I don't know whether.NET or any other software system could have detected that too, it was probably a mechanical problem
I had heard that the indicator in question measured the torque applied by a servo and assumed that that meant that a valve connected to the servo was open rather than measure the state of the valve itself.
The reactor cores themselves don't(not in an atomic way at least, but I could imagine a bizzare failure where water got in, turned to steam fast, and exploded the core), but the overall plant is quite capable of exploding violently and spreading fallout over a very large area, essentially the worst case scenario for a nuclear power plant failure is that it becomes a very large "dirty bomb".
Well, if you allow random extra crap, then I'm sure a couple tons of C4 will make for a nice boom. Hell, why not sneak a 100kt warhead into the containment vessel and set it off? Of course, a modern design, by itself, will not explode. It won't even melt down.
nuclear plants would really be good off with some really old boxes running single threaded os's on them ( and that are backed up by some failover boxes just to be sure ). this way you have no lockups , no blue screens, no nuclear mushrooms over your city.
Waste of time. Run a modern design incapable of meltdown and use simple monitors where possible. Old, reliable is good, but address the root problem first. Oh, and nuke plants don't explode.
However, what I think sony is doing, is providing a method to play their DRM content on more devices.
That is a circumvention method. It's possible that that's legal, but the law itself is silent on the fact. Basically, the FBI could bring charges against SONY for providing a circumvention method to its own DRM and they could win. All you might need is a single copyrighted CD using that same DRM owned by someone else. IANAL, but this looks dangerous, which is one of the problems with criminalizing normal behavior.
they get to decide what is a valid device to "update" to play their DRM content, and which is a invalid device that is circumventing the copy protection.
Does the website crack DRM or does it simply convert Sony's DRM to Fairplay. I'm guessing it's the former.
Google should have a pretty good grasp of the Chinese address space, so serve up a map to Chinese people showing Taiwan the way the Chinese want to see it, and show Taiwan the map they want to see.
Great. Once the Chinese find out, they accuse Google of being deceitful. Sounds like a lot of effort for something that may well bite you in the ass.
(I recall reading a theory that apple was hoping to break even on the iTunes music store, if so, then what would the fallout for an MS/music industry from apple's perspective?
I predict nil. Most iPods are probably loaded with ripped CDs (or downloaded mp3s, I suppose), so unless MS started selling a truly enormous amount of music, I can't see it impacting iPod sales.
China wouldn't use nukes, because of Taiwan's proximity and the potential outrage of the world, and not doing what you think is right because you are afraid of the consequences is COWARDICE. I'm sure cowards all over would agree with you, but that's not saying much.
China would probably use nukes only if they didn't stand to lose significant manufacturing capacity. They don'e seem concerned with how others see them.
Very few people share your black and white view of courage. What good is being right if you're slaughtered like cattle?
If there is a dispute of some sort (tiawan, tibet, etc) then the program should be clear that they use a specific set of political names (ie, "As recognized by the UN") and stay out of political rumbling.
What makes you think that'll help things? Windows 2k almost got banned because the pixels representing kashmir were the wrong color from India's perspective, and Israel is Palestine, depending on who makes the map. Political boundaries are, well, political.
It's not like China invented the AK-47 or "traded" the USSR for it, they obtained some, took them apart and started mass producing their own. It's very hard to keep a secret like that.
That's kind of a bad example - China was nearly a client state of the USSR. I rather imagine that the USSR licensed the AK design to China.
What I described was to allocate a list of buffers and reuse them for very short termed uses without needing to check to see if what was using them before was finished with them.
This can also be done by allocating a single larger memory region and maintaining a free/busy bitmap.
The idea depends on the buffers being used for a short enough time that when you need a new buffer, whatever was using the least recently used buffer no longer has any need of it.
LRU is not a requirement.
It's really a much different idea.
It's exactly the same. The linked list structure is not central to the design of your pool.
I've heard of pooling but was under the impression that you were mallocing several memory allocations at once, but that the pieces of allocated memory were assigned to particular uses.
That is basically what you just described - malloc std_length * count. Allocate out of this pool preferentially.
The primary benefit of this was to perform one malloc instead of N mallocs for N different memory assignments.
This performs 1 + N*M(1-hit_rate) allocations instead of N*M allocations, which is generally really nice.
