I work for Drew Curtis. So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do. Cuz some Farkers belive anything they hear.
Linux doesn't use those BIOS I/O calls though. The bootloader (grub/lilo) uses them to load the kernel into memory, and then that's it, the kernel uses its own I/O routines after that.
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You're clever, young man, very clever, but it's turtles all the way down.
Now that we have computers with fast processors and amounts of memory sometimes in excess of 128MB, automatically stitching together a canvas from several smaller ones is completely automatic and fast.
And it's how it still is, except the memory manager handles it all transparently for you in the background, so you can simply mmap() in a file, which can even exceed your total physical RAM many times over, and the system takes care of reading / writing & mapping the pages to / from disk as necessary. All that's changed is transparent support for it in hardware and the amount of memory involved.
If you want to know why it's not really called the 'emergency brake', try using it at speed. Attempting to use the handbrake (parking brake, etc. etc.) to stop from speed will almost certainly make your situation a lot worse.
Normal people say "put your foot on the [clutch|brakes|gas|accelerator]" etc. with the expectation that the listener isn't so obtuse as to not thing we're talking about pedals.
I'm picking you actually both know what each other is talking about are just being disingenuous (yay nerds!). For the benefit of others:
Cars with manual transmissions have one clutch, which is actuated by the driver.
Traditional automatic transmissions use multiple clutches, but these are instead actuated automatically by the transmissions control system.
Anything that allows the engine to be disconnected/reconnected to the drive train in some way is by definition a clutch.
A serial communications link would fit 'binary context' in my opinion. However, on a serial comms link, a megabit is 1,000,000 bits.
An 8 bit data bus clocked at 1 MHz can shift 1,000,000 bytes of data per second. Again, this is very much in 'binary context'.
Huh? I've lived rurally most of my life. None of the people I live near, or myself, are under any illusion of police being here within the half hour, and I can't imagine how we ever would be. Fortunately our rural fire brigade (bless those good men and women) have first aid & CPR training which makes a difference, but actual policing is done by things that go 'woof' and things that go 'bang'.
Too often I've seen people claim to have "quit using terrible analogies", which is like saying stopped driving a Ferrari and started eating porridge for breakfast.
Heat hopefully won't be an issue. Let's hope heat output scales at least somewhat with component size that is 98% smaller.
And why would it do that? A given voltage drop multiplied by the current through it equates to a certain wattage of heat dissipation, regardless of the size of the package.
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And boo to you for not commenting why that code is there.
I work for Drew Curtis. So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do. Cuz some Farkers belive anything they hear.
"most of the last 30 years" - which I suppose you could interpret as "16 years"
(sorry, please disregard my previous reply, I misread you and addressed a slightly different point)
Linux doesn't use those BIOS I/O calls though. The bootloader (grub/lilo) uses them to load the kernel into memory, and then that's it, the kernel uses its own I/O routines after that.
You're clever, young man, very clever, but it's turtles all the way down.
You're on meth.
Talk to the Catholics.
Now that we have computers with fast processors and amounts of memory sometimes in excess of 128MB, automatically stitching together a canvas from several smaller ones is completely automatic and fast.
And it's how it still is, except the memory manager handles it all transparently for you in the background, so you can simply mmap() in a file, which can even exceed your total physical RAM many times over, and the system takes care of reading / writing & mapping the pages to / from disk as necessary. All that's changed is transparent support for it in hardware and the amount of memory involved.
Base rate fallacy.
Now I know what to call that thing that I've got that you also have.
If you want to know why it's not really called the 'emergency brake', try using it at speed. Attempting to use the handbrake (parking brake, etc. etc.) to stop from speed will almost certainly make your situation a lot worse.
As soon as the engine is off and not producing torque, you won't be needing it anyway. Turning the engine off is kinda the ultimate traction control.
Normal people say "put your foot on the [clutch|brakes|gas|accelerator]" etc. with the expectation that the listener isn't so obtuse as to not thing we're talking about pedals.
I'm picking you actually both know what each other is talking about are just being disingenuous (yay nerds!). For the benefit of others:
Cars with manual transmissions have one clutch, which is actuated by the driver.
Traditional automatic transmissions use multiple clutches, but these are instead actuated automatically by the transmissions control system.
Anything that allows the engine to be disconnected/reconnected to the drive train in some way is by definition a clutch.
With a manual transmission, yes.
A serial communications link would fit 'binary context' in my opinion. However, on a serial comms link, a megabit is 1,000,000 bits. An 8 bit data bus clocked at 1 MHz can shift 1,000,000 bytes of data per second. Again, this is very much in 'binary context'.
I'm with you, happy to take a downmod that this is about as lame as a Slashdot story ever gets.
That's hardly a reasonable workaround for a laptop computer.
You must be fun at parties!
the rural homeowners.
Huh? I've lived rurally most of my life. None of the people I live near, or myself, are under any illusion of police being here within the half hour, and I can't imagine how we ever would be. Fortunately our rural fire brigade (bless those good men and women) have first aid & CPR training which makes a difference, but actual policing is done by things that go 'woof' and things that go 'bang'.
Too often I've seen people claim to have "quit using terrible analogies", which is like saying stopped driving a Ferrari and started eating porridge for breakfast.
Shut up. You're fired.
And why would it do that? A given voltage drop multiplied by the current through it equates to a certain wattage of heat dissipation, regardless of the size of the package.