You need to get of Boston and visit a city not populated entirely by massholes. Down in New Yawk, lightweight conversations between strangers are not terribly uncommon. The trick is to say something moderately witty, referential to something the stranger is likely to be interested in and non-hostile. Most of the time it goes nowhere, but don't let that bother you. Observe body language, be positive and polite, but not unctuous. Siddle up a little closer, slip a little, bump into the person non-offensively... then go for their wallet.
Did they immediately develop drivers for OS 9, or did many peripherals just work? The USB Implementers Forum defines standard interfaces for a variety of devices, including external hard drives & memory cards (the mass storage interface) and keyboards & mice (the human interface, err, interface). I remember that logitech certainly did not develop an OS 9 driver for my USB webcam, the sort of device for which there is no standard interface.
I very much liked the ability to use normal, sane keyboards and mice on Macs with minimum hassle and the ability to use long extension cords and put devices on hubs. Plain serial, parallel and ADB sucked ass in comparison. I think that was the genius of Apple's USB uptake: it was simply a smart move for obvious reasons. The rest of the industry was already heading in that direction, but Apple was nimbler. Steve liked it and so it happened.
You are pretty warm. I'll try to fill in the blanks: if you were the hypothetical astronaut descending towards the event horizon, electromagnetic radiation emitted further up the gravity well would be blue shifted. The wavelength would be compressed - as you cross the event horizon, infinitely so, because as you say, time is frozen within the black hole. Outside of the black hole, the opposite is true: radiation from within the event horizon is infinitely red shifted. It never reaches you.
You seem to be heading towards the argument that because time is meaningless within the event horizon, sufficient matter would never *quite* manage to accrete and generate a black hole. Well, not so much. As you approach the event horizon, electromagnetic radiation that you emit and perceive to be of 400nm wavelength would be to an outside observer perhaps 500nm, eventually 1cm, 100m, 100km, 1 light year, 10^100 light years, 10^1000000 light years.... How would anyone detect such weak radiation? They can't, because you rapidly stop transmitting information that is at all perceptible.
The same phenomenon occurs as matter collapses into a black hole. It's density increases, increases and increases with its red shift, and wink; it's gone. One moment, you are receiving gamma rays, the next only xrays, then visible light, then radio waves and then, finally, you would need an antenna so long that you would not be able to distinguish emanations from the black hole from background radiation and noise in your instruments.
Not using acronyms would be a solution to the problem of people not knowing what acronyms stand for, yes. However, depth of knowledge is the real issue. Whether your vocabulary is replete with acronyms or portmanteaux (podcasting), if you don't know the meaning of the constituent terms used to form these new composite words, you probably don't know much about the theory underlying the technologies that they denote.
I keep seeing this in relation to processors: "There are technical drawbacks to this architecture! But according to my annecdotes, it seems pretty fastish! Why don't you go and do a bunch of research to disprove my annecdotes, which are by there nature not disprovable!" Well, I can at least attack the premise you are attempting to establish.
Read the other reply to my comment - 32bit-address-only DMA is a well known limitation of the EM64T ISA. This limitation, by requiring additional memory copies, reduces performance. If you could compare a core2 processor with this limitation to one without it, the difference would be quantifiable. It is harder to observe when comparing an opteron to a core2, seeing as how the underlying microarchectures are different even though their ISAs are generally compatible.
Why did Intel introduce this limitation? I think it's because they would prefer that you buy an Itanium. It almost seems that they'd rather have folks buy opterons. That's my opinion, and that's a fact.
The core2 is fast in 32bit mode and certainly a step in the right direction for intel. Kudos to them, but fie on their 64 bit support. In deference to the Itanium, they think of it as existing to provide extended memory support, and only because AMD was flanking them. Two important factors drag down core2 64 bit performance: micro-ops fusion, which welds multiple trivial ops into a single macro op, works on 32 bit instructions only, and they support DMA on only memory addressable with a 32 bit pointer. The message from intel is clear: for 64 bit performance, buy an Itanium or an opteron.
