Hmmm... how do you make love to your girlfriend a negative number of times a week? Oh, I see. Make anti-love. Anti-love is hate. So you would make hate to your girlfriend at least once per week. Well, I start to understand why people on Slashdot don't have girlfriends.:-)
I disagree. Floating-point coprocessors basically just added some FP instructions to a regular single-threaded CPU. There was no parallelism; they just removed the need to do slow floating-point calculations using integer math.
Actually the original 8087 had true parallelism. That's why there was the FWAIT instruction: It told the 8086 to wait for the 8087 to finish its computation, and wold be used before accessing any results from the 8087.
More like, "More people use Google because Google is the best search engine because more people use it!" I take you are a founding member of the Tautology Club?
It may sound like a tautology, but really isn't, just like "Most people use Microsoft Windows because most people use Microsoft Windows" isn't. It's called positive feedback. In the context of usage statistics it's also known as the network effect.
I'm not sure, but from I remember it was something a bit below 200 Volts - is that still "slightly reduced voltage"?
IMHO yes. Until 1987, 200V was even in the specified range. Don't mistake the grid voltage for an exact value; there are certain deviations allowed. If your appliances can't stand those deviations, they are defective.
I'm pretty sure the pumps also work well at slightly reduced voltage.
Besides that, keeping the specified voltage is the job of the power company, not of CERN. It's not as if CERN suddenly appeared, or that the energy consumption of CERN wasn't known from the beginning.
If you can't SEE an error, you can't FIX it either. Especially since 99% of users who dismiss the errors will just say "It went wrong" rather than recording or describing what the error actually said
May I introduce you to this revolutionary technique called a log file?
Of course that just shows the problem: There shouldn't be a box about allowing it through the firewall. Either she is competent enough to decide if the program can be trusted, then the very fact that she clicked the program should be enough to tell that this program should be allowed. Or she is not competent enough, then the popup asking her isn't going to help either.
If there weren't so many popups appearing, many of them just pointless, then I guess more users would read them.
Also, one problem is that those popups steal the input focus. I remember typing something at my father's Windows computer, and then while I was typing, a popup came, and immediately disappeared due to the next key press before I actually had noticed that it was there. I have no idea what the popup tried to tell me, nor what I told the popup with my keypress.
Well, make it like a test. They have to check the correct option to proceed. Example:
Error: The configuration file could not be found.
To proceed, please check the radio button corresponding to the problem, and then press OK.
( ) The configuration file contained an erroneous entry. ( ) An attempt to find the configuration file failed. ( ) The configuration file was parsed correctly.
[OK] [Cancel]
The user has to select the correct option, or another dialog will pop up saying "You have not read the error message!" followed by a re-display of the original dialog with the options shuffled.
The problem is not the privacy of the people who make and upload those pictures, it's the privacy of the people who are seen on the photos. And you're right that the problem doesn't suddenly appear because Google is using those pictures. It was there even without Google. Google using those pictures while being constrained with the pictures they make themselves just makes the problem more obvious.
If you make a picture of a place, and I'm on that place, too, and visible on that picture, and you upload that picture with geotagging, then I'm most probably unaware about the very fact that you uploaded the picture. Which doesn't mean it's no problem for me. Maybe I don't want someone to know that I've been at that place, and the person I don't want to know it happens to stumble upon your geotagged photo.
- Sure, it currently looks like the world is about to end. But believe me, the black hole will stop growing when it hits John's threshold! - Huh? I never heard of that. You surely just made it up. - That's your claim. But fact is, the world hasn't ended yet, and we don't have previous experience with the world being eaten up by a black hole, so you cannot exclude the possibility that something unexpected happens that saves the world. - Well, but the probability is extremely low. Negligibly low, I'd say. - But it's not exactly zero. Therefore you've not yet won.
Are there any laws against passive shielding inside your flat? After all, you could simply put standard metal office furniture inside your flat, and that would cause massive interference, too. I'd say, if the phone company doesn't want the signal to be blocked by whatever is inside a flat, it should put the tower somewhere where it won't be blocked by something inside a flat.
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On the other hand, there's an EU directive which demands that a data retention law gets passed.
Well, the aliens will come and sue SETI for data retention and analysis without a court order. :-)
So finally we can do a Rorschach test on computers?
