[IE for Solaris] doesn't use many libraries. I wonder if it would be possible to machine-translate it into x86-elf, and if it would then run on Linux. If the threading APIs match, I can't see why not....
Translating between CPU architectures results in code much less efficient than the original. You have more registers on the RISC, and no way to know exactly which of them are meaningful at most points of the code, so you have to treat them all as if they all are. Plus, flag semantics are slightly different so you have to patch up the difference inside what you want to be really efficient inner loops (sucks cycles bigtime.) Things like the threading APIs will NOT match, because the registers are different, so you end up with speed similar to an emulation anyway.
Look, whenever you get cravings, drink two or three glasses of water and wait a few minutes. Chances are, the cravings will be displaced. Other things with which to displace cravings:
celery -- you actually lose weight eating celery
lettuce -- lots of bulk, practically no calories
turnips
radishes
watermelon
rice cakes
Go back and read what you wrote, Tablizer -- you say you want to live without constant hunger, but what you obviously really want is to satisfy your cravings with food sufficiently unlike "cardboard." What you probably mean by that is that you want plenty of sugars, starches, oils, and varied textures. That isn't anti-misery, that is a matter of raised caloric expectations. You can train yourself away from that in a week if you can muster the willpower.
This is a patent covering backing up preferences on a remote server so that someone can safely upgrade their OS or move computers.
Right, but, as the special case of using a web browser.
If bookmark files count as preferences, then there's plenty of prior art. People have been uploading bookmarks to servers using INPUT TYPE=FILE since before '98.
A few weeks ago I heard that both our Fearless Leader and Condoleezza Rice came out to the press saying that there are no connections between Hussein and 911, and that they have never implied otherwise.
... does anyone know of any mainstream articles on this announcement?
An intriguing fact about this whitehouse.gov/*/iraq thing is that they do in fact cover some of the important statements which are apparently not duplicated in the press release, conference, and briefing directories. Perhaps there was a "unique urgency" to cover up some poor choices of words?
Ballmer... is angling for a bill outlawing the GPL.
Of course he wishes for that, so much that it probably influences his statements and behavior, but it will never happen.
GPL is just permission terms on ordinary copyright. Lots of GPL stuff is used in government and in business under contract. That means too much inertia; nobody in congress can stand up to the bill analyst's report that says, "this bill would put $x million in contracts per district on average in litigation." It's just too expensive, and there are a heck of a lot more constituents with livelyhoods partially due to the GPL (or more accurately, programmers who chose to release under GPL) in each district than there are districts with monolithic software manufacturers opposed to the GPL. Apple, IBM, H-P, etc. who depend on the GPL have plenty of lobby power and more votes in total. No significant force other than Microsoft is credibly opposed to the GPL anyway these days.
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Filesystems are just inefficient, shitty databases.
Not really, and you know it.
Firstly, your OS's filesystem should support reading and writing files at nearly the throughput of your disk interface, with efficient buffering and interrupt-driven hardware I/O. Databases do that rarely, and only on the high end, and even there only after you've taken significant configuration pains.
Second, you can have files from 0 length to N gigabytes with the limited overhead of small cluster sizes. BLOBs aren't stored nearly as efficiently in your database.
Third, your database doesn't let you do random seek()s inside your BLOBs.
Fourth, you can't append to a BLOB without reading the whole thing to memory and then storing it back, which means time and bandwidth on a network, unlike NFS/SMB/AFS/etc.
Fifth, you can't keep a BLOB open for writing like a log file.
Sixth, you can't make subdirectories out of a table of key strings and BLOBs without stupid filename hacks, which themselves are likely to break any semblance of wildcards that you may have expected from pattern-matching strings.
I could go on (e.g. device nodes on unix, names pipes, etc.) but you get the point. Although parts of filesystems resemble databases in the abstract, they are different for different purposes.
Why isn't OpenOffice working for you? OO-Writer reads and writes MS-Word documents, including advanced features like change tracking. I've been using it instead of Word for almost a year with no trouble. What's your problem with it?
so you can cool liquid water below freezing by keeping it perfectly still. And in a similar(?!) way, a squirrel keeps its fluids moving below freezing? Sorry. How's that similar?
Good point. I remember reading about these critters years ago, but I can't find anything pertinent on the web right now. I distinctly remember that the supercooling of liquid water has nothing to do with the squirrels' below-freezing survival. Their secret is instead similar to Prestone.
The way I remember it, the squirrels have some kind of a pervasive antifreeze enzyme in their cell cytoplasm, membranes, and fluids. Since it's pervasive enough to keep everything from ice damage, it's probably produced from simple gene expression (i.e. not in a gland or a specialized tissue), which means, you can probably splice the gene into a whole heck of a lot of things. Not just rodents; maybe oranges, and other frost-sensitive crops. Maybe people.