You need to let go of the conceit that you and your friends are more interested in education than the educational institutions you attend. It is absurd, distracting and entirely beside the point. You will be able to prove this to yourself if you spend enough time on it. If you manage to, congradulations: while others were concerned with learning and earning a reputaton, while others were concerned with getting what the wanted out of the instution, you spent your time "proving" your own superiority.
Don't be an idiot. Many before you have benefitted greatly from college. Do not think you are better than it, in fact, don't worry about that at all. Rather than narcissistically denying its value, focus on what you want college to do for you and work hard.
Microsoft Eula : HD playback crippling:: GPL : umm... if you change the source you have to include it with the binary?
First, the MS EULA is not what stops you from playing HD content on x32. It is the media companies forcing MS to cripple the source. Furthermore, if we had the source, if windows were under the GPL, we could fix this. Second, the GPL doesn't restrict your rights re software, it endeavors to enhance them.
Given these two points, that your only valid recourse to rejecting the terms of the GPL and the MS EULA is to not use software so licensed, I conclude that your analogy is not only irrelevant but entirely inapposite. Please point out any flaw in my reasoning.
You are making the mistake of applying logic to the current administration's decision making process. Military bases across the country are being shut down; Cheyenne Mountain is merely part of a wider trend. Do not suppose that this closure means that a covert base will take up the slack: if you applied this logic to the Republicans cutting of NYC's anti-terrorism funding, you might suppose that the feds were spending it on something better, something that would protect NYC. Alas, this is where that money went. To "protect" a popcorn factory in the middle of nowhere.
The neo-cons want WW3 because they think it means Jesus will come back and judge the living and the dead. Now, we don't need NORAD to be safe & secure under a mountain for that, do we? Jesus will judge it wherever it is.
Hear hear. Why did Amazon massively invest in distribution & warehousing infrustructure when they clearly hope to become nothing more than a gigantic Ebay Stores ripoff?
They are ignoring their profitable core competancy to provide services that their customers neither desire nor expect from them. It used to be that I went to Ebay for used books & such and Amazon for new books, DVDs and popular consumer electronics. Now I buy new books from B&N, continue to purchase used items from Ebay and I have a netflix subscription for my DVD fix. Amazon couldn't hope to compete with Newegg for electronics. Bye bye, Amazon.
For example, though only 0.25% of the world population, Jewish scientists make up 28% of Nobel prize winners in physics, chemistry, medicine, and economics, and have accounted for more than half of world chess champions.[5] In the United States, Ashkenazi Jews represent 2% of the population, but have won 40% of the US Nobel Prizes in science, and 25% of the ACM Turing Awards (the Nobel-equivalent in computer science). A significant decline in the number of Nobel prizes awarded to Europeans and a corresponding increase in the number of prizes awarded to US citizens occurred at the same time as Nazi persecutions of Jews during the 1930s and the Holocaust during the 1940s.[6]
Define an absolutely free market. Describe exactly what regulations impinge upon economic freedom and are unacceptable. At the same time, share with us, wise one, the laws necessary to permit society to remain functional - remember, any law that in any way reduces economic freedom is not permissable. Outlaw murder for hire, would you? But you would destroy an entire market, enabling the military/industrial murder oligarchy.
OK, that was somewhat extreme. Let's look at the less extreme - something connected with reality, at least. Would you say that the US market circa 1900 was more free than today's? Look again. Standard oil dominated energy.
Is it not the specific application that will be patented? Would the patent merely prevent others from manufacturing repellant containing that particular compound? If so, the patent merely covers the novel usuage of an existing compound, rather than the existing compound itself. And that would be less repellant, no?
Yes. In the end, IBM will win out because they will do some kind of wheeling and dealing efforts to 1) reduce the judgements against them 2) establish an even stronger marketshare in the US such as FUDing Ahmdal into the ground, etc. Sadly, in the end it all works out for Armonk.
Sure. It's all the EU's fault that Windows costs allot, because Microsoft can see the future and priced their products accordingly. Rather than just NOT DOING ILLEGAL SHIT. Uh-huh. That's because they're evil, right? They can see the future and they are evil. We should accept their illegality, because otherwise they will just up the cost of our crack.
