Riiight. Try sending a beer through a bank pneumatic tube. When it arrives, I hope you like a foam shower. Those tubes would probably get the beer REAL fizzy! Beer needs to be handled gently.
That is a cool idea! The only problem is that there already IS such a thing a P-code. It is called Java, and it is pokey. OK. Java is not a real P-code, but the concept is similar.
I would suspect that any implementation of something like this would be less efficient than native code. Then, you would loose a percentage of your performance. Hard-core games would rather be bothered by drivers to get a few FPS, so these things would not sell.
Yes, but total energy returned would be how much energy is released by the reaction, and would probably not include how much of that energy we could actually use. The two numbers are NOT equal.
Super nVidia Geforce17 4,000,000FX to be released in 2008.
Even if you DID include drivers for every known graphics/sound card, what happens when a new card is released AFTER the game comes out???
The reason that this works with game consoles is that they do not have new hardware added. When a game console is updated, they slap an entirely new label on it and make new games just for it. You do not even get ANY backward compatability unless it is designed in on purpose.
You should be happy about this! This means that the system works...
There was an article in Discover Magazine a few years ago about the the electoral system that we use. As it turns out, your vote counts more in a system like this.
Let's assume that one guy is ahead by 10,000 votes. Your vote does not mean much at all.
However, in Florida, each and every vote was worth a LOT!!! Only a few votes either way in this state could swing the election! Maybe the next time, it will be YOUR state which is close, and YOUR vote will be worth it's weight in gold (I know, paper does not weigh much, it is a metaphor!)
The current system was set up by very wise people two centuries ago. I think that they knew what they were doing, even if there is grumbling from the masses occasionally.
First, I am not a physicist, but I suspect that "break-even" is defined as the TOTAL power output of the system! The problem is that to be useful, you have to get USABLE power out of the system.
If the energy comes out as heat, then you have to run a turbine, which is not terribly efficient. If the output energy is in the form of neutrons, then I do not know how you could get anything useful out of that other than a new and novel wey to irradiate and heat things.
So, if a physicist says that they have reached "break-even," then they are still only halfway there!
CPLDs and FPGAs have more in common than they have differences in many points of view. Cost is the big one. Power consumption and complexity are two others. Other than that, they are both programmable logic devices...
But on a serious note, a modern FPGA can have a LOT of extra goodies on board, such as hardware multipliers, embedded dual-port RAM and FIFOs, PLLs, and even processors! No CPLD could compare itself to an FPGA.
Is the act of consentual sex between unmarried adults, in and of itself, immoral? Depends on who you ask -- religious fundamentalists would say definately yes (citing scripture as their authority), most other people would say definately not. Is it unethical? I would argue no, on the basis that does no objective (IE mesurable) physical or mental harm to the participating individuals.
I disagree with this. If there was NO such thing as sex outside of marriage, then AIDS would become extinct in a matter of decades (not to mention all of the other dozen or so STDs). There would be almost NO new cases reported. And don't forget that sex is a critical ingredient in teenage pregnancy.
It is true that there is probably little to no mental harm to guys, but a woman has an entirely different mental persepctive on the subject. To us guys it is a fun physical act. To a woman, there are a LOT more emotions involved. I have a wife, and her take on sex is a WHOLE lot different from mine! And if the sex is the first time to a guy who dumps her soon after, she might become quite bitter to men.
Well, Hasbro is trying to appeal to boys too. Check this out.
And this is NOT a joke. Well, OK. Maybe it is. But this is a joke that you can buy in stores. The first time that I saw one in a store, I thought "That is just SOOOOOOO COOOL! It appeals to my baser instincts.
How true. I wish that I had mod points to mod you up...
Everybody says that the nice thing about Linux is choice. And I do heartily agree.. up to a point.
With Winblows, almost everybody uses some form of Outlook. So you write your software to talk to Outlook and you have already covered over 95% of your market. This is a no-brainer! The problem with this is that the virus writers know which e-mail clients to target too.
So, for Linux to have choice is a great thing, but each choice means that somebody like Sharpor Royal, if they want to sync with your e-mail client, has to either pick-and-choose which clients to support, or must support them all! This is a LOT more work for the vendor, and this is the downside of choice. I would imagine that tech support would be a nightmare if they tried.
