I saw naked breasts on PBS, as a kid, in Monty Python skits. Of female, women, above the age of 18. Not as part of a Serious Political Statment, or White Man's Burdon National Geographic Special, but as humor.
It had nothing to do with me being a pervert today - I blame that on my dad's Playboys.
... "The shuttle wasn't carrying any equipment for a space walk, so that wasn't possible. The shuttle's orientation during orbit is to have it's belly facing away from the Earth, so land-based telescopes and cameras would have been useless." They could have easily changed the orientation of the shuttle if the suspected a problem. Land based telescopes would likely be no good because of the atmosphere tho. Spy scopes, if they bothered to ask, might have been a different story
Yes it is, but some processors do it with stack specific instructions - x86 with push/ pop instructions.
Some other ones are mixed - 68k family, which push/ pop are actually a generic move to an address register (sp == a7) with auto increment / decrement. But function call / function return will always use the stack to store
Others (like the original poster's CPU) apparently do not handle even function calls (must remember the previous address to go back to it - and put it somewhere.)
If you are running a language that disallows recursion, you don't exactly need a stack at all.
Had to use THINK C class libraries? My condolences.
rbb
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The real point is that it *disperses* pollutants in ways that we can't predict, and can shift the tender equilibriums that we rely on. See CFCs in the upper atomosphere, destroying Ozone, causing grief.
Is the dimming in the original topic due to dispersed pollutants, or local ones? I don't have a clue. Insulting Ecologists won't provide the answer. rbb
I actually don't agree that taxing capital gains undesireably distorts markets, thus discouraging invesment in riskier assets. (And I don't even believe that riskier assets generally yield a higher return for society. At least not without some proof.) In the '90s, with the old 'bad' tax structure, we had plenty of investement, innovation, and speculation. And even a budget surplus. (And yes the deficit takes money out of my pocket, since I'll have to pay for it in 10-30 years.)
My ad hominem attack against bad rich people was direct at that subset alone. But my personal experience with CEOs suggests it's a larger subset than you believe. (as in 'I have my 6 Mil severance built into my contract, why should I work that hard' playing solataire . . )
Ok: I imagine I'm a wealthy retired 60 year old business man. From my third house in the Caribeen, (where I pay people to spell Caribbean correctly for me) I relax while my children take over my businesses. Ah, that's the life. Why would I spend my precious few years of life left worrying about capital gains tax, rate of return, and whether my carry over losses will offset gains.
The marginal tax rate for capital gains / income is not 75%. (And if _you_ paid that, get a new accountant!)
You only pay captial gains on the gains part.
Capital losses can partially offset (insert 100 pages of dense tax law) gains and income. Even across year. So you will not be paying 75% of 4 million by any measure.
And sure, the Uber-Rich lost money in the stock market crash, but that small, small fraction of the US population still controls a large chunk of US assets. I shed no tears for Mr Gates, Mr Eisner and crew for losing more money than I will ever see.
Oh, and don't forget the CEO's who made deals with investment banks, where the CEO's got IPO shares at ground level in exchange for doing business with the investment banks later. (wink wink)
That's money stolen out of the pockets of shareholders, mutual funds, and so on. Money that funds college education, home improvements, and uses that have direct improvement and employment to the bulk of the population, and such. Any argument you make about 'Trickle down' is equally valid for any other distribution of wealth. Trickle out.
Why? Because some of our taxes are HARD. (Well, not NP hard...) It's not about saving $40 in income tax, it's about getting it right to stay out of the slammer.
Me - I had to worry about two state taxes, AMT reductions to tax credits, calculating how much to pre-pay quarterly, dividends, interest, mortgage, and so on.
rbb (To me, this proves how the US income tax is bunk, as currently written - but that's a whole different topic.)
Crossover for the Expensive printer is Laser cost = $600 base + 1 * $100 cartridge = $700 Inkjet cost = $100 base + 12 * $50 cartridge = $700 Or at 5500-5999 pages printed.
Crossover for the Cheap vs Expensive printer is Cheap... $300 + 6 * $100 = $900 (30000 pages) Expensive $600 + 3 * $100 = $900 (30000 pages)
Or at 25000-34999 pages printed, the cost is the same. (You start saving money after page 35000)
If your printer prints 10 pages a day, the expensive printer saves you money after 9 years, 7 months.
