I think the problem in understanding if it is emulation or not is definition.
My usual understanding of emulation is an executional one, i.e. the old app runs within a simulated environment. However, the devleopers here are using macros to emulate the older hardware. This is an overload of the term "emulate". They are emulating at a source level, whereas the final compiled program is not an emulation by my original understanding.
Lol, did you miss the warning label (on some slip of paper that fell to the side as you ripped open the package): Real traffic situations may not behave in the same manner as with this game. Your mileage may vary.
Back in the days I was learning to drive my Dad's old buick on old dirt roads in the woods, I freaked out my sister by moving the wheel back and forth and exclaiming: It's just like a video game!" Hehe. She just screamed something like:...but you don't get any extra lives!
I really think most people are going to have enough sense to distinguish reality from game. Perhaps its a naive belief, but how many times do you hear about folks racing their motorbikes along the road trying to bump other cars (even trucks) off the side? Well, maybe they did try it... but couldn't tell us the results. In other news: the Darwin awards have another nominee.
Heh, yeah, that would an undesirable effect for the US - how dare anyone cause them to learn anything! Might look smarter than the prez... OH! Look out, the HSD is on the way...
But seriously, I can imagine that some aspects of games can train certain reflexes. Perhaps we pay more attention to small movements in peripheral vision now than before (as it is very important to survival in some games). An explorer class in Earth & Beyond needs to be able to haul ass if creatures 3-10 times their strength appear. Slow reaction = death.
Wow, the implications: if cars could strafe (and maybe had rubber protective side plates) we'd have some wild and wacky traffic situations.:)
I found I often preferred a combo of barter and monetary payment from the smaller opps. Become friends with the folks you help, get some free dinners, game tickets, etc, along with some cash to buy the required amounts of beer to survive.
The occasional larger business contract pays the rent for a while, and allows you to invite those new friends over - suddenly there's word of mouth: extra bonus points.
Wow! I use yahoo for a certain amount of anonymity, and am still surprised how they get hold of all the addresses to spam them. Now I'll have the opportunity to provide even more info about my perversi..., er I mean interests, political and otherwise - yeah, that's what I meant:)
From the article: "Pulses were fired at a small lump of gold, which produced enough gamma radiation to knock out single neutrons from iodine-129, converting it to iodine-128."
Yes, it is a different material, but only different in the number of neutrons. Fission, if I am not mistaken, can start by neutrons from atomic decay hitting other close atoms, splitting them.
Quote from parent: "process consumes much more energy than produces deca[y]ing material" Well, a fission process would probably resolve that imbalance rather quickly, should it be possible to initiate one with this method and a hypothetical critical mass.
Here we have an extra neutron flying around, possibly energized by the laser AND the accelerated decay of the resulting atom. My question still stands for you physics masterminds out there: could this be a concern for larger than the speck of matter mentioned in the article.
Sadly, it seems there are some cross-compatibility issues with floppy drives or the floppies themselves nowadays. I can write a floppy on one machine, go to the next machine and have read errors. The floppy is still quite readable in the original machine.
This was really annoying when I was trying to make a boot disk for the second machine. I guess the fact that it finally worked after trying several floppies might suggest shoddy floppy material, but why were they error free on the first one - a mystery to me...
...audio cds that I listen to in my car are damages within 1 month or so
That, my friend, may be due to:
1) the poor quality of the car CD mechanism when pulling/releasing the CD, scraping both sides in the process (not to forget the scraping while pushing into the CD-wallet often with one hand while trying to keep eyes on the road)
2) depending on where you live, wide temperature fluctuations will have a dramatic impact on the data surface. On sunny days, you'll easily have 30+ degC temps for prolonged periods.
The above will even destroy store-bought CDs rather quickly. For roadtrips, I now only use the cheapest CD-Rs possible and am ready to remake them once they go bad after a few months (!).
Since the material now decays (knocking out neutrons) in a shorter timeframe than before, are we perhaps enabling the creation of a whole new class of fission bombs? Any physics majors out there?
I've been in the computer industry since '79. Have worked for large companies (such as IBM, Siemens, etc) and smaller startups. In spite of never actually finishing college, I have never had trouble finding decent well-paying work, even in a so-called recession.
One thing I did learn, though, was that I enjoy working for smaller operations much more than any other companies - red tape, silly dead line decisions, etc.
Working on contracts for small companies from home via the 'net effectively frees me from location dependencies, and lets me feel more in tune with the essence of the company, the lifeblood of it, if you so will. It seems there is also more free time available overall, further reducing general stress levels.