I am certain that if you were to purchase one of his computers and have it shipped to Tom's Hardware, that they would be more than happy to review and benchmark it in short order. I would even expect a new speed record for how fast they can get the benchmark up.
Reputable companies often send hardware to web sites to review. If you have vaporware or "scamware", why would you voluntarily send it off for review?
I read enough to realize that I would be a fool to even give him the first dime to see if his claims were even true. If I have the money (which I sadly don't), the burden of proof is on the vendor to convince me that I need to give it to him. I don't owe any vendor anything, even the benefit of the doubt. Trust is something that is earned, not given out freely.
I agree. I am glad that this is happening. Lots of criminals DO use the internet.
The only thing that bothers me is if the government can bypass the courts and do a mass "fishing expedition" by looking through everybody's traffic (like Carnivore)
As long as the police have reasonable cause, and everything goes through a judge, and the tap targets a single individual or household, I cannot see why anybody would complain.
No, it apparently can't play DivX stuff -- yet. It is in the works to add it. But I am not gonna fork over any money until the firmware is updated. How many projects have been canned in the past few years, leaving current owners with devices that can't be upgraded?
If you buy one now hoping for the promise of DivX "someday," then I wish you the best of luck.
CF and SD cards serve two different (but overlapping) markets.
SD is great when the card has to be as small as possible. Some devices that use SD would have to be quite a bit larger in order to use CF instead.
CF is "memory for the masses." If space is not the issue, then CF fits the bill. Because it is larger, you can fit a microdrive in the case. And if you want solid state, the case will hold a larger die and/or multiple dies in one package for storage galore.
If both SD and CF were almost the same size, I could see the reason for your gripe. But one is smaller/expensive and the other is larger/versatile/cheaper.
Maybe ESR was lied TO. I have not seen pointy ears on him, so I doubt that he has perfected the mind-meld. The mail come from "an anonymous whistleblower inside SCO." It could also be "an anonymous disgruntled liar employee inside SCO."
In short, while this mail MAY be true, it is far from a certain thing yet.
You cannot buy out a privately-owned company unless the owner WANTS to sell.
If they REALLY liked what you were doing, then why didn't they continue development on it? After all, they own it. If it is very nice, they can profit from it.
It is a valid strategy to buy out the small competition before they become large. But if you buy them out, you might as well use their products since you own them.
Can somebody please explain in plain language what the big deal is??? At first read, it sounds just like you just need to include a little extra text. Am I missing something?
Finally you are getting smarter. But just for case if don't understand it yet: all copyrights are bad. The world without copyrights would be much better. Demonstration: compare the quality of copyrighted Windows to copylefted Linux.
I disagree. Let's take the simple example of writing a book. Joe's Books wants a book on birds, so they give me money to write it. I do, and Joe publishes it. Fred's book company just copies it and sells it for less because they did not have to pay me. Fred is rich, and Joe is broke. Joe will not pay me for any more books. If this happens enough, people stop writing books.
I will admit that some people may write for the fun of it, but they still have to but bread on the table, so they will do it part time. There is then less creative activity going on, and the public will suffer. For example, take Stephen King. How many book do you think that he would write if he had to fix cars or handle insurance claims 50 hours per week. If you do not like Stephen King, just insert the name of your favorite author.
I will freely admit that current copyright laws go waaaaay too far. The limit should be something reasonable, like 25 to 50 years (maybe 5 years for software). So far, Disney has managed to get a "perpetual copyright," which is bad for everybody. And, of course, the DMCA screws everybody over.
So copyright as a concept is great. It is just the implementation here in America that sucks.
Yup. And films should not be copyrighted because the film studios did not invent silver nitrate.
And CDs should not be copyrighted because they did not invent the photon used to read it.
If you take this to its logical extreme, any file is simply an extremely large digital number (millions of bits). How do you copyright a number? So it is then not possible to copyright ANY digital work.
Yes, but I can switch a calculator between decimal and octal in a couple of keypresses.
With your method, going from decimal to octal is easy, but going the other way requires a visit to the emergency room. And I would not try it more than once. And if you leave it in octal mode for more than an hour, forget about ever going back to decimal.