The laser saves you money after 10 months over the inkjet at that rate. (Home user don't usually print that much. Office printers do.)
"My butcher isn't going to start a produce section for vegetarians"
1) People are vegetarian by choice, not handicap. 2) The vegetarian can still buy meat from the butcher, even if they don't want to eat it. 3) The butcher, by being open to the public, has to serve the general public without practicing racial, religious, sexual, or handicap-based discrimination. (By law) 4) The butcher has to provide _resonable_ accomadations to the handicapped. (By law.) He doesn't have to perform miracles.
You might be surprized at the amount of stuff handicapped people do. I know a blind skier, so you can't know ahead of time which site need accessiblity. Half the rock musicians out there are deaf. (or at least tone deaf.)
All they need to do is have a phone line / TTYD with a real live human on it for folks that can't see the test image. (Or something like that.)
One correction - if the asteroid is moving faster than escape velocity WRT the earth, then it is in a hyperbolic orbit. Slower than escape velocity, it's an ellipse, and at escape velocity, it's a parabola.
The earth could avoid a direct collision if the body still has > escape velocity a closest approach, and is still above the surface.
And there are theories about the Moon being ejecta from a glancing collision. Some of the collision energy may spew debris into space as well. Explorers have found Martian rocks in Antartica you know.
Mind you, not all bugs are 100% reproducible. If a bug happens 1 out of 1000 times, it will happen 1000 times if you ship it to 1,000,000 people. That's a lot of tech support calls.
There needs to be a way to deal with the hard to reproduce bugs. At the very least, a good bug writer will say how often it occurs. ('Special quirks' occur on any system, not just windows.) rbb >All i would ask of posters is: >-Replicate it, If you cant make it happen more than once, it doesnt matter >(s/w under windows has special quirks of which i am sure you are aware).
I seriously doubt many women will go this route. Getting an abortion (D&C) is no fun, by a long shot. Intentionally getting pregnant solely for the purpose of selling an embryo is not going to ever be common.
More likely would be donating eggs to get fertilized in vitro. It still involves needles and outpatient surgery, but you can get more embryos per procedure, and you can get them undamaged. rbb
>The fear is that funding the research will result in some sort of "abortion banks". Maybe women will be even offered money to abort their babies, similar to how men crank out a batch at sperm banks every day for a few bucks.
You may have faith in the Bush administration, but not all of us are so sanguine. Nixon, and as you posit, Clinton kept an "Enemies List". It's the disidents who end up on the ass end of this kind of harrasement.
The longevity is a concern we can share - Lets make it zero! rbb
I heard this news, and they mentioned that it was due to the peat forests drying out due to timber harvest combined with a drought.
The forest canopy generally kept the 30+ foot layer of peat (very young coal.) from drying out, and burning. From the article you mention,
"But when forest clearing, drainage and drought begin to dry out these peatlands, they become susceptible to fire - as was demonstrated during the 1997 El Niño driven dry season. "
and "But the problem did not end with the easing of the dry El Niño weather pattern. Wildfires, mostly sparked by humans clearing forest for agriculture, and exacerbated by increased logging in the years following the fires, caused major problems again in 2000, and problems may be cropping up again this year. "
It's a massive HUMAN-TRIGGERED contribution to global warming. Read more carefully.
The point is to know what the costs are, and how to reduce them.
For example, if it takes X amount of energy to make a solar cell that creates X/2 energy in it's lifetime . ..
If one chip creates 20% less waste, but costs 20% more, would you buy it? Should the government regulate this? While you're at it, don't forget the monitors, which are responsible for far more waste than chips, I bet.
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Americans can vote absentee you know.
Well, it does load a flash page in a popup window. (but did not work for me the first time)
Still...
rbb
I saw naked breasts on PBS, as a kid, in Monty Python skits. Of female, women, above the age of 18. Not as part of a Serious Political Statment, or White Man's Burdon National Geographic Special, but as humor.
It had nothing to do with me being a pervert today - I blame that on my dad's Playboys.
All you need to do here is report them to the FBI for copyright infringment!
Hmm - what's the penalty for that per instance?
rbb
... "The shuttle wasn't carrying any equipment for a space walk, so that wasn't possible. The shuttle's orientation during orbit is to have it's belly facing away from the Earth, so land-based telescopes and cameras would have been useless."
