Of course it doesn't, but from my reading of the op it seemed that he/she was proposing that registers have both a physical and conceptual multidimensional component which would imply the use of some kind of offset(s) to address a specific component of said register, no? MOV AX[0][1],... sorta thing
"...Indeed, I was at a loss to find a way to stop falling to my death starting that level. And it appeared from search results many people were just so exasperated with questions about it that they just berated people for not going through the tutorial when really it is just that it takes so long for some players to get that far (not playing every free hour of every day) that that one little detail on how to do those long jumps gets forgotten..."
I didn't have this problem. Before you go into the portal room for the jump to Xen, doesn't a scientist max out your weapons and then give you some kind of extended long jump pack, all the while telling you that it will be vital when moving around in Xen?
Also, IIRC, doesn't he also tell you that if you need to practise your long jump, now's the time or suchlike?
I haven't played the game in and age, so this is all from memory, but I'm fairly sure it's right. I don't see how Valve could have made it any plainer without putting up a big-ass sign by the door to the teleport chamber:Xen welcomes careful long jumpers.
"... I do CAD work that gets output to a large CNC router, and by setting some values incorrectly, I could at the very least create a situation resulting in the possible loss of a hand, if not more..."
Takes me back to my salad days, when I was studying Mech Eng at a tech college in Oxford. Got myself a summer job at a local engineering concern where I was filling in for various people as they disappered off for their holidays.
It was a decent gig and because of the reason I was there, the work was pretty varied. No way I could fill the shoes of the three or so production engineers, but I could cover tasks that were mainly routine or boring to the full-timers.
One of the jobs I got to do was to produce programs for a horizontal machining center. This was done entirely by reading the drawings and typing in "G" codes at the machine's keypad. Offline programming had yet to rise over the horizon for this particular company. It was pretty easy, as the designers were all ex-apprentices and they knew instinctively how to keep things simple (and quick) to manufacture.
I'd usually run a program through in fresh air to make sure it looked correct and safe but on one occasion I'd either got complacent and hadn't bothered or I'd just missed a bad step. I set the program going with a cube of steel about one foot sized in xyz bolted to the machine bed. All was going well, and a serioes of pockets were cleared and holes drilled until the load meter redlined, the motor noise went from a whine to a loud hum and then a piece of something bounced around the enclosure, spang-spang-spang!
I hit the Big Red Button, killed the power and opened the enclosure to see what was up. Turns out that whatever was bouncing around in there was the actual tool head which was now snapped from it's shank.
Going back over the program and the drawing it appeared that I'd done a rapid traverse without withdrawing from the hole I'd just cleared. Even worse, the tool I'd just broken was a custom diameter end-mill which cost us about GBP200/ea even back in those days. I nearly started crying. I'd have to work for a month practically for free to make up the damage. I walked out of the shop and strolled around the outside of the factory to pull myself together and come up with a plan.
I went back to the shop to find the foreman standing next to the machine, wondering why it was sitting there idle and costing us money. I said I'd broken the tool and offered to meet the company half way and cover 50% of the damage. The foreman looked at me like I was a complete tard for a moment, then burst out laughing. He took me over to the tool store where there was a small pallet with dozens of such tools sitting there in rows like good little soldiers. "Those things go out of spec about four times a day on that machine. Get a new one, take it over to measurement to get it mounted in a toolholder and GET THAT FUCKING MACHINE BUSY AGAIN!"
Long, boring (NPI) and mainly OT, but the lesson of the day is that you can do anything you like short of maiming and killing but don't ever hold up production.
"... I was going downhill north of houston, and I was skimming the updraft from huge convoys of 18 wheelers...."
If you're getting dragged along by a bunch of 18 wheelers, then you're really only in the running for an assisted human-powered land speed record. Currently held by John Howard at around 152mph.
"...Anyone else with any reasonable bike numbers out there for confirmation?..."
Waalll, If you mosey on over to Analytic Cycling, there's a number of calculators you can use to estimate speed & power given a few parameters.
I used the "speed given power" calculator taking the default values for most of the parameters, which all looked sensible enough. I set the input power to zero, as I doubt that the rider had the gearing to do anything worthwhile at the pedals and messed around with the slope until I got an output speed around 30m/s (~= 70mph).