I'm pretty amazed with the unlikelyhood of the research described in the ABCnews article. I'm somewhat ambivalent about the kind of genetic engineering involved, but this is certainly worth looking at.
How about we defend leaking classified rocket technology to the Chinese?
Just out of curiosity, what makes you think the Chinese are at all a threat to any western nation? I know it's a common enough suspicion, but I just don't get it. From where I stand, China has become heavily dependent on trade with the west, and Chinese politicians don't want to risk losing business to other developing nations. Siince their economic reforms of the early 1990s, they are in some ways much more capitalistic and unregulated than the U.S., and their military is headed by a former president, who was generally thought to be a dove on all China's regional issues, including Taiwan.
To determine historical atmospheric CO2 concentations, one need only drill into, sample cores from, and analize pack ice. This technique is known to be very accurate because of the agreement between core samples from, e.g., arctic and antarctic pack ice. Historical emperatures are derived from the extent of crystalization and other factors from inorganic sedimentation, and is also confirmed with global cross-sample agreement. Note the clear correlation between greenhouse CO2 concentration and temperature.
More interesting may be that the concentration in the past century is much more than it has been anytime in the past 400,000 years.
Those two graphs are very informative, especially when examined together. Note the strong correlation between CO2 concentration and temperature, and then also note that we have much, much more CO2 now than any time in the past 400,000 years.
Perhaps Xscale would sell better if they came out with a model that had more than 32 kilowords of cache, but then the Centrium division would get upset. The 16kwI/16kwD split cache is about 1% the size of modern useful cache memories.
...transmission microscopes--which shoot electrons through micron-thin samples of materials and then form an image from data about the resulting paths of the electrons--depend on placing the sample in a strong vacuum. That's fine for observing reactions between solids and gases, but it doesn't work for reactions with or inside liquids.
"In ordinary circumstances, the liquid would just boil away," Ross said.
Biological samples viewed under a transmission electron microscope have to be initially dehydrated, which can change their shape.
To get around that problem, IBM devised a cell chamber that captures a layer of liquid and the elements to be studied between two silicon nitride membranes.
"You can think of the cell as an extremely sophisticated (microscope) slide," she said.
How come a silicon nitride membrane strong enough to hold a liquid away from a vacuum doesn't diffract or deflect electrons?
Is there something special about silicon nitride that makes it transparent to electrons?
Neat trick, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to believe it without an explanation. Si3N4 has a dielectric constant of 7.5; what gives?
The de-chirping needs to happen coherently (i.e. without any loss of the phase information from the original data and signals that it might contain). The reason for this is that the signal-to-noise of a detected periodic signal is much less if you use an incoherent technique like the cepstrum rather than a coherent one.
I'm not convinced.
Please tell me why you think that the complex spectrum can contain signal information that the magnitude spectrum doesn't.
It seems to me that the spectral phase is independent of the existance of a periodic signal. You might benefit from more bins in the FFT, but keeping the phase component can not make up for that, can it?
Thank you for the pointers to your very informative papers.
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Translating between CPU architectures results in code much less efficient than the original. You have more registers on the RISC, and no way to know exactly which of them are meaningful at most points of the code, so you have to treat them all as if they all are. Plus, flag semantics are slightly different so you have to patch up the difference inside what you want to be really efficient inner loops (sucks cycles bigtime.) Things like the threading APIs will NOT match, because the registers are different, so you end up with speed similar to an emulation anyway.
"Cheap" is right, or an understatement.
Any decent reward these days should be at least [placing pinky to corner of mouth] one million dollars.
- celery -- you actually lose weight eating celery
- lettuce -- lots of bulk, practically no calories
- turnips
- radishes
- watermelon
- rice cakes
Go back and read what you wrote, Tablizer -- you say you want to live without constant hunger, but what you obviously really want is to satisfy your cravings with food sufficiently unlike "cardboard." What you probably mean by that is that you want plenty of sugars, starches, oils, and varied textures. That isn't anti-misery, that is a matter of raised caloric expectations. You can train yourself away from that in a week if you can muster the willpower.Right, but, as the special case of using a web browser.
If bookmark files count as preferences, then there's plenty of prior art. People have been uploading bookmarks to servers using INPUT TYPE=FILE since before '98.
The cusp is between tan((pi / 2) + 0.0000000000000001110765125711399415) and tan((pi / 2) + 0.0000000000000001110765125711399416)
Intel put a load of MPEG decoder support in ARM hardware in hopes of someone doing this since Xscale.
Ted Rall has a decent column on the subject.
Here's a minor example of something those two sites didn't catch: Remember Iraq's so-called "mobile biological weapons factories"? A month after the story broke that they were for weather balloons, the CIA moved their report's URL.
An intriguing fact about this whitehouse.gov/*/iraq thing is that they do in fact cover some of the important statements which are apparently not duplicated in the press release, conference, and briefing directories. Perhaps there was a "unique urgency" to cover up some poor choices of words?