They could have easily changed the orientation of the shuttle if the suspected a problem. Land based telescopes would likely be no good because
of the atmosphere tho. Spy scopes, if they bothered to ask, might have been a different story
rbb
Definitly - when I interview potential developers, I always ask what they did for for fun, outside of any class requirements.
I could care less what they did 'cause the teacher told them. What they do out of their own volition is informative.
rbb
Yes it is, but some processors do it with stack specific instructions - x86 with push/ pop instructions.
Some other ones are mixed - 68k family, which push/ pop are actually a generic move to an address register (sp == a7) with auto increment / decrement. But function call / function return will always use the stack to store
Others (like the original poster's CPU) apparently do not handle even function calls (must remember the previous address to go back to it - and put it somewhere.)
If you are running a language that disallows recursion, you don't exactly need a stack at all.
rbb
Had to use THINK C class libraries?
My condolences.
rbb
The real point is that it *disperses* pollutants in ways that we can't predict, and can shift the tender equilibriums that we rely on.
See CFCs in the upper atomosphere, destroying Ozone, causing grief.
Is the dimming in the original topic due to dispersed pollutants, or local ones? I don't have a clue.
Insulting Ecologists won't provide the answer.
rbb
Hmm - String Theory gets close in one rule:
>50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no concrete testable predictions.
I actually don't agree that taxing capital gains undesireably distorts markets, thus discouraging invesment in riskier assets. (And I don't even believe that riskier assets generally yield a higher return for society. At least not without some proof.) In the '90s, with the old 'bad' tax structure, we had plenty of investement, innovation, and speculation. And even a budget surplus. (And yes the deficit takes money out of my pocket, since I'll have to pay for it in 10-30 years.)
My ad hominem attack against bad rich people was direct at that subset alone. But my personal experience with CEOs suggests it's a larger subset than you believe. (as in 'I have my 6 Mil severance built into my contract, why should I work that hard' playing solataire . . )
Ok: I imagine I'm a wealthy retired 60 year old business man. From my third house in the Caribeen, (where I pay people to spell Caribbean correctly for me) I relax while my children take over my businesses. Ah, that's the life. Why would I spend my precious few years of life left worrying about capital gains tax, rate of return, and whether my carry over losses will offset gains.
Argh - your tax logic is way off.
The marginal tax rate for capital gains / income is not 75%. (And if _you_ paid that, get a new accountant!)
You only pay captial gains on the gains part.
Capital losses can partially offset (insert 100 pages of dense tax law) gains and income. Even across year. So you will not be paying 75% of 4 million by any measure.
And sure, the Uber-Rich lost money in the stock market crash, but that small, small fraction of the US population still controls a large chunk of US assets. I shed no tears for Mr Gates, Mr Eisner and crew for losing more money than I will ever see.
Oh, and don't forget the CEO's who made deals with investment banks, where the CEO's got IPO shares at ground level in exchange for doing business with the investment banks later. (wink wink)
That's money stolen out of the pockets of shareholders, mutual funds, and so on. Money that funds college education, home improvements, and uses that have direct improvement and employment to the bulk of the population, and such. Any argument you make about 'Trickle down' is equally valid for any other distribution of wealth. Trickle out.
Argh
Why?
Because some of our taxes are HARD. (Well, not NP hard...)
It's not about saving $40 in income tax, it's about getting it right to stay out of the slammer.
Me - I had to worry about two state taxes, AMT reductions to tax credits, calculating how much to pre-pay quarterly, dividends, interest, mortgage, and so on.
rbb
(To me, this proves how the US income tax is bunk, as currently written - but that's a whole different topic.)
To the contrary, 'Porn' aka 'Free Love' is a way of life for some. Many a hippy commune was founded on the idea of Free Love.
The mere 'pursuit of happiness' was one of the reasons America was founded, if you recall.
rbb
Your math is a bit faulty.
The crossover point for Inkjet vs Cheap laser printer is at 2500-2999 pages printed.
Laser cost = $300 base + 1 * $100 cartridge = $400
Inkjet cost = $100 base + 6 * $50 cartridge = $400
Crossover for the Expensive printer is
Laser cost = $600 base + 1 * $100 cartridge = $700
Inkjet cost = $100 base + 12 * $50 cartridge = $700
Or at 5500-5999 pages printed.