And to return to the actual question: yes, I have actually been turned down here and there due to being 'over qualified' for a given job which I thought might be interesting. However, my strategy has always been to just go on to the next contract. I'm not shy about doing a short term lower paying contract between more lucrative ones.
But overall: Small company contracts - my recommendation. Experience credentials and sanity count more than paper credentials in the end.
I think it is a good idea to strip all support for SCO and other violators of the free software spirit. Sort of an IPDP (Intellectual Property Death Penalty).
Should they scramble back on their knees, the support can be added back in.
Amen to that! SMART is only as good as the BIOS that provides the actual reporting. Compaq has traditionally had problems with SMART and Maxtor drives. There is even a Maxtor knowledgebase reference to the "1720" error code on Compaq computers.
My old Presario came with an 80GB Maxtor drive and started giving me this 1720 message a while back. The Maxtor Powermax utility tested the drive as error free, but the Compaq machine insisted the drive was about to fail.
Compaq support never officially admitted to erroneous interpretation of SMART values, but the fact they have SoftPaqs for this type of situation dating as far back as 1999, and the special KB reference on the Maxtor site suggests otherwise.
Meanwhile I installed a 120GB drive and started using the Maxtor as a slave. Guess what. The 1720 message went away. Go figure.
Not trying to bash Compaq computers, maybe the support a little, but all that has been discussed to death before. Bottom line, as the previous post(s) say, backing up religiously, or at least regularly, will cut the losses and downtime.
Your absolutely right! It is wrong to steal, and no one deserves to have their stuff stolen. Unfortunately, we still live in a society in which stealing is commonplace. It's been going on since long before our parents were a glimmer in our grandparents' eyes.
However, we do have the knowledge that this is happening. And unless we have tons of cash to throw around to repurchase items we use on a regular basis (I certainly don't), we still need to look at ways to deter the stealing. One of the methods is to not leave stuff out in the open like bait.
An elastic cord or a chain might help somewhat for small items like cell phones. At least it would require the thief have tools, and might make one aware of the attempt. I personally wouldn't mind a small electric shock on my car, but our friggin' laws don't allow it.
As to the mods, I hope you don't get modded down, as it would be unfair. You deserve to get at least an Interesting out of it, IMHO.
Sadly, this is no different than being distracted at any event, e.g. concert, soccer, sleeping between connections at a train/bus station,...
The people that have their things stolen in such a manner have nothing to whine about if they don't take pay attention, or carelessly leave things lying about.
On the bright side, there are still a number of people that make an effort to return stuff left in public buildings or transport (I know, different kind of carelessness, but same effect). I've run across a few in my history of folly, and can only applaude them.
Sorry if I'm ignorant of physics or math, but I could never understand why the turtle problem was a paradox.
I've always had an issue with comparing the distance the runner ran with the distance the turtle ran, as behind the lines a smaller and smaller amount of time was being used. Basically, the premise of the whole problem was being changed repeatedly and thus a nonsensical answer was produced (as the timeframe decreases toward zero causing the runner never to reach the turtle).
In my own personal reality (YRMV), time flow (at least in my admittedly subjective opinion) does not appear to decrease to a halt as I approach objects. This, in my experience, has not been dependent on whether I or anyone else nearby sees the situation, not that I often try to run past turtles;) .
Perhaps things would be different near a black hole, or if I were to try to catch up with a turtle flying a near light speed (wow, what an image, a special Super Mario creature?). IANAS (I am not a scientist)
Could someone please enlighten me in not too difficult jargon what was special about the paper in regards to the runner/turtle problem? Why is this Einstein caliber?
...include a robot that could attend conferences in your behalf...
My goodness, what ever happened to Netmeeting? With the robots you still need to book a place for it in a large conference room, maybe even a special hotel - you know, for recharging.
Wouldn't it be more efficient and cost effective to have a nice camera/mike setup, and a computer with a decent 'net connection?
Imagine the savings in shipping costs for the robot - or would that be savings on the first class plane ticket (you might need an electric outlet to keep your builtin GBA running).
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I think the problem in understanding if it is emulation or not is definition.
My usual understanding of emulation is an executional one, i.e. the old app runs within a simulated environment. However, the devleopers here are using macros to emulate the older hardware. This is an overload of the term "emulate". They are emulating at a source level, whereas the final compiled program is not an emulation by my original understanding.
...not seen blown up 20X...
Agreed! especially not that g o a t thang!
Lol, did you miss the warning label (on some slip of paper that fell to the side as you ripped open the package):
...but you don't get any extra lives!