Yeah, and have you not noticed, that's chump change.
Well, duh - there are a lot more people to kill nowadays, and we've gotten more efficient at it. The romans didn't have gas ovens when they sacked carthage, but they got the job done.
ingores any existing benefits chrisian ethics may have on existing practising societies.
Most stable societies have prohibitions on murder, robbery, and rape. It's not a religious thing.
Can you justifiably suggest that they abandon this approach because of the few Osama Bin Ladens of the world?
I don't think anybody is seriously suggesting we ban the bible (though I'd like it if we abandoned religion). What we're doing is pointing out that the bible fails to meet the standards put forth for video games.
In return, recording companies collect royalties on the blank media used for this purpose. For every digital audio tape (DAT), blank audio CD, or minidisc sold, a few cents go to record labels.
Okay, some CDs are taxed. Specifically, the ones that go in stereo equipment, which cost more. The data CDs are not taxed, although they can hold music too.
If you end up in a position where you have to "prove" that you're in the right, you've already lost the game.
Proving that you warned so-and-so about doing fuckup #2 after the shit starts flying can save your job when so-and-so concocts a story to his boss about how it's all your fault.
The question then becomes, what is the value of employee loyalty, and what is the cost of being good to your employees? (and which is greater?)
How long does it take to replace and train an employee? How many employees can you lose before a critical project is delayed or fails? Being loyal means that employees don't necessarily jump ship because someone flashes a wad of cash at them.
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I'm calling bullshit. Every person in Microsoft with a BS in CS gets their own office? I'm not believing that for a second.
Every person in Microsoft who is a FTE developer gets an office. A BS is not a requirement, but contractors get shit on.
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.
Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.
And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:
And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.
But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.
It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead
And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.
In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.
Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.
I don't know whether .NET or any other software system could have detected that too, it was probably a mechanical problem
I had heard that the indicator in question measured the torque applied by a servo and assumed that that meant that a valve connected to the servo was open rather than measure the state of the valve itself.
The reactor cores themselves don't(not in an atomic way at least, but I could imagine a bizzare failure where water got in, turned to steam fast, and exploded the core), but the overall plant is quite capable of exploding violently and spreading fallout over a very large area, essentially the worst case scenario for a nuclear power plant failure is that it becomes a very large "dirty bomb".
Well, if you allow random extra crap, then I'm sure a couple tons of C4 will make for a nice boom. Hell, why not sneak a 100kt warhead into the containment vessel and set it off? Of course, a modern design, by itself, will not explode. It won't even melt down.
Chernobyl !!!
Stuff it. You were talking about mushroom clouds, not overpressurized steam. Anyway, pebble-bed reactors don't behave like chernobyl.
nuclear plants would really be good off with some really old boxes running single threaded os's on them ( and that are backed up by some failover boxes just to be sure ). this way you have no lockups , no blue screens, no nuclear mushrooms over your city.
Waste of time. Run a modern design incapable of meltdown and use simple monitors where possible. Old, reliable is good, but address the root problem first. Oh, and nuke plants don't explode.
However, what I think sony is doing, is providing a method to play their DRM content on more devices.
That is a circumvention method. It's possible that that's legal, but the law itself is silent on the fact. Basically, the FBI could bring charges against SONY for providing a circumvention method to its own DRM and they could win. All you might need is a single copyrighted CD using that same DRM owned by someone else. IANAL, but this looks dangerous, which is one of the problems with criminalizing normal behavior.
they get to decide what is a valid device to "update" to play their DRM content, and which is a invalid device that is circumventing the copy protection.
Does the website crack DRM or does it simply convert Sony's DRM to Fairplay. I'm guessing it's the former.
Google should have a pretty good grasp of the Chinese address space, so serve up a map to Chinese people showing Taiwan the way the Chinese want to see it, and show Taiwan the map they want to see.
Great. Once the Chinese find out, they accuse Google of being deceitful. Sounds like a lot of effort for something that may well bite you in the ass.
(I recall reading a theory that apple was hoping to break even on the iTunes music store, if so, then what would the fallout for an MS/music industry from apple's perspective?
I predict nil. Most iPods are probably loaded with ripped CDs (or downloaded mp3s, I suppose), so unless MS started selling a truly enormous amount of music, I can't see it impacting iPod sales.