Note that the US Govt. does permit the people to vote for representatives who, on the people's behalf, allocate cashflow dwarfing the B&MGF's resources. The House's budget decisions indicate that the people seem to want, in descending order, social security, pork and war.
Consider that perhaps Buffet and Gates earned what they have with an evidentily accurate, or at least functional comprehension of the market and necessarily the society comprising it. Consider that the US Govt, acting on the will of the people, generally, most of the time, primarily fucks shit up.
Bill and Buffet: successful by cunning and comprehension Govt: still around because they have the guns
I know who I would rather have allocate capital, assuming that Bill and Buffet can put aside fiduciary concern for their old ventures. Your retort: well, there are better ways to have the people decide things than representative democracy! The ball is in your court and I already made a 3 pointer for you.
You say that: "Pimping Linux and Booing Bill, if done with some degree of artfulness, is a surefire way to get modded up." You in fact demonstrate that: "Advocating for someone and denegrating something else, if done with some degree of artfulness, is a surefire way to get modded up." You advocate for Bill and MS. You rip on slashdot and _the_system_, but the moderators (_the_man_) seem to think well of you and your argument. Your karma increases. You yourself now have a higher probability of becoming _the_man_ (for a little while, but only if you haven't pissed off a mod by posting a reply to a troll death thread of editor mod murdering). Revel in it. This is freedom. Unless you hate freedom. You don't hate freedom, do you? Would you rather have been modded down, you TERRORIST??? MARTYRED? Do you want to be martyred? Are you a terrorist?????? (see, this is how people respond to people they don't like out there in the real world. here on slashdot real freedom still exists, tee hee)
AMD would use their stock to purchase ATI. Therefore, if the rumor is believed, ATI's stock will increase in value while AMD's will drop.
Any time a public company is rumored to be considering buying another public company, the target's stock tends to go up while the acquirer's tends to drop. This is some pretty basic ass shit.
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You need to get of Boston and visit a city not populated entirely by massholes. Down in New Yawk, lightweight conversations between strangers are not terribly uncommon. The trick is to say something moderately witty, referential to something the stranger is likely to be interested in and non-hostile. Most of the time it goes nowhere, but don't let that bother you. Observe body language, be positive and polite, but not unctuous. Siddle up a little closer, slip a little, bump into the person non-offensively... then go for their wallet.
Did they immediately develop drivers for OS 9, or did many peripherals just work? The USB Implementers Forum defines standard interfaces for a variety of devices, including external hard drives & memory cards (the mass storage interface) and keyboards & mice (the human interface, err, interface). I remember that logitech certainly did not develop an OS 9 driver for my USB webcam, the sort of device for which there is no standard interface.
I very much liked the ability to use normal, sane keyboards and mice on Macs with minimum hassle and the ability to use long extension cords and put devices on hubs. Plain serial, parallel and ADB sucked ass in comparison. I think that was the genius of Apple's USB uptake: it was simply a smart move for obvious reasons. The rest of the industry was already heading in that direction, but Apple was nimbler. Steve liked it and so it happened.
You are pretty warm. I'll try to fill in the blanks: if you were the hypothetical astronaut descending towards the event horizon, electromagnetic radiation emitted further up the gravity well would be blue shifted. The wavelength would be compressed - as you cross the event horizon, infinitely so, because as you say, time is frozen within the black hole. Outside of the black hole, the opposite is true: radiation from within the event horizon is infinitely red shifted. It never reaches you.
You seem to be heading towards the argument that because time is meaningless within the event horizon, sufficient matter would never *quite* manage to accrete and generate a black hole. Well, not so much. As you approach the event horizon, electromagnetic radiation that you emit and perceive to be of 400nm wavelength would be to an outside observer perhaps 500nm, eventually 1cm, 100m, 100km, 1 light year, 10^100 light years, 10^1000000 light years.... How would anyone detect such weak radiation? They can't, because you rapidly stop transmitting information that is at all perceptible.
The same phenomenon occurs as matter collapses into a black hole. It's density increases, increases and increases with its red shift, and wink; it's gone. One moment, you are receiving gamma rays, the next only xrays, then visible light, then radio waves and then, finally, you would need an antenna so long that you would not be able to distinguish emanations from the black hole from background radiation and noise in your instruments.