Real traffic situations may not behave in the same manner as with this game. Your mileage may vary.
Back in the days I was learning to drive my Dad's old buick on old dirt roads in the woods, I freaked out my sister by moving the wheel back and forth and exclaiming: It's just like a video game!" Hehe. She just screamed something like:
I really think most people are going to have enough sense to distinguish reality from game. Perhaps its a naive belief, but how many times do you hear about folks racing their motorbikes along the road trying to bump other cars (even trucks) off the side? Well, maybe they did try it... but couldn't tell us the results. In other news: the Darwin awards have another nominee.
Heh, yeah, that would an undesirable effect for the US - how dare anyone cause them to learn anything! Might look smarter than the prez... OH! Look out, the HSD is on the way...
:)
But seriously, I can imagine that some aspects of games can train certain reflexes. Perhaps we pay more attention to small movements in peripheral vision now than before (as it is very important to survival in some games). An explorer class in Earth & Beyond needs to be able to haul ass if creatures 3-10 times their strength appear. Slow reaction = death.
Wow, the implications: if cars could strafe (and maybe had rubber protective side plates) we'd have some wild and wacky traffic situations.
I found I often preferred a combo of barter and monetary payment from the smaller opps. Become friends with the folks you help, get some free dinners, game tickets, etc, along with some cash to buy the required amounts of beer to survive.
The occasional larger business contract pays the rent for a while, and allows you to invite those new friends over - suddenly there's word of mouth: extra bonus points.
The gross-out of even thinking of lizard spit in my mouth is curbing my appetite.
Wow! I use yahoo for a certain amount of anonymity, and am still surprised how they get hold of all the addresses to spam them. :)
Now I'll have the opportunity to provide even more info about my perversi..., er I mean interests, political and otherwise - yeah, that's what I meant
From the article: "Pulses were fired at a small lump of gold, which produced enough gamma radiation to knock out single neutrons from iodine-129, converting it to iodine-128."
Yes, it is a different material, but only different in the number of neutrons. Fission, if I am not mistaken, can start by neutrons from atomic decay hitting other close atoms, splitting them.
Quote from parent: "process consumes much more energy than produces deca[y]ing material"
Well, a fission process would probably resolve that imbalance rather quickly, should it be possible to initiate one with this method and a hypothetical critical mass.
Here we have an extra neutron flying around, possibly energized by the laser AND the accelerated decay of the resulting atom. My question still stands for you physics masterminds out there: could this be a concern for larger than the speck of matter mentioned in the article.
Sadly, it seems there are some cross-compatibility issues with floppy drives or the floppies themselves nowadays. I can write a floppy on one machine, go to the next machine and have read errors. The floppy is still quite readable in the original machine.
This was really annoying when I was trying to make a boot disk for the second machine. I guess the fact that it finally worked after trying several floppies might suggest shoddy floppy material, but why were they error free on the first one - a mystery to me...
...audio cds that I listen to in my car are damages within 1 month or so
That, my friend, may be due to:
1) the poor quality of the car CD mechanism when pulling/releasing the CD, scraping both sides in the process (not to forget the scraping while pushing into the CD-wallet often with one hand while trying to keep eyes on the road)
2) depending on where you live, wide temperature fluctuations will have a dramatic impact on the data surface. On sunny days, you'll easily have 30+ degC temps for prolonged periods.
The above will even destroy store-bought CDs rather quickly. For roadtrips, I now only use the cheapest CD-Rs possible and am ready to remake them once they go bad after a few months (!).
Since the material now decays (knocking out neutrons) in a shorter timeframe than before, are we perhaps enabling the creation of a whole new class of fission bombs? Any physics majors out there?
I've been in the computer industry since '79. Have worked for large companies (such as IBM, Siemens, etc) and smaller startups. In spite of never actually finishing college, I have never had trouble finding decent well-paying work, even in a so-called recession.
One thing I did learn, though, was that I enjoy working for smaller operations much more than any other companies - red tape, silly dead line decisions, etc.
Working on contracts for small companies from home via the 'net effectively frees me from location dependencies, and lets me feel more in tune with the essence of the company, the lifeblood of it, if you so will. It seems there is also more free time available overall, further reducing general stress levels.
And to return to the actual question: yes, I have actually been turned down here and there due to being 'over qualified' for a given job which I thought might be interesting. However, my strategy has always been to just go on to the next contract. I'm not shy about doing a short term lower paying contract between more lucrative ones.