This should be the perfect upscaling algorithm. Get perfect HD material from your old VHS cam!
It will invalidate the Mayan calendar, meaning that the world will not end in 2012. :-)
Hmmm ... how do you make love to your girlfriend a negative number of times a week? :-)
Oh, I see. Make anti-love. Anti-love is hate. So you would make hate to your girlfriend at least once per week.
Well, I start to understand why people on Slashdot don't have girlfriends.
Actually the original 8087 had true parallelism. That's why there was the FWAIT instruction: It told the 8086 to wait for the 8087 to finish its computation, and wold be used before accessing any results from the 8087.
More like, "More people use Google because Google is the best search engine because more people use it!" I take you are a founding member of the Tautology Club?
It may sound like a tautology, but really isn't, just like "Most people use Microsoft Windows because most people use Microsoft Windows" isn't. It's called positive feedback. In the context of usage statistics it's also known as the network effect.
IMHO yes. Until 1987, 200V was even in the specified range.
Don't mistake the grid voltage for an exact value; there are certain deviations allowed. If your appliances can't stand those deviations, they are defective.
I'm pretty sure the pumps also work well at slightly reduced voltage.
Besides that, keeping the specified voltage is the job of the power company, not of CERN. It's not as if CERN suddenly appeared, or that the energy consumption of CERN wasn't known from the beginning.
Insufficient privileges.
May I introduce you to this revolutionary technique called a log file?
Of course that just shows the problem: There shouldn't be a box about allowing it through the firewall. Either she is competent enough to decide if the program can be trusted, then the very fact that she clicked the program should be enough to tell that this program should be allowed. Or she is not competent enough, then the popup asking her isn't going to help either.
If there weren't so many popups appearing, many of them just pointless, then I guess more users would read them.
Also, one problem is that those popups steal the input focus. I remember typing something at my father's Windows computer, and then while I was typing, a popup came, and immediately disappeared due to the next key press before I actually had noticed that it was there. I have no idea what the popup tried to tell me, nor what I told the popup with my keypress.
Well, make it like a test. They have to check the correct option to proceed. Example:
The user has to select the correct option, or another dialog will pop up saying "You have not read the error message!" followed by a re-display of the original dialog with the options shuffled.
The problem is not the privacy of the people who make and upload those pictures, it's the privacy of the people who are seen on the photos. And you're right that the problem doesn't suddenly appear because Google is using those pictures. It was there even without Google. Google using those pictures while being constrained with the pictures they make themselves just makes the problem more obvious.
If you make a picture of a place, and I'm on that place, too, and visible on that picture, and you upload that picture with geotagging, then I'm most probably unaware about the very fact that you uploaded the picture. Which doesn't mean it's no problem for me. Maybe I don't want someone to know that I've been at that place, and the person I don't want to know it happens to stumble upon your geotagged photo.
And the 21st month will have 2012 days!
Well, given that cosmic rays have been creating them for a long time now...
Sure, but not underground.
So they would have created skyquakes instead. Do you remember any?
They need the Playstation computing power to analyze their results. They cannot afford people wasting valuable cycles with games.
- Sure, it currently looks like the world is about to end. But believe me, the black hole will stop growing when it hits John's threshold!
- Huh? I never heard of that. You surely just made it up.
- That's your claim. But fact is, the world hasn't ended yet, and we don't have previous experience with the world being eaten up by a black hole, so you cannot exclude the possibility that something unexpected happens that saves the world.
- Well, but the probability is extremely low. Negligibly low, I'd say.
- But it's not exactly zero. Therefore you've not yet won.
Don't forget to reverse the polarity!
Until we get global cooling from extracting too much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. :-)
So you are suggesting that the voltage of the grid determines the temperature?
If the sun rises in the west, you probably just experienced a time reversal. :-)
No. The south magnetic pole is in Canada. That's why the north pole of a magnet needle will point in that direction.
Are there any laws against passive shielding inside your flat? After all, you could simply put standard metal office furniture inside your flat, and that would cause massive interference, too. I'd say, if the phone company doesn't want the signal to be blocked by whatever is inside a flat, it should put the tower somewhere where it won't be blocked by something inside a flat.