Check out "Gilgamesh" if you want to know about the origins of the Bible. Relatively recent translation and merging of different fragments have given us a much clearer view of this ancient, epic story.
So, by that you would be forced to say that people who have copied the Bible by hand, generation by generation, are a bunch of pirates. Copying something from somebody else is, after all, stealing.
Real In Circuit Emulators (ICS) were great. You could load up the symbol tables from your code, and all the code fetches (as well as all data accesses) would be stored in a hardware queue for automatic di-assembly and de-compilation. Tags from the original source were used where they matched. The great part was being able to trigger on a memory location (variable) being written, and even qualify the value written. You could say things like "run until myvar has bit 15 set" and then go backward in the execution stream to see who did it and why.
Now with on-chip memory caches and virtual memory mapping, as well as super-fast clock speeds, it would be a lot trickier to build such things today. I don't even know if anybody is doing it commercially in the PC/Windows environment, but it still is popular for embedded projects.
I understood what you meant about the 'sentence structure'. I was simply trying to add that in addition to sounding awkward, it wasn't correct.
How about: "The suits and we journalists are the only ones using Windows." It's hard to get the part about being a journalist worked into the meaning without making it sound bad. If you leave that out, "The suits and the journalists are the only ones using Windows." it seems ok to me.
Why not complain about the grammar while you are at it?
"The only ones using Windows is us journalists and the suits."
"Ones" is plural, so shouldn't it be "are" then instead of "is"? But "are" and "is" are transitive, (or at least used to be,) so that "us" should be "we". So: "The only ones using Windows are we journalists and the suits." Of course, I'm an electrical engineer with terrible spelling, so I shouldn't complain. But I think a journalist should really care about language.
Perhaps if we gave every Iraqi an AK-47, boxes of grenades, and tons of ammo, Iraq would be a safe society today.
Perhaps if the common people of Iraq had had arms before, the problem of the dictator Sadam would have been taken care of without sending in US troops. Like it or not, it is true that in the end the rights of any population are grounded in that population being able to fight for those rights if needed.
Exactly so. 15 years ago I made an instrument that timed how long the button was held down. If it was still down after 20mS, it was a valid 1st key press. Then, a long wait, if it was down 500mS after that the first auto-repeat press was fired. Then if it was down an additional 250mS another auto-repeat press was fired, and every 250mS after that another auto-repeat until the button was released. (I might not have the times exactly right, but the idea is correct.)
I don't think it is a good idea to point any scope bigger than an inch or two at the Sun without a solar filter. You may burn the inside of the scope, or make part of the body too hot and burn somebody's hand, or melt the eyepiece! Reflectors are almost always bigger than 2".
You can glance at the Sun, or else all baseball fielders would be blind. However, if you're using a nice 8" reflector, even closing your eyelid is not going to help. They make metalized "solar filters" for many telescopes, which keep most of the energy out of the scope body while preserving the aperature so you can still have good resolution at high magnification.
If you have a smaller telescope, or a a pair of binolculars, you can project an image of the sun onto a sheet of paper through the eyepiece. Use a cardboard box to make a darker area for the paper to be in. If there is some distance to the paper, the image of the Sun will be big enough that it will not burn the paper. Experiment with distance and focus to see what works.
You can see the plywood on the edges of the room partitions. When I saw that, I thought that this was more like a dollhouse in construction, rather than a properly done Sci-Fi model. The scale being way off doesn't bother me so much, the real world rears its ugly head every now and then.
Think about this for a second. $45K is pre-tax. Take away social "security" tax, state tax, federal tax and with luck $30K remains. Now take away $12K for rent, that leaves 18K. Per month, that is $1500. Now take away food, clothes, medical bill, and maybe a car payment and gas, and there isn't a lot of wiggle room.
Pissing off a bartender is trivial compared to the fun you'll have when you get pulled over for some minor offence and have to convince the officer your license isn't a fake
Doing something like wiping your DL stripe isn't about making your life easier. It isn't about fun either. A lot of people have been "trouble makers" over the years, sometimes it is over good ideas, sometimes not. It is seldom pleasant for the "trouble maker", in any case.
The "recipe" for meteorite identification usually includes the ratio of oxygen isotopes. This ratio varies as you head away from the Sun. So, if you can identify the ratio, you can match pebble A to pebble B (or planet B) fairly well.
This only weakens the concept of intellectual property.