But overall: Small company contracts - my recommendation. Experience credentials and sanity count more than paper credentials in the end.
Three things:
Heat expansion of metals.
Pipe-organs.
Fluidics.
I'll leave the rest to you
PROFIT?
The Segway couldn't even keep it's balance with the US president who does not have seizures.
I think it is a good idea to strip all support for SCO and other violators of the free software spirit. Sort of an IPDP (Intellectual Property Death Penalty).
Should they scramble back on their knees, the support can be added back in.
Linux: It gots much flavah!
Isn't that flava?
SMART is cool but never depend on it.
Amen to that! SMART is only as good as the BIOS that provides the actual reporting. Compaq has traditionally had problems with SMART and Maxtor drives. There is even a Maxtor knowledgebase reference to the "1720" error code on Compaq computers.
My old Presario came with an 80GB Maxtor drive and started giving me this 1720 message a while back. The Maxtor Powermax utility tested the drive as error free, but the Compaq machine insisted the drive was about to fail.
Compaq support never officially admitted to erroneous interpretation of SMART values, but the fact they have SoftPaqs for this type of situation dating as far back as 1999, and the special KB reference on the Maxtor site suggests otherwise.
Meanwhile I installed a 120GB drive and started using the Maxtor as a slave. Guess what. The 1720 message went away. Go figure.
Not trying to bash Compaq computers, maybe the support a little, but all that has been discussed to death before. Bottom line, as the previous post(s) say, backing up religiously, or at least regularly, will cut the losses and downtime.
Your absolutely right! It is wrong to steal, and no one deserves to have their stuff stolen. Unfortunately, we still live in a society in which stealing is commonplace. It's been going on since long before our parents were a glimmer in our grandparents' eyes.
However, we do have the knowledge that this is happening. And unless we have tons of cash to throw around to repurchase items we use on a regular basis (I certainly don't), we still need to look at ways to deter the stealing. One of the methods is to not leave stuff out in the open like bait.
An elastic cord or a chain might help somewhat for small items like cell phones. At least it would require the thief have tools, and might make one aware of the attempt. I personally wouldn't mind a small electric shock on my car, but our friggin' laws don't allow it.
As to the mods, I hope you don't get modded down, as it would be unfair. You deserve to get at least an Interesting out of it, IMHO.
Article:...for only attoseconds (less than 10-15 seconds)...
and
Post: That should be 10^-15 seconds, not 10-15 seconds.
Nonetheless, an attosecond is still less than 10 to 15 seconds, as correctly stated in the article.
Lol.
Article: ...Earth is catching up with Mars...
Post: Well, since time doesn't exist, you have a shot.
Lol, but doesn't the runner/turtle paradox claim that the Earth will never catch up with Mars?
Sadly, this is no different than being distracted at any event, e.g. concert, soccer, sleeping between connections at a train/bus station, ...
The people that have their things stolen in such a manner have nothing to whine about if they don't take pay attention, or carelessly leave things lying about.
On the bright side, there are still a number of people that make an effort to return stuff left in public buildings or transport (I know, different kind of carelessness, but same effect). I've run across a few in my history of folly, and can only applaude them.
Sorry if I'm ignorant of physics or math, but I could never understand why the turtle problem was a paradox.
;) .
I've always had an issue with comparing the distance the runner ran with the distance the turtle ran, as behind the lines a smaller and smaller amount of time was being used. Basically, the premise of the whole problem was being changed repeatedly and thus a nonsensical answer was produced (as the timeframe decreases toward zero causing the runner never to reach the turtle).
In my own personal reality (YRMV), time flow (at least in my admittedly subjective opinion) does not appear to decrease to a halt as I approach objects. This, in my experience, has not been dependent on whether I or anyone else nearby sees the situation, not that I often try to run past turtles
Perhaps things would be different near a black hole, or if I were to try to catch up with a turtle flying a near light speed (wow, what an image, a special Super Mario creature?). IANAS (I am not a scientist)
Could someone please enlighten me in not too difficult jargon what was special about the paper in regards to the runner/turtle problem? Why is this Einstein caliber?
...include a robot that could attend conferences in your behalf...
My goodness, what ever happened to Netmeeting? With the robots you still need to book a place for it in a large conference room, maybe even a special hotel - you know, for recharging.
Wouldn't it be more efficient and cost effective to have a nice camera/mike setup, and a computer with a decent 'net connection?
Imagine the savings in shipping costs for the robot - or would that be savings on the first class plane ticket (you might need an electric outlet to keep your builtin GBA running).
Too late, they already are IP of SCO.