China wouldn't use nukes, because of Taiwan's proximity and the potential outrage of the world, and not doing what you think is right because you are afraid of the consequences is COWARDICE. I'm sure cowards all over would agree with you, but that's not saying much.
If there is a dispute of some sort (tiawan, tibet, etc) then the program should be clear that they use a specific set of political names (ie, "As recognized by the UN") and stay out of political rumbling.
What makes you think that'll help things? Windows 2k almost got banned because the pixels representing kashmir were the wrong color from India's perspective, and Israel is Palestine, depending on who makes the map. Political boundaries are, well, political.
'The paper [the Wall Street Journal] reported negotiations broke down Friday over what Microsoft considered high royalty rates.'
Is anybody really surprised? Well, maybe a little - MS has shown its willingness to lose billions to get into a market.
It's not like China invented the AK-47 or "traded" the USSR for it, they obtained some, took them apart and started mass producing their own. It's very hard to keep a secret like that.
That's kind of a bad example - China was nearly a client state of the USSR. I rather imagine that the USSR licensed the AK design to China.
What I described was to allocate a list of buffers and reuse them for very short termed uses without needing to check to see if what was using them before was finished with them.
This can also be done by allocating a single larger memory region and maintaining a free/busy bitmap.
The idea depends on the buffers being used for a short enough time that when you need a new buffer, whatever was using the least recently used buffer no longer has any need of it.
LRU is not a requirement.
It's really a much different idea.
It's exactly the same. The linked list structure is not central to the design of your pool.
I can only see this spiral continuing until Bill Gates himself gets up on stage at CES in an Elvis suit promising 'a hunka- hunka- burnin protection'.
No way could BG pull off Elvis. Have you seen his hair?!
I must have forgotten that only experts were allowed to use computers, and making them accessible to people was a mistake. Sorry.
Only experts are trusted to find out why a system update broke their app and actually get it right. Sorry if this damages your precious ego.
I'm waiting for the first claim that Java could not have arisen by accident.
I'm pretty sure that Java was done on purpose.
I've heard of pooling but was under the impression that you were mallocing several memory allocations at once, but that the pieces of allocated memory were assigned to particular uses.
That is basically what you just described - malloc std_length * count. Allocate out of this pool preferentially.
The primary benefit of this was to perform one malloc instead of N mallocs for N different memory assignments.
This performs 1 + N*M(1-hit_rate) allocations instead of N*M allocations, which is generally really nice.
Yeah, and have you not noticed, that's chump change.
Well, duh - there are a lot more people to kill nowadays, and we've gotten more efficient at it. The romans didn't have gas ovens when they sacked carthage, but they got the job done.
ingores any existing benefits chrisian ethics may have on existing practising societies.
Most stable societies have prohibitions on murder, robbery, and rape. It's not a religious thing.
Can you justifiably suggest that they abandon this approach because of the few Osama Bin Ladens of the world?
I don't think anybody is seriously suggesting we ban the bible (though I'd like it if we abandoned religion). What we're doing is pointing out that the bible fails to meet the standards put forth for video games.
In return, recording companies collect royalties on the blank media used for this purpose. For every digital audio tape (DAT), blank audio CD, or minidisc sold, a few cents go to record labels.
Okay, some CDs are taxed. Specifically, the ones that go in stereo equipment, which cost more. The data CDs are not taxed, although they can hold music too.
It's the same in the US, all recordable media that's sold blank has a charge or tax that's supposed to go to entertainment companies.
No, not all media. CDs aren't subject to any such tax. How else can 100 blanks cost $10?
Paper trail won't help when the first sign of trouble is your keycard failing to work at the door.
Paper trails are kept off-site and are composed of actual paper.
If you end up in a position where you have to "prove" that you're in the right, you've already lost the game.
Proving that you warned so-and-so about doing fuckup #2 after the shit starts flying can save your job when so-and-so concocts a story to his boss about how it's all your fault.
The question then becomes, what is the value of employee loyalty, and what is the cost of being good to your employees? (and which is greater?)
How long does it take to replace and train an employee? How many employees can you lose before a critical project is delayed or fails? Being loyal means that employees don't necessarily jump ship because someone flashes a wad of cash at them.