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Riiight. Try sending a beer through a bank pneumatic tube. When it arrives, I hope you like a foam shower. Those tubes would probably get the beer REAL fizzy! Beer needs to be handled gently.
That is a cool idea! The only problem is that there already IS such a thing a P-code. It is called Java, and it is pokey. OK. Java is not a real P-code, but the concept is similar.
I would suspect that any implementation of something like this would be less efficient than native code. Then, you would loose a percentage of your performance. Hard-core games would rather be bothered by drivers to get a few FPS, so these things would not sell.
New PCs are already coming floppy-free! They will last, but you will not have a floppy drive in 5 years.
I think that you MAY be attempting humor, but I can't be certain of this.
Yes, but total energy returned would be how much energy is released by the reaction, and would probably not include how much of that energy we could actually use. The two numbers are NOT equal.
Perhaps, but it could be Vermont next year, or maybe Texas. I am not saying that it is perfect. But it is not all bad either.
You also forgot this:
Super nVidia Geforce17 4,000,000FX to be released in 2008.
Even if you DID include drivers for every known graphics/sound card, what happens when a new card is released AFTER the game comes out???
The reason that this works with game consoles is that they do not have new hardware added. When a game console is updated, they slap an entirely new label on it and make new games just for it. You do not even get ANY backward compatability unless it is designed in on purpose.
You should be happy about this! This means that the system works...
There was an article in Discover Magazine a few years ago about the the electoral system that we use. As it turns out, your vote counts more in a system like this.
Let's assume that one guy is ahead by 10,000 votes. Your vote does not mean much at all.
However, in Florida, each and every vote was worth a LOT!!! Only a few votes either way in this state could swing the election! Maybe the next time, it will be YOUR state which is close, and YOUR vote will be worth it's weight in gold (I know, paper does not weigh much, it is a metaphor!)
The current system was set up by very wise people two centuries ago. I think that they knew what they were doing, even if there is grumbling from the masses occasionally.
Riiiight. Don't hold your breath.
First, I am not a physicist, but I suspect that "break-even" is defined as the TOTAL power output of the system! The problem is that to be useful, you have to get USABLE power out of the system.
If the energy comes out as heat, then you have to run a turbine, which is not terribly efficient. If the output energy is in the form of neutrons, then I do not know how you could get anything useful out of that other than a new and novel wey to irradiate and heat things.
So, if a physicist says that they have reached "break-even," then they are still only halfway there!
Yup. And and this is the same as this.
And and this is the same as this.
(all links safe for work)
BTW: This is only for laughs.
But on a serious note, a modern FPGA can have a LOT of extra goodies on board, such as hardware multipliers, embedded dual-port RAM and FIFOs, PLLs, and even processors! No CPLD could compare itself to an FPGA.
I disagree with this. If there was NO such thing as sex outside of marriage, then AIDS would become extinct in a matter of decades (not to mention all of the other dozen or so STDs). There would be almost NO new cases reported. And don't forget that sex is a critical ingredient in teenage pregnancy.
It is true that there is probably little to no mental harm to guys, but a woman has an entirely different mental persepctive on the subject. To us guys it is a fun physical act. To a woman, there are a LOT more emotions involved. I have a wife, and her take on sex is a WHOLE lot different from mine! And if the sex is the first time to a guy who dumps her soon after, she might become quite bitter to men.
Well, Hasbro is trying to appeal to boys too. Check this out.
And this is NOT a joke. Well, OK. Maybe it is. But this is a joke that you can buy in stores. The first time that I saw one in a store, I thought "That is just SOOOOOOO COOOL! It appeals to my baser instincts.
How true. I wish that I had mod points to mod you up...
.. up to a point.
Everybody says that the nice thing about Linux is choice. And I do heartily agree
With Winblows, almost everybody uses some form of Outlook. So you write your software to talk to Outlook and you have already covered over 95% of your market. This is a no-brainer! The problem with this is that the virus writers know which e-mail clients to target too.
So, for Linux to have choice is a great thing, but each choice means that somebody like Sharpor Royal, if they want to sync with your e-mail client, has to either pick-and-choose which clients to support, or must support them all! This is a LOT more work for the vendor, and this is the downside of choice. I would imagine that tech support would be a nightmare if they tried.
Well, if the current tenants of Mars will just ask kindly, I am sure that we can clean up after ourselves.
