The Z80 and 6502 were roughly equivalent in processing power. In any given year, the Z80's clock speed was twice that of the 6502's and took about twice as many clocks to get a given job done. The 6502's instruction set was a bit more cleverly efficient; the Z80 had more registers and some powerful instructions.
Conflating welfare (the state of doing well, especially in regard to happiness, prosperity, etc.) with welfare (a system of theft by government) is dishonest. Your version (efforts by men, through their governments, to help other men) is just as dishonest by leaving out essential qualifiers such as "at gunpoint" and "under threat of imprisonment."
Simply and obviously not true. The Constitution, from which you quote, says "We the People of the United States, in Order to form... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The people to some extent created the government, and to some extent control what the government does. To claim that the government is the people, in the United States or anywhere else, is laughable.
No simple true statement can be made about the colonists' respect for the property rights of all Amerinds. Many Amerinds were nomads without a concept of real property. In my home town (Stamford, Connecticut) the local natives (Shippans) sold the town to the settlers three times. They apparently had no idea that property could be owned, even when selling such ownership.
Indians who assimilated into colonial society essentially dropped out of sight of history. Of those who remained, some groups were treated badly at times, others were not. No generalization is possible.
The conflict in Israel is caused by the non-Israeli countries that refuse to let Palestinians settle outside of Palestine, and supply the Palestinians with arms and explosives.
That doesn't stop the customer from taking 20,000 photos with a camera Ritz intended him to only take 25 pictures with. Then of course, the customer returns the undamaged camera after a few months, has Ritz make 25 prints, and the customer gets back his deposit.
Thanks for the info. Personally, I'd feel safer with Edison cells (Iron-nickel) because of the non-acid electrolyte. My understanding is that their life greatly exceeds that of lead-acid.
Some Raleighs used to be sold with a generator built into the front hub. They were more efficient than generators that rubbed on the sidewall, they lasted longer, and they didn't fail when the tires were snowy or wet.
I've seen this freezing problem when moving 300 or more 100 kbyte files from an EXT2 drive to a FAT32 drive. The freeze results in about 20 files with a size of zero. My workaround is to do a sync every 10 files.
Human beings are rational animals. We tend to do things that are best for us individually. In well-off countries there is no particular economic advantage to having children, so many people don't. This is the restraining factor that is likely to end human population growth by about 2050, and keep population from growing more for the forseeable future.
Poor countries whose population attempts to grow without bounds will either self-destruct, export their people, or attack their neighbors. Self destruction solves the local problem, although the suffering involved is horrid. Emigration to a richer country will convert their progeny to the no-growth standard. Attacking a stronger country results in defeat of the weaker with consequent loss of life and possible conversion of the poor country to more rational behavior.
In short, world-wide dramatic human population cycles are unlikely.
Generally, the results of mental processes come about through specific paths to solve specific problems. Altering that path with psycho-active chemicals usually results in inferior results, and is thus harmful without further consideration needed. Looking for non-harmful mind drugs is in this sense looking for a contradiction.
Making a pleasant car 2 or 3 times more efficient than those already available is neither easy nor cheap. In fact, it represents the limit for what will ever be possible for cars driving through our atmosphere, in traffic, up and down hills, through snow, etc.
I've read that plants convert sunlight to useable-as-fuel biomass with an efficiency of about 1%. Presumably better plants could be engineered, but it's still not a very efficient process.
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The Z80 and 6502 were roughly equivalent in processing power. In any given year, the Z80's clock speed was twice that of the 6502's and took about twice as many clocks to get a given job done. The 6502's instruction set was a bit more cleverly efficient; the Z80 had more registers and some powerful instructions.
And most mobs in the USA consist of members of which party, with what sort of political philosophy?
Ayn Rand explicitly defended the U.S. practice of homesteading as the way to establish property rights on ownerless real estste.
Conflating welfare (the state of doing well, especially in regard to happiness, prosperity, etc.) with welfare (a system of theft by government) is dishonest. Your version (efforts by men, through their governments, to help other men) is just as dishonest by leaving out essential qualifiers such as "at gunpoint" and "under threat of imprisonment."
Simply and obviously not true. The Constitution, from which you quote, says "We the People of the United States, in Order to form ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The people to some extent created the government, and to some extent control what the government does. To claim that the government is the people, in the United States or anywhere else, is laughable.
Indians who assimilated into colonial society essentially dropped out of sight of history. Of those who remained, some groups were treated badly at times, others were not. No generalization is possible.
The conflict in Israel is caused by the non-Israeli countries that refuse to let Palestinians settle outside of Palestine, and supply the Palestinians with arms and explosives.
That doesn't stop the customer from taking 20,000 photos with a camera Ritz intended him to only take 25 pictures with. Then of course, the customer returns the undamaged camera after a few months, has Ritz make 25 prints, and the customer gets back his deposit.
Thanks for the info. Personally, I'd feel safer with Edison cells (Iron-nickel) because of the non-acid electrolyte. My understanding is that their life greatly exceeds that of lead-acid.
Some Raleighs used to be sold with a generator built into the front hub. They were more efficient than generators that rubbed on the sidewall, they lasted longer, and they didn't fail when the tires were snowy or wet.
I've seen this freezing problem when moving 300 or more 100 kbyte files from an EXT2 drive to a FAT32 drive. The freeze results in about 20 files with a size of zero. My workaround is to do a sync every 10 files.
Agreed. I particularly dislike the modified Death Star explosion with its silly halo, and the lame repetitive dialog when Han meets the big slug.
Nobel was responsible for dynamite (stabilized nitroglycerine), not TNT.
Poor countries whose population attempts to grow without bounds will either self-destruct, export their people, or attack their neighbors. Self destruction solves the local problem, although the suffering involved is horrid. Emigration to a richer country will convert their progeny to the no-growth standard. Attacking a stronger country results in defeat of the weaker with consequent loss of life and possible conversion of the poor country to more rational behavior.
In short, world-wide dramatic human population cycles are unlikely.
Generally, the results of mental processes come about through specific paths to solve specific problems. Altering that path with psycho-active chemicals usually results in inferior results, and is thus harmful without further consideration needed. Looking for non-harmful mind drugs is in this sense looking for a contradiction.
multiply-add is counted as 2 flops.
Or in snow, or a severe rainstorm, etc.
As I understand it, a star has to be twice or more the mass of our sun in order to go nova.
The first article compares normal and watermarked code. The watermarked code is significantly slower and bigger.
And references. Or stop lying.
Making a pleasant car 2 or 3 times more efficient than those already available is neither easy nor cheap. In fact, it represents the limit for what will ever be possible for cars driving through our atmosphere, in traffic, up and down hills, through snow, etc.
The supply of bio-fat is very limited. It may help some, but it will never be a significant energy source.
Let's just run a pipe.
I've read that plants convert sunlight to useable-as-fuel biomass with an efficiency of about 1%. Presumably better plants could be engineered, but it's still not a very efficient process.
And Chernoble was run by what? Government or private?