Not using acronyms would be a solution to the problem of people not knowing what acronyms stand for, yes. However, depth of knowledge is the real issue. Whether your vocabulary is replete with acronyms or portmanteaux (podcasting), if you don't know the meaning of the constituent terms used to form these new composite words, you probably don't know much about the theory underlying the technologies that they denote.
I keep seeing this in relation to processors: "There are technical drawbacks to this architecture! But according to my annecdotes, it seems pretty fastish! Why don't you go and do a bunch of research to disprove my annecdotes, which are by there nature not disprovable!" Well, I can at least attack the premise you are attempting to establish.
Read the other reply to my comment - 32bit-address-only DMA is a well known limitation of the EM64T ISA. This limitation, by requiring additional memory copies, reduces performance. If you could compare a core2 processor with this limitation to one without it, the difference would be quantifiable. It is harder to observe when comparing an opteron to a core2, seeing as how the underlying microarchectures are different even though their ISAs are generally compatible.
Why did Intel introduce this limitation? I think it's because they would prefer that you buy an Itanium. It almost seems that they'd rather have folks buy opterons. That's my opinion, and that's a fact.
The core2 is fast in 32bit mode and certainly a step in the right direction for intel. Kudos to them, but fie on their 64 bit support. In deference to the Itanium, they think of it as existing to provide extended memory support, and only because AMD was flanking them. Two important factors drag down core2 64 bit performance: micro-ops fusion, which welds multiple trivial ops into a single macro op, works on 32 bit instructions only, and they support DMA on only memory addressable with a 32 bit pointer. The message from intel is clear: for 64 bit performance, buy an Itanium or an opteron.
You need to let go of the conceit that you and your friends are more interested in education than the educational institutions you attend. It is absurd, distracting and entirely beside the point. You will be able to prove this to yourself if you spend enough time on it. If you manage to, congradulations: while others were concerned with learning and earning a reputaton, while others were concerned with getting what the wanted out of the instution, you spent your time "proving" your own superiority.
Don't be an idiot. Many before you have benefitted greatly from college. Do not think you are better than it, in fact, don't worry about that at all. Rather than narcissistically denying its value, focus on what you want college to do for you and work hard.
Why don't you slow down there yourself, cowboy? Read.
Nice specious analogy. So,
:: GPL : umm... if you change the source you have to include it with the binary?
Microsoft Eula : HD playback crippling
First, the MS EULA is not what stops you from playing HD content on x32. It is the media companies forcing MS to cripple the source. Furthermore, if we had the source, if windows were under the GPL, we could fix this. Second, the GPL doesn't restrict your rights re software, it endeavors to enhance them.
Given these two points, that your only valid recourse to rejecting the terms of the GPL and the MS EULA is to not use software so licensed, I conclude that your analogy is not only irrelevant but entirely inapposite. Please point out any flaw in my reasoning.
You are making the mistake of applying logic to the current administration's decision making process. Military bases across the country are being shut down; Cheyenne Mountain is merely part of a wider trend. Do not suppose that this closure means that a covert base will take up the slack: if you applied this logic to the Republicans cutting of NYC's anti-terrorism funding, you might suppose that the feds were spending it on something better, something that would protect NYC. Alas, this is where that money went. To "protect" a popcorn factory in the middle of nowhere. The neo-cons want WW3 because they think it means Jesus will come back and judge the living and the dead. Now, we don't need NORAD to be safe & secure under a mountain for that, do we? Jesus will judge it wherever it is.
Hear hear. Why did Amazon massively invest in distribution & warehousing infrustructure when they clearly hope to become nothing more than a gigantic Ebay Stores ripoff?
They are ignoring their profitable core competancy to provide services that their customers neither desire nor expect from them. It used to be that I went to Ebay for used books & such and Amazon for new books, DVDs and popular consumer electronics. Now I buy new books from B&N, continue to purchase used items from Ebay and I have a netflix subscription for my DVD fix. Amazon couldn't hope to compete with Newegg for electronics. Bye bye, Amazon.