Turns out - according to this calculator - that our lad would need to be going down a dead-straight 1 in 4 with no cross or headwinds.
It's a legal fact of life. An appeal granted is the same as telling the judge that they made an error in law. They don't like it.
To put it in nerd terms, if you write a substantive block of code and after code review you get told that someone else is going to be tasked with rewriting said block, it doesn't feel too good, does it? Nor does it do much good for your career if this pattern gets repeated too often.
"...What if the radiation is destroying his bone marrow reducing his white blood cell count, then he gets infected? He didn't say he was going to get infected by the radiation...
"...It's like living near chernobyl--I'm going to get infected! I wish the judges would get a clue and just throw everything out...."
Point 1: Radiation isn't infectious.
Point 2: The judge in the SCO/IBM case is being very, very, very careful indeed not to give SCO any grounds for appeal when they ultimately get spanked.
Much like modern fashion, the moral panic of the day (hoodies anyone?) seems to be churning faster and faster, but it doesn't disguise the unholy alliance between a hysterical populist media and a power-grabbing government.
Never mind Homeland Security: I've got to say, I find the (recent?) introduction of just the term "Homeland" into the political lexicon rather troubling.
All other [mumble]-land places I can think of did not have enlightened and benign regimes: "Motherland" (Russia, during the Soviet Union era), "Fatherland" (Germany during the 3rd Reich). Any more for the list?
"...Maybe, they've hired a bunch of folks in: India, Mexico, whereever, to just manually register...."
Why hire people at all, when there's one born every minute who'll do it for free if you dangle a free [gadget of the day] in front of their greedy, gullible snouts?
** THIS IS NOT BULLSHIT! ** I just received my PSP today via UPS totally free by typing words on some site. I thought it was BS at first but man was i suprised when the UPS guy showed up at my door with a frikkin PSP. Just for typing 50 words. Before you flame me and call me a d*ck just remember I was totally suprised I got my PSP and jsut wanted to share the love with you all. Free for typing some words is way better than paying a lot of money. Here is the link for anyone interested: http://psp-4-free.cjb.net/ [cjb.net] I hope you all are enjoying your PSP as much as I am. Peace and love.
The link led to a reasonably well designed page which was scraping captchas from blackplanet, images direct from Sony and getting retards to bust 50 captchas in the hope of getting a their free PSP.
"...The most surprising aspect is the sheer admiration that the 'Strayan people hold for the U.S. and their collective willingness to become a subservient client state to U.S. interests..."
But do the Australian people maintain a meaningful admiration for the US? It seems more likely that, as with some other western "liberal" democracies (eg. UK), they are in the thrall of a political elite which seeks power for its own sake or for their own ends and which flatters itself that kowtowing to shrub's every rump-grunt is sensible realpolitik and mature statesmanship.
It seems that the rise of professional politician has weakened democracy - now that the sole realistic choice that the voting public have is between two (or three, if you're lucky) careerists who have identical attitudes and policies, there's no choice at all. The only people to whom the politicians (as a class, rather than as mildly differing parties) are answerable to is each other and their more powerful overseas bretheren.
"...First, what does that say about the faithful, if nobody with faith would be willing to conduct such a study?..."
One interpretation could be that they wouldn't perform such a study because to the faithful, it is a literal and self-evident truth that prayer helps their physical and spiritual state, therefore there would be no point in such a study.
They're "faithful", y'know, they have "faith" - that is, belief without proof.
FWIW, I'm a non-faithful "death and taxes" kind of cynic...
"Shopping by itself is my wife's equivalent of porn. I shit you not, there is even a magazine devoted to shopping, and she subscribes to it. Its design esthetics are obviously influenced by porno mags directed at men">
In a way, that's kinda good. Makes it harder for her to complain when your subscription copy of Pink or Stink? (Monthly) drops through the letterbox.
You know damn well that she's fantasising about spending a fortune, she knows damn well that you're fantasising about kicking her back door in on a regular basis. The shared knowledge that each partner has about the other partner's intentions prevents any extreme action. A kind of Mutually Assured Destruction for a relationship, if you will...
