The thing is, the OED attempts to define words as they have been used in printed literature. In other words, without the Star-Trek script that illustrates the use of the term "cloaking device", they cannot verify it and date it properly.
And I suppose they think the actors were just standing up there making it up as they went along.
If they can't find the script, I recall a novelication collection (single book) of the early Star Trek episodes that included "Balance of Terror". I'm sure the term was used there as well.
Could be wrong, but transmeta's I think dont need fans, so they are also very silent.
Tansmeta's do have their fans. But rather than being little devices that go round and round inside the case, these fans keep the air circulating by incessantly praising the processor in their new notebook to anyone who will listen.
Having watched the trailer as well as read many, if not all of, Asimov's robot books, I Robot looks more like either a remake of Westworld in a new setting, or a particular episode of The Outer Limits, than anything Asimov wrote.
I expect Microsoft to sue any moment now for his usage of "IE7", which undoubtedly is a trademark owned by Microsoft. After all, if you can go after "Mike Rowe Soft"...
The Big Bang [Burger Bar] happened when all the matter in the Universe was compressed in one place, got unhappy with the tight quarters, and went *KABOOM*.
Some approximately 300 million years later God flicked his Bic and lit the first stars.
13 Billlllion (as Carl Sagan would say) years later, give or take 15 minutes of fame, that light arrives in the Hubble, get its image transmitted to Earth, and becomes famous on Slashdot.
An additional note: Nothing material travels faster than light.
So here's my problem:
If we all started in the same place,
And that light lit up 300 million years after the Big Bang,
And nothing travels faster than light, How did it get 13 billion light years away from us in that first 300 million years so that this light could then spend the next 13 billion years traveling back to us again. I just don't get it.
Simple explinations will be preferred over complex ones.
I'd rather have a sexy fembot guardian. She could seduce the intruder to death (no lawsuits for excessive force here), and be useful the rest of the time as well.
nobody is saying that this new chip following a standard is bad. it's just that intel don't clearly say that they're following an amd 'protocol' here
And you have missed my point. Intel should be trumpeting the fact that they are following an established standard, and they try to compete on speed, power, size, price, name, ability to deliver, or whatever else they believe they bring to the table. They're not.
but it makes the instruction set a mess. Intel knows this but people don't seem to be will to give up compatibility or performace. The only way this is probably ever going to go away is if every one is forced to write a C compiler.
I don't have to write a C compiler, because many excellent enough ones are already available. (Thanks, compiler writers.)
I don't have to write in assembly language -- see line above.
Because of this -- see both lines above -- I don't care about a messy instruction set because it really doesn't affect me.
And you shouldn't have to either. If you still do code assembly, this new twist has just make you an even more valuable commodity than before, and you should be asking for a raise.
went through some AMD's Athlon PDF's, and while all of them mentioned SIMD/SSE and MMX support, I didn't spot any mentioning that those are actually technologies originally developed by Intel.
All that is part of the x86(-32) instruction set that Intel developed and AMD executes natively with their chips.
Come on, I mean. Next you'll want me to break out the LDA instruction and make sure Intel gets credit for it separately from any other assemboy instruction.
you'd eventually build a "railway" for the Orion to follow.
A 40 year mission (20 there, 20 back) is possible. We just need to take it one step at a time.
Given that all the hard science is in place for the outbound trip, I'm still dubious about getting back in the same length of time (unless you hook around that sun with no time to stop and see anything) without the same infrastructure in place on the other end.
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The humor operates on more than one level -- or in the case of the Klein Bottle, more than one surface.
And just who was paying any attention at all to Norman?
Or is it just me?
And I suppose they think the actors were just standing up there making it up as they went along.
If they can't find the script, I recall a novelication collection (single book) of the early Star Trek episodes that included "Balance of Terror". I'm sure the term was used there as well.
Especially funny since the OED is considering adding fembot to the OED as a whole.
I recall a Slashdot reference to this as well, but could not find it searching on "fembot" with the Slashdot search function.
Tansmeta's do have their fans. But rather than being little devices that go round and round inside the case, these fans keep the air circulating by incessantly praising the processor in their new notebook to anyone who will listen.
And they're not silent at all!
At Transmeta's power dissipation, shouldn't that be luke warm?
All things considered, I'd much rather see a movie featuring Elf Sternberg's A.I.'s or DB_Story's fembots.
I mean, aren't there stories about robots doing anything else worth telling besides running amok and killing people.
(Note to producers of I.R. Hey, its been done.)
I expect Microsoft to sue any moment now for his usage of "IE7", which undoubtedly is a trademark owned by Microsoft. After all, if you can go after "Mike Rowe Soft"...
The Big Bang [Burger Bar] happened when all the matter in the Universe was compressed in one place, got unhappy with the tight quarters, and went *KABOOM*.
Some approximately 300 million years later God flicked his Bic and lit the first stars.
13 Billlllion (as Carl Sagan would say) years later, give or take 15 minutes of fame, that light arrives in the Hubble, get its image transmitted to Earth, and becomes famous on Slashdot.
An additional note: Nothing material travels faster than light.
So here's my problem:
If we all started in the same place,
And that light lit up 300 million years after the Big Bang,
And nothing travels faster than light,
How did it get 13 billion light years away from us in that first 300 million years so that this light could then spend the next 13 billion years traveling back to us again. I just don't get it.
Simple explinations will be preferred over complex ones.
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So how long before it has its own anime series?
I'd rather have a sexy fembot guardian. She could seduce the intruder to death (no lawsuits for excessive force here), and be useful the rest of the time as well.
And precisely my point is that at the high level there is no pain. That's what high-level languages hide from you.
And you have missed my point. Intel should be trumpeting the fact that they are following an established standard, and they try to compete on speed, power, size, price, name, ability to deliver, or whatever else they believe they bring to the table. They're not.
The SCO-MOLD squeezes your somewhat generic *nix operating system into a form that SCO can demand a license and sue you for.
I don't have to write a C compiler, because many excellent enough ones are already available. (Thanks, compiler writers.)
I don't have to write in assembly language -- see line above.
Because of this -- see both lines above -- I don't care about a messy instruction set because it really doesn't affect me.
And you shouldn't have to either. If you still do code assembly, this new twist has just make you an even more valuable commodity than before, and you should be asking for a raise.
Is it in AMD64?
All that is part of the x86(-32) instruction set that Intel developed and AMD executes natively with their chips.
Come on, I mean. Next you'll want me to break out the LDA instruction and make sure Intel gets credit for it separately from any other assemboy instruction.
I remember when compatability with existing platforms was a Good Thing.
Phase 3: Profit!
Phase 2 was Scrap Other...
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You sound like you've read all thirty.
That's about one for each of the OZ books.
Who haven't got a clue on why they're there.
A 40 year mission (20 there, 20 back) is possible. We just need to take it one step at a time.
Given that all the hard science is in place for the outbound trip, I'm still dubious about getting back in the same length of time (unless you hook around that sun with no time to stop and see anything) without the same infrastructure in place on the other end.