For example, though only 0.25% of the world population, Jewish scientists make up 28% of Nobel prize winners in physics, chemistry, medicine, and economics, and have accounted for more than half of world chess champions.[5] In the United States, Ashkenazi Jews represent 2% of the population, but have won 40% of the US Nobel Prizes in science, and 25% of the ACM Turing Awards (the Nobel-equivalent in computer science). A significant decline in the number of Nobel prizes awarded to Europeans and a corresponding increase in the number of prizes awarded to US citizens occurred at the same time as Nazi persecutions of Jews during the 1930s and the Holocaust during the 1940s.[6]
Army requires TMP so that it can circumvent single-vendor prohibition and be Intel(R) only.
Define an absolutely free market. Describe exactly what regulations impinge upon economic freedom and are unacceptable. At the same time, share with us, wise one, the laws necessary to permit society to remain functional - remember, any law that in any way reduces economic freedom is not permissable. Outlaw murder for hire, would you? But you would destroy an entire market, enabling the military/industrial murder oligarchy.
OK, that was somewhat extreme. Let's look at the less extreme - something connected with reality, at least. Would you say that the US market circa 1900 was more free than today's? Look again. Standard oil dominated energy.
Is it not the specific application that will be patented? Would the patent merely prevent others from manufacturing repellant containing that particular compound? If so, the patent merely covers the novel usuage of an existing compound, rather than the existing compound itself. And that would be less repellant, no?
Thanks, actually. It's no good making a mistake like that a lot.
Yes. In the end, IBM will win out because they will do some kind of wheeling and dealing efforts to 1) reduce the judgements against them 2) establish an even stronger marketshare in the US such as FUDing Ahmdal into the ground, etc. Sadly, in the end it all works out for Armonk.
Sure. It's all the EU's fault that Windows costs allot, because Microsoft can see the future and priced their products accordingly. Rather than just NOT DOING ILLEGAL SHIT. Uh-huh. That's because they're evil, right? They can see the future and they are evil. We should accept their illegality, because otherwise they will just up the cost of our crack.
Note that the US Govt. does permit the people to vote for representatives who, on the people's behalf, allocate cashflow dwarfing the B&MGF's resources. The House's budget decisions indicate that the people seem to want, in descending order, social security, pork and war.
Consider that perhaps Buffet and Gates earned what they have with an evidentily accurate, or at least functional comprehension of the market and necessarily the society comprising it. Consider that the US Govt, acting on the will of the people, generally, most of the time, primarily fucks shit up.
Bill and Buffet: successful by cunning and comprehension
Govt: still around because they have the guns
I know who I would rather have allocate capital, assuming that Bill and Buffet can put aside fiduciary concern for their old ventures. Your retort: well, there are better ways to have the people decide things than representative democracy! The ball is in your court and I already made a 3 pointer for you.
Arg. Make that creeper ctf. RIP, madhouse (the late best creeper server).
where the flags were keys, runes were runes and men got fragged. Then came madhouse ctf. Which I still play, to this very day.
your comment. very pithy ;)
You say that:
"Pimping Linux and Booing Bill, if done with some degree of artfulness, is a surefire way to get modded up."
You in fact demonstrate that:
"Advocating for someone and denegrating something else, if done with some degree of artfulness, is a surefire way to get modded up."
You advocate for Bill and MS. You rip on slashdot and _the_system_, but the moderators (_the_man_) seem to think well of you and your argument. Your karma increases. You yourself now have a higher probability of becoming _the_man_ (for a little while, but only if you haven't pissed off a mod by posting a reply to a troll death thread of editor mod murdering). Revel in it. This is freedom. Unless you hate freedom. You don't hate freedom, do you? Would you rather have been modded down, you TERRORIST??? MARTYRED? Do you want to be martyred? Are you a terrorist?????? (see, this is how people respond to people they don't like out there in the real world. here on slashdot real freedom still exists, tee hee)
AMD would use their stock to purchase ATI. Therefore, if the rumor is believed, ATI's stock will increase in value while AMD's will drop.
Any time a public company is rumored to be considering buying another public company, the target's stock tends to go up while the acquirer's tends to drop. This is some pretty basic ass shit.
Intel wants to depress AMD's stock price and piss all over AMD's relationship with NVIDIA. Simple as that.