Are you saying that there is any sort of moral parity between China and the US? Any at all? Just because you hate the US doesn't mean that they're at all like China.
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Uh, boxing? Martial arts training? Sparring? It would appear that you CAN legally consent to being punched. Perhaps a simple punch, under those circumstances, is not assault.
No, see, the driver installation ISN'T only done once, not if you're using the USB thumb drive for one of its best uses: portability. If you have to install drivers on every machine you want to use it with, then you can no longer take it to any computer anywhere and expect it to just work. For some of us, there's simply no point in using one unless that is possible.
No, sir, it is NOT incorrect to use MB to mean 2^20 bytes. Just because SI uses Mega, Giga, and etc to mean powers of 10 does not mean that it is incorrect for computer science to use them to mean powers of 2. Computer Science units are not SI, and so just because they don't fit in with SI prefixes, that does not mean that they are incorrect. You are in the wrong for thinking that they must abide by SI rules.
It's not the "proper" term, sir. A lot of people - most people, probably - still use the old terabytes, gigabytes, megabytes, and kilobytes to mean 2^40, 2^30, 2^20, and 2^10 bytes, and we don't like being told that we're wrong for doing so. Some people even think that the hard drive companies were wrong for first abusing the meanings of the terms. The so-called SI prefixes never meant the same thing in computer science that they did elsewhere.
No, sir, the power supply is a switcher, not a linear power supply. All computer power supplies are. They do not operate by continuously wasting power - instead they transform the line power into the desired voltage and current at around 88% efficiency (depending on the model) all the way from a minimal load to a full load. In fact, for a normal load, this power supply won't draw any more wall current than a 300 watt supply - but it will be able to draw a lot more if it needs to, without failing, if its claims are true.
That isn't the fastest way to swap two integers, even for C. It has more operations than simply using a temporary register and is harder to optimize, not to mention being more confusing to read. Don't ever do that in a program.
For some reason, that doesn't really strike me as something that would help salesmen sell typewriters.
Salesman: "You can type typewriter using only the keys on the top row!"
Customer: "Hooray! I won't need the other rows at all, then!"
It would only really work if the customers actually thought that way, and the retailers wanted to make different price points by having some typewriters with only one or two rows of letters instead of three...
I looked at the sourceforge page, and it says that they're just giving up on gaim-w. If Sean Egan is such a tard and so many developers won't work with him, why don't they give up on gaim instead, and make their own fork and tell everyone that theirs is the one with voice and video support? It seems to me that that would be a good plan at this point...
Don't expect her to respond. Look at her posts here: she almost seems to root for the insurgents, doesn't she? I think she's more of an America-hater than a pacifist.
To be fair, though, Hitachi isn't the originator of the Deathstar. That's IBM. They just own the technology now, and it's probable they've improved its reliability. It's IBM I hate for the Deathstar fiasco - I owned one too.
...but the copy was Alex someoneorother who is a michael moore rip off guy. He finds non issues and harasses bottom level employees and yells at old men (apparently all of the US national parks are owned by nasa or nazis or or smurfs or something)
They could easily block them inbound, in fact. When you connect to a website, you're connecting to port 80 on their end, not on yours. A firewall could easily block traffic destined for port 80 one way and not the other. Same thing with ssh.
What would be nice would be if places with limited water supplies had some way of metering water usage (I don't know if they already do). Then they don't have to mandate that anyone use low-flow showers or toilets or anything. Instead, they can just watch how much water people use and when they exceed their monthly limit, just shut them off for the rest of the month, rich or poor. That way, they still have the freedom to use whatever kind of supplies they want, but if they are wasteful, then it sucks to be them.
No, you had not thought the wrong thing. The computer industry has for years used 1024 to mean 1K. We don't use the revisionist IEC or SI prefixes. Hard drive manufacturers have used the SI prefixes to confuse and screw over their customers, and that's the only real reason anyone's tried to adopt the new standards. But the real problem is with the hard drive manufacturers and their deceitful marketing. If that practice had been made illegal, there'd be no confusion.