Of course he wishes for that, so much that it probably influences his statements and behavior, but it will never happen. GPL is just permission terms on ordinary copyright. Lots of GPL stuff is used in government and in business under contract. That means too much inertia; nobody in congress can stand up to the bill analyst's report that says, "this bill would put $x million in contracts per district on average in litigation." It's just too expensive, and there are a heck of a lot more constituents with livelyhoods partially due to the GPL (or more accurately, programmers who chose to release under GPL) in each district than there are districts with monolithic software manufacturers opposed to the GPL. Apple, IBM, H-P, etc. who depend on the GPL have plenty of lobby power and more votes in total. No significant force other than Microsoft is credibly opposed to the GPL anyway these days.
Not really, and you know it.
Firstly, your OS's filesystem should support reading and writing files at nearly the throughput of your disk interface, with efficient buffering and interrupt-driven hardware I/O. Databases do that rarely, and only on the high end, and even there only after you've taken significant configuration pains.
Second, you can have files from 0 length to N gigabytes with the limited overhead of small cluster sizes. BLOBs aren't stored nearly as efficiently in your database.
Third, your database doesn't let you do random seek()s inside your BLOBs.
Fourth, you can't append to a BLOB without reading the whole thing to memory and then storing it back, which means time and bandwidth on a network, unlike NFS/SMB/AFS/etc.
Fifth, you can't keep a BLOB open for writing like a log file.
Sixth, you can't make subdirectories out of a table of key strings and BLOBs without stupid filename hacks, which themselves are likely to break any semblance of wildcards that you may have expected from pattern-matching strings.
I could go on (e.g. device nodes on unix, names pipes, etc.) but you get the point. Although parts of filesystems resemble databases in the abstract, they are different for different purposes.
Why isn't OpenOffice working for you? OO-Writer reads and writes MS-Word documents, including advanced features like change tracking. I've been using it instead of Word for almost a year with no trouble. What's your problem with it?
Good point. I remember reading about these critters years ago, but I can't find anything pertinent on the web right now. I distinctly remember that the supercooling of liquid water has nothing to do with the squirrels' below-freezing survival. Their secret is instead similar to Prestone.
The way I remember it, the squirrels have some kind of a pervasive antifreeze enzyme in their cell cytoplasm, membranes, and fluids. Since it's pervasive enough to keep everything from ice damage, it's probably produced from simple gene expression (i.e. not in a gland or a specialized tissue), which means, you can probably splice the gene into a whole heck of a lot of things. Not just rodents; maybe oranges, and other frost-sensitive crops. Maybe people.
I'm pretty amazed with the unlikelyhood of the research described in the ABCnews article. I'm somewhat ambivalent about the kind of genetic engineering involved, but this is certainly worth looking at.
Just out of curiosity, what makes you think the Chinese are at all a threat to any western nation? I know it's a common enough suspicion, but I just don't get it. From where I stand, China has become heavily dependent on trade with the west, and Chinese politicians don't want to risk losing business to other developing nations. Siince their economic reforms of the early 1990s, they are in some ways much more capitalistic and unregulated than the U.S., and their military is headed by a former president, who was generally thought to be a dove on all China's regional issues, including Taiwan.
Shouldn't you refer to North Korea instead?
More interesting may be that the concentration in the past century is much more than it has been anytime in the past 400,000 years.
Those two graphs are very informative, especially when examined together. Note the strong correlation between CO2 concentration and temperature, and then also note that we have much, much more CO2 now than any time in the past 400,000 years.
duh!
done: the patch is here
No, not unless you're a mental health professional, believe it or not.
Perhaps Xscale would sell better if they came out with a model that had more than 32 kilowords of cache, but then the Centrium division would get upset. The 16kwI/16kwD split cache is about 1% the size of modern useful cache memories.
I remember the days when MIT hackers would do interesting things and explain them well.
or alternativly, (1) wrap Roy Orbison in saran wrap.
How come a silicon nitride membrane strong enough to hold a liquid away from a vacuum doesn't diffract or deflect electrons? Is there something special about silicon nitride that makes it transparent to electrons?
Neat trick, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to believe it without an explanation. Si3N4 has a dielectric constant of 7.5; what gives?
Can anyone make out what's on the PHB's coffee mug? It's too small for me to read.
That in itsself should be enough for the parent comment, but I want you to understand why "creation science" is thought of so poorly even by theists.
God gave you a brain. Use it. Please don't presume that God is so stupid that He could not have designed live via evolution a billion years ago.
I'm not convinced.
Please tell me why you think that the complex spectrum can contain signal information that the magnitude spectrum doesn't.
It seems to me that the spectral phase is independent of the existance of a periodic signal. You might benefit from more bins in the FFT, but keeping the phase component can not make up for that, can it?
Thank you for the pointers to your very informative papers.