You can't buy a nice lunch for 20 quid. In fact, it's completely impossible to buy any food even remotely close to 'nice' in any country that uses 'quid'.
> all of these instruments showed infrared fluxes which conformed with mainstream theories; as the probes descended, however, all began to show very large net fluxes UPWARDS
A minor fact. For flux constant over time, the total flux emerging from any shell around Venus must be independent of the choice of shell. If Venus was radiating, then the total net flux in upper shells would be exactly as the same as the net flux in the lower shells. So variations in net flux on the way down aren't explained by the hypothesis that Venus itself is 'cooling down'.
> Why on earth wouldn't you be able to emulate x86(-64) on ARM?
Are you just pretending that you forgot about the GB of RAM that comes as standard on on MacBook Pros, or do you really think that RAM is irrelevant to emulation?
Bob: Hey Fred! There's a cat coming. Run for your life!
Fred: Whatever. I've been poked, prodded, sliced open, wired up with electrodes, genetically reengineered and generally abused by Homo Sapiens 5,000 times my size. What do I care about some feline?
> if it had enough RAM at it's disposal (it'd need some tricks to address that much, but it can be done),
I bet you also claim that you can run a marathon faster than anyone else (and follow your claim with the parenthetical remark that you need a few tricks to do it like hopping on a bus).
> Can I have the $1,000,000 if I simply show you I can without doing it?
Absolutely. Just don't forget the fact that the Palm Z22 has about 32MB of memory and my MacBook Pro has 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive. By the way, just in case you're unfamiliar with the notion of a bet, when you fail you owe me $1,000,000.
The fact that there are posters on Slashdot who can't tell the difference between a Turing machine and a real finite computer with finite resources boggles my mind. You're the cancer that causes my computers to run so slowly considering they have multi-GHz processors in them.
I bet you $1,000,000 you can't emulate my MacBook Pro on my Palm Z22. I'll make it easy for you - you can make your emulation as inefficient as you like.
It's funny how this is modded down as a troll but I'm expected that there really will be a lot of disappointed customers. Some may successfully adapt anyway, but a large proportion won't.
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..."what is it worth?". You can only ask "what is it worth to X", for some X. I'd like to see money spent on SETI. I guess someone who makes just enough money to live on would feel differently.
In fact, it's not a 'maximize' button at all - it's called the zoom button.
Yes, it's broken because in the place where the highly useful maximise button should be they put a largely useless zoom button. Nobody wants to toggle between a 'user' size and some arbitrarily determined 'standard size'. They want to toggle between a multi-window arrangement and a single-window arrangement. Your comment about it not looking like a toggle button is a red herring. It's only confusing because it toggles between two sizes nobody wants to toggle between. If it behaved correctly it'd be obvious whether your window was in one state or the other.
From the guidelines:
Don't assume that the standard state should be as large as possible; some monitors are much larger than the useful size for a window.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever read. That's why we have applications with individual windows, because we don't always want to work on the whole screen. The Maximize/Zoom button is for when we want to break that model. And when we want to break that model, we no longer want a window that just occupies part of the screen. Well maybe 1% of people have a screen big enough that when they hit 'zoom' they don't want to fill it.
Over the years, the guys at Apple have done amazing things with the user interface producing strokes of genius one after another. But unfortunately, success breeds an unwillingness to look at one's mistakes.
When you're writing AIs for games there's a problem called the horizon problem. If you only look N moves ahead then the move you choose to play might not be a good move at all, it might simply be a delaying tactic that pushes some disastrous upcoming problem to N+1 moves away where it can't be seen.
The GP poster pointed out that maximize is broken on Macs. You then wrote 6 paragraphs in the hope that the GP's complaint would fall off everyone's horizons. But my attention span is longer than that. Maximize is broken on Macs and you haven't given a single reason why Apple couldn't make maximize work. You did give a whole lot of historical waffle that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that right at this moment now I'd like to press that little green button and have the paper I'm reading fill the screen. But I can't. It's completely broken and Apple have deliberately made it so. And if you think this situation is acceptable, your brain is broken, and possibly you've deliberately made it so to fit the broken software you use.
> The worst being when you had to close the DS to solve a puzzle. It just really takes you out of the game.
There are two kinds of people. Those who find that when they meet metafiction it takes them out of suspension of disbelief, and those who find that when they meet metafiction it sucks them in further. Given that metafiction has always been used as a means of achieving the latter I suspect you're in the minority in your feeling. Or to put it more simply, the fact that I had to close the device to solve a puzzle made me feel like I actually had an artifact from the game in my hand, drawing me into the story.
Suppose company A finds a way to mask the symptoms of disease X and company B finds an outright cure. Why would company's B not outsell company A's cure? Surely company B could compete well with company A because it could sell its product at a high price by factoring the long term cost of A's product into the price of their own.
Even better. What if we could bend the spacetime continuum so that 2>3 and 1+1=7 so that we could get something for nothing and all live happily ever after. Hey! That's great stuff you're smoking. Can we share it with some more people?
No, they're the people who hear a word like 'bore' and have a knee jerk reaction to make a really lame joke that's a poor variation of a joke you've heard a thousand times before and is normally just the sort of thing someone would say when they have absolutely definitely run out of things to say at a party and they're trying really desperately hard to say something, anything, so as not to look completely and utterly lame.