Methanol and water injection do that to gasoline engines, too. See the War Emergency Power rating on WWII US fighter planes for an example of water injection, and MW-50 for an example of methanol/water injection in German fighters. They work by cooling the intake charge, which inhibits detonation, allowing more boost to be used.
Mind you, he was talking about methane, and methane is not the same thing as methanol.
Actually, I think the P2P files and Linux (or FreeBSD) isos do have a problem with MD5 now. In those cases, the plaintext is easily available, and with both the plaintext and the MD5 sum, an attacker can make a corrupt version of the plaintext with the same MD5. They can't add in arbitrary code or whatever, but corrupt files that MD5sum correctly are still pretty bad.
Oh, shut up. War crimes? Don't forget that those "war crimes" of bombing Japanese cities actually ended the war there without the need for an invasion that would have cost many more lives on BOTH SIDES. And while it is true that the US didn't win the war in Europe, they DID save the Western European nations from brutal Soviet domination. What do you think postwar Europe would have looked like if the Soviets ruled it all? A worker's paradise?
Oh, both copies would be conscious, for sure. They'd both be conscious in the same way that we are right now. My point was actually that consciousness is itself an illusion. We think, but that doesn't mean that we are. We really aren't. And what I mean by this is that if we can duplicate ourselves, and the duplicate is us in every meaningful way, then that means that our consciousness is just a function of the operation of our brain. And if THAT is true, then that means that consciousness isn't really anything at all. We could be (well, are) the original us, go to sleep, and when we wake up, instead of finding ourselves in either the original or the duplicate, we are in BOTH simultaneously - but with no telepathic link. It's simply that everything that makes us who we are inside of us is now duplicated. There is no unique us at all.
Of course, it is possible to get used to the idea. And if you're used to that idea, then... why kill the original? Why not just have two? I've thought of doing just that, if possible, except to have a million of me. My own army of me. It doesn't matter how many of us are killed: the great thing about being me is that there are so many me's!
That is the most brilliant thing I've read today. That, along with some other changes to the legal system and medical system, would go a long way towards fixing the current situation. I like it.
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No counterargument is needed. You didn't present an argument at all.
Different population sizes. Think about that.
Are you saying that there is any sort of moral parity between China and the US? Any at all? Just because you hate the US doesn't mean that they're at all like China.
Uh, boxing? Martial arts training? Sparring? It would appear that you CAN legally consent to being punched. Perhaps a simple punch, under those circumstances, is not assault.
No, see, the driver installation ISN'T only done once, not if you're using the USB thumb drive for one of its best uses: portability. If you have to install drivers on every machine you want to use it with, then you can no longer take it to any computer anywhere and expect it to just work. For some of us, there's simply no point in using one unless that is possible.
No, sir, it is NOT incorrect to use MB to mean 2^20 bytes. Just because SI uses Mega, Giga, and etc to mean powers of 10 does not mean that it is incorrect for computer science to use them to mean powers of 2. Computer Science units are not SI, and so just because they don't fit in with SI prefixes, that does not mean that they are incorrect. You are in the wrong for thinking that they must abide by SI rules.
It's not the "proper" term, sir. A lot of people - most people, probably - still use the old terabytes, gigabytes, megabytes, and kilobytes to mean 2^40, 2^30, 2^20, and 2^10 bytes, and we don't like being told that we're wrong for doing so. Some people even think that the hard drive companies were wrong for first abusing the meanings of the terms. The so-called SI prefixes never meant the same thing in computer science that they did elsewhere.
Plus, "tebibytes" sounds rather ridiculous.
No, sir, the power supply is a switcher, not a linear power supply. All computer power supplies are. They do not operate by continuously wasting power - instead they transform the line power into the desired voltage and current at around 88% efficiency (depending on the model) all the way from a minimal load to a full load. In fact, for a normal load, this power supply won't draw any more wall current than a 300 watt supply - but it will be able to draw a lot more if it needs to, without failing, if its claims are true.
That isn't the fastest way to swap two integers, even for C. It has more operations than simply using a temporary register and is harder to optimize, not to mention being more confusing to read. Don't ever do that in a program.
For some reason, that doesn't really strike me as something that would help salesmen sell typewriters.
Salesman: "You can type typewriter using only the keys on the top row!"
