engine can operate over a range of specific impulse and thrusts, and can tune its thrust/Isp ratio to take maximal advantage of the Oberth effect over its entire flight path.
Now I know why the VAriable Specific Impulse is such an important aspect to be part of its name.
Well, what I like about SpaceX is they've turned "rocket science" into "rocket engineering." As an interested outsider, they seem to have a strong focus on modular design, which aids in keeping costs down. It's basic bottom-up design, which usually leads to better and cheaper solutions than the top-down design work that government mandated engineering tends to be.
Design should always be a compromise between what you want and what is practical. The space-shuttle is what you get when you'd rather spend billions than be flexible in your requirements. And the worst part about that is you end up with such a bleeding-edge integrated solution, that you don't get to take anything away from it. You're always starting again from scratch.
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So what you're saying is you're treating the website differently because it's from a specific race.
Gotcha. Racist.
I know you're being facetious, but notice Apple's recent attempt to prevent anyone from developing for iOS with cross-platform middleware or any non-Apple tools.
No, you bought a disabled i7.
It's probably implemented via microcode update, so it'll require a driver that runs on every boot.
Yes. Modern CPUs can be given what's called a 'microcode update' during system boot by driver. Microcode updates are volatile, so they need to be reapplied on each boot. Generally this is done to fix minor bugs that slipped through testing. In this case, Intel is allowing the microcode to unlock additional capabilities.
Only available for Windows 7 right now, but generally microcode update drivers are available for all common platforms (e.g., Linux). If Intel is serious about this business model, it's likely that they'll roll out updated microcode drivers for other supported platforms soon.
And that, my friends, is why a microkernel is better than a monolithic kernel.
It's illegal under federal law. Doesn't matter what state law says, if the Justice Department can convince a judge that federal law applies (not too hard).
The fatal flaw was the same as the one in my Lion Repelling Rock. The software was flawed at a fundamental level, because it more or less assumed that censorship is based on people going through firewall/proxy logs by hand. In real life, grep doesn't get bored.
What, you think replacing Windows with Linux is magically going to grant its user 20 IQ points?
It wasn't always as you describe. Philosophy has really always been the study of the unknowable. And as knowledge progresses and we learn how to discover things, they stop being philosophy. Much of what we consider science was once the purview of philosophy, until science was invented. There's a reason why an older name for science is 'natural philosophy,' and why PhD stands for Doctorate of Philosophy.
Of course, in today's world the realm of the unknowable is so obscure that 'philosophy,' in modern times has been relegated largely to obscurity.
You know what else is shockingly bad? That run-on sentence in the summary.
For the love of god, there's more to punctuation than just the comma.
No, the UN was conceived as a forum for international diplomacy, to foster international cooperation. Its first act was to pledge each member to continue the war (the second world one) until complete victory had been achieved.
International aid is scope creep.
Everybody likes to think of themselves as normal.
The US department of health defines 'moderate' drinking as 1 drink per day, and heavy drinking as anything above 2 drinks per day. http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/faqs.htm#moderateDrinking
According to a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, only about 10% of Americans have more than 2 drinks per day. By comparison, over 35% of Americans consider themselves abstainers. More than half the population has at most one drink, if they drink at all. http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/153/1/64
Now, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with your level of alcohol consumption, this study suggests you're probably healthier than those 35% abstainers. But stop fooling yourself: you're consuming several times the normal amount of alcohol and by any reasonable definition, you are a heavy drinker.
It doesn't matter. If you promise people you won't sue over something, you can't later change your mind and sue them. It's called promissory estoppel. If they tried, any competent judge would throw the case out before trial.
Not quite. Part of the Sun/MS settlement was the requirement that Microsoft stop all development of Java platforms.
Maxwell-Boltzmann is just an idealization and doesn't really apply if you're considering the entire atmosphere. If it told the whole story, blimps wouldn't work.
So what you're saying is really we have a gravity shortage.
You're mostly correct, but the GP is (mostly) right about user-mode graphics drivers.
WDDM drivers (i.e., native Vista/Win7 graphics drivers) are actually a pair of drivers: a lightweight kernel-mode driver for talking directly to the hardware, and a user-mode component for doing everything else (i.e., implementing OpenGL and DirectX primitives).
Why do you assume adding a third party will improve things? Political systems get more retarded as the population increases, not as the number of parties decreases. In all honesty, when you consider the primary election system, you yanks have a lot more variation in opinion at election time than we do up in Canada. And after election, your Congress is like a herd of cats, everyone has their own opinion and turf to defend. Honestly, you have too much political choice and opinion, as far as I can tell. With so many options on the table, the public never pays attention to the little details. And the devil is in the details. The end result is your government's execution is terrible. Every district and every special interest gets their piece of the pie. So nothing ever really gets fixed, because someone's taking advantage of the flaw in the system, and they've got their own lobbying group.
The difference between the American Congress and the multi-party parliamentary systems you all seem to pine for isn't that we have more parties, it's that we have stronger party leadership. My government may not do what I want... or even a compromise. But at least it'll do it reasonably well, because our leaders don't have to appease their insane backbenchers.
Congress cannot constrain its own future actions (at least, not without a constitutional amendment). That's a general principle of all legislative bodies. Otherwise Republicans would pass laws making universal health care illegal, and Democrats would pass laws making unions untouchable.
So no, strictly speaking congress doesn't have to read their own laws. They can pass as many conflicting laws as they want. It's the executive and judicial branches that are responsible for reading and interpreting.
So what you're saying is this is more of a TASER.
I suppose the upside is that when they start using this to snoop on people, it'll confuse the fuck out of police departments.
True, but batteries suck. As much as they've improved in recent years, they're still far less useful than fuel. Carbon chains, especially hydrocarbons, are relatively stable, energy dense, easy to transport and comparatively easy to convert into mechanical or electric energy. If you can find a way to efficiently and easily produce hydrocarbons directly from carbon dioxide, water and an arbitrary energy source, you've basically just solved any energy crisis and cured global warming.
Yes, because society should only ever work on one thing at a time. The technology that exists today is perfect and cannot be improved upon. These so-called scientists should be throwing away their useless "research," start rolling up their sleeves and laying down concrete for EV charging stations. I think we can all agree that this is the best long-term strategy for solving our energy problems.
The video is cool, but the rest of your comment is too ridiculous to justify a non-sarcastic response.
An interesting point, I wasn't aware of the Oberth effect. However, theoretically a VASIMR engine can operate over a range of specific impulse and thrusts, and can tune its thrust/Isp ratio to take maximal advantage of the Oberth effect over its entire flight path.
Now I know why the VAriable Specific Impulse is such an important aspect to be part of its name.
Well, what I like about SpaceX is they've turned "rocket science" into "rocket engineering." As an interested outsider, they seem to have a strong focus on modular design, which aids in keeping costs down. It's basic bottom-up design, which usually leads to better and cheaper solutions than the top-down design work that government mandated engineering tends to be.
Design should always be a compromise between what you want and what is practical. The space-shuttle is what you get when you'd rather spend billions than be flexible in your requirements. And the worst part about that is you end up with such a bleeding-edge integrated solution, that you don't get to take anything away from it. You're always starting again from scratch.