"...I can now safely say that it's not that people didn't know back then. Just as now, the people just DID NOT CARE enough to do something about it. So in sixty years we have learnt exactly.... nothing..."
Sixty years seems about right for the majority of people who were alive and cognisant at the time to be dead. Those born after - well, I'm not saying they're complacent, but to them the horror of what happend and the mechanism by which it occurred are less real, less material to their lives.
"...Every railway suffers from leaves on the line..."
Also, bear in mind that leaves anywhere near the line are a relatively modern phnomenon: In the days of yore, sparks from the smokestack would ignite any accumulated leaves and brush near the line. Obviously this don't happen with diesel an electric locomotives.
You know - that discipline which seeks to study social interactions, which can be reasonably predictive when taking a population en masse, but which is rediced to flipping coins at the individual level.
"... Government, on the other hand, is purely founded on the presumption of that "right" [to use force]. It is, in fact, what fuels everything government does and could possibly do. (If government didn't posess the ability to employ coercion, where would they get their funding, for starters?)..."
IIRC, some wit or other once described taxation as a civilised form of armed robbery.
I don't mind shelling out my hard-earned for roads, schools, hospitals, defence etc. When it comes to illegal wars and ID cards I start to feel a bit robbed.
"...Perhaps you meant to ask, why are they less important that civilian deaths. The reason that the general public may feel this way (and they do) is because during war, targetting an enemy soldier is the goal, whereas targetting a civilian is a severe crime..."
Don't be foolish. The goal of a war, any war, is to enforce a nation's will in circumstances where the preferred tools such as diplomacy, bribery, threats, blackmail etc have not been productive. Sometimes the war is an end in itself (identification of such wars is left as an exercise for the reader), but even then, the killing of any enemy combatants is still an undesirable side effect.
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Of course it doesn't, but from my reading of the op it seemed that he/she was proposing that registers have both a physical and conceptual multidimensional component which would imply the use of some kind of offset(s) to address a specific component of said register, no? MOV AX[0][1],... sorta thing
"So one could possibly make the registers have a "Z" axis and have "real" 3-D address space. Just a thought..."
You must have really enjoyed working in a segemented memory environment...
"...Indeed, I was at a loss to find a way to stop falling to my death starting that level. And it appeared from search results many people were just so exasperated with questions about it that they just berated people for not going through the tutorial when really it is just that it takes so long for some players to get that far (not playing every free hour of every day) that that one little detail on how to do those long jumps gets forgotten..."
I didn't have this problem. Before you go into the portal room for the jump to Xen, doesn't a scientist max out your weapons and then give you some kind of extended long jump pack, all the while telling you that it will be vital when moving around in Xen?
Also, IIRC, doesn't he also tell you that if you need to practise your long jump, now's the time or suchlike?
I haven't played the game in and age, so this is all from memory, but I'm fairly sure it's right. I don't see how Valve could have made it any plainer without putting up a big-ass sign by the door to the teleport chamber:Xen welcomes careful long jumpers.
"... I do CAD work that gets output to a large CNC router, and by setting some values incorrectly, I could at the very least create a situation resulting in the possible loss of a hand, if not more..."
Takes me back to my salad days, when I was studying Mech Eng at a tech college in Oxford. Got myself a summer job at a local engineering concern where I was filling in for various people as they disappered off for their holidays.
It was a decent gig and because of the reason I was there, the work was pretty varied. No way I could fill the shoes of the three or so production engineers, but I could cover tasks that were mainly routine or boring to the full-timers.
One of the jobs I got to do was to produce programs for a horizontal machining center. This was done entirely by reading the drawings and typing in "G" codes at the machine's keypad. Offline programming had yet to rise over the horizon for this particular company. It was pretty easy, as the designers were all ex-apprentices and they knew instinctively how to keep things simple (and quick) to manufacture.
I'd usually run a program through in fresh air to make sure it looked correct and safe but on one occasion I'd either got complacent and hadn't bothered or I'd just missed a bad step. I set the program going with a cube of steel about one foot sized in xyz bolted to the machine bed. All was going well, and a serioes of pockets were cleared and holes drilled until the load meter redlined, the motor noise went from a whine to a loud hum and then a piece of something bounced around the enclosure, spang-spang-spang!