Customer: "Hooray! I won't need the other rows at all, then!"
It would only really work if the customers actually thought that way, and the retailers wanted to make different price points by having some typewriters with only one or two rows of letters instead of three...
What the hell are you talking about? Where did he say that he hates any other race?
I looked at the sourceforge page, and it says that they're just giving up on gaim-w. If Sean Egan is such a tard and so many developers won't work with him, why don't they give up on gaim instead, and make their own fork and tell everyone that theirs is the one with voice and video support? It seems to me that that would be a good plan at this point...
Don't expect her to respond. Look at her posts here: she almost seems to root for the insurgents, doesn't she? I think she's more of an America-hater than a pacifist.
To be fair, though, Hitachi isn't the originator of the Deathstar. That's IBM. They just own the technology now, and it's probable they've improved its reliability. It's IBM I hate for the Deathstar fiasco - I owned one too.
It doesn't, though. Look at these two posts: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170122 &cid=14176921. That the Taipei tower can count the little observation deck but the Sears tower can't count the antennas makes no sense.
They could easily block them inbound, in fact. When you connect to a website, you're connecting to port 80 on their end, not on yours. A firewall could easily block traffic destined for port 80 one way and not the other. Same thing with ssh.
What would be nice would be if places with limited water supplies had some way of metering water usage (I don't know if they already do). Then they don't have to mandate that anyone use low-flow showers or toilets or anything. Instead, they can just watch how much water people use and when they exceed their monthly limit, just shut them off for the rest of the month, rich or poor. That way, they still have the freedom to use whatever kind of supplies they want, but if they are wasteful, then it sucks to be them.
No, you had not thought the wrong thing. The computer industry has for years used 1024 to mean 1K. We don't use the revisionist IEC or SI prefixes. Hard drive manufacturers have used the SI prefixes to confuse and screw over their customers, and that's the only real reason anyone's tried to adopt the new standards. But the real problem is with the hard drive manufacturers and their deceitful marketing. If that practice had been made illegal, there'd be no confusion.
I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Methanol and water injection do that to gasoline engines, too. See the War Emergency Power rating on WWII US fighter planes for an example of water injection, and MW-50 for an example of methanol/water injection in German fighters. They work by cooling the intake charge, which inhibits detonation, allowing more boost to be used.
Mind you, he was talking about methane, and methane is not the same thing as methanol.
Actually, I think the P2P files and Linux (or FreeBSD) isos do have a problem with MD5 now. In those cases, the plaintext is easily available, and with both the plaintext and the MD5 sum, an attacker can make a corrupt version of the plaintext with the same MD5. They can't add in arbitrary code or whatever, but corrupt files that MD5sum correctly are still pretty bad.
Oh, shut up. War crimes? Don't forget that those "war crimes" of bombing Japanese cities actually ended the war there without the need for an invasion that would have cost many more lives on BOTH SIDES. And while it is true that the US didn't win the war in Europe, they DID save the Western European nations from brutal Soviet domination. What do you think postwar Europe would have looked like if the Soviets ruled it all? A worker's paradise?
No no no, they changed it recently. Now it stands for WINE Is aN Emulator.
Oh, both copies would be conscious, for sure. They'd both be conscious in the same way that we are right now. My point was actually that consciousness is itself an illusion. We think, but that doesn't mean that we are. We really aren't. And what I mean by this is that if we can duplicate ourselves, and the duplicate is us in every meaningful way, then that means that our consciousness is just a function of the operation of our brain. And if THAT is true, then that means that consciousness isn't really anything at all. We could be (well, are) the original us, go to sleep, and when we wake up, instead of finding ourselves in either the original or the duplicate, we are in BOTH simultaneously - but with no telepathic link. It's simply that everything that makes us who we are inside of us is now duplicated. There is no unique us at all.
Of course, it is possible to get used to the idea. And if you're used to that idea, then... why kill the original? Why not just have two? I've thought of doing just that, if possible, except to have a million of me. My own army of me. It doesn't matter how many of us are killed: the great thing about being me is that there are so many me's!
That is the most brilliant thing I've read today. That, along with some other changes to the legal system and medical system, would go a long way towards fixing the current situation. I like it.