Crossover for the Cheap vs Expensive printer is
Cheap... $300 + 6 * $100 = $900 (30000 pages)
Expensive $600 + 3 * $100 = $900 (30000 pages)
Or at 25000-34999 pages printed, the cost is the same. (You start saving money after page 35000)
If your printer prints 10 pages a day, the expensive printer saves you money after 9 years, 7 months.
The laser saves you money after 10 months over the inkjet at that rate. (Home user don't usually print that much. Office printers do.)
rbb
You're analogies are flawed.
"My butcher isn't going to start a produce section for vegetarians"
1) People are vegetarian by choice, not handicap.
2) The vegetarian can still buy meat from the butcher, even if they don't want to eat it.
3) The butcher, by being open to the public, has to serve the general public without practicing racial, religious, sexual, or handicap-based discrimination. (By law)
4) The butcher has to provide _resonable_ accomadations to the handicapped. (By law.) He doesn't have to perform miracles.
You might be surprized at the amount of stuff handicapped people do. I know a blind skier, so you can't know ahead of time which site need accessiblity. Half the rock musicians out there are deaf. (or at least tone deaf.)
All they need to do is have a phone line / TTYD with a real live human on it for folks that can't see the test image. (Or something like that.)
rbb
One correction - if the asteroid is moving faster than escape velocity WRT the earth, then it is in a hyperbolic orbit.
Slower than escape velocity, it's an ellipse, and at escape velocity, it's a parabola.
The earth could avoid a direct collision if the body still has > escape velocity a closest approach, and is still above the surface.
And there are theories about the Moon being ejecta from a glancing collision. Some of the collision energy may spew debris into space as well. Explorers have found Martian rocks in Antartica you know.
rbb
That's one common definition of Species - reprodutive compatibility & viability.
Genus is based on more abstract distinctions, so biologists will always argue about those.
rbb
Mind you, not all bugs are 100% reproducible.
If a bug happens 1 out of 1000 times, it will happen 1000 times if you ship it to 1,000,000 people. That's a lot of tech support calls.
There needs to be a way to deal with the hard to reproduce bugs. At the very least, a good bug writer will say how often it occurs. ('Special quirks' occur on any system, not just windows.)
rbb
>All i would ask of posters is:
>-Replicate it, If you cant make it happen more than once, it doesnt matter
>(s/w under windows has special quirks of which i am sure you are aware).
I seriously doubt many women will go this route. Getting an abortion (D&C) is no fun, by a long shot. Intentionally getting pregnant solely for the purpose of selling an embryo is not going to ever be common.
More likely would be donating eggs to get fertilized in vitro. It still involves needles and outpatient surgery, but you can get more embryos per procedure, and you can get them undamaged.
rbb
>The fear is that funding the research will result in some sort of "abortion banks". Maybe women will be even offered money to abort their babies, similar to how men crank out a batch at sperm banks every day for a few bucks.
You may have faith in the Bush administration, but not all of us are so sanguine.
Nixon, and as you posit, Clinton kept an "Enemies List". It's the disidents who end up on the ass end of this kind of harrasement.
The longevity is a concern we can share - Lets make it zero!
rbb
Edit - contribution to CO2 emissions, which might lead to global warming. We'll know for sure when the Beta period is over for Earth 0.9
rbb
I heard this news, and they mentioned that it was due to the peat forests drying out due to timber harvest combined with a drought.
The forest canopy generally kept the 30+ foot layer of peat (very young coal.) from drying out, and burning. From the article you mention,
"But when forest clearing, drainage and drought begin to dry out these peatlands, they become susceptible to fire - as was demonstrated during the 1997 El Niño driven dry season. "
and
"But the problem did not end with the easing of the dry El Niño weather pattern. Wildfires, mostly sparked by humans clearing forest for agriculture, and exacerbated by increased logging in the years following the fires, caused major problems again in 2000, and problems may be cropping up again this year. "
It's a massive HUMAN-TRIGGERED contribution to global warming. Read more carefully.
rbb
The point is to know what the costs are, and how to reduce them.
.
For example, if it takes X amount of energy to make a solar cell that creates X/2 energy in it's lifetime . .
If one chip creates 20% less waste, but costs 20% more, would you buy it? Should the government regulate this? While you're at it, don't forget the monitors, which are responsible for far more waste than chips, I bet.
rbb
Arianna Huffington gives personal replies.
rbb