I hit the Big Red Button, killed the power and opened the enclosure to see what was up. Turns out that whatever was bouncing around in there was the actual tool head which was now snapped from it's shank.
Going back over the program and the drawing it appeared that I'd done a rapid traverse without withdrawing from the hole I'd just cleared. Even worse, the tool I'd just broken was a custom diameter end-mill which cost us about GBP200/ea even back in those days. I nearly started crying. I'd have to work for a month practically for free to make up the damage. I walked out of the shop and strolled around the outside of the factory to pull myself together and come up with a plan.
I went back to the shop to find the foreman standing next to the machine, wondering why it was sitting there idle and costing us money. I said I'd broken the tool and offered to meet the company half way and cover 50% of the damage. The foreman looked at me like I was a complete tard for a moment, then burst out laughing. He took me over to the tool store where there was a small pallet with dozens of such tools sitting there in rows like good little soldiers. "Those things go out of spec about four times a day on that machine. Get a new one, take it over to measurement to get it mounted in a toolholder and GET THAT FUCKING MACHINE BUSY AGAIN!"
Long, boring (NPI) and mainly OT, but the lesson of the day is that you can do anything you like short of maiming and killing but don't ever hold up production.
"... I was going downhill north of houston, and I was skimming the updraft from huge convoys of 18 wheelers...."
If you're getting dragged along by a bunch of 18 wheelers, then you're really only in the running for an assisted human-powered land speed record. Currently held by John Howard at around 152mph.
"...Anyone else with any reasonable bike numbers out there for confirmation?..."
Waalll, If you mosey on over to Analytic Cycling, there's a number of calculators you can use to estimate speed & power given a few parameters.
I used the "speed given power" calculator taking the default values for most of the parameters, which all looked sensible enough. I set the input power to zero, as I doubt that the rider had the gearing to do anything worthwhile at the pedals and messed around with the slope until I got an output speed around 30m/s (~= 70mph).
Turns out - according to this calculator - that our lad would need to be going down a dead-straight 1 in 4 with no cross or headwinds.
I don't believe it, myself.
It's a legal fact of life. An appeal granted is the same as telling the judge that they made an error in law. They don't like it.
To put it in nerd terms, if you write a substantive block of code and after code review you get told that someone else is going to be tasked with rewriting said block, it doesn't feel too good, does it? Nor does it do much good for your career if this pattern gets repeated too often.
"...What if the radiation is destroying his bone marrow reducing his white blood cell count, then he gets infected? He didn't say he was going to get infected by the radiation...
Indeed.
(pats you on the head.)
Now run along there sonny.
What? You want a lollipop? Here you go...
"...It's like living near chernobyl--I'm going to get infected! I wish the judges would get a clue and just throw everything out...."
Point 1: Radiation isn't infectious.
Point 2: The judge in the SCO/IBM case is being very, very, very careful indeed not to give SCO any grounds for appeal when they ultimately get spanked.
Patience, grasshopper...
"... Here in the UK, the media are making a big thing about knife crime just now, after a couple of high-profile stabbings...."
It's yet another manufactured moral panic:
Obligatory Wikipedia link
Much like modern fashion, the moral panic of the day (hoodies anyone?) seems to be churning faster and faster, but it doesn't disguise the unholy alliance between a hysterical populist media and a power-grabbing government.
T&K.
Just changed my sig to this Orwell quote yesterday. Good to see that others have taken Orwell's essays on board.
T&K.
Never mind Homeland Security: I've got to say, I find the (recent?) introduction of just the term "Homeland" into the political lexicon rather troubling.
All other [mumble]-land places I can think of did not have enlightened and benign regimes: "Motherland" (Russia, during the Soviet Union era), "Fatherland" (Germany during the 3rd Reich). Any more for the list?
T&K.
"...Maybe, they've hired a bunch of folks in: India, Mexico, whereever, to just manually register...."
Why hire people at all, when there's one born every minute who'll do it for free if you dangle a free [gadget of the day] in front of their greedy, gullible snouts?
From a previous
The link led to a reasonably well designed page which was scraping captchas from blackplanet, images direct from Sony and getting retards to bust 50 captchas in the hope of getting a their free PSP.
No money need change hands...
T&K.