But they have to ask first.
Preferably in writing...
I am certain that if you were to purchase one of his computers and have it shipped to Tom's Hardware, that they would be more than happy to review and benchmark it in short order. I would even expect a new speed record for how fast they can get the benchmark up.
Reputable companies often send hardware to web sites to review. If you have vaporware or "scamware", why would you voluntarily send it off for review?
I read enough to realize that I would be a fool to even give him the first dime to see if his claims were even true. If I have the money (which I sadly don't), the burden of proof is on the vendor to convince me that I need to give it to him. I don't owe any vendor anything, even the benefit of the doubt. Trust is something that is earned, not given out freely.
I agree. I am glad that this is happening. Lots of criminals DO use the internet.
The only thing that bothers me is if the government can bypass the courts and do a mass "fishing expedition" by looking through everybody's traffic (like Carnivore)
As long as the police have reasonable cause, and everything goes through a judge, and the tap targets a single individual or household, I cannot see why anybody would complain.
No, it apparently can't play DivX stuff -- yet. It is in the works to add it. But I am not gonna fork over any money until the firmware is updated. How many projects have been canned in the past few years, leaving current owners with devices that can't be upgraded?
If you buy one now hoping for the promise of DivX "someday," then I wish you the best of luck.
CF and SD cards serve two different (but overlapping) markets.
SD is great when the card has to be as small as possible. Some devices that use SD would have to be quite a bit larger in order to use CF instead.
CF is "memory for the masses." If space is not the issue, then CF fits the bill. Because it is larger, you can fit a microdrive in the case. And if you want solid state, the case will hold a larger die and/or multiple dies in one package for storage galore.
If both SD and CF were almost the same size, I could see the reason for your gripe. But one is smaller/expensive and the other is larger/versatile/cheaper.
Maybe ESR was lied TO. I have not seen pointy ears on him, so I doubt that he has perfected the mind-meld. The mail come from "an anonymous whistleblower inside SCO." It could also be "an anonymous disgruntled liar employee inside SCO."
In short, while this mail MAY be true, it is far from a certain thing yet.
Geocaching from my phone. No more printing out paper logs, and I can even log a find from my phone. Cool stuff!
http://rtr.ca/geo
And if you don't know what Geocaching is, try http://www.geocaching.com
You cannot buy out a privately-owned company unless the owner WANTS to sell.
If they REALLY liked what you were doing, then why didn't they continue development on it? After all, they own it. If it is very nice, they can profit from it.
It is a valid strategy to buy out the small competition before they become large. But if you buy them out, you might as well use their products since you own them.
Can somebody please explain in plain language what the big deal is??? At first read, it sounds just like you just need to include a little extra text. Am I missing something?
I disagree. Let's take the simple example of writing a book. Joe's Books wants a book on birds, so they give me money to write it. I do, and Joe publishes it. Fred's book company just copies it and sells it for less because they did not have to pay me. Fred is rich, and Joe is broke. Joe will not pay me for any more books. If this happens enough, people stop writing books.
I will admit that some people may write for the fun of it, but they still have to but bread on the table, so they will do it part time. There is then less creative activity going on, and the public will suffer. For example, take Stephen King. How many book do you think that he would write if he had to fix cars or handle insurance claims 50 hours per week. If you do not like Stephen King, just insert the name of your favorite author.
I will freely admit that current copyright laws go waaaaay too far. The limit should be something reasonable, like 25 to 50 years (maybe 5 years for software). So far, Disney has managed to get a "perpetual copyright," which is bad for everybody. And, of course, the DMCA screws everybody over.
So copyright as a concept is great. It is just the implementation here in America that sucks.
Yup. And films should not be copyrighted because the film studios did not invent silver nitrate.
And CDs should not be copyrighted because they did not invent the photon used to read it.
If you take this to its logical extreme, any file is simply an extremely large digital number (millions of bits). How do you copyright a number? So it is then not possible to copyright ANY digital work.
Yes, but I can switch a calculator between decimal and octal in a couple of keypresses.
With your method, going from decimal to octal is easy, but going the other way requires a visit to the emergency room. And I would not try it more than once. And if you leave it in octal mode for more than an hour, forget about ever going back to decimal.
I think that I will keep my calculator.