And if the child has an undiagnosed case of malignant hyperthermia? "Lesser-trained" medical professionals should not be messing around with volatile anaesthetics.
You never needed a central server for Git. You've always been able to do "peer-to-peer" distributed development by transferring patches over email, or by setting up a git daemon.
ARINC 653? Um, no. 653 is an operating system interface specification, analogous to POSIX in the consumer market. It says nothing about interconnect mechanisms.
Right, but my point is that the laws of our universe don't apply to the one such a simulator exists in. If they did, then by the same logic that universe would also be simulated, ad nauseum. Thus, we can't hypothesise anything about such a universe, not even that any particular law of nature or mathematics, not even 1+1=2.
How do you know this simulator would be a Turing machine? Our computers can be reduced to this model, but they're also presumably within some greater computer.
You can't disprove this theory for the same reasons you can't "prove" that God doesn't exist with ontological arguments. There's no way to prove that we're not living in a simulation, because for every test you come up with, some weeny can say, "well, of course you get that result, it's part of the simulation!"
They come from the chipset's implementation of the ACPI spec. Essentially how ACPI works is that the chipset provides bytecode that implements the various power management functions. The kernel executes functions in this bytecode to perform whatever low-level operations are necessary.
For whatever reasons, some chipsets tie themselves to the Windows kernel, probably for some sort of extensions, like you said. Also, as that page shows, the bytecode checks that the operating system identifies itself as some version of Windows. So Linux lies and says it's "Microsoft Windows NT".
If I were on the board of [insert large corporation here], I know I would say "hell no" to hiring him. He already drove SCO straight into the ground and turned their name, their trademarks, into a farce. Would you really want him running your business? What would make any board of directors *want* him running their company?
I understand the problems with public health care. No system is perfect: in our system, the healthy are overcharged; in the American system, the rich are advantaged. A private health care system essentially reduces to Social Darwinism: if you have money, you deserve to live longer.
In general, I'm a free market capitalist. However, there are two services that should be provided by society to all citizens: health care and education. As private systems, both these disadvantage people at times when they should not be. In the case of health care, this is when you're sick and can't make money. In the case of education, when you're young and your condition is heavily influenced by your parents'.
I'm in one of those scary, socialist countries -- you know, Canada -- and if I were to break a bone, I'd flash my OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Program) card and they'd give me an X-ray and cast for "free". That is how a health care system should work.
I'm sure they're vastly simplifying their processes. This seems to just be a triage centre (and a fairly rudimentary one too). I doubt the actual fixing takes place here, rather just co-ordinating that process.
Exactly. A while back I applied for a job at the Communications Security Establishment (Canada's equivalent of the US's NSA or the UK's GCHQ), which required top secret clearance. As you can imagine, this required extensive background checks. The important thing is that at any point I could walk away. It's not like they violate your privacy without your permission.
The situation in the article, however, is different. These people already have their jobs (very senior ones too), and now they're expected to reveal personal information in order to keep them? Absolutely ridiculous.
Slashdot Mirror
Steal the modem and hide it off-site. Then leave for a vacation.
And if the child has an undiagnosed case of malignant hyperthermia? "Lesser-trained" medical professionals should not be messing around with volatile anaesthetics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_hyperthermia
Steganography?
You never needed a central server for Git. You've always been able to do "peer-to-peer" distributed development by transferring patches over email, or by setting up a git daemon.
This disorder is called pseudoinsomnia.
Am I the only one who had visions of a real-time strategy game when they read the summary? I thought it sounded like an awesome idea.
Instead what is it? A virtual conference? Lame.
Indeed it is possible. Here's a paper describing the technique:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/pet2004-fpd.pdf
Population density? Not unless you think Pakistan and Afganistan are deserted.
No, the real question is: is it faster than a station wagon full of Blu-Ray discs on the highway?
Personally, any pacemaker capable of multitasking worries me. Pacemakers have a single task.
ARINC 653? Um, no. 653 is an operating system interface specification, analogous to POSIX in the consumer market. It says nothing about interconnect mechanisms.
Bizarre... so now the phrase "everything is relative" applies to science itself?
To which I respond: "God is the greatest jelly doughnut in existance".
I actually showed that comic to my philosophy prof. He thought I was weird.
Right, but my point is that the laws of our universe don't apply to the one such a simulator exists in. If they did, then by the same logic that universe would also be simulated, ad nauseum. Thus, we can't hypothesise anything about such a universe, not even that any particular law of nature or mathematics, not even 1+1=2.
It's a pointless argument to be sure.
How do you know this simulator would be a Turing machine? Our computers can be reduced to this model, but they're also presumably within some greater computer.
Thus the pointlessness of this whole debate.
You can't disprove this theory for the same reasons you can't "prove" that God doesn't exist with ontological arguments. There's no way to prove that we're not living in a simulation, because for every test you come up with, some weeny can say, "well, of course you get that result, it's part of the simulation!"
It's bad science. Hell, it's not science.
They come from the chipset's implementation of the ACPI spec. Essentially how ACPI works is that the chipset provides bytecode that implements the various power management functions. The kernel executes functions in this bytecode to perform whatever low-level operations are necessary.
For whatever reasons, some chipsets tie themselves to the Windows kernel, probably for some sort of extensions, like you said. Also, as that page shows, the bytecode checks that the operating system identifies itself as some version of Windows. So Linux lies and says it's "Microsoft Windows NT".
Except that it's not Windows that reads those values, it's the system's ACPI subsystem...
If I were on the board of [insert large corporation here], I know I would say "hell no" to hiring him. He already drove SCO straight into the ground and turned their name, their trademarks, into a farce. Would you really want him running your business? What would make any board of directors *want* him running their company?
Yes, the quotes were very deliberate :)
I understand the problems with public health care. No system is perfect: in our system, the healthy are overcharged; in the American system, the rich are advantaged. A private health care system essentially reduces to Social Darwinism: if you have money, you deserve to live longer.
In general, I'm a free market capitalist. However, there are two services that should be provided by society to all citizens: health care and education. As private systems, both these disadvantage people at times when they should not be. In the case of health care, this is when you're sick and can't make money. In the case of education, when you're young and your condition is heavily influenced by your parents'.
I'm in one of those scary, socialist countries -- you know, Canada -- and if I were to break a bone, I'd flash my OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Program) card and they'd give me an X-ray and cast for "free". That is how a health care system should work.
Haha, no worries. You're the one getting all the mod points here!
I'm sure they're vastly simplifying their processes. This seems to just be a triage centre (and a fairly rudimentary one too). I doubt the actual fixing takes place here, rather just co-ordinating that process.
Exactly. A while back I applied for a job at the Communications Security Establishment (Canada's equivalent of the US's NSA or the UK's GCHQ), which required top secret clearance. As you can imagine, this required extensive background checks. The important thing is that at any point I could walk away. It's not like they violate your privacy without your permission.
The situation in the article, however, is different. These people already have their jobs (very senior ones too), and now they're expected to reveal personal information in order to keep them? Absolutely ridiculous.
Clearly the Flying Spaghetti Monster is moving them with his Noodly Appendage.