"...The most surprising aspect is the sheer admiration that the 'Strayan people hold for the U.S. and their collective willingness to become a subservient client state to U.S. interests..."
But do the Australian people maintain a meaningful admiration for the US? It seems more likely that, as with some other western "liberal" democracies (eg. UK), they are in the thrall of a political elite which seeks power for its own sake or for their own ends and which flatters itself that kowtowing to shrub's every rump-grunt is sensible realpolitik and mature statesmanship.
It seems that the rise of professional politician has weakened democracy - now that the sole realistic choice that the voting public have is between two (or three, if you're lucky) careerists who have identical attitudes and policies, there's no choice at all. The only people to whom the politicians (as a class, rather than as mildly differing parties) are answerable to is each other and their more powerful overseas bretheren.
"...First, what does that say about the faithful, if nobody with faith would be willing to conduct such a study?..."
One interpretation could be that they wouldn't perform such a study because to the faithful, it is a literal and self-evident truth that prayer helps their physical and spiritual state, therefore there would be no point in such a study.
They're "faithful", y'know, they have "faith" - that is, belief without proof.
FWIW, I'm a non-faithful "death and taxes" kind of cynic...
T&K.
"Shopping by itself is my wife's equivalent of porn. I shit you not, there is even a magazine devoted to shopping, and she subscribes to it. Its design esthetics are obviously influenced by porno mags directed at men">
In a way, that's kinda good. Makes it harder for her to complain when your subscription copy of Pink or Stink? (Monthly) drops through the letterbox.
You know damn well that she's fantasising about spending a fortune, she knows damn well that you're fantasising about kicking her back door in on a regular basis. The shared knowledge that each partner has about the other partner's intentions prevents any extreme action. A kind of Mutually Assured Destruction for a relationship, if you will...
T&K.
"...Women have porn; they're called romance novels..."
I thought real female porn was to be found in the Shopping And Fucking romance novel sub-genre?
"...I can now safely say that it's not that people didn't know back then. Just as now, the people just DID NOT CARE enough to do something about it. So in sixty years we have learnt exactly.... nothing..."
Sixty years seems about right for the majority of people who were alive and cognisant at the time to be dead. Those born after - well, I'm not saying they're complacent, but to them the horror of what happend and the mechanism by which it occurred are less real, less material to their lives.
"Spend 40 bucks at radio shack and get a Sound Pressure Level meter and give me the DB readings
DB Reading with no equiptment on, normal to the plane of your ear, at ear height. You get the picture"
From TFA: "...The sound pressure level measurements were taken with a CEL-254 SPL meter, using fast mode and A-weighting...".
T&K.
"...Every railway suffers from leaves on the line..."
Also, bear in mind that leaves anywhere near the line are a relatively modern phnomenon: In the days of yore, sparks from the smokestack would ignite any accumulated leaves and brush near the line. Obviously this don't happen with diesel an electric locomotives.
You know - that discipline which seeks to study social interactions, which can be reasonably predictive when taking a population en masse, but which is rediced to flipping coins at the individual level.
T&K.
"I really liked the Starship Troopers movie."
No, I'm Spartacus!
T&K.
"... Government, on the other hand, is purely founded on the presumption of that "right" [to use force]. It is, in fact, what fuels everything government does and could possibly do. (If government didn't posess the ability to employ coercion, where would they get their funding, for starters?)..."
IIRC, some wit or other once described taxation as a civilised form of armed robbery.
I don't mind shelling out my hard-earned for roads, schools, hospitals, defence etc. When it comes to illegal wars and ID cards I start to feel a bit robbed.
T&K.
"...Perhaps you meant to ask, why are they less important that civilian deaths. The reason that the general public may feel this way (and they do) is because during war, targetting an enemy soldier is the goal, whereas targetting a civilian is a severe crime..."
Don't be foolish. The goal of a war, any war, is to enforce a nation's will in circumstances where the preferred tools such as diplomacy, bribery, threats, blackmail etc have not been productive. Sometimes the war is an end in itself (identification of such wars is left as an exercise for the reader), but even then, the killing of any enemy combatants is still an undesirable side effect.
T&K.
Bollocks! I lost all my mod points yesterday. Still, a smart dude(ess?) like you should have a pal like me...