There is no such thing as intellectual property. Ideas are free, and always have been. There are copyrights, which restrict commercial use of original works. There are also patents, by which the governments grants the inventor of a novel idea a monopoly on the use of that idea for a limited time, for the express purpose of placing the idea into the public domain. Once an invention is patented, the patent is public record and anybody can read it at anytime, and come to understand the ideas contained in it if they wish.
They are talking about area. 38nm features mean the smallest dot is 1,444 (nm)^2. 95nm features mean the smallest dot is 9,025 (nm)^2. Ok, so it isn't 10 to 1, but if you compare against 120nm features, which is still arguably state of the art, it is.
It's not a tautology at all. In fact the statement is wrong, since plenty of crimes are commited in jails each day by jailed people.
Punishing people who have done nothing wrong but owning something that could be used to commit a crime is a popular pastime that has negative effects.
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Check out "Gilgamesh" if you want to know about the origins of the Bible. Relatively recent translation and merging of different fragments have given us a much clearer view of this ancient, epic story.
So, by that you would be forced to say that people who have copied the Bible by hand, generation by generation, are a bunch of pirates. Copying something from somebody else is, after all, stealing.
Real In Circuit Emulators (ICS) were great. You could load up the symbol tables from your code, and all the code fetches (as well as all data accesses) would be stored in a hardware queue for automatic di-assembly and de-compilation. Tags from the original source were used where they matched. The great part was being able to trigger on a memory location (variable) being written, and even qualify the value written. You could say things like "run until myvar has bit 15 set" and then go backward in the execution stream to see who did it and why.
Now with on-chip memory caches and virtual memory mapping, as well as super-fast clock speeds, it would be a lot trickier to build such things today. I don't even know if anybody is doing it commercially in the PC/Windows environment, but it still is popular for embedded projects.
I understood what you meant about the 'sentence structure'. I was simply trying to add that in addition to sounding awkward, it wasn't correct.
How about: "The suits and we journalists are the only ones using Windows." It's hard to get the part about being a journalist worked into the meaning without making it sound bad. If you leave that out, "The suits and the journalists are the only ones using Windows." it seems ok to me.
Exactly so. 15 years ago I made an instrument that timed how long the button was held down. If it was still down after 20mS, it was a valid 1st key press. Then, a long wait, if it was down 500mS after that the first auto-repeat press was fired. Then if it was down an additional 250mS another auto-repeat press was fired, and every 250mS after that another auto-repeat until the button was released. (I might not have the times exactly right, but the idea is correct.)
My brother's Ford? Made in Japan.
My Honda? Made in Ohio.
YMMV
Perhaps you missed this part: "One reproducable experiment..."
I don't think it is a good idea to point any scope bigger than an inch or two at the Sun without a solar filter. You may burn the inside of the scope, or make part of the body too hot and burn somebody's hand, or melt the eyepiece! Reflectors are almost always bigger than 2".
If you have a smaller telescope, or a a pair of binolculars, you can project an image of the sun onto a sheet of paper through the eyepiece. Use a cardboard box to make a darker area for the paper to be in. If there is some distance to the paper, the image of the Sun will be big enough that it will not burn the paper. Experiment with distance and focus to see what works.
Or you can just buy a Solar Viewer. American Science & Surplus has 'em for under $100.
So THAT'S why the fruit cart changed color when Jackie jumped on it!
I agree. Grim Fandango would be great. "Look out pidgeons, it's Robert Frost!" And Glotis.
You can see the plywood on the edges of the room partitions. When I saw that, I thought that this was more like a dollhouse in construction, rather than a properly done Sci-Fi model. The scale being way off doesn't bother me so much, the real world rears its ugly head every now and then.
Airplane glue has acetone, not alcohol! Stay on topic.
Think about this for a second. $45K is pre-tax. Take away social "security" tax, state tax, federal tax and with luck $30K remains. Now take away $12K for rent, that leaves 18K. Per month, that is $1500. Now take away food, clothes, medical bill, and maybe a car payment and gas, and there isn't a lot of wiggle room.
The "recipe" for meteorite identification usually includes the ratio of oxygen isotopes. This ratio varies as you head away from the Sun. So, if you can identify the ratio, you can match pebble A to pebble B (or planet B) fairly well.
They are talking about area. 38nm features mean the smallest dot is 1,444 (nm)^2. 95nm features mean the smallest dot is 9,025 (nm)^2. Ok, so it isn't 10 to 1, but if you compare against 120nm features, which is still arguably state of the art, it is.
Punishing people who have done nothing wrong but owning something that could be used to commit a crime is a popular pastime that has negative effects.
We're going to need sandals with a really high R-factor...