You already know the answer to this problem. Buy some textbooks and set aside some time to study them. That's all it takes. That's more or less what everyone who's good at math has done. Posting your question on/. was just a form of procrastination. There is no shortcut, just get on and do it. It's what I'm about to do...
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You can't buy a nice lunch for 20 quid. In fact, it's completely impossible to buy any food even remotely close to 'nice' in any country that uses 'quid'.
Sure, and the coffee I'm drinking can emulate a MacBook Pro. I just need to add a CPU, RAM and a handful of other components.
Yeah, and a Ford Focus can fly because you can drive it onto a 747.
A minor fact. For flux constant over time, the total flux emerging from any shell around Venus must be independent of the choice of shell. If Venus was radiating, then the total net flux in upper shells would be exactly as the same as the net flux in the lower shells. So variations in net flux on the way down aren't explained by the hypothesis that Venus itself is 'cooling down'.
Are you just pretending that you forgot about the GB of RAM that comes as standard on on MacBook Pros, or do you really think that RAM is irrelevant to emulation?
Bob: Hey Fred! There's a cat coming. Run for your life!
Fred: Whatever. I've been poked, prodded, sliced open, wired up with electrodes, genetically reengineered and generally abused by Homo Sapiens 5,000 times my size. What do I care about some feline?
Can I assume I can fly like Superman? What a dumb question.
I bet you also claim that you can run a marathon faster than anyone else (and follow your claim with the parenthetical remark that you need a few tricks to do it like hopping on a bus).
Absolutely. Just don't forget the fact that the Palm Z22 has about 32MB of memory and my MacBook Pro has 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive. By the way, just in case you're unfamiliar with the notion of a bet, when you fail you owe me $1,000,000.
The fact that there are posters on Slashdot who can't tell the difference between a Turing machine and a real finite computer with finite resources boggles my mind. You're the cancer that causes my computers to run so slowly considering they have multi-GHz processors in them.
I bet you $1,000,000 you can't emulate my MacBook Pro on my Palm Z22. I'll make it easy for you - you can make your emulation as inefficient as you like.
It's funny how this is modded down as a troll but I'm expected that there really will be a lot of disappointed customers. Some may successfully adapt anyway, but a large proportion won't.
..."what is it worth?". You can only ask "what is it worth to X", for some X. I'd like to see money spent on SETI. I guess someone who makes just enough money to live on would feel differently.
From the guidelines:
That's the dumbest thing I've ever read. That's why we have applications with individual windows, because we don't always want to work on the whole screen. The Maximize/Zoom button is for when we want to break that model. And when we want to break that model, we no longer want a window that just occupies part of the screen. Well maybe 1% of people have a screen big enough that when they hit 'zoom' they don't want to fill it.Over the years, the guys at Apple have done amazing things with the user interface producing strokes of genius one after another. But unfortunately, success breeds an unwillingness to look at one's mistakes.
...increase gravity.
The GP poster pointed out that maximize is broken on Macs. You then wrote 6 paragraphs in the hope that the GP's complaint would fall off everyone's horizons. But my attention span is longer than that. Maximize is broken on Macs and you haven't given a single reason why Apple couldn't make maximize work. You did give a whole lot of historical waffle that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that right at this moment now I'd like to press that little green button and have the paper I'm reading fill the screen. But I can't. It's completely broken and Apple have deliberately made it so. And if you think this situation is acceptable, your brain is broken, and possibly you've deliberately made it so to fit the broken software you use.
There are two kinds of people. Those who find that when they meet metafiction it takes them out of suspension of disbelief, and those who find that when they meet metafiction it sucks them in further. Given that metafiction has always been used as a means of achieving the latter I suspect you're in the minority in your feeling. Or to put it more simply, the fact that I had to close the device to solve a puzzle made me feel like I actually had an artifact from the game in my hand, drawing me into the story.
Suppose company A finds a way to mask the symptoms of disease X and company B finds an outright cure. Why would company's B not outsell company A's cure? Surely company B could compete well with company A because it could sell its product at a high price by factoring the long term cost of A's product into the price of their own.
Hey, how about you realize this is slashdot and not some kind of love fest.
Even better. What if we could bend the spacetime continuum so that 2>3 and 1+1=7 so that we could get something for nothing and all live happily ever after. Hey! That's great stuff you're smoking. Can we share it with some more people?
> 16 T will levitate a frog.
That's pretty useless. What about a gecko? Could I do that with 16T? Or even 12T?
No, they're the people who hear a word like 'bore' and have a knee jerk reaction to make a really lame joke that's a poor variation of a joke you've heard a thousand times before and is normally just the sort of thing someone would say when they have absolutely definitely run out of things to say at a party and they're trying really desperately hard to say something, anything, so as not to look completely and utterly lame.
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You already know the answer to this problem. Buy some textbooks and set aside some time to study them. That's all it takes. That's more or less what everyone who's good at math has done. Posting your question on /. was just a form of procrastination. There is no shortcut, just get on and do it. It's what I'm about to do...
Last I checked, there wasn't any technology growing inside my head. Am I living in the